Pidgin2:


I asked a question which he has refused to answer, will having light constantly make us a first world nation or will it change our status from "developing" country?

nkwuocha1:


Yes! Madam it will.
Yes,madam it will.
Yes, madam it will.
Electricity is a very important tool in development. With constant electricity, it will help SME 's to produce more, develope and expand their businesses.Major setbacks many businesses have is cost of running diesel machines. For those businesses located where there is epileptic power supply, it's very difficult coping in such situations. The last time we had a major fuel hike in the country, you realise how many businesses was shut down. Do you realize how much revenue was lost? How many businesses crumbled?
You must know for a fact that constant electricity supply will play a major role in development. Now look at all the countries with constant electricity supply you mentioned , compare them to Nigeria and get back to me.

fanficgirl:

So does India..

Ngokafor:



...India is much better than Nigeria.

LastMumu:

So their big cities having constant electricity is what makes them more developed than Nigeria?

Pidgin2:


So electricity is now the rationale for greatness, so if electricity becomes constant then Nigeria will be the greatest country in the world?

Pidgin2:


At least I presume that they have more sense than some horrible utterances I have read here. India, that shitty smelling place is better than Nigeria? Well done sis.

Pidgin2:



[s]Okay, I'm back to you, after doing all comparisons Nigeria still stands above South Africa in terms of [/s]economy, South Africa (the most developed African country in terms of infrastructure) is still called a Third world aka developing country with high HIV infection rate and [s]No. 1 rape center of the world also they still have segregation aka white and black neighborhoods[/s], some Blacks live in abject poverty without basic amenities(why not white?), [s]the Blacks still don't have enough jobs hence their hostility towards other Blacks called xenophobia. [/s]

Zimbabwe with their light still have a worthless paper they call currency that now the mode being presently used to exchange goods and services is trade by barter, they still have a. 93 year old president that has rule since 1980.

Most Zimbabweans still consider South Africa as heaven and migrate in huge numbers, so what is your point?

AceSkillz01:



This is dumb, esp since I've lived in both countries before for extended periods. Family has property in the US.

Its good you asked me this question using these very 2 countries then.

I would choose Canada instantly for those very reasons you listed , especially when you factor in the absolutely horrible public transport in the US... and its problematic (complex/expensive?) healthcare. When you couple in a general violent leaning toward young blacks, and how accommodating Canada is for young families, its not even much of a choice.

By those very standards, Canada IS better than the US, and this is persistently recorded time after time in world rankings. In fact, the US isn't even better than any Scandinavian country. Is it even in the top ten these days? That doesn't mean its nonetheless not a solid country.

What's better is better, yo.

Cos I submit Naija is a sh1thole, barely better than Zimbabwe, isn't self hate, its the truth. I'm well travelled and I appreciate what's good and criticize what isn't.

It looks like your smugness and contentment with mediocrity is reflected in not only your life, but in the lives of most other Nigerians. People like you don't have the guts to hold their leaders to higher standards, but want to face people like me who constructively criticize the country. Calling it self hate. For you to even make that comparison shows you have limited understanding of the world we live in.

You said it best, "Its always hard to talk sense into those who are not willing to learn". Go pick up an economics textbook and study about what indices make a country's standard of living to rise, and where Nigeria stands in all that. You'll discover how backward we are in 2017

Rossikk:
You have 14 universities? Wow....But Nigeria has 250 sir.

So you are simply not in our league.

ooshinibos:

Yes , I believe so ...look around the world , lack of electricity has crippled Nigerian greatness , we are a great people but we have been denied the ability to thrive , the capital cost of generating power by small business owner is just too much , so we cannot employ the jobless ..if you open your eyes ..you will see the lack of development that the refusal or lack of awareness of the good that the electricity power can bring to nation
can you imagine there was no electricity in china , Dubai. usa . Europe ?...there will be no development

Ngokafor:



...Excuse me,could you mind your business and ignore my mentions??..cos i have no time for back and forth with anyone this morning...Thank you in advance

nkwuocha1:



Don't be too angry with her. I believe she is still learning, although very ignorant. .If she can compare Nigeria with Indian, at this point I give up.

ooshinibos:

Yes , I believe so ...look around the world , lack of electricity has crippled Nigerian greatness , we are a great people but we have been denied the ability to thrive , the capital cost of generating power by small business owner is just too much , so we cannot employ the jobless ..if you open your eyes ..you will see the lack of development that the refusal or lack of awareness of the good that the electricity power can bring to nation
can you imagine there was no electricity in china , Dubai. usa . Europe ?...there will be no development

nkwuocha1:

Please I will be brief. Sincerely, if you go through this thread and you're not fully educated on this argument I can't help you.

South Africa economy is better than Nigeria. When it comes to Tourism, SA is best picked over Nigeria.
South Africa citizens are generally lazy. Some scholars overtime has blamed such laziness on the after effects of apartheid.
HIV is to South Africa what VVF /malaria /Polio
/meningitis /HIV /CHOLERA /Tuberculosis is to Nigeria.
Racism is everywhere. It's even worst here in Nigeria. Many of you here bleach your skins to look brighter than your future. Why not remain black if you so much adore your race.

Nigeria with all her much younger rulers since independence, again even with abundance of oil still import toothpicks. What have you achieved?
Talking about jobs, how many of your tribesmen are in the Nigeria Force as compared to the North?

I would have loved to go on and on but I'm seriously not in the mood for that this morning. Nigeria is way backward and that's it! Only called giant of Africa because of her population and nothing else.

Pidgin2:


Prove that South African economy is better, where is your stats to back your statement?

Pidgin2:

Okay, I'm back to you, after doing all comparisons Nigeria still stands above South Africa in terms of economy, South Africa (the most developed African country in terms of infrastructure) is still called a Third world aka developing country with high HIV infection rate and No. 1 rape center of the world, the highest rated of teen pregnancy in Africa also they still have segregation aka white and black neighborhoods, some Blacks live in abject poverty without basic amenities(why not white?), the Blacks still don't have enough jobs hence their hostility towards other Blacks called xenophobia.
Zimbabwe with their light still have a worthless paper they call currency that now the mode being presently used to exchange goods and services is trade by barter, they still have a. 93 year old president that has rule since 1980.
Most Zimbabweans still consider South Africa as heaven and migrate in huge numbers, so what is your point?

selflessmaya:


the measure of economy is GDP and while that is an estimate of national finance and statistics, it does not equal development, nigeria is also ahead of norway(the country with the highest human development index), israel, austria, ireland, singapore and all these countries are highly developed countries, so the economy argument is useless in terms of development. india has a higher gdp than australia, canada, france, south korea, sweden, switzerland but it's not better than any of these countries, it doesn't even compare. so again the higher economy argument is invalid. south africa is undoubtedly more developed than nigeria.

yes, south africa is a still classified a developing country but it's among the 5 major emerging national economies called BRICS (brazil, russia, india, china, south africa), these are distinguished fast developing & industralized countries on their way to becoming termed "developed countries" if they keep developing at their current rate in subsequent years. and fyi, a third world country simply means a country whose views are not aligned with NATO and capitalism or the Soviet Union and communism, the term became synonymous to under-development cos most of the countries among it are not developed. racism, high rape/hiv rates does not make a country less developed, those are social ills, they're not economic problems.

zimbabwe now uses the us dollar and south-african rand as their national currency after theirs got devalued. the trade by barter system occurred at the peak of their currency devaluation and it's ceased a long time ago cos they've stabilized and it's no longer necessary. your argument about them travelling to SA makes no sense, humans migrate to countries more or even less developed than theirs for better opportunities, does not mean those countries are not developed themselves, you keep hearing about trump building a wall in mexico because mexicans are running to the us, mexico is a very advanced country, it has rep for drugs and all but the country in itself is doing great, go to mexico and see how beautiful this country is, brexit is to stop the influx of other DEVELOPED european countries from flocking to the uk: spain, romania, italy, poland, they all leave their developed countries to migrate, doesn't mean their country is not developed. and moreover, mugabe admitted himself that SA is ahead of them so it's not like he's in denial. there are millions of nigerians DYING to make it to south africa.

neocortex:


Sorry to burst your bubble Zimbabwe has a higher poverty rate(70%) than Nigeria(30%),
if not for South Africa which serves as the London for Zimbabweans, the poverty would
have been worse.

And Gejproperity comments were pure sentiments, I challenge him to list the Zimbabwe
cities he has visited. I can also visit FCT and declare Nigeria as a highly developed country
And if Nigeria were to be Somalia, you will be in a UN refugee camp waiting for your next meal.
Development isn't a question of things, it is a question of people.

GEJPosterity:

Before you insult me, you had better make sure you're not speaking to your intellectual superior, you this delusional pinhead. I am not your mate Rossikk, or whatever you call yourself. The only thing you are known for on this platform and elsewhere is for posting delusional nonsense, lies and half truths in pursuit of some equally delusional "Nigerianist" agenda. I'm not interested in your politics or whatever deep lying inferiority complex makes you so attracted to any conversation where the word "Nigeria" is mentioned. Whatever you are compensating for, you had better leave me out of it. I don't take kindly to being aggressed by the likes of you at all.

Do not do this again in your life.

neocortex:

Yes GDP matters but not in isolation.
It is myopic to compare tiny countries with Nigeria
and to make matters worse you had to pick a government-owned commercial
enterprise(airline) as a yardstick for development.
For your information, the USA as big as it is has no national carrier!.
My point is not to deny the level of rot in Nigeria but
to counter misleading information.
As I believe that our penchant for half-truth is why we
are at this stage today.
Anyone can complain and most Nigerians do, but what we need
is not complainers but problem solvers. If we cannot correctly define
what the problem is, how can we develop a solution ?

Pidgin2:

Exclude the white race from South Africa and see whether they will be anything close to where they are now, this is why the Blacks are oppressed in their own country, go there and see how some live in penury. Their rural areas (of course black communities) are horrible places to live in. The whites live in posh areas while some Blacks are poor, tell me are the whites not lazy too or dies being white and having European ancestry make one hardworking? Therefore, if the Blacks are lazy it means left to themselves they will not be as developed as they are today
As for Zimbabwe, also slaves to white plantation owners before Mugabe rescued them and now their infrastructure is delaying because the whites of European origin are not given enough power as they had before to develop their land.
Most francophone countries in Africa are still basically under colonial rule, imagine having French and Belgian troops within their army, and you also see white men and women in their military unlike here where we do our own thing in freedom
Are Chinese, Indians and Lebanese not flocking here to? Can any go where it doesn't see sugar, abeggi

Ogalanyachieze:
Watch how dey will soon descend on him wit insults. He speaks out of turn yet the truth falls from mugabe's mouth. Nigeria does not do wel in any (HDI) which is the yardstick for measuring development nigeria does not rank among first ten in africa inspite of our resources google and see. "Nigeria is only good whenever bad examples are needed" - donald trump (2016)

MetaHuman:
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Pidgin2:


At least I presume that they have more sense than some horrible utterances I have read here. India, that shitty smelling place is better than Nigeria? Well done sis.

GEJPosterity:

Wow, you have 14 fingers?

No wonder you're so dumb, I didn't know you suffer from a genetic mutation.

Jerysinx:


you are first of all a non-Nigerian
a negative poor brat
a demonic stagnant individual
having yoghurt in place of brains!
how could you have such big eyes and yet can't see your country better than the world!
wait....
are you born again?
repent this foolery u parade in!
it's highly demonic! I recommend TB Joshua to help you!

MPSA:
If you don't believe Uncle BOB Believe me Look how SADC is beatiful I will never mislead you like the Guy who told you about the ''GIANT OF AFRICA'',

PORT ELIZABETH SA

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KNASNA SA
Please Guys Believe Uncle BOB

Pidgin2:


So with light in Zimbabwe why is there mass exodus to South Africa and with light in China, India, Lebanon,Togo, Chad, Niger and Benin, why have they relocated to this country in large numbers

Yungbitz:


There is nothing special in Abuja and most areas still do not have the any look of a modern city. Visit Gwagwa, Deidei, Karu, Nyanya and other areas of Abuja and it is a Mediocre city even by African standard