wiseone28:

That's the benefit of having white people running their country for long...if it was only blacks they wouldn't have been different from Nigeria

Great2017:


South Africa GDP/capita : $7562


Nigeria GDP/capita : $2461

US GDP/capita : $59,531 (2017)

GavelSlam:


Your point being?

GavelSlam:


They have squatter camps as well.

Right next door to some of the most expensive property on earth.

BluntBoy:


Did Buhari decrease or increase the minimum wage?

Every increment should be lauded. After all, there were governments before him who did nothing. So why should a man who did something be voted out

Great2017:


My point is excuses don't solve problems.

VIPERVENOM:
that's y in my comment i added "if you know what i mean". Clearly you don't

NaijaRoyelty:


Jonathan increased minimum wage from 7k to 18k

mofedamijo:

You are right bro, but i am more scared of the foolishness of the youths than the politician, i hope to present a paper soon at an international conference, but i am more scared to present to Nigerian youths.
Put it on their table how we have been exploited and demand for immediate turn around, you find the youth yawning and walking away.

marviessss:
dnt criticise nigeria o,the workers populatin in sa is 6m,whereas,i even heard dat nigerian worker sackd ws like 8m

winj3:


You should weep for the stupid citizens, nothing wrong with the name or the country...just useless poor quality citizens who lack basic commonsense!

VIPERVENOM:
Don't let those figures fool you. That 126k in Rand might just be the equivalent of 30k naira if u know what i mean.

Fitbillionaire:
buhari please keep tormenting these broke ass poor bastard peasants. reduce minimum wage and increase fuel price please. reduce the way you give light. let them suffer. nigerians are idiots and idiots deserve to suffer. the only way to make an idiot have sense is to punish them. how can people that have brain be screaming buhari and atiku that is 72 years?
i will rather try out sowore and and see if he will mess up. at least if that one mess up we can gather am beat. please enjoy your suffer

GavelSlam:


Your point is you don't even understand what you wrote.

It is productivity and population that determine these indices.

You are an unproductive nation and that is not just about leadership.

Ihaveleftnaija:


Nigerians and our stupid mindset . Did I say they don't have them ? . Is there any African country without slums?. Is their government not showing dedication yearly in reducing those places ?. Can we compare those efforts to ours ? . What a dull way of reasoning.

orisa37:
Labour Groups in Nigeria are illiterates. They know nothing about Restructuring for Productivity, Costs and Incomes Policy Design and Bargaining.
They watch The Legislators cat away N10million monthly and the best of our University Professors N6million annually (N500'000monthly).
They are never tired of arguing with dead Ministers and Prime Minister. They don't even know the meaning of Placards carrying. Instead of joining to carry the National Crusade to grant Full and unfettered Autonomy to our 36 States and limit the Responsibilities of F.G to Foreign Affairs only, to NASS and the Judiciary, in Fury and with Seriousness, they just sit down dey look mismanagement of Funds everywhere. Couldn't they have challenged the $360million Abacha Loot Recovered to be shared equally by our 36 States for Designed Production Programme instead of being relooted and shared to unknown Almajiris?

vingeophysicist:
Cost of living in a country cannot be uniform. There are places in South Africa you can rent a house with even 50k per year. I know you have never left the shore of this country that is why you think everyone is blind like you.

marviessss:
dnt criticise nigeria o,the workers populatin in sa is 6m,whereas,i even heard dat nigerian worker sackd ws like 8m

Ihaveleftnaija:


Nigerian youth are dead or destructive . I was so ashamed when i was in south Africa and noticed how many young people their parliament had and how many young people will organise protests against government when they are dissatisfied .

obonujoker:
How exactly is Nigeria the giant of Africa??.

GavelSlam:


What effort?

If I hadn't been in SA, had and still have SA friends and acquaintances, perhaps you would have bamboozled me with their so-called improvement.

Fact remains, SA was developed by the foreign inhabitants, who much as I would loathe to admit, have shown same efficiency in their original abode.

The aborigines however, have managed to lose grip on the efficiencies.
To Nigeria, there is a stark reality about Nigeria today. We have never been efficient or productive. Yet, we need efficient productivity.

Ihaveleftnaija:


Nigerians and our stupid mindset . Did I say they don't have them ? . Is there any African country without slums?. Is their government not showing dedication yearly in reducing those places ?. Can we compare those efforts to ours ? . What a dull way of reasoning.

BluntBoy:


How is SA population times 5 of ours

GavelSlam:


5 times smaller you meant.

abescom:
Have you and your kind ever sat down to consider what the cost of living in SA is compared to what's obtainable in Nigeria?

sophiathefirst:

let me explain the whole English for u.
Formerly They were paid 3,700 in rand equivalent to 96,800 in naira and is now increased to 4800Rand equivalent to 126,400 naira.
I hope u understand it now.
So even the 30k Nigeria government wants to pay is not even upto the 96k they were paid talk more of the 126k they want to increase it to.
That's If you know what I mean now, but as it is. Clearly u don't.

GavelSlam:
South Africa population: 57 million

Nigeria Population; 197 million.

SIRTee15:


Guy see as u take finish ur country.....
Nigerian problem is multifactorial and the fact that the present youths are docile and ineffective is not helping matters....
While.

danjudchi:


Is lie south Africa currency is far better than our own

yinchar:
Nigerians will never understand the dynamics of things...

Firstly to start with South Africa has an efficient Tax Revenue System, the minimum Tax is 25% flat, coupled with 15% VAT.

Everybody has a Tax number and the Tax on your salary or payment is automatically removed from the source, meaning you can't escape it.

Imagine earning N100,000 per mount and the government Tax Revenue service automatically removes N25,000.

Can that be possible in Nigeria without rioting?....And everything you buying is subjected to 15% VAT. Last time I checked VAT in Nigeria is still a miserable 5%, tax on salaries is 1-2%, one of the lowest in the world. And, yet we still want to government to be able to pay salaries with good infrastructures. Also, fuel is N145/Litre in Nigeria and almost N450/Litre in South Africa.

Let's stop comparing apples with mangos.

Food for thought.