So this was a thread created by Tonyebarcanister claiming Kenya is a better country than Nigeria, which is false.

What tonye did was to highlight areas where Kenya is better than us and use it to judge the rest. He never did head to head comparison.

I'll be doing just that, watch and see why Nigeria is called the giant of Africa.

I am saddened by the continuous act of some of my compatriots to always engage in social media fight with fellow Africans, most notably our brothers and sisters from Ghana and Kenya.

It is even unfortunate that these countries Nigeria youths love to abuse on social media are doing better than our potentially great country in virtually all sphere despite the fact that we(as a country) have more revenues, potentials, and opportunities. If Nigerians are not aware of the superiority(in terms of living) of other Africans over us, I will have to educate them using Kenya as a case study.

While Nigerians have always pride in the self titled "African Giant" rhetoric, facts on ground shows otherwise. Though we generate more revenue than Kenya, which is 70% due to the gift of nature under our soil(Petrodollars), Nigerians still lag behind greatly in basic things when compared to the East African giant.

According to 2015 data from World Health Organisation, Nigeria's male and female life expectancy are 52years and 56 years respectively, meaning an average Nigerian is expected to die before he/she turns 60. Meanwhile, the expectancy for Kenyan male and female are 61 and 66 years respectively. Similarly, while Nigeria has the 10th highest infant mortality rate worldwide with average 72 deaths per 1,000 birth, Kenya's infant mortality rate is rated 52nd in the world with average 32 deaths per 1,000 births. This means it is safer to give birth in Kenya than in Nigeria, and an average Kenyan living in Kenya is expected to live longer than an average Nigerian living in Nigeria.

Though Nigeria has more tourism potential than Kenya, but Kenya is one of the choice destination for vacation in East Africa. While Nigeria managed to rake in $601 million as Tourism receipt(Revenue) in 2014, Kenya raked in $1.833 billion in the same year. Nigeria can't even boast of a National carrier meanwhile Kenya Airways, the National Carrier of Kenya boasts of 45 Aircrafts in their fleet with 4,000 workforce strength. In addition, Kenya Airways is reputed to be one of the best in Africa.

In Africa, Kenya is the leader of Mobile money. Nigeria is still still battling to get it right in the ICT sector with poor infrastructure, lack of power, lack of political will, and fantastically corruption.

At present Nigeria is experiencing recession in her economy, one would expect Nigerians to shun frivolties and seek for ways to turn the recession to prosperity instead of wasting productive hours fighting our African brethren over irrelevances. Why would one who is rationing his/her phone battery life due to epileptic power supply still spend the little battery life s/he got through his/her generator to abuse someone in Nairobi who is neither rationing his/her phone battery life nor is depending on generating set for power? There is no trophy or reward for social media fight, Nigerians should stop sending the wrong image to the world that our greatness lies in social media wars.


Nigeria is a great country with potentials, filled with great prospects, but we can never be great if we don't channel our time and resources to fix our country.

A word should be enough for the wise... May God Bless Us All, and Bless Nigeria

Shared on my Palmchat group

RESOURCES: http://world.bymap.org/InfantMortality.html
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ST.INT.RCPT.CD
http://www.who.int/countries/nga/en/
http://www.who.int/countries/ken/en/

I'll be using these indices to compare the two countries. Mynd44 hope we are good.




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Nigeria vs Kenya in terms of GDP and gdp per capita.

Kenya:

. Kenya's economy is market-based with a few state-owned infrastructure enterprises and maintains a liberalised external trade system. The country is generally perceived as Eastern Africa's hub for Financial, Communication and Transportation services. Major industries include: agriculture, forestry and fishing, mining and minerals, industrial manufacturing, energy, tourism and financial services. As of 2018 estimates, Kenya had a GDP of $85.980 billion making it the 69th largest economy in the world. Per capita GDP was estimated at $1,790.

as we can see Kenya is a very poor country now compared this with



Nigeria:

. eria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market, with expanding manufacturing, financial, service, communications, technology and entertainment sectors. It is ranked as the 30th-largest economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP, and the 23rd-largest in terms of purchasing power parity. It is the largest economy in Africa; its re-emergent manufacturing sector became the largest on the continent in 2013, and it produces a large proportion of goods and services for the West African subcontinent.[15] In addition, the debt-to-GDP ratio is 11 percent, which is 8 percent below the 2012 ratio.[16]

Nigeria beat Kenya in terms of GDP and gdp per capita including purchasing power and external reserves

Even Igbos republic is better than Kenya

So in Kenya you'll make less money

MAKE 40.7% LESS MONEY
Nigeria has a GDP per capita of $5,900, while in Kenya, the GDP per capita is $3,500.

Also in Kenya, not only will you make less money, you'll pay more taxes on top of it

SPEND 25.0% MORE ON TAXES
Nigeria has a top tax rate of 24.0%. In Kenya, the top tax rate is 30.0%.

You'll also have more access to light if you live in Nigeria, Kenya light is worst than Nigeria, just because we don't control our media other countries will think we have never see light before. We are better than Kenya in terms of electricity.




BE 55.6% LESS LIKELY TO HAVE ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
In Nigeria, 45% of people have electricity access (55% in urban areas, and 37% in rural areas). In Kenya, that number is 20% of people on average (60% in urban areas, and 7% in rural areas).

Nigeria is 35.6% cheaper than Kenya.
If you lived in Kenya instead of Nigeria, you would:
local_dining
PAY 32.4% MORE FOR RESTAURANTS
Nigeria Kenya
Basic meal with drink at inexpensive restaurant $1.90
₦660.65
$3.67
KES380.38
Fast food combo meal
McDonalds, or similar
$4.98
₦1,729.71
$5.24
KES543.50
Bottle of Coca-Cola (0.33 liter) $0.33
₦113.19
$0.52
KES54.08
Nigeria vs. Kenya - Cost of restaurants
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local_grocery_store
PAY 4.1% LESS FOR GROCERIES
Nigeria Kenya
Bread
1 loaf
$0.94
₦327.69
$0.50
KES51.95
Local cheese (500 grams) $3.52
₦1,221.21
$3.02
KES313.53
Milk (1 liter) $1.59
₦552.55
$0.86
KES89.24
Nigeria vs. Kenya - Cost of groceries
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drive_eta
PAY 42.2% MORE FOR TRANSPORTATION
Nigeria Kenya
Gasoline (1 liter) $0.40
₦139.34
$0.99
KES103.01
Monthly public transit pass $40.85
₦14,174.05
$31.39
KES3,256.60
New Volkswagen Golf 1.4 (standard edition) $10,597.26
₦3,677,245.08
$15,088.13
KES1,565,392.19
Nigeria vs. Kenya - Cost of transportation
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home
PAY 64.3% LESS FOR HOUSING
Nigeria Kenya
Internet connection
50 mbps or faster, cable/dsl
$43.77
₦15,188.70
$42.30
KES4,388.43
1-Bedroom apartment in downtown area $593.08
₦205,796.94
$176.16
KES18,276.46
1-Bedroom apartment outside city center $337.16
₦116,995.97
$106.86
KES11,087.16
Nigeria vs. Kenya - Cost of housing
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child_care
PAY 2.9 TIMES MORE FOR CHILDCARE
Nigeria Kenya
Private preschool for 1 child, monthly $109.82
₦38,109.20
$115.52
KES11,985.63
Middle school for 1 child, two semesters $1,952.37
₦677,471.55
$5,824.68
KES604,309.66
Nigeria vs. Kenya - Cost of childcare
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gamepad
PAY 28.1% MORE FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND SPORTS
Nigeria Kenya
Domestic/local beer $1.04
₦360.36
$1.99
KES206.28
Cappuccino in mid-range area $2.24
₦775.88
$2.06
KES213.41
Pack of cigarettes
Marlboro or similar
$0.90
₦312.31
$1.90
KES197.50
Nigeria vs. Kenya - Cost of entertainment and sports
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store
PAY 27.4% LESS FOR CLOTHING
Nigeria Kenya
Regular jeans
Levi's brand
$26.72
₦9,273.19
$17.79
KES1,846.20
Regular dress
from H&M or similar store
$26.91
₦9,339.26
$26.53
KES2,752.31
Running shoes
Nike or Adidas
$48.86
₦16,953.28
$35.75
KES3,708.66

NAIROBI (capital) 3.915 million; Mombassa 1.104 million (2015)
Lagos 13.123 million; Kano 3.587 million; Ibadan 3.16 million; ABUJA (capital) 2.44 million; Port Harcourt 2.343 million; Benin City 1.496 million (2015)


So Kenya only have 2 cities

Nigeria have more labour force than Kenya

19.82 million (2017 est.)
60.08 million (2017 est.)

Energy/electricity


Energy
Kenya Nigeria
Electricity - production 9.548 billion kWh (2015 est.)
29.83 billion kWh (2015 est.)
Electricity - consumption 7.666 billion kWh (2015 est.)
24.57 billion kWh (2015 est.)
Electricity - exports 45 million kWh (2015 est.)
0 kWh (2016 est.)
Electricity - imports 67 million kWh (2015 est.)
0 kWh (2016 est.)

Are the services(tax) you are paying for in Nigeria available compared to Kenya? Electricity, water, security, housing e.t.c

Keeping giving yourself hope

helinues:
Are the services(tax) you are paying for in Nigeria available compared to Kenya? Electricity, water, security, housing e.t.c

we are better than them in terms of electricity.just because we don't have light for 24 hours doesn't mean others aren't struggling too

Nigeria is still a shithole

Binikingdowm:
we are better than them in terms of electricity.just because we don't have light for 24 hours doesn't mean others aren't struggling too

Try and move from your comfort zone don't just get all your info from internet. Seeing is believing.

Bros I get am b4 no be property, Nigeria was once a giant of Africa buh not anymore go out there and see things for urself then u can tell urself the truth.

When Kenya conducts a census, they count Lions first, its in the constitution.

sparkle6:
When Kenya conducts a census, they count Lions first, its in the constitution.

Try and be reasonable, this isn't twitter or facebook where you and your ilks engage in senseless banters OK?


You guys like mocking those better than you by far. Yes! Kenya is better than Nigeria. Maybe you should travel.

Kenya is ahead bro. Just shut it.

Pekele007:


Try and be reasonable, this isn't twitter or facebook where you and your ilks engage in senseless banters OK?


You guys like mocking those better than you by far. Yes! Kenya is better than Nigeria. Maybe you should travel.

Stewpeed Kenyan spotted.

sparkle6:

Stewpeed Kenyan spotted.

Oh! I'm suddenly a Kenyan just because I told you the blunt truth


We need to start telling ourselves the truth if we really want to progress in this country.

Let me balance here before the thread will get to 10k+ comments

Pekele007:


Oh! I'm suddenly a Kenyan just because I told you the blunt truth


We need to start telling ourselves the truth if we really want to progress in this country.

Since when did we started telling the truth in Nigeria. Men take your pills.