I love Nigeria with a passion.

It's an extremely beautiful country, with magnificent people, a wonderful variety of cultures, and an ancient history of civilization that rivals that of any people in the world.

There is a sense of freedom one gets in Nigeria that is simply unavailable anywhere else in the world. The buzz of its cities is unbeatable. The serenity of its rural areas is an absolute gem. There is no place on earth as safe and welcoming as a Nigerian village.  If studies were to be made, it would not be surprising if in the last 100 years no Nigerian village has witnessed a single murder. Such is the absolute safety and serenity to be found in them.

Nigeria is also a developing nation, which is making largely unheralded progress in a variety of facets, from living standards to infrastructure. Many cities are witnessing unprecedented investment in infrastructure and services. At  least 6 cities have a monorail program under construction or on the drawing board. IPP power projects are springing up everywhere and promise a future of stable, reliable power supply. Military dictatorship has receded into memory, as multi-party democracy flourishes. Corruption has reduced considerably in recent years, such that the nation, once ranked No 1 in corruption by Transparency International, is now ranked No 48, overtaken by the likes of Russia, Venezuela, Ivory Coast among others.

As of today, the nation enjoys better economic management, with the economy placed in capable hands like Lamido Sanusi and Olusegun Aganga among others. Our president is not an acquisitive individual in the mould of Abacha/IBB etc, and shows an understanding of the issues in a way that escaped previous leaders.

Today our nation is ranked by international firms as Africa's prime investment hot spot and one of the world's fastest growing economies.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-17/nigeria-is-top-africa-investment-pick-insparo-s-stock-says.html

It has been stated that if current GDP growth rates of 7.5% were to be maintained year on year for the next 20 years, Nigeria would become a developed nation at the end of it.

And Sanusi has stated that if the power problem is sufficiently tackled, growth rates would hit the double digits (say 12%), which would be ''doing a China'' according to one economist.

Therefore the onus is on the Jonathan administration, and which ever administration that succeeds him, to ensure the power issue is solved without delay, to allow this country to finally take her rightful position as one of the world's major nations.

Thanks!!

******* Keep the faith! ********

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Beautiful

Rossike you love Nigeria? Dont make me laugh. You love Nigeria and yet you defend the decision of its president to snub its people by considering himself too exalted to condescend to a debate?

Clearly, you DESPISE NiGERIA

^^^ kEEP SHUT ABEG.

Deep Sight said:

Rossike you love Nigeria? Dont make me laugh. You love Nigeria and yet you defend the decision of its president to snub its people by considering himself too exalted to condescend to a debate?

Clearly, you DESPISE NiGERIA

What does my love for Nigeria have to do with whether President Jonathan attended a debate?

If Jonathan decides to indulge in ashi hunting 24/7 from now till he leaves office, it wouldn't diminish my love for Nigeria by a single milliliter. 

Is Jonathan Nigeria? Is PDP Nigeria? You cannot let such people or institutions define the 150 million people and rich cultures which make up this country. Nigeria is a fantastic, beautiful country with or without those people.

I love Nigeria with A passion

A NATION OF HOPE, DYNAMISM AND PROGRESS


"A fast-growing middle class and rapid urbanisation in Nigeria and other African frontier markets are opening huge opportunities in sectors from consumer goods to financial services, private equity firm Actis said on Thursday.

West Africa chief executive Ngozi Edozien said Actis, which has its head office in London and specialises in investing in emerging markets, raised around $3 billion last year and planned to deploy about a third of that amount in Africa.

Nigeria, the continent’s second-largest economy of more than 140 million people, was particularly attractive because its regulatory framework was developing and a growing percentage of its people were moving into the middle-income bracket, she said.

“We’ve seen over the last five years you pretty much have something like 10 million people that have moved from a low income, and are getting into that middle income bracket,” Edozien told Reuters in her office in Lagos.

She said she was particularly bullish on consumer goods, financial and business services, including telecoms, and manufacturing, once chronic power shortages were addressed.

“Demand across all areas is strong. There is growing income and wealth, and we are beginning to have the infrastructural support as well as government and regulatory support that creates a foundation for growth in many of these businesses.”


http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Urbanisation%20driving%20Africa%20retail%20growth/-/539552/891372/-/tvt1d/-/index.html

God bless Nigeria

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THE DESTINY OF A NATION: NIGERIA IN THE "NEXT 11"


The Next Eleven (or N-11) are eleven countries—Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Turkey and Vietnam—identified by Goldman Sachs investment bank as having a high potential of becoming, along with the BRICs, the world's largest economies in the 21st century.

The bank chose these states, all with promising outlooks for investment and future growth, on December 12, 2005.
The criteria that Goldman Sachs used were macroeconomic stability, political maturity, openness of trade and investment policies, and the quality of education.

The N-11 paper is a follow-up to the bank's 2003 paper on the four emerging "BRIC" economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Eleven

The 10 Fastest Growing Economies Of The Next 40 Years

Christine Jenkins

http://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-growing-economies-2011-2

Mar. 1, 2011


Forget the BRICs.

If you want to get in on the best of the $300-trillion rise in world GDP between now and 2050, you've got to invest in the next set of emerging markets.

Citibank economist William Buiter predicts that Nigeria, India and Iraq will be the fastest growing countries from now until 2050, all with over 7.7% in yearly growth. (*India also makes the top ten, outperfoming China, Brazil and Russia to become the world's biggest economy in 2050.)

Meanwhile Western Europe and Japan will languish at sub-2% growth. America will do slightly better.

Nigeria: Projected Annual GDP by 2050: $9.5 Trillion (6th in the World)

http://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-growing-economies-2011-2#1-nigeria-10


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great post.

Do we really have a choice?

Love it, loathe it, its still the only country we've got.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA!!

Alj Uche:

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What kind of abomination is this?

ezeagu:

What kind of abomination is this?

lol.  It's hideous enough to scare little children.   AljUche, next time, go here and post something lovely, pretty please  :

http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHMD_enUS418US418&q=nigeria+flag&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=948&bih=457


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isale_gan2:

lol.  It's hideous enough to scare little children.   AljUche, next time, go here and post something lovely, pretty please  :

http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHMD_enUS418US418&q=nigeria+flag&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=948&bih=457


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ok i would do better next time

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Alj Uche:

ok i would do better next time

Good.  You can have these, from me. 

AljUche proudly proclaiming his ethnic affiliation:
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Our lovely Ileke Idi, off to go kick some NLer butt:
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I imagine this is what Ezeuche looks like:
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And this is FStranger:
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Dayokanu:
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It's just jokes!  

Now, seriously, very good topic.  Back to you, Rossike! 

ROSSIKE:

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Very nice.  Some of the locales didn't look like Lagos though.  I'll have to watch again. 

i thought rebranding (great country great people and all that other bs) was dead

or is rossike angling for the post of info minister?

Whoever produced that video deserves a PR award, that's for sure. But it's nice to see the good stuff. Up Rossike! Up Naija.

another waste of memory space.

if u like love togo that one na your business.

isale_gan2:

Whoever produced that video deserves a PR award, that's for sure. But it's nice to see the good stuff. Up Rossike! Up Naija.

Just don't say anything nice about the U.S.A, lest you are labeled by Rossike as a brainwashed praise singer and a slave of Uncle Sam.

blacksta:

another waste of memory space.

if u like love togo that one na your business.

Did your dog die?  So, you can't find it in your dead cold heart to have a smidgen of love or patriotism for yer fatherland?

isale_gan2:

Did your dog die?  So, you can't find it in your dead cold heart to have a smidgen of love or patriotism for yer fatherland?  

Lol


Can you help me ask the poster the purpose of starting a  useless thread on a Nigerian filled forum as if by default many dont feel that way.

blacksta:

Lol

Can you help me ask the poster the purpose of starting a  useless thread on a Nigerian filled forum as if by default many dont feel that way.

Lots of posters trash Naija joo. I don't blame the dude for doing this thread. There was another one where someone claimed to hate Nigeria. Did you tell that poster to stifle it? Huh? Did you tell him to "gbe mi"? Yup, I didn't think so.

We all love Nigeria with a passion that is why we want GEJ out ASAP, nations do not grow by potentials, they grow because the people and leaders, especially the leaders work hard at making the nation grow, we have a set of leaders who are selfish and only think of themselves alone, the followership has taken its cue from the leadership, we need to get rid of these leaders and to get new ones in, the greatest thing that can happen to our democracy is the ability to vote out rogues.

blacksta:

Lol


Can you help me ask the poster the purpose of starting a  useless thread on a Nigerian filled forum as if by default many dont feel that way.

i wonder oo

you think all this epistle so many of us post with our goal that a man who can save this country gets into the driver's seat is because we hate nigeria?

blacksta said:

Lol


Can you help me ask the poster the purpose of starting a  useless thread on a Nigerian filled forum as if by default many dont feel that way.

Funny you should say that, cos on the opposite thread to this one, approximately half the respondents either hate the country outright or are very reticent to declare any sort of affection for her at all.

So I'm not sure where you get this idea that most of us love the country.