BabaOwen:
OP show us pictures of Alausa in 1990 and Alausa in 2020.

Or VI in 1980 and VI in 2020

Or Maitama in 1999 and Maitama in 2020.

Aconomist:
Kano in 1960 -- there has been significant improvement here. They aren't using mud anymore. Weep for Nigeria

Rugaria:
Traveling around Asia, one thing that has occurred to me is that in Nigeria, we are building nothing! Nothing! It is not that we are not building enough, it's just that we are dormant! If you have lived in any city neighborhood in china and left for a year or two, then visit again, you may find it hard to locate your former apartment! Continuously, they are building! Day and night construction! Here, Julius Berger will spend a decade on a road. Not so in Asia. Day and night, the construction company is at work. New skyscrapers everyday because of good policies and the fact that building materials are cheap and are sourced mainly locally.

Here Dangote is selling a bag of cement for a trillion and nobody wants to hold him accountable! How can you break even as a real estate developer with such obnoxious costs? It's not rocket science! The Asians made good policies, set high standards, recruited a civil service that is highly efficient and made sure that most building raw materials and building engineers are sourced locally sand with the help of consolidated funds in construction banks, they are powering ahead. Buhari muted the idea of a fund for works. Good idea but as usual, nepotism and tribalism will be used to destroy the good idea. Bad leadership is Nigerias problem!

Aconomist:
You are still blaming leadership? Nigerians are the problem. An the best thing that could happen to this country is that it be wiped from the face of the earth. If I tell the typical nigger-arean that Dangote is destroying Nigeria's economy, he will want to fight me. How then, can we say that these monkeys don't have the country they deserve?

A stagnant population will have stagnant leaders and a stagnant country.

Rugaria:


You need your skull to be "wiped" out real quick because that thing is incapable of critical thinking! Frustrated minds didn't build shanghai or Hong Kong! Inventive minds in position of power did! And I can assure you that building up cities is no rocket science! Nigeria isn't getting it right because of the bad politics here. You have to stop being simplistic in your pedestrian analysis of sundry issues sometimes. In that Asia that gave you China, Qatar and Dubai, we have Yemen, Laos, Bhutan! Nigeria and many African states are better than these countries! So how do you spin that? Will you say the Asians are also re-tarded because of the failures of say Sirilanka, Phillipine or Myanmar? Isn't it obvious to you that it's the leadership in these different countries that steered their countries to either success or failure depending on their imputs while in power? So why can't one look at Africa from that kind of perspective?

Reinaldo:
Nigeria has simply lacked leaders with foresight.

Aconomist:
Lagos Marina CMS 1983 vs 2020. It looks almost identical -- only the angle is different. The windows on the first building that were broken 30 years ago are still broken.

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Aconomist:
The problem in Nigeria's real estate industry is inflation. The government is trying to stimulate local manufacturing by restricting imports, which has led to uncompetitive markets in cement and runaway food price inflation because local producers can't meet the demand. The high inflation rate keeps interest rates high, making mortgages impossible.

But how many Nigerians have you seen actually addressing real issues like that? Very few. Most take the easy way out and just blame corruption for all the nation's ills. Nigerians don't actually understand what is going wrong in the country. That's why they can't hold leaders accountable on specific issues that will actually make a difference.