AwodwaGyanOniwe: @Mudfaces
As we speak 112million people in Naija live below $1 a day. Over 80 million or half of Nigerias population live in RURAL AREAS/VILLAGE boys(where theres poor roads,no electricity,poor education etc..). Am sure this makes ya'll feel better heyPOOR GIANTS wanna be. Their HDI index is still low... In HIV AIDS a research by a Nigerian Prof in UCT and Indian research institute shows Nigeria and India will overtake SA in HIV AIDS by 2016 onwards.

Pls ask me to bring this source

so? How does it affect ur well-being?

What percentage of chineese are poor? Just curious

This is just paper theory. How does an average Nigerian with less than $1 per day comprehend this. Nonsence

In SA we celebrate MIXED HOUSING projects that will benefit the POOR like CORNUBIA, BRIDGE CITY, WESCAPE HOUSING, WALMER LINK etc..not skyscrapers that will be living foreign investors from Europe.

BRIDGE CITY
Built for the masses(Indians and blacks placed by apartheid in Phoenix and Umlazi).

http://www.bridgecity.co.za/news-details/2009/aug/20/bridge-city-durban-the-opportunity-to-invest-is-now/9/

sheyie2007: get the fvck off 120mil? You're demented... where's ur sick source?

Cant u read?

But we have elections in 2015. The economy will plunge again. Ding-Dong economics of PDP lootery.

AwodwaGyanOniwe: @Mudfaces
As we speak 112million people in Naija live below $1 a day. Over 80 million or half of Nigerias population live in RURAL AREAS/VILLAGE boys(where theres poor roads,no electricity,poor education etc..). Am sure this makes ya'll feel better heyPOOR GIANTS wanna be. Their HDI index is still low... In HIV AIDS a research by a Nigerian Prof in UCT and Indian research institute shows Nigeria and India will overtake SA in HIV AIDS by 2016 onwards.

Pls ask me to bring this source

I thought this guy has common sense before, so you do not believe Nigeria would be No30 in ecomomic ranking, but you believe Nigeria would overtake HiV stricken South Africa, you and ur Indian mumu doctor are dummer than I thought then.

@Sheyi
Population below poverty line: 13.4%
note: in 2011, China set a new poverty line at RMB 2300 (approximately US $363; this new standard is significantly higher than the line set in 2009, and as a result, 128 million Chinese are now considered below the poverty line (2011)

Definition: National estimates of the percentage of the population falling below the poverty line are based on surveys of sub-groups, with the results weighted by the number of people in each group. Definitions of poverty vary considerably among nations. For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of February 21, 2013

Chanchit:


I thought this guy has common sense before, so you do not believe Nigeria would be No30 in ecomomic ranking, but you believe Nigeria would overtake HiV stricken South Africa, you and ur Indian mumu doctor are dummer than I thought then.

welcome to nairaland bro.. that's the SAns for you..

@Chanchit
This research was done by a Nigerian prfessor at UCT, Mr Makinde hes Yoruba like Sheyi.
He went to Naija and discovered that your figures on HIV population are undercounted. For example in his article he mentions that in one STATE in the South has 1million HIV people. He questioned the NBS stats and found out there was no door to door tests like in SA.

Overtake SouthAfrica

Overtake China

Chance Sweden.

Yet man pikin dey use knot tie strangle himself make hunger no choke am.

Naija too dey make noise abeg.

@Chanchit
You people did the same with POVERTY kept mum and until Rick Ross shot that video in MAKOKO

Most of us knew that Naija was POOR and alot of SLUMS.

AwodwaGyanOniwe: Rebasing will by 40% will still keep Nigeria behind SA. You guys have over 120million POOR people who still have no access to clean water, electricity etc..

Showing your ignorance continually... 120 Million poor people? where are these poor people because i don't seem to see any poor people around these days and who told you they don't have clean water? where did you get this statics? Omoh mind your lips ooo and make sure you investigate before pouring your ignorance out here.

AwodwaGyanOniwe: @Chanchit
This research was done by a Nigerian prfessor at UCT, Mr Makinde hes Yoruba like Sheyi.
He went to Naija and discovered that your figures on HIV population are undercounted. For example in his article he mentions that in one STATE in the South has 1million HIV people. He questioned the NBS stats and found out there was no door to door tests like in SA.

door to door test Do you think we aint exposed? By the way if you know the effects of population on the economy you won't spew nonsense http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China

So many new oil discoveries around Africa and the world. That's good news to me as a biafran. Finally oil,the glue that held this colonial entity together would lose its value and we would see where those that want unity by force will get money to finance their unity agenda.

This is indeed, a goodnews.

NAIJA GIANT OF SLUMS IN AFRICA BIG BUBBLE/CIRCLE. Zimbabwe is far better than ya'll.

http://maptd.com/urban-africa-slum-populations/

Nonsense statistics geared by thieves in politics!

Sheyi
OVERPOPULATIO=MORE CHALLENGES(housing,electricity,roads etc..)
Yes China and India are POOR despite big GDP. America and the West are far better than them

Poverty in the People's Republic of China
Poverty Headcount Ratio (2008)[1]
Poverty Trend World Bank
Live less than $1.25 a day 13.1% (172 million)
Live less than $2 a day 29.8% (394 million)
Live less than $2.5 a day 39.9% (528 million)
Live less than $4 a day 62% (821 million)
Live less than $5 a day 71.6% (948 million)

THATS NEXT YEAR O!
GOD KEEP US TILL THEN

Amen

The major problem in Nigeria is ; ASSUMPTION
A lot of people are in poverty because they assumed the same polithievescians that bought their votes (with food items, okada , campaign vehicles, cash gifts etc)will then move the country forward .
The same people living in poor conditions will criticize the govt. and end up sleeping over it ,without any positive move . the nation is being torn apart by this same politicians who are nothing but power greedy Nigerians that have all decided to hold the people on ransom and amass as much wealth as possible . these beasts are so ignorant that they invest all their loots abroad(EU,ASIA,AUSTRALIA,- the USA&UK are currently kicking against their investments)

How will Nigeria develop when our wealth is being used in several other countries ?
How can poverty be eradicated when our people lack basic facilities to improve themselves ?
What will the future of our kids be in a society that does not provide social security?quality education? free&fair elections?employment?basic infrastructures? social amenities?

Someone said the north is pulling us backwards, but from that statement , you can tell that the country people are en-robed in tribalism which will pull down unity and that happens to be the present state of Nigeria, the people are turning against each other , putting blames on one another, pointing fingers and promoting religious crisis (it is gradually building into a civil war because it might be too late by the time it dawns on everyone)

This economic position does not mean that poverty will be elevated by the given year but that the country will make more money and be economically stable just for our politicians and their collaborators to steal more money . the western world is gaining a lot from our corrupt system so they will never do anything positive to stop it .

Nigerians, wake up and stop fighting each other , let us join hands together( no matter your tribe ) and work towards creating a good society that will condemn evil and promote good . let us appreciate each other and reject tribalism,discrimination,greed and corruption . We can all put our grievances aside and do things right once more, we have done it before and we can do it again.

I support One Nigeria and you ?.

The report, prepared for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) by the Idasa Institute for Democracy in Africa, notes that while South Africa is considered an upper middle-income country based on GDP per capita. But there is extreme income inequality and deep poverty is widespread.

Your country has a very high, and alarming, rate of unemployment with low entrepreneurship spirit among youths compared to Nigeria. I've seen this with my eyes, as long as you're trapped in that shiit hole called SA and rely on online propaganda stats, all you've posted is hogwash! and FYI: there are more millionaires (in numbers) in Nigeria than any country on this continent. go figure!

AwodwaGyanOniwe: Sheyi
OVERPOPULATIO=MORE CHALLENGES(housing,electricity,roads etc..)
Yes China and India are POOR despite big GDP. America and the West are far better than them

Poverty in the People's Republic of China
Poverty Headcount Ratio (2008)[1]
Poverty Trend World Bank
Live less than $1.25 a day 13.1% (172 million)
Live less than $2 a day 29.8% (394 million)
Live less than $2.5 a day 39.9% (528 million)
Live less than $4 a day 62% (821 million)
Live less than $5 a day 71.6% (948 million)

Engage me in a more constructive and intelligent argument, you're too dull... i can't deduce the point you're trying to make from this ... later!

It's not about coming up with complex economic terms and throwing it to the international media to feel fly, the real deal is: how will it impact that life of the common man? Will it make any difference in the life of the average Nigerian? Will be govt be devoted to creating employment, improved electricity, security of lives and properties, etc?

If not, Nigerians are not interested in the technical jargons.

I hate seeing this shii

All na wash...we'll have constant electricity 1986 newspaper...
When i see news like this i just #yimu

PS: i am not a pessimist oo

Let's see how sustainable the economy will be after all the oil finishes

SA service delivery 'no failure': SAIRR
4

21 September 2012

President Jacob Zuma is quite correct to defend the success of the government's service delivery efforts, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.

Addressing a South African Local Government Association conference in Johannesburg recently, Zuma said that "no country could have produced the delivery we produced in the last 18 years".

The institute's deputy CEO, Frans Cronje, said in a statement last week that a "myth has taken hold in South Africa that service delivery was a failure. However, research we have published over the past several years suggests that this is not the case."

Data published by the institute - an independent think-tank producing research, policy critiques and risk analysis on South Africa - shows that between 1996 and 2010:

The number of South African households living in formal houses increased from 5.8-million to 11-million or by 89.9%. Over the same period the proportion of all households living in a formal house increased from 64% to 76%.
The number of South African households with access to electricity increased from 5.2-million to 11.9-million or by 127.9%, while the proportion of all households with access to electricity increased from 58% to 83%.
The number of South African households with access to piped water increased from 7.2-million to 12.7-million or by 76.6%. The proportion with access to piped water increased from 80% to 89%.
"Increases of a similar magnitude are true for all 15 service delivery indicators tracked by the institute," Cronje said.

"These improvements are corroborated by Living Standard Measure [LSM] improvements, which show equally dramatic improvements in the number and proportion of people in higher living standard brackets.

"Together with increased access to social welfare, which now reaches over 15-million people, service delivery successes are responsible for the fact that t[b]he proportion of South Africans living on less than US$2/day has declined from 12% in 1994, and a peak of 17% in 2002, to just 5% today."[/b]

Regarding service delivery protests, Cronje said that there was "no contradiction between the successes we identify and the protests that are now commonplace around the country.

"These protests are not a function of the failure of delivery but rather of its success, in that this success has raised expectations that cannot be met because of shortcomings in the school system and the labour market."

Cronje said that while the ruling African National Congress (ANC) was not perfect, and while it could be debated whether state-led delivery was the best development model for a country to follow, "the data we have published is unambiguous that the ANC and the government it leads deserves considerably more credit for improving the living standards of poor and black South Africans than it has received."

SAinfo reporter



Read more: http://www.southafrica.info/about/social/delivery-200912.htm#.UW6K9ipXte0#ixzz2QiiKTj85

SA service delivery 'no failure': SAIRR
4

21 September 2012

President Jacob Zuma is quite correct to defend the success of the government's service delivery efforts, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.

Addressing a South African Local Government Association conference in Johannesburg recently, Zuma said that "no country could have produced the delivery we produced in the last 18 years".

The institute's deputy CEO, Frans Cronje, said in a statement last week that a "myth has taken hold in South Africa that service delivery was a failure. However, research we have published over the past several years suggests that this is not the case."

Data published by the institute - an independent think-tank producing research, policy critiques and risk analysis on South Africa - shows that between 1996 and 2010:

The number of South African households living in formal houses increased from 5.8-million to 11-million or by 89.9%. Over the same period the proportion of all households living in a formal house increased from 64% to 76%.
The number of South African households with access to electricity increased from 5.2-million to 11.9-million or by 127.9%, while the proportion of all households with access to electricity increased from 58% to 83%.
The number of South African households with access to piped water increased from 7.2-million to 12.7-million or by 76.6%. The proportion with access to piped water increased from 80% to 89%.
"Increases of a similar magnitude are true for all 15 service delivery indicators tracked by the institute," Cronje said.

"These improvements are corroborated by Living Standard Measure [LSM] improvements, which show equally dramatic improvements in the number and proportion of people in higher living standard brackets.

"Together with increased access to social welfare, which now reaches over 15-million people, service delivery successes are responsible for the fact that the proportion of South Africans living on less than US$2/day has declined from 12% in 1994, and a peak of 17% in 2002, to just 5% today."

Regarding service delivery protests, Cronje said that there was "no contradiction between the successes we identify and the protests that are now commonplace around the country.

"These protests are not a function of the failure of delivery but rather of its success, in that this success has raised expectations that cannot be met because of shortcomings in the school system and the labour market."

Cronje said that while the ruling African National Congress (ANC) was not perfect, and while it could be debated whether state-led delivery was the best development model for a country to follow, "the data we have published is unambiguous that the ANC and the government it leads deserves considerably more credit for improving the living standards of poor and black South Africans than it has received."

SAinfo reporter



Read more: http://www.southafrica.info/about/social/delivery-200912.htm#.UW6K9ipXte0#ixzz2QiiKTj85

@Sheyi
This is real Naija.

NAIJA GIANT OF SLUMS IN AFRICA BIG BUBBLE/CIRCLE. Zimbabwe is far better than ya'll.

http://maptd.com/urban-africa-slum-populations/

AwodwaGyanOniwe: SA service delivery 'no failure': SAIRR
4

21 September 2012

President Jacob Zuma is quite correct to defend the success of the government's service delivery efforts, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.

Addressing a South African Local Government Association conference in Johannesburg recently, Zuma said that "no country could have produced the delivery we produced in the last 18 years".

The institute's deputy CEO, Frans Cronje, said in a statement last week that a "myth has taken hold in South Africa that service delivery was a failure. However, research we have published over the past several years suggests that this is not the case."

Data published by the institute - an independent think-tank producing research, policy critiques and risk analysis on South Africa - shows that between 1996 and 2010:

The number of South African households living in formal houses increased from 5.8-million to 11-million or by 89.9%. Over the same period the proportion of all households living in a formal house increased from 64% to 76%.
The number of South African households with access to electricity increased from 5.2-million to 11.9-million or by 127.9%, while the proportion of all households with access to electricity increased from 58% to 83%.
The number of South African households with access to piped water increased from 7.2-million to 12.7-million or by 76.6%. The proportion with access to piped water increased from 80% to 89%.
"Increases of a similar magnitude are true for all 15 service delivery indicators tracked by the institute," Cronje said.

"These improvements are corroborated by Living Standard Measure [LSM] improvements, which show equally dramatic improvements in the number and proportion of people in higher living standard brackets.

"Together with increased access to social welfare, which now reaches over 15-million people, service delivery successes are responsible for the fact that the proportion of South Africans living on less than US$2/day has declined from 12% in 1994, and a peak of 17% in 2002, to just 5% today."

Regarding service delivery protests, Cronje said that there was "no contradiction between the successes we identify and the protests that are now commonplace around the country.

"These protests are not a function of the failure of delivery but rather of its success, in that this success has raised expectations that cannot be met because of shortcomings in the school system and the labour market."

Cronje said that while the ruling African National Congress (ANC) was not perfect, and while it could be debated whether state-led delivery was the best development model for a country to follow, "the data we have published is unambiguous that the ANC and the government it leads deserves considerably more credit for improving the living standards of poor and black South Africans than it has received."

SAinfo reporter



Read more: http://www.southafrica.info/about/social/delivery-200912.htm#.UW6K9ipXte0#ixzz2QiiKTj85

Common sense, i would only highlight positive achievements by my country on my country's official web portal, even embellish it..

Alumnus: I hope they are not trying to manipulate the system?

Manipulate what system?!

Wake me up when Naija HAS become. Always using "to and will" to confuse folks!