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For anyone who's been to Lagos Island which, appears to be a premier business district in the city, its street view can't match Nairobi's CBD. Nairobi's downtown area 'behind archives' as described by someone even seems like a strong match for this uptown lagos business district. Below are GSV pics of this area

Tom Mboya Street, the main street of downtown that snakes behind archives

Just30:
Africa is not looking to make it city centers, car zones.

Europe is busy getting rid of cars from it city centers to make it more livable

Yap, that's the general trend the world over. More however needs to be put up in terms of rail and bike lanes

kikuyu1:
I rmbr you from the early days. Post more often. You have much needed sense!

Been quite busy so wasn't really available to post. I'll try make it a habit

Biashara street and Market street

Mama Ngina Street, Cardinal Otunga street and Tubman street

Now to Nairobi. Feeders of Muindi Mbingu street

Kaunda street and Standard street

Broad Street feeders;

Issah William street and Martin street

Feeders of Broad street;

Davies street and Balogun street

ArabicBerber:
What is with African countries and these narrow streets in city centers? This isn't too future proof considering Africa's future population boom.

Those are the feeder roads, no different n size to New York's 4th Avenue feeders if you've been there. European cities with a much higher density than Africa have even narrower streets. But people rush there on holiday because of good PR and they're very well maintained

68816419:
Can we now see "feeder streets" of Muinfi Street, Nairobi?

Yeah, goals always shift.

Feeders to broad street

Wimo Onetere Street and Chapel Street

More of Muindi Mbingu street and it's feeders

And now the other side of the coin;

GSV of Muindi Mbingu street, Nairobi

More of Broad Street and it's feeder streets

Roan77:
Yeah, that's how Nairobi looks like, without photo editing, it still looks ugly even with the the editing, you can scroll up and see the real Nairobi posted by Vlain, or watch Nairobi raw videos, you will be shocked how it looks.

Google street view (GSV) pics come raw without a shroud of editing. So I'll post pics of an upmarket street in Lagos vs one in Nairobi

GSV of Broad street, Lagos

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Roan77:
But it's in your CBD right?

Not even close, it's about 12kms away

68816419:
Nigga u know nothing about Lagos,VI ,Lekki, Ikoyi andt even Lagos island are better than Nairobi.

I asked you a simple question, you got emotional.

But I'll repeat. Is broad street among the best streets in Lagos?

Roan77:
Man, rvp2018 posted it as one of the best parts of Nairobi CBD, so I had to download the pictures to counter Shma2020 whenever he posts some old pictures of Lagos old and former CBD.

Well now you know, the first 2 pics are umoja, specifically donholm junction, a lower mid-income estate.

68816419:
Plus, when you said Nairobi, did u mean the tiny parts of Nairobi's CBD or the general Nairobi?

Preferably the whole city. But since we are talking of Lagos island, then Nairobi CBD it is.

Broad street is among the best streets in Lagos, right?

68816419:
@ the bolded, what do you by that?

I mean I spent the bulk of my time close to the Marina and within Lagos Island. Then again, 3 days isn't so much time.

68816419:
This how Lagos looks at street level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrnd1Ty8lyg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vpULqZoaJM

Well, it isn't as bad as some posters make it seem. But neither is it better than Nairobi.

I was last in lagos about 4 years ago, and it's the only city in Ngr that I've been to. Stayed close to the marina at a hotel called Beni, in some street off Broad street. If the streets are anything like they were back then, then no sane Lagosian who's been to Nairobi can compare the street level pics of the two. Nairobi streets are just better built and maintained.

Here's an aerial of Nairobi CBD and the much spoken of Kenyatta Avenue

Roan77:
Nah, this is Nairobi of 2021 posted by your lord rvp2018.

The first two pics are of umoja, a low mid-income estate popular with Nigerians in Kenya.

Why are you trying to portray it as part of the CBD?

How does Lagos look like at street level?

vankelvin:
How does that long post concern me?

If you have a problem with nigerians, locate any of them and post that long nuisance to them. Don't just quote people then you post anything for posting sake.

Let me show you how that post concerns you. You asked for these

vankelvin:
That's how come most of you kenyans fail in your final exams.

Read through the questions I asked you?
QUESTIONS
What of PPP?
What of your Poverty rate?
Unemployment rate?
Your HDI?

Then look at your answer below?
SMH

I did you one better and posted far much more than that, inclusive of all you asked for, just in case goals changed and you asked for something else. And my post was well in line with the thread's title.

I have no qualms with Nigerians, or Kenyans, or South Africans or Ghanaians for that matter. I have qualms with people who resort to whataboutism and strawman diversions in the face of facts presented. If we can engage in a quality fact based discussion, then that's the best way forward.

Vlain:
U must be joking.Nigerians lives in your best neighborhood alongside ur oppressors. swallow that fact then stomach it. We are the reason ur real estate sector stay afloat.we pull out and that sector become a joke like what it is today.

And you were in such a rush to post it that you didn't even read the article through. 1.4% of property in Nairobi are bought by foreigners. Britons are the largest with 63% of that 1.4%, followed by South Africans at 16%, then Spaniards, Mauritians and Americans rounding up the top 5. It was clearly a mistake for they meant to put South Africans and not Nigerians.

Now google estates with large populations of Nigerians. I won't even post the screenshot, you do so yourself. Unless shame stops you

rvp2018:
yet Nigerian in Nairobi squeeze themselves ten in a room in roysambu and umoja

Yeah. I wonder what Roysambu and Umoja are in Nigeria then if Buuburu and South B & C are slums.

And why on earth would one move from a country with "very good housing" to live in a less-than-slum area of Nairobi.

Below is South C slum

vankelvin:
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Which substance did you put on the table?Cow dung.

That long rubbish you posted, what was it for?

Yeah, that long rubbish I posted. Had more data on it than all your posts on Nairaland for the last 10 days. As to what it was for, read the thread's title, digest what it means, then go back to that long rubbish I posted and see it's relevance.

And I see you're like that fly that wont fly away no matter how much it's swatted at. Well, keep on buzzing around my posts as you wish.

vankelvin:
The bolded.

Congratulations, you've won for yourself a cow blood. Go to nairaland office for your award. Kwasiapanin

Meh! I don't indulge in the childish melodrama you seem to thrive in. If you've got nothing of substance to table, avoid quoting me.

68816419:
Still same Kenyattas avenue, show us the streets behind national achieve, streets that leads to Eastliegh, Ngara,Pagani, Buruburu,South c and b

Clearly, you haven't been to Nairobi. That is Muindi Mbingu street. Its street wideness would tell anyone who's been to Nairobi that that ain't Kenyatta Avenue


The pic below is Madukani center in South B plus an aerial of the same area. Go lie elsewhere that it's a ghetto in Nigeria

vankelvin:
Shma2020

You know I'm a Ghanaian so stop beating about the bush clown.

And what or who on earth is Shma2020?

Are you trying to rub off stats by a gimmick that I'm a someone else's alias? I joined Nairaland in 2015, that's 2 years before you so if there's any alias, must be you mate.

And I'm yet to see any noteworthy response to the stats I gave, seems the quality of discussions regressed a lot since the last time I was on here.

Vlain:
Some of the stats are false while some are outdated.only a few was correct .

So give the true stats where false and the up to date ones where outdated.

Otherwise, if the only calculated response you can master is "utter rubbish", then I'll take it as a sign that you are utterly bewildered

Vlain:
Utter rubbish.

Is reading the problem or are the stats too scary