₦airaland Forum

PROVERBZ:
Tatu is feasible, howeve, Konza is not. U can get house for 40k usd in Tatu and Alaro city and even then it is still out of reach of most in africa. This statement is according to the ceo stephen Jennings when he was talking about Tatu city. Eko atlantic and Konza on the other hand, are ambitious. U would not be able to get an apartment for anything less than 1million usd. The people at Eko atlantic have realized this and are now targeting the extra wealthy diaspora who are buying this properties for long time. The people at konza, howeve, have not even started. They will meet the same stumbling block.

Lastly, konza would need more than just 1 19 century looking building to be ahead of Eko atlantic.
Eko atlantic, has Over 30 buildings in various levels of construion, including a mall and school.

You have it backwards, or is it upside down? Eko Atlantic and Konza City are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Eko Atlantic's main purpose was to solve the chronic shortage of real estate in Lagos. On the contrary Konza City is intended to be a technology hub. Both of those cities are geared toward very different purposes. The other difference is that Konza City is wholly GoK-owned while Eko Atlantic is owned by private entities working in strategic partnership with the Lagos State Government and to a lesser extent the Federal Government of Nigeria.

At Konza, there is no individual ownership of land, the govt through the Konza Development Authority sets the prices of land. Land is leased for specific uses as outlined in the master plan. The size of land parcels varies depending on the planned use. Since there is no individual ownership of land, there is no cost related to purchasing land. The question of cost therefore flies out the window. You are thinking of Konza city in Eko Atlantic terms, thats why you are so wrong. How many investors have invested or shown interest in investing in Eko? Just a handful, less than 5 I think, including a church! At Konza as at 27th Jan 2025 there are so far over 140 investors and $1.2 billion in investments fully committed. https://itweb.africa/content/lLn147mQYPA7J6Aa

Real estate itself is going to be very cheap because all you need to do as an investor is lease the land at cheap prices then proceed to construct your apartment. Due to this factor, all units within the Konza housing scheme will be offered below market rent rates while staying undifferentiated from market housing. Phase 2 of the project which recently kicked of in earnest will feature housing (Phase 1 did not because it entailed horizontal infrastructure) and thats when we will be here to remind you that Konza is not Eko Atlantic's mate in any shape or form. Give it a max 2-3 years. The likes of Qwetu hostels, a major accommodation brand in Kenya are planning major works at Konza.

https://konza.go.ke/project/horizontal-infrastructure-for-phase-1-konza-technopolis/

Talanta Stadium construction progress

PROVERBZ:
Seriously, what is wrong with the entertainment industry in Kenya? I saw a video of the vibrant community at Tatu city and I started binge watching videos of Tatu city on social media. All the videos I saw had Nigerian music in the background. Kenya looks like a good country development wise and it has a good population, I wonder why the entertainment(movies/music and sports) industry there is so poor.
This is the second time they cannot afford to host chan competition on time.

I'm surprised at how obsessed you are with Kenya and Tatu City/Konza City. Maybe you should move. Kenya is the third largest entertainment economy in Africa after Nigeria and SA. Kenyans generally love Jamaican, Nigerian, SA, and American music. That doesnt mean we have no local entertainment industry. Other than the two aforementioned countries, no country in Africa beats Kenya on music/entertainment. Not even the hapless Tanzanian entertainment industry comes close. As for the CHAN, I dont even know why that championship exists. We can do with Afcon. That aside, we decided to do a complete overhaul of the existing stadia and build one from scratch in readiness for Afcon. CHAN is a trash competition we have no time for, the continent should move on. The fact that Motsepe is more than happy to have the tournament moved to August should tell you he also knows its a useless competition meant for DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion).

Kasarani Stadium is nearly complete with a new roof, new seats, and new modern grass. Nyayo stadium is ready. Talanta Stadium which is being built from scratch is a long way off to be complete Dec 2025. Its meant for football and Rugby so that we can be hosting HSBC series on quality grounds. We have been having a conversation on stadia management in the country and I believe in due time we should be having proper stadia management. Atm our stadia are poorly run. Thats one of our unusually rare weaknesses when it comes to sports.

Tatu City, Kenya


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5WqFa7dHs

AfriqueDuZuid:
Worldometer estimates that Kenya's population in 2024 will be 56,432,944, a 1.98% increase from 2023.

Trading Economics estimates that Kenya's population in 2024 will be around 52.60 million.

Macrotrends estimates that Kenya's population in 2024 will be 56,203,030, a 2% increase from 2023.

The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics estimates that Kenya's population in mid-2024 will be 52,428,290.

WorkBank estimated kenya at 56m

But it's ok 53m it doesn't matter

You can trust the Kenya national bureau of statistics because they have the data for births/ deaths / immigration / emigration like on a daily while the rest simply work with projection formulas without real-time data.

An all-Kenyan camera crew managed the broadcast of the 2025 Italian Super Cup final between Inter Milan and AC Milan in Saudi Arabia.

AfriqueDuZuid12:
GS1 Africa headquarters are in Johannesburg

or did you mean East Africa region /division ?

You need a basic English grammar course.

Mombasa

Konza City.
Groundbreaking ceremony for GS1 regional HQs, a global leader in barcoding and data management technology.

Traversing western Kenya.

Its 100/100 on premium class Nairobi-Mombasa SGR for this Cameroonian


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9wH-mOtPs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krD4cNjZvTc

Construction progress of Kenya-AIST at Konza City.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFRxBdCYHg

vaxx:
Ewaste is manually being destroyed in GH,while it is growing at intimidating rate in Kenya.

Agbogboloshi the Ewaste site is gradually changing into new dimension.

Ewaste in Kenya is strictly from Kenyan households not imported electronic waste products like in Agboboloshie. Agbogbloshie is ranked among the world's top ten most toxic places with over 3/4 of the waste coming from Europe. Europeans literally dump all their electronic devices in Ghana. The site is laden with toxic chemicals like mercury, lead, arsenic, chromium, cadmium, copper, cobalt, nickel, and lithium and the burning of these devices causes toxic fumes. Ghana's EPA should impose severe penalties for anyone engaging in e-waste imports besides creating a serious ewaste recycling plant. E-waste is not a problem in Kenya because there is a big recycler in Nairobi that collects and recycles waste from all towns/cities across the country. You will rarely encounter electronic waste even in dumpsites because it gets collected before ending up in a dumpsite.

WEEE Centre is an electronic waste disposal and recycling company based in Nairobi, Kenya. WEEE Centre also has various collection centres in regional cities in Kenya. Electronic waste is collected from communities, taken to collection centres, and later taken to the main processing facility in Nairobi. Here, waste is taken apart, recycled, repurposed or dismantled and separated into various material types like plastics, copper, rubber and many others. These are sold to manufacturers who reuse them.

https://www.weeecentre.com/

"Kenyans plan ahead, which is rare for Africans" A Mozambican said it not me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFRV6RKcviE?si=aGHyXB1yR0JU2_ts

Kenyan traffic monitoring has gone high tech. This guy was driving beyond speed limits and received a warning on his phone.

Ewaste has nothing to do with free trade but weak environmental protection laws

Phew! Ghana needs to stop being a dumping ground of the west's e-waste. Its very ironical that Europe dumps its e-waste in Ghana and a Ghanaian in this video is saying he wants to stop sifting through the e-waste to go to Europe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW89_KMlN1c&t=312s




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uou_223HFns?si=kZJsAb5CLcUopR1i

The Wandering Investor who specializes in the international real estate market has just bought three apartments in Nairobi. This guy is literally an SI Unit of real estate investment. If you seem him investing in your market its a sure bet. You'd think such smart guys would start avoiding Kenya after Kenyans roundly rejected the IMF bill but apparently they see more potential here than elsewhere. These guys were in West Africa and Southern Africa but did not invest in any real estate there finding the markets less attractive and depressed. Ladislas correctly deduces that the Kenyan market tends to be more resilient and lucrative because investments to Kenya basically come from all over the world, from other African countries, the West, the East, Global North and South - and Kenya never relies on single industries such as oil or agriculture or tourism.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24EAr0oYEkk&t=404s

Hot on the heels of this: Malaysian investors also committed themselves to helping Kenya enter the lucrative semi-conductor manufacturing industry at Konza City just a day ago. On the global stage, Malaysia is recognised as the sixth largest exporter of semiconductors, commanding 13% of the global market for semiconductor packaging, assembly and testing while driving 40% of the nation's export output.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ls8RnvgwFA

Chris Senanu is a succesful Ghanaian living in Kenya. He says it like it is this legend.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MexMlgjpaE?si=0B4aegBET-XaFirR

I watched this street debate few days ago where Nigerians/West Africans seem to be trooping enmasse to Germany (japa) for jobs only for the Germans to form a company in Nairobi specifically to recruit Kenyans


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zmjuWD1ZR0

See what the hapless Naira has done to Eko Atlantic. Investors cannot start/complete their projects and the city is now starting to look like a potemkin village. 17 years later.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ_AypjilEo&t=334s


Meanwhile Kenya's Konza which kicked off years later has zoomed past Eko Atlantic with all horizontal infrastructure laid and vertical infrastructure coming up furiously.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OglkWAKScp8&t=938s

Why everyone is leaving Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg1H7SK6hUM

Emirates opens Africa's first premium store in Nairobi, Kenya.

The world’s largest international airline has opened its Emirates World store in Nairobi, Kenya, underscoring its commitment to deliver an elevated customer experience, alongside world-class products and services to the market. Nairobi is the third city globally after London and Hong Kong to receive this new development. The Africa opening is part of Emirates gradual global roll-out of the store network, which will eventually see 40 stores around the world. It follows recent openings in Hong Kong and London, which were the first Emirates World stores in Asia and Europe respectively.

This opening introduces the airline’s refreshed retail store concept to Africa for the first time, with more stores planned across the market in the coming months. Centrally located in the ultra-modern Cube, Riverside Drive, the Emirates World store offers customers expert travel advice, either from dedicated consultants or through self-service smart technologies, and immersive displays to bring the airline’s signature product closer to travellers from Kenya. Emirates is fast approaching an important milestone in Nairobi: it’s 30th anniversary. Since the first flight in October 1995, Emirates has flown over five million passengers to and from Kenya on double daily flights from Dubai.

In 2023, Emirates established an interline partnership with Kenya Airways, providing seamless connectivity to an additional 28 points in Africa through Nairobi, including Mombasa, Kigali, Bangui, Nampula, Kilimanjaro and more. In the last year, over 12,000 passengers have taken advantage of the agreement, exploring more with frictionless travel.

Designed with an open-plan, lounge-like ambiance, the Emirates World store spans over 330 square meters and features a light and airy color palette. The space offers Kenyan travelers an inviting environment to engage with its renowned hospitality and explore the airline’s offerings. The store’s immersive displays bring the Emirates experience to life. These include a full-size showcase of the iconic Emirates A380 Onboard Lounge and a selfie mirror that allows customers to capture images with scenic destination backdrops.

vaxx:
Yet they are more Ghanaian in the US than Kenya according to United States census bureau.

Thats why few Ghanaians are selected. Countries with historically large immigration to the US are entirely ineligible. But why 2M Ghanaians applying for less than 3k slots? Thats the highest number in the world coming from a country of only 30M.

Some statistics are just mind boggling - and reveal alot. Each year about 2 million Ghanaians apply for the Greencard lottery hoping for a chance to immigrate to the US - thats 6% of the country!! The only other African country with such insane numbers is Sierra Leone with over a million applicants each year. Of these, only a paltry 2-3 k are selected from Ghana! Worldwide the over million club includes just three countries, Ghana, SL, Uzbekistan. You have to wonder what makes such a huge chunk of a country's population be so hellbent on immigrating. Compare that to Kenya where only about 300k (<1%) apply but over 4k are selected! Kenya is actually one of the top 15 countries with the highest number of selectees for the dv program worldwide alongside Russia, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria.

World’s largest floating university docks in Mombasa for the third time in 15 months. The vessel runs an education programme dubbed, ‘Semester at Sea’ administered by the Institute of Shipboard Education in partnership with Colorado State University. Each student pays Kshs 6 M or approx 47K USD per semester. The students are drawn from over 20 nations. The ship is converted to a college campus, and they spend between 100 and 105 days on the cruise ship, 50 per cent of the days in classes on the ship, and the rest of the voyage exploring different countries. They will have exchange programmes with the Technical University of Mombasa and Kenyatta University.

Odyssey has a similar feel to a college or university and is designed to accommodate approx 800 participants. It carries students around the world learning the histories of the countries they visit. The students are of mixed nationalities with one Kenyan student aboard. The ship will be visiting Mauritius as the next port of call. Just like other institutions of higher learning, the ship has reception and administrative offices, where there is a welcoming reception desk area with around-the-clock crew presence as well as the Semester at Sea field programme and administrative staff. It has nine classrooms, each with state-of-the-art technology to support learning plus a fitness space including an indoor gym. Outside features include a spacious sun deck for recreational activities, including a basketball and a volleyball court. It also has a pool where passengers can enjoy swimming.

The Mombasa Cruise Ship Terminus caters to various leisure cruise liners that dock at Mombasa several times a year. Between September and March, large cruise liners such as the Norwegian Dawn, MSC Poesia, and MS Ambience as well as the more boutique ships such as the Seabourn Sojourn and Hapag-Lloyd’s MS Europa bring guests to Kenya’s east coast. The Mombasa Port’s Cruise Terminal is a large building painted white and brown and comprising three levels offering restaurants, lounges, duty-free stores and even conference facilities. Visitors are welcomed by a group of local dancers performing traditional dance and song, and the Immigration and customs procedures run smoothly. Visitors arriving off cruise ships are left in awe of the capacity of the Mombasa port with 19 deep-water berths and 5 container berths.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkZ7Jb1D7z8&t=253s

Kenya shows Nigeria’s missed textile apparel export opportunities

Kenya exported US$603 million (Kshs 60 B) worth of clothes to the US in 2022. Kenya is the second-largest exporter of textile and apparel products to the United States among Agoa beneficiaries. Meanwhile Nigeria IMPORTED N365.5 billion/ $862.23 million worth of clothes in the same year. Nigeria’s high cost of production makes local textile and apparel makers uncompetitive, and discourages investments.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, boasted over 180 textile mills, employing more than one million Nigerians. Among these mills were United Nigerian Textile Limited, Aswani Textile, Afprint, Asaba Textile Mills, and Edo Textile Mills.

However, by the 1990s, these once-thriving firms vanished due to challenges such as smuggling, rampant importation, unreliable power supply, inconsistent government policies, and insecurity, making it impossible for them to remain competitive.

IGpro1:
influencers do that all the time, so no big deal.

Probably Nclex exam for nurses intending to travel to the US.
Kenya was recently selected, making it the second country to host Nclex exam centers outside SA.

Is there any hope for Nigeria getting a similar center with the erratic power supply and shortage of integrity? Obviously you'll be trooping into Kenya for the nclex exam as the guy says being that Nigerians are no longer eligible for the dv lottery program and this is perhaps the last hope, but as long as you use Kenya Airways to and fro we have no qualms.

Nigerian shocked by the Kenyan highway system ... no emotions please

This guy actually came all the way from Naija to do an international nursing exam. In the whole of Nigeria/West Africa there wasnt.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciW_3te19ko&t=162s

AskiaHarem:
Don’t be a coward and try to tip toe backwards the intention within full context was clear. My point stands.

I simply shared a statistic...everything else is your own making.

AskiaHarem:
Honestly I wouldn’t consider the first chart a badge of honor. People these days suffer from internet addiction & being chronically online.

I simply shared a statistic, but you saw a badge of honor.