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Every damn day that passes, all i think is how to upset major players in the Mobile money industry with our Gift Card program.

These behemoths who have both financial & political muscle can be given a serious run for their money via a healthy competition.

We have successfully linked Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya & Nigeria through our Pan African Gift CARDS. With in-country managers available in each of these country, you can now buy and use Bigkoko Gift Cards to pay vendors in any of these countries.

Buy Bigkoko Gift Cards online from anywhere in the world, and use it in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda & Nigeria.
Try it once and tell us how you feel!

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This page is dedicated to providing information about Fintechs that have gone out of existence despite the huge funding's they received from Western Venture Cpaitalists and why in my opinion i think they MUST go bust despite the funding's. This is not a thread for casting aspersion on the entrepreneurs, but studying & learning from their mistakes.

In no particular Order, i am starting from Zazzu ~ the latest to bite the dust!

One sure way to use the Bigkoko Gift Cards in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda & Rwanda is through the Bigkoko Marketplace via the Quick Pick portal.
Use Bigkoko Quick Pick Portal to place Order for any item or service you need in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya & Nigeria & pay with your Bigkoko Gift Cards!

Fast, Reliable & Convenient option for Smart people!

Every damn day that passes, all i think is how to upset major players in the Mobile money industry with our Gift Card program.

These behemoths who have both financial & political muscle can be given a serious run for their money via a healthy competition.

We have successfully linked Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya & Nigeria through our Pan African Gift CARDS. With in-country managers available in each of these country, you can now buy and use Bigkoko Gift Cards to pay vendors in any of these countries.

Buy Bigkoko Gift Cards online from anywhere in the world, and use it in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda & Nigeria.
Try it once and tell us how you feel!

Bigkoko Gift Cards, your Pan African Gift Card!
Brought to you by Bigkoko Group Inc. ~ your Local Tech Company!

One sure way to use the Bigkoko Gift Cards in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda & Rwanda is through the Bigkoko Marketplace via the Quick Pick portal.
Use Bigkoko Quick Pick Portal to place Order for any item or service you need in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya & Nigeria & pay with your Bigkoko Gift Cards!

Fast, Reliable & Convenient option for Smart people!

Every damn day that passes, all i think is how to upset major players in the Mobile money industry with our Gift Card program.

These behemoths who have both financial & political muscle can be given a serious run for their money via a healthy competition.

We have successfully linked Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya & Nigeria through our Pan African Gift CARDS. With in-country managers available in each of these country, you can now buy and use Bigkoko Gift Cards to pay vendors in any of these countries.

Buy Bigkoko Gift Cards online from anywhere in the world, and use it in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda & Nigeria.
Try it once and tell us how you feel!

Bigkoko Gift Cards, your Pan African Gift Card!

Brought to you by Bigkoko Group Inc. ~ your Local Tech Company!

Insecurity is a global problem. Every problem can be sorted out simultaneously, that is why different govt agencies are available to serve in that regards.

Most African countries are safer than USA despite the huge budgets for security. And poverty, lack of basic amenities, education or hunger breeds insecurity.

The first step is building a viable modern digital economy where people get compensated accordingly. What do you think?

ican2020:
Fixing the insecurities and leadership questions in Africa is the first step before taking other steps

One sure way to use the Bigkoko Gift Cards in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda & Rwanda is through the Bigkoko Marketplace via the Quick Pick portal.
Use Bigkoko Quick Pick Portal to place Order for any item or service you need in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya & Nigeria & pay with your Bigkoko Gift Cards!

Fast, Reliable & Convenient option for Smart people!

Every damn day that passes, all i think is how to upset major players in the Mobile money industry with our Gift Card program.

These behemoths who have both financial & political muscle can be given a serious run for their money via a healthy competition.

We have successfully linked Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya & Nigeria through our Pan African Gift CARDS. With in-country managers available in each of these country, you can now buy and use Bigkoko Gift Cards to pay vendors in any of these countries.

Buy Bigkoko Gift Cards online from anywhere in the world, and use it in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda & Nigeria.
Try it once and tell us how you feel!

Bigkoko Gift Cards, your Pan African Gift Card!

Brought to you by Bigkoko Group Inc. ~ your Local Tech Company!

One sure way to use the Bigkoko Gift Cards in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda & Rwanda is through the Bigkoko Marketplace via the Quick Pick portal.
Use Bigkoko Quick Pick Portal to place Order for any item or service you need in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya & Nigeria & pay with your Bigkoko Gift Cards!

Fast, Reliable & Convenient option for Smart people!

Every damn day that passes, all i think is how to upset major players in the Mobile money industry with our Gift Card program.

These behemoths who have both financial & political muscle can be given a serious run for their money via a healthy competition.

We have successfully linked Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya & Nigeria through our Pan African Gift CARDS. With in-country managers available in each of these country, you can now buy and use Bigkoko Gift Cards to pay vendors in any of these countries.

Buy Bigkoko Gift Cards online from anywhere in the world, and use it in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda & Nigeria.
Try it once and tell us how you feel!

Bigkoko Gift Cards, your Pan African Gift Card!

Brought to you by Bigkoko Group Inc. ~ your Local Tech Company!

One sure way to use the Bigkoko Gift Cards in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda & Rwanda is through the Bigkoko Marketplace via the Quick Pick portal.
Use Bigkoko Quick Pick Portal to place Order for any item or service you need in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya & Nigeria & pay with your Bigkoko Gift Cards!

Fast, Reliable & Convenient option for Smart people!

Every damn day that passes, all i think is how to upset major players in the Mobile money industry with our Gift Card program.

These behemoths who have both financial & political muscle can be given a serious run for their money via a healthy competition.

We have successfully linked Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya & Nigeria through our Pan African Gift CARDS. With in-country managers available in each of these country, you can now buy and use Bigkoko Gift Cards to pay vendors in any of these countries.

Buy Bigkoko Gift Cards online from anywhere in the world, and use it in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda & Nigeria.
Try it once and tell us how you feel!

Bigkoko Gift Cards, your Pan African Gift Card!

Brought to you by Bigkoko Group Inc. ~ your Local Tech Company!

East and West Africa may be on the same continent, just five hours flight from each other, and with complementary economies that would make it natural enough for a high level of interaction. But, in reality, they are virtually cut off from one another.

With a combined population of two-fifths of a billion, and well-matched roads in africa resources, East and West Africa have some of the lowest trade between them of any regions in the world, according to a UN report, with just one carrier running costly and often half-empty flights between the regions, no road route, and negligible traffic between the two continental hubs.

To fly to West Africa from East Africa costs twice or thrice as much as flying from Africa to Europe, including to London, which is eight and half hours away. As an example, flying to Dakar on economy and business costs $1,281 and $4,076 on Kenya Airways and is possible on three flights a week. Yet a return ticket to London, with many departures a day, costs from $668 on Virgin Atlantic. Yet Kenya Airways, which operates around five flights a week to West Africa, remains the only carrier covering the route with direct flights, and often the flights, which together could transport only around 1,000 to 2,000 people a week, are not full.

Communication is not better. Telephone charges between African countries can be 50 to 100 times higher than within Northern America, according to a World Bank report, acting as a hindrance to even basic conversation. Moreover, the weak air links are compounded by the absence of any direct links by road, rail or sea. The road network is anyway a big challenge inside the two regions, let alone between them. A recent study by West Africa Trade Hub (WATH), an Accra-based institution, showed that the cost of transporting a container by road from Accra to Lagos, costs three times as much as transporting the same container from the United Kingdom to Lagos. Added to that, Dr Joshua Kivuva, a lecturer in the department of political science, University of Nairobi, says relations between East and West Africa have been historically limited. “Different languages could also be attributed to the minimum contact between the two regions,” he adds.

mombasa portA UN Economic Commission report showed trade among African countries accounts for about 10 per cent of their total external trade, the lowest in any world region, while trade with Europe accounts for approximately 40 per cent of exports. Regional economic communities have facilitated trade and investment between African countries by reducing trade barriers, bringing tangible benefits in employment and incomes. And the low trade levels between East and West Africa is replicated across other African regions. Because of hindrances to trade within Africa, exports from Tunisia and Cameroon often find their way to French warehouses before being redirected to each other’s market.

Yet while both East and West Africa’s economic drivers are agriculture, oil and mineral resources, these are more scarce in East Africa than in West and could be a source of vibrant trade between the two territories. Likewise, East Africa is moving at a different pace than the West as knowledge economies. Figures from the Export Promotion Council show low levels of trade between East Africa and West Africa, compared to East Africa and other parts of the continent. In 2009, Kenya imported goods worth Sh9.6 billion from Egypt, while it exported Sh12 billion worth of goods to the North African nation.

In comparison, Kenya bought products worth Sh109 million from Nigeria, and exported Sh1.2 billion of mainly agricultural products to the country. The fact that Kenya and Egypt belong to the Comesa trading block has significantly contributed to the high volume of trade between the two countries. With 19 member states and a combined population of 430 million people, COMESA’s annual export bill of US$ 157 billion makes it one of the giant regional trade bodies in Africa.
Meanwhile, 26 countries in northern, east, and southern Africa, are on africa economycourse to forming one free trading block as was agreed in the first summit held in Uganda in 2007. The member countries of the three regional trading blocs — EAC, Comesa and SADC — are currently harmonising rules of engagement, ahead of the 2012 deadline when the trade area is to start operating. “This is aimed at deepening trade between these countries. Formation of the free trade area is also in line with AU’s (Africa Union) vision of having an African economic community,” says Richard Sindiga, head of Comesa desk in the Ministry of Trade.

With West Africa effectively outside this new bloc, and hard to reach from the rest of Africa by road, rail, air and phone, East and West additionally remain largely offline on the world wide web. In Sub Saharan Africa, Internet penetration is below seven per cent, while in Northern Africa its approximately 32 per cent as per recently releases AEO figures. This disparity continues to present a real obstacle in information sharing and referencing between African countries, meaning that, for instance, when epidemics occur, tolls are higher than in Western countries. And there remains a huge disparity between those in the population that can access information and those that can’t.

On the East/West axis, the number of Nigerian Internet users is now over eight million, compared with Kenya’s three million users. Yet the West African numbers are low per population, as Nigeria has nearly 150 million people, while Kenya has some 40 million people. For now, the world may be a global village, but East and West Africa are barely even talking to each other.
~Culled.

East and West Africa may be on the same continent, just five hours flight from each other, and with complementary economies that would make it natural enough for a high level of interaction. But, in reality, they are virtually cut off from one another.

With a combined population of two-fifths of a billion, and well-matched roads in africa resources, East and West Africa have some of the lowest trade between them of any regions in the world, according to a UN report, with just one carrier running costly and often half-empty flights between the regions, no road route, and negligible traffic between the two continental hubs.

To fly to West Africa from East Africa costs twice or thrice as much as flying from Africa to Europe, including to London, which is eight and half hours away. As an example, flying to Dakar on economy and business costs $1,281 and $4,076 on Kenya Airways and is possible on three flights a week. Yet a return ticket to London, with many departures a day, costs from $668 on Virgin Atlantic. Yet Kenya Airways, which operates around five flights a week to West Africa, remains the only carrier covering the route with direct flights, and often the flights, which together could transport only around 1,000 to 2,000 people a week, are not full.

Communication is not better. Telephone charges between African countries can be 50 to 100 times higher than within Northern America, according to a World Bank report, acting as a hindrance to even basic conversation. Moreover, the weak air links are compounded by the absence of any direct links by road, rail or sea. The road network is anyway a big challenge inside the two regions, let alone between them. A recent study by West Africa Trade Hub (WATH), an Accra-based institution, showed that the cost of transporting a container by road from Accra to Lagos, costs three times as much as transporting the same container from the United Kingdom to Lagos. Added to that, Dr Joshua Kivuva, a lecturer in the department of political science, University of Nairobi, says relations between East and West Africa have been historically limited. “Different languages could also be attributed to the minimum contact between the two regions,” he adds.

mombasa portA UN Economic Commission report showed trade among African countries accounts for about 10 per cent of their total external trade, the lowest in any world region, while trade with Europe accounts for approximately 40 per cent of exports. Regional economic communities have facilitated trade and investment between African countries by reducing trade barriers, bringing tangible benefits in employment and incomes. And the low trade levels between East and West Africa is replicated across other African regions. Because of hindrances to trade within Africa, exports from Tunisia and Cameroon often find their way to French warehouses before being redirected to each other’s market.

Yet while both East and West Africa’s economic drivers are agriculture, oil and mineral resources, these are more scarce in East Africa than in West and could be a source of vibrant trade between the two territories. Likewise, East Africa is moving at a different pace than the West as knowledge economies. Figures from the Export Promotion Council show low levels of trade between East Africa and West Africa, compared to East Africa and other parts of the continent. In 2009, Kenya imported goods worth Sh9.6 billion from Egypt, while it exported Sh12 billion worth of goods to the North African nation.

In comparison, Kenya bought products worth Sh109 million from Nigeria, and exported Sh1.2 billion of mainly agricultural products to the country. The fact that Kenya and Egypt belong to the Comesa trading block has significantly contributed to the high volume of trade between the two countries. With 19 member states and a combined population of 430 million people, COMESA’s annual export bill of US$ 157 billion makes it one of the giant regional trade bodies in Africa.
Meanwhile, 26 countries in northern, east, and southern Africa, are on africa economycourse to forming one free trading block as was agreed in the first summit held in Uganda in 2007. The member countries of the three regional trading blocs — EAC, Comesa and SADC — are currently harmonising rules of engagement, ahead of the 2012 deadline when the trade area is to start operating. “This is aimed at deepening trade between these countries. Formation of the free trade area is also in line with AU’s (Africa Union) vision of having an African economic community,” says Richard Sindiga, head of Comesa desk in the Ministry of Trade.

With West Africa effectively outside this new bloc, and hard to reach from the rest of Africa by road, rail, air and phone, East and West additionally remain largely offline on the world wide web. In Sub Saharan Africa, Internet penetration is below seven per cent, while in Northern Africa its approximately 32 per cent as per recently releases AEO figures. This disparity continues to present a real obstacle in information sharing and referencing between African countries, meaning that, for instance, when epidemics occur, tolls are higher than in Western countries. And there remains a huge disparity between those in the population that can access information and those that can’t.

On the East/West axis, the number of Nigerian Internet users is now over eight million, compared with Kenya’s three million users. Yet the West African numbers are low per population, as Nigeria has nearly 150 million people, while Kenya has some 40 million people. For now, the world may be a global village, but East and West Africa are barely even talking to each other.
~Culled.

East and West Africa may be on the same continent, just five hours flight from each other, and with complementary economies that would make it natural enough for a high level of interaction. But, in reality, they are virtually cut off from one another.

With a combined population of two-fifths of a billion, and well-matched roads in africa resources, East and West Africa have some of the lowest trade between them of any regions in the world, according to a UN report, with just one carrier running costly and often half-empty flights between the regions, no road route, and negligible traffic between the two continental hubs.

To fly to West Africa from East Africa costs twice or thrice as much as flying from Africa to Europe, including to London, which is eight and half hours away. As an example, flying to Dakar on economy and business costs $1,281 and $4,076 on Kenya Airways and is possible on three flights a week. Yet a return ticket to London, with many departures a day, costs from $668 on Virgin Atlantic. Yet Kenya Airways, which operates around five flights a week to West Africa, remains the only carrier covering the route with direct flights, and often the flights, which together could transport only around 1,000 to 2,000 people a week, are not full.

Communication is not better. Telephone charges between African countries can be 50 to 100 times higher than within Northern America, according to a World Bank report, acting as a hindrance to even basic conversation. Moreover, the weak air links are compounded by the absence of any direct links by road, rail or sea. The road network is anyway a big challenge inside the two regions, let alone between them. A recent study by West Africa Trade Hub (WATH), an Accra-based institution, showed that the cost of transporting a container by road from Accra to Lagos, costs three times as much as transporting the same container from the United Kingdom to Lagos. Added to that, Dr Joshua Kivuva, a lecturer in the department of political science, University of Nairobi, says relations between East and West Africa have been historically limited. “Different languages could also be attributed to the minimum contact between the two regions,” he adds.

mombasa portA UN Economic Commission report showed trade among African countries accounts for about 10 per cent of their total external trade, the lowest in any world region, while trade with Europe accounts for approximately 40 per cent of exports. Regional economic communities have facilitated trade and investment between African countries by reducing trade barriers, bringing tangible benefits in employment and incomes. And the low trade levels between East and West Africa is replicated across other African regions. Because of hindrances to trade within Africa, exports from Tunisia and Cameroon often find their way to French warehouses before being redirected to each other’s market.

Yet while both East and West Africa’s economic drivers are agriculture, oil and mineral resources, these are more scarce in East Africa than in West and could be a source of vibrant trade between the two territories. Likewise, East Africa is moving at a different pace than the West as knowledge economies. Figures from the Export Promotion Council show low levels of trade between East Africa and West Africa, compared to East Africa and other parts of the continent. In 2009, Kenya imported goods worth Sh9.6 billion from Egypt, while it exported Sh12 billion worth of goods to the North African nation.

In comparison, Kenya bought products worth Sh109 million from Nigeria, and exported Sh1.2 billion of mainly agricultural products to the country. The fact that Kenya and Egypt belong to the Comesa trading block has significantly contributed to the high volume of trade between the two countries. With 19 member states and a combined population of 430 million people, COMESA’s annual export bill of US$ 157 billion makes it one of the giant regional trade bodies in Africa.
Meanwhile, 26 countries in northern, east, and southern Africa, are on africa economycourse to forming one free trading block as was agreed in the first summit held in Uganda in 2007. The member countries of the three regional trading blocs — EAC, Comesa and SADC — are currently harmonising rules of engagement, ahead of the 2012 deadline when the trade area is to start operating. “This is aimed at deepening trade between these countries. Formation of the free trade area is also in line with AU’s (Africa Union) vision of having an African economic community,” says Richard Sindiga, head of Comesa desk in the Ministry of Trade.

With West Africa effectively outside this new bloc, and hard to reach from the rest of Africa by road, rail, air and phone, East and West additionally remain largely offline on the world wide web. In Sub Saharan Africa, Internet penetration is below seven per cent, while in Northern Africa its approximately 32 per cent as per recently releases AEO figures. This disparity continues to present a real obstacle in information sharing and referencing between African countries, meaning that, for instance, when epidemics occur, tolls are higher than in Western countries. And there remains a huge disparity between those in the population that can access information and those that can’t.

On the East/West axis, the number of Nigerian Internet users is now over eight million, compared with Kenya’s three million users. Yet the West African numbers are low per population, as Nigeria has nearly 150 million people, while Kenya has some 40 million people. For now, the world may be a global village, but East and West Africa are barely even talking to each other.
~Culled.

East and West Africa may be on the same continent, just five hours flight from each other, and with complementary economies that would make it natural enough for a high level of interaction. But, in reality, they are virtually cut off from one another.

With a combined population of two-fifths of a billion, and well-matched roads in africa resources, East and West Africa have some of the lowest trade between them of any regions in the world, according to a UN report, with just one carrier running costly and often half-empty flights between the regions, no road route, and negligible traffic between the two continental hubs.

To fly to West Africa from East Africa costs twice or thrice as much as flying from Africa to Europe, including to London, which is eight and half hours away. As an example, flying to Dakar on economy and business costs $1,281 and $4,076 on Kenya Airways and is possible on three flights a week. Yet a return ticket to London, with many departures a day, costs from $668 on Virgin Atlantic. Yet Kenya Airways, which operates around five flights a week to West Africa, remains the only carrier covering the route with direct flights, and often the flights, which together could transport only around 1,000 to 2,000 people a week, are not full.

Communication is not better. Telephone charges between African countries can be 50 to 100 times higher than within Northern America, according to a World Bank report, acting as a hindrance to even basic conversation. Moreover, the weak air links are compounded by the absence of any direct links by road, rail or sea. The road network is anyway a big challenge inside the two regions, let alone between them. A recent study by West Africa Trade Hub (WATH), an Accra-based institution, showed that the cost of transporting a container by road from Accra to Lagos, costs three times as much as transporting the same container from the United Kingdom to Lagos. Added to that, Dr Joshua Kivuva, a lecturer in the department of political science, University of Nairobi, says relations between East and West Africa have been historically limited. “Different languages could also be attributed to the minimum contact between the two regions,” he adds.

mombasa portA UN Economic Commission report showed trade among African countries accounts for about 10 per cent of their total external trade, the lowest in any world region, while trade with Europe accounts for approximately 40 per cent of exports. Regional economic communities have facilitated trade and investment between African countries by reducing trade barriers, bringing tangible benefits in employment and incomes. And the low trade levels between East and West Africa is replicated across other African regions. Because of hindrances to trade within Africa, exports from Tunisia and Cameroon often find their way to French warehouses before being redirected to each other’s market.

Yet while both East and West Africa’s economic drivers are agriculture, oil and mineral resources, these are more scarce in East Africa than in West and could be a source of vibrant trade between the two territories. Likewise, East Africa is moving at a different pace than the West as knowledge economies. Figures from the Export Promotion Council show low levels of trade between East Africa and West Africa, compared to East Africa and other parts of the continent. In 2009, Kenya imported goods worth Sh9.6 billion from Egypt, while it exported Sh12 billion worth of goods to the North African nation.

In comparison, Kenya bought products worth Sh109 million from Nigeria, and exported Sh1.2 billion of mainly agricultural products to the country. The fact that Kenya and Egypt belong to the Comesa trading block has significantly contributed to the high volume of trade between the two countries. With 19 member states and a combined population of 430 million people, COMESA’s annual export bill of US$ 157 billion makes it one of the giant regional trade bodies in Africa.
Meanwhile, 26 countries in northern, east, and southern Africa, are on africa economycourse to forming one free trading block as was agreed in the first summit held in Uganda in 2007. The member countries of the three regional trading blocs — EAC, Comesa and SADC — are currently harmonising rules of engagement, ahead of the 2012 deadline when the trade area is to start operating. “This is aimed at deepening trade between these countries. Formation of the free trade area is also in line with AU’s (Africa Union) vision of having an African economic community,” says Richard Sindiga, head of Comesa desk in the Ministry of Trade.

With West Africa effectively outside this new bloc, and hard to reach from the rest of Africa by road, rail, air and phone, East and West additionally remain largely offline on the world wide web. In Sub Saharan Africa, Internet penetration is below seven per cent, while in Northern Africa its approximately 32 per cent as per recently releases AEO figures. This disparity continues to present a real obstacle in information sharing and referencing between African countries, meaning that, for instance, when epidemics occur, tolls are higher than in Western countries. And there remains a huge disparity between those in the population that can access information and those that can’t.

On the East/West axis, the number of Nigerian Internet users is now over eight million, compared with Kenya’s three million users. Yet the West African numbers are low per population, as Nigeria has nearly 150 million people, while Kenya has some 40 million people. For now, the world may be a global village, but East and West Africa are barely even talking to each other.
~Culled.

East and West Africa may be on the same continent, just five hours flight from each other, and with complementary economies that would make it natural enough for a high level of interaction. But, in reality, they are virtually cut off from one another.

With a combined population of two-fifths of a billion, and well-matched roads in africa resources, East and West Africa have some of the lowest trade between them of any regions in the world, according to a UN report, with just one carrier running costly and often half-empty flights between the regions, no road route, and negligible traffic between the two continental hubs.

To fly to West Africa from East Africa costs twice or thrice as much as flying from Africa to Europe, including to London, which is eight and half hours away. As an example, flying to Dakar on economy and business costs $1,281 and $4,076 on Kenya Airways and is possible on three flights a week. Yet a return ticket to London, with many departures a day, costs from $668 on Virgin Atlantic. Yet Kenya Airways, which operates around five flights a week to West Africa, remains the only carrier covering the route with direct flights, and often the flights, which together could transport only around 1,000 to 2,000 people a week, are not full.

Communication is not better. Telephone charges between African countries can be 50 to 100 times higher than within Northern America, according to a World Bank report, acting as a hindrance to even basic conversation. Moreover, the weak air links are compounded by the absence of any direct links by road, rail or sea. The road network is anyway a big challenge inside the two regions, let alone between them. A recent study by West Africa Trade Hub (WATH), an Accra-based institution, showed that the cost of transporting a container by road from Accra to Lagos, costs three times as much as transporting the same container from the United Kingdom to Lagos. Added to that, Dr Joshua Kivuva, a lecturer in the department of political science, University of Nairobi, says relations between East and West Africa have been historically limited. “Different languages could also be attributed to the minimum contact between the two regions,” he adds.

mombasa portA UN Economic Commission report showed trade among African countries accounts for about 10 per cent of their total external trade, the lowest in any world region, while trade with Europe accounts for approximately 40 per cent of exports. Regional economic communities have facilitated trade and investment between African countries by reducing trade barriers, bringing tangible benefits in employment and incomes. And the low trade levels between East and West Africa is replicated across other African regions. Because of hindrances to trade within Africa, exports from Tunisia and Cameroon often find their way to French warehouses before being redirected to each other’s market.

Yet while both East and West Africa’s economic drivers are agriculture, oil and mineral resources, these are more scarce in East Africa than in West and could be a source of vibrant trade between the two territories. Likewise, East Africa is moving at a different pace than the West as knowledge economies. Figures from the Export Promotion Council show low levels of trade between East Africa and West Africa, compared to East Africa and other parts of the continent. In 2009, Kenya imported goods worth Sh9.6 billion from Egypt, while it exported Sh12 billion worth of goods to the North African nation.

In comparison, Kenya bought products worth Sh109 million from Nigeria, and exported Sh1.2 billion of mainly agricultural products to the country. The fact that Kenya and Egypt belong to the Comesa trading block has significantly contributed to the high volume of trade between the two countries. With 19 member states and a combined population of 430 million people, COMESA’s annual export bill of US$ 157 billion makes it one of the giant regional trade bodies in Africa.
Meanwhile, 26 countries in northern, east, and southern Africa, are on africa economycourse to forming one free trading block as was agreed in the first summit held in Uganda in 2007. The member countries of the three regional trading blocs — EAC, Comesa and SADC — are currently harmonising rules of engagement, ahead of the 2012 deadline when the trade area is to start operating. “This is aimed at deepening trade between these countries. Formation of the free trade area is also in line with AU’s (Africa Union) vision of having an African economic community,” says Richard Sindiga, head of Comesa desk in the Ministry of Trade.

With West Africa effectively outside this new bloc, and hard to reach from the rest of Africa by road, rail, air and phone, East and West additionally remain largely offline on the world wide web. In Sub Saharan Africa, Internet penetration is below seven per cent, while in Northern Africa its approximately 32 per cent as per recently releases AEO figures. This disparity continues to present a real obstacle in information sharing and referencing between African countries, meaning that, for instance, when epidemics occur, tolls are higher than in Western countries. And there remains a huge disparity between those in the population that can access information and those that can’t.

On the East/West axis, the number of Nigerian Internet users is now over eight million, compared with Kenya’s three million users. Yet the West African numbers are low per population, as Nigeria has nearly 150 million people, while Kenya has some 40 million people. For now, the world may be a global village, but East and West Africa are barely even talking to each other.
~Culled.

East and West Africa may be on the same continent, just five hours flight from each other, and with complementary economies that would make it natural enough for a high level of interaction. But, in reality, they are virtually cut off from one another.

With a combined population of two-fifths of a billion, and well-matched roads in africa resources, East and West Africa have some of the lowest trade between them of any regions in the world, according to a UN report, with just one carrier running costly and often half-empty flights between the regions, no road route, and negligible traffic between the two continental hubs.

To fly to West Africa from East Africa costs twice or thrice as much as flying from Africa to Europe, including to London, which is eight and half hours away. As an example, flying to Dakar on economy and business costs $1,281 and $4,076 on Kenya Airways and is possible on three flights a week. Yet a return ticket to London, with many departures a day, costs from $668 on Virgin Atlantic. Yet Kenya Airways, which operates around five flights a week to West Africa, remains the only carrier covering the route with direct flights, and often the flights, which together could transport only around 1,000 to 2,000 people a week, are not full.

Communication is not better. Telephone charges between African countries can be 50 to 100 times higher than within Northern America, according to a World Bank report, acting as a hindrance to even basic conversation. Moreover, the weak air links are compounded by the absence of any direct links by road, rail or sea. The road network is anyway a big challenge inside the two regions, let alone between them. A recent study by West Africa Trade Hub (WATH), an Accra-based institution, showed that the cost of transporting a container by road from Accra to Lagos, costs three times as much as transporting the same container from the United Kingdom to Lagos. Added to that, Dr Joshua Kivuva, a lecturer in the department of political science, University of Nairobi, says relations between East and West Africa have been historically limited. “Different languages could also be attributed to the minimum contact between the two regions,” he adds.

mombasa portA UN Economic Commission report showed trade among African countries accounts for about 10 per cent of their total external trade, the lowest in any world region, while trade with Europe accounts for approximately 40 per cent of exports. Regional economic communities have facilitated trade and investment between African countries by reducing trade barriers, bringing tangible benefits in employment and incomes. And the low trade levels between East and West Africa is replicated across other African regions. Because of hindrances to trade within Africa, exports from Tunisia and Cameroon often find their way to French warehouses before being redirected to each other’s market.

Yet while both East and West Africa’s economic drivers are agriculture, oil and mineral resources, these are more scarce in East Africa than in West and could be a source of vibrant trade between the two territories. Likewise, East Africa is moving at a different pace than the West as knowledge economies. Figures from the Export Promotion Council show low levels of trade between East Africa and West Africa, compared to East Africa and other parts of the continent. In 2009, Kenya imported goods worth Sh9.6 billion from Egypt, while it exported Sh12 billion worth of goods to the North African nation.

In comparison, Kenya bought products worth Sh109 million from Nigeria, and exported Sh1.2 billion of mainly agricultural products to the country. The fact that Kenya and Egypt belong to the Comesa trading block has significantly contributed to the high volume of trade between the two countries. With 19 member states and a combined population of 430 million people, COMESA’s annual export bill of US$ 157 billion makes it one of the giant regional trade bodies in Africa.
Meanwhile, 26 countries in northern, east, and southern Africa, are on africa economycourse to forming one free trading block as was agreed in the first summit held in Uganda in 2007. The member countries of the three regional trading blocs — EAC, Comesa and SADC — are currently harmonising rules of engagement, ahead of the 2012 deadline when the trade area is to start operating. “This is aimed at deepening trade between these countries. Formation of the free trade area is also in line with AU’s (Africa Union) vision of having an African economic community,” says Richard Sindiga, head of Comesa desk in the Ministry of Trade.

With West Africa effectively outside this new bloc, and hard to reach from the rest of Africa by road, rail, air and phone, East and West additionally remain largely offline on the world wide web. In Sub Saharan Africa, Internet penetration is below seven per cent, while in Northern Africa its approximately 32 per cent as per recently releases AEO figures. This disparity continues to present a real obstacle in information sharing and referencing between African countries, meaning that, for instance, when epidemics occur, tolls are higher than in Western countries. And there remains a huge disparity between those in the population that can access information and those that can’t.

On the East/West axis, the number of Nigerian Internet users is now over eight million, compared with Kenya’s three million users. Yet the West African numbers are low per population, as Nigeria has nearly 150 million people, while Kenya has some 40 million people. For now, the world may be a global village, but East and West Africa are barely even talking to each other.
~Culled.

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True be told Asiwaju didn't promise to deliver or give stable light or grow the economy. He only said it's his own turn, and he will continue from where Buhari stopped.

So far, the certificate forger is doing wonderfully.

As a Ronu maggot, if the economy is too hard, kindly look for special discount stores for people who supported Asiwaju, otherwise complain quietly or go commit suicide. But before committing suicide, make sure you buy confin first and keep money for burial food. Tankio.

Next time you lots will understand elections have consequences! Ndi ara!

Prigidypogodo:
but she celebrated a young girl death because he's igbo
leave us let's celebrate his death too

I thought there's a special Ronu discount for her or those shouting jagaban up & down?


One by one baby karma go dey visit them, while the certificate forger go dey enjoy himself with Venezuela hooker's!

Mad people!

Did allah ask you to vote incompetent leaders? Abi no be the same allah Dubai and others dey serve?

Abeg make una leave allah or Bible God biko!

For voting a clueless, incompetent slowpoke for 8 damn years, na bandit people for North, una go contend with! Sha If they get two head, make them go SE make we check who amongst them go come back.

For supporting a confirmed Certificate forger, who also double as a drug dealer, na hunger go finish people from that side. Even panla bonga fish wey we dey take feed dog 🐕, they can no longer afford it.

Make una save una lamentations, Asiwaju still have 3+ years to unleash his incompetence.

For those planning suicide, better shelve that idea. Or better keep money for coffin and burial food.

Ndi ara. Una wan teach una Master politics kwo?

BigBlackPreek:
Oh Allah hear our humble cry and heal our land . The killings and kidnapping is becoming unbearable in this damn country 😢

After supporting crooks, they get served at last!

Suicide.
Regrets.
Deleting of account.
Lots more to come! So that Las Las una go know say elections get consequences!

While you guys wail & gnash your teeth, bobo Chicago & his band of crooks are getting ready to sail to high sea for Christmas owambe, hope they invited y'all!

Save your tears, you still have 3+ years to go mehn!

Anyway, one less supporter of bad leadership to worry about!

If her death doesn't reset the brain of these maggots in nairaland, I guess nothing else will.

Asiwaju and his gangs will never use the same hospital you use. They'll never be in need because they have collected what should be all yours.

But, watch as one smelling maggot would still be supporting he gangs of looters!

Na so them be ohhh. I'm a buharist from south west....think osibanjo vote Buhari. All these while, japa dey their mind.

Check out that pastor that sold his church and congregation to japa. Na them, so tribal, trivia and full of shit!

ednut1:
the end goal is one day they may be noticed and given appointment.
I challenged a lady i met at ielts center in 2019 ( for Canada paroles) who was campaigning for Buhari . She told me she is doing it with the hope that she will get a SSA post. So you were planning to japa ( she later japa after the elections), but you were campaigning for a Buhari on social media and real life. I weak

Let's assume she's part of the looters, it's understandable. But she's poorer than a church rat. Less than $155 she doesn't have but was championing a crook for leadership. Well, that crook actually made Naira to loss 30% of it's value within five months. If she didn't support the crook, maybe the small change she has might have been enough to buy blood.

Enemies of progress and Nigeria. After supporting Asiwaju and bubu, this one no even get less than $155 to buy blood to stay alive till 2027?

A lot of like maggots are here in nairaland, una karma go reach una.

While she's suffering, Asiwaju and his gangs dey buy yatch for high sea owambe!

All of Una wey support bad leaderships, karma is already on the loose! Wait for it!

Ndia Ara

People wey no fit send money to their mama for village to buy panla bonga fish plus Ewedu dey dream to employ people!

Tell me which kind madness pass this one? Panla bonga fish wey we dey take feed dog 🐕, na im Dem no fit buy.

For the maggots wey dey talk of employing people, go employ fellow maggots begging up & down for food.

By the time the drug mule finish with una, you lot go understand say elections truly have consequences!

Honestly, Nigerians are the most docile and incredibly non challant people I have ever seen.

Imagine the rogues that wasted the days of a patriotic person like him, walking freely without fear!

Sha, make police try am for West or even SA... That police squad go swim with fishes for a long time!!

Bunch of illiterates wey go church & mosques pass. See them on Friday, dressed like human beings whereas na low lifes. Tufiakwaaaa

DesChyko:
I weak, my brother. If not for the intervention of the Barrister, he'd have still been imprisoned, believing it's a case of mistaken identity 💔

I have sworn with my life, that anyone who offend me or my loved one, or out of greed, foolishness or otherwise, hurt me or my loved one would get swift justice.... No matter how long it takes. If you like live in a castle, I will still reach. You're only safe in the grave!

What you do to me, as long as I live, you will get it back, and be rest assured, when ever I'm dying, that request to make sure justice will be assigned to someone else.

I be like Israel, I no dey forgive or forget!

Even the said Gambo Bawa wey possibly commit the crime, don go bail himself, but the innocent person dey prison dey suffer? Even people understand that there are consequences for their actions whether police or not, expect these things to continue.

Just like a drug addict & Baron stealing an election because he knows there's no justice.

Sha no be my relative!

DesChyko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6JiOzxfdhg?si=Fd4ZsEkI6wk0A82o

This is a video story shared by Brekete Family. It is about the ordeal of a Nigerian citizen in the hands of the Nigerian Police Force.

Solomon Bawa hails from Ajaga Family in Karo LGA of Nasarawa State.

In 2019, he was on his way to repair the tyre of his pickup when he was accosted by the Police who asked him if he knew any Bawa Gambo. He replied in the negative but they asked him to enter their vehicle to follow them to the station at Masaka.

On reaching there, they asked about his identity again and he told them his name, Solomon Bawa. After pressuring him to identify as Bawa Gambo and not getting a result, they took away his belt and shoes, then locked him up in a cell until daybreak.

He kept asking why he was locked up and got no response. Instead he got beaten and later transferred to State CID, Lafia. Here, he was beaten repeatedly and forced to identify as Bawa Gambo or tell them the whereabouts.

An Igbo trader who saw him, travelled to Solomon's home on his behalf, to inform his family of what is going on. His mother came to attest that his name is Solomon but was given no attention. Instead, he got beaten by one Inspector Usman Amgbashi to the extent that he got his forehead injured and lost his entire right arm to shrinking and paralysis.

Another Policeman, Inspector Ado Bature, advised him to accept the identity of Bawa Gambo or face more beating, especially as it was getting too much and may lead to his death and nothing will happen. Solomon had to accept, in the hopes that when he gets to court, he can explain himself. But this was not to be as he spent some months there. The only visitor he frequently had, his mother, died about 2 months after he had been held at the State CID.

After then, no one visited anymore and Solomon could not help crying everyday, at his loss. He was then transferred to Lafia Prison without being charged to court. He spent about 3 years in prison until he met with the Comptroller and explained his situation and ill-health. He was then transferred to Keffi Prison, where he spent another year but was getting some form of treatment on the now deformed hand.

Respite came in the form of a human rights lawyer, Barrister C.Y. Masha, who listened to his story when she came to the Prison. She took it upon herself to verify his identity by going to his hometown and retrieving his certificates, then pursued the matter until he was due to appear in court. It turns out that the said 'Bawa Gambo' had already appeared and bailed himself at the State CID while Solomon remained imprisoned.

After the first court session, the police never showed up again, despite Musa making multiple appearance with his lawyer, Barrister C.Y. Masha. He was then asked to provide two surety so he can be bailed, which he did. He went to retrieve his phone from State CID. He saw Inspector Usman Amgbashi, approached him and greeted him. He proceeded to tell him that he came for his phone but was warned never to step his foot there again or get beaten.

On October 4, after another no-show at the courts by the Police, he was advised by the same Igbo trader to go to Brekete Family to tell his story and possibly, get justice.

Today, the matter is being handled by the IGP himself, who called for a thorough investigation.

It's a bag of mixed fortunes ahead for Solomon, who now has to get justice with a deformed right hand, a permanent scar on his head, a late mother and four years of his life gone 'for nothing'

Police Reaction


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