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PetroDolla3: [s][/s] arrant rubbish from a fuelish shitnigerian goat. your magg0t-infested country is still struggling to produce 5,000MW for its suffering and smiling country and you are here spewing crap? https://www.nairaland.com/1840713/fg-adds-370m-gas-supply


that building is the secretariat of ECOWAS. it is just a building. what is the big deal about it? ECOWAS leaders have not met in that particular building since the early years of the Obasanjo administration. I think the last time an ECOWAS summit took place in that building was around 2001- most ecowas meetings are rotated across member countries. even when hosted in your country- it takes place at the Transcorp hotel. you need to get better informed. nigeria offered to host the secretariat of ecowas many years ago. kini big deal?

Bla blab bla if you have nothing constructive and meaningful to contribute then just go and hide your face because it is obvious your low-level intelligence and shambolic IQ cannot cope with rational arguments backed with facts.

Wale112: 2,100 MW for less population and export electricty to Togo,Burkina. stop fooling fagggot



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Ghana

PetroDolla3: Ghana's installed power generation capacity is 2850MW. your country with the size of its population should have an installed capacity of 40,000MW! una no get shame sef? SMH


According to the United Nations Human Development Index, which measures life expectancy, literacy, education and standards of living for countries worldwide, Ghana was designated a Medium Human Development country and ranked 130. Nigeria was classified under the Low Human Development category and ranked 142.

[url] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_Human_Development_Index[/url]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 143 out of 1000 children in Nigeria died before their fifth birthday. In Ghana, 74 out of 1000 children died before their 5th birthday during the same period.

The 2013 Global DuPont Food Security Index, which measures food security in 107 countries by looking at factors like food affordability, availability, nutrional quality and safety, ranked Ghana 68 (3rd in Africa after South Africa and Botswana). Nigeria was ranked 86.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/New/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40912:nigeria-ranks-low-on-food-security-report&catid=76:hot-topic&Itemid=564
http://foodsecurityindex.eiu.com/Country/Details#Nigeria


112.5 million Nigerians live in poverty
http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/112-5-million-nigerians-live-in-poverty-nbs/

The National Bureau of Statistics on Monday said that 112.519 million Nigerians live in relative poverty conditions.

This is staggering when compared with the country’s estimated 163 million population.

Relative poverty is the comparison of the living standards of people living in a given society within a specified period of time.

It is the most acceptable poverty measurement which has been adopted by the NBS for many years.

Apart from the relative poverty index, other poverty measurement standards are absolute measure, which puts the country’s poverty rate at 99.284 million or 60.9 per cent; the dollar per day measure, which puts the poverty rate at 61.2 per cent; and the subjective poverty measure, which puts the poverty level at 93.9 per cent.

Instructively, all the four methods used in measuring poverty by the NBS pointed to the fact that there was disconnect between the country’s Gross Domestic Product growth rate of 7.75 per cent and the high poverty rate.

The relative poverty figure of 112.5 million, which was contained in the 2010 poverty profile report of the agency, was released in Abuja on Monday. It represents 69 per cent of the country’s total population.

The 26-page report, which provides details of poverty and income distribution across the country, put the 2004 poverty measurement rate at 54.4 per cent.

The Statistician-General of the NBS, Dr. Yemi Kale, while unveiling the report, noted that the figure might increase to 71.5 per cent when the 2011 figure is computed.

“The NBS estimates that this trend may have increased further in 2011 if the potential impacts of several anti-poverty and employment generation intervention programmes are not taken into account,” he said.

In arriving at the 2010 figure, the NBS boss said data from 20 million households having an average of between four to six family members were collected.

The agency has yet to carry out a survey of the 2011 poverty level as funds for the exercise are still being expected.

According to the report, the North-West and North-East recorded the highest poverty rates in the country in 2010with 77.7 per cent and 76.3 per cent respectively.

On the other hand, the South-West geo-political zone, according to the report, recorded the lowest at 59.1 per cent.

Among the 36 states of the federation, the report stated that Sokoto had the highest poverty rate (86.4 per cent), while Niger had the lowest at (43.6, per cent).

As at 2004, Jigawa State had the highest poverty rate (95 per cent), while Anambra, with a poverty rate of 22 per cent, was the least poverty-stricken state.

Kale said, “In 2004, Nigeria’s relative poverty measurement stood at 54.4 per cent but increased to 69 per cent or 112.518 million Nigerians in 2010.

“Using the absolute poverty measure, 54.7 per cent of Nigerians were living in poverty in 2004 but this increased to 60.9 per cent or 99.284 million Nigerians in 2010.

Continuing, he said, “The NBS adopts the relative poverty measurement for monitoring poverty trends in the country.

“It remains a paradox, however, that despite the fact that the Nigerian economy is growing, the proportion of Nigerians living in poverty is increasing every year.”

Asked why the impact of the country’s high GDP growth rate had not translated into poverty reduction, Kale said, “Economic growth is not development. If you look at our GDP numbers, you will see that agriculture, wholesale and retail trade, and oil and gas constitute over 70 per cent of that growth.

“How many people can those three sectors employ? Not many. Agriculture is largely subsistence in nature because the local farmer is not looking at employing people and it is when agriculture is commercialised that it will be employment generating and poverty reducing.”

He also said that income inequality had risen from 0.429 in 2004 to 0.447 in 2010.

Wale112: Ghana is better than Nigeria 100 billion times. Ask Nigerians living here I have never touched generator ever since i came to Ghana. Nigeria is on the same level with somalia and Irag

londoner: There are obviously good things to be found/enjoyed in both Gh and 9JA.........Maybe we should dwell on that.

All this negativity is getting us nowhere.

PetroDolla3: , stvpid,evil nigerian with inferiority complex! Ghanaian will always win because we’ve been your masters, even from colonial times! Go and study your history.

how much electricity do you generate in that sh1thole for a nation zoo of 200 million? the last time I checked you couldn't even produce 1700MW of electricity. MUMU from MUMUDOM Republic! una no get shame? upon your huge oil and gas resources, you can't produce electricity for your impoverished citizens. shame unto you!

PetroDolla3: and where did you get this stvpid notion than Angola is a rich country from? oooh just because of its GDP,huh? exactly what i said previously that using the size of GDP only as a determiner of a country's wealth is the most foooolish thing to do. Yes, Angola earns lots of revenue from its oil sales. Like nigeria, thieving angolan officials have done very little for the ordinary angolan. the country remains desperately poor like your own country. interestingly, almost all the countries you mentioned export lots of oil and gas, which translates to lot of revenue on paper. the reality in most oil-producing countries is entirely different. I expected you to know that.


Poverty mars Angola's petroleum paradise

Angola is Africa's second biggest oil producer and will soon also export natural gas. The resource boom is boosting Angola's economy but the gap between rich and poor is growing wider.
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The poor district of Cazenga, in western Luanda Copyright: DW/Renate Krieger

The town of Soyo in northern Angola borders the Democratic Republic of Congo. Meter-high flames emerge from two horizontal pipes lying alongside a road. Scenes like this can be seen all round the town. They are a by-product of the oil exploration in the area. The burning of the poisonous gases is the cheapest way to dispose of the waste. This is why, night after night, gas flames light up the sky around Soyo. They are often the only source of light, as the street-lights rarely work.

“At night the whole town is dark”, says taxi driver Luciano Nzombo Madia. “You can't even see if somebody crosses the road.” He manoeuvres his car around the many potholes in the road.

Huge natural gas reserves
Gas combustion in Soyo - flames rise from pipes on the ground.Copyright: Renate Krieger/DW

Angola, however, plans to process its gas and the flames will soon be extinguished. The country's first liquified natural gas (LNG) plant is currently being developed in Soyo. A complex network of pipelines spreads over an area the size of 240 football fields.

Construction started in 2008 and the plant was due to start operations in early 2012. It is expected to produce up to 5.2 million tonnes of natural gas every year. Only eight such plants currently exist in Africa and Angola would be entering a very lucrative business. But the LNG plant in Soyo has yet to start operations. Official sources say it is still in its test phase. Visits by the press are rarely approved.

After Nigeria, Angola is Africa's second biggest oil producer, according to the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). 1.62 million barrels of oil are extracted here every day. According to OPEC, the country also has some 366 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves. This is nearly 20 percent more than experts had estimated in 2010.

No jobs for the locals
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A long-distance view of the Soyo plant.Copyright: Renate Krieger/DW Copyright: Renate Krieger/DW Datum: 07.11.2012

The Soyo plant should have started operating in 2012. Annual production capacity is 5.2 million tonnes of liquified natural gas.
Although Soyo has not yet started producing its natural gas, buyers are already queueing up. The main taker for Angolan natural gas will be the US. The Chevron company has a 36 percent stake in the LNG project, making it the biggest shareholder. The state-owned Angolan Sonagas has a 23 percent stake and the Italian firm ENI, the French company Total and British Petroleum are also involved in the project.

Many people and companies have come to Soyo as a result of the natural resource boom, says taxi driver Luciano as he drives towards the city center. Luciano himself worked as a foreman for the LNG project in 2010 and 2011. The trained electrician supervised the installation of the pipeline in the Atlantic Ocean. The gas will be pumped from a depth of up to 1,700 meters, Luciano told DW.

Luciano Madia supervised laying the LNG pipes in the Atlantic.
Once all the pipelines had been laid, Luciano lost his job. He now works as a taxi driver. He earns 15,000 Kwanza ( US$150, 112 euros). For his job at the LNG plant, he earned the equivalent of US$330 a month. Human rights experts and economists say the resource boom has had little effect on the Angolan job market. According to official figures, the oil sector only employs 0.5 percent of Angola's workforce.

Oil boom in Luanda

Angola's capital Luanda seems to be one of the few winners in country's wealth distribution. Skyscrapers are going up all over the city. Many banks and large firms have opened offices here. The city with a population of 5 million is one of the most expensive in the world. the rent for an apartment in the city center can cost more than US$5,000 . One square meter of land costs more than $US1,000. For a simple meal, like a hamburger or a soup, the price is around US$10.

Luanda's Avenida Marginal avenue. The wide road is lined with palm trees on one side and high buildings and constructions sites on the other. Copyright: Renate Krieger/DW

There's little traffic on Luanda's Avenida Marginal avenue.

The Avenida Marginal, Luanda's coastal road, runs through the city's main banking district. It is well tarred and appears almost unused. After the end of the civil war in 2002, the government repaired the country's roads with the earnings from the oil. Today, many provincial towns are connected by a modern road network. However, the sidestreets of the Avenida Marginal are jammed with traffic, caused by massive potholes in the tarmac. The traffic lights change at short intervals. Stop. Go. Stop. Go. Off. To move just a few kilometers takes at least half an hour.

No tarmac, no electricity, no water

Apart from a few prestige projects, most Angolans get little from their country's natural resource boom. A United Nations report from 2012 documents that 37 percent of Angolans live in “extreme poverty”, i.e. on less than one dollar a day. In the year 2000, the figure was 54 percent. Extreme poverty has declined by a third, but in comparison to Angola's economic growth during the same period, the drop could have been even bigger. According to the World Bank, Angola's Gross Domestic Product rose from US$660 in 2000 to US$5,150 in 2011. This is almost an eight-fold increase. While many of the poor have remained poor, the rich have become much richer.

“The best way to distribute national riches is through the creation of jobs”, said Noberto Garcia prior to the parliamentary elections in 2012. Garcia is a lawyer and a newcomer to the ruling MPLA party. “We have an illiteracy rate of 34 percent and this complicates the distribution of the wealth. The government must therefore promote the people's education so that they can get jobs,” he told DW. The government has said it plans to step up the fight against poverty and hunger, improve access to education and jobs and increase energy and water supplies, all by 2017.


President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has failed to spread the oil wealth equally, critics say
In Cazenga, the most densely populated part of Luanda, there is an urgent need for improvement. The roads have no tarmac, and when it rains they turn into pools of mud. Men, women and children wade through puddles full of dirt and trash. Electricity is supplied for a few hours a day, if at all.

“The engineers of the energy companies say that the water reservoirs are dry. They understand these things, so we have to believe them”, says Euricleurival Vasco, who is seated in front of a tomato stall with his sister and some children. Vasco is wearing a t-shirt depicting Agostinho Neto, Angola's first independent president. Like many residents of Cazenga, the 27-year-old supports the governing MPLA party. After all, most of the politicians in the party come from this neighbourhood.

Missing billions

The IMF queries how 32 billion US Dollars of oil money was spent. DW/Renate Krieger
Angola's economy grew by nearly seven percent in 2012. Industrialized countries can only dream of such a growth rate. But the growth comes almost exclusively from the oil sector, says Angolan economist Fernando Heitor. According to him, the main beneficiaries are members of the economic and political elite around President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. Dos Santos has ruled the country for 33 years. In August 2012, he was for the first time elected through a democratic vote, even if only indirectly as the result of parliamentary elections.

The Angolan government has experienced much international criticism over corruption, nepotism and a lack of transparency. What, for instance, happened to the US$32 billion earned by state-owned oil and gas company Sonangol between 2007 and 2011? According to a report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this figure is missing in the public records. The government says the money was used for infrastructure projects. Details of these projects, however,remain unclear.

Broken promises
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Corrugated iron shacks on a dusty road in Viana.. Children and a chicken can be seen. Copyright: Renate Krieger/DW Datum: 10.11.2012

In Viana many live in shacks after to move to make way for road construction.

Residents of Viana, one of Luanda's suburbs, have been waiting for new homes for five years. They used to live on the Ilha de Luanda, a tongue of land which protrudes into the ocean off the northern part of the city. It lies opposite the Avendia Marginal with its new skyscrapers. Local residents had to move out of the area in 2009, when the government started work on a new road. Since then, they have been homeless and live in corrugated-iron shacks in Viana. Entire families here live from just US$300 a month.

Meanwhile, in the city of Kilamba thousands of newly-built apartments remain empty. Only 220 of the almost 3,000 apartments have been sold. Kilamba is one of the election promises President Jose Eduardo dos Santos made in 2008. The plan was to build one million affordable apartments for the population. The price of an apartment lies between US$90,000 and 150,000. For many Angolans, that is way out of their reach.
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PetroDolla3: your idea of "disgracing and exposing" Ghana is posting those stvpid photos?


Such degenerative fvcker
Did someone use your head as a toilet?

You are the biggest foool in the world. I wonder what disgusting piece of trash opened its legs to give birth to a cockroach like you! Typical MUMUgerian gay!

Can anyone tell me how many nigerians have access to electricity, potable water, motorable roads, personal security, quality education, health care? What is the infant mortality rate in nigeria? What is the maternal mortality rate? I understand your fragile, generator fumes-compromised brain works only part of the time, but at least your low IQ can allow for some low-level research, which will confirm what most of you are- deluded lunatics! LOL. arrant nonsense!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNtew36CIAAWZ5K.jpg

PetroDolla3: hahahahaha can you engage PetroDolla in e-fight? I guess you are a learner,huh? JJC hahahaha funny guy! just take my advice and stop acting like a fooool. fine buildings means sh1t when your people are suffering,huh? this is no rocket science. or is it?

PetroDolla3: look at this fooool. and what is wrong with bungalow neighborhoods? a sh1thole like your country has no business with skyscrapers. where is the electricity to power the lifts? do you silly goats think before you talk at all.

Years ago, a friend rented office space at Labour House in Abuja- a 12-storey building. before she took up the lease, she was assured there was generator that was used at ALL times to service the lifts. She paid for the place only to find out that the generators did not work most of the time. her office was on the 8th floor and she had to climb up every time she had to go to the office. she had to stop going to the office when she got tired of climbing up. so you see how stvpid the idea of all those tall buildings you posted look?

and since when did the prosperity and wealth of a country got defined by the beauty of its buildings? if beauty of buildings were to be the measure of prosperity, a country like Norway won't be considered rich by any standard. the Oslo International airport is just a very simple and basic building. there is nothing flashy about the rest of the buildings in the country, yet Norway is considered the richest country in the world. Why is that? Because Norway has a very pragmatic and robust social security system that puts the Norwegian people at the centre of development.

Norway has one of the best policies to help its citizens. so all those getting excited with posting nonsense photos I have a message for you. at the end of the day, the wealth of a country id defined by the well being of the ordinary people.Life expectancy, access to food, clean water, medical care, electricity, roads, good schools, personal security, employment levels etc- those are the indices that defines how wealthy a country or society is. the level of reasoning that accompanies such nonsensical pontification about irrelevancies is very nauseating and shocking! can you imagine! nigerians get offended when they are described as fooolish, but that is exactly the impression you people succeeded in confirming. any one who thinks a country is rich because it has some few nice buildings is nothing but a fool!

iamord: . Yeah! We both have beautiful centers .. I do more of My postings on skyscrapercity instead.. The fact that a lot of Nigerias- politicians and celebrities, expatriates and other nationals are scrambling for property in ghana should tell u there is a big real Estate boom in The country..there is even an estate still under construction.. Ambassador heights .. Its the. First 5 star estate in west africa.. Nigerians are already scrambling for the place.. Houses go nothing less that $1.2m.. That aside when I visited osborne, banana island , and Nicon estate.. I weak.!!! All I can say is that there is money! In these countries that u people are just posting ghettos

iamord: That's banana island..a very beautiful place with high taste of luxury.. We got some of those tho. And also ghana is building the most affluent neighborhood in africa palm grove city

OXYGEN01: Bro I respect u a lot,Chale stop posting pics of Ghana on this useless forum ok.Shalom.

OXYGEN01: Bro I respect u a lot,Chale stop posting pics of Ghana on this useless forum ok.Shalom.

Ashantiking: Then it an apartment and its parking lot. Neighborhood.