The problem with Nigeria is that we have too many fools as human beings for political deception to work easily. The day we know we are indeed the wretched of the world is the day we will begin to work toward our liberation.All these things our political leaders are demonstrating as dividends of democracy are things that some societies achieved more than 200 years ago.To construct a few kilometers of roads and begin to advertise them as dividends of democracy in this century only shows how inferior we are as a people.

[quote author=gypsey post=84699580]No world is watching, It's up to Nigerians to Revolute just like Hongkong and france.[/quote








And you will become the president after that?

[quote author=dotunbidemi post=84698060]

Ukraine was in a Waring state at that moment Crimea took advantage, Nigeria is in another state. We need a serious revolution in this country, I also have lost fate in this country, I just want to part with my tribe.[/quote








Do you know what revolution means? I don't even think Sowore himself understands the meaning of the term. In my opinion Sowore doesn't look like a revolutionary. I will urge you to read what Mao Zedong wrote about revolution.

valentineuwakwe:
is this what governance is all about in Nigeria? political parties throwing shades at each other instead of attending t the business of people welfare....This country is really funny

That tells you that Nigerian politicians are too backward to govern. Have you ever seen any of the political parties engaged in profound political discourse regarding national issues?You see Nigerian politicians behave as though they are children which tells you why Nigeria is such a backward country without any semblance of progress. These people are ill equipped to govern.

lilfreezy:
Chinese supporting their brand. See patriotism.

If na Nigeria tribe go enter. These people came together and destroyed all their iPhone to buy the Chinese brand, and they have the population to keep the brand in business.

Chinese are not Nigerians. The Chinese are the only ancient civilizations who still keep their cultures and languages intact. They have been unified for more than 2000 years.

hisgrace090:
In a country as poor as Equatorial Guinee.

Equatorial Guinea is not poor in terms of natural resources, especially oil. The country is a typical example of the failure of black people as regards development.With a population of less than a million people , Equatorial Guinea has huge oil deposits which ranks the country in the top ten oil producing countries in Africa but with little to show for it in terms of development.

johnmattew:
envy..when Americans and Russians are don with Mars since immemorial??..USA is already planning on exploring the sun and china is busy with Mars

china is suffering from inferiority complex and insecurity..
American and Russians wouldn't even reveal their facilities to public unlike what china is doing

That is not true. No nation has built anything in Mars. Mars exploration is still new and open and no any major country has been able to explore it. The only place why where America and Russia are more dominant is moon exploration. During the early days of space exploration, China was very poor and technologically backward relative to the other two,so naturally its priority could not have been space exploration.Space exploration is expensive and that's why only a few countries can afford independent space station. As rich as Germany, UK, Japan and France are they could still not afford independent space exploration because their GDPs are low compared with either China or America. Even now Russia is struggling with its space program due to its economy. Much of what Russia achieved in space technology was during the Soviet Union era when the economy was good. The Russian lead in space technology was the reason America also began to explore space which led to the moon landing in the 60s.China has no any inferiority complex whatever. Their space exploration is as a result of their economic development and technology. If they don't have the money and the technology, they wouldn't have ventured into it. Concerning the released pictures of their space station, it is normal as every other country with space program does it. I have seen pictures of both American and Russian space programs.I have also seen a documentary of the Russian satalite launch site in Kazakhstan.

franchasng:
Only fools call China made products fake because China produces over 60% of global goods consumption now....the only place America and Europe don't patronize China made products is in military and health products which involves their national security and life.


Fashion, communication, exercise, fitness, household, just name it....China now produces for the whole world.


That American product you see is most likely produced in China....same with that London stuff or German product.....China has gradually conquered the world, American is just struggling to hold on to it using politics and military might, economically and technologically, China is number 1 now!

China is responsible for much of the reduction in poverty in Africa. Without the Chinese you will probably not have heard of innoson in Nigeria and Afrione phones.The Chinese allow their business partners in Africa to rebadge their products which is why you are all seeing made in Nigeria phones and cars. The Americans and Europeans whom we worship like gods will never allow that to happen.

helinues:


So your lawd Alcameroonie is in the league of Xi Jinping ?

None of present Nigerian politicians has the intelligence to lead a town in china. Nigerian leaders are low IQ people. China doesn't follow the fake democracy of the West which gives room for crooks and nonentity to be elected in the name of equality. The communist party of China selects its leadership based on merit. In china, people like Trump, Macron and some other western leaders cannot be president.

Birdeyeview:
these are advance country always making its nation proud..(today china, tommorow america, germany, switzerland, japan, russia) and 9ja just dey der only to contemplate on how much dem go borrow next for some selfish reason... i owe it to my kids to have dual citizenship wit one of the best countries and live a better life wit great prospect ahead.

Typical of a black man mentality. He doesn't want to suffer to create a better society but wants to enjoy what others suffered to create. Do you know what the Chinese went through before they could be where they are today?

solmusdesigns:



The Chinese Parent company of innoson must really be smilling to the bank out of Nigerians gullibility


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That's what the Chinese do to gain access to local markets around the world. You too can do the business if you are rich enough to build an assembly plant.

MobilityExpress:
The FG will tax them to death, just wait and see.

You know nothing. The company biggest customer is the federal government. Without the federal government, Afrione will have ceased doing business long.

IamCharles123:

Its an assembly plant, they might get contract from other phone company to assemble phone. That's how its been done in china, foxconn has the largest phone assembly plant in the world but have u seen any phone name foxconn b4?
They assemble iphone, samsung and other product and they have their product too but its not popular.

The company does not assemble for either techno or any other brand. Afrione is the brand and the owners of the company are Indians. I have been to their assembly plant.

computergeek:
This Freeze is a disgusting, frustrated yellow mango. The cars are not locally manufactured because the parts are imported and assembled in the country, hence the equally high cost, but the pawpaw wouldn't want to mention that.

That comment about Innoson just shows how wickedly human beings reason. I'm sure the dimwit has never driven or even been in an Innoson car before to know the quality. Just by virtue of being Nigerian, the entire company has nothing to stand for. This isn't tribalistic as much as it's envy-driven. In this life and in the next, the yellow sack can never be half of who Innoson is. If you don't like Innoson's prices, go and start your own car company let's see quickly you'll fail.

Innoson is basically a car assembler (emphasis on "basically". Freeze just encouraged all the equally dumb people following him on IG to never buy Innoson. Ingrained inferiority complex.

That write-up really makes me want to puke. I hate it when people bad-mouth others just because they want to make a stupid point.

U can't blame daddy freeze for saying that. The CEO of innoson himself came out to say that 70 per cent of his vehicles are manufactured locally.

AmazingELixir:


Is it not thesame Innoson motors that said 70% of her products are locally produced?

The company's spokeman said on Nigeria Info radio station that the company sourced 45% of its parts locally.

Stevecovey:

Innoson cars are not locally manufactured. They are rebadged cars imported from a car manufacturing company in China. They are classified under 'completely knocked down parts' and are not taxed by the government. All CKD goods by all car assemblers in Nigeria have zero taxes.

Defreeze should channel his cost complaints to the Chinese manufacturer.

The Chinese manufacturer is not to blame for the price. You should blame the conspiracy of Nigerian entrepreneurs for trying to rip off Nigerians in the name of local production.It will interest you to know that the same vehicle when imported in finished form does cost as much. Part of the arrangement of Innoson with BAIC, the supposed Chinese manufacturer of the said SUV,is that the finished one from China will not be sold in Nigeria, thereby giving Innoson price monopoly. Last month BAIC of China opened a retail outlet in South Africa with the original GL8 series conspicuously seen.

valarmorghulis:
Nonsense, same people will never come out to vote out bad leaders.

Who and where are the good leaders?

BOOOMNAIJA:
IN A COUNTRY WHERE HER PRESIDENT IS AN HALF ILLITERATE...ITS NO SURPRISE SEEING A NYMPHO CELEBRATED WITH SUCH ENERGY.

Please what do you understand by the term 'literacy'

davibid:
Whether we like it or not Nigeria remains the pride of the black race

Long Live Nigeria

FTC please I’m waiting for my alert

What has Nigeria achieved that will make it the pride of black race?

SoNature:


As far as I am concerned, who will ultimately become the winner remains uncertain.

Although the two economies are feeling the heat, the Chinese economy is feeling it more. These are according to official stats.

The best bet is for the two countries to call a truce.





However, I don't see China taking over the US as the world's largest economy. For more than a decade, we have been hearing that China has the fastest growing economy in the world yet it hasn't overtaken the US.

America just has its fingers in every pie...

The trade war was as a result of the huge trade deficit America has with china, for China exports more goods to America than what she imports. As regards China taking over from America, if you do really know how poor and backward China was before the reform and opening up, then you will appreciate the Chinese for having worked out a miracle. In the early 50s the poorest American state was richer than China. From 1978 upwards, China achieved extraordinary economic growth that in a little more than 30 years it came the second largest economy in the world. China might not have taken over from America in terms of nominal GDP and GDP per capita, but surely China is the world's largest economy in ppp terms. China is the largest trading nation and the largest consumer market. China also manufactures more goods than America.

Nuzo1:


Oga, make we hear word abeg. If they put an old woman there now, na you go still cry tire.

OBJ, Buhari, GEJ have over 30years of experience before they became presidents. Yet the kind of failure they have had has never been recorded in human history.

Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore was just a young lawyer who never had any form of leadership before he became his country's leader.

Leave the young beautiful girl abeg. If she fail, make she fail.

Of course Lee Kuah Yew was young when he went into politics. What you should know is that Lee knew what he wanted to do having being educated in England. He hated the British rule in Singapore and was determined to make Singapore a great place. It is not the age that really matters but the knowledge of what you want to do as a leader. Let me tell you that the average age of Chinese communist revolutionaries who fought to create a modern China was 23 as at the time of the revolution.These young Chinese communists understood that china was backward relative to Europe and America and that they needed to do something to develop China into a modern country. In Russia, the older brother of the Russian revolutionary,Vladimir Lenin, was 17 years old when he was executed for attempting to overthrow the Russian king. What I am trying to say in essence is that you cannot compare a young Nigerian with little education and zero knowledge of history as to why Nigeria is underdeveloped with his counterpart in a more developed country.

Earthquake1:


You listed the obstacles facing IVM including government persecution and still wondering why their prices are high

Do you

want them to go in liquidation?

What are u saying? Without government patronage Innoson would have folded up.many of you are talking as though the company belongs to you. Nigeria cannot manufacture vehicles for so many reasons, so the best we can do is assemblage of imported components. This is the reason assembled cars in Nigeria are not cheap. Even with that,assembly plant owners in Nigeria are ripping off Nigerian car buyers. They get a lot of subsidies for the components imported through low custom duties and still sell at exorbitant prices. The day Nigeria has the technology and infrastructure to manufacture cars that day will mark the end of expensive cars in Nigeria.

AZeD1:
Emefiele is beginning to sound like a dunce...
1) There are some fishes that are not found in Nigeria and the only way to get it is by importing (Stock fish used in Nigeria is found in a village in Norway)
2) Rather than focus on solving the problem the right way, Emefiele and Buhari are trying to "order" a solution.

If after buying something outside the country, paying for shipping and import duty I can still sell my product cheaper than my competitor who produces in Nigeria, then the problem is not my importation, it's the cost of doing business in Nigeria that is the problem and that's what should be tackled.

The best way to end importation is not by closing the borders, it's by making doing business in Nigeria easier and cheaper.

The problem is not the cost of doing business in Nigeria. The problem is we don't have the technical know-how to mass produce that could lower production cost. In addition to that we don't have knowledgeable entrepreneurs who are ready to invest in production in Nigeria.

Nigerian politicians are very smart while the youths are very easy to manipulate. Commissioners do not perform much function as far as I concerned and they are meant to carry out whatever the governor deems fit. In a state, the ultimate power to change anything lies with the governor and not the commissioners.So appointing a 26 years old woman without any experience is just to give the false impression of good governance and to get the gullible youths excited and nothing more.The problem of Nigeria is not one of youth appointment,the problem Nigeria has is one of not having an agenda for development as Claude Ake wrote in his book,'Democracy and Development'.An average Nigerian politician,and by extension an average Nigerian youth ,knows nothing about development and how to approach it. Nigerian politicians are experts in fooling largely uneducated Nigerian youths by raising their emotions.

Fallenhunter:


1) How is China more developed ? Dubai had better roads, better infrastructure, better services and more modern tech with tech booths and apps providing every service you can desire. China is more powerful and more innovative but in terms of actual development of the cities, Dubai is far ahead of Beijing. If you believe I am wrong please provide some proof of why you think so.

2) it's difficult for foreigners to open a business in China and if your work is legal unless it's just another export to Africa business, you will struggle to make enough money as you will start at the bottom. In Dubai, even though you will start at the bottom you can earn more.

3) Bro have you been to either ? I've been to both and Dubai is a lot safer and cleaner (and is ranked as such by every international observer) I'm not saying China has open garbage on the roads (Not in Beijing or Shanghai) but it is a lot more polluted, the side alleys have literal faeces in them and there is a lot more crime than in Dubai (crime is reported in Chinese papers, u won't hear about it in English ones but look up crime statistics)

Dubai is a city state while China is a country and also a continent on its own. Beijing alone has an economic output that is bigger than the whole of UAE. U can only compare Dubai with a district in Beijing. Saying that Dubai has better infrastructure than China is just as fallacious. Dubai can be covered in a day but u cannot cover China on a single visit. China is diverse and some places in the west are less developed than cities on the east cost. Shanghai alone is bigger in terms of economic and population than the whole of UAE.There are well over 700 important cities in China and you will have to cover those cities to really grasp the depth of China's sophistication. Another fallacious argument u made is about tech companies. China has more companies on Forbes 500 top companies than America and so many of these Chinese companies are hi-tech companies, so how come you said Dubai has more tech companies than China?I understand that Dubai is a great place, but you should also understand that UAE derives most of its revenues from oil with little or no tech innovation. On the contrary, China is an industrial superpower that manufactures almost everything. Shanghai has the world largest and longest subway system and the maglev. These are modern infrastructures by any standard.

Fallenhunter:


Surely, by your logic, china is more developed than USA, Switzerland and every other country in the world.

China has a huge economy and less regulations so of course Beijing has more billionaires than any other city in the world. Taiwan is still a lot more developed and the average person in Taiwan is still a lot richer than in China.

Africa's richest man is Nigerian so surely Nigeria is richer and more developed than South Africa, Egypt and every other African country?

GDP per capita is not the only measurement of development. For instance Qatar has a much higher GDP per capita than China due to the fact that Qatar has huge deposit of petroleum and small population, will you say that Qatar is more developed than China that manufactures almost everything in the world? China has a space program that Qatar cannot dream of. China has the technical know-how to manufacture all kinds of advanced weapons, including of course the advanced fifth generation stealth bomber.China produces more engineers than the whole of Arab world .China owns some of the world largest multinationals such Huawai, Lenovo, ZTE, Haier, Hiense,Tencent,DJI,UISee,and several others.I don't think Qatar has any of these despite having a much higher GDP per capita than China. So, development cannot be measured by GDP per capita only.

urahara:


Brother , Taiwan is a developed country.China is not even developed.

If Nigeria can achieve 5 percent of what China has achieved we will call Nigeria a developed country. China has decided to reject the 'developed country ' status because it will erode some of the advantages they currently enjoy from World Trade Organization. Mind you china has a population of more than 1.4 billion people ,so definitely it is going to be difficult to achieve balanced development across all the provinces. Taiwan is a breakaway province of China with its own political and economic system but without full independence because the government in mainland China still claims it as part of its territory. The population of Taiwan is around 23 million people with a GDP per capita of 20 thousand dollars. This island province of China has the same population as the the largest city in China, Shanghai, and roughly the same GDP and GDP per capita. In essence, there are many Taiwan in China with roughly the same standards of living and infrastructures . Cities such as Beijing, shenzhen ,Suzhou,Yangzhou,Xiamen,Guangzhou,Tianjin,changzhou,Nanjing, Qingdao, Harbin, Hangzhou and several others are as developed as Taiwan. The problem China has is its population and land mass which has made it difficult to have a balanced development. For you to have an idea of how wealthy China is, just take a look at the GDP of China in relation to the combined GDP of Africa. China, with a population of 1.4 billion people, has a GDP of 14 trillion dollars and GDP per capita of 10 thousand dollars. Africa on the other hand has a total population of 1.2 billion people and combined GDP of 2.2 trillion dollars. From the analysis above, we can see that China is almost seven times as rich as Africa. China is aggressively putting forward a measure which will see the country eradicate rural poverty in 5 years time. China has a lot resources to deploy to its underdeveloped parts to end poverty and the Chinese government has taken the right step. Neither of these large scale poverty reduction efforts can be undertaken in Africa because we have neither the resources nor the technology to deploy.So I think the poor Chinese have more hope than the poor Africans.

efighter:
10 Doing Street that is struggling to get out of EU? PDP must be mad at because 10 Doing Street has bigger internal problems

They are crazy. They are in essence proving their slavish mentality. What do they expect the Americans and the British to do? America and Britain are countries just like Nigeria with tons of internal problems.When I was in primary school the impression created in me was that Americans and Europeans were super humans. Having read and become more exposed, I came to understand that the difference between these peoples and Africans is not that great. The difference lies in the ability of Europeans to use science technology to control nature, something we are yet to understand. Our backwardness has a lot to do with our inability to develop scientifically.It is not democracy that we should be fighting for, what I think we should be fighting for is science and technology. With science and technology we will able to transform our country in a more meaningful way and also earn the respect of other countries. Without having the ability to leverage science and technology to harness nature for the benefit of our people we will always be seeing others as super humans.

ubee:
"SA will pay!" Imagine the type of trash coming out from a high profile individual and former minister. What will we now expect to hear from the youths?
When people like FFK with experience and age are supposed to toe the path of civility and composure in the midst of the storm, instead he utters words that could trigger a burst of emotion and institute violence.
We don't have hope in this country sha.

He knows what is right but only appealing to his gullible support base.

OpinionCounts:


Your citizens were pulled out of their houses and beaten to death for no just cause, their shops were looted and burnt, families were burnt alive etc and you are asking what the president of the said country should do?

Ok....

I will do what every active, right thinking and responsible president will do with all the leverage available to me against SA, both economic leverage, military leverage, business leverage, diplomatic leverage, our leading leverage in the AU(pressuring them to act or even sanction SA), I will suspend every diplomatic ties we have with SA and I will make very bold and tough public statements and press releases that will send very clear and high level warning signals to both the south African government and it's people...it will be so clear to SA and the world that Nigerian government places a premium on the life of it's citizens and will never sit back while it's citizens are been massacred like rats in a foreign land...it will also be a confidence builder to Nigerians both home and abroad that the government places their life, interest and security as utmost priority (that is how you get to build the spirit of patriotism in your citizens, when they believe the government will go all out even to a point of rage to protect and defend them).

Remember, irrespective of our domestic challenges, we are still the leaders of the continent Africa....I bet you right now we are seriously embarrassing this continent with our display of helplessness...

What would you have done if the attacks had taken place in China or US?

DocH:
Buhari is incompetent and grossly unfit to preside over the affairs of a local government. The election was rigged and never free and fair. There's however one thing with ignorant poor people, they take solace in living in misery and abject poverty and that's why some people will expect a looser as buhari with no single business venture registered in his name to be president.

So having a business has now become a criteria for contesting election.You condemn others for being ignorant as though you are wise.

Nigerian government has not really learned from Boko Haram crisis. This is exactly the kind of killing that resulted into Boko Haram's insurgency. I hope this one doesn't lead to another insurgency.