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Is it Ogini youth or Ogoni youth?

Blue3k:
Those two things hardly relate. The rail is supposed to link all the capitals.

Don't you think 41 Billion dollars is still way too high?

majekdom2:
correct but railway is not directly diversification. Of what use is an efficient railway system when there is no power. Point still remains they are not same. Enough of the government doing the right thing then claim is diversification!

Why can't both develop at the same time?

vaxx:
no calabar is located in south southern part of Nigeria not eastern part. though the word south south to described geographical location only exist in Nigeria.

Yeah it's presently called south south, to distinguish it from the lgbo South East and Yoruba South West, but l referred to it as Eastern Nigeria thinking of it as a region, Akwaibom is also presently South South but it's not really wrong to also refer to it as the Eastern region in terms of the Geography, this doesn't make both of them part of the South East which is majorly lgbo and only consists of five states.

mtis:
calabar loking good there..is it the capital of Igbo people

Calabar is the capital of cross rivers state in the Eastern part of Nigeria, but it's not what you may call an lgbo city. Enugu is a major lgbo city in that sense, though the major tribes are spread across Nigeria especially around their major regions.

It would be better to insist that the corpers learn some entrepreneual skills that relates to their field or interest, and then fund those with start up ideas. This NYSC can be reformed to curtail unemployment, with N-power left to the non graduates.

I have few relatives who have been to Kano and they come back surprised, especially around 2008/2009, things are cheap and the experience is fun they say.

ZKOSOSO:
This is bad..
Buhari why??

Buhari is in London nah, Jonathan also killed many Massobs, l wonder why Buhari's Crackdown on secessionists is special.

Here's what l feel is the best comment....

[b]Salama having lived in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Uganda, and visiting Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethopia, I can tell you that your observations are a little bit misplaced. East African major cities can mislead one into thinking that their countries are 'ahead'. You have to take into consideration the fact that because most African countries have less resources/income than Nigeria, they tend to be one city countries. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania focus most of their resources on developing their capitals, so they may seem 'advanced'. Imagine if Nigeria focused all its resources on one city... Nigeria has several major urban centers, with Lagos, PH and Abuja leading the way in terms of modernity. The East African countries would stagnate if they try to develop more than two cities at a time.

I think that Nairobi has by far the best business district in East Africa and has a better BD than Lagos. However, you also have to remember that once you exit the nicer parts of Nairobi, it has probably the worst slums in all of Africa. Lagos' BD is competitive with the rest of the East African countries though. Lagos is also has one of the most authentic African experiences.

Now, the southern African countries are definitely ahead of Nigeria. That is indisputable. However, you must remember that those countries tend to have smaller populations which are more manageable and have also benefited from significant and participating expatriate communities. Harere (Zimbabwes capital) since the mid-90's has been literally like a western city. Lots of expatriates, lots of malls, shopping centers. I remember feeling like I had stepped out of Africa when I first got there. I hear a lot has changed since then.

I feel like if Nigeria can get 7 to 8 major urban cities right, we will be way ahead of the curve. Lagos, PH and Abuja seem to be headed in the right direction. If we can get places like Enugu, Calabar, Kano, Kaduna, Jos on the level of Lagos then we will be way ahead of the curve. Thats big if considering whats currently going on in the country. I'm optimistic though. So Salami, I understand why you may feel the way you do.
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Tayser what do you say about this thread..it's a similar thread to this one from skyscrapercity website, and there a dissatisfied Nigerian asked why Nigeria is so far behind other African countries, he got some interesting response from well travelled people across Africa ( both Nigerians and non Nigerians).
I've never been to other African countries, so l can't ascertain the validity of the replies he got, this was in 2010 though.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1230689

TayserMahiri:
Common

No comparison, Nigeria was beaten ages ago. But your Eko Atlantic is coming up nicely, lets reserve our judgement for the finishing touches cos you guys cant do proper finishing.

Lol, my pictures of Enugu are also there and the Calabar pictures shows a nice green city, there are other cities across we've failed to do justice to. Nigeria is truly lagging behind in infrastructure as compared to Egypt, Morocco Tunisia and South Africa but you can't compare what we've shown (aside Lagos and Abuja) across the country to what you've shown( aside Nairobi, Mombasa). Those viewing can refer back to those pages and be the judge on the beauty of those cities shown.

TayserMahiri:
I have shared photos from all over kenya. There isnt nairobi pictures in the last few pages except the one you picked on. The photos your compatriot is sharing from Calabar look like a deserted nuclear accident zone, and the other cities you mentioned arent admirable either.

Deserted nuclear accident as compared to kisumu? Really? Common l don't like doing this, but we shouldn't be comparing Kenya's development across to that of Nigeria, this comparison seems off the mark to me in the first place. Calabar and Enugu are definitely cool cities, and aside Nairobi and Mombasa, it doesn't look like you have better photos either.
It's good to be objective.

BininKingdom:
So Nigeria is ahead of Egypt and Ethiopia?

Mumu

Egypt and Ethiopia were no match for us in the military era especially in the days of Abacha, Obasanjo had to weaken the military for the fear of coup, democracy had to be preserved for us to move forward.

Atiku2019:
Game of Thrones

Lol...The common people pray for food, shelter and a summer that never ends, it matters not to us if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as we are left alone! We never are.

Enugu city Nigeria.

Esseite:
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I argue this, because where l live l've seen foreign Christians pity me when l tell them l'm Nigerian, as far as they are concerned, all Christians in Nigeria suffer religious persecution because of western media reports like these.

QueenOfNepal:
Did you say 20 states? This one is still bouncing from Ikeja to Ketu daily.

Tell me how many states are suffering from these persecutions and what are those religious crises? I'm all ears.

QueenOfNepal:
Are Christians not Persecuted in the North?

Is the North not part of Nigeria?

Does that make the entire Nigeria most dangerous in the world for Christians?

QueenOfNepal:
If you live in those places and you are persecuted then you will know if everything is about semantics.



I put myself as a victim of those oppressed so that i can feel and speak out about the injustice

Again you are arguing emotionally not looking at the report objectively. I am sympathetic with the Christians in those states but you would at least not deny that this is not the case in more than 20 Nigerian states, so how can all of Nigeria be most dangerous for Christians?

Esseite:
What is the percentage of christians to muslims in such countries?

Are the countries you mentioned not pre-dominantly muslim countries?

We all know the political atmosphere with North korea

Argue with facts..

Their arguement is that Nigeria as a whole is most dangerous country for Christians in the world, this is what the western media in America wants their predominantly Christian population to believe so as to scare them, and you a Nigerian knowing the facts, you come here to defend this?

Esseite:
What is the percentage of christians to muslims in such countries?

Argue with facts..

What do you understand by.... Most dangerous Country for Christians?
Can you as a christian travel to Saudi Arabia and feel safe? But you can travel to at least 20 states in Nigeria and feel safe.

If Nigeria is truly the most dangerous place for Christians, then why are our pastors afraid to go preach in Saudi Arabia and Yemen?

MXrap:
This is so true

How?

Esseite:
Well these are facts.... the US said "Nigeria is the most dangerous place for christians"..

Fight the message from a reputable organization, not our brown envelop media..

Facts are to be disputed with facts, not insults..

How is Nigeria as a whole more dangerous for a Christian than Syria, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Afghanistan? Please argue objectively not emotionally.

QueenOfNepal:
continue in your ignorance because you are not in Southern Kaduna or Southern Borno.

Is that enough to term all of Nigeria most dangerous place for Christians? On same scale as Pakistan, Syria, North Korea and Saudi Arabia? Please be sincere.

How can Nigeria be most dangerous place for Christians when there are churches all over Nigeria with some of the richest pastors on the planet and with branches all over the world?

Completed Marina Bridge and Alpha 1 Tower.

Updates on Eco Atlantic.

shervydman:
what people don't know is that oil is not the largest contributor to our GDP. service is actually the largest. yeah, the government want to diversify the economy; I know for sure.

taxes on the other hand get as e be, before u demand for tax from the populace, there has to be some measures in place.

What measures can you think of? If you know the kind tax when Germans and many other countries dey pay ehn?
Anyway as regards our low debt profile, we would have to appreciate Obasanjo for that because the military regime left us with very huge debt.

shervydman:
we're rich......forget it.
Africa's largest economy no be beans!

We just need a new major source of revenue, and we have to increase our tax payment (amongst the lowest in the world).
In view of Nigeria's population, our oil is not enough when you compare with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait with low taxes like us.
Nigeria remains 6th largest farm output in the world, we just need stable power and increased spending on infrastructure from higher taxes.

naijalander:
Govt debt as share of GDP

Egypt: 85%
DR Congo: 83%
Kenya: 55%
South Africa: 52%
Sudan: 47%
Tanzania: 39%
Ethiopia: 32%
Nigeria: 18%

- SpectatorIndex

Ogbeni what is happening to DR Congo? 83% debt?

lionjungle3000:
Okonja Iweala was the arrow head behind the forgiveness of over $30 billion debt for useless, ungrateful Nigeria. What has Adeosun done for Nigeria? Daily borrowing; under her, we have borrowed over $5 billion. FYI: under Obasanjo oil was oil $25 a barrel. What other excuse do you have Afonjas...wicked things?

Yeah oil was also low, but Okonjo iweala even in all that demanded we save, and under obasanjo via Okonjo we not only cleared our debts but saved over 22Billion dollars, this saw us through during the Global economic melt down few years later(after the little oil price boom in 2008), and so we spent all our savings to see us through and it was reduced to 4 Billion dollars.
Under Jonathan, the Governors led by former vice president Sambo refused to save despite her plea, and so Buhari inherited just 2 Billion dollars which was too little for the rainy day.