₦airaland Forum

obaaderemi:
I don't see that country growing. I thought the era of military incursions into government was over In Africa.

Realist12:
Nigeria is truly a blessed country , amidst our diversity we are still making meaningful progress ideologically . " We inherited speaking in tongues from the Bible, but our diversity is a promise for Prosperity"
Tinubu 2023

Mkenya2019:
Impressive for a Nigerian city.

omonla10:
Ure so right jare.. Attack them like a thief in d night.

I'm a yoruba man living in Lagos. 90% of my friends and family are voting Peter obi.. Moreover, Apc supporters that I know are either illiterates or tribal bigots or people benefiting directly from govt officials..

My wish is not to be the richest in my area.. I want everybody to have access to education, jobs, power, good roads even if ure poor... Also, I don't need to know anybody to get things done.. My friend put a call to a USA senator yesterday to demand an explanation.. Just like that o

I earn more than my sister, who is a German citizen and a nurse. Yet she has access to everything she needs.

Some people already calling me a bastard, but it really saddens that anybody will want this trend to go on.. Something must change..

Just40:
Is that the new Italian head of state ?

The 1884 Berlin wall of conspiracy against Africa is cracking pic.twitter.com/eP365Vzrzu

— Dele Ogun (@DeleOgunAuthor) September 28, 2022

Osariemen12:
The bolded are some of the things used to mislead the uninformed. You've the largest economy in Africa that doesn't translate to the standard of living. I don't think people anywhere in Africa still live in abject poverty as seen in some parts northern Nigeria. Cheap education? Doctors and surgeons? Good. How many of them are willing to work and live in Nigeria? Your guess is as good as mind. Remember, 70% of Nigerian graduates are unemployed or underemployed in schools where they receive 15000 to 30000 monthly is a currency that exchanges 720 per dollar. Goose pumps. One of the reasons I left after my days in UNIBEN. Banking system? Laughs. The Nigeria's situation is simply a hoax. Organized crimes from the top management to the frustrated clerical workers. Reason some staff look for a way to still from the banks and you're sure it is recurrent in the Nigerian banks. Payments? Hmm! Ridiculous. Just read the circular from one of our finest banks prohibiting pay in international currency. The porosity of our banking system has made it possible for fraudulent transactions that gave Nigeria bad name in the internet space. 4th best performing stock market? I guess we were second under the leadership of one Onyiauke from the east some years back. Now 4th; are we really doing well by retrograde? Or, how do you justify able Nigerian youths wanting to go to war in Ukraine against Russia just to have themselves out of the country. I can go on because the list is inexhaustible.

Please, be real. It's good to be patriotic, just like patriotism has forced me to out these things because I wish we are better, but it's unpatriotic to hide our weaknesses to look better than others. Some of the statistics you want to present here are not real because they are censored by the Nigerian government to make them look good before their gullible followers. For instance, a sachet of spaghetti was sold at 180 Naira in 2015 and 450 Naira in 2022, a litre of fuel for 87 Naira and 185 Naira in the same years; the same for every single merchandise sold in Nigeria; nevertheless, the Nigerian statistics still show the inflation rate from 2015 to 2022 is below 21%. One will would wonder if the agency has mathematicians in their fold.

Please brother, let's stop the pretence. Nigeria needs help. We might have been the giant in the past but lack of development and economic plan orchestrated by bad leadership ruined everything. The #Endsars protests of 2020 would've have achieved something good for Nigerians but we're too divided to be one. May God heal our land.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The bolded are some of the things used to mislead the uninformed

You've the largest economy in Africa that doesn't translate to the standard of living.

I don't think people anywhere in Africa still live in abject poverty as seen in some parts northern Nigeria

Remember, 70% of Nigerian graduates are unemployed or underemployed in schools where they receive 15000 to 30000 monthly is a currency that exchanges 720 per dollar.

4th best performing stock market? I guess we were second under the leadership of one Onyiauke from the east some years back

Payments? Hmm! Ridiculous. Just read the circular from one of our finest banks prohibiting pay in international currency

Some of the statistics you want to present here are not real because they are censored by the Nigerian government to make them look good before their gullible followers.

for instance, a sachet of spaghetti was sold at 180 Naira in 2015 and 450 Naira in 2022

a litre of fuel for 87 Naira and 185 Naira in the same years;

Please brother, let's stop the pretence. Nigeria needs help. We might have been the giant in the past but lack of development and economic plan orchestrated by bad leadership ruined everything

The #Endsars protests of 2020 would've have achieved something good for Nigerians but we're too divided to be one. May God heal our land.

It's good to be patriotic, just like patriotism has forced me to out these things because I wish we are better

DesignMaestro:
unfortunately, what he said is just the fact. We still couldn't get used to the essence of being citizens of one country after over 100 years of amalgamation. We give allegiance to our ethnicity not our country.

You can't compare America with Nigeria. We are different nations merged together in an artificial entity called Nigeria, a name so strange to us that we still don't know what should be its standard pronunciation.

2Radii:
I can't claim Benin bro, its not in my DNA, infact its not in yoruba DNA to be claiming where does not belong to them.

We all know the enclaves we belong to,

Nobody can claim the east from the igbos

The west belong to the yorubas, and the north to the hausas/fulanis.

If I am living in Onitsha, I will be praying for it blessings but I can't claim Onitsha, Onitsha does not belong to my fathers, I am just an atipo(temporary settler) there. Not a citizen.

2Radii:
u ment

Which nonsense tax is he paying??

Ask him his tax clearance for last year.

Why should he claim Lagos state?? Inferiority complex.

I am from Ekiti state, I live in Benin and I pay tax there, I have never, never, never for once claimed to be a benis... Cus I have my root.

My root is my everytin.

And why will i claim Lagos?? For what? I am not from the clan that forget home bro, I am Ekiti .

Wuoche:
Look at that Skyline, look at the road meandering into the City.

Bigchristo:
if not for your lack of civilization such thing ought to be existing in Nigeria since many decades ago, you need to travel out of your country and see how stupid you sound celebrating what you’re supposed to be using since a long time ago. Your mumu na extra ordinary

ProblemChild1:
Just stay in your Abidja suffering and smiling, and stop typing like a fool!!

Osariemen12:
Stop trying to make Nigeria look perfect in the eyes of other Africans when we have numerous problems to fix. It's not in our own interest to pretend as if we are the best. What he said concerning insecurity on our highways is nothing but the truth. Outside this, national grid collapsed on Sunday leaving many states without power even now; it's not as if we had power before now. At least 583 out of the 774 local government councils in Nigeria are still without electricity. No Nigerian town, we don't have a place qualified to be called a city in the first place, has pipe borne water supplied by the water board. Individuals provide water for their household uses and those who can't afford to do so pay fellow poor Nigerians from the north who walk far distance to fetch water for them or do so themselves. 80% of my fellow Nigerians still do open defecation, particularly in southwest.

Our education system is in shambles. Lecturers are on strike even as I type with students involving themselves in different types of legal and illegal businesses and adventures. Our internet connections are the worst in Africa not because of the number of users but the available broadband which is not enough for one state is spread across 36 states and the federal capital territory. Our life expectancy as Nigerians is among, if not exactly, the lowest in Africa. Reason the dream of every Nigerian is to leave his country and celebrates when he does so. If you are a Nigerian you probably don't live in Nigeria now, just like I am typing from Abidjan as a Nigerian. Every none Nigerian on this thread will certainly affirm that Nigerian migrants to his country are the largest among African countries. Should I write on the poverty rate in Nigeria, especially the north? Hell no! What of out of school children? Internally displaced persons? Beggars who dot the streets and entrances of major shopping and religious centres? Kidnapping spree? Banditry? Prostitution among our poor women? Sport betting as the only job for the ever-growing youths? Thuggery and touting? The list is endless.

Why I am not in anyway trying to demarket Nigeria as my country, it is better we stop trying to place ourselves where we don't belong as a nation. We are among the worst. War torn Somalia might be better than Nigeria of today. At least I've been to many other African countries and none of them live the miserable lives obtainable in Nigeria. Even the person that made comments of Kenyans being behind Nigeria in everything is either living abroad or living in Nigeria as a politician. Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Zambia, Rwanda, etc are far ahead of us. Their past in economy, education, life expectancy, mortality rate, vaccinations, security expertise, power, housing, road networks, internet connection, among others, is our future. A distant future at that.

Fellow Africans, please ignore the verbosity of Nigerian typist here distorting facts about my country, some of them are probably schooling in Ghana or doing one business or another miles away from Nigeria. Anyone who survives the Nigeria's system won't find hell tormenting.

Below is a typical school setting in my country.

Stop trying to make Nigeria look perfect in the eyes of other Africans when we have numerous problems to fix

What he said concerning insecurity on our highways is nothing but the truth.

At least 583 out of the 774 local government councils in Nigeria are still without electricity

80% of my fellow Nigerians still do open defecation, particularly in southwest.

Our internet connections are the worst in Africa not because of the number of users but the available broadband which is not enough for one state is spread across 36 states and the federal capital territory

Why I am not in anyway trying to demarket Nigeria as my country.

We are among the worst. War torn Somalia might be better than Nigeria of today.

Their past in economy, education, life expectancy, mortality rate, vaccinations, security expertise, power, housing, road networks, internet connection, among others, is our future. A distant future at that.

Anyone who survives the Nigeria's system won't find hell tormenting.

Fourpockets:
I know we're supposed to act like Nigeria is almost perfect on this thread, but come on at least anyone can admit that roads are not safe and by roads I mean federal inter state roads like Abuja Kaduna road

Sirheny007:
Unknown Gunmen or APC rogues??
Tell me why they would arm rogues to disrupt a meeting if they are not afraid of LP?

rvp20182:
Kenya made batteries lands in TEMA - this part of 7 country AfCFTA pilot. This huge window for Intra-Africa trade.
https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2022/09/kenya-begins-trading-under-afcfta-with-locally-made-batteries/

Pilot->Kenya, Cameron, Egypt, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania.

Fourpockets:
Yes. However I think we Nigerians need to move away from the classic "fintech" startup.
I saw one news last week of how kuda bank lost over 6 billion naira. Hopefully this is a wake up call to aspiring founders to move away from the fintech space and start something else like games, productivity software wtc

Shma2022:
Ok.

Shma2022:
You can also check the startup ecosystem report for 2022 - it's different yes but close to the topic. It's South Africa, Kenya then Nigeria in that order.

Shma2022:
You can also check the startup ecosystem report for 2022 - it's different yes but close to the topic. It's South Africa, Kenya then Nigeria in that order.

Shma2022:
Yoh. We're in 2022 _ living in a dynamic world. You can lead today, tomorrow you're trailing.
Kenya and south Africa are all in booming seasons. Competition is stiff at the top level.

Shma2022:
Leading countries for startups 2022:
South Africa
Nigeria
Kenya
Egypt
Mauritius
Morocco.... In that order.

Figure below were of 2020 - 2021.

Bahose:
can you mention any state APC can win 70% in northern Nigeria, stop deceiving Nigeria because we can't allow you rig the election.

ichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] Is it me or do I just hate frontends and their sh**t..[/color]