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KENYANS! KENYAANS!! KENYAAAAANS!!! where you guys at. Come outside, do not hide your faces, it has happened, the day has finally arrived, it is time for reckoning.............






























Davido's fall just reached 100mil views in less than two years (and still counting)
Where are your nursery rhymers you call "musicians"

Naija 100: Kenya 000

tylann:
are those Nigerian car brands ?? or vehicle assembling plants sometimes trade protectionist is needed to save local indutries

IVM is a car brand, the others are assembly plants.

krattoss:
nysc?

I thought nysc to Borno has been suspended?

darfay:
Stop being tribalistic

There are professors everywhere too.

We already told he isn't Nigerian. I wonder what you want

Some people are just too sensitive .

Yorubas dominate the education sector in nigeria. It's the fact, there is nothing tribalistic there. Just like there is no state in Nigeria where you will not find an igbo man selling either electronics or automobile spare part. That too is a fact.

igbo people do not as a rule open on Sundays, so in North here car and motorcycle owners are always stranded on Sundays. That's how dominant they are.

tylann:
so Morocco joined ecowas because it was looking for a market to sell it is products and ecowas leaders agreed

Not leaders, other ecowas countries do not have much to lose, Nigeria is the biggest loser. Another example is this: nigeria already has an indigenous automobile company called IVM, assembly plants such as Dangote JAC motors, Lanre Shittu, PAN kaduna are also there, IVM has been exporting it's cars to neighbouring ecowas countries like Ghana and Benin, if Morocco is allowed to join the bloc, apart from dangote all of them will be pushed out because they don't have the "muscle" to compete against Moroccan brands which has the backing of European Giants.

tylann:
more than 50% of AU budget is funded by europeans the headquarters was built by china wtf !! can't African countries contribute and build they own headquarters the chinese ended up spying on au meetings

Exactly! And when China was accused of spying sometime in January/February, Paul Kagame came out and defended them.

tylann:
thanks to mediocre African leaders just look at south Sudan for example they have everything except good leadership

African leaders are not mediocre! They are bad. Pocking pocking bad. Give Africa mediocre leaders and you will see dramatic changes. Especially in countries with potentials. Just take a look at what is happening in Ethiopia, most people think the PM is exceptional, but he is not. What he is doing is "normal" that is what every developed country did before they are where they are today.

tylann:
okay so how areare you going to benefit !? It seems morocco is taking advantage of you

Exactly!

tylann:
but eac is mediocre it needs to be disband even A.U is mediocre

AU does not even present a United front to the world like EU, despite the fact that there is safety in numbers. Weak animals overcome stronger ones by ganging up, Africa, which is weaker than Europe are not United while Europe which is stronger are United. Double Crazy!

About disbanding EAC, I think not. Like I said earlier EAC has the potential to become the most integrated region in Africa. Most EAC trade amongst themselves unlike other regional blocs where trade is low.

tylann:
only 1% of manufacturing in the world African leaders should invest more industrial parks

And account for 30-40percent of the world natural resources. Crazy!

tylann:
how about agricultural products don't you export any to morocco trade inbalance that is what that is affecting eac

Morocco are mostly self sufficient in food. agricultural imports are tea, coffee, sugar, grains. And Nigeria does not produce enough of these.

tylann:
okay it doesn't have a legislative branch like eac something like ECOWAS Parliament

It has arms, sorry I meant to say all ecowas operations are in Abuja. The parliament, the court.

sufferNsmiling:
You have more than 30 million people out of the country only remit 2.5 dollars a day that is poor. a lot of nigerians in europe britain and america are unemployed sometimes 14 to15 nigerians in one room.. the companies will rather employ is somalia which cannot speak a word of english than to employed in nigeria which can only support a criminal. Please read this very well

https://www.nairaland.com/4361854/nigerians-leave-uk-united-kingdom

I give up.

rvp20183:
De la Rue kenya print our money and Kenya gov own 40% of it.

40%, still owned by de LA rue then. But do they print it in-house?

mtisTheQubit:
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Ok Have seen the same in some sectors here but I really don’t think the solution is protectionism. If we can cut production cost all will be well . That what Americans are doing with automation to compete against the Chinese dudes. I might be wrong though..

You are not wrong, I ve heard people say that before, but the problem is only developed countries can cut production cost effectively. Automobiles for example, you need steel, rubbers, copper, aluminium, some special fibers, e.t.c all these have to be imported by most African countries, except maybe SA, the government will have to subsidize all these to cut production cost, how many African countries can do that? Most of us are cash strapped, we have budget deficits, infrastructure deficits, deficit deficits, there is deficit everywhere. Had it been we can source maybe about 60-70pct of what we need internally, sure, low production cost will have been the ideal solution.

And do you know that most European countries practice protectionism, especially in agricultural sector?

sufferNsmiling:
If you think I'm lying why don't you ask the kenyans. They will surely know what's going on at the nigerian high commission
.

You are showing me pictures of BBOG, LGBT? SMH. I even thought you are talking of Nigerians protesting to our embassy that they are being maltreated in Kenya.

This is pocking normal. People in diaspora protest in front of their embassy all the time all over the world. I don't see why Nigerians' situation should be pocking different.

tylann:
i see and what do you get in return what do you export to Morocco

That's the problem, apart from oil, nothing else, that's why this relationship is disadvantageous to Nigeria, especially now that automobile plants in Nigeria are still "fledglings", we are still struggling to revive our textile plants in northern Nigeria, the risk more than outweigh anything they can offer us now. Maybe in the future when manufacturing is more stable and can compete? Definitely. But for now, it is pure exploitation.

sufferNsmiling:
The amount of money nigerian sent back home is peanuts 20 billion us dollar, there are more than 30 million nigerians out of the country. If you just look at it that is less than $700 pioneer money remittance which is about to us dollar per day illiteracy is a bitch. Look at south africa and ghana britain most nigerians are unemployed

20billion us dollar is not "peanut" size by any standard, not even in US.

Most Nigerians are unemployed? Lol How many pct of Nigerians are unemployed? Can you tell me?

tylann:
administrative so you have different arms like financial headquarters , legislative headquarters , administrative headquarters . EAC headquarters is arusha kazikazi can post photos

Ecowas Headquarters in Abuja. No different arms.

mtisTheQubit:
Why ?

I hope that's a sincere question.

Morocco in the past few years have been setting up manufacturing plants, automobiles, textiles, airplanes, just name it. They are producing so much there is no way a country of 35million plus can consume it all, now tell me, if you are business man, you are looking to export the surpluses, and you know there is a certain country in West Africa which is car-centric, which also happens to have the largest population in Africa and still imports most of it's automobiles, what will you do?

darfay:
Nigeria should have vetoed it.

We still might, those guys are eyeing our market.

jaycent:
We don't place animals in our currency we place human? So mtisTheQubit when are we going to celebrate about the new currency I mean this new born baby

They don't even print or mint their own currency

sufferNsmiling:
If nigeria was better than kenya why is it nigeria's every week are protesting outside the nigerian embassy in kenya 4 equal chance do you see kenyans protesting in nigeria that shows you which country is more important

I swear this guy ehn.
It's like you think of something, come here, post it, you get knocked down, then you go back again, and use that peanut size "thing" you call a brain to think of something foolish to say again.

The only protest I know of is when Nigerians protest the killing of their fellow "student" in Kenya. Now according to you, Nigerians are protesting "every time".

rvp20183:
EAC minus Tanzania is more integrated than Ecowas.You don't need a passport to travel or work permit to work in EAC.SMEs are countless.Why big deal about mere 400 shops.

There is nothing like "EAC minus Tanzania" EAC is EAC, it's just like me saying ecowas minus the francophone countries because they are our biggest challenge to integration.

I said more than 400, the 400 are just Nigerian business in one "part" of Ghana.

darfay:
15 members, but if you include Morocco then 16

Morocco is not a member yet, and I hope it will never happen.

sufferNsmiling:
Proud ship and illiteracy are two different things. My people are not proud they are illiterate. If you have nothing you are proud. Two out of three people of my blood live in slums my blood cities at the west in africa. My blood people 152 country in the world human development index. It is not proud ship this is proper illiteracy when you are suffering you are happy. Just look I how people are running away from lagos two other african countries and you want me to be happy. The person which likes you will always tell you the truth the person who does not care about you will tell you lies and be stealing from you that is the problem with nigeria today nigerians want to hear lies and they will never get a good leader not in 10 million years

Of all the things you can accuse the Yoruba of, you chose illiteracy, schooling is one of the core value of Yoruba people. There is no university in Nigeria where you will not find a Yoruba professor, the Yorubas value certificate the way others values house and cars. You already know this, I am just refreshing your memory, you are a Nigerian after all.

And you claim to be Yoruba? Your English already gave you away.

And by the way, I am not Yoruba.

sufferNsmiling:
Nigerians own a lot of things outside the country but how does that benefit nigeria

Go ahead, keep showing us just how ignorant you are. Nigeria is the largest recipient of overseas remittance in Africa, where do you think those money come from? From illegal migrants in Europe?America? Africa? Heck no! It came from well to do Nigerians with interest outside Nigeria, living outside Nigeria. Maybe the Nigerian owner of that bank just sent Christmas money to his mother, who knows?

sufferNsmiling:
How can they learn from ecowas when on a daily basis ghana and togo is deporting nigerians over 400 nigerian shops closed down in ghana in 2 months.

The 400 Nigerian shops closed in Ghana has been reopened.

But this just shows how integrated ecowas is, there are more than 400 Nigerian shops in Ghana, there are also Ghanaian shops here in Nigeria, igbo spare parts dealers are known all over West Africa and as far as Congo, this is despite Nigeria been surrounded by francophone countries.

How many Tanzanian, Rwandan, Ugandan and other EAC shops will you find in Kenya and vice versa? Does anybody have the figures?

Mind you, I said shops not companies, SMEs are harder to set up in a foreign country than a corporate organization.

That been said, I think EAC has the potential to become the most integrated region in Africa.

NairobiWalker:
I don't know of Kenyan actor in Nollywood.

Nick Mutuma

4kDdullard:
Konza city is an estate, Kenyans call towns, villages, and estates cities.

Have mercy! Some things are better left unsaid. You want to reduce their lifespan they are so proud of?

rvp20183:
It is possible it will be completed in 2030?. It very tiny - 10km square.

Probably 2030

All of Eko Atlantic land+water is 25km square,

What is the size of konza city again?