Nowenuse: Only 3 cities with populations above 500,000 in Kenya, a country of 50 million people?
I remember telling you major tourist attractions, major tea,coffee, horticultural factories and faming are in villages. Why will they come to the cities.
Most of our 'villages' actually have all the amenities anigerian City would wish for.
I am waiting for your adorable Kenyan middle and low income suburbs.
This is Surulere, a large suburb of Lagos. We know they are box houses. This is where typical low middleclass and low income Nigerians live. Let's see that of Kenya.
TayserMahiri: It requires special effort to deal with your ignorance.
First:
Kenya does not need anyone to take it seriously. The fact that you are here, 2000 pages later and the longest ever thread on NL tells you that Kenya does not need any effort to trend, not just here, but globally. You take us too seriously even from the comforts of our eastern shorelines! We came here after the noise you were making became too loud all the way in the west.
Take away Nairobi and Somalia would be a better outcome? I know you use codeine but I didnt know the effects are this much. Cut the crap!
Desperation will kill you and your brother Oba. Many Nigerians, the ones who have an open mind and more specifically the ones who have travelled to Kenya know without a doubt that Kenya is better than Nigeria in just about anything. You can conduct a campaign from Lagos to Maiduguri but only the few Nigerians of your ilk will believe your desperate lies. The only thing that makes Nigeria better than Kenya is that you were born in it, nothing else!
The secessionist agitation had nothing to do with development of Mombasa. And what do you mean by that btw? Nothing being done in Mombasa is out of the ordinare. One general rule in Kenya is if you try to grow horns (seccesion et al.) you get dehorned! and one of the most effective ways to dehorn wayward fellas is to marginalize them even further. We grab secessionists by the balls (and p*ssy) here, and the harder they try, the harder we squeeze. Ask N.E Somalis, after decades of that secession nonsense, now they are squarely supporting government after realizing they will forever remain a footnote in Kenya's progress. Same with other wayward groups, which arent many anyway! All developments going on at the coast (not Mombasa as you think) are part of Kenya's grand vision twedi dhate kickstarted by the immediate former Kibaki regime! Not to please secessionists! Those ones (the leaders) are mostly dead or too scared by now. I wish you could ask us to deal with your secessionists and see how effective we are!
Kenya is an overwhelmingly rural country because we never left our farms for minerals like you. And even when we start exporting oil in a couple years from now, we will still not run away like you Nigerians of little foresight ran away from farms and now you're leaving Nigeria altogether!
About Nigeria being predominantly urban, that word urban is really abused in your country. Take officials from any other country in the world and your urban areas would be down-scaled to settlements unworthy of human habitation.
Your last statement is a statement of PURE desperation. The kind of projects we have posted here and that will continue to be posted show that you have no case at all. From North to South, East to West, Kenya beats Nigeria in any indices. Its one reason why foreigners want to come to Kenya so bad but in Nigeria you have to beg foreigners to stay. Kenya will continue to be taken in high esteem everywhere around the world, whether emotional Nigerians like it or not. Heck, even this topic arose because of Kenya, of all countries in Africa. In swahili they say "Chema chajiuza, kibaya chajitembeza". We the Kenyans find ourselves trending for our amazing and positive news around the globe because we are doing legit stuff that no one affords to ignore.
rvp2018: I just got the lastest Kenya gdp figures - and guess what we are using 10,000 plus gwh - which is the same as nigeria. You guys really need to wake up. You can double or triple the investment in power production - like you've done - but that won't mean nothing if people don't pay - power distributor go bankrupt - power producer can't crank up generation.
And the problem is nigeria don't pay for anything. they don't pay for utilities. they don't pay taxes. they tap or illegally connect power or pipelines.
You guys are seriously messed up. You can try introduce pre-paid meters but that won't stop illegal tapping...which will lead to bankrupt power producers and distributors.
Maybe the armed forces can take over and enforce order for 10-20yrs - and really beat common sense to people - so they can start acting civilized.
Most nigerians think because there is oil - then they deserve everything free - no tax - no bill - oil takes cares of everything.
No wonder Buhari called them Lazy.. They expect oil to do everything...
and it was a biafran that opened this thread too....
that kenyans jumped on it like hot ugali realy shows they dont like west africans....
Nigerians are so funny. This one thread have given you guys sleepless nights. There are 100's of threads here with funny stories from Kenya.. They pull alot of traffic and abuses, making me wonder how obsessed you guys are with Kenya.
Now that we beat you in real life it becomes so painful.
Btw real life is not GDP but quality of life for the citizens..
rvp2017: Dream on. We are aiming at south Africa. There is nothing we can learn from Nigeria or aim for. Our growth is broad-based and solid.
15yrs ago our economy was $12B - and after growing it consistently for 15yrs at 5-6%- now it's at $80B (not cooked). Now if grow at same rate - and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't - we don't depend on one or two sectors - then in 15yrs - around 2033 - our GDP should be $550B (NOT COOKED) - and I think South Africa - will be around there too...because their growth is anemic and they have serious structural issues to resolve.
If South Africa are not carefully - we may reach them in 10yrs time.
15yrs ago - South Africa economy was $175B - now it's 317B - they have just nearly doubled! While we have grown ours nearly 7 times - without cooking!
15yra go - Nigeria GDP was believeable at $85B - now it's crazy overcooked at $400B
Therefore my projection is that in 15yrs now - Kenya will be Africa leading economy at $650B - followed by South Africa at 600B - with Nigeria okay still just being Nigeria !!!
samsobo24: When Lagos generates its only electricity, it will start competing with Shanghai,NY,London,Moscow,Berlin etc. It will soon dwarf Johannesburg as CNBC africa has said
This guy lives in Fantasy world... Keep dreaming young man in Many countries we are living the dream.
nwoke37: Nigeria and Somalia's life expectancy are approximately the same at around 55 years(very, very low, especially for Nigeria's status). Now to be fair, South Africa's life expectancy is 57 years(still very low).
Nigeria's low tax yields lead to low, poor services provided by the government. The current government is trying to tackle this problem(though at a later time due to the recession) through the VAIDS program, which is trying to widen the tax net. If more initiatives like this continue even after this present government, Nigeria would be on its way...
Even S.A Interesting currently life expectancy in Kenya is at 67years..
The day Nigeria will tap well it tax revenue is when you will see real change.
samsobo24: Manage these for now CITIES eko atlantic city Lekki smart city project imperial international business city lekki Grace field phoenix lekki Diamond island lekki Lagos island regeneration
You thought I was joking when I said that lekki alone has more hyper projects than the whole of your country
World class stadiums What of the world class Ikeja bus terminal plus more under construction What of the opening of inner roads in local communities Have you seen Lagos state Emergency unit and security infrastructure.
Lekki free trade Zone (largest in west Afrrica) Badagry deep sea port Lekki international Airport 4th Mainland Bridge Lagos Light rail Project Lagos Water transport with marine police Construction of the Largest single refinery in Africa and not Only Africa. Independent power project (3,000mw) Plans and innovative projects to further make Lagos the smartest city in Africa: Distribution of E-waste bin and compactors Replacement of Danfo buses with World class air condition buses. Introducing more free WIFI services in BRT buses and parks. Decoration of more bridges and bus stops Introduction of more bus terminals Mechanised sweeping of Major roads Emergency Helipad service World class smart security vehicles Swift Emergency service and disaster management. Ensuring of water metering in Lagos
More: World class Oshodi transport interchange Creating more BRT lanes and decongestion of Lagos traffic More Health care service delivery with primary health centres scattered across the local governments of the state.Try to checkout for world class equipments of General hospitals in Lagos
Have you seen the Lagos state DNA and forensic laboratory.
There many projects I am even oblivious about that I know some would know.
We won't stop Educating you
You seems to be very young in this world, and you think the world revolves around Lagos...
Currently Nairobi has more towers above 20floor than Lagos and Eco combined.. Nairobi at 44 while eco and lagos at 36.. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/#/topics/1775594?page=20 You keep talking about proposed cities and project in Naija as if they are final products. My friend if every African country shows you thesame you will be shoked.
But we are mature enough to know not all will see the light of the day, and patient enough to wait for the execution.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Jay254(m): 10:25pm On May 26, 2018
Remember what the Nigerian lady said about Kenyan Villages
