Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 10:32am On Jan 07, 2019 |
Welcom to Accra Labadi
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 9:50am On Jan 07, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 9:49am On Jan 07, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 9:46am On Jan 07, 2019 |
jaycent: Who give a fvck about your dead country and still yet, we have about 1m Ghanaians in Nigeria  tell that to your politicians so that they will stop comparing your messed up country to Ghana |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 12:06am On Jan 07, 2019 |
jaycent: Omo e no easy to dey educate these dumb Ghanaians mumus  guy go get a life and leave Ghana alone we are not the cause of your poverty or your backwardness |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 12:05am On Jan 07, 2019 |
bantudra: it is true....you are realy not black....  keep researching |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 12:05am On Jan 07, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 9:23pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
obaaderemi: IGNORED THANK YOU FOR ADMITTING YOUR FAILURE  we both know who the failures are when it comes to here just not interested to talking to dumb people |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 9:09pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
obaaderemi: And yet obafemi awolowo and Ahmadu bello didn't come to Ghana.
I guess you've searched the internet up and down and have failed to find proof that he was a security man in Ghana. Next time, don't say what you can't substantiate.  IGNORED PICK A BOOK AND READ |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 8:02pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
gallivant: That lying machine can't help himself. hes just a messed up guy with a boring life who comes here to have fun |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:56pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
forgiveness: That's the undiluted truth.  you see you dont force truths they stick by themselves not the ones you concort |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:54pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:53pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
bantudra: no you are not...you are a white morafvcka.... keep guessing  when you get there ill tell you lazy ignoramus |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:52pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
bantudra: sharrap...!!  dont worry, i can see im giving you Migraine as soon as you stop bringing Ghana into your dig measuring you wont see me here how hard can that be  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:50pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
bantudra: but not because of you....you,looser.....what ghana has to offer....??...practicaly nothing.... that question should be thrown to west africa and the entire of Africa they will all tell you silly Nigerian  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:49pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
obaaderemi: Did I say he wasn't? Your eyesight must be going south.  i will only educate you that before he came, bigger fights had already been won |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:48pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:46pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:45pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:42pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
bantudra: i dont think they are truely who they claim they are....many of them dont even know their own country,that we have to even dig up facts about their own country....
somebody just told me that just now.... dumb dumb go and find your play mates |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:41pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
obaaderemi: I guess the achimotan shot himself in the foot. every on know West Hills is 27,000 and everyone know nothing in Nigeria exceed it |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:39pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
obaaderemi: You see! You've buttressed my point @ the bolded. Zik must have had a lot of influence on Ghanaian freedom fight. Meanwhile I'm still waiting for proof that he was a security man in Ghana. go read his biography if you want to hide something from an African just put it in a book  Zik came to Ghana because that was where everyone was going to as at that time when they gain their education. Ghana was the only place they could find employment |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:35pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
bantudra: white morafvck... you're sick in the head go and look for your play mates hungry kid |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:34pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
forgiveness: Which problem did Ghana solve in West Africa?  everyone's problem and if you joke, we will solve them Nigerian problem as well |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:32pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
achimotan: You are Big Liar for saying this. It is not bigger than the malls in Accra talkless Ghana. In any case you know that Tinapa is a white elephant.
Vanguard News Nigeria
Tinapa: Nigeria’s $450 million white elephant adekunle adekunle 2 years ago
With its futuristic film studios, luxury shops and elevated light railway, Tinapa should be a showcase of Nigerian dynamism, a commercial hub for West Africa raking in millions of dollars.
Aerial view of the reception area of Tinapa Resort.
But 10 years after it opened, the resort in southeast Nigeria is a ghost town and has become a symbol of monumental waste. Its majestic contours and avant-garde domes rise defiantly out of the bush and palm trees. At the entrance, a giant signboard proclaims: “Tinapa back on track!”
But the few visitors who venture inside are quickly disillusioned.
Apart from a few idle employees, not a soul stirs in the endless aisles of shops and warehouses that should have made the capital of Cross River state, Calabar, famous across Nigeria’s south.
“It’s empty there, we have no clients, it’s like a cemetery,” said one shop assistant in Da Viva, which sells the popular brand of wrapper skirts.
“Many have left already,” he added, pointing to shuttered premises.
A huge supermarket still displays clothes, furniture and foreign-made knick-knacks but in virtual darkness: the electricity was cut off some time ago.
Inside, an old man snoozes in the suffocating heat.
Tinapa, with its 80,000 square metres (861,000 square feet) of warehouses and shops, cost $450 million (413 million euros) to build.
But it has become a financial black hole for its backers.
– Economic development –
At the turn of the century, Nigeria was on the point of becoming Africa’s biggest economy and leading oil producer. Newly returned to civilian rule, everything seemed possible.
A handful of businessmen and architects got together and imagined an international centre of commerce and tourism in a free-trade zone.
Nigeria’s biggest banks fell over themselves to finance the project, which was opened in 2007.
“At that time, everyone was excited. Tinapa was going to boost economic development of the whole region and create thousands of jobs,” said Bassey Ndem, who was in charge of the project.
It aimed to attract Nigerian millionaires, who ordinarily jetted off to Dubai or London to go shopping, as well as make Cross River a commercial crossroads on the Atlantic coast.
A plush 242-room hotel with a view over the lagoon and a water park with slides were built to cater for the cream of high society and their families.
Alongside luxury tourism, imported goods would provide for Nigeria and its neighbours such as Cameroon, Chad and Niger, competing with the country’s commercial capital, Lagos.
“Everything was going well at first,” said Ndem. “At the peak, in 2009, we generated $30 million of revenue. But we faced a lot of resistance from the customs.
“They really didn’t want the tax-free zone to work.”
Goods were supposed to be exempt from import duties in the free-trade zone.
But from the beginning, the customs — which has a reputation for rampant corruption — blocked containers destined for Tinapa in the ports, paralysing business.
– Top down, trickle up –
Ndem left in 2012. None of his successors has managed to get Tinapa off the ground.
“There was clearly a lack of political will” to make the project succeed, he said, describing himself as angry and frustrated at a “wasted opportunity”.
For the economist and blogger Nonso Obikili, Tinapa’s downfall was largely because of a lack of existing infrastructure to transport goods: bad roads and an average-sized port.
“It was a wide project conceived with the deep sea port, which was supposed to enable big ships to come to Calabar,” said Obikili.
“It was the responsibility of the federal government but finally it wasn’t done,” he told AFP.
In the end, no big name jeweller or pret-a-porter line wanted to invest in the paradise promised by its promoters and the hotel remains desperately empty.
The cinema studios have likewise been unable to attract Nollywood’s stars, who have largely preferred to stay in Lagos.
In “Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria”, the British-Nigerian author Noo Saro-Wiwa castigates the leaders in the country of her birth.
Few of Nigeria’s nearly 190 million inhabitants have benefited from the riches brought by oil; most still live in extreme poverty.
“This top-down approach to boosting Calabar’s economy seemed hollow,” she wrote.
“I’d heard Nigerian politicians’ endless talk about theme parks, tourist resorts, shopping malls and their ‘trickle down’ effects on the economy.
“But there’s no such thing as ‘trickle down’ in Nigeria — money trickles upwards or evaporates on contact with air,” Saro-Wiwa wrote in 2012.  i didnt even what to expose him like that you didnt force koraa |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:30pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:29pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
bantudra: sharrap ashanti...go fvck your mama.... ewww sorry we dont have baby factories in Ghana you can continue the inbreeding in Nigeria  dumb dumb |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:28pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
bantudra: shut the fvck upa...you are transitionin nowhere....you looser....!!! guy SA is a far advanced country and they are realigning themselves SA is an upper middle-income economy Nigeria just became a lower middle-income economy |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:25pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:23pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:21pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
bantudra: its better you shvt your face up....nigeria did well kickin all of una out....you useless....  this kid just catch feelings dumb dumb facts will alway catch you |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Just30: 7:20pm On Jan 06, 2019 |
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