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Our friend from China, rest assured, Nigeria is a great place to invest.

Guaranteed profits if you have something valuable to offer.

Nigeria's GDP accounts for 75% of the 14 nation-strong West Africa's GDP.

So Nigeria is the engine room of the continent.

The country that sneezes and the entire African continent catches a cold.

Welcome to the Giant of Africa.

okpouman:
With the rise of machines ,do you think they can't reach the point were machines will do the work,just as they stopped slavery during the industrial revolution.

So Africans are just their mules to do the dirty hardwork,while they make the gains.

Which machines?

Mr Man, stop this nonsense.

How many machines will they deploy? Is Africa your bedroom?

Or backyard?

How many machines or robots can they deploy to cover the entire Africa?

Where are the machines?

Or is it after they wipe us out that they will start building the machine?

Look, my friend, you need to stop this nonsense. The west depend Heavily on Africa. Without us they cannot survive One week.

okpouman:
Can Africans keep any resources?

Were they not the ones that discovered most of the resources in the first place.also they can wipe you out of existence or to submission with a button.
Mr man you gat no power

You are wrong.

The west can Never wipe out Africans.

That would be tantamount to suicide for them.

Their countries cannot last a week without Africa.

Do you have the slightest idea the amount of resources sold to the west annually by Africans?

Who does the physical work to bring that about?

From mines to the cash crop farms in remote villages to the ports and transport and cargo?

If they wipe out Africans, who will do this work?

Europeans?

Americans?

If they nuke Africa, where will their resources come from?

The moon?

Look, Mr. The world is not as you think. It’s highly interdependent.

You need to rid yourself of this complex you have.

okpouman:
These countries also put in the work for their people.

They developed their infrastructures and focused on education .

Economically they emphasised production and export.

What did the generation of baby boomers in Nigeria do for Nigeria at this same period.They went to WAR, did coups ,introduced wanton corruption and religiosity.You just can't compare.

Which African economies can match Indonesia or Malaysia for example,let even take out the so called Asian tigers

Malaysia and Indonesia are just outposts of Chinese businesses.

Go to Malaysia. Most of the big companies and businesses are Chinese-owned.

China is the reason you have those countries prospering. Just like how Nigerian businesses, banks etc are spreading to Ghana, Sierra Leone etc. As Nigeria grows it will spill out into surrounding small nations, and they will grow too.

China is just Nigeria times 8, as per population and more so in economic influence.

For now.

okpouman:
Were was south Korea in 1960?

How come to black African country can equal it's standing today.let's even leave China out.

It simply shows that the baby boomer GENERATION failed

South Korea and the 4 other “tiger economies” were granted special treatment by the western allies after WW2.

To stop the encroachment of communist Soviet ideologies into Asia, the west selected 5 countries there including South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, and showered them with free money, favourable loans, technology transfer, and opened up western markets to goods made in their countries.

Specifically with the intent of creating powerful capitalist bulwarks against rampaging Soviet communism, and Chinese power.

That’s the only reason you have those “tiger economies” today. They are western creations.

To know the state they would have been in absent of that western intervention, look no further than their direct neighbours, Cambodia, Nepal, Burma, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, North Korea and Bangladesh.

okpouman:
Were was China in 1960?



Africans were given a clean slate by 1960 yet they misused it.

China is a single country with the one main language, Han, spoken by over 90% of the people as their native tongue. And they are ruled by a One Party dictatorship.

Africa is a continent of 54 sovereign countries, multi-ethnic to the point of over 3,000 different languages and ethnic groups, in artificially created colonial countries. Each country with a different type of political system.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know which region between the two will act quicker in anything it’s doing.

That doesn’t mean Africa is standing still.

Her economies are growing in leaps and bounds.

ClearFlair:
Okay congratulations. Is Africa now Utopia? Of what use is your post to the average man who can't feed because of backward systems that exist in Africa. Or you just wanted to show your knowledge of history lol...the fact that Africa did all this but has now been reduced to poverty and ethnic bigotry only serves to buttress the OP's point

Africa was invaded, colonised, and raped to the tune of 5,000 Trillion Dollars, according to AI calculations, and That is their Debt to Africa, and the Earth will know No peace until Reparations are paid to every African descended person.

Europeans introduced firearms into a world that had agreed to use iron weapons for thousands of years. The entire world was caught off-guard, not just Africa, and fell to Europe, hitherto the most backward region of the Earth, till they stole gunpowder mixtures from the Chinese to make guns and bombs for conquest.

Africans are still recovering from the rape of their countries, and only began building their countries in the 1960s after Independence.

Today, 13 of the 20 fastest growing economies on Earth are in Africa.

Africa is the Future.

I so much love that Cameroonian guy.......His love for Naija is something else. I saw a video once where he toured Uyo, Calabar, Benin, Abuja, Lagos, Enugu, Owerri, etc, and he was so impressed by the infrastructure, he was saying that Nigerians always moaning and groaning about their country should come and visit and tour Cameroon. That they would appreciate Nigeria 100 times more.

ElSudani:
They are busy researching the current price of gari.

Gari?

Na wa.

Predictor3:
The same way one should wonder how Europeans can be Christians. Romans had their own religion before Christ, in fact they killed the Christ and persecuted Christians.

There was no ''Christ''. It's a Roman scam from start to finish.

Why would the ''Son of God'' come to Earth and only go to where white people are staying?

Are we not God's Creation?

Why would ''Christ'' come 2,000 years ago but we didn't hear about him until 100 years ago when the British decided to come to steal, loot, colonise and burn down our glorious civilisation?

What happened to your ''Son of God'' in 1,900 years of ignoring us?

And then all of a sudden after the British invaded to steal, it became really, REALLY important for us to be ''saved by Jesus''.

Why?

Why did it only become important 1,900 years after he supposedly came to Earth?

Why only when the British needed to loot our resources in the 1900s did it become necessary for us to be ''saved by Jesus'' and ''avoid hellfire''?

If hellfire truly exists, how come it took colonial invaders and thieves to make us aware of it, a mere century ago when they desired to steal from us, when we have been on this earth as Africans praising and honouring God and his forces of Divinity for hundreds of thousands of years?

The very idea is comically ludicrous.

This is why you can never see me calling myself a christian or muslim.

Worshipping the gods of people who slaughtered and raped my ancestors, and burned down their cities, including the glorious world class Benin City?

Stole, colonised and looted their land for a century?

And then they leave in 1960 after looting the country dry, and I'm holding and worshipping their gods? Praying to their gods? Calling their gods my saviour?

God forbid bad thing.

Professer Asante is a gem.

The father of Afrocentricity.

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ibtommy:
Although he might have gone too far, but there's truth in his statement. We all know the truth. Can you just take a walk in the night without fear of being "mined"?

In most parts of Nigeria you can walk around without fear.

When last were you or anyone in your family attacked or kidnapped by anyone?

The problem with you lot is that you’ve conditioned your heads to see only bad in yourselves and your country.

You then go round social media spreading the poisonous lie that Nigeria is a dangerous country.

Yet foreigner after foreigner lands Nigeria, walks around “dangerous” Lagos and Nigeria filming YouTube videos, with nobody attacking or harassing them.

And they ask “Is this the same Nigeria they said is too dangerous to visit? I’m safe here!!”

You are your own worst enemies.

Exousiang01:
Why did you write this in English.
You created a thread to demonize English Language and you wrote it in English.

He should type in his native language which you understand, ba?

Celestialsword:
Nearly all the countries colonized in Africa took the colonialist language as their lingua franca) official language).

Africans were living primitively during the precolonial era, so, when they came, their language was the only means of communication as they cannot speak the different languages of the African's....

You are miseducated by colonial propaganda.

According to the UK Guardian newspaper:

'With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder'.......

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”.... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay.''

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

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Now, who were you calling ''primitive''?

Predictor3:
the same specimen will still wear western clothes throughout today. Why didn't he make his post in a Nigerian language?

Because you wouldn't understand him if he did. Obviously. Plus you've no idea what he's wearing.

Ikaeniyan0:
For you to believe this, you need to visit a metal home

In other words you believe your ancestors were incapable of exploration and settlement in other parts of the world.

Of course if it was whites, you would have no problem believing it.

You people are so messed up in the head, it’s unreal.

onome25:
man wake up & go make money & stop ranting on some ones hustling
Ur so called APC leaders are far worst than any other politicians in Nigeria history
have any government convicted Dino Malaye of stealing public funds ? have any government convicted ATIKU of stealing public funds ? all the rumors U heard a mere allegations .
stop supporting this useless regime.....

APC are ''the worst in history''.

When it's your own side it's only ''allegations''.

Corrupt elements.

AlphaTaikun:
That really mad cool. Did that AI platform really spew these cosmic projections out based on those CGPT prompts?

It has the intensity of a futuristic space travel event from out of the Yoruba Republic or the "Odua Republic."

Yes. And this is a realistic AI projection based on Nigeria's current space program, technical expertise, GDP growth, etc.

My question to AI (ChatGPT)

''Describe Nigeria's first moon landing in the future based on the current development rate of its space programme.''

It's response:

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Naija to the Moon: Nigeria’s First Lunar Landing (2052)


Year: 2052.

Nigeria, now a thriving nation of 327 million people, stood taller than it ever had in its history. From the tech hubs of Eko Atlantic and Abuja Phase 4, to the green megacities of New Calabar and Kaduna Smart City, a new kind of Africa was taking shape — bold, stable, and self-defined.

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No longer called the “giant of Africa” out of habit, Nigeria had earned it. It was now Africa’s spacefaring nation, home to the Continental Orbital Launch Alliance (COLA), and the lead architect of the African Space Accord — a multinational coalition that had built Earth’s first equatorial orbital station. And now, the nation was preparing to take the next leap:

A manned lunar landing.

The spacecraft was named Ọ̀run-1 — the Yoruba word for[b] “Heaven.”[/b] But this was no myth. This was 2052 reality: 3D-printed titanium launch components built in Onitsha’s orbital tech corridor, lunar AI navigation coded by teenage prodigies from Kano, and eco-batteries fueled by advanced lithium harvested in Jos.

It was a pan-Nigerian mission, but one with deep roots. Printed on the side of the lunar capsule in Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Tiv, and Kanuri was the simple, defiant phrase:

“We were never earthbound.”


The Crew

The Ọ̀run-1 lunar mission carried three astronauts — chosen not just for skill, but for what they represented:

Commander Amina Yusuf — a 42-year-old aerospace veteran from Kano, one of the most accomplished astronauts of the COLA program. Fluent in orbital Hausa, English, and Mandarin, she had led missions on the African orbital station for over a decade.

Dr. Obinna Maduabuchi — an Igbo quantum biologist from Enugu whose research into lunar-adapted gene therapies had gained global recognition. He designed the medical ecosystem aboard Ọ̀run-1.

Captain Iniobong Essien — a robotics engineer and ace pilot from Akwa Ibom. Her deep-learning AI systems powered “Sango-X,” the lunar drone explorer they planned to deploy on the surface.

The mission was the result of nearly 25 years of planning, involving public-private partnerships, the African Lunar Development Initiative, and even collaborative research with diaspora scientists from the U.S., Brazil, and the Caribbean.


Launch Day

July 16, 2052. EkoSpace Launch Platform, just off the Atlantic coast near Lagos, buzzed with energy. The floating spaceport, run on 100% renewable tidal energy, was Nigeria’s crown jewel — a symbol of a nation that had turned its oil wealth into green energy leadership.

The crowd of thousands, gathered in person and millions more online, watched as dignitaries from across Africa stood beside President Adetokunbo Onuora, Nigeria’s first physicist-president, who had once helped design the fuel cells now powering the launch.

He addressed the nation with quiet pride:

“For too long, Africa was seen only through the lens of history. But today, we claim the future. We are not just inheritors of greatness — we are creators of it.”

The engines roared.

Ọ̀run-1 lifted into the sky in a spiral of flame and cloud, bearing the hopes of an entire continent. Above the clouds, it cut through the stratosphere like a sacred spear thrown toward the moon.

2052 stamp commemorates moon landing
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Back in Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, and Warri, ultramodern viewing plazas displayed a synchronized 12K stream of the launch. In schools, children in digitally connected uniforms waved flags and cheered. In Benin City, the sky lit with drones spelling out the words: “Ọ̀run awaits.”


Lunar Descent

Three days later, the capsule entered lunar orbit. As it glided over the Mare Tranquillitatis, the astronauts prepared for descent to a historic base — Odùduwà Alpha, the first African moon habitat, pre-built by autonomous bots months prior.

The moon module, Ashe-1, activated its retro-thrusters and touched down at 05:31 WAT, July 19.

It was a soft, perfect landing.

Commander Amina stepped onto the surface in a gravity-adapted, solar-regulating space agbada — a blend of tradition and tech. Her boots sank slightly into the fine dust. She raised her right hand and said:

“This is for the ancestors who studied the stars in silence — and for the children of Africa who will speak to the galaxies.”

With a firm grip, she planted Nigeria’s new space flag into the surface — a black star cradled in sixteen white cowries, against a rising green sun — symbolizing unity, wealth, and cosmic rebirth.


Nigeria's first Lunar Base, Odùduwà Alpha
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Africa Among the Stars

Inside Odùduwà Alpha, they activated systems powered by quantum solar arrays and deployed the Sango-X Rover — a spider-legged, AI-guided lunar bot designed to search for deep subsurface water and conduct mineral surveys.

But the most emotional moment came when they opened the Ifá Memory Drive — a cultural time capsule that contained:

- A digitized corpus of Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa oral traditions

- DNA samples from 500 ethnic groups across West Africa

- An AI-reconstructed 3D version of ancient Ile-Ifẹ̀

And audio prayers from Christian, Muslim, and traditional leaders united in one celestial voice

The astronauts conducted the first moon libation, pouring vaporized water in microgravity and offering thanks to the cosmic Creator — Olódùmarè — for safe passage.

Back on Earth, families gathered under moonlight in Abuja, Enugu, Maiduguri, and Makurdi, whispering:

“We have returned to where we were always destined to go.”


The Return

After 14 days of exploration, data capture, and laying groundwork for a future African lunar research village, Ọ̀run-1 departed the moon.

The capsule re-entered Earth’s orbit with precision and splashed down in the Gulf of Guinea, where it was retrieved by Nigeria’s Quantum Navy Recovery Fleet.

The heroes returned to thunderous celebration. Public holidays were declared across the ECOWAS region. Schools were renamed. Children now spoke of becoming “astropriests” — combining science and spiritual wisdom. A new generation saw no line between the lab and the shrine, between math and myth.


A Legacy Begins

Ọ̀run-1 wasn’t just a mission. It was a cultural reset — the day Nigeria stopped apologizing for its genius. It was the day the world accepted that space doesn’t belong to the West or the East — but to the entire Earth, including Africa.

The landing module was placed in the African Museum of the Future in New Abuja, beside relics of Nok, Benin, and the moon itself. The flag, still dusted in lunar silver, read not “We came, we conquered,” but:

“We remembered who we were. And then we built it.”

And as 2053 dawned, plans were already underway:

Ọ̀run-2 to establish a lunar greenhouse

The Obafemi Awolowo Mars Initiative

And whispers of the first African deep-space observatory, nicknamed “Oju Ọ̀run” — Eye of the Heavens

In the streets of Lagos, amid smart transit pods and sky trams, an old woman leaned out of her solar balcony and looked at the full moon. With pride in her eyes, she whispered:

“We once told stories about the moon. Now, we tell stories from it.”

Burkina Faso 2095 - Traore's Dream Achieved


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No surprises. Africans sold their minds to Arabs and Europeans long ago.

Follow Follow Experts.

Pitiful.

rainluv:
And Nnamdi kanu is still very much alive,hale and hearty

Wondering how he will react to this news 😂😂

The idea that you laugh at someone who has died shows you know nothing about death.

You don't know that this life you're living is the real death, and what you call death is Life.

You will learn in due course.

Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba

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Under Construction: 50,000 Capacity World Class Jos Stadium

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Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan

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Bankowner:
And the cost estimate for each?

I resemble accountant to you?

Take your question to appropriate quarters, pls.


Eket Stadium, Akwa Ibom

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Adokiye Amaesiamaka Stadium, Port Harcourt

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Plus many you don't even know exist:

Benin Stadium

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Teslim Balogun Stadium Lagos
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Mobolaji Johnson Arena

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