₦airaland Forum

Henrydone:
All I see is brown roofs,Nigeria has tripled livable cities than Kenya

Port-harcourt

Henrydone:
Meanwhile this Ibadan

Henrydone:
Meanwhile this Onitsha

Henrydone:
Excluding Nairobi and Mombasa none of your city is as decent as Kano

Kano

naijalander:
what is your proof that the rest of them are not liveable?

Do people not reside in these cities?

And yes they are industrialized, leave sentiments aside.

naijalander:
Ibadan

Port Harcourt

Calabar

Kano

Kaduna

Aba

Onitsha

Enugu

These are all industrialized cities. Their produce cannot compete in a global market but they are slowly getting there.

Henrydone:
Pardon me,but Abuja ranked 3rd,Ibadan ranked 6th,and port-harcourt ranked 8th.As for Kenya cities Nairobi came 4th,Mombasa 9th,and Kumasi was the least among the list so what's up

Henrydone:
Cc city's with highest purchasing power (consumer spending). 3 Nigeria city 1 Kenya city

naijalander:
Yes Wangari Mathai and guess what,[b] your politicians showed her very little respect [/b]until she died.

And Lagos does maintain a certain level of greenery with many parks. Muri Okunola Park, Abiola Gardens just to name a few. These are not excuses, they are facts.

naijalander:
No my outlook is based on 10 years residence in Kenya. The things I've seen.

naijalander:
Ok maybe Lagos is not as green as it used to be but the comparison to Nairobi green can still be made. Keep in mind the parks are coming down soon due to real estate development. There have been demonstrations in Nairobi recently to prevent this. It comes with urbanization, only shows Lagos is more urbanized than Nairobi.

naijalander:
oh please, the world depends on the corruption of our leaders.

Do you even realize how many countries in the sub sahara can be self sufficient if they had good leadership.

A sleeping giant that still manages to out do many sounds dominant to me.

naijalander:
You do realize that SW Nigeria is dominated by thick rain forests right?? so it make no sense to compare the green to yours.

naijalander:
Divorces based on tribal sentiment is more common in Kenya than in Nigeria. In fact I can't remember the last time a Yoruba dude left an Igbo girl cos she's Igbo, Luos seem to do that a lot due to family pressure and vice versa. See what Fidel Odinga did, GOD rest his soul.

naijalander:
Your entire outlook of Nigeria is based on what you read on Nairaland (which is the most tribalistic forum in Africa). Why won't you think Nigeria is on the verge of breaking up. Do you see any mainstream politician calling for Nigeria to break up??

naijalander:
This is a myth further propagated by the importation cabals, you can never understand Nigeria the way I do so give up ok!

I see green, do you not??

naijalander:
Oga did I tell you there is no ethnocentrism in Nigeria. Africa is rife with tribalism, that is the reality we have to deal with but yours in Kenya is on another level entirely. When was the last time the idiots in Western Kenyan peacefully demonstrated like this?? It would be stone throwing and shop looting instead. Get your facts right. Also look below for more recent photos on Nigeria, the page as an album of Kenya too.

https://www.facebook.com/184441788339741/photos/?tab=album&album_id=868867736563806

naijalander:
Where in Lagos did you live? How long did you stay? did you visit every nook and cranny?? Why are you so ignorant??

naijalander:
I apologize for my earlier assertions and insults to the people of Kenya.

To be quite objective, my views about Nigeria being a sleeping giant remains.

naijalander:
I know these stories and the conflict was not based on ethnicity! do you research!

Just because they wrote "thugs of Yoruba origin" does not mean the attack was based on tribe.

My girlfriend's mother is an Hausa lady, do you know how much inter marriages are common in Nigeria??

How many stories do we hear of Luos leaving their Kikuyu wives??

naijalander:
Lagos is a much more beautiful city than Nairobi so don't even compare. I had resisted posting pictures because I find it rather corny posting pictures when you have slums surrounding the beauty. This is what you have so far refused to admit. How can you say Lagos would be lucky to have estates matching Runda? are you high on shashamani weed


https://www.nairaland.com/1988279/10-unbelievable-photos-lagos-mistake

Even the most recent project, Eko Atlantic City cannot be compared to what you have in Nairobi. Lagos has the longest bridge in Africa, the Third Mainland Bridge and you saying it will be lucky to have estates like Runda, what is Runda compared to Banana Island? Banana Island houses the richest black folks on the planet!

https://www.nairaland.com/4234/pictures-lagos-skyline-city-scape/10

These pictures are old by the way.

naijalander:
what riots on the streets of Lagos. Ask any Igbo guy meet if he has ever been threatened with eviction.

The Oba of Lagos made a joke about drowning them in the ocean last election if they did not vote the ruling party of Lagos state, that is about as ethnocentric things get in Lagos. We don't have tribal riots in Nigeria bro, where exactly did you get this info? am curious to know...

naijalander:
It is not a stereo type to say Kenyans are ethnocentric in their thinking because you clearly see it every where you go. I can't remember the last time main stream politicians in Nigeria made violent comments of killing their opposition based on tribe, that rubbish only happens in Kenya. If it does in Nigeria, said person would not garner any votes. Politicians leave the ethnocentric stuff for uneducated or misguided Nigerians.

naijalander:
I don't hate Kenya or Kenyans.

I just think y'all clearly have issues. Honestly it is easy of make these claims about Nigeria but until you actually live and breathe there, you cannot understand why they call it the giant of the continent. A lot of black nationalities live there and assimilate quite easily without any form of discrimination. In Kenya, you guys are so ethnocentric, Nigeria's ethnocentrism is restricted to online debates, in reality, you rarely hear of one person attacking another based on tribal sentiments.

I also despise the generalization. To Kenyan, every Nigerian deals drugs, every Nigerian is a comedian, in the midst of all that, its hard to not express hate.

naijalander:
Google ECoMOg and stop making a fool of yourself. If a Kenyan took part, it was part of the UN peace keeping force, the offensive was by ECoMOG forces.

naijalander:
Another lie, Safaricom is a subsidiary of Vodacom, MTN too is. Vodafone owns 40%, your treasury owns just 35%. Putting false numbers together. Desperate much? Don't forget Airtel and Etisalat are not wholly foreign owned. Glo is probably worth more than Safaricom also.

naijalander:
So you decided Ibadan is a slum from a satellite image wow. Genius.

naijalander:
I know most car sellers sell on credit based on credit worthiness, it is big business in Kenya, what is generalising there??

When one presents facts about your country's crap, you find it hard to admit it, who is ignorant here?

naijalander:
Raise which revenue? keep dreaming, keep borrowing from the IMF and World Bank, let your children inherit debt.

Most Kenyans live on debt, mortgaged houses, leased cars, etc. Your economy is debt based. Nigerians on the other hand buy and fully own, very few borrow from banks, it is sad that most Nigerians have no access to small scale loans other wise we won't even be having this convo.

naijalander:
Now you are just begging to be insulted.

Nigeria's army has the most versatile land force there is in the sub sahara, with conflict experience as far as South Sudan helping the UN during the Darfur crisis. Ended 2 civil wars (Sierra Leone and Liberia), Angola Civil War experience too.

Honestly you are not arguing any more, you are just hating.

naijalander:
For the gazillionth time, no one wants to dominate you, we just do our thing.

naijalander:
OMG don't let anybody hear that.

Nairobi got its first high way; Thika Rd in 2012 and you wanna compare.

You disappoint me bro

Ibadan would be compared to Nairobi any time.

Do you realize Ibadan is much bigger than Nairobi in land mass??

I grew up in Lagos, Lagos is stretched on the coast and even borrows land from Ibadan.

Ibadan has many Rundas, how can you say that and you have never been there

Keep depending on the pictures you see and don't travel to see for yourself.

wewe ni mfala!

naijalander:
give it time bro, Innoson will come eventually. Good to know you are enthusiastic about it and yes they now export to Benin Republic!