₦airaland Forum

TayserMahiri:
SA should never have let whites stay, they should've chased them. Mandela played black people. The reality is that whites will always be ahead of their black counterparts in S.A. I don't think there is any dealing with it because the whites control the systems of wealth creation firmly in their hands. Then sadly, instead of going for the systems from the whites they are killing black people. Yawa !

Hahaha, for once, a Nigerian (me) and a Kenyan agree on the same thing.

GERALD710:
Yet, the last time Obama, Xi Jiping, David Cameron and Shinzo Abe visited the conbtinent, they visited mainly 3 nations.Egypt, Kenya and South Africa.
Others visited sporadically were Ethiopia(Obama,Xi),Ghana(Obama) and Tanzania(Xi,Abe)
Nigeria was not on their bucket list, So Influence....Nnno.No.What influence does Nigeria have beyond West AfricaSMH!!East Africans think you are a bunch of arrogant, drug dealing eggheads(Kenyans,Ugandans, Tanzanians) or are a bunch of very dark (insert racist word here)(Eritreans,Ethiopians Seychellios).So No.

Can't you see how imbecilles like you worship people with white skin? No wonder whites and Indians dominate Kenya, Tanzania and SA.

Those white Presidents and prime ministers would not want to visit Nigeria because they do not want to have a heart attack seeing what Black Africans built with our own hands. So, they rather visit their existing colonies like your countries where white skinned people still control.
That was exactly what caused Queen Elizabeth to burn the great Bini empire of present day Nigeria to the ground, cos they were shocked to see that Black Africans could built such an empire.

Let all the white skinned leaders in the world visit Kenya or others, it doesn't change the fact that Nigeria leads the Black African race and others follow.

Marcelo290:
The reason I don't like engaging Ghanaians in an argument is that they always sound bitter and pained. Could that be attributed to frustration or just sheer wickedness? No wonder them the behave like chali chali...

Their arguments are always devoid of logic and factual analysis. Accra this and and, funny how one was calling Nigerians poor, so Ghanaians are rich? hilarious! Abegi stop these arguments.. OK, Ghana is better than Nigeria, hope they are happy now?? Anything to make Lil brothers happy...i hope they sleep well tonight.

Ghanaians are the most bitter and sad souls u can think of on the planet. They behave like cursed people.
You can always see it on their faces.

shervydman:
that's the cause of ur stupidity,money u supposed to spend on education,u're spending it on house rent.
cant u and @OXYGEN just squat together and let him go to college cos he's the greatest of all fools here,a Ghanaian that doesn't know his regions,never been to Accra and making useless rants here.

Dont mind the unreasonable Ghanaians, Nigerians only boast of buying and building houses, not boasting about paying exorbitant house rents.
U are very correct by your suggestion O0XYGEN and Just30 should squat together and save the money for their education. They need better education.

Hage:
It's the same thing in South Africa. Gauteng (the smallest province), the province Johannesburg is the capital of, has about 33.7% of the economy of South Africa.

It's not so much the same thing i think. @O0XYGEN
Lagos state has only about 20% of Nigeria's total GDP.

PissedYagami:
Negative. Reason why it has a huge GDP is, it is the commercial capital of Nigeria. The economic capital. If it were a country, its gdp would have been much much smaller

Rivers state in Nigeria is worth about $40 billion. So, it's not just about Lagos state alone.

Just30:

Yet it can't produce quality movies with proper lighting and sounds

Yet these movies are winning the best movie awards in Africa and making millions of dollars weekly. Who is the fool here?

Just30:
when there's is 200million people who breed like dogs to entertain to forget about their hunger
No surprise there

Nigerian entertainment industry is estimated around $10 billion! and it is growing like fire. This should be more than the GDP of Accra (your largest city).....ooops sorry i forgot that Accra has no GDP

PissedYagami:
So sad when an African calls another African country poor. Is Nigeria rich?

We are all poor but some are poorer and in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king .

Just30:
it's a well know fact that roads in Ghana are way better.
That whole area you have photos of was a construction site in 2016 and the roads were not even bad
They we're reconstructed in order not to inconvenience anyone again for a very long time.

Before the construction, they were still better roads than you have in both Lagos and Abuja combine

Chali, it does not change the fact that many roads in Accra are terrible and deplorable.

Now that we have agreed that Accra has bad roads too, what exactly does Accra has to offer?

A city of over 3 million with no GDP and terrible roads. No vibes, nothing!

How much is the largest city of your country worth? Tell the world or forever keep shut!

@Just30 and O0XYGEN

Is this the Accra and Ghana you scallywags are talking about? Go to Abuja (Nigeria's capital city), it is an abomination for you to find bad roads in Abuja city.

Accra, a city of 3 million people without a GDP and useless roads . So what exactly does Accra has to offer?

Just30:
what you didn't know is that, that place is a construction site
Want to see how it looks now
Lagos roads are like death traps

We never argued that Nigeria has good roads, but you imbecilles are the ones claiming that Ghana has the best roads in Africa.

O0XYGEN:
Maybe you can answer this as well.
The president of Gambia is in Ghana to thank us for protecting the People of Gambia.
When is he coming to nigeria?

Nincompoo, come and see your so called Accra.

A city of 3 million people with no GDP and shitty roads too. Ghana is nothing but a useless small poor country.

Just30:
Accra land mass is the smallest in Ghana and it has an average population

No idiot, Accra has 3 million people with no GDP and shitty roads!

Just30:
what is the use of a place with small money but can't provide electricity, running water, proper health care facilities for it people?
Haven't even added roads and transportation

Come and see your so called Accra!
The way you foools boast, one will think Accra streets are comparable to London streets. Nonsense!

Just30:
How do you live in a Slum you call a city without running water and electricity.
people sell water on wheel barrows

Your country where citizens live in witch camps? Is that what you call a country?
Now tell me do these witch camp citizens look like people who have access to healthcare, electricity and tap water?

O0XYGEN:
Hahahaha are you this dumb.?
You have about 36 states.
Lagos is the smallest state in nigeria.
Lagos alone takes about half of the entire countries GDP.
Everything about nigeria is centered around lagos so what does that tell you.?
You are too dumb to know that nigeria is a useless country.
That alone should tell you how underdeveloped nigeria is.
A nigerian can not talk without mentioning lagos meanwhile that's the smallest state in nigeria.
What about the remaining 35 states?
You guys shouldn't even talk when a Ghanaian is talking
It's just not normal

I have told u idiot that Rivers state in Nigeria was worth $21 billion 7 years ago and today it is worth over $40 billion dollars.
What is the entire Ghana worth?

O0XYGEN:
Have you been to Kumasi before?
That's the home of the biggest most modernized market in Africa and the biggest shopping mall in west Africa.
Hahaha
There are a lot of Ghanaian cities far far better than those filthy underdeveloped towns you call cities there.

Okay yes we agree. But tell us the wealth or GDP of these Ghanaian cities with the biggest markets in Africa!

Is that too much to ask??

O0XYGEN:
Don't be ignorant ok.
There are 3 million people in Greater Accra.
Greater Accra is the region while Accra is the capital of greater Accra.
You claim you've stayed in Ghana before yet you don't know anything
Go to hell with your ignorance.

If you are not an imbecille, you will also know that Lagos state is different from Lagos city.

Animal, tell us the GDP of your so called Accra! Let us know how wealthy it is.

MtuMsuper:
Words like Afande(meaning sergeant, and duniya are also found in Bahasa Indonesia courtesy of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish influence. Brits adopted curry into their cuisine from India and east africans adopted foods such as chapati,dengu(green grams), samosa and kachumbari from india via the British Empire. Kachumbari itself entered India via Iran(persia).
Swahili is bigger than you think. Kenya does most of the promoting while our southern neighbours are rather lackluster​ in the publicity arena. I recently opened a youtube video where oyinbos in wisconsin university were speaking kiswahili far much better than a local. There used to be a famous american oyibo actor in a slapstick comedy on national TV in the 80s and 90s, ill track his name down.

That's great.

Many Oyibos learn to speak Hausa fluently too from America/Europe. I have seen them in Hausa movies and documentaries.

O0XYGEN:
I hope you know that your fellow nigerians have written worse things about nigeria even on this forum?
Hahaha
And as I said Ghana doesn't drill 2million barrels of oil daily so you should be ashamed.
China with its huge population is far developed than nigeria so stop using population as an excuse.
nigeria is useless and underdeveloped and thats the truth.

Comparing Nigeria and China? Mumu, why don't u compare Ghana and Malaysia?

O0XYGEN:
Ghana doesnt drill 2 million barrels of oil a day yet we are far developed than you.
You are not even ashamed.

What about all the golds and diamonds in Ghana? Do we have that? You should be more ashamed with your small population that you are still poorer.

uzzyfire:
:oare u serious ,he's a man .wow I swear I na know

LoL, u nor well o. So i resemble sisi for your eye abi?

uzzyfire:
looooolll this guy na big liar he has not stepped his foot out of Accra talkless of coming to Lagos. iv sed this before, wen Accra develops to d point of having a GDP ,then u can compare Ghana (not even Accra) to lagos loooooolll

Nor mind that small Ghana boy Just30 with him Accra bullshit.
A city without a GDP, that one na city?
Even Port harcourt city has a higer GDP and wealth than Accra.
What is the use of a well swept city without wealth?

MtuMsuper:
Actually DUNIA is Turkish. Hatari means danger/ dangerous. Swahili is a living language that constantly adopts new words. There are 2 regulatory bodies for the language and unlike Hausa it doesnt bear the baggage of an oppressors language. I stand to be corrected on the latter, but that is what i can fathom from alot of posts in nairaland centering on the hausa language use.
People in central africa are very conscious of language use, they dont like foreign impositions. But you are right, kiswahili is best placed to succeed in africa. In kenya many congolese refugees try s much as they can to kenyanise their swahili, which is very different in vocabulary meanings. I salute those efforts

Yes Hatari (Hatsari in hausa) also means danger or accident. 'Duniya' is turkish? But arabs, persians and even Hindus use the word too.

Yes of course. Hausa is like an opressors language and with time it will decline in Nigeria. It may never decline in Core-northern Nigeria, but it will decline in Central Nigeria, probably Northern Ghana and Northern Cameroon too.
Like my home city Jos, Hausa used to be the sole lingua franca, but now Pidgin has infiltrated and is gradually displacing Hausa.

Swahili has the potentials, but until a powerful united EAC emerges, which will dominate African media, business, wealth and entertainment, i don't see Swahili exceeding it's current boundaries.

TayserMahiri:
Dangote is on a mission to sell the remaining nigeria

No problem, as far as he is still a Nigerian.
I like it, Nigerian private sector will soon start challenging the govt and this will make our govt to sit up and work harder. Very soon, we may be more than the govt. and we will start buying other African countries very soon beginning with your Kenya and Ghana.
Dangote has serious plans for Kenya, he already owns the largest cement factory in East Africa and is dominating East African market in Cement.

After Dangote's refinery start functionning, he may likely be among the top richest men in the world on the same level with the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

MtuMsuper:
Almost entirely from nairaland. Pidgin has no definite rule so you can break it and mash it at will. You can use your own style. Am told pidgin from the oil delta is very complicated and many use it as mother tongue?

YES, you are correct.
However, Niger delta (Warri specifically) and Lagos are the 2 major places pidgin originated from and most new pidgin words originated and keep originating in these places.

Yes, in South-south Nigeria (Delta, Edo, Rivers and Bayelsa states), pidgin is now becoming the mother tongue of many people here and is displacing their native languages, even in the most interior villages here, most of their elders speak pidgin. These states along with parts of Lagos is where the deepest pidgin dialects are spoken.
I grew up in Delta state (Warri) and that's why i can speak very very deep pidgin.
The best comedians in Nigeria are from Delta state because Deltans have the best command of pidgin in Nigeria which makes people laugh. Pidgin is the language of Naija comedy and music.

MtuMsuper:
French escaped me. Its not too difficult to learn. You become a tolerant person if you live in a household where more than 1 language is spoken/heard. Even more if you grew up in such a place.
Its
Karibu = Welcome
Hujambo/Habari? = How are you?News?
Kwaheri = Goodbye
Samahani = excuse me
Tafadhali = please
Shukran / Ahsante = thank you
Mnaijeria = Nigerian
Mkenya = Kenyan
Uhabeshi = Ethiopia
Mhabeshi = Ethiopia
Mwanaume = man
Mwanamke = woman
Mwana/mtoto = child
Ujinga = stupidity
Umeme = electricity
Maji = water
Barabara = road


I cant reproduce the whole dictionary obviously.

Okay, thats great. I hope one day, Black Africans would adopt a unifying language. Swahili and Naija Pidgin are the most influential right now, but swahili has a better edge.
Hausa language have what it takes to challenge Swahili and even unite West Africa, just that most Hausa natives and speakers practice the kind of islam that is anti-progressive and they are still very very backwards.

I speak Hausa though and i have observed that Hausa has some similar words with Swahili like DUNIYA, HATARI, and some others which i might have forgotten. I guess this influence is from Arabic, because 25% or more of Hausa words and grammar come from Arabic.

PissedYagami:
Here I thought west Africa was shittier

How can west Africa be shittier? Compare the income per capital of West African countries and East African countries and see.
The GDP per capital of ECOWAS is about $1,500. That of East Africa is far far lower (should be around $300).

MtuMsuper:
Funnily enough, some years ago, a group of nigerians caught overstaying in tanzania were deported to kenya border and they claimed to be kenyans , even though their accent , dressing and phenotype was straight from a nollywood movie. Tanzanians love abandoning deportees at kenya border.

LoL @Straight from a nollywood movie.
But na wa for my naija people sef. Dem too dey waka.

Many Nigerians just have the hussling spirit and 'i must succeed mentality' especially Southern Nigerians from low income houses.
Hardly will you ever find low income Central or Northern Nigerians leaving Nigeria to another African country for hussling. We rather remain in our villages and farm.
I am from a middle class home however, so i may never really understand what those from low income homes go through as such.

However, so, are you saying that you learnt this pidgin just by interracting with those few naija peeps? Or also tru Naija music and movies?

MtuMsuper:
Small small i go reach. Question: you see me sef i dey try ,you dey? Wetin kenya pipu e dey vex you ,you bash am 24/7?
For dis nairaland i dey learn plenty plenty for obodo 9ja, soon i go enter like thief for night, i dey get citizen. After i dey run governor, fix all problems for 9ja. Make i try plateau state?

U funny die. U are very humorous. E good sha. I dey trip for your style.

Swahili is quite hard to learn, if not i would have tried it. Although i know KARIBU, HABARI, KWAHERI, SAFAHANI and TAFADELI. That should be all

Seems like you are a polyglot. You speak German fluently? Do u also speak french? (I speak french fairly well)

kikuyu1:
Someone said you're Iansweets who ,last year showcased velvet table cloths as traditional attire-he was right. She had ZERO geopolitical understanding even by Nairaland standards but insisted we all had to suffer the sounds of her ignorance. Word of advice-even though you change your nick your style betrays you;its a secret signature!!
Take several seats already!!

What the fucck is Iamsweets? I never knew many Kenyans hallucinate naturally.
E be like say u wake up see me for dream abi?
If u dey kolo, abeg fain wia u wan kolo enter o.

Talking about Nigerian traditional clothes, heck all Naijans are proud of our clothes and i am partly into the fashion designing industry. I have been working with a fashion publishing and advertising media house for some time.