₦airaland Forum

NairobiWalker:
We don't need to have our services in your country to be better than you. Kenyan investments mostly concentrate in East Africa and to some extent, Central and Southern Africa.

West Africa is the most populated sub-region of Africa and she has the largest economy of all the sub-regions of the continent.

So for you to claim how much of big players your country is on the continent, at least your influence should be seen or felt over here.

NigeriaIsDoomed:
Still on who get swag pass the giant of Africa
This is how the giant of Africa rolls with swag, not even the west can make us give up our culture like the little indians who have done trade by barter with everything about their culture.

Nigerian men are the definition of swag in Africa.

I'm yet to see other Black African men who are as handsome and well dressed as Nigerian men.

People like TayserMahiri, nairobiwalker, jonraid n mtis can only dream of looking as good as this! In proud African attires.

obaaderemi:
West Africans are outstanding. They are loud and bright in equal measures. I think this happened because their weakest appendage, the Bantu migrated eastward. If the Little Indians had qualified, they would have dressed in suits,hats,boots,mufflers, overcoats,sunglasses and gloves. The funny little characters would have looked like this guy below:

Hahaha this is savage!

The bolded got me laughing hard. Kenyans are really comic characters. They want to look more European than the Europeans.

Else how can proud black african men be proud of celebrating Blanket & tea parties?

TayserMahiri, when is the next blanket and tea party? I know you've probably not drank tea in your house since the last tea party

obaaderemi:
"My
people have the milk in the morning, your
tribes the milk in the afternoon," Kenyatta
told non-Kikuyu ministers who complained.

This is the height of discrimination. Jeeez!

So, I guess people like TayserMahiri, NairobiWalker, mtis, rvp2018 and jonraid will have their own milk at night, considering the fact that they all live in Kibera and have sudanic and refugee ancestry

No wonder they are always on nairaland 24/7 due to joblessness... While kikuyu1 is hardly available here.

TayserMahiri:
An early exit will be good enough. If you dare go to the knockout stages the monkey stakes will rise considerably and you'll be humiliated on the global stage.

Just make sure you dont go past the groups. Russians dont like sea fairing monkeys

I love West Africans.

See the way Senegalese also arrived Russia proudly in their native attires just like Nigerians.

Had it been you little Indians white wannabes, you would have dressed in 'Blanket and tea party attires'.

West Africans are gonna make Africa proud.
Times like this makes one wonder if East Africans actually exist. Where are they to rep the continent in the worlds number 1 sport?

mtis:
Nigeria: Power And Politics Of Hausa-Fulani - EDITORIAL (vanguard Nigeria)

A united Nigeria makes meaning to the Hausa-Fulani only when they are in control of the levers of power, writes Adewale Adeoye.

ANYONE who holds the view that the Hausa-Fulani political leaders are not in control of Nigeria s past, present and if possible, the future may need to re-examine their thinking. I also hold the strong view that the Hausa-Fulani leadership is the best organised and the most tactical of all the ruling power blocs in Nigeria, that is the Yoruba and the Igbo and of course, the minorities put together as a disjointed and never united bloc, always being used as puns in the game.

And what is the meaning of this? One single Kikuyu family has ruled Kenya for decades.

We saw how Luos were being bullied, harassed and rigged out in this previous Kenyan election and how disastrous it was.

Kikuyus dominate everything in that your little India after the real Indians.

Hausa-fulanis may have a strong political power in Nigeria, but they are below when it comes to the economy. Since the return to democracy in 1999, they ruled only 6 years.
Entertainment/Media, Education, ICT, Manufacturing, Sports, and every other sector is dominated by other ethnic groups.

Daejoyoung:
Here is from the Facebook page of Strive Musiyiwa( a Zimbabwean telecom entrepreneur) on Nigeria....


[b]The day I discovered the true wealth of Nigeria

__It's not all about oil!

When I first arrived in Nigeria to set up the country's first GSM mobile network, Econet Wireless Nigeria (now Airtel Nigeria), I had to serve as the company's interim CEO for about six months, until we appointed someone substantive. This meant I practically lived in Nigeria for most of that time. It was a remarkable experience, and one which will remain with me all my life. Nigeria is one of the most exciting countries in the world, and could be the next China before the turn of this century.

I just want to share with you one particular incident which led me to that conclusion: As many people know, today Nigeria has over 120m mobile phones users. To imagine that I made the first ever official GSM mobile call in Nigeria on 6th August 2001 seems almost unbelievable...

Our company Econet Wireless Nigeria was in a race with MTN Nigeria, the only other operator at the time, to meet a deadline set by the regulator for 8th of August. We beat the deadline and MTN by two days, and as Interim CEO, I had the privilege to call the regulator to tell him we were "Live"!

What a moment in my life! It's something I'll always cherish. I don't really care whether I own or don't own a mobile operator there today. My success will always be measured in terms of my small contribution in kick starting the largest mobile industry on the African continent, and it is Nigeria.

Several months before the launch deadline, I'd arrived with over 100 engineers and technicians, drawn mostly from Zimbabwe and South Africa. At the time, since Nigeria had been delayed by the military governments from acquiring GSM, it was one of the last markets without this new technology. President Obasanjo, who had just won the election two years earlier, wanted to change that and had issued three licenses, but one had been delayed.

This meant that when we started operations, Nigeria had no homegrown engineers or technicians with experience in GSM mobile technology. (Today it has more than Southern Africa combined!)

So whilst setting up the network to meet the deadline, we used expatriates from other African countries that already had GSM. We also began the process of recruiting Nigerian engineers and technicians who we would retrain for this exciting new industry to take over from the expatriate team, which wanted to do in the shortest time possible.

We had literally thousands of posts to fill.

In one instance, we placed newspaper adverts in all leading newspapers asking for people qualified in electronic engineering, at degree level, and with minimum five years relevant experience. I'll never forget the response. I came into the office to find sacks piled up to the ceiling full of applications!

"I only want to see the applications from people who meet our requirements, and not from chancers who aren't qualified," I complained.

"Sir, these are the ones we have vetted."

"What?! You mean there were more than this?"

"Thousands, sir."

Then I came up with an idea: "Why don't you separate for me, the most qualified academically. Set aside people with MBAs, and even PHDs."

A day later, a sack was delivered to my office. I was staggered!

There were thousands of people with qualifications in just this one discipline with MBAs and PHDs! Many had qualified in the best universities around the world. There were also GSM-qualified Nigerians working internationally, including in America and Europe, wanting to return home!

I was blown away by the qualifications. I thought to myself: "You can start almost any business or industry here. I wish investors would one day discover the wealth of this nation."

Whenever I hear people talk about the wealth of Nigeria in terms of oil, I shake my head to say: "You have no idea what you're talking about!"

The true wealth of Nigeria is its extraordinary human capital, and passion for education. Unleash that and no one can stop them![/b]


Taysermahiri, rvp2018, this is what I'm talking about. The system in Nigeria wasn't working, and the educational sector had nothing to write home about, there was a repressive military Government, but that didn't stop the Nigerians who loved education from going all around the world to get educated, and so when the opportunity came there were thousands of qualified people to take over the telecoms sector, if this wasn't the case maybe foreigners would be the ones dominating those jobs from that time, but there was no chance for that right from the beginning.

Honestly, this post made me feel so emotional.

God will never forgive these military dictators who destroyed Nigeria and took us decades backwards. Otherwise we would have not been insulted by Kenyans here.

No group of humans deserve to be ruled by a military dictator.
It's amazing that Nigeria still exists after all these years of military rule.

sufferNsmiling:
I told you[b] I am a nigeria which can think. Not like you which is confused.[/b]

You are a NIGERIA?

I guess you are also 'a Anambra' from Nigeria

TayserMahiri:
These Nigerian boys are dressing like they dont know the kind of whipping they will get in Russia

Good to see that you follow up the Nigerian team closely. I wish others could even know of the existence of Kenyan teams.

nwoke39:
Wait o.. Is Safaricom fully Kenyan
like Globacom is fully Nigerian

For where! Safaricom is a foreign property. Only a percentage of it is owned by Kenya.

TayserMahiri:
You are quite foolish. They had a massive headstart. I feel like I should teach you some commerce. Early entrants into any business always earn the highest benefits in terms of market share if only they manage to support their early mover advantage. Its that simple. Indians (and whites) were doing big business for years all the while Africans were in [b]concentration camps[/b]. Dont forget we didnt have oil or gold, the sort of things that can create overnight billionaires to venture into highly capital intensive sectors like manufacturing.

I love the bolded part

It's so sad that these concentration camps still exist in Kenya till this day!

Daejoyoung:
l never claimed we were awesome at independence, infact we were about 90-95% illiterates at independence. Even if at that time the whites begin to dominate our businesses, Nigerians would not just sit idle for so long and allow only foreigners eat the good of the land claiming them as the 44th tribe or such nonsense gibberish, rather Nigerians would struggle to be at the top too by hook or crook, that's the difference.
For example MTN still dominates, but at least we are happy there is indigenous globacom too, at a time Lafrage dominated cement industry in Nigeria, now it's Dangote. We are looking for an alternative to Dstv as well. The top twenty richest men in Nigeria are black Nigerians despite the fact that lndians here are also doing well, etc.

Succinctly put. Full stop!

So many Nigerians are unhappy about Dstv and shoprite dominating Nigerian market, but very soon we will put a great challenge to it.

Daejoyoung:
This is why we are telling you it's not reasonable comparing Kenya ( with this kind of history you just narrated now) to Nigeria. indigenous Africans didn't have the skill in manufacturing because they were largely illiterates compared to the lndians and others , but now at least education is almost widespread, the Kenyans should be competitive enough to begin to dominate manufacturing and not leave everything to the lndians. At least you are smart enough to identify the problem, the rvp2018 of a guy would rather mask his shame by claiming the lndians are a so called 44th tribe.

If you are waiting for Black Kenyans to dominate the manufacturing sector of Kenya, you would wait forever.
It is beyond their reach. They can never do that.

The wealth of industries is exclusive to Indians who are the first class citizens of Kenya. It will never change anytime soon.
Second class citizens like TayserMahiri know the problem exists and hope one day they could fight it.

While 3rd class citizens like rvp2018 have accepted their fate and decided to lay claim to these Indians as their kit and kin. Pathetic.

rvp20182:
You have 1M Nigerian indians & Lebanase - why not show-case what they are doing - I guess like everyone - they are running kiosk & selling chinese manufactured goods.

We are proud of Kenyan Indians...and we recognised them as INDIGENOUS. They are doing great in manufacturing...kicking white owned global conglomerate in their butt..and black Africans are learning from them...and spinning their own industries.

Hindu officially is 44th tribe of Kenya.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Hindu-officially-becomes-Kenya-s-44th-tribe/1056-4027242-12m5ygj/index.html

You guys must stop echoing nonsense which you cannot prove.
Can you guys mention at least one street which is dominated by lebanese or Indians in Nigeria?

There are numerous areas dominated by Indians in Kenya. There are even Indian exclusive 1st class citizens estates in Kenya. Show us that of Nigeria now.

Or do these lebanese and Indians in Nigeria live in underground tunnels?

TayserMahiri:
They should open up very soon the likes of Nowenuse need skin care products. Oba needs a facial facelift, lip reduction surgery and some dental work

. You are crazy!
You need butt implants to impress your lover NairobiWalker.

rvp2018:
Our manufacturing is just sophisticated. And you don't have any - outside Nestle & Unilver - whatever you have - is doggy chinese finished goods. It reason you only export one item - oil. We export so many finished manufactured goods. Please try compete with Benin -otherwise we are competing with Egypt & South Africa in East & Southern Africa.

Online shopping - the total revenue Jumia make in Nigeria is how much . Trust me in E-COMMERCE we beat Nigerian 10-nil.

Please you guys need to be taken back to schools outside Nigeria and taught to critically analyse things.

Is this the excuse as to why you Kenyans specialize in reproducing American businesses and are completely bereft of every form of indigenous ingenuity?

Jumia became a billion dollar business and the Amazon of the African continent to through the Nigerian market and you are talking BS?

The world has reocgnized and categorized Nigeria as one of the leading online market shopping population and you are here disgracing yourself with ignorance?

https://guardian.ng/business-services/nigeria-leads-south-africa-others-in-online-shopping/amp

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/nigeria-ranks-3rd-online-mobile-shopping/amp/

rvp2018:
We already did this - use the search function.

No you haven't done anything. For real? Just mention one of them or kindly link me up.

rvp2018:
Kenya FMCG have their own brands and also manufacture brands of leading companies - on contract - they don't go to china - get counterfeit substandard products & re-package it - and claim to manufacture them like most of Nigerian conmen "industrialist" do.

Haco Industries is a manufacturer of consumer products. The company has a strong product portfolio of international and local brands, including Societe Bic, (Ballpoint pens, shaving instruments, high profile pens), Alberto-Culver, USA (TCB, Motions, St. Ives), Imperial Dax, USA (Dax Pomade, Lanolin, Kocatah), E.T Browne Inc., USA (Palmers) and Jeyes, UK.

Haco industries was bought recently by Tiger Brands of South Africa --- and it's very likely whenever rich Nigerians buy from Shoprite - they are buying made in Kenya good. The nigerian "middle class" apparently shop in their kiosk.

So, do Kenyan business men lack ingenuity to the extent that all they do is reproduce American products?

This doesn't make any sense to me. Nigerians take pride in our own products which was started from the scratch by our own business men and not the reproduction of American businesses. That is thrash!

If I had not caught you and exposed you here now, you would have not brought out this long epistle to explain that all you guys do is reproduce American businesses.

Shame!

Mind you, Nigeria's middleclass and even many low income Nigerians have upgraded to online shopping and left you Kenyans stuck in the era of malls which began about a century ago.
You guys should join the train of the 21st century and make Jumia (the Nigerian owned no 1 online shop in Kenya and the entire Africa richer)

Daejoyoung:
My man, brands of soap and body creams are in almost all countries by local business men, not just in Kenya or your small East Africa. l believe the Kenyans here are even ashamed. lf these brands are that big then why are they only in East Africa? Dominating the East African market and some parts of Central Africa is not a big deal. Nigeria has so many of her brands too, but isn't it shameful that you think this is an acheivement for Kenya.

Thank you.

I have one question to ask all the Kenyans here. I have asked this question in the past and did not get a reply till now.

Can Kenyans show us any Kenyan products or services in the Nigerian or even West African market?

How does Kenya affect the life of the every day Nigerian?
Any Kenyan companies in Nigeria? Or even West Africa?
Anything?

TayserMahiri to kikuyu, NairobiWalker, mtis, jonraid, Jay254, rvp20182, sHOTdownHawk

Daejoyoung:
Dude stop disgracing Kenya here, these type of businesses are in almost every country. Gosh.

Don't mind the liar. There are countless skin beauty products produced by Nigerians.
I wonder how these guys take pride in such nonsense!

And he is even posting fake products. Palmer's products are American.

rvp20182:
Example 3; HACO Industries ( bought by Tiger Brands of South Africa) - Lead in East & Central Africa in FMCG - owned by Chris Kirubi (one of kenya billionaires)
Some products include
https://www.hacotigerbrands.co.ke/miadi/files/2015/04/product1.png
https://haco.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/palmers-about1.png
https://www.hacotigerbrands.co.ke/wp-content/themes/hacotheme/pics/new/amara.jpg
Owner:
https://softkenya.com/kenya/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Chris-Kirubi-Photo.png

Are you not ashamed of telling lies? What is a picture of Palmer's cocoa butter doing there?

Palmer's is an American company for crying out loud! Since when did it become Kenyan?

mtis:
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has attributed the excessive quest by Nigerian youths to engage in illegal migration to poverty and unemployment.

The Emir made the remark on Thursday in Kano when the President and members of Pan African Institute for Global Affairs and Strategy (PAIGAS) paid him a courtesy visit.

Yet his own Hausa fulani people who are a stone throw away from the desert and are the poorest people in Nigeria still do not make this dangerous journey.

rvp2018:
Sounds complicated.Basically all those regions you describe exist "nowhere" - officially Nigeria is divided into 36 states.. It's more accurate to divide Nigeria first by religion - muslim north & christian south. Then by 3 tribes - Igbo & related (christian - South East -Biafra- Oil), Yoruba & related (mixed -muslims & christian - South West - Lagos), Hausa & related (muslim -north - Abuja-KANO - Boko-haram - fulani cattle herders).

Ok, suit yourself in your delusion. I am telling you about the true divisions in my country and you are telling me nonsense here.
Abuja is not in a muslim dominated area. Most of the indigenous people of Abuja are christians and they are not Hausa people. They even had a fierce clash with Hausas not too long ago.

You cannot divide Nigeria into religions because there are tens of millions of muslims in the south and tens of millions of christians in the north.
Boko haram is a north-eastern problem, they hardly reach Kano (north-west). Boko haram members are not even Hausas by tribe. They are predominantly Kanuri by tribe.
Only like 5% or even less of Boko haram attacks reach Hausa land.

You can see how much you think you know something but you know nothing?

There are about 25 million Southern ethnic minorities who are neither Igbos nor Yorubas and do not want to be associated with either.

Stick to your Kenyan county classifications if you know you are not interested in learning about Nigeria's geography but arguing rubbish.

obaaderemi:
I have been to the core north and I know they can pull themselves out of poverty when they are ready. They've got this massive agricultural potential that if hinged to agro-allied industries can really help them. And like you rightly pointed out they need to do something about the kind of culture which limits them and pulls down the rest of Nigeria statistically. They need to embrace modernity.

Sometimes, you just don't understand these core-northernerns and their ways.
Do you know that some of them you see on the streets looking poor are actually millionaires? I was shocked the day I was at an ATM queue and one of them who looks like a typical Mai ruwa came to check his account balance and it was running in the millions. I thought I was the only one who has experienced this, until I heard many other people saying something similar at different times.

Their problem is just lack of western education and this highly class-based society of theirs. Apart from farming, these people are also very good traders!
Do you know how much they make in sales for foodstuffs they transport down to the south to sell?

We middlebelters tend to be poor in trading skills. These core-northerners come to buy our farm products from the village markets very cheap and transport them elsewhere and make huge profits from the labour of our people.

Here's the reason why they hardly leave poverty. 2 poor rural northern youths, one from the middlebelt and the other from the core-north make it to the city and make their first 200k.
The core-northerner would rather prefer to go and marry a new wife and give birth to more children while the middlebelter who would have obviously finished secondary school before he left for the city would go back to his place to further his education or re-invest that money into something else to make more money. Marriage would definitely come later.

They just have this belief that some people were destined to be rich while others were destined to be poor. And if you were born amongst the latter, don't try to fight your poverty, just continue therein and pass it to the next generation.

Many core-northern leaders are now giving preference to western education, so let's see how it plays out for them.

rvp20182:
Unfortunately for you nobody really bother to dig out where these desperate Nigerians emanate from - north north or south south those Nigeria terms really tickle me every time I hear. Now you're going to tell you're come from middle of middle of middle belt - which also happen to be in middle of northern - which also is Nigeria north?

Nigeria is divided into basically 6 regions by geo-political zones. 3 to the south and 3 to the north.
These dividing lines have a lot of cultural differences and differences in reasoning/outlook to life.

I won't talk about the 3 divisions of the south.

However, for the north, we have the North-west (also known as the core-north and this is dominated by the Hausas and Hausanized fulanis, they are overwhelmingly muslim in population and extremists muslims too) .

The North-central (also known as Middlebelt region) is dominated by minority ethnic groups who are predominantly Christians and liberal predominantly educated muslims. This is the region I am from.

The last region the North-east region is like a hybrid region between the north-west and middlebelt. Divided between Hausa-fulanis, christian and muslim minorities, both extremist and liberal muslims.

Sometimes the north-central (middlebelt) is not regarded as northern Nigeria. It is regarded as central Nigeria, but when we go back to colonial identities of the old northern/southern protectorate divisions, it falls under northern Nigeria.

rvp20182:
That is most whack theory I ever heard. Northern Nigeria are basically mostly illiterate muslim cattle herders - who probably have not yet heard of Europe - perhaps Mecca in Saudi Arabia is where they are emigrating. South Nigerians are emigrating because Nigeria is a shit-hole and they know it. Northern Nigeria after many decade of boko-haram don't know anything except koran and cattle herding.

Can't you see how wrong you are?

The middlebelt part and north-eastern part of northern Nigeria has a huge christian population.

At least 30% of Northern Nigerians are christians. Another 20% of Northern Nigerians are very liberal and educated muslims. That makes about 50% of the population and about 50 million people.
These 50 million predominantly educated northernerns have literacy rates close to that of the south, of which I am one of them, yet we still do not migrate out of Nigeria through the deserts.

The middlebelt part of northern Nigeria with over 30 million people is predominantly literate, yet we still do not migrate out of Nigeria.

There are many cities and infrastructures in northern Nigeria, so your point holds no water but only reeks of stupidity.

obaaderemi:
I have told you before that these Little Indians only see things in black and white. It can never be clear to them that those who migrate do so not because they are dirt poor but because they are mostly malcontents. Take for example, a Nigerian who could raise 500,000 naira to travel to Libya. Meanwhile that amount is over a $1000 and could start a small business in Nigeria. Dirt poor people can't raise that amount.

Thank you.

The problem with many southern Nigerians is greed. Take that 500,000 naira for instance. If that money was in the hands of a typical middlebelter, he would use that money to go into agriculture and with the proceeds, he would be able to afford a decent life considering the cheaper cost of living in the north.

Can't you see how rapidly we middlebelters are coming out of poverty compared to the core-north? Without emigration and other dangerous activities embarked on by southernerns, yet our poverty rates still reduce.

The problem with the core-north is just their culture, otherwise their own poverty rates would also reduce like ours.

obaaderemi:
Holy shit! And these are the kinds of houses most of them live in. I think the segregation in that country is awful.

Exactly.
And I can bet you that these concentration camp houses are the kind of houses the majority of Kenyans on this thread live, from TayserMahiri to kikuyu, NairobiWalker, mtis, jonraid, Jay254, rvp20182, sHOTdownHawk etc.

It's pathetic. This is why Nairobi can never compare Abuja or even Lagos.
Decent housing is a luxury in Kenyan cities available to only the rich and foreigners.
I have clearly proven that over and over again here.

Now imagine if 60% of Nairobians live in slums and another 30% live in concentration camp houses. Only a very small percent of their population have access to decent housing.
This is why I pity anyone who takes these people serious.

Jonraid:
Maybe the poverty levels haven't forced us out yet! Most migrants cry of poverty and lack of opportunities back home.Poverty should be the number one reason!

Now I know that Kenyans do not just understand simple English. So you mean afterall I typed up there, this was still your reply?

Get this into your thick skull pls.

I am from Northern Nigeria!
And my region is far far poorer than the south! Out of the 33% of Nigerians living in extreme poverty, 70% or even more are from Northern Nigeria.

The majority of northern Nigerians are poor while the majority of southern Nigerians are not poor
YET
90% of the people who leave Nigeria are Southern Nigerians. What part of this is difficult for your brain to grasp?
If migration was based on poverty alone, then we northernerns would have been leaving Nigeria far more than the southernerns, yet the reverse is the case here.

If you cannot understand this then please go back to your alma mater and ask for a refund of your school fees.

Jay254:
Why is it that Abuja always looks Empty and boring?


Thou the area is beautiful with good infrastructure.

Abuja was not created to be a congested place. It has a very good plan and structure to combat congestion.

It's Municipality currently has about 2 million people, it's urban area currently has about 4 million people.

Jonraid:
Nigeria's population and GDP is roughly 4 times that of ours.They are nothing special! Their GDP is just upped by the huge population! Almost 100 Million Nigerians are poor and live under the poverty line.Nigerians living in poverty rised to over 61%!

http://www.konbini.com/ng/lifestyle/nigeria-poverty-capital-world-2018/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/67-nigerians-live-poverty-line-presidential-aide/

http://punchng.com/nigerias-unemployment-poverty-rates-increased-in-2017-wbank/

https://qz.com/963465/some-of-the-worlds-biggest-countries-have-managed-to-wrangle-extreme-poverty-except-nigeria/

Nigerians have been literally running away from their country.The Nigerian economy cannot sustain it's people.Nigerians make a significant percentage of African migrants who try to look for greener pastures in Europe!

http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/nigerian-migrants-italy-situation-difficult/

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/nigeria-migrants-escaped-libya-restart-lives-180130063051831.html

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/50-nigerian-migrants-rescued-way-italy/

http://www.dw.com/en/nigerian-returnees-face-poverty-and-destitution-back-home/a-42431011

I never heard of Kenyans on a boat trying to go to Europe? Have you? Nigerians should stay in Nigeria and try to build their country! They think they are better than SA yet they go there in droves.We have a lot of them in Kenya.Some of them are UNIVERSITY Students.Why would a Nigerian study in a trash country like Kenya?

rvp20182:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44441386

The majority of immigrant are from - guess - Eritrea, Ghana, Nigeria and Sudan!

And it's a daily occurrence - they rather die crossing the Mediterranean - than suffer in the giant mess that is Nigeria.

sHOTdownHawk:
There is a ship with bout 600 nigerians stranded in the middle of mediterranean sea. The italians with their nazi-gov have said they dont mind if the die there, so is malta. Hopefully they send food and water. If they let them die, then the new world order begins where africans are trash to let die like bugs.

NIGERIA, GIANT OF AFRICA, SAVE YOUR OWN PEOPLE.

One thing you people do not understand is that migration has a lot to do with the culture of contentment.

Look at the Latin Americans, they have better economic and livelihood standards than most African countries, yet they are still ready to die to cross over to the USA by any means possible.

Migration is not based on poverty alone, if it was, then Northern Nigerians would have been leaving Nigeria more than the Southerners, but as it currently stands, 90% of the people who leave Nigeria through the desert & sea are Southern Nigerians.

This is simply because the northerners tend to have a culture of contentment. While Southern Nigerians have this mentality of get rich or die trying.

So it is not just based on poverty alone.

Kenyans may be damn poor, but if they have a strong culture of contentment, they still wouldn't want to take the risks of illegal migration.

Southern Nigerians have to take 2 days journeys before they get to the extreme north of Nigeria and cross over into Niger republic, while Northern Nigerians who are few hours away from Niger republic still do not cross over to take that risky journey.. What does that tell you guys?

nwoke37:
No mind these Kenyans sha... Abuja is already one of the most beautiful cities in Africa and it's just getting started... Imagine 30 years from now

The problem with Kenyans is that they think that the beauty of a city lies with the number of highrises it has.

How can anyone take a place like Nairobi serious when there are slums and concentration camp houses in every corner of the city?

Most European cities do not have any highrises, yet they are still ranked as the most beautiful in the world.

Thank you for doing justice to Abuja. Abuja is too neat, well planned and structured to compare Nairobi.

Take a look at the kind of low income houses that litter the length and breadth of the Nairobi! Yet they are so expensive.
Mind you, these are not even the slums oh.
Thousands of people living in one building, and they want to compare Nairobi to Abuja?