₦airaland Forum

Ad4:
I thought Ghana said they will be exporting electricity to Nigeria but they don't even have gas to cook. Such a careless talk from the president of Ghana.

How is that a careless talk?

bayulll01:
i dont know why people keep replying u,cos i see nothing good in ur life in this generation and next to come,you full of hatred and bitterness yes Nigeria is having issues when its comes to leadership,same with all other africa,but calling Nigerian a fooll here u better watch it,u are nothing,u be nothing and u wish u are Nigerian,guys dont let this guy feel important,lets ignore him

You are a big fool conceived by useless LovePeddler mum and a dog father. FOOL!!!! Which sane human will ever wish to become a mumugerian? Dogs will even reject free flight to nigeria. Useless country like dat.Am even surprised mumugerians who are as foolish as dogs will be ridiculing other countries which are far far far better than your useless country.FOOLISH I.D.I.O.T...You fools are aways hovering around this useless forum n be talking trash. STINKING FOOLISH BLACK UGLY MUMUGERIAN APES

uplawal:
No one is insulting you,but you chose to insult Nigerians as you like,mind you,we dnt care if any one insult us,it shows how badly you have been raised by your parents.

You don't care then don't quote me ok.And besides have I insulted any body? You are insulting Ghanaians and am replying in kind. What's. your problem.

uplawal:
CALLING NIGERIANS FOOLS,YET NIGERIANS KEEP GETTING BLESSED BY God and going places,even in uk,the govt dnt even know if ghanians are here,lowlife people only to hate eachothers,no surprise hating Nigerians the best people in the wholeworld

Hahahaha Go to UK and ask the number of Ghanaian Mp's at their Parliament Mumu.. Have you seen or heard of any country talking good of nigerians before.Thank Ebola for making your useless country a little popular.

uplawal:
But are you this cursed to be jumping to threads about Nigeria?why dnt you go to your ghana thread thats if you have one,jealousy will kill you,d more you hate us,the more God bless us,think.

Stop ridiculing God.Mumu ..will God bless any country with boko haram and all the negative items in that zoo?

overhypedsteve:
I came, i saw, i conquered. Hi y'all did they say our poor westafrica brothers are begging for our oil? Lets give them now, why do you people like to bully this small underdeveloped countries na.

Why will any country begs for gas when it is buying with money? Mumugerians have gas but they don't know how important it is.Is it becos nigeria is sooo underdeveloped therefore not having the capacity to utilize their own gas or its just because without the oil money they can't survive? This shows clearly that without oil money nigeria will be the most poorest country in the world. nigerians will rather sell their gas n oil for money than to use it themselves. Even with your gas and oil u are still classified as one of the 5 most poor n underdeveloped countries in the world. I wonder what u fools will do wen the oil gets finished.

pat077:
the same Ghana dat want to export electricity to Nigeria.

Your brain will definitely not function well since u are a nigerian. So will the mere fact that u are having gas generates electricity for you? They are demanding more so that they can export some to u useless fools since you people don't have the brains to produce your own power even with the gas.

uplawal:
where are the ghanians that hates Nigerians so much on nairaland?

They are trying to buy n make use of the gas that you fools have been inhaling n making no good use of.

kenex4ever:
y do u always insult people?

because I only reply insults so that's how u gonna see it.

paul288yahoo:
Nigeria ........ been saving west Africa since 1145

And u can't save yourselves?

kenex4ever:
bro, y is it dat it's only on Ghana threads dat u comment?

I don't comment.I respond!

adamskutty:
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Suffering and smiling and pretending and loving it ape

only 33 percent of nigerians are poor... July 2014 by world bank
http://beegeagle./2014/07/24/nigeria-poverty-levels-drop-from-62-2-in-2010-to-33-1-in-2013-world-bank-report/

Ur sh1tty cursed land has 60 percent poor apes [
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPA/0,,contentMDK:20204450~menuPK:435735~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:430367~isCURL:Y,00.html

very confused monkey, 22 million out of 24 million of ur kind don't even have toilets, only poor people lack access to toilets

nigerians are always suffering and smilling people. 70% of nigerians are poor.Even the country is even useless so it ain't surprising.

justitiaomnibus:
Nigeria is all of Africa's big brother.. And that is why our close competitor like South Africa does not want Nigeria to overcome its insurgency... Same way North and south korea envy china and will do anything to bring china down. But we shall overcome... 1Nigeria-1vision.

See this mumu.Your close competitors are Iraq,Somalia, Gaza ,Afghanistan etc.That's where people die like flies everyday.Animals are even useful than nigerians.

DRpiwi:
We no go giv gana.. B4 dem go dey boast of havin d capacity of gv us light.

You fools don't have the brain to utilize that gas therefore Ghanaians will make use of it. They will be exporting electricity to that zoo very soon.Yo call yourselves oil producing country yet u can't generate electricity for yourselves. Such a useless country.

didadavid:
Giant du Afrique

You mean giant in foolishness abi?

Theben:
Let's hope we produce enough to serve the whole of west africa. But isn't it funny that the so called brothers who never spared the chance to ridicule our challenges are the ones seriously depending on us for survival?

Depending in who? Is it a curse for u fools nt to reason properly? They are even helping your useless zoo country by buying the gas u fools have been inhaling since 1711.

jjwaterfalls:
When I read d writeup, I initially thought I was watching NTA news so I didn't finish reading it .
But watever it is those countries shud also bear in mind dat dey shudnt drain us Nigeria nids gas too.

What does mumugeria needs gas for? I heard mumugerians have been inhaling the gas therefore making every nigerian a fool.You fools should even be grateful that other countries are buying it.It will reduce the capacity u people have been inhaling.

Rikidony:
DUDE WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH NIGERIA THAT YOU SCAN THE WEB LOOKING FOR NEGATIVE ISSUE TO POST ABOUT NIGERIA, WE HAVE OUR CHALLENGES WE KNOW SO LEAVE US LETS BATTLE AND GO HELP UR NATION. WTF

Obsessed? Are you normal. ? Isn't here a forum ?

adamskutty:
dummy,but that doesn't change the fact that 10percent of Ghana 24 million people are poor compared to 79 percent of Nigeria 170 million people

FACT.

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mumugeria is the most useless country in AFRICA. They have gas yet they sleep in darkness. Without the oil money they can't survive. No wonder they prefer selling their gas for money other than using it.The oil will finish soon and we will see how useless nigeria will become. Even with the oil nigeria is useless how much more without oil.

Laibel:
Pls Nl which shea butter is good n wont make m darker cos am chocolate.Ghana shea butter vs nigeria shea butter,ao can i prevent d shea butter frm darkening my skin

have u seen any nigerian item better than Ghanas' own before?
Ghana =Quality
nigeria =Quantity.

worry359:
Nigeria amongst the poorest countries.

Goodluck Jonathan listed as one of Africa's 10 richest leaders.

So what part of this are you having trouble understanding?

Is Goodluck Jonathan a country?

Hehehehehe it seems like Nigeria will have to
host the Afcon in order to qualify lol,

World Bank Rates Nigeria Among Extremely Poor Countries
BY CHANNELS TELEVISION, 2014
World-BankThe World Bank Group has rated Nigeria among the world’s extremely poor countries, promising to assist in ending what it called ‘extreme poverty’ in the nations.



Other countries that were also rated as extremely poor are India, China, Bangladesh, DR Congo, Indonesia, Pakistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya.

At the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington on Wednesday, in advance of the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, World Bank President, Dr Jim Yong Kim, stated that the global bank would deal with the extreme poverty in Nigeria and its counterparts in the coming years.

Ending Extreme Poverty By 2030

He said: “The fact is that two-thirds of the world’s extreme poor are concentrated in just five countries: India, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. If you add another five countries, Indonesia, Pakistan, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Kenya, the total grows to 80 per cent of the extreme poor.”

Dr Kim stressed that the World Bank Group would focus on Nigeria and other nine countries, but emphasised that the plan would not make other countries in the world to be ignored.

“We will have a strategy that ensures that no country is left behind, as we move toward the target of ending extreme poverty by 2030,″ he said.

The World Bank President also announced a series of measures aimed at strengthening the World Bank Group to better meet the evolving needs of clients, including a $100 billion increase in the lending capacity of the Bank’s lending arm for middle-income countries over the next decade.

According to Dr. Kim, this new innovations in financial management, and a boost in the institution’s ability to provide private sector support follows the record $52 billion replenishment of IDA, the World Bank’s fund for the poorest, in December 2013.

Kim also outlined how the Bank was positioning itself to better achieve its goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity for the lowest 40 per cent in developing countries.

“We now have the capacity to nearly double our annual lending to middle-income countries from $15 billion to $26 to $28 billion a year. This means that the World Bank’s lending capacity will increase by $100 billion to roughly $300 billion over the next ten years.

“This is in addition to the largest IDA replenishment in history, with $52 billion in grants and concessional loans to support the poorest countries,” he said.

Is Nigeria A Poor Country Of Rich Men Or A Rich Country Of Poor Men?

About six years ago, a senior political staff of the British High Commission in Nigeria shared a joke he had had with some of his colleagues in London with me. He was in the company of his colleagues from other parts of the world in the UK and they were joking among themselves. One of them boasted that he was serving in the largest country on earth; another bragged that he was serving in the largest economy in Europe. My friend then proudly proclaimed to his friends that he was serving in Africa’s biggest economy, meaning Nigeria. When he told me this, I responded straightaway that he was mistaken, as South Africa was officially Africa’s biggest economy by real GDP. But my friend countered me immediately and said that he did not believe the official figures. According to him, the Lagos economy alone was bigger than that of Kenya, East Africa’s biggest economy, and that from what he had seen in Nigeria and South Africa, he did not believe that South Africa’s economy was bigger than Nigeria’s. I kept quiet. Even if he was wrong, I wanted to enjoy my own 15 minutes of fame.

So when news came that Nigeria would be rebasing its GDP in order to upgrade the country’s GDP figures, something it had not done in 24 years, I waited to see the new figures with keen interest. When the figures came out yesterday, putting our GDP at $509.9 billion as against South Africa’s $353 billion, I was not surprised. What only came out is that we had surpassed South Africa a long time ago and we did not even know it. That also shows the level of unseriousness of those who govern the nation. And, if as we now know, Lagos alone contributes a quarter to Nigeria’s GDP. The Lagos economy alone is larger than the economies of Kenya, Libya, and Tunisia.

It’s not difficult to appreciate why this should be so. In the 24 years since the last GDP value was estimated, there has been spectacular growth in a number of sectors including the telecoms sector. Twenty-four years ago, there were only about 300,000 phone lines owned solely by Nitel. Today, there are about 120 million phone lines owned by a slew of operators. The flour milling capacity alone ranks among the largest in the world and all the products are sold and consumed within Nigeria. Twenty-four years ago, there was no Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry considered to be the world’s third largest producer of films in the world after the United States’ Hollywood and India’s Bollywood. If we add the burgeoning Kannywood and others, then, the ratings may actually be different. Twenty-four years ago, Aliko Dangote had not become a sovereign unto himself; today, he is about to displace Lafarge as the biggest cement producer in Africa – a market that currently enjoys a 20 per cent growth rate and will continue to grow at this rate for the next 20 years. And if Aliko Dangote carries out his threat of refining Nigeria’s crude and selling to Nigeria’s 174 million people-strong domestic market, then it will only be a matter of time for him to get to become the richest man in the world, considering our growth rate. Twenty-four years ago, crude oil was selling less than $30 per barrel most of the time; today it sells for over $100 per barrel and it has been so for much of the past 14 years. Twenty-four years ago, we didn’t have the size of the banks we have today and the size of financial services on offer. So a lot has happened and our GDP should have been rebased in 2000 and another rebasing done in 2010 as it is customary to do every 10 years. In fact, many nations do it every three years. It should be made clear that this geometric growth happened long before Jonathan came to power.

With this rebasing, every other figure will also change, and that should not be good news for Jonathan. Our economic growth rate under Jonathan, which we were told was at about 7 per cent, will now be revised down and would probably be in the region of 3.5 per cent or less, and this will make more sense. And the nation’s gini coefficient which is a measure of income distribution within a country will also deteriorate; this should scientifically explain the World Bank’s report on the extensive poverty rate in Nigeria.

But all this does nothing to the 70 per cent of Nigerians who are desperately poor. Nigeria remains a country of paradoxes. It’s not just Africa’s largest oil producer which also imports refined oil products, it is also Africa’s largest economy with the highest incidence of poverty. Just as the country was busy trying to rebase its GDP, news came from the World Bank that Nigeria is one of the countries with the highest number of desperately poor people in the world. While Nigeria has the highest number of private jet owners on the African continent – at the last count they were more than 200 – the same Nigeria has the largest number of desperately poor people in Africa and one of the largest in the world. Of the 174 million people in Nigeria, 122 million people live in desperate poverty, using the acceptable extreme poverty line of $1.25 a day.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s finance minister, quickly responded to the World Bank’s report by saying that it was a matter of Nigeria’s population especially as China and India, the world’s most populated countries, were also on the World Bank’s list. Okonjo-Iweala obviously found sop in the fact that China and India were on the list. She was extremely happy about that. But, like almost everything about the Jonathan government, she was telling only half the truth.

Yes, large population must have contributed to Nigeria being included by the World Bank on that infamous list; what Okonjo-Iweala did not say is that while China has steadily lifted nearly 700 million people out of poverty in the last 20 years, Nigeria has added 105 million new desperately poor people during the corresponding period. And while India has lifted 138 million people out of poverty in the last seven years alone, Nigeria has added nearly 50 million people to the list of extremely poor people during the corresponding period, most of them coming with the Jonathan presidency.

And this should surprise no one: Poverty in a nation has a linear relationship with the rate of looting that leaders afflict on their countries. According to the official figures, there are more than 122 million desperately poor people in Nigeria at the moment. In 1981, the figure was 17.1 million poor people and, in 2004, it was 68.7 million. So is Nigeria a rich country of poor men or a poor country of rich men? We can argue this forever. But Nigeria will continue to defy logic until the right people take over the helm. And one thing is sure: if with all the looting we currently see, where $20 billion can just get missing without a trace, Nigeria is still standing and growing, then, with proper people in charge, Nigeria will start competing with the biggest and the best in the world.

And if Jonathan’s handlers intend to portray the new GDP figures as an achievement for their principal, they must be more illiterate than many of us had thought!



EARSHOT
Why I Am Doing This…

Last week, I stepped down (some people say I am “stepping aside”) as the chairman of LEADERSHIP Group. I did so because I had declared my intention to contest for the presidency of the country on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). I did not need to resign and certainly no law required me to do so, as LEADERSHIP is a privately-owned company. But I decided to do so of my own volition because I thought that would be the proper thing to do.

I can also confidently step aside because I know there are competent hands to watch over the newspaper group and the business. I have no doubt that the company will continue to grow without me. I have nurtured it to that level.

While it is not yet time for campaign, and I am certainly not doing that at the moment, it will suffice to say that I am entering the race for the presidency because I believe that Nigeria needs a new direction. I completely believe that Nigeria cannot survive another term of Jonathan and all men of goodwill must join the fray one way or the other for the rescue mission that our nation direly needs. Nigeria currently needs a knowledge-based, brand new leadership that will not only pull the country back from the precipice but also unite the nation’s diverse and disparate groupings and interests. Our size, disparity and diversity should be a huge advantage and not a weakness or even a threat as the current leaders are trying to make it. Nigeria needs a leadership that knows that the first responsibility of the president is the security of the people and the first priority of a nation should be the education of its youths. Nigeria urgently needs a leader that will quickly engage the nearly 50 million unemployed people and tackle the current 80 per cent graduate unemployment by modifying our education system into one that produces graduates who would be employers of labour instead of seekers of good jobs. Most importantly, I am joining the race for the presidency because I believe, and I know, that only big ideas and big dreams change a nation. And here, I am talking of the kind of big ideas that have changed the course of history of some of the greatest nations of the world – whether it is Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana land purchase, which accounts for as many as 15 states in today’s United States; J.F. Kennedy’s moon-landing programme; Deng Xiaoping’s China’s economic transformation programme; Lee Kuan Yew’s leap-frogging of Singapore from Third to First World; or Mandela’s lessons in tolerance and forgiveness. By the time we complete our tenure, Nigeria would not be the same again.

If I did not think this is possible, I would not be wasting my time, and leaving a job which I was enjoying thoroughly.