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So what made the corruption-infested country the giant of Africa?

Tourism na sa, Egypt Morocco
Power sa, Egypt Algeria Morocco
Local football league sa, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco
Industries sa, Egypt, Morocco
Environment sa, Egypt, Morocco
Military Egypt, Algeria sa, angola

So what exactly makes Nigeria giant of Africa. The 13th poorest nation in the world can't be a giant. Definitely not in Africa

🤣🤣🤣🤣 It is very easy to accept this your analysis sha..

rickpat:
Egypt is the true giant of africa..

Nigeria with 159,if you check well 100 dey airforce museum...50 dey fly with half engine...7 get fuel leakage..only two dey work well...one for jagaban emergency incase he fall...the other one to go checkmate coup attempt for Benin Republic....


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Kemetian:
FORUM OF DUNDEE UNITEDS

SHALLOW KIDS WITH NOTHING UPSTAIRS.

Everything is about D""ck measurement in your heads.

Why should Nigeria have 1000s of fighter jets like Egypt?

Do you even KNOW why Egypt has such a large fleet?

An arms race in which every Arab country wants to deter Israeli aggression.

What is the threat to Nigeria in West Africa that should warrant us spending billions of dollars on buying and maintaining 1000s of fighter jets in a region where our neighbours pose zero military threat?

Thank goodness none of you dunderheads is in power.

Have you finished smart pant. Oya explain to us why Egypt and sa generate more power than Nigeria. Explain why their football league is better, attract more tourist etc

Na which place dem dey park the 159 planes?
We supposed to dey always see them in the sky against bandits and terrorists.

Numbers no be everything

If not for human greed, wickedness and selfishness the world will be at peace and all this resources will be used to better the human life and make the world a better place

nedu666:
Have you finished smart pant. Oya explain to us why Egypt and sa generate more power than Nigeria. Explain why their football league is better, attract more tourist etc

SOUTH AFRICA AND EGYPT WERE ALREADY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN 1960 WHEN NIGERIA WAS STILL A BUSH.

OKAY??

GO AND READ HISTORY. YOU WENT TO SCHOOL, DIDN'T YOU?

Nigeria's first modern infrastructure - power plants, universities, factories etc, began being built in the 1960s after Independence, because the BRITISH YOU WORSHIP DID NOTHING BUT LOOT OUR RESOURCES AND BUILD ZERO in a CENTURY OF LOOTING.

SOUTH AFRICA AND EGYPT ARE NOT YOUR MATES IN MODERN DEVELOPMENT.

They have a 100 YEAR HEAD START ON BLACK AFRICA.

Their first power plants, factories, engineering institutes, and universities were built in the 1880s!

YOURS? 1960s!!

THAT'S why they are ahead today. The colonialists did not rape their lands like they did black Africa. They reinvested export proceeds into building those countries, in SA solely because they had millions of white settlers to cater for.

BY 1960 South Africa was a developed country. Johannesburg looked like New York City,

NIGERIA? PURE BUSH.

Same white rule, different agenda.

EGYPT that you say you should be like, do you know Egypt went to the World Cup in 1934?

KAI....these kids.....🤣

Oga, FOOTPATHS led to your village in 1960, not roads.

Not even 'bad roads'.

FOOTPATHS. To visit your village by car meant parking at the nearest road to your village, which could be 10 miles away, and walking it! No Okada.

You people don't know where you're coming from.

The best thing that happened to any of you is INDEPENDENCE in 1960.

Without that, you wouldn't even know where South Africa and Egypt are, because you'd be illiterate village farmers like your forbears.

Do you think the colonialists built public schools?

SO GO AND STUDY HISTORY INSTEAD OF WALKING AROUND WITH INFERIORITY COMPLEX.

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rickpat:
Egypt is the true giant of africa..

Nigeria with 159,if you check well 100 dey airforce museum...50 dey fly with half engine...7 get fuel leakage..only two dey work well...one for jagaban emergency incase he fall...the other one to go checkmate coup attempt for Benin Republic....


Nigeria THE COMEDY REPUBLIC

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF COMEDY

Islie:
https://thenationonlineng.net/full-list-top-10-african-countries-with-largest-military-aircraft-fleet-as-of-january-2026/

Am not surprised that Egypt has large aircraft fleets, you can't stay close to ISRAEL, IRAN, SAUDI, HOUTTI etc and don't have better air force, you will be wiped out in few days

Antoeni:
With The Hight Level of Corruption in Nigerian Military , Nigeria is Lucky Not to Be Surrounded By Great Powers Countries, Otherwise Nigeria Would Have Been Toast .

The paradox is that regardless of the corruption in Nigeria, had it been that we were surrounded by hostile neighbors, we would have significantly upgraded our military and would be able to match the firepower (aerial, land and naval) of the hostiles.

We have no external surrounding enemies, only internal ones and that's why we are this lax.

Tailorcaesar:
Am not surprised that Egypt has large aircraft fleets, you can't stay close to ISRAEL, IRAN, SAUDI, HOUTTI etc and don't have better air force, you will be wiped out in few days

EXACTLY.

You spend big as a military, based on perceived immediate threats, not for prestige reasons, which is what Nairaland kids are all about.

I don't believe this. U mean with all dis military aircraft way we dey buy buy all dis time na 159 we dey? Abeg oo, how many we get b4 all dis buying take start? We too dey make noise for dis country sha.

Our population oo

anonimi:
If we are 7th on this list and 4th in economy size, then on what basis are we the giant of Africa

No be by to gather old WW2 air-fleets. Dem dey function? Or they morden ?

Nija is the 3rd in Africa when it comes to overall air power capability

Kingsasian:
Our population oo

Are we effectively doing born troway, since our population is keen to japa for improving other countries and increasing the development gap between races instead of working to develop Nigeria

TheBedWench:
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This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of  hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]

The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.

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anonimi:
The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience

JUNE 24, 2019

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Most of the victims of this trade are from West Africa. Many of them leave home with expectations of getting to Europe and other destinations perceived to have better economic prospects for them, but they end up in the slave merchant nets in North Africa. The victims are put in camps and sold in open markets in Libya, while the international community watches in silence. The geographical location of Libya renders it a transit route for migrants journeying to Italy and many other parts of Europe.

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South africa has not been tested in battle. why keep including this people that disgraced themselves fighting m23? A military that I'm sure can't withstand Nigerian civil defense

wallrichy:
Be proud small of your country.....it's ain't easy keeping fleets of war aircrafts .....Kedu!

Egypt that you see is an ancient civilization with many years of war. Egypt has been going to war for ages, infact thousands of wars within the region has made Egypt to be a very powerful country and also high stockpile of weapons and war equipment.

War prospects always determined the stockpile of ammunitions and war equipment that you have in your inventory.

There are some war equipment that you don't need when you are in absolute peace. It's more like wasting scarce resources. In time of peace, you rechannel your security enhancement to the police and other civil security outfits while the Army take just little upgrading. However, when there's intent of war, you rechannel your resources towards the army. Remember, war doesn't start suddenly......

You just said my mind. Egypt had to equip its military due to the several wars it fought with Israel ..If the NAF were to be faced with constant direct war threats, the FG would definitely invest more in military arsenal, for now, what we're facing is internal wars

Kushites:
SOUTH AFRICA AND EGYPT WERE ALREADY DEVELOPED COUNTRIES IN 1960 WHEN NIGERIA WAS STILL A BUSH.

OKAY??

GO AND READ HISTORY. YOU WENT TO SCHOOL, DIDN'T YOU?

Nigeria's first modern infrastructure - power plants, universities, factories etc, began being built in the 1960s after Independence, because the BRITISH YOU WORSHIP DID NOTHING BUT LOOT OUR RESOURCES AND BUILD ZERO in a CENTURY OF LOOTING.

SOUTH AFRICA AND EGYPT ARE NOT YOUR MATES IN MODERN DEVELOPMENT.

They have a 100 YEAR HEAD START ON BLACK AFRICA.

Their first power plants, factories, engineering institutes, and universities were built in the 1880s!

YOURS? 1960s!!

THAT'S why they are ahead today. The colonialists did not rape their lands like they did black Africa. They reinvested export proceeds into building those countries, in SA solely because they had millions of white settlers to cater for.

BY 1960 South Africa was a developed country. Johannesburg looked like New York City,

NIGERIA? PURE BUSH.

Same white rule, different agenda.

FOOTPATHS led to your village in 1960, not roads.

Not even 'bad roads'.

FOOTPATHS.

You people don't know where you're coming from.

The best thing that happened to any of you is INDEPENDENCE in 1960.

Without that, you wouldn't even know where South Africa and Egypt are, because you'd be illiterate village farmers like your forbears.

Do you think the colonialists built public schools?

SO GO AND STUDY HISTORY INSTEAD OF WALKING AROUND WITH INFERIORITY COMPLEX.

Flimsy excuse. Nigeria has been exporting crude since 1960 yet can only generate 5gw. Has no functional steel mill or refinery but its leaders have Bank accounts in Jersey, Monaco, Swiss etc. Own million dollar mansion abroad and luxury cars. One of your gov son lives in a 22 million dollars penthouse on billionaire Row Newyork. All you do is blame white man for Nigeria backwardness

ZUBY77:
Watch how the APC people will start looking for Ghana and Togo to compare them with Nigeria.
They won't see Egypt and Algeria on the list.
This is what we have become.
What is the need of two Dwarfs arguing about who is taller.

What has APC got to do with this?
Most of these aircrafts we currently have in the airforce were purchased by the APC government.

If the PDP government didn't share the $2billion allocated for arms purchase our military would be more advanced.....

Una go just open mouth waaaaah.
Go and check the Naval ships and gun boats, they were bought by the APC government.

If other governments have spent money on military equipments like APC instead of sharing the money like Goodluck and his PDP goons........

E be like say brain dey pain you

We have 159 jets and terrorists are moving in large convoys in our territory... sometimes I wonder what the Airforce is doing, no real time surveillance, or no good coordination between Airforce, police, army, otherwise I don't know how terrorists will be moving in large convoys without being spotted and bombed to smithereens...

Exousiang01:
What has APC got to do with this?
Most of these aircrafts we currently have in the airforce were purchased by the APC government.

If the PDP government didn't share the $2billion allocated for arms purchase our military would be more advanced.....

Una go just open mouth waaaaah.
Go and check the Naval ships and gun boats, they were bought by the APC government.

If other governments have spent money on military equipments like APC instead of sharing the money like Goodluck and his PDP goons........

E be like say brain dey pain you

Propaganda, that's what Bayo and the rest of the devilish APC have to do with it.
Are you new to the political system in your country?

nedu666:
Flimsy excuse. Nigeria has been exporting crude since 1960 yet can only generate 5gw.

Has no functional steel mill or refinery

NIGERIA HAS SEVERAL FUNCTIONAL STEEL MILLS AND REFINERIES.

A very quick Google search will reveal them to you.

YOUR PROBLEM IS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW THE COUNTRY YOU HATE.

but its leaders have Bank accounts in Jersey, Monaco, Swiss etc. Own million dollar mansion abroad and luxury cars. One of your gov son lives in a 22 million dollars penthouse on billionaire Row Newyork. All you do is blame white man for Nigeria backwardness

ACCORDING TO AI CHATGPT, BRITAIN OWES NIGERIA $50 TRILLION FOR ITS PLUNDER.

NIGERIAN POLITICIANS HAVE NOT STOLEN EVEN $1 TRILLION FROM 1960 TILL DATE.

GO AND TELL YOUR WHITE MASTERS TO WIRE THAT MONEY BACK INTO EVERY NIGERIAN'S ACCOUNT.

We have been reduced to the giant of Africa only on paper.

How we take become the giant of Africa is till a mystery.

rickpat:
Egypt is the true giant of africa..

Nigeria with 159,if you check well 100 dey airforce museum...50 dey fly with half engine...7 get fuel leakage..only two dey work well...one for jagaban emergency incase he fall...the other one to go checkmate coup attempt for Benin Republic....


Nigeria THE COMEDY REPUBLIC

Bimpe29:
We have been reduced to the giant of Africa only on paper.

USE YOUR BRAIN.

You buy and maintain military aircraft based on MILITARY REQUIREMENTS, NOT PRESTIGE.

Na our population dey deceive us

jattopeter:
How we take become the giant of Africa is till a mystery.

Islie:
https://thenationonlineng.net/full-list-top-10-african-countries-with-largest-military-aircraft-fleet-as-of-january-2026/

Giant of CORRUPTION couldn't event boast of 200 military aircrafts

If una nor cry , how the story go take sweet...................see tears dey sweet like honey

Sonnobax15:

Nigerian military aircraft wey dey only dey flex their muscles to stop coup for outside Nigeria,but once e come to facing and fighting bandits and boko Haram for inside Nigeria,na once Dem go develop erectile dysfunction

Angola get pass us?
Oh wow

zinaunreal:
South africa has not been tested in battle. why keep including this people that disgraced themselves fighting m23? A military that I'm sure can't withstand Nigerian civil defense

We all knew you'll only see South Africa on this list such is your obsession. Predictable