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Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by igatit: 4:18pm On Feb 14
Even if the present 2k most powerful countries in the world. Naija no go dey.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by zinaunreal(m): 4:19pm On Feb 14
IronGalaxy:
They are still flocking. Legal and illegal ones.. you are essentially crowding us
Nigerians dont flock into countries in Africa illegally. We arent that broke like you guys . โœˆ๏ธโœˆ๏ธโœˆ๏ธโœˆ๏ธ ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†

Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by seppuku: 4:19pm On Feb 14
ogaemma:
I have been looking for the person who called Nigeria the giant of Africa to ask him which weed he took that day, was it Ondo Weed or Kwale weed?
Nigeria is the giant of "Black Africa". South Africa is not an African country but a European satellite state.

Ask the South Africans themselves. A majority of them do not recognize that their country is within the continent except the EFF.

Like the Americans say "Skin folk ain't necessarily Kin folk"
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by IronGalaxy: 4:19pm On Feb 14
zinaunreal:
Nigerians dont flock into countries in Africa illegally. We arent that broke like you guys . โœˆ๏ธโœˆ๏ธโœˆ๏ธโœˆ๏ธ ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜†
Yet you guys beg for sport.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by AmishaCandra: 4:20pm On Feb 14
Lol... Anada unhelpful news.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by zinaunreal(m): 4:21pm On Feb 14
IronGalaxy:
Yet you guys beg for sport.
How much do you have in your account right now? Screenshot it let's see ๐Ÿ˜† mr 350
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by seppuku: 4:22pm On Feb 14
IronGalaxy:
Yet you guys beg for sport.
A closed mouth never gets fed.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by seppuku: 4:22pm On Feb 14
zinaunreal:
How much do you have in your account right now? Screenshot it let's see ๐Ÿ˜† mr 350
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by zinaunreal(m): 4:27pm On Feb 14
IronGalaxy:
Yet you guys beg for sport.
I challenge you as a random Nigerian. I have over $5k sitting in one account. I'm ready to show you. Show yours. I'm sure it's less than 350 rand. Infact I will show you my least of 800$ make you body first melt before you make noise
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by Eriokanmi: 4:30pm On Feb 14
Nigeria has become a shadow of herself, na wah oo. See UAE, a desert at the time Nigeria was being celebrated worldwide as the african giants. Today, desert don become a nation to be reckoned with....the reason is simply leadership. Our leaders gained independence out of greed. The post independence power tussle was enough proof. British should have remained here for 2 decades more. They'd have eaten oo, but reasonably. There was free education under them, the roads were good nationwide, there was security, discipline was there with an insignificant level of corruption.

They'd not have been so greedy that theyd be having 3 private jets like our uncle in lagos, buried dollars underground, bought a bra for 1m usd like diezani, created a terrorist organisation like our vp...it's in the news, mods, take note before applying ban on me. The British would have developed our nation with our oil. Old generation of South Africans may have suffered apartheid but the current generation are enjoying the development it left behind. Anyone who goes to south africa would know it's not worth leaving, for other nations, for whatever reason cos they have it all.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by IronGalaxy: 4:31pm On Feb 14
zinaunreal:
I challenge you as a random Nigerian. I have over $5k sitting in one account. I'm ready to show you. Show yours. I'm sure it's less than 350 rand. Infact I will show you my least of 800$ make you body first melt before you make noise
How old are we here? 12?
You have one of the lowest GDP per capitas in Africa, that says it all
R350 = 29,600 Naira
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by amaridigital(m): 4:33pm On Feb 14
BlackViper:
Top 40 Most Powerful Countries in the World


Source: U.S. News & World Report.


Source
Egypt is on the list. Why did you say only South Africa is on the list? Egypt is a founding member of the African Union. Egypt plays in the African Cup of Nations. Egypt is not in Oceania.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by nurudeen181(m): 4:34pm On Feb 14
You see where North Korea dey, Mexico, Philippines, hhhhhhh. Rubbish list
Kemetian:
THERE IS PAPER POWER AND THERE IS REAL POWER


Here is the full Global Firepower Index 2026 ranking of all 145 militaries worldwide (from strongest to weakest based on conventional military power according to the latest GlobalFirepower data (145 countries evaluated)

1. United States
2. Russia
3. China
4. India
5. South Korea
6. France
7. Japan
8. United Kingdom
9. Turkiye
10. Italy
11. Brazil
12. Germany
13. Indonesia
14. Pakistan
15. Israel
16. Iran
17. Australia
18. Spain
19. Egypt
20. Ukraine
21. Poland
22. Taiwan
23. Vietnam
24. Thailand
25. Saudi Arabia
26. Sweden
27. Algeria
28. Canada
29. Singapore
30. Greece
31. North Korea
32. Argentina
33. NIGERIA
34. Netherlands
35. Myanmar
36. Mexico
37. Bangladesh
38. Portugal
39. Norway
40. SOUTH AFRICA
41. Philippines
42. Malaysia
43. Colombia
44. Iraq
45. Denmark
46. Switzerland
47. Ethiopia
48. Finland
49. Chile
50. Peru
51. Venezuela
52. Romania
53. Uzbekistan
54. United Arab Emirates
55. Czechia
56. Morocco
57. Hungary
58. Kazakhstan
59. Angola
60. Azerbaijan
61. Belgium
62. Bulgaria
63. Serbia
64. Democratic Republic of the Congo
65. Cuba
66. Sudan
67. Austria
68. Sri Lanka
69. Slovakia
70. Belarus
71. Qatar
72. Ecuador
73. Croatia
74. Jordan
75. Bahrain
76. Kuwait
77. Albania
78. Turkmenistan
79. Tunisia
80. Libya
81. Paraguay
82. Bolivia
83. Cambodia
84. Kenya
85. Chad
86. Oman
87. Syria
88. Lithuania
89. Tanzania
90. New Zealand
91. Slovenia
92. Mozambique
93. Mongolia
94. Ireland
95. Georgia
96. Guatemala
97. Uruguay
98. Yemen
99. Cameroon
100. Tajikistan
101. Armenia
102. Latvia
103. Honduras
104. Mali
105. Zimbabwe
106. Estonia
107. Uganda
108. Ivory Coast
109. Kyrgyzstan
110. Luxembourg
111. Zambia
112. Ghana
113. South Sudan
114. North Macedonia
115. Dominican Republic
116. Nicaragua
117. Republic of the Congo
118. Lebanon
119. Eritrea
120. Niger
121. Afghanistan
122. Namibia
123. Mauritania
124. Nepal
125. Laos
126. Senegal
127. Burkina Faso
128. Montenegro
129. El Salvador
130. Botswana
131. Madagascar
132. Gabon
133. Bosnia and Herzegovina
134. Iceland
135. Panama
136. Moldova
137. Somalia
138. Benin
139. Kosovo
140. Sierra Leone
141. Liberia
142. Suriname
143. Central African Republic
144. Belize
145. Bhutan ([Global Firepower][1]


https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by ekimogun777: 4:35pm On Feb 14
BlackViper:
Top 40 Most Powerful Countries in the World


Source: U.S. News & World Report.


Source
Number32 nko?
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by Magabush1(m): 4:36pm On Feb 14
What of Egypt. Is Egypt in middle east. There are 2 African countries sir



BlackViper:
Top 40 Most Powerful Countries in the World


Source: U.S. News & World Report.


Source
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by Humblesam(m): 4:37pm On Feb 14
IkeOnyia:
Remove the whites from South Africa and they will be in the same category as Congo.
Congo ke!!!!
Congo get sense na....
Sad Africa would go back and join Swaziland.

The posted I believe is a Sad African.
Because they are always excited to find anything that will make them masturbate on Nigeria, anything to make them to brag about and start dragging who the Giant should be .
Because of this excitement, he forgot the Egypt is also an African country but the mumu is now telling us that it's only south Africa in the whole Africa that is there, so we can bow down and worship them.
Nonsense and ingredients ๐Ÿ˜”
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by RandDigital: 4:39pm On Feb 14
IronGalaxy:
How old are we here? 12?
You have one of the lowest GDP per capitas in Africa, that says it all
R350 = 29,600 Naira
Ouch! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

That time he said every Nigerian has N5000 in their account. Which is N24000 less than our R350. He just talks anyhow๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ’ฉ

Nice one!๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ†
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by Kemetian: 4:40pm On Feb 14
MrSly:
I also have a website. I can update my own index. APshit propaganda. Nigeria is no where near military power currently. Which money do want to use for it? Is it the one you used for lobbying or the one you siphoned in the name of building coastal high way or the one you gave out to seeing to procure 100 2026 Toyota hiase for election or the one spent on buying over governors or the one used to buy off the Senate and judiciary. Forget your propaganda.

According to the above agbado, nigeria is more powerful than Mexico they replaced at no 33
ARE YOU A DROPOUT?

THE GLOBAL FIREPOWER INDEX SITE IS THE PRIMARY RESPECTED SOURCE FOR MILITARY RANKINGS.

YOU CANNOT GO TO CHATGPT AND CREATE YOUR OWN PARAMETERS TO PUT SOUTH AFRICA ON TOP.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by TobiAbuja: 4:40pm On Feb 14
Russia the paper tiger - these are fake stats. The fact that little Ukraine can palm them off proves that.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by BetterScottish: 4:42pm On Feb 14
Kemetian:
THERE IS PAPER POWER AND THERE IS REAL POWER


Here is the full Global Firepower Index 2026 ranking of all 145 militaries worldwide (from strongest to weakest based on conventional military power according to the latest GlobalFirepower data (145 countries evaluated)

1. United States
2. Russia
3. China
4. India
5. South Korea
6. France
7. Japan
8. United Kingdom
9. Turkiye
10. Italy
11. Brazil
12. Germany
13. Indonesia
14. Pakistan
15. Israel
16. Iran
17. Australia
18. Spain
19. Egypt
20. Ukraine
21. Poland
22. Taiwan
23. Vietnam
24. Thailand
25. Saudi Arabia
26. Sweden
27. Algeria
28. Canada
29. Singapore
30. Greece
31. North Korea
32. Argentina
33. NIGERIA
34. Netherlands
35. Myanmar
36. Mexico
37. Bangladesh
38. Portugal
39. Norway
40. SOUTH AFRICA
41. Philippines
42. Malaysia
43. Colombia
44. Iraq
45. Denmark
46. Switzerland
47. Ethiopia
48. Finland
49. Chile
50. Peru
51. Venezuela
52. Romania
53. Uzbekistan
54. United Arab Emirates
55. Czechia
56. Morocco
57. Hungary
58. Kazakhstan
59. Angola
60. Azerbaijan
61. Belgium
62. Bulgaria
63. Serbia
64. Democratic Republic of the Congo
65. Cuba
66. Sudan
67. Austria
68. Sri Lanka
69. Slovakia
70. Belarus
71. Qatar
72. Ecuador
73. Croatia
74. Jordan
75. Bahrain
76. Kuwait
77. Albania
78. Turkmenistan
79. Tunisia
80. Libya
81. Paraguay
82. Bolivia
83. Cambodia
84. Kenya
85. Chad
86. Oman
87. Syria
88. Lithuania
89. Tanzania
90. New Zealand
91. Slovenia
92. Mozambique
93. Mongolia
94. Ireland
95. Georgia
96. Guatemala
97. Uruguay
98. Yemen
99. Cameroon
100. Tajikistan
101. Armenia
102. Latvia
103. Honduras
104. Mali
105. Zimbabwe
106. Estonia
107. Uganda
108. Ivory Coast
109. Kyrgyzstan
110. Luxembourg
111. Zambia
112. Ghana
113. South Sudan
114. North Macedonia
115. Dominican Republic
116. Nicaragua
117. Republic of the Congo
118. Lebanon
119. Eritrea
120. Niger
121. Afghanistan
122. Namibia
123. Mauritania
124. Nepal
125. Laos
126. Senegal
127. Burkina Faso
128. Montenegro
129. El Salvador
130. Botswana
131. Madagascar
132. Gabon
133. Bosnia and Herzegovina
134. Iceland
135. Panama
136. Moldova
137. Somalia
138. Benin
139. Kosovo
140. Sierra Leone
141. Liberia
142. Suriname
143. Central African Republic
144. Belize
145. Bhutan ([Global Firepower][1]


https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php
Omo Databoy no gree oh, hin run go create him own list.. Aura for Aura, List for list, ๐Ÿ˜‚ una funny for dis Forum aje
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by IronGalaxy: 4:42pm On Feb 14
RandDigital:
Ouch! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

That time he said every Nigerian has N5000 in their account. Which is N24000 less than our R350. He just talks anyhow๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ’ฉ

Nice one!๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ†
lol. These ones always talk big puffing empty chests.. they live in perpetual delusion.. you'll hear them saying things like "ordinary Namibia" , when their own country looks like a slum next to Namibia.. I think its some coping mechanism.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by obaidan: 4:43pm On Feb 14
Uk at 4th position is a big joke
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by Eriokanmi: 4:46pm On Feb 14
VawulentMan:
Them shortlist am to 40, The list no reach 41 nah why.
On a more serious note, Nigeria is dominating the list of the top 10 contributors to global GDP
IMF is our worst enemy. The earlier you know this, the better. They'd be the one to dictate policies to us and make our leaders look as if they hate us, they'd still be the same to alert the same mumu leaders that the economic policy is harsh on people and inflation needs to be addressed. Stop believing them. They don't mean well with us. Whenever our economy is dwindling, they'd say we're good, despite the obvious.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by IronGalaxy: 4:46pm On Feb 14
Humblesam:
Congo ke!!!!
Congo get sense na....
Sad Africa would go back and join Swaziland.

The posted I believe is a Sad African.
Because they are always excited to find anything that will make them masturbate on Nigeria, anything to make them to brag about and start dragging who the Giant should be .
Because of this excitement, he forgot the Egypt is also an African country but the mumu is now telling us that it's only south Africa in the whole Africa that is there, so we can bow down and worship them.
Nonsense and ingredients ๐Ÿ˜”
You feel8ng inadequate has nothing to do with us, the OP is not even South African. We generally don't care about that useless "giant" title.. it doesnt change the price of bread. We are not interested in competing with you because we dont really see you as competition and we are more invested in seeing our country prosper
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by Humblesam(m): 4:51pm On Feb 14
IronGalaxy:
You feel8ng inadequate has nothing to do with us, the OP is not even South African. We generally don't care about that useless "giant" title.. it doesnt change the price of bread. We are not interested in competing with you because we dont really see you as competition and we are more invested in seeing our country prosper
Story! Story!! Story!!!
Try harder.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by uncleinans(m): 4:54pm On Feb 14
People will just be writing rubbish list here and there. South Korea that is afraid of North Korea is on the top there doing what as most powerful country above Israel?

See China way Taiwan no dey fear too they top 3.

Oluwole list
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by IronGalaxy: 4:54pm On Feb 14
Humblesam:
Story! Story!! Story!!!
Try harder.
The OP is not South African. How is this a story? Your country rarely makes a list for good things.. dont make this our problem
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by callthefred: 4:55pm On Feb 14
Kemetian:
That's a very IGNORANT way of looking at history and Africa.

Congo is underdeveloped because it was INVADED BY THIEVING COLONISERS who used FIREARMS to destroy what was a GLORIOUS precolonial African civilisation.

Do you know that MATHEMATICS was invented in Congo?

Look up the Lebombo Bone and Ishango Bone. World's oldest mathematical objects dated over 25,000 years, and showing evidence of the knowledge of Prime Numbers.

Mbanza Kongo was the precolonial capital. According to a report

''Founded before the arrival of Europeans, Mbanza Kongo became the royal seat of the Kingdom of Kongo in the 14th century. By the time the Portuguese arrived in 1483, it was already a large, organized urban center โ€” with structured neighborhoods, noble compounds, and a royal court system.

The king, known as the Manikongo, ruled from here over a vast territory that included parts of present-day Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Gabon.

Early Portuguese accounts describe it as:

A planned city with wide streets

A central royal compound

Thousands of inhabitants

A structured aristocracy and administrative system


This challenges the outdated myth that Africa lacked organized urban civilization before European contact.''

....So this nonsense of saying ''Oh because it's whites there'' is absolute RUBBISH.

Africa INVENTED the very concept of cities. INVENTED ARCHITECTURE.

Your next day neighbour minus Chad, Sudan, has over 250 PYRAMIDS, more than Kemet (or 'Egypt'), and older than any structures in Europe and America.

IF WHITES HAD SAT IN THEIR OWN DAMN COUNTRY, AFRICA WOULD BE THE MOST DEVELOPED PLACE ON EARTH TODAY.
The mistake Africans of the past made was their lack of exploration. They just sat down in one place and possibly never thought there's land beyond their vast oceans. Na explorers mess everything up looking for wetin no loss
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by Eriokanmi: 4:57pm On Feb 14
IkeOnyia:
Remove the whites from South Africa and they will be in the same category as Congo.
Lies. The latest CCIE holder is a south african. Western influence helped them, agreed. But when dem born you, you reborn yourself. That's what south africa and China did. When America moved their intellectual property to China to achieve cheap labour, decongest and reduce pollution in America, China took advantage. Trump may be fighting them but it's too late to cry.

After the British had left us, what have we achieved so far wey pas corruption, nepotism and insecurity? ,Try and step out of Nigeria and you'd feel like stoning our leaders when you come back. Check those countries listed...they all have their national carriers. Where's Nigeria airways today? What of the one hadi sirika smuggled in, to deceive the gullible minds? Nigeria has a lot of self-inflicted problems. We're not ready for any solution yet as we're still blinded by sentiments. The masses wey no wise dey always suffer am pas. They are coming to you again next year to tell you the usual cock and bull story about a candidate you shouldn't vote for.
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by DeltaBachelor(m): 4:59pm On Feb 14
Wow. North Korea isnโ€™t among. Okay o
Re: 40 Most Powerful Nations In The World by Eriokanmi: 5:00pm On Feb 14
franchasofficia:
abi Somali cheesy
How many whites are in a war-torn rwanda? That's another country to look out for. Without our population, Nigeria is nothing. Unfortunately, we're not utilising this great opportunity as over 70% of the population are unemployed
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