denisfidha:
Nigeria has a GDP about 9 times that of Kenya but last year Kenya had a national budget that was bigger than that of Nigeria . I was really surprised to discover that .

Rossikk:


Britain ruled Nigeria from 1897 to 1960 and in that period (63 years) buiit NOT ONE UNIVERSITY, NOT ONE POWER PLANT, NOT ONE DUAL CARRIAGEWAY, NOT ONE MAJOR AIRPORT, NOT ONE MAJOR HOSPITAL, NOT ONE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. TODAY, AFTER 50 odd years of independence, we count those things in hundreds, courtesy of black rule. LESSON: LEARN TO APPRECIATE THE 'LITTLE' WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED AND STOP THINKING LIKE A DUMB SLAVE.

oduastates:
Largest economy my butt.
Nothing but Iweala statistical 419 for Jonathan's reelection.
Even after massaging and inflating the figures from agriculture, it is easy for the discerning to figure out that the South African economy is not only larger, but deeper.
It shows not only from the size of their budget but even from their agricultural output. Products which are exported all over the world.
What about banking, telecommunications, IT,statistics, tourism, mining, show business, construction etc. South Africa totally owns Nigeria.
Lastly, when I say that Abuja is rubbish for the money spent and wasted on it, your picture proves it all over again.
South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia etc were building power plants, steel plant,aqueduct,pharmaceutical, IT,industrial and technology Hubs while our useless leaders were wasting money on building a chappy and soulless capital.
Guess what? they are still wasting money on that rubbish.
The worst thing is that Nigerians cannot even build their own damn roads. They give the contracts to foreigners to build them substandard infrastructure.

macklef:

Like did u have to call me a dumb slave just because i aired my opinion?

Well sir, laying a foundation can take more time than raising the house up,
Den we were in the stone age, the level of exposure n technology that exists in this century was not then. They woulda achieved more if dey had extra 50yrs into the 21st century.

14:


what a shocker, $509billion GDP and nigeria can only raise $23billion, something is not adding up here. Algeria, with a GDP of $175billion, has a budget of about $67billion. So where is Nigerian money that seems to be invisible.

ISpiksDaTroof:
So, from 1960 to date---especially from August, 1985-March, 2015 what have your leaders been doing with the proceeds the country? Where have they been investing it?

The biggest problem with Nigerians is that you love to lie to yourselves.

Rossikk:


Go around Nigeria and see the number of proper houses, roads, schools, vehicles, hospitals, airports etc, that exist in their MILLIONS compared to the thatched huts, footpaths, and bicycles that were the norm under British rule. YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE. WE HAVE MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS SINCE INDEPENDENCE. Heck a guy like you even now gets to be among the over 100 million Nigerians with mobile phones, and not needing to use the town crier, like in the days of colonial rule, when telephones were unheard of for 99.9% of the population.

ISpiksDaTroof:
There will still be people that will come on here to insult the OP.

BOWOTO:
Bro please ignore that guy, I gave up on him a long time ago, he has the typical Nigeria mentality, blaming colonialists for his misfortunes. After 55 years, still blaming colonialists, I doubt if Nigeria will ever develop. with people like this.

ISpiksDaTroof:
There will still be people that will come on here to insult the OP.

ThisMeansWAR:
i think the problem is nigerians will never appriciate what belongs to them. May be because they see the infrastures everyday. .....Nigeria is a beautiful country.. We have the good and the bad side. but then, its the same with every country of the world.

Laird:
I AM A MEDICAL DOCTOR AND I CAN BOLDLY SAY




NIGERIA IS A FAILED COUNTRY



NO STEADY ELECTRICITY

NO GOOD ROADS

SLUMS AND GHETTOS

NO GOOD HOSPITALS

STEALING OF REVENUE BY POLITICIANS

LEADERS AND PEOPLE PURPOSELY IMPOVERISHING THEIR PEOPLE

POLITICAL AND WORKER EXPLOITATION BY POLITICIANS AND EMPLOYERS

NO GOOD PUBLIC HOSPITALS

NO FREE OR VERY CHEAP HEALTH COVERAGE

NO GOOD SALARIES FOR DOCTORS, NURSES,PHARMACISTS, LAB SCIENTISTS, POLICEMEN, TEACHERS, STREET CLEANERS, SEWAGE AND WASTE DISPOSAL WORKERS

HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT

HIGH COST OF DOING BUSINESS.BRIBERY, CORRUPTION

HIGH LEVEL OF POVERTY

INSUFFICIENT NUMBER OF UNIVERSITIES

POOR QUALITY OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

EVEN MANY RICH PEOPLES CHILDREN LEAVE AND DO NOT PERMANENTLY RESIDE

EVEN DOCTORS ARE LOOKING FOR GOOD JOBS


NIGERIA CANNOT DEVELOP IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS EXCEPT LED BY A WHITEMAN

STEALING OF TAX AND OIL AND REVENUE MEANT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS LIKE SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, ROADS, PENSION, GOOD SALARIES BY POLITICIANS, TOP GOVERNMENT BRASS, TRADITIONAL RULERS, BUSINESSMEN,

NIGERIA IS ONLY ENJOYED BY THE SUPER RICH...
GOVERNMENT, POLITICAL THIEVES, BIG TIME BUSINESS MEN, TOP CIVIL SERVANTS, PEOPLE
WHO GOT FIXED IN BIG COMPANIES OR SET UP IN BUSINESS BY THEIR PARENTS OR FAMILY MEMBERS, RICH DEVELOPED COUNTRY RETURNEES, CORPORATE CRIMINALS

POOR MORTGAGE SYSTEM BY MAJORITY OF NIGERIANS AND OVEREXPENSIVE HOUSING AND RENTS

95% OF NIGERIANS HAVE LOW PAYING JOBS EVEN FOR PROFESSIONALS

LOW PAYING, UNSECURED, UNCERTAIN, ASS WIPING, ASS KISSING, BOOTLICKING JOBS RESULTING IN NIGERIA'S TALENT AND BRAINS, FOOTBALLERS, SPRINTERS, BOXERS, DOCTORS, ENGINEERS, PHARMACISTS, NURSES AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS LEAVING THE COUNTRY FOR BETTER PAY, BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE




IF BRAIN SURGEON PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BEN CARSON WERE TO BE BORN PRESENTLY IN NIGERIA TO A CLEANER MOTHER, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A HAWKER OR CONDUCTOR BECAUSE NIGERIA HAS NO STUDENT LOANS FOR POOR STUDENTS TO GO TO SCHOOL

HIGH DEPENCY AND BEGGING RATE BECAUSE IF ONE PERSON IS RICH AMONG 100000 PEOPLE, THAT PERSON WILL EITHER ISOLATE HIMSELF OR BE SUBJECT TO CONSTANT BEGGING



BY THE WAY MY FOLKS ARE VERY WELL TO DO BUT STINGY AND SHARE THE SAME QUALITIES WITH NIGERIA POLITICIANS....GREEDY, STINGY, EXPLOITATIVE, POWER AND MONEY HUNGRY


TRUTH BE SAID


SO I WANT TO LEAVE NIGERIA




EVEN PUBLIC HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS ARE CORRUPT

SPOPOVICH:
Lol, even Somalia looks better than nigeria.

The Somalia You Don't Know (pics)

Look at the cities of Somalia (one of the poorest countries in Africa) and compare it to most cities in Nigeria (one of the richest countries in Africa). YOU BE THE JUDGE.
Mind you, Somalia is technically still at war. Imagine if they had real peace.
https://www.nairaland.com/2681594/somalia-dont-know-pics

Rossikk:


Your ''opinion'' is SHIIT. And you lack a working brain. You are a disgrace to Africa and to humanity.




Keep making excuses for their colonial thievery and brigandage. DULLARD. It takes 63 years to ''lay foundation'' in your BLOCK HEAD. Maybe from 1960 it would have taken them another 100 years to ''plaster the house''. Was South Africa not in the same ''stone age''? How come South Africa got her first universities, power stations, roads, airports etc by the 1870s, while we had to wait till after 1960 for the British to ''raise your foundation''? OLODO. Don't use your dull head for once in your life. If the British were still in charge, and since literacy rate was only 10% by 1960, it would have risen to maybe 20% by today (not 76% as is current). YOU, MR, would likely be an illiiterate village hunter of rabbits and cockroaches with blistered fingers and tattered clothes, not an educated dunce calling for your own slavery.

Rossikk:
So Mogadishu is now better than Lagos, Abuja, Calabar etc in your dull head. Village otondo with internet access.

macklef:

Lol. And u think ur normal. U sound so bitter n fraustrated. Sorry man, im an olodo but i can buy u a new life anytime u need one. Have a lovely day

Rossikk:


Shut your rancid mouth. Bodyguard for white men. The minute someone raises the history of Nigeria (of which colonialists were a HUGE part) slaves like you start running around to protect your white massa. Fact is if you have to assess why Nigeria is not as developed as South Africa, which is the op's topic, you MUST mention the two nations' respective colonial histories, or you have not addressed the problem. In SA the colonialists started building the country the minute they got there in the 1800s. In Nigeria, the colonialists did nothing, while still exporting our resources. Fast forward to 1960. The two countries were miles apart in development terms because one got investment for a century and the other did not. If we do a 100 meter race and I stand 30 meters in front of you prior to the race, will I not win the race? Fast forward to 2015, the two countries are still miles apart because one (Nigeria) is still playing catch up with the other, since SA did not stop developing or pause after 1960 while waiting for Nigeria to catch up. Instead she has continued developing too. So we still are not the same in terms of living standards. YOU CANNOT TRACE THE INEQUALITY BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS WITHOUT DISCUSSING THEIR COLONIAL/POST COLONIAL HISTORIES SINCE THE RACE FOR DEVELOPMENT DID NOT START LAST YEAR OR 5 YEARS AGO, BUT A CENTURY AND HALF AGO. When you see a youth misbehaving, smoking crack and rap.ing girls and playing truant, you investigate his history. How he was raised, who raised him, who his friends are etc etc. You do not say ''Ah.. don't blame his childhood. Don't blame anybody. The child is cursed!!!''. That's illiterate thinking.

Rossikk:


Go around Nigeria and see the number of proper houses, roads, schools, vehicles, hospitals, airports etc, that exist in their MILLIONS compared to the thatched huts, footpaths, bicycles, and malnourished, barefoot children that were the norm under British rule. YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE. WE HAVE MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS SINCE INDEPENDENCE. Heck a guy like you even now gets to be among the over 100 million Nigerians with mobile phones, and not needing to use the town crier or smoke signals, like in the days of colonial rule, when telephones were unheard of for 99.9% of the population.

SPOPOVICH:
ethiopia electricity output>>>>>>>>nigeria's

ethiopia produces 10GW of power.

Yet nigeria is africa's top oil and gas producer. What a joke

Foxflames:


there is difference between house and home, difference between building schools and building quality education. Nigerian leaders lack innovation. when we build roads, there is no proper road markings or proper pavement for pedestrians. proper sewage we don't have. proper postal addresss to receive online orders or letters we don't have. how long will it take to have these simple tthings? after 55 years. common NYSC, people camp in places not even fit for a pig. is this not a zoo?

Rossikk:
Ethiopia produces what? Pls stop pulling out fake figures out of your stinking asss. Post a LINK to your wild claims or STFU.

SPOPOVICH:
ofcoz, I dont expect nigeria to be building any dams this century.

Pangea:

Until nigeria ditch foreign construction companies and start developing local technologies to meet nigerian problems, we are still joking!
Using local materials, Nigeria should embark on massive construction of roads and other physical infrastructures and stop inflating road construction contracts.
Then we will start!