Love the humour

Nigeria shall be grate again we millennials holds the key.

tsephanyah:
Nigeria is not near south Africa

Geographically No but otherwise I'm not sure what u talking about

ikeg7416:
I'm not even south African and I feel insulted for them that BBC had the audacity to compare south Africa to Nigeria. What an insult to South Africa. Even comparing Somaliato Nigeria is an insult to Somalia. There's not BBB one country in Africa Nigeria is on their level, not one. That useless country is a blemish in the face of Africa. I wish Boko Haram would just get rid of it already

But you are itinerant on Nairaland...

My first tour to South Africa made me believe that no African country can equal their development, not even Nigeria

Nigeria is the big brother of all African nations. Forget about our predicament. Even Mandela, Mbeki and Zuma knows this fact.

Our igbo brothers are reping us in South Africa by hook or crook

mrvitalis:
Believe me if u take the average statistics of southern Nigeria it will be very close to south Africa if not better
The north keep pulling us back

That why we need a united south and not yoruba vs igbo dramas.

.co.za and .com.ng Which one has more global reputation? I think the former. What do you think?

Compare d amounts of money steal on a regular basic between d two political country, u will knw Nigeria ain't a small country

why do people even compare Nigeria and South Africa. It's not even close, South Africa beats Nigeria in all categories including GDP per capital (which is what should have been used in the article instead of total gdp).

Fact is South Africa is still dominate figure in Africa and Nigeria needs to stop playing around and catch up. I'm Nigeria but Nationalism or not, Nigeria that has oil, minerals and a large tax population of 180 million is still behind a nation of 50 million tax population and little natural resources after so many decades is nothing to be proud about.

yes Nigeria is developing, but when you look at Nigeria's large national budget and compare it to average South Africa, then compare the slow rate and pace of development in Nigeria and compared to the rapid pace of southafrica.

Ask yourself who is actually better of. Fact is this thing called Nigeria has to change. There is nothing worse than blind nationalism.

omowolewa:
S/Africa is great, great enough to be Nigerians' haven

The unpleasant part of it is that S/Africa is gradually loosing it.

That place dey highly unstable

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ikeg7416:
I'm not even south African and I feel insulted for them that BBC had the audacity to compare south Africa to Nigeria. What an insult to South Africa. Even comparing Somaliato Nigeria is an insult to Somalia. There's not BBB one country in Africa Nigeria is on their level, not one. That useless country is a blemish in the face of Africa. I wish Boko Haram would just get rid of it already

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mrvitalis:
Believe me if u take the average statistics of southern Nigeria it will be very close to south Africa if not better
The north keep pulling us back

WTF are u saying?

Tunami:
bbc forgot to note that nigeria is greater than south africa in terms of corruption, child marriage, militancy, fraud, fulani killers, terrorism etc all this also includes what makes us the giant of africa.

I think you some how look like a disease.

rubbish, we can now see from the quality of black south africans that apartheid was the best thing they deserve.
savages who should be recolonized.

tsephanyah:
Nigeria is not near south Africa

What terms?

ikeg7416:
I'm not even south African and I feel insulted for them that BBC had the audacity to compare south Africa to Nigeria. What an insult to South Africa. Even comparing Somaliato Nigeria is an insult to Somalia. There's not BBB one country in Africa Nigeria is on their level, not one. ****

What are you gonna do about it?

May I suggest something?

How about suicide?
Do consider please.

winj:
rubbish, we can now see from the quality of black south africans that apartheid was the best thing they deserve.
savages who should be recolonized.

I agree.

ifyan:


I think you so how look like a disease.

what did you typed here is it english or french?

Nigeria vs South Africa ...'

Is this a joke or what ??

BIAFRA SHOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER

COUNTRY FOR SUCH COMPARISON.

Philpham:
The west is our problem, always looking for ways to cause problems and rivalry plus hatred between Africans, why the comparison?, why not find similarities between these two nations to unite them.
White people are just Devi.ls.

This people look for any means to advocate hatred between even among african. what is the benefit of the comparison to our economy?

I had dis argument one day.... South africa and nigeria.... Sha to me southy is miles ahead of nigeria.... Infrastructure.... Exporting... Agriculture... But dose die hard nigeria boys wer lik 9ja pa won.... Hmmm to each his view

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Truth be said, Nigeria has brighter future in compare to South Africa. We might be behind now but I see us filling the gap very soon. The number of problem Nigeria faces here, South Africa can't withstand half of it. I only blame our leaders for holding us behind. I pray Buhari do the needful and save our good name. #IBealiveInNigeria*

South Africa needs to refund all the money Nigeria spent to educate them during the Apartheid era, in order to have a proper bragging right. We didn`t just educate them around the world, but also brought them to our higher institutions to educate them, at a time our universities were some of the best in the world.And that is on top of financing their guerrilla fighters around the world They would never have been able to take over from their white masters if we had abandoned them when they were begging us on their kneels. Who is comparing dad and his son? The problem is, when you don`t get the balance of leadership right many rubbish will catch up with you. Everything South Africa is excited about today is handed over to them by somebody. Wait for another 20 years to see where South Africa would be
Anyway, where you have BBC and the World Bank discussing anything Nigerian, their job is to devalue and degrade. Truth is, there is nothing to compare between a grand old dad that has come to wisdom through life experience and a son born with donated silver spoon in his mouth celebrating some flashes in the pan.

South Africa shud teach Nigeria application of science. I am sure, Nigeria will then teach the rest of Africa via Igbos. Thus Africa will be like Europe in technological advancement in 15years. Trust me

omowolewa:
S/Africa is great, great enough to be Nigerians' haven

The unpleasant part of it is that S/Africa is gradually loosing it.

Well signs that point to danger are there....but loosing it, not yet. In some sectors actually SA is growing very strong.

They are also our wife on the football pitch They are also our wife on the football pitch

tsephanyah:
Nigeria is not near south Africa

In terms of what please

Olakunle007:
Truth be said, Nigeria has bright future in compare to South Africa. We might be behind now but I see us filling the gap very soon. The number of problem Nigeria faces here, South Africa can't withstand half of it. I only blame our leaders for holding us behind. I pray Buhari do the needful and save our good name. #IBealiveInNigeria*

When is "very soon"?

I'm not sure what you actually mean - the best will be for each nation to work towards betterment of society and advancement in all spheres of life rather than comparing.

It is highly unlikely that SA will be surpassed in many indexes of development by any African country - it will take rather a very long period for that to happen.

Take for instance the energy sector. Soon SA will be producing up to 55000MW of electricity - which other African country can do that in the next 20years?

Useless comparison, southafrica is like heaven compared to naija.