That I agree. We are here basically to help deluded Nigeria with some shock therapy. Otherwise we should be aiming to compete with South Africa and such progressive countries in SSA.

Kenyanna:

I find competing with a county like Nijeria to be boring to begin with.

NairobiWalker:


How do you know I am on Skyscrapercity?

I saw a tab that said skyscrapercity

The mod should please close tis thread

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nwoke37:
Nigeria is evolving... By the time we're done... Johannesburg and Capetown will be in the dust...


Eko Atlantic and Centenary City will also have 24 hour power and all the amenities you have in a modern city

. Sorry! Tell me, When are you going to achieve this goal, after 5/10/20 years, Explain to me Please I want to understand your point very well

jaycent:
More of Abuja

that second picture is Owerri... and you posted a pic of toll gate in Lagos further on..

Abeg leave Abuja to me, it's a privilege and honor lol

MPSA:

. Sorry! Tell me, When are you going to achieve this goal, after 5/10/20 years, Explain to me Please I want to understand your point very well

In a matter of time...

Kenyanna:

Such a simple minded rebuttal, I honestly thought you were smarter than this. I guess you are also overcompensatingly attacking me to prove you aren't me since that is what some were alleging kitambo.
Everyone knows Kenya is more structurally advanced than Nigeria ( or I may add Tanzania since some here seem to be obsessed with mentioning that useless bongoland) but this are all shithole countries compared to East Asia and the west. We should be striving to compete with serious nations. Yes kenya compared to Naija is ahead in infrastructure and also in democratic institutions, but Nigeria is also ahead in other aspects like cultural conservatism. So childish to insist that Kenya is 100% better than everyone in everthing. This hyper-chest thumping bullshit is stupid. They won't admit they are wrong and so wont you and thus this will go on for another 87500 pages till a solar flare CME finally shuts down the internet.

Fam, you are only fooling yourself...and yes, Tanzanian is an economic and social backwater.

gallivant:


Fam, you are only fooling yourself...and yes, Tanzanian is an economic and social backwater.

Lol, Tanzania GDP is only $50 billion which is about half of Kenya's... Tanzania's gdp per capita is only $900, way less than Kenya... Tanzania can't even compete with Kenya talk less of Nigeria..

I hear Tanzania uses albino body parts for witchcraft...

jln115:

Weird list since Joburg isn't even the most beautiful city in SA. Possibly not even top 5.

George
Cape Town
Paarl
PE

All of the above trump Joburg in terms of beauty.

I agree,even Pretoria beats Jo'burg

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What are these pics supposed to prove? Wealth, development, progress? I only seem some pedestrian pics of downtown Africa.
But then again the stats have exposed Dangoteland repeatedly so what's left?

NairobiWalker:


Keep deceiving yourself with the fake Kenyans you hang out with too. Being materialistic and having high standards are two different things. In Kenya we don't spend money on a woman because she demands it, we spend it if she deserves it. There is no way I am going to spend lots of money on a Nigerian woman that looks like a man when I could bag a gorgeous woman elsewhere with the same. Standards are what you are, not what you claim to be. Nigerian women are not beautiful and are loud and mannerless - those are low standards.

It is Nigerian men who have low self esteem because they think they can't get any woman without overspending on her. That's why Kenyan women are always taking advantage of you guys.

You know them very well

NairobiWalker:


That is Nigerian men lol. You use money to attract women. You meet a woman and the first thing you do is brag about how much money you have and what you'll do for them. Even Kenyan women are using you - look at Vera Sidika - a random college dropout whose booty Nigerian men couldn't resist now she's a millionaire courtesy of low self-esteem of Nigerian men. Trying to argue against Nigerian men using money to attract women is harder than fighting the wind. That's a reputation you've perfectly earned. I wonder, is it due to the low standards of Nigerian women that when you guys meet a foreign woman you're willing to spend all your lives savings to get her or is it just acute low self esteem?

What river of savagery are you drinking from?

nwoke37:


I saw a tab that said skyscrapercity

I'll DM you.

Jayceon:
What river of savagery are you drinking from?

Kenyanna:

Such a silly thread, thought it would be down or atleast closed for discussion by now. This racket still doesnt have mods or what. Please can you and your naija friends just stop arguing with them, you've already made them make us look stupid, please oga ooh have mercy, please for me. Let them just spam photos and talk to themselves till they get tired then the thread dies.

Okay, I'll tone down for your sake. And I agree; they have really made Kenya look silly.

The problem with Kenya, and East Africa, in general, is that they coon hard for Indians and other foreigners. It's shameless and disgusting. Kenya recently made Indians their 44th tribe - meanwhile, Africans are treated like animals in India. East Africans suck at business, but instead of just learning how to run a damn business, they let Asians take over everything. And the Asians will eventually rule them.

The stupidity of east Africans scares me... I hope Nigeria never degrades to those levels.

nwoke37:


that second picture is Owerri... and you posted a pic of toll gate in Lagos further on..

Abeg leave Abuja to me, it's a privilege and honor lol

sorry bro lol...thanks for the correction

Jayceon:
I agree,even Pretoria beats Jo'burg

Very very familiar with both cities... To close to call though!! Pretoria might just get my vote though!!

buceta:
The problem with Kenya, and East Africa, in general, is that they coon hard for Indians and other foreigners. It's shameless and disgusting. Kenya recently made Indians their 44th tribe - meanwhile, Africans are treated like animals in India. East Africans suck at business, but instead of just learning how to run a damn business, they let Asians take over everything. And the Asians will eventually rule them.

The stupidity of east Africans scares me... I hope Nigeria never degrades to those levels.

Nigeria can never fall that far. It has to do with the history of Kenya. The Arabs built their earliest towns ruled East Africa long before the British came and the Indians along. So Kenyans are used to laying back and letting foreigners hold sway especially in business and manufacturing. Nigerian cities and town were already there before the British came. Our businessmen were already competing with the British before the days of colonisation. An example is Jaja of Opobo.

naijalander:
Yes. But not in a bad way. I suppose they are just fascinated by Nigerian culture. They love the accent, most of their women fancy Nigerian men. Kenyan men are typically intimidated by strong women so they naturally aren't even getting Nigerian women, only few upper class men do, if you meet a Naija lady with a Kenyan husband? The guy is definitely loaded.

So they have this TV comedian alias Obinna (Im still not sure if he's actually Nigerian), his job is just to entertain Kenyans using a nigerian accent. Another of their comedians, Eric Omondi is in the habit of making very racist jokes about Nigerians, that deekhole even featured in an OLX ad playing a Nigerian fraudster in Kenya.


Again these people don't mean us harm but it's annoying when every time you open your mouth, someone giggles.

You can imagine?

And most Nigerians do not even know or care if Kenyans exist!
For the sake of most loud-mouthed and arrogant Kenyans here I hope it remains so forever.

But for the sake of my love for Africa, I would prefer if all Africans interracted better with each other and knew ourselves very well and even make jokes about each other.
French people make jokes of English people, Spanish people make jokes of french people, all Europeans make jokes of German people.
There is no problem if Africans make jokes of each other, though not extremely hateful jokes.

Nigerians are just like the USA of Africa. We are too 'centric' to our own. Save for Ghanaians, I don't think Nigerians know or care about other African countries.

We used to fans of Congolese soukous music in the past, but that has heavily died down, no one cares or know of Congo anymore.

rvp20182:
Hehehe. He cracked me there too. There city will have 24 hours of electricity. I guess after 30 yrs of power rationing - Nigerian now imagine having 24hrs is something to dream about . Everyone in Kibera slum has 24hrs of electricity...and that is the Nigeria DREAM.

Yet people in Garissa and the entire north-east of Kenya just got electricity 2 years ago, while at least 50% of Nigeria's sparsely populated north-east has gotten electricity for decades now.

In Nigeria we share one dream, In Kenya some have dreams and others have nightmares.

Kenyanna:

Such a simple minded rebuttal, I honestly thought you were smarter than this. I guess you are also overcompensatingly attacking me to prove you aren't me since that is what some were alleging kitambo.
Everyone knows Kenya is more structurally advanced than Nigeria (or I may add Tanzania since some here seem to be obsessed with mentioning that useless bongoland) but this are all shithole countries compared to East Asia and the west. We should be striving to compete with serious nations. Yes kenya compared to Naija is ahead in infrastructure and also in democratic institutions, but Nigeria is also ahead in other aspects like cultural conservatism. So childish to insist that Kenya is 100% better than everyone in everthing. This hyper-chest thumping bullshit is stupid. They won't admit they are wrong and so wont you and thus this will go on for another 87500 pages till a solar flare CME finally shuts down the internet.

Kenya is not ahead of Nigeria in infrastructure. What the heck do you mean by democratic institutions?
The whole world saw how disastrous this last Kenyan election was.

A large chunk of Kenyan territory lives in the stone age and you talk of Kenya having better infrastructures?

Kenya is only good on doing things to impress foreigners while the majority of the population suffers.

NairobiWalker:


Flase, I had a Nigerian classmate and he always used to moan how much power we give to our women. Nigeria is largely a misogynist society with lots of materialism. The one thing he loved about Kenyan women was a beauty and less materialism (even though Kenyan women are the most materialistic in East Africa, he said they're nothing close to the average Nigerian woman).............and please, just shut up with your financial power nonsense. Kenya's average income is higher than Nigeria's average income. Sometimes you speak your wishes and not the facts.

Like I told you, the only reason Kenyan men don't date Nigerian women is we don't find them beautiful. Take that to the bank. South African women are way more empowered than Nigerian women yet we have no problem dating them

And when we ask them to show us the beautiful Kenyan women, the best we get is Lupita Nyongo

Only Tanzanian and Rwandese women fascinate me in East Africa.
Even if I was given a Kenyan woman for free, I'd reject it.
Cos this is how the majority of them look like below...

Nigeria Leads Africa in Implementing Sustainable-Finance Reforms- Report


Nigeria has introduced banking reforms to expand sustainable lending, becoming one of 34 emerging markets that are a major force in driving development and fighting climate change, according to the first comprehensive Global Progress Report of the Sustainable Banking Network, an IFC-supported organization of banking regulators and associations.

Those 34 countries account for $42.6 trillion in bank assets—more than 85 percent of total bank assets in emerging markets. Some are wealthier than others, but all of them have made progress in advancing sustainable finance. Eight countries—Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nigeria, and Vietnam—have reached an advanced stage, having implemented large-scale reforms and put in place systems for results measurement.

“This progress is an important step toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030,” said Ethiopis Tafara, IFC’s Vice President for Legal, Compliance Risk and Sustainability. “It shows that even the poorest countries can adopt sustainable finance reforms. The Sustainable Banking Network has demonstrated in a short time how much can be achieved when regulators, policymakers, trade associations and development institutions collaborate to advance sustainable finance.”
The report provides practical indicators and tools for countries to apply to their own domestic markets, regardless of their size or stage of development. This is important because it facilitates learning by all members and accelerates the pace of change. It is based on an innovative results-measurement approach that has been agreed by all 34 member countries—a remarkable achievement that is breaking new ground for measuring progress at the global level.

“The intention of the report is to provide practical information to SBN member countries to help them develop public policy. It is a useful guide not only for regulators and the governments, but also for banks, steering them towards what they could and should do from the bottom up,” said Edi Setijawan, Sustainable Finance Director, Indonesia Financial Authority (OJK), and a co-Chair of SBN Measurement Working Group that led the development of the unique methodology behind the report.

The report commended the endorsement of the Nigerian Sustainable Banking Principles by the Central Bank of Nigeria, which ensures a strong level of involvement from 34 national and international banks. The Principles and their accompanying sector specific guidelines provide financial institutions with adequate and detailed elements for building their E&S policies. Nigeria stands out as one of the most advanced SBN members in the area of reporting. Financial institutions are required to report and disclose their E&S policies and performance on a biannual basis. To continue to advance the growth of sustainable finance, the report suggests that the Principles could integrate guidelines and definitions related to green financial flows and provide financial or non-financial incentives.

Eme Essien Lore, IFC Country Manager for Nigeria said, “IFC congratulates Nigeria for proactively establishing and implementing sustainable banking principles by becoming the first African country to become a member of the Sustainable Banking Network. Today, Nigeria stands out as one of the most advanced Sustainable Banking Network members in reporting, requiring financial institutions to disclose their environmental and social performance on a bi-annual basis.

https://economicconfidential.com/business/nigeria-leads-africa-implementing-sustainable-finance-reforms-report/amp/

Nigeria leads rest of Africa in e-commerce opportunity – say the Economist



A new report by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has rated Nigeria over other African countries in e-commerce opportunity.
According to EIU, Africa’s e-commerce potential is projected to reach $50-$75 billion within the next 5-10 years. It noted that Nigeria’s business environment is more positioned to benefits most from the growth in the e-commerce industry.

The report relied on data generated by the research and analysis division of the Economist Group to arrive at this conclusion.

The retail sector in Africa is changing rapidly, as e-commerce opens up opportunities for both companies and consumers."

"Smartphones are increasingly used by consumers as a gateway tool to the internet, facilitating the growth of online retail in powerful ways,” the EIU stated

To Lead other African countries, Nigeria scored 80.4 out of 100. Thus, ranking the country with the greatest potential within the wider e-commerce market in the continent. Also, the report noted that Jumia, Jiji and Konga are top three e-commerce platforms in Nigeria.

“This is backed up by the plethora of activity in the market, with Nigeria the focal point for a significant amount of e-commerce growth in the region. The country’s three main online retailers— Jumia, Jiji and Konga—serve a mass-market clientele. Jumia celebrated its fifth anniversary in June, has become the first company to surpass US$1bn in market value on the continent in February 2016.”

In Nigeria, consumers’ enthusiasm towards online shopping is on the increase among middle-class family. Similar trend is also noted in many countries across the sub-Saharan Africa.

“Given that e-commerce in sub-Saharan Africa is concentrated among the middle class, which has been squeezed by the economic downturn, online sales have thus also suffered. Nonetheless, mall construction has resumed and their number now stands at around a dozen,” the EIU stated.

E-commerce platforms are fast strategies to attract more of the growing middle class in Africa. Services are being extended to many rural areas, banking on increasing in internet penetration in the Africa.

Growing interest in fashion and grocery stores also have increased sales in the e-commerce industry.

They had electricity - off -grid electricity - remote towns have a one huge generator ran by power company - not nigeria where everyone ran their own generator. You guys are so disorganize you amaze me. If kenya was to have power problems - we would invite the big generator companies - aggrekos - to come and set up temporary generators - those things can be shipped and installed in few days - and everyone will have power albeit expensive power.

Why don't you ask Aggrekos to come and fix your power issues temporarily - rather than have every one buy a generator

These huge generators in containers - can be shipped to Nigeria today!! and your power issues fixed temporarily

Nowenuse:


Yet people in Garissa and the entire north-east of Kenya just got electricity 2 years ago, while at least 50% of Nigeria's sparsely populated north-east has gotten electricity for decades now.

In Nigeria we share one dream, In Kenya some have dreams and others have nightmares.

In your dreams -

Nowenuse:
Nigeria Leads Africa in Implementing Sustainable-Finance Reforms- Report

https://economicconfidential.com/business/nigeria-leads-africa-implementing-sustainable-finance-reforms-report/amp/

In potential or opportunity - or aka future dangote-plans - but speak about right now!!!

Nowenuse:
Nigeria leads rest of Africa in e-commerce opportunity – say the Economist

rvp20182:
In potential or opportunity - or aka future dangote-plans - but speak about right now!!!

Right now Nigeria leads Little India in phone penetration, which is a big driver of e- commerce. Not to talk of smartphone penetration.