₦airaland Forum

bantudra:
shey you nigerians dey see now....??....when i said we should separate from other africans una insulted me....

pan africana my foot....

dont worry, you wont be missed


Even Morocco is coming back to Africa

Kenyanstar:
Random pictures

Nice ..

tylann:
Is that Japan or kenya

This Nakuru highway has the answer

[quote author=forgiveness post=74510767]The bolded says it all. West Hill mall is just 27,000m². [/quote


Lol .At least West Hills is functional unlike Tinapa where electricity has been cut and is in deplorable state

Daejoyoung:
l tire o

They can lie.

Kazikazi:
This Nakuru highway has the answer

why is TZ a least developed country..i ask again

[quote author=achimotan post=74511261][/quote]It's functioning. It stated that supermarket is functioning currently.

Just30:
boy you dont know Ghana History than i do
so shut your mouth and sit in your hungry country

Nkrumah was brought into Ghana to fulfil a purpose

Did I say he wasn't? Your eyesight must be going south.

bantudra:
shut the fvck upa...you are transitionin nowhere....you looser....!!!

guy
SA is a far advanced country
and they are realigning themselves

SA is an upper middle-income economy
Nigeria just became a lower middle-income economy

Daejoyoung:
A 2% growth in Nigeria is equivalent to an 8% growth in Kenya. Smaller economies usually record higher growth than bigger economies because every little thing has an impact on it, this is why Africa is considered to be the fastest growing continent economically this decade, but it's still the poorest with the smallest economies worldwide.

might wanna look at ths

Just30:


dont worry, you wont be missed


Even Morocco is coming back to Africa

but not because of you....you,looser.....what ghana has to offer....??...practicaly nothing....

obaaderemi:
I guess the achimotan shot himself in the foot.

Hahahaha!

bantudra:
sharrap ashanti...go fvck your mama....

ewww

sorry
we dont have baby factories in Ghana
you can continue the inbreeding in Nigeria



dumb dumb

Just30:
guy
SA is a far advanced country
and they are realigning themselves

SA is an upper middle-income economy
Nigeria just became a lower middle-income economy

sharrap...!!

Kenyanstar:

YES, in East Africa. But the most beautiful country in Africa is KENYA obviously.

14 falls Thika- KE

And Tanzania is the most beautiful in the universe( answer a fool according to his folly..prov,26:5)

and im not an Asante

shame on you

Kazikazi:
This Nakuru highway has the answer

Lmao! These guys are desperate.

tahh....!!

Just30:
and im not an Asante

shame on you

no you are not...you are a white morafvcka....

achimotan:
You are Big Liar for saying this. It is not bigger than the malls in Accra talkless Ghana.
In any case you know that Tinapa is a white elephant.


Vanguard News Nigeria

Tinapa: Nigeria’s $450 million white elephant
adekunle adekunle
2 years ago

With its futuristic film studios, luxury shops and elevated light railway, Tinapa should be a showcase of Nigerian dynamism, a commercial hub for West Africa raking in millions of dollars.


Aerial view of the reception area of Tinapa Resort.

But 10 years after it opened, the resort in southeast Nigeria is a ghost town and has become a symbol of monumental waste.
Its majestic contours and avant-garde domes rise defiantly out of the bush and palm trees. At the entrance, a giant signboard proclaims: “Tinapa back on track!”


But the few visitors who venture inside are quickly disillusioned.

Apart from a few idle employees, not a soul stirs in the endless aisles of shops and warehouses that should have made the capital of Cross River state, Calabar, famous across Nigeria’s south.

“It’s empty there, we have no clients, it’s like a cemetery,” said one shop assistant in Da Viva, which sells the popular brand of wrapper skirts.

“Many have left already,” he added, pointing to shuttered premises.

A huge supermarket still displays clothes, furniture and foreign-made knick-knacks but in virtual darkness: the electricity was cut off some time ago.

Inside, an old man snoozes in the suffocating heat.

Tinapa, with its 80,000 square metres (861,000 square feet) of warehouses and shops, cost $450 million (413 million euros) to build.

But it has become a financial black hole for its backers.

– Economic development –

At the turn of the century, Nigeria was on the point of becoming Africa’s biggest economy and leading oil producer. Newly returned to civilian rule, everything seemed possible.

A handful of businessmen and architects got together and imagined an international centre of commerce and tourism in a free-trade zone.

Nigeria’s biggest banks fell over themselves to finance the project, which was opened in 2007.

“At that time, everyone was excited. Tinapa was going to boost economic development of the whole region and create thousands of jobs,” said Bassey Ndem, who was in charge of the project.

It aimed to attract Nigerian millionaires, who ordinarily jetted off to Dubai or London to go shopping, as well as make Cross River a commercial crossroads on the Atlantic coast.

A plush 242-room hotel with a view over the lagoon and a water park with slides were built to cater for the cream of high society and their families.

Alongside luxury tourism, imported goods would provide for Nigeria and its neighbours such as Cameroon, Chad and Niger, competing with the country’s commercial capital, Lagos.

“Everything was going well at first,” said Ndem. “At the peak, in 2009, we generated $30 million of revenue. But we faced a lot of resistance from the customs.

“They really didn’t want the tax-free zone to work.”

Goods were supposed to be exempt from import duties in the free-trade zone.

But from the beginning, the customs — which has a reputation for rampant corruption — blocked containers destined for Tinapa in the ports, paralysing business.

– Top down, trickle up –

Ndem left in 2012. None of his successors has managed to get Tinapa off the ground.

“There was clearly a lack of political will” to make the project succeed, he said, describing himself as angry and frustrated at a “wasted opportunity”.

For the economist and blogger Nonso Obikili, Tinapa’s downfall was largely because of a lack of existing infrastructure to transport goods: bad roads and an average-sized port.

“It was a wide project conceived with the deep sea port, which was supposed to enable big ships to come to Calabar,” said Obikili.

“It was the responsibility of the federal government but finally it wasn’t done,” he told AFP.

In the end, no big name jeweller or pret-a-porter line wanted to invest in the paradise promised by its promoters and the hotel remains desperately empty.

The cinema studios have likewise been unable to attract Nollywood’s stars, who have largely preferred to stay in Lagos.

In “Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria”, the British-Nigerian author Noo Saro-Wiwa castigates the leaders in the country of her birth.

Few of Nigeria’s nearly 190 million inhabitants have benefited from the riches brought by oil; most still live in extreme poverty.

“This top-down approach to boosting Calabar’s economy seemed hollow,” she wrote.

“I’d heard Nigerian politicians’ endless talk about theme parks, tourist resorts, shopping malls and their ‘trickle down’ effects on the economy.

“But there’s no such thing as ‘trickle down’ in Nigeria — money trickles upwards or evaporates on contact with air,” Saro-Wiwa wrote in 2012.

i didnt even what to expose him like that


you didnt force koraa

Just30:
ewww

sorry
we dont have baby factories in Ghana
you can continue the inbreeding in Nigeria



dumb dumb

you are not black,sooo,no need to even bother with you sef....

whites love fvckin their mamas....

tylann:
Is that Japan or kenya

Kenya,a small province in Japan

Barchelors of Science in Geography!

Kazikazi:
What are you studying there? Political subjects or history?

forgiveness:
Which problem did Ghana solve in West Africa?

everyone's problem

and if you joke, we will solve them Nigerian problem as well

Just30:

keep dreaming

That's the undiluted truth.

Jonraid:
Are you in the league of SA? Is Nigeria a second world country? The answer is a definite NO!

Show me list of Second World countries.

bantudra:
white morafvck...

you're sick in the head

go and look for your play mates

hungry kid

forgiveness:
It's functioning. It stated that supermarket is functioning currently.

A supermarket in virtual darkness Na wa ooo

Just30:
you're sick in the head

go and look for your play mates

hungry kid

sharrap....

Jonraid:
Forget about Kenya.Is Nigeria in this stage? Nigeria is still a developing country and so a 2 percent economic expansion shouldn't be tolerated.Fact is,your bosses at the treasury and even the president aren't happy about this.For Nigerians to treat a 2 percent growth as normal and equate it with the growth as seen in big economies is pure comedy gold!

Normal? Nobody said nigeria growing at 2pct is normal. What he is trying to say is that the value of Nigeria's 2pct is more than Kenya's 8pct.

obaaderemi:
You see! You've buttressed my point @ the bolded. Zik must have had a lot of influence on Ghanaian freedom fight. Meanwhile I'm still waiting for proof that he was a security man in Ghana.

go read his biography

if you want to hide something from an African
just put it in a book


Zik came to Ghana because
that was where everyone was going to as at that time
when they gain their education.
Ghana was the only place they could find employment

Kazikazi:
This Nakuru highway has the answer

Utasumbukana sana