₦airaland Forum

Moorish:
Well that’s cool but the moors were most successful

Moors actually had a civilization( art, architecture, garments, weapons, tech )

So you have a moorish civilization

I am also proud of the Kushitic civilization

The Benin Empire had all of the above.

Johnsegun54:
he sud take us to the garden of eden then

Did anyone take you to the 'garden of eden' in the middle east, before you believed in it?

tartar9:
Why this hypercritiscm?
What evidence exists in the first place of a garden of eden or that it existed in the middle-east.
The middle-easterners made a claim about their region,he too has the right to do the same.

It's inferiority complex and colonial mentality that makes them believe everything 'divine' happened in the lands of white people, and couldn't possibly have occured in black Africa.

Ilamina:


The country has no swag at all

Ghana has swag
Cameroon has swag
Kenya has swag
Ivory coast
Ethiopia has swag


Nigeria no swag

Why don't you go and live there? I'm sure Ethiopia or Cameroon will suit you perfectly with their ''swag''.. It's easy to sit in the relative COMFORT of Nigeria talking rubbish. Idiott.

And if Fela said what you claimed he said, then he had obviously not been around Africa.

trillville:
Rossikki, this is the first time you have written something I wholeheartedly agree with. You have hit the nail on the head. What you may not understand however is why over revenues are so low.

You mention diversification as a way to increase revenues, but governments across the world primarily earn revenues through taxation. Are you calling for an increase in taxation?

I think it's more a question of efficient tax collection than the rates.

Nigeria's problem is steeped in our culture and this has affected our political climate. We operate an ideology known as patron client relationship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clientelism

Politicians will only want to collect taxes from independent business people and not from their rich proxies. This prevents the government from raising revenues. Nigeria is a give you, you give me back country, and not a let me work for the people and God will bless me for my efforts country...

Our tribalism and religious crisis is also tied to our culture of clientelism. We only want to help people we believe we can gain from in the future.

In developed countries, the government provides quality primary and secondary school education for all of its people. It sees education as an externality, an economic good that benefits everyone in the country and not just the person getting the education. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was abandoned by his Syrian father, yet he built a 1 trillion dollar( about 3 times Nigeria's gdp) company. Without quality education, would there have been a Steve Jobs?

Another funny aspect about humans in general is that we tend not to appreciate things we did not merit. This means that when a person is favoured because of his language or religion or other reasons apart from effort, such a person is much more likely to fail in carrying out his duties.

In summary, Nigeria is in deep shit, and would have to pass through a lot of hardship before its people and leaders realise that they need to change their mentality. Government must provide services for all citizens and not a selected few.

A lot of these things you've mentioned apply to many other countries that are making more money than Nigeria. India for example. What of Brazil? In these places, you might as well cross out the word ''Nigeria'' in your post, and replace it with it those countries' names, and it would fit perfectly. Yet look at their annual budgets compared to Nigeria's.

BlackBaron:
Corruption STILL remains a potent factor regardless of our earnings. Stolen sums which could have been applied towards 'base infrastructure' are stolen which further prolongs our ability to develop and earn the comparable incomes from other countries you posted.

Apparently, Lagos to Ibadan train line cost $1.8 B, however $2B plus was disbursed to individuals under guise of elections.

Diversifying our earnings would require certain aspects of infrastructures to be fixed. Away from taxes or vat which are critically low, we CAN NOT DEVELOP without infrastructures to support industrialisation. It's similar to owning a business on a small scale, if all funds were siphoned off instead of expanding your operation.

Corruption exists everywhere however developed systems make you PAY when known which their citizens know the consequences, big or small. Ours rewards stealing hence struggling to prosecute the most obvious thieves.

Excellent points. But I will posit that it is the very lack of a diversification mentality or outlook - even among the populace - that gives room for the corruption that hampers infrastructural development. If the country believed strongly it needed to diversify, it would put the infrastructure in place to do so. Do you get what I'm saying?

But if it DOESN'T have that strong passion for diversification, it, or rather, its officials, will regard infrastructural projects as 'dispensable', something to be used as an avenue for self-enrichment, etc, since there is a lack of vision. The idle mind as they say, is the playground of the devil.

So, the way we get to REDUCE the corruption itself is for us to vociferously demand DIVERSIFICATION, which will then COMPEL the govt to build the infrastructure required for it.

trillville:
Rossikki, this is the first time you have written something I wholeheartedly agree with. You have hit the nail on the head. What you may not understand however is why over revenues are so low.

You mention diversification as a way to increase revenues, but governments across the world primarily earn revenues through taxation. Are you calling for an increase in taxation?

Nigeria's problem is steeped in our culture and this has affected our political climate. We operate an ideology known as patron client relationship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clientelism

Politicians will only want to collect taxes from independent business people and not from their rich proxies. This prevents the government from raising revenues. Nigeria is a give you, you give me back country, and not a let me work for the people and God will bless me for my efforts country. By the way, richer countries have low business taxes and high taxes on estates and personal incomes.

Our tribalism and religious crisis is also tied to our culture of clientelism. We only want to help people we believe we can gain from in the future.

In developed countries, the government provides quality primary and secondary school education for all of its people. It sees education as an externality, an economic good that benefits everyone in the country and not just the person getting the education. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was abandoned by his Syrian father, yet he built a 1 trillion dollar( about 3 times Nigeria's gdp) company. Without quality education, would there have been a Steve Jobs?

Another funny aspect about humans in general is that we tend not to appreciate things we did not merit. This means that when a person is favoured because of his language or religion or other reasons apart from effort, such a person is much more likely to fail in carrying out his duties.

In summary, Nigeria is in deep shit, and would have to pass through a lot of hardship before its people and leaders realise that they need to change their mentality. Government must provide services for all citizens and not a selected few.

Good points which I'll address later.

obasiken:
I like your approach of thinking outside the box.

I remember Godswill akpabio as a governor, I can say he embezzled money but even a blind man can see his good works in Akwa ibom state. He worked hard to increase the revenue of the state, he fought for oil wells that were previously under cross river state to be returned to Akwa ibom, this increased the state allocation and he used the money to do quality work which still stand.

But tell me how we can achieve this when we have president who does not know how to diversify or grow an economy. All he know is to fight corruption.

I think Buhari has done some work in diversification. Perhaps not enough, but he's certainly made strides with agriculture, which has led to something of a rebirth for agro-allied industries. Our Number 1 question to Atiku should be "What is your roadmap for diversification?"

Bevista:
Well, you didn't need to use the word misguided while making your point.

Why not? It's not an insulting term.

Having said that, I am still of the view that, with our current setup, the country should be earning much more than it does now but not for corruption. I'm not focusing on stealing the money after it has been officially delivered to govt, I'm talking about the stealing that happens before the money even gets to govt.

Our chief earner by far is oil and gas. The money we earn from oil BEFORE it gets to govt is easily knowable by looking at oil prices and number of barrels exported by Nigeria per annum. The difference between that amount and the govt's declared earnings is negligible.

Why does every immigration & customs officer wants to work at our land borders? Do you have any idea what goes at our ports? I don't even want to mention NNPC. Is the FIRS remitting as much as it should (I have friends who work there so I have an idea)?

You're still arguing over CRUMBS. Do you know that South Africa's automative industry exports vehicles to the tune of 12 billion USD per annum? That is roughly equal to Nigeria's total annual earnings from oil.

That is just ONE industry in SA. And you're still here talking about NNPC and Customs. What is the matter with you people?

Are citizens paying as much tax as they should? Certain agencies (like FRSC, JAMB, NCAA, etc) do they remit sufficiently to govt?

Definitely taxation must be more effective. But then again, the people hardly earn anything, so what is there to tax? Whatever tax obligations by the likes of JAMB and FRSC which are not being met, are in real terms, negligible. I would concede however that private companies are not as diligently taxed as they ought to be, and that that is costing us a few billion USD in annual income.

But not for corruption, NNPC should be unbundled and made to function in the same model as PETROBRAS, PETRONAS, SAUIDI ARAMCO, etc. These govt oil corporations in these countries remit huge amounts to govt unlike NNPC.

The reason they remit huge amounts to their govts is PRIMARILY because those countries produce and export more oil and gas than Nigeria. This they can do because they have larger oil and gas reserves than Nigeria.

You're talking of NNPC remitting similar amounts as Saudi Aramco. That is sheer self-delusion. Saudi's oil reserves are 266 billion barrels. Nigeria's oil reserves are 37 billion barrels.

Saudi Arabia exports 8 million barrels a day. Nigeria exports 2 million barrels a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_exports

Whether you bundle or unbundle NNPC a hundred times over, it will never remit anything close to what Saudi Aramco remits to the Saudi regime.

Until Nigerians, including yourself, de-emphasise corruption in favour of Economic Policy, specifically diversification, you'll keep running round in circles. That annual GDP we have of 22 billion USD, even if you added another 22 billion USD on top of it, being extra income from the leakages you claim, it would still be GROSSLY INSUFFICIENT for Nigeria. It would make our annual budget only roughly equal to ANGOLA's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_budget

We must diversify. Stop running away from that obligation. The problem is that we are addicted to BLAMING. Probably because it is much easier, and much more emotionally satisfying, than THINKING and BRAINSTORMING. That is why even when shown all the evidence to the contrary, you still cannot resist blaming 'corruption' for Nigeria's problems. Get out of the habit. We need to challenge our govt to DIVERSIFY as its prime obligation.

Bevista:
However, one could argue that our low earnings is itself a result of corruption. Most of the money that should get to govt coffers usually gets looted. The oil sector, Nigerian Customs, NPA, NNPC, ETC should all be generating more revenue to govt, yet what you see is that the bosses of those agencies earn far more than what their agencies remit to govt.

This is a misguided view in my opinion. There is no secret about how much Nigeria earns. She exports x million barrels of oil per day, and at x price for Bonny Light crude oil on the international market, she earns X amount, which roughly adds up to the annual earnings published. You might quibble over two billion dollars here or three billion dollars there missing from NNPC accounts, but these are tiny amounts in the grand scheme of things. If we diversified away from oil in a meaningful way, those missing monies would hardly be noticed, because in reality, they are peanuts. Do you think they don't steal money in America, France, UK etc? Of course they do. But because they earn so much damn money, the corruption can be hushed over and ignored, once a few people are paid up. But in Nigeria, we are easily hampered by ''missing NNPC money'' because we are so dependent on that money. It's all we have. We need to diversify away from oil.

Gangster1ms:
Can u imagine a country like pakistan selling us jets?
Who be Pakistan? No be that war torned country?
Nigeria is finished
Buhari must go!


One day u must surely mistakenly grill that ur useless hands u dey use type like zombie here to the point of no return. I can't wait for that day.

Pakistan's annual budget is about 60 billion USD, which is roughly three times the size of Nigeria's annual budget of 22 billion USD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_budget

Nigeria must diversify away from oil, in order to become wealthy enough to build fighter jets and advance towards industrialisation.

In other words, the country does not earn enough money to do what its citizens think should be done.

It does not earn enough money to become a developed country, even without corruption.

In other words, if there was no corruption at all, Nigeria would be hardly different from what it is today. Perhaps only just marginally better.

Take a look at this page:

List of Countries By Annual Budget

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_budget

Under ''Earnings'' you can see that Nigeria earns around the same amount annually as ETHIOPIA.

ALGERIA earns four times more than Nigeria per annum.

KENYA earns more than Nigeria per annum. You read that correctly.

Under ''Expenditures'' which is the budget, you can see that Nigeria's annual budget is 22 billion USD.

South Africa's annual budget is 103 billion USD.

Egypt's annual budget is 55 billion USD.

Saudi Arabia's annual budget is 246 billion USD.

The United States' annual budget is 6.8 TRILLION USD

China: 3.8 TRILLION USD

Japan: 1.9 TRILLION USD

Germany: 1.6 TRILLION USD

France: 1.4 TRILLION USD

United Kingdom: 1.1 TRILLION USD

Italy: 927 billion USD

Brazil: 779 billion USD

India: 725 billion USD

Canada: 657 billion USD

And so on and so forth.....

Even countries we rarely hear about...Austria for example, has an annual budget of 201 billion USD.

Turkey: 190 billion USD

Denmark: 175 billion USD

Finland: 140 billion USD.

Meanwhile most of these nations are far less than Nigeria in population size, meaning far less mouths to feed.

Why won't those places look like heaven compared to Nigeria?

Note: These are the countries that Nigerians keep comparing themselves to, and attacking their govt for not making Nigeria like those countries, and blaming ''corruption'' for the problem of Nigeria not being like those countries. In other words, if the politicians did not embezzle money, Nigeria would be like those countries, including the USA. Nothing could be further from the truth.

As you can see, our Number 1 problem is NOT corruption. It is lack of money. Low national income. Specifically, inadequate diversification away from oil.

Here's some mathematics. If out of the Nigerian govt's annual budget of 22 billion USD, say 6 billion was lost to corruption, that leaves us with 16 billion USD per annum, an admittedly pitiful amount.

But what if Nigeria's annual budget, ie a diversified Nigerian economy's annual budget, was 250 billion USD? Guess what? Even if the politicians stole a full HALF of that amount - highly unlikely in this digital age where such amount cannot be hidden - we would still have a 125 billion USD annual budget. More than enough to solve our basic problems, plus some change left over!

In other words, mathematically speaking, it is very possible for us to TRIPLE or even QUADRUPLE our level of corruption and yet still get on the right path to development, and become an advanced nation, insofar as we put the right economic policies in place.

So, you see, until WE start to stress DIVERSIFICATION as our NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, and far, far ahead of CORRUPTION, we will continue being a people fighting over little crumbs while ignoring the bigger picture, and failing to meet our potential.

Thank you.

ifymadu:
Still trying to figure out what is so impressive about the airport.

Close your eyes and imagine it is in Ghana. Or Sierra Leone. Or Kenya. Or Mali. Or Togo. Anywhere but Nigeria.

Now it looks nice doesn't it?

Idiots with inferiority complex.

wickyyolo:
It's not a contract. It's an investment by the Chinese. Loan is repayable. Between 10-20 years. With atleast. 2.5 interest rate.
Bye dummy

Illiterate.

China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation are the CONTRACTORS for the project.

“This is a contract, it has its clauses that can be invoked. It is a contract between two parties . If he is not doing his part of the bargain we will definitely invoke that contractual provision.''

- Sen. Hadi Sirika. Minister of State For Aviation.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/new-port-harcourt-airport-terminal-to-be-completed-by-july-minister.html

wickyyolo:
We are only good at paying loans. It's good Chinese built it. If this was a contract. It won't get finished in the next 15years

Actually, dumbo, it WAS a contract. I knew someone would come in here and find a way to deride the project.

If these pictures came from Ghana or Mali or Togo, or Uganda, or Senegal, this thread would have been flooded with people praising it, and condemning Nigeria for not being like that. But it is shown to be in Nigeria, and nobody cares. The few goats like you, who come in, will come in to criticise it. Bunch of self-hating peabrains. And you wonder why outsiders treat you like trash when you see nothing good in yourselves.

emmie14:
Your friend told you. I have spent straight 6months in Uganda working on Nestle project.

He still knows more than you. He was born and bred there. You were just a visitor who led a pampered life there available to only a few Ugandans. Being a dumb Nigerian with inferiority complex, you automatically assumed the good life you led there was the norm for all Ugandans, making it ''better than Nigeria''. Dumbo.

The poor understanding existing in your generation didn't allow to balance your coconut dead brains from realities & emphasis. I compared the interruptions in Nigeria school system and security. Ugandan independence, 9th October,1962. I didn't mention infrastructures. While not address the subject matter? Although Nigeria is also dead in infrastructure but not to compare with Uganda.

Shut your stupid dumb mouth. How many universities are there in Uganda, with your 'better organized'' GARBAGE? When you have only one or two universities built for the tiny elite minority, why won't it be organised? When you have only one city in the entire country, why won't it be organised? Why won't it be 'safe'? Where else would the police go, but Kampala? You went to live a pampered life there for six months working for Nestle. How many Ugandans could live that life you led there? Keep hating yourselves and your country. Is that not why outsiders treat you people like trash, when they know you are steeped in inferiority complex and self loathing? When you hate yourselves and your country, and think everyone is better than you, why would anyone treat you with respect? Mumu people. Abeg fck off my face jare. Worthless.

emmie14:
What do you mean by ordinary? Uganda got their sovereignty 9th October, 1962. Educational system is better organized without strike and related interruption as in Nigeria. The country is not rich but the people are happy with themselves. Crime is less as movements in the town last's for 24hrs.

Oh sure..Uganda is heaven on earth, and Nigeria is hell.

You Nigerians and your inferiority complex. I bet you, with your fat big mouth, you could not live for one week in Uganda. Stupid, self hating people. Ask yourselves how many roads there are in Uganda? How many cities? Do you know I have a Ugandan friend who still can't believe we visit our villages for christmas in Nigeria? He said in Uganda, the villages are desolate, with zero facilities, no markets, nothing. Forget about electricity. Maybe a few aid trucks from UNICEF to feed the old people there. Just like those poor villages you see on CNN. He said once you manage to leave your village in Uganda, it's goodbye for ever. Nobody goes back, or builds their homes there etc. Roads don't even lead to the villages. You park somewhere and use a footpath.

By contrast, in Nigerian villages these days you have banks, electricity, multiple markets and shops filled with goods from all over the world. Even hotels. Expressways lead there. Until you people start to appreciate what you have in Nigeria, you will never make progress. Useless set of self loathing fools. Uganda is now ''better than Nigeria'', because you saw a bridge. Stupid goats.

CAPSLOCKED:
WOW, LAGOS IS THE NEW DUBAI !!

Nigeria is a developing country. Even nations ahead of Nigeria in development have slums. Rio De Janeiro in Brazil, Mexico City, and Mumbai, India come to mind, among other places.

So take a chill pill.

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Thickcok01:
Who stadium epp

Recreation is good for the body and soul.

Life is not all about money and food.

Countersam:
For this one alone, Baba God please let Nigeria fail to repay her loans and China eventually take over this country. And whenever that happens as it pleases you, please let these bad politicians alive today still be alive to be sentenced to death.

If you support follow me say..... AMEN!

Brainless he-goat. China has NOT executed her own corrupt officials - apart from this provincial small fry. It is your own they will come and execute, because they love you more than they love themselves. MUMU.

Kingosytex:
when will this kind of punishment be meted out to nigerian polithiefcians and politricians?


if it were so, people like OBJ, IBB, tiffnubu, saraki, akpabio, buhari, ali modu sheriff and others would have been history

USE YOUR BRAIN. In China, the same ''selective justice'' you accuse Buhari of is also happening. Do you think Xi Jing Ping's close officials are not corrupt? Why hasn't he executed any of them?

If Buhari EXECUTED Atiku or Diezani for their corruption, you will come here and shout ''murderer'', ''Selective justice'', ''What about Tinubu?', etc etc.

Do you think XI Jin Ping's closest cohorts are not engaged in corruption? Do you think he himself is not corrupt? Heck, he just made himself ''President For Life'' over there.

WHEN WILL YOU PEOPLE START TO USE YOUR BRAINS?

INSTEAD OF JUST LATCHING UNTO ANY FOREIGN NEWS YOU SEE AND USE IT TO BEAT UP YOUR COUNTRY, WHY DON'T YOU THINK FIRST ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE BEING SHOWN?

THAT CHINA YOU ARE WORSHIPING AND SAYING ''WHY CAN'T WE BE LIKE THEM?'' THERE ARE NO ELECTIONS. NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THOUSANDS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS, MANY OF WHOM ARE TORTURED AND MURDERED.

WOULD YOU TOLERATE THAT IN NIGERIA?

STOP LOOKING AT JUST THE 'GOOD' OF CHINA. LOOK AT THE 'COST' OF THAT GOOD THING YOU ARE SEEING AND ASK YOURSELF IF YOU ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT SUCH REPRESSION AND IMPUNITY IN NIGERIA.

I CAN GUARANTEE YOU that that MINOR OFFICIAL was only executed BECAUSE he was a MINOR OFFICIAL. A SMALL FRY with NO CONNECTIONS.

The REAL BIG WIGS in China are UNTOUCHABLE, including the dictator.

USE YOUR BRAINS AND STOP BEING DUMB BECAUSE IF THE SAME THING HAPPENED HERE, WHEREBY BUHARI EXECUTED SOME UNKNOWN OFFICIAL IN BAYELSA STATE OR ANAMBRA, YOU WILL COME OUT HERE AND SHOUT AND SCREAM. ''murderer... What about such and such person...''

In China you can't even do that, because if you did, you would be next to face the executioner.

WHAT HAPPENED IN CHINA WAS A MERE PUBLICITY STUNT TO PESENT THE APPEARANCE OF ANTI-CORRUPTION USING THAT SMALL FRY AS THE FALL GUY.

THANK GOODNESS THAT CANNOT HAPPEN IN NIGERIA, THANKS TO OUR DEMOCRACY.

THE ANSWER TO THIS IS SO SIMPLE. EXECUTE HIM IMMEDIATELY. END OF STORY.

kYjelly2:
Leave us positive thinkers to try to fashion out a country that meets our expectations!

The Laptop/Phone you are using right now started as an idea. Many laughed at the idea that a personal computer could ever exist, that everyone around could have a desktop computer was considered to be a fantasy.

Now we even have computers small enough to fit in our pockets and make phone calls on.

Many laughed when Aristotle said that the Earth was Spherical.

So you may laugh at the possibility of a better Nigeria, but I will dream and work towards it!

The earth is not spherical. It is flat. Go and do some research.

Onlinealaba:
When I saw how the U.S is handling the killing of a journalist in Saudi Arabia I just smh for my country naija, human life is not worth anything down here , people die everyday from govt bad policy and how they handle issues and everybody sees it as normal and nobody is talking,it is well..young man R.I.P your only mistake was you were a Nigerian.

Shut up your fcking mouth. How is the US handing the Khashoggi murder? Is Trump not siding with the Saudi authorities who slaughtered the man in their embassy and chopped up his body? Is he not supporting them because of his business interests with them? IDIOTTTT. Even when Oyibo shows you his corruption, your mumu, white worshiping head will still translate it as being a good thing.

fashrola:
Who told you there's no food in AKS?

Electricity? Really

No good roads? Really Really

You could talk of jobs... Then I could agree with you

Nice response.

But even the jobs aspect, how else do you create jobs but by building stuff like STADIUMS and other edifices and infrastructure? Jobs do not just magically appear out of nothing unless you want to send everybody to the farm. Jobs were created in Eket because a stadium of that size in a small city like Eket would have created THOUSANDS of jobs for all sorts of people there. I say the govt there should be COMMENDED for building these things. And the more projects the better.

Sop201818:
Stop comparing Nigeria with England. England built their stadium where it would directly impact their economy unlike what your man is doing.

Shut up and stop saying what you know nothing about. The first Wembley Stadium was built in the Nineteenth century, during Victorian times when the majority in England lived in absolute poverty, with child slavery the norm. Same as Buckingham palace, Trafalgar Square, and other edifices and landmarks many of you travel today to go and admire. Mr ''Oyibo is perfect''. Ewu.

temptnow:
This country is fcked, who would believe that a whole so-called lagos city doesn't have a 50,000 minimum state of the art stadium.

It shows this over centralized Abuja thing is destroying this country.but what do I know, we go die for this country.

How does Lagos not having a ''minimum 50,000 seater stadium'' mean that NIGERIA is fuc.ked? Is Lagos Nigeria? Why can't the Lagos State govt build a stadium? Who built the one in Uyo? Was it the federal govt? The one in Eket, who is building it? Is it Buhari? If you have a problem, be accurate with whom to blame for the problem. Don't rope in ''NIGERIA'' into everything. Lagos has more than enough income to build a huge stadium if they so wish. Take your problem to them. Nonsense.

Earthquake1:
China has plans to recolonize Africa to compete with Trump's USA on power

OH SHUT UP. I am really sick of peope like you who know nothing, talking about a country ''recolonizing'' fifty-four independent countries, based on a logic you pulled out of your asss.

If debt was enough to ''recolonize'' a country, why is America not a Chinese colony? Do you know how much America owes China? Why are African countries not ''colonies'' of Germany or the UK, since they owe money to the World Bank and IMF, and have done so for several decades? Just because you hear some garbage from western sources jealous of China's relationship with Africa, you parrot their bullshiit like a thoughtless goat.

Omololu001:
they didn't sign contract for more roads, good and affordable houses/schools/hospitals to be built, nah airport dem wan build,how many people dey travel into and out of Sierra Leone

How do you know they didn't sign contracts for the aforementioned? When last did you read Sierra Leonian news? Idiot.

Amah70:
Mourning for people killed by Boko Haram and herdsmen can't stop in Nigeria, so long as one Nigeria continues to exist.

But the majority of people killed by Boko Haram are northerners. So what does your tribalism have to do with it?