₦airaland Forum

hargbolahan01:
do you drive innoson
how many of use imose smartphone even though it's Nigeria brand.
do you use zinox computer even though over 50 percent of the product is manufactured in Nigeria?

you think a country that will put foreign product over there own will grow

this is not a bad mouthing and negative attitude but the behavior of most Nigerians and is killings us....these are the topic you should have started before imagination topic

Nigeria is a capitalist society. You do not use emotion or sentiment when dealing with commerce.

If and when Nigerian manufacturers produce affordable, durable, relevant goods, they will get Nigerian patronage.

Nigerians are buying Innoson vehicles. I plan on getting one too.

Nigerians used to patronise foreign films, music, fashion etc, until sharp Nigerians began to Nigerianize those sectors, and now, Nigerians want nothing else but the Nigerian version, so your point is baseless.

If you come out with something good that makes sense, and is well-branded, Nigerians will buy!

Strange57:
Nigeria will definitely get there i strongly believe this...

Nigeria is definitely getting there.

Places like Awka, Uyo, Nnewi, Warri, Calabar, Oshogbo, Abakaliki, Asaba etc were just glorified villages a couple decades ago.

Today you go there and you see expressways, flyovers, shopping malls, general hospitals, universities etc.

ednut1:
population that will emigrate to asia and the west. Wake up from your slumber. With all the oil revenue we achieved nothing. Is it wen oil becomes useless that we will now achieve anything. Abegi

Nigeria is diversifying rapidly away from oil. Oil and gas only accounts for 10% of our GDP.

Take a cue from INNOSON. From spare parts dealer to owner of the world's largest black owned vehicle manufacturing company.

If every Nigerian thought like him - positive, bold, and innovative - Nigeria could be a Japan in 10 years time.

With YOUR mindset, we'll go the opposite way.

phorget:
This is the internet bro, internet that was never invented in your dead country. I wish you'll widen up your horizons and understand my position. Can a country actually die? The answer is no! But the moment a country's economy, political structures,education,agriculture and every other sector is not functioning then automatically the country is dead.

Would you be able to convince me about a functional sector in Nigeria?
I always wished and pray for the country's peace but just like God hardened the heart of Pharaoh for destruction so also has he hardened the heart of Nigerian leaders so that he can destroy Nigeria. No amount of optimism is going to save Nigeria from destruction, you can choose to believe or not but I'll indulge you to always remember the voice of the one who cries from the wilderness... Nigeria has gone to the dogs already and breaking up is imminent bro.

Why do people like you always feel the need to come online to convince the rest of us of your bullshiit?

We're not interested. Get lost.

hargbolahan01:
I love this your imagination but you forget to put plan on how to get there as many people are telling you but you are just insulting them

and how can we build all these skyscrapers when we can't even construct our roads (check most of roads under construction by FG, you will see them being handled by foreigners) is that what chinese and indians are doing toady?

I don't know where you go school but if went to school in Nigeria... you will see our education system is not structured to produce people that will build this....

How did we move from THIS:

ABUJA, 1975:

[img]https:///5294/5477592722_e38f744aa0_b.jpg[/img]


To THIS:

ABUJA 2020:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/62/3f/7e/623f7e86a70977e1638d1c112b70de7d.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/33/09/a8/3309a8aa9c1ac365c6c93a090d9a5883.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/81/fa/1f81fa6b952ada77f5e4d5fd9dabd832.jpg



How did we move from THIS:

LAGOS ISLAND 1950:

https://www.travelstart.com.ng/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Carter-bridge-street-scene-Lagos-Island-1950s.-Published-by-Federal-ministry-of-Information.jpg

TO THIS:

LAGOS ISLAND 2020:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6J1lsyf_1nc/maxresdefault.jpg


That is your homework for today I'm giving you.

ednut1:
With which funds

Nigeria to become ninth-largest economy as world population shrinks

Alok Gupta

''As the population shrinks in many parts of the world, Nigeria – a developing country with a raging young workforce – could become the ninth-largest global economy, drastically changing the world order in 2100.

According to a modelling study by the University of Washington, the world's population would be far less in the next century than previously estimated, but a lot older, providing opportunities to countries with a young populations to boost their economies.

The prediction that Nigeria will become the world's ninth-largest economy with a life expectancy higher than 80 years is based on the projection that, by 2100, Nigeria will have a population size that is 3.8 times larger than 2017, according to the study published in The Lancet on Wednesday.

The country, presently ranked as the 28th largest global economy, is likely to witness negative GDP growth this year and gradually improve its ranking to 17th largest in 2050. It will finally find a place in the world's top 10 economies as its working-age population swells from 86 million in 2017 to 458 million in 2100.''

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-07-15/Nigeria-to-become-ninth-largest-economy-as-world-population-shrinks-S7zJvuqynS/index.html

EVILFOREST:
I'm more interested in ABA...

Aba loading Sir, based on national economic growth projections to 2065.

phorget:
I sincerely understand your act of patriotism but I know deep down your mind you actually know that Nigeria is long dead.
Things weren't this bad in the year 1975, yet some intelligent individuals knew exactly that Nigeria was already walking into the path of doom and alas!today here we are.
Keep been so optimistic bro but I can assure you that Jesus himself admitted it on the cross when he made the statement "it is finished"... Nigeria is indeed finished.

Yaawwwwnnnnn...... Put your typing fingers where your mouth is.

What are you always doing on a ''dead'' country's forum?

You're like the man who says ''I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry'', yet comes into my shop everyday to beg peppersoup.

Bialegend:
Bro, you have simply done justice to that Ayahuasca fool called Rossike. The idiot has been posting same pictures since twenty years ago. Visit cybereagles.com/forum and search for his posts 20 yrs ago and you will find same pictures and many topics on this same photos all over the forum. He is a certified Ayahuasca drinker and the Ayahuasca has damaged his brain seriously. The idiot is above 60 yrs old and still believe in a failed one zoo.

20 years ago? But I thought YOU were saying, ''20 years ago'', that Nigeria would break up in the next 2 to 3 years.

Just like you're saying today.

I think you're the loon.

Meanwhile, in the last 20 years, Nigerian cities have improved in infrastructure by an absolute mile. Uyo, Calabar, Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, Owerri, Asaba, Awka, Abuja, et al, have all witnessed SIGNIFICANT infrastructural development in the last couple of decades.

And who can ignore the investments in rail and airport infrastructure that have transformed those sectors?

So I'm right. We ARE moving forward, and you, Mr Nigeria will break up tomorrow, are wrong.

flyingpig:
where is Abakaliki

Abakaliki loading sir.

LeeMason:
Nigeria will never be this clean, organized or developed even if we add extra 5years to the target.

Strictly your opinion.

brudiga:
so what is the difference between those two nonsense links you posted Mr Dumbojet?

The reason for the first link was because your moronic fore fathers do not have/ possess the technical knowhow of how to build something like that of the second link at that time. Which was one of the reasons they sent some of your supposedly brightest ones to go study for free in the western world so as to see things like that and replicate it here. But you will never know because you are a moronic black man that has unbelievably limited ability to project and think long-term.

Up till today, your moronic 200 million idiots still can't build roads and bridges by themselves.(Julius Berger, RCC, arab contractors China cces) are still the ones doing it for your useless 200 million. But because you are a massive disgrace to the rest of the human race, you will never know.

Now ask yourself Mr Dumbojet, if you cannot do it yourself at 200million do you in your small mind think you can perform magic at 500 million and 1billion?

If you have any iota of brain left, you would have known that it is the oil money that is still helping your useless self to still function as a country.

The moment that oil becomes useless to the oyinbo people which is likely to happen before 2030, how will your moronic 200million continue to hold under a massively geometrically growing population of over 350 different ethnic groups?

But because you are a selfish bastard that always exhibit the excessive lack of forward thinking just like your forefathers , how will you care abbout the future of your children and grand children?

Dude, just go away.

Nobody here wants you.

wiseone28:
How many Nigerian city have proper town planning to begin with?

How many cities in the world you see every house having overhead tank in their compound.

Stop dreaming wake up.

We are too self centered to think outside the box.

Yaawwwnnnn........Same thing the residents of Broad Street said in 1954.

Same thing the villagers of central Nigeria said in 1975 when we told them there would be a modern, world class city named Abuja replacing their huts.

Same thing the villagers of Uyo said when we told them in 1982 that their village, Uyo, would be among Nigeria's most beautiful cities in 2020.

NIGERIA keeps proving you naysayers and negativists wrong.

phorget:
In the 2065 there won't be a country by the name "Nigeria", all we would have left would rather be a broken natives.

Same thing your type have been saying since 1975. Yet we are still here.

Your type will be saying the same thing in 2065, yet Nigeria will still be here.

Wanna bet?

wiseone28:
Op e be like say you dey use Mary Jane

Even 100 yrs to come no Nigerian city can look like today's Dubai or even Capetown

If you'd told the residents of Broad Street in 1954, that their street would look like it does today, with skyscrapers and sidewalks, they would have said the same thing. ''Impossible''. ''What have you been smoking? ''Why are you dreaming?''

So smart people like us know to ignore the negativity of your ilk, incapable of seeing beyond their noses.

brudiga:
mumunatu. selfish goat.

Foresight lacking goat

If you had a working brain in your dumb head, you would note that we had a national population of 32 million in 1960, when Broad Street Lagos looked like this:

[img]https://eluquenson.files./2014/02/88e61-broad2b2.jpg[/img]

Today, at 200 million, the same street looks like this:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uur3ehXZmk0/maxresdefault.jpg


Lesson: Population growth does not lead to regression, but accompanies development.

Princeton92:
Whose? Yours or present Nigerian Government??

Not everything is about ''government''.

Get off your government dependency syndrome.

Nigeria is a capitalist economy, which by 2050, will be the world's 3rd most populous nation after China and India.

It will be a magnet for investment from all over the world by virtue of its huge consumer market.

Go out there and do your thing, and your kids may be building one of those future skyscrapers.

Princeton92:
When are you going to wake from your dream?

It's not a dream. It's a projection.

Warri

[img]https://www.inscape.ac/media/sample-site/inscape-website/content-assets/images/locations/pretoria/Location_Pretoria_Overview.jpg[/img]
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2018/10/03/USAT/52c93270-3c36-4539-9bdd-35ba7a5112d5-GettyImages-874734912.jpg

clintz:
Where is Warri?

Loading sir.

Calabar

https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/14/10/2f/63/philadelphia.jpg?w=1100&h=600&s=1
https://cdn.abcotvs.com/dip/images/6127501_042420-wpvi-pennsylvania-threshold-cpr-4pm-video-vid.jpg?w=800&r=16%3A9
[img]https://miro.medium.com/max/696/1*Uyvl3Xbmr57lAH8jbu4gsg.jpeg[/img]



Enugu
https://a.cdn-hotels.com/gdcs/production25/d18/2a79eb9b-cabc-490f-9889-8a9276932c3b.jpg




Ibadan

https://s3.india.com/travel/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Mumbai-skyline-625x470.jpg
https://factcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/interesting-facts-about-Jakarta-scaled.jpg








Kano

[img]https://img.theweek.in/content/dam/week/news/world/images/2019/9/4/jakarta-city-centre-monas-wikicom.jpg[/img]



Kaduna

https://cdn.britannica.com/88/132688-050-E9739DD9/Skyline-Jakarta-Indonesia.jpg
https://e3.365dm.com/19/04/2048x1152/skynews-jakarta-indonesia_4653762.jpg

Benin City

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Midtown_atlanta_%28cropped%29.jpg/850px-Midtown_atlanta_%28cropped%29.jpg




Ilorin

https://cw-gbl-gws-prod.azureedge.net/-/media/cw/americas/united-states/office-pages/georgia/atlanta-mobile.jpg?rev=d4a932cf1fcb41b7ad95e4c892aad1c8




Onitsha

https://www.riotgames.com/darkroom/1440/7ef31125920bc2fa35df438b6568978e:ecc6a5be474ffab0ac39b3298334c28d/shanghai-1.jpg
https://www.silverkris.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bangkok-skyline-960x530.jpg
https://www.hayesandjarvis.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/hero_breakpoints_theme_hnj_theme_md_1x/public/rosewoodbangkok200130/Rosewood-Bangkok-Property-View-001-121686.jpg?itok=9rthylXY


Jos

[img]https://media.bizj.us/view/img/11306503/atlanta-downtown-skyline-20184bs*1200xx4928-2772-0-254.jpg[/img]

Abuja

[img]https://cache.marriott.com/marriottassets/marriott/YYZTC/yyztc-exterior-6671-hor-wide.jpg?interpolation=progressive-bilinear&downsize=1440px:*[/img]
https://www.roughguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/lumpini-park-bangkok-thailand-shutterstock_1119995195.jpg



Port Harcourt

https://www.mccarter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Location-Philadelphia.png
https://moving2canada.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/vancouver-sunny-1200x675.jpg
https://www.azamara.com/sites/default/files/heros/vancouver-british-columbia-1800x1000.jpg
[img]https://financialpostcom.files./2019/05/vancouver.jpg[/img]
https://www.holidify.com/images/bgImages/BANGKOK%20.jpg

Lagos
https://cdn.businesstraveller.com/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/984688/Bangkok-916x516.jpg
https://www.platinumpublishing.co.uk/uploads/magazines/surrey-chambers/08/Abu-Dhabi-Skyline.jpg
[img]https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/vancouversun/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/png0713-weather-04.jpg?quality=100&strip=all&w=380[/img]
https://imagevars.gulfnews.com/2020/08/18/Stock-Abu-Dhabi-skyline_174010ee5af_large.jpg

Corona22:
Why exactly is our budget so low. Why are we generating so low amount of revenue yearly, no refinery , no sensible fiscal policy , no sensibly economy plan
What are you saying ??
We are not saying Nigeria is not moving forward.... we are saying the pace is too slow to keep up with our counterparts around the world.
Check out Singapore and China’s condition at 1960 compared to now if you’re so hung up on population

Singapore is an artificially created western capitalist outpost which was supported after WW2 to act as a capitalist bulwark against Soviet-backed communism in the Asia Pacific. Together with 3 other selected Asian 'tigers' they we given unprecedented access to western technology, access to western markets for their finished goods, and huge monetary grants and loans at give-away rates. That is how they became 'tiger economies' so different from their 'non-chosen' Asian neighbours like Burma, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, North Korea, and others.

China? Are you ready to do what China did to get where they are?

China's history is of bloody suppression of dissent, one-party rule, zero democracy, a ban on politics, no freedom of speech or association, imprisonment without trial, communism, and a ban on almost ALL imports.

Are you ready to sacrifice your liberties, as the Chinese did, to become 'developed' in 30 years' time?

Are you ready to suffer a ban on ALL imported vehicles, in order to encourage local production, and thereby revert to riding BICYCLES?

Because this is exactly what China did.

See, it is so easy to point at countries, and say ''Look at Dubai! Look at China! Look at Singapore!''

But you must study the history of each of those countries to learn HOW they 'made it', or you won't be doing yourself justice.

Easternmind:
I hear you,developing since 1960,will it develop forever? It's the same 'its developing till 2099,acknowledge the failures and woes and see how it could change Nigeria for better is what I prefer...

1960 is like yesterday in terms of development.

The USA was independent for 200 years before it became a developed nation.

India and Pakistan got independence in 1947, yet there are still developing countries, with very similar problems to Nigeria.

Leave nations like UAE with tiny populations and huge oil wealth. In the real world, development of nations takes SEVERAL DECADES TO CENTURIES.

EXCUSE ME WHILE I DO A BIG FAT YAWN TO THIS...

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Broad Street Lagos 1954
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/AuNqUJvCEAAaioa.png

Broad Street Lagos today
[img]https://africanismcosmopolitan.files./2013/03/20130308-092034.jpg?w=639[/img]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uur3ehXZmk0/maxresdefault.jpg

https://www.thetrentonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Broad-Street-Lagos-Island-_Fotor.jpg

Lesson: We haven't stood still either.

The only difference we see in the Dubai pics is their skyscrapers are taller. Nothing else is new to Nigeria in those pics.

By the way, do any of you realise that UAE has a population of 9.6 million people, which amounts to ONE QUARTER the population of Lagos, yet has THREE TIMES Nigeria's oil reserves, and exports TWO AND HALF TIMES MORE BARRELS PER DAY than Nigeria, a developing country of 200 million people?

I mean, UAE can build any type of city it wants to with that kind of money coming in.

Their annual budget is 70 billion dollars.

Nigeria's is 35 billion dollars.

I mean...come on.