grandstar:


That's it. It will take time for people to get accustomed to our cooking. I'm very sure it was that way when the Indians began.

A Mexican kid in the US used to be ashamed taken his meals to school worried that his classmates would make fun of him. His mum told him to share some with his classmates instead, and they loved it! I think it was a taco. This was like 40 years ago, so Mexican food was little known in the US back then.

It will take some time getting used to our food or they may make it continental which would make the smell and taste globally acceptable

Mexican food is really good though unlike Nigerian food.

zomby:
A Nigerian lady in the UK hinted that the UK wants to ban Nigerian food in offices because of the smell and that she supports the motion, Citing that our local delicacy smells bad whenever it's being warmed in offices in the UK.

I fully support the move.
Without a doubt, Nigerian food are delicious and very special, but they do not belong in offices, especially in a foreign county. Let us be sensible and think about others in the office that may not like Nigerian food; don't be the Obidientss...who only think about themselves and respect nothing.

It’s just soup and rice. It’s distgusting.

saal:
This girl is an idiot, na her body dey smell and she dey talk say na Nigerian food. This is the same food, u have being eaten till u grow to that level? Useless girl. Up Nigeria food.

It’s disgusting

Mindlog:
Which ban? Low self-esteem!

What of Indians whey no send anybody when it comes to their meals, dem go microwave am at work and everyone gets used to it.

Their food is actually nice and smells good.

LogicBomb8:
South africans and jealousy they want everything Nigerians have, what they can not posses they hate but they dont know its not material things Nigerians are just blessed its not our fault we dont force this thing. i know if bigbroda is fair and impartial it will be won by a Nigerian

Nigerians aren’t blessed. Your food is disgusting and stinks.

[quote author=juneman post=89223889][/quote]
There wouldn’t be Nigeria at all. It was Lugard’s wife that even coined the name “Nigeria” Nigera would just have been 3-5 countries. It would be like a trading block.

fulaniHERDSman:
Then there wouldn't have been the criminal contraption called Nigeria and all this dubious foreign Religions that were used as colonization tools. Yet Africa would have developed at its own pace and in truth to its self. Corruption that destroyed and is still wrecking Africa would have been minimal as our traditional religions and culture had it in check. The white man created Nigeria fraudulently hence the pervasive corruption. A forced mixture of oil and water. A wicked Concoction of Light and darkness that has refused to blend. A terrible compound formulated by titration of known corrosive acids and other mild chemicals.
Egypt was among the first civilizations without the white man's criminal contribution.

Africa would have been even poorer. Obviously, Western imperialism was bad for not just Africa, but the entire world. Corruption has always been present in African society. It wouldn’t have just died because Europeans didn’t set foot on their land.

Moh247:
Laziness

It is true. It’s why I get vexed when Afrocentrists/ Pan Africanists state that “the reason the West is rich and Africa is poor is because they looted the resources” They make it seem as if Africa was some sort of haven before Europeans arrived. They also act like the resources that the west “looted” from them that they would have made good use of it. Even if the West never colonised Africa, All the natural resources they took from Africa would just have been looted by the elites of Africa. Africans wouldn’t have used those resources to anywhere near the extent that the west has used it to develop their society, not by any stretch of imagination. 21st century economics is not about the resources you have. It’s about how you use them. It’s about creating demand for a good or service. The West didn’t just become rich. They industrialised centuries ago. Westerners use that bit of matter between their ears to get to where they are now. Look at Ethiopia and Liberia, It was never colonised but still poor as Bleep. Who there’s to blame now?

Have u checked the population of USA, china, etc and they are still doing just fine. Op go and die.

That’s dumb. Why would you compare yourself to t:9’e of the largest economies in the world?

soloehis:
Ordinarily UK is
Like advance Lagos.. if our leaders do well wetin we wan find for UK?

That’s an incredibly big IF. Such a big IF that I can’t even begin to explain it. Nigeria’s existence is a big illusion. You can’t have a country where two regions have two very different religions. Having Nigeria as one country is like trying to have Saudi Arabia and Vatican City as one country.

Quelme:
Nigeria should be at least number 3.

Fake data.

Where is the evidence? You can’t bring anecdotes to an argument.

Quintopia:


You are a trusty little dunce for whom every dodgy western statistic is tantamount to Angel Gabriel speaking. Mumu.

Why don’t YOU tell us how your white master calculates the ages of people in Nigeria.

TELL US!

Of course you have no clue.

He just told you he calculated it and gave you a number, 52 years, and you accepted like a mumu.

If he comes tomorrow and tells you it has fallen to 32 years, you will accept it like a mumu without asking a single question.

Pathetic.

This is why I admire the Chinese.

They never accept western statistics.

They will conduct their own research and present their figures and if you don’t like it, you can go to hell.

Typical Afrocentric nonsense. You think that any stat about your country is Western “propaganda” when it was provided by the Bureau Statistics Office of your country 🤦🏾🤦🏾😂😂

Quintopia:


These white people and their fake, racist statistics.

How do they calculate this stuff?

Where and where did they go in Africa to start checking peoples' ages?

From all the millions of old people in the villages that were not registered when they were born 80, 90 or even hundred and something years ago?

How do they know their ages?

Did they visit my village where we have old people that are over 120 years old?

How do they know their ages, to reach their average life expectancy?

Abeg carry this rubbish commot for here jare.

Any nonsense oyinbo write, una go just swallow.

So full of trust.

Rubbish.

You’re foolish, They get those stats from the relevant statistics offices in those nations. That life expectancy is highly accurate. Everything you say is anecdotal😂😂. It’s not empirical evidence. How can you bring anecdotes to an argument about statistics? 🤣🤣

Shikini:


You're an illiterate.
Oga, stop disgracing online
.

I see as to why Africa has such a low literacy rate now 😂

YourNextLevel:
Just say that WE ARE ORGANIC , case closed..

Africa is neither. How can be organic or natural when you’re destroying the nature around you? It’s like saying you have a partner. You have a “connection” to that partner but yet you abuse and insult that person. What kind of connection is that? Africans have a very toxic relationship with nature 😂😂 You can’t love/be connected to something but also killing it at the same time. What kind of love and connection is that? I’m not trying to be an environmentalist. But if you’re going to market your way of life as “natural’. At least take care of the environment. Marketing African lifestyle as natural is delusional. Putting on animal skin instead of clothes is not natural as you’ve had to kill that animal. You can’t kill and love something at the same time.

Rostikol:


Absolute nonsense.

If India had waited to fix all their roads and power supply issues, they would not have achieved the moon landing.

Development is not linear.

You must simultaneously build your infrastructure and your technological capacity.

It is VILLAGE MENTALITY that says “let us fix A and B before we can do C.”

Development may not be linear. But you still obviously need the basics.

India’s Development is nowhere as bad as Nigeria. Just compare the HDI

Nigeria HDI-0.531

India HDI-0.633 HDI

Putting African and Asian countries on the same sentence when it comes to development is bizzare.

It’s like when you want to build a house. First thing you need to put in place is the foundation. You need a pretty solid foundation to start a home to prevent things like leakages, circuit problems and all that. With India, They can get the basics right to a certain extent. They have a solid foundation. In Nigeria, The foundation is virtually non-existent. NOTHING IN NIGERIA works.

Legal System doesn’t work

Epileptic power supply or none at all

Dilipadited or no infrastructure at all

Poor roads or none at all

There is no piped water system in Nigeria

Open Sewage

It’s an endless list of all the problems in Nigeria. If I had to post all of them. Nairaland servers would crash 😂

Nigeria and Africa in general is the biggest joke of the century. When I was last in Nigeria, I was leaving the airport at a terminal that was recently built by the Chinese not even Nigerians. Yet the country has somehow managed to Bleep it up. The lifts weren’t working and some of the escalators weren’t either.

Rostikol:


Nigeria’s GDP is 1.15 TRILLION DOLLARS calculated by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP).

It is proportionally higher than India’s, considering they have a 1.4 billion population, more than all Africa (1.2 billion).

So money is not the issue.

And India has not “fixed basic infrastructure”.

Go on Google Earth and view their cities.

They just look like Naija.

Truth is it will take DECADES to “fix basic infrastructure” in Nigeria, even if we are ruled by saints.

220 million population is no joke. A LOT still needs to be built.

We cannot be waiting to complete the task of development while the world leaves us behind in TECHNOLOGY.

India understood this.

So should we.

PPP is only relevant to the domestic economy not internationally. Nigeria can’t even take care of the population or give basic amenities. Africa is a joke 😂😂

hodari:

Before the industrial revolution, Trans-Atlantic slavery and colonialism the European nobility practiced slavery on their own people (feudalism).

London was a filthy, disease ridden city where millions regularly died of bubonic plagues, cholera and so on.

The most advanced city in Europe at the time was the muslim ruled Cordoba in Spain (Al-Andalus).

Ahaha 🤣 😂😂😂, Come on now you’ve got to be a bit more original than that. You can’t just give me the usual drivel that you Afrocentrists/Pan-Africanists give which is “It’s all the white man’s fault” (as if Africa was the only continent colonised ignoring Latin America, Asia and Oceania)

The fact that your having to compare modern day Africa to ancient European civilisations proves my point which is that Africa is a primitive wasteland, that doesn’t stack up to the rest of the world in any way, shape or form. It never has and never will. It is a cursed land. It is a lost cause. It is a failure. The biggest failure in human history. Whilst the Asians and European civilisations are competing for dominance in Space and achievements in both science and technology. What are Africans doing? Electricity which is technology of 200 years ago. You haven’t cracked it yet. There is no piped water system in Africa.

Ancient Rome and Greece is more advanced than the civilisations you speak of. The Romans and Greeks were more sophisticated than modern day Africans. They had more sophisticated political, legal and social systems. Greeks brought the concept of democracy’s they invented theatres,water clocks, baths etc.

The infrastructure of Ancient Greece and Rome (some of which is intact) can even rival the dilipiated or non-existent infrastructure that is in Africa today.

Compare the two

shotuns:
The recent reports say " African population should reduce because we are useless, in fact the right word used was "deplorable" NIGERIA IS IN TRANCE. Do not allow your children from jss 1-ss3 to take vaccines at school , they are here again with their methods of population reduction.

It’s because they know that Africa can’t manage a population of a such a size. Africa can’t even take care of the population they have now. Yet they think they can handle 4-5 times that amount? 😂😂😂😂. What a joke.

wirinet:

Not exactly correct. All parts of the world has their own particular disease depending on environment and climate. The hot and humidity tropics harbour more varieties of diseases than the cold poles. The issue is not really about the number of diseases themselves but on spread from one region to the other. Most locals build up immunity and defence against local diseases, the problems is when diseases are transfered to other areas that have the people have no immunity whatsoever.

Many disease were unknown to Africa until the coming of the Europeans. Diseases like Polio, syphilis, corona virus, and other were non existent before the white man. In fact when the white man went to America, imported diseases wiped out a third of their population.

All the plagues of the past emanated from Europe or Asia.

That is of the past I am talking about now. Africa is the most disease prone continent by far.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/africa-disease-prone-continent-world-bank/amp/

Europeans may have brought those diseases. But at least they have wiped them out. It was only a few years ago that Africa was able to get past freaking polio for crying out loud. Numbers do not lie. Diseases are killing Africans at are a far greater rate than they are in the rest of the world. That’s largely why African life expectancies are barely on par with medieval Europe.

https://www.afro.who.int/news/deaths-noncommunicable-diseases-rise-africa


https://files.aho.afro.who.int/afahobckpcontainer/production/files/iAHO_Mortality_Regional-Factsheet.pdf


Things like HIV,AIDS and other diseases are far more prevalent in Africa than they are in other regions of the world. Diseases are killing Africans to a much greater extent than the rest of the world. Africa is centuries behind the rest of the world technologically and in every other and thus its medicine doesn’t stack up to the rest of the world. Just compare the life expectancies, infant and maternal mortality rates, healthcare quality of Africa to the rest of the world. Your continent is a joke. I honestly struggle to believe that such a failure of a continent could even exist

https://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/ec2c739a-b283-4a96-8e2c-35eab64618b5/gr1_lrg.jpg

wirinet:

You must be joking. The poverty in the US is as terrible if not worse than thar of Nigeria. Have you seen the slums of LA, they are worse than Ajegule. Yes we have more poor people in Africa, bit poverty is also an issue in Europe and the US.

There are no slums in LA or America.

What Welfare state is there in Nigeria? There is none. A homeless man in the West is far far better off than a poor person in Africa.

“The United States spends approximately $2.3 trillion on federal and state social programs include cash assistance, health insurance, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, and education and childcare assistance. Similar benefits are sometimes provided by the private sector either through policy mandates or on a voluntary basis. Employer-sponsored health insurance is an example of this”



Those poor areas of LA,NY and in general the USA/Western have basic amenities like access to clean water, adequate infrastructure, constant power and so on. In comparison to Africa, There is no poverty in the Western world.

You must be absolutely mad to even put Africa on the same level as the Western world. The west is light years ahead of Africa in every way.

Namnam:
There are more cows and chickens than there are people on this planet but are the cows and chickens causing extinction events in ecosystems, are they mining out patches of land so inefficiently that they destroy entire ecosystems? No because there’s a difference between the impact of how an organism behaves and how many of them there are

Westerners are notorious for wasting resources in the pursuit of profits whose value is that of a sack of turd, they sprawl out cities so intensely that mass deforestation is a norm, they design cities around cars causing constant fuel shortages, they jack up prices for ordinary goods artificially causing an even more intense need for more labour and hence resources to be extracted and a need for wars resulting in even more wasted resources, they’ve shown themselves to be against any usage of ydro or nuclear power as a source of clean safe energy in favour of energy inefficient and hyper unsafe coal oil and gas plants to make stock charts go green. It’s a waste and the endless propaganda I’ve seen western media outlets make about Nigeria chinas and India’s population being “detrimental” to the planet only makes me question how many men around the world have fallen for such blatant lies and have committed to not having kids in favour of living of life of endlessly destroying the environment and extracting and waste fully using massive amounts of resources

Overpopulationism is a hoax

This is fiction. There is no correlation between overpopulation and population density. High population density is not the same thing as being overpopulated. Otherwise Hong Kong and Singapore would be overpopulated. Overpopulation depends on
its population growth rate, standard of living, lifestyle, culture, available technology and resources, economy, and other factors and ultimately whether the country can support it. Nigeria can’t support the population or has now. Not to talk of 3-5 times that. It can’t even house or feed or provide basic amenities to its current population. Not to talk of 3-5 times that. You are crazy.

Most African countries have made major strides in thevpast 10yrs, especially in terms of infrastructure.

The frequency of coups has also drastically reduced. I mean, Imagine Pres Buhari pulling that disappearing act in the days of Sunny Abacha & co. Most African governments can focus on development.

The availability of more finances from China is also giving governments more loans than the World bank and the West used to avail, besides being an alternative trade partner with less restrictions and demands and uncertainty that accompanied world bank related projects and fund.

What development? Development that is coming from China 😂😂 Africa is a cursed land.

MasterJayJay:
You want to overtake USA, China, Japan, Germany and India with your paltry 5,000 megawatts of electricity.

The projection assumes that Nigeria will even exist in 50 years 😂😂 The chances of there being a Nigeria in 50 years are extremely slim. There’s no way the country is making it out of 2030s/40s yet alone in the 2070s. Many people internationally assumed that Africa might develop due to its high birth rates outstripping the rest of the world. This couldn’t be further from the truth. If Nigeria exists till 2070, It would have a population of 550 million. It can’t even manage the population it has now not to talk of 3 times that amount.

Guestlander:


Most of the people running Nigeria down are morons who have never seen the inside of a plane before let alone travel out.
USA is definitely not safer than Nigeria. If your only fear in life is that you will be shot dead, then stay away from the USA.

Crime in the West is a tear compared to Africa.

wirinet:

It's a surprise o, that the blackman and the Nigerian in particular has the greatest case of self loathe. A Nigerian loathe his country, his village, his neighbours, his family and even himself. Psychologists need to study this strange phenomenon to determine why.

Flu - common Cold is a huge problem in oyimbo countries. You will hear people dying or falling sick for days because of common Cold. How many Nigerians have you heard of dying from common Cold. That's why I tell people that this coronavirus is oyimbo (and asian) problem because if from the flu family. Black Africans don't die of flu. I am yet to see one black African infected, not to talk of dying.

Africa is the hotspot of global diseases. Africans only wiped out Polio not that long ago. Disease are far more rampant in Africa
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna3072106

https://theconversation.com/why-so-many-epidemics-originate-in-asia-and-africa-and-why-we-can-expect-more-131657

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/10/africa-disease-prone-continent-world-bank/amp/

wirinet:

My brother keep educating them. It's we ourselves that is damaging our reputation outside. We wash and dry our dirty linens for the whole world to see, while others hide theirs. You will hardly see other people rubbish their country to outsiders. Even Syria, Bangladesh, Somalians, Congo, who live in worst conditions that us don't go trying to destroy their country. You will see Ghana, Rwanda, Angola, Vietnam and many country's citizen laundering the image of their countries online. They only show the few urban cities they have. They hide the vast majority of the villages where you find abject poverty, where majority of the population lives. Many practically believe these countries are better than Nigeria.

No matter what indices you use, Nigeria is not the worst in the world.

In terms of wealth and income inequality, ie the gap between the rich and poor, South Africa is the worst in the world, Nigeria is no. 35 from bottom - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/04/02/598864666/the-country-with-the-worlds-worst-inequality-is
In the US, over 38 million Americans live below the poverty line - https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-reports-poverty-rate-down-but-millions-still-poor

In terms of corruption, Nigeria is not the worst, we are around No. 140 out of 179 countries. It terms of perception, Nigerians think we are the most corrupt nation of earth.

That we have huge problems cannot be denied, we have corrupt and inept government at all levels, we have huge social integration issues, we have huge infrastructural deficits, but we should not forget the fact that many countries are grappling with their own issues too.

Something is definitely wrong with you. Compared to Africa, There is no poverty in the Western world. Western poverty is a tear compared to what we see in Nigeria and Africa. Many countries have their own issues. But ours is far worse than others. It’s not even close. Africa is known as the dark continent for a reason. Poor in America live a better life than poor in Africa. There is at least a welfare state for poor in America which is non-existent in Africa.

IronGalaxy:
this list is trash. Where are the likes of Honduras, Guatemala, Jamaica, El Salvador etc

Nigeria is a crime ridden shithole. Crime in Latin America is a tear compared to Africa.

Gerrard59:


Nigerian elites have failed the country. That is why I don't rate them as intelligent. I see them as below monkeys. I really don't know, but nothing freaks me when I see an assembly of Nigerian elites. Nothing!

Africa is just a trainwreck. Calling it that is even wrong because it was never even on track to begin with 😅😂😂😂 Africa has all the resources needed for prosperity but it has and never will make good use of it.

Gerrard59:


Nigerian elites have failed the country. That is why I don't rate them as intelligent. I see them as below monkeys. I really don't know, but nothing freaks me when I see an assembly of Nigerian elites. Nothing!

It’s funny people talk about how Europeans are the fault of Africa’s downfall. Afrocentrists and Pan Africanists are delusional. They act as if Africa was like the Garden of Eden before the Europeans arrived which wasn’t the case it all. In fact, in some ways Africa was worse before and after colonialism. In no way shape or form am I justifying European colonialism. It was overall bad and contributed to Africa’s demise. But a lot of Africa’s problems are internal. Liberals, Afrocentrists and Pan Africanists act like African would have made good use of the resources that the Europeans stole from the continent. That is not the case. The leaders would just have looted it even more so. There would just be richer elites.
Take a look at Abacha, That man died 26 years ago yet Switzerland is still sending back all the oil money he stole from the nation.

babsjnr:
Fck american top 5 most wealthy black on earth are african. I've been to states load of times.. america negro are really struggling to survive some lives in a blackout house no eletricity for dayz.

Ahaha it’s not that bad. But it is still quite bad. The ethnic group that have it the worse in NA are Native Americans. Their lifestyle while better than most Africans is not that much better. They live in reservations.

tensazangetsu20:


Honduras is safer than Nigeria. Crime rate in Nigeria is underreported. People are kidnapped and ransom is paid and it never makes it to the news. What of the killings going on in rural areas all across Nigeria. Many of such incidents happen and are unheard of in the news. At least when it happens in Honduras we all hear it. Look at what happened when a major drug lord escaped prison in Ecuador. It was all over the news and the army swept into action and he was caught. We had a prison break in Nigeria and till now we haven't heard anything regarding anything.

https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/crime-rate-by-country/

Nigeria has the 4th Highest Crime Index in the world.