₦airaland Forum

grandstar:
They are gradually progressing

Also note that even ethnic Abrahamic Jews too face discrimination

In Israel you have the Ashkenezi Jews who are basically from Europe and you have the Sephardic Jews who are from the Arab world.The Ashkenezi look down on those from the Arab lands. The Morrocan Jews who are about 200,000 strong complain bitterly about discrimination.

That was in the past , I don't think that happens again.

They are always old and vulnerable

Rgade:
More delusional quotes... Ghana doesn't want to put money in a fluid case as Nigeria,, bla bla bla.
Of course you just took the better side of the equation.
Ghana doesn't have any investments in Nigeria because Ghana doesn't have any franchise or company that can survive or even enter the Nigerian market at all. Simple.
Does Ghana have any franchise worth up to a billion dollars?? I don't think so.
And your claims that Ghana doesn't invest in Nigeria because of instability is invalidated by the fact that Nigeria has always received more fdi than Ghana.
You don't really wanna compare the number of multinationals operating in both countries do you??
You stated that Nigeria has never supplied up to the agreed amount of gas to Ghana, well maybe that's because Ghana hasn't been paying up to the agreed sum.
How much are you owing us in gas supply again??
And let's not also forget the fact that it was still Nigeria that paid for and built the same gas pipes Ghana is being fed with.
But of course, Africans don't argue with facts and logic, Just sentiments.
And when you said that Ghana doesn't receive budget support, does that include aids and grants??
As big and powerful as the UK is, they still depend on the highly controversial Russia for much of her energy needs, and they understand that.
Ghanaians always making themselves bigger than they are.

Baba u know we still don't have sensible light , we are still producing light that Edinburgh in England a city of 300,000 people are using.


Stay there and be comparing us to Ghana.


Nonsense

Swanzi:
With all that u’ve said can u explain to me why nigeria has the largest no of poverty in the world after India ..?

For what does it profit a country to have a higher gdp per capita than Ghana and yet still have 50 percent of its citizens to be in grinding extreme poverty.

Genetics at work . They shouldn't have let him participate.

amalab30:
Naija has always been included. No Western country does not have Nigeria on her watchlist.

Rhea:
Nigerians are superstitious clowns. People turn into goat. Pants disappears and becomes juju money. The lame walk again and the blind see. And yet with all these magic powers we possess, we cannot fix our roads or power supply. We cannot even call off ASUU strike.

ki ki ki .

ollah2:
There are over 1 billion people in India and this kinda sh*t would happen in a big city. Portharcourt is a big city

Ozkar:
mehn, I don't know what to think anymore. I think about Africa and Nigeria a lot and, each time, it just makes me sad. I'm tired.

Something as basic as electricity we cannot sufficiently produce and distribute. It's not as if we had to discover electricity ourselves and then invent ways to generate and distribute it. Others have done all that work, just to implement we can't.

This election period is a particularly disappointing period for me. At this age we still have many people clamoring for illiterates to take the lead and continue the mediocrity. No foresight whatsoever.

Omo u travel o . U talk light . What about water supply ?

Tap water that Romans have been using over 2000 years ago is still too hard to be implemented for us.

Loool

Freedem:
White people and studies say it's to do with a low IQ. I used to argue this position , but looking at how Africans behave as a collective, I think it may be true.

This IQ issue needs to be throughly investigated.

To be fair , things like this happen in India.

Lucid1:
In a city as big as Port Harcourt, if this kind of thing can still prevail then we could officially pass for the most backward nation on earth.

You're spot on in your comment, what a shame.

Education has failed us, no we've failed education.

Nigeria has all the markings of a medieval land ,

.....illiteracy , superstition and farmers still using hoes and cutlass to farm

ikezuora4689:
Stupid set of human beings.....I still wonder why I share the same country with some stupid useless beings...... fools....as of years ago... Indonesia was a village compare to Nigeria....bt today....I swear we are far behind them....I visited Indonesia I almost denounce being Nigeria citizen...... stupid people....am leaving this shithole soon and am not coming back.....

Is Indonesia that great ?

Yambee:
19 is not bad at all.

We in Nigeria know we are number 1,and will not complain if they put us on 19.

Not bad for a Country that still has IBB,Obasanjo,Tinubu, Atiku, Jonathan and his wife, Ibori, Uduaghan,Pius Anyim,Theophilus Danjuma and a host of people like them still living there.

These guys can buy 10 of some of the other countries listed in the list with cash.

Looool , we aren't number one at all , corruption in equitorial Guinea is by far worse

grandstar:
There economy has basically been stagnant now for 20 years

Per capita income is not different in real terms than it was 20 years ago

There are no jobs

No jobs for their citizens or no jobs for outsiders ?

Inkredible:
G boy alert!!!

We dey look you oga.

[quote author=Uziehot post=64129105][/quote]Nairalanders o!!!!!

U ppl won't kill me

Nigeria and it's breast feeding style of government

theoldpretender:
Hmmm

Eventually, we are going to do two things in this country...and by extension the whole of Africa because there are countries with two or three tribes that like ehrding cattle (Infact part of South Sudan's problems are due to cattle related problems)

1.Massive grazing ranches...to be run as cooperatives,set up in the far North...with the aim of supplying an agro allied industry and dairy industry. Each and every of these ranches would be linked to the railway network for easy transport of export related products.

2.Additonally, we have to fix the railways.

The era of roaming around with cow is at an end.Our populaiton is now 200million. Back in 1963 we were 55 million,and our railways were already trasporting cow realted products to the South. Too bad mismanagement in the 1970's led to the problems we have today.

Then again transforming portions of the arid north to massive ranches would involve a lot of money in irrigation which judging by the size of our budget won't work out .

theoldpretender:
Well,this is my opinion, but

1.Low oil prices are part of the problem too....once the oil falls,revnue falls,and money going to salaries ,etcfall....which affects the economy too.

2.As for not allowing the naira to float....the simple fact is that IMO...if they had done that, that might have only made things worse. Better to apply some control...instead of letting things out of control...the better to save money(What i did not like was the differing naira rates...which allowed round tripping...altho that's been around for decades.)

Cc grandstar

theoldpretender:
The cost of light crude oil...the OPEC light...was above $100 from 2011-14.

I recall you saying upthread that OPEC light was the cheapest...well...according to this table...it was above $100 per barrel from 2011-14on average.

I know you GEJ supporters try to downplay the high oil prices of that era....but facts are facts.

AND...anyway...lost in the argument is the fact that our economy is fuelled by oil...and that is the issue....really. Sort that issue out...and we won't need to argue over oil prices.

Bubu saved despite having low oil prices. Good for him....BUT that does not mean he is an economic mastermind either. For him to be one...he has to have a plan for diversificaiton that goes beyond 'agriculture'.

Where low oil prices truly the cause of bubus woes or was it his refusal to allow the naira float ?

theoldpretender:
PDP knocked down the foreign reserves from 60bn in 2010 to 32 bn in 2015 with oil above 90 USD from 2010 to 14.

APC raised the reserve from 28bn to 40 bn with oil prices below 75 USD in 3 years.

The economy has not been growing because we rely on oil, not necessarily because of what APC did or did not do. Where APC erred is that they have zero idea on how to get us off resource dependency

How can that be so when oil makes up merely 10 percent of our gdp ?

budaatum:
Because US is better! I was in Mexico City for a year and it felt like I was in Nigeria with people living in tremor affected and otherwise abandoned houses, children selling on the streets and rampant kidnappings!

, choiiii , Latin America get problem wallahi

chineloSA:
I feel for SA. Lesotho and Swaziland wants to be taken by SA. Now even Zimbabwe people.

Nawa o

BigBashiru:
There are no secret societies in UK universities; this is a fact - yet in Nigeria they are killing themselves. No single developed black nation comparable to western Europe.

In Nigeria , yes , but it's not a black issue , as other African universities don't have these secret societies

BigBashiru:
There are no secret societies in UK universities; this is a fact - yet in Nigeria they are killing themselves. No single developed black nation comparable to western Europe.

There is no single developed black nation compared to Western Europe........yet.

We don't know how things may turn out in the next 100 years or so and again they are few decent black countries in the carribean like Trinidad and Tobago , Bahamas and Barbados , etc. These black countries are even wealthier than some countries in Europe.

Ugosample:
Africans are SPECIALLY CURSED then


atrocities you hear in Africa, you cannot hear of it In such degree elsewhere


Killing and mutilating for ritual

Accusing people of being witches and lynching them

Accusing innocent kids of being witches

Highly diablolic and backward people


lack of love for country or even his community

An average African is an opportunist

Betray his country for a pittance

Most of its citizens living in abject poverty, squalor and despondency

infrastructural deficit is another story


and the list is endless

Many of what u listed above is not only exclusive to Africa. It happens in some other parts of the world

Larryfest:
This sounds more like bullshit.....if there was job or even a conducive environment to start a business who will be proud to go into picking pocket but because there's none people resolve to different forms of self help. by the way in this whole write up Mr CEO seems to blame the citizens and not even a single word for the government who is supposed to be in charge, the crazy fellow who called his citizens lazy happens to be the most hardworking President the country has ever had judging by the massive improvement and development happening in the country right now....

Who voted the govt in ?

Larryndelaw:
I agree Russia anex part of Ukraine but what did your mighty America or EU do to Russia. Do u know the implications of annexing part of a sovereign country?
Nigeria was never the owner Bakassi . it belongs to cameroon. Go and READ history. It is all abt the myopic of some Nigerians that feeds on news on internet without making any research. So you cannot compare Crimea to Bakassi. Its a different issue entirely. Ukraine did not give crimea to Russia rather Russia annex it forcefully with their military. Did u get my Lecture?

Do u know the majority of people living in crimea are Russians ? So it wasn't like Russia used war to annex Crimea.

goaldynboy:

Do you have sense at all?! [b]USA that disintegrated the former USSR into numerous countries?! Is it the one you are joking with?! USA is just giving Russia respect due to the fact that they are also a nuclear power country; that does not mean that USA can't prevail over Russia!![/b]

The u.s.a never broke u.s.s.r . The u.s.s.r imploded on it's own

Oy gevalt

Stalwert:
The main issue is Nigeria's economy is largely INFORMAL hence many people are not captured in the tax net not this story you are saying.

But aren't other African countries like Ghana , Rwanda and Ethiopia also largely informal and yet Ghana is about 20.8 percent , Rwanda at 14.1 percent and Ethiopia at 11.6 percent

https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Tax-to-GDP-ratio-alarming-Finance-Minister-597799


The link above shows Ghana complaining in 2017 that their tax to gdp ratio of 17 percent is low and is meant to be about 22 to 25 percent , meaning that they have to up their tax collection game

baby124:
US Embassy should not get involved in Nigerian politics. Please face what you are there for, to issue visa.

And you will be the one running to this u.s. embassy for visa when things get to hot if bubu returns