₦airaland Forum

Danielnino00:
Doesn't matter who is affiliating who..They are affiliated with each other!

And mind you the cut off mark for UTME is 120! Most polytechnics put theirs at 150.. I doubt if a private polytechnic will put 150.. Private polytechnic are rarely sort after..so its probably 120

Just admit it, the fear of jamb is what's making many Nigerians school in Ghana! The private universities in Nigeria are better than the ones in Ghana (prove me wrong!) and some are even cheaper!

samorobo:
yes it is not comparable because a l% increase in Nigeria's economy is bigger than a 50% increase in ghana's economy

Jonraid:
Nigerians have a fetish for GDP! There's a new angle of thought in economics known as 'GDP FETISHISM'

Nigerians wankk of their GDP.Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia University economist (a Nobel Prize laureate who once taught at the University of Nairobi), calls it GDP fetishism (probably for a lack of better word). Be wary of GDP fetishists.

Whilst many Nigerians will come to Kenya for a myriad of reasons,very very little to no Kenyan would head to Nigeria simply because that GDP isn't anywhere to be seen on the ground or the place isn't the 'real deal'.The country has the largest population of poor people,that big GDP is silent on this.The average Egyptian is richer than the average Nigerian,that's a fact.Ghana is more livable that Nigeria,this is another fact!

They will throw their ' BIG GDP' when the arguments turn murkier on their side! As Ally-Khan Satchu an economist based in Nairobi said,''We don't eat GDP'

Be wary of the GDP fetishists!

https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2010/HendersonGDP.html

samorobo:
Why not google it since you are so curious and tell if you can find anything

vaxx1:
show us present figure of Nigeria GDP base on what is available on Wikipedia

samorobo:
I guess you have checked it but you did not see.....to all the africa countries praying for our downfall this is light shinning back on nigeria's economy this year.....oh I forgot this was written by a south African political blogger


Read carefully and know your place

obaaderemi:
Your stupid illiterate brother fax-whatever said America get its technology from Germany and that South Korea get its technology from China. Since then he has been having a tough time explaining what he means. The fool believes the beerparlour narrative of many semi illiterate Africans spew. To him "get" can also be used as a present tense. I hope you are not the idiot you gave him like single "like" he got.

rvp2018:
I think nearly every country (except Nigeria ) has cornered the universal primary education - but the problem still lies ahead - very low Secondary transition rate - and even lower Tertiary transition. And of course quality of education is still very low. I think Ghana & Kenya need to focus on those. Most kids just finish primary or high schools - and their education ends there. There is a need to push for vocational training - as opposed to a few university placement. 100% secondary transition.100% tertiary transition. And we are talking.

mtisTheQubit:
the country i would love to work..of course apart from racism

rvp2018:
But are there that many children in Ghana out of school? I think in Kenya we long dealt with that problem - not it's to ensure 100% transition to secondary schools - and then to push millions into vocational trainining and thousands into universities.

mtisTheQubit:
In think African countries should emulate German ...am really impressed by their engineering knowhow to speak the truth

rvp2018:
But it could be expensive - I think targeted approach would be ideal (those schools with lots of poor kids get free meals - those from arid regions & urban slums in kenya get free meals) - otherwise for a country like kenya that already spend 30% of budget -on education alone - before you go to health (universal health care) - and soon you'll have no money for infrastructure.

rvp2018:
Just out of college - they should start at around 400 dollars - I think base +house allowance salary is around 350usd. Most high school teachers easily make 700-1K usd per month - without factoring the extra they get like free housing, extra lesson pay and such benefits.

In Tanzania and Uganda - a teacher would be luckly if they ever get 100 dollars.

Kenya teachers union is very powerful.

rvp2018:
That makes sense. I am not sure why you do it nationally. Do you mean all regions have poverty problem and school feeding would be an incentive? In kenya school feeding is only done in those semi-arid regions. Also most of high schools in kenya are boarding school - a relic of the British system here. 100M dollars is really cheap for national feeding program. We spend about 20M dollars school feeding about 1.5m kids from semi-arid regions.

rvp2018:
Now that sounds more plausible. I think kenya already spend way too much in education - it going to be hard to justify any more expenditure. Together with teacher salaries - & early education - we are spending nearly 30% of budget on education - figure is close to 5B dollars.

Our teachers are 3rd if not 2nd highest paid in Africa - closely trailing Morocco & South Africa.

Definitely our education outcomes are impressive. And now we are focusing on 100% transition to secondary (this year out 1.1M kids who sat for primary exam - nearly 950K joined high school) and huge push for vocational training.

tylann:
And kenya has a problem with corruption maybe it is a result of bad governance
But iam glad he is working on it

rvp2018:
Fragile and failed are not the same. Kenya shouldn't be in that list - the composite of all other index - indicate kenya is a progressive state.

Just30:
Germany knows where it economic future lies
It knows that if it wants to move ahead and keep economy it from recession, it has to trade more with Russia
the biggest consumer market in Europe which happens to have all the energy it will ever need to power it economy.

Germany [b]cant avoid China [/b]which happens to be the largest consumer market in the world

Just30:
the US didnt just copy, they stole from Germany.
technical knowledge is the reason why the US is still occupying Germany as we speak.
2nd reason is to prevent the inevitable alliance between Russia and Germany.

Just30:
ANYONE WHO SAYS THE GERMANS LACK TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE WHEN COMPARE TO USA IS EITHER STUPID OR DELUSIONAL

mtisTheQubit:
i know i know boss..but serious are we a failed state...are we like somalia

mtisTheQubit:
America today is not doing well socially neither economically..more Americans are becoming poor everyday..need i say something about socially..example America schools today are death traps(can be shot dead any time)..we cant compare (Africa) with america but truth be told

Kazikazi:
That's a very good observation. But I think a nation like Mauritius or Botswana should top the African continent

tylann:
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Kenya is a failed state because of corruption
That thing is eating kenya like cancer

theenchanter:
fragile, stop teaching d organizers of the index their job.

Happy for u if ghana takes dat in africa.

mtisTheQubit:
please tell us how we are a failed state...Al shabbab kills 17 guys an its out cry..50 kills over the weekend in chicago city an still US of A is the best of the best..i do wonder sometimes

theenchanter:
so I checked wikipedia for d "fragile state index" I typed failed state but got fragile state instead. Majority of d indicators there are endemic to africa n not only Nigeria, brain drain, political tension, corruption, religious or ethnic conflicts among others.

And yes, Nigeria was 14th on the list while kenya is listed as d 17th, can we call kenya a failed state too? I think d right word should be "fragile".

Another reason I don't take all these things serious, though it's meant to guide nations in discerning their policies in a judicious manner but most of them are always overboard.

theenchanter:
well, it depends on ur definition of "failed state". Nigeria is just like every developing nations with its own special problems that needs to be solved. I dont know d indices that proved that the three ties of Nigerian govt failed, u can send me a link but not a newspaper article with unsubstantiated claims.

If ur definition of a failed state is attributed to d bolded part of ur post, then we can conclude that Nigeria is not a failed state cos we have security challenges at d extreme northeasernt part of d country and not d whole federation.

theenchanter:
well, it depends on ur definition of "failed state". Nigeria is just like every developing nations with its own special problems that needs to be solved. I dont know d indices that proved that the three ties of Nigerian govt failed, u can send me a link but not a newspaper article with unsubstantiated claims.

If ur definition of a failed state is attributed to d bolded part of ur post, then we can conclude that Nigeria is not a failed state cos we have security challenges at d extreme northeasernt part of d country and not d whole federation.

rvp2018:
Precisely. And they have resources in oil to basically turn around the country fortunes.