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samsobo24:
A Ghanaian once said Accra is best than all Niger cities combined

sounds very funny

There are areas where Ghana is better than Nigeria and vice-versa.

Ghana has a higher standard of living and is generally cleaner and has lower levels of crime and unrest. it also has relatively better educational institutions.

Mk17:
we are not talking about open university as they don't need physical structures to operate nor are we talking about a campus of another university .
there are many top university in the US with giant building recently built from scratch and some being renovated to bring the structure up to standard. good engineering students learn everyday. you don't need the field always as you learn from the structure around you. people go for excursion just to see these building. school building are just more than where you learn to read and write as they sometimes boost the confidence of the students.
we can as well replace our national assembly building with a community Hall and then build a three bedroom House and many self-contain apartment to house Mr President and his staff.
we do most things for pride as positive pride is essential for the mental aspect of a student life

i am only using it as an example of what is expected of 21 century mode of educational system. university are adopting 21 century technology to augment education. most of the private university in europe are much more smaller, some are even on a borrowed fercility. it is much more about impact now rather than cosmetic dressing.

i can tell you, no new UniversIty in the usa has a size of covenant university. university are moving away from that old model. it is not fashionable. and as for engineering, the feild should be your classrom. this is why germany is doing well in engineering feild. industry are partnering with higher institution to train student.only few theoretical tranning are received in classroom.

so you are not abreast with how social Media has become quite important in the realms of staying updated on everything that is happening around or in the world, that is education. on its own.and to your last point, it is not well thought out. political structure is diffrent from education structure. one is citadel of learning and another one is used for policy making.

Mk17:
top school all over the world have one or more giant building that students are proud of.
the giant building is not responsible for our low academic standard . or do you think just using primary school classroom will just up our academic performance ?

Not necessary, gigantic building is of the past, now in 21 century, university are making the use of technology to replace the expenses that comes with building infrastructure . london open , Malaysia open uni are few of the example i can mention. people are augmenting learning with technology, replacing the old fashion of building gigantic hotel in the name of a university with single building. i can made mention of so many private uni in Europe in that category

having quality infrastructure is a step in the right direction. we will get to other step with time.
we can't just start learning in primary school classroom because our standard of learning is poor.
[b]giant building is also a way of learning as an engineering student will pick one or two things from those structures [/b]that will help in his career

As an engineer, the best place to work your pratical is in the field not classrom, what you need is school placement and not school building. school will do well by placing you to company or industry that will develop your career.

what matter most in building is a conducive environment not cosmetic makeup.

hustla:
You can't use nairaland properly, can't spell 'Google' correctly and you don't even know how to use 'literate' property in a sentence but I'm the illiterate one

Issokay

Thank you o

You just have to quote me to ensure you made a point . The element is there, it can't be hiding.

hustla:
You are celebrating mediocrity Bro, just stop typing already

The entire school no make sense reach Covenant University cafeteria... And yes I mean it!

E be like where then suppose use do Poultry

ok.....i thought i am interacting with a literate.

hustla:
California Wetin?
Dey deceive yaself

Goggle is your best friend.

It’s roughly a square about [b]4 city blocks (0.4 miles) [/b]on each side, with another appendange south of the square consisting of gymnasium buildings, a soccer field, baseball field, track, health center and some physical plant buildings, which together are about half the total area of the square.

http://www.caltech.edu/content/caltech-glance

Mk17:
the picture you saw there is three among the many infrastructure at the school.
not like that secondary school environment that is not even conducive for learning.
the school spend more than a million dollar annually in maintaining their infrastructures
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the school environment has to be conducive for learning first before you talk about the quality of learning

when you hear the word quality of learning next time, it comprises the serene of enviroment, the standard of their degree curriculum and lastly the research and assignment quality. All this determined quality. london met do well in this area than any of our glorious hotel in the name of a university.


maintaining infrasture is different from building gigantic infrastructure.

darfay:
See the admin block of school you are comparing to covenant uni.its like you are sick

You are yet to answer me the simple question. what is wrong with it? or Do you take hourse. dounge.

darfay:
Stop arguing because you are a Muslim. Look at the library of the University

i am neither a muslim nor a christain. so what is wrong with the library. must it be like charraton hotel.

Mk17:
Look at the school you are comparing to your Islamic secoundary school

i am educating you on the stupidity of looking into infrastructure instead of quality.

london met can't compete covenant infrasture wise talkless of American university of nigeria. yes the serene and the environment in which the achool is located is very fine and beautiful. and thank to the uk goverment. but the achool itself can't stand some of the wasteful uni we have in Nigeria but do well than any of them academically.

Jaynom:
Don't lie to yourself. You CANNOT COMPARE the QUALITY of infrastructure. Covenant still dey learn work

Go and check it yourself. i am sure you haven't been out of your enviroment before. not just London metropolitan, convenant had nore infrastructure than many european private UniversIty. .

snowball11:
And how is California Institute of Technology a Secondary School?

i just said it is far more smaller than my secondary school. goggle is your best friend. it is a university i know.

CodeTemplar:
No. I want them to be a little bit more creative. Though what is most important is the school standard itself and what goes on inside those buildings.

All i need to build a university now assuming i am interested is just a single building.

we are in the 21 century, Social media can even be used for my school fest. it will be a great way to increase the attendance and engagement of student in any event. i can even set up a social display at the single block building area and run a social media wall on that display.

social media wall can be used as an aggregated feed solution of social media posts from sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google Plus that are showcased on any digital signage display. Posts using event related hashtags or handles are channeled to the display, which refresh in new content automatically. that is just the tips and i think this idea is more creative than wasting lands that should be used for agriciltural or real estate purpose to simply building a playground in the name of university.

AutoReportNG:
Agreed and I accept with your ideology, but is this edifice worth a university? Let's stop being mediocre, yes, I apperciate the management for striving to put this in place but what is worth doing at all is worth doing well. St. Gregory Secondary School in Lagos will beat this building in terms of structure and infrastructure

Gone are the days, when too much cash are put out to set up university, it is not the structure that matter , but the impact of the education that will be acquired. currently, computer had replace the purpose of building more infrastructure, it has even give more space for larger number of student. so the current structure of that present school doesn't matter. we need to do more with less. mismanagement does not grow economy.


if i show you some old public secondary school in germany, not even oba awon university ( OAU) can stand it. but that does not make oau worthless. or lesser university.

AutoReportNG:
I am sorry to burst your bubble, but this is not good enough, even some secondary schools in Lagos will beat this edifice hands down... Does it mean the management can't build a unique edifice? I think they need to learn or take a cue from Convenant and Redeemers University and see how a univeristy ought to look

There is nothing to learn from being wasteful. it is not how far, it is how well. london metropolitan university had far less infrastructure compare to convenant yet it is well rank above any university in Nigeria. we need to stop the idea of judging book by its cover.

Dollyak:
Nigeria needs to invest more on education. This is nit good enough.

when computer can now augment learning or even replace infrastructure. why should they be wasteful?

CodeTemplar:
Hmmm ... this is very moderate now. though I know some Muslims like their things like that.

Do you want them to be wasteful. one of the best ranking university globally is not even up to my secondary school.california institute of technology.in size and space

Jonraid:
I don't know yet but from the engagements the Kenyan Gov't has had with Nigeria since independence,it may suffice to say that we've learned from each other something! Why don't you google!

is there any problem asking you.

Jonraid:
We also did learn the same from Rwanda.Our policy makers toured the BRT projects of both Tanzania and Ethiopia so as to learn how they do it,in the end we settled for the Bogota City BRT model in Columbia.If Burundi emerges as best in banana farming or say mobile money,we will also learn from them.Our own IEBC toured Ghana to see how elections can be run effectively,we toured Mozambique to learn about their mineral industry,we will tour Seychelles and seek to partner with them because they have a good and a robust tourism industry.We will learn from everyone! We are learning from Djibouti how they manage to export meat and animal products and in the process earn a lot of foreign exchange.Uhuru's Jubilee party wanted to learn from CCM and ANC parties on how they have managed to stay relevant in so many years in the political sphere. We are learning from everybody.Don't get carried away! If Tanzania is good in cashew nuts farming, fishing or anything we will go and learn from them!

what are you learning from Nigeria.

dadark:
why they hell would you want to marry ethiopian....you ran out of women or what....??

They look more like shuwa arab, ,North eastern Nigeria

Just30:
the minimum wage in nigeria is 27,000 naira per month whiles Ghana's minimum wage is 10.65 cedis per day.


lets put that aside

the average by day job in Ghana pays 75 cedis
carpenters, masons, labourers, painters, and etc

whiles in nigeria it is less than 3000 naira



what more prove do you want?



a you graduate entry level teacher is paid 85,000 naira which exchange for 800 cedis in Ghana
whiles his counterpart in Ghana is receiving 1500 cedis as at last year.

You are going to far. in Nigeria, graduate receive 19, 800 as monthly allowance which is roughly 240 cedis for national service while his counterpart in Ghana is taking home 500 cedis that is roughly 45.000 NAIRA.

ednited:
For Ghana,

I am a huge fan of your journalists! They are standing against corruption and we all need that. After I heard the killing of one of them, I got really pissssed and dissapointed. This is really sad. Big up for the journalist who won the award recently (I forgot his name, I think his name starts with A tho).That is the spirit we are looking for in Africa.

i love your women. i mean Ethiopia women. wouldn't mind to marry to one some day

Danielnino00:
The usual excuse...
As far as the US government is concerned they are Ghanaians!

Your government should better process their visa immediately before you are hit with more visa sanctions..
Brother Trump isn't smiling o

let me give you the gist, The US had been trying hard to enter into Ghana's energy sector. just this week, The government of Ghana postponed the takeover of ECG by a US company. And this is how the US responds for the delay in taking over ECG. amd For two years now, this government has not yielded to their demands, and they are using that deportation as a an excuse to obligate the current administration. This government is trying to prevent unnecessary firms in the energy sector. Ask yourself are Ghanaians the only illegal foreigners in US? Trump is a bully. That is how international politics is played. You create a leverage against someone you are negotiating with, and use that leverage to get what you want. And they intentionally release this statement after the purported election violence, so that Ghanaians would allude such a sanction to the irregularities in the bye elections. So as to hide their true intentions and motives.

obaaderemi:
Ghana should aim for the likes of Jamaica. Singapore? never!

Ghana is doing well better than Jamaica and as for Singapore., the possibility is there if government continue with his fine policy.

Just30:
yes

and Ghana will walk it way pass that
the years where we allowed the misfortunes in the region pull us down are over

since the Menzgold fiasco as well as financial distresses in many other credit institutions. people are running to demand for their cash .The Bank of Ghana also on its part has poorly refereed the game – only coming in to rescue or punish as an option of last resort. But the withdrawals have not stopped. Depositors continue to flock financial institutions with just one demand – to claim their cash deposits. this is can further weaken the weak currency and hence affect economy. What is the quick solution to this predicament?

Just30:
Nigeria has never and will never be a bench mark to Ghana's development

here mEDIOCRITY is not celebrated
and Ghanaians constantly seek for better

what about overtaking Singapore . have you ever think abiut how that is possible.

Just30:
70 75 cedis exchange for 8000 to 9000 naira
2500 naira was exchaged for less than 20 cedis this X'Mas.


the ordinary Ghanaian makes more money easily
the ordinary Nigerian will have to do 2 to 3 times the amount of work to make an equal amount of money.


The ordinary Ghanaian with a high standard of living will spend his money faster because of a high cost of living
Light bill, water bill, transport, rent, food compare to the ordinary Nigerian with a lower standard of living and a lower cost of living.
No water bill, no light bill, lower cost of fuel/lower transport fares

i think we should not let Nigeria be the bench mark for measuring Ghana , after all, Nigeria is just a third world country like Ghana. i am a citizens of both countriy. Nigeria and as a Ghanaian, i see the same problems that is present in Ghana. hungry people,children selling on the streets instead of being in school, teen age sex workers, joblessness, huge unemployment of the youths, crimes and corrupt leaders, brain drain, every young man or woman wanting to leave the home land for some land beyond Africa. if these are the same problem the two nations are faced with, let some one tell me what then makes Ghana better than Nigeria.

Though Ghana is slightly doing better, Nigeria shouldn't be standard of measurement. if there is anything in Nigeria that i value. it is amount of physical cash exchanging hands everyday either in the local buisness or cooperate office. only few country in africa can boost of that Even MTN make more in Nigeria than south africa.

Kazikazi:
You are welcome.
This is a map of the most expensive train ride in the world by Rovos of SA.A journey from Cape to Dar

by what i read from the map, zambia isn't closer to south africa as i thought.

theenchanter:
are we still on this Income per capita ish? income per capita can never be a true index of development. It's like dividing a country's revenue by the number of people in d country, how does that shows real development to d average man on the street?

Japanese yen being devalued after 2nd world War was due to d fact that the coins were made of gold and precious metals, even d notes were linked directly to d value of gold. u can study the influence of gold in 2nd world war as an assignment.
Japanese yen undergoes floatation every now n then since Japanese govt focused on export market n deliberately maintained a low yen value. Forget about their currency denomination, it holds no water. Japanese yen is still d 3rd most traded currency and fourth largest currency as reserve despite its exchange rate against d dollar.

You are frustrating my effort to educate you.

Kazikazi:
TZ to SA by air is 3hrs 30 minutes. We are connected by rail.We have a direct train to SA which is mainly for tourists.That is the most expensive train ride in the world,from cape town to Dar es salaam.

Whao, interesting. i will like to tour that rought some day.

Kazikazi:
Yes.He was a pan africanist,a socialist.He was pioneering the Africas unity together with kwame Nkrumah.He hated tribalism. He hated corruption.He sacrificed much for liberation of southern Africa's nations.He was the founder of SADC.
Our main airport is named after him

i think he is part of the Casablanca group led by kwame inkrumah. mother Africa really lost a grear child.

how close is Tanzania to south africa by air . is it connectable by train?

theenchanter:
Let's forget about who or what is responsible for circulation of money in a country and per capita income doesn't showcase what's actually happening in a country and has been severely criticized, let's skip that too.

What i did was to expose you to the flaws you are making. and i hope you have learnt. banks create money simple. per capital income can become a true index of development if the Mode income i.e. the income with the largest frequency is considered. That will tell what most of the people earn and comparatively,the disparities would be showcased as well and that is why i use japan as an example to justify that.

are we talking about d bricklayers or labourers before I even go further

i just sincerely said manual labourers working as bricklayers..

Japan devalued their currency cos japan is an industrial country, it'll help them sell their products at lower price to d world, importation will also be kept at bay since other nations don't want to run at lost

.permit me to educate you here. It’s a hangover from the collapse of the yen at the end of World War 2. remember the time when the French franc was at about 1,200 to the pound (GBP) but under de Gaulle they knocked two noughts off just like Ghana did and renamed the currency the New Franc. The position of the Italian lira was broadly comparable. Both France and Italy now have the Euro. Think of the yen as being equivalent to a penny, rather than a dollar, and the exchange rate makes a lot more sense. This is pretty much how it works in Japan anyway (there are 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, and 500 yen coins - paper denominations start at 1000).

People didn't create double market but d central bank after crude oil slump that affected external revenue, which of course, a policy of d govt.

you just answer the question, government policy made people create double market value. The bank rate and the blank market rate.

Parallel market was in d interest of investors and biz men, they buy dollar at a lower rate but Greediness of bankers spoilt it, when central bank sells to them at lower rate, they in turn sell it to BDCs at higher rate but lower than central bank's benchmark for BDCs.

Nah, Government weak policy rather spoil it. we can always put the blame on oil. LOL