vivvianne:
Its bad enough that we have a few brainless ipob idiots and their mini-god (the Abia state lunatic named nnamdi) bringing shame on themselves, but outsiders doing it to us is very disheartening.

How would you feel if a Tigrayan Ethiopian went on a Kenyan forum and started unnecessarily insulting and denigrating Kenyans? We all want our countries to grow. I'm proud of Kenya, I'm happy Nairobi can give Joburg a run for its money. I'm thrilled that Muslims & Christians coexist peacefully in Sierra Leone.

I'm stunned that Sudan has an indigenous high-tech weapons manufacturing industry despite facing sanctions. I'm ecstatic that Zimbabwe has a higher literacy rate than many South American countries. In the same way, even while u guys find faults with us, also find positives. My own view.

Muafrika2:

Conveniently, a Nigerian blog
Your male prostitutes are doing great BTW,
They have chapters! Chai !!!

TobiTobiTobiWhy:
Who are those speaking swahili enlighten me please.

rvp2017:
Lets take a breather from the insults and once again compare the budgets

2017 - Kenya budget is 26B USD - with about 15B usd collected from taxes and more from appropriation in aid(AID).
2017 - Nigeria budget is 24B USD.
2017 - South Africa budget around 90B USD

Based on Nigeria cooked GDP - it's budget should be around 120-150B - mostly collected from the economy.

How Nigeria pay teachers, doctors, civil servants,roads, all the gov services and still get some steal is one of world wonders.

What is 24BUSD for a country of nearly 200M peeps?

Naija need to wake up - next year if this slumber continues their federal budget will be 20B - while Kenya definitely will be 30BUSD.

You cannot eat cooked GDP figures. It cannot fill country vaults. It cannot help your treasury. It cannot help you state or federal gok pay for salaries for the army - you know Nigeria Major earn less than Kenyan private! Nigerian teacher probably earn 30-50 dollars a month while kenyan teachers earn 10 times that - 300 -400dollars.

alexxo11:
even when you go to spain you will stil speak little bit of spanish....infact their swahili is too down....believe me..plus are they speaking or writingi can tell they are learning swahilil...

alexxo11:
its reallly wrong for that gerald to say that about nigerians....we dont consider you as inferior beings....that gerald is a nigerian ,i can bet you....he is just ashamed to be part of you....these people who pose as kenyans but are on nairaland on a daily basis are your people....please understand that

obaaderemi:
@rvp2017...you are mistaken.The 200m nigerians are not catered for by only the $24bn federal budget.Each of our 36 states generate its own revenue and fund projects.Even without federal allocation to lagos for 3years it weathered the storm.Lagos budget for this year is over $2billion.States on their own access international loan and aid.Oyo state has a budget of over $500m despite being one of our less viable states and having a smaller population than nairobi.We practice different types of systems.So basing your argument on our federal budget of $24bn for 200m people is flawed.America has a foreign reserve in excess of maybe a trillion dollars,why is it still indebted.The same reason why Nigeria has to borrow despite having a $34BN reserve.Government revenue in Nigeria is over $50bn despite a weak tax net,and in kenya is less than $10bn,still less than 1/4 of ours.Besides,corruption in Africa makes nonsense of budgets.How come ur gdp is just $65b?Btw,what are Nairobi and Mombasa's budgets?Tell us.

rvp2017:
It not any different - Kenya has Counties and south Africa has provinces -with their own budgets - but all of them significantly depend on federal or national budget to survive. I know Nigeria system is federal while Kenya is devolved - so only 35% now get remitted to counties while national or federal gov remain with 65%. I wish you could get us state budges minus the federal allocation so we can know just how miniscule this giant is. As for foreign reserves - this is just the money you need to cover your import bill - kenya has 8B foreign reserves - Nigeria with all the oil has 30B usd?

rvp2017:
It not any different - Kenya has Counties and south Africa has provinces -with their own budgets - but all of them significantly depend on federal or national budget to survive. I know Nigeria system is federal while Kenya is devolved - so only 35% now get remitted to counties while national or federal gov remain with 65%. I wish you could get us state budges minus the federal allocation so we can know just how miniscule this giant is. As for foreign reserves - this is just the money you need to cover your import bill - kenya has 8B foreign reserves - Nigeria with all the oil has 30B usd?

rvp2017:
It not any different - Kenya has Counties and south Africa has provinces -with their own budgets - but all of them significantly depend on federal or national budget to survive. I know Nigeria system is federal while Kenya is devolved - so only 35% now get remitted to counties while national or federal gov remain with 65%. I wish you could get us state budges minus the federal allocation so we can know just how miniscule this giant is. As for foreign reserves - this is just the money you need to cover your import bill - kenya has 8B foreign reserves - Nigeria with all the oil has 30B usd?

rvp2017:
It not any different - Kenya has Counties and south Africa has provinces -with their own budgets - but all of them significantly depend on federal or national budget to survive. I know Nigeria system is federal while Kenya is devolved - so only 35% now get remitted to counties while national or federal gov remain with 65%. I wish you could get us state budges minus the federal allocation so we can know just how miniscule this giant is. As for foreign reserves - this is just the money you need to cover your import bill - kenya has 8B foreign reserves - Nigeria with all the oil has 30B usd?

samsobo24:
@rvp
I didn't even know you are trying to molest Nigeria.Lagos Economy is bigger than the whole Kenya,at least Lagos is not the FCT again

TayserMahiri:
Make we see danfo with hydraulic lift kits like these code 254 nganyas.

See at 1:29 what danfos cannot even hope for


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIIPW9FQ1CE

obaaderemi:
They can't wrap their heads around simple things.Nigeria suffered a debilitating recession and multiple aftershocks and yet foreign reserve remains times 4 kenya's despite the massive looting of the previous government.What pains them is the fact that kenya's gdp is smaller than lagos gdp.And each time they come to Nairaland,they see this legend:OUR COUNTRY NIGERIA IS THE GIANT OF AFRICA.They go mad when they see it but they can't help coming to nairaland.Seun Osewa really knows how to rub it in.

obaaderemi:
You are always on about the 'giant' thing and our large GDP.I will oblige u & give you oyo state budget without federal input then you also give me nairobi budget with or without fed input.From federal govt,Oyo gets yearly about N72bn:$250M.Oyo budget is N200BN: about$600M.That's $350m without fed input.Give me Nairobi's.Remember I am using oyo and not lagos or Rivers state.

samsobo24:
Do you think recession is a child's play,our external reserve is now increasing.Let us recover fully from the recession and with our effort in investment in critical infrastructure like Rails,power, roads and aviation, Watch as Nigeria will Grow 5 times any country.
Our external reserves is now $33 billion,it's growing at a fast pace

MtuMsuper:

Mr man, i see that things haven't changed much. I just want to say, i lost the stamina for mindless sustained bullshitting and empty chest thumping long ago. A large paper GDP, yes. A real and booming economy, NO. A better life quality, NO. Stronger democratic institutions, NO. When ,or for what reason, will you find kenyans flocking to 9ja en masse? Certainly not now, or ever. Oga, visit the BBC website and look for a link to a podcast where Nigerians are crossing the Sahara to reach Libya in order to get on a deathtrap masquerading as a boat, all in order to get TO Europe and AWAY from big GDP Nigeria. Very very heart rending tales of those migrants and a bombshell indictment of the TRUE state of big GDP Nigeria. In the year of our lord 2017 there are even buying slaves in Libya. Nigerians being bought and sold by those heartless desert dwellers like goats and sheep. It seems like you guys don't value a human life, what kind of GIant allows such BS in 2017 ? They will go anywhere as long as they are as far away from Nigeria as possible. Every time I read on the travel section people asking each other how to go" hustle" in places as strange as Faroe islands and even PNG. My God! 9ja peeps are all over Nairobi and Mombasa acting like this is their grandma's cattle kraal. Some are even in the smaller towns like Ruai where they are busy stabbing each other at point blank range because of money. I mean if someone owes you cash, will killing him solve the problem? Our people aren't used to this kind of crazy, please coman take your brothers away, let us be mumu, but not crazy. I went to donholm last week and my sister and her husband were complaining about the noisy and rude nigerians all over the place and how they are preying or being preyed upon by women of easy virtue, thereby lowering the moral standards of the area. Ask yourself, can people from a big GDP country be flying 2,000 miles across Africa to do small time hustles? Is that a country to admire?
Large GDP my blue arse! Create a functional and functioning entity that is the envy of all, then we can talk GIant. Remember the words of Leopold Senghor who said a tiger does not proclaim its tigritude, it just roars.

rvp2017:
What recession. You have dummy economy that depend entirely on OIL and swings with oil prices? Kenya has very well diversified economy - why can't Nigeria build an economy that doesn't sway with global oil prices? How can you invest in infrastructure with 20B USD budget is that even enough to pay decent salaries?

samsobo24:
I will say this lastly,because of the oil popular oil that you people hear on the media has blindfolded you that we have non oil sectors.
Take this
Entertainment, one of the largest or if not the largest.
Banking, one of the biggest
Telecomms
Minerals
Agric
Manufacturing, despite not having 24hrs light.

Nigeria is not where it should be because of our leaders,despite that Kenya should stop trying to flex muscles beside the country that has handled and managed many issues.
Pls ask anybody about Kenya,they I'll be like,kenyaaaaaaa.
Kenya does not come near to Nigeria, full stop.
Kenya's have really been working so hard on this forum to make the world feel they are better than Nigeria.Any we talk about GDP you shout oil, if we say Lagos,you say ............
Compare:
1.Telecommunications
2.Banking
3.Manufacturing
4.and other non oil sectors and stop shouting