Nowenuse:


Well, different strokes for different folks.

Norway, Canada and Sweden have a far better standard of living than USA, but for me i'd rather be an American than be a Canadian, Norwegian or Swedish.

I'd rather be Chinese than Taiwanese or Hong kongese

I'd rather be Russian than Ukrainian or Belarussian

I'd rather be Australian than be New Zealander or Fijian

I'd rather be Brazillian than be Chilean or Venezuelan

I'd rather be Indian than be Nepali or Sri lankan

I'd rather be Egyptian than Morrocan or Tunisian

I'd rather be Nigerian than Kenyan or Ghanian

Smaller countries may find it easier to have a higher standard of living, but at the end of the day they cannot beat the influence of the larger nations in their lives.
The larger nations still dominates almost their entire lives in many aspects.
The larger nations enjoy the fame, the power and leadership!

GERALD710:

So the slum upgrading programme of Kibera is a mirage??Smh!!
Some of our poorest areas have electricity, piped water and street lighting!!
Lagos ,unstable power, no municipal water and street lighting is a problem(well, because, no electricity in the first place)

MtuMsuper:

That is the GLOBAL HQ of UNEP & UN Habitat. GLOBAL!!!! That means in almost all cases, the ambassadors different countries send to kenya also represent their countries at these 2 agencies.
Diplomatic hotspot of africa. You cant make that stuff up.

TayserMahiri:
Nairobi

same pictures but different angle over and over again

GERALD710:

Per captiat GDP nomina for Kenya passed the $1000 mark in 2005, 12 years ago.
On a PPP basis, it is well above $3000.
Wikipedia is your friend,Heck, even other Nigerians here have shown that.
Why do you people keep repeating outdated facts as well as areas loong covered in other pages
1.It shows how outdated Nigeria's education system is.Their knowledge of Kenya ends in 1966.
2. Please, state a fact with backup.We always show our own.Like the fact that we know that Lagos had no functional water or sewer system from your own Vaunguard and Guardian newspapers.
We had them courstesy of British East Africa.
Imagine my horror learning that Lagosians, the city you praise so much, barely 10% have water from the State.While Nairobi, piped water is the norm,even slums have water kiosks.
As for slums.How many times will we debunk the fake facts you guys keep repeating over and over and over,even when disapprovedI think I will put one paragraph aside for each fake fact repeated here so that I autopost it each time it happens!!

GERALD710:

Per captiat GDP nomina for Kenya passed the $1000 mark in 2005, 12 years ago.
On a PPP basis, it is well above $3000.
Wikipedia is your friend,Heck, even other Nigerians here have shown that.
Why do you people keep repeating outdated facts as well as areas loong covered in other pages
1.It shows how outdated Nigeria's education system is.Their knowledge of Kenya ends in 1966.
2. Please, state a fact with backup.We always show our own.Like the fact that we know that Lagos had no functional water or sewer system from your own Vaunguard and Guardian newspapers.
We had them courstesy of British East Africa.
Imagine my horror learning that Lagosians, the city you praise so much, barely 10% have water from the State.While Nairobi, piped water is the norm,even slums have water kiosks.
As for slums.How many times will we debunk the fake facts you guys keep repeating over and over and over,even when disapprovedI think I will put one paragraph aside for each fake fact repeated here so that I autopost it each time it happens!!

GERALD710:

Per captiat GDP nomina for Kenya passed the $1000 mark in 2005, 12 years ago.
On a PPP basis, it is well above $3000.
Wikipedia is your friend,Heck, even other Nigerians here have shown that.
Why do you people keep repeating outdated facts as well as areas loong covered in other pages
1.It shows how outdated Nigeria's education system is.Their knowledge of Kenya ends in 1966.
2. Please, state a fact with backup.We always show our own.Like the fact that we know that Lagos had no functional water or sewer system from your own Vaunguard and Guardian newspapers.
We had them courstesy of British East Africa.
Imagine my horror learning that Lagosians, the city you praise so much, barely 10% have water from the State.While Nairobi, piped water is the norm,even slums have water kiosks.
As for slums.How many times will we debunk the fake facts you guys keep repeating over and over and over,even when disapprovedI think I will put one paragraph aside for each fake fact repeated here so that I autopost it each time it happens!!

68816419:


black boy u said "Imagine my horror learning that Lagosians, the city you praise so much, barely 10% have water from the State.While Nairobi, piped water is the norm,even slums have water kiosks ''
well i wont blame u, rather i blame ur ignorance, only 45% of total population of Kenya Have water access wile Nigeria Have over 65%
http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2009-09-12-voa24-68663932/408391.html
Most in Kenyan Cities Have No Access to Clean Water
A recent survey estimates that less than half of Kenyans living in urban areas have access to safe water. Meanwhile, other Kenyans are coping with water rationing measures. Experts blame the shortage on corruption and global warming.

In a section of Nairobi's Mukuru slum, , one of many slums in the capital, thousands of people purchase their water from just 74 taps. They often walk far distances and carry heavy containers to get that water to their homes.

"Because of the water problem, we wake up very early since you can see that I am normally very busy with my work which if I don't do, we won't get anything to eat. So this forces me to wake up at[b] 4am[/b] to go and fetch water," said Mukuru resident Jane Mwangi.

Meanwhile, in Nairobi's central business district, private water suppliers are becoming an increasingly common sight as office buildings can go for days without water.

Most middle-class homes receive water only three or four days a week because of a country-wide rationing program.

A recent survey by Transparency International-Kenya and the development group Maji na Ufanisi estimates that only half of Kenyans have access to clean, safe water. Some 25 percent of Kenyans get clean water through pipes, either at public water taps or in their homes.

Particularly vulnerable are slum dwellers, who comprise some 60 percent of Nairobi's population. Activists say slums are generally ignored by the government, so services such as water tend to be scarce in those areas.

Edward Kairu is executive director of the development group Maji na Ufanisi.

He estimates that about 70 percent of Kenya's water problems actually are due to corruption and inefficiencies in the water system.

The biggest cause of the water shortage, says Kairu, comes from deteriorating pipes and infrastructure, some of which has not been replaced for 50 years.

"In some cities like Nairobi, we may be losing anywhere above 30 percent of the water that is treated - that is a lot of water that is wasted," he said. "Added to that, we also have a lot of illegal connections."

Transparency International executive director Job Ogonda describes the second major cause.

"Most of the corruption happens in the diversion of water from its legal flow to either politically connected flow or flow to people who have bribed for it to flow their way," he said.

The report says that, as a result of this and other corruption, more than half of water consumed for domestic purposes is unaccounted for, while the government is collecting only 20 percent of the fees due from large water users.

Robert Gakubia is CEO of Kenya's Water Services Regulatory Board. He says that the government has been battling poor management in the water sector.

"You can get out laws, get out guidelines, try to monitor, enforce compliance and all that, but if in practical sense there is no investment to support those works, you know that as you give the orders, you know that the problem of mobilizing resources takes much longer," he explained.

For now, many Kenyans are recycling the little water they have to make it last as long as possible.
http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2009-09-12-voa24-68663932/408391.html

The Water & Sanitation Crisis in Kenya
http://water.org/country/kenya/

GERALD710:

You are highly deluded if you think ANY Tunisian would want to be associated with the extreme poverty that characterizes much of Egypt, you know so little of the planet it seems!! No Norwegian has been interested in being American for the past 50 years.
Many Americans want to be Canadian these days.
And who told you any Hong Kong resident or anyone in Taiwan would want to be ChineseDude, Hong Kong is 4 times richer than mainland China and Taiwan around 5 times, both areas want nothing to do with China because they see themselves as faaar more advanced with better quality of life.
Same to Kenya.
There are people from all over the world of all colors who are proud to call themselves Kenyan. Black,White,Asian,Arab.
How many Nigerians can even call themselves Nigerians given the poor reputation Nigeria has!!!
As a Kenyan, I would never ever EVER want to be confused for a 419 scammer, drug dealer, human trafficker or those people who marry fat white women in the UK in the name of getting a UK passport. Our peple are not know for that!!!
Not even a Malawian would want to be confused for a Nigerian

GERALD710:

So the slum upgrading programme of Kibera is a mirage??Smh!!
Some of our poorest areas have electricity, piped water and street lighting!!
Lagos ,unstable power, no municipal water and street lighting is a problem(well, because, no electricity in the first place)

GERALD710:

Per captiat GDP nomina for Kenya passed the $1000 mark in 2005, 12 years ago.
On a PPP basis, it is well above $3000.
Wikipedia is your friend,Heck, even other Nigerians here have shown that.
Why do you people keep repeating outdated facts as well as areas loong covered in other pages
1.It shows how outdated Nigeria's education system is.Their knowledge of Kenya ends in 1966.
2. Please, state a fact with backup.We always show our own.Like the fact that we know that Lagos had no functional water or sewer system from your own Vaunguard and Guardian newspapers.
We had them courstesy of British East Africa.
Imagine my horror learning that Lagosians, the city you praise so much, barely 10% have water from the State.While Nairobi, piped water is the norm,even slums have water kiosks.
As for slums.How many times will we debunk the fake facts you guys keep repeating over and over and over,even when disapprovedI think I will put one paragraph aside for each fake fact repeated here so that I autopost it each time it happens!!

9ja4show:



Get over your heads ,arguing over a failed continent

GERALD710:

We are not fools dude.We know that from those who have visited Nigeria(and come back with very poor stories about your country.Like the delegation that came to Nigeria and to Morocco and Egypt.Poor stories from Nigeria. Moderate from Morocco and good from Egypt)
and your own newspapers tell us plenty about your country.Or you thing we do not know about Vanguard and the Guardian??

GERALD710:

1.Abuja has been ranked as being less livable than either Joburg, CapeTown or Nairobi
2.The lies you people spill in the name of arrogance!!Dagonte is building a 650,000 bpd refinery. That is less than half of the capacity of the Jamjangar refinery in India which has a capacity of 1,240,000 bpd
3.The first Africans to do whaaa...Dude, self delusions of gradeur right there!!!Do a little research .Again!!
4.The best and most influential banking....Nigerian banks are known to be the biggest on the continent, and the most backwards, considering that Nigerian cards rarely work outside the continent, introduced atms in 2001(when we had them in 1983!!) and need I talk of the fact that they offer so few products.
Nigerian banks are not influential.Can you name a single country in East Central and Southern Africa where a Nigerian bank is the largest there.In Kenya, Nigerian bank UBA comes at number 38 out of 44.
5.Most influention fashion and entertainment....Goes to South Africa,Not Nigeria!!! Last I checked, we have a kinship with South Africans as most East and Central Africans are of a common origin.You do not. When people go to holiday in Africa in Kenya, it is South Africa and guess what it is also vice versa, We got 40,000 South African tourists in Kenya last year.Nobody goes to Nigeria!!! Their influence in East Africa is faaar much stronger than the country that just gave us the 'Naija-Avangers ' movie whose poster was the laughing stock this week.
7.Most successful business men in Africa. Last I checked, the only one Kenyans know is Dagonte and the rest we have blocked and deported.Plus, many of those 'successful 'businessmen= DRUG DEALERS because that is what Nigerians are known for around here!!
8First African nation to launch a satellite....Can you please stop bullshitting us!!!We know those satellites are built by other nations and not a single one has ever been launched in Nigeria!!!Heck, even Kenya has an actual space station, YOU DO NOT!!!
9.Building the largest financial city...Are you talking of EKO Atlantic which first of all is being built by Lebanese businessmen, Not Nigerians, and with the current nonsense in Nigeria will be half empty.In Kenya, our own Konza Techno City is being built by the GOVERNMENT OF KENYA, not some foreigners. THE GOVERNMENT OF KENYA!!
SMH!!

arinzeejikonye:



This to me is outrightly insignificant,there aint no gain laching over assumptions,presumptions,without substantial evidence to validate the veracity of such flimsy baseless claims.

Nation building is dynamic,gradual, it is not definite,thats why constant negotiation goes on,and people have the right to self determination,some get balkanized,some get annexed,some decenteralized,some have two state solution,etc things aint constant,so they keep changing,evolving within the circle of dynamism and gradualism.

I see no gain in you tryna hush him down based on his personal opinions as regards the bone of contention,as much as you are entitled to yours,why not let him bask in his.

Every human society,no matter its form,definition, has good bad and urgly,there aint no utopian eldorado anywhere,as much as you have perpetrators of dastardly acts,so you also have achievers of incredible feets.ups and downs,lows and highs,rights and wrongs,lefts and rights,and that is the mistic of life,you can't change it,though they could be managed,the bipod of human existence is accentuated on both negativities and positivities.

forgiveness:


Only two and you no wan make we hear word. Bhuuuhahaha!

Kenya in African politics is inconsequential.

When we talk Africa, we talk Ethiopia, Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa, sorry.

If na oyinbos, den full many cities in Nigeria.

Look at Calabar with oyinbos full ground.

MtuMsuper:

My dear its not having oyinbos in your country that matters. The significance of having a global UN agency HQ in your country is absolutely vital and a major plus. We dont evaluate a city by the number of oyinbos, which you guys are very fond of kidnapping.
Making a false assertion(kenya is inconsequential in african politics) ,and then proceeding to state otger countries that might, is just plain tomfoolery. I cant defend or acknowledge a falsity.
And it is 2 GLOBAL UN HQs .TWO. That puts us at a par with Geneva,NY city.



Analyse that.

forgiveness:


Only two and you no wan make we hear word. Bhuuuhahaha!

Kenya in African politics is inconsequential.

When we talk Africa, we talk Ethiopia, Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa, sorry.

If na oyinbos, den full many cities in Nigeria.

Look at Calabar with oyinbos full ground.

MtuMsuper:

My dear, the number of oyinbos has never been a measure of anything other than the number of oyinbos. I dont know who told you having oyinbos is important- or not.
Yes only two HQs. Getting even 1 global HQ of UN is a monumental task. Paris has forever been trying to steal the 2HQs away from Nairobi. We have effing 2. So hell yeah, only 2 goddamn GLOBAL UN HQs will do, thank you very much. That puts Nairobi at oar with other cities hosting UN Hqs like Genevé and NY city. I dont think UN would want to put up anything global in sweaty,septic tank and borehole using Lagoose.

Analyse that.

Obi1kenobi:


But just as presumptive and baseless is claiming small countries all envy the bigger countries. A hell of a lot of citizens of smaller countries around the world love their country just the way it is. In this very country where many of you are bragging about its size, many citizens wish we could split the country.

And yes, every country has good and bad, but some are renowned more for bad than good. Let's tell ourselves a hard truth, the Nigerian passport is not a passport abroad which you flash around anyhow with pride. If you're a Swiss or Belgian or Swedish man, you travel anywhere around the world without even needing a visa. If you're Nigerian, you're in for major scrutiny right up till getting through customs in many countries. I know a guy with dual Nigerian and Ghanaian citizenship and he'd be the first to admit he uses his Ghanaian passport far more cos the Nigerian identity is more tarnished and he faces extra hassles because of it.