naijalander:
Funny.

rvp20182:
As your Lebanase build one tower per decade, One Chinese company (AVIC Intl) is building six towers at go to act as their Africa HQ -
Westland - is competing with Upperhill for new CBD of Nairobi - the New SubSaharan Sandtons

Jay254:


When China overtook Japan as the biggest economy in Asia, there is so much change you can see in china.

When America overtook Europe as the world superpower there was so much you could see and feel.

When S.Korea, Singapore,Taiwan moved from third world to developed Nations there was so much change you could see.


When Nigeria overtook S.Africa as the biggest economy only the figures changed... Poor Nigeria

Jay254:


Poor guy.. What do you say about the 100m people in Nigeria who do not even have atoilet.

Nowenuse:

1. Nigeria obviously now has the largest ongoing projects in Africa.
2. Nigeria has the largest middleclass population in Africa right now.
3. Nigeria has the most largest and most influential entertainment industry in Africa.
4. Nigeria has more of the largest and most influential company startups in Africa in the last 1-2 decades.

GERALD710:

1.Nigerians do not make a forum popular.Kenyatalk has plenty of East Africans contributing.Nigerians cannot participate easily on Kenyatalk simply because half the conversations are in Swahili,which you Nigerians do not understand.Tanzanians are the second largest group on Kenyatalk followed by Congolese,Ugandans and Rwandans.
We all have one thing in common.Even if the posters post in either English or Swahili,we can all understand!!!
Nigerians ARE obsessed with Kenyans.This thread was not started by a Kenyan.
The entertainment section of Nairaland mentions Kenyan stories more than any other nation except Nigeria,itself.
How is that not obsession

kikuyu1:


Makoko still stands off the 3rd mainland bridge!? The governor has tried to raze the slum but it keeps getting rebuilt since there's no alternative unlike Kibera where the government builds houses.

NairobiWalker:


Slum is not a concept. A slum is a slum - something tangible, something you can see with your eyes...............you can choose to call it some other name but if it's a slum it's a slum. Stop living in denial. Please explain to me how this place in Onitsha is not a slum?

NairobiWalker:


Nairobi is well planned - you can clearly see the boundary between a slum and normal housing because slums are mostly built illegally on government land. However in countries like Nigeria it seems people can buy land and build slums on it since you find pocket of slums everywhere and ever the 'normal housing' are just slums though they are not referred to as such because to them 'the concept of a slum' is non-existence.
Look at this neighborhood in Lagos for example, they wouldn't call it a slum but practically it's a slum.

Nowenuse:


Nowhere in Onitsha is a slum. Show us the entire aerial view of the place you call a slum.

This picture just shows an unsanitized dump area.

Nowenuse:


You seem very dumb with this kind of comment.

How much did Nigeria overcome South Africa with economically? China overcame Japan with such a very wide margin in terms of GDP.

Ethiopia has overtake Kenya as the economic power of East Africa, can you tell us the major changes observed in Ethiopia?

Sometimes, one wonders if you Kenyans reason with your butts.

FYI, as a Nigerian, It is obvious that there have been differences in Nigeria now compared to 10 or 20 years ago.

Among the many

1. Nigeria obviously now has the largest ongoing projects in Africa.
2. Nigeria has the largest middleclass population in Africa right now.
3. Nigeria has the most largest and most influential entertainment industry in Africa.
4. Nigeria has more of the largest and most influential company startups in Africa in the last 1-2 decades.

Nowenuse:


Nowhere in Onitsha is a slum. Show us the entire aerial view of the place you call a slum.

This picture just shows an unsanitized dump area.

Nowenuse:

You don't just pick one or 2 illegal structures out in a place and call it a slum. That's extreme dumbness.

Nowenuse:


You seem very dumb with this kind of comment.

How much did Nigeria overcome South Africa with economically? China overcame Japan with such a very wide margin in terms of GDP.

Ethiopia has overtake Kenya as the economic power of East Africa, can you tell us the major changes observed in Ethiopia?

Sometimes, one wonders if you Kenyans reason with your butts.

FYI, as a Nigerian, It is obvious that there have been differences in Nigeria now compared to 10 or 20 years ago.

Among the many

1. Nigeria obviously now has the largest ongoing projects in Africa.
2. Nigeria has the largest middleclass population in Africa right now.
3. Nigeria has the most largest and most influential entertainment industry in Africa.
4. Nigeria has more of the largest and most influential company startups in Africa in the last 1-2 decades.

Nowenuse:


Only around 40 million practice open defecation in Nigeria, so stop lying.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.ODFC.ZS?end=2015&start=2015&view=bar

254tobby:




You're wrong,Kenya is the economic power of eastern and central Africa with a GDP of 88 Billion USD then Ethiopia follows closely with 85Billion USD.This is according to 2018 latest IMF stats..Get your facts right.

NairobiWalker:


So according to you this is a decent estate? You're just outright dumb.

Daejoyoung:

But so many dispute this 88 Billion dollars and call it fake, even Kenyans themselves, and according to rvp2018, the IMF is not reliable source for GDP. So what do we believe now?

rvp20182:
None of this is true except maybe 3 - even within Sub-Saharan Africa. The projects in Nigeria are either stalled or cancelled or still at planning stage. Nigeria doesn't have largest middle class - South Africa does. Entertainment (nollywood) is really chi.cken shiet as far as economy goes. And last one is just hilarious...start ups?.

NairobiWalker:


A whole 40M? Wow! That's like the whole of Kenya.

Daejoyoung:

But so many dispute this 88 Billion dollars and call it fake, even Kenyans themselves, and according to rvp2018, the IMF is not reliable source for GDP. So what do we believe now?

theenchanter:
oga, this is not Nigeria..

rvp20182:
IMF & WB - don't produce national accounts (GDP) - they just take whatever is thrown out there by National Statistics- and convert it into dollars or PPP (using international price comparisons) - they also do projection based on those figures.

rvp20182:
Yeah there is no master-plan; no zoning; no strict building code; no building plans get approved; you wake up and build whatever you want. In most of Kenya that is just not possible - that is only possible on illegal slums build in public land - and those are not increasing - but are reducing daily.

In Nairobi - the slums were illegally build near posh estate and occupied mostly domestic and such kind of lowly paid workers -- but I doubt as we speak if there is someone still building a slum in Nairobi now - it mostly a 80s/90s lapse of enforcement.

Nowenuse:


Only around 40 million practice open defecation in Nigeria, so stop lying.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.ODFC.ZS?end=2015&start=2015&view=bar

Nowenuse:


You can never find Nigerians on a kenyan forum even if you guys speak pidgin English over there, except perhaps Nigerians living in Kenya.

Hardly do you ever find any Nigerian interested in Kenyan affairs. You guys are not worth the attention to us.
Do you know how weird my friends and family take me to be just because I tune into East african TV stations occasionally?

NairobiWalker:

Onitsha to be specific. 90% of Onitsha is a huge slum.

Nowenuse:


You seem very dumb with this kind of comment.

How much did Nigeria overcome South Africa with economically? China overcame Japan with such a very wide margin in terms of GDP.

Ethiopia has overtake Kenya as the economic power of East Africa, can you tell us the major changes observed in Ethiopia?

Sometimes, one wonders if you Kenyans reason with your butts.

FYI, as a Nigerian, It is obvious that there have been differences in Nigeria now compared to 10 or 20 years ago.

Among the many

1. Nigeria obviously now has the largest ongoing projects in Africa.
2. Nigeria has the largest middleclass population in Africa right now.
3. Nigeria has the most largest and most influential entertainment industry in Africa.
4. Nigeria has more of the largest and most influential company startups in Africa in the last 1-2 decades.

Nowenuse:


Okay. Let us get the differences here. Cos I see that Kenyans have been echoing a misconception about Nigerian cities for a long time now.


In Nigeria, there is a very very strong indigeneship context. Every city or urban area has natives.
The natives of a city are not usually relocated in the expansion of a city. And this is what usually give rise to the poor areas and older sections of Nigerian cities which you guys think is the major definition of the city.

In Warri city where I live for instance, the modern parts of the city mostly dominated by non natives are very different from the slumish like houses in which most of the poorer natives live.

Look at this first picture below. It is from the city I live.

Can you see the B part of the picture? See how crowded and rusty the houses look? It is dominated by the natives. Look at the A part, can you see the difference?

NairobiWalker, Jay254, mtis, TayserMahiri, kikuyu1 et al