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Kenyanstar:
ELDORET CATHEDRAL- KE
MUNYONYO CATHEDRAL- UG

Uganda is beautiful. I think its the second most beautiful nation in east Africa just behind Tz.

Jonraid:
Kenyatta University,my university.I'm a third year student at this place!

What are you studying there? Political subjects or history?

Jonraid:
Kenyatta University,my university.I'm a third year student at this place!

Spectacular place... Can you tell this loud mouth Nigerians how many of their students are here.

obaaderemi:
A country of just 28m people which should be easy to manage. Yet they are so many in Nigeria.

there is something wrong with your brain.

rvp20182:
per capital yes

lol, l forgot

Just30:

but no one goes to Nigeria when they have problems

they rather go to Accra to solve their problems

that is why Accra is a political capital

Which problem did Ghana solve in West Africa?

Just30:

there is something wrong with your brain.

white morafvck...

Kazikazi:
Uganda is beautiful. I think its the second most beautiful nation in east Africa just behind Tz.

YES, in East Africa. But the most beautiful country in Africa is KENYA obviously.

14 falls Thika- KE

i just got pmd that most on this thread are not even black sef....

achimotan:


You are Big Liar for saying this. It is not bigger than the malls in Accra talkless Ghana.
In any case you know that Tinapa is a white elephant.


Vanguard News Nigeria

Tinapa: Nigeria’s $450 million white elephant
adekunle adekunle
2 years ago

With its futuristic film studios, luxury shops and elevated light railway, Tinapa should be a showcase of Nigerian dynamism, a commercial hub for West Africa raking in millions of dollars.


Aerial view of the reception area of Tinapa Resort.

But 10 years after it opened, the resort in southeast Nigeria is a ghost town and has become a symbol of monumental waste.
Its majestic contours and avant-garde domes rise defiantly out of the bush and palm trees. At the entrance, a giant signboard proclaims: “Tinapa back on track!”


But the few visitors who venture inside are quickly disillusioned.

Apart from a few idle employees, not a soul stirs in the endless aisles of shops and warehouses that should have made the capital of Cross River state, Calabar, famous across Nigeria’s south.

“It’s empty there, we have no clients, it’s like a cemetery,” said one shop assistant in Da Viva, which sells the popular brand of wrapper skirts.

“Many have left already,” he added, pointing to shuttered premises.

A huge supermarket still displays clothes, furniture and foreign-made knick-knacks but in virtual darkness: the electricity was cut off some time ago.

Inside, an old man snoozes in the suffocating heat.

Tinapa, with its 80,000 square metres (861,000 square feet) of warehouses and shops, cost $450 million (413 million euros) to build.

But it has become a financial black hole for its backers.

– Economic development –

At the turn of the century, Nigeria was on the point of becoming Africa’s biggest economy and leading oil producer. Newly returned to civilian rule, everything seemed possible.

A handful of businessmen and architects got together and imagined an international centre of commerce and tourism in a free-trade zone.

Nigeria’s biggest banks fell over themselves to finance the project, which was opened in 2007.

“At that time, everyone was excited. Tinapa was going to boost economic development of the whole region and create thousands of jobs,” said Bassey Ndem, who was in charge of the project.

It aimed to attract Nigerian millionaires, who ordinarily jetted off to Dubai or London to go shopping, as well as make Cross River a commercial crossroads on the Atlantic coast.

A plush 242-room hotel with a view over the lagoon and a water park with slides were built to cater for the cream of high society and their families.

Alongside luxury tourism, imported goods would provide for Nigeria and its neighbours such as Cameroon, Chad and Niger, competing with the country’s commercial capital, Lagos.

“Everything was going well at first,” said Ndem. “At the peak, in 2009, we generated $30 million of revenue. But we faced a lot of resistance from the customs.

“They really didn’t want the tax-free zone to work.”

Goods were supposed to be exempt from import duties in the free-trade zone.

But from the beginning, the customs — which has a reputation for rampant corruption — blocked containers destined for Tinapa in the ports, paralysing business.

– Top down, trickle up –

Ndem left in 2012. None of his successors has managed to get Tinapa off the ground.

“There was clearly a lack of political will” to make the project succeed, he said, describing himself as angry and frustrated at a “wasted opportunity”.

For the economist and blogger Nonso Obikili, Tinapa’s downfall was largely because of a lack of existing infrastructure to transport goods: bad roads and an average-sized port.

“It was a wide project conceived with the deep sea port, which was supposed to enable big ships to come to Calabar,” said Obikili.

“It was the responsibility of the federal government but finally it wasn’t done,” he told AFP.

In the end, no big name jeweller or pret-a-porter line wanted to invest in the paradise promised by its promoters and the hotel remains desperately empty.

The cinema studios have likewise been unable to attract Nollywood’s stars, who have largely preferred to stay in Lagos.

In “Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria”, the British-Nigerian author Noo Saro-Wiwa castigates the leaders in the country of her birth.

Few of Nigeria’s nearly 190 million inhabitants have benefited from the riches brought by oil; most still live in extreme poverty.

“This top-down approach to boosting Calabar’s economy seemed hollow,” she wrote.

“I’d heard Nigerian politicians’ endless talk about theme parks, tourist resorts, shopping malls and their ‘trickle down’ effects on the economy.

“But there’s no such thing as ‘trickle down’ in Nigeria — money trickles upwards or evaporates on contact with air,” Saro-Wiwa wrote in 2012.

The bolded says it all. West Hill mall is just 27,000m².

Just30:
became editor of African Morning Post, Ghana, 1934

In 1934 Azikiwe returned to Nigeria and accepted an offer to edit the African Morning Post, a new daily newspaper in Accra, Ghana, which he quickly made into an important organ of nationalist propaganda. In 1937 he returned to Lagos and founded the West African Pilot, which became "a fire-eating and aggressive nationalist paper of the highest order."

You see! You've buttressed my point @ the bolded. Zik must have had a lot of influence on Ghanaian freedom fight. Meanwhile I'm still waiting for proof that he was a security man in Ghana.

forgiveness:


Which problem did Ghana solve in West Africa?

l tire o

Facts that they brush under the carpet. They better hope the oil prices recover this year or else they will float a Eurobond to pay government's salaries!

rvp20182:
2 % when pop growth is 4% and inflation at double digits .Don't wonder why Nigeria is poverty capital.

forgiveness:



Capital mall is not developed by Novare. Stop lying.

Tinapa is bigger than all the malls in Ghana combined.

keep dreaming

obaaderemi:
You see! You've buttressed my point @ the bolded. Zik must have had a lot of influence on Ghanaian freedom fight. Meanwhile I'm still waiting for proof that he was a security man in Ghana.

this security man in Ghana thing cracks me up whenever you ask it.

forgiveness:



The bolded says it all. West Hill mall is just 27,000m².

I guess the achimotan shot himself in the foot.

Goel:

No but "poorer" economies grow much higher than "richer" economies.
China, India & ASEAN are still growing despite being big in size because their economies are big because of populations but economies aren't rich.

If Nigeria is only growing at 2%, there is some serious problem needed to be addressed for sure.

I decided to ignore him

forgiveness:


Just imagine that. The inflation in Ghana and high cost of things are driving them down to Nigeria.

hehehe

then Ghanaians will really be buying up entire Nigeria oh


cause, the Ghanaian cedi exchanged to naira is really huge money oh

Daejoyoung:

this security man in Ghana thing cracks me up whenever you ask it.

i dont think they are truely who they claim they are....many of them dont even know their own country,that we have to even dig up facts about their own country....

somebody just told me that just now....

obaaderemi:
You are a stupid boy,aren't you? There's a difference between first and biggest. I repeat, Nkrumah was your biggest freedom fighter. Don't deny him his place in history.

boy you dont know Ghana History than i do
so shut your mouth and sit in your hungry country

Nkrumah was brought into Ghana to fulfil a purpose

It's an international university.The Nigerians are here and they love it.I have even seen Israeli citizens here. The University has a mall which is gaining ground little by little.KU is bigger than this but thank you for highlighting it.

Kenyanstar:

Spectacular place... Can you tell this loud mouth Nigerians how many of their students are here.

bantudra:


and you find it funny when your own broda says you should be nuked...?

how can that be funny....??

i will not say my own brother should be nuked,no matter how he fvcks up....you are the people with hate,not us....

i find it funny because i know Ghana will not allow Nigeria be nuked.


Just that Nigeria have to stop acting stupid

Daejoyoung:

A 2% growth in Nigeria is equivalent to an 8% growth in Kenya. Smaller economies usually record higher growth than bigger economies because every little thing has an impact on it, this is why Africa is considered to be the fastest growing continent economically this decade, but it's still the poorest with the smallest economies worldwide.

That what Americans said on China growth..Anyway your GDP growth seems to take the same curve as the price of oil..Its bad news for you guys coz oil price is actually going down not up..

bantudra:


its better you shvt your face up....nigeria did well kickin all of una out....you useless....

this kid just catch feelings

dumb dumb

facts will alway catch you

Kenyanstar:
Random pictures

Is that Japan or kenya

Do they carry money in sacks?

Just30:
hehehe
then Ghanaians will really be buying up entire Nigeria oh

cause, the Ghanaian cedi exchanged to naira is really huge money oh

Just30:
this kid just catch feelings

dumb dumb

facts will alway catch you

sharrap,you white looser....

Do they carry money in sacks?

Just30:
hehehe
then Ghanaians will really be buying up entire Nigeria oh

cause, the Ghanaian cedi exchanged to naira is really huge money oh

tylann:

Is that Japan or kenya

no,na korea....

forgiveness:



That was after he finished his studies in America. Then America's degree was not valuable hence the need to get a job in Ghana where there was no much competition due to shortage of expertise in that line.

Ghana had had years of journalism during those days

he got the job base on a recommendation from friend

Kazikazi:
What are you studying there? Political subjects or history?

No Tanzanian university beats Kenyatta university