Just30:
i saw that
but
you brought us here when you started attacking everyone
only for us to come and point out how poo your country is.


you realise it as soon as you step out of Nigeria

kikuyu1:
Al Shabaab will never leave us alone as I said earlier! Here's an update of the war not in the public domain-a revenge bombing planned a week later on the first Sunday after the D2 attack. A large bomb was buried in the carpark of Moyale Raha bus company on 10th street in Eastleigh,the Somali enclave;though the company is based in an area of mainly Boranas and Burjis.
The watchman responsible tipped off the cops who found it buried a foot or so down in the yard,raising questions as to HOW it happened without his knowledge. The fact he's not been seen since raises even more questions. Anyway a bomb disposal truck carted it away after evacuating the immediate surroundings and I'm told it was at least 20 kg and shook the vehicle when it went it off still on the scene.
The same day a number of passive detection units were placed around Eastleigh. My understanding of these units isn't perfect: Weighing at least 60 kg and buried up to 3 feet they detect explosive vapour and send a signal to a nearby interdiction unit. One was planted outside the Airbase barely a km from the 10th street abortive bombing. A KPLC truck like this rolled up mid Monday morning with a hydraulic digger and dug down 3 feet into the pavement outside the base into which was placed the BDU.
A few geniuses,of which there are not a few in Eastleigh,noticed the large oblong dull grey steel device had antennas and occasionally blinking lights and concluded it possesses inherent value. After dark they returned,6 in number and were seen again early morning-not exactly decapitated but with heads totally destroyed . Blood,brains;and bone littered the scene like it was sprayed from a hose. My info has it an on base Barret sniper pulled the plug on them.
How many BDUs are in place in Eastleigh and sensitive Nairobi sites,I can't say.

Just30:
Do yo know what happens when everyone drills boreholes

the water table goes down and down
that cant be a smart way of living.

vaxx:
Do you know mobile money is not efficient in Nigeria while you can used mobile money to nearly do everything in Ghana. yet i wonder which of them is building smart city.

smart city indeed.

jakandeola:
I see u are a Ghana goat no need to argue wit u.if south Africa want to challenged us a gaint of Africa I gree cos they have improve a lot world cup and act as oyinbo.but u am happy we chase u away at the time black ugly things. music sports film education we pass u in all. Ghana is a totally useless country to me so u cant compared us.I beg u dont mentioned me again cos if u do u will hate urself

stanliwise:
I doubt this your figure.

rvp2018:
Yes Ghana mobile money & commerce is on steroids. Nigeria entrenched federal gov screwed it up by denying telcoms the license to do it and allowing banks to drive it. Banks that already make enough money from forex arbitrage to even care to innovate. I mean those Nigerian banks buy dollars from CBN at 305 - and sells it to Nigerians at 365 - or even black market for 400 - crazy returns. And that is just one income stream. Why would Nigerian banks innovate. They simply killed mobile money in Nigeria.

jakandeola:
I see u are a Ghana goat no need to argue wit u.if south Africa want to challenged us a gaint of Africa I gree cos they have improve a lot world cup and act as oyinbo.but u am happy we chase u away at the time black ugly things. music sports film education we pass u in all. Ghana is a totally useless country to me so u cant compared us.I beg u dont mentioned me again cos if u do u will hate urself

vaxx:
While, This on its own will have provide a lot of informal and formal jobs in Ghana. Nigeria ineffective policy is killing buisness. banks are even collapsing with their lots of savings with central banks.

in Ghana now, there is huge competition between telecoms industry and the banking sector. each fighting for their own share of the market. in all honesty, it has been healthy for the economy.

rvp2018:
Yes Ghana mobile money & commerce is on steroids. Nigeria entrenched federal gov screwed it up by denying telcoms the license to do it and allowing banks to drive it. Banks that already make enough money from forex arbitrage to even care to innovate. I mean those Nigerian banks buy dollars from CBN at 305 - and sells it to Nigerians at 365 - or even black market for 400 - crazy returns. And that is just one income stream. Why would Nigerian banks innovate. They simply killed mobile money in Nigeria.

Anyway Ghana Mobile Money (P2P) need to move to Mobile Commerce like Kenya. In Uganda there is mobile money that is still version 1.0 - merely person to person sending of money. In Kenya it's really on 2.0 - business to business, person to business or name it - p2p is now a small component. Tanzania is doing great. Rwanda is still at infancy.

vaxx:
You can't even construct a good sentences. And you are saying, You pass Ghana in education.

i will advice you to be humble.

vaxx:
While, This on its own will have provide a lot of informal and formal jobs in nigeria. Nigeria ineffective policy kills the buisness. banks are even collapsing with their lots of savings with central banks.

in Ghana now, there is huge competition between telecoms industry and the banking sector. each fighting for their own share of the market. in all honesty, it has been healthy for the economy.

Just30:
our current government killed the drive to move mobile money into commerce
Like by now, we will have mobile money cards everywhere to compete on with the likes of VISA and mastercard

An entire payment ecosystem was being built on the likes of China
but government shut it down

Now the same technology which located those Mayan cities has been used to rediscover a southern African city that was occupied from the 15th century until about 200 years ago. This technology, called LiDAR, was used to “redraw” the remains of the city, along the lower western slopes of the Suikerbosrand hills near Johannesburg.

It can be clearly viewed unaided from the International Space Station at roughly 230 miles up, which cannot be said for any other non natural feature on Earth. The entire complex covers an area about equal in size to the State of Arizona in the USA.

edon21:

wait oo u dey yan pidgen. u no get shame Zulu rat

Just30:
i saw that
but
you brought us here when you started attacking everyone
only for us to come and point out how poo your country is.


you realise it as soon as you step out of Nigeria

rvp2018:
That is sad. Africans need to embrace policy experimentation. Esp the regulators. Otherwise we will take 200yrs to develop with old traditional tried and tested models. We need to try new ideas that can leapfrog us into developed world.

I work mostly with mobile money - and I can tell you Kenya M-pesa is incredibly busy. I think Visa & Master globally do like 60B transactions a year - and Kenya's M-pesa last year was doing 2 billion transactions - and the numbers keep growing. Honestly plastic cards are so last decade....

In the payments systems I oversee - we receive a payment every second - and so having incredibly reliable system is so critical.

Globally mobile payments should be well on it's way to 10 billion transactions per year - and pretty soon - Visa, MasterCards and China UnionPay will have to step aside - as 3rd world countries show them the way - by running really crazily busy payments systems.

stanliwise:
how old are you. you don't talk in mature manner. All you do is to curse. check majority of your post.

jakandeola:
I see u are a Ghana goat no need to argue wit u.if south Africa want to challenged us a gaint of Africa I gree cos they have improve a lot world cup and act as oyinbo.but u am happy we chase u away at the time black ugly things. music sports film education we pass u in all. Ghana is a totally useless country to me so u cant compared us.I beg u dont mentioned me again cos if u do u will hate urself

Just30:
plastic card is so rural now
china has innovated the entire payment systems in it economy



The value of transactions had also seen a significant increase from 2012 to 2018. For instance, in 2012 total transactions, reached GH¢594 million and increased significantly every year to hit GH¢233 billion in 2018.

The Data secured from the Bank of Ghana also showed that the volume of transactions on the Mobile Money platform increased from 2017 to 2018 reached 1.4 billion.

The data from the Bank of Ghana revealed that the total number of mobile money agents ending December stood at 393,000 up by 194, 000 from 2017 representing 103% increase.

Mobile Money accounts at the end of December 2018 was 32 million. This represents a 17.43 % jump of the 23.9 million registered accounts in 2017.

68816419:
How can small countries with no economic viability, tiny IGR, little industries, little resources have such high debts ?
Ghana’s $18 billion external debt could later affect its macroeconomic stability

(Ecofin Agency) - At end November 2018, Ghana’s external debt was $18 billion, figures recently published by the central bank reveal. Even though the debt-to-GDP ratio has slightly decreased to 28.9% against 29.3% at the end of 2017, there are worrying indicators.

Despite a rise of the trade balance to $1.7 billion in December 2018, the country’s external debt was 10 times higher than net exports. At the same time, the country’s external position worsened slightly.

The gross international reserves at end December 2018 was $7 billion and it could just cover 3.7 months of imports (despite the support of the trade balance by the oil sector that does not create many jobs or inclusive direct growth) while in December 2017, it was $7.5 billion for 4.3 months of imports.

Gold and cocoa, that are the traditional economic sectors and employ the most, generated less foreign currency with their respective contribution to exports valued at $5.4 billion and $2 billion respectively against $5.7 billion and $2.6 billion at end of 2017. During the period under review, the net capital account was divided by two going from $3 billion to $1.5 billion.

The government wants to substantially reduce its debt by 2021 but, for the time being, it has to continue to solicit the international market and it already announced the possibility of a $3 billion issuance. Its last issuance was in May 2018 and, it was oversubscribed by four times.


Nigeria’s external debt rises by $11.77bn in three years


Kenya’s public debt is rising to dangerous levels

Kenya is weighed down by swelling public debt and faces the possibility of a debt crisis (where the government can’t repay what it owes).

Kenya’s current public debt stands at approximately 4.884 trillion Kenyan shillings (USD$49 billion) or 56.4% of the country’s gross domestic product.. This is up from 42.8% in 2008. In other words, the country owes more than half the value of its economic output (GDP).

The International Monetary Fund recommends that ratios of public debt to GDP should not be higher than 40% for developing countries.

To be fair, this level of debt is comparable to that of other developing economies. For example, South Africa’s ratio of public debt to GDP was 53.1% in 2017 (2008: 27.8%). Nigeria’s was 21.3% in 2017 (2008: 7.3%). Brazil, India and China all have ratios over 40%. However, the economies of these countries are several times larger than Kenya’s.

Policy analysts are worried about the country’s public debt compared with its national income. Kenya has a population of 51 million, implying that every Kenyan owes about USD$962 – and produces USD$1169 a year. In comparison, each South African owes about USD$1434 and produces USD$12,295.

http://theconversation.com/kenyas-public-debt-is-rising-to-dangerous-levels-100790

stanliwise:
how old are you. you don't talk in mature manner. All you do is to curse. check majority of your post.

rvp2018:
Just 30 is right.

Nairobi and Cape Town rank among the most advanced cities on the African continent on the smart city front. Nairobi, capital of Kenya and home to over three million people, won the title of Most Intelligent City in Africa for two years in a row.

Intelligent my left ass , a city where traffic light hardly works, where flooding is like a norm when ever it rains (due to Bad drainage systems),a city with very little side walks, a city where all the CCTV cameras aint working ? tell me WTF is smart of such city ?

68816419:
How can small countries with no economic viability, tiny IGR, little industries, little resources have such high debts ?
Ghana’s $18 billion external debt could later affect its macroeconomic stability

(Ecofin Agency) - At end November 2018, Ghana’s external debt was $18 billion, figures recently published by the central bank reveal. Even though the debt-to-GDP ratio has slightly decreased to 28.9% against 29.3% at the end of 2017, there are worrying indicators.

Despite a rise of the trade balance to $1.7 billion in December 2018, the country’s external debt was 10 times higher than net exports. At the same time, the country’s external position worsened slightly.

The gross international reserves at end December 2018 was $7 billion and it could just cover 3.7 months of imports (despite the support of the trade balance by the oil sector that does not create many jobs or inclusive direct growth) while in December 2017, it was $7.5 billion for 4.3 months of imports.

Gold and cocoa, that are the traditional economic sectors and employ the most, generated less foreign currency with their respective contribution to exports valued at $5.4 billion and $2 billion respectively against $5.7 billion and $2.6 billion at end of 2017. During the period under review, the net capital account was divided by two going from $3 billion to $1.5 billion.

The government wants to substantially reduce its debt by 2021 but, for the time being, it has to continue to solicit the international market and it already announced the possibility of a $3 billion issuance. Its last issuance was in May 2018 and, it was oversubscribed by four times.


Nigeria’s external debt rises by $11.77bn in three years


Kenya’s public debt is rising to dangerous levels

Kenya is weighed down by swelling public debt and faces the possibility of a debt crisis (where the government can’t repay what it owes).

Kenya’s current public debt stands at approximately 4.884 trillion Kenyan shillings (USD$49 billion) or 56.4% of the country’s gross domestic product.. This is up from 42.8% in 2008. In other words, the country owes more than half the value of its economic output (GDP).

The International Monetary Fund recommends that ratios of public debt to GDP should not be higher than 40% for developing countries.

To be fair, this level of debt is comparable to that of other developing economies. For example, South Africa’s ratio of public debt to GDP was 53.1% in 2017 (2008: 27.8%). Nigeria’s was 21.3% in 2017 (2008: 7.3%). Brazil, India and China all have ratios over 40%. However, the economies of these countries are several times larger than Kenya’s.

Policy analysts are worried about the country’s public debt compared with its national income. Kenya has a population of 51 million, implying that every Kenyan owes about USD$962 – and produces USD$1169 a year. In comparison, each South African owes about USD$1434 and produces USD$12,295.

http://theconversation.com/kenyas-public-debt-is-rising-to-dangerous-levels-100790

Just30:
Ghana's bebt is self financing

all the projects that created the debt can repay those debts
so no problem here

Just30:
Ghana's bebt is self financing

all the projects that created the debt can repay those debts
so no problem here

rvp2018:
Woah! You made my week. I need to read Ghana mobile industry. Those figures are pretty awesome for a country of 30M.