LETS TALK (GENERAL DISCUSSIONS THREAD)

[Blamaco11]

At least Abuja is rather green

[HerachioBlo]

i completely agree with you on the maintenance culture and dignity of work.
two things that are seldom spoken about here. everyone just blames everything on 'corruption' as if corruption is a noun only and comes in one method.


nigeria also needs serious quality control and a culture of realizing money in not an end it's a means.

every nigerian, because the feel money is the end not the means, hordes money and is a cheapskate. if they have 50,000 USD to build a school, they will try with all their ability to build a 10,000 USD school for the sake of saving money. If a man has enough to build a reasonable home he will build a shack and live in it until he can afford a mansion. In building they dilute the cement with a ridiculous amount of sand to save costs so that within one year the infrastructure has been broken down by rain and extreme heat. They under pay employees or won't pay them at all to save costs, they use dangerous and questionable materials that weren't suited to function, they buy facilities hami-down from countries throwing them away, the build the cheapest building possible, they fill the roads with scrapped cars and manipulate them to save costs before selling them at the expense of safety.

Lagos is functional and highly productive economically, it just looks hideous because for 55+ years people have built and bought the lowest quality and cheapest of all opinions and hence the mess.

[Carver02]

Originally Posted by l-ray

Both Abuja and Lagos look almost look equivalent to major cities in the developed world judging from some of this gallery but I think think these photos are cherry picked considered I was watching an doc on the sruggles of f Nigerians in Lagos or Abuja....

The pics of almost every city that are popularized/promoted in the media are cherry picked. So why pick on Nigeria for cherry picking photos?

Look at common photos of NYC, London, Paris, they show the beautiful and clean areas and not the dirty tenements.

[NaijaSwag]

Originally Posted by l-ray

Both Abuja and Lagos look almost look equivalent to major cities in the developed world judging from some of this gallery but I think think these photos are cherry picked considered I was watching an doc on the sruggles of f Nigerians in Lagos or Abuja(I can't recall but the utility lines looked like a hot mess of jumbled up chords wraped around eachother like weeds) and the slum areas looked just as bad as any in Africa..But those power lines were one of the most pititufl excuses for infrastructure I've ever saw in a socalled major city even by African standards...Which brings me to my point...These photos of Abuja look nice and glossy but Ive heard even Nigeria's major cities are prone to daily power outages...It's amazing to me(though maybe it shouldn't be considering the precedent)one of biggest oil exporting countries in the world doesn't even have a stable electric grid to poower ti's captiol city? Abuja and Nigeria as a whole need to handle the basics before they think about building anymore towers or other superficial developments.

Speak the truth brother!!!!

[dan katsina]

after ramadan i will be leaving www.skyscrapercity.com website permanently

[NaijaSwag]

Why dan, we dont have much nigerians here.

[dan katsina]

i do not want the arguments and accusations again, i will finish my thread and go for good,
alot of people will be happy

[Arinze]

Happy that you are gone, sad that you still are prejudice against other ethnicities.

[NaijaSwag]

Aww, Arinze plz now apologize to dan. you and your shenanegans arinze, madam money miss road!

[HerachioBlo]

lol at dan committing e-suicide.

Dan is decent when he can stay away from tribalizing everything, which he can't. It can be a situation where it's all the nigerians together versus everyone on the forum and dan will come in and start talking about igbos.

i suppose it's a microcosm of what's happening in nigeria. you can't be a national player if your talking about tribes and religion all the damn time. Dan is the El Rufai, Sanusi, and Buhari of SSC lol.

[Håkønljzberg]

[ceekay1]

Originally Posted by Håkønljzberg

This picture is from the UK not Nigeria. Just thought I'd point that out.

[GAR3TH]

who want to be a millionaire

[NaijaSwag]

The host has a voice of a host, i like him but the whole thing was too local jare lol

Naija dey try sha.

The questions were too easy WTF.

[Naijaborn]

Wayy too easy!

Used to be more complex before..God knows what Happened,.

[GAR3TH]

Many US congressmen are speaking up about Boko Haram. If these Attacks continue to get worse I believe there is a strong chance the USA will get involve. Nigeria is just to corrupt and sentimental to get rid of boko haram, and some nigerian politicians and officails are suspected of funding boko haram.

[HerachioBlo]

I agree with him 100%

[Håkønljzberg]

source

[anulax]

Good aproaching development with anger thats what i like to see
This people should be living in proper houses and im pretty sure they
Have no where to stay but if they were smart they could use this as a gateway
To demostrate and protest but of course they won't and they will just cryim not
Trying to be cruel but they have stand up for themselves and stop bieng useless

[Naijaborn]

LOL, someone see this vid,pls...