INDIA VS NIGERIA
By
Abbati Bako
The global leader (then) British amalgamated Nigeria in 1914. The British colonized over 54 countries around the world. They designed and created boundaries and named nations 500 years ago. Nigeria is among 54 commonwealth nations (nations colonized by the British).
Historically, the commonwealth nations were under the rulership of Her Majesty, the Queen of England and among these nations, Nigeria and India had similar characteristics. Before the disintegration in 1948 India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were under same colony of England and they were ten times more populous than Nigeria then.
Lets now take India as a nation and make a comparative analysis with Nigeria. To make it short and interesting we shall consider three fundamental issues, political leadership, economic viability and social interactions. Although, political leadership is the key I shall start with economic viability economy is the cornerstone of every nation on the planet.
Economy: India vs. Nigeria.
Political economic comparative analysis of two important nations within the Asian continent and African continent will be as brief as possible; but will sound very interesting. The India is the third largest economies (after China and Japan) in Asian continent and Nigeria also the third largest economies (after S/Africa and Egypt) in Africa. India is the second (after China) most populous nation on earth with about 1.2 billion people.
And Nigeria is the largest black populous nation in the world with about 180million people so, both countries are among the top ten populous nations on earth planet. India is among the top ten economies in the world and Nigeria is among the top 100 poorer nations in the world.
India is among the top 20 economies in the world also among the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and S/Africa) nations but Nigeria is not. India depends (not on oil) on industrial productions; from small scales to heavy industrial machines ranging from ships/cargo/ passenger flights/war planes, nuclear capacity, ICT, medical equipments, trains/metros/tubes and the largest factory on earth that produces trains and rails and employ the services of over ten million workers. But Nigeria has no stable electrical power to sustain industrial productions.
The Indian GDP has been one of the most functional and vibrant in the world with an estimated of $1trillion+ economic capacity (backed by gold—— USA’s GDP is the largest in the world having 26% of world economic activity takes place there). But Nigeria is a consumer country not producer and the economy solely depends (90%) on oil not manufacturing.
Just three years ago India prepared a programme that will consume billions of Dollars with a view to produce available (but) cheap agricultural foods that will feed over 800 million people in India. What of Nigeria? In fact agriculture has not been given priority because of the oil money.
Although India by far has stronger economy but there are poorer people; especially in rural areas like Nigeria. It’s impossible (or almost) for India to be a global leader because of its social burden and population explosion. Likewise Nigeria is hardly to be Africa’s largest economies because of the population crises in the future.
Both countries encounter massive corrupt practices than most of the world countries. And again, there are massive unemployment rates in both countries. India is the largest democracies in the world and Nigeria is the largest democracies in Africa.
Abbati Bako
