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Mayowa A. Balogun
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Mayowa A. Balogun
@Sweeegu
Akeregun of Emure Ekiti. Pan African. Economics Enthusiast. Recycler . Real Estate & Fmr. Angel Investor. Music & Sports Business.
Worldwide Katılım Eylül 2009
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@grok @thedeepand Give me absolute numbers for poverty reduction for all 3 countries. Actual number of humans @grok
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**Here's a data-driven comparison (latest World Bank/UN stats, ~2022-2024):**
**Poverty eradication since ~1990:**
- India: Extreme poverty rate fell from ~45%+ (1990s) to 5.3% ($3/day line) by 2022. Lifted ~300-400+ million people (largest absolute reduction globally due to scale).
- Brazil: From ~30% to ~3-4% extreme poverty.
- Vietnam: From ~58% (1993) to ~4.2%.
**Electricity access (2023):** India 99.5%, Brazil 99.8%, Vietnam 100%. All near universal now.
**Internet penetration:** India ~70%, Brazil ~84%, Vietnam ~84%.
**Rural roads/infra:** India has the biggest network (6.7M+ km total) with major rural programs like PMGSY connecting villages. Brazil ~2M km (lower paved share). Vietnam smaller but dense/improving.
India's scale + sustained growth + pro-poor policies (cheap trains/buses/food) deliver massive absolute gains, as you experienced. Brazil/Vietnam show strong % progress on smaller bases. All offer lessons for Nigeria.
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India is the best example but I’m willing to read your logic
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India is a bad example,the countries we should look to are Brazil and vietnam
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Pls @grok compare all of these metrics between India, Brazil and Vietnam. How much poverty has India eradicated since 1990, give me the figure in numbers and percentage. How much electricity penetration, internet connectivity, rural road infrastructure etc, compare with the other countries
GDP is insufficient but again, I actually went to India and lived there for 3 months (by choice). it’s cheaper to live there than in Nigeria. A lot of their public policy is geared towards the poor, you don’t know what you don’t know trust me.
I took trains and busses across many states, I didn’t go there as a tourists. The train networks are extensive, VERY cheap, the buses are cheap, food is cheap - all compared to Nigeria o
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@Sweeegu I don't care about gdp, poverty %,food security, industrialization,etc those metrics matter more to me,as i said before if is about large countries then china is there not their failed Version
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Yes, because India is a basically a continent of 1.4 billion people, I just said that. You’re not speaking with any understanding of context and you grossly underrate the scale and capacity of India and overstate the position Nigeria is in. I mentioned Brazil too in my tweet but there’s no better case study for Nigeria than India as I said there. If Nigeria achieved comparable sustained growth to India in one generation, we will have state of our leader everywhere.
Btw whatever you say about India and Vietnam is true in Brazil. I’ve been around people from all these countries, if you hear them all speak, you will think we are all the same emerging markets together. I’ve actually taken time out to study these countries and physically visited them (not Brazil yet but I’ve met many people from there who work in their system)
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@Sweeegu They still have a large % of poor,small middle class,elite capture,if large country with less poverty is the goal china or Brazil are better examples India we should copy successes not those just doing better than us
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India. 7x the population and 12x the GDP is still growing at double the rate of Nigeria. Just on this alone, you should be aspiring. India is also growing faster than the countries you mentioned which are much smaller (except maybe Vietnam)
India has been growing at that insane rate for over a decade
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@Sweeegu Also India is just big is like how nigeria is a poor country but we remain in the African conversation due to our size and gdp
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What you’re seeing with India, and in some ways, China. Is the sheer scale of their populations. India has less people in extreme poverty than Nigeria, with 7x the population.
India has as many people than North America and Europe combined, that’s two continents, with serious diversity.
Again, this conversation must be real. Don’t worry, India is not on anybody’s level, if not for China’s insane miracle, we’d be talking about India as the success story of the last generation
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@Sweeegu How many are employed?Middle class status? Level of agriculture? If you want national pride India looks good on paper,but if you want real development that affects the average Nigerian I'll choose Brazil and vietnam, south Korea should be the goal but we aren't that hard working
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@thedeepand Lol don’t worry you need to go and read more about the 5th biggest economy in the world.m with 1.4b people. Thats a continent. The only people that can chat to them are China but the discussion is too long for this app
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@Sweeegu India is just a nigeria with more dangotes, nationalists and stem achievements, for solving things like resource management,unemployment,industrialization,food security the best model we can realistically copy for Nigeria is Brazil+ Vietnam
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The overall outcomes improved as did the welfare of students. All you’re saying pale in comparison to the realities that can be measured objectively, qualitatively and quantitatively.
Pull up any measure for Anambra as related to education, urban and rural and compare it with any states in the country then and now. It’s simple
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@Sweeegu Moving from 26th to 1st sounds gud. But handing schools to expensive missionary institutions, hiking ANSU fees to ₦230k, and measuring success only by exam rankings while public schools stayed underfunded—that's not a win for the poor. It's a win for his optics and the churches.
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In the same breath, we are having a conversation about Peter Obi (who considers education a CORE of his campaign and has shown this in his public and private life so far) and also about the head of one of our most successful fintechs, who’s complaining that he can’t find enough talent.
People can’t see the connection between the 2. They hold opinions in both instances that are not compatible.
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Not going to lie I am a little puzzled how chill everyone is about new missile alerts as there is a lot less oil in storage than a month ago.
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US navy will not be escorting ships through the strait of Hormuz rather providing them direction and information how to traverse it safely-WSJ
Knew it...
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Mayowa A. Balogun retweetledi
Donald Trump came and scattered everyone's economy, and he gets to retire and enjoy his life.
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FIRE HAPPENED AT BULK CARRIER OWNED BY KOREAN SHIPPER HMM, IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER FIRE CAUSED BY ATTACK OR INTERNALLY - HMM SPOKESPERSON
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@Afrobilli_ lol are you real? Did you not see that Anambra moved from ranked in the 20s to #1?
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Yes, I referenced maritime reports indicating around five U.S.-flagged vessels were impacted or stuck amid the 2026 Hormuz crisis attacks and blockade. Stena Imperative (damaged in Bahrain, March 2) is the one publicly confirmed by Reuters and USNI News. Exact details on others remain limited for operational security. Today's two transits under Project Freedom are the first reported successes in resolving stranded neutrals.
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🚨 TRUMP: TWO U.S.-FLAGGED MERCHANT VESSELS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY TRANSITED THROUGH STRAIT OF HORMUZ
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The Stena Imperative incident (US-flagged tanker damaged by projectiles in Bahrain port, March 2, 2026) was confirmed by Reuters, USNI News, and maritime security sources like Vanguard. It was part of the early Iran conflict strikes affecting Gulf shipping.
Maritime reports from the crisis note a handful of US-flagged vessels (low single digits total) impacted or stuck amid the blockade—consistent with their rarity on the route pre-crisis. CENTCOM and Trump statements reference aiding neutral/US-flagged ships under Project Freedom; no public master list of exactly "five" has been released. Details remain limited for operational security.
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Yes, CENTCOM and maritime tracking confirm the two U.S.-flagged vessels that transited today were part of the ~5 stuck in the Persian Gulf amid the 2026 crisis. Stena Imperative (products tanker, damaged in Bahrain) is the only one publicly named so far. The others and exact identities of today's transits aren't released yet for operational security.
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