In-fact, with 43.9 million users, Nigeria has the 10th highest number of internet users worldwide!! Our penetration rate is also extremely high for a developing country with 28.9%, knocking off biggies like India with just 6.9%, Indonesia just 12.9%, Mexico with 27.9%.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm
2) Nigeria has the 4th fastest growing number of Facebook users worldwide! Last week alone we added 64,000 new users!! Over the past 3 months Nigeria has consistently featured in the top 5 worldwide!!
http://www.checkfacebook.com/
http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/?interval=last-week#chart-intervals
3)Nigerians are the by far the most educated people in the United States. 37%(Some reports suggest 60%) of Nigerians have a Bachelors degree compared with 19% of the white population. 17% have Master's degrees compared with 7% of the general population!! Same thing applies to many other countries in the world. Nigerians are about the most educated people in so many countries!
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5791096.html
4)The country with the highest number of Nigerians living Abroad: Sudan!! I am pretty sure many never saw that coming!! There are between 6-8 million Nigerians living in Sudan!
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=788
5) Nigeria is the Third fastest growing economy in the world after India and China!! That is what the IMF said!!
http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/11934-more-bank-directors-ll-be-jailed-sanusi-nigeria-is-worlds-3rd-fastest-growing-economy--imf
Most of these statistics shown above prove many things about Nigeria. For instance, that we have a very massive and burgeoning middle class population. Secondly, that despite the fact that we have had very bad leaders, we might want to cut them some slack a little bit, cos with the mess that Nigeria is , we are still better than a whole lot of countries out there!
And most importantly, Nigeria is the best place to be right now as the opportunities that exist in this country are much more than what you would get in most countries of the world!
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