We like talking about regions because we're too scared to take the competition to the global stage. Could it be because Nigeria falls below most nations in the world in terms of contribution to humanity? Well you're good at discussing other regions value, now judge Nigeria's value.

Minus oil.

once there was a lizard in a forest minding his own business. Then a man went in a picked sticks full of ants that the lizard feed on. Next day, the man's house is full of lizards. And you are asking the lizard what he is contributing to the house? Too late. Deal with it.

Oil, that's it.

According to the IMF WEO Reports, we contribute less than .50% to the world economy,

Another is blown out corruption, and hey we sure embrace it at all levels,

Na wa oo!

After we don go round East, West and North, now na Nigeria.
Over to you Nigerians, defend yourselves.

@op; we contributed & perfected d act of  "internet scam" and introduced d word "419"

Human capital: Smart professionals (like me), great sportsmen (eg footballers like Okocha), Hardworking men and women who provide cheap labor everywhere

Agriculture: Cocoa, oil palm, cassava, etc.

Others: Peace keeping in Africa, Entertainment etc.

Fhemmmy:

Headache

Yes, Yes and Yes,

2. Sustaining American Ventures in Nigeria and wide - Africa

419
drug peddlers
internet scam
terrorist
edo prostitutes
certificate forgers
credit card scammers
pant bombers

Human resource. Nigerians professionals are scattered all over the countries.

prostitution

Human virus

The rest of the world see every nigerian as a virus,some dubiuos dumb assholes thinking they are smart but are the biggest fools

Obiagu1:

Na wa oo!

After we don go round East, West and North, now na Nigeria.
Over to you Nigerians, defend yourselves.

Ah, are you not a Nigerian o? Or are you Ghanian o?

Export of Agricultural products.

Nigeria is indeed a great nation that does not produce any single thing it only consumes what other small countries have produced.

D.s.d nnukwu ajuju! ÄŁĻ the Chinua Achebe's, Wole Soyinka's ǡŋ₫ Chimamanda's must have come from DRC. Chris Aire is straight from Rwanda. Individually, we surely contribute to the world more than the entire Africa, but together, we contribute zero. It's like Ǟ football team with players that have mad skillz individually but are hopeless as Ǟ team.

In simple terms, we are the Super Eagles ☺₣ the world

419, official corruption and dishonesty.

Nigeria's biggest positive contribution is human capital. Its educated elite are all over the world, helping build other economies and its uneducated masses are washing toilets, prostituting, driving taxis, and flipping burgers in first world countries.

Its negative contribution are numerous: 419, drug smuggling, terrorists, ritual killings, terribly educated citizens on average, sharia law, jaw-dropping corruption, a police force that's fully constituted of armed robbers and thugs, the list is endless.

Nigeria's contribution to world can not be over-emphasized. Nigeria is strategic to African Political and economic policies.

Security: Nigeria is a country to reckon with in African and United Nations Peace Mission.
People and Culture: The diversity of her culture and people are of sentimental value to world tourism. Her cultural manifestations are rich historical references in millenniums to come.

Above all, Nigeria is strategic to the world

safarigirl:

D.s.d nnukwu ajuju! ÄŁĻ the Chinua Achebe's, Wole Soyinka's ǡŋ₫ Chimamanda's must have come from DRC. Chris Aire is straight from Rwanda. Individually, we surely contribute to the world more than the entire Africa, but together, we contribute zero. It's like Ǟ football team with players that have mad skillz individually but are hopeless as Ǟ team.

In simple terms, we are the Super Eagles ☺₣ the world

Well said,

419
down to prostitution, after Russia

Nigerians the most educated immigrant group in the United States

Nollywood--movies, proliferation of African culture

Music

yahoo yahoo

internet scam

we supply prostitutes to Italo, Germani, and southern Europe

onila:

Nigerians the most educated immigrant group in the United States

that sounds more like the United States's contribution to the world

I also beg to differ. I think Indians are the most educated immigrant group. Nigerians, perhaps, are the most educated black immigrant group, if not among blacks generally.

music and entertainment!

we have produced some of the best musicians in the African continent!

Tuface-first African to win the MTV Europe Africa

Asa

Nneka

sade

b4 i use to there are idiots on nairaland. bt right now i think there is a lot more than i previously thought. when i saw the thread i was expecting a healthy argument, bt i was wrong.

Princek12:

that sounds more like the United States's contribution to the world

I also beg to differ. I think Indians are the most educated immigrant group. Nigerians, perhaps, are the most educated black immigrant group, if not among blacks generally.

"If you see an average Nigerian family, everybody has a college degree these days," said Udeh, 32, a physical therapist at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. "But a post-graduate degree, that's like pride for the family."

Nigerian immigrants have the highest levels of education in this city and the nation, surpassing whites and Asians, according to Census data bolstered by an analysis of 13 annual Houston-area surveys conducted by Rice University.

Although they make up a tiny portion of the U.S. population, a whopping 17 percent of all Nigerians in this country held master's degrees while 4 percent had a doctorate, according to the 2006 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, 37 percent had bachelor's degrees.

In comparison
To put those numbers in perspective, 8 percent of the white population in the U.S. had master's degrees, according to the Census survey. And 1 percent held doctorates. About 19 percent of white residents had bachelor's degrees. Asians come closer to the Nigerians with 12 percent holding master's degrees and 3 percent having doctorates.
The Nigerian numbers are "strikingly high," said Roderick Harrison, demographer at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank that specializes in researching black issues. "There is no doubt that these are highly educated professionals who are probably working in the petrochemical, medical and business sectors in Houston."

Harrison analyzed the census data for the Houston Chronicle.

Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice University who conducts the annual Houston Area Survey, suspects the percentage of Nigerian immigrants with post-graduate degrees is higher than Census data shows.

Of all the Nigerian immigrants he reached in his random phone surveys 1994 through 2007 — 45 households total — Klineberg said 40 percent of the Nigerians said they had post-graduate degrees.

"These are higher levels of educational attainment than were found in any other , community," Klineberg said.

One of the best African writers in the continent

chimamanda adichie

the first african woman to win Orange Prize for Fiction (2004) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (2005).

Wole Soyinka-Wole Soyinka - first African-born Nobel Prize winner

First African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

Chinua Achebe-Father of the African Literature

Great Footballers and Great Football Accomplishments

Nigeria made Olympic football history by becoming the first African and non-European and South American team to win the gold medal.

nollywood. .the third largest movie industry in the world!