The United Nation’s first World Happiness Report places Nigerians in the 100th position, lagging behind South Africans.
The United Nation (UN)’s first comprehensive survey on national mood has rated Nigerians as the 100th happiest people on earth. South Africans and Namibians, according to the study Known as World Happiness Report, are happier than Nigerians. South African are rated 90th. Namibians occupy the 97th slot.
The new report comes about two years after Nigeria was described in a 2010 Gallup global poll as having the “happiest people on earth”.
The 53-country Gallup poll rated Nigerians at 70 points for optimism. Britain scored a deeply pessimistic -44. The poll of 64,000 people from 53 countries around the world found Nigerians to be the most optimistic in the world in their outlook for 2011. It also found that the most optimistic people mostly live in low income countries, such as Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Peru and Bangladesh. Twenty countries scored low on per capita income and hope for 2011, including Russia and a number of eastern and central Asian states, plus Colombia and Ecuador. Four countries – Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Switzerland – were high on both income and optimism.
Abeg LADUN, we're happy o! Ewo loshi...
ReplyDeleteThis survey gan sef get comma. Weren't we the happiest country in the world only a few years ago? What changed? Boko Haram bombed our happiness away? Or is the survey methodology susceptible to wild fluctuations in results?
ReplyDeleteBastards!!! Who told them we are Sad??? Hmmm ! Fela talk am say suffering and smiling :) :(
ReplyDeleteConfused people, just 2years later we are no longer happy, how do they even carry out these their yeye surveys or do they just pull out numbers from their asses
ReplyDeleteThat's a complete lie. Even the great fella observed and nicknamed us "suffering and smiling" we go thru a lot with smiles on our faces everyday.
ReplyDeleteThat's a complete lie. Even the great fella observed and nicknamed us "suffering and smiling" we go thru a lot with smiles on our faces everyday.
ReplyDeletewasn't there another survey that ranked nigerians as the happiest pple in the world....I don tire for all these surveys
ReplyDeleteTele nko?
ReplyDeleteNo light, fuel is high, toll gates, thieving leaders, abusive husbands, jump off friends, randy bosses, clueless servants, dirty streets, under maintained buildings, greedy relatives, hot and dis-organised airports, coffin domestic planes, dangerous okadas,annual flooding,juju pastors, too many award shows-but only one sput...why won't i be sad?
Please feel free to continue the list...ah!!! I forgot Boko haram...
Fuel subsidy! Husband snatchers! GEJ! First lady fires bombs worse than boko when she opens mouth! Kidnappers!! Etc
ReplyDeleteWTH won't we be very very sad people?!
#nobemetalkamO
Back to sender jare, we are not lonely people
ReplyDeleteWell, if you go thru the comments on our blogs, then you'll be convinced nigeria is full of vile, bitter and deeply unhappy people. Its fun sometimes to comment on fashion n stuff, but when it goes personal, its just WRONG
ReplyDeleteit makes sense. if go to the shops and look around everybody is sad and angry. tot hink that we used to be one of the hapiest people a couple of years before.
ReplyDeleteNigerians are haters. And ofcourse, haters are saddists too. In essence, we are sad.
ReplyDeleteFor example, you are driving on a street, and suddenly the car in front of you parks and the driver steps out to greet his friend or something, and then you honk at him to pls pack well at least.......
Anyways, you all are nigerians, you can figure out what follows.
we need prayers [ i mean true prayers, not all these ones that are business prayers making some clerics richer than yourself]
For the first time I agree with these polls,the first one that said we where happy people was crap,one doesn't need to go far to see how unhappy nigerians really are,just look around u if u live in naija and see unhappy people around u,try step on someone as u walk about and see the first reaction,or stand in front of someone's stall or tray in d market for more than 10sec,let's not talk about the unnecessary insults and abuses we pour on eachother daily while driving,or like someone already mentioned comments on various blogs I could go on and on jare.bottom line is that we are a very sadsad people-palo
ReplyDeletenaija people are forever hapi!!
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