No. I have visited Yaounde and toured throughout Nigeria. Yaounde cannot be compared even to Calabar, Enugu and Kaduna. You can compare it to Borno State in Nigeria. 🤔😑✌️
The comparisons were about two national capitals! Enugu is a regional capital!! I imagine you mean Enugu, let alone Abuja, is good enough to compete with Yaounde, but that wasn't the vloggers intention!! 👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!
I am a Cameroonian living in South Africa. You are correct my brother however i think that Yaounde housing and road infrastructure is shameful while Abuja is one of the well-planned cities in Africa
I like it. Not biased. Intelligent comparison. Come to think of it, Southern Nigeria and Cameroon are very connected. In 2005 I was there for three weeks, noticed Cameroon learn everything about Nigeria even in schools. Quite impressive.
@agadezthoughts So true. They are very connected. Most people in Cross River State have roots in southwest Cameroon. They even have mutually intelligible languages.
@BantuCityDiaries Likewise, most people in Cameroon especially the English speaking Cameroonians have roots in Cross River State/South Southern part of Nigeria too.
@realebonyqueen7485 It is actually the other way round. If you care to watch, we shot a two episode documentary in Cross River which were published on our main channel. See the link below. Episode 1: ua-cam.com/video/NhhvnDo4O4Y/v-deo.html Episode 2: ua-cam.com/video/f4dDEv9z3mQ/v-deo.html
Those Cameroonians were actually Nigerians in the 60s and before then. And that was why Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe's political party was named "The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC)", which they all voted in Nigeria's elections. It was only due to referendum that they mistakenly chose to vote to belong to the Cameroonian divide and ceased to be Nigerian citizens since the 60s.
@dermotwallace5533 I was referring to their indigeneity, not their European-demarcated borders. Yes, the 1960s plebiscite decoupled southern Cameroon from Nigeria, uniting them with the French Cameroon. I touched on this in my video comparing Douala vs Lagos (you can watch if you'd like). ua-cam.com/video/iEDI9Wwy248/v-deo.html
Yes the metro has started running again, but you were wrong in saying Abuja has no intercity rail. Actually there's the Abuja-Kaduna State train service since over 7years
@mrnaija101 You are absolutely spot on. A single intercity rail between Abuja and Kaduna has been there long before the Abuja metro. You are 10000% right, and I was flat wrong. Thanks so much for correcting me. My sincere apology.
@tundebakare6887 I did my research; you didn't. You claimed Abuja has more Christians, which is untrue. Missing Abuja's limited Abuja-Kaduna rail system doesn't constitute a lack of research. Your submissions, as evidenced by your numerous comments, demonstrated a limited understanding of Abuja. You should not be the one telling me to do research.
@@BantuCityDiaries your submission about Abuja having more Muslims than Christians is not true. There are more Christians in Abuja particularly in most North Central Nigeria than any northern region of Nigeria
@@BantuCityDiaries the Karu satellite town which is the biggest in the Amac has more Christians than Muslims and also Gwagwalada area council and bwari has more Christians than Muslims. In the outskirts of Abuja like zuba and Suleja madalla I wil say there's a share of 50/50 population of both religion
Abuja is NOT home to more Muslims, as the indigenous people of Abuja, the Gbagis are mostly Christians. Don't come from Cameroon to change our narrative please.
@@ticharoy8530 I said current realities oo....let me give you an example, Abuja has Interstate rail system but he said that never existed, even the intra state railway system, he needed to do another voice over to correctly himself. That's why I said he needs a tour guide to update him on things about Abuja and Nigeria as a whole.
@olanrewajudaodu7800 I totally agree. This was because we have covered Abuja several times in our other videos. In a 13-minute video, it will be hard to cover an entire city the size of Abuja or Yaoundé.
Nice job 👍. Abuja has an intercity rail network from Abuja to kaduna and the intracity metro isnt just from the city center to the airport, you can also connect from the city center to idu then from idu to Kubwa suburb.
Yaounde or Abuja does it really matter my people? Let's embrace Africa and aim for a borderless continent. We are one people why the division in the comment section it's sad😢
@christellesafricanlifestyl5834 African is not an identity. It never was and never will be. Africa has always had borders, and there should always be boundaries. What Africa should do is re-demarcate its borders to reflect ethnic identities, republics, or statehood as they were pre-European adventure (slavery and colonisation). We can never be the same, as we are not the same. However, we should strive to work together by strengthening what binds us against what doesn't. Striving for a single African nation is naivety at its finest. I am a Nigerian of Igbo descent and identify more as an Igbo person than a Nigerian. Nigeria, in fact, is an obstruction to my identity. How, then, do you intend to nationalise Africa when the European-created countries have people who don't accept each other as one? PanAfricanism was a placebo sold to ex-slaves in the Western hemisphere who had no connection to Africa but a need to align themselves by skin colour.
@ikennanwofor8877 I never inferred that it was. However, there are more Muslims in Abuja than Christians. Abuja is not even a state. Thanks for stopping by!
@@BantuCityDiaries don't forget that at point in time the English Cameroon was part of the Nigerian extended territory given that there was a political party called the democratic party of Nigeria and Cameroon (NCNC )
The Cameroonian pidgin is so simplistic in nature that it makes it very easy for Cameroonians to understand any form of pidgin being spoken out there. Even the Caribbean patois and the Sierra Leonean Krio. However, Cameroonians understand Nigerians very well, even though the reverse isn't the case. And when I say Cameroonians, I mean just the English side of Cameroon. As history will have it, the English part of Cameroon was part of Nigeria for 46 years. So basically, we have a connection. We have been part of French Cameroon for 63 years. This means for over 100 years, just like the Israelites, we have been in bondage for over a century in two places we have never liked being a part of thanks to colonialism. We would have been okay without colonial influence, but shit happens. We can't even be our own.
Abeg I’m a Nigerian but this is very disrespectful. Na this kind talk dey make them dem dey kpai Nigerians because this kind talk fit bring serious hate. Make una try dey respect others abeg
Leave Nigeria 🇳🇬 alone and build your country to international standards. All African countries are behind the Western countries development or Singapore or China development. Let Africans stop comparing but focus on developing your countries. African countries are all developing countries
@salvationlivingston4871 There is no "Livingston" in Nigeria, either! Are you British, by any chance? I probably wouldn't waste any more time on this. You are not equipped for this.
You guys have see finish I swear so you are comparing us with Ghana Cameron. When we are comparing with USA are you guys mad live Nigeria alone and face your business
@@XY-rh3if your country is not even up to one state in Nigeria so you nor near .. make una pack well if not for our leaders you won't even be talking and there will be a time you will look for job in Nigeria that time is coming sooner and later
Mr youtuber are you Cameroonian? Are you a masters, doctorate student? This's well put together, well edited, excellent english etc etc. Do you have a piece comparing Ghana and other countries?
Decent comparison. But some of your information about Abuja is incorrect. Abuja has intercity rail and it's a standard gauge double track rail system which connects it to Kaduna (another large Nigerian city) The road that connects Abuja CBD to the airport is 10 lanes and not six lanes. Electricity in Abuja is not as bad as most may seem. The fact that Nigeria is said to have issues with electricity doesn't mean that all 230m Nigerians are having that challenge. There are parts of various cities around Nigeria that have at least 20 hours electricity each passing day (except there's a general grid downtime) besides. There are estates in certain Nigerian cities that run their own electricity grid to ensure 247 access to power supply. In terms of the look and feel of a city and advance infrastructure and high-end homes, Abuja is light years ahead of not just Yaounde but also Douala as well. I'd probably compare Yaounde with Benin city, Nigeria or Kumasi in Ghana. Certainly not an Abuja comparison even though both cities are the centre of politics for their respective countries. For the shopping mall. Please share pictures of the shopping experience in Yaounde which you said is better than anything you've seen in Abuja. Once you take off the CBD of Yaounde with the few adjourning neighbourhoods where politicians reside. The rest of Yaounde might not be more developed by Ile Ife or Ogbomoso. Cos majority of the 4.6m inhabitants of Yaounde are not living in the best of places around the city. Even Douala which in my eyes is more modern than Yaounde still has most of the city lacking proper infrastructure. The only nice bits are around the seaport and airport which are not far from each other. But in terms of the political situations of both countries. I agree with you and in terms of attitude of the citizens i also agree with you. Truly, Cameroonians are more law abiding and orderly that Nigerians. And politically there's freedom of speech in Nigeria much more than almost any other African country and even some of the developed world. Nigerians are vert expressive and wouldn't mind opening their can of worms in public when they talk about their political leaders. But they can also be very patriotic as well
@Uty-yo9np You make such brilliant points with incredible precision that even though I may disagree with some peripheral components (like the Abuja airport's six or ten lanes. They are six; the adjacent lanes are for the settlements within that axis, they don't necessarily count as additional lane based on road network system), I'm hugely hesitant to bring them up as the overwhelming characterisation you penned there makes them look meaningless. Thanks for stopping by, I enjoyed reading everything you wrote there.
@@BantuCityDiaries airport road is 10 lanes. Made up of six express lanes and 4 service lanes. They are not district roads. In Nigeria, most 10 lanes roads are designed with service lanes incorporated. That's like calling the highway 401 within Toronto Ontario 10 lanes. When it's actually 20 lanes and even more in some sections. Cos the lanes have been carefully separated into Express lanes and service lanes. Road designs across the world vary. In equatorial guinea for example. They have "adjacent lanes" like you put it to connect the communities. For Nigeria and some other countries. These are part of the technical description of the roads. Or are you suggesting that Abuja and Yaounde's airport roads are identical in width since you said they are both 6 lanes
@@BantuCityDiaries I have watched the video on the mall in Yaounde and I haven't seen what makes it better than malls in Abuja. (Take note malls in Abuja and not just one). So I'll assume you haven't really been to the malls in Abuja. You perhaps went to a supermarket and decided that's what Abuja's, malls looked like so I'll help you out: There are 6 very prominent and large malls with multiple anchor tenants such as ShopRite and they are situated on airport road, wuse zone 5, Apo, Jabi lake mall, cedi plaza. There's also Dunes and a host of other malls around the Abuja city area. So I suggest you visit Abuja and ask for these places and be the judge of what you see in those malls and compare with the one which you shared the link. What I'm willing to give to Yaounde over Abuja might just be the stadium. But everything else, it's day and night difference as it's not at all close. The Abuja road network is one which Nairobi, Accra and Abidjan can't match at all. The only cities in Africa that can match Abuja's road system are Johannesburg, Cape town, greater Cairo (areas around the new development, 6th October city and the new capital of Egypt under construction). Let's not even get started on sidewalks, trees, road detailing, neighbourhood parks (so many of them), etc. The list goes on. And for the population, at 4m for Abuja, I believe this does not include the far flung satellite townships. Cos of those are added, abuja becomes Nigeria's second largest conurbation as you can drive upto 80km on a continuously urbanised zone which starts from Suleja through Zuba, Kubwa, maitama, AYA, Nyanya and Mararaba. At least 60km of that drive will be on a flawless 10 lanes express road with multiple flyovers that begin from Nyanya and run all the way to Zuba.
@Femi_reezy Competition is looking for similarities. Any two more things can be compared. You can even compare Lagos and Cape Town, even though the former is no match for the latter by more than a hundred years behind.
@@BantuCityDiariesSomeone said you are biased, you are still ignorantly displaying it in the comments section. You could not come up with proper informations about Abuja before making videos about it, and you are ignorantly talking about Cape Town being 200 years ahead than Lagos, that means Cape Town will be 1 million years ahead of Cameroon according to you.
How did you get the statistic about the number of christians and Muslim in Abuja and Nigeria? Nigeria don't take that in to consideration during census so nobody knows
@usher8329 You must think Abuja is a clean city. Where else have you been to imply that Abuja is clean? Because if you'd been around, you would not have created such an illusion.
@user-hc5ci8ks2r Well, the former German chancellor Angela Merkel ruled for almost 17 years. The UAE and its emirates are lifelong governments. Xi Jinping of China has been there for over 10 years with no sight of ending, as has Vladimir Putin. It is not often the longevity but the benevolence and dedication to one's people by the person in charge.
Initially I wanted to believe that you are objective and fair minded, how ever, this your reply really betrayed your true thoughts. If a country has a truly democratic system and the citizens chose to elect the same person for eternity,then it's ok. Where a particular person keeps winning elections because the system is flawed,then it means the Will of the people doesn't matter. Therefore,no matter how good that eternal leader is,then they people are in bondage.
@user-kf9en2zi1r Were you waiting for your turn to type because it would seem you did not read what I wrote. Did Angela Merkel of Germany rig elections for 17 years? Are people in China and the UAE in bondage? We have new presidents every four or eight years in Nigeria and most African countries; where are we compared to the UAE, China, Russia, Qatar, or Bahrain?
Hey young man, don't support what is wrong. If free and fair elections is allowed in your country, what will you lose? It appears you benefit some how from the flawed system that has denied Cameroonians their God given freedom of choice. Don't come and tell me that the charade that is conducted periodically is elections. If you can't stand other people's opinions,then what are you doing on UA-cam? You expect everyone to swallow what ever warped opinion you throw up on your channel? Go back and check how many times different people asked you to do a proper research before coming online. Take that as a positive piece of advice and improve on your research, and in no time your channel will be the better for it. Instead you are here throwing insults and innuendos on people who spent time and data, to watch your content, and you expect they will come back to watch another poo from you?
@rotimikayode1072 The name Abuja was coined from the Hausa language and derived from Abubakar-Ja. Abubakar-Ja is derived from the name of a person called Mallam Abubakar JA. Abubakar is an Islamic name. Simultaneously, the Hausa language interprets the word "JA" as red or yellow, symbolising Mallam Abubakar's light skin tone. He was called Abubakar-Ja. Abu is the diminutive of Abubakar; the JA was added to form the name Abuja. Why are you making assumptions about something you don't understand? Go do some reading, and thank me later.
@@oladapotobi1029Thought Abuja is gbagi.The village of Abuja was established by hausa people who run away from Zaria after some wars ie 13:05 why there is a place called zariwa in suleja.
Very poor analysis and inaccurate information which is evidence of no research. What yardstick did you use to arrive at the present government being better and achieving more than the others in the past 12 years? Inaccurate information on the railway line and Abuja metro line. Could not provide population census of the two cities, etc.
@aquinasntab71 Cape Town is hundreds of years old. Still, it is 100 years ahead of Abuja on everything. London, Berlin, Tokyo, Paris, and Seoul are over a thousand years older, yet hundreds of years ahead of Abuja. How old a city is does not matter.
Did you say Abuja is the third most populated city in Nigeria or the third largest?... Its neither of both. Youve gat to update yourself. But you tried i must commend your effort. Talking about electricity some parts of Abuja enjoys constant electricity they are called BAND A. In Nigeria we have band A, B, C,D and i Think E.. read about that as well. .. good job bro.
@emmanuelayodele7901 Band A receives up to 20 hours of power, but nowhere in Nigeria receives 20 hours of power, 365 days a year. Sell that fiction to non-Nigerians. Abuja is the third-most populous city in Nigeria. Consider that a lesson, and thank me later. Thanks for stopping by!
@@BantuCityDiaries do you know Nigeria more than myself? Even in Warri where I live there is an area called ejeba shell estate.. they get more than 20 hours year in year out. There's also a place called NNPC housing estate here in Warri that enjoys the same bro... Don't think you know more than you actually do bro...
@emmanuelayodele7901 statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/nigeria-cities-population.php You can use other official sources; you don't have to use mine.
@helendamo3853 With your potty mouth, you sure live in an alternate reality. I guess you are trying so hard to impress non-Nigerians with that fiction.
@user-zq3ce5sm7s Abuja's topography is characterised by savannah and crystalline rocks, not hills. Whilst Yaoundé, on the other hand, is characterised by hills and rainforests.
I will choose Cameroon 1 billion times over Nigeria & there's no comparison here cus Cameroon is the heart of African meaning Africa miniature AKA All Africa in one Country & Cameroon host close to 10 million Nigerians who migrated to Cameroon for greener pasture & sorry Cameroon was annexed by the germans not colonized.
@jimmyonana3026 "Cameroon host [sic] close to 10 million Nigerians who migrated to Cameroon for greener pasture." Could you clarify where you found the figure of 10 million? Considering Cameroon's population of 26 million, it's quite a significant claim to suggest that almost half are Nigerians. Is that your understanding? Well, that's preposterous! Germany colonised Cameroon. Most colonised African countries were annexed, leading to colonisation. You are indulging in semantics.
@emmanuelanaekwe1093 Douala has always been, but it has succumbed to Yaoundé based on the latest figures. www.google.com = Yaoundé population 2024 | Douala population 2024 Use your brain, not brawn! Source one: www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20365/yaounde/population#:~:text=The%20current%20metro%20area%20population,a%204.15%25%20increase%20from%202021. Source two: worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/yaounde-population
@emmanuelmoro9552 Jabi Lake Mall, Airport Road Mall, and the other Novare stall-like malls in Abuja? See the Yaounde mall in the link below: ua-cam.com/video/AFOf-POEUec/v-deo.html
There are some errors in this comparison. First of all, Yaoundé is not the most populated nor most developed city of Cameroun, douala is. Second, the images were made not to show the beautiful part of Yaoundé... all I saw was the best part of Abuja against the worst of Yaoundé. Even when you talk of the trainway station what you show is not Yaoundé. I know Cameroon has some problems But Yaoundé doesn't lose to Abuja, nor Douala to Lagos. And just to prove my point even the big malls you spoke of about Yaoundé you weren't able to show because it's not very far from downtown. Nigeria I already has the highest economy in Africa. If you need to hide the best parts of Cameroun before comparing the two cities then it lets me know we're not that bad indeed.
@learnitidiomas9616 Yaoundé has overtaken Douala in population. See the links below. Although you make excellent points, which I agree with, I apologise for not showing the best parts of Yaoundé. However, the bits shown of Abuja aren't its best parts either. I'm afraid I only have to disagree with two points: Yaoundé has overtaken Douala in population, and I did not highlight the best parts of Yaoundé. For the latter, my sincere apology: I will do better next time. www.google.com = Yaoundé population 2024 | Douala population 2024 Source one: www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20365/yaounde/population#:~:text=The%20current%20metro%20area%20population,a%204.15%25%20increase%20from%202021. Source two: worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/yaounde-population Thanks for stopping by.
@ekeemekaeric3603 I have owned a house in Abuja for 14 years. It has limited power and no water supply. I have a borehole that extracts water from the earth's surface into my overhead tank, which then pumps it into my house. Like most homes in Abuja and Nigeria, I also have a generator, which consumes diesel at a rate comparable to an elephant's. I've averaged six hours of electricity per day for those 14 years. There have been weeks when I had no power supply; this happens one to three times every year. What is wrong with you? What has being honest done to you?
@@BantuCityDiaries I said so becuz it looks like competition, which is better and which is not . If a city is great then let it compete outside the continent.
Stop comparing cities, African UA-camrs! Each city in the world has it's own uniqueness and cannot be adequately compared. It's like saying "comparing Paris to New York", each has their vibes and are both good.
@ovorado-theplacetoexcel9530 You wrote: "Stop comparing cities, African UA-camrs!" BCD's response: Why not? Comparing means looking for similarities. Why shouldn't that be done? You wrote: "Each city in the world has it's [sic] own uniqueness and cannot be adequately compared." BCD's response: You have a skewed definition of what comparison is all about. I think you are using "critiquing" and "comparing" interchangeably. Even so, both are absolutely healthy. You wrote: "It's like saying "comparing Paris to New York", each has their vibes and are both good." BCD's response: There you go; you have just indulged in comparing. Each has its own vibe, and both are good. Comparing does exactly that, highlighting their variants, unique features, picturesque landscapes, traditions, and so on. What could be wrong with that?
@IkhideroJupitus Abuja's topography is characterised by savannah and crystalline rocks, not hills. Whilst Yaoundé, on the other hand, is characterised by hills and rainforests.
Nobody is even addressing the central issue: why should resources from all over the country be concentrated in one area called capital? It happened before in Nigeria where oil revenues from the eastern region was concentrated in Lagos in the name of capital. Now the Yorubas have seized the city asking everyone to leave and demolishing the homes and businesses of Ibos. Now you people have started again with Abuja which properly speaking is the capital of Northern Nigeria, except for those deceiving themselves.
Younde at least grew naturally and is organically linked to the surrounding peoples and cultures. Abuja's only raison d'etre is to share oil rent among the corrupt tribal pseudo-elite that gather there. There is no linkage to anywhere except maybe Kaduna and nomadic herders whose cattle roam about the major roads, no viable business except vote trading and other complex transactions that add no value to anything.
No basis for doing what?. This video was done by one of yours, a Nigerian who probably lived in Yaounde for some time. He knows better than you, so sit quiet
163 million people are in heavy poverty 😂🤣🤣 & close to 10 million Nigerians have migrated to Cameroon for greener pastures so which country is better now ??😂🤣🤣 So Na Cameroon & Ghana wuna dey compare Nigeria with 😂😊 Compare Nigeria with South Africa let see, or Egypt and Ethiopia etc. Nigeria a country of close to 300 million people but yet unable to meet to standard 😂😅😂 it shows if Cameroon gets that population they will do better than Nigeria 😂😅😂
U lie!! If u give Cameroon 200million population Cameroon will be gone 😂 I wish Nigeria is just 30milllion people with our natural resources omo will for be like America
@tundebakare6887 I understand your frustration, bro, but I was not directing that at the indigenous Abuja people. I was talking about Abuja's residents. The state of origin, or in this case, the land of origin, Abuja, is not a state, and that framework does not apply to Abuja, so every resident is considered an Abuja native and can run for every office. The city's residents include more Muslims than Christians. You can do your research. Thanks again for stopping by!
@BantuCityDiaries the Karu satellite town which is the biggest in the Amac has more Christians than Muslims and also Gwagwalada area council and bwari has more Christians than Muslims. In the outskirts of Abuja like zuba and Suleja madalla I wil say there's a share of 50/50 population of both religion
I am not nigerian,but I have always thought that abuja had more muslims than christians coz I always see people dressed like arabs ushering their cows right in the middle of the city.They are given priority even on highways.That is something you will never ever see in eastern or southern africa.
Am a Cameroonian you do not know what you are talking about. Yaounde can never been compare with abuja. An douala is still the main city. Salary 100000cfa frs minimum rate is a big lie. Am a civil servant minimum wage is 36 000frs. Talk of security is better. No kidnapping in Cameroon.
@@BantuCityDiaries let the grammar be anyhow. But stop the lie. How many people have you employed that you are paying minimum wage at 100000cfa frs. Category D is the lowest in government and they don't earn up to 50.000frs cfa. You just sit at one corner and create scene. Have you been in Abuja??.it maybe is another yaounde not the one i know. Bastos smelling. Mokolo market. Nkolbison rotten .where have you seen that in Abuja.
Who is comparing a nation with 250 million people with that of just 30 million people hmmmm people di try. Do you even know the meaning of economy? Economy is the people. Nigerian has the right to be richer than Cameroon in all style, do you know how much taxes the Nigerian government received from 250 millions of people each year? Do you want to compare it with that of a small population like Cameroon hmmmm, please compare Nigerians with countries in Europe with the same population
@jerrodmboh8236 No, sir, I don't know what economy is. So, let's use your economic formula. Example one: Algeria has a population of 46 million, a gross GDP of $266 billion, and a per capita income of $5,722. Your mighty Nigeria has a population of 225 million, a gross GDP of $252 billion, and a per capita income of $1,109. Example two: South Africa's population is 62 million, with a gross GDP of $373 billion and a per capita income of $5,975. Example three: Switzerland = 8 million, GPD gross = $870 billion, per capita = $99,000. West Africa's population is 449 million, with a gross GDP of $561 billion and a per capita income of $1,200. I hope your brilliant knowledge of the economy, against my lack of it, now daunts you. Thanks for stopping by.
Always boasting vacuously to obscure rational discussions. When was a credible census conducted that confirmed that Nigeria has 250m people? Even if it does, that population is fractured along ethnic, religious lines and other irreconcilable differences which has claimed millions of lives, over 3 million lives in 1966-70 genocide alone. Right now, there are dozens of interminable asymmetrical armed conflicts going on in the ill conceived contraption of a country. A large number of the so-called population is actually nothing but illiterate unemployed and unemployable almajiris used in vote rigging but with zero contribution to the economy. Now you want to compare with Europe!. Meanwhile hundreds of school children are routinely abducted by ransom -seeking groups with no consequences. How much organisation is needed to house, feed, provide medical care for hundreds of children in captivity and what banks process the ransom payments through what system undetected? Bomboclats!
You are a liar . Yaoundé has never overtaken Douala . Yaoundé is no way near Abudja . An other lie is that majority of people are bilingual in Yaoundé, that far from the truth. In inner you barely find a person who fluent in English. They all speak French
@timcamer4702 If only your brain was as sharp as your tongue. Why waste time being uncouth? Just google it. www.google.com = Yaoundé population 2024 | Douala population 2024 Use your brain, not brawn! Source one: www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20365/yaounde/population#:~:text=The%20current%20metro%20area%20population,a%204.15%25%20increase%20from%202021. Source two: worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/yaounde-population
@@BantuCityDiaries born and raised in Douala. Have lived in Yaoundé, Lagos before moving to America. I don’t need google. I really don’t what you gain from being that dishonest ? Abuja is one of finest city on continent. You should be ashamed for putting it side by side with the big ghetto called Yaoundé.
@timcamer4702 You lack basic knowledge of analytics, empirical research, geography, or the decency even to read. By that, without disrespect, you are not worthy of engagement. Bye!
Point of correction. I am a Cameroonian based in Nigeria. Yaounde can only be compared with cities like Calabar, enugu, kaduna etc not Abuja
No. I have visited Yaounde and toured throughout Nigeria. Yaounde cannot be compared even to Calabar, Enugu and Kaduna. You can compare it to Borno State in Nigeria. 🤔😑✌️
You should be comparing yaounde and Enugu not Abuja
@user-ce6mk8tr1p
Yaoundé can be compared to Abuja. There are many areas where Yaoundé come ahead of Abuja.
Thanks for stopping by.
The comparisons were about two national capitals!
Enugu is a regional capital!!
I imagine you mean Enugu, let alone Abuja, is good enough to compete with Yaounde, but that wasn't the vloggers intention!!
👊🏾🇳🇬👊🏾🇳🇬!
@@Rhino6how?
@@BantuCityDiaries
Where?
Don't mind these Generator Republicans. All they're good at is looking down on other African countries. Ils sont foutes@BantuCityDiaries
I am a Cameroonian living in South Africa. You are correct my brother however i think that Yaounde housing and road infrastructure is shameful while Abuja is one of the well-planned cities in Africa
I like it. Not biased. Intelligent comparison. Come to think of it, Southern Nigeria and Cameroon are very connected. In 2005 I was there for three weeks, noticed Cameroon learn everything about Nigeria even in schools. Quite impressive.
@agadezthoughts
So true. They are very connected. Most people in Cross River State have roots in southwest Cameroon. They even have mutually intelligible languages.
@BantuCityDiaries Likewise, most people in Cameroon especially the English speaking Cameroonians have roots in Cross River State/South Southern part of Nigeria too.
@realebonyqueen7485
It is actually the other way round. If you care to watch, we shot a two episode documentary in Cross River which were published on our main channel. See the link below.
Episode 1: ua-cam.com/video/NhhvnDo4O4Y/v-deo.html
Episode 2: ua-cam.com/video/f4dDEv9z3mQ/v-deo.html
Those Cameroonians were actually Nigerians in the 60s and before then. And that was why Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe's political party was named "The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC)", which they all voted in Nigeria's elections. It was only due to referendum that they mistakenly chose to vote to belong to the Cameroonian divide and ceased to be Nigerian citizens since the 60s.
@dermotwallace5533
I was referring to their indigeneity, not their European-demarcated borders. Yes, the 1960s plebiscite decoupled southern Cameroon from Nigeria, uniting them with the French Cameroon. I touched on this in my video comparing Douala vs Lagos (you can watch if you'd like).
ua-cam.com/video/iEDI9Wwy248/v-deo.html
Yes the metro has started running again, but you were wrong in saying Abuja has no intercity rail. Actually there's the Abuja-Kaduna State train service since over 7years
@mrnaija101
You are absolutely spot on. A single intercity rail between Abuja and Kaduna has been there long before the Abuja metro. You are 10000% right, and I was flat wrong.
Thanks so much for correcting me. My sincere apology.
@@BantuCityDiariesalways make your research before doing your videos
@tundebakare6887
I did my research; you didn't. You claimed Abuja has more Christians, which is untrue. Missing Abuja's limited Abuja-Kaduna rail system doesn't constitute a lack of research. Your submissions, as evidenced by your numerous comments, demonstrated a limited understanding of Abuja. You should not be the one telling me to do research.
@@BantuCityDiaries your submission about Abuja having more Muslims than Christians is not true. There are more Christians in Abuja particularly in most North Central Nigeria than any northern region of Nigeria
@@BantuCityDiaries the Karu satellite town which is the biggest in the Amac has more Christians than Muslims and also Gwagwalada area council and bwari has more Christians than Muslims. In the outskirts of Abuja like zuba and Suleja madalla I wil say there's a share of 50/50 population of both religion
Point of correction: there are more Christians in Abuja than Muslims
Twice as much c over m
@@box498 thanks 🙏🏽,I know that too well.
😂😂 clown 🤡 i believe you have never been to Abuja that's why you are saying this rubbish 😂
I will choose Nigeria 1million times over cameroun
That’s why any Nigerian who comes to Cameroon doesn’t want to go back lol
Gaskiya, Nigeria or nothing!
I will chose Cameroun 2 millions Time over Nigeria
This video has only one intention: the intention is to drag NIGERIA!
God have mercy on Nigeria 😢
Abuja is NOT home to more Muslims, as the indigenous people of Abuja, the Gbagis are mostly Christians. Don't come from Cameroon to change our narrative please.
He thinks people wearing hausa attire are all Muslims 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Muslims owns Abuja don't cry please 😂
You know nothing about abuja young man
What doesn’t he know please!??
@@ticharoy8530 current realities in infrastructural and human capital developments. Next time employ a tour guide for better insights. Thank you
@@sunstar. but he mentioned that in the video unless you didn’t watch
@@ticharoy8530 I said current realities oo....let me give you an example, Abuja has Interstate rail system but he said that never existed, even the intra state railway system, he needed to do another voice over to correctly himself. That's why I said he needs a tour guide to update him on things about Abuja and Nigeria as a whole.
Abuja is the fourth Largest city in Nigeria 🇳🇬 not third Lagos, Ibadan,Kanu,Abuja
😂😂u need to do ur findings & research before doing video.. 🇳🇬
Findings about what? This excellent piece people are still finding problems with it?
A well done video 👍 I’m from both Cameroon and Nigeria.
Your comparison is not detailed enough about Abuja
@olanrewajudaodu7800
I totally agree. This was because we have covered Abuja several times in our other videos. In a 13-minute video, it will be hard to cover an entire city the size of Abuja or Yaoundé.
Nice job 👍. Abuja has an intercity rail network from Abuja to kaduna and the intracity metro isnt just from the city center to the airport, you can also connect from the city center to idu then from idu to Kubwa suburb.
Yaounde or Abuja does it really matter my people? Let's embrace Africa and aim for a borderless continent. We are one people why the division in the comment section it's sad😢
@christellesafricanlifestyl5834
African is not an identity. It never was and never will be. Africa has always had borders, and there should always be boundaries. What Africa should do is re-demarcate its borders to reflect ethnic identities, republics, or statehood as they were pre-European adventure (slavery and colonisation).
We can never be the same, as we are not the same. However, we should strive to work together by strengthening what binds us against what doesn't. Striving for a single African nation is naivety at its finest.
I am a Nigerian of Igbo descent and identify more as an Igbo person than a Nigerian. Nigeria, in fact, is an obstruction to my identity. How, then, do you intend to nationalise Africa when the European-created countries have people who don't accept each other as one?
PanAfricanism was a placebo sold to ex-slaves in the Western hemisphere who had no connection to Africa but a need to align themselves by skin colour.
@@BantuCityDiaries Go read more about the African people and their history.
@@BantuCityDiariesVery well said!
Thank you for your effort. Very insightful video.
You don't really know abuja
If I may, why did you say that?
How do you even compare Yaounde to Abuja.
Abuja is not a Muslim state
Exactly
@ikennanwofor8877
I never inferred that it was. However, there are more Muslims in Abuja than Christians. Abuja is not even a state.
Thanks for stopping by!
@@BantuCityDiaries no dear we have more Christians than muslim in Abuja
He will not listen 😂
@@oboraoyama6255 he will argue however we know the truth
The Cameroon understand ñigerian pidgin so well
@tundebakare6887
They absolutely do. Some even want to sound Nigerian, given the influence of Nigeria across Africa.
@@BantuCityDiaries don't forget that at point in time the English Cameroon was part of the Nigerian extended territory given that there was a political party called the democratic party of Nigeria and Cameroon (NCNC )
@tundebakare6887
You are something else. My other videos have already documented this.
The Cameroonian pidgin is so simplistic in nature that it makes it very easy for Cameroonians to understand any form of pidgin being spoken out there. Even the Caribbean patois and the Sierra Leonean Krio. However, Cameroonians understand Nigerians very well, even though the reverse isn't the case. And when I say Cameroonians, I mean just the English side of Cameroon. As history will have it, the English part of Cameroon was part of Nigeria for 46 years. So basically, we have a connection. We have been part of French Cameroon for 63 years. This means for over 100 years, just like the Israelites, we have been in bondage for over a century in two places we have never liked being a part of thanks to colonialism. We would have been okay without colonial influence, but shit happens. We can't even be our own.
@@atauboburiyaunuase2733 why did they çhoose to be in Cameroon
Who is comparing day and night?
Oga never compare naija and Cameroon, most especially Abuja and Yaoundé
They are very comparable, that is why more and more people are doing it, What does Nigeria have? no water, no electricity
Yaounde is a typical village compare to Abuja.
Weti you smoke? you well at all?. The fact that Abuja was newly built does not mean Yaounde is not an impressive city
Abeg I’m a Nigerian but this is very disrespectful. Na this kind talk dey make them dem dey kpai Nigerians because this kind talk fit bring serious hate. Make una try dey respect others abeg
Leave Nigeria 🇳🇬 alone and build your country to international standards. All African countries are behind the Western countries development or Singapore or China development. Let Africans stop comparing but focus on developing your countries. African countries are all developing countries
@temiladealamudun5063
I am a Nigerian, and I can compare whatever city, country, continent, or anything I want.
@salvationlivingston4871
There is no "Livingston" in Nigeria, either! Are you British, by any chance?
I probably wouldn't waste any more time on this. You are not equipped for this.
You guys have see finish I swear so you are comparing us with Ghana Cameron. When we are comparing with USA are you guys mad live Nigeria alone and face your business
Exactly 💯
Nigeria compares with the US?😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅. Nearly all countries in Africa, if not all are run far better than Nigerians run Nigeria
@@XY-rh3if your country is not even up to one state in Nigeria so you nor near .. make una pack well if not for our leaders you won't even be talking and there will be a time you will look for job in Nigeria that time is coming sooner and later
@MyJuniorGreat
His country is Nigeria!
@@BantuCityDiaries let him speak for himself
Mr youtuber are you Cameroonian? Are you a masters, doctorate student? This's well put together, well edited, excellent english etc etc. Do you have a piece comparing Ghana and other countries?
Your Yaounde is miles away from Nigeria's old capital Lagos in terms of development not to talk about Abuja.
@bamideleifenowo4179
Were you implying that Yaounde is ahead of both Lagos and Abuja?
@@BantuCityDiaries leave that weed smoker alone bro😂
It is very annoying to even dare to compare Abuja to Yaounde, Yaounde is a village to compare with Abuja, no one does that.
In your tiny brain 😂😂😂😂
Yaounde is in the league of some state capitals in Nigeria. Cameroon is light years behind Nigeria.
Why will someone compare Abuja with Yaounde 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Decent comparison.
But some of your information about Abuja is incorrect.
Abuja has intercity rail and it's a standard gauge double track rail system which connects it to Kaduna (another large Nigerian city)
The road that connects Abuja CBD to the airport is 10 lanes and not six lanes.
Electricity in Abuja is not as bad as most may seem. The fact that Nigeria is said to have issues with electricity doesn't mean that all 230m Nigerians are having that challenge. There are parts of various cities around Nigeria that have at least 20 hours electricity each passing day (except there's a general grid downtime) besides. There are estates in certain Nigerian cities that run their own electricity grid to ensure 247 access to power supply.
In terms of the look and feel of a city and advance infrastructure and high-end homes, Abuja is light years ahead of not just Yaounde but also Douala as well. I'd probably compare Yaounde with Benin city, Nigeria or Kumasi in Ghana. Certainly not an Abuja comparison even though both cities are the centre of politics for their respective countries.
For the shopping mall. Please share pictures of the shopping experience in Yaounde which you said is better than anything you've seen in Abuja.
Once you take off the CBD of Yaounde with the few adjourning neighbourhoods where politicians reside. The rest of Yaounde might not be more developed by Ile Ife or Ogbomoso. Cos majority of the 4.6m inhabitants of Yaounde are not living in the best of places around the city.
Even Douala which in my eyes is more modern than Yaounde still has most of the city lacking proper infrastructure. The only nice bits are around the seaport and airport which are not far from each other.
But in terms of the political situations of both countries. I agree with you and in terms of attitude of the citizens i also agree with you. Truly, Cameroonians are more law abiding and orderly that Nigerians. And politically there's freedom of speech in Nigeria much more than almost any other African country and even some of the developed world.
Nigerians are vert expressive and wouldn't mind opening their can of worms in public when they talk about their political leaders. But they can also be very patriotic as well
@Uty-yo9np
You make such brilliant points with incredible precision that even though I may disagree with some peripheral components (like the Abuja airport's six or ten lanes. They are six; the adjacent lanes are for the settlements within that axis, they don't necessarily count as additional lane based on road network system), I'm hugely hesitant to bring them up as the overwhelming characterisation you penned there makes them look meaningless.
Thanks for stopping by, I enjoyed reading everything you wrote there.
I was waiting for him to show us the shopping mall I yahoude he doesn't know after south Africa Nigeria has more shopping malls
@tundebakare6887
For Yaounde Mall, please see the link below.
ua-cam.com/video/AFOf-POEUec/v-deo.html
@@BantuCityDiaries airport road is 10 lanes. Made up of six express lanes and 4 service lanes. They are not district roads.
In Nigeria, most 10 lanes roads are designed with service lanes incorporated.
That's like calling the highway 401 within Toronto Ontario 10 lanes. When it's actually 20 lanes and even more in some sections. Cos the lanes have been carefully separated into Express lanes and service lanes.
Road designs across the world vary. In equatorial guinea for example. They have "adjacent lanes" like you put it to connect the communities.
For Nigeria and some other countries. These are part of the technical description of the roads.
Or are you suggesting that Abuja and Yaounde's airport roads are identical in width since you said they are both 6 lanes
@@BantuCityDiaries I have watched the video on the mall in Yaounde and I haven't seen what makes it better than malls in Abuja. (Take note malls in Abuja and not just one).
So I'll assume you haven't really been to the malls in Abuja. You perhaps went to a supermarket and decided that's what Abuja's, malls looked like so I'll help you out:
There are 6 very prominent and large malls with multiple anchor tenants such as ShopRite and they are situated on airport road, wuse zone 5, Apo, Jabi lake mall, cedi plaza.
There's also Dunes and a host of other malls around the Abuja city area.
So I suggest you visit Abuja and ask for these places and be the judge of what you see in those malls and compare with the one which you shared the link.
What I'm willing to give to Yaounde over Abuja might just be the stadium. But everything else, it's day and night difference as it's not at all close. The Abuja road network is one which Nairobi, Accra and Abidjan can't match at all. The only cities in Africa that can match Abuja's road system are Johannesburg, Cape town, greater Cairo (areas around the new development, 6th October city and the new capital of Egypt under construction). Let's not even get started on sidewalks, trees, road detailing, neighbourhood parks (so many of them), etc. The list goes on.
And for the population, at 4m for Abuja, I believe this does not include the far flung satellite townships. Cos of those are added, abuja becomes Nigeria's second largest conurbation as you can drive upto 80km on a continuously urbanised zone which starts from Suleja through Zuba, Kubwa, maitama, AYA, Nyanya and Mararaba. At least 60km of that drive will be on a flawless 10 lanes express road with multiple flyovers that begin from Nyanya and run all the way to Zuba.
Bro why are you biased, u can't compare Abuja to Yaounde, abuja is way better
@Femi_reezy
Competition is looking for similarities. Any two more things can be compared. You can even compare Lagos and Cape Town, even though the former is no match for the latter by more than a hundred years behind.
@@BantuCityDiariesa hundred years behind? Now I believe that you are really a biased and bitter soul 😂
@malvytheoo
Probably about 200 years, if not more.
@@BantuCityDiaries your opinion though, and guess what? It doesn't f**king matter 🤷
@@BantuCityDiariesSomeone said you are biased, you are still ignorantly displaying it in the comments section. You could not come up with proper informations about Abuja before making videos about it, and you are ignorantly talking about Cape Town being 200 years ahead than Lagos, that means Cape Town will be 1 million years ahead of Cameroon according to you.
How did you get the statistic about the number of christians and Muslim in Abuja and Nigeria?
Nigeria don't take that in to consideration during census so nobody knows
Cameroonians you say are more law abiding déy play 😂
He always says that as if it's a fact. He said the same things in his previous video comparison.
@@MajorrBison I know he always want to impress his host country viewers 🤣
Have you been to Ibadan before?
Yes!
Good job I like your honest
An overall good comparison of both cities.
You need to make proper research before passing your information. You were mostly not correct in many of your presentation.
This comparison isn't supposed to happen to begin with.
U don't compare Abuja with a dirty capital
@usher8329
You must think Abuja is a clean city. Where else have you been to imply that Abuja is clean? Because if you'd been around, you would not have created such an illusion.
Nice though
But how would a normal country run a government for more than 10 yrs
@user-hc5ci8ks2r
Well, the former German chancellor Angela Merkel ruled for almost 17 years. The UAE and its emirates are lifelong governments. Xi Jinping of China has been there for over 10 years with no sight of ending, as has Vladimir Putin.
It is not often the longevity but the benevolence and dedication to one's people by the person in charge.
Initially I wanted to believe that you are objective and fair minded, how ever, this your reply really betrayed your true thoughts. If a country has a truly democratic system and the citizens chose to elect the same person for eternity,then it's ok. Where a particular person keeps winning elections because the system is flawed,then it means the Will of the people doesn't matter. Therefore,no matter how good that eternal leader is,then they people are in bondage.
@user-kf9en2zi1r
Were you waiting for your turn to type because it would seem you did not read what I wrote. Did Angela Merkel of Germany rig elections for 17 years?
Are people in China and the UAE in bondage? We have new presidents every four or eight years in Nigeria and most African countries; where are we compared to the UAE, China, Russia, Qatar, or Bahrain?
Hey young man, don't support what is wrong. If free and fair elections is allowed in your country, what will you lose? It appears you benefit some how from the flawed system that has denied Cameroonians their God given freedom of choice. Don't come and tell me that the charade that is conducted periodically is elections. If you can't stand other people's opinions,then what are you doing on UA-cam? You expect everyone to swallow what ever warped opinion you throw up on your channel? Go back and check how many times different people asked you to do a proper research before coming online. Take that as a positive piece of advice and improve on your research, and in no time your channel will be the better for it. Instead you are here throwing insults and innuendos on people who spent time and data, to watch your content, and you expect they will come back to watch another poo from you?
@user-kf9en2zi1r
"Hey young man" Is that how you communicate with people? Who said I was Cameroonian?
Abuja was not named after an Hausa individual. It was a small village inside the area that was later named Abuja in its entirety.
@rotimikayode1072
The name Abuja was coined from the Hausa language and derived from Abubakar-Ja. Abubakar-Ja is derived from the name of a person called Mallam Abubakar JA. Abubakar is an Islamic name. Simultaneously, the Hausa language interprets the word "JA" as red or yellow, symbolising Mallam Abubakar's light skin tone. He was called Abubakar-Ja. Abu is the diminutive of Abubakar; the JA was added to form the name Abuja.
Why are you making assumptions about something you don't understand? Go do some reading, and thank me later.
@@BantuCityDiariesThat is a historical fact, not sentiments. You are absolutely right with your account.
Abuja wasn't Hausa name o.😂. There's a whole different tribe that were located in where you call Abuja today
@@oladapotobi1029Thought Abuja is gbagi.The village of Abuja was established by hausa people who run away from Zaria after some wars ie 13:05
why there is a place called zariwa in suleja.
Abuja is the best 🎉🎉🎉🇳🇬
The quality of life Yaounde supersede that of Abuja
Yaounde is like darkness, while Abuja is light.
The reverse is true 😂😂 especially when it comes to electricity 😆
This man !!! so you are still on the go? I last saw you in Botswana 🇧🇼 now you are in Cameroon 🇨🇲 😅😅
@austinestar1940
I still am, lol.
How do you compare USA and Burundi. Cameroun is no way closed to any African country when it comes to development
Is Yaounde the capita city of Cameroon
@sppower4456
Yes, it is.
Very poor analysis and inaccurate information which is evidence of no research. What yardstick did you use to arrive at the present government being better and achieving more than the others in the past 12 years? Inaccurate information on the railway line and Abuja metro line. Could not provide population census of the two cities, etc.
Is so disrespectful comparing Abuja to Yaounde, Yaounde can only be compared with Osogbo the osun state capital not Abuja.
That comparison is not well placed. Abuja is newly developed city after the capital was moved from Lagos. On the other hand Yaounde is an old city.
@aquinasntab71
Cape Town is hundreds of years old. Still, it is 100 years ahead of Abuja on everything.
London, Berlin, Tokyo, Paris, and Seoul are over a thousand years older, yet hundreds of years ahead of Abuja.
How old a city is does not matter.
Lagos is old and still far ahead Yaounde in terms of infrastructure and development.
Did you say Abuja is the third most populated city in Nigeria or the third largest?... Its neither of both. Youve gat to update yourself. But you tried i must commend your effort.
Talking about electricity some parts of Abuja enjoys constant electricity they are called BAND A. In Nigeria we have band A, B, C,D and i Think E.. read about that as well. .. good job bro.
@emmanuelayodele7901
Band A receives up to 20 hours of power, but nowhere in Nigeria receives 20 hours of power, 365 days a year. Sell that fiction to non-Nigerians.
Abuja is the third-most populous city in Nigeria. Consider that a lesson, and thank me later.
Thanks for stopping by!
@@BantuCityDiaries do you know Nigeria more than myself? Even in Warri where I live there is an area called ejeba shell estate.. they get more than 20 hours year in year out. There's also a place called NNPC housing estate here in Warri that enjoys the same bro... Don't think you know more than you actually do bro...
@@BantuCityDiaries as for population bro U are not still correct.
@emmanuelayodele7901
statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/nigeria-cities-population.php
You can use other official sources; you don't have to use mine.
@helendamo3853
With your potty mouth, you sure live in an alternate reality. I guess you are trying so hard to impress non-Nigerians with that fiction.
Abuja is also hilly. Abuja is not flat.
@user-zq3ce5sm7s
Abuja's topography is characterised by savannah and crystalline rocks, not hills. Whilst Yaoundé, on the other hand, is characterised by hills and rainforests.
I will choose Cameroon 1 billion times over Nigeria & there's no comparison here cus Cameroon is the heart of African meaning Africa miniature AKA All Africa in one Country & Cameroon host close to 10 million Nigerians who migrated to Cameroon for greener pasture & sorry Cameroon was annexed by the germans not colonized.
@jimmyonana3026
"Cameroon host [sic] close to 10 million Nigerians who migrated to Cameroon for greener pasture."
Could you clarify where you found the figure of 10 million? Considering Cameroon's population of 26 million, it's quite a significant claim to suggest that almost half are Nigerians. Is that your understanding?
Well, that's preposterous!
Germany colonised Cameroon. Most colonised African countries were annexed, leading to colonisation. You are indulging in semantics.
Bro everything you said about Abuja are all lies
@ekeemekaeric3603
Everything? Even that Abuja is Nigeria's capital? That's very interesting, lol!
How can you start compared Yaoundé and Abuja never Abuja is already gone and we'll build
U should be comparing Abuja with Dubai bruh
Please leave Nigeria alone, we beg 🙏🏾
@esther2462
Un-Nigerian me, or include my channel in your block list-problem solved.
Talking of water system he is right with Yaounde.
But i was in douala Cameroom 5 years ago and it's was more populated than Yaounde.
@emmanuelanaekwe1093
Douala has always been, but it has succumbed to Yaoundé based on the latest figures.
www.google.com = Yaoundé population 2024 | Douala population 2024
Use your brain, not brawn!
Source one:
www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20365/yaounde/population#:~:text=The%20current%20metro%20area%20population,a%204.15%25%20increase%20from%202021.
Source two:
worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/yaounde-population
Do you really know about the shopping malls in Abuja, Nigeria and the Christian population?
@emmanuelmoro9552
Jabi Lake Mall, Airport Road Mall, and the other Novare stall-like malls in Abuja?
See the Yaounde mall in the link below:
ua-cam.com/video/AFOf-POEUec/v-deo.html
This mall ☝️is not as beautiful as many malls in Abuja
@BantuCityDiaries that mall is a joke tho 😂
Don't measure Cameron failure with Nigeria, Nigeria has its all
Ur right, scammers and kidnappers. 419ja has it all
😂😂😂😂
it's like comparing lion and rat
There are some errors in this comparison. First of all, Yaoundé is not the most populated nor most developed city of Cameroun, douala is. Second, the images were made not to show the beautiful part of Yaoundé... all I saw was the best part of Abuja against the worst of Yaoundé. Even when you talk of the trainway station what you show is not Yaoundé. I know Cameroon has some problems But Yaoundé doesn't lose to Abuja, nor Douala to Lagos. And just to prove my point even the big malls you spoke of about Yaoundé you weren't able to show because it's not very far from downtown. Nigeria I already has the highest economy in Africa. If you need to hide the best parts of Cameroun before comparing the two cities then it lets me know we're not that bad indeed.
@learnitidiomas9616
Yaoundé has overtaken Douala in population. See the links below. Although you make excellent points, which I agree with, I apologise for not showing the best parts of Yaoundé. However, the bits shown of Abuja aren't its best parts either.
I'm afraid I only have to disagree with two points: Yaoundé has overtaken Douala in population, and I did not highlight the best parts of Yaoundé. For the latter, my sincere apology: I will do better next time.
www.google.com = Yaoundé population 2024 | Douala population 2024
Source one:
www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20365/yaounde/population#:~:text=The%20current%20metro%20area%20population,a%204.15%25%20increase%20from%202021.
Source two:
worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/yaounde-population
Thanks for stopping by.
@@BantuCityDiaries Liked your answer. If you want we could do another video together I'll be glade to help... like when my country is spoken of
Maybe you should take this down and do uour assignments well. You are not correct with your information about Abuja
No place I would rather be but Yaounde my place of birth.
@SMISSEY1
The nostalgia of childhood is overwhelming. It is second-to-none.
Bro Abuja have electricity please
@ekeemekaeric3603
I have owned a house in Abuja for 14 years. It has limited power and no water supply. I have a borehole that extracts water from the earth's surface into my overhead tank, which then pumps it into my house.
Like most homes in Abuja and Nigeria, I also have a generator, which consumes diesel at a rate comparable to an elephant's. I've averaged six hours of electricity per day for those 14 years. There have been weeks when I had no power supply; this happens one to three times every year.
What is wrong with you? What has being honest done to you?
@oboraoyama6255
Okay, sir!
Why do you guys like to compare west African cities ? Is it necessary except you re comparing them to western cities if not is not necessary.
@giftokereke3145
No city in Africa (except South Africa) can compare to anything in the West.
@@BantuCityDiaries I said so becuz it looks like competition, which is better and which is not . If a city is great then let it compete outside the continent.
@giftokereke3145
Fair point. I will consider a trip around Europe and East Asia.
Thank you!
Just dey play how many countries have you travelled too?@@BantuCityDiaries
@Chief_Commander_MBE
85. I have been to some ten times over. How about you?
But the power situation has improved in Nigeria
Absolutely ridiculous!
@@BantuCityDiaries it’s not ridiculous. It improved in the last one month. Maybe not in all areas, but it did in some areas
@KsCulinaryWorld1
That's a fair point. I will research some more on this.
Stop comparing cities, African UA-camrs! Each city in the world has it's own uniqueness and cannot be adequately compared. It's like saying "comparing Paris to New York", each has their vibes and are both good.
@ovorado-theplacetoexcel9530
You wrote: "Stop comparing cities, African UA-camrs!"
BCD's response: Why not? Comparing means looking for similarities. Why shouldn't that be done?
You wrote: "Each city in the world has it's [sic] own uniqueness and cannot be adequately compared."
BCD's response: You have a skewed definition of what comparison is all about. I think you are using "critiquing" and "comparing" interchangeably. Even so, both are absolutely healthy.
You wrote: "It's like saying "comparing Paris to New York", each has their vibes and are both good."
BCD's response: There you go; you have just indulged in comparing. Each has its own vibe, and both are good. Comparing does exactly that, highlighting their variants, unique features, picturesque landscapes, traditions, and so on. What could be wrong with that?
Abuja is alo a hilly city
@IkhideroJupitus
Abuja's topography is characterised by savannah and crystalline rocks, not hills. Whilst Yaoundé, on the other hand, is characterised by hills and rainforests.
Nobody is even addressing the central issue: why should resources from all over the country be concentrated in one area called capital?
It happened before in Nigeria where oil revenues from the eastern region was concentrated in Lagos in the name of capital. Now the Yorubas have seized the city asking everyone to leave and demolishing the homes and businesses of Ibos. Now you people have started again with Abuja which properly speaking is the capital of Northern Nigeria, except for those deceiving themselves.
A city is measured by human welfare, not by infrastructure. Yaunde is better.
@Chukwudi-ze6li
You make a valid point. It is Yaoundé, though.
good video
Thanks for the visit
Younde at least grew naturally and is organically linked to the surrounding peoples and cultures.
Abuja's only raison d'etre is to share oil rent among the corrupt tribal pseudo-elite that gather there.
There is no linkage to anywhere except maybe Kaduna and nomadic herders whose cattle roam about the major roads, no viable business except vote trading and other complex transactions that add no value to anything.
@user-zx9vk4ks6z
You are 100% correct! Brilliant stuff!
😂😂😂 funny video
vous aussi..... comparaison de quoi?
@DonLionel
Comparer les deux villes capitales de deux pays voisins. Ca ne ta pas plu?
@@BantuCityDiaries Ce que je veux dire par la c'est l'ecart est trop flagrant.
@DonLionel
Les comparaisons, parfois, ne sont pas toujours pour trouver un gagnant. Tout à fait, je vois où tu partais avec ça.
@@BantuCityDiaries Pour quelqu'un qui connait un peu Les Deux villes.... En fin bref. Le tout dans la bienveillance.
Your coverage of Abuja was not representative. There is really no basis for comparing Abuja with Yaoundé.
No basis for doing what?. This video was done by one of yours, a Nigerian who probably lived in Yaounde for some time. He knows better than you, so sit quiet
You really sound bitter and spiteful, your information is both incorrect and biased!!
Its a lie. Abuja has equal number of Christians and Muslims.
163 million people are in heavy poverty 😂🤣🤣 & close to 10 million Nigerians have migrated to Cameroon for greener pastures so which country is better now ??😂🤣🤣 So Na Cameroon & Ghana wuna dey compare Nigeria with 😂😊 Compare Nigeria with South Africa let see, or Egypt and Ethiopia etc. Nigeria a country of close to 300 million people but yet unable to meet to standard 😂😅😂 it shows if Cameroon gets that population they will do better than Nigeria 😂😅😂
U lie!! If u give Cameroon 200million population Cameroon will be gone 😂 I wish Nigeria is just 30milllion people with our natural resources omo will for be like America
You lie Abuja has more Christians thàn Muslims I'm from Abuja by the way (indigíene)
@tundebakare6887
I understand your frustration, bro, but I was not directing that at the indigenous Abuja people. I was talking about Abuja's residents. The state of origin, or in this case, the land of origin, Abuja, is not a state, and that framework does not apply to Abuja, so every resident is considered an Abuja native and can run for every office. The city's residents include more Muslims than Christians.
You can do your research.
Thanks again for stopping by!
@BantuCityDiaries the Karu satellite town which is the biggest in the Amac has more Christians than Muslims and also Gwagwalada area council and bwari has more Christians than Muslims. In the outskirts of Abuja like zuba and Suleja madalla I wil say there's a share of 50/50 population of both religion
@@tundebakare6887with this your name you are not indigene and the man may be right .
I am not nigerian,but I have always thought that abuja had more muslims than christians coz I always see people dressed like arabs ushering their cows right in the middle of the city.They are given priority even on highways.That is something you will never ever see in eastern or southern africa.
Don't mind him
This your Abuja development comparison with previous administrations is such a fallacy.
What’s the fallacy called?
Lol look at dis dirty city u comparing with abuja 😅
Am a Cameroonian you do not know what you are talking about. Yaounde can never been compare with abuja. An douala is still the main city. Salary 100000cfa frs minimum rate is a big lie. Am a civil servant minimum wage is 36 000frs. Talk of security is better. No kidnapping in Cameroon.
Your statement is as erroneous as your grammar!
@@BantuCityDiaries let the grammar be anyhow. But stop the lie. How many people have you employed that you are paying minimum wage at 100000cfa frs. Category D is the lowest in government and they don't earn up to 50.000frs cfa. You just sit at one corner and create scene. Have you been in Abuja??.it maybe is another yaounde not the one i know. Bastos smelling. Mokolo market. Nkolbison rotten .where have you seen that in Abuja.
HE IS TOO OLD. WHAT IS WRONG WITH AFRICAN LEADERS? 😢😢😢
You gotta compare Yaounde to Ibadan or Enugu. It doesn't come close to Abuja.
You are of PT
Come to Abuja and see yourself than trying to get more viewers with no evidence
U can't even compare this City to Benin City Nigeria not 2 talk of Abuja 😂
Make your research before doing videos
You are comparing the incomparable
3.33 Bollocks!
Parochial assessment
You didn't do proper research.
Who is comparing a nation with 250 million people with that of just 30 million people hmmmm people di try. Do you even know the meaning of economy? Economy is the people. Nigerian has the right to be richer than Cameroon in all style, do you know how much taxes the Nigerian government received from 250 millions of people each year? Do you want to compare it with that of a small population like Cameroon hmmmm, please compare Nigerians with countries in Europe with the same population
@jerrodmboh8236
No, sir, I don't know what economy is. So, let's use your economic formula.
Example one:
Algeria has a population of 46 million, a gross GDP of $266 billion, and a per capita income of $5,722.
Your mighty Nigeria has a population of 225 million, a gross GDP of $252 billion, and a per capita income of $1,109.
Example two:
South Africa's population is 62 million, with a gross GDP of $373 billion and a per capita income of $5,975.
Example three:
Switzerland = 8 million, GPD gross = $870 billion, per capita = $99,000.
West Africa's population is 449 million, with a gross GDP of $561 billion and a per capita income of $1,200.
I hope your brilliant knowledge of the economy, against my lack of it, now daunts you.
Thanks for stopping by.
Always boasting vacuously to obscure rational discussions. When was a credible census conducted that confirmed that Nigeria has 250m people? Even if it does, that population is fractured along ethnic, religious lines and other irreconcilable differences which has claimed millions of lives, over 3 million lives in 1966-70 genocide alone. Right now, there are dozens of interminable asymmetrical armed conflicts going on in the ill conceived contraption of a country. A large number of the so-called population is actually nothing but illiterate unemployed and unemployable almajiris used in vote rigging but with zero contribution to the economy. Now you want to compare with Europe!. Meanwhile hundreds of school children are routinely abducted by ransom -seeking groups with no consequences. How much organisation is needed to house, feed, provide medical care for hundreds of children in captivity and what banks process the ransom payments through what system undetected? Bomboclats!
This is an insult comparing abuja to younde
Christians are more in Abuja
Oga kano is no where popular that Abuja.
Yaounde is not that useful .
You are a liar . Yaoundé has never overtaken Douala . Yaoundé is no way near Abudja . An other lie is that majority of people are bilingual in Yaoundé, that far from the truth. In inner you barely find a person who fluent in English. They all speak French
@timcamer4702
If only your brain was as sharp as your tongue. Why waste time being uncouth? Just google it.
www.google.com = Yaoundé population 2024 | Douala population 2024
Use your brain, not brawn!
Source one:
www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20365/yaounde/population#:~:text=The%20current%20metro%20area%20population,a%204.15%25%20increase%20from%202021.
Source two:
worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/yaounde-population
@@BantuCityDiaries born and raised in Douala. Have lived in Yaoundé, Lagos before moving to America. I don’t need google. I really don’t what you gain from being that dishonest ? Abuja is one of finest city on continent. You should be ashamed for putting it side by side with the big ghetto called Yaoundé.
@timcamer4702
You lack basic knowledge of analytics, empirical research, geography, or the decency even to read. By that, without disrespect, you are not worthy of engagement.
Bye!
Not much difference
@thabo3866
I agree.