vodkat:


Where does nigeria export oil from ? is it not Port Harcout Port in Onne and the One in Calabar, What of Warri Port?

Lagos advantage is good leaders starting from Oba Kosoko till Ambode. If oba kosoko had killed all the british foregners who came to lagos them maybe they will have gone to cotonou.

Is not about how much is earned but what you do with what you earn

Just like a man making 1m every month and he blows everything in club
while another man invests it.

Governace is the real problem. Is it not in the Niger Delta that ibori is celebrated like a hero?

aribisala0:

This is nonsense really.

The claim that any governor will perfor in Lagos is not only absurd it is daft.

Bobby808:
Who is this riff raff with alot of loossed brain nuts? Just mentioned the names of governors who have very serious corrupt cases as that Tinubu and Fashola since independence? If not that Tinubu is among the world worst corrupt people, why should he own more than three quaters of the entire Lagos state as well as your very self? If you trust yourself, tell Gbajamiala to support the movement of all headquarters of all the oil companies to their operational areas and see if that Lagos will be the same.

Afam4eva:

I was expecting someone to be bring this up.

Who knew Abuja in the 60s, 70s or even 80s. When you're mentioning the top 3 cities in Nigeria, a new city like Abuja comes second after Lagos. Ad the idea has never been to make Abuja like Lagos and that is why properties in the capital are exorbitant which means that people who naturally run to Lagos won't even consider Abuja. If Abuja had been opened up like Lagos, it would have exploded beyond trace.

Odingo1:

Lagos where able to do that because they have one of the highest allocation from FG, tax returns from its population which occur as a result of FG monopoly federal presence in lagos.
Why is it that SW always object any attempt to have viable sea port in Niger delta , and dredging of River Niger so that Onitsha River port can re-open again.Do you know that Onitsha have a viable River port before the civil war,even the colonial masters met the river port when they came.
Every year the FG politicians will use dredging of river Niger to siphon money, Amaechi and co have started it this year.
Can Nigeria allow Enugu to have a standard international airport with consulates for visa processing and River port in Onitsha, one standard sea port in SS and second Niger bridge.
This are the federal presence we are talking about in lagos,
Viable Sea ports
Viable International airport
Oil headquarters
consulates
Bank headquarters
Let the SE/SS have only three of the above,the population of lagos will deflate like a leaking tube.

GrandGarcon:
Another nonsense! We are not taking about all parts developing at the same rate, it is to punnish Biafrans that the country was set up like this, all the sea ports in Nigeria except the lagos one are not functional, where in the east or in the niger delta will you find a true international airport? In those countries, airports are built when you have the means, but in Nigeria it is based on politics. Abegi forget that thing.

Bagehot:


Why is Abuja not opened up It has a lot of government money and infratructure, so why Have you ever been to Abuja on weekends or during the holidays? It runs solely on government money - its a stinking money guzzler that produce nothing.

aribisala0:

This is nonsense really.

We are now in 2017 what was the last major Project the FG executed in Lagos State. 3rd Mainland Bridge which was comissioned in 1991 the same year they moved to Abuja.

The claim that any governor will perfor in Lagos is not only absurd it is daft.
Since 1999 Lagos state has borrowed extensively and is now the most indebted state owing over $1 billion in foreign debt not to mention local . Lagos state leadership is probably the only one that its citizens will trust to borrow like that because they can see where the money goes

We are talking not of infrastructure only but ideas

The BRT
Public deefender scheme
Communinty Developent Association cascading
Waste Management schemes

Remember the Ebola outbreak?

Strategic thinking in developing the Lekki Free Trade zone and others
Ikordu road in the 90s was a two lane road today we have a six lane motorway built by the State Government from Mile 12 to Ketu.

So please stop attributing this to the FG . Lagos has a huge population like Kano but Lagos is more creative in taxing its people and because it is so small( Nigerr State is 22 times its size) it can afford to concentrate its infrastructure spend

eduj:

Lagos became Nigeria's capital, from amalgamation (1915) to 1991.Thats a 76 year period of capital investment from the British and independent fed govt. tin can port was built using fed revenue, the Lagos airport was built by the British(during world war 11), many highrise buildings in Lagos was built by the British, the military guys also contributed their quota in terms of infrastructure.
when you factor in the fact, that some regions like the SE, had to bandy together to build an airport (which was promptly nationalised and made redundant) -you begin to see the fallacy in the claim that Lagos, became what it is based on the ingenuity of its regional leaders.
True, Lagos has had fantastic administrators, but so has other states. Oba kosoko had nothing to do with lasgidis development rather, Lagos was in a prime position (the nearest to the landlocked north which made it an ideal staging point for shipping northern resources). It also wasn't flanked by the enemy (France) as Calabar was, and then the uncivil war happened-knocking out it challengers.

shuni05:


I understand your point, it's was pretty obvious the joke about anyone running Lagos. I don't deny the fact that brilliant ideas brought in since 1999 has rapidly developed Lagos which is full of potential. Where I woukd disagree with you is the fact that FG's presence in Lagos didn't play a big role. It set Lagos Lagos on its path though at some point it was abandoned at it took the Leaders to restore it. They've really done a massive job. I remember growing up in the neighboring state, dreams of most kids my age was to work hard and get a job in Lagos. vacation in Lagos was like a dream come true, seeing skyscrapers, bridges, planes, ships. It has always had this allure, why? Due to the development it had seen compared to other states.

How I wish other governors can be as smart thinking as the ones we have in Lagos and not wait for the FG because they only have eyes on Abuja.

Guestlander:


God bless you jare. Some prefer to go through life blustering and pretending to know what they have no clue about. They offer only jaundiced opinions based only on primordial sentiments.

Guestlander:


Whatever rocks your boat. When your judgment is clouded with ethnic jingoism you tend to see everything that way.

Bagehot:


1. Private companies can site their HQs wherever they damn well please.
2. What the heck is a viable international airport? I'm curious to find out how this works.

aribisala0:

the first oil boom lasted less than 10 years 1973-1983

janellemonae:


Dt would be ideal. Fiscal federalism and a true capitalist economy. Not state govts owning everything. Govts are not good business managers. The US govt and state govt owns no part in all their booming industries. Compete-succeed or die.

IdeyFindWife:


Lagos this, Lagos that!

When everybody will not think, chart a prodigous self-determination chart for the future of their state/people and actually follow up with the right policy, people and practices for that!

Which one of all our states is not endowed? Nasarrawa is sitting on a goldmine of mineral resources yet they're crawling. Benue's grasshopper-brained governor is busy buying wheelbarrows for his bastard children? What we're all doing to ourselves is more than what any Lagos is doing to anybody. The NigerDelta had their prestigious son as president, enjoyed a lot of payoffs from the Oil Companies over the decades, filled NDDC with their people on top of Amnesty Programme and juicy positioning in the NNPC yet at the end of the day, it's still blame-laying and finger-pointing, who's fooling who?

People will just fiind something to bitch about and cause trouble with, shm

Guestlander:
I think what we are seeing regarding Lagos is true for many other countries, for Germany it is Bavaria, for USA it is California, China the Guangdong region, Canada it is Ontario. Lagos is not underdeveloping the rest of Nigeria it is actually doing the opposite.

me69:
Lagos is saturated the city cannot support the capacity. FG should build other places

Raiders:
I agreed with most of your comments. However, I don't agree about your California statement. I have lived in California for over 5 years and have lived in both LA and SF. California is a million miles ahead of New York. It's more richer, diverse and bigger than New York. California economy is bigger than France and Italy. If California was a country. It will be the 5th largest in the world. It also accounts for about 30 percent of USA total economy.