DesChyko:


Thank you for those links. I personally made two deductions from your link.

The colony of Lagos were not doing excellently well as there were complaints over cost of running in comparison to income. And the laziness of the locals. Perhaps you missed those reports.

The oil produce from the East was close to three times that from the West.

DesChyko:


Thank you for those links. I personally made two deductions from your link.

The colony of Lagos were not doing excellently well as there were complaints over cost of running in comparison to income. And the laziness of the locals. Perhaps you missed those reports.

The oil produce from the East was close to three times that from the West.

BoboNkiti19:
Yes the facts are documented, palm oil at (1913- 1914) was the highest resource in terms of export revenue in Nigeria.

Useless Aboki were fooling themselves that their groundnut was used to fund the oil exploration in the East... which yeye groundnut again?

aribisala0:


One of the many reasons why we advocate education. Cocoa is not an indigenous crop to Nigeria or Africa. Just like cassava it was brought from South America and only became a significant commercial export in the last 100 years.At any rate the market for cocoa is a relatively new one too. At the tme of this report what was the worldwide production or consuption?
If you had any education you would either know or be able to research this.

If you can read and comprehend then study the report,it is quite self explanatory. The people who produce palm oil are not those who benefit from it the most but those who know what to do with it. You can produce a million tonnes of cotton but when Guccci takes 100 grammes he makes it into a shirt and sells it for $200. That is Lagos

Lagos is a value addition centre it does not have to grow anything. Just the location as the report illustrates is enough.
Have a look at the Customs duties and port revenues.,the fact that there was electricity,telephones etc before 1900. That gives you perspective on how far ahead of the rest Lagos has been.

So do not talk about 0il money which came on in the 1970s
Lagos has been the primary port in Nigeria for ever and it was not developed into a port by Nigeria or to put down other ports. It has been and will remain the principal sea port for the region.

There are examples everywhere of such cities.

Singapore ,London New York etc.

Lagos is what it is becauuse of where it is .So when you start saying give us a viable port in Onitsha I say go and quarrel with God.

Why was Calabar or Port Harcourt not developed as a principal sea port in 1900
Now,if ever you went to any school you would know that Lagos and the East or North as colonial spaces were administered and governed totally separately. There are actually similar reports to thisone for those places soyou can search for them.They are online and even on Nairaland we have debated them.

The point here is about the Port of Lagos. It was thriving long before Nigeria was created in 1914

The report shows the ccounts of theColonial government so we can see how it got its funding nd wether or not it was subsidized or self sustaining
The report iss NOT FOR ILLITERATES

BoboNkiti19:

Huh? South South of today was part of the Eastern region, and when did the Western region ever produce palm oil? thought cocoa was always the major cash crop product of the West.

BoboNkiti19:
Yes the facts are documented, palm oil at (1913- 1914) was the highest resource in terms of export revenue in Nigeria.

Useless Aboki were fooling themselves that their groundnut was used to fund the oil exploration in the East... which yeye groundnut again?

aribisala0:

Can you back up your claim on the oil revenue comparison to the East with a citation?

Lagos was DOING EXCELLENTLY WELL

DesChyko:

Use your article. I mean, you posted the links yourself.



Okay then. I'm appalled that you are bragging with something your ancestors were not really keen on. Lagos was doing excellently when the locals are not willing to work? Who were bringing in the revenue then? Shock me o

aribisala0:

I want to believe that you can read and comprehend

The question once again was

Can you back up your claim that that the East produced 3 times as much palm oil as the West?

All that nonsense you are bringing up is irrelevant and tangential

Iriruaga100:
The stats did not indicate the region that earns more from palm oil. The old mid-western region was the largest producer of palm oil then.

DesChyko:


Use your article links or just offer up an excuse that you really didn't pay attention to the figures. Why should the articles you brought up yourself scare you so?