elfico:
Also heard, the government paid for the entire land that is now FCT. That money was paid to the state governments from where land was taken. The money was supposed to be used to resettle the indigenous population.
Can't confirm how true this is, but the fact that FCDA can seize any land lends some credence to it

To who ?

.

Away from the op.

I heard that babangida killed all the chief architects who designed the aso rock, and that he's the only with the blueprint of aso rock.

The FCT should have been located a minute walking distance to Ojukwu house in Anambra State. That would have been the best decision Babangida ever made.

Abuja is very ideal for a capital

So is
Akure
Lokoja
Enugu

Back then in the 80s We visited Abuja with my Dad for sight seeing. The only buildings then was there were, Sheraton Hotel, Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel and the Central Mosque. These were the Iconic face of Abuja back then.

ObalendeCMS:
Away from the op.

I heard that babangida killed all the chief architects who designed the aso rock, and that he's the only with the blueprint of aso rock.

Not true. Julius Berger built Aso Rock and none of their engineers were killed. In fact they built the three arms zones.

Igboslayer:
Not true. Julius Berger built Aso Rock and none of their engineers were killed. In fact they built the three arms zones.

Nice one!

Thanks.

Fizalis:
What kind of erroneous capping be that?

Comrade disembark from this capping!

Capital na motor wey person fit dey drive up n down?

I know say no be motor oga cultist. But the thing been dey calabr ,before e enter lag,and now abj...

See as you dey talk like those mile one touts for pH those days

Dis Ebike. Capri sun. Lap me. And many more rubbish talk.

happney65:


No
It has nothing to do with the jargons you wrote above. Lagos was already overpopulated and chances of coups surviving was rife. Infact the last coup Babaginda experienced,Gideon Orkah coup would have succeded if not for the impatience of the coup plotters. Which made Babaginda to rush to move to Abuja in 1991

It was also chosen as a new city in which nobody will claim ownership and strategically placed in the very centre of Nigeria

And the useless babangida is still alive

Bushit analysis. The north won the battle of the three elite. A.ka. civil war. That's why. War are natural part of human social evolution.

He who wins get to structure things according to it's taste..period.

dangermouse:
The op did not mention calabar which was also a capital before it was moved to Lagos.

It is important to educate ourselves on this forum.

No mind am ...
He wan hype Lagos... typical ronu guy

ayo84:
How long did it take for them to build basic infrastructure in abuja before the fct was relocated from lagos

THEY merely developed infrastructure around the central and were not quite done, by the way, before BABANGIDA rushed through the process of relocation because （as someone pointed above ） it was obviously getting more easier for coup plotters to gain access to the seat of power on the ISLAND due to excessive population outbreak and insufficient security personnels and ample space to keep intrusion at bay.

EVEN WITH OIL BOOM and hugo taz generated from numerous FDI around, they couldn't complete infrastructure （just basic ones they did , as it is visibly today ） for good 16 years, especially as LAGOS infrastructure suffered partial neglect.

UptownVibes:
They should have been moving it round the States at 10 years interval. To develop other States too.. I think of this all the time..

i doubt if this can work or bring about any meaningful development, because investors won't want to commit to investing huge sum of money in a location that is just viable for 10 yrs, then after that 10 yrs you have to wait for 360 yrs for it to come back, the reason why Abuja was largely developed because investors knew that it was the final destination of the capital city, same reason it worked in Lagos, they never envisaged it would be moved so they invested heavily, when we know it would be moved after a decade nobody would go all bullish with a temporary arrangement.

happney65:


No
It has nothing to do with the jargons you wrote above. Lagos was already overpopulated and chances of coups surviving was rife. Infact the last coup Babaginda experienced,Gideon Orkah coup would have succeded if not for the impatience of the coup plotters. Which made Babaginda to rush to move to Abuja in 1991

It was also chosen as a new city in which nobody will claim ownership and strategically placed in the very centre of Nigeria

This is not true. Babagida was attacked severally because Lagos was in an ethnicities dominant zone. He needed a neutral place to operate as a military president. Somewhere no external influences can checkmate their excesses. Check his interview on YouTube, he actually admitted that himself.

December post reaching front page. We used our oil money to develop Lagos and Abuja.

richiemcgold:
... and many many years later, Abuja is yet to be among the top 5 capital cities in Africa. I will always rate Johannesburg, Cairo, Dakar, Accra, Algiers, Rabat, Tripoli and couple of others ahead of Abuja.

Abuja can't even boast of any functional rail system till today. Very shameful!

You are a blind man to rate accra and Darkar ahead of Abuja.

Menclothing:
It came from Calabar to Lagos

Calabar haven't for once the capital of Nigeria. Get fact

Shattuck:
i doubt if this can work or bring about any meaningful development, because investors won't want to commit to investing huge sum of money in a location that is just viable for 10 yrs, then after that 10 yrs you have to wait for 360 yrs for it to come back, the reason why Abuja was largely developed because investors knew that it was the final destination of the capital city, same reason it worked in Lagos, they never envisaged it would be moved so they invested heavily, when we know it would be moved after a decade nobody would go all bullish with a temporary arrangement.

You're right

UptownVibes:
They should have been moving it round the States at 10 years interval. To develop other States too.. I think of this all the time..

Your brain 🧠 needs resetting on this one.

Fizalis:
What kind of erroneous capping be that?

Comrade disembark from this capping!

Capital na motor wey person fit dey drive up n down?

dangermouse:
The op did not mention calabar which was also a capital before it was moved to Lagos.

It is important to educate ourselves on this forum.

there is also Lokoja, Zungeru in Niger state where Flora shaw named Nigeria after the River Niger.

Adakintroy:
Bushit analysis. The north won the battle of the three elite. A.ka. civil war. That's why. War are natural part of human social evolution.

He who wins get to structure things according to it's taste..period.

this is not true

dangermouse:
The op did not mention calabar which was also a capital before it was moved to Lagos.

It is important to educate ourselves on this forum.

Calabar was the capital of southern protectorates not capital of Nigeria as a whole
Get your facts,I know why you are saying this is because you don’t want to believe is because of tinubu,you want to always live with the lies that tinubu built Lagos

And ever since then Nigeria has been a shadow of herself.......

The British treasury initially supported the landlocked Northern Nigeria Protectorate with grants, totalling £250,000 or more each year.[77] Its revenue quickly increased, from £4,424 in 1901 to £274,989 in 1910. The Southern Protectorate financed itself from the outset, with revenue increasing from £361,815 to £1,933,235 over the same period.[78]

This seems like a part of the whole story.
Right from pre-independence, Yoruba elites like Awolowo had wanted the F.C.T moved away from Lagos so that Lagos can retain it's identity of being a Yoruba territory.
The wish to take the federal seat out of Lagos was there already and when the committee came together, making that decision was very easy for them.
Obj also reasoned in this line, hence the reason why it was his military administration that started the concreate process.

happney65:


No
It has nothing to do with the jargons you wrote above. Lagos was already overpopulated and chances of coups surviving was rife. Infact the last coup Babaginda experienced,Gideon Orkah coup would have succeded if not for the impatience of the coup plotters. Which made Babaginda to rush to move to Abuja in 1991

It was also chosen as a new city in which nobody will claim ownership and strategically placed in the very centre of Nigeria

how I wish Gideon succeed we couldn't have been in this mess today, please what kind of impatient and what really make it to fail

khattab02:
this is not true

It's as true as they come. We are not rational people we are primitive men serving our base instinct consciously or unconciously.

America is not number one and we all are not practicing democracy because it's the ideal social form of order.we are doing so because America drop a big bomb on Hiroshima and everyone fell on their faces

If hltler had don same we will be practicing whatever Hitler wants us to practice. That's our way of being rational

"The Panel, led by Justice Akinola Aguda, recommended that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)".
Southwesterners quickly moved in droves to Abuja following the recommendations of Akinola Aguda.

Most Easterners in Lagos remained behind in Lagos. The federal infrastructures of Lagos were abandoned to decay.
Taxes of the Easterners and others remaining in Lagos started to be used to build up the infrastructures of Lagos.

Today, the houses and businesses of those Easterners are being demolished by Tinubu led govt. because the Easteners in Lagos didn't vote Tinubu during the last presidential election. Crude and primitive vendetta.

Nicepoker:
Their useless central system of government made them look for a more centralized location. Simple.

The southern regions of Nigeria detest central system of government. The north loves central government system.
But how come only Hausa-Fulani have successfully stopped all the southern regions from having a decentralised system of government?
Bola Ahmed Tinubu campaigned for decentralisation of government/political restructuring for more than ten years. Or are southerners empty vessels and opportunists?

Edo state is perfect state for nigeria capital,