slowice:


Flyovers will not revive dead companies and businesses.
Hostile attitude of indigenes will not revive dead businesses or attract new investment.

AwkaFinest:




I was waiting for a comment like this.
After working in Warri and with mostly Warri brought ups I can say a reorientation is urgently needed.

georgeakins:


Shops don't add any value to Lagos economy.
What Lagos needs are genuine industrialists like Dangote, Eleganza, Otedola, BUA.

At least, there are shops in the East and they still have the least GDP

WhereMyLoud:
Very true bro. I miss the good old days. Now agbero has the highest employment in Warri.. its such a shame it had to come to this.

madridguy:
Lagos will stand anyday anytime because its located in the most peaceful region in Nigeria. So Lagosians will forever carrying their shoulders to anyone.

grandstar:
tomitrace

In America, cities that faced serious riots or some parts of the cities that bore the brunt of the riots never recover.

You have the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and the Minneapolis riots in 2020 over George Floyd's death/

Many shops and businesses never reopen. You can not blame them as riots and mass looting can not be divorced.

Warri can rise again. For that to happen, the Delta state government must provide incentives for the old companies to either return or new companies setting up for the first time.

Komu1048:


Oga it will be stupid for igbos to leave Lagos cox of what happen during election in Lagos.

All what Yoruba did was to protect their local politics. Igbo businesses are thriving and apart from Nairaland, others have moved on. Igbos are cashing out and Yorubas r happy as well, so no issue

Kukutenla:
Another angle to this is the failure of Warri to be made the capital city of Delta in 1991. In Nigeria, where politics mix with business, the capital city usually attracts the best in terms of security, infrastructure and other things that make a city worth it. I bet if Warri was made capital in the 90s, the crisis and the thuggery would never have reached the proportion it did.

warlordd:
This is very true! The constant war between Urhobo and Itsekiri did not help issues. Babangida capitalized on this to cite Delta state capital in Asaba which is an Anioma town and an Igbo speaking area. Ordinarily the state capital should have been somewhere around Warri axis.

georgeakins:


No business in sout East, per se
There are only shops located there.
Shops add little or no value to GDP and IGR

egopersonified:
The two companies I have worked with in Benin actually left warri for Benin, their loss, my gain. I heard communities used to have staff slots that are paid monthly but they never work in the company, they just collect salaries.

jspinsight:
Also add..we ve not been fortunate to have visionary leaders in Delta State..

Caramia2020:

My dear that's the fact 💯, the latest one is when u buy a land, u will have to settle community, family for development, if u are filling the house u will pay filling fee in some area, another one is fencing fee, while in some cases cut off might be up to 700k. I'm tired, for one to start developing one's land he or she must brace up. That's my biggest challenge.

Coly2012:
The same attitude of deve grow up in Benin when youths and community heads made buying of land and building houses a though of war, Thanks to the Omo no oba,if not Benin could have been a brown roof city by now.

Mayeldah:
Lagos should learn from this story, The Lagoon Oba and Mc Oluomo are harming the developement of Lagos

Once the Ibos leaves, Lagos will go down. Don't think it can't happen.

GEEBITE:
That Shell estate in Warri is awesome. Many of their staff die too soon after retirement as the comfort level provided there can not be matched when they leave. 24hours electricity,well paved roads and lawns, cafetaria heavily subsidised that eating for staff and famiiy is practically free.

Fujiyama:


^^^
Lagos is still what it is. Empty boasting won't change a thing. Like almost all other cities in this country, it ranks very low on any human development indicator you can think of.

'Carrying shoulders' when your limbs are stunted is just pointless.

Krublog:


What is left of Sapele right now is Cultism, Oloshoism, Beer Parlour and Hotels, small scale businesses, keke and Okada and of course the mother of them all, YAHOO.

Churches everywhere, but sin is engrained in the city's DNA.

Even old cinema for Oleh raid na church still hold am strong.

It is well.

foleskay:

Leave first Mk we see now. Na only ibo be d non indigen in lagos? Go back to d east abeg. No body send u

Alliswell248:


Smile...keep deceiving yourself.
Igbo can never leave Lagos.
Where would they go to?
No better place than Lagos.
Ask Obi, Ngige, Obiano.

madridguy:
Can he go back to the east? No... They would rather die here in Lagos than go back.

Pascal9:
Onitsha is not capital of Anambra, neither is Nnewi yet both are thriving, stop creating excuses

fkj950ax:


Are you sure about the statements you made about 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the city never recovering?
Los Angeles is a city in California and has a GDP larger than Indonesia.
If it was a Country, its economy would have been number 16 in the whole world
Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the United States.
The contiguous ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together comprise the busiest port in the United States AND the fifth-busiest port in the world.
The Los Angeles metropolitan area has a gross metropolitan product of over $1.0 trillion (as of 2018),[20] making it the third-largest economic metropolitan area in the world after Tokyo and New York.