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Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by Bukati2: 4:12am On Jun 01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw7JjvDkqko?si=ZTVt_StmadHL69uN

Lagos is synonymous with iconic bridges and magnificent tall buildings. A tour of Victoria Island and falomo tells you that most of those buildings are unoccupied largely due to the rather exorbitant rent they charge.

The managers of these big buildings are not finding it funny these days, most of these buildings operate on lifts to take people from floor to floor. Given that the electricity supply in Nigeria is very elliptic, the operators rely on generators to power the lift and supply electricity to the buildings.

Unfortunately since the removal of subsidy the cost of fuel of whatever kind has gone up and it has impacted virtually every sector especially the managers of these imposing buildings that have defined the skyline of Lagos State. It is simply no longer sustainable. Just how much of the burden in terms of cost of energy can be transferred to the tenants of these tall buildings?

Now with the emergence of Aba as a destination for businesses especially with cheap and steady electricity, businesses will look with antsy at an opportunity that can be exploited. Already Aba is already increasing its use of iron rods per capita, it won't be long before skyscrapers define its skyline.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by EponObi(f): 4:20am On Jun 01
You guys are still running with this electricity propaganda 😂

If Aba is truly favorable to companies and factories compared to Lagos, no be you go tell them before they shift base to Abia State.

Btw, you can't be kpaing unaselfs, burning your properties, turning your state to warzone, while your governor tell the press he's powerless to curb your muripuri-induced youths using una papa and mama as shooting practice, then suddenly throw some fake cheap electricity on the table and expect investors to come running to your state. Not everyone is as gullible as you people.

Your youth self no believe una electricity propaganda, reason why hundreds of them still entered Lagos tonight with luxurious buses. 😩

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by Lumarstone: 4:26am On Jun 01
With time, ABA shall overtake Lagos as business hub of Nigeria.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by madridguy(m): 4:30am On Jun 01
Joke of the century grin

Lumarstone:
With time, ABA shall overtake Lagos as business hub of Nigeria.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by deji17: 4:32am On Jun 01
Propaganda in high gear! grin

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by wiseone28: 5:20am On Jun 01
It is possible



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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by Ebibedike1: 5:22am On Jun 01
I don't know what some people are smoking honestly . How can a grownup man vomit this trash?

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by rinzaugustine: 5:29am On Jun 01
Same way igbos built Lagos economical they will do to Abia. Apart from the stolen monies in hands of corrupt politicians and their cronies like dangote etc 80% of Nigerian money is in the hands of the igbos
Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by DesChyko: 7:10am On Jun 01
That is a tall order, but the recent spike in the activity of 'UGM' in the state will not do them any favours.

People of Abia can take things into their hands to apprehend these impostors that are bent on slowing Otti down, but it will be at a bloody cost.

Events in other states have shown they are on their own, with the 'UGM' and army against them as well.
Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by WizardOfNG: 7:20am On Jun 01
Lumarstone:
With time, ABA shall overtake Lagos as business hub of Nigeria.

Lol. Same as Accra and Kigali are about to overtake New York and London as two of the worlds biggest stockbroking/business cities.

You lot are clowns walahi.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by WizardOfNG: 7:22am On Jun 01
Ebibedike1:
I don't know what some people are smoking honestly . How can a grownup man vomit this trash?

Deep inferiority complex leads to all manners of wild over-compensation.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by UncleAyo: 7:23am On Jun 01
IPOB left the chatroom.

Keep dreaming...

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by Objectivist04: 8:06am On Jun 01
rinzaugustine:
Same way igbos built Lagos economical they will do to Abia. Apart from the stolen monies in hands of corrupt politicians and their cronies like dangote etc 80% of Nigerian money is in the hands of the igbos
Oboy you are not far from the truth, you need to come to enugu and see structures springing up everywhere even in farm lands and we are talking about a time when cost of building materials are at its peak and I keep asking "where are igbos making their money"
The thing dey really shock me even though I am an igbo walahi
Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by Lumarstone: 9:10am On Jun 02
WizardOfNG:


Lol. Same as Accra and Kigali are about to overtake New York and London as two of the worlds biggest stockbroking/business cities.

You lot are clowns walahi.

Some of your problem is that you hardly contribute on my issue here with abusing someone. Repent.
Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by Bitterkola100: 9:16am On Jun 02
Don't be surprised an adult wrote this nonsense

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by yoruboid: 9:18am On Jun 02
Aba will never even be close to PHC. How much more Lagos

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by igwebuike01: 10:45am On Jun 02
Yoruba youth be like "let me sleep under my dilapidated mud house, afterall Lagos is there for me"

Aba and Anambra will definitely overtake Lagos. Your resort to political gang up can't save you.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by igwebuike01: 10:47am On Jun 02
WizardOfNG:


Deep inferiority complex leads to all manners of wild over-compensation.
Aba GDP per Capita is higher than Lagos. Aba has always been greater than Lagos. Economy is not measure by skyscrapers or IGR

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by igwebuike01: 10:49am On Jun 02
Objectivist04:

Oboy you are not far from the truth, you need to come to enugu and see structures springing up everywhere even in farm lands and we are talking about a time when cost of building materials are at its peak and I keep asking "where are igbos making their money"
The thing dey really shock me even though I am an igbo walahi
The whole SE will become an Urban monster in the next century. Anambra and Imo has already merged

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by igwebuike01: 10:54am On Jun 02
DesChyko:
That is a tall order, but the recent spike in the activity of 'UGM' in the state will not do them any favours.

People of Abia can take things into their hands to apprehend these impostors that are bent on slowing Otti down, but it will be at a bloody cost.

Events in other states have shown they are on their own, with the 'UGM' and army against them as well.
Nobody is slowing anybody down. Imo has been worst hit by UGM yet it's GDP recently overtook Rivers to emerge second after Lagos

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by mrvitalis(m): 10:56am On Jun 02
Bukati2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw7JjvDkqko?si=ZTVt_StmadHL69uN

Lagos is synonymous with iconic bridges and magnificent tall buildings. A tour of Victoria Island and falomo tells you that most of those buildings are unoccupied largely due to the rather exorbitant rent they charge.

The managers of these big buildings are not finding it funny these days, most of these buildings operate on lifts to take people from floor to floor. Given that the electricity supply in Nigeria is very elliptic, the operators rely on generators to power the lift and supply electricity to the buildings.

Unfortunately since the removal of subsidy the cost of fuel of whatever kind has gone up and it has impacted virtually every sector especially the managers of these imposing buildings that have defined the skyline of Lagos State. It is simply no longer sustainable. Just how much of the burden in terms of cost of energy can be transferred to the tenants of these tall buildings?

Now with the emergence of Aba as a destination for businesses especially with cheap and steady electricity, businesses will look with antsy at an opportunity that can be exploited. Already Aba is already increasing its use of iron rods per capita, it won't be long before skyscrapers define its skyline.
ABA would surpass Lagos if we have two policy changes

1) tax free importation of fabrics and leather this would shut ABA garment industry to be world class... Closer to Europe n America than Bangladesh, Pakistan, and China

If well manage this can earn ABA a GDP of 200 billion dollars yearly

2)tax free importation for steel n other metals as raw materials... Unless u have been to ABA u won't know the heavy steel n metal fabrication industry going on there

They just can't compete globally because their materials are overpriced

ABA can be a global leader in kitchen utensils, metal works, mechanical components ( nnewiw dominates here) solar panels


The Nigerian economic policies of protecting industries without much potential at the expense of industry with huge potential is why we are like this

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by WizardOfNG: 11:44am On Jun 02
Lumarstone:


Some of your problem is that you hardly contribute on my issue here with abusing someone. Repent.


Most posters I respond to like that are patent and irredeemable haters of the Yorubas and the SW.

You don’t pander to such folks, if Yoruba, same as a black man can never be nice to a white supremacist or racist.

Nothing to “repent” over buddy. If you’re not a hater of my skin or ethnicity then I will be civil to you. Simple.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by Lumarstone: 12:51pm On Jun 02
WizardOfNG:



Most posters I respond to like that are patent and irredeemable haters of the Yorubas and the SW.

You don’t pander to such folks, if Yoruba, same as a black man can never be nice to a white supremacist or racist.

Nothing to “repent” over buddy. If you’re not a hater of my skin or ethnicity then I will be civil to you. Simple.

Some of you here are tribalistic in this platform. I'm a Yoruba Man from agbawo in Ibadan, I hate social injustice irrespective of tribe or zone. For soilders to start maltreating innocent people applying ABA-PH road over the unfortunate killing of their colleague by yet to be identified criminals in the guise of IPOB members shouldn't be a yardstick for the whole people of SE to be maltreated by the army and their wives raped. Is uncalled for.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by christejames(m): 12:54pm On Jun 02
Lol!


Forget talks, Aba has always been rubbing shoulders with Lagos in terms of commerce but with the infuse of good governance and rapid transformation, Lagos won't see Aba break lights 🚥 again...





Watch out!
Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by Jagabanbattle: 1:31pm On Jun 02
Aba is only set to over take the whole north as the most terrorized place in Nigeria. Mediocrity at its peak.
Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by BATified2023: 1:55pm On Jun 02
Lumarstone:


Some of you here are tribalistic in this platform. I'm a Yoruba Man from agbawo in Ibadan, I hate social injustice irrespective of tribe or zone. For soilders to start maltreating innocent people applying ABA-PH road over the unfortunate killing of their colleague by yet to be identified criminals in the guise of IPOB members shouldn't be a yardstick for the whole people of SE to be maltreated by the army and their wives raped. Is uncalled for.
oga where is agbawo in Ibadan?

Which area is agbawo?

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by BATified2023: 1:58pm On Jun 02
Lumarstone:


Some of you here are tribalistic in this platform. I'm a Yoruba Man from agbawo in Ibadan, I hate social injustice irrespective of tribe or zone. For soilders to start maltreating innocent people applying ABA-PH road over the unfortunate killing of their colleague by yet to be identified criminals in the guise of IPOB members shouldn't be a yardstick for the whole people of SE to be maltreated by the army and their wives raped. Is uncalled for.
but the same u also created a thread to claim u are from sokoto

But today u are a Yoruba man from agbawo( only God knows what that means) in Ibadan

All these people self

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by kettykin: 2:02pm On Jun 02
I can see abia doing just cheap electricity, infrastructure.

If abia can heavily fund the shoe manufacturing sector and export to Europe market , Dubai and united states, aba will compete with Johannesburg and Cairo
Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by proeast(m): 2:17pm On Jun 02
Honestly, managing highrise buildings in a country with epileptic power supply is a nightmare. If they tell you how much they spend on diesel alone every month or the cost of maintaining those big generators you will shock.

I see Aba having high rises that will be managed efficiently and profitably.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by plaetton: 2:23pm On Jun 02
EponObi:
You guys are still running with this electricity propaganda 😂

If Aba is truly favorable to companies and factories compared to Lagos, no be you go tell them before they shift base to Abia State.

Btw, you can't be kpaing unaselfs, burning your properties, turning your state to warzone, while your governor tell the press he's powerless to curb your muripuri-induced youths using una papa and mama as shooting practice, then suddenly throw some fake cheap electricity on the table and expect investors to come running to your state. Not everyone is as gullible as you people.

Your youth self no believe una electricity propaganda, reason why hundreds of them still entered Lagos tonight with luxurious buses. 😩
Lol.
The only thing obvious from this mumbling rant is bad belle.
Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by proeast(m): 2:30pm On Jun 02
yoruboid:
Aba will never even be close to PHC. How much more Lagos

Most of you from the SW always talk out of ignorance. Travel and be enlightened, you refuse yet you all always end up embarrassing yourselves online.

You said Aba will never be close to PHC? Lol, what P.H has over Aba is just the oil economy of Rivers state and the Onne port. Aside that, Aba is already ahead of P.H in terms of commerce of industry. P.H relies on Aba for most of its needs. With the advantage of reliable and cheap electricity, Aba is expected to grow faster than P.H that failed to maximize its potential during the oil boom era.

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Re: Is Aba Set To Overtake Lagos As Nigeria's Commercial Center? by proeast(m): 2:34pm On Jun 02
igwebuike01:

Nobody is slowing anybody d[b]own. Imo has been worst hit by UGM yet it's GDP recently overtook Rivers to emerge second after Lagos [/b]

When did that happen please? Any link to the report??

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