somegirl1:


Lagos, as a former capital, was built to create such opportunities. With the sole functional sea port located there, it is only natural that more businesses would be located or operate a branch in Lagos especially in a country that is heavily dependent on importation.
People will move to anywhere they can make a living regardless of whether the host community is accommodating or not and the SW is not the most accommodating region.
I'm not one of those who believes Igbos own Lagos, Lagos's economy was built by all Nigerians from all regions.

somegirl1:


Why don't the figures from other SW states attest to this?

Rotimi47:
What nonsense! Is Lagos not South West? And ain't Igbos no more claiming that South South is part of Biafra again?

IGBOPRINCE:
apart from edo state too poor, we don't want the edos. Pls we don't wants your people. Period. Go and join the west and answer oduduwans. They need you more than we the biafrans.


My take.

Rotimi47:
What nonsense! Is Lagos not South West? And ain't Igbos no more claiming that South South is part of Biafra again?

belzabull:
ilekeHIV, is that your late mothers name?

hope you didnt infect your innocent bastad child with the virus?

Ryabcool:
you are missing the point. Northerners never wished for a centralised government at first. Every region depended on its resources and there was development in all three though varied. If Aguiyi hadn't introduced a central government, the eastern region would have had a 50% controlling interest(as with all regions that had their indigent resources) when oil was discovered on a massive scale in the Niger Delta. But due to greed for absolute power and short sightedness, Aguiyi went ahead and claimed all state owned assets and resources as exclusively the federal preserve. Now fast forward a few years when oil was discovered, the Northerners who saw the free and easy money from oil grew to like and fully utilise the central system of government. More or less, the cat was shown the easy way to catch an unlimited supply of fish in the stream, so you can't blame the Northerners if they are unwilling to let go of such free money. Blame Aguiyi Bro, not the Northerners.

ABEngine:


Thanks, this is an educating piece. I now happen to see this issue in another dimension.

superstar1:

Lagos was built by the world and not even all Nigerians. It is multicultural city with Koreans, japanese, Americans, Lebanese, Europeans, and of course Arabs are present and pumping billions into it.

None is garrulous and rude enough, apart from the landlocked people in the East of the Niger that claims what they are what they do not have to offer.

I repeat, give it to the yorubas for the enabling environment created for Lagos to be the melting point of the world for Africa, If it was volatile with religious crisis or militancy no one will dare invest there. Apart from that, you need to salute their administrative skill.

Tell me a region that is more accommodating than SW in this country. Just 1.

Point of correction, Lagos ports are not the only functional ports. Onne in PH s functional and it is closer to SE. Warri is functional and it is closer to SE.

People import through Lagos because that axis provides a sales opportunity that is not obtainable anywhere else. Simple. You are talking of almost 50million people in that axis alone and with a sizable number having the capacity to buy anything up for sales.

superstar1:


It does not have to attest to it because SW is an imaginary geographical expression. In as much as it is Oduduwa's land, it belongs to all. Our forefathers made Oyo the capital of yorubas centuries ago and when they deemed it fit, it was moved to Ibadan up till the days of the Awolowo and subsequent generations have made Lagos capital of the Yorubas, our collective commonwealth and heritage.

If we like, we can move same to Yagba in Kogi when we so wish. For now, we are concentrating our effort on Lagos and it is rubbing off on other contiguous states.

somegirl1:

I haven't travelled enough around Nigeria so I won't engage in a debate about hospitality across regions.
You may take credit for being accommodating, however hospitality is only a miniscule factor. Other SW states are/ should be equally accommodating afterall.

I'm glad we agree Lagos's economy is the result of combined effort.

django1:


Your argument is a bit retarded dear girl. No region or country whatever its composition in ethnicity or social strata or economy can have all parts equally developed.

America has new York and also new jersey both populated by Americans yet different. Etc

somegirl1:

That was never the basis for this debate.
The point was if regional/ state performance were to be compared based on ethnicity, it would be unfair to include Lagos's given it's multi-ethnic composition unless other SW states mainly comprising of yorubas performed just as well.

superstar1:


If SW was not habitable, just like SE and NE, you would have seen yorubas migrating to other regions in droves, as being witnedssed in the migration of Syrians to Europe and Eritreans to Europe.

Alas, the reverse is the case, with more people migrating to SW in a ratio of 1500:1 when compared to the ones emigrating out of SW to other regions.

Yeah, agreed other parts of SW might not be on the same level as Lagos. You will also agree with me that there is no mass exodus out of those places to other regions. That means the standard of living, infrastructure and nature is better than other regions.

somegirl1:


You keep jumping from debate to debate. Habitability was never the basis for this debate. The SE is actually quite habitable and accommodating to non-indigenes. Many people just prefer to form an opinion without having had first hand experience of the region and its people.
Take a look at the land mass of what is left of the SE (after the SS was carved out from it) relative to other regions. It is the tiniest region. The entire land mass of core SE states is almost the same as that of Oyo state. It shouldn't come as a surprise that SE indigenes would spread out to other parts of the country and continent regardless of habitability.

superstar1:





If SW was not habitable, just like SE and NE, you would have seen yorubas migrating to other regions in droves, as being witnedssed in the migration of Syrians to Europe and Eritreans to Europe.

Alas, the reverse is the case, with more people migrating to SW in a ratio of 1500:1 when compared to the ones emigrating out of SW to other regions.

Yeah, agreed other parts of SW might not be on the same level as Lagos. You will also agree with me that there is no mass exodus out of those places to other regions. That means the standard of living, infrastructure and nature is better than other regions.

FKO81:
And fools from west will ask what Igbos contribute? Lagos is collective efforts by all

asha80:
govt does not build industries

somegirl1:

I haven't travelled enough around Nigeria so I won't engage in a debate about hospitality across regions.
You may take credit for being accommodating, however hospitality is only a miniscule factor. Other SW states are/ should be equally accommodating afterall.

I'm glad we agree Lagos's economy is the result of combined effort.

shogz89:
nobody is disputing the fact that it was a combined effort,, but we seem to raise a eyebrow when one tribe says it's the major reason for lagos growth, discarding the efforts of all other tribes in lagos

shogz89:
nobody is disputing the fact that it was a combined effort,, but we seem to raise a eyebrow when one tribe says it's the major reason for lagos growth, discarding the efforts of all other tribes in lagos

superstar1:


You are minding those bastards. Initially they said they 110%. Then they reduced it to 90%. Later they started banding 75%. Pre-election they scale it down to 60% and now it is 45%. When reality dawns on them, they will actually realise they are not up to 3%.

somegirl1:

That was never the basis for this debate.
The point was if regional/ state performance were to be compared based on ethnicity, it would be unfair to include Lagos's given it's multi-ethnic composition unless other SW states mainly comprising of yorubas performed just as well.

django1:


So you mean the IGR of other states are a result of taxes from just a single ethnic group?

Do not forget that Lagos is still majorly Yoruba in everything (economy, politics and culture).

Just as the south south has the advantage of oil, south west has the advantage of Lagos, a strategically located state with abundant human resources.

Lagos is part and parcel of south west.

petersje8:
Keep deceiving yourself. You can claim the performance indices of Oyo, Osun. Ogun and Ondo. Lagos is no man's land. Deal with it bro. It's A NO MAN's Land. We Igbos are the driving force there. GO AND DIE.

Chigold101:
sometimes people just write for writing sake. Tell me where the centre get its own revenue. Imaging if every state manages what comes from their state. State like Akwa Ibom would become Dubai.

You said only Lagos, Rivers and Delta can survive without Federal allocation, funny you. How many persons are being fed by Lagos? Do you think Lagos can survive without federal allocation? If you say yes... Check how many states federal government gave bailout loan few weeks ago... Tell me what you think.

MeandSum:


Can you honestly tell me you understand what IGR is? we're talking about internally generated revenues of each states and it has nothing to do with federal allocation.

FKO81:
Ondo oil production covers Imo, Abia and Anambra.according to Oluwale niggas

Ekiti is richer than Ebonyi

Osun economy is bigger than everything that is happening in southeast
Ogun state the Heroshima of Nigeria

Ndi Ofe ekene mu nu! Una to good wif propaganda

FKO81:
Ondo oil production covers Imo, Abia and Anambra.according to Oluwale niggas

Ekiti is richer than Ebonyi

Osun economy is bigger than everything that is happening in southeast
Ogun state the Heroshima of Nigeria

Ndi Ofe ekene mu nu! Una to good wif propaganda