ProfShymex:
The only reason why I'm bringing this up is cos you can dream all you want about building all kinds of infrastructures, but without monitoring the population - it's basically just a waste of time. To execute good governance - you have to be able to monitor the population so as to ascertain who and what to cater to. The light rail would be overwhelmed within three years with that crazy population that's forever growing at an alarming rate.

Let's do a comparative analysis of the population growth of Lagos vis-a-vis London and New York City in the last 30 years.

Lagos
Year Population
1985 - 5.8 million
1990 - 7.7 million
1995 - 10.28 million
2000 - 13.42 million
2006 - 17.55 million
2015 - 21 million



New York City
Year Population
1980 - 7.07 million
1990 - 7.32 million
2010 - 8.19 million
2015 - 8.49 million


London
The population of London in 2015 is 8.63 million
(Graph of London's population growth)

sukkot:
nah i aint trolling you fam. i am ijebu for real for real. you know i am trying to get interested in the nba but my passion for it is dying a slow death. like i was the BIGGEST nba fan during the days of rasheed wallace, ben wallace, chauncey billups and rip hamilton in detroit. thats when my passion for the game was at its maximum. also when jordan was kicking ass in chicago, i was in chicago during the last 2 years of his career when he returned from playing baseball. plus hakeem the dream was the business. but lately i have lost interest cuz the referees ruin the game now. like you cant even breath on a nigga without the referees calling foul. every little thing is foul and the foul calls are biased. so yeah i am slowly checking out of the NBA. which leaves me with nothing cuz i dont like soccer that much. so i guess am just going to be one of these dudes who dont like sports lol

Firefire:


Eku aseku ayajo ojo ibi oooo

Otito is Yoyo Bitter - Modath

God bless the Yoruba Nation.

Shymm3x:


I concur.

The people in Lagos are just too many for the infrastructures there and no matter what they do, the pressure will always overwhelm whatever infrastructures they build there.

Lagos needs a rapid depopulation exercise/drive before they start adding more to what is now already a snarled-up gigantic ghetto.

They need to move a lot of things out the place and give it one identity. You don't even the crowd in the people to generate a lot of revenue - banking and servicing alone, if well managed, should be able to sustain Lagos. The meagre IGR the crowd contribute is not worth the pressure they put on the infrastructures there.

They might as well give the pikeys a functional seaport somewhere in the South South and start diverting all their goods. Lagos should only serve the SW. Then move a lot of industries, especially manufacturing, to Ogun and Oyo. Then move other things to other parts of the SW.

Edited

tobimillar:


Quit gloating!!! The difference between both of us is that, first an truthful to myself and second I am for development.

Nigbati egbon re, Goodluck Jonathan, ti o ko owo ara ilu je, ti o se ilu bashubashu, owo yi naa ni o ni ka dibo fun. Abi waa ni oo mo wipe Jonathan ko awon ole tira?

Je ki n tu so ni eekan si, otito ati idagbasoke yoruba and Nigeria as a whole ni mo wa fun..

IyaIode:

Wow these figures are scary, lagos has gone x4 in the same period that New York has added less than 2 million people

MayorofLagos:


There is zero population control mechanism. For a city striving to be in the class of Rio, Johannesburg...its a shame that a simple social challenge is left to continously overwhelm and overburden the government. Lagos is in crisis!

Aareonakakanfo:
MayorofLagos that was a beautiful history lesson there.I'm thinking of signing up to take some history lessons with you.Give me your address, I already bought my Olympic 2A exercise book

Maybe we should dedicate a hour to you,Profshymex,9jacrip,musiwa419,superstar1 and other historians here to dicuss Yoruba history.

and also don't forget the Governors rating you promised us.I told you about the one Tolu Ogunlesi did,It was like a football league

MayorofLagos:
Yep yep!!

There is a wisdom in your proposal and it strecthes over many derivables and deliverables as well.

When we talk of Yoruba Commonwealth, Im not sure that many of you will not view me as deranged but in my mind Im looking at the continental land mass that cover from Volta region in Ghana to the Delta in Warri to the hills of Idanre on up to Lokoja and Westerly to Jebba and cut across on that latitude through the Savannah to Togo. All these people have SELF-IDENTIFIED as a Yoruba culture and they include the Ewe, Ajase, Egun, Egba, Owu, Ijebu, Awori, Ekiti, Ijesha, Igbira, Okun, Offa, Ilaje, Itsekiri, Oyo, Ife, and so on...

anonimi:
Your ASPIRATION level must be very low indeed.
No wonder you are on this empty "feel-good" thread. I hope it is not a reflection of how you are offline.
Have you heard of the Ebenezer effect?- Titi de ihin ni Oluwa ran wa l'owo de i.e. na up to here God helep us reach

MayorofLagos:


Lol. Thanks for your generous feedback. I am cautious about committing to a schedule, my plate is full at moment but im open when time permits to jump in. Im missing a lot here....and i hate that i cant dedicate a lot more. Inbetween my returns you guys have gone 10 pages. . Im also learning.

I already submitted on the rating template. I dont know what page but go in my profile and look in my posts, its not that too long ago.

Yoruba is bigger than us....its so much to cover. In Egba, the Alake imprisoned criminals without regard to color, white or black. It became embarassment in Europe where they viewed blacks as heathens. They put pressure on the colonial Governor to change the practise. This led to a treaty in which the Alake was appeased and persuaded to pass jurisdiction of white settlers of European ancestry to the Governor for prosecution. This stopped prosecution and imprisonment of criminals of European ancestry in Egba. Similarly, Leo Frobenius was credited, racist as he was anyway, with a changed mindset after the discovery of the bronze heads of Ife. He asked that the Yoruba race be reclassified in the annals of anthropology. He was not first in the line of Europeans to amaze at the civilization in the Yoruba hinterland. So its so much that has been uncovered but far more lay buried and yet to be unearthed.

Ifa is gradually being peeled open, layer by layer....pretty soon someone will drop another bombshell on the Yoruba civilization.

You started a good intiative, im just a contributor. You should take credit for the outcome. If you dont want it ill give to tpia. ;

Lol even the time you show up is weird.Its usually when I'm offline except for few occasions when you show up in the Midnight Nigerian time.I noticed people find it difficult to stick to time here so you can keep dropping the history lessons anytime you feel like.

As for the rating template, Yeah I saw it but no be me go anchor am na.Na you gats do am

I also saw the history lesson you slyly dropped there .Eleko aka "Dudu Cicero"

As per the credit thing lol.The biggest credit has to go to shymm3x and Ilekehd.They are the reason why this thread is where it is today and the other characters who have contributed immensely to this thread including you

tobimillar:
Asise nla ni awa yoruba ni eko se. Ambode o ki n se eyan. Eko ti n ba je lo. ni otito a mo wipe eko je igbese sugbon ti a ko ba pari nkan ti a bere, owo ti a ti wa na nko? Priority ni rail project yen je. Gbogbo sun fareke oko ni ilu eko a diwo. A si bu ola fun orile ede Naijiriya

Ni temi oo, asiko ti to lati tele otito. A o waye wa sin tinubu.. awa omo yoruba, paapaa julo awa ti a ngbe ni ilu eko, e je ki a soro so ita, ki a so otito, ki a si gbiyanju lati bu enu ate lu awon ijoba ti won ba sina bi otilejepe omo egbe oselu kan na ni wa

Aareonakakanfo:



The brain of the average romani has been programmed in such a way that he sees Lagos as a "holy site". They pronounce it as "citee". Even if the FG builds a seaport far better than the ones in Lagos in the South-East or South-South,they still won't make use of it

IyaIode:

Wow these figures are scary, lagos has gone x4 in the same period that New York has added less than 2 million people

superstar1:
Another below par post from akpu filled cerebellum, typing gibberish and calling it communication.

I repeat which state is driving IGR and tax collection like Lagos? name just one. Is that too difficult for you to answer?

LaudateII:


Erm....please can you kindly translate what you wrote up here?? Sorry, am lost...

MayorofLagos:


Yep yep!!

There is a wisdom in your proposal and it strecthes over many derivables and deliverables as well.

When we talk of Yoruba Commonwealth, Im not sure that many of you will not view me as deranged but in my mind Im looking at the continental land mass that cover from Volta region in Ghana to the Delta in Warri to the hills of Idanre on up to Lokoja and Westerly to Jebba and cut across on that latitude through the Savannah to Togo. All these people have SELF-IDENTIFIED as a Yoruba culture and they include the Ewe, Ajase, Egun, Egba, Owu, Ijebu, Awori, Ekiti, Ijesha, Igbira, Okun, Offa, Ilaje, Itsekiri, Oyo, Ife, and so on...

If we go beyond our continental Yoruba dominion we have indigeneous Yoruba in diaspora, places like Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, and so on....

In our discourse here we have defined Yorubaland moderately to include just those in the politisphere of Nigeria. New challenges of national unity daily serve us reminders and provoke our conscience to define ourselves as an indivisible unit commonly bonded by the proprietary rights shared under the sacredness of our dynasties and Crowns and we label it Yoruba Commonwealth.

Time markers, supported by records, show that there was no town in Yorubaland that did not have a tarred road surface connecting to next towns upstream and downstream, forming a web of road networks that facilitated transportation and interlink between communities....all done under the leadership of Awolowo. He covered entire Yorubaland all the way to Jebba and Lokoja, and back then Kwara State included Lokoja and was called West Central. He even extended this development to Asaba and parts of Delta, back then Western Region ended on the bank of River Niger at Asaba.

Some of the roads built by Awo in the 50s and 60s are still in good state and of better grade than roads built in modern times that wash away when water sit on them for too long. Awolowo was not joking when he told the colonialists that they were incompetent and inferior to him and what they could not accomplish in 100years he did it in 10.

Historically Awo was not the first Yoruba to view the foreigners as inferior race, Livingstone wrote and lamented on how the Oyos refused to carry him or his luggage as was customary for the other race of blacks he visited to serve as porters to whitemen. He shared his humiliation in public when he motioned to sit on a spread of rich fabric used to sit the Chiefs in Kabiyesi council and upon sighting the attempt a female Ilari yanked the spread from under him with contempt that he was unfit to sit on such a richly woven fabric. The miscalculation landed his butt in the dust. This was in the hintherland. On the coast an Awujale imposed tax and ordered the arrest of any colonialist that entered into his domain before his consent was obtained. In Lagos Beecroft's solicitation for partnership was rebuffed and told by the King his friendship was not needed.

We ought to take lessons from these history and raise our heads high. There is no race of people in Nigeria today that we can call peers. We regarded colonialists as inferior beings....those who the colonialists liberated from the vagaries of darkness and primitive subsistence are no peers with us. So our leaders need to take cue from our history and uplift this land.

We have savannah, we have forests, swamplands, riverines, hills, valleys, Lakes, Springs, ocean, salt water rivers, fresh water rivers, falls....we are blessed! Which other region in this country can boast of such variety of ecology on its land? None!

Our Governors must act to diversify and , as you correctly say Duke, ....depopulate Lagos. They must act and redistribute our economies based on the comparative advantage offered by eco class.

If you locate a car assembly plant in Idanre instead of Lagos, there are many vertical economies that will also relocate or perharps as a startup. Of course the supply chain will need now to go extra miles from the ports and to Idanre to drop off parts inventories but the extra cost to their shipment overheads is exponentially offset by the new economy in staffing, home construction, restaurants, hotels, hospitals, tax generation, schools, rebates and so on...

The frequent haulage of supply and distribution will put demand on the road. Therefore gives legitimacy to road upgrade and expansiin. ....this is more employment and growth for communities along the construction route.

When you redistribute development, you also redistribute income. The more people are employed the greater the flow of discretionary spending and the upliftment of society generally....all the way down to the akara seller by the road side, no one is left out of gainful income. On the flip side, when men in community earn income their eligibility to find partner and start a home improves....crime reduces and civility and sanity begins to take footing in the neighborhood.

I must stop here.

GstringAngela:
Lol


namdi azikure and ojucrook, of cursed memories were both given birth to at Zungeru, in present day Niger state, my state.

GstringAngela:
Lol

I remember those heebo films when emeka will come back from Lagos with a bag of rice and a couple of agege bread for his poverty stricken mama, and the old witch will dance around the village, loaf in hand, singing about how her ''industrious'' son has made it in Lagos. Meanwhile in the next hut, chinedu is seriously arguing with his Nnayi how they must allow him to go back to ''Ragos'' with emeka.

Even if a miracle happens today and you make heeboland have a close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Mediterrnean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Strait of Hormuz, Suez Canal etc; heeebos will still run away from heeeboland. Even if you build the world most sophisticated seaport in heeboland and heeeboland isnt landlocked anymore; Igbos will still run away from heeeboland.

We remeber how they huffed and puffed about the enugu airport. Threatning to leave the rest of Nigeria once the airport attains an international standard. Funny enough, namdi kanu, their new messiah doesnt even patronise the enugu airport. The mofo was arrested in Lagos after he arrived via the airport at Ikeja.

You yorubas just have to find a way of ridding your region of all these heeebo gnats. I really detest and disdain those gnats with every fibre of my being. There is something terrible and vile about their region that makes them keep running away from there. Before the creation of Nigeria, before Sir Fredrick Lord Lugards amalgamtion, heeebos were already running away from heeeboland. namdi azikure and ojucrook, of cursed memories were both given birth to at Zungeru, in present day Niger state, my state.

Lmao sister you dey vex ooo.Maybe you should team up with our Iya Agba Ilekehd to do the damage on those threads.I love the way you spell the Igbo and I might be using that spelling from now on .The romanis are case studies and I've stopped wasting my time on them since one told me Obama listens to Radio biafra.Anyways make we pack their matter for one side

Welcome to the commonwealth

tobimillar:
I thought you are from kwara!!

MayorofLagos:


Yep yep!!

There is a wisdom in your proposal and it strecthes over many derivables and deliverables as well.

When we talk of Yoruba Commonwealth, Im not sure that many of you will not view me as deranged but in my mind Im looking at the continental land mass that cover from Volta region in Ghana to the Delta in Warri to the hills of Idanre on up to Lokoja and Westerly to Jebba and cut across on that latitude through the Savannah to Togo. All these people have SELF-IDENTIFIED as a Yoruba culture and they include the Ewe, Ajase, Egun, Egba, Owu, Ijebu, Awori, Ekiti, Ijesha, Igbira, Okun, Offa, Ilaje, Itsekiri, Oyo, Ife, and so on...

If we go beyond our continental Yoruba dominion we have indigeneous Yoruba in diaspora, places like Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, and so on....

In our discourse here we have defined Yorubaland moderately to include just those in the politisphere of Nigeria. New challenges of national unity daily serve us reminders and provoke our conscience to define ourselves as an indivisible unit commonly bonded by the proprietary rights shared under the sacredness of our dynasties and Crowns and we label it Yoruba Commonwealth.

Time markers, supported by records, show that there was no town in Yorubaland that did not have a tarred road surface connecting to next towns upstream and downstream, forming a web of road networks that facilitated transportation and interlink between communities....all done under the leadership of Awolowo. He covered entire Yorubaland all the way to Jebba and Lokoja, and back then Kwara State included Lokoja and was called West Central. He even extended this development to Asaba and parts of Delta, back then Western Region ended on the bank of River Niger at Asaba.

Some of the roads built by Awo in the 50s and 60s are still in good state and of better grade than roads built in modern times that wash away when water sit on them for too long. Awolowo was not joking when he told the colonialists that they were incompetent and inferior to him and what they could not accomplish in 100years he did it in 10.

Historically Awo was not the first Yoruba to view the foreigners as inferior race, Livingstone wrote and lamented on how the Oyos refused to carry him or his luggage as was customary for the other race of blacks he visited to serve as porters to whitemen. He shared his humiliation in public when he motioned to sit on a spread of rich fabric used to sit the Chiefs in Kabiyesi council and upon sighting the attempt a female Ilari yanked the spread from under him with contempt that he was unfit to sit on such a richly woven fabric. The miscalculation landed his butt in the dust. This was in the hintherland. On the coast an Awujale imposed tax and ordered the arrest of any colonialist that entered into his domain before his consent was obtained. In Lagos Beecroft's solicitation for partnership was rebuffed and told by the King his friendship was not needed.

We ought to take lessons from these history and raise our heads high. There is no race of people in Nigeria today that we can call peers. We regarded colonialists as inferior beings....those who the colonialists liberated from the vagaries of darkness and primitive subsistence are no peers with us. So our leaders need to take cue from our history and uplift this land.

We have savannah, we have forests, swamplands, riverines, hills, valleys, Lakes, Springs, ocean, salt water rivers, fresh water rivers, falls....we are blessed! Which other region in this country can boast of such variety of ecology on its land? None!

Our Governors must act to diversify and , as you correctly say Duke, ....depopulate Lagos. They must act and redistribute our economies based on the comparative advantage offered by eco class.

If you locate a car assembly plant in Idanre instead of Lagos, there are many vertical economies that will also relocate or perharps as a startup. Of course the supply chain will need now to go extra miles from the ports and to Idanre to drop off parts inventories but the extra cost to their shipment overheads is exponentially offset by the new economy in staffing, home construction, restaurants, hotels, hospitals, tax generation, schools, rebates and so on...

The frequent haulage of supply and distribution will put demand on the road. Therefore gives legitimacy to road upgrade and expansiin. ....this is more employment and growth for communities along the construction route.

When you redistribute development, you also redistribute income. The more people are employed the greater the flow of discretionary spending and the upliftment of society generally....all the way down to the akara seller by the road side, no one is left out of gainful income. On the flip side, when men in community earn income their eligibility to find partner and start a home improves....crime reduces and civility and sanity begins to take footing in the neighborhood.

I must stop here.

ProfShymex:


I don't think anyone else can paint an amazing picture with words better than you on these sides.

Truer words never been said.Eleko is a beast "Dudu Cicero"

GstringAngela:
I am Nupe. We are sandwiched between the Yoruba and Hausa in Kwara and Niger state respectively. Yoruba people use to refer to us as Tapa. If you go to Lagos or Ogun state there is a masqurade called Igunnuko. Our fathers were the one that gave the Yorubas that masqurade. We share cultural and historical ties.

GstringAngela:
I am Nupe. We are sandwiched between the Yoruba and Hausa in Kwara and Niger state respectively. Yoruba people use to refer to us as Tapa. If you go to Lagos or Ogun state there is a masqurade called Igunnuko. Our fathers were the one that gave the Yorubas that masqurade. We share cultural and historical ties.