AnambraDota:


If your about to be offered a visa for free, between China, Switzerland, Austria, Germany or Singapore, which would you rather choose first.

Big economy doesn't translate to people having more disposable income.

Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa but I will prefer being a citizen of Mauritius or Seychelles to Nigeria

Mille:
First of all, do you live in Lagos? If Yes, then why haven't you relocated to the 'prosperous Biafra'?

If No, then you shouldn't even be talking.

I lived in Orile for the first 22 years of my life ( Minus the time spent studying in boarding school and my University days in Ogun), and No, we didn't earn less than $3 dollars a day, nor live in your described housing. Sure, we were not rich but we spent a lot more than the meagre $3 dollars per day and it was a 3 bedroom apartment for a family with 3 boys.
So I wonder where you got your data from.

I do not deny the existence of these type of accommodations but there are as more apartment buildings in Orile.

Secondly, a large bulk of the people you describe here are 'immigrants' from SE, SS and the North. I'm certain for that of Ajegunle and Orile. Don't ask me how I know. I grew up in these places. The kind of 'unskilled immigrants' with no qualification whatsoever who show up in Lagos for a better life only to go and oppress the starving villagers in the East during Christmas.

Lastly, I agree with you. Lagos and the entire SW is home to poor people and has a bad economy. But please, tell your people to leave. I hear Anambra is far better. Tell them to go home and enjoy the goods back home. I'm not comfortable with the generations after generations of your people living in the 'poor SW'.

AnambraDota:


It's not always believing but being realistic, there are more slums in Lagos than Anambra, slum dipicts poverty and lack.

Take a trip round these slums and tell me what you see. Stop being sentimental and face reality

AnambraDota:
I saw one funny thread where yorubas were jubilating over IGR of Lagos and how Osun State is least poverty infested state in Nigeria.

I won't even compare the cesspit called Osun State with Yobe or Zamfara State having being there, Osun is poverty capital of SW.

Now they said Lagos is the least poor state in Nigeria, please these people that write these figures have they being to Lagos suburbs or they just obtain IGR figures from the government and distribute on papers among the populace.

Now yoruba dance surugede on, sincere people here what do see you when you pass through all these neighborhoods.
Agege
Orile
Okokomaiko.
Ilaje
Mushin.
Iyana Ipaja
Ijora badia.
Ajegunle.
Ilasa
Bariga.
Shomolu.
Etc

These slums are where the majority of Lagos people live, these areas contribute 80% of the cities population. Alimosho is the most populous LG in Nigeria and Iyana Ipaja is the heartbeat.

Now if you have not been to these slums listed and still believe poverty in Lagos is low, your sins are forgiven but if you have been to these sorry and squealors and still think Lagos poverty is low you are a m0r0n.

Let me tell you guys, there is no way one will be earning good pays or running lucrative business and still live a place with such living condition of these places listed above. Most people who live here earn less than $3 a day, there is no way you will be earning well and here living in majority of the building patterns that dominate the landscape.

Anybody that still lives in those type of houses with one passage in the middle while thousands of tenants live in rooms on both side of the entrance, the toilet and bathroom are always at the back and shared by the entire tenants, no rich persons can live in such arrangement.

Poverty rate in Lagos remain the highest, not just in Nigeria but maybe West Africa. There are more poor and extremely poor people in Lagos than anywhere in Nigeria.
The issue with Lagos is that because of its cosmopolitan nature citizens find it difficult holding the government responsible for a lot of bad decisions.

Lagos is so heterogenous unlike Kogi and Benue where citizens can easily organize themselves attack the government, most people in Lagos rather direct their criticism to their various state governments than to LASG because most people think they have no stake here but just to come and make money but home is where your heart will always be.

There is no level of poverty you can find in any state in Nigeria you can't get in Lagos but more people in Lagos live from hand to mouth than any state in Nigeria.
So face reality and stop basing your argument on paperwork, Lagos is the biggest economy yes but Lagos is home to the poorest people in Nigeria, the wealth is not evenly distributed.

QueenSekxy:
Lagos is a glorified slum. .everybody knows

ENG1110:
There are various developmental indices to judge Lagos and southwest with. If you have anyone supporting your claim about Anambra, kindly present them.
So you expect me to take your words over all these studies.
I am sure you are educated, present facts/statistics or just keep quiet.

Yyeske:
You guys should please stop all this d.ick measuring contest every time.

Oga080666419419:


THE OP IS SAYING YOU SHOULD MOVE AROUND TO SEE THINGS BY YOURSELF AND STOP BEING FOOLED BY POLITICIANS.

LAGOS IS ECONOMICALLY BOUYANT BUT IT DOES NOT MEAN THERE ARE LESS POOR PEOPLE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE

manuelzz:


If you want igbos to leave SW(with the exception of lagos,beacuse lagos as we all know is no man's land), tell your brothers to stop sabotaging efforts to actualize Biafra. Very simple!

Mille:
First of all, do you live in Lagos? If Yes, then why haven't you relocated to the 'prosperous Biafra'?

If No, then you shouldn't even be talking.

I lived in Orile for the first 22 years of my life ( Minus the time spent studying in boarding school and my University days in Ogun), and No, we didn't earn less than $3 dollars a day, nor live in your described housing. Sure, we were not rich but we spent a lot more than the meagre $3 dollars per day and it was a 3 bedroom apartment for a family with 3 boys.
So I wonder where you got your data from.

I do not deny the existence of these type of accommodations but there are as more apartment buildings in Orile.

Secondly, a large bulk of the people you describe here are 'immigrants' from SE, SS and the North. I'm certain for that of Ajegunle and Orile. Don't ask me how I know. I grew up in these places. The kind of 'unskilled immigrants' with no qualification whatsoever who show up in Lagos for a better life only to go and oppress the starving villagers in the East during Christmas.

Lastly, I agree with you. Lagos and the entire SW is home to poor people and has a bad economy. But please, tell your people to leave. I hear Anambra is far better. Tell them to go home and enjoy the goods back home. I'm not comfortable with the generations after generations of your people living in the 'poor SW'.

Oga080666419419:


THE OP IS SAYING YOU SHOULD MOVE AROUND TO SEE THINGS BY YOURSELF AND STOP BEING FOOLED BY POLITICIANS.

LAGOS IS ECONOMICALLY BOUYANT BUT IT DOES NOT MEAN THERE ARE LESS POOR PEOPLE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE

manuelzz:
If you want igbos to leave SW(with the exception of lagos,beacuse lagos as we all know is no man's land), tell your brothers to stop sabotaging efforts to actualize Biafra. Very simple!

manuelzz:


If you want igbos to leave SW(with the exception of lagos,beacuse lagos as we all know is no man's land), tell your brothers to stop sabotaging efforts to actualize Biafra. Very simple!

Exclusive32:
I saw a family in Lagos, the husband is a volcanizer and the wife normally fry and sell akara.... They all live with their two kid in a small room packed with spare part , no toilet and no kitchen. so how can you explain this situation in ojo LGA? Because no one in bayelsa here or from bayelsa that is living such life apart from the aboki people here.

AnambraDota:


Yes tell me what directly affect people most, food, shelter....

You can't make good money and live a poor life.

laudate:

Na wa for you, o! When you were listing out Orile, Agege, Ajegunle, Ijora Badia, Bariga, Shomolu, Okokomaiko etc, you forgot to tell everyone that the largest number of residents in those places come from the Southeast and South-South, with some Northerners thrown into the mix, especially in Ilasa.

If you had included areas like Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki, Ogudu, Magodo, Ikeja GRA, Apapa GRA, old Yaba, Gbagada, Surulere, Alaka, Ilupeju, Palmgrove Housing Estate etc, then everyone would have felt you were trying to present a balanced picture, instead of the biased, jaundiced view you are propagating here. Anyway, I don't blame you.... you were obviously raised in those slums, that is why you are so familiar with them.

For your information, people in Lagos do criticise and attack the LASG. Where were you when Ebun Adegboruwa took LASG to court for tolling Lekki-Epe expressway and Lekki-Ikoyi bridge? Where were you when Eko Hotel and other business owners took LASG to court over the imposition of sales tax and VAT? Do you know how many lawsuits against the LASG are currently in the law courts? The difference is that the LASG authorities have performed relatively well in comparison to other state govts, and that is why the criticism is not as loud as those of other states. Go figure!

Guestlander:


You may be right, but then there are more skyscrapers and high end properties in Lagos than all of the East combined.

laudate:

Why do you tell such big lies about people in Bayelsa? Have you been to the creeks to see how people live in poverty??

AnambraDota:
Those places you listed hold less than 15% of Lagos population, Ikoyi, VI, Lekki have more corporations than residents.

Iyana Ipaja and Agege are more populated than the whole places combined.

Michael004:
Does east has any skyscraper?

AnambraDota:


It's not always believing but being realistic, there are more slums in Lagos than Anambra, slum dipicts poverty and lack.

Take a trip round these slums and tell me what you see. Stop being sentimental and face reality

Michael004:
Does east has any skyscraper?

Mille:
First of all, do you live in Lagos? If Yes, then why haven't you relocated to the 'prosperous Biafra'?

If No, then you shouldn't even be talking.

I lived in Orile for the first 22 years of my life ( Minus the time spent studying in boarding school and my University days in Ogun), and No, we didn't earn less than $3 dollars a day, nor live in your described housing. Sure, we were not rich but we spent a lot more than the meagre $3 dollars per day and it was a 3 bedroom apartment for a family with 3 boys.
So I wonder where you got your data from.

I do not deny the existence of these type of accommodations but there are as more apartment buildings in Orile.

Secondly, a large bulk of the people you describe here are 'immigrants' from SE, SS and the North. I'm certain for that of Ajegunle and Orile. Don't ask me how I know. I grew up in these places. The kind of 'unskilled immigrants' with no qualification whatsoever who show up in Lagos for a better life only to go and oppress the starving villagers in the East during Christmas.

Lastly, I agree with you. Lagos and the entire SW is home to poor people and has a bad economy. But please, tell your people to leave. I hear Anambra is far better. Tell them to go home and enjoy the goods back home. I'm not comfortable with the generations after generations of your people living in the 'poor SW'.

Mille:


Don't mind the idiot. He even wants to talk, he is talking about Bayelsa of all places.

Exclusive32 , You only know one family. I know hundreds of 'unskilled immigrants' with similar cases in Lagos. I can even give you the names and address of many Bayelsans who have 2 nuclear families sharing a single room in Orile.

Guestlander:


Heheheh.....Not now but in future when AnambraDota becomes the governor of the entire East. L

adeolakemi:
the xyz of the Yoruba race Lagos ,remove Lagos and the entire Yoruba region becomes dungeon

Exclusive32:
which creek are you talking about? yes there are no basic amenities like roads and electricity in most such area, but life there are far better than most of those living in Lagos. I can clearly tell you that in bayelsa, there are no family of three living in a room. You can talk about pollution in such area, but not cesspit hole like most of those lagosians.