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No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by MajeOfficial: 7:40am On Nov 13, 2012
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As much as tit for tat tribe fighting on an internet forum likes to blind people, it's pretty clear that ethnically homogenous cities in Nigeria, or Africa as a whole almost always fail or remain stagnant.

Every tribe has a trade and nature of interests that contribute to the puzzle but the trades and interests of one tribe alone cannot make a city prosper.

The most diverse the city in Nigeria is the better off it seems to be

Lagos
Abuja
PH

topping the list

the next bracket would be cities that intermix elements from a single region

Kano
Onitcha
Ibadan
Enugu

though these cities are not comparable to Lag PH and Abuja they're still a notch above the cities in their area because they are regional melting pots as opposed to national ones.
you can see where each one excels but there's still something crucial missing in each mix

For Kano's size, the level of business activity is far to miniscule and there's a massive sea of dangerous impoverished elements because of this
Onitcha almost has too much business activity making it difficult to regulate and very cut throat in everything from business to traffic
Ibadan has the numbers but again a low amount of business activity and a stale non changing nature due to being a giant residential area.
Enugu has the civility and cleanliness that Onitcha lacks, but business activity isn't there.

cities like Lagos, PH and Abuja have a great mix of business activity, culture, and livability.

I'm from the east but i would like to see more ethnicities in the region, and more races from overseas as well as other peoples from africa because for a city to become an international hub it must be international. Nobody can develop in isolation or in a petty ethnic shell. A lot of cities in nigeria will remain stale and without business activity until the open up and actively invite others in as Abuja Lagos and PH did successfully.

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by MajeOfficial: 7:47am On Nov 13, 2012
Our only city that has achieved international melting pot status is Lagos and it's obvious to see how far ahead of the rest of the country Lagos is. Abuja is trying but it's elitist slant is keeping business activity and culture out of the city, making it dry and a poor place to make money.

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by naptu2: 7:54am On Nov 13, 2012
[quote author=]As much as tit for tat tribe fighting on an internet forum likes to blind people, it's pretty clear that ethnically homogenous cities in Nigeria, or Africa as a whole almost always fail or remain stagnant.

Every tribe has a trade and nature of interests that contribute to the puzzle but the trades and interests of one tribe alone cannot make a city prosper.

The most diverse the city in Nigeria is the better off it seems to be

Lagos
Abuja
PH

topping the list

the next bracket would be cities that intermix elements from a single region

Kano
Onitcha
Ibadan
Enugu

though these cities are not comparable to Lag PH and Abuja they're still a notch above the cities in their area because they are regional melting pots as opposed to national ones.
you can see where each one excels but there's still something crucial missing in each mix

For Kano's size, the level of business activity is far to miniscule and there's a massive sea of dangerous impoverished elements because of this
Onitcha almost has too much business activity making it difficult to regulate and very cut throat in everything from business to traffic
Ibadan has the numbers but again a low amount of business activity and a stale non changing nature due to being a giant residential area.
Enugu has the civility and cleanliness that Onitcha lacks, but business activity isn't there.

cities like Lagos, PH and Abuja have a great mix of business activity, culture, and livability.

I'm from the east but i would like to see more ethnicities in the region, and more races from overseas as well as other peoples from africa because for a city to become an international hub it must be international. Nobody can develop in isolation or in a petty ethnic shell. A lot of cities in nigeria will remain stale and without business activity until the open up and actively invite others in as Abuja Lagos and PH did successfully. [/quote]

True +100
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Akanbiedu(m): 8:11am On Nov 13, 2012
Very true.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by PaulJohn1: 8:17am On Nov 13, 2012
Even the Lagos we boast of is yet to possess the excellent quality of what a city is.
A city full of jobless people moving up and down in taterd smelly cloth with no ambition of what the future 'll be.
A city that houses the best slum the nation can ever produce.
Out great city that you don't feel comfortable in your car when windows are down, due to unpleasant smell the stagnant water all over the city brings

Abuja
The capital city that more than half of her citizens live in the glorified rural area(Gwangalada, Kwali, dafa, abaji...)
The city where unbudgeted amount of oil money is spent on, but still has no superb Iconic structure to distinguish herself.

Onitsha, Ibadan
Commercial cities recognized internationally for dirtiness and absence of orderliness.

The whole of Nigeria is just far behind.

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Abagworo(m): 8:19am On Nov 13, 2012
[quote author=]Our only city that has achieved international melting pot status is Lagos and it's obvious to see how far ahead of the rest of the country Lagos is. Abuja is trying but it's elitist slant is keeping business activity and culture out of the city, making it dry and a poor place to make money.
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A lot of people are quite ignorant and write out of ignorance. Who said Kano does not have more foreigners than PH and Lagos? Maybe Nigeriens, Chadians, Burkinabes, Sudanese and other non-European countries are not foreigners. There are millions of Igbos and Yorubas in Kano just like Lagos.

However if what we mean is Europeans and Americans, then Port Harcourt carries the day. Majority of our export is through Port Harcourt and the majority of our foreign investment is in the oil sector with Port Harcourt as the headquarters. The only advantage Lagos has is being almost the only functional seaport and infrastructure put on ground when it was the capital of Nigeria. Its just like Abuja being our only functional seaport and capital at the same time. So Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt are not what they are because of cosmopolitan status but rather because of Government presence and added natural advantages for PH and Lagos. Abuja is purely on its status as the federal capital.

No city of over 500,000 in Nigeria is ethnically homogenous. In Aba for example you'll find non-Ngwa Igbos from Imo, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi by far majority than the indigent Ngwa group. A high population of Efik/Ibibio/Annang, Rivers people and Northerners are many too. The only group that are quite few are the Yorubas who engage only in driving, sewing, banking, Pastor, Traditional healing and mechanics. They also trade at what they call Yoruba line in the markets. Same goes for Onitsha or Calabar. What about Maiduguri, Kaduna, Jos, Sokoto?

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by PaulJohn1: 8:24am On Nov 13, 2012
Cities like Benin, Uyo, Enugu, Akure, are still the ones to watch out for. Descent, cool and hasn't been so littered with mud houses and rotten roofing sheet.
But still lack infrastructures to make them outstanding.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Abagworo(m): 8:25am On Nov 13, 2012
[quote author=]Our only city that has achieved international melting pot status is Lagos and it's obvious to see how far ahead of the rest of the country Lagos is. Abuja is trying but it's elitist slant is keeping business activity and culture out of the city, making it dry and a poor place to make money.
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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by bittyend(m): 8:28am On Nov 13, 2012
Maybe in Nigeria.

Before the cesspit was created, Bornu, Oyo, Sokoto Caliphate, Benin etc. prospered.

Nigeria is a dream killer, I can't wait to see the end of that country. undecided

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Mgbadike80: 8:47am On Nov 13, 2012
And what is the point of this thread? Next it would make home page. Any city that is not accommodating will not progress. Anambra motto use to be HOME FOR ALL
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by MsAfroZest(f): 8:55am On Nov 13, 2012
bittyend: Maybe in Nigeria.

Before the cesspit was created, Bornu, Oyo, Sokoto Caliphate, Benin etc. prospered.

Nigeria is a dream killer, I can't wait to see the end of that country. undecided

Don't you ever have anything positive to say. What have you contributed to Nigeria to make it a better place for you and others, yet u keep condemning.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by MajeOfficial: 8:57am On Nov 13, 2012
Abagworo:

A lot of people are quite ignorant and write out of ignorance. Who said Kano does not have more foreigners than PH and Lagos? Maybe Nigeriens, Chadians, Burkinabes, Sudanese and other non-European countries are not foreigners. There are millions of Igbos and Yorubas in Kano just like Lagos.

However if what we mean is Europeans and Americans, then Port Harcourt carries the day. Majority of our export is through Port Harcourt and the majority of our foreign investment is in the oil sector with Port Harcourt as the headquarters. The only advantage Lagos has is being almost the only functional seaport and infrastructure put on ground when it was the capital of Nigeria. Its just like Abuja being our only functional seaport and capital at the same time. So Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt are not what they are because of cosmopolitan status but rather because of Government presence and added natural advantages for PH and Lagos. Abuja is purely on its status as the federal capital.

No city of over 500,000 in Nigeria is ethnically homogenous. In Aba for example you'll find non-Ngwa Igbos from Imo, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi by far majority than the indigent Ngwa group. A high population of Efik/Ibibio/Annang, Rivers people and Northerners are many too. The only group that are quite few are the Yorubas who engage only in driving, sewing, banking, Pastor, Traditional healing and mechanics. They also trade at what they call Yoruba line in the markets. Same goes for Onitsha or Calabar. What about Maiduguri, Kaduna, Jos, Sokoto?

Dont get me wrong, Kano is a great city, that's why it made the list but and it's diverse but you have to consider it's enormous population. It's diversity in %ages isn't comparable to Abuja Lagos and PH and it thus doesn't function on the same level as them
It's a regional melting pot, even the cultures you listed as being present have a culture almost identical to the native Hausa due to geography and religion and it's a culture that's not too friendly to enterprise and industriousness. The regional cities suffer from being too crippled by their tribe's nature. Onitcha is too igbo, Ibadan is too yoruba, Kano is too hausa and though their are advantages to each city, the disadvantages have nothing to combat them.

It seems that the things that make each tribe tick are in abundance in their regional cities but the regional cities are crippled by each tribes weakness as well, we need to mix to make things work because everyone strengths and weaknesses combine counter each other well but there's still some things that are fundamentally nigerian that would be best balanced out by an international mixture.


Of course these cities are helped by their various geographical locations to some extent but cities like Ibadan, Enugu and Kano hold no signficant geographic advantage over their neighbors other than being a melting pot. Ibadan and Onitsha suffer from to very different types of cultural problems that result in the same problem

the natives of Onitcha aren't the majority, most people are from elsewhere trying to do business and regard the place as a place to be used not cherished. They behave wrecklessly and the level of activity is so high that even responsible government (which anambra has historically lacked) has a hard time keeping track

Ibadan is very old and is almost 'too' cherished by it's natives. Every building is important to someone and the city has a hard time taking on a new face because it's too rooted in tradition. Too many businesses are traditional crafts as opposed to modern professions the jobless of Lagos eventually have to leave because it's a city of business not tradition, where as the jobless of ibadan are likely to be in their own village and just linger.


but Ibadan and yoruba land as a whole has the advantage that regionally yoruba can go anywhere and feel at home. unfortunately this means everyone just goes to Lagos if they can and activity is sapped out of surrounding cities. in the east your village is your nation everywhere else is foreign so it's harder for a 'regional melting pot' to arise. Everyone wants their village to be the regional power which is unrealistic

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by bittyend(m): 9:00am On Nov 13, 2012
Ms.AfroZest:


Don't you ever have anything positive to say. What have you contributed to Nigeria to make it a better place for you and others, yet u keep condemning.

Did you say anything to contribute to the dream killer?

I'd rather kill the monster, than add to its devilish vicious cycle.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Nobody: 9:15am On Nov 13, 2012
bittyend: Maybe in Nigeria.

Before the cesspit was created, Bornu, Oyo, Sokoto Caliphate, Benin etc. prospered.

Nigeria is a dream killer, I can't wait to see the end of that country. undecided
u seem to talk like a yoruba man. Are u one? You always attack seCcessionist biafran in all ur post nw u have. Change tommorrow u'll support hausa. Talking from both side. Of your mouth

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Brisingr(m): 9:17am On Nov 13, 2012
bosom for tat this spambot can b funny sometimes.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Krucifax(m): 9:19am On Nov 13, 2012
I concur with most of your points. Historically the world over the most prosperous cities are also without coincidence the ones with high cultural mixes and high migration. Examples are London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Sydney, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Frankfurt, Singapore, Chicago, Zurich, Toronto, Geneva etc etc.
And it’s really quite simple to see why. When you create an enabling conducive environment you will attract the best minds and money will follow.

Government obviously have to take the lead by doing their bit i.e. 1.friendly legislature, 2.economic stability 3. Infrastructural investment.

Some so called governors in Nigeria and their baying low I.Q tribalistic supporters should take note. As some Nigerian states are going down the route of state indigene i.d cards and inter state deportations. Such policies are neither progressive nor offer any calculable economic benefits.

They should instead spend their efforts on improving infrastructure, child education, health care and strengthening their judicial systems. This would be better than cheap anti-intellectual politicking garnered at ensuring votes and support from the unenlightened hordes of tribalistic non-entities that populate their slums AND Nairaland!

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by EzePromoe: 9:24am On Nov 13, 2012
I think when the OP mentioned Lagos, Abuja and PH only, he meant cities which are not dominated by the natives in population e.g Enugu is dominated by Igbos, Ibadan is dominated by Yorubas and Kano is dominated by Hausas. My own thought though undecided
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by basher(m): 9:25am On Nov 13, 2012
Paul John: Even the Lagos we boast of is yet to possess the excellent quality of what a city is.
A city full of jobless people moving up and down in taterd smelly cloth with no ambition of what the future 'll be.
A city that houses the best slum the nation can ever produce.
Out great city that you don't feel comfortable in your can when windows are down, due to unpleasant smell the stagnant water all over the city brings

Abuja
The capital city that more than half of her citizens live in the glorified rural area(Gwangalada, Kwali, dafa, abaji...)
The city where unbudgeted amount of oil money is spent on, but still has no superb Iconic structure to distinguish herself.

Onitsha, Ibadan
Commercial cities recognized internationally for dirtiness and absence of orderliness.

The whole of Nigeria is just far behind.

The topic here is not Wether Nigeria is ahead or in front.

Even in cities like London ther are issues around crime that is not present in Lagos. In London, people are stabbed, shot, strangled, butchered & go missing on a daily basis. Women are dragged into the bushes and raped. Young children are constantly preyed on by paedophiles. Muggings are of the scale. The police are overwhelmed.

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Mgbadike80: 9:35am On Nov 13, 2012
kcswat: u seem to talk like a yoruba man. Are u one? You always attack seCcessionist biafran in all ur post nw u have. Change tommorrow u'll support hausa. Talking from both side. Of your mouth
the guy is a full blooded ofe mmanu, only thing he is constant about is women.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by MsAfroZest(f): 9:37am On Nov 13, 2012
bittyend:

Did you say anything to contribute to the dream killer?

I'd rather kill the monster, than add to its devilish vicious cycle.

Biko, take your frustrated self somewhere else. As I cannot comment on the above topic, I stay on the sideline and read comments from people who are more knowledgeable on the issue, instead of trying to bring it down the way you do with your anti- Nigeria chants.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by MajeOfficial: 9:37am On Nov 13, 2012
Eze Promoe: I think when the OP mentioned Lagos, Abuja and PH only, he meant cities which are not dominated by the natives in population e.g Enugu is dominated by Igbos, Ibadan is dominated by Yorubas and Kano is dominated by Hausas. My own thought though undecided

i see that there are levels. Once you reach the level where you native ethnicity is not the dominate ethnicity, then you see a true cosmopolitan lifestyle emerge.
Our governors and Federal government need to start considering ways to open their states and capitals up to more foreigners.i would like to see Owerri build a grand mosque and a china town. it would do unseen wonders for any city stuck in it's ethnic enclave.

Lagos has a long way to go, but it's openness as set an example on productivity, civility, and cooperation that the rest of the nation needs to follow
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by PapaBrowne(m): 9:39am On Nov 13, 2012
I think I will reiterate your point by adding that no Ethnically Homogenous city worldwide has ever prospered.
There is a lot of reasons for this. By any count, trade and the quantity of it are usually responsible for the prosperity of a city. Now, any city that must prosper must trade beyond its borders. As cities trade with other cities or nations, people from such places get attracted to the city and settle. They bring in their different cultures and and their own methods of operations. The city always benefits when foreigners especially enterprising ones are attracted to it.

Lagos, PH and Abuja are ok, but not excellent. You would think that these cities would attract people from countries across Africa, but no.l Its just Nigerians and maybe Nigeriens and few populations from other cities. AZ national melting pot? Yes. An international one? No.

One of the biggest barriers to diversity is language. Cities that tend to speak their local dialect attract less foreigners. PH, Warri, Lagos and Abuja are about the only cities in Nigeria where the local dialect is not sopeken in the market place.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Valon4ego(m): 9:41am On Nov 13, 2012
There are certain factors that you choosed to ignore in your write up. Lagos was the former and Abuja is the current capital of the nation and thus have or had maximum federal government presence and infrastrucure. The british planned and developed lagos while the federal government are shedding tons of money on Abuja yearly. These cities being the state capital of course attracted immigration from the different parts of the nation. The oil boom led to the development of port harcourt thus had it been that Nigeria had No oil porth harcourt would have been like maybe akwa ibom,and if abuja and lagos had not been the capitals of the nation they would definitely not be what they are today whereas those other cities you mentioned might have been more than what they are presently. Just imagine Onitsha for instance , the federal government dredgin the river niger,developing and constructing roads and other facilities,it will definitely be more than what it is today

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Mgbadike80: 9:44am On Nov 13, 2012
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the natives of Onitcha aren't the majority, most people are from elsewhere trying to do business and regard the place as a place to be used not cherished. They behave wrecklessly and the level of activity is so high that even responsible government (which anambra has historically lacked) has a hard time keeping track
[/quote] kitikpa gbagbuo gi. My own onitsha is wreckless and lack good governance?

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Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Akanbiedu(m): 9:52am On Nov 13, 2012
Krucifax:

I concur with most of your points. Historically the world over the most prosperous cities are also without coincidence the ones with high cultural mixes and high migration. Examples are London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Sydney, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Frankfurt, Singapore, Chicago, Zurich, Toronto, Geneva etc etc.
And it’s really quite simple to see why. When you create an enabling conducive environment you will attract the best minds and money will follow.

Government obviously have to take the lead by doing their bit i.e. 1.friendly legislature, 2.economic stability 3. Infrastructural investment.

Some so called governors in Nigeria and their baying low I.Q tribalistic supporters should take note. As some Nigerian states are going down the route of state indigene i.d cards and inter state deportations. Such policies are neither progressive nor offer any calculable economic benefits.

They should instead spend their efforts on improving infrastructure, child education, health care and strengthening their judicial systems. This would be better than cheap anti-intellectual politicking garnered at ensuring votes and support from the unenlightened hordes of tribalistic non-entities that populate their slums AND Nairaland!

Hope you are not referring to Lagos residents' card as indigene card. If supposed sophisticated guys can not recognise simple proactive security measures, it shouldn't be too difficult to know why Nigeria is so messed up. You all have been hearing news about foreigners involvement in BH attacks, movement of arms from Libya to the country etc and still find it difficult to decipher why Lagos, a hugely populated and highly underpoliced state is trying to create a database for itself. SMH.

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Dont get me wrong, Kano is a great city, that's why it made the list but and it's diverse but you have to consider it's enormous population. It's diversity in %ages isn't comparable to Abuja Lagos and PH and it thus doesn't function on the same level as them
It's a regional melting pot, even the cultures you listed as being present have a culture almost identical to the native Hausa due to geography and religion and it's a culture that's not too friendly to enterprise and industriousness. The regional cities suffer from being too crippled by their tribe's nature. Onitcha is too igbo, Ibadan is too yoruba, Kano is too hausa and though their are advantages to each city, the disadvantages have nothing to combat them.

It seems that the things that make each tribe tick are in abundance in their regional cities but the regional cities are crippled by each tribes weakness as well, we need to mix to make things work because everyone strengths and weaknesses combine counter each other well but there's still some things that are fundamentally nigerian that would be best balanced out by an international mixture.


Of course these cities are helped by their various geographical locations to some extent but cities like Ibadan, Enugu and Kano hold no signficant geographic advantage over their neighbors other than being a melting pot. Ibadan and Onitsha suffer from to very different types of cultural problems that result in the same problem

the natives of Onitcha aren't the majority, most people are from elsewhere trying to do business and regard the place as a place to be used not cherished. They behave wrecklessly and the level of activity is so high that even responsible government (which anambra has historically lacked) has a hard time keeping track

Ibadan is very old and is almost 'too' cherished by it's natives. Every building is important to someone and the city has a hard time taking on a new face because it's too rooted in tradition. Too many businesses are traditional crafts as opposed to modern professions the jobless of Lagos eventually have to leave because it's a city of business not tradition, where as the jobless of ibadan are likely to be in their own village and just linger.


but Ibadan and yoruba land as a whole has the advantage that regionally yoruba can go anywhere and feel at home. unfortunately this means everyone just goes to Lagos if they can and activity is sapped out of surrounding cities. in the east your village is your nation everywhere else is foreign so it's harder for a 'regional melting pot' to arise. Everyone wants their village to be the regional power which is unrealistic[/quote]

Absolutely.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by solomon111(m): 9:55am On Nov 13, 2012
Is it the same lagos that is now sending away 'non-indigenes'?
The same lagos where some so-called 'son of the soil' want to reap where they did not sow.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by WHISTLEBLOWER1: 10:28am On Nov 13, 2012
Major important diverse Nigerian cities: in order of ranking economic importance

Abuja (not included FCT)

Lagos

PH

Onitsha

Kano

Warri
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by MajeOfficial: 10:28am On Nov 13, 2012
Mgbadike80: kitikpa gbagbuo gi. My own onitsha is wreckless and lack good governance?
yes. dont let home town sentiment block your judgement, Onitcha is a complete mess and if you're content with it's condition that one is your own.
It's a great city and i wouldn't have mentioned it if it wasn't tiers above others in nigeria, but its problems are very evident
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Nobody: 10:28am On Nov 13, 2012
One of the most sensible discussions Nairaland has witnessed in the recent while, and quite a lot of informed opinions being expressed too.
I am playing catch-up on two fronts at work, but will return to contribute my own quota at some point.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by basher(m): 10:30am On Nov 13, 2012
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i see that there are levels. Once you reach the level where you native ethnicity is not the dominate ethnicity, then you see a true cosmopolitan lifestyle emerge.
Our governors and Federal government need to start considering ways to open their states and capitals up to more foreigners.i would like to see Owerri build a grand mosque and a china town. it would do unseen wonders for any city stuck in it's ethnic enclave.

Lagos has a long way to go, but it's openness as set an example on productivity, civility, and cooperation that the rest of the nation needs to follow [/quote]

I don't really think Lagos had a choice in evolving the way it has. It was chosen by the British as the administrative capital of Nigeria the same way Nairobi was for Kenya; Accra for Ghana; etc etc. Of course, factors like it having a naturally deep harbour for shipping helped. Do you think it will have been any different if the British had chosen Warri or Benin as administrative capital & it had remained so till we moved to Abuja?

Port Harcourt is an oil city with oil jobs & business, so it attracts various people.

Abuja is our fct & it had billions thrown at it.
Re: No Ethnically Homogenous City In Nigeria Has Ever Prospered by Afam4eva(m): 10:31am On Nov 13, 2012
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