oduastates:
First of all, I wrote Nigeria off a long time ago.
Like my cousin said, you are beating a dead horse if you think the country will come good.
The problems the government is struggling to deal with is child's play compared to what is piling up.
The population growth alone is destined to make the country a basket case ,not to talk of desertification.

Those asking for special status are stupidd.
You are asking for special status out of your own money again?
When Awo was building industrial estates all over the place, the rest were conspiring on how to destroy him. That is when they weren't looting.
What they should be asking for is derivation or else.
If they disagree, get mathematicians to model a state domicile tax on corporate gross income on all companies in yorubaland. The companies can take as deductibles on their corporate tax to the federal government.
If the FG resist, the FG can go to court.
In the meantime, Ambode and other yoruba governors should move quick and clear all those illegal settlements along the coast and creeks of yorubaland.
The illegal settler are destroying the wildlife which are necessary for tourism in an independent yorubaland.
Not a day goes when an alligator, python etc is killed.
This guy broke it down



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NygBTITUG2Q

ianSweet:


I should have known better than to engage a small and myopic mind in such a thread. ....huh (shudders)

AnambraDota:
You guys have no iota of shame in you, by 6 AM your youths are out there in pubs drinking. The informal sector of lagos is lacking able bodied yorubamen yet you claim lagos made people.

Aigbofa:


Lagos was not developed by the sweat of all Nigerians. This was Lagos between 1940 and 1950


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjjuAi-WIvM


As you can see, the port was already busy and running and was obviously not built with oyel money.

wiloy2k8:
i just wish we could just leave with our investments ... our properties ,
Yoruba's are just haters ...they just hate and hate

ObiofOnitsha:
Which investment do you have in Lag? So your gala box and fan yogo bicycle is investment to you? Smh

FKO81:
Lagos belong to all east, north and south, you guys can only rants online period

codemaniacs:


Ijebu is not a tribe.. it is a village in Yorubaland.. states were created after the civil war in the 1960s.. it is foolish of anyone to identify himself/herself by state ..

You are a very divisive person

90xtr99r:


Look at them, disgusting and repugnant Agbo ópá èyín and şépè hawkers suffering from cogenital myxedema...

omonnakoda:
Your style is to rant and abuse rather than face the issues let us leave my mind an myopia and address the issue .
You said that Abuja has the second largest Metropolitan population in Nigeria. I have called you out on this.

What is the population of Abuja rather than address that you embark on a meaningless rigmarole and personal abuse. Your claim is a bogus and meaningless one. This is one list of Nigerian cities by population based on the 2006 census. What is the source of YOUR own claim about Abuja?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_cities_by_population

This is another
http://www.geonames.org/NG/largest-cities-in-nigeria.html

90xtr99r:


Look at them, disgusting and repugnant Agbo ópá èyín and şépè hawkers suffering from cogenital myxedema...

chibuzorAbia:
Your shortest rant so far. Must be slowly recovering from your mental condition? Living in Yoruba land will continue to torment you and ya people. I'm sure after 50 years of renting in Lagos 95% of you will perish here homeless. The morgues are full of unclaimed bodies from the yeast. That's why we Fashola started cremation.

ObiofOnitsha:

ianSweet:


You are the one ranting like an illiterate and giving out very silly analogies. What brought about the issue of cement or garri and water? If not beer parlour style of argument
Thank God u made reference to 2006 census. That was 10 years ago and that population was just for Abuja city alone and not Abuja urban area.
Go and check the 2016 population estimate for Abuja urban area.

omonnakoda:
Ranting like an illiterate? None of your parents will dare greet meet sitting down in real life. You think everyone on nairaland is your coeval? What is the population of Abuja is the question.Stop going round in circles

omonnakoda:
Ranting like an illiterate? None of your parents will dare greet meet sitting down in real life. You think everyone on nairaland is your coeval? What is the population of Abuja is the question.Stop going round in circles

omonnakoda:
You claimed Abuja is the Second Most populated city in Nigeria. Does this new information you have provided buttress that claim?. A simple YES or NO please

By the way what is the source of your post above. Does it not have a source. I have provided already THREE DIFFERENT SOURCES of Nigeria's largest cities by population.None of them rank Abuja second. NOT ONE.

The fact is of course there are variations with source based on their reference points but in no way is Abuja a bigger metropolis than Kano.

The logic of spillover and "unofficial" metropolis that you apply to Abuja applies likewise everywhere.

Population wise Abuja is NEVER our second city. How many people voted in Abuja during the last elections?

ianSweet:


Talking about elections, many people go back to their states to register and vote. Why does Kano always have higher votes than Lagos? Even Kaduna is always higher than Lagos in elections. Does that mean Kaduna and Kano have more population than Lagos?
Places like Lagos and Abuja are artificial cities in a sense because the non indigenes always outnumber the indigenes there by a wide margin.
Most people who vote in FCT are the indigenes, this is why u see that the indigenes still produce the senators there even though contestants from settling groups are more than them.

omonnakoda:
You claimed Abuja is the Second Most populated city in Nigeria. Does this new information you have provided buttress that claim?. A simple YES or NO please

By the way what is the source of your post above. Does it not have a source. I have provided already THREE DIFFERENT SOURCES of Nigeria's largest cities by population.None of them rank Abuja second. NOT ONE.

The fact is of course there are variations with source based on their reference points but in no way is Abuja a bigger metropolis than Kano.

The logic of spillover and "unofficial" metropolis that you apply to Abuja applies likewise everywhere.

Population wise Abuja is NEVER our second city. How many people voted in Abuja during the last elections?

ianSweet:


U are quoting 2006 census sources and u call it a source? For judging 2016? U can see from all records that Abuja remains the fastest growing urban area in Africa and among the fastest in the world, so i wonder how u will expect 2006 and 2016 population estimate to be any close.

The difference between Kano and Abuja urban explosion is that Kano's development is still within the same state but Abuja is rapidly spilling into Nasarawa and Niger states just like Lagos spilling into Ogun.

Read this link below, this is just one single satelite area of Abuja (Karu), and the population is already estimated at over 2million people. The reason why this does not reflect in Abuja urban population is because half of this Karu urban area is under Nasarawa state.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karu_Urban_Area

omonnakoda:

Answer the questions and stop introducing extraneous "facts"

What is the population of Abuja can you provide a figure.
What is the source of the last picture you posted. Link please

At 5827846 registered voters ,Lagos state had the highest number of voters in the country,Kaduna had 3.3 million. I can see that your style is to just make wild and unsubstantiated assertions without bothering about their veracity.Truth is clearly an irrelevant inconvenience.
Most people who vote in Abuja are indigenes you claim. how do you know? Abuja had 0ver 800 000 registered voters in the last election you say MOST are indigenes for you to know that you must have evidence. By most do you mean 51% or 99% and crucially HOW DO YOU KNOW?

ianSweet:


I was part of the Inec body who conducted the last elections in FCT, so i can tell u that.

Yes, Lagos had the highest numb of registered voters, but how many people came out to vote? About 1.3 million. Kano had more accredited voters than Lagos. Likewise Kaduna. So that is my point.

omonnakoda:
You belong in the other room because clearly you have nothing to contribute in THIS room.


IanSweet
Hahaha, an escape route for dumbness.
Well i decline to argue further. But it all remains that Abuja is the fastest growing city and urban area in Africa and among the fastest in the world, ahead of Lagos.
Within few decades from now, it will catch up with Lagos and eventually become the largest urban area in Africa and tax from Lagos state will still be continually used in developing Abuja and very soon neigbouring Nasarawa and Niger states.
Kano is a precolonial city. Ibadan has been a capital since pre independent times. Lagos has been a city for up to 100 years. Abuja is just about 20 years old and it is now dragging for 2nd largest urban area. Only God knows what another 20years of development will turn it to.
God bless Babangida for taking away capitalship from Lagos to Central Nigeria my sweet middlebelt region.
At least no omonile, owomida or agberos in Abuja to harass citizens. Good riddance to bad rubbish.