arresa:





The usual ipob shallow, ignorant, thoughtless and misguided nonsense..

roolnaado:


http://tribuneonlineng.com/eat-lagos-salt-yet-speak-ill-lagos/

RockHard:


You contradicted yourself by saying Lagos developed a model for itself and in another breathe saying it's not a function of Yoruba magic. Yoruba administrators are responsible for that 'magic model' you speak of. Lagos ceased from being a capital over two decades ago, and since then its administration has been firmly in the hands of Yorubas. Its prestige and acclaim since then rests on the shoulders of its Yoruba administrators who have done everything to breathe life into its abandoned infrastructure, urban renewal and phenomenal IGR increase.

Without Tinubu and his successors' ingenuous and commendable creativity in fashioning out a developmental roadplan and creating sustainable models of development for the state, Lagos gdp and igr would be a shadow of what it is today. The potential may have always been there but it took these men's uncommon vision and innovation to harness that. There's nothing stopping the likes of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and indeed every other state/region from doing the same today with the right crop of leadership. We all saw what Akpabio was able to achieve in his state. Give the Yoruba administrators of Lagos their due credit and quit being a hypocrite.

Omeny:
I don't blame the poster of this senseless article, It is the Nigeria settings I blame.
I blame Nig state for not opening up Nigeria for fair playing field.
U hate Niger-deltans but their petrol dollars has been used across Nig including 'your lagos'
For kids that are not aware,Lagos was the immediate past CAPITAL of Nig,Sea and airports,stadium,Unilag,roads,bridges across Lagos etc where all built by FG of Nigeria from Money gotten from Crude since 1950s when we started exploring Oil.
Sea port alone can change the biz environment of a place,it is not only lagos we have Ocean,the same Ocean spread across major areas in the Niger-delta that FG should have sited another Sea port just the way they did in lagos since it is in the exclusive list.
The billions if not trillions lagos get from tax alone annually,some African countries don't get that.
Instead of Lagos to raise unnecessary sentiments,let it join other regions that are fighting for true federalism so everybody can develop at their pace.After-all Tinubu and his likes has always be a strong advocate of True federalism, So?

Omeny:
I don't blame the poster of this senseless article, It is the Nigeria settings I blame.
I blame Nig state for not opening up Nigeria for fair playing field.
U hate Niger-deltans but their petrol dollars has been used across Nig including 'your lagos'
For kids that are not aware,Lagos was the immediate past CAPITAL of Nig,Sea and airports,stadium,Unilag,roads,bridges across Lagos etc where all built by FG of Nigeria from Money gotten from Crude since 1950s when we started exploring Oil.
Sea port alone can change the biz environment of a place,it is not only lagos we have Ocean,the same Ocean spread across major areas in the Niger-delta that FG should have sited another Sea port just the way they did in lagos since it is in the exclusive list.
The billions if not trillions lagos get from tax alone annually,some African countries don't get that.
Instead of Lagos to raise unnecessary sentiments,let it join other regions that are fighting for true federalism so everybody can develop at their pace.After-all Tinubu and his likes has always be a strong advocate of True federalism, So?

shigothang:



You ve a right to oppose Lagos on special status case but for u to mention other Yorubas claiming a stake in Lagos is none of ur bizz. You forgot we are a large tribe with solid tradition nd history ,so Lagos is ours, and forever remain with her sister cities(tradition and history) as London is part or England and Cardiff belongs to wales ,Belfast to Ireland even though they all belongs to UK.

GworoChewinMaga:
Nigeria does not owe Lagos a damn thing!

The sea ports you boast off plus all other major infrastructure in Lagos was built using oil proceeds.

Nigeria has well over 800km of coastline with Apapa and Tin Can ports not having berthing space of more than 5km max.

If the other coastal cities in the Niger Delta were developed with their rightful proportional revenue from their oil wealth which happened to have been diverted to Lagos, Abuja and Kano do you think your overcrowded slum village can compete?

If anything Lagos owes Nigeria and not the other way as the financial transactions entered in Lagos are geared towards other regions and not only Lagos.

And finally, what is this useless appellation for?

You guys ridiculed and dismissed the last confab as a waste of time which was meant to start Nigeria back on the road of genuine restructioning only for you to now employ almajiri tactics to beg for more money to fund Lagos?

FYI : Salt was a major trade commodity in the trans sahelian trade with Borno providing salt from Lake Chad. Some of the salt mined from the salty beds of the Chad lake found their way inland. And if you must know before any yoruba set foot in Lagos, the Binis had already occupied it as a war camp. You guys should as a matter of urgency stop claiming Lagos as a yoruba achievement because you had little or nothing to do with its initial occupation, development and financial progress.

dreams77:
ur
Your SE&SS can't match
1 Ogun State
2 OYO State
3 Kwara state
4 Ekiti state
Maybe our unity and love for ourselves brought us this far... don't hate us hate your ancestors, so my dear stop wailing and tell your people to develop your place... cos the Oba might just kick u guys out by throwing your sorry asses into the lagoon...

ianSweet:


Oga, Nigerian constitution does not recognise tribal boundaries as a part of government functioning. As long as the constitution and government administration is concerned, there is nothing like yoruba land.
Someone from Ekiti or Oyo is equally a settler in Lagos just as someone from Bauchi, Anambra, Katsina or Kwara is.
Your failure to comprehend this is a representation of your stark ignorance and myopic mindset.

omonnakoda:


You are the one who lacks awarness. The ports in Lagos were built before the 50s. Oil was not lifted for export in the 50s. Have you got any figures for the price of oil and the volume lifted for export fom Nigeria before the civil war?? Stop deluding yourself. I have already addressed this issue on this thread and will do it again 100 X if necessary.

Tell us where cocoa and groundnuts exited Nigeria from in the 30s,the 40s the 50s

Was it also this Crude oil that paid for the Niger Bridge and Kainji dam.??
Was it this crude oil that funded the civil war.
We know that the share of the allocation to the Eastern region THROUGHOUT the civil war was retained and reimbursed. Was this from oil receipts?

OIL WAS NEVER above $25 before 1973 (Price adjusted to today's value) i.e in those days it was under $3 and the production in Nigeria had not taken off so do not lie about oil paying for anything before the 70s by which time Lagos was flying.

If you want to know where oil money was spent look at Abuja

GworoChewinMaga:
Nigeria does not owe Lagos a damn thing!

The sea ports you boast off plus all other major infrastructure in Lagos was built using oil proceeds.

Nigeria has well over 800km of coastline with Apapa and Tin Can ports not having berthing space of more than 5km max.

If the other coastal cities in the Niger Delta were developed with their rightful proportional revenue from their oil wealth which happened to have been diverted to Lagos, Abuja and Kano do you think your overcrowded slum village can compete?

If anything Lagos owes Nigeria and not the other way as the financial transactions entered in Lagos are geared towards other regions and not only Lagos.

And finally, what is this useless appellation for?

You guys ridiculed and dismissed the last confab as a waste of time which was meant to start Nigeria back on the road of genuine restructioning only for you to now employ almajiri tactics to beg for more money to fund Lagos?

FYI : Salt was a major trade commodity in the trans sahelian trade with Borno providing salt from Lake Chad. Some of the salt mined from the salty beds of the Chad lake found their way inland. And if you must know before any yoruba set foot in Lagos, the Binis had already occupied it as a war camp. You guys should as a matter of urgency stop claiming Lagos as a yoruba achievement because you had little or nothing to do with its initial occupation, development and financial progress.

omonnakoda:
What is the origin of the last 3 governors of Lagos? Continue to delude yourself.Any Yoruba person can become governor in Lagos. If your Greatgrandfather was born in Lagos and your name is Amadi it is IMPOSSICAN'T as in NEVER!!

GworoChewinMaga:
What does Lagos actually contribute to the National economy?

The FG and corporate environment are lamenting over recession induced not from a slump in business activities in Lagos but because of a fall in oil pricing at the intl market?

If Lagos was so economically relevant, why Lagos.

So why should Lagos get more than it has unduly gotten from over the years?

Afam4eva:
I hope those shouting for a special status to be given to Lagos are aware of other perks that comes with that and that is the fact that, should Lagos be given a special status, Nigerians, irrespective of state of origin, ethnicity and state of residence may also be given equal rights with the indegenes in Lagos.So, when we are clamoring for something, we should also look at all sides of the coin and not be myopic in our reasoning.

We make it sound as if people are benefiting from Lagos before putting anything into Lagos. Could the indegenes of Lagos had built a Lagos without the help of Nigerians from all over. Infact what is the contribution of Lagos indegenes to what Lagos is today? On the contrary, i think Lagos should be grateful for what Nigeria has done for it. Nigeria made Lagos and not the other way around.

GworoChewinMaga:
Nigeria does not owe Lagos a damn thing!

The sea ports you boast off plus all other major infrastructure in Lagos was built using oil proceeds.

Nigeria has well over 800km of coastline with Apapa and Tin Can ports not having berthing space of more than 5km max.

If the other coastal cities in the Niger Delta were developed with their rightful proportional revenue from their oil wealth which happened to have been diverted to Lagos, Abuja and Kano do you think your overcrowded slum village can compete?

If anything Lagos owes Nigeria and not the other way as the financial transactions entered in Lagos are geared towards other regions and not only Lagos.

And finally, what is this useless appellation for?

You guys ridiculed and dismissed the last confab as a waste of time which was meant to start Nigeria back on the road of genuine restructioning only for you to now employ almajiri tactics to beg for more money to fund Lagos?

FYI : Salt was a major trade commodity in the trans sahelian trade with Borno providing salt from Lake Chad. Some of the salt mined from the salty beds of the Chad lake found their way inland. And if you must know before any yoruba set foot in Lagos, the Binis had already occupied it as a war camp. You guys should as a matter of urgency stop claiming Lagos as a yoruba achievement because you had little or nothing to do with its initial occupation, development and financial progress.

Omeny:


Guy?
I didn't write to please you, Truth is bitter but lovers of truth and fairness will always be justified.
You are insinuating now that Niger-Delta oil money was not spent by military heads of state even till today in lagos abi? Continue deceiving urself and you likes.

Lagos owns a lot to Nigeria and Nigerians from every region and not Nigeria owning lagos, if FGs of Nigeria over the yrs had done half to Ph,Warri or any other Niger-delta towns like it done Lagos,Nigeria as a whole would have been better off for it today.

ianSweet:


This happens because the yorubas in Lagos are united. If the other tribes in Lagos state unite and say they want to produce any political position in the state, they will and nothing anybody can do. Afterall the igbos themselves elected house of reps member there in Lagos.

Are u aware that yorubas and Igbos contest senatorship in FCT? But since the Gbagyi indigenes in FCT are united, they still manage to elect their own.

shigothang:



Yes with that spelling .my pphone buttons not ok. If u can't get my point mu can help put d right spellings mu can fill d missing letters .
Tk cr

Damn! You must be a thang

ianSweet:


Pls remove Kwara from that your list. Kwara is not part of the SouthWest, it belongs to the middlebelt and full of many tribes whose allegiance and existence is tied to Sokoto caliphate.