babaearly:

I make a public appeal to everyone. Stop calling Benin, ACIENT! It sucks when you do because its acting upon the mentality on most of Bini People. It creates a psychology that obstructs my cities development. its the GREAT City of Benin, not Acient.

thresa8:

Benin city the bad image of Edo state.

oldie:

The real people who are obstructing Benin's development are the political leaders
What did Igbinedion achieve in eight years?
Absolutely nothing.

The word "Ancient" should have been complimentary in different climes

yimiton:

Benin is not only ANCIENT, it's old, underdeveloped, dirty, totally *roadless* and annoyingly smelly!
This is as a result of our bad governance. It has nothing to do with it being *ancient*. The fact that it ancient is suppose to be a compliment, like one of the cities that got civilized on time, remember the great bini Massacre at the time of Oba Overanwen *guess I got the spelling wrong, sorry* That was suppose to be the Ancient beautiful Benin, remember the tusks and other beautiful treasures stolen from Benin by the british? That was suppose to be the ancient beautiful Land of Benin. Remember the Great Bini empire that emcompassed a lot of yoruba lands of today. . . . .

Being ancient and beautiful has very lovely qualities but being old, corrupt, greedy _{no glutony}, unfeeling for your fellow men is another story entirely.

brownbonno:

babaearly ,

What is your issue with the Esan people?
What are the recorded evil you want the world to know?
I can;t understand why people are still entangled with shankles of this ancientism?You are calling for emacipation but you still fighting a hiden agenda.
Wake up my brother,you need some courses.

almondjoy:

NO PLACE IN NIGERIA QUALIFIES TO BE CALLED A CITY. . . . . .even by the lowest standards world wide!

almondjoy:

Like Benin-City is more ancient than 99% of other areas in Nigeria including Abuja? 

Oh Puleeese!

Travel to other areas in Nigeria in the North, East, West and South and you will be shocked what you can find.

I had the misfortune of going to attend a chieftancy title gig with ma parents in one place in Delta State about 2 months ago.  Very swampy area--Come see road?  If anyone had told me such a place existed in present day Nigeria 2008, I would have vehemently denied it.  If was brought to my knowleged that during the raining season, you can only get in and out on foot.  Nobody leaves and no body enters that area. This is a very rich oil producing area if a may add.

So please check other parts of Nigeria for seasoned ancientness. 

NO PLACE IN NIGERIA QUALIFIES TO BE CALLED A CITY. . . . . .even by the lowest standards world wide!

babaearly:

I make a public appeal to everyone. Stop calling Benin, ACIENT! It sucks when you do because its acting upon the mentality on most of Bini People. It creates a psychology that obstructs my cities development. its the GREAT City of Benin, not Acient.

PapaBrowne:

Benin might have very bad infrastructure due to bad Governance over the last eight years, but interestingly Benin is actually the Fourth richest city in Nigeria in terms of economic size. It has a larger economy than every other city in Nigeria except Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja. It is larger than Kano, Kaduna, Ibadan and all the other seemingly large cities.

Benin has the highest number of banks per city outside Lagos.
Benin Airport has become the fourth busiest Airport in the country after Lagos,Abuja and Port Harcourt.
A lot of interesting other statistics reveal Benin as a very unique economy as it doesn't have the Federal Support the other three large cities possess.
For instance, Lagos is what it is because it's been a capital before. Port Harcourt is what it is because of oil. Abuja of course is an FG project.

What actually drives the Benin economy is the inflow of remittances from Benins in Diaspora. The amount is huge. They probably scoop up maybe 30% of all the $10 billion remittances flowing to Nigeria yearly. That is $3 billion dollars for just one city. Much more than what all states recieve in Federal Allocation.

So the logic is, don't underestimate Benin! It is a better place to do Business than most other Nigerian cities less poor infrastructure and insecurity.

the repatriated money are not invested into the economy instead it goes to private purse

PapaBrowne:

Benin might have very bad infrastructure due to bad Governance over the last eight years, but interestingly Benin is actually the Fourth richest city in Nigeria in terms of economic size. It has a larger economy than every other city in Nigeria except Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja. It is larger than Kano, Kaduna, Ibadan and all the other seemingly large cities.

Benin has the highest number of banks per city outside Lagos.
Benin Airport has become the fourth busiest Airport in the country after Lagos,Abuja and Port Harcourt.
A lot of interesting other statistics reveal Benin as a very unique economy as it doesn't have the Federal Support the other three large cities possess.
For instance, Lagos is what it is because it's been a capital before. Port Harcourt is what it is because of oil. Abuja of course is an FG project.

What actually drives the Benin economy is the inflow of remittances from Benins in Diaspora. The amount is huge. They probably scoop up maybe 30% of all the $10 billion remittances flowing to Nigeria yearly. That is $3 billion dollars for just one city. Much more than what all states recieve in Federal Allocation.

So the logic is, don't underestimate Benin! It is a better place to do Business than most other Nigerian cities less poor infrastructure and insecurity.

paddy_lo:

what the eff does that mean. . .so it goes and dies in the purse?. . .lol u are funny

any such remittances will surely reflect positively on benin citys economy