I have been living in Jos for some time now and I just love the part of Jos I am. When I got to Jos, I discorverd that despite the fact that Jos is in a zone where hausa is a major language, you really do not need to speak this language before you flow in Jos and I have never encoutered anybody trying to cheat me in the market just because I do not speak their language. I have not been to the East but I know that in the West you could be seriously cheated in the market if its known you cannot speak yoruba!
Lagos, Ibadan, Kaduna, Kaduna, Jos, Kano, are all cosmopolitan but which one is the most cosmopolitan such that anybody from any part of the country could feel at home anytime anyday.

I don't think u should base ur judgment on cheating in market cos of Language barrier, i think average Hausa marketers is little more honest in trading his wares than average southerners generally due to what they term over smartness.
However city being cosmopolitan can be determined by
1) Style of living.
2) Blends of rich cultures from diffrent ethnic groups.
3) How independent peaple can express their selves without any cultural, tribal, religious and social hindrance.
4) Financial potency of such city.
5)population of such city.
If u put all this together i will like to rank it in this other:
1) Lagos
2) Abuja
3) pourtharcourt
this are the cities that u will believe to be more cosmopolitan in nature. U can speak any language and the next person u sit with in a bus will reply u back, u can walk out of ur house and find Calabar kitchen opposite ur house.
Uchena and kunle will be sharing shop and hausa, yoruba or igbo man may be ur cab driver.
may be Kano, kaduna should have been on the list but nowadays peaple have reduced the way dy express them selve due to violence.
I think enugu and owerri are calm and beautifull cities but i doubt ur cab driver can be hausa or yoruba man. Ibadan, markudi, jos, yola, calabar and akure are big cities but i doubt ur next flat mate can understand ur language.

unquestionably lagos followed by maybe jos.

@seunfly, i have not be in PH b4, but d place seems cool according to u, fo anybody to be. I had lived in Lagos and had spent hours in Abuja, I thnk being ex and current capital of nigeria, those places have no option dan to be cosmopolitan. The reason Im picking Jos s bcaus its my base now and im not from plateau(im Yoruba). b4 d 2001 crisis, pple mix here very well, muslims, xtians, all tribes! but afta, things seems to split between all Nigerans and hausa/fulanis!
In Jos, if u enta a cab, den its going to b either igbo or yoruba cab (or hausa, if its long journy!) u hardly fnd indigene doing cab! intermarriage is plenty here.

first 2 coment,i think is lagos

Lagos
Benin City
and PH

Port Harcourt don't know about Jos sha

Lagos and Oyo.

Abuja..igbo, hausa, yoruba, whites, everyone co existing without fear or feeling like an alien. Infrastructurally qualified too. Better civilized. Lagos?..maybe too but yoruba preponderance makes it less so.

Lagos wins it all....Lagos Noni

Lagos wins it all....Eko Noni..eko o Ni baje o

Delta

omicron: Abuja..igbo, hausa, yoruba, whites, everyone co existing without fear or feeling like an alien. Infrastructurally qualified too. Better civilized. Lagos?..maybe too but yoruba preponderance makes it less so.

Bro get ur fact right before u fart out ursef in public.....

lagos, PH city...

Please what time is Man-U vs Chelsea match? And eem, is it Chapions Lig or Europa Cup? What Cup are they Playing for?

BRO once u no dey speak Yoruba for lag better go buy from person way dey speek ur language,else the kind of insult or cheating u will get will be surprising

torhuke: Please what time is Man-U vs Chelsea match? And eem, is it Chapions Lig or Europa Cup? What Cup are they Playing for?

They already played yesterday na...its AFCON by the way. 15 - 15...Chelsea won on aggregate 15 - 24.

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Bro get ur fact right before u fart out ursef in public.....

OMGosh!!! THE WORD

Well, going by the meaning of a Cosmopolis I would say the order is thus;
1. LAGOS - Just about everyone and everything is represented in lagos. Lots of Non Nigerians too.

2. PORT HARCOURT - There is no tribe not well represented in PH. Average cab driver is Yoruba, almost all car/parts dealers are Igbo and Hausas have several scattered settlements all around PH.
The average Restaurant is managed by Efik/Ibibio.

3. ABUJA - Abuja has an almost equal dose of all the above but also a large presence of the original dwellers and Hausa language is strong in certain places.

I go with Lagos

effisyman: Lagos and Oyo.

Oyo isnt d same as Ibadan. And even Ibadan no qualify...yoruba land proper.

Lagos, though I'm staying in Kaduna.

@ op, so u had to open this thread when i said Kaduna was more cosmopolitan than Jos in the other thread? O ma ga fun e o.

jos,Jos,jos,jos,jos and Jos......yes, lagos has a mixed polpulation comprising of people from diverse parts of the country,but there always seem to be a miasma of parochialism and etnnicism amongst the inhabitants. The yoruba man doesnt like the Igbo man, and so does the Igbo man. The hausas there are seen as lesser beings.
In jos, before the 2001 crisis, the disparate ethnic groups cohabited peacefully, there was not any form of pretence . Also the minority groups were well represented and respected. During my sec education there I could hardly say whic ethnic group were more in my class. Its a harmonious motley class. They were tivs, hausas, igbos, yourubas, itshekiris..you name it. But after the crisis though, this wonderfl relationship became tense.
As I left Jos long ago, I cannot say for sure if the fracture has been mended.

Plz o, sory 2 disturb u pple, ki lon je cosmopolitan?

Most def lagos then PH.

Wetin be cosmopolitan?

UNARGUABLY LAGOS and others Why stress urself this much OP

Abuja take it without a doubt,
It's a totally free place, meaning you don't feel it's owned by any ethnic group..

Distant Second it ph city (there's is a heavy Igbo influence on the city) though the lingua Franca is English.

Third is lagos (a Yoruba city, with a lot of other Nigerians)

In port harcourt the natives are becoming tenants in their ancestral homes. They now pay house rents to visitors who they previously sold their lands to. Again, native dialect is non-existence as the lingua-franca is the prevalent communication tool. Finally, I think the ratio of visitors to indigene population is 10/1. Basically in fair analysis and judgement, Port Harcourt is the worthy cosmopolitan city in Nigeria.

I av travelled 14 state across d country, in d north, west, south & east. My answer to d above question is JOS(I am frm edo state)