rusher14:
Yet many would like to crucify Tinubu, Fashola and even Ambode.

Could it be envy or madness?

rusher14:
Yet many would like to crucify Tinubu, Fashola and even Ambode.

Could it be envy or madness?

rusher14:
Yet many would like to crucify Tinubu, Fashola and even Ambode.

Could it be envy or madness?

Orikinla:
[size=20pt]Lagos Economy To Grow Bigger Than the Rest of Nigeria[/size]

~ By HOWARD W. FRENCH, the author of China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa, and the forthcoming Everything Under the Heavens: Empire, Tribute and the Future of Chinese Power.

Lagos, which sits in the southwestern corner of Nigeria, sprawled over a collection of islands and swampy coastlands, occupies the leading edge of this phenomenon. Today, its extraordinary growth is driving sweeping changes in a five-country region that stretches 500 miles westward along a band of palm-shaded seaboard all the way to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, a mushrooming city of perhaps six million people that has long been this region's other major economic and cultural pole.

In between them, in one of the busiest staging areas of the historic Atlantic slave trade, West Africa is laying the foundations of one of the world's biggest megalopolises, and in Lagos itself, the start of a potentially powerful new city-state.

The biggest challenge posed by the growth of Lagos and the consolidation of an enormous, sub-regional economic zone around it, however, is not to the city's minuscule neighbors. Rather, it is to Nigeria's continued existence as a unitary nation.

[size=20pt]If present trends continue, in another decade or two, Lagos's economy will surpass the size of the rest of Nigeria.[/size]

What has held the country together in the past, however tenuously, is the redistribution of money earned from the country's oil exports. But this is changing fast, as Lagos booms and its dependence on this ever more thinly sliced revenue -- what Nigerian politicians call the "national cake" -- dwindles.

"If [Lagos's] GDP continues to rise the way it is, the federal contribution to [the city] could shrink to 5 percent," Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, the director of a leading independent Nigerian think tank, the Center for Policy Alternatives told me in an interview in his stylish offices. "What you would end up with is a virtual country. All of the parameters, absent an army, police and currency of your own, are there. We are good to go."

Source
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/how-africas-new-urban-centers-are-shifting-its-old-colonial-boundaries/277425/

rusher14:
Yet many would like to crucify Tinubu, Fashola and even Ambode.

Could it be envy or madness?

wristbangle:
The massive development in the state as a result of economic planning, strategies and profound research to stretch the booming magnet is paying off hereby attracting investors, infrastructure and other development.

A lot still needs to be done especially in the area of infrastructure (Housing, roads, etc) and power to feed the huge population domicile in the city.

If the current light rail gets complete with 4th mainland bridge, Eko Atlantic and capital cities couple with other forthcoming development, Lagos will not just over throw nigeria economy but may over throw beyond many more countries in Africa.

aresa:



Right now, Lagos is the 7th largest economy in Africa and larger than the economy of at least 42 countries in Africa without the typical oil dependent Nigeria which means Lagos is operating based on a very very diverse economy across the board that it's GDP is inching towards Nigeria's entire GDP.

Lagos's high GDP at the moment is half of what it's going to be starting from 2018 when the ground breaking economic activities surrounding the LFTZ Dangote's largest single refinery in the world, fertilizer, LNG and petrochemicals and 12,000MW plant explodes. The potential industrial and commercial applications and IGR for the Lagos state government looks mind bugling even taxable deductions from hundreds of thousands of jobs to be generated alone before we even get to collateral taxes on goods and services and available educate manpower makes for a great future for Lagos state.



It means if Nigeria today is the largest economy in Africa, then entire economy/GDP of Lagos state inching towards and eventually toppling Nigeria's economy means Lagos state is set to be the largest economy in the whole of Africa.

The implication here is far reaching even beyond Nigeria as a country.

PentiumProf:

Keep living in delusion
Once my successful people leave your lagos lagos will fall like a pack of cards

PentiumProf:

Keep living in delusion
Once my successful people leave your lagos lagos will fall like a pack of cards

PentiumProf:

Keep living in delusion
Once my successful people leave your lagos lagos will fall like a pack of cards

aresa:



Right now, Lagos is the 7th largest economy in Africa and larger than the economy of at least 42 countries in Africa without the typical oil dependent Nigeria which means Lagos is operating based on a very very diverse economy across the board that it's GDP is inching towards Nigeria's entire GDP.

Lagos's high GDP at the moment is half of what it's going to be starting from 2018 when the ground breaking economic activities surrounding the LFTZ Dangote's largest single refinery in the world, fertilizer, LNG and petrochemicals and 12,000MW plant explodes. The potential industrial and commercial applications and IGR for the Lagos state government looks mind bugling even taxable deductions from hundreds of thousands of jobs to be generated alone before we even get to collateral taxes on goods and services and available educate manpower makes for a great future for Lagos state.



It means if Nigeria today is the largest economy in Africa, then entire economy/GDP of Lagos state inching towards and eventually toppling Nigeria's economy means Lagos state is set to be the largest economy in the whole of Africa.

The implication here is far reaching even beyond Nigeria as a country.

aresa:




You should be feeling sorry for yourself, your people, past and future generations of migrant workers are only successful in other people's prosperous, accommodation and progressing land instead of their own hostile, backward and unproductive land that they must abandon and go elsewhere for their daily bread.


You see, Lagos really should be the least of your worries, worry more about your own future and the future of your many generations to come abandoning your worthless and unproductive villages for their daily bread elsewhere.


Lagos existed and developed before the arrival of your forefathers so of what relevance are you to Lagos state? Lagos state getting rid of you is a plus for Lagos so good riddance.

24SEVEN:
Some dunderheads will claim to have not seen the obvious.


The biggest challenge posed by the growth of Lagos and the consolidation of an enormous, sub-regional economic zone around it, however, is not to the city's minuscule neighbors. Rather, it is to Nigeria's continued existence as a unitary nation.

arresa and aigbofa, what does the bolded mean.

Orikinla:
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Lagos can become a country or the federal capital of an indepensent South West nation.