pazienza:


Lol! Ibadan was the capital city of western region.
A good look at Ibadan can tell what Yorubas can achieve without the FG massive funding.


Lagos state was the capital of Nigeria from 1967, before then, Lagos City was, and it spread development to all parts of current Lagos state, as people sought for cheaper land spaces for investments on housing, agriculture and industrialization.
We are practically witnessing same thing happening to Ogun State now.

Just as we are witnessing the Abuja effect on Gwagwalada, Kubwa, Zuba, Dei dei, etc, even as far as Suleja and Kogi state.

The FG( initially colonial government, using proceeds from all parts of Southern Nigeria) provided and sustained the process until the process became self sustaining on its own.
That's what happened to Lagos.

It's only inferiority complex that is making Yorubas not to accept this basic truth.
But we are here to force it down their throats, until they either swallow it peacefully or asphyxiate from it.

oPPOSEE:

lol.
Am a PROUD TENANT.

My Yoruba landlord can’t find me on Nairaland am safe here.

Cooly100:


Why is Benin republic with its ports not like Lagos?

Thetruthsayer10:
u are an illiterate like one guy above me suggested when Lagos state was created in 1967 Lagos city alone still serve as the federal capital not Lagos the state. Ibadan suffers from infrastructure decay but when it was the capital of the western region no city could beat it and its gradually coming back daily now. Ikeja house massive private industry due to Awolowo under the western region before it became part of Lagos state so did many other city that were combined to make Lagos state. The fg proceeds u talk about was limited to Lagos city Other city improve their competition till Lagos was developed and now Ogun and oyo are doing the same. Are u saying every development that will eventually spread to all sw started in Lagos city if so why hasn’t Enugu the capital of eastern region or Anambra done the same for the east

pazienza:


Not according to me.

It's according to available stats.

Abuja of yesterday, courtesy of FCT title and the FG investments and international exposure that comes with it, is currently dusting traditional Northern commercial centres like Kano and Kaduna in all aspects of finance, development and economics.

Perhaps, tommorow, Gwari people would tell us how Abuja had always been blessed and progressive and only got a head start, which the all intelligent super human Gwari race maximized and nurtured.
The story would as always be tailored to play down the role playing the FCT had on Abuja development.

pazienza:



Good perspective, bro.

Thetruthsayer10:
dumb question Benin republic is a country why Lagos is a state are u this dumb u can only compare Benin republic to nigeria

pazienza:


You need help.

Lagos state was handled as FCT by Nigerian FG from 1967 until Abuja became capital, and the governors of Lagos state served as equivalents of FCT ministers today, who not only took care of Abuja development, but surrounding towns of Gwagwalada and co. They took care of both the mainland and Island and provided infrastructures One of which was the 3rd mainland bridge.

You need education.

Enugu was never a capital of Nigeria, so I don't know the relevance of Enugu to this discussion.

ODVanguard:


Na so. You people are fond of appropriating ready-made successes. Lagos ceased from being FCT as far back as 1991 and things only went DOWNHILL since then! The attention of the FG shifted to Abuja and Lagos suffered BIG TIME! Even today, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa IBom get more Federal allocation than Lagos. But with the coming of the fourth republic in 1999 Tinubu's administration set out to make the state self-sustaining. It's annual IGR has since increased from N11-billion in '99 to over N400-billion today! That didn't happen because it was a former FCT, NO. It happened because of the concerted efforts of its leadership since that time. The state has since witnessed unprecedented infrastructural development as a result of its LEADERSHIP. That is the TRUE STORY of the success of the Lagos of today. Had it not been for the leadership, the state would have continued to decay at the expense of Abuja's own development, but its administrators since '99 arrested that decay and made it into what it is today. No amount of fact-twisting to the contrary by you and your ilk will change that salient fact.

pazienza:


You need help.

Lagos state was handled as FCT by Nigerian FG from 1967 until Abuja became capital, and the governors of Lagos state served as equivalents of FCT ministers today, who not only took care of Abuja development, but surrounding towns of Gwagwalada and co. They took care of both the mainland and Island and provided infrastructures One of which was the 3rd mainland bridge.

You need education.

Enugu was never a capital of Nigeria, so I don't know the relevance of Enugu to this discussion.

mercyville:


Ibadan was and still more developed than all Igboland joined even with the foolish governors it has been saddled with.It has more modern buildings than all Igbo states joined and has brown roofs which were built when you were still very primitive...

Cooly100:


Cunny maniac....You knew where I was going...

Now why is Contonu not like Lagos....

Cooly100:


Liar...

See...the below...and try an travel more...

"...During the 60s and 70s when u mention Port harcourt and Enugu in East, mention Kano and kaduna in North, then u must mention Lagos and Ibadan in west.
Lagos was the capital of Nigeria while Ibadan was the largest city in West Africa. We were a very suffisticated people then. We never had much brown roofs. We had largest professors. we also had other cities such as Abeokuta etc but now table has turned on us, ibadan is the biggest slum in the whole of Africa (if not the world) with many dirty buildings without toilets. The brown roofs are enough to make you throw up.

Abeokuta has declined from a city to a small town with slums. Other state capitals in west are mere villages like, osogbo and ado ekiti and akure. (I'd have icluded ilorin but since it has an emir as the traditional ruler, it is now owned by northerners). Here in osogbo the best hotel looks like a guest house


Coming to east, you now have many cities, including ones which were not developed in 60s. They have booming cities like Enugu, Owerri, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Awka , Umuahia. If u go to awka umuahia and owerri, u see modern buildings without brown roofs, u see fine hotels, shoping malls and fly-overs under construction. If u also go to other ibo cities outside southeast such as Asaba and Porthharcourt u see the same development..." Oni

Cooly100:


Cunny maniac....You knew where I was going...

Now why is Contonu not like Lagos....

Thetruthsayer10:
different country Cotonou is the commercial hub of Benin and it is relatively developed. Nigeria is also far richer than Benin republic with only 10 million population less than that of just Lagos alone.

Thetruthsayer10:
oral say written by IPOB themselves come up with something new

Cooly100:


Liar...

See...the below...and try an travel more...

"...During the 60s and 70s when u mention Port harcourt and Enugu in East, mention Kano and kaduna in North, then u must mention Lagos and Ibadan in west.
Lagos was the capital of Nigeria while Ibadan was the largest city in West Africa. We were a very suffisticated people then. We never had much brown roofs. We had largest professors. we also had other cities such as Abeokuta etc but now table has turned on us, ibadan is the biggest slum in the whole of Africa (if not the world) with many dirty buildings without toilets. The brown roofs are enough to make you throw up.

Abeokuta has declined from a city to a small town with slums. Other state capitals in west are mere villages like, osogbo and ado ekiti and akure. (I'd have icluded ilorin but since it has an emir as the traditional ruler, it is now owned by northerners). Here in osogbo the best hotel looks like a guest house


Coming to east, you now have many cities, including ones which were not developed in 60s. They have booming cities like Enugu, Owerri, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Awka , Umuahia. If u go to awka umuahia and owerri, u see modern buildings without brown roofs, u see fine hotels, shoping malls and fly-overs under construction. If u also go to other ibo cities outside southeast such as Asaba and Porthharcourt u see the same development..." Oni

mercyville:


Dumb question.Why is Nigeria not like South Africa..it is the administrators of course.Lagos was left to rot by the FG but the owners(..Yorubas .all Yoruba can claim any part of Yorubaland including Ibadan to the extreme part of Ondo state...)through the ingenuity of Tinubu,gave it a new lease of life.Reason Igbos from Abakaliki like you would nearly kill yourselves on Yoruba God given ancestral land....

mercyville:


Only your illiterate Obi can write in bad English like this....
Coming to east, you now have many cities, including ones which were not developed in 60s. They have booming cities like Enugu, Owerri, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Awka , Umuahia. If u go to awka umuahia and owerri, u see modern buildings without brown roofs, u see fine hotels, shoping malls and fly-overs under construction. If u also go to other ibo cities outside southeast such as Asaba and Porthharcourt u see the same development...



Spot the crudeness of the trash you wrote...



Coming to east, you now have many cities, including ones which were not developed in 60s. They have booming cities like Enugu, Owerri, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Awka , Umuahia. If u go to awka umuahia and owerri, u see modern buildings without brown roofs, u see fine hotels, shoping malls and fly-overs under construction. If u also go to other ibo cities outside southeast such as Asaba and Porthharcourt u see the same development...

Cooly100:


...but Lagos was developed by the Yorubas (remember)...why adding that Nigeria is richer?

...when the white people came to Lagos and developed it before the FG's investment (as you claimed)...was Nigeria a country then?

You cunny Mf-kers...just like to dribbling yourselves for nothing...

Cooly100:


Dense cunny brain...You think you de do me...You are doing yourself...

Why didn't the governors of Oyo, do the same in Ibadan which is the real capital of western region?

If Lagos was left to the Yorubas as Ibadan was left to them...It would have been another Ibadan.

FACT!!!!

Cooly100:


Dense cunny brain...You think you de do me...You are doing yourself...

Why didn't the governors of Oyo, do the same in Ibadan which is the real capital of western region?

If Lagos was left to the Yorubas as Ibadan was left to them...It would have been another Ibadan.

FACT!!!!

pazienza:



The story of Abuja thumping traditional Northern commercial centres like Kaduna and Kano in economic importance today, courtesy of the international exposure and fund flow afforded by the FCT title would continue to speak against purveyors of propaganda like you.

Vestiges of its FCT status, like International airport, monopoly on seaport, hosting of many multinational corporations, and foreign embassies, including infrastructures like 3rd mainland bridge, provided Lagos with a solid foundation that made it a self sustaining entity it is today.
It has nothing to do with Yorubas.

The capital of Western Region was Ibadan, and it's not looking that impressive.

mercyville:


Ibadan is still more developed than all your tiny states even with its brown roofs which your tiny Igboland has too...

Thetruthsayer10:
how develope is Lagos now compared to when just one city was the seat of the fg. Ibadan is growing like Lagos and with good government nothing will compare to in Nigeria

ODVanguard:


Are you daft?? Who is arguing with you about Abuja and the perks it currently enjoys as an FCT?? We are TALKING ABOUT LAGOS, dumbo! Lagos is a SELF-SUSTAINING STATE TODAY! Abuja IS NOT. Your argument would only carry much weight if FG accords the same perks and subsidized development to Lagos as it does Abuja. Even as we speak, Abuja is relatively enjoying less development under this administration than it did under GEJ, why? Because its allocation/subsidized development from the FG has reduced drastically owing to the slump in oil prices!! But the same cannot be said about Lagos coz Lagos does NOT depend on FG money. #FACT! I know your type. If Lagos administrators had allowed the state to continue to retrogress and decay, your likes would have changed the narrative to something like, 'well, those Yoruba people cannot even manage Lagos without the FG'. And speaking of Ibadan, the city may not be on par with Lagos (it can certainly do wayyy much better than it is currently doing with a more aggressive leadership coz it has everything it needs to match Lagos, that is our thinking in the SW coz we don't hinge our development on Oil money, FCT status, or SeaPorts like y'all obsess over) but it has witnessed more robust development that your entire enclave. This goes beyond throwing derisive brown-roof invectives/expletives, guy.

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I have told you how badly Lagos was doing after the FCT was shifted to Abuja, and how the state was re-invented as a result of its focused, visionary, and quality leadership. Unfortunately, you people put so much faith in Oil money/rent-seeking and 'Federal presence' as requisites for development, but sorry we SWesterners don't share that worldview coz if we did, today we'd be making excuses while Lagos would've continued denegerating rather than find creative means of arresting its decay. But as you can see, even Ogun is stepping up, while the likes of Oyo and Osun are also following suit.

Cooly100:


Liar...

See...the below...and try an travel more...

"...During the 60s and 70s when u mention Port harcourt and Enugu in East, mention Kano and kaduna in North, then u must mention Lagos and Ibadan in west.
Lagos was the capital of Nigeria while Ibadan was the largest city in West Africa. We were a very suffisticated people then. We never had much brown roofs. We had largest professors. we also had other cities such as Abeokuta etc but now table has turned on us, ibadan is the biggest slum in the whole of Africa (if not the world) with many dirty buildings without toilets. The brown roofs are enough to make you throw up.

Abeokuta has declined from a city to a small town with slums. Other state capitals in west are mere villages like, osogbo and ado ekiti and akure. (I'd have icluded ilorin but since it has an emir as the traditional ruler, it is now owned by northerners). Here in osogbo the best hotel looks like a guest house


Coming to east, you now have many cities, including ones which were not developed in 60s. They have booming cities like Enugu, Owerri, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Awka , Umuahia. If u go to awka umuahia and owerri, u see modern buildings without brown roofs, u see fine hotels, shoping malls and fly-overs under construction. If u also go to other ibo cities outside southeast such as Asaba and Porthharcourt u see the same development..." Oni

pazienza:


You are retarded. You need a brain transplant surgery , goat brain should serve you better.

We are talking about FG development, and you are talking about house. Are you sick?

FG poured investments into Lagos state, and this was facilitated by 3rd mainland bridge, to allow development to flow freely to all parts of Lagos .

Enugu wasn't the capital of Nigeria, so your argument is again redundant and irrelevant.

Stay on topic. I will not be distracted.

ODVanguard:


Guy, you need to quit fooling yourself with that stupid quote you keep throwing around from your so-called 'Oni' (his real handle is 'Ooni') coz that your 'Oni' is none other than a well-known Igbo troll that uses that moniker to fool his fellow ipod touts (obviously it's working else you won't be here quoting such nonsense). If you can believe in a fake Biafran passport, what else won't you believe?

ODVanguard:


Are you daft?? Who is arguing with you about Abuja and the perks it currently enjoys as an FCT?? We are TALKING ABOUT LAGOS, dumbo! Lagos is a SELF-SUSTAINING STATE TODAY! Abuja IS NOT. Your argument would only carry much weight if FG accords the same perks and subsidized development to Lagos as it does Abuja. Even as we speak, Abuja is relatively enjoying less development under this administration than it did under GEJ, why? Because its allocation/subsidized development from the FG has reduced drastically owing to the slump in oil prices!! But the same cannot be said about Lagos coz Lagos does NOT depend on FG money. #FACT! I know your type. If Lagos administrators had allowed the state to continue to retrogress and decay, your likes would have changed the narrative to something like, 'well, those Yoruba people cannot even manage Lagos without the FG'. And speaking of Ibadan, the city may not be on par with Lagos (it can certainly do wayyy much better than it is currently doing with a more aggressive leadership coz it has everything it needs to match Lagos, that is our thinking in the SW coz we don't hinge our development on Oil money, FCT status, or SeaPorts like y'all obsess over) but it has witnessed more robust development that your entire enclave. This goes beyond throwing derisive brown-roof invectives/expletives, guy.

---

I have told you how badly Lagos was doing after the FCT was shifted to Abuja, and how the state was re-invented as a result of its focused, visionary, and quality leadership. Unfortunately, you people put so much faith in Oil money/rent-seeking and 'Federal presence' as requisites for development, but sorry we SWesterners don't share that worldview coz if we did, today we'd be making excuses while Lagos would've continued denegerating rather than find creative means of arresting its decay. But as you can see, even Ogun is stepping up, while the likes of Oyo and Osun are also following suit.