NkayStory:




It has everything to do with Lagos being the capital....The infrastructures from oil money drew people who brought businesses...Then the high taxation which brought the needed money.

One more thing,Abuja was not the capital during IBB's reign....It was during Abacha from mid-90s because of the political upheavals then.

Abuja has been the fct for 28 years with more federal investment than Lagos, yet can generate more than Yobe.

Aderewah:
Lol. Let's wait for claims that igbos own 80% if lagos. Some people think it's spare parts, okrika and pirated films that make money in lagos. No. It's shipping, banking, insurance, telecommunications etc

And tax.

Ttipsy:
fine, let Lagos be given independence like Hong Kong, then deny Lagos oil revenue, let other southern state develop their sea Port, till then we'll begin our comparison

There's more to Lagos than the seaport. It's more or less the tech hub of Nigeria. Naija's version of California/ silicon valley. I'm not talking of computer village where people sell laptops, phones etc.
It seems in Lagos, ideas can actually come into fruition and prosper and people can make something out of nothing. The fast paced nature of Lagos helps and I guess that's from years of conditioning that "Èkó ò gba gbèré" meaning no dulling for Lagos.
Many other cities including Abuja are slower paced

schoolboij:

Abuja has been the fct for 28 years with more federal investment than Lagos, yet can generate more than Yobe.

Abuja has no sea-port!!!!!!.....nor does it house the number of people who live and do business like Lagos does....which was brought about by OIL-'induced Federal Government investments

Abuja is not doing badly at all

That is why i always laugh very hard each time i hear people telling others to leave Lagos for their various state forgetting that Lagos was developed by federal government with public money.telling others to go means that you are invariably telling the federal government to visit every state and invest the same amount of money used in developing Lagos so as to make every state habitual for its inhabitants.any other State can tell others to leave certainly not Lagos or Abuja.

NkayStory:



Abuja has no sea-port!!!!!!.....nor does it house the number of people who live and do business like Lagos does....which was brought about by OIL-'induced Federal Government investments

Abuja is not doing badly at all

What oil induced investment? You are a joker. That seaport is a natural port.

Igbosmoker:
The only problem with this "south south" region is that they've no unity. There's no similarity in any way between urhobo and Ibibio.

Cross river and akwa ibom are south east geographically.

River and bayelsa are in southernmost part of Nigeria.

While Edo and delta are in Midwest.

Nigeria is just to messed up and confusing. Let's akwa ibom and cross river join eastern region while river and bayelsa make up lower Niger delta, then Edo and delta and part of ondo form Midwestern region.

Akwa ibom and Cross River ain't joining....



case closed

plaetton:


That IGR for Lagos is consistently the highest in Nigeria is neither news nor surprising.
However, the reason for comparing it to the entire southeast in the article is quite strange, and I must say, a bit funny.

Did I detect a psychological complex of some sort ?

they are weary of the igbos

ShitHead:
The developments in SE in 2018 was better than Lagos.

It's not about how much, but how far.

Are you okay?

veesion:
The seaports they are afraid to develop in the east
I tell people this country cannot excel with such level of injustice
It's not possible
With all that one would expect them to be light years ahead but not nothing to show for it.
The state instead is 80% slum,and I find it hard to understand why,but it's more or less karma.

With the bolded how come Igbos love PDP so much?
You claim Lagos is undeveloped but in Nigerian standard it is light years away from other states.

To whom much is given much is expected but this is not obtainable for Lagos state.... So much money and nothing to show for it except of cause more debts and political rascality of a former governor.... Nigeria is the bigger reflection of Lagos.... Failure on every side

LastSurvivor11:
And you forgot to mention who has the highest property or businesses in the same Lagos

Igbos are traders & traders don't pay tax to state govt(they pay ticket money to local govt) .what really determines IGR is number of industries and companies and these are owned by the Yoruba and hausa.

Rolings:


Both of you are wrong, the NORTH feeds the nation, VAT cannot be eaten, Oil cannot be drunk, the food used in feeding Nigerians comes from the north

You mean North that can not feed her cows.?

ShitHead:
The developments in SE in 2018 was better than Lagos.

It's not about how much, but how far.

please tell us those developments in the East. Some of us are interested.

Igbosmoker:
Lagos doesn't feed the nation. The "south south" does.

Have you forgotten Lagos was a capital of Nigeria for 40 years? All the infrastructure, ports, airports were concentrated on Lagos state.

The FG sited the same airports and seaports in other states all over Nigeria.

Air and seaports doesn't drive growth and economies because if so, the other states with seaports and airports should be thriving like Lagos state.

Lagos is great economically because of industries and the major industrial estates located in Lagos built by Awolowo led Western Region from Ikeja industrial estate to Apapa, Ilupeju, Matori and Mushin industrial estates, and they are still the major industrial estates.

Lagos as the federal capital of Nigeria was limited to Lagos Island, but many of you hear Lagos state and you see FG written all over it.

NkayStory:




It has everything to do with Lagos being the capital....The infrastructures from oil money drew people who brought businesses...Then the high taxation which brought the needed money.

One more thing,Abuja was not the capital during IBB's reign....It was during Abacha from mid-90s because of the political upheavals then.

You're wrong. IBB moved the capital to Abuja.

NkayStory:



Abuja has no sea-port!!!!!!.....nor does it house the number of people who live and do business like Lagos does....which was brought about by OIL-'induced Federal Government investments

Abuja is not doing badly at all

Sea is a natural resource which Abuja does not have. Y’all talk about south south oil as if they were the one that put it in the soil then downplay Lagos port as if sea is not a natural resource like oil. Lagos is what it is because God blessed it with access to the sea which the north and south east do not have.

plaetton:


That IGR for Lagos is consistently the highest in Nigeria is neither news nor surprising.
However, the reason for comparing it to the entire southeast in the article is quite strange, and I must say, a bit funny.

Did I detect a psychological complex of some sort ?

I thought same

Focusmind:
Next thing now is that the idiotic youths will not question how the massive revenue have been used but to start insulting themselves over, ' our own revenue big pass your own". This is what the thread will turn into. It is not about what your region have generated or received but the quality of life of people living there.

We should focus more on economic development rather than economic growth. Economic development is about human capacity development and standard of living why economic growth is about growth in numbers - GDP and so on.

don't mind them

plaindealer:



The FG sited the same airports and seaports in other states all over Nigeria.

Air and seaports doesn't drive growth and economies because if so, the other states with seaports and airports should be thriving like Lagos state.

Lagos is great economically because of industries and the major industrial estates located in Lagos built by Awolowo led Western Region from Ikeja industrial estate to Apapa, Ilupeju, Matori and Mushin industrial estates, and they are still the major industrial estates.

Lagos as the federal capital of Nigeria was limited to Lagos Island, but many of you hear Lagos state and you see FG written all over it.

Who informed you that Lagos Capital territory was limited to the Island. Stop this nonsense propaganda it won't fly. The British administered Lagos as well as post independence Lagos had it own territory which includes many areas.
Go and study the history of Lagos post and pre independence before you spit those lies.
For your information areas like Apapa, Lagos Mainland LGA, Yaba, Surulere, etc has always been part of the Lagos federal territory from day one. Had it's own Governor different from Awolowo's Western premiership.
Areas like Ikeja, Badagry, Mushin, Epe, Ikorodu, Oshodi were the western regional sections ceeded by Awolowo to Gowon to create a post civil war modern Lagos state.
Stop giving false information.

Yussuf06:
Take away the seaport from lagos n take it down east..lets see what is remaining of lagos...lagos is wot it is because of ppl comin in from various place.especially southeast...truth b told..the east has not enjoyed federal presence well enuf.yet dey still wax strong...truth b told

It's not always about where seaports are located, it's always about where the demands are, where the huge markets and concentration of purchasing power are.

Simple laws of economics and commerce.

Igbo people investment is about 90% of the revenue. They won't leave Lagos to go develop their own states. make Naija even split so Yorubas go enjoy their lives biko.

MobilityExpress:


You're wrong. IBB moved the capital to Abuja.

You are wrong,Abacha did.

Only in Nigeria you see beggar regions complain about not getting as much as their benefactor state/region. It's like complaining about your working neighbor who has been splitting his/her salary with you to give you more than he/she takes. What about each region generates and keeps its revenues for development? Haah! The insane moochers won't like that, their lives depend on the very organized monthly begging set up in Abuja.

schoolboij:

Sea is a natural resource which Abuja does not have. Y’all talk about south south oil as if they were the one that put it in the soil then downplay Lagos port as if sea is not a natural resource like oil. Lagos is what it is because God blessed it with access to the sea which the north and south east do not have.

The problem with many yorubas like you is the complete lack of logic and common-sense in your reasoning..just blind,silly arguements everywhere..

Kindly go and research and see if SEA-PORTS are a natural resources

Chiwude:
Who told Lagos Capital territory was limited to Island. Stop this nonsense propaganda it won't fly. The British administered Lagos as well as post independence Lagos had it own territory which includes many areas.
Go and study the history of Lagos post and pre independence before you spit those lies.
For your information areas like Apapa, Lagos Mainland LGA, Yaba, Surulere, etc has always been part of the Lagos federal territory from day one. Had it's own Governor different from Awolowo's Western premiership.
Areas like Ikeja, Badagry, Oshodi, Epe, Ikorodu, Oshodi were the western regional sections ceeded by Awolowo to Gowon to create a post civil war modern Lagos state.
Stop giving false information.

What's this story got to do with the fact that the western region led by Awolowo created the industrial estates in Apapa and all the places I mentions or the fact that the FG even pre independence FG wasn't in charge of the whole of Lagos state?

NkayStory:


The problem with many yorubas like you is the complete lack of logic and common-sense in your reasoning..just blind,silly arguements everywhere..

Kindly go and research and see if SEA-PORTS are a natural resources

You just displayed the crass foolishness iboes are known for.

Seaports are not a natural resource. But seas are. Seaports are a products of seas. Same way oil drills in the niger delta. are a product of the oil.

Sea is a natural resource. Oil is a natural resource. The oil in the niger delta took the fg a great investment to harness. If you brag about ss oil, Lagos should brag about its sea.

The seaports in Lagos predates Nigeria.

Warship:


You mean North that can not feed her cows.?

Is it the south that's feeding the cows now?

Forget about Lagos, south east has the lowest IGR in Nigeria, and the bulk of state IGR is generated from paye and withholding tax ie from biz activity in the states.
North Central (N378.7 billion), North East (N351.5 billion), north-west N546.5 billion, south west excluding 376 while south-east only N340.1 billion.
Funny enough the people of south east insults other zones especially the north and called us parasites, while as a zone they are the less productive zone in the country

plaindealer:



It's not always about where seaports are located, it's always about where the demands are, where the huge markets and concentration of purchasing power are.

Simple laws of economics and commerce.

tell him did the other 5 south west state have sea port but they still generate more 30 billion every year more than south east

schoolboij:


You just displayed the crass foolishness iboes are known for.

Sea is a natural resource. Oil is a natural resource. The oil in the niger delta took the fg a great investment to harness. If you brag about ss oil, Lagos should brag about its sea.

The seaports in Lagos predates Nigeria.

Oil sale proceeds was used to expand the existing tiny pre-independence port in Lagos to what it is now,enabling very large ships to berth with goods from all over the World..

Oil sale proceeds massively improved the Murtala Domestic and Intermational Airports...

All these and so much more including the third Mainland bridge came about because Lagos was the Capital of Nigeria till the 90s.

These necessitated a massive influx of people from all over,including expatriates..their businesses,technology and man-power in tow..

Secondly;
Having a Sea is not the be-it and end-all be cause Botswana is a land-locked nation with a GDP and per-Capta-income Nigeria can only dream about...dont even get me started on Benin Republic(who has Sea shores) and Botswana.

With enough political will,the River Niger can be dredged to accommodate large ships for imports and exports which is our forte.so it is not the end of the World for SE cos when this country breaks,we sure will not be using the stinky and chaotic shame called Lagos Sea-Port.

Therefore you arguements holds no water,replying you further is a waste of time.