internationalman:
New York has always been developed even in 1922.. ..

The city that never sleeps.

The biggest city in the world by land mass.

The city with the highest numbers of billionaires

The most influential city in the world...

The number one city in the world and my dream destination

obembet:
This is 10 Then and Now Photos of Famous Cities Showing How Much They’ve Changed

1. Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 1990 and now

abdulkayus:


Na WA oooo. What such of thinking is this? Must u blame the North for everything that happens to the nation? Is it the northerners that are ruling ur region and didn't allow to develop, or are they the one representing u in the senate and house of assembly? Habaaaa. If u don't blame in everyday of ur life, u wouldn't feel OK, don't give urself hypertension. Remove the speck in your own eyes before removing the log in someone's eyes.
It is only when we hold our leaders responsible for our problems before we move forward instead of blaming imaginary enemies.

Flexherbal:


Lagos is now so beautiful compared to that time!

colestephan86:

The Lagos pictures is fake news.

fairfora:
I have some questions for you and if you have conscience, you'd be able to reason afterwards. which region their leaders once said education can't be free and massively sponsoring Islamic education and neglected western education instead of counterbalancing it like the southern leaders leaders and Saudi Arabia whom they emulate did?Where does the allocation and taxes used to develop the north are coming from? Where does all the money the government is suppsed to use to create jobs develop infrastructure going ,all in the name of fighting self-inflcted war as a result of neglect caused by Northern lesders which was why their neglected youths are waging war on the innocent souls, saying western education they never enjoyed is a sin? Did you realise how much Nigeria had lost in terms of human and material resources ( and still losing) on boko haram needless war? The way someone like you think is the reason we are still on this spot as a country.

B3ACHSIDE:
That is a photo of Hiroshima after the nuclear attack. Tokyo and Japan has always been advanced even more than Europe. Europe could have been colonized by Japan if the Japanese ventured out more. Even today,Japan is more advanced than the United States and Europe,both in terms of culture and innovation .
Tokyo in the 1800s

kasim155:
Lol. Lagos pic, but how come light come dey almost every buildings den during d pics

olisaEze:


These Nigerian cities u mentioned are like South Korea in the time of Jumong season one!

B3ACHSIDE:
I'm American , I've visited Japan twice and I admire Japan. The United States is more popular and influential, but there are many things I like about Japan and the Japanese .

seanwilliam:
the most developed city

Richest city in the world

Most popular city in the world... if God can only grant my wish to visit that place once in lifetime

movingclouds:

Well, because you're American.. You've lived there and the beauty has become a normal one in your mind. In fact, you'd enter my village and say "wow, it's culturally beautiful"..
Sponsor my visa to both countries, I am the right person to tell you which city/country is more beautiful

DisLifeSha:
The Niger Delta States for be like that but the governors too corrupt. NDDC na scam

obembet:
6. Singapore, Republic of Singapore in 1990 and now

fairfora:
I have some questions for you and if you have conscience, you'd be able to reason afterwards. which region their leaders once said education can't be free and massively sponsoring Islamic education and neglected western education instead of counterbalancing it like the southern leaders leaders and Saudi Arabia whom they emulate did?Where does the allocation and taxes used to develop the north are coming from? Where does all the money the government is suppsed to use to create jobs develop infrastructure going ,all in the name of fighting self-inflcted war as a result of neglect caused by Northern lesders which was why their neglected youths are waging war on the innocent souls, saying western education they never enjoyed is a sin? Did you realise how much Nigeria had lost in terms of human and material resources ( and still losing) on boko haram needless war? The way someone like you think is the reason we are still on this spot as a country.

darfay:



Tokyo is actually the richest city in the world

MiamiePizza:
I prefare Lagos 1960 to this day Lagos

seanwilliam:


I know.. but no matter how u want to put, Nigeria cant be richer than countries like usa. America owns 33% of the world's wealth... some countries in asia were like Nigeria 60 years ago, now tell can you compare naija with some of Asia giant?
No justification for failure remember

This is not inferiority complex but blacks especially nigeria are backward race.. take it or leave it..

kikero:


Sorry, but I am laughing at you.

Yes, the North is underdeveloped, but so is the South.

And the reason why we are underdeveloped IS very simple. Since 1960, we have been running our economy on one principle...we sell raw materails, and share the money, and then use that cash to import things.

Another reason is that we don't pay enough taxes. YES....our tax to gdp raito is 5.8% Meanwhile, our brothers in South Africa, it is 28%, African average is 23%.

You are admiring beautiful city abroad, meanwhile, the residents of those beautiful cities pay heavily in taxes to keep those cities looking nice. Apart from their regular income tax. Meanwhile, most Nigerian cities charge next to nothing in taxes...and you expect beauty from what money?

Also, in many parts of the SOuth and North, people cheat on their electricity and water bills. And then we expect the DISCOS to provide power to develop our nation on which money ? Scarce resources.


Plus, in the North, education is free. Yes, they do Islamic education there, but in many parts of the North, Western education is in vogue.

And you are crying for free education. In the mid 1970's under a Northern leader called Muhammed , we had free education from 1975-6. And that free education proved difficult to sustain, because our population is too large...and because we don;t pay enough in taxes.

Yes, we can't have free education because Nigerians don't want to pay enough in traxes, not because of some Hausa. The same Hausa whose leader Sir Bello was building up education infrastructure when he was around. Up till today, his legacies are still around...and despite him being an Islamist, while he was alive, he wasn't really into federal character...Northern institutions admitted everyone from across Nigeria.

Why blame North? Since 1999, we have had Southern governors who loot, steal, cheat, launder money and so on. And the corruption in the South is even worse pass North...not that the North are saints, with chaps like Gandollars.

And one reason why Nigeria is underdeveloped is that we subsidise everything....from power to petroleum. This drives off investment because no one is going to come and build refinery and lose money everytime he or she sells a liter of petrol because Nigerians want cheap fuel. And our power sector is hamstrung among many things by low prices for power....because the law setting up discos and genocos does not allow them to control the price of what they sell...and at the end of the day, no investment, no jobs nothing. (Thank God when GSM came to Nigeria, Obasanjo refused to listen to people like you and allowed them set their price...today we have IT and phone at home.).And because we are paying for subsides, we waste billions of naira every year that could be used for someting else....

Yes, I don't blame the North anymore. I blame each and every Nigerian. Have our Southern leaders too been better....not at all. Nigeria is not proseprous because people want free stuff, and because people want to chop money. No country works that way.

And resturcturing is not going to change anything.

And no, I don;t back APC or PDP , so don't even think of going there.

MiamiePizza:
I prefare Lagos 1960 to this day Lagos

fairfora:
Na North destroy this country with their lazy culture. I wish they were as enterprising as the south

I remember the day I entered yankee for the first time. It was like heaven on earth. Between that time and now, there have been so much developments in places I visited and once lived. Tom Bradley airport in LA, as beautiful as it is, would soon to have a brother, a much bigger place this was announced during my visit last year.

We have been hearing Lagos govt shout 4th mainland bridge since tinubu became governor .They only share the money in their pockets. lagos mega city my foot. I wish buhari did not stop baba jakande from constructing the lagos lite rail in the 80s for his selfish reasons and hate. Pa Jakande remains one of the visionary and incorruptible leaders. He has no single private jet even though he could have acquired one in his time. We would have since nipped the transport issues in the bud, had buhari not halted this project, same man was seen as a messiah by tinubu in 2015 and now the rest is history. I wonder how people forget the past for their pockets' sake.
Somebody should just get the''before and now'' picture of Jeddah( Jiddah as also called ) in Saudi Arabia and show to the north that even those they emulate are forward-thinking. I remember the Jeddah trident Hotel

Flexherbal:


Lagos is now so beautiful compared to that time!

kikero:


Sorry, but I am laughing at you.

Yes, the North is underdeveloped, but so is the South.

And the reason why we are underdeveloped IS very simple. Since 1960, we have been running our economy on one principle...we sell raw materails, and share the money, and then use that cash to import things.

Another reason is that we don't pay enough taxes. YES....our tax to gdp raito is 5.8% Meanwhile, our brothers in South Africa, it is 28%, African average is 23%.

You are admiring beautiful city abroad, meanwhile, the residents of those beautiful cities pay heavily in taxes to keep those cities looking nice. Apart from their regular income tax. Meanwhile, most Nigerian cities charge next to nothing in taxes...and you expect beauty from what money?

Also, in many parts of the SOuth and North, people cheat on their electricity and water bills. And then we expect the DISCOS to provide power to develop our nation on which money ? Scarce resources.


Plus, in the North, education is free. Yes, they do Islamic education there, but in many parts of the North, Western education is in vogue.

And you are crying for free education. In the mid 1970's under a Northern leader called Muhammed , we had free education from 1975-6. And that free education proved difficult to sustain, because our population is too large...and because we don;t pay enough in taxes.

Yes, we can't have free education because Nigerians don't want to pay enough in traxes, not because of some Hausa. The same Hausa whose leader Sir Bello was building up education infrastructure when he was around. Up till today, his legacies are still around...and despite him being an Islamist, while he was alive, he wasn't really into federal character...Northern institutions admitted everyone from across Nigeria.

Why blame North? Since 1999, we have had Southern governors who loot, steal, cheat, launder money and so on. And the corruption in the South is even worse pass North...not that the North are saints, with chaps like Gandollars.

And one reason why Nigeria is underdeveloped is that we subsidise everything....from power to petroleum. This drives off investment because no one is going to come and build refinery and lose money everytime he or she sells a liter of petrol because Nigerians want cheap fuel. And our power sector is hamstrung among many things by low prices for power....because the law setting up discos and genocos does not allow them to control the price of what they sell...and at the end of the day, no investment, no jobs nothing. (Thank God when GSM came to Nigeria, Obasanjo refused to listen to people like you and allowed them set their price...today we have IT and phone at home.).And because we are paying for subsides, we waste billions of naira every year that could be used for someting else....

Yes, I don't blame the North anymore. I blame each and every Nigerian. Have our Southern leaders too been better....not at all. Nigeria is not proseprous because people want free stuff, and because people want to chop money. No country works that way.

And resturcturing is not going to change anything.

And no, I don;t back APC or PDP , so don't even think of going there.