Drogunov:


Its so obvious you were never taught to mind your fvcking business punk.

Hypocrite, were you minding your ipobian jihadi business when you attacked the poster for being happy about this project?

Must he share your doom and gloom ipob bad bele and frustration mentality?

If you want to be sad and pained because of progress and development, confine your pain to yourself inside your sit at home parlor, you don't have to pollute other people with your sorrow and misery..

NGpatriot:



[s]Hypocrite, were you minding your ipobian jihadi business when you attacked the poster for being happy about this project?

Must he share your doom and gloom ipob bad bele and frustration mentality?

If you want to be sad and pained because of progress and development, confine your pain to yourself inside your sit at home parlor, you don't have to pollute other people with your sorrow and misery..[/s]

Gibberish

socialmediaman:


Your view on this is somewhat myopic. Many of the people you claim are useless for Nigeria will continue to be in Nigeria because they can't afford to travel. Most of the people traveling are our professionals including doctors, engineers, accountants, nurses, computer scientists and other people who can afford it. So you get a mere $23 billion from them while the economy continues to suffer productivity. This means you will continue to borrow from the same countries where they are migrating. When you want to develop a software, you will go to Israel or USA and pay $50 million dollars (N15 billion naira) instead of $50 thousand dollars (N15 million naira) because you don't have competent professionals

Many seem blind to the fact that Brain Drain is contributing to the current state that the country is in.

NGpatriot:



Hypocrite, were you minding your ipobian jihadi business when you attacked the poster for being happy about this project?

Must he share your doom and gloom ipob bad bele and frustration mentality?

If you want to be sad and pained because of progress and development, confine your pain to yourself inside your sit at home parlor, you don't have to pollute other people with your sorrow and misery..

Blah blah blah blah blaaaaaahhhhh! Silly boy!

U.S. Consulate donates books worth $24,000 to varsity


The Public Affairs Officer (PRO) of the United States (U.S.) Consulate, Stephen Ibeli, yesterday, urged students to read books to improve their knowledge and capacity.

Ibeli gave the advice during his official visit and donation of books worth $24,000 to Kola Daisi University, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

https://guardian.ng/news/u-s-consulate-donates-books-worth-24000-to-varsity/?utm_term=Autofeed&echobox=twitter_post&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1633576496

After Lagos, they went to Oyo state to dash us books too.

Good looking out, the good people of the SW appreciate you..

NGpatriot:



Do you mean the affluent are the tens of thousands of Nigerians gainfully employed at these facilities, collecting paychecks to pay school fees, rent and put food on the table?

Do you mean we should not create any FTZ, build EA, Dangote refinery which currently give paychecks to over 40,000 Nigerians and eventually increase it to 200,000 or more when fully operational, build a deep seaport until we build the same thing on the mainland.?

Why are you not mad because all the industrial estates, factories and manufacturing plants are all on the mainland?

Why are you not mad because the seat of government is on the mainland with tens of thousands of workers?

Is the reason we drum up such investments not to create jobs and opportunities for Nigerians and lift our people out of poverty?

The development in that region alone means hundreds of thousands of jobs and elimination of poverty in their households, many of them I'm sure are your village people.

Nna, your brain is badly formatted, it's permanently functioning in revers position.

I would have dignified your comment with a detailed reply. But I don't engage in intuitive comments.

NGpatriot:




Is it still not Tinubu's vision and the people he supported into office to govern Lagos responsible for orchestrating that massive IGR increase from N500 million per month before Tinubu to a whooping N34 Billion per month today?

Their economic policies are the reason why Lagos is what it is today, the same reason why you are here acknowledging their IGR strength over other states, the same policies that make them fight like hell to divert the massive Dangote refinery complex from Ondo to Lagos to generative even more massive IGR to double what they are generating today and hundreds of thousands of jobs, the same policies created Eko Atlantic city, a new city to draw in even more jobs and IGR.

IGR doesn't fall from the sky, there are smart people on the ground making these decisions, coming up with creative and proactive ideas to keep pumping out more IGR.

Btw, it's kind of ignorant and illogical to compare the places you listed with Lagos, their realities and national dynamics are not the same, the population and scope of responsibilities are not the same, be sane and logical.

Are you saying no other person can oversee Lagos like Tinubu or even better?
What's Tinubu's vision for Mushin, Alimosho, Badagry, Ikorodu, Surulere, and co? These are more than half of Lagos.

First, let me just take Joburg and Nairobi. These two cities are larger than Lagos. The landmass would have been what I would term a challenge but Lagos is a small city.
Now, population is an advantage to good and creative leaders. If not for the population, businesses won't come and there be no huge revenue.
I don't see why we shouldn't compare Lagos with these cities with equal revenue but we should compare it with cities in Nigeria without the revenue power- think about that.
If the capital market in Lagos is in the same league with Joburg and Cairo shouldn't we have, at least, half their facilities?
In a nutshell, what I'm saying is that the revenue generated in Lagos since 1999 is not commensurate to the facilities we see on ground. Especially when we look at how fast some cities have gone in the space of this period.
It'll be grossly illogical if not absurd to compare Lagos with States with way lesser revenue in terms of performance.
You need to visit Nairobi or Joburg to appreciate my point.

[s]

Minjim:


Are you saying no other person can oversee Lagos like Tinubu or even better?
What's Tinubu's vision for Mushin, Alimosho, Badagry, Ikorodu, Surulere, and co? These are more than half of Lagos.

First, let me just take Joburg and Nairobi. These two cities are larger than Lagos. The landmass would have been what I would term a challenge but Lagos is a small city.
Now, population is an advantage to good and creative leaders. If not for the population, businesses won't come and there be no huge revenue.
I don't see why we should compare Lagos with these cities but we should compare it with cities in Nigeria. I think about that.
If the capital market in Lagos is in the same league with Joburg and Cairo shouldn't we have, at least, half their facilities?
In a nutshell, what I'm saying is that the revenue generated in Lagos since 1999 is not commensurate to the facilities we see on ground. Especially when we look at how fast some cities have gone in the space of this period.
It'll be grossly illogical if not absurd to compare Lagos with States with way lesser revenue in terms of performance.
You need to visit Nairobi or Joburg to appreciate my point.

[/s]

Not interested in your baseless, ignorant illogical comparisons.

Minjim:


I would have dignified your comment with a detailed reply. But I don't engage in intuitive comments.

The only reason why you failed to purvey a sane and rational comeback is because you lack reasonable and rationale views.

You can not intelligently defend your baseless objection and rejection of investments and jobs for Nigerians, that did not make any sense.

1stGenAmerican:


Many seem blind to the fact that Brain Drain is contributing to the current state that the country is in.

True! Our people leave and never come back. Their kids will never come back too because they can’t even survive the climate in a country that still struggles to provide basic infrastructure and amenities

NGpatriot:



Not interested in your baseless, ignorant illogical comparisons.

When beaten by a superior logic

But you're interested in comparing Lagos with Rivers - hypocrites !

[s]

Minjim:

When beaten by a superior logic

But you're interested in comparing Lagos with Rivers - hypocrites !

[/s]



Not interested in your baseless, ignorant illogical ipobian terrorist comparisons..........

Covidodo:

Good you know it expires after 99 years .
The state government only holds the land in trust for the people .
Who are these people ?? YORUBAs

That's the position of the law

Use your tongue to count your teeth

So all those people buying SW land and developing it to call it no man's land are only doing these for unborn Yoruba children?

Wisdom better pass gragra and chest-beating

Minjim:


So you're saying another person couldn't have done it, or even better?


Eko Atlantic and Lekki Freetrade zone for the affluent.
What about middle and low income that live in Mushin, Alimosho, Badagry, Ikorodu or even Surulere. I've you visited those places lately or they aren't part of Lagos?

Please, I know the inner workings of Lagos politics and I know that we deserve better

There have been over 100 other governors of the 36 states since 1999, can you point to any that has created a vision that has yielded results close to these? Please also include the 5 or 6 FCT ministers in your searh for visionary leadership

Minjim:


Now I see where we're both getting it wrong.

I wasn't comparing Lagos with ANY state in Nigeria. In fact, it'll be unfair to judge certain states and their governors based on the performance of Lagos.
Lagos generates more than half of the total IGR in Nigeria for Pete sake!

I'm looking outside Nigeria and making my comparison among States in Africa with equal revenue as Lagos.
Take Joburg, Nairobi, Algiers, Cairo or Tunis for instance, I've been to three of these cities and they all have basic amenities that benefits everyone more than Lagos.
In fact, they all have metro lines, constant power, functional water system and more.
I'm an APC member in Lagos and i have people that had contested political offices before. Do you know LGA chairmen remit certain amount monthly to Tinubu so they can go for 2nd term? Also, the Transport Union also do same. Likewise many others. These are revenues meant for the state. And remember this same Tinubu is on an extravagant pension scheme at taxpayers expense.
If Lagos is taking so much from us to live in it, we deserve those things people from those cities i mentioned are enjoying too, or don't we?

Where did you get the information Lagos revenie is anywhere as much as those African cities you listed? can you do a table to compare?

I can tell you for free that Johannesburg revenue is $5Bn for 5m people while Lagos is struggling to see $2bn for 22m people

Ovamboland:


Where did you get the information Lagos revenie is anywhere as much as those African cities you listed? can you do a table to compare?

I can tell you for free that Johannesburg revenue is $5Bn for 5m people while Lagos is struggling to see $2bn for 22m people

Let me ask you these simple questions.
1. Is high population a blessing or a curse?
2. Are you saying Lagos Government is sheltering, clothing, or feeding Lagosians? Because I don't get what you meant by cater for

I also don't get why you find it convenient to compare Lagos with ANY states in Nigeria but you blame me for comparing Lagos with other African cities.
Lagos is at the right place and also has the market. So why can't we enjoys simple things like water, electricity, good roads and functional transport system. All these are working in cities with lesser IGR in Africa
What should worry us is how Joburg with 6m population is able to do far more than Lagos which is 15m. Where is the money being made from Lagos market size going?

We all know population drives the economy. At least that 's what Lagos and Kano are leveraging on.

If you know the politics of Tinubu in Lagos,you'll know only about a quarter of Lagos revenue is being recorded.

Ovamboland:






There have been over 100 other governors of the 36 states since 1999, can you point to any that has created a vision that has yielded results close to these? Please also include the 5 or 6 FCT ministers in your searh for visionary leadership

Stop comparing Lagos with anywhere in Nigeria. It's unfair.
No state in Nigeria makes a quarter of
what lagos makes.

Let's compare Lagos with citieswithsame
or almost same IGR Let's look at developments on ground and see which is commensurate.
It's 2021, we don't even have constant power and functional water system. These are things that our visionary leaders can't put in place

NGpatriot:


https://punchng.com/u-s-approves-319-million-for-new-consulate-general-in-lagos/

America representing on a robust
scale in Eko Akete... A very strategic diplomatic and business move. Mad cool.