GerogeI:

Because Lagos once Nigeria's capital, built from federal funding, still hosts critical infrastructure that states cannot own. And we need them for business.

KGD10:


Why aren't you going to Calabar? Una dey ment?

Wetin federal government do in Lagos apart from ikoyi? Even the seaport in Lagos was built before amalgamation of Nigeria. You people dey ment or what?

aribisala0:

Lagos State was not the Capital just a small part of the state.
Lagos City has not been Capital for more than 30 years and never got the kind of concentrated investment Abuja has so why are they not trooping to Abuja??
Abuja has been Capital since 1991
Once again Lagos State was Never former FCT . Lagos State was created in 1967 with the FCT(Lagos Island Ikoyi) and some parts of the WESTERN REGION merged to form a new State.
Ikeja was not FCT
Ikorodu was not FCT
Badagry was not FCT
Epe was not FCT

Eniitankorede:



What infrastructure are you talking about? We need to compare that to what you have in Anambra.

KGD10:


Why aren't you clowns going to Calabar? Una dey ment?

Wetin federal government do in Lagos apart from ikoyi? Even the seaport in Lagos was built before amalgamation of Nigeria. You people dey ment or what?

aribisala0:

Lagos State was not the Capital just a small part of the state.
Lagos City has not been Capital for more than 30 years and never got the kind of concentrated investment Abuja has so why are they not trooping to Abuja??
Abuja has been Capital since 1991
Once again Lagos State was Never former FCT . Lagos State was created in 1967 with the FCT(Lagos Island Ikoyi) and some parts of the WESTERN REGION merged to form a new State.
Ikeja was not FCT
Ikorodu was not FCT
Badagry was not FCT
Epe was not FCT

Pierocash:
oponu. Calabar was never fct at anytime. It was only capital of Southern protectorate. With the way Nigeria is designed, the coastal advantage of Lagos Was what made the colonial masters built a seaport there for movement and business's purposes.

Tinubu never made Lagos, business men built Lagos as a result of fct status. Stop spewing gibberish.

GerogeI:


We are in Calabar, and every other city, not just Lagos. We are business people. We supply goods and services, so we go anywhere there are consumers. Has nothing to do with economy. Moreover, its still one Nigeria, with freedom of movement.

Pierocash:
You guys should stop all these nonsense rabbies of why people are coming to Lagos instead of their own state ,and all that Rubbish. Lagos was a one time FCT for decades and that has attracted a lot of growth and development even before Tinubu became governor. Any other state in Nigeria could have also been like that if they were privileged to have been FCT. A lot of industries ,and businesses in Lagos are owned by non lagosians,even most of the buildings in high brow areas of Lagos aren't owned by lagosians but outsiders. Tinubu didn't build Lagos. Lagos has been Lagos even before Tinubu,all simply because it was a one time FCT so a lot of investors took their business there. Infact Fashola did more in terms of developing Lagos more than Tinubu.


So you guys should stop comparing other states that never had federal presence to lagos that has benefited immensely and still benefitting from federal coffers

Pierocash:
you still haven't made any sense. Lagos is like a business office that is situated in a strategic location. Those places you mentioned simply benefited from the fct status and businesses began to flood into those places and eventually became part of Lagos. It is common sense,Lagos with its strategic positioning to coastal lane,fct presence made investors move in there and started developing by default even by non lagosians. It is stupidity for anyone to be comparing Lagos to any state in Nigeria when they've never had the benefit of federal presence coupled with coastal advantage that Lagos has.

No Governor made Lagos, business men built Lagos as a result of it's strategic positioning. Tinubu didn't make Lagos

Eniitankorede:
I have just been wondering why supporters of Peter Obi travel hundreds of kilometres from Anambra to Lagos to look for job and trading, if Peter Obi was a good leader and creator of jobs. Have you wondered why everyone wants to come to Lagos? And who created all the jobs and business opportunities in Lagos? Was it not Tinubu and his boys? Why support Peter Obi instead of Tinubu when you know that Peter Obi cannot deliver good leadership? If you talk integrity, Peter Obi has no integrity because he was involved in money laundry as Governor and was also using state money to fund his family business. And Buhari did not deliver on integrity ticket because we need a leader who has integrity and can deliver good governance.

ChoCho54:
Senseless!
Why do Chinese troop to Nigeria? Is it because Nigeria is better than China?

Eni Ekitan koburude.

KGD10:


Amalgamation of Nigeria happened in 1914, right? Lagos also became a capital around that time..

As a matter of fact, Nigeria was practicing true federalism which was truncated by an Igbo man, Ironsi before the civil war. So, roughly it was in 1970 when Nigeria started practicing a unified government. Hence, Lagos was only the capital for less than 20 years.

I ask again what did the federal government in Lagos apart from ikoyi?

GerogeI:


Everything in Lagos was started with federal money. From flower pots to roads to ports and airports. So Lagos was already a teaming industrial city built by hausa, yorubas, igbos, ibibios, fulanis, ijaws, kanuris, tiv, Urohbos, etc before the like of Tinubu started inventing ingenous was to milk it with their criminal network of touts and and area fathers!
Thank you.

Pierocash:
you still haven't made any sense. Lagos is like a business office that is situated in a strategic location. Those places you mentioned simply benefited from the fct status and businesses began to flood into those places and eventually became part of Lagos. It is common sense,Lagos with its strategic positioning to coastal lane,fct presence made investors move in there and started developing by default even by non lagosians. It is stupidity for anyone to be comparing Lagos to any state in Nigeria when they've never had the benefit of federal presence coupled with coastal advantage that Lagos has.

No Governor made Lagos, business men built Lagos as a result of it's strategic positioning. Tinubu didn't make Lagos

Pierocash:
stop sounding confused, fct status just for only 10yrs is enough to develop a region ,not to talk of a state that was fct for over 23yrs,aside from the pre amalgamation era where the colonial masters operated from before deciding to unify the entire region for ease of governance.

Fct status, and federal presence brought in investors and business men who built their businesses their and are still building businesses for profit purpose. Any state with fct status tends to attract more economic benefit more than others ,not only Nigeria,but Africa and the world at large . Lagos was built by business men and people move in to places with more economic benefit, nothing magical about that.

Even till now, FG has refused to develop seaports in other regions to enable business men move in their consignments through those places,they made it in a way that you can't move your consignments without Lagos ports which is adding to the igr of Lagos State. This issue is not contestable by any sane mind. But emotions and insincerity ,coupled with hate for the truth is making people like you to start arguing what is naturally a fact.


Any state in Nigeria could have even be better than Lagos if they had that privilege of fct status with developed seaports that Lagos had.


You said aside Ikoyi? Abuja right now is developing in every angle not only where the stare house is situated,every part of Abuja,all because of the FCT status. Same is why you see all part of Lagos experiencing same,it has nothing to do with Governor's performance. Infact ,Ogun state is benefitting from same proximity ,when the center is congested,other regions of close proximity starts experiencing incursion of development,it is common sense

KGD10:



You're st*pid.

What fct status developed Lagos in 10 yrs? How can it develop Lagos in 10 yrs?

Meanwhile, all what fct did in Lagos ended in ikoyi only. And these things in ikoyi were financed by revenues from the proceed of agricultural products.

You dare compare it to Abuja? Na ment?

Meanwhile, is Abuja with its fct status for 30 years generating the millions which Lagos is generating? Tinubu made that possible, especially at a time when Obasanjo withheld Lagos revenues for several years.

Vulturereloaded:
They enjoy buying up peoples ancestral land.
To some Its just a hobby, to others its philanthropy.

Helping poor people in need of money, by buying their worthless land at an overvalued price.

But then, why is MTN in Nigeria, if South Africa is so great?

aribisala0:
https://www.nairaland.com/4144976/lagos-1898before-nigeria-not-oil

Eniitankorede:
I have just been wondering why supporters of Peter Obi travel hundreds of kilometres from Anambra to Lagos to look for job and trading, if Peter Obi was a good leader and creator of jobs. Have you wondered why everyone wants to come to Lagos? And who created all the jobs and business opportunities in Lagos? Was it not Tinubu and his boys? Why support Peter Obi instead of Tinubu when you know that Peter Obi cannot deliver good leadership? If you talk integrity, Peter Obi has no integrity because he was involved in money laundry as Governor and was also using state money to fund his family business. And Buhari did not deliver on integrity ticket because we need a leader who has integrity and can deliver good governance.

KGD10:


You're capping bullshit.

No governor made Lagos? So who made Eko Atlantic, lekki, Island, Eko free trade zone, lawma etc..


You dey mad?

The only area FG developed was ikoyi.

Even the development in ikoyi by the federal government was financed by the revenue from agricultural products because crude oil was only exported in large quantities in the late 80's.

Yet you dare compare it to Abuja? You dey mad?

oilykid:

Why are yorubas all over Nigerdelta working in the oil coys there without other Nigerians wailing about it.

Go to most oil companies and see lots of yorubas working there in the Niger delta. With the development Lagos, they choosed to migrate to the Niger delta region to work there.

Pierocash:
you are such a dunce. Federal government don't build properties,even the Ikoyi you are talking about ,most of the properties there are owned by non lagosians. The fct status attracts investment, businesses ,and people ,and that is what built Lagos.

You are talking of eko free trade zone,oponu! Is it not because of businesses and economic activities that gave birth to that idea,why didn't he put the free trade zone in Ondo state? Ode

Eniitankorede:



Wake up!!! There’s no federal support in Lagos since capital Was moved away over 20 years ago. Why do you keep trooping to Lagos?

GerogeI:


Lol, Find somewhere to troop to instead of lazying around.
If you do not like other people being in Lagos, make your own seperate country or support others to do so. Till then One Nigeria, with Lagos federal roads, federal ports and even federal flower pots. Started by federal, eveything continues to be the output of federal investment. Even the monthly allocations comes from Niger Delta. The economy in Kagos is fired by Niger Delta oil Yet you open your mouth as if any of it is yours.

But we are happy to let you have it alone, but thats either you are a different country or we are a different country.

aribisala0:

Lagos State was not the Capital just a small part of the state.
Lagos City has not been Capital for more than 30 years and never got the kind of concentrated investment Abuja has so why are they not trooping to Abuja??
Abuja has been Capital since 1991
Once again Lagos State was Never former FCT . Lagos State was created in 1967 with the FCT(Lagos Island Ikoyi) and some parts of the WESTERN REGION merged to form a new State.
Ikeja was not FCT
Ikorodu was not FCT
Badagry was not FCT
Epe was not FCT

KGD10:


Ondo is a Niger Delta. So what are you saying? Na ment? Besides, workers can work anywhere as far as they're professional and equipped and it's not only Yoruba who works there. Every tribes, including Igbos.

It's not as if illiterates fled their region and came to roam in Niger Delta.