scholes0:

And who are those calling Ibadan a Town?? :lol:
On the McKinsey Global city Index, Only Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja are Ranked in Nigeria.
In the Entire West African region, only these three cities Above, and Accra, are ranked {4 in total}

And in Sub saharan Africa, only these 4 cities, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Cape Town, East London and Durban are ranked
Ibadan had a GDP of $7 Billion, and per capita income of $4,000{Higher than the Nigerian average} in 2007, this is expected to grow to 20 Billion in 2025, {More than Triple}.

#How can anyone in their right senses, call that a town??

scholes0:

STRONG/TIER1 NIGERIAN CITIES.

LAGOS
IBADAN
PORT HARCOURT
KADUNA
KANO
ENUGU
ILORIN
BENIN
WARRI
ABEOKUTA
CALABAR
+ABUJA, JOS, ONITSHA, ABA

category 2/Tier 2 Nigerian cities {Could become more important in Future}

OWERRI
UYO
MAKURDI
JOS
AKURE
ADO-EKITI
MINNA
OTTA
SHAGAMU
OSHOGBO
ABA
ONITCHA
MAIDUGURI

Category/Tier 3 {Manage to squeeze into City status}
ZARIA
KATSINA
ASABA
IKORODU
OGBOMOSHO
SOKOTO


In total Number of Mid sized towns to cities However, the South West has By far, the highest amount of towns over 100.000 In Nigeria
Edit, Fix, make better, but yeah, that is the general Idea.

Abagworo:

While the definition of a city is such a complex issue, individuals seem to have their own understanding of what a city should look like. Some places considered as cities could have less population than others considered towns. Based on my own understanding, Nigeria seems to be developing into a three city State viz Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja.

There are dozens of urban centers with population ranging from 100,000 to over 3million. Kano, "Kaduna" and Ibadan have over 2million people. Benin,Aba,Onitsha, Ogbomosho,Zaria,Jos and Maiduguri all have in excess of 1million people. In all Nigeria has about 13 urban centres with population of more than 1million. I put Kaduna on quote because it seems to be Nigeria's 4th city alongside Calabar and Enugu but they lack that city feel even though they come directly behind Lagos, Abuja and PH.

dayokanu:

Ethnic Spread would not be a valid criteria else you tell us that Shanghai isnt a City?

It isnt a crime for a City to be homogeneous

austin2002:

9jaganja, Your name sound like Pigs. I don't know what part  of donkey village u come from.Oh forget!! you are from nigeria.Well you could do yourself a  good did by not bleeping with Biafra orderwise the spirits of dead Biafrans will befall on your entire family and you will never see progress in your family.And same with any of you who dare to open their smelly mouths and talk about Biafra in an ugly way.The Biafrans are Jewish descendants as such God of Abraham,Isaac and Moses will bring curses  to any of you who dare talk about Biafra in unworthy way.Why is that muslims stinks? The stench coming out  of their bodies make me wonder if we are seeing bush animals in form of humans.That is why western communities say that AIDS is from Africa.The muslims odors can literally give one HIV which leads to AIDS.Please muslims take shower and buy some deodorants even though these two Items won't wipe your demonic odors.

nakedall:

This is to show that we are suffering of lack of population to occupy other town, lets continue to make more babies to get more cities.

stpat1:

I can confidently tell u dat Edo is a 3 city state. Benin, Ekpoma and Auchi. Last time I checked Auchi and Ekpoma are more economically busier than some state capitals like Ado-ekiti, yenagoa, oshogbo, abakaliki, damaturu, jalingo, etc. If u av been to these places then u'll agree with me.
My findings are based on economic activities, banks, schools, hotels, good roads, stable electricity, human population, transportation etc.

dayokanu:

Spirit of dead Biafrans that Ojuku killed?

Abeg make we hear word jare, those spirit would be torturing Ojuku now

What relative development do you expect from a "city" of 20,000 people? Thats the population of 2 bus stops in Lagos.

If those small scale companies are what qualifies them for City status then Ewekoro, Nkalagu, Igbeti too should be classified as cities

These 3 names have populations more than 50k, Have mining industry related activities going on there

I dont think its fair and reasonable to compere Africa to any part of US in terms of Infrastructures.

Take Ibadan or Kano to the US and they would fail woefully in infrastructures,

Timbuktu was definitely an African City but doesn't have the infrastructures other Western Cities had at that point in time

Same with Kumasi, Oyo, Benin which were centers of African civilisation