Eko Ile: These NL illeterates sha. Mention lagos and see them rush out to put down their own country for another country.

Do we now have to tell these ignorant people that Angola is a country with 100 billion oil money to burn while lagos is just a state within Nigeria with just 2 billion.


Shouldn't you olodo people be comparing with abuja which is a country capital like luanda instead of lagos?

If lagos is making so much moves with 2 billion imagine What we fit do with 100 billion.

I just wonder why you people don't weep and cry over your backward stone age villages.

999_666: If you are going to show development in Angola, at least be honest enough that those building were paid for by the government with expected future oil earnings.
The people can't even afford such cities, they are basically ghost towns.
You may not be comfortable with Lagos level of development but be honest with your analysis and don't mislead others.

Check the link for more details. Angola have virtually mortgaged their future for a pie in the sky type of development.

Angola's Chinese-built ghost town
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18646243

Eko Ile: These NL illeterates sha. Mention lagos and see them rush out to put down their own country for another country.

Do we now have to tell these ignorant people that Angola is a country with 100 billion oil money to burn while lagos is just a state within Nigeria with just 2 billion.


Shouldn't you olodo people be comparing with abuja which is a country capital like luanda instead of lagos?

If lagos is making so much moves with 2 billion imagine What we fit do with 100 billion.

I just wonder why you people don't weep and cry over your backward stone age villages.

PapaBrowne:

Mr Man, if you've been to Angola, you wouldn't speak like this. That article you posted is a British perspective and I care too little about their perspective when it comes to African issues. They call these projects Ghost towns because its the Chinese building them. For crying out loud, these properties were commissioned only this year and they are to house 750,000 in a country of 14 million. Do you expect them to be sold out in 3 months? Even estates with 30 properties take years to fill up in lagos talkless of a town with over 100,000 properties.

About Angola's future oil earnings, you probably didn't realise that they have used it to solve their future housing problems.
Its amazon that Lagos cannot raise the money required to execute development projects but Tinubu can raise the money to start an airline, build two Oriental hotels and build a $100million shopping mall. Think, one man can raise the money(almost $300million) to execute these projects but Lagos is struggling with funds to complete the few projects that Fashola embarked upon.

999_666: If you are going to show development in Angola, at least be honest enough to inform others that those building were paid for by the government with expected future oil earnings.
The people can't even afford such cities, they are basically ghost towns.

You may not be comfortable with the level of development in Lagos, but be honest with your analysis and don't mislead others.

Check the link for more details. Angola have virtually mortgaged their future for a pie-in-the-sky type of development.

Angola's Chinese-built ghost town
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18646243

Eko Ile: Back to the topic while I ignore these nuisance villagers.

Even with a very unless federal system and leadership holding lagos back, lagos is still the fastest developing and holding its own and I'm just so proud to be a lagosian.

Even the positive feedbacks from the international media and the new respect for lagos and its leadership is so heart warming.

Eko o ni baje for sure.

PapaBrowne:

The poster said LAGOS IS A COUNTRY. I was even nice enough to ignore his speech and compare Lagos directly with Luanda. If na Angola, whose population is about equal to that of Lagos, then Eko don baje, noni!

Eko Ile:

And you honestly bought that and took off running with your Angola comparison9 is Lagos a country? Are you in primary 2 or you were just too lazy to spot the difference?

Secondly, your luanda comparison was ignorant simply because luanda is a country capital where the country of Angola spends its money to develop while lagos is not the capital of Nigeria and the government of Nigeria is spending its money on abuja which is the capital of Nigeria.

You are fee to create and enjoy your comedy show, but let it make a little sense.

PapaBrowne:

Lagos is a capital of Nigeria and more money accrues to Lagos than to any other part of Nigeria. Lagos has more than enough potential but Fashola did not do anything to unlock that potential. Go to Nairobi and see what is happening there. Even Addis Ababa is experiencing some good development in comparison to Lagos.
The truth of the matter is that Fashola doesn't understand financial engineering. If he did, he would find more innovative ways to access capital than the meagre income that comes from taxation. Taxation is for social services. If you want real development, use your potential of both today and tommorow to buy debt and spread it into the future. Utilize that debt to create critical mass, your society blossoms, you get credibility plus increased credit ratings , acquire more debt, pay the old one and execute more projects, you society blossoms futher and on and on and on. Thats the secret and its working accross the capitalist world. Just be wiser enough to know the boiling point when to stop acquiring debt.

alj harem:

haba bros afam, how can you say that. You have been to some parts of VI, Ikoyi and lekki before

Banana Island nko ? But yes Angola makes sense.

Eko Ile: Papab. You ignorance and lack of civic education is mind boggling and shameful.

1. It's a fact to many elementary school kids that lagos us not the capital I'd Nigeria and abuja is.

2. Its a fact to many elementary school kids that despite what lagos contributes to the national economy, its the 3rd largest recipient of allocations after rivers with 20 billion and 4 million people and Akwa with 17 billion and 5 million people. This is another ignorance on your part.

3. It's a fact that rivers states budget with just 4 million people is almost the same as lagos and in fact its sometimes higher than lagos with 20 million people and lagos still get more done than rivers and Akwa put together. By population and budget rivers is 4 times richer than lagos.

How do I even discuss anything with no basic knowledge people like you?


Now, let me excuse your ignorance and go back to you blindly equating a state like lagos with a country like Angola and its huge national resources.

You need to bury your head in shame.

afam4eva:
I wish Angola were an English speaking country, I would have considered moving there.

afam4eva:
So now population should be a major factor in determining the allocations that should accrue to states? Compare what Lagos contributes to the center to what those states contribute.

Eko Ile:


Now about what states contributes to the gdp, I know lagos state contributes 30% so feel free to tell us what other states contribute individually.

Please answer and discuss intelligently and don't troll as usual .

Eko Ile: Papab. You ignorance and lack of civic education is mind boggling and shameful.

1. It's a fact to many elementary school kids that lagos us not the capital I'd Nigeria and abuja is.

2. Its a fact to many elementary school kids that despite what lagos contributes to the national economy, its the 3rd largest recipient of allocations after rivers with 20 billion and 4 million people and Akwa with 17 billion and 5 million people. This is another ignorance on your part.

3. It's a fact that rivers states budget with just 4 million people is almost the same as lagos and in fact its sometimes higher than lagos with 20 million people and lagos still get more done than rivers and Akwa put together. By population and budget rivers is 4 times richer than lagos.

How do I even discuss anything with no basic knowledge people like you?


Now, let me excuse your ignorance and go back to you blindly equating a state like lagos with a country like Angola and its huge national resources.

You need to bury your head in shame.

phantom: na wa o!!! see luanda....kai i feel like crying....our leaders have finished us

PapaBrowne:
I would have expected something more intelligent than this sha. This is a pathetic response. I can help you defend the failures of Lagos in a more intelligent way. It is sad and pathetic that all you are talking about is allocations from Abuja. Think for yourself: Dangote is one man. He is worth $14Billion. He doesn't go to Abuja to collect allocation. He collects his allocation from builders that buy his cement, tea drinkers that use his sugar, bakeries that use his flour and kids that eat his indomie.
Why can't Lagos with all the advantage Nigeria has given to it build a strong capital base that is non oil related.
Lagos has so much opportunity. It can earn from Business tourism If it had a world class convention centre. Lagos can make itself the Financial hub of Africa in the same mode that Singapore serves Asia, London serves Europe, New York serves America and Dubai serves the middle east. Lagos has all the ethos going for it in that direction, it just needs the right kind of policies. Lagos should have multi billion dollar budgets not those meagre $3 billion that should be reserved for countries like Liberia.
The sad thing is that Lagosians are glorying in the snail speed patch-patch development that Fashola is building and forgeting to notice the hi-speed with which Tinubu completes his own projects.

PapaBrowne:
I would have expected something more intelligent than this sha. This is a pathetic response. I can help you defend the failures of Lagos in a more intelligent way. It is sad and pathetic that all you are talking about is allocations from Abuja. Think for yourself: Dangote is one man. He is worth $14Billion. He doesn't go to Abuja to collect allocation. He collects his allocation from builders that buy his cement, tea drinkers that use his sugar, bakeries that use his flour and kids that eat his indomie.
Why can't Lagos with all the advantage Nigeria has given to it build a strong capital base that is non oil related.
Lagos has so much opportunity. It can earn from Business tourism If it had a world class convention centre. Lagos can make itself the Financial hub of Africa in the same mode that Singapore serves Asia, London serves Europe, New York serves America and Dubai serves the middle east. Lagos has all the ethos going for it in that direction, it just needs the right kind of policies. Lagos should have multi billion dollar budgets not those meagre $3 billion that should be reserved for countries like Liberia.
The sad thing is that Lagosians are glorying in the snail speed patch-patch development that Fashola is building and forgeting to notice the hi-speed with which Tinubu completes his own projects.

You are too shallow and intellectually deficient to contribute anything meaningful beyond the silly opinion you are trying to deflect your obvious shortcomings with.

I will not let you shift the focus from the argument with your silly and redundant rant that means nothing to the topic. I know your game and I'm not falling for it.

You as a grown man do not know the capital of your own country and on top of that, you have no clue what GDP percentage each state generates.

And I was expecting you to repent and admit to your cluelessness and ignorance.

Please do that first.

Below is what I still need you to deal with...


You ignorance and lack of civic education is mind boggling and shameful.

1. It's a fact to many elementary school kids that lagos us not the capital I'd Nigeria and abuja is.

2. Its a fact to many elementary school kids that despite what lagos contributes to the national economy, its the 3rd largest recipient of allocations after rivers with 20 billion and 4 million people and Akwa with 17 billion and 5 million people. This is another ignorance on your part.

3. It's a fact that rivers states budget with just 4 million people is almost the same as lagos and in fact its sometimes higher than lagos with 20 million people and lagos still get more done than rivers and Akwa put together. By population and budget rivers is 4 times richer than lagos.

How do I even discuss anything with no basic knowledge people like you?


Now, let me excuse your ignorance and go back to you blindly equating a state like lagos with a country like Angola and its huge national resources.

You need to bury your head in shame.

PapaBrowne:
I would have expected something more intelligent than this sha. This is a pathetic response. I can help you defend the failures of Lagos in a more intelligent way. It is sad and pathetic that all you are talking about is allocations from Abuja. Think for yourself: Dangote is one man. He is worth $14Billion. He doesn't go to Abuja to collect allocation. He collects his allocation from builders that buy his cement, tea drinkers that use his sugar, bakeries that use his flour and kids that eat his indomie.
Why can't Lagos with all the advantage Nigeria has given to it build a strong capital base that is non oil related.
Lagos has so much opportunity. It can earn from Business tourism If it had a world class convention centre. Lagos can make itself the Financial hub of Africa in the same mode that Singapore serves Asia, London serves Europe, New York serves America and Dubai serves the middle east. Lagos has all the ethos going for it in that direction, it just needs the right kind of policies. Lagos should have multi billion dollar budgets not those meagre $3 billion that should be reserved for countries like Liberia.
The sad thing is that Lagosians are glorying in the snail speed patch-patch development that Fashola is building and forgeting to notice the hi-speed with which Tinubu completes his own projects.

PapaBrowne: Ok. I have to conclude that this Eko Ile guy is not worth it. Pretty childish guy. Wouldn't want to engage him for the simple fact that if I do, it would appear like we belong in the same class. Wouldn't want to give him that privilege.

PapaBrowne: Ok. I have to conclude that this Eko Ile guy is not worth it. Pretty childish guy. Wouldn't want to engage him for the simple fact that if I do, it would appear like we belong in the same class. Wouldn't want to give him that privilege.