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Ogbuefi2020:
this is bull shit, few skyscrappers surrounded by rusted shanties cant match anywhere. you keep talking about size and i want to tell you that east live in decentralized settlements, for example, 9th mile which is not part of enugu city is the most industrilized part of the state. in fact every village in the east is viable therefore size is is bull

Well in the end, size&number will always count, hate it or like it. And when you lump up the entire East, I doubt if it's up to Ogun+Oyo. I will leave you to your delusion that enugu is more economically vibrant than Ibadan.

Ogbuefi2020:
stop cursing like a kid, enugu state hinterlands and well populated thats my point with the IGR. thats my point. Nobody is shifting goaal post. ibadan is a large ghetto of poor people.

@flyorub you read my mind exactly.
Tbh it's good that Enugu generates that amount. But you can only wish Enugu is more economically vibrant than the likes of Oyo, Kano, and maybe even Anambra. IGR is always dependent on the state govts capacity to do so. And I'm sure there is no uniform rate charged across States. So try look for another excuse.
The point here is, when you match the urbanized part of Ibadan with any city in the east, it will always be way bigger. Simple.

Ogbuefi2020:
check that your first pic and compare it with this pic, you will see the same building u showed but facing the greater part of the city where people actually reside

Right. And I guess it's aliens that reside in this other endless part.
The Ib paradox.

More

Ib is cool

evansvenus:
Nice,but this can't be used as a yardstick for comparing social status and wealth distribution between south east and south west..

It can be used as a viable estimate especially with business decisions making and I tell you why with your own points.

Sim cards are now free..various service providers are all over the streets begging citizens to get their sim cards for little or no fee..

Yes sim cards are free, but they are obviously not free only in the southwest. I don't see how this disproves anything yet.

Glo is redundant in the south east...i don't think easterners use that..unlike yoruba that uses it along with their mtn

I dont know why this is so but if I say it is for tribal reasons, I may not be far from right. But then, those that use glo here in the West don't use it simply/solely because it is owned by a Yoruba man. The necessity to have two or more lines for their various reasons will be in addendum to it. If the East indeed had a reason to buy up extra Sims, they could make up for it with airtel and Etisalat if they really so hate glo. It's a free market, isn't it? So the statement that "glo is dead in the east" still disproves nothing!

we have multiple sim card users..we also have chinese phones that have multiple simcard slots..this particular kind of phones are domiciled in southwest..due to lagos, the port of entry

Now this is the interesting part. It's true that we have cases of multiple Sims and what not. But remember the topic states clearly that active phone lines were considered. So it is not out of place to say that only Sims that are being actively used for calls and data(evidences of economic spending) were considered, not just second Sims that are redundant on many phones. More so, a large number of people don't even have a single active sim at all in the West. These two reasons could easily cancel out cases of multiple Sims and in the end, the data can be used to roughly estimate the population in each zone.

you can underestimate the population of igbos in southwest..lagos most especially..for every yoruba person you find in owerri,ten thousand igbos are already in ibadan

This probably shows that economic interests are more in the West, hence the migration to that part of the country.

In addendum...we have five south east states against six south west states..we need equal representation.

This changes nothing. I'm not against a creation of a sixth state in the east. But obviously, creating a sixth state wouldn't automatically create extra people for the sixth state.
At the end of the day, the data is a useful tool for cooperate business decisions making like the op stated and it's an indicator of the region with the best economy for the telecoms sector.
PS: It's no surprise smile telcos made a huge start in Ibadan before heading for Lagos, Abuja, PortHarcourt and Benin. Also, Spectranet has a bigger presence in the West, than any other region.

afroxyz:
But seriously. Is Lagos for Yorubas or is Lagos for Lagosians. Cos all I see are mudafuckers from ekiti, Kwara, Ogun et al claiming Lagos. So do these punks mean to claim that they are more Lagosian than myself, an Igbo boy born and brought up in surulere? Mbanu! Y'all need to get your brains checked. Go back to your shanty muddy huts that you built on rocks!

In your warped logic, a Yoruba/Ibo man born in Kano automatically is owner of Kano? You are a Lagosian by residence just like Nigerians are Londoners and New yorkers where they are. It is a pipe dream for you to ever be a true Lagosian. If you like, be born and even die there, Lagos has its own indigenes aworis and Co who are clearly Yorubas.

comrChris:
very unfortunate a lady like you can act like this in public

I'm not one of those that claim Lagos but let us tell ourselves the truth Lagos wouldn't be what it is if Igbo's had not invested in it,,many of you who are bitter about igbos dominance in Lagos are still the one against Biafra,, what exactly do you want from Igbos? you hate them for being successful as if they are the ones behind your failure in life

pls you are a lady for goodness sake,always try to behave yourself anytime a topic like this is being discussed

This is a stupid post that holds no water. Someone shouldn't say the truth because she is a lady? You need to take your primitive mind to your hole.
And for the record, Igbos started trooping to hustle in Lagos only after the success of the latter. Have you seen pictures of Lagos in the 70s and seen how developed it was before you guys came to polute it all with armed robbery? Stop your mediocre rant and at least pretend not to be the land grabbers that y'all really are.

Those couple were just careless IMO, things could not have necessarily gone that bad. How did the nuudes get to the hands of the hater in the first place

Hmmm. I can help you tho.

destante: ^_^ I see.

haha bae, I meant that for real

Is dificult sinc u hav kids wit him. Forgive him but dnt take him bak.

My own muz be destante wif dar bright smile & cute lips. But her grama too mush. *covers face

even with the put up figures, it is obvious that the north has the strongest voting strength followed by the south west, south south and south east in that order. Southerners don't go out to vote because they have a bigger elite population who would prefer to stay indoor. Northerners on the other hand have always been aggressive voters.

Idrismusty97: .....And educated.

why did you pull the first picture of kano. its cool

ivory coast

^^^ "Africa rising" is true story. The continent just needs to be "powered"
Ibadan

ibadan

dar es salaam

kano

source: m.allafrica.com/stories/201408182135.html/

Global investors are increasingly taking note of
the untapped potential of sub-Saharan Africa,
particularly its unparalleled demographic edge.
According to a new report by
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Africa will be enjoying
faster economic growth than any other region -
and will have the world's biggest labour force.
Most major international corporations are already
active in at least one of the three largest cities in
sub-Saharan Africa - Lagos in Nigeria, Kinshasa
in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and
Johannesburg in South Africa.
However, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
economists believe investors should also be
getting excited about the "Next 10" biggest cities
in sub-Saharan Africa, namely Dar es Salaam
(Tanzania), Luanda (Angola), Khartoum (Sudan),
Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), Nairobi (Kenya), Kano
and Ibadan (Nigeria), Dakar (Senegal),
Ougadougou (Burkina Faso), and Addis Ababa
(Ethiopia).
According to PwC's latest Global Economy Watch
report, released on Thursday, the population of
these cities is projected to almost double by
2030, growing by around 32-million people. In
fact, the latest UN projections indicate that, by
2030, two of the "Next 10" - Dar es Salaam and
Luanda - could have bigger populations than
London has now.
Cities are the typical entry points for businesses
looking to expand into new markets, because
they enable closer interaction with customers in
a relatively small geographical area.
"The report projects that economic activity in the
'Next 10' cities could grow by around US$140-
billion by 2030," Stanley Subramoney, strategy
leader for PwC's south market region, said in a
statement.
This is roughly equivalent to the current annual
output of Hungary, Subramoney said, adding that
this was a conservative estimate that did not
take into account real exchange rate
appreciation, despite relatively strong projected
growth in these economies.
Roelof Botha, economic adviser to PwC, said
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phenomena in the region are starting to appeal
to the global investment community". These
include:
Significant new discoveries of mining and energy
resources, in particular gold and gas;
Substantial investment in infrastructure and
capital formation by the private sector, which
has witnessed an increase in the ratio of total
fixed investment to GDP from 17.7% in 2000 to
an estimated 23% in 2013;
Sustained growth in per capital incomes, which
has led to demand shifts that are benefiting
household consumption expenditure on durables,
semi-durables and services; and
The ability of a growing number of countries to
raise financing for infrastructure projects on the
international capital market, in particular Kenya
and Rwanda. Both of these countries have
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globally at single-digit yields, which obviate the
need for excessive debt servicing costs.
It was factors such as these which had seen a
return to sound growth in foreign direct
investment (FDI) inflows into a number of key
African economies last year, Botha said.
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issues that sub-Saharan Africa has been
struggling to resolve for a number of decades,
and which could slow the pace at which the
"Next 10" cities grow.
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infrastructure like roads and railways; inadequate
"soft" infrastructure like schools and universities:
and "growing pains" arising from political, legal
and regulatory institutions struggling to deal
with bigger, more complicated economies.
"The challenges that policy makers face is to
convert Africa's demographic dividend into
economic reality by overcoming these hurdles,"
Subramoney said, adding: "History suggests this
will not be a quick or easy process.
Infrastructure development is a key driver for
progress across Africa and a critical enabler for
sustainable and socially inclusive growth.
"However, investors should form their own plans
to mitigate these problems by supporting
infrastructure skills and development
programmes."

kano city and ado bayero mall at night.

Kano city. The epicentre of Northern Nigerian Economy. A prominent political cynosure and Nigerias second largest econimy. You shall summount Ur challenges and soar again.

HappyJoe: Enugu is about 250km from either PH or Akwa Ibom. It needs 3 things:

1. A great airport (Southeast governors could even come together to build a taxiway/2nd runway) and 3 or 4 international airlines flying out of it.
2. A deep seaport in either Calabar, Ibaka (Akwa Ibom) or Port Harcourt - and great roads leading to it to it. (That meas fixing the Enugu/PH expressway and the Ikot Enugu/Aba road - this should be doable).
3. Governors that can make this happen - this is the tricky part; most Southeast governors have absolutely no idea about economic integration or are too small minded to make anything happen.

Ndigbo should push for privatization of the aviation sector, it will pay us more (but the greed of our politicians who want to make money from airport contracts won't allow that to happen). A privatized aviation sector would make stuff like a 2nd runway at Enugu airport happen a lot quicker.

Please note: the Onitsha port is a river port (fed from either PH or Warri) it cannot break our dependency on Lagos (even if it were operational).

this is very not correct. With the appropriate legislation from the center, the Onitsha port can be transformed into what is called a "port of destination" which wouldn't have to be fed from any other port. Normal port activities would be carried out with international cargo heading for it directly.

what an edifice. its finer than abuja stadium self. its so cool.