₦airaland Forum

mandarin: What Lagos will be missing? a whole lot:
1. A huge population blow will bring down economic activities especially where the Igbo is paramount - trading
2. The consumer population will reduce and think of house rents and may be foods prices coming down
3. Transports revenues will drop so also is local govt. revenues that take a whole lot of their revenues from the open market traders
4.General reduction in economic activities due to mass emigration may be up to 15% of the total GDP

POSSIBILITIES
1. Opening opportunities in the imports/exports sector will be taken up by remaining population
2. Trading gaps that will open opportunities for remaining population
3. Net migration for the reverse migration will provide a huge population
4. Fundamentals of Lagos economy will remain i.e.. industries etc
Lagos will emerge as less populated and may be more organized and relaxed and if the target is to service the north will become better if corruption is checked.

deeobserver209: See them with their BIG mouth. Lagos is a mega city... It's not for beggers...go back to your families.... Bullshit!!! APC is already becoming a pain in d a.ss. If not for the Europeans Lagos will be a big mass of BUSH with the yoruba people running around with leaves today! Europeans developed Lagos state just like they did in South Africa.

DivideUs: why all the noise na? should this not be stepping stone towards the achievement of biafra? just saying

mafiffle: don't worry . during the next election, we go tell you who be lagosian and who be nigerian. The best option left for you and your APC fashola is to deport all Igbos out of lagos because at the pooling boot we will let you know that we are more lagosian than you anwo ofe mma nu at goun lagos settlers.

Atouke: Where is Wole soyinka and Falana on this? Keyamo? Where are the Self styled Progressives? Where are the so called Vanguard of democracy?
Do they only respond when the issue fits their fancy or when it agrees with their politics? I supported them when they said that 5 is not > 27 and 16 not > 19.

They seem to be silent on the plights of nigerians that are deported in their own country!

What an abuse of right of a citizen in his own country and yet no outcry from those who pretend to be protectors of our rights as citizen.

Its times like this that i miss our countrys greatest human right advocate. the peoples lawyer the great Chief Gani Fawehinmi.He would have stood up to fight by the side of the people. Adieu chief! for the pretenders who who claimed to have inherited your mantle are ethnically,tribal and politically biased and have disappointed Nigerians.

deeobserver209: Imagine what APC will do if they let's say out of rigging win the presidential election in 2015! More people will be deported across the country. Hypocritical party of hypocrites.

Scarpon: lie the tallest should be the one in one yoruba state forgot the name sha

Uchek: ...I am conducting a study on how ethnicity affect our response to issues and events

Tolexander: There is always a black sheep in the family, no qualms!

Onlytruth: The fact remains that if Lagos state is tired of the Nigerian project, it should go ahead and secede today.
What Lagos is doing is CRIMINAL VIOLATION of Nigerian citizens rights.

When Igbo got tired of Nigeria in 1967, we sacrificed 2 million of our people to try to secede. To me that is a demonstration of seriousness and bravery.

This cowardly backdoor secession won't work.

We Ndigbo really should hold the IG accountable because it seems that the IG is constantly making NIGERIAN POLICE men available for these types of open violation of the Nigerian constitution.

Our governors should hold Jonathan's feet to fire over the IG's indirect support for discrimination against innocent Nigerians by cowards who can't speak directly.

A 25-year-old man, Chukwuemeka Benson, has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a British expatriate in Lagos State.
The suspect was said to have been arrested by a combined team of police detectives attached to the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) and the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) at Okokomaiko area of Ojo, Lagos State, where he had allegedly gone to collect N7.5 million, being the ransom sum demanded.
Another member of the gang also identified as Ugochukwu escaped with bullet wounds, it was gathered.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, while addressing newsmen gave the name of the Briton as Dickson Lee.
He said the victim who came into Nigeria on July 16, 2013, from Amsterdam was rescued from the criminals' hideout at Okota area of the metropolis.
Manko who used the forum to advised members of the public to desist from paying ransom to kidnappers, said the gang attacked their victim at Mafolokun area of Oshodi.
According to him, the driver of the vehicle escaped with bullet wounds, while the assailants drove away with their victim.
"Based on the report made at area G, Mushin, the police swung into action. The victim was rescued four days after he was kidnapped. The Briton who looked pale and sick has been released to go for medical treatment," he added.
Explaining how the police were able to track the suspects, Manko stated that the police encouraged the victim's relatives to open negotiation with the suspected kidnappers, while the GSM number used by them was tracked.
Manko stated further that the payment of ransom by victims' friends and relations is making kidnapping to appear lucrative to criminals.
He added that efforts are ongoing to track down other fleeing members of the gang.

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No fewer than 70 beggars and the homeless were on Wednesday dumped at the Upper Iweka Bridge, Onitsha, Anambra State.

Agents of the Lagos State Government reportedly brought the destitute to Onitsha.

The destitute told journalists that they were dumped about 3am at Upper Iweka after being detained in Ikorodu, Lagos, for over six months for alleged wandering and other minor offences by the Lagos State Kick Against Indiscipline officials.

The destitute said they were brought to Onitsha in four buses, escorted by riot policemen.

 One of them, Mr. Osondu Mbuto, from Ohaozara in Ebonyi State and a petty trader in Lagos, said he was arrested by the Lagos State Government officials while going to his shop on December 18, 2012.

Mbuto added that the Lagos State Government officials were in company with some policemen.

The Chairman of Nigeria Red Cross Society in the South-East, Dr. Peter Katchy, described the action of the Lagos State officials as condemnable.

He said, "It's very deplorable; it's very disheartening that a state in the Federal Republic of Nigeria will bundle people, who are not even indigenes of Anambra State, and dump them under the flyover at Upper Iweka in Onitsha.

"Many of the people, we have interviewed are not indigenes of Anambra State. Some of them are from Ebonyi State; some are from Imo State among other states.

"It is an insult to Anambra State. We shall draw the attention of the governor of Anambra State to ask the reason for such an invasion of his territory.

"We will find out why Lagos State should invade Anambra State territory; and why Lagos State should dump people here and leave them helpless.

"We are here on humanitarian purposes and in response to an emergency. From  what we discovered here, this is a human emergency and a human callousness."

Katchy, however, promised that the society would move the destitute to the Anambra State Social Welfare Centre in Onitsha South Local Government for rehabilitation.

The Lagos State Government had dumped another set of beggars at Upper Iweka late last year.

Calls made to the mobile phone of the Lagos State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba, for his reaction, did not go through.

He also did not respond to a text message sent to him by one of our correspondents.
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http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-dumps-70-beggars-others-in-onitsha/

Sincere 9gerian: This is not bad-belle. The project is a laudable one (though uncompleted) but the report is incomplete and meaningless.

Sincere 9gerian: What is the purpose of an incomplete report? How much megawatts is the plant generating and what part of the state is the plant serving? Until these critical questions are answered, the report is meaningless.

FBS: do we have men like this in Nigeria and indeed the whole world?

dirifred: It is aboundantly clear that the highly respected prof wants to do away with his respect. he is too much in the news laterly.
If he is talking to the general public, then he should be plan, if not let his message be sent privately to whom it is intended.
All this effort to heat-up the polity in nigeria must stop.