₦airaland Forum

tomakint: Arrant nonsense, first thing first they came up with a bogus IGR, with the economic potentials of a State like Lagos, a reasonable person would have known that Lagos generates far more than the quoted N20 billion every month! Of course, with the Chief Schemer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in charge, a figure like this is expected and not forgetting that in the next 35 years, Lagos will continue to pay debt from generations to generations and they will still tell you, 'Eko o ni baje o'! Obviously, with Tinubu still calling the shots in the scheme of things in the State, Lagos don enter 'One Chance'

Dede1: Igbo do not play second fiddle.

fratochi: . As an intellectual I feel its pertinent that you try and engage in meaningful constructive and inteligent arguement rather than always seeking for avenues for unprovoked insult and random use of vulgar language: having read through an interesting and intelligent write-up like this (that is if you even read through), one expects you to make efforts at either disputing any of the points he (writer) made or affirming it in an intelligent manner befitting of a young intellectual rather than this your out-pouring of unnecessary invectives . Please go and up-grade.

Prof Corruption: I am not surprised Reno conveniently skipped this monstrous label of disgrace embossed on breastplate of Jonathan's Presidency.

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gtrust: You don't need to kill if they are unarmed!
Why
If they resist arrest, you still don't shot to kill.
You shot their toes and arrest and treat them!!!

I think you guys don't get it.

You DO NOT kill the un-armed!

He said when a similar scenario played out in Boston in the United States, the crime could not be nipped in the bud but took place and that if the two scenarios were placed side by side and given the resources and equipment at the disposal of the Nigeria Police compared to its Boston counterpart, he would cast his lot behind the Nigerian Police for a job well done.

Dudu_Negro: rookie,

what is a tribal slur?

smothly: Chei was he trying to kiss the south African man?,Anyway shaa.

Sincere 9gerian: This dumb fool that can only communicate with signs and pictures is here again. Welcome sir/ma

I·bo (b)
n.
Variant of Igbo.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Ibo, Igbo [ˈiːbəʊ]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -bos, -bo a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in S Nigeria
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family: one of the chief literary and cultural languages of S Nigeria

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
I•bo (ˈi boʊ)

n., pl. I•bos, (esp. collectively) I•bo.
1. a member of an African people of SE Nigeria, living mainly N and NE of the Niger River delta.
2. the Kwa language of the Ibo.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Ibo

percipi1:
I think I will have to rest my case now. It's very obvious that you have a personal grudge against Abuja as a city or you are just ethnocentric. You are clearly not a cosmopolite, otherwise you will not be quick to cosider a divergent opinion as borne out of ignorance despite your intellectual inadequacy to defend your pathetic reliance on outdated information and unqualified sources.

If there is one person that represent ignorance more , I think you lead the pack. Enjoy your bliss. Anyway, that changes nothing, Abuja remains the most cosmopolitan city in Nigeria. For ease of reference, check my previous submissions. Good night.

ocelot2006: No. 1 dullard.......[s]yet he's the president. And what about you, oh "wise" one? How did your previous NURTW meeting go?[/s]

percipi1: [s]Its clear that you don't get it. You may quote more food websites and entries in any international journal, that will not muzzle the debate on this issue. Would you care to know that the entries in your Infallible Encyclopaedia relied on books published between 1960 to 1994 to arrived the conclusion you are sweating all about. This is 2013, 19 years after that entry was made. Are you now telling me to rely on an information that was updated 19 years ago? On the strength of this argument, the referred Encyclopaedia entry was outdated and cannot be relied upon regarding its conclusion that Lagos was the most cosmopolitan city in Nigeria.

At the moment, your conclusion is based on an outdated material, you need to fall back on your intelligence and broad appraisal of the issue again; unless you are one of those that accept Charles Darwin 's claim that your forefather was a monkey because Darwin was an authority

Until you provide a more intelligence reason based on comparative analysis, Abuja remains the most cosmopolitan city in Nigeria. I do not need any reference now, its a matter of simple intelligent analysis.[/s]

percipi1: It is intellectually apppalling to expect scholars to rely on the authority of an Abuja food website. Also your reliance on the authority of the world Encyclopedia is debatable as you have failed to provide the edition referred to.

What should determine the basis of any comparative analysis regarding the qualification of the most cosmopolitan city in Nigeria is the all embracing uniqueness of the ambience. As at today, an Igbo, Efik or TiV man born in Lagos and very fluent in Yoruba is not considered a Lagosian. In London or Paris, your surname does not determine your right to attain some societal strata as long as you are a permanent resident, speak the lingua Franca and possess the necessary qualification. How many Igbos do you have in the Lagos state civil service?

What you have failed to accept is the fact that, like other cities, Lagos is provincial by nature of its present legal status as a state capital. Abuja is more cosmopolitan or better still designed to be because of its Federal Status.

It is , therefore, an expectation of the law, that Abuja must be cosmopolitan , whereas, Lagos is by law a provincial capital. No city in Nigeria can ever be Cosmopolitan like Abuja as non of them are legally bound to be. That is why, it does not matter, how long an Igbo man lives in Lagos, he's classified as a non-indigene

My analogy is not to hold brief for Abuja or non-Lagosians, but to correct the wrong impression held and promoted by mis-informed foreign journals and your likes who rely on a food website in a matter that requires a broad-based knowledge

Lagos City aka Centre of Excellence is Nigeria's economic/financial, entertainment and technology capital, it is also Nigeria's most cosmopolitan city and about Africa's most populated with about 18 million people by a 2008 UNDP figure. It is a city filled with enterprising and very intelligent people and businesses, it is one of the most exciting and unforgettable places to visit in Africa

http://www.waelearning.org/lagos.html

oyb: he is waiting for apc to visit

then you will see him in full regalia with sword and crocdile tears

BarryX: Baba! A Fact is the Truth or the actual existence of something, as opposed to supposition of something; Reality; Let us not get sentimental about this , Lagos is cosmopolitan no doubt but from the prevailing definition and analysis so far reeled out. Abuja walloped Lagos maybe by a hat-trick or something. Abuja it is then and let us not forget to post this link whenever there's a project or an intellectual argument about Nigerian Most Cosmopolitan city because Nairalanders have done more justice to the topic than most Foreign journal or website could ever do .

[b]Lagos provides a classical case for studying migrants and the consequences of internal migration. It is the most cosmopolitan city in West Africa with an estimated population of over 10 million persons inhabiting the metropolis alone (not the whole of Lagos State). Lagos is a melting pot and mini-Nigeria.

http://pripode.cicred.org/spip.php?article77&lang=en

Afam4eva: Dude, it has nothing to do with population. Even a city with 100 people can be more cosmopolita than a city with 1 billion people. So, yank off that.

DaLover: So what defines a city as cosmopolitan, because Abuja has everything lagos has, except lagos has a higher population and more commercial, is that ur definition of cosmopolitan? All ethnic groups are well represented in Abuja....what else,
The edging factor for Abuja is the sense of belonging by its inhabitants..

musiwa25: Eko ile, in a ticket with a North muslim, there is no way a tinubu or fashola can be on that ticket.. because you have christain in nigeria.. are you not nigerian. this is how they do it in nigeria.. APC merger means fashola or tinubu is out of the race for president, if they are given the north the president..

You see they have tried atiku, Buhari , Ribadu before.. and they could not win. the reason is you have christain in benue, taraba,adamawa,plateau, nassarawa, those ticket do not appeal to them..

to appeal to those majority it as to be a christain . this is why i said i am best person to be president. buhari will not be able to make in road.. becioause buhari is a fulani man, yar adua,ribadu,atiku and sambo are both fulani/hausa.. so they are tried of that ticket. bakare is from ogun state like obasanjo, sonekan .. so he is out of the race.

the only ticket that can win is me.. i see why you people always force me to come back and write on the internet, i use to think, you are all sick people.. we are disturbing my life in canada. i stop using phone because i think you are all mad people. i now see.

DaLover: I really don't know why we are trying to turn logic on its head, can an Igbo man or edo man become governor of lagos, in Abuja, anybody can go for any elective post...weather it is legislated or at gun point, everybody feels they have equal stake in Abuja, don't forget that Laos enjoyed the same legislative cosmopolitanism as you u it for many years.

percipi1: I will suggest that we start by trying to understand the meaning of the word Cosmopolitan. cos•mo•pol•i•tan (ˌkɒz məˈpɒl ɪ tn)

adj.
1. belonging to all the world; not limited to the politics, interests, or prejudices of one part of the world.
2. of or characteristic of a cosmopolite; worldly; sophisticated.
3. (of an animal, plant, etc.) widely distributed over the globe.
n.
4. a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite.

Applying the above to the Nigerian city context confirms that there are no genuine cosmopolitan city in NIGERIA, Abuja because of its federal character fits the bill more than any other city. Have you ever wonder why no non-Yoruba is in the Lagos state House of Assembly. Lagos is sophisticated but still encumbered with ethnic prejudice like any other Nigerian city. ABUJA is the only exception.

Nigeria’s most cosmopolitan city takes advantage of the sophistication of the host state. Lagos- the so called center of excellence.

http://www.abujafood.com/lifestyle/116-crunch/879-top-5-universities-in-nigeria-2012.pdf