₦airaland Forum

IronGalaxy:
Lol, you still don't have a clue do you? You made a mockery of what I said earlier when I said South Africa was the most " industrialised " in Africa right? And you said " industrialised blah, blah" when we are in a recession" right?

A recession simply means an economic decline where industrial activity stalls or slows down and GDP as well, therefore any country, industrialised/developed or not can experience a recession.

I thought South Africa has a perfect economy and society. Aaayaaa! See wetin recession do you.

TMKsouth:
All these people get government grants baboon.

What do your petrodollars do for u? ZERO government compassion towards it's citizens. Typical Nigerian behavior driven by the love of money at all cost.

So, you agreed half of South Africa is ravished by poverty? Aaayaaa!; Sorry oooo.

What do your gold, natural gas, diamond, iron ore, platinum, manganese, chromium, copper, uranium, silver, beryllium, and titanium? Recession! Bhuhahahaha

JaceBlaze:
I would put Namibia before Nigeria

Btw,what is real Africa?

Yes! Namibia before South Africa. Gbam

TMKsouth:
We're recession plagued and yet still manage to have 3 balanced meals a day.

Have u had breakfast yet this morning fool? Coming from the poverty capital of the world while sitting on the largest reserves of oil in Africa.

DumbS big-for-nothing dysfunctional & lawless loudmouths.

Who dash you food?

More than half population of South Africans are living below poverty of which 90% are blacks. Woooooooow!

JaceBlaze:
The guy is dumb pass die.

See dis my small pikin wan show face. Bhuhahahaha!

He pain am.

IronGalaxy:
Lol, I don't think you understand what a recession means, absolutely nothing to do with being developed or being industrialised. Hence I keep saying, you're dumb

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It has everything to do with it. Olodo rabata.

Read and learn fast.


What has plunged South Africa into a recession?

Of course, Q4 in 2019 was when the dreaded Stage 6 of load shedding was implemented. The unprecedented power cuts brought the country to its knees – highlighted horrifically by the data. Power stations were unable to function, and the polar extremes of flooding and drought harmed several industries.

All of this in the same month where Moody’s will decide whether or not to downgrade the economy to junk status. The timing is… impeccable, if nothing else.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesouthafrican.com/news/finance/why-south-africa-in-recession-2020-numbers-data/amp/

IronGalaxy:
Lol, who in the right frame of mind disses someone of a recession?

I reiterate

You are dumb

See yeye. South Africa has been plagued with recession since 2013.

Where is all the most developed, most industrialised, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah?

Why is South Africa still struggling like a drowning drunk man, to come out of it since 2013?

IronGalaxy:
you are dumb

See painment!

Is South Africa not experiencing recession?

I lie?

IronGalaxy:
who am I? I'm common sense and reality rolled into one my friend

..you on the other hand are firmly stuck in that fool's paradise aka the "Giant of Africa' lol

Ignorance is indeed bliss..

Common sense is not common for a South African. They reason with their anus.

I don't know if you have left the shores of that your recession plaqued country.

IronGalaxy:
what? I hit a nerve? I said what I said bro and those are facts! Argue with yourself I'm done with this

Who are you?

What you said are mere bulls1t. It will pass for a dung.

IronGalaxy:
All its well, I hope one of those days you'll also wake up from your delusions .

You are obviously the deluded one here.

These are the three best cities in Namibia and tell me if these are what Namibia has best to offer.


1 & 2 Windhoek

3. Swakopmund

4. Walvis bay

IronGalaxy:
All its well, I hope one of those days you'll also wake up from your delusions .

You.... wake up.

IronGalaxy:
Don't flatter yourself, I agreed with you so we can simply end this useless convo once and for all

Hahahaha!

Next time don't come here comparing on small town in Namibia with Nigeria.

IronGalaxy:
Ok

Thank me later.

bestpunterever:
so ikorodu not part of lagos, mushin not part of lagos? it's total waste of time responding to you pls don't quote me again

Ikorodu is a town in Lagos state and not part of Lagos city.

bestpunterever:
Lagos is the largest city in the Nigerian state of the same name.

Why did you mention Ikorodu if you knew?

bestpunterever:
saying lagos has over 18M is not and understatement, how many estate enjoying 20hrs electricity in ojota, surulere, mushin, ikorodu, alimosho i'm not even sure you have ever been to lagos before,

Differentiate between Lagos state and Lagos city.

IronGalaxy:
ha ha. Nice try South Africa is the most industrialised on the continent

You know that... that Windhoek Namibia is alone better than the whole South Africa.

IronGalaxy:
Again, bro. Windhoek, Namibia alone is better than all of your cities. I'm not being mean here, these are hard cold facts!

Yes! Windhoek, Namibia alone is better than South Africa itself. Hard cold fact. Gbam

IronGalaxy:
because it is. Stop being delusional my guy, you're turning into a joke

I lie? Tiny portion of Sandton is not as developed as Ikoyi in Lagos.

IronGalaxy:
sandton na be anyone's mate

This tiny portion of development is what makes you think Sandton is not other cities in Nigeria mate? Bhuhahahaha!

IronGalaxy:
Lol, you people..Windhoek alone is far far more developed than any Nigerian city. As for Kenya, nothing in Nigeria is comparable to the likes of Mombasa, Nairobi etc.

Mumu talk. Maybe better than all the cities in South Africa and Kenya combined, that's your business but never better than Calabar not to talk of Ikeja or Lekki.

Mombasa!? Bhuhahahaha Nairobi!? Hohohohohoho! Slum capital of the world.

bestpunterever:
underdevelopement or under construction, I bet u don't know the meaning of underdevelopment, underdevelopment mean something that is not adequately developed, it shall be well with you bro

Ok! Under construction.

bestpunterever:
you don't know what you are saying, Tokyo has more population than Lagos and is more developed than lagos, cairo has more population than lagos and is more developed..
Lagos having a population of over 18M without a metro rail shows Lagos is not developed.
have you ever travel out?
have you ever been to island of lagos during raining season?
Do 70 percent of Lagosians enjoy @ least 20hrs uninterrupted electricity daily? where do u stay in lagos?

Lagos has a metro construction?

SIRTee15:
Stop giving excuse for a failed state like nigeria.....
And will u stop insulting people, simply because they hold a contrary opinion....
U are the one confusing individual wealth for national development.....

Yes, some African countries perform better than nigeria on every national economic n prosperity indices.....
This is not about throwing money around and making noise....
It's about the standard of living of the average citizen. Those countries mentioned, do u see their citizens drowning in Mediterranean in a desperate bid to get to Europe...
But Nigerians are being sold as slaves in Libya on daily basis.....
Nigerian women are travelling to Lebanon to work as maids....
Nigeria is not at war with any nation, no natural disasters, no famine or drought, no plague....
Yet everybody is desperate to get out...


Nigeria is a huge disgrace to the black world, an embarrassing evidence that blacks can neither manage nor organize themselves....
Despite cheap oil money, all we can boast about are few millionaires....

Foreigners come to Lagos and Abuja and are usually disappointed....
They wonder...so what's the hype about these cities....

We always like to show big mansions in banana island, ikoyi or eko atlantic city as evidence of development....
Who's fooling who....
Rent seeking economy deceiving itself....
Let oil price crash, Nigeria will know its true level....

If Nigeria can get it right...other black African nations will get it right....
And the rest of the world will shut up....

A big fat lie. Foreigners are amazed at the rate of development they see in Nigeria. Electricity is just the major problem.

SIRTee15:
Stop giving excuse for a failed state like nigeria.....
And will u stop insulting people, simply because they hold a contrary opinion....
U are the one confusing individual wealth for national development.....

Yes, some African countries perform better than nigeria on every national economic n prosperity indices.....
This is not about throwing money around and making noise....
It's about the standard of living of the average citizen. Those countries mentioned, do u see their citizens drowning in Mediterranean in a desperate bid to get to Europe...
But Nigerians are being sold as slaves in Libya on daily basis.....
Nigerian women are travelling to Lebanon to work as maids....
Nigeria is not at war with any nation, no natural disasters, no famine or drought, no plague....
Yet everybody is desperate to get out...


Nigeria is a huge disgrace to the black world, an embarrassing evidence that blacks can neither manage nor organize themselves....
Despite cheap oil money, all we can boast about are few millionaires....

Foreigners come to Lagos and Abuja and are usually disappointed....
They wonder...so what's the hype about these cities....

We always like to show big mansions in banana island, ikoyi or eko atlantic city as evidence of development....
Who's fooling who....
Rent seeking economy deceiving itself....
Let oil price crash, Nigeria will know its true level....

If Nigeria can get it right...other black African nations will get it right....
And the rest of the world will shut up....

So, terrorism is not a war?

bestpunterever:
Constantine, Algeria.
the problem is most of you don't use to travel. even togo here is more organised with stable electricity than shitohole called Nigeria

Which Togo?

IronGalaxy:
Nah. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Namibia, Kenya etc Nigeria is with the likes of Chad and Niger

Kenya? Namibia? Are you ok?

Nowenuse:
This is the map of Jebba below. The river is the boundary between Niger & Kwara and I cannot see the part of Jebba across the River in the Niger side of it.

Jebba cannot explain the case of Kaduna well.

But let us assume it does.

How about Abuja which I asked you about? If Nigeria divides today and FCT ceases to exist as a political division and Abuja Municipal, Suleja, Karu ends up in a new middlebelt country with entirely different political classifications, what then happens?

Cc forgiveness

For the records, I understand all the political classifications of Nigeria, perhaps far better than you... Just that I am following the world standard definition of a metropolitan/urban area and this is a definition that cuts across countries (national boundaries), let alone states.... You are stuck with local politcal boundaries, that is just the difference between your perspective and mine.

Please, see the official Urban area of Lagos. Badagry, Ikorodu, Ota, Ifo and even Lekki are not included.

Nowenuse:
Longtime my friend.
I didn't reply cos I was tired of explaining to people the differences.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area

Pls read this link above and try to understand what is being defined as a metropolitan/urban area.

Lagos State is different from Lagos metropolitan/urban area...

Somebody here gave an example of how Washington DC urban area extends into the state of Maryland, but it is still considered one urban area...

Longtime. No worries.

I have gone through the link, but from what I deduced from your link, there is difference between Metropolitan and Urban areas. Which of these two are you talking about?


Unlike an urban area, a metropolitan area includes not only the urban area, but also satellite cities plus intervening rural land that is socio-economically connected to the urban core city, typically by employment ties through commuting, with the urban core city being the primary labor market.

Nowenuse:
Thank you very much for this enlightenment..
If these places you mentioned are added, then Ibadan could be up to 600km²... Still not enough to displace Abuja.

No hatred intended, but personally I feel Ibadan an urban area so large in size is not living up to it's potentials... Imagine Ibadan being bigger than Kano, but it cannot compare Kano in terms of finance, businesses, industries, infrastructure and cosmopolitanism.
Ibadan, as well as many other Yoruba cities are experiencing a very serious brain drain if you ask me.
Lagos is taking away all Yoruba elites, intellectuals and entrepreneurs and this is not really good.

I don't know about finance of both cities but can you please give evidence to back up your claims on business, industries, infrastructure and cosmopolitan.

I need facts.

Nowenuse:
Many people wrongly assume that the size of a city/urban area is exactly the same thing with the size of the LGA(s) it occupies, but that is very wrong...
This is because the LGA(s) may not be entirely urbanized as a large part or some part of it may consist of Water, Swamps, Forests, Rivers, Creeks e.t.c with an uneven topography which does not support development...

Thank God for the increasingly available technologies like Google satellite maps which helps us to view the world from above and even take measurements.
There is a feature on Google maps that allows you to measure land area and it is with that feature that all the readings below were obtained.

Disclaimer*. The measurements below are not 100% correct as 1 or 2 neighborhoods/suburbs may not be included as part of a city/urban area it belongs to in the process of the measurement..
However, to a large extent this helps to give us a clue or picture as to how large or small certain Nigerian cities/urban areas are.



1] LAGOS TOTAL - Over 1,700km²

a. Lagos urban (including Lekki, Ikeja, Ota, Ifo) - Over 1,270km²
b. Ikorodu urban (including Gberigbe, Agbede, Ogijo) - Over 250km²
c. Agbara-Magbon-Badagry -over 120km²


2] ABUJA TOTAL - Over 850km²

a. Abuja municipal - Over 459km²
b. Karu Urban(including Orozo) - over 188km²
c. Madalla/Zuba- Suleja urban - over 113km²
d. Gwagwalada - 32km²
e. Bwari - 23km²

3] IBADAN - Over 562km²

4] KANO - Over 500km²

5] KADUNA - Over 440km²

6] PORT HARCOURT (including Oyigbo, Choba, Etche, Ogoni)- Over 390km²

7] BENIN - Over 340km²

8] JOS (including Bukuru)- Over 320km²

9] ABEOKUTA - Over 227km²

10] WARRI (including Uvwie, Udu) - Over 200km²

11] UYO - Over 194km²

12] OWERRI - Over 184km²

13] AKURE - Over 179km²

14] ENUGU - Over 172km²

15] MAIDUGURI - Over 169km²

16] ABA - Over 154km²

17] MAKURDI - Over 126km²

18] SOKOTO - Over 124km²

19] ONITSHA (including Nkpor, Obosi, Nkwelle) - Over 120km²

20] ZARIA - Over 120km²

21] OGBOMOSHO - Over 115km²

22] ADO-EKITI - Over 114km²

23] ASABA (including Okpanam, Igbuzor) - Over 113km²

24] KATSINA -Over 109km²

25] CALABAR, UMUAHIA, BAUCHI & YOLA-JIMETA - Over 100km²

The bolded are not areas in Lagos state hence can't be classified as urban 'areas' of Lagos state. Thanks