₦airaland Forum

texazzpete:
This does not make sense, sorry.
One of the major 'achievements' being touted by the Fashola/Tinubu administration was the massive increase/improvement of the IGR and tax money by aggressive Government driven schemes. So it stands to reason that the bulk of the people living in Lekki pay their taxes.

By all means, let LCC put toll gates on the stretch of new road they laid down to recoup their expenses. What people are rightly incensed about is the imposition of tolls on the existing Jakande-built road which was merely rehabilitated. Abeg tell me which level of rehabilitation will lead to an agreement to collect monetary payment from that road for the next 25 years?

There are no universities in Lekki, 24 hrs power supply is not the norm there, most roads are bereft of pipe borne water and insecurity is an everyday fact of life. Is Fashola saying that the taxes these people pay cannot cover the few billion naira that was expended to repair the existing road?

Nchara:
Precisely why I ask you who are those people considering Enugu and Abuja mere urban sprawls.

Nchara:
Ojoo is in the city just a couple blocks from U.I. There is no train station. You ride the bus, your car or an Okada.

Who are these people considering Enugu and Abuja as urban sprawls?

From indications (and I have searche quite a bit), each govt defines what places are considered cities in its country. In that case many places in Nigeria will be cities.
The points I put up earlier are my own definition
For me, a 50K population plus the other factors I mentioned suffices for a city.

I live in a place of about 50K people. This place has 10 banks, 50 industries that employ a minimum of 20 persons, one university, two post offices, one airport, no skyscrappers (tallest building will be no more than 6 storey), sparsely populated that you have to drive at least 2 miles to get to some shops. Yet, if I post the photo of this place, you will have a feel of what a city should look like (apologies to Abagworo). The US govt lists the place as a city and in one of the recent years, it was one of the best cities to live in in the USA. Are they wrong?

GAR3TH:
There is no real definition to what a city is, for example the smallest city in NY State is Sherrill with a population of 3,000 people while at the same time the largest town in New York state is The town of Hempstead with a population of 760,000. Like I said before cities and towns are defined by administrations like the case in NY or by people's common knowledge and perception.

According to the state of NY sherrill is a city but according to me and others sherill will be consider a town through our perception of what a town should be. So yes, Nigeria and it states may consider Enugu a city but many people will consider Enugu a large town. It doesn't look, act, feel or have the same flow as what we expect from a city. Compared to Kano, Kaduna, Benin, PH, Ibadan and Lagos, Enugu and even abuja would be considered suburban sprawls.

Like I said any administrative settlement can be called a city [/b]but [b]People refer to them as hamlets, towns, villages or cities. You cant look me in the eye and call yenagoa, Dutse, Abakaliki or Osogbo cities. A town of 9 people can be called a city, but is it really a city? no, you can not sit there and tell me a capital with 9 people is a city. People will refer to it as a town/ village.

Nchara:
If you live in Ojoo which is part of the Ibadan city metropolis, you will have to drive to Dugbe axis to get to a bank, no? Same for those living in areas around Akobo etc. How convenient is that? As far as I know in Enugu metropolis there is no place you will drive 5 miles before you see a shop, etc. Not sure what you are driving at here.

Nchara:
On the bolded: Many people like who?

What makes Benin and PH different from Enugu? Their population difference? What is your own pop cut off? How is Abuja an urban sprawl and not a city? How is Ibadan (Indeed, Ibadan is a city as I have repeated here) a city with all its own urban sprawls (Ojoo, Moniya, etc) and Abuja will be a mere urban sprawl and not a city, according to you?

Nchara:
I would like that you explain how Kano, Kaduna, Benin PH and Ibadan would be cities and Enugu not.

Nchara:
Do you know of any country in the world where a state capital is better described as a town than a city? Am curious. Thanks. Yes, population alone does not completely make a city.

What could be your ten true cities in Nigeria? That makes it even worse than the title of my thread which gives 36 cities + Abuja (And Yenagoa?) and the few commercial cities I mentioned.

Like I said previously just compare True Cities like Lagos, Johannesburg, Casablanca, Toronto, DC etc. to those in Nigeria. If your going to call something a city then it should infact match up to other cities around the world right? Even though they are underdeveloped you can look at Lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Port harcourt, Kaduna and kano and actually call them cities. The rest will be considered large towns.

Remember like I showed before, There are suburban towns in the USA with populations of 300,000 plus and GDP of over a billion and they are still considered towns. But some how the same thing in Nigeria people are calling them cities 

Relax101:
Please the US senate and the UK parliament should should approve polygamy.
They are against my fundamental human right an african living the US.
My human right is to many marry many women as I want.


This cracked me. It was written by a Nigerian on one the blogs.

lari03:
human right is man + woman.
Human wrong is man + man.
Now u can marry a hen in the USA where's the moral and biological correctness in that, folks better know there's life after death o!

Relax101:
Where is the source?

Wallie:
[li]Is Innoson really manufacturing the buses or are they simply assembling them? What type of warranty are they providing? [/li]