dcitizen: @2mch, ur argument lack accuracy and logic. If somebody like u still believe dat ndigbo constitute sizeable number of 7percent in lagos, need to have ur brain and mind properly examine becos u are suffering from wat and historians who best described as paradigm delusion. Let d fact be told. Igbo constitute over 40 percent of the population of lagos. And the uniqueness of the set of pple is dat dey bring civilisation and monumental economic and social development to their host community thereby moving the entire country in d direction of national integration and national cohesion. If i can be honest wit u, over 50percent of the investment in lagos is in d hand of ndigbo and the same for the capital, abuja. Dis feat of monumental achievement is not an accident bt a health product of sheer determination, patience, innovation and wisdom which are rare among other tribes. The agitation of the igbo to have a fair representation in lagos politic is in good faith and right order.wat we need is competition and protection not compensation. Intra competition among the igbo pple may have some challenges but it is the biggest power of supremacy of the ndigbo race as a whole becos healthy competition in all sphere of life drives innovation, and adventure which increase global and national competitiveness of the igbo pple. There is no crime in expansionate and adventure if u have the instinct and courage. Igbo have set the high standard to other tribes and let them follow suit. Let d other hausa and yoruba will dwell in south -east region be more competitive and desist from propaganda and favourism. Let them contribute their quota to d development to the region to help in national and social integration of the nation as a whole. Hausa and igbo have the common trait of pilgrimmage or migration to some other state not becos of shortage of land bt becos of adventure, expansionate and commerce
Which are noble ideals. Igbo will not play tribal politics like d yoruba counterpart becos of their exposure and high intelligence quotient, strong competitiveness, enduring azikiwe legacy of mainstream politics bt wat we will play is politics of developement. Pure and simple.

Rayhut: People of SE/SS,we have to stand on United State Biafra come 2015 when Nigeria will disintegrate into four countries.We have to prepare ourselve for any eventuality.In case of outbreak of war,we have take arms and fight for our liberation of our great nation.It better to live a day as lion than to live a thousand years like a cowardly and fearful lion.The new Biafra states include Rivers,Cross-River,Bayelsa,Anambra,Imo,Enugu,Abia,Edo,Delta,Akwa Ibom,Ilaje area of Ondo and Ogun!(riverine areas),they opted to join Biafra based on a secret poll conducted by UN and Two third of Lagos starting from Berger to Ojo.The two former fct lagos and Abuja are devided into three for sout and north for three geopolitical zones.The four coutries are Biafra,Midland,Odua,Arewa which merge with Odua.

bashr8: and if yorubas strike we will be looking at yorubas in igboland and smiling at themright? guy you have no idea the millions of yorubas living in ph , onitsha ,aba ,asaba ,enugu etc but you will when the time comes. i will personally remind you of this your post. if hausas fulanis that you fear so much cannot defend themselves in igboland i wonder what will happen to yorubas.

afam4eva:
Lol @ "the so called millions of Igbos go back to the east every christmas"

Guy, which road will occupy the millions?

cheddarking:

I completely understand where you're coming from...


I myself have been racially abused. I myself have been stopped and searched for no reason. I myself was not allowed into a club one night because the bouncer said "You wont like it in there, its only students" and I was a student!

But these things happen even in Nigera...even on Nairaland! So you cant escape racism or its cousin tribalism anywhere....You just have to learn to deal with it...So you think Yoruba's can honestly carry weapons against Igbo's in LAGOS? With the Millions of IGBOS in that town?

Bros allow it...

edicolove:

Hahahahaha! You see the irony of life? You just proved one point and that is, all men are the same. They love their own, they protect their own, they are biased, they are selfish. I just layed out facts and you are already threatening me online. Lol. Get it straight. I don't a dang! thing about Lagos. I only think that Lagos has an undue advantage because of its status as a former capital. I am praying that changes soon. That's why I support the new Akwa Ibom sea port with all my bone. But I can bet one thing that you are not even a native of Lagos. Most so called Lagosians are not natives of Lagos.

cheddarking:

I swear down you guys no dey reason at all...

If you want to see the impact of immigrants in Britain, look how many british athletes are Black or Mixed race.

How many English players are there in the premier league.

In Sheffield, where I partly grew up, all the shops are asian, all the taxi drivers are asian. Similar situation in London.

The Polish are EVERYWHERE.

There's always gonna be a racist element, there will be racist people, but how is that different from Shymmex ordering igbo people out Lagos?

Paentera:

You erroneously use markets such as Alaba, Computer Village to determine the size of Ibos in Lagos - well, I'll tell you something - you're dead wrong and its such fallacial statements like this that gets people like you into trouble. Since when did Niger-Delta become part of this thread's topic?

bashr8: thank God , one person that is making sense, i realy dont see what people see in that shithole called lagos , there are lts of other cities you can easily make it, live a nice decent life with everything you want but no nigerians keep trooping into lagos, it really gets to me , that place is hell on earth

Danka7777:

Couldn't answer your question because I have no clue what "omonile" means?

Lagos and Abuja are former and present capital territories, respectively. Statutes and Acts governing Abuja, also applies retroactively to Lagos. IBB isn't foolish to had done this.

cheddarking:

Bruv allow the PC brigade,

On my 1st day at job in Ealing, I was late and a bit lost.
I tried asking directions to my location, the 1st 3 people I spoke to could not speak a word of ENGLISH.

London is in the UK, but realistically is a country of its own...

You sef know as e dey go...
Unless them pursue all of us with WINCH....Na we immigrants get am...

cheddarking:

How many seats do they have at Westminster?

I can guarantee you that the BNP can NEVER come to power in Britain.
Britain relies way too much on foreign labour and trade to allow that to happen.

If you want start talking about MP's I give you Nigerian Politicians in Jand...

Chuka Ummuna MP Streatham
Kate Anolue Mayor of Enfield

Ironically they're are both Igbo sef...

forget BNP ever gaining power sir,
Even Boris Johnson is part TURKISH...

saxywale:
Serious? no go talk that one in front of EDL peeps ooo, a scott or Irish can't even say that.

saxywale:

I don't think you have ever lived in Lagos. I remember the IBB must go riots, I was still in primary school then but I remember clearly that Igbos in my school and neighborhood had vacated Lagos for the SE even before the riots became tough. When shit hits the fan, everyone bears their fathers name.

cheddarking:

Who wan vote BNP in? When even the queen's children are GREEK?

cheddarking:

Nobody can lay claim to Lagos anymore.

Lagos is like London. Even the British indigenes cant claim to be the owners of London

bokohalal:

Do not have your time. Look for another person to clown with.Bozo.

bokohalal:

You still did not answer the question.

edicolove:

Like I posted above, most of what you hear sometimes are just chants. For example, most people who say Oshiomole is doing so well say so because they keep comparing him with lucky. As long as you keep comparing him with lucky, he will always emerge a superstar. But when you compare him with expected standards, it becomes a different thing entirely and after 4 years, all the flood points in Benin are still as bad as ever. No change. He like Fashola, has concentrated in beautifying the city center and providing transportation. He has renovated some schools too. But when you look at many other index like workers welfare, industries, social services, health care, just like Fashola, he comes up very very short.

Billyonaire: Lagos is the richest state. Yet, the road on my part of lagos is tolled. I pay 150 each time I pass. The roads are developed based on PPP, every bar I enter, they charge me VAT and service charge, me i never know what Fashola has done for my part of Lagos yet. Cos Government is not giving me water, no light and the road, I drive, I pay as I pass. I hear Fashola is trying. Congrats to him, but I no feel it. Sorry.

2ru-talk:

I hope you are aware of the internally generated revenue of Lagos State.I can tell you that in relative terms, Fashola is not performing well in Lagos State. If some other low income State Governors can manage the huge resources that accrue to Lagos State on monthly basis, you will never mention Fashola's name when it comes to performance. Its obvious many of us don't take cognizance of income disparity among the 36 States of the Federation before drawing conclusions on who is the best Governor. Aside from the fact that Lagos State Internally generated revenue is higher than that of Imo State, kindly look at the monthly Federal allocation that goes to each state on monthly basis with particular reference to Imo and Lagos States and get back to me asap.

[center]

State (Name) AVG(Latitude) AVG(Longitude) SUM(April-12) SUM(February-12) SUM(January-12)
Zamfara 12.1 6.15 3,217,937,224.05 4,593,752,660.52 3,167,429,537.88
Osun 7.3 4.3 3,545,007,269.16 4,842,019,094.58 3,894,581,054.42
Bauchi 10.3 10 3,985,580,140.77 5,624,136,050.2 4,390,220,386.43
Kwara 8.3 5 3,289,353,318.91 4,567,926,385.75 3,617,861,996.96
Yobe 12 11.3 3,629,668,678.1 4,999,479,620.82 3,939,271,628.34
Plateau 9.1 9.45 3,743,997,877.73 5,117,738,365.83 4,087,343,652.95
Taraba 8 10.3 3,729,281,056.41 5,112,586,378.33 4,084,458,050.67
Rivers 4.45 6.5 17,378,881,255.14 27,241,147,605.04 20,681,677,256.93
Sokoto 13.05 5.15 3,767,003,805.2 5,227,199,905.87 4,137,263,125.83
Delta 5.3 6 2,625,713,329.49 3,788,337,045.39 2,898,488,990.69
Lagos 6.35 3.45 9,063,607,436.49 10,967,731,573.18 9,312,974,673.32
Oyo 8 4 4,441,877,657.41 6,075,311,018.12 4,838,357,177.53
Ondo 7 5.05 5,051,566,326 7,199,278,353.03 5,367,766,027.3
Ogun 7 3.35 3,788,366,903.01 5,154,548,101.61 4,120,335,087.55
Imo 5.29 7.2 3,946,928,233.6 5,792,043,978.28 4,490,068,158.45
Niger 10 6 3,910,170,910.36 5,486,262,032.54 4,260,237,584.66
Kano 11.3 8.3 5,740,767,746.85 7,944,466,071.09 6,242,490,022.28
Nassarawa 8.32 8.18 2,919,633,112.65 4,118,727,018.34 3,230,079,599.37
Abia 5.25 7.3 3,993,575,765.76 5,145,378,902.78 3,875,315,522.5
Bayelsa 4.45 6.05 9,662,867,042.04 17,966,989,298.77 13,791,770,744.2
Gombe 10.15 11.1 2,858,938,075.6 4,098,350,644.38 2,743,831,912.36
Kogi 7.3 6.42 3,621,049,359.8 5,022,673,119.17 3,914,812,082.8
Kebbi 11.3 4 3,391,868,360.85 4,797,449,782.45 3,718,267,443.37
Katsina 12.5 7.3 4,631,628,244.05 6,312,127,025.05 5,029,731,004
Kaduna 10.2 7.45 4,613,603,604.39 6,376,095,394.33 5,015,994,372.86
Jigawa 12 9.45 4,022,337,147.52 5,571,883,664.88 4,378,532,767.43
Enugu 6.3 7.3 3,583,348,508.97 4,903,453,243.43 3,883,592,396.94
Ekiti 7.4 5.15 2,727,792,379.03 3,899,758,162.03 3,024,926,840.2
Ebonyi 6.15 8.05 4,219,320,491.8 5,950,738,012.73 4,593,169,361.78
Akwa Ibom 5 7.5 17,496,511,297.49 26,697,082,203.29 19,051,390,927.73
Cross River 5.45 8.3 14,478,042,663.36 21,607,189,433.5 17,234,811,586.85
Borno 11.3 13 3,794,523,284.26 5,327,082,310.67 4,225,949,031.28
Benue 7.2 8.45 4,165,388,721.98 5,832,689,954.46 4,602,999,086.81
Benin 6.19 5.36 3,778,649,389.12 5,292,081,917.42 4,172,864,427.71
Anambra 6.2 7 3,923,341,107.69 5,337,165,273.49 4,265,951,000.82
Adamawa 9.2 12.3 3,335,418,659.89 4,737,697,416.87 3,694,961,719.97[/center]

ifihearam: Becareful how u address the first lady of the federal republic of Nigeria,any attempt to dishonour her person and office is tantamount to treason,please for your own good speak softly and kindly to her.. Lol

ROSSIKE:

That's the recipe for all the evils of the world today. It's ok to exploit the poor, and engage in slave trade killing millions of people in the process since we can all make money and build big rich developed countries like the USA at the end of it! That the bible supports this ideology is just another indicator that that book has absolutely nothing to do with the Creator of the universe, but is merely the work of men.

bashr8: we could do with a little joke after all we understand you dont live in nigeria so your not in touch with reality .

boko_halal: @Jason, thanks for your response esp. for the scriptural backup, but are you implying that even before the beginning of an endeavour, more drive should be planned for channeling towards the end of the endeavour?

shymmex: But seriously, why do Igbo leaders turn every critique into tribal crap?

Anambra Governor vs El Rufai = The Governor turned it into Hausa/Fulani vs Igbo

Orji guy vs Tinubu = The coward wants to turn it into Yoruba vs Igbo...

These people are sissies and wussies!!!

I can see where the tribal warriors on NL got the trait from...

miteolu:

Nigeria is too big for Fashola to handle.

oiseworld:

for the fact that he is on uniform then, he's on duty.

i have said it before and i will say it again, the brt lane should be renamed the emergency lane. For all military men,police,ambulance,governors. And people on special duty.
That was hypocrisy on the part of fashola, when those roads were built, the brt was not considered. Take a look at the ojota/yaba road, it was initially a three lane road and still had serious traffic.i mean Heavy traffic. Now that the brt has come in, most time that lane is left empty with long queues of cars in traffic struggling to share the the remaining two lanes.
looking at the blockage of the third mainland bridge, i would have expected the govnor, to open the brt lane for more road users, but NO, his stubbonness and hypocrisy won't let him.

Lastly, it is the biggest insult on the part of the governor to come and threaten a colonel in the Nigerian Army, On his Nigerian Army Uniform, in an official Nigerian Army Vehicle, in Nigeria for a soo called offence he foolishly put there. Its disrespect like this that call for military take overs. That colonel would have been the governor of Lagos State in a military setting.

I think this issue should be looked into.

If the colonel was right, why was he apologising?! Why was he saying, " I'm sorry. I am sorry sir!" Some of you guys need to be shot!