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babasolution:
You can never deny the fact of FG influence in Lagos,it cannot be compared to other regions eg Festac was at a time the biggest estate in Nigeria, no were else was such investment made by FG

At that time, if they had built it in another state, it would have been a wasteful project.
The bottom line is Lagos was doing well on its own before being made the capital. The Yorubas even protested that they should move the capital to another location .

No matter what the capital being in Lagos was used by the whites as an avenue to exploit Lagos .

babasolution:
Are you saying amuwo-odofin was part of the FCT then ? Cos Festac was built by the FG, trade fair also,satellite town,navy town,large swath of surelere eg the Eric Moore towers,lots of FG establishments were in yaba etc,the areas strictly under Lagos government weren't even very developed even toll today

Someone already explained why the FG had influence in Yaba and Surulere to you..The same way Festac and trade fair in Lagos were built by the FG was the same way same festac and trade fair were built by the FG in Kaduna state as explained already. The same way FG invested in other states was the same way the same FG invested in Lagos state.

If we want to look at it, FG spent little of what they made in Lagos in Lagos state.

AncientAlien:
Oba title still reach Port Harcourt?

Even omoku king in rivers state, na Oba

Goodvibes007:
Awolowo, the man, the legend. All from cocoa money.

The last two years of Awolowo as Premier of Western Region was concentrated on efforts to write his name in the book of Legends.*

He incorporated: *Western Hotels* which invested in:
* Premier Hotel,
* Lafia hotels in Ibadan
* Lagos Airport Hotel respectively.

He set up:
*Western Nigeria Development Corporation* to finance mega corporations. This was established in 1958.
It encouraged plantation development with six agricultural plantations covering 20,517 acres in collaboration with Cooperative societies, eleven additional plantations covering 8,468 acres with crops ranging from Cocoa , Rubber, Oil Palm, Citrus, Cashew and Coffee had been put in place all over the region.

WNDC, a clearing house for multitude of companies, established for the rapid industrial development and revolution of the region.
Among them were:
1. WAPCO at Ewekoro for cement, with enough capacity to serve the whole country.
2. Nigerite Ltd, producing asbestos and roofing sheets,
3. National Bank,
4. Wema Bank,
5. Nigerian General Insurance,
6. Great Nigeria Insurance,
7. Gravil Enthoven and coy,
8. Vegetables Oil Ltd,
9. Cocoa Processing Industry Ogba Ikeja,
10. Odua Textile Mills Ltd,
11. Wrought Iron Ltd,
12. Union beverages Ltd, 13. Sungass company,
14. Wemabod estates, owner of Western House tallest building, then on Broad Street, and other estates,
15. Western livestocks,
16. Fisheries services Ltd,
17. Caxton Press,
18. Epe Plywood,
19. Asakar Paints,
20. Nigeria Crafts and Bags Ltd,
21. Nipol Plastics in Ibadan,
22. Phoenix Motors.

Also, he opened up biggest industrial layouts in:
i. Ibadan, Oluyole and
ii. Lagos Oba Akran axis and
iii. *Ilupeju in Mushin axis with over 120 factories* for mass production of different needs & gave birth to:
23. Nigeria Textile Mills,
24. West Africa Breweries,
25. Dunlop Tyres,
26. Crittal Hope Aluminum,
27. Tower Aluminium,
28. Solel Boneh,
29. Nidogas,
30. Nigeria Wire and Cables in Ilupeju.

Odua Investments was the largest conglomerates in Nigeria as at 2004 with assets worth over N10 trillion.

Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo paid the Western Nigeria Civil servants, the highest salaries far above Federal government.
So much jobs were created by vast industrialisation drives.
All these were achieved without Oil revenue between1951-1959. He also touched the road construction with bitumen & laid road network covering over 2,000 kilometers throughout the region.

Other achievements of his regime are:
1. Cocoa House, the tallest building in West Africa for decades,
2. Liberty Stadium, the most modern in the entire African,
3. Western Nigeria Television & Broadcasting Service (WNTV/WNBS), the first Radio & Television Stations in Africa,
4. Many General Hospitals and Dispensaries in rural area.
5. Free Education at primary school level.
6. His effort in Cooperative society development gave birth to establishment of Cooperative Bank in 1953 and Cooperative College.

The eight years most of this present Governors spend, was the same with Pa Awolowo, covering what comprises 8 states nowadays, yet he achieved so much. Most of our present day Governors could not mention one world class company, corporate institution or industry set up to create jobs for teaming youths being turned out year in, year out, by our ivory towers.

Today leaders should at least emulate our late sage foot steps instead of all the temporary empowerment programs (Motor cycle, Keke Napep, Pepper grinding machine, Cassava grinding machine, Deep freezer, Fridge, Clipper etc) being used to cajole the electorates at the turn of election every four years.
A time will come in this nation that people aspiring for position must show a well laid out plan before the electorate.
The cash and carry politics will fail as it's the practise in developed nation.
Let us always look forward to lasting legacies.

*OBAFEMI AWOLOWO* was obviously ahead of his peers and till today no living or deceased Nigerian has surpassed his achievements.
You wonder why the southwest Nigeria did well.

In the 1990s, Nigeria Textile Mills, Oba Akran Ikeja alone employed over 4,000 workers before the military mismanagement of economy killed the company with unfriendly company policies.


I don't know what you are smoking, but it's very bad.

Na the mismanagements pain me pass..

babasolution:
Calabar was only the capital for few months,Lagos island( as you call it) was the capital for more than 70 years.

However the Western region ended in 1966 and Lagos was run as a state from then on,with a military governor excluding the short civilian tenures of jakande and otedola who were funded by FG.Lagos island as you say was the capital but it was actually the seat of government, FG influence extended beyond the capital (Lagos island) as they built areas beyond the Lagos island, especially in surulere/yaba,amuwo-odofin, Ojo,apapa and even beyond,Lagos was managed as a state with governors from different governors from 1966 not under the Western government.

Abuja has been capital since 70s..Abuja influence is being felt in neighboring Niger state too...The colonialist knew they had more to gain in Lagos hence their reason for leaving Calabar..Yorubas didn't lobby for Lagos being the nations capital from the beginning till they finally left.

Before the capital was moved to Abuja, Lagos governors didn't go beyond the areas that were in the western region and federal influence didn't go beyond areas that were fct.
There was a saying then that gedegbe ni Eko wa.

babasolution:
LAGOS was the capital, you can't take that away,same is happening to Abuja now

Someone already told you that less than 1% of today's Lagos state was the capital...The state only derived its name from Lagos colony..What else do you want again.The beautiful Lekki and the industrial area of Ikeja were under the western region.
Maybe if the other areas of Lagos under former western region were given another state name not Lagos, it would have been clearer to you.
Lagos was an economic hub before it was made a capital unlike Abuja which was a farmland before being made a capital. That is what they want you to understand. Lagos indigenes were not resettled unlike Abuja indigenes. Don't forget that Calabar was once the capital too.

babasolution:
Babangida only completed the third mainland Bridge, all previous governments invested in Lagos including Obasanjo who built Festac and trade fair

Awolowo reign as Western region premeir was short,when the military governments took over,Lagos was funded from FG ,even during jakande tenure prior to that British government had started developing Lagos as against other regions/ states

All the states in Nigeria were heavily invested in during the military era..I don't know you peoples obsession with Lagos state..

There is nothing they did in Lagos state that they didn't do in Kaduna state..Even the festac and trade fair you mentioned they built in Kaduna state, there are festac buildings and Trade fair in Kaduna state.

ableguy:
I am trying to get the station as well, so I know the exact place I am going after payments.

It should be at the back of the ticket with you...Since it's ijebu ode toll gate, that's where their office is then.

Use remitta to generate RRR...Once it's generated, take the RRR to the bank and make payment..The gifmis code is there already for you.

Frank, you no go petition ecowas, fifa,un, eu as you dey do ?

After yearning jargons...i think Oba of Lagos is an igbo man since you developed Lagos..Anyways, it's good Hes coming back to his senses gradually...The igbo nation still needs to do more by letting their people learn to live in harmony with other tribes..Dont chest beat..it doesn't mean you are weak or don't know what you are doing.
You can't be hating a tribe because of politics and think when you need the support of the tribe, they will support you.2015 to 2023, you hated the hausa/fulani tribe calling them all sorts of names...2023, because of election your tribemen started courting them thinking they are fools abi..2023, you are still towing that pact abusing the Yorubas because a Yoruba man is the President.. Do you think the Yorubas will ever support you when you need them?Ko si asegbe laye.

Christistruth00:
Just ask him to make a one minute Speech in Yoruba without interpreters and you will know

We all know his origin is not from Lagos...Let's just leave them...A Yoruba from Benin Republic has more stake than GRV in Lagos.

Abagworo:
At last the real ostrich has straightened her neck. While Tinubu and his group actually know that the battle over ownership ofLagos is between Yoruba and Lagosians they deviced means of using Igbos as a destraction to continue to oppress the real natives. The real natives are outnumbered by migrant Yorubas so they equally played their own politics of romancing with Igbos to swell their population and voting strength against the migrant Yoruba. The whole fracas over ownership of Lagos has nothing to do with Igbos other than the natives recruiting them to help retrieve power from non natives.

You can see this from GRV and his pattern of support.

Is GRV a native Lagosian...I no wan talk

She is on her own if truly she's Yoruba..
We moveeee

Ngozi123:
I said Igbo and minority SS. Do either of these groups consist of Yoruba people?

Are there not minority Yorubas in SS?
I don't dabble into igbo matters but Yorubas have more stake in the SS than the igbos.

This Rivers film go sweet well well

Ngozi123:
You're right. It is none of our business and we have our own issues to face. I hope you will say the same whenever a Yoruba poster goes to comment on an Igbo/minority SS thread?

Don't you know there are Yorubas in the SS too?

Wetin concern people from south east with Yoruba matters now..You crossed Delta, Edo, Ondo and Ogun before reaching Lagos.
I still see it as a family affairs and Yorubas knows how to settle themselves.If you are not from the south west, keep off...its a family affairs..
Look at it, you can't remove Lagos from ijebu land..Awujale(king) of ijebuland owns the whole of Epe up to Lekki in Lagos state.fyi, the political headquarter of ijebus is ijebu ode in Ogun state.

O ma se ooo...see people with assets in Lagos begging whereas their uncultured children will be chest-beating online.

They should use this Christmas as an opportunity to hold meetings in their various villages and advise them to stop chest-beating, to stop getting involved in other peoples local politics , stop boasting that they develop another persons land and stop referring to another persons land as no mans land.

Less I forget, Iwuanyanwu the ohaneze Ndigbo needs to be cautioned too because his utterances lately in Lagos matters is causing disaffection between Igbos and Yorubas in Lagos.
Mercci

casualobserver:
Oga I ask again do you understand English.

Maybe in Obaseki’s case there were enough members to form a quorum. Even then only 1 faction is legal. In Fubara’s case his faction do not have enough members to form a quorum if 27 members are with Wike. Simple English, simple law.

Fubara needs 12 to form a quorum…full stop!!!

You've explained to the guy all he needs to know. Moreover, Obaseki succeeded because the house was yet to be inaugurated.Rivers is already inaugurated and that's where SIM missed it.

Administration1:
If truly they say today, it will mean that it is not valid as they is a subsisting court order pausing their activities. However, it remains that the governor should has really sort to resolve this fracas amicably

The court can't ask the assembly not to function.It's null and void which they will appeal till it gets to the Supreme Court. I pity Fubara here.

AssCraver:
Some of u don’t think before commenting

Next time,Quote like someone that is cultured.This is a public forum.

osuofia2:
On November 21, a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt issued an order directing the two factions in the Rivers State House of Assembly to maintain status quo ante bellum and suspend further deliberations until the matter before it is dispensed with. The suit was filed by factional Speaker, Ehie Edison.

I believe that it's only the judge that knows the interpretation of the status quo cos it seems ambiguous.

yinkeys:
Saudi government has aligned with the East but playing both sides
Displaying a politically neutral posture
They don’t want the wrath of the Americans
Plus America has artillery and military bases on Saudi soil
They’ve always had serious issues with their neighbours- Iran

I love your objective point of view..
True..thats what they are doing.Playing games.
I still see this as against Americas interest hosting Putin when ICC already issued warrant of arrest against Putin

Larryndelaw:
You are just typing nonsense. Throw America under the BuS? Even when the America secretary of states visits other countries do you see the welcome he received?
That just just secretary of state not to talk about a whole president of the entire world. America. Joke with America at your own peril

This is a public forum..Dont quote people like someone that is mannerless again.its bad.


Don't you know that ICC issued warrant of arrest against Putin?For him to go to Saudi and be received, it's definitely against Americas interest.

[quote author=Ezmans post=127365905]a siting governor will beg who [/quote
SIM is just like Ambode..He is not a politician but a technocrat.
If it's money, Wike will match him..if it's using state actors, with Presidency support, Wike has an edge..

These guys have thrown USA under the bus by aligning with Putin

Svoboda:
Wike will lose out in this fight. Sitting govs are enormously powerful. What fubara has to do is to create a corridor of constant communications with Mr President and swear his loyalty on the life of his children. Pbat is a very smart politician. He understands this game very well. Fubara ought not to hesitate in empowering several among wikes ethnicity. He should use them to fight him dirty from his home stead because wike fights dirty too. We all know how weak a divided house can be. No matter how you see it fubara has the aces.

I don't see PBAT throwing Wike under the bus because of SIM, instead, he will reconcile them.

muykem:
Wike has lost this war.

For where? SIM go beg laslas.

Waoh..With this, SIM go beg laslas because this matter will get to the Supreme Court and once it gets there, the judgment may not be in SIM's favour.

Chest beating as usual.