totit:


Bro, I choose to work with what I can verify and except you have one? I am sorry I disagree with you until proven.

Cheers.

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

Perhaps we can start with this Wikipedia article.

totit:



No, lagos is not. Do your research.

Overflowing you all often claim, so, the nearest state to Abuja couldn't tap from that as well?

And Anambra, which I believe is the most industrialized ( this is contestable thou) couldn't share the same with her neighboring state, enugu and co?

And porhacourt?

And lastly, just like you said, abuja has been the center for the past 30 years and you think hate not enough to surpass lagos already but instead ogun is tapping from lagos now?

You must listen to yourself dude. Listen oo

It is well.

Bros, Lagos is the most populous state in Nigeria. It's given to Kano for political reasons but in reality, we all know it is Lagos. Before Jigawa was created from Kano, it was on paper only slightly more populous than Lagos. After it was created, Kano still remained more populous on paper. As at during the last census in 2006 when they credited about 9 million each to Lagos and Kano with Kano being slightly more populous, Tinubu carried out a parallel census then and Lagos had over 15 million.

Abuja is only a political city. It is being built on oil money. Abuja landmass is massive. The developed part of the FCT hasn't even taken up to 5% of FCT landmass. How then do you expect an overflow?
In case you don't understand what I mean by overflow. Let me explain better. When a city is expanding in infrastructure and population, if their landmass gets consumed, the development spreads into the neighbouring towns and villages and sometimes, those towns and villages are consumed by the city and become part of the city's metropolitan area.
London metropolitan area is far bigger than London city. Same with other big cities in the world.
In Anambra State for example, you will never notice when you cross Onitsha into Nkpor, Obosi, Nkwelle Ezunaka etc, as the development has moved from Onitsha into those neighbouring communities now.
Awka Capital Development Area includes Amawbia, Nise etc which are individual towns on their own just like Awka.

Anambra has never been the most industrialised state by any standard. Even in the South East, it's debatable if it is more industrialised than Abia. That said, there can't be overflow from Anambra to any other state yet cos it doesn't even have enough yet. Anambra isn't yet "filled up".
In case you still don't understand the influence Lagos has on the development in Ogun State, let me tell you about my cousin. He lived in Lagos for many years. He's a trader. When he wanted to build his house, he bought a land in Magboro Ogun State and built it. That's where he lives now, while his business is in Lagos.

Has Washington DC overtaken New York City despite being the capital of the US for over 230 years? How then will Abuja overtake Lagos when it isn't even a commercial city? Does it have a sea port? How many multinational companies have their headquarters in Abuja?

totit:



If it's about population you mean by lagos, is Lagos the most populated state in Nigeria?

If it's about being the former capital then why has Abuja failed in this regard?

When we talk about Lagos factor, what's this factor exactly, and how come Ogun state is now the most industrialized state, above Lagos? R
Keep in mind that SS is the most blessed region even above SW in terms of wealth. So, I really don't get this lagos factor that many and you talk about often.

Lagos is the most populous state in Nigeria and by a wide margin has the highest population density. It has over 20 million people trapped within about 3500km². No other state can boast of a quarter of that population density.

Abuja hasn't failed. It has only been a capital city for less than 30 years compared to Lagos which was a capital long before independence. It was a bush before it became a capital city, while Lagos was a very thriving port city before it became capital city. Also, Abuja population is less than 4m now. Despite that, it has been attracting lots of investment especially in real estate. You also need to remember that Abuja has no sea ports, so I wonder how much economic activities it can sustain.

Ogun state is receiving overflows from Lagos now. It's very difficult to build industries in Lagos now cos of cost of land. Ogun has enough land and is close to Lagos. The industries can thus be built in Ogun and the products easily transported to Lagos whether for sales or for export.

plaindealer:



I love a good argument, but not with you and your pointless and irrational views.

Of course you have no clue of what rationality means, judging by your first response to me. If you were sensible, you would have seen that you flopped and kept silent.

plaindealer:



I know your type..

You're only laughing at your idiocy. Argue within the limits of the original post.
Don't come here and tell me rubbish that Akwa Ibom is attracting investments left and right when it is completely irrelevant in the discussion.
Is there a mention of Akwa Ibom in the entire article?
How much investments did the South South attract?

totit:



You are partially right but not really as SS being being a rich or oil producing state isn't the factor here, it should be business friendly-environment or location.

The business friendly environment talk is all fluke. There is no difference between the South East and other regions. Lagos and Ogun did well cos of Lagos. North Central tried because of Abuja. All other states performed poorly. It's absolutely senseless to single out South East.

Rgade:

Like I don't understand the obsession with the SE.
Save SW(Lagos) and NC(Abuja); every other region performed poorly.
Look at SS with all her sea access,ports and oil wealth attracting just 0.5%. North west, the claimed most populated region in Nigeria, with 7 states!, Most of which are all individually bigger than the entire SE performed the worst. Coming below even war torn NE!
Shouldn't that be the most scandalous headline here.
But of course,it had to be narrowed down to the most controversial region in the country.

Thank you bros. I just couldn't see any sense in the entire article, honestly.
Some people have seen it as an avenue to start attacking Igbos.

totit:


Dude, SE is .22% while SS is .50%. That's my point.

Did I ever imply that South East was higher than South South? I said other regions didn't necessarily do well.

If South South could only attract 0.5% despite having coastal states with sea ports, being oil producing states, having Rivers State which is the 2nd richest state in Nigeria, and having 6 states (instead of 5 states of South East), then nobody should abuse South East for attracting only 0.22%.

plaindealer:



Going by your population logic, why is 5 million population Akwa Ibom attracting investments left and right?
Or Akwa Ibom is also close to Lagos like Ogun state?

Too many lame and ridiculous excuses..

You're talking rubbish. What's the source of this statement you made in bold? Which investment is Akwa Ibom attracting?

The entire South South had only 0.5% of the FDI (while South East had 0.22%) and you're telling me Akwa Ibom is attracting investments left and right. Is our discussion no longer based on the original post?

Lagos is the commercial capital of Nigeria and has the largest market confined within a small area. It is a top investment choice for that reason alone.

totit:


Erm, actually....

Actually what? Isn't that 0.5%? I don't understand.

sarrki:
President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow, commission the NCDMB’s 17-storey Nigerian Content Tower, 1000-seater ultra-modern Conference Hall, 4-level Car Park and 10 megawatts gas-fired Power Plant, located at Swali, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

The least you could have done is to include the meaning of NCDMB in your post. Do you really have to be told this?

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) was established by the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act which came into effect on April 22, 2010.

This article is simply meaningless and useless. Why the emphasis on the South East with 0.22% when other regions are not necessarily doing great?

South South had only 0.5% of the investments despite their proximity to the sea and having some of the richest states in Nigeria like Rivers, Delta etc.

North East and North West have less than 0.05% each, despite the Centre of Commerce of the North (Kano) being in the North West.

North Central has about 11.5% and that's mostly because of Abuja. Other North Central States like Benue, Kogi etc wouldn't have got much.

At the end, most of the investments went to Lagos and Ogun simply because Lagos has got the population, and is the commercial capital of Nigeria while Ogun is simply enjoying the overflow from Lagos.

cocolacec:


Gokada biz,Uber and Bolt can move to other cities in Nigeria like Kano,Kaduna,Onitsha.Lagos is not the only city in Nigeria

Lagos has a population of nearly 20 million people trapped within less than 4000km² area. Any investor that wants to make money from his business will first consider Lagos or somewhere very close to it (Ogun).

My dear, you guys should stop making noise about this. Lagos has got the population so it will attract the investments. People make investments for profit. Even an Igbo man will first consider siting his investment in Lagos before Anambra for the same reason.

dawnomike:
Huge revenue potential for Russia... If a vial of vaccine is sold for just $10. That translates to $10 Billion dollars within days for the country.

The reward of advanced research.

What about the cost of developing and mass producing the vaccine, including the cost of the clinical trials, salaries to the scientists and researchers etc?

TheGodlessGod:
Citizen centric offer kee you there.

Where's the gelegele port?
Where's the central park?
The royal museum?
The industrial park?
Emotan garden?.
Benin enterprise?.
A new city in Edo south??.

You think Edo people will vote for obaseki just because he repainted the Secretariat and stadium despite billions we received monthly??. God punish you

What did Buhari achieve that you re-elected him last year?

madridguy:
The deepness is much.

That's why I asked to know the ideal depth of a Muslim grave. If it is also 6 feet, then I would say this grave here isn't even up to 6 feet, if you're to measure it accurately.
6 feet is almost the height of Obama o. Are you saying if someone like Obama stands in that grave, his head won't be popping out?

madridguy:
This should not be a Muslim grave. This is too deep.

How many feet should a Muslim grave be?
I know that "6 feet" generally implies the grave.

Nigeria is one of the few countries in the World where a government agency will post a loss of over one billion dollars in a space of 2 years and that agency will keep existing and getting more funds from the government.

Sincerely, I think Nigerian leaders have realised that Nigeria can't work again, so they are no longer trying to fix things. It's a case of "loot as much as you can if you get into position".

This is sad, honestly.

OP, I don't think it is right for her to be staying with you. Come on! You live in a sef con, not even a one bedroom flat. Nobody else should live with you. Nobody!

Does the girl not have a family? Can't she go to her parents' home? If she can't, does she not have any friend, work colleague, church member (if she is a Christian) who can accommodate her?

Doesn't she have a job? If no job, doesn't she have any skill at all that can fetch her money?

Even marriage, doesn't she have suitors now? I'm not saying she should go and move in with them, but at least they should be able to support her with a cheap accommodation. It's a lot more sensible for her to live in a ghetto than to live in a self con with you and her sister.

The risk of marital infidelity is extremely high in that place. She is at risk of tempting you even if she doesn't want to. You on the other hand are also at risk of tempting her. One day, the devil will provide the right atmosphere (when your wife won't be around), and you will sleep with her.

Karlifate:

And their "contractors" cannot help them in returning to their country.

The Nigerian airspace is still shut. They can only enter Nigeria with an evacuation flight. I don't know if there will be such a flight from Saudi anytime soon.

24SEVEN:


Its not my business to show you what other governors are doing. Im only interested in commenting where I see fit. Udom has done fine by creating jobs for his people. it is commendable and more preferable to big flyovers and building airport lounges. People need to be employed to live their lives. for all her huge allocations I still consider Akwa Ibom a poor state. Poor in the sense of the livability of her citizens that I see in Lagos and PH and Abuja. Alot of them live in batchers and shacks and it speaks alot about life in Akwa Ibom. If citizens of a state should be outside in such numbers and most living in squabble conditions, then the govt isn't getting priorities right.


I didn't quote you to say he didn't do well, but there is nothing Amazing. good job tho. Why are you even Amazed sef..

It's surprising that you are comparing Akwa Ibom to Lagos, Abuja and PH.
Lagos has been Nigeria's capital city since even before independence. Many investments have been made in Lagos over the past several decades even till today, and that has a lot to do with its former status as the capital city and also it being the commercial capital of Nigeria.
Abuja is Nigeria's capital city and is run with federal funds. Nothing special about it except that it has been a capital city for nearly 30 years. Politicians throw around funds they don't work for.
PH has been the 'capital' of Niger Delta for several decades. Many oil companies in the South South operate from there. It attained its status as a very important Nigerian city ever since the discovery of crude oil.

Akwa Ibom on the other hand had been unknown until the tenure of Akpabio (which started just 13 years ago). Before then, it was basically seen as a poor state. Even Uyo which is the capital city has always had the status of a town until the massive infrastructural development which began in the time of Akpabio. How then would you expect the state to catch up with Lagos or Abuja or Rivers in just a few years?

Simplyleo:

In this case, let's not call it evil by igbos.

Let's simply say "evil in Nigeria."

By so doing, igbos will be absolved.

Alternatively, somehow somehow, we can just make some rearrangement and bring fulani herdsmen into the story.

Very funny pipu.

You're sick!

You always find a way of jumping into every Igbo thread to show your defence of murderous Fulanis.

The fact that Igbo men killed their brother doesn't take anything away from the fact that Fulani herdsmen terrorists have caused the biggest nightmares to communities all over Nigeria. We shouldn't accept it as normal just because there are pockets of killings of Igbos by Igbos.

Blacks have been killing blacks in America over the years through gang wars and all such stuff, but that didn't take anything away from the BLM Movement which as we all know was about injustice against blacks by the whites.

Rossikki:
All the more reason why the Biafra idea is STUPID.

Who will be the primary market of this expansion in Anambra State?

NIGERIANS.

Africa's biggest market, and the world's 6th largest consumer market.

Secessionists imagine that they will be able to sell these wares to the world, and don't need the Nigerian market. But they are seriously deluded. Countries are putting up protectionist barriers to build their own local industries. Others like China, have comparative advantage in manufacturing, and will leverage that to start price wars if need be, lowering them to stave off any competition.

Many buying countries would simply prefer the familiarity of Italian or even China made products, and would shun new, unproven stuff from some little African country.

Bottom line: For these Eastern industries to thrive, and take off to the next level, THEY NEED THE NIGERIAN MARKET.

Secession kills that immediately.

Nigeria is projected to become the world's THIRD most populous nation after China and India by 2050.

That is MARKET on a world class scale which Igbo manufacturers can have FIRST ACCESS TO BEFORE ALL-COMERS, if they play their cards right, and remain in the federation.

That FIRST ACCESS to the Nigerian market is already happening slowly, as groups like INNOSON and others get government supply contracts. INNOSON even supplies the Nigerian Airforce with equipment now.

As we approach 2050, the Igbos could become the richest ethnicity in all Africa, and among the richest on earth, if they remain...Nigerians.

A word is enough for the wise.

But you heard that people from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, C.A.R etc are coming to buy the same shoes. Are they all part of Nigeria? Must Anambra share the same country with Kano for their goods to be sold in Kano?

frankyychiji:

House Committee
Senate Committee
SeCurity agencies
CiliCmarin
ApC

Federal RepubliC of Nigeria

Arrewa:
Buhari is still better than Jonathan by far!

I'm not a fan of buhari and still not his hater.

He has not perform up to my expectations but I must acknowledge his progress.

Bokoharam is no longer powerful as it used to be.

I still can remember Back then when no single northern state is safe including kano and Abuja bombs here and there.

Now they have been limited to only Borno villages.

Your hatred for Buhari has clouded your sense of judgment.

You are just too desperate to label him a failure and to insult him.

BUHARI is 1000 times better than Jonathan your Hero.

Be sincere to yourself for once.

Boko Haram has been limited to Borno villages according to you, yet tens of people are being killed every month in Zamfara, Sokoto, Kaduna apart from the North East and North Central. Bandits are running rampage all over the North yet you think it is any different from Boko Haram attacks.

Do I also need to remind you of how Northern Elders including this same Buhari kept accusing Jonathan of depopulating the North because he was killing BH? Your beloved Buhari clearly said, "an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North".

How many Southerners especially minority ones will have the mind to go against the North with the way Nigeria is presently structured? Isn't that like signing your death warrant? Even a southern president will ultimately become an ordinary citizen after his tenure. What will become of his safety by then after "attacking the North" by killing loads of Boko Haram?

OPPPS:
At this rate, Obaseki wife might decamp to Apc

Read and digest before saying rubbish. None of these people decamped. They are all APC members and were with Obaseki in APC till he decamped to PDP. They simply refused to decamp with him.

Obaseki should simply work with PDP structure and whatever support he carried over from APC. That should be enough for him. It shouldn't be an easy ride for him, as APC is formidable in Edo State, but it is a battle he can win.

LordNicvuitton:


Why would you think that it's a story? Look my profile, I've been on Nairaland since 2010. Go through my previous posts. This is why i suggested that only matured minds should rub minds with me.

She was in 200L in 2017 and in 2020, she is waiting to start 400L. I hear you.

martineverest:
but Atiku came from.cameroun...the nigerien naturalised na

It's not true. Atiku came from a part of the defunct Northern Cameroon that was integrated into Adamawa State. His original home town is part of Nigerian territory. This man's home town is in Niger Republic.
You cannot obtain Nigerian citizenship by naturalization.

Nickymichy:
Is he born in Nigeria?... If yes I don't think there is any issue here...I can never ever support this administration but if a Nigerian born in another country can hold key position in that same country I see no issue here if this guy was born in Nigeria

But according to Nigerian constitution, being born in Nigeria alone doesn't make you Nigerian. At least one of your parents must be Nigerian.

Officialgarri:

You have problem. Wallahi Better do something meaningful in life so they could at least name a beer parlor after you.

I'm glad my dad's name is there. Congratulations Prof. Wole Soyinka. You will forever live in my heart

He doesn't have a problem. He is making sense.

This move is totally unnecessary. It only goes to show how poorly developed Nigerian Railway network is. The UK for example has well over 2000 train stations. Imagine naming these after different individuals.

Train stations are not like Airports which are normally not too many even in big and rich countries. It's easy for people to remember the names assigned to them. Train stations on the other hand are normally too many, and should retain the names of the towns or cities they are in. Even if you name them after individuals, I can bet you that they will be known more by the names of their locations.

PIMPAR:

Keep quiet. He was elected a senator on the platform of ACN, which Tinubu singlehandedly founded. Dem no dey trust una.

Ngige didn't win because of ACN or Tinubu. He won because of his work as Governor between 2003 and 2006. People had much regard for him then cos he was what Mbadinuju couldn't be. He actually won because of his work as a PDP governor. As soon as his affiliation with the other side became obvious, that was the end of his political victory in Anambra.