We need to be careful.

I have some reservations about that man called Mimiko.

He is more of a serpent than a leader.

MOBJECTIVE:

there are far better cities in west africa. Just because Lagos has the largest economy doesnt mean it's the best, or the most liveable, or functional. Accra, dakar, praia, are better destinations than lagos, and are tourist destinations.

first: dakar

second: praia

. There is nothing you cannot say to embarrass yourself. So to you Accra, Dakar, Praia, etc are better than Lagos?

Then i give up on you.

Even from the pics you posted, it was obvious that those places are not even close. I am sorry. the Lagos that I know is not in the class of those places

idupaul:

Shamo on yopu for lying in the face of truth!!! 80 percent of Lagos is even worse than the PICs the OP has displayed ..40 percent of the roads in VI and Ikorodu are like this , 60 percents of roads in Lekki are worse , 99 percent of the roads in AJAH are mud pits !!! 99 percent of Lagosian have no access to potable water for every drop of water the use the must pull it from dirty self made ground sources , 90 percent of Lagosians have never seen a public water line talkless of the water from water board....Coming to drinking water 100 percent of Lagosian depend on poorl bagged pure water, and disapenser bottles as source of drinking water , no matter how poor U are in lagos every drop of water U drink u must buy either in a dirty pure water bag or from plastic bottles funny lebanese and chinese companies provide . SO EMBRACE THE TRUTH and STOP LYING .

Very easy. Go back to your village.

Nigeria is the greenest populous country in the world, but it is so entirely by accident. We fuel a population north of 170 million -- the seventh largest in the world -- on an available installed grid electricity generation capacity of fewer than 6GW.

In the context of Barack Obama's initiative last week with his inaugural Africa Leaders Summit and the lofty promises of the "Power Africa" initiative it seems worth pointing out that the problems with the development of Nigerian power generation and distribution are basic economics, and internal failures of local policy.

Not only does Nigeria lag massively behind the African average (shocking when you consider that Nigeria is Africa's largest economy by GDP) our grid capacity per capita rounds, on a one decimal point basis, to zero. In fact, the average Nigerian, who uses 136KWH per year, consumes just 3 percent of the power of the average South African, 5 percent of the average Chinese citizen and, under a quarter of the average Indian. We have an installed capacity that is a fraction of the per capita mean of the other "BRICS" and "MINT" countries that Nigeria loves to compare itself to.

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Let it not be too bold to say that Nigeria is bad at generating and distributing electricity.

In Nigeria only one in four have access to the grid, and of those that do only a small minority have supplies of electricity for more than a few hours a day. "Epileptic" power outages are characteristic of a sector starved of investment: first as a state-owned monopoly and now, following privatization, from poorly conceived price controls and private regional distribution monopolies that have scared away necessary capital, impeded competition and discouraged new entrants to the market.

The government projects an increase in available installed grid capacity to 10GW by the end of 2014 -- already woefully inadequate in the context of present demand -- but this will doubtless be a dismal over-estimation. This lack of electricity is constraining our economy and inhibiting growth. It seems that Nigeria will continue to do the world's climate a favor for at least a decade to come.

In September 2013 President Goodluck Jonathan handed over control of 15 state-owned electricity companies to new private owners. It was hoped that the move would encourage essential investment, but in reality it has been a fiasco.

The newly established Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading plc (NBET) is now the sole purchaser of power from the national grid. It would seem its only purpose is to obstruct development in the power sector. The NBET fixes the price at which power is sold and the internal rate of return (IRR) for power projects. As a result greenfield generation projects struggle to get off the ground as they battle through a regulatory nightmare, sometimes for many years, before construction can even begin.

If we baked bread like we generate power then we'd starve.

Think about it like this: at present a baker, confident that his bread will have to compete on price and quality, determines how and when he will set up a bakery based on his projection of supply, demand, his costs and his product's quality and differentiation. However if all the bread in the country was required to be bought by a government ministry through contracts negotiated before bakeries could even commence construction, and not through a flexible and responsive market exchange, it would not just have an effect on the sale of bread but on the rate at which bakeries were built.

After all, when the ministry determines what it will pay for bread based on assumptions on how much profit each particular baker will make, the wages the baker proposes to pay his workers, as well as the projected cost of flour and butter, until accord can be reached on these costs not a single foundation will be dug. As a result the population continues to suffer from limited supply and choice.

Further, in Nigeria there is a severe misunderstanding of the essential role that financiers play in development. No banks will let the developer of a power project draw down on the funds to start building until an iron-clad purchase arrangement is in place. Nor will a banker or financier give the gas producer a loan to develop gas fields or the downstream gas supplier capital to build additional pipelines in order to supply fuel to the prospective power plant until the banker is sure that the power plant is actually being built.

This means that in Nigeria the majority of electricity is generated by expensive small private diesel and petrol generators, and if a household cannot afford a generator they go without. Ironically then fixing the price and profitability of power does not just create shortfalls in supply but, in aggregate, results in some of the most expensive electricity in the world; which most Nigerian's can scarcely afford.

We ignore market forces at our peril. The only regulation in the power sector should be based on the interests of safety and protecting the environment. These are the only regulations we can afford.

source: Yahoo news of 21 august 2014.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timi-soleye/why-nigeria-generates-so-_b_5695091.html

@ OP. We only have few individuals like you.

What even Jonathan or any governor cannot even say, you will hear and read such on this forum.

I challenge anybody to prove it based on all internationally acceptable indices and global standards that there is any better 'city' than Lagos in West Africa and we will compare and contrast but bigotry can put some people to sell their conscience for just zero naira.

Good job bro.

We should learn from history.

This might be the beginning of the end for Nigeria.

Nobody could try that in any other part of Nigeria that other tribes are present in large number from Kano to Jos, kaduna to Port Harcourt.
why Lagos?

Second civil trouble(war, if you like) is being brewed by our own very leader.

It is about time I stopped arguing with the guys from the East.

If at this point in time we still have some elements who believe that for whatsoever reason they should be saying any of the Eastern cities are in the same class with Ibadan then I have to give up on them.

Why?

My reason is there is no city in the East that is one-third of Ibadan in virtually everything, so if you snap a part of Ibadan and use that to express your opinion or draw a conclusion, what of the two-third that you have not captured or that you have never seen before.

I think in mathematics there is what is called collection of like-terms.

We need to compare likes with likes.

I thought they just celebrated a new stadium in Uyo?

Putting cart before the horse.

Good Rubbish.

2cato: Always talking and talking without doing any thing.

Hmm. if you say Fashola is always talking without doing anything, I wonder what you will say of your president and all the governors of your states in that region.

If this is what it means to talk without action I think I will forever like to be like him.

Desric: "Leaders in any society are usually the direct reflection of the attitudes of the people they lead". I say this without any fear of contradiction because Nigerians somehow seem very confused. In Ekiti state, it was celebrated that Fayemi the incumbent Governor lost his reelection bid to Fayose due to his elitist policies as well that most of APC controlled states policies are also elitist, painting a picture that Fayose was more of the people's man and that Nigerians doesn't want change, rather they prefer their old ways where anything goes as long as nobody's ox is goad. Today almost all policies termed elitist by the public as enshrined in all APC controlled states are being reversed and yet another complain, personally, I don't seem to understand exactly what we want as a people; but as they say "failure to reward success, is another way of encouraging mediocrity" one good turn they say deserves another. Be Patriotic, Be wise and Shine your eyes, when you want something, go for it and when something is done properly, encourage the doer to do even more. Help Nigeria and make it to become the land of our collective beautiful dreams.

God bless you. This is exactly the issue. We want to eat our cake and have it at the same time.

We want change and we want status quo to remain.

We want beautiful street and we want to liter it at the same time.

We want to have green lawns and we want to cross it at the same time.

We want to have a sane society and we want to allow hooligans to have free day at the same time.

It cant work. We deserve the bad leaders that we have.

How can you pick Fayose over Fayemi, Omisore over Aregbesola? I cant imagine that.

vedd: In every field of human endeavour, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity.

Whoever the leadership is vested on, emulation and envy are ever at work. The reward and punishment are always the same: The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction.

When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole nation, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work is merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone...

God bless you for this.

We miss Awolowo today but I remember he said one of his nicknames then was Eebudola- meaning abuses have turned honour and wealth.

People can say anything but I will always prefer a Fashola to an Obanikoro, an Ajimobi to an Akala, a Fayemi to a Fayose, an Aregbesola to an Omisore, an Amosun to a Gbenga Daniel, an Adams Oshiobaba to a Lucky Igbinedo, etc

When they cant beat you, they might resort to insulting you-anonymous.

BAT is a personality I respect a lot, despite not being a partisan politician.

I had my training in management science and one of the hallmarks of good leadership, both in principle and practice, is raising good followers. Today, BAT has brought to the fore the likes of Lai Mohammed, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Aregbesola, etc

These are men that are not only good but also outstanding in leadership.

How many can your leaders point to as outstanding followers?

BAT is unique

I laugh in foreign language , each time I see the depth of hatred of a region to another in Nigeria.

The only reason I laugh is because the West will always and forever be more advanced than the east, so why the hatred?

Gba fun oga ee. ( Accept the superiority of your master)

QED

I trust God for more success for Tubaba.

He is a genius when it comes to music

With the quality of work he does and the immense talent God endued him with, he is worth it.

Tubaba.

Up up up you go. BTW I need the new album

I am pained too

sweetgala: Great architectural design , but can someone tell me the advantage of the government granting planning permission to a foreign company to invest in such major project , possibly facilitating the easy access to the required land space.

Would that not empower foreign investors to dictate teal estate value in Lagos. It would be more appropriate if one of these Nigerian billionaires had a quantifiable stake.

Well thought out, however, it is not the responsibility of the state to stop one investor and allow another investor when there is a lacuna already or simply put, a need to meet.

Common business savvy should spur our investors into seeing such opportunities.

Thomas Edison lit up half of the street of New York as a private individual, I dont think the govt stopped him.
Imaging Nigeria not having private refineries since 1956 that we discovered petroleum in commercial quantity in the country. So, can you blame govt if a private investor from another country brings such proposal?

Good analysis.

Perfect answers.

I have been enjoying every part of the songs.

Awesome.

All these people you are seeing are once a children; president Jonathan is once a children and all of us is once a children-- Shepopo Patience Jonathan

Corruption is exaggerated in Nigeria, ordinary stealing they will call it corruption.-- Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.


Stealing is not corruption--- Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

Ojukwu is dead but his manhood lives on-- Shepopo.. Patience Jonathan

Anambra Govt Orders The Arrest Of Beggars With Children, 29 Arrested So Far
CHAMPION, DEC 4, 2011

By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, Awka
In its determined efforts to rid the state environment of beggars daily increasing in their numbers, the Anambra state government has issued an ultimatum to all the street beggars especially those using children to beg in Anambra state to vacate the streets or face arrest within 72 hours.

Meanwhile over 29 beggars with children have been arrested in Awka and Onitsha , warned and repatriated back to their various states of origin mostly Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom states to mention but a few.

Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development , Dr Ego Cordelia Uzoezie disclosed Friday in Awka when a middle aged woman was arrested begging with 9 children at various points in Awka.

The attention of Dr Uzoezie was drawn to the beggar with children when one of the kids begging at Unizik junction Awka , 6 years old Goodnews Sunday was hit while begging by an Okada operator injuring her jaw.

She was later taken to Beacon Hospital Awka after two hospitals turned her down when good Samaritans rushed her to hospital for first aid. Reasons for her rejection are yet to be ascertained as at press time.

Uzoezie decried the attitude of some parents who indulge in using children to beg, warning that after 72 hours any beggar seen in the state would be arrested by the law enforcement agents and the special task force of the ministry of women affairs and social development.

The accident victim Goodnews said she came from Akwa-Ibom Oron in Akwa-Ibom state and is staying with her mother at Isu-Aniocha but her twelve years old Sister , Blessing Sunday not only concurred the story of her sister but admitted that her mother actually sent them to go for the begging and that they used to be students of Anointed Nursery/Primary school Awada Obosi until they were pushed into begging following taunts on their mother who use to hawk curry and garri at Onitsha by one Happiness from Calabar.

Blessing further informed that the accident victim is a twin and that their parents now do nothing but to depend on what they were able to get from the begging. She said they would use it to pay for their school fees and house rent and equally build a house. She however contradicted herself when she later said she and her sister were being enslaved by one, Happiness who was already repatriated but came back to Anambra.

The other woman with 5 children, Mrs Nwakaego Eze from Amafor Uli, in Ihiala local government of Anambra state married to Arochukwu in Abia state blamed her begging now on week days to the dislocation of her husband and others from the Army barracks Onitsha as their begging before now was only on weekends.

She said although they have a house at No 2 Igbamaeze Street Awada Obosi , she equally rented a house at Isu-Aniocha to enable them sleep after begging in Awka. She said her children were not begging with her before as they were students of Basic Foundation but since after the Army Barracks dislocation they have joined her in begging, She further said they are now going to Anointed Nursery/Primary School Awada Obosi. She promised not to use the children for begging again, if allowed to walk home free.

But the Director Child Development , Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development , Mr Emeka Ejide warned the beggars to leave their children alone and can beg if they choose to as the interest of the ministry and Anambra state government are on the children. He said the Ministry has repatriated more than 29 women begging with children to their various states and would not hesitate to deal with parents who still engage in such acts describing them as products of Mammy market Onitsha where anything goes before its closure.

One of the good Samaritans who rushed the victim to hospital Mrs Stella Samuel incidentally an indigene of Akawa Ibom wondered why people from Akwa Ibom state must still be begging in Anambra state when the Governor of Akwa Ibom, Governor Godswill Akpabio had declared free education for children of the state. She said the accident happened in front of her shop and she had to run around to save the life of the girl but was shocked that no hospital wanted to accept her until later when the Ministry took custody of her and others.

But the President General of Akwa-Ibom Central Union, Anambra state , Sir Chris Ekanem who not only admitted that the victim and some of the beggars came from Akwa-Ibom but requested for authority for them to repatriate them home since their Governor Akpabio has given free education to people like them.

He appealed that those who brought them to Anambra only to subject them to begging should be punished adding that they had reported to the police the incident. He revealed that the children told him in their dialect that they were many in the state from the same Akwa Ibom doing the same business of begging in Anambra state.

Obi moves to rid Anambra of destitute
National Daily: MONDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2011 08:54

I listened to some of teh songs on WAZOBIA FM yesterday and it really made sense.

Tuface is a legend. The songs are hot

customized13: hubert ogunde and ola balogun made movies in the 60s but were frustrated with the cost of movie production, nigeria movie industry didn't come to limelight until igbos introduced themselves into it. The "mean-business" mentality in nigeria movie industry today is an initiative of igbos, the 1st nigerian movie to attain international renown is osuofia in London which was purely an "englo-igbo" movie

Keep deceiving yourself and the gullible, ' un-informed and ill-informed people ' with fake and poor statistics.

What I hate most about lies is that when they go too long unchallenged, they tend to have similitude of the truth and people will have no choice but to accept it as the truth whereas it is nothing but a lie.

How did you come about the highlighted submission?

vedaxcool: Frontpage, pdp is morally bankrupt, see how persin papa dey swallow his words with stews and egusi! Chei! Chie!! Daris godduoo, the lies Pdp is sharing there is goduoo!!

He has no choice.

El-Rufai has sued him and he has been given an ultimatum to retract that statement by making a rebuttal in two national dailies.

You see, the only language they understand is ..... .

I hate PDP like leprosy

Jerrick: WHY IS IT ALWAYS FEMALES?
1. Female dogs become so wicked
when they give birth.
2. Female fowls chase people when they hatch.
3. Male lions don't eat humans no matter how hungry they are, but
female lions do tear people apart.
4. Females human beings spend average 28years of their
lives asking for recharge cards from males....hmmmm abeg.ooo
5. And the most
annoying one
is it is the
female
mosquitoes that causes MALARIA.





Females get wahala!

Female goats and cows sef dey tough if you wan chop dem as beef.

[quote author=chinolization]Is it paining you this much?

Still at the point, does all these explain why 98% of people in oshogbo and ibadam do not have toilet facilities?


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The pictures I am seeing here is that of two igbo boys: Emeka and Okafor

Because they are the ones known for scavengers' job and road side selling.

Can you deny that?

chinolization: Shut up, you have ICAN, HIV, AIDS, ACCA, CFA.....meanwhile here is where you people are coming out from.

There is no point chest-beating, we are your masters as far educational system is concerned. Go and compete with hausa!

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Who dash monkey banana?

Till eternity comes you will follow us. How can you be master to your teachers?

1. Azikwe was schooled and trained in Lagos;
2. Chinua Achebe was schooled and trained in Ibadan;
3. Your Igbo Language writing and reading was delivered to you by an illustrous son of Yoruba land from Osoogun in the name of Bishop Ajayi Crowther.

The biggest economy today in West Africa is in the South West;

The first best five Universities in Nigeria today is in the South West;

More than half of Nigeria universities are in the South West with each State having more than Six Universities and Ogun State is having more than 11 universities.
Please explain how you are the master to Yoruba ... I want to learn more

brownlord:

If all this you said are true, foreign reserve increasing, jobs etc, i wonder why we are still where we are today, so for the past 38 years, GEJ is the reason you have external debt, zero employment etc, and boko haram started yesterday right?

It depends on when you where born, i will take you serious. How old plz?

You are either not mature or suffers from the usual ethno-religious jingoism.

What is the relevance of your 38 years to this? If the rate of progress from Obasanjo is maintained do you think Nigeria will still be where we are?

What happens to the sycophants will soon happen to you but when it happens please do not pass the bulk. Ensure you take your dose of the drug you are currently producing.

Liars.

Where were they when Bishop Idahosa challenged them in Benin.

419 witches. Another avenue to deceive the clueless.

lynx200: I didn't want to respond to some of the immature posts going by the background check I did on most of the posters but I have been forced to comment. I put up a topic that could help bring attention to an illegality happening in a part of the country and all most of you can do is engage in ethnic bashing? No wonder nothing gets solved in this country. What a shame! Did any of you even read the article? There are issues in the film industry nationwide and I decided to bring out one and yet you all abandon the issue and chase fluff. In a time when most of the world is engaging in collaborations across different divides you are all being ethnic jingoists. I fear for the future of this country.

No one can take away the fact that the Nollywood phenomenon originated in the East but when such brigandry happen it stifles the whole movie industry in the East. Ever wondered why there are no good cinema films coming from the East? This is one reason. There are even many indigenes who want nothing to do with the industry and head to Lagos. If this continues there might not be any film industry in Eastern Nigeria any more. Those who I directed the issue at understand the issues at stake (thank you for your enlightened comments,you know yourselves) so I stand by my topic. Until we start facing the real issues in this country and taking responsibility instead of chasing shadows and blaming government officials (who are just a reflection of us as a people) and ethnicity this country is going nowhere.

With reference to the highlighted, do you mean home video or the name Nollywood or Film-making?

it is probably the word Nollywood that I know could have emanated from the Eastern part of Nigeria because film-making started with the likes of Hubert Ogunde in the Sixties, Ishola Ogunshola, Awada kerikeri, Baba Sala,etc

I could remember watching home videos in Yoruba films even before the 1992 first Igbo movie Living in Bondage by Nnebue.

read the interview below for more knowledge and information

http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/10668/26/nnebue-produced-27-yoruba-films-before-living-in-b.html

Please do not give people wrong information.

Too much lies from our Igbo brothers and sisters.