₦airaland Forum

GAR3TH:
Like I said any administrative settlement can be called a city but 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.

But none of those cities have a pop less than 100K. I agree that Yenagoa has an issue with overal development. Except for the fact of being state capitals, none of those pass my own personal test of a city. Including Ado Ekiti and many northern state capitals

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? Nigerian cities would be Lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Port harcourt, Kaduna and kano. 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 

asha 80:
i believe in basic development first(good roads,learning facilities,security,agric avtivities etc)before any 'mega' project.

manny4life:
Would you mind providing pics for this "world class" health centers? I like to see for myself this hospital that is "supposedly" taking the health care advantage/development with contrast to other SE states. IMO, I think our states are growing but NONE is actually developing. If we take the time and look at how development is planned and implement, all I see is just faked, blanked, not-so-modern achievement. I believe Anambra should be given an "A" for their trade, if harnessed properly, can as well lead to other things.

GAR3TH:
A small town, even if they are capitals, are still considered towns even in the western world. The administrative name for any settlement, despite its population is considered a city.  But people refer to towns, hamlets, villages or cities by their population and economic activity. There are suburban towns with populations of 330,000 but they are not referred to as cities because they don't have major economic activity, influence and other factors.

But what a city is can not really be defined. They way I define a city is by comparing. We all know lagos is a true city, so just compare lagos to other towns and see if those towns can be called a city. In reality you'll find that nigeria only has about 10 true cities.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islip_(town),_New_York

population 322,612, GDP ~ 1 billion still considered a town

scholes0:
Dude, why are you talking out of your Bottom??
Have U ever been to Okene before??

Yeah right, that was what I thought about Okene, before I travelled there./,  It is a BIG CITY, with thriving Commerce, everywhere, arguably one of the most important cities in Central Nigeria.
Apparently, someone here thinks Okene is a ''glorified village''

that u dont know nathing about Okene, doesen't mean, Millions of other Nigerians don't.

dayokanu:
Any place with a population of over 300k deserves a city status.

JamesDoe:
Cities (except govt fiat ones) are organic but states and their boundaries have been arbitrarily drawn.

Yinkay:
There is Umuakwu City in Nsullu ,Isiala Ngwa North in Abia State, where re welcomed there as a Youth Corper some years ago with frothing Palmwine during endurance trek, so Abia will have Aba,Umuahia and Umuakwu,

Abagworo:
A city has to be planned and must have high rises and public buildings. Population does not matter much. Oklahoma city has only just over half a million inhabitants but is a city. In Nigeria a place like Abeokuta with over half a million people still looks like a large densely populated village. Same goes for Akure, Aba, Oshogbo-Ede, Onitsha, Aba, Kano, Zaria, Benin.  They lack high ways, well layed out streets and High rises. Take a look at Lagos(Particularly the Island not Ikorodu,Surulere or Ikeja) and Abuja, while driving there you will have the feel of a city.

dayokanu:
Any place with a population of over 300k deserves a city status.

Ibadan for one is not known for industries but as a huge population center Same with kano. How many of those cities you listed are capital cities?

Ogbomoso and Oyo have huge populations, Has Higher institutions, has a large expanse of Land Those are factors which qualify it for a city status

apocalypse:
@ poster
Going by your judgements of other "cities" even Umuahia wouldn't make it to city status. I think your post has tribal emphasis , think not ?

dayokanu:
Since Africa is not known for industries why should we now base it on it?

Ogbomosho and Oyo have several educational institutions , they also have their own small scale industries

They have the needed POPULATION and land mass to categorize them as cities

An urban area is characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations,

alj_harem:
Ok here it is

Note ranking is done based on the world standared and in the ordered

Urban Area Rank       City Pop Rank            City   City Population                              Urban Area Population
27                                       15                  Lagos     8029200                                            9123200
88                                     53                   Kano         3248700                                            3519500
78                                     54                  Ibadan       3078400                                            3670400
259                                     151                 Kaduna     1458900                                            1458900
324                                   255           Port Harcourt     1053900                                            1190600
392                           256                       Benin     1051600                                            1051600
428                                282                     Maiduguri         971700                                            971700
469                                  304               Zaria     898900                                             898900
468                                350                       Aba     784500                                             899100
554                               371                       Ilorin             756400                                             756400
563                              377                      Jos     742100                                             742100
[s]420                               386                 Ogbomosho     726300                                             985600[/s]
[s]656                       456                     Oyo     620400                                             620400[/s]
621                             479                   Enugu             593300                                             662800
597                         560                Abeokuta             529700                                             698100
413                             594                   Onitsha             509500                                            1001000
817                            609                   Warri      500900                                               500900
818                             610                   Sokoto      500500                                             500500
[s]885                            694                  Okene      444900                                              444900[/s]
899                            713                Calabar      431200                                              431200
302                            729                  Oshogbo       421000                                              1309900
954                            797                    Katsina      387000                                               387000
984                            844                   Akure       369700                                              369700
[s]1121                   1012                   Ife                   313400                                            313400[/s]


etc

http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/Nigeria.htm

dayokanu:
^^ By my own reckoning cities should be ranked by population (most importantly)

I cant find any definition of a city which excludes the large Population

What relative development do you expect from a "city" of 20,000 people? Thats the population of 2 bus stops in Lagos.

If those small scale companies are what qualifies them for City status then Ewekoro, Nkalagu, Igbeti too should be classified as cities

These 3 names have populations more than 50k, Have mining industry related activities going on there

I dont think its fair and reasonable to compere Africa to any part of US in terms of Infrastructures.

Take Ibadan or Kano to the US and they would fail woefully in infrastructures,

Timbuktu was definitely an African City but doesn't have the infrastructures other Western Cities had at that point in time

Same with Kumasi, Oyo, Benin which were centers of African civilisation

stpat1:
I can confidently tell u dat Edo is a 3 city state. Benin, Ekpoma and Auchi. Last time I checked Auchi and Ekpoma are more economically busier than some state capitals like Ado-ekiti, yenagoa, oshogbo, abakaliki, damaturu, jalingo, etc. If u av been to these places then u'll agree with me.
My findings are based on economic activities, banks, schools, hotels, good roads, stable electricity, human population, transportation etc.

chino11:
[b]When it comes to education even Ebonyi state is ahead of you wawa people. [/b]You guys had had bad government over the years that has refused to invest in education. Anambra is far ahead of enugu when it comes to education, so what are you guyz holding onto virtually nothing.

The army stark unlettered people causing nuisance in Anambra today particularly Onitsha are your backward people seeking for their daily bread in our land, but all that are changing because sooner than later we are going turn most of back home or into River Niger choose one.

We love ourselves no wonder envy and complex is killing you guyz. You wawa people are online playing catch up to meet up Anambrans but its just a gift from God you backward people cannot change.

ak47mann:
anambra  got the most educated people in SE followed by imo state

chino11:
^

The open this it might help:

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/newsonthehour/2011/oct/28/newsbreak-28-10-2011-001.html

The records are there for anyone to see: Anambra ranks third only after Lagos and Rivers state, Abia is way far behind when it comes to that. If there is one state that should not be talking when other are commenting its Imo state. Because I have not seen any meaningful thing going on in your state except prostitution.

chino11:
Of course my brother reality cannot be changed. Just like the Mideast hate America because of their mountainous success the same way they other SE states hate Anambra because of huge and intimidating success.