₦airaland Forum

The problem with Lagos ?
Lagos is overpopulated and more keep coming.
The question is
From where and why considering that the state's revenue/head is smaller than most of the states.

And we are suppose to be in an oil boom.

Just wait.
He will be consumed by all the fires he is busy setting all about.

Ogogoro man go crash nigeria which is good news for odua states.
You all know how it feels when you go to the cinema to see a well advertised film.
midway into the film,you find out that you already know how it will end.

Thank you tinubu,
Thank you ajimobi
Thank you Amosun .
Thank you fashola
The work you are doing and all the incentives you are giving is seriously bearing fruit.
These guys are hitting the industrial g spot.
Just imagine where we would have been if we weren't saddled with laggards. Just take control of our own electricity industry powered by the gas been flared offshore in Lagos and ondo .

tobtap: there debt is 17 trillion as well compared to nigeria with debt lower that 40 billion dollars

And they can wipe it off within 10yrs by simply increasing taxation to 30%.

Falana was right in some ways but to say that chop I chop politics did not play a part is denying the obvious.

I do not know what to say about the likes of odumakin ,falae and co.
Imagine these idiots signing off on the indigen/settler thing considering the concomitant angle to the whole thing.
the yorubas , bedrooms,tivs etc are the ones who are affected because the others are simply not accommodating and are very nepotic .They also always have a way of excluding others from opportunities .

ola6: Fashola, na your papa own am? The Park is owned by the FG and flowers were planted by you.

Ikorodu road now belongs to the Lagos state government and that is why it does not look like the apapa wharf road which belongs to the FG .

The Youths should sort out the thugs(student union and NANS) in their respective schools first.use that as an appertizer.

Who wants to die for a useless country and a retardedz president?
While the good ones amongst the soldiers die, their equally retardedz fellow citizens live in self denial and at the same time contribute to the rot.
This, when they are not busy attending church at 9'o clock in the morning, expecting one Foreign god to save them from beneath one rocks in Jerusalem and Mecca .

Na only darkness ,bomb and armed robbers una still dey pay for right now.
Una go start to pay for breathing and shitting very soon.
Brought to you by the fresh air team.

Fantastic.

What has age got to do with competence and vision?
Firing squad for 20% of nigerian youths and
8yrs Compulsory farm service for another 70%.

I wouldn't have minded them running me off the road if only they kept their mouth shut.
I cannot stand stvpid people, neither can I stand materialistic ones.
They ooze out so much dumb talk that I wanna tear my ears out.

Nigeria?
Falling apart gradually.

The nigerian military is boko haram's quarter master.
There is a video on YouTube where they were showcasing the hardware they had stolen from the military.
It is a shame really

Practical solution is make everybody pack him load.
The fully functional electricity power corporation of western nigeria was taken over by federal government, renamed NEPA and completely messed up.
Let everybody go generate ,transmit and distribute him own power.

Yomieluv: This Fashola sef,why call on FG alone,when its suppose to be joint effort in tackling the problem,as if the people there don't pay tax to the state government.politics is one of our bane of under development.

What is this one saying?
More than 1.5 trillion already carted out from the ports this year alone.
Not to talk of the VAT,corporate taxes ,license fees being carted out of Lagos for sharing to laggard states.
Even after robbing peter to pay Paul,they still send all their responsibilities and poverty to Lagos .

This is not an indictment on the state of emergency but a statement on the strategy or lack of.
Also the exposes the brutality and indiscipline in the military and the corruption/clueless of the jonathan led federal government.
Mind you, these numbers are official number. The real numbers must be at least 10 times that.

Typical empty ,ordinary salary earner excuse for mediocrity.
A Phd in a field similar to the issues exposed by this election ,yet sounds like someone who never saw the four wall of the university.
Yet this man is a lecturer.
The big question is what is the man teaching his students?
I am not going to try and dumb down my reply to this silly article.
However I am going to leave you with a trivia and the answer

Question: Do you know the product responsible for most of Microsoft's profits.

Answer: Microsoft office

From governments ,charities ,small businesses and individuals all the way to the big multinationals.
instead of firing up his own spreadsheet/text editor ,design a few questions (poll) for the electorates and in order to understand the thinking /behaviour and the psychology behind their choice ,this typical nigerian salary .......................................

runzlord: Does the north think they can survive without the south?

Yes they can but it requires a lot of hardwork and a change of attitude ,cultural and values.

Regionalism ,regimental army etc would have taken care of all this long throat .
It is the refusal to take ownership and responsibility for their resources that is causing all these problems.
Ordinary 10 naira on all the tomatoes ,onions ,
Pepper,groundnut coming out of the north will accumulate to something bigger than the allocation from oil.
I guess ,that will require a lot of hardwork and the people will ask the serious questions .

C0llynzO2: @Oduastates I don't know what your rant is about and why you put yourself on a high horse.
The picture are those of rural areas as stated by the OP. The Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa Ibom you mentioned are doing better that your South west states of Osun, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun and Ekiti.
Those states have urban areas like warri, Asaba and Uyo which are better than your Oshogbos, Akures and Abeokutas, even Yenagoa is fast catching up infrastructurally albeit silently. We all know what the pictures of your supposed ''capital cities'' are like let alone the rural areas.

Ok let us assume you are right,do those places have even half the human resources of coming out of ijeshaland .Do they have half the primary and secondary school of ondo west.

Do you know of any place with as much factories as ota ?
You are not catching up,you guys are slowing is down.
Even at that,it will take you 200 years if you continue with the way you are going .that is if we stop doing anything .
doing better than oyo?I am laughing.
You better come ibadan see your people hustling and getting all the opportunities they are denied at home,in a largely peaceful( niger standard) state
From tomato /fish seller to the businessman/ civil servant .
The only place doing better than oyo is port harcourt and the only advantage it has is the oil industry and nigh life and the opportunities specific to it.
Apart from that,
Nothing.
Whether it is the
Education industry
Manufacturing
Telecoms
Agriculture/animal husbandry
Research
Commerce
Shopping
Transportation and distribution.
Building industry/real estate

These are what makes an economy .
If any of your states can scratch this ,then I will agree with you.

atlwireles: Don't be a bloody liar here. There never a time, in last 30 yrs delta state was close to Rivers, when it came to economic development.

Then you never knew the warri of old.the place to be and be seen in the SS.

Dominiquez: @ Odua

Some of these pictures are part of Rivers state so don't exempt Amaechi except you are bias as APC.

I am not saying that river state is not suffering from some of the same problems as a result of her being in the ND,however you cannot tell me that Amaechi is not hitting the right notes in any areas.
tHere is poverty all over Nigeria .sime you can understand but the poverty in the niger delta is unexplainable.
Someone migrating to port harcourt for the first time will find the same kind of opportunities that you will find in Lagos.from banking to telecoms to entertainment and commerce.
As at 1994 ,river barely edged delta .that was because of the presence of shell base.Now,delta cannot stand near port harcourt at all .
In fact ,in the last 5 years ,that gap has been expanding exponentially.
These things do not happen in a vacuum .

Your cry is as ridiculous as the cry of northern governors blaming the federal government for lack of education and the rise of Boko haram.
I see a place as ghettorized as all the ghettoes around the country.
The question is ,
Why does remain it like that in spite of all the money flowing/circulating in the region?
Why do so many of SS citizens have to migrate for opportunities when they have all the resources to make their home ,some of the most beautiful and economically buoyant in the world?
We can all see with our own eyes how far The little akpabio decided not steal can go ,even if most of those projects are white elephants with little or no economic value to the people?
Why can't bayelsa ,akwa ibom ,delta attract investment the way river state is shadowing Lagos ?

The reason :
Just imagine for a minute that the black crude were not in the river .
What do you see?
Is it not the same poverty?

It is not the oil pollution that is the problem ,
The problem are SS leaders whom I rank the second most heartless in that country.
Like I have always said,the violence /insecurity/lack in Nigeria is a measure of the corruption ,lack of rule in that region.
All the bunkering money is flowing in that region.
Osun state feeds 300,000 children daily.the state is not an educationally disadvantaged state by any measure.Do you see a disadvantaged state like bayelsa ,zamfara ,yobe ,nassarawa doing anything close to that?
Ok if they are not spendingoney on teacher's salary,building/maintaining schools ,distributing textbooks etc,then what are they spending money on?
Even with the presidency,the south south is not attracting game changing investment .Rather ,apart from rivers state ,they are moving out to be replaced by vermins aka corrupt Nigerian businessmen and politicians.
I personally understand the sentiment coming out of the region.I am an odua nationalist and can understand the reasons why the niger delta would want their own country and their own destiny.
However telegraphing the blame to someone outside the region is nothing but a joke.
Yes the north used their control of the centre to pillage the oil industry ,just like janathan is doing today?
The stealing with national character.
Oil blocks were distributed amongst the criminal from all regions in the country(the greedy north kept the largest share for themselves).
Do you know what the SS Thieves did with their share of the loot?
They sold the oil blocks for a quick buck .
Apart from the leaders,The psyche of the followers matters as well .
My friend,
The niger deltans are to blame in just about the same way that the ekitis are to blame for their state remaining a shithole where even their own children avoid like a plague .

berem: Honestly,I can't remember what "pen is mightier than the sword" means.

Intelligence/knowledge/wisdom over brute force and despotism.

The pen is used to give despots sleepless night.
The pen is used to start a revolution.
The pen is used to spread the news, on his removal.
The pen is used to write his obituary.
The pen is used to herald a new dawn.
The pen is used to consign the despot to the historical dustbin of irrelevance .

abubello: is this the latest world record set by Jonathan's regime?

The latest record is that nigerians are now refugees in other countries the way same way we have Somalian,Rwanda and Congo refugees.
The united nation is taking responsibility because as you know,
You have no government.

Ikengawo: Was the north in competition with the south at the confab? the problem is when we were all asked to sit down and talk all regions began painting it as some type of competition instead of a discussion. the north declared early they would flat our oppose anything from the south for no real reason other than typical nigerian mentality

how can the north 'lose out' of a discussion? Have every had a conversation with someone and lost a conversation unless you came in to compete (argue)? All sides could easily get exactly what they want but the north didn't propose anything it wanted, it simply opposed everything everyone else wanted.


The real truth is the north is a myth. There's no 'north'. The term was invented because the british didn't have enough motivation to create several colonies with everything north of the Lagos, Eastern and western colonies so it just declared it all as 'north'. It then contacted it's most powerful tribe, the Fulani by proxy of the Hausa, and called them Hausa-Fulani. Then it helped increase that tribes power in the region so it can rule the whole region indirectly.


today ALL of the other tribes have come to their senses and have realized that this arrangement has defrauded deceived and disenfranchised them. They have remembered that they are vastly different from the Hausa and most importantly the Fulani and can no longer allow those two to speak for them and kill them at the same time. the Caliphate is a dead concept and 'the north' went to the confab not realizing that. All of the other groups came and discussed while the caliphate came to argue.

How can the north lose when northern minorities are getting their own states and governing their own destinies for the first time in 100 years? How can the north lose when the middle belt has achieved all it's objectives? are these people no longer northerners? The Fulani oligarchy lost because it must lose for everyone else to move on and only wins when everyone is subjugated, but it's in one small tribe out of the 100s in the north that have won at this confab so how did the north lose?

Hahahahaha.
The minorities realise blah blah blah ..........................
They will hate the caliphate Until the pendulum of power changes back to them and the usual suspects grovel for crumbs from their masters.
Now a proper lesson.
The minorities were not cheated .
They were part and parcel and partakers in the despoliation of their lands.just like the SE and SS .They with their own hands, voted /associated with the same people who came later to molest them.
I won't even bother to list their leaders . I can name 100 middlebelt participants in the pillaging of their own land .many of them , without as much as a village hut in their state.
the north have been speaking in one voice at conference.
For them Fulani vs southern kaduna is a smaller issue when compared to allocation vs derivation.
So spare us the lecture.