Bagehot:


Lagos should be competing with Mumbai, not London, NYC or Tokyo. You are comparing Nigerian cities to cities in the richest countries on earth - doesn't tally.

samdunzo:


Okay. But we all want to aim for the sky. I truly believe that with the right leadership Lagos can be competing with those cities I mentioned. Although, Mumbai is also a city Lagos can look up to as well

TheStronghold:
That's mainly the northern sympathetic nature to boko haram and their ideology. They can easily crush them but they see them as their brothers.

I've said this before but I'll say it again. If not for Nigeria and the problem it brings (over population on the southwest, reducing GDP per capita and job availability, over bearing our electricity capacity, even Osun has great electricity, that's because of low population) Yoruba Nation would've been like Egypt/ Morroco/South Africa by now. Nigeria is greatly holding Yorubas back.

The Greek are white, but they are not the same as the Germans at all. One country is barely sustainable, the other is an incredibly run, intelligent, and wealthy country. Yorubas are not the same as Fulanis. Igbos are smart and hardworking as well, but they lack the capacity to build a top tier nation as a group as they're too individualistic. Yorubaland that had the first tv station in Africa and the first skyscraper in sub Saharan Africa in1963, is struggling to build more in 2021. Clearly something has gone massively wrong. The difference between now and then is Yorubas controlled everything in the regional system, now decisions run through the central government, largely dominated by northern states.

ShawnMcJoe:
These pictures are images taken from Victoria Island, Lagos Island, Ikoyi and Lekki which of course have some great scenery and buildings I must confess. Don't be fooled, over 90% of lagosians actually reside in places like Agege, Ojodu Berger, Surulere, Mushin, Ogba, Oshodi, Omole, Ipaja, Ajah (beyond Sangotedo), Isolo, Ebutte Metta, Akowonjo, Festac, Yaba, Ikorodu, Ketu, Alapere etc and these are where the real hustle is. I'm sure nowhere in the whole of America is as rugged as these later places mentioned. That's the reality.

Goke7:


It's low emotional intelligence and inferiority complex. That's why goods made in Aba will be labelled made in America.

That's why local rice will be repackaged, labelled imported and sold at exhorbitant prices to massage our foolish egos. We get problem no be small

pacespot:
The pictures below are the cities which are the commercial nerve centres of the countries: New York and Hong Kong. This is how a city planing is done in advanced countries. The current city planning in Lagos is a hogwash, where one person will acquire one hundred square mentre of land to build a mansion. Lagos is a commercial city because it gives Nigeria access to sea, this is not where you go to do land grabbing. We will soon come to the realization of this fact when Nigeria becomes a more industrialized nation. Conserving spaces within the metropolis of Lagos will become an utmost priority, this is why high-rise buildings like skyscrapers that can accommodate five hundreds apartments and above will become the only option. You can also have hundreds of companies occupying one building. in advanced countries like USA, people go to remote areas to acquire land to build their mansion, not in commercial areas like New York and Chicago.

Goke7:


If we can get rid of okada in Lagos, there will be so much sanity

plaindealer:
If you think Lagos is not Nigeria's answer to Miami, something is seriously wrong with you or either you are a bitter, disgruntled, bitter and tribal ipob villager or just another hateful sadist.


God Bless The Great State Of Lagos.

Ugosample:


What does "ipob" have to do with anything

9jaRealist:


Let it continue to PAIN you...

South Africa? Built by white folks (particularly places like Cape Town, which is overwhelming white)...
Tanzania? Dar-es-Salam looks like Ikorodu, with a few new hotels and tall buildings in last few years.
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plaindealer:


Are you ipob?

I don't even remember calling you ipob, maybe it's guilty conscience.

Gamesmart:


You either need to stop lying about ever leaving Nigeria or stop taking drugs.

It is the height of foolishness to say there is not much difference between Miami and Lagos.

Please show us the open gutters in front of houses in Miami if you know you are not being foolish.

Follow that by showing us the Balogun market next to the Business District of Miami.

Then follow by showing us the potholes in the upmarket areas of Miami.

shogsman:

Miami is around 100km and If you think there is an unutilised space or a gutter in such a small area then you have no business being on this thread

Goke7:


Frustrations have made nigerians loose their sense of reasoning. I can't believe a Nigerian will say an African country he has not been to is better than Nigeria.

I asked a friend whose mother is a Ghanaian why they didn't return back to Ghana since their father is late, she told me plainly that cost of living in Ghana is way too expensive than Nigeria.

Nigerians will visit an African country for few days and conclude it's better than Nigerian. How dumb

Gamesmart:


Small area?

What a profoundly stupid response to deflect from answering the questions.

Firstly, Miami is about 145 square kilometres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami

Can you tell us any 10 square kilometres (not even 145) part of Lagos that does not have open gutters in front of houses?

Or 10 sqkm is not a small enough area for you? You want to come up with another dumb deflection or excuse?

Senseless people!