₦airaland Forum

nedu666:
The market is in Lagos because of population. If millions of lgbos leave lagos to the east, every business in Lagos will feel it. Even banks with thousands of branches will shut down so many.

Cooly100:
Don't deviate form the topic...you pretty understand everything I am talking about?

Read that post again and slowly and you will understand.

You said it will continue to grow...

So I have asked, who will make it grow?

Parachoco:
If Igbos leave Lagos, the city will keep on prospering because of Tinubu and his boys lovely plans for the city. The city was bubbling before the Igbos arrive and will keep on bubbling if they leave so far the state is rule by visionary and intelligent people like Tinubu.

Only a civil war in Lagos can stop Lagos from prospering at this stage

Newsline09:
Since Governor Soludo made the call for Anambra traders in Lagos to relocate and bring home their businesses to their homeland, I have been struggling to process such a call. Coming from a Professor of economics and a global citizen makes it more difficult.

Assuming that these Anambra traders respond to the call of our political leader and representative, who is considered to be our Governor, the traders would disperse throughout Anambra State. This does not imply that Lagos' markets will close—never. Other traders from the Southeast and other parts of Nigeria will fill the void left by these traders and carry on with their enterprises because life abhors vacuums.

Consider Chukwuma and Sons Motor Spare Parts, which is well-known in the Lagos motor spare parts market, packing up to return home to Anambra to establish itself due to a disagreement with his landlord. Extend this to all his Anambra co-traders who left home to compete with the business needs of a megacity like Lagos; all will relocate their stores back home merely to serve Professor Charles Soludo, CFR's ego call. Will such an exit and move shut down the Lagos spare parts market or other businesses controlled by Anambra traders?

This isn't about the security worry that has dominated this space since the Governor's rash call, but rather the economic sense that such a call makes for the Governor.

Obviously, the Lagos market will continue to flourish and benefit those who are prepared, simply because Lagos has reached a level that neither envy nor prejudice can demolish. Lagos flourishes in business due to its size and strategic location in the country today. The average Anambra man or woman, like other ethnic groups in Lagos, benefits from the large market and demands that Lagos provides; asking them to relocate home would not shut down Lagos State, which is destined to grow even more; rather, remittances from Lagos to Anambra will suffer because the market does not exit in Anambra State as it does in Lagos.

No one would travel to your hideout in search of you; kindly perish the thought that consumers would come to Anambra to buy from Anambra traders if they needed the commodity. Those who are available will take over their demands while you perish at home.

Those masturbating over the statement and calling for 'relocation' clearly do not grasp Governor Chukwuma Soludo's gaffe. It's fine to encourage investors to consider your state as a new investment destination for a variety of reasons; anyone would do so; however, capitalizing on the reported spat between some Igbo traders and their host to now ask your brothers and sisters to return home and relocate their businesses so you can collect more taxes even when the market is not available is completely absurd.

I might be wrong; perhaps Charles Soludo, the much-talked-about economic titan, made a different call from my understanding and illustration, which I would ask him to buttress further so ranks like us would understand better. If not, then we voted for a clown as Governor who doesn't understand change and narratives in the global economy.

Anyone at this age still asking Igbos to return home is simply an enemy within who doesn't desire progress for our people and homeland. We must purge ourselves of whatever's left of the 1967 civil war and bury this victimhood mentality so we can tap into the opportunities for which nature has availed us as indigenous people of present-day Nigeria.

I would not fault the call by Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu in the 1960s; a lot has changed since then and lessons have been learned, which Dim confessed to before his transition to the great beyond. The first call was a mistake, and another would be a disaster. We must seek working political solutions to our present-day challenges, if any.

If Charles Soludo had traveled to Lagos State with other Southeast Governors to meet with their counterparts at the Alausa Government House to discuss challenges being faced by Igbo traders in the state, positives would have been garnered and long-term solutions to the differences would have been discussed and implemented, but instead, he left Awka through Umueri Airport only to call a town hall meeting for Anambra traders to boycott Lagos and relocate their businesses home as that would be the only way to resolve the differences.

They're everywhere, distorting the 'Aku Luo Unọ' philosophy, which loosely translates to remittances back home rather than business relocation to hideouts where no one will see them for patronage and consumption.

They were made rich by the markets in Lagos, not the other way around, and you are asking them to relocate back home, Aren't you silly? I have always held the view that the Igbos, who are sojourners and traditional traders by nature, benefit more from Nigeria's unity and complexity than any other ethnic group. Our ability to live and do business anywhere gives us unrestricted access to the vast market size of the nation, and anyone urging us to return home is simply a household enemy. Instead of making ridiculous ego calls, our governors should be talking to their counterparts across host states about our protection and equal treatment which is often the issue.

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Uloka Chibuike is a trained strategic communicator, and public affairs analyst.
Ulokachuks@yahoo.com

Parachoco:
I don't still understand what you're talking about

Where in my post did I ask people to leave Lagos State? Please kindly show me

BATdBigot:
Many residents don't even like Lagos, and if given a choice, they will flee.

Parachoco:
Lagos State is not made up of Central Lagos or whatever you call it.

Show me the Pictures of Lekki, Ajah, Sangotedi, Ikorodu, Epe before the arrival of Asiwaju and his Boys.

Asiwaju and his boys made Lagos what it is today.

Delta/Warri do not have capable guys like Asiwaju and his boys, that's why the city of Warri is dead and can't compete with the City of Lagos

Hope you know the City of Warri and Lagos is on the same level before? Or you wan argue this known fact?

Gbagada of the 1970's,80's and 90's can't compete with the present day Gbagada.

You can start showing me pictures of the old gbagada make we compare

Lagos is at this level because of Asiwaju and his boys

RockHard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTUucOUIhj8

Una brother here too support una move back to Alaibo. But until I start seeing SE governors sending luxurious buses to come and carry you people back home I won't take you people serious.

RockHard:
Akuko. 'If given a choice you say'?? Did Sanwo-Olu put a fun to their head to force them to remain in Lagos, out of the other 35. + fact states in the country? Just admit that you ibo people are addicted to Lagos. You can make region into what you want if you truly have it's interest at heart. But the truth is that you aren't nation-builders. You have wrecked your region and made it uninhabitable for yourself that's why you're fleeing there and refusing to relocate back home.

Parachoco:
If Igbos leave Lagos, the city will keep on prospering because of Tinubu and his boys lovely plans for the city. The city was bubbling before the Igbos arrive and will keep on bubbling if they leave so far the state is rule by visionary and intelligent people like Tinubu.

Only a civil war in Lagos can stop Lagos from prospering at this stage

BATdBigot:
Lol, you must be from outer space to say Igbos aren't nation builders. Can you show me any other city in Nigeria that isn't a state capital that is as developed as Onitsha or Aba?

Igbos aren't nation builders yet they are called developers? Who are the biggest investors in most Nigerian cities after the indigenes?

Yes, many people don't like Lagos for many reasons. You can ask questions.

Let the right policies be put in place, particularly decentralization of infrastructure/amenities by federal government instead of forcing everyone to use Lagos and see if the city won't decline.

Even this attack against other Nigerians, particularly Igbos will affect Lagos drastically. You said Igbos have refused to relocate home? Take a trip to East and see the numbers relocating. That's why cities like Enugu, Owerri, Asaba and Awka etc are expanding rapidly.

Parachoco:
If Igbos leave Lagos, the city will keep on prospering because of Tinubu and his boys lovely plans for the city. The city was bubbling before the Igbos arrive and will keep on bubbling if they leave so far the state is rule by visionary and intelligent people like Tinubu.

Only a civil war in Lagos can stop Lagos from prospering at this stage

RockHard:
I guess na only una no believe say charity must begin at home. Why can't you develope your region to be the envy of others, to the point where others would be begging to live in alaibo? Why going about as if something is chasing you and constituting nuisance in Indonesia, South Africa, Lagos, India etc. What's stopping you from developing your tiny enclave? Lagos state obviously doesn't rate you people else you won't be asked to leave.

If dem born Una, make Una leave Lagos go back. I know Una no fit coz home is in a terrible state, and most of you can't survive there which was why you left there in the first place. The SW is the economic power house of Nigeria while your region is dragging position with NE. I challenge ibos in Lagos to relocate to alaibo if dem born dem well.

Newsline09:
Since Governor Soludo made the call for Anambra traders in Lagos to relocate and bring home their businesses to their homeland, I have been struggling to process such a call. Coming from a Professor of economics and a global citizen makes it more difficult.

Assuming that these Anambra traders respond to the call of our political leader and representative, who is considered to be our Governor, the traders would disperse throughout Anambra State. This does not imply that Lagos' markets will close—never. Other traders from the Southeast and other parts of Nigeria will fill the void left by these traders and carry on with their enterprises because life abhors vacuums.

Consider Chukwuma and Sons Motor Spare Parts, which is well-known in the Lagos motor spare parts market, packing up to return home to Anambra to establish itself due to a disagreement with his landlord. Extend this to all his Anambra co-traders who left home to compete with the business needs of a megacity like Lagos; all will relocate their stores back home merely to serve Professor Charles Soludo, CFR's ego call. Will such an exit and move shut down the Lagos spare parts market or other businesses controlled by Anambra traders?

This isn't about the security worry that has dominated this space since the Governor's rash call, but rather the economic sense that such a call makes for the Governor.

Obviously, the Lagos market will continue to flourish and benefit those who are prepared, simply because Lagos has reached a level that neither envy nor prejudice can demolish. Lagos flourishes in business due to its size and strategic location in the country today. The average Anambra man or woman, like other ethnic groups in Lagos, benefits from the large market and demands that Lagos provides; asking them to relocate home would not shut down Lagos State, which is destined to grow even more; rather, remittances from Lagos to Anambra will suffer because the market does not exit in Anambra State as it does in Lagos.

No one would travel to your hideout in search of you; kindly perish the thought that consumers would come to Anambra to buy from Anambra traders if they needed the commodity. Those who are available will take over their demands while you perish at home.

Those masturbating over the statement and calling for 'relocation' clearly do not grasp Governor Chukwuma Soludo's gaffe. It's fine to encourage investors to consider your state as a new investment destination for a variety of reasons; anyone would do so; however, capitalizing on the reported spat between some Igbo traders and their host to now ask your brothers and sisters to return home and relocate their businesses so you can collect more taxes even when the market is not available is completely absurd.

I might be wrong; perhaps Charles Soludo, the much-talked-about economic titan, made a different call from my understanding and illustration, which I would ask him to buttress further so ranks like us would understand better. If not, then we voted for a clown as Governor who doesn't understand change and narratives in the global economy.

Anyone at this age still asking Igbos to return home is simply an enemy within who doesn't desire progress for our people and homeland. We must purge ourselves of whatever's left of the 1967 civil war and bury this victimhood mentality so we can tap into the opportunities for which nature has availed us as indigenous people of present-day Nigeria.

I would not fault the call by Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu in the 1960s; a lot has changed since then and lessons have been learned, which Dim confessed to before his transition to the great beyond. The first call was a mistake, and another would be a disaster. We must seek working political solutions to our present-day challenges, if any.

If Charles Soludo had traveled to Lagos State with other Southeast Governors to meet with their counterparts at the Alausa Government House to discuss challenges being faced by Igbo traders in the state, positives would have been garnered and long-term solutions to the differences would have been discussed and implemented, but instead, he left Awka through Umueri Airport only to call a town hall meeting for Anambra traders to boycott Lagos and relocate their businesses home as that would be the only way to resolve the differences.

They're everywhere, distorting the 'Aku Luo Unọ' philosophy, which loosely translates to remittances back home rather than business relocation to hideouts where no one will see them for patronage and consumption.

They were made rich by the markets in Lagos, not the other way around, and you are asking them to relocate back home, Aren't you silly? I have always held the view that the Igbos, who are sojourners and traditional traders by nature, benefit more from Nigeria's unity and complexity than any other ethnic group. Our ability to live and do business anywhere gives us unrestricted access to the vast market size of the nation, and anyone urging us to return home is simply a household enemy. Instead of making ridiculous ego calls, our governors should be talking to their counterparts across host states about our protection and equal treatment which is often the issue.

____
Uloka Chibuike is a trained strategic communicator, and public affairs analyst.
Ulokachuks@yahoo.com

OloYeOfEgbE:
Shatap

But you can buy tomatoes and other crops from the North..You can also import cars from USA and buy market from China but igboland is too far from you

Una go wail tire

paramakina202:
Igbos are not leaving any part of Nigeria talkless of leaving Lagos.

Parachoco:
What are you crying about?

OloYeOfEgbE:
We are going back home...aboki will sell your spareparts and ndi Benue will full mandilas and alaba

Hehehehehehe

OloYeOfEgbE:
Shatap

But you can buy tomatoes and other crops from the North..You can also import cars from USA and buy market from China but igboland is too far from you

Una go wail tire

OloYeOfEgbE:
Slavish quotes..

But you can buy from the North..

You go wail tire ooooo

Parachoco:
I'm not asking any Nigerian to leave any part of the country

paramakina202:
People should better understand that.

spy24:
Some people just dey talk any how...

Industrious People are the major factor that drives development in any land

I am not Igbo but something all Nigerians will agree with for a fact I'd that Igbos are industrious and innovative

I put it to you that if this people decide to leave Lagos and invest in cities like Asaba Onitsha Port Harcourt or even Warri Lagos will go down but it won't be suddenly ..

Johnjustice:
If you leave, believe me the state will find a better use for those space, land space is very expensive in Lagos now. Other Nigerians will easily replace you, the state will even have am opportunity to develop those markets to proper standards and make more money.

You need Lagos, Lagos don't need you. If you think am lying try and see, the state will be very happy if you leave, because you are creating space for more development, those market do not fit Lagos state mega city plan.

Parachoco:
Which people? What are you wailing about sef?

nedu666:
The market is in Lagos because of population. If millions of lgbos leave lagos to the east, every business in Lagos will feel it. Even banks with thousands of branches will shut down so many.

Raheeqilmaktoom:
Is exactly the same with Nigeria, the nee the country not the other way round.

Given a separate country today will spell doom for them for many decades, they are confined to a small space with low population and where everyone is competing against his neighbor next door to sell the same product they don't produce to a market over saturated.

Raheeqilmaktoom:
Is exactly the same with Nigeria, the nee the country not the other way round.

Given a separate country today will spell doom for them for many decades, they are confined to a small space with low population and where everyone is competing against his neighbor next door to sell the same product they don't produce to a market over saturated.