₦airaland Forum

Lagos is over populated. Meanwhile, it is important to develop other coastal cities to meet the grade set in Lagos. Imagine Calabar or Warri as big and productive as Lagos. Lots of employments and new businesses. I think that the new financial capital of Nigeria should be in the minority areas. That way there will be less acrimonious relationships between the "host" and other majority ethnic groups. Look at Abuja for example. You hardly see a Gwarri man demanding respect for "the hosts", while feeling terrified by the mere presence of other major groups in huge numbers.
Lagos is set. Let's tey another new virgin land as the economic capital of Nigeria.

owobokiri:

Lagos is increasingly becoming hostile and unwelcoming to the freedom of other Nigerians to live in Lagos as "Lagosians" . Rather they are constantly reminded of the need to "respect their hosts" and to never lay any claim to the state even as "fellow Nigerians".

Per the stuff in bold, I am yet to meet anyone from the North or the South South that feels this way.

Why is it that certain people feel that much strongly (or pained even) than others about a Lagos that was also built up by Awolowo's Western region administration using Ndi Yoruba money, why exactly?

Some people's bitterness about the progress of Lagos state is ingrained.

Meanwhile, they would still be expecting the Lagosians to vote for their candidate in 2027. Same obsolete methods

This is the same guy that the evidence of him condemning Peter Obi all through his government as Anambra state governor is scattered on this forum but today, same Peter Obi is the best for Nigeria.

That's how they have been chewing hypocrisy raw

esnbrutality:
LAGOS was built with RESOURCES from other regions.

Go to OGUN, KWARA, OSUN, OGUN, OYO, ONDO states and develop them yourselves.

Before LAGOS is left by other tribes, you need your own COUNTRY. Can you fight for Oduduwa Republic,so you own Lagos 100%?

If not, go sleep...na NIGERIA una dey.. everyone has a right anywhere.

A huge chunk of Lagos today was developed by Western Region ergo Ndi Yoruba money.

When that huge chunk of Lagos state was carved out of Western Region, no monies were returned to the rest of the former region so those from the states you mentioned are staying put as Lagos state happened to them when they were still living peacefully in their region jẹjẹ.

Only one tribe, only one of all the tribes in Nigeria that lives in Lagos, is complaining about being chased out of Lagos, why? Who is chasing you out sef?

Ordinary street renaming by Ndi Yoruba is causing all this crying by that one particular set of people, feel free to play Ndi Yoruba return match in your own state then and allowed us rest, chikena.

Mabuggi88:
So where are these five local government? In Ogun state?
The national stadium then was in Surulere, now tell me is Surulere among these local government you just mentioned? The national Airport then was in Ikeja now MMA, tell me is Ikeja among these local government you just mentioned?
Lagos Island was the headquarters and the whole of Lagos was all built up as capital, stop deceiving people. What will children be taught in schools? If they are asked the former Capitals of Nigeria, do you expect them to mention all those Local government areas you wrote up there? That's misleading and totally horrendous

The first modern stadium in the whole of west Africa was already standing in Ibadan. Onikan, older but smaller was already in Lagos as well.
Your regional government failed to build anything then, and they are still doing the same thing today.
Talking of skyscrapers, when Awolowo was building industrial estates in Apapa, Ilupeju, Ikeja and elsewhere what exactly was going on with your regional leaders?

aswani:
Per the stuff in bold, I am yet to meet anyone from the North ot the South South that feels this way.

Why is it that certain people feel that much strongly (or pained even) than others about a Lagos that was also built up by Awolowo's Western region administration using Ndi Yoruba money, why exactly?

Lol, for very good reason too. Which is that it is only one ethnic group of people who have an inordinate sense of entitlement wherever they go.

Be that Ghana ,Kenya, Cape Town, China etal. This is because they wish to dominate, and not assimilate, wherever they find themselves hence will always remain dissatisfied with whatever their host do as long as they have not gained full control of the land.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/105036-how-the-igbo-introduced-tribalism-to-nigerian-politics-by-femi-fani-kayode.html?tztc=1

ElSudani:
The first modern stadium in the whole of west Africa was already standing in Ibadan. Onikan, older but smaller was already in Lagos as well.
Your regional government failed to build anything then, and they are still doing the same thing today.
Talking of skyscrapers, when Awolowo was building industrial estates in Apapa, Ilupeju, Ikeja and elsewhere what exactly was going on with your regional leaders?

Don't mind them, Lagos is building metrolane across the length and breath of Lagos, most bridges in the corridor of Mile 2 is recently built, Free trade zone is less than a decade, road dualisation and bus stations are less than 10 years, tomorrow ndi developer would claim they are the one that develop Nigeria.
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While at that, their region is left empty with no modern infrastructure, they collect huge allocation to cater for decreasing population but they can't still equip their boysquarter. Their focus is on SW with modern infrastructure develop by their state government, this is coverteous is embarrassing to sane minds

aribisala0:
Five local government areas. Out of. 20 constituted the capital of Nigeria

Lagos Island
Lagos Mainland
Apapa
Surulere
Eti Osa

How local government make up nigeria capital in calabar & abuja

Ttalk:
Don't mind them, Lagos is building metrolane across the length and breath of Lagos, most bridges in the corridor of Mile 2 is recently built, Free trade zone is less than a decade, road dualisation and business stations are less than 10 years, tomorrow ndi developer would claim they are the one that develop Nigeria.
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While at that, their region is left empty with no modern infrastructure, they collect huge allocation to cater for decreasing population but they can't still equip their boysquarter. Their focus is on SW with modern infrastructure develop by their state government, this is coverteous is embarrassing to sane minds

The Western Nigeria Television was taken over by the FG and became Nigerian Television, they talk as if we have not given more than we took from this fraudulent unitary system.

Lolz. Expressing your (and your people's) wet dream. You can help in achieving this by all of you moving out of Ragos back to your land. If you get mind.

ElSudani:
The Western Nigeria Television was taken over by the FG and became Nigerian Television, they talk as if we have not given more than we took from this fraudulent unitary system.

Apapa port was already functional before the first man from SE crosses Niger bridge. Their fathers came to get free education in SW while the sons and daughters are here making money out of the wealth of SW but they are so ungrateful and envious of the land they are benefiting from.

Set of ungrateful souls

You think your fake news cum propaganda holds any water right?

Demolishing their properties is the utmost disservice. This is after your officials in the LASG collect humongous amounts of money claiming to be representatives of LASG building agencies. The sad thing is that people don't know that your region is the epicenter of fake documents and forgery. After doing the demolitions, you went ahead with JAMB fiasco, name changes of streets and tomorrow you start shouting respect your host lamentations.


In LAGOS, Northerners fight and kill your kindred regularly. Why didn't they respect you?

You are jealous of people that were devasted by a war and have recovered to actually surpass you in all forms of development.

Your only freedom is supporting BIAFRA, so you rid yourself of their so called insubordination. Just imagine Yotuba propagating superiority in a Nation of equals. If you are loyal to the North it's your right, but don't in a bid to show loyalty to the North become someone that sabotages other tribes.


IGBOs are the lifeline of LAGOS...havr ballz to expel them. ...let them have their country and leave you in your paradise.

aswani:
A huge chunk of Lagos today was developed by Western Region ergo Ndi Yoruba money.

When that huge chunk of Lagos state was carved out of Western Region, no monies were returned to the rest of the former region so those from the states you mentioned are staying put as Lagos state happened to them when they were still living peacefully in their region jẹjẹ.

Only one tribe, only one of all the tribes in Nigeria that lives in Lagos, is complaining about being chased out of Lagos, why? Who is chasing you out sef?

Ordinary street renaming by Ndi Yoruba is causing all this crying by that one particular set of people, feel free to play Ndi Yoruba return match in your own state then and allowed us rest, chikena.

Mabuggi88:
Lagos was capital for 77 years. You and Reno Omokri should not rewrite glaring history. Where is Lagos Island located? in Adamawa state?

Lekki was not under federal capital
Ikeja was not under federal capital.

Today, Ikeja is more developed than your entire region multiplied by 5.

Nobody invited you to Lagos, people that come to Lagos come because it benefits them and suits the modern civilised life they want to live in Africa.

You and your people don't have to come to Lagos, it is even congested, the government is trying to control the huge influx, if it reduces it's good for the city.

ElSudani:
The Western Nigeria Television was taken over by the FG and became Nigerian Television, they talk as if we have not given more than we took from this fraudulent unitary system.

God bless you. Look at Gbenga Daniel highlights how Yorubas are endangering themselves because they continue to behave most commendably, of the four major ethnic groups, to foster peace, unity and 'one Nigeria' welcoming character leading all and sundry to now be moving to the SW in droves and indicating future problems for indigenes.

What Nairaland Forumers should ask themselves is, if they choose to relocate from the SS, SW or North Central today, whether Anambra, Imo or Zamfara, Borno etal wil be their preferential first choice whereas the SW, along with the SS, remains the first choice of most Nigerians today.

In other words, those causing the most socio-economic problems for all Nigeria , i.e the terrorised SE and Core North, are the most unreasonably critical of what they view "Yoruba leadership" of Nigeria today without seeing they and their land offer nothing to the workability or glory of 'one Nigeria' currently.

The North will brag and blackmail with agriculture without being reasonable enough to understand it is the terrorism they groomed, while the SW was growing as a relatively peaceful and welcoming region for socio-economic activities, that has virtually ruined food sufficiency for us all as farmers cannot farm optimally.

They are blackmailing Tinubu today over insecurity, citing that as an excuse for demanding he leaves in 2027, yet we know PBAT is tasked with finding solutions to the existential security problem the North caused for all Nigeria over decades now.



They have made their regions net deficits to Nigeria currently yet the SW is an asset to Nigeria with how she has , in a troubled time, not worsened to become incapable of offering everything Nigerians need to thrive, be that employment and comparative peace/security, as the North and SE have.

The ingratitude of the two biggest troublemakers towards the SW is too much and Yorubas are observing their ungrateful and unreasonable mien silently.

They can leave to go to the SW today and begin thriving tomorrow yet which person from the SW wants to go the other way currently? Abi OP can move permanently Zamfara or Borno today without reservation?

This is why Yoruba intelligentsia class, though not louding it, are now seriously focused on regional autonomy because we know 'one Nigeria' is not fair to us and regions like the SS and North Central.

It is cheating and punishing us in favour of those who inordinately and undeservedly draw the most advantages from 'one Nigeria' yet continue to be the most ungratefu terrorised, menacing and socio-economically lagging members of the Union.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/south-west-on-course-to-be-home-for-50-nigerians-2050-senator/%3famp

dederocs:
Nobody invited you to Lagos, people that come to Lagos come because it benefits them and suits the modern civilised life they want to live in Africa.

You and your people don't have to come to Lagos, it is even congested, the government is trying to control the huge influx, if it reduces it's good for the city.

God bless you ojare. The very point I have made above while they, the constant and most bitter detractors of Lagos and her public administrators, cannot offer similar in their five plots of land.

They have made their regions net deficits to Nigeria currently yet the SW is an asset to Nigeria with how she has , in a troubled time, not worsened to become incapable of offering everything Nigerians need to thrive, be that employment and comparative peace/security, as the North and SE have.

WizardOfNG:
God bless you ojare. The very point I have made above while they, the constant and most bitter detractors of Lagos and her public administrators, cannot offer similar in their five plots of land.

This is Lagos, no welcome

MadPolitician:
Lagos is over populated. Meanwhile, it is important to develop other coastal cities to meet the grade set in Lagos. Imagine Calabar or Warri as big and productive as Lagos. Lots of employments and new businesses. I think that the new financial capital of Nigeria should be in the minority areas. That way there will be less acrimonious relationships between the "host" and other majority ethnic groups. Look at Abuja for example. You hardly see a Gwarri man demanding respect for "the hosts", while feeling terrified by the mere presence of other major groups in huge numbers.
Lagos is set. Let's tey another new virgin land as the economic capital of Nigeria.

People embracing extremism and their governors clueless, how can they develop...Lagos is the greatest city in Africa.

esnbrutality:
You think your fake news cum propaganda holds any water right?

Demolishing their properties is the utmost disservice. This is after your officials in the LASG collect humongous amounts of money claiming to be representatives of LASG building agencies. The sad thing is that people don't know that your region is the epicenter of fake documents and forgery. After doing the demolitions, you went ahead with JAMB fiasco, name changes of streets and tomorrow you start shouting respect your host lamentations.


In LAGOS, Northerners fight and kill your kindred regularly. Why didn't they respect you?

You are jealous of people that were devasted by a war and have recovered to actually surpass you in all forms of development.

Your only freedom is supporting BIAFRA, so you rid yourself of their so called insubordination. Just imagine Yotuba propagating superiority in a Nation of equals. If you are loyal to the North it's your right, but don't in a bid to show loyalty to the North become someone that sabotages other tribes.


IGBOs are the lifeline of LAGOS...havr ballz to expel them. ...let them have their country and leave you in your paradise.

Uncle, or Anti, properties demolished in Lagos state cut across all tribes. Why should certain people be exempt and allowed to build on waterways that will cause issues in the area when the water can't find ways to escape naturally?Some of Odumeje's church in Onitsha was destroyed by Anambra's version of LASTMA for that same reason. Are Anambra chasing Ndigbo away too?

No one is expelling anybody, all we are wondering is "Why only certain people crying about street naming", why?

Ndigbo have been all over Ala Yoruba for over 4 generations now, not just Lagos by the way, and they will never go back and neither should they as the locals have never asked them to plus they are nicely settled and integrated there.

Go and ask any of your forefathers which part of the country it was that their rent money was kept for them after the Biafra war. That they were welcomed back with open arms when they returned. Ask Obisia Nwakpa who took care of him when his parents returned to the East and deliberately left him behind.

Go and ask Yakubu Gowon how Chief Awolowo batted hard for ACB after the war, despite people in the government going against him. ACB were told to follow poor financial banking etiquette, straight after the war, ensuring Ndigbo traders could borrow money without surety and default at will in order to get Ndigbo's trading structure back on their feet.

You want your country, right? Elect senators that will propose the motion to in Abuja.

As for the other stuff you typed about North and Yoruba, I am not going to dignify them with a response as they don't deserve one.

Whiteshield:
Lekki was not under federal capital
Ikeja was not under federal capital.

Today, Ikeja is more developed than your entire region multiplied by 5.

MMA was located at Ikeja because the nation regarded Lagos not Lagos Island as the capital. Why didn't they located MMA in Lagos Island? So was many other infrastructures for instance the National Stadium was located in Surulere because the nation regarded the whole of Lagos as it's capital, is Surulere in Lagos Island?
make una stop capping these craps

Mabuggi88:
MMA was located at Ikeja because the nation regarded Lagos not Lagos Island as the capital. Why didn't they located MMA in Lagos Island? So was many other infrastructures for instance the National Stadium was located in Surulere because the nation regarded the whole of Lagos as it's capital, is Surulere in Lagos Island?
make una stop capping these craps

Okay go and relocate them and let us rest.

Surulere wasn't in Western Region by the way. Maybe the ones that built airport in Western Region territory should have built it somewhere else as no one forced them to.

The whole of Lagos wasn't the nations capital, Lagos state is a distinct (ala Yoruba) entity, separate from Federal government.

You are the one that should stop capping.

esnbrutality:
LAGOS was built with RESOURCES from other regions.

Go to OGUN, KWARA, OSUN, OGUN, OYO, ONDO states and develop them yourselves.

Before LAGOS is left by other tribes, you need your own COUNTRY. Can you fight for Oduduwa Republic,so you own Lagos 100%?

If not, go sleep...na NIGERIA una dey.. everyone has a right anywhere.

If you don't like the status quo in Lagos as dictated by the Yorubas, then leave the place for them. It's clear they will never relinquish their hold on it

ElSudani:
The first modern stadium in the whole of west Africa was already standing in Ibadan. Onikan, older but smaller was already in Lagos as well.
Your regional government failed to build anything then, and they are still doing the same thing today.
Talking of skyscrapers, when Awolowo was building industrial estates in Apapa, Ilupeju, Ikeja and elsewhere what exactly was going on with your regional leaders?

Their leaders were chasing clout then, finding power by all means. Nnamdi Azikwe was very desperate that he kept shouting One Nigeria. Meanwhile, Nnamdi didn’t do anything significant for igbos, other than blocking the secession clause that would have easily let them have that Biafra if he had foresight..

During regionalism, Only the west , north were productive. Nothing significant evolved from SE. when the colonia masters arrived, they saw how empty was SE, then they placed them on a higher allocations then the west... The west was actually the region that was receiving the lowest allocations as at then. You wonder why? It was they saw a region that already got doings so they felt it wouldn’t matter to us whatever allocations being given to the west..

Well, I kind of understand the colonial masters. A region that has built kingdoms & empires isn’t gonna be compare with a Zero region..

Here’s an image below: the 2k diff between North & East was due to population diff..

aswani:
Okay go and relocate them and let us rest.

Surulere wasn't in Western Region by the way. Maybe the ones that built airport in Western Region territory should have built it somewhere else as no one forced them to.

The whole of Lagos wasn't the nations capital, Lagos state is a distinct (ala Yoruba) entity, separate from Federal government.

You are the one that should stop capping.

Stop shifting goal post, nobody is relocating anything, no one is talking about relocation here. Lagos is Nigeria and whatever the country builds there belongs to the country and its citizens as well as nigerians. We're saying you should say things the way it is.

aswani:
A huge chunk of Lagos today was developed by Western Region ergo Ndi Yoruba money.

When that huge chunk of Lagos state was carved out of Western Region, no monies were returned to the rest of the former region so those from the states you mentioned are staying put as Lagos state happened to them when they were still living peacefully in their region jẹjẹ.

They always act as if they have limited memories..

Before oil was discovered, there was Cocoa, agriculture money..

The west did lots of amazing things before oil was discovered in Nigeria. Hence why I just laugh them whenever I see them say these baseless things..

ElSudani:
The Western Nigeria Television was taken over by the FG and became Nigerian Television, they talk as if we have not given more than we took from this fraudulent unitary system.

The Nigerian House in London used to belong to Western Region.

WizardOfNG:
Lol, for very good reason too. Which is that it is only one ethnic group of people who have an inordinate sense of entitlement wherever they go.

Be that Ghana ,Kenya, Cape Town, China etal. This is because they wish to dominate, and not assimilate, wherever they find themselves hence will always remain dissatisfied with whatever their host do as long as they have not gained full control of the land.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/105036-how-the-igbo-introduced-tribalism-to-nigerian-politics-by-femi-fani-kayode.html?tztc=1

This your link is worth making a thread out from bro..

What a loads of basic informations..

Who wants them to relinquish their hold. Nobody ofcourse, but when same people talk BIAFRA let them keep their mouths out of people's business.

Let them stop UNITY BEGGING and let people that want a seperate country have their peace.

Don't you think so?

Predictor3:
If you don't like the status quo in Lagos as dictated by the Yorubas, then leave the place for them. It's clear they will never relinquish their hold on it

Mabuggi88:
MMA was located at Ikeja because the nation regarded Lagos not Lagos Island as the capital. Why didn't they located MMA in Lagos Island? So was many other infrastructures for instance the National Stadium was located in Surulere because the nation regarded the whole of Lagos as it's capital, is Surulere in Lagos Island?
make una stop capping these craps

Naa who build Lagos air port please