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Vfulisman, where's your senses?

Instead of telling us,the non state actors in Lagos to back to our various villages and towns with all the acquired wealth/resources and starts developmental projects,...

Dennisochampa:
Vdm is mad....
Very very mad....
Lagos is not holding Nigeria back..
They have governors that's able to harness their resources for societal growth..

Other governors get steady allocations...
What do they use it for??
I am not yoruba... I am not from lagos but make una leave them alone....

If e too pain una... The next time you get your allocations as governor, use am build one factory... The next one... Use am tar at least 4 roads... Small small, u sef go develop like lagos... Until them, vdm should go and sleep... His followers should go and sleep too...

CARRY THE LAGOS AND BE GOING NOW.


THAT TOO CANNOT BE A PROBLEM.

ALL HE SAID WAS LAGOS CAN GO.

chido20:
He is saying the truth. FG controls the seaport and airport if they want it working well in other states, they should know what to do

What development have the state governors brought with the billions they get every month.

They'll construct in total of less than 10 km of roads for 8 yrs and your type will salute them because they don't answer Tinubu or Buhari and they're not in the APC, the Yoruba party.

Keep blaming the FG for the inefficient governance in your states.

They import through Port Harcourt too

frankson1:
What development have the state governors brought with the billions they get every month.

They'll construct in total of less than 10 km of roads for 8 yrs and your type will salute them because they don't answer Tinubu or Buhari and they're not in the APC, the Yoruba party.

Keep blaming the FG for the inefficient governance in your states.

CARRY THE LAGOS AND GO.



VERY SIMPLY GRAMMAR NO TOO MUCH TALK AND WE DID NOT ASK QUESTION

Hotfreezer:
Go to Tinapa and see what visionlessness can cause.

Fantastic project, ordinary road, the successor to Donald Duke couldn't complete.

You see the Cross River own dey pain me. The decay started after Imoke. The successive APC government paid negligence to that project, and it's just a shadow of itself.

Countries like Seychelles, Malta, and some others grow their economy with tourism. CR just destroyed theirs.

Eshiet64:
I support VDM on this, the politics played by especially the president is to ensure other ports are not working effectively in order for the country to be dependent on Lagos port alone.

Especially the president?
Haba... How many years have the ports and import, exports been in this situation? Na wa o.... Na why our mumu never do! So it's this president or the past one or the past 4 presidents that played politics to cripple ports? You sef reason what you are saying nah... Abi google. No be phone dey your hand?

Money makes things happen!
If you wan enter Lagos bus from Benin for instance, and dem tell you say if you drop at Ojota na 17k, but to drop for Ikoyi na 35k, where you go choose to drop , even if you dey leave for Lekki phase 1?
After that, dem kon tell you say bus wey dey go ojota, na every 1 , 1 hour e dey load and move, weather e full or not, but you see that Ikoyi one... Until passage full, e no dey comot bus stop, which one you go enter?

1mansolder:
You are not sincere with the truth,why will parents give one child advantage over other children,why the special treatment.

if federal government remove port from Lagos, private investors will do that. Federal government don't have any impact in Lagos at all. Will you say government will favour Lagos and leave ogun state. Some state has more allocation then Lagos, what did they use the allocation from.

Nteogwuija:
You see the Cross River own dey pain me. The decay started after Imoke. The successive APC government paid negligence to that project, and it's just a shadow of itself.

Countries like Seychelles, Malta, and some others grow their economy with tourism. CR just destroyed theirs.

You should be honest enough to blame the person, not the party.
APC has nothing to do with the decay in Tinapa, Imoke was in PDP. That incompetent Imoke and the equally incompetent Ayade finished that project.

Imoke was the undertaker who supervised the burial of Tinapa. Donald Duke said this himself.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/imoke-duke-at-war-over-tinapa-monorail/

Once upon a time, Warri was the oil capital of Nigeria, what happened?? Why did the Oil companies move to Lagos?

Hotfreezer:
You should be honest enough to blame the person, not the party.
APC has nothing to do with the decay in Tinapa, Imoke was in PDP. That incompetent Imoke and the equally incompetent Ayade finished that project.

Imoke was the undertaker who supervised the burial of Tinapa. Donald Duke said this himself.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/imoke-duke-at-war-over-tinapa-monorail/

ajalawole:
if federal government remove port from Lagos, private investors will do that. Federal government don't have any impact in Lagos at all. Will you say government will favour Lagos and leave ogun state. Some state has more allocation then Lagos, what did they use the allocation from.

I DONT KNOW Y SOME YORUBA MEN ARE AFRAID.


Y THE FEAR OVER MATTERS?


AFTER MUCH NOIISE, A SIMPLE TAKE YOUR LAGOS AND GO IS NOW GENERATING DEBATE AND QUESTION TIME?



A STRAIGHTFORWARD EITHER LAGOS GO OR WE GO IS AN ULTIMATUM NOT A DEBATE.

Which state is this Man from, Edo. Delta,? Someone should remind him how Delta State was in the 80s to 90s. Some many functioning companies scattered across Bendel State, Bendel brewing, Delta Glass, NPA ( old and new) shell PLc, chevron. Agip oil. Halliburton, Texaco, Warri refinery and petrochemical, Delta steel complex, sapele sawmill, ugheli glass etc which they crippled with their perennial communal crisis and successive bad govts. This guy needs a little bit tutorial before he continue disgracing himself with ignorance.

patrickmuf:
Remove Cross River from that list.

Why?

No lies…. Nigeria is too vast to have everything come in thru lagos. Three major fictional seaports aren’t bad for the nation Nigeria, likewise airport that welcome flights from europe and Asian countries just like MMA.

Tbh, I tried my best to listen/watch this video with a balanced perspective and after enduring the ignorant & even sinister takes about Lagos by VDM for 5 minutes, I just had to stop there for my sanity.

First of all, whatever “privileges” or opportunities that abound in Lagos aren’t because a former governor of the State & a Yoruba man is President today; those perceived privileges far predate his tenure as Nigeria’s President. As obvious as this is, I just had to restate it because there are too many ignorant & too proud to learn/or read people on the internet today.

Secondly, blaming Lagos for the perceived privileges the state enjoys is probably the most flimsiest excuse for daft, incompetent and visionless governors that have governed other states in the country at least, since 1999. Lagos has in the last decade provided a conducive atmosphere and the resources for private investors to invest in the state via the Lekki Deep Sea Port. The Badagry Deep Sea Port is already being set in motion (also to be financed majorly by private sector). What have the Governors of Akwa Ibom (the Ibom Deep Sea Port is still a mirage), Delta, Rivers, Ondo & Cross River done to attract investors to develop Sea Ports in their states? Just recently, we heard Alh. Aliko Dangote announce that he’ll soon break ground for the largest Sea Port in Nigeria in Ogun State; that’s what visionary leadership does.

Thirdly, the last time I checked, the Calabar (Cross River) & Onne (Rivers State) Ports are functional especially the latter which has consistently berthed some of the largest vessels ever in Nigerian ports https://www.thecable.ng/onne-port-berths-largest-cargo-vessel-second-time-in-3-months/ (this was 2024. There are more of such vessels berthing there as far back 2020) and this next report is as recent as April 2025 https://businessday.ng/maritime/article/onne-port-receives-largest-container-ship/ if importers choose to receive their imports through Lagos (when the Eastern Sea Ports esp Onne is active and receiving cargoes), how’s this Lagos’ fault especially as the same people keep complaining about how chaotic Lagos Ports (Apapa and Tin Can especially) can be? What has stopped successive governors of Akwa Ibom State especially from going ahead with making the Ibom Deep Sea Port a reality considering its very huge economic potentials?

Fourthly, saying Nigeria needs at least 18 international airports is the height of ignorance and yet, Lagos is to be blame. Pray tell, aside from Lagos and Abuja (and probably Kano and Port Harcourt international airports), which other airports are economically viable? Do they’ve the commerce, population, conducive environment or even economy to support international flights? For someone who has traveled within and outside the country by air, I’m actually surprised VDM could make such an ignorantly bold assertion. Even the states that have airports for domestic flights, how viable have they been? Remember how the only airline at the time (Air Peace) was flying to Kaduna consistently but had to stop after Bandits almost succeeded in hijacking or attacking one of their aircrafts? If states don’t tackle the issues of insecurity head on and citizens of such states actively and tacitly support those threatening security, how’s that Lagos’ fault? Or you think international airlines don’t receive security briefings about active flash points of violence? The decision to fly from any particular airport anywhere in the world is solely the responsibility of the airline and I don’t see how or why Lagos has to be the scape goat as if they put a gun to the heads of the owners of the international carriers to fly into and out of Lagos or risk getting shot dead!

This video by VDM smells like an agenda (like something sinister is brewing underneath) and Lagos is the target. Aside listening to what he said in the video, I also listened for what he wasn’t saying - if he had made this video when PMB (God Rest his soul) was President, it would’ve been somewhat “ok” but doing this at a time when some northern political elite especially are crying over the perceived imbalance of project sites in favour of Lagos is bad timing. He also had to use the same video (where he blamed Lagos as holding back Nigeria) to encourage the call for Biafra? Lagos and Biafra in the same sentence? Nah, I can smell an agenda from a mile away and VDM is being used (knowingly or unknowingly) to push that agenda.

There is no ship that berths at Apapa that cannot berth at Onne. Onne port is working fine and ships are berthing there. What is stopping Rivers state?

chido20:
He is saying the truth. FG controls the seaport and airport if they want it working well in other states, they should know what to do

So FG should create sea port in every state. Well done.

blowjohn:
Why?

Not an oil producing state right now...

Baselm:
There is no ship that berths at Apapa that cannot berth at Onne. Onne port is working fine and ships are berthing there. What is stopping Rivers state?

MOERE STORIES AND QUESTION FROM THE SKAING ONES.


THEY SHAKE WEN IT IS TIME TO OWN WHAT THEY CLAIM TO OWN.

PARASITE CANNOT SURVIVE OUTSIDE OF ITS HOST.

May God bless VDM.

A man that always speaks the truth when he sees one, irrespective of anything.

I know many will read a different meaning to what he said, from tribal angle.

Ibakaboyo:
It's true. Lagos is the reason Nigeria isn't develop. UK has about 50 functional port with the population that's lower than that of Nigeria. What stops FG from developing new seaport in places like Ibaka in Mbo LGA of akwaibom state. They know it will compete with Lagos. They northern presidents are also aware of this but they won't do it cos they think it will develop southern Nigeria only since they're landlocked. An Igbo president would do this, that's why they don't want an Igbo man to rule. At this point we have to start clamoring for the FG to decentralized development or we team up with the Igbos and actualized Biafra. Protest would soon start

let your governor get investors to build port in your state. If fedeal government move out of Lagos port,trust me investors will buy those port, infact mostly Igbo. Lagos is just a strategist location for most business men and investors. You can't say someone should have company in Lagos and his cargo will Barth at ibaka. Those business men in Lagos know what they are doing, they can't be in the East and clear there cargo in Lagos, cost of moving it to the east is another issue. Every state get allocation from Federal government, what has other states been doing with there's.

Funny enough he's saying the truth why can't the government make other seaport functional and see development hit other state like Lagos have been enjoying all these while why would the aviation industry limit Lagos and Abuja alone wilhen it comes to international travels too many questions no answer is port Harcourt seaport not good enough to for importation nah only God knows waiting they happen for this country

Lovenorth:
Tinubu has brought hate to Lagos and Yeriba in general, Lagos will be isolated for a long time after we voted out the drug lord from power

lolz, even una lamba king cannot do without LAGOS

Nothing new, this has always been the case, oil companies , mines and farms are established in other states but the revenues and products the bulk goto Lagos.
But presidents from other regions had the opportunities to grow their respective regions, some like pmb actually tried while others like gej failed woefully.

Omenlon:
Which state is this Man from, Edo. Delta,? Someone should remind him how Delta State was in the 80s to 90s. Some many functioning companies scattered across Bendel State, Bendel brewing, Delta Glass, NPA ( old and new) shell PLc, chevron. Agip oil. Halliburton, Texaco, Warri refinery and petrochemical, Delta steel complex, sapele sawmill, ugheli glass etc which they crippled with their perennial communal crisis and successive bad govts. This guy needs a little bit tutorial before he continue disgracing himself with ignorance.

It’s the audacity in ignorance for me. A little research of < 10minutes would’ve cured him of his ignorance but I guess he knows his audience and knows how to finger their brains.

Lovenorth:
Tinubu has brought hate to Lagos and Yeriba in general, Lagos will be isolated for a long time after we voted out the drug lord from power

Ordinary VAT distribution, you were begging. What do you have?
Cemeteries and painted wheelbarrows.

Without Lagos, you will starve.

Hotfreezer:
You were conquered in 1970. Your ancestors ran away and lafr the brave SS man who signed an instrument of surrender and begged for your lives.

You are not in a position to contribute to this discussion.

Thank you.

THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, NIGERIANS WILL RISE UP AGAINST U THIS TIME.


SHEBI U LOCK EKPA AND KANU THIINKING EVIL CAN CONTINUE?


WHO WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT VDM WOULD WAKE UP ONE MORNING TO ASK U?


LIGHT WILL ALWAYS OVERCOME DARKNESS.

frankson1:
What development have the state governors brought with the billions they get every month.

They'll construct in total of less than 10 km of roads for 8 yrs and your type will salute them because they don't answer Tinubu or Buhari and they're not in the APC, the Yoruba party.

Keep blaming the FG for the inefficient governance in your states.

Oga what do you have to say about FEDERAL GOVERNMENT controlling seaport and aviation industry? How will a government limit the importation of goods to Lagos only what explanations do you have for that let's start with that first

Oluwomonext212:
No lies…. Nigeria is too vast to have everything come in thru lagos. Three major fictional seaports aren’t bad for the nation Nigeria, likewise airport that welcome flights from europe and Asian countries just like MMA.

is it that some of you dont know that we have functioning ports in Warri and Port Harcourt or what? I don't know if it is the govt that will direct a businessman where he should land his containers. Till date some Nigeria importers still take their goods through Benin port. I thought VDM is a little bit more intelligent than this.

Omenlon:
is it that some of you dont know that we have functioning ports in Warri and Port Harcourt or what? I don't know if it is the govt that will direct a businessman where he should land his containers. Till date some Nigeria importers still take their goods through Benin port. I thought VDM is a little bit more intelligent than this.

IS IT THAT U ARE NT HEARING ENGLISH THAT ALLOCATING MONEY MEANT FOR OTHER REGION TO LAGOS CANNOT CONTINUE AT THE RATE TINUBU IS CURRENTLY MOVING FEDERAL ALLOCATION TO LAGOS?

U CAN SHIFT THE GOAL POST BUT IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO OWN THAT LAGOS BILLS YOURSELF.