₦airaland Forum

LagosOrigin:
You're not an indigine of Lagos so you're not in any position to tell anyone to relocate .

anonimi:
What % of buildings in New York, Paris and London lack pipe borne water and are therefore supplied with water from boreholes that are located in the same compound as soak away pits and septic tanks, despite 100 times growth in budget within 27 years, like the case of Lagos between 1999 to 2026


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

LagosOrigin:
This is the Lagos that they don't want to show you. Very dirty state.

Everyday it's always this dirty.

Is this the mega city that tinubu built?

This is not mega city, it's mega shiitty.

Mynd44:
These are the streets of New York.

The truth is that most cities with high population are dirty and they smell. There has constantly been complaints of New york rats been huge too.

This is the same for Paris and London

SixSeven:
When it comes to nonsense and jagbajantis, you lots are quick to mention Western cities, when it comes to basic infrastructure, you run away

Tokyo. Singapore. Seoul. Hong Kong.
Shanghai. Vienna. Zurich. Munich. Copenhagen. All mega / high-density cities. All largely clean.
New York, Paris, London have issues but they still run waste systems, drainage, enforcement. Dirt isn’t caused by population. It’s caused by poor governance and weak sanitation systems. You cannot excuse government and its policies out of this and when you cite New York or those cities, they don't sleep on the dirt and make it normal, they work on it.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7568884572788772127

"The truth is that most cities with high population are dirty and they smell"

Population size alone does not make a city dirty or smelly, it is governance, infrastructure, waste systems, and citizen behavior that matter. Smell and filth come from policy failures such as poor waste collection, weak enforcement, bad drainage, underfunded sanitation and not from people simply existing. Again, dirtiness is overwhelmingly driven by policy, urban planning, and sanitation systems, not by the number of people if you take a look at the world's cleanest cities in the world and their population and compare the data. It’s a silly argument for blaming poor sanitation on population expansion rather than population management. And a very convenient one for governments that don’t want accountability.

DatNiggaDaz:


I have advised you several times to go for Extra Taqyiyah lessons from the Sheikh Gumi himself. Your Taqyiyah is terrible and annoyingly so. You need refreshment course for adavanced Taqyiyah

Kemetian:
AI CONFIRMATION OF MY POINT:

What's the annual budget for New York State?

For the most recent annual budget for New York State (pop. 20 million), the widely-reported figure is for the State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2026, which runs April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026:

📊 New York State’s FY 2026 enacted budget is about $254 billion in total spending. This is the total amount authorized by the legislature and signed into law for operating and capital needs across the state government.

This budget amount includes funding for schools, healthcare, social services, transportation, public safety, and other state functions.


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What's the annual budget for Lagos State?

As of the 2026 fiscal year, Lagos State (pop. 25 million) has an annual budget of about ₦4.4 trillion Nigerian naira (roughly said “N4.4 trillion”), which was approved by the Lagos State House of Assembly and signed into law.

Here are the key figures:

Total approved budget (2026): ≈ ₦4.4 trillion

Using current exchange rates (about ₦1 = ≈ $0.0007 USD), Lagos State’s 2026 annual budget of roughly ₦4.4 trillion converts to approximately:

💰 ≈ $3.1 billion USD


- AI

SO, JUST TO REPEAT..

LAGOS HAS $3 BILLION PER ANNUM to build and maintain Lagos.

NEW YORK HAS $252 BILLION PER ANNUM to maintain New York (because it's already 'built').

So, the difference will be clear when you visit both cities.

Our NUMBER 1 PROBLEM in Nigeria is not corruption.

It is that we don't generate enough revenue as a country. Our budgets are tiny.

Our national budget is $40 billion a year, one-sixth of New York's.

The USA annual budget is $7 trillion.

Our oil income is a pittance for a country of 250 million.

Only continued economic diversification and tax reforms that force the rich to pay more tax, can raise that revenue we need.

Alphafarms:
What other African countries has solved over 10 years ago, Nigeria is still battling with. A disgraced country for a reason

LagosOrigin:
This is the Lagos that they don't want to show you. Very dirty state.

Everyday it's always this dirty.

Is this the mega city that tinubu built?

This is not mega city, it's mega shiitty.

DatNiggaDaz:


Suddenly "Nigeria does not make enough revenue". The Lagos assembly buys New prado and Toyota Jeeps every yr for the members despite not generating enough "revenue". The igr of Lagos is more than the budget of most African countries but Lagos does nöt generate enough revenue.

When the failures and corruption of the Lagos state government is exposed, many of you fall back to population and "not enough revenue"

Lagos State has always been populated since ages more than any other state in Nigeria and all the past Military administration kept Lagos clean and all Utility services then was top notch.

Mynd44:
These are the streets of New York.

The truth is that most cities with high population are dirty and they smell. There has constantly been complaints of New york rats been huge too.

This is the same for Paris and London

BlakKluKluxKlan:
Lagos used to be very clean, neat and scereene until the dirty war relics flooded the place and infested it with disorderliness

nairalanda1:
Lagos has always been a mess. I can remember back in the 1980's that the city was a mess then, and even in the 1960's it was described as badly planned and slum ridden.

Lagos has never been 'clean' as you think it was.

I don't support tinubu, but let's not lie to oppose him.

Moneyyman:
It is because many Nigerians are dirty! They are comfortable living in dirty environments!

Why will you buy and eat snacks and throw the wrappings anywhere? Whenever I'm out and buy water or snacks, I keep the wrappings in my bag to dispose properly later. People look at me like I'm mad or stupid.

You'll see a newly painted building and dirty humans will go there disfiguring the painted walls with dirty hands and relaxing against the all with their dirty shoes propped on it!

They'll build a community waste disposal spot like the DCDA Refuse Dumps, yet you'll find pole throwing dirt just around the spot and not inside the designated concrete platform. Is that not madness? Like you brought your bin to the spot but could not throw the dirt inside but left it around! Stupidity!

Nigerians don't even know how to sort waste! They dispose everything together without thoughts! No recycling, no sorting, no management!

Why won't everywhere be dirty and smelling? I almost think it's a curse with the black man!

Look at the US, UK, Spain, and other places where black migrants live on the streets. They're always dirty and packed with dirt!

If you're not dirty, no community will be comfortable throwing dirt anywhere when they pay environmental bills. They'll rather march out and ask the government to provide the necessary services to ensure proper waste management.

Many Nigeria s are simply too dirty!

DatNiggaDaz:


I know you will use this your other moniker to reply me. I know you are thesame person @Kemetian. This is the Taqyiyah am referring to. Instead of you to go and take extra courses from the Sheikh, you changed your moniker

Inside the Taqyiyah, it is always Nigeria is a poor country. You have always have thesame opinion here on Nairaland. Thesame way you use your other moniker @kemetian to deceive the weak and gullibles

A real nikka, you can never use Taqyiyah to deceive. This is always the Modus operandi of Taqyiyah students when their incompetence and failures are expised, it is always "it has always been like that", or "Nigeria is a poor country.

Since you have cleared my doubts, I will always be on your case here on Nairaland.

You can go back to your other handle @Kemetian to write epistles of PanAfricanism which you use to sway the gullibles

You support Tinubu from the back door. Kemetian you are not deceiving no one other than yourself

nairalanda1:
The people that live in european cities also pay taxes...income tax and municipal tax...at very very high rates. (Higher than what even tinubu is charging in his new tax laws).

That's why they can afford to keep their cities clean.

Nigeria as a country is made up of people who complain about current tax rates being high, and where the majorirty of the country is too poor to even pay high enough taxes to pay for the kind of cleaning service that we need for our cities. Oil income is even too low as well.

So, unless you want to be the ruler of this country and make people pay municipal taxes in excess of 340000 naira montly per household/house/flat....

LagosOrigin:
never a time that Lagos was neat

It's always dirty.

Kemetian:
Lagos has over 30 million people. The state government just doesn't make enough money to maintain the entire city, for now.

As they increase their IGR or internally generated revenue, they will do the needful.

THEY JUST NEED TIME.

nairalanda1:
Lagos has always been a mess. I can remember back in the 1980's that the city was a mess then, and even in the 1960's it was described as badly planned and slum ridden.

Lagos has never been 'clean' as you think it was.

I don't support tinubu, but let's not lie to oppose him.

SixSeven:
Stop giving excuses.

DatNiggaDaz:


The person you just quoted with this reply is thessme as @Kemetian, @nairalanda1, @ Rossik. He is thesame person operating different handles. This is what Taqyiyah is all about

nairalanda1:
The people that live in european cities also pay taxes...income tax and municipal tax...at very very high rates. (Higher than what even tinubu is charging in his new tax laws).

That's why they can afford to keep their cities clean.

Nigeria as a country is made up of people who complain about current tax rates being high, and where the majorirty of the country is too poor to even pay high enough taxes to pay for the kind of cleaning service that we need for our cities. Oil income is even too low as well.

So, unless you want to be the ruler of this country and make people pay municipal taxes in excess of 340000 naira montly per household/house/flat....

Mynd44:
These are the streets of New York.

The truth is that most cities with high population are dirty and they smell. There has constantly been complaints of New york rats been huge too.

This is the same for Paris and London

DatNiggaDaz:


Suddenly "Nigeria does not make enough revenue". The Lagos assembly buys New prado and Toyota Jeeps every yr for the members despite not generating enough "revenue". The igr of Lagos is more than the budget of most African countries but Lagos does nöt generate enough revenue.

When the failures and corruption of the Lagos state government is exposed, many of you fall back to population and "not enough revenue"

Lagos State has always been populated since ages more than any other state in Nigeria and all the past Military administration kept Lagos clean and all Utility services then was top notch.

Most of you have claimed that the certificate fraud had increased all allocations to state government compared to the allocation before APC came to snatch and grab

The hypocrisy: our neigbour state Abia before Otti came was abused as the most "dirty" under the Orjis by folks like you and your kinds but you all never remembered that the revenue was the problem. No one of you said anything about the population.

As it involves Lagos, you are now looking and giving excuses using "revenue and population " to defend failures, looting, incompetency.

Go back to your Taqyiyah advanced lessons from the Sheikh. Your Taqyiyah is very poor