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Nothing will happen if Lagos goes down.

Lagos is run on Taxes mainly by the banking industry and tech/Telecom industry.

Oil still form the largest part of the entire country economy.

If Lagos goes down.

Companies will shift their headquarters else where, may look chaotic initially, but they will stabilize with time.

What Lagos enjoys today, is her former capital status, developed by the entire country resources.

It was a ready made state for successive Governors, and still being poorly managed by them today.

Lagos made the governors, and not the governors made Lagos.

No matter how corrupt or incompetent a person is, if he governs Lagos, he will appear as though he is working, because the state was already prepared for them by the entire country.

All what successive governors do in Lagos is just to collect taxes,

Providing basic amenities from the taxes and federal allocation, should be the major work of any governor of that state,

But all what they do is loot, Harrass and rig,

Hence, Lagos is a slum today amidst the huge taxes and allocation every year.

If oil should dry up.

Nigeria is gone.

The same oil is the reason the North clamour for one Nigeria.

Nigeria will be better without Lagos.

We will import through P/H, Warri, Calabar.
Company Taxes will go to the generating states, not HQ in Lagos.
Fake intellectuals will go to their respective states to do real work, not be making noise in Lagos.
All the BS musicians and actors will start real work or business.
Wannabe Lagosians with their tokunbo Camry and Fake guccis will find their level
Omonile will learn the value of hard work for income, nor harrasing others for money.
Their grandfather (toad eyes) will know that other human beings exist in Nigeria outside Lagos.
Other south west states will realise their full potential.

etc etc

Novice1:
Nigeria will be better without Lagos.

We will import through P/H, Warri, Calabar.
Company Taxes will go to the generating states, not HQ in Lagos.
Fake intellectuals will go to their respective states to do real work, not be making noise in Lagos.
All the BS musicians and actors will start real work or business.
Wannabe Lagosians with their tokunbo Camry and Fake guccis will find their level
Omonile will learn the value of hard work for income, nor harrasing others for money.
Their grandfather (toad eyes) will know that other human beings exist in Nigeria outside Lagos.
Other south west states will realise their full potential.

etc etc

oyo igr alone pass all SE states and you think if lagos is ur problem, una go kuku learn, always chestbeating on nothing

flokii:
You're a very Ignorant person.. even with all the IGR statistics released annually, you still prefer to vomit trash from your mouth.
Lagos State alone contributes over 60 percent of total revenue sustaining Nigeria while the SS States combined with all the oil noise contribute less than 30% to national purse.

The greedy Ojukwu saw this and decided to jump Ogun, Ondo etc. into Lagos State to annex the State as part of Biafra territory, which they are still fighting hard to achieve till date.

The same statistics HE@Tinubu used to acquire oil companies in the Niger delta,where is mobil headquarters located,why is the heroin tainted President moving FAAN/CBN Supervision unit to Lagos,while he is bothered about oil bunkering in the south South since Lagos economy is this on sound footing,slavery mentality is never a solution,Nigeria deserves to be disintegrated so that you people practise your bigotry,nepotism.Gone are those days,fables were churned out as news using biased print media.

Lagos can go down all they want, but it is oil that is the glue of Naijeria...if you dont know, now you know...

Hamzart spoke intelligently but he exaggerated a couple of things.

PulaPower:
There was Nigeria already before oil was discovered..

Leave trash..

how do some of you reason sef? There was Nigeria before Oil , fine . We were actively engaged in Agriculture and we were doing fine , and as soon as Oil was discovered , agriculture was put aside which causes over-dependence on Oil fx . If Nigeria oil dries up today or the world shift completely away from oil , Nigeria is gone . Are we exporting anything aside oil to earn fx , yes but minute .

Chummynoni:
how do some of you reason sef? There was Nigeria before Oil , fine . We were actively engaged in Agriculture and we were doing fine , and as soon as Oil was discovered , agriculture was put aside which causes over-dependence on Oil fx . If Nigeria oil dries up today or the world shift completely away from oil , Nigeria is gone . Are we exporting anything aside oil to earn fx , yes but minute .

Nigeria won’t be gone but Nigeria will simply go back to how we lived well before oil was discovered.

lawani:
Niger Delta oil money is now less than 25 percent of federal income. How is less than 25 percent of income feeding Nigeria? Then there are some states with igr more than allocations.

Laughable. What commodity did Nigeria use as collateral for foreign loans during the administration of Buhari?? You think its VAT from Lagos or Customs revenue from lagos Ports??

You Yorubas think you're smart and able to deceive others, but you guys are simply deceiving yourselves.

Lagos is just a leech on Nigeria, on a very large scale.

Basically that why they can never allow the eastern see ports to work in it full capacity

QuinQQ:
How does that change the fact that Bola's policies have impoverished the common man?

how did his policy is impoverish the common man
Was the common man baking before tinubu, buhari, Jonathan, obj, Abacha or even Ibb?

Dey play.

Olofofo247ng:
Useless feeding bottle...what is the IGR of the feeding bottle all combined? How much are they generating as revenue for the growth of the country? Please, tell me, I am asking for a friend. E get why

Do you know the meaning of IGR and the difference between that, and remmited revenue generated from crude oil which is the major resource that Nigeria exports FX?

Abi you just mouth off IGR because you hear am for internet?

How much oil, does your state and local government produce?

Penguin2:
Who told this one that anybody wants Lagos to go down?

Or is it because we are talking of Port diversification to help decongest Lagos?

So, asking for the development of the seaports in other regions automatically means wanting Lagos’ downfall?

Is that how this Hamzat reasons?

No wonder people have said he will be worse than Sanwolu.

Go and watch the full interview. That guy is brilliant. He has on his pam technical details of what they are doing and where they are headed in Lagos. Obi that makes so much noise has never spoken technically like this.

PulaPower:
Nigeria won’t be gone but Nigeria will simply go back to how we lived well before oil was discovered.

Nigeria will simply go back to lagos IGR
😆 Lol

You're not smart

stanluiz:
If lagos goes down, Nothing will happen to Nigeria. You guys should stop over hyping that mega expensive slum.

Lagos need Nigeria more than Nigeria need her. That why lagos fight to maintain her monopoly over Infrastructures like Air and Seaport. That's to tell you that lagos need Nigeria more not Nigeria need her.

Lagos contributes 33% of Nigerian GDP. Which country will survive such a loss?

MamaFryo:
Abeg, help me ask him wetin don happen to 767 for the past 8 years. Why did the new admin sack all the active LASEMA ad hoc staff that Ambode employed?

I still say it, Bola Tinubu didn't do anything in Lagos state.





Wetin I even know sef? I'm just an ordinary Nigerian Policewoman.

You should rather ask what Ambode did during his tenure?

Vision101:
Lagos contributes 33% of Nigerian GDP. Which country will survive such a loss?

Lagos is around 13 percent of the population. It contributes up to thirty percent of GDP because of higher cost of living. It contributes VAT, CIT, PiT, Customs etc to Nigeria and when added together it should be close to 40 percent of FG revenue presently
If it removes itself from Nigeria it will be a country of around 25 million that is prosperous and Nigeria's revenue will shrink by almost half. It will shock the FG but they will turn to other parts of the country to block the leakage. They can double VAT by removing the minimum revenue required for a company to file. They can double CIT the same way too. So the reality is it will shake Nigeria but it will also change Nigeria by force

Cromagnon:
how did his policy is impoverish the common man
Was the common man baking before tinubu, buhari, Jonathan, obj, Abacha or even Ibb?

Go ask the man on the street if things have not gotten steadily worse since APC came to.power

If one door closes another open. Cities have rising and fallen since antiquity. If Lagos collapse, the people that reside there will just move to another location.

Thanks to jah am not from Lagos. Agbero, smelling, criminal, born throw, under bridge, mushin pikin. Lagos will go down not Nigeria. Ask mc oluomo

lawani:
Niger Delta oil money is now less than 25 percent of federal income. How is less than 25 percent of income feeding Nigeria? Then there are some states with igr more than allocations.

Crude oil influences everything in Nigeria despite recent claims.

PulaPower:
There was Nigeria already before oil was discovered. Leave trash..

Before oil:

Nigeria already started free education..

Nigeria already started first Radio/Tv and other media stations before oil was discovered..

Nigeria don dey run things before oil was discovered. That’s what I’m saying..

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That's true, but with oil money there is soft life and enjoyment.
Oil/gas is what is driving other aspect of the economy.
Presently without oil no 9ja.
Why do you think them no dey use ear hear division of the country especially the Bi@fra agitation?

PapaNnamdi:
Leave that mumu make he de cap nonsense

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People sabi mumu well well. No oil money no 9ja it's as simple as ABCD.

lawani:
Niger Delta oil money is now less than 25 percent of federal income. How is less than 25 percent of income feeding Nigeria? Then there are some states with igr more than allocations.

That's what they want you to believe

Lagos is just a dot in a circle. Less effective and low recognition.

Vision101:
Lagos contributes 33% of Nigerian GDP. Which country will survive such a loss?

lawani:
Lagos is around 13 percent of the population. It contributes up to thirty percent of GDP because of higher cost of living. It contributes VAT, CIT, PiT, Customs etc to Nigeria and when added together it should be close to 40 percent of FG revenue presently
If it removes itself from Nigeria it will be a country of around 25 million that is prosperous and Nigeria's revenue will shrink by almost half. It will shock the FG but they will turn to other parts of the country to block the leakage. They can double VAT by removing the minimum revenue required for a company to file. They can double CIT the same way too. So the reality is it will shake Nigeria but it will also change Nigeria by force

flokii:
You're a very Ignorant person.. even with all the IGR statistics released annually, you still prefer to vomit trash from your mouth.
Lagos State alone contributes over 60 percent of total revenue sustaining Nigeria while the SS States combined with all the oil noise contribute less than 30% to national purse.

The greedy Ojukwu saw this and decided to jump Ogun, Ondo etc. into Lagos State to annex the State as part of Biafra territory, which they are still fighting hard to achieve till date.

stop saying rubbish..

Nigeria's economy is based on Crude oil from eastern Nigeria.

the eastern region is so rich that its natural resources is what's keeping 36 states in Nigeria afloat thanks to the fuulishness of ironsi, Nzeogwu and ojukwu..

if the eastern region did not fuulishly and stupidly kill the leaders of the other regions and abolish regionalism regions then the eastern region would have been ahead of the other regions by far..

Ojukwu did not see anything that's why him, Nzeogwu and ironsi were so fuullish to attack other major ethnic nations and abolish regionalism.

Ojukwu, Nzeogwu and ironsi had zero-ECONOMIC acumen...

codemaniacs:
stop saying rubbish..

Nigeria's economy is based on Crude oil from eastern Nigeria.

the eastern region is so rich that its natural resources is what's keeping 36 states in Nigeria afloat thanks to the fuulishness of ironsi, Nzeogwu and ojukwu..

if the eastern region did not fuulishly and stupidly kill the leaders of the other regions and abolish regionalism regions then the eastern region would have been ahead of the other regions by far..

Ojukwu did not see anything that's why him, Nzeogwu and ironsi were so fuullish to attack other major ethnic nations and abolish regionalism.

Ojukwu, Nzeogwu and ironsi had zero-ECONOMIC acumen...

Your crude oil is adding less than 15 times what kolanut adds to the economy. If you mean government revenue, it is now less than 25 percent at federal level without adding other tiers of government that have revenue

lawani:
Your crude oil is adding less than 15 times what kolanut adds to the economy. If you mean government revenue, it is now less than 25 percent at federal level without adding other tiers of government that have revenue

go and use kolanuts as collateral for Loans since kolanuts is more important than crude oil..

Crude oil is and will always be 90% - 95% of Nigeria's government revenue anyone that says anything else is a paid keyboard warrior and deceiving themselves..

I am not from eastern Nigeria, I am from western Nigeria and I will admit the obvious truth when it comes to natural resources..

Only resources in western Nigeria that can also generate billions is the iron-ore and bitumen and bauxite...

eastern Nigeria is the richest region in Nigeria in terms of natural resources as long as crude oil and gas remain relevant..

China has taken cocoa from other countries. There is no marketable products that can't be used in that manner. It is just a commitment to sell. Not a price fix. A commitment to sell at market price

codemaniacs:
go and use kolanuts as collateral for Loans since kolanuts is more important than crude oil..

Crude oil is and will always be 90% - 95% of Nigeria's government revenue anyone that says anything else is a paid keyboard warrior and deceiving themselves..

I am not from eastern Nigeria, I am from western Nigeria and I will admit the obvious truth when it comes to natural resources..

Only resources in western Nigeria that can also generate billions is the iron-ore and bitumen and bauxite...

eastern Nigeria is the richest region in Nigeria in terms of natural resources as long as crude oil and gas remain relevant..