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Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Nobody: 12:04pm On Mar 17, 2016
lekkie073:
When u see technological feats like the Atlantic City project, u cant help just agree dat lagos will soon be a megacity. ..



SE haters can go and jump into d lagoon grin angry
I'm a yoruba man like you but let's call a spade a spade, lagos used to me a nice place but now it is an eyesore! A major part of the problem are the people from the SE who have, anywhere they go they spoil.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by shogz89: 12:06pm On Mar 17, 2016
Greenback:
haba! u are really rusted upstairs,so are u telling the www that brown was the original color of da roofs? Lolllllxxxx

am waiting,come again with another prehistoric olodo post baaaaahahahahahaha....
1) I never called you any name and will take that as a mistake!! 2) be it rust or old, everything must Change even asbestos change from ash to black, ,, I still maintain brown is a colour. What have you done about your erosion damaged land?.. Post the two pictures of brown roof and erosion land and tell me which one is fit for tourism cheesy grin
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by seunny4lif(m): 12:08pm On Mar 17, 2016
cheesy
I don stay there for 5 months
My guys dey shock shocked
Why our street light always dey yellow grin cheesy
wristbangle:
Eh ehn! Maa Google am oo! U mean Senegal capital city fine pass lagos and even abuja?
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Nobody: 12:09pm On Mar 17, 2016
Hahahhahahahahahahahahahaahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahhahahahahaahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahaahahahahahhaahahhahaahahahhahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
cheesy grin cheesy grin
Dafuq did I just readhuhhuh? Ranked in terms of what? Men Nigerians and self deceit tho. Yeah ranking Lagos with say some suburbs in Johannesburg or some parts of Pretoria, or maybe some downtown areas in Atlanta Georgia fine. The only city Lagos should realistically be ranked with is mumbai in India.

Have you been to any of those citieshuh? Lagos doesn't have one third the facilities it takes to be mentioned in the same sentence with cities like NY, Johannesburg, or Beijing. Talkless of being ranked maybe in crime rate yes but anything positive otherwise would be misleading
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by wiseoneking: 12:11pm On Mar 17, 2016
lekkie073:
When u see technological feats like the Atlantic City project, u cant help just agree dat lagos will soon be a megacity. ..



SE haters can go and jump into d lagoon grin angry
The only state that is entirely run and controlled by non indegine. I think the igbos call lagos Nomansland. The only state that have igbos both in state and federal assembly, hoping to produce the first governor by the year 3031. 100 yrs was used to build this great state with Our SS oil wealth. All the fly over, sea port, entire island, Airport etc was built by our oil. Ipobs should invest more in SS than to dominate the building of Altlantic city. Thank God for our oil.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by wristbangle: 12:12pm On Mar 17, 2016
seunny4lif:
cheesy
I don stay there for 5 months
My guys dey shock shocked
Why our street light always dey yellow grin cheesy
Lmao grin. Baba I just Google am. Dakar nodey oo! shocked

Infact dem say FCT be the 2nd most beautiful sef sad

Link: https://constative.com/people/lifestyle/10-most-beautiful-and-most-developed-cities-in-africa
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Nobody: 12:13pm On Mar 17, 2016
wiseoneking:
The only state that is entirely run and controlled by non indegine. I think the igbos call lagos Nomansland. The only state that have igbos both in state and federal assembly, hoping to produce the first governor by the year 3031. 100 yrs was used to build this great state with Our SS oil wealth. All the fly over, sea port, entire island, Airport etc was built by our oil. Ipobs should invest more in SS than to dominate the building of Altlantic city. Thank God for our oil.
Your Oil? where you see Oil? The Oil that developed Nigeria Oil belonged to SS not Ibo. You people are theives that's why you are claiming SS, if they didn't have Oil you wouldn't count them as part of Biafra
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by seunny4lif(m): 12:15pm On Mar 17, 2016
grin
You say na Nigeria person get the site immediately you see FCT for second position grin grin
wristbangle:
Lmao grin. Baba I just Google am. Dakar nodey oo! shocked

Infact dem say FCT be the 2nd most beautiful sef sad

Link: https://constative.com/people/lifestyle/10-most-beautiful-and-most-developed-cities-in-africa
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by elopee3000(m): 12:15pm On Mar 17, 2016
malton:
Which city in the world does not have a ghetto? They all do, only some have lesser ghettos. In any city where there's serious wealth, there's going to be a ghetto or two for some known reasons.
pls say what u know Germany Austria neither ve ghetto or banana island ,pay visit to vienna and show me d ghetto meanwhile ghetto in London is better than lekki cus light water good road better transport system which no dey lekki
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by wiseoneking: 12:17pm On Mar 17, 2016
0YorubaParapo0:
[size=18pt]This is fake. If it's real, why were the Shenghai of Africa (Anambra) and Japan of Nigeria (Aba) excluded?[/size]
Mega city is just about population and not about development. If it is about dev, lagos wouldnt have come near. Aba and Nnewi are truly what you just typed about them. They are industrial regions, truely taking the steps of japan/ taiwan
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Ghost447(m): 12:19pm On Mar 17, 2016
VenusBetty:
I'm so sorry for poking my nose, but I didn't see where He mentioned SE.
I'm sorry for poking my finger, but you need a medicated/magnifying lens.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Greenback: 12:20pm On Mar 17, 2016
shogz89:
1) I never called you any name and will take that as a mistake!! 2) be it rust or old, everything must Change even asbestos change from ash to black, ,, I still maintain brown is a colour. What have you done about your erosion damaged land?.. Post the two pictures of brown roof and erosion land and tell me which one is fit for tourism cheesy grin
everyone knows erosion persists in da east due to fed govt's negligence and unseriousness. Da state govts are doing their best but their best aint gud enuff due to inadequate funds...now again,erosion is natural n brown roof is...ehh? Asbetos,u said? Better da asbetos blackened up by da sun than da local n popular brown roof..abi dem tell u say khaki na leda?
No lemme laff again o....ok sorry for da name callin b fyi,i aint even an easterner,moi is benin. Gud day,niggga..
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by ASKQUESTIONS(m): 12:20pm On Mar 17, 2016
Rayhutar:
Must you mention SE, Tribalism will kill you ooo!
Mega city without light!

Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Nobody: 12:22pm On Mar 17, 2016
malton:
Which city in the world does not have a ghetto? They all do, only some have lesser ghettos. In any city where there's serious wealth, there's going to be a ghetto or two for some known reasons.
True, but which part of Lagos isn't a ghetto? Is it Ikoyi, where you see pothole ridden roads and shanty towns next to multimillion dollar houses, or Lekki where thanks to our brothers from the southeast they have completely destroyed the place. The only part of Lagos that is relatively passable is Banana island and once Linda Ikeji moved in that was the beginning of the end, like I said anywhere these people go give them time they spoil.


Point is every other megacity has a few Ghettos, Lagos is the opposite, a megacity of ghettos with a few livable areas.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by hespy: 12:31pm On Mar 17, 2016
Good one. Lagos is moving and I am getting richer.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Churchillsaug(m): 12:34pm On Mar 17, 2016
Rayhutar:
Must you mention SE, Tribalism will kill you ooo!
that guy may likely come from Oshogbo and he is here claiming lagos. 80% of people living in lagos are not from lagos. One silly person will come from Ibadan or Ogbomoso and be forming lagos. Remove lagos from sw and tell me where else they've got? Go to se and see the likes of Enugu, Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi, Awka, and the list goes on. They are not just proud of where they came from because there's nothing to write home about it. That's why all of them are from lagos
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by cirmuell(m): 12:41pm On Mar 17, 2016
lekkie073:
When u see technological feats like the Atlantic City project, u cant help just agree dat lagos will soon be a megacity. ..



SE haters can go and jump into d lagoon grin angry
later una go dey scream say dem be tribalist abi? undecided oponu.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Xploits2204: 12:47pm On Mar 17, 2016
[quote author=walemoney007 post=43839196]you have not been to dakar before,cause if you have been there,you won't compare it with eko akete(lagos state)[/qusote]

You took the statement out of my mouth ... Its an insult to compare Lagos with Dakar . Yh we know Dakar is a pretty cool place but not in the league of Lagos .
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Churchillsaug(m): 12:48pm On Mar 17, 2016
garfield16:
True, but which part of Lagos isn't a ghetto? Is it Ikoyi, where you see pothole ridden roads and shanty towns next to multimillion dollar houses, or Lekki where thanks to our brothers from the southeast they have completely destroyed the place. The only part of Lagos that is relatively passable is Banana island and once Linda Ikeji moved in that was the beginning of the end, like I said anywhere these people go give them time they spoil.


Point is every other megacity has a few Ghettos, Lagos is the opposite, a megacity of ghettos with a few livable areas.
garfield16:
True, but which part of Lagos isn't a ghetto? Is it Ikoyi, where you see pothole ridden roads and shanty towns next to multimillion dollar houses, or Lekki where thanks to our brothers from the southeast they have completely destroyed the place. The only part of Lagos that is relatively passable is Banana island and once Linda Ikeji moved in that was the beginning of the end, like I said anywhere these people go give them time they spoil.


Point is every other megacity has a few Ghettos, Lagos is the opposite, a megacity of ghettos with a few livable areas.
garfield16:
True, but which part of Lagos isn't a ghetto? Is it Ikoyi, where you see pothole ridden roads and shanty towns next to multimillion dollar houses, or Lekki where thanks to our brothers from the southeast they have completely destroyed the place. The only part of Lagos that is relatively passable is Banana island and once Linda Ikeji moved in that was the beginning of the end, like I said anywhere these people go give them time they spoil.


Point is every other megacity has a few Ghettos, Lagos is the opposite, a megacity of ghettos with a few livable areas.
this guy must be from south-hell
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Deen77: 12:50pm On Mar 17, 2016
Lagos is d only city without good rail system out of all.

Ambode, please focus on water transport by acquiring modern boats and subsidize the cost for the benefit of d poor masses.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by goodvision12(m): 12:54pm On Mar 17, 2016
This is an apc shit!lagos has not even scratched the surface of civilization talkless of comparing it with great cities like newyork and paris.Who dash monkey banana?

Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Mescopaul(m): 1:02pm On Mar 17, 2016
timmydavids:
Nice motitation for the working team of LASG
IT IZ WELL ...
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Nobody: 1:05pm On Mar 17, 2016
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Ghost447:
I'm sorry for poking my finger, but you need a medicated/magnifying lens.
i guess your elder sister needs one too. cheesy
Ghost447:
I'm sorry for poking my finger, but you need a medicated/magnifying lens.
i guess your elder sister needs one too.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Shymm3x: 1:12pm On Mar 17, 2016
Lol.

This is like ranking a football club in the Nigerian league with English premiership clubs cos apart from population, Lagos has nothing in common with these cities.

Lagos is a huge slum in urgent need of decongestion and proper planning. Lagos stinks.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Ade3000yrs(m):
stephenduru:
Global city rankings have rated Lagos as one of the mega cities in the world alongside New York City, Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, plus more.

As one of those cities having a population in excess of 17 million people - LASG says it is imperative to provide facilities and infrastructure for the city that will cope with such large demographics and which will be of comparable standard to what is obtainable in all other mega cities in the World, so as to ensure high quality life for the residents of Lagos.

In line with these needs and objective, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has conceived an initiative to provide the city of Lagos with world class residential, business recreational and other facilities that will measure up to what is obtainable in all the mega cities of World. This will position the state as one of the best cities to live and work on the African Continent.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/03/global-ranking-of-cities-lagos-state.html
In other words, This is a big bad news for Lagos, and its government realy need to do something about it. The state is a big time bomb for itself and the entire Nigerian alone. Because once Lagos explodes, the entire Nigeria will be diseased. As at the time I did my demographic enquiry and data caption, I discovered Lagos is a home to 27 million people. Lagos is the smallest among all the Nigerian States. Lagos is a state designed to hold just 3 million people and 5million at its brink. The yield point and break point has been over stretched and abused and its as if the people in the state now live like sardine in a can and titus and mackarel in a tin. Only 1.3 milllion feel the direct impact of its government. and another handful of 200,000 are people from oil rich states, politicians and people from over sea who invest in Lagos property. The FAO has predicted that 65million people in the city will be hit by poverty by 2025 and Lagos State should expect its worst hit of the Lots as only those who earn #150,000 naira at the end of the month will be saved. The government of Lagos needs to work in conjunction with federal government and the world bank to pay people incentives to leave and go and start farming in the other fertile lands of Nigeria begging for attention. There are too many useful idle hands in Lagos and if nothing is done to intervene in their plight, the government of Lagos and its host community will regret this bitterly someday. An idle mind is the devils work station. Poverty and the lack of the needful education is the fundamental cause of violence. It is too obscene seeing 5 men and a family of 6 living in one room apartment just as it is worse to find a family of 6 maintain a room and parlour apartment, and yet you find other compound populated like military Battalion Command and barracks. That is the begining of the school and studio of poverty that will birth the anticipated violence and revolt against the government when the people become so frustrated and choked up that they cant hold it. The Lagos state government must be vigilant and perform its duty to further prevents the breakdown of law and order and wasteful budgets in its states. Empower people and not sweet tongue/sweet talk them in the name of carrying everybody along in the name of politics when you know you cannot help and lack the power to do that. Nigeria as a country is a jewel and there are other parts and tribes of Nigeria with staggaring Industrial power and Agricultural opportunity wasting away. Most hospitable and beautiful states in the North, South and East has been demonized in the name of bastardized politics, religion and violence culture. I tell people, if you have spent 2 to 20yrs in Lagos and no tangible result, you will have to move out like father Abraham did in the Bible and start something reasonable in the other part of Nigeria. If you are the hardworking type that can work with your 2 hands & not lazy, With a budget of 20k to 100k, You can achieve much if you go into Agriculture with a few acres of land say 2 to 50 Acres in the space of 3-4 months of harvest. That is why you will never find a man from Niger State in Lagos or Abuja or Port Harcourt except he is a civil servant posted there or Just visiting from states to states offloading his trailer loads of food items and making his money cash and carry on delivery spot. That is why an anverage Aboki man from the North will always be richer than a city Professor. That is why the North will still produce the top 20 richest Nigeria in the Next 100yrs. Hunger does not know rich man or poor man. Thats why Agric will always top the list of profession to beat the likes of Medicine, Architecture, Petroleum, Law & Accountancy. Thank God for the work of the National Open University across Nigeria in its Education & Extension program. By Adewale Oladipupo. To partner wt me in Agric call 09099176956, 08141208884, 09022605663.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Benoxvals(m): 1:14pm On Mar 17, 2016
lekkie073:
When u see technological feats like the Atlantic City project, u cant help just agree dat lagos will soon be a megacity. ..



SE haters can go and jump into d lagoon grin angry
Lagos is not even close to those cities in terms of infrastructure...unless a different index was considered for the rating.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by MCMXCVIII(m): 1:30pm On Mar 17, 2016
hollywater:
City of Oloshos and Criminals don't forget to add that.
so which city does not have "Olosho" and criminals?
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Bookiemart01(f): 1:56pm On Mar 17, 2016
How your city be?
Tell us where you came from 1st grin. The place dey map at all?

seunny4lif:
In terms of population grin ok good
But the rest Lagos no fine reach Dakar or Cape town talkless of N.Y grin
Abi na only lekki be Lagos undecided

Ikeja is not something to write about undecided

Why our street light always dey yellow grin grin
Na yellow land cheesy
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by seunny4lif(m): 2:01pm On Mar 17, 2016
grin
See you grin
I be Nigerian grin grin
tongue tongue
Bookiemart01:
How your city be?
Tell us where you came from 1st grin. The place dey map at all?
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by albany231: 2:05pm On Mar 17, 2016
lonelydora:
Hausas are beating you in your place, you didn't ask them to jump inside lagoon. Go show your muscle for Mile 2 first before you talk to SE.
Hypocrite, 19 eboes were killed in Biafra HQ- Enugu last month but you were all silent. Go face them first before they rape your women again in Imo and Ebonyi.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Nobody: 3:10pm On Mar 17, 2016
wiseoneking:
The only state that is entirely run and controlled by non indegine. I think the igbos call lagos Nomansland. The only state that have igbos both in state and federal assembly, hoping to produce the first governor by the year 3031. 100 yrs was used to build this great state with Our SS oil wealth. All the fly over, sea port, entire island, Airport etc was built by our oil. Ipobs should invest more in SS than to dominate the building of Altlantic city. Thank God for our oil.
bro Lagos isn't a no man's land na Yoruba or edo land(dat one concern Dem) . after the abandoned property fiasco in ph I thought igbos wud see reason . instead of castigating or trashing Lagos, let my brothers come home an invest. anambra state for one is a good option.
Re: Mega-City: Lagos Ranked Alongside NewYork & Beijing (photo) by Nobody: 3:20pm On Mar 17, 2016
garfield16:
I'm a yoruba man like you but let's call a spade a spade, lagos used to me a nice place but now it is an eyesore! A major part of the problem are the people from the SE who have, anywhere they go they spoil.
SE have always been present in Lagos since its industrialisation. It not fair to blame them. going by your logic one would deduce that Ibadan and ife are better than what we have here east of the Niger (which certainly isn't true)
Lagos problems are in extension Nigerias problem. their is simply no other state in Nigeria that's it's economic equal hence, overpopulation.
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