₦airaland Forum

babapupa: Hotels don't make money from huge patronage? Are you from dumb land.

Huge patronage means more revenue to create more jobs by hiring more people, huge patronage means they use more supplies and they have to go back to the market to restock used supplies, meaning they are recycling the money and injecting it into the local economy. When the hotels are busy, it means everybody is making money from the cab drivers to suppliers like food and drink suppliers, toiletries suppliers and the state.

It's a win win situation for everybody.

Don't be shallow minded, its economics101.

please read very well..before commenting. I never said hotel patronage does not help the economy...but i said if that is your criteria for measuring the flux of tourist then port harcourt and owerri are the biggest tourist destination because hotels in this city are full, though expensive all year round. Like i said. Give me real statistics not vague infinitesimalities.

kingingkinging: A pure display of ignorance.

On the contrary, it will generate income for the state.Have you passed Bar Beach in the recent time, LASG has allocated different spots for companies to trade with each spot being paid for, sponsorship will also bring income whereas LASG will only supply the ground and security.

Do you watch CNN and see cities like Macedonia,Dubai, etc countries like Kenya advertising? Do you know the cost of one shorts on our local stations let alone CNN? Have you asked yourself why all these are happening?

The work of the govt is to create enabling environment and attract investors by working on their psyche through what they see. the govt is to invest in the environment and security, going by economic models, the govt should not ordinarily dabble into the running of businesses but should allow private bodies to handle that instead govt should regulate through laws and order.
With stuffs like this and security being guaranteed, LASG is telling people that LAGOS is safe for running of businesses.
Thumbs up to gov Fash. the most intelligent gov in Nigeria.

thank you for the lecture on lagos being the great driver of the private sector in nigeria. As a lover of economic like myself you'll know that buisnesses need an enabling environment, where is it? Is it the bad roads, or the traffic? Or the uneducated work force? Massive insecurity? They need low taxes. Do u know lagos corporate tax rate? Small buisness need tax relief but i watched a documentary of the bbc that you say is "advertising lagos to the world" were an touts and their groups roam around lagos collecting "tax" for the "goverment"..and the bbc anchor was taken to their houses and shown their expensive cars and one even showed him his imported italian shoes. The anchor was visibly shocked that touts could collect and spend government taxes and questioned if what they were doing was legal and the governour was aware with a laugh they invited to anchor to accompany them the following weel to alausa for a courtesy visit on the governour. And truely they met the governour. After the meeting the touts left in their hummers to a secluded part of lagos where they met up with a musician called pasuma and together they partied and threw money at a crowd gathered around them..the bbc anchor was shocked, i was appalled and i'm sure your international investors will be dying to invest in eko!!! Eko oni baje o!

playboy19: Education is not just about attending and graduating from some community colleges, its mostly about personal development. I believe you would have done better if you had taken a few minute to research about the most congested traffics in the world. Los Angeles, California must be the second most terrible traffics in the world (if not the first) and people not only within the US but the world over, troops into LA daily... so just shut your gob if you don't know what you're talking about. Plus FYI, this is the festive period, traffic congestion is well expected in any bubbling city.

i pride myself an exceptional gentleman so i won't exchange insults but facts with you my good man...firstly i did'nt know los angeles, califonia is in africa cause i said lagos has the worse traffic in africa so you're geography teacher need questioning. Secondly los angeles has a high speed rail coming and a road network that makes the entire lagos look like 18th century engineering. These parties and the rest are rubbish and a waste of peoples money.

hisson3: Dude try & get facts, just visit some of d major hotels in lagos & see d number of foreigners trooping in & out, u will be shocked!

my facts are suffering from overightness. Is that even a word? Anyway....!! I don't need to go to hotels to know that all this frevolities do not add a penny to the economy. Rather it is a waste. If you feel your facts are so strong, lay them here with figures from the ministry of culture and tourism or the national oreintation agency and i'll conceed.

All this noise for a competition nigeria won't even make out of the group stages...abeg!! Is nigeria still a footballing nation?

In many ways pres. Jonathan was the last hope for pdp because he was greatly supported, i mean he swept lagos during the elections.. With the way nigerians now feel about jonathan, i wonder what rabbit pdp will pull out of their hat cause if jonathan wins in 2015..it's gonna be war!!

This man better think about the economy and how to keep it afloat rather than making stupid speeches in foreign countries. Debt in many ways drive economies. The largest economies hold the largest debt so far as you can fund the debt. So mr. Sanusi better think of how to stabilize our crashing naira and insane borrowing rate than making dull speeches.

In a country where jobs are rare why ban the importation of a commodity people use in getting income. Why is'nt it taxed and regulated to specific safe houses where it will be safe from fire. Everybody wins..the importers get their income and the government gets revenue. It's sureal!!

PeterKbaba: Exactly

celebrate one night of frevolities and the next morning they'll still wake up in abject poverty and a depressing surrounding.

When one challenges the massive waste of money on parties and canivals they say it's for tourism so wonder how many people around the world or even nigeria will park their bags and say "gee..i'm heading to the most traffic congested city in africa for some senseless carnival".

Okay!! When babatunde fashola waste lagosians tax naira on frevolous parties, christmas lights and carnivals, he's a transformational leader but when pres. Jonathan does anything he's a clueless retardee....eko oni baje o!!

This has to be the funniest joke I've heard in a while. What a hilarious christmas joke. It's like a thief angry that another thief got to the loot first. Asiwaju bola Tinubu!!!

Gbawe: Abati is a discredited charlatan sensible folks have absolutely no regard for. What does Tinubu say here that many pragmatic social/political observers and critics don't agree with?

not when the observer is a thief and massive political godfather. Before his party can say they are a credible opposition to the pdp tinubu has to give up his godfather role. At least pdp as villanous at it seems has no godfathers again due to it's division.

sucess001: @ syphony...sowie bro...no harm meant...buh u threw d first stone...

Anyways...I still maintain my position and I don't agree wit u.

My facts re easily verifiable...

Nice write up...ypilant & naptu

thank you too for an honorable conversation, though we don't agree with each other. Merry christmass to you and your farmily.

sucess001: Who is this id.iot talking and tellin pple to get their facts right...i ve worked in lagos island and VI for years. workedhere while obj was president and i cant recall busnessbeing as disrupted as many times as gej...if u re a b.loody apologist...just avoid me bro...cos pple like u nauseate me so bad!

please behave yourself in a most respectable manner, we're having a reasonable discussion and it's tragic that you choose to desent into name calling. Once again get your facts right because you find real facts nauseating.

And to think this gentleman not too long ago was ernestly serching for money so much you had pity on him now he is giving out BMW's. Hardwork really pays.

Gbawe: No. You should get your facts right before sycophantically defending one of the most callously wasteful President in the World who heads a Nation home to some of the most poverty-stricken worldwide. All of you holding brief for this wasteful President, a throwback to the dark days of wanton profligacy, simply have no shame. Jonathan's profligate mien is not at all consnonat with his status as President of a Nation were it is claimed that many live on less than a dollar a day. Some of you should speak the truth and shame the devil sometimes.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3060952/David-Camerons-flight-saves-200k.html

if you want to discuss pres. Jonathan's policies we can do that another day let's discuss this issue at hand. As lovely and cost cutting as that sounds what it does'nt say is the commons blasting cameron's government for it's wastefull travel spending. That was a photo up for parliament. David cameron and his boys use the queen's flight more than the royal farmily. He chatters jet's to brussles when he and his staffs can ride for a few pounds on eurostar. Once again check your facts sir.

sucess001: some pple just say funny tins sha...even in Nigeria here...which other president had a penchant for closing down traffic the way Jonathan does? even Obasanjo wasnt like dis...so the nation should stop cos u wanna 'honour' ur president?
some of u dnt even know that thepresident's operations should not in any way stiffle the daily lives of the pple he governs...if having a president will mean so much inconvenience...no point having one den...the pple elect a leader to make their lives better and easier...not the other way around...

i shake my head vigorously for some f.ools here tryin to make it seem like we only bashing the jona i.diot... he actually is a du.mbass!

by mentioning obasanjo you just exastubated your ignorance of this issue. Obasanjo did this big time. I remember once in port harcourt when obasanjo was in town to do some commissioning. The state was so clogged up that some schools did'nt open. Many other occasions, him and the late mrs stella obasanjo. Pls get your facts right.

Why don't they just finish the whole thing? Rather than making it look like a doll house. Without a front farcade.

samguru: he paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Azazi who died in the helicopter crash,so this reason is cogent enough to keep the whole business along ikoyi standstill,what is the nonsense value of this visit?

pres. Obama once grabbed a burger with bill clinton at lower manhattan and the heart of the global economy "lower manhattan" was shut to traffic.#bashjonathan.

obongoboy: check this pic out, did u see frustrated ibo, yoruba, and hausa market women, did u see any amour car, did u see 10000 soldiers, 5000 mobile police men, did u see any politically insane looters, did u see airspace close down, how many AK 47 did u see on the well dressed security men? give me a brake, Nigeria is a failed state

if nigeria is a failed state because security put in place for their head of state and commander in chief then every western country starting with the u.s is a failed state.

k2039: Symptoms of a failed republic

a president's motorcade stopping traffic is the symptom of a failed republic? Then the u.s where airforce one coming to new york means the shut down of air traffic in the entire east coast and the presidents motorcade routh is shut to traffic about two hours before it passes is a long failed state. Pathetic.

Gbawe: Guy I doff my hat for the part in bold above. This is what Nigerians, a people oppressed to the point of insanity and apathy, do not realise. The leaders of rich Nations flying with BA and Virgin. Our President , heading a Nation with the majority in poverty, maintains an expensive fleet of planes yet still demanding more while foolish and oppressed folks support him blindly because they have no appreciation of what obtains in saner climes.

David Cameron is unobtrusive in his travels, yet States shut down when GEJ visits for worthless reasons. No one is saying that GEJ began this tradition of largess and waste but we must demand Nigeria gains a President who can begin to move our nation away from these unsustainable acts of profligacy, insensitivity and 'big man' indolence not at all congruous with what the world is today. A bit like shunning an electric or solar powered car, in an energy challenged world, to insist on driving an 8 litre gas guzzler.

david cameron moves in a bulletproof custom made car and a motorcade of rang rovers that makes the entire motorcade of jonathan seem like tokumbo cars, westminister is only a few blocks from downing street but his motorcade led by police outriders block london traffic. Get your facts right before jumping on the bash jonathan wagon.

Please some of your critisims are pathetic. It is standard practise that when world leader's motorcade move, roads are closed. It happens everywhere. Even newyork city as busy as it is comes to a halt when the president is in town. Direct your anger at the security agencies who put the blocks in place not the president who has other things to think about!! Always looking for an opportunity to bash jonathan!!!

This is just the starting. Just take a look at the perks given to the 7 living passed head of states and concedering how much they looted. You'll know our cointry is on a race to the bottom.

Hmmmm..were did they get all the power to light these frevolities? Meanwhile people are living in darkness and small buisness are drowning in petrol bill for generators. Eko baje o!!!

My buddy was sick once and i gave him some food and pills, in no time he was feeling better. Does that count?

The hired buses will still encounter the ghastly roads won't they? In my view that money would have been used to patch up roads so people can travel safely for the holidays. I think they'll be more gratefull than pulling each others hairs and cloths dragging to enter your free buses.

Mutumdaya: It is gowon,he killed more than 3million future leaders in his so called civil war

gowon preserved the union of nigeria. He deserves our respect,gratitude and admiration.

Happy birthday to you my beloved home girl. We're proud of you. First african miss world is an achievement. Keep basking in your glory and beauty.