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PreyingMantis:
1. It is not in dispute that she looks like her father.

2. You do not know me and I never told you where I'm from... So you're not in a position to talk about my supposed 'culture'.

3. Yemi Alade did not grow up in Yorubaland. She grew up in Umuahia, Abia State. That's a known fact... Besides her mother is Igbo. Get your facts right young man.

4. Yemi Alade is who she is because of the Igbo blood running in her veins. Like I said earlier, she's too liberal to be a Yorubastard.

Yes!,i dont need to see you to know shallow and rural you are in both thoughts,reasoning and culture.

How can yeeboo blood runs in someone's vain if she's actually born of yoruba father, bears yoruba names and look exactly like her father.

How would you know yeeboo blood runs in her vain,by what standard?
Is her mother her father now and her father mother?
Like I wrote earlier I know such like you who never grow up to understand the essence of life, words nor well brought.

Wisdom is for the wise. Not the foolish you.
You talk without thinking.

PreyingMantis:
That girl is more Igbo than Yoruba. I guess she only has a Yoruba name as an appendage.... Maybe for the Lagos market. I doubt if she can speak the language.

She's too liberal and refined to be a Yorubastard. Thats all!

Did you even observed that she looks more like her father, with the fair skin?

How can she not be liberal since she's actually a yoruba girl by name,state of origin,birth and she actually grew up in yoruba land?

You don't want to compare her with your tribe lady/women who are often cage by your so called culture.

You deny your woman her father inheritance, you sell her out in the name of bride price,and the worst part of it is how you castigate your women whenever you does wrong or try to be liberal.

Wisdom is meant for the wise and few that often think before talking. You obviously didn't inherit one and considering the tribe you come from and their nature the wise one wouldn't be surprise why you didn't think before you talk.

ChoCandyDiamond:
This analysis is shows that indigenous Yorubas are not working hard to take over there yorobawood industry, how can foreigners come and learn your language and overpower you in your own language movie, remember that yorobawood came as a result of Igbonization of Nollywood, this people that where displaced from nollywood run to the yorobawood and overpower the locals

Your reasoning is rural. Infact you reason like a village girl who's far from civilisation.
You need help asap.

Ritchiee:
lol at all those news sites which did not even give us link to the bogus report from IPOD.
So because we got into Ivy league meant we have become the most brilliant.
Compared to the Yorubas who are the most educated group in Nigeria.
The only people who have all the youngest Phd holders in Africa and some of the best in the world.

Victor Olalusi ,was the only student to have swept 5.0 CGPA in far away Russia where technology reigns as in America.
Yorubas are the only people with 2 Nobel Laureates in Africa etc.Chuck your bogus report into your blockoss.
You are comparing somebody who is on the starting line of a race to a winner.YOU ARE ALL CLOWNS.
America would not be dumb to pick losers as anything other than what they really are.

You will observed that I made mention of that,pointed that out in my reply. It's just that I wasn't in the mood for debate.
Can you imagine that?

dragon2000:
Igbos, Most Brilliant Black Africa Race –US Report

A United States academic report for 2015 has suggested that the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria are the most brilliant black Africa race.

According to the report: “a search through the promotional materials of school for a black student – all schools and colleges would always show some black faces in their promotional materials if they have any – reveals that they have had at least one black student, and it was, unsurprisingly, a Nigerian Igbo.”



This is just as two teenage Nigerian high school students, Harold Ekeh and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, have broken a record of being accepted by eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Ekeh is a 17-year-old senior student at Elmont Memorial High School, Long Island while Uwamanzu- Nna is a high-school student from Long Island, New York. Schools within the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

However, the feat, according to two online news portals, NBC News and MSN, revealed that both teenagers are faced with “a big decision to make soon.” For instance, Ekeh was granted admission by 13 universities, including all the eight Ivy League schools.

The NBC News reported that Ekeh is faced with the dilemma of whittling down his college prospects, having applied to 13 colleges, with the hope to “maybe” get into Stony Brook University, about an hour east of his home in Elmont, Long Island.

But, in recent weeks, the cascade of reply letters started pouring in: Harvard. Yes. Yale. Yes. Princeton. Yes. Not only did he get accepted to all of the schools he applied to, those include all eight Ivy League institutions. Speaking with NBC News, Ekeh said: “It’s very, like, stunning.

It’s like getting hit with a brick, honestly. When you see congratulations, you’re like, wow your hard work has paid off, definitely.” The straight-A student has accomplished the rare feat of getting into all of the nation’s Ivy schools, crediting his parents’ work ethic for setting an example and a desire to strive in his adopted homeland after emigrating from Nigeria 10 years ago.

“I find that I’m very over-involved,” Ekeh said, counting advanced placement classes and extracurricular activities, such as science research, school plays and being editor-inchief of his school newspaper, as filling up his time. Ekeh, who scored a 2270 out of 2400 on his SATs, said: “I do have conflicts that maybe I’ll have this programme at the same time as I have another programme and so it’s hard to choose which one to be involved in.

I expected to maybe get into Stony Brook, a couple of other safeties, just based upon the SAT and the GPA, but I was still never certain of anything. There are so many variables taken into consideration in college admissions, so I was never certain of anything at any point.”

Ekeh, one of five brothers, said he wants to study biochemistry and become a neurosurgeon. He is inspired by his grandmother, who began showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s when he was 11. He wants to find a cure. “There are so many researchers working for Alzheimer’s disease right now and many neurogenic disorders that definitely a cure can be found soon,” he said.

As for where he is going to college, he isn’t quite sure, but would like to stay close to family. “I am leaning towards Columbia right now because I’d like to stay in New York City for I guess the rest of my career and work at Mt. Sinai,” Ekeh said, adding that America has given his family a life they might never have had in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, Uwamanzu- Nna, who also had found herself in the same situation, told MSN News that she has a big decision to make soon. The Elmont High School valedictorian, who was accepted into all the eight Ivy League schools, also gained admission into Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Rensse
Polytechnic Institute.

Uwamanzu-Nna is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, who said her parents instilled in her the value of education. “Though I was born here in America, I visited Nigeria many times. And I’ve seen that my cousins don’t have the same opportunities that I have.

So, definitely, whatever I do, I want to make sure that it has an impact on Nigeria,” she said. She also said her own tenacity and persistence helped shape her into becoming a great student. But as with a lot of students, she did face hardships with some classes.

“I struggled with numerous classes in the past. But I guess what allowed me to be successful, ultimately, in those classes, is my persistence and my tenacity,” she said. Though Uwamanzu- Nna hasn’t decided on which college to attend, having scored a GPA of 101.6, and with a recent invitation to the White House Science Fair, reports indicated that there’s no doubt that she would continue her academic excellence.

The report that suggested the outstanding academic performance of the Igbo revealed that if only environmental factors were responsible for the different Intelligence Quotients (IQs) of different populations, the world may expect to find some countries where Africans had higher IQs than Europeans.

The report cited empirical backup using theories propounded by eminent scholars such as Richard Lynn, a British Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster and Arthur Jensen, who was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

The report’s findings also revealed that while the fact remains that black immigrants to the U.S have shown achievements that were superior to native black Americans, studies had also shown that it had been a phenomenon studied since the 1970s at the least.

Using Lynn theory, who was also an assistant editor of the controversial journal Mankind Quarterly, who is known for his views on racial, ethnic and national differences in intelligence, the report revealed that: “Failure to find a single country where this is the case points to the presence of a strong genetic factor.”

For Jensen, the report said: “Regression would explain why Black children born to high IQ, wealthy Black parents have test scores two to four points lower than do White children born to low IQ, poor White parents.” The report also stated that at first, it was just the Caribbean blacks who were a subject of this unexpected outcome.

As black Africans kept immigrating into the U.S, they showed even higher levels of achievement than the native blacks. Many scholars theorised on the reasons for these differences, from Thomas Sowell’s proposal that this disproved the validity of discrimination against native blacks as an explanation for their underachievement (Sowell, 1978), to other scholars who suggested that these immigrants were just the most highly driven members of their home countries as evidenced by their willingness to migrate to a foreign country (Butcher, 1990).

What most of these theories failed to predict was that the children of these immigrants would also show exceptional achievements, especially academically. It is only in recent years, as the immigrants have stayed long enough to produce a sufficiently high number of offspring, that it had been observed that they are over-represented among high academic achievers, especially when compared to native blacks, particularly at very elite institutions.

What has been missed in the IQ debate is the full logical implication of these achievements: they have effectively nullified any arguments for a racial evolutionary explanation of the well-known IQ test score gap between blacks and whites.

Even more fatal for the racial hereditarian side of the debate has been the corroborating data of school children performance in the UK, particularly when the black Africans are divided into their respective nationalities and tribal ethnicities.

Arthur Jensen gave at least two empirical tests that could potentially falsify his thesis of a race based genetic explanation for the black-white IQ gap.

http://.com/igbos-most-brilliant-black-africa-race-us-report/

Oh No. Not again Ibo.
Why, why, why...

According to the link,ibo blog, it wrote, and I quote :

IGBOS, MOST BRILLIANT BLACK AFRICA RACE –US REPORT

But browsing through link provided and reading the info's therein to unravel the stats and the link to the so called "America stats/link"..you know what I found?






































Nothing.





But ibo why?

We have told you that intelligence is not measure by tribe nor base on few or more that make it into one ameliiikaa uni or not. It got to be a genetic thingy.

sirade:
Mod can you help this thread by keeping it clean.

Delete some of this comments from idiots derailing this thread.

Cc mynd44

You no different, dude.
By the way, go and check how you E-Bow brolada ruined ogun state at 40thread..abeg

Oh lagos Gov hate us, he's jealous of us, Yolaba people hate us...

oh why..oh why..oh why yoloba people don't want us to live in lagos

Funjosh:
My brother most times you just have to take some comments with great humour, he said Ogun State is Primitive and am so much in love with my lovely state

Really?
I am too, my dad why my mum is omo eko

Bawao

Adeniyi4real:
Yet with all the dignitaries, many resources and some company Ogun State is still lag behind compare to some states in Nigeria... When you get to some part of lagos that belongs to Ogun state the level of under development there will tell you are in Ogun state... How about the high level of unemployed youths, drug dealers, yahoo yahoo, ritualist, thugs and Cultists infact ogun should be given award for all these Social vices and underdevelopment.
Lesson: Don't celebrate your glory with few number of Corrupt pple who made themselves rich through illicit means rather celebrate it with higher number of successful pple and responsible pple with good image rather than Obasanjo and co who inflicted suffering on Nigeria that we are still battling with today. Nonsense News

You are joking, right?

http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria/publication/nigeria-economic-report-improved-economic-outlook-in-2014-and-prospects-for-continued-growth-look-good


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/rivers-state-others-have-overtaken-s-east-in-commerce-industry/

goodgate:
No, he is from Sagamu Ogun State. I'm typing from a small phone,if not if i start listing Ogun Billionaire CEOs ehn people go shock.

Wow

That's great.
I guess I need to do some research on him.

Funjosh:
We still love it like that, Thank You

God bless Ogun,God bless yoruba land.
Primitive my bombom yet these Igbos plenty for there too
Eyah

goodgate:
Dr Adebayo Ogunlesi; Chairman Global Infrastructure Partners,owners of Gatwick International Airport London.

I thought he's from ibadan

[quote author= post=42609407]Funny guys jealous of mud and brown roof enclave? I'm here counter your propaganda[/quote]Those are great men not local champions that you listed up there.
Get over yourself, c'on be a man.

Ogun,Yoruba rock.
Oya go and urge something asap

[quote author= post=42609151]I don't blame you, your are typing from Ota, if you are intelligent, you tycoon I mentioned are top business men and women in Africa not just Naija
Business Tycoon
*[b] Sir louis Odiumegwu Ojukwu first Nigerian millionaire and also first Nigerian stock exchange persident
31.Sir Emeka Offor CEO Chrom Energy, Enugu disco etc.
32. Dr ABC Orjiakor CEO Seplat Plc, Neimith pharmaceuticals etc.
33. Engr Ernest Azudialu CEO Nestoil, Century power generation, Smile Network etc.
*Dr. Godwin Maduka is the Managing Director and founder Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Centre, which is the largest and most comprehensive pain treatment practice group in Nevada, United States of America.
* Arthur Eze CEO Altlas Oranto petrolum
*. Ex Gov Peter Obi Fidelity bank, Next etc.
* Andy Uba politician, Oil merchat
* Barrister Allen Onyema CEO Air peace
*Chief Umeofia The CEO of Erisco Foods Ltd., the fourth largest tomato past in world
34 Cos Maduka CEO Coscharies motors, Abro motor products, Coched farm etc.
35. Emma Bishop Okonknwo CEO Ekulo group
36. Clement Ibeto CEO Ibeto group, Cement, Oil Merchant, Motor products, Real Estate, Farm and Hotels.
37.Ifeanyi Uba Capital Oil etc
38. Chief (Dr.) Alexander Chika Okafor CEO Chicason group, AZ oil.
39 Innocent Chukwuma Innoson Motors etc.
40. Nicolas Ukachukwu CEO SNECOU Group of Companies Limited
41. SIR. Daniel Chukwudoze Dozzy Oil
42 Sir. Nath Okechukwu Chairman Inter-bau Construction Ltd
43 HRH. Igwe Alfred Achebe Obi of Onitsha Chairman Daimon bank and unilever Plc.
44. Sir Emeka Okwuosa Chairaman Oil serve group, Ekcel Farms Ltd
45. Nnetochukwu Azubuike Oil merchant, Genesis hotel and Genesis deluxe cinemas
46 Odumodu CEO May&Baker
47 Chief Poly Emenike Nero Pharmaceutical
48. Mrs. Stella Okoli Emzor
* Obi Okoye Fusion motors Los Angeles US
* Nkechi Obi. Tchno oil
* Ben Anakwe NIPCO oil,
* Stella Odua Former aviation minister, CEO SPG
* Dame Felicia Okoli CEO Armak group of companies
* Uju Ifejika CEO Britannia-U
* William Uzoma Anumudu Chairman Global motors Holding
* Enukeme Linus Azubuike Chairman Tonimas Group
* Obiajulu Uzodike Cutix wire plc
* Chigioke Anumoka Chairman Cotech and Tummy tummy. noodles
49. Mike Ajegbo Minaj Tv, Cement and real estate
*. DA Nwandu Construction, real estate

Transporter and haulage biz
50. Young shall grow
51. Chisco group
52, Ekenedilichukwu trans
53. GUO Okeke
54. CN Okoli
55 Izuchukwu trans
56. PN. Omerua
57. FG. Onyewe
* Ifeanyichukwu transporttransport[/b]
Use your Google and come back and testify[/quote]But..bros, why are you so jealous?
Thought somebody wrote earlier that they are not interested in your village champions.
Bros, take a chill pill nah

Smartslim17:



Why are talking about well known people, u are mentioning ceo of a small small company from your village. U are so funny. U beta don't kill yourself over nothing. If we should start naming Ogun state indigen who are ceo of different companies, nairaland will just hang.
Why is it that you are always looking for thread on Southwest especially from Ogun state to showcase what you have in ur state, na by force to know anything going on in your region, we av been telling you we av no interest in wat you people do with your life.

Ba'wao
Omo nahni
Don't mind that flatty

E-bow don enter one chance

Uteghe:
..and it is fresh weed

N.L no go kill person with laff
Warridis? Weapon?
Ohli shit

**falls from chair**

omolola15:
xtrorphy remember we talked about this yesterday. What ya say about this. Igbos proving me right again.

Don't mind that spammer.
You won't find him here
Kwenuuuuuiii

sann204:
Despite dwidling allocation to the state,Ogun state is set to commission Forty project for the commemoration of her 40th anniversary.
God Bless PMB
God Bless SIA
God Bless Ogun State
God Bless my Family

Amazingiiiiiii

Txonyi:
i see SW people writing crap here
who can disprove the story using facts?
dont SW parents report their kids to teachers for home made offenses?
father raping daughter is not news in SW
using yoruba to teach english nko........... you guys know its true
mass failure and un seriousness on the part of the teachers is true
so why all the poo SW people are writing in comments section?
you guys should look inwards, SE is miles ahead in terms of education this is no news
i aint here to join issues with you guys though, the NYSC corps member only narrated her story which is true via stated facts so deal with it SW people and stop writing poo

@ the bold NO. 1, how, what is your yardstick and criteria to come to such conclusion?

You mean, your friend toured/did her NYSC in the whole of SW remote areas hence he or she came to such conclusion?

Ok

arresa:
Olumo Rock, Abeokuta Ogun state.

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#Teambrownroof# aka, aka the least porvety region, the most business friendly region,the most region of most industrial, most welcoming and mother of all region

Teambrownroof#
Me love it

Amazingiiiiiiiiii

[b].......Before 2011, the state could only muster an average of N730 million on a monthly basis as IGR. Since 2012, Governor Ibikunle Amosun has been having the commissioning of manufacturing plants as a constant programme swelling his schedule of activities. These include the commissioning of Dangote Cement Plant, WEMPCO Steel Mills, and the multi-billion naira AADL ethanol manufacturing plant at Igbesa, Ogun State. These particularly big events, underline the magnitude of the investments that have been attracted into the state recently.

The ethanol plant, constructed by Allied Atlantic Distilleries Ltd., has since started the production of ethanol, which is a major component in the making of wines and spirits, with cassava being the raw material that is available in huge quantities in Ogun State. Earlier, in January 2014, at the P&G plant commissioning ceremony, the governor, in an upbeat mood, announced that despite the massive project being the 43rd since the inception of his administration, 20 others were already on the waiting list. The optimistic governor’s target is to commission 100 industries in the state before May, 2015.

Chief among the attractions that have informed the pull of industries into Ogun State apppears to be the almost-boundless availability of land and the ease of its aqcuisition for investment purposes. In this regard, the state is generous enough to offer 70 per cent rebate on cost of land, making the documentation of such properties easy and prompt by the removal of the hitherto frustrating administrative roadblocks. The state has also been working with the Bank of Industry, BOI, to make credit facilities accessible to investors.

Wale Adegbite, chairman, Eagle Packaging who doubles as the vice-chairman of the Manufacturing Association of Nigeria, Ogun State branch, ascribes the Ogun allure for industrialists mainly to the location. “We all know that Lagos is the biggest market for any product in Nigeria and Ogun State is the closest to Lagos. Then of course there is the issue of the availability of the land as well,” Adegbite said. According to the industrialist, the cost of doing business is relatively cheaper in Ogun than in Lagos and because of the bigger size of Ogun, it offers cheaper land than Lagos.

Omobolaji Irewole, Assistant Human Resources Manager at President Paints, along the Atan Ota-Idi-iroko road, told TheNEWS that the paint-making company has capitalised on maximising the vast expanse of land on which the firm’s factory is located to aid seamless production and sales, translating to less cost of operation. Hitherto, the firm had its only factory located at the Idi-Iroko road, with the administrative department being at its headquarters in the Ahmadiyah area in Lagos. But the company restrategised by building another administrative block beside the factory, since the land was readily available.

Before the relocation to the factory site of President Paints, the company expended much as transportation costs in moving its products from the factory to the store at the headquarters and other points where buyers got their goods. But the purchase and delivery processes are now more streamlined, with less transportation complications, as buyers now get their goods directly from the factory now situated next to the administrative building.
Another attraction for investors mentioned by Adegbite is that Ogun State sits on a gas pipeline. “Although Lagos State also has gas pipelines in some parts, Ogun has pipelines in Agbara and Ota, which are two big industrial areas, and if you don’t want to rely on privatised Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN’s electricity, you can rely on that,” he said. Manufacturers in Ogun State, with plants situated close to the available independent power suppliers thriving on their proximity to gas pipelines, have the choice of being powered by such IPPs.

This alternative to the power supply from Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company for Ogun State translates to a more reliable source of electricity, and seamless manufacturing process, drawing more industrial firms to the state. Such off-grid power producers in Ogun State include Coronation Power and Gas Limited with a 20MW facility, situated in Sango Ota and Tower Power Utility Ltd., which also generates 20MW and operates at Sango Ota. Ewekoro Power Ltd, with an off-grid generation capacity of 12.5MW, is also sited in Ewekoro, Ogun State.

In May 2014, Honeywell Group revealed that the company has forged a partnership with the United States Trade Development Agency, USTDA, by signing a Grant Agreement for a feasibility study on Honeywell’s N31 billion Sagamu Independent Power Plant project. The project, to be done in phases over the next five to seven years, has the potential of supplying about 140MW of power. The power plant, when it is eventually put on ground, is expected to meet the power demands of industries in the south-western region of the country, with emphasis on Sagamu, Abeokuta and the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway industrial clusters. Honeywell’s projection is undoubtedly to ensure adequate power supply to support its move of further expansion into Ogun State.

The company has disclosed plans to build a 66-hectare Flour-gate Estate in Sagamu. And Honeywell’s decision to relocate was premised on space constraint, having fully utilised the space allotted to it at the Tin Can Island Port in Apapa, Lagos.

Bimbo Ashiru, Ogun State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, told this magazine that towards maintaining its position as the largest industrial estate in Nigeria, the state has introduced many incentives for investors, including a one-stop shop which has reduced bureaucratic bottlenecks in seeking the permit to do business in the state. At a recent summit, Governor Amosun said the state was commitment to the process that would soon lead to launch of the state’s metro city project, which will be the rail connection between Lagos and Ogun states, to cement the administration’s urban and industrial sector development programmes.

With mineral resources in the state including bitumen, phosphate, kaolin, tar, sand and clay, and especially limestone, some of which the government claims can be mined for the next 500 years, the influx of more industrial firms into Ogun State is likely to be sustained. “Ogun has the largest concentration of limestone in the country for instance. And of the 28.6 million metric tonnes of cement produced locally in Nigeria, 14 million metric tonnes of this comes from Ogun State,” Ashiru claimed.[/b]

[b]......While some of these firms are new entrants, others consist of manufacturing concerns which have decided to start producing from Ogun in facilities sprouting in all directions in the state. In 2012, Procter and Gamble, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of consumer goods, chose Agbara, Ogun State, as the appropriate site to build a $300 million plant. The industry, which was commissioned last year, has consequently stepped up levels of production of its popular brands of products, like Ariel, Vicks, Pampers, Always and Duracell, among others. The industry, now on Ogun soil, is regarded as one of the biggest non-oil investments in the country.

Nestle, another big-time player, has a huge plant around the Papalanto section of the Lagos-Sagamu interchange. Other firms, which are by no means minnows, that have stationed their big plants to produce from Sango Ota, which is home to a cluster of industries in Ogun State, are Drugfield, Kolorkote, Fidson, Intercontinental Distillers, Pure Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, Farmex Mayer, Shonghai Packaging, Eagle Packaging, Leady Pharma, May and Baker, Nycil Ltd., Honda Nigeria Plc, and Assometal. Others include Nigeria Foundry Ltd., Dufil Indomie, Federated Steel Mills, Tower Aluminium, Nigerian Breweries, Nigerian German Chemical and Obasanjo Farms.

It has been a win-win development for both the industrialists and the Ogun State Government. While the manufacturers have enjoyed seamless production in the state, courtesy of advantages being located in the state guarantees, the state government has also witnessed a boost in its Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, that has reached an unprecedented high of N4 billion monthly in the last two years......[/b]

[b]A former governor of Ogun State once described Lagos State as being attached to the belly of Ogun State. This description is reasonably apt, considering that Ogun is geographically the only or closest neighbour to Lagos, with both states conjoined through a vast borderline. The closeness of the major metropolis of Lagos to Ogun State has rubbed off positively on the latter, which is fast becoming the country’s new major industrial hub.

The symbiotic commercial relationship between Lagos and Ogun states can be likened to what exists between the heavily populated New York and the adjoining New Jersey, in the United States, with the latter taking full advantage of its location to a major market to grow its indusrial capacity over time. New York shares the same relationship with Delaware. However, while Lagos is undoubtedly ahead as the main station in terms of profusion of service industry establishments, where the headquarters of banks, major business concerns and also the Stock Exchange are located, Ogun has also been accelerating towards emerging as the centre of industrial activities.

Presently, investors in the manufacturing sector actually consider Ogun State a more alluring and conducive site for their activities. These investors have been drifting into the state at an unprecedented rate in the last three years, from the Sango Ota axis to Agbara, Ewekoro, Ibese, Ifo, Ibafo, Magboro and Sagamu, where, altogether, not less than 50 major manufacturing firms have registered their presence......[/b]