SmartyPants:
Fuel is still being subsidized indirectly so the issue is not fuel subsidy but dollar inflation, which has an implication on fuel costs. The argument there is that Nigeria could not afford to defend the dollar the way Emefiele was doing - it was not sustainable.

phemmie06:


At least he told us how to carry out removal of fuel subsidy..... How has your president that spoke through his vice to manage the economy and the vice manage insecurity carrying out such task?

Throwback:
Is September 2022 more recent than January 2023 when it was just 1month to the election he lost to Tinubu, and he made the below vow to remove subsidy immediately?

The day Nigerians decide that they cannot live without fuel subsidy, Peter Obi who believes in subsidy removal on the 1st day in office would not be their choice, so stop trying to force it.

No consumer would deliberately purchase an expired product that Peter Obi represents.

Biodun556:
Na wa

S. East why?

All over the Internet, it is bitterness

I think it's high time I Started believing statisense

LOVEALAIGBO:


Do be quiet! He’s not ‘blaming Lagos govs’ per-se, but rather he’s blaming the evil and lopsided political-economy instituted in the late 60s which has led to Lagos grabbing almost everything!

leokid866:
this is wrong....Delta, Rivers, and Akwa ibom all collect more from FAAC than Lagos....if you're going to be blame Lagos for the failures of others include Rivers, Delta and Akwa Ibom too.....

MadPolitician:
Since independence, Lagos as the then political and the economic capital of Nigeria has attracted a lot more infrastructural and financial investments, than any other state in Nigeria. This has been a deliberate policy of the Nigerian government overtime. Infact, the federal government fixation on Lagos became so intense that few years after the war, while the government in power then, was busy mouthing off all sorts of patronising rhetorics about building up the war destroyed areas, Gowon was busy building new roads/highways and flyovers all over Lagos, with none anywhere near the war zone. Funds meant for war reconstruction was directed towards projects in Lagos.

Obasanjo would take over and start building the national stadium, the national theatre, industrial zones, FESTAC,etc. Babangida came with the second mainland bridge, the destruction of Maroko which will later transform to a shiny neighbourhood today, followed with the concentration of the headquarters of oil, banks, press and big time construction companies in Lagos. NONE elsewhere. This practice basically led to a situation where almost every big foreign organisation entering Nigeria, quickly sets up office in Lagos, since the bank top executives live there, together with the active ports. As a result the rest of the country lacks the structures needed to thrive, thereby perpetuating poverty and squalid existence elsewhere in the country.

Based on a review of the lending practices of The "federal" Bank of Industries by The National Assembly few months back, it was revealed that most of the banks loans go mainly to businesses in and around Lagos. Understand that this is a bank that was set up to provide quick low interest loans to businesses and start ups across the country, in order to stimulate rapid industrial revolution all over the country. But as these banks lends primarily to Lagos and her environs, places like Lokoja, Jos, Lafiaa, Abakiliki, Gasua, Birnin Kebbi, Yenegoa, Warri etc, are left unattended to. They now become basically places where finishes goods feom Lagos are sold.

No wonder Lagos alone, accounts for over 90% of Nigerias foreign direct investments, while other cities rot. It has become so bad that the presidency, now headed by a former Lagos governor, is building a "unity road" from his Lekki seaport to Calabar, a seaside city whose ports have been rendered comatose by a barrage of the federal governments anti business policies. Calabar sons are now expected to go to Lagos to clear their imported goods while the port in their city lies empty. These type of policies have basically destroyed businesses in the eastern corridor since it costs over a million to transport imported containers from Lagos to the former Eastern Nigeria.

Nigeria is not a city state like Dubai or Singapore, where everything is concentrated in one city/area. Nigeria is a multi city state in the mould of China, Japan, India, Germany etc. Developmental programs should be caliberated in ways that help to induce rapid economic activities across baord. It is absolutely wrong for graduates from Warri, Calabar or Portharcourt, to travel all the way to Lagos to find port related jobs, when their home cities are economically vibrant enough to have very active seaports. Just as China has Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shandong and other competitively vibrant cities, federal politicians should unleash policies that will allow Lokoja, Kafanchan, Okigwe, Oshogbo and Damaturu to rise.

ranhoyl:
Trump nephew Fred Jr has endorsed Kamal likewise. Is how America politics is

EyeCumInPeace:
Behold a Society that reasons & functions beyond Tribal sentiments. 👌

Amigoss:


Koshi danu, omo ase....Edo no be Lagos yen,odun iyalaya yin pa ....awon omo eru tilumbu

ShogunNoName:


When two stupid tribes waste their time fighting each other online why will one region move forward?

My governor H.E Obaseki is about to start intra city rail system in my darling Edo state.

See let me tell you, instead of you guys to focus on building your region instead you went all the way to Southwest to build and develop 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You see my people, you can't find any single one of us no matter how successful that doesn't have something established home in Edo state. .

99% of you business men established in Southwest neglecting your home.
You all always have an excuse,now it is insecurity. Is your region more insecure than the North ? Yet all Northern businesses remain in the North . Even dangote s major business remains in the North.

You ibos are the author of your own undoing. See chief priest unrooted hos business and took it to Lagos and is disturbing us on Instagram to patronize it. 🤣🤣🤣

You guys will never learn . This is why the Yorubas can threaten you and attack you during elections.

They can't try it with us.

Amigoss:


Arindin,shebi iya train loun je yin

ShogunNoName:


When two stupid tribes waste their time fighting each other online why will one region move forward?

My governor H.E Obaseki is about to start intra city rail system in my darling Edo state.

See let me tell you, instead of you guys to focus on building your region instead you went all the way to Southwest to build and develop 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You see my people, you can't find any single one of us no matter how successful that doesn't have something established home in Edo state. .

99% of you business men established in Southwest neglecting your home.
You all always have an excuse,now it is insecurity. Is your region more insecure than the North ? Yet all Northern businesses remain in the North . Even dangote s major business remains in the North.

You ibos are the author of your own undoing. See chief priest unrooted hos business and took it to Lagos and is disturbing us on Instagram to patronize it. 🤣🤣🤣

You guys will never learn . This is why the Yorubas can threaten you and attack you during elections.

They can't try it with us.

UAE123:
How I wish whoever govern Edo state will go to Lagos State with a sincere mind to copy a practical way of developing a state.

Brendaniel:


Stop with the hate and insult the truth remains the truth...

https://www.businessday.ng/backpage/article/nigerians-prefer-ports-lagos-cargo-destination/

Brendaniel:


Tribalism and tribal supremacy is all you guys see in everything, I only spoke the truth...

Sonyboom765:
The real estate you stated which part of Lagos do igbos own just 10% of the real estate ?

Name just 5 housing estate in like of Abraham Adesanya estate owned by igbos we have over 200 of that in Lagos ?

You clown over inflate your ego over foolishness.

Bliss4Lyfe:




DANGOTE IS NOW A DEVELOPER AND OWNER OF LAGOS.


TINUBU WAS FIGHTING HIM LIKE IGBOS THREATENING HIS BUSINESS UNTIL HE REALISE, IT IS A WASTED EFFORT.


NOW U ARE PRETENDING TO BE HAPPY, KEEP FOOLING YOURSELF WHILST WE TAKE EVERYTHING AND BOOT YOUR LAZY ASS OUT OF LAGOS.




E PAIN AM

gare:


So what is you point? the other 79% was developed by some people and i feel they are not out of place if they claim to have deveoped lagos.

Everything about you is divisive, your parents should have aborted you seriously.

Thewrath:

REAL ESTATE
I will bold it for you since you want to pretend not to know.

moreover,you think third mainland bridge and rail transport are what are driving Lagos economy? Don’t other SW states have those? Why didn’t they attract investors like Lagos?

It’s the purchasing power of people from all over the country including a significant number of igbos,investing in real estate,trade and commerce that makes Lagos what it is and attracts investors.

Thewrath:
It didn’t favour him and his family again?

My satisfaction comes from your sufferings ALONE….as long as this suffering touches everybody,I am fine.

Raise am raise am raise am!!

mcbreeze:
Hunger the brain resetter

Kusu12:

The usual wailing and excuses?

Brendaniel:
It is not only about opening port but giving the port all the import and export privilege Lagos state port has ....

Anijay1212:

This is practically what is going on in our rural communities.
We have one in my village known as "doctor". He is barely literate and owns a patent medicine store. And funny enough a lot of people go to his shop for all sorts of treatments.
Our people prefer quacks because of accessibility, convenience and affordability.
I plead with our various tiers of government to bring affordable health care facilities closer to the people especially in rural communities in order to eradicate this kind of incidence.

faithfull18:
Other people should be allowed to build as well. Excess supply will bring down price, basic economics.

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