This man is a huge joke. It's evident he's completely empty upstairs

mighty2:
i mean am, dirty looking descendant of ap* from c*rsed ib hoe tribe will never rule this country

You decide nothing! You are inconsequential to decide anything. They'll be at there at some point and heaven will not fall

ba7man:
The decision makers in Lagos are Yoruba, not everybody.

It's the most strategically located area in the Southwest, hence it's attraction and decisions made to attract investment are decided by Yoruba.

Tell your leaders to learn and replicate it in their regions, not try to downplay it out of hatred and bile.

Decision to attract investment is not done by Yourbas. The investment is handled by an agency called. Nigeria Investment Promotion Council (NIPC). The benefits is shared by all Lagosians who reside and pay taxes in Lagos.

ba7man:
.... but data centres are not normal things in the Southeast. Infact they don't even have the vision to attract them.

Businesses are closing down in Lagos??...... You should be more worried about the markets that are relocating to Asaba in the Southeast due to your IPOB.

It's Unknown gunmen that will use sit-at-home to kill this kind of investment in the southeast before they burn it down in protest against Nnamdi Kanu's incarceration.

Primitive peeps.

Are data centres also normal in other southwestern states? Lagos is collective investment of every nigerian in it that contributes to her growth and development. This is peculiar in every country whose cities has attained 'Mega-city' status. You talking like the Data centre is meant for only Yoruba people. Or as if the company will only provide employment to Yoruba indigenes . Guy grow up, No one is wishing Lagos bad, even the Igbos that you hate so much have stakes in Lagos, why would they wish it bad?

murtalaa:

Anyone contemplating this kind of project with the situation of epileptic power supply in Nigeria is either bonkers or money miss road.

They aint stupid not to have put source of power supply into consideration. All over the world, the standard for any tier three (3) data centre is to have it's own captive power source usually as back-up. Data centres are huge servers that needs industrial ACs to coll them and 24/7 Power supply

dplordx:
Easterners fleeing their region like rats to relocate to Lagos to hustle yet passionately hating the leadership and the indigenes calling it a no-man-land. Indeed, no wonder the next governor is going to be an anambra man��� in the end, they will bring their cvs and jostle for livelihood in the same Lagos, yet pray misfortune should fall it’s leadership and people; they will even curse and name the people accommodating them traitors, enemies and jealous: only shows dark and consuming jealousy, no wonder life keeps sending the evil back to their region in many folds.

The solution: stop hating, and start loving and been truly grateful. If you can’t appreciate a man, you can never even appreciate God.

Back to topic: this is indeed a world class. The present existing cloud system is owned by IDM, International data management owned by the Indians in Oba Akaran but too small for even Lagos population alone. This new one with its space and possible infrastructure will be massive

First off!! You aint accommodating nobody. They aren't fleeing the eastern region, they have as much right as you to enjoy the economic benefits of Lagos since it's Nigerian's defacto commercial capital, afterall, they equally pay their taxes to the state and local governments and equally have a stake to demand for accountability as any one of you. I'm definitely sure you are not even a true indigene of eko. So what's your fuss?

plaindealer:
Over $1 Billion worth of groundbreaking and investment in less than a month...

$537 Million US Embassy groundbreaking, the largest US embassy in the world.

Now, this massive $250 Million Data Center

Equinix acquired Nigeria's MainOne for $320M and opened Nigeria's largest data center in Lagos.

This is huge...

God truly blessed Lagos with good, competent and visionary leaders.

It has nothing to do with visionary leaders, Lagos boost of large population of 30 million people which the investors see as captive market to capture and spread their services to about 200 million people, which is a huge market. Every country has one or two cities that is considered as commercial cities due to their population and the ability to service other market in the regions.
If you wanna compare how Lagos has fared, rate her among other cities that have attained mega status in their respective countries and see how well her infrastructure compares to their.

JustBlive:
Lagos is in a league of its own

She's not in any league of her own! She should be competing favourably with Johannesburg, Cairo, Tokyo, New-York and London in terms of Mega-city status if all things are equal. Not forming local champion with sister states who can't boost of a quarter of her population

Akponmfet:
Because not everyone is a fool,unlike Biafra people who like to day dream, other Nigerians know who can win the presidency and who can't. There is no reason to waste time on clowns who we all know can never get close to Aso Rock.
For example all the candidates from the South East know deep down that they can never win the presidency but they are just clowning around and dreaming of something that will never happen.

So by virtue it’s only the North that is suitable for presidency abi? So the easterners should stay in the fence as what? They’re Nigerians and they have as much right as you folks to compete for the highest office in the land. If you folks wouldn’t lend your support, that fine other reasonable people will. You folks can’t decide Nigeria’s fate, Never!

DoctorOlasDesk:



Igbo's hate criticism. Continue to pat Peter obi at the back as he continues his nonsensical exercise. Obi can't win primaries let alone presidency. Also, there's nothing special about Igbo worth insulting. E no dey

Who told you Igbos hate criticism? Who told you Obi cannot win primaries? You and your folks have damned it in your heart not let him win because of a different enthic stock. Anyway Bishop Oyedepo has already observed bigots like you that before he passed that verdict of Nigeria with short memory
It’s pitiable that Nigeria is already doomed with folks like you in the numbers. Oyedepo has seen that already

Parachoko:
Visit Lagos State, and compare it to other states in Nigeria.

Tinubu have a lot to offer Nigeria.

Lagos State could have been struggling with states like Rivers, Kano, Kaduna and Oyo

But, Lagos State don go far ahead.

You are talking like this cause you were not in Lagos in the 90's

When I got to Lagos in the mid 90's, there was no development happening in Lagos State. The military were spending oil money in Abuja and abandoned Lagos State.

Roads in Lagos was terrible, insecurity was crazy. in the 90s, Thieves go rob a full street without anybody stopping them, dem go dey go from house to house, robbing each rooms one after the other, nah normal thing for Lagos back then. Those days, you go dey see abandon cars for roads, including major roads like 3rd mainland bridge. If your car breakup for 3rd mainland, even if you leave am there for 1 year, nobody go question you or tow the car away.

The IGR of Lagos State was less than ₦500 million in 1999, I don't need to tell you how much is it now.

Tinubu was the first Governor to build a power plant in Nigeria, he built it in Badagry and was going to be generating 300MW of power in Lagos State but the FG took over and ran it aground. If the FG didn't take over the project, maybe Michelin, Dunlop etc would still be in Lagos State by now.


Have you forgotten about OPC madness in Lagos State under the tenure of Tinubu? The days OPC go dey block roads because them dey hold meetings? Tinubu didn't cry and blame Yorubas from other states causing havoc in Lagos, he crushed OPC. He didn't care it was dominated by Yorubas.

Lekki Free Trade Zone, Eko Atlantic City, Lekki Deep Seaport, etc were all the creation of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Maybe you got to Lagos State during the tenure of Ambode sha, we wey live for Lagos during the military regime knows how far Lagos State have come.

Lagos could have not gotten to the level it is right now if the wrong people have been ruling the state. Rivers State is suppose to be competing with Lagos State, but it has been left behind.

I lived in Rivers and Lagos State in the 90's, so I fully know what am talking about

Dude I’m in Lagos, what did Bleep did Tinubu do that made him look outstanding? Lagos is still as bleeped as it ever was, only Fashola tried in improving the aesthetics of Lagos. Don’t come tell me how Tinubu improved the IGR of Lagos.
Know this Lagos success is hinged on her 30 million strong population which is microtones of the larger Nigeria population, the only reason Lagos attracts huge foreign capital is because she’s a focal point to access nearly 200million strong population. Lagos needs Nigeria to continue to boost about being the fifth biggest economy than Nigeria needs Lagos. If Lagos breaks away from Nigeria, she’ll be a 30 million population, comparable to Togo and Ghana. Which investors would be pumping in billions of dollars for a 30 million population? But Nigeria can still survive with Lagos detached from it, other cities like Ibadan, Abuja and Portharcourt will probably fill up the gap and start attracting serious investment.
Stop making it look like Tinubu was brain behind Lagos prosperity, he never was and never will be. Lagos prospers as result of Nigeria large population. Kiss the truth

DoctorOlasDesk:
Nigeria will still vote in APC again come 2023, Nigerians are persistent in perpetuating suffering

Later you go around insulting Peter Obi because he’s from the Igbo enthic stock. I’ve noted you already

Aonkuuse:
Keep hailing them, they are defranchising you... Other regions will decide your leaders and you can only wail and kill yourselves

Meanwhile Watch Video, One Police Man killed As Unknown Gunmen Attack Governor Soludo’s Community >>>> https://salemgists.com/one-police-man-gunned-down-as-unknown-gunmen-attack-governor-soludos-community/

Are you minding Simeon EKpa and his bunch of idiots. They have no idea the injury they do to us. It’s no wonder why Igbos are increasingly becoming politically irrelevant

evansjeff:


This crook and lying machine should stop deceiving himself already. Someone that should be in jail by now if this country works properly.

All he is good at is deceiving his fellow ip!g cann!bals who can easily be brainwashed. Nonsense.

He’s been in Nigeria all these while yet either EFCC and ICPC has raised up any dust on him, despite being on the opposition. That’s the show you how blameless and honest. The only reason you folks hate him is because he’s not of your enthic stock. It’s just unfortunate Nigeria will remain in a terrible state

2special:
Some people will be wondering why the overrated state is always hosting most of the major events in Nigeria....Eko ko no baaje.... The commercial capital of Nigeria

So Bleep what? if Lagos hosted Rick Ross, Abuja can also host international artiste �‍�, so can Portharcourt and even Onitsha and Benin.
Know this, Lagos success is hinged on Nigeria’s huge population and not the other way round
If you take Lagos away from Nigeria, Nigeria will still survive but if Nigeria is cut out from Lagos, Lagos will loose big time. Lagos is fortunate to be the commercial nerve centre of the largest population in Africa, Lagos derives her success from Nigeria’s huge population

Lagos the beautiful city in West Africa ? who made that claim, just some pictures of VI, Ikoyi and Lekki Phase one, that makes it the most beautiful. Lagos keeps forming competition with it sister state forgetting that its a megacity and should be punching weight with other mega cities across the world. Always forming local champion.

Dummies!! The nation is reeling from persistent power outages. Trying to commission GEJ's power project that has already been secured by Chinese's loan.

Odidigboigbo:
80% of those that comments on this forum are children and 90% are trabalist in their comments, hence they find it difficult to comprehend any post.
MDXi is wholly a private sector company, a subsidiary of Mainone as the parent company. MainOne was recently acquired by Equinix.
This is not Lagos State government project, in fact, the data centre has been existing since 2005, it's located along Abraham Adesayan Road, Ajah. It's the place where my company host their servers, I have been there for couple of times. Anyone that work in tech companies or in any tech department of a big companies knows MainOne. There are about three major data centres in Lagos, (MDXi, Rack Centre and MTN), and non of them is own by Lagos State nor any government.

These Data centres and any other companies chooses to site their location in Lagos because of the industrialisation of Lagos not because of what Lagos State is doing differently from other States. Don't expect for example a data centre to be build in Uyo, when the market that will consume it is readily available in Lagos.
For layman, data centre is a place where company host their servers, which are meant to run 24/7 x 365. So if this data centres are sited out of Lagos where 90% of the head office of the big companies that will consumed it are located, how are they going to get their target markets?

Exactly!! Lagos keeps attracting big business because of its huge population. That's what I've been telling some mofos here. They keep thinking Lagos is what it is because of Tinubu's magical wonder which I wonder. If Calabar was still the Nation's commercial capital during the colonial times, i guess calabar will attract a huge a population with big businesses siting their locations there

WibusJaga:


Only very few Nigerians rise above Tribal & Ethnic sentiments to see a good candidate for President.

Just very few. It's sad, the only reason people hate this guy is because he's not from their enthic stock. It really shows how enthic sentiments has really dulled Nigeria's intelligence over time. It's very terrible and Nigeria is most likely to be doomed if we continue in that pattern

Chipink:
Afonja people and their slavematers..has destroyed nigeria. Only igbo people cab safe them

It's talks and attitudes like these that makes it diffcult for an Igbo presidency. We keep shooting ourselves in the leg, we should be working in hand with other southern brothers to pursue our agenda but we keep calling them unprintable names and you expect them to work for your presidency. Impossible, the Yorubas are your strongest ally to support your presidency, if you are hoping on the Hausas to give you that. They'll rather burn Nigeria than allow for an Igbo president. You really don't know how much they hate you guys.

This guy is a pure clown. It’s obvious this guy is no good to us. My fellow brothers let’s go away with these fraudsters, they ain’t helping our cause

YouandiAllofus:
And the South African delegation had to be White Nigeria still rules the African continent on innovative driven manufacturing

Don't kid yourself!! We still have white people over here who are driving innovation and enterprises. Even the Lebanese and the Indians are the ones majorly in our manufacturing hub. Kiss the truth, nothing really fantastic about us.

PotatoSalad:
Beautiful. People in the South East, see we can never have investments like this.
We think we're pushing an agenda by sitting at home and destroying government facilities, not knowing we're scaring investors away. No sensible company would want to invest in a place with fickle minded and butthurt individuals
By the time we're balls deep in this mess, it'd be mission failed successfully.

Even if Southeast was not enmeshed with insecurities, we still wouldn’t compete with Lagos. Lagos is the commercial nerve centre of West-Africa. Lagos is hugely benefitting from Nigeria’s huge population.
Port Harcourt ought to have been the nerve centre of the eastern region as Lagos is to western region and by extension West Africa but they lost all that due to myopic thinking. If
You check the master plan of Michael Okpara, you’d be amaze the how much plan they put in the Aba-Portharcourt precinct. Port Harcourt would have given Lagos a stiff competition because not only would she be a huge commercial centre, oil wealth would have made her a lot richer than Lagos. People would migrate to the garden-city as a first choice before considering Lagos. But we’ve lost all that to greed and ethnic insecurities

SilentQueen:
Lagos is a country in a country!!!

It’s not a country in a country. It’s fortunate to draw a large pool of population due to the high commercial nature of the city

Kuriosmynd:
Good luck to simp
.
I doubt if marrying a 46 year old woman is the best decision...4 years to menopause with a mileage of 1million preeq through her pvssy..
Hmmmm
May Simp be wise someday

What makes him a simp. You folks just use the word carelessly. So because she’s 45, she’s lost the right to feel loved and married

heniford2:
Nord and innoson are jokers no serious marketing like peace Air is doing selling our product to Africa can be awesome but never his not have wilder vision just Nigeria alone if Nigeria cannot buy it outsiders can do so.

Innoson is increasingly popular. He’s a lead sponsor of BBnaija, one of the most popular shows in Africa. Just recently, Uber signed a partnership deal with Innoson to supply utility vehicles to their newest brand, Moove

greatiyk4u:
@$40B it is not a bad one judging from the $27B GEJ left it in 2015 despite consistent oil boom throughout his tenure

You guys are clearly sycophants. You twist lies to make it sound like the truth so effortlessly. GEJ's administration never left the reserves at $27 billions as at 2015 when we vacated office, Even the Excess Crude Account(ECA), which he left at $1.5 billion has grossly be depleted to about $200 million or thereabout. Your cynicism stinks to the high level, it's obvious.

LeoDeKing:
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Nairaland space is wide enough for all to type their independent nonsense, you don't need to quote him before you stand on any worthless mandate.

We know you hate Peter Obi. Allow enlightened Nigerians who see the good in Peter Obi, You can show your support to Buhari, No one is casting you for that. Bunch of tribal mofos, it's because of folks like you that's why Nigeria is perpetually a shit-ridden country.

Flier:
Just having sympathy for you,do you think government developed western nations? No! Capitalist developed it and they are getting rewarded
Nigeria will never develope till you guys are ready to face their reality
You all want Nigeria to be like USA but you don't want to pay taxes or tolls,keep fooling yourself

You’re telling me tollgates are the reason why Nigeria is not developed? What’s the percentage of income we get from Lekki tollgate compared to government incomes like Personal Income Tax(PIT)?. My guy you’re pointless

B

Flier:
Look at the nonsense you post,so the investor should not get their money back,you have no idea how this no tolling is frustrating me,how on earth are we going to develop if we don't pay investors? You people need to get a life
If I were to become a Nigerian president today,I would sell all the road in Nigeria,if you can't pay a toll,sell your car

Look at this mugu! Which investor are you talking about? The investor known as ARM Hadith that has long been paid off by LASG during Fashola’s administration. You reason like a mugu, the only they wanna reopen Lekoil tollgate is to fund Tinubu’s campaign

I swear Nigeria’s situation is terrible and complex. And Buhari has truly certified himself to be the most idiotic president that ever liveth

These folks are born liars. the original history of LCC should be known. LCC was previously managed by a private company known as ARM Harith Investment, a subsidiary of ARM group that invested in the project alongside LASG in what we call Public-Private Partnership (PPP). ARM-Harith was meant to manage the project by erecting toll gates at both the Lekki and Chevron axis of the expressway. When they initially began operations, they were considerable in the amount they charge at the toll-gate until the devil entered their head and began increasing the toll price which resulted in protest if some of you could recollect the protest that Kate Henshaw spearheaded. This prompted the LASG under the administration of Fashola to buy out the contract from ARM-Harith thereby best bestowing 100% of the ownership to the LASG. If Lagos State owns the project now, why are they taxing people again, I know we pay road tax whenever we go to renew our licensees.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against tollgates, they improve the quality of our infrastructure but this particular has more to it that meets the eyes.