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omonnakoda:
ACCORDING TO............?

Can you provide a source for that.

I do not know why people dwell on fantasy

http://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/western-africa/2013/12/05/lagos-state-leads-nigerian-states-igr/

Lagos tops IGR report

Last Updated: 12 February 2015|16:00 GMT
Lagos is the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria. PHOTO: Getty images

In the report which was signed by Statistician General, Yemi Kale in collaboration with the Joint Tax Board, Lagos State generated 185.541 billion naira in 2010, 202.761 billion naira in 2011 and 219.202 billion naira in 2012 making it the state with the highest internally generated revenue(IGR).

“First of all, we see patterns. Lagos stands out from the rest of the country, totally in a class of its own. Two, the south is totally different from the north and generally the economies in the north evidently lag behind,” Opeyemi Agbaje, CEO of RTC Advisory Services told CNBC Africa.

According to Agbaje, the data showed the impact of the major population and commercial centres especially in Southern Nigeria.

“So we see that the top seven or eight states are Lagos, Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Oyo, Enugu, and Cross River. Relatively, the South West stands out even from the rest of the South region. All of these give you a sense around the state of economic development in the regions,” he added.

Rivers State came in behind Lagos state with 173.047 billion naira and a breakdown showed that the state generated 49.585 billion naira in 2010, 57.187 billion naira in 2011 and 66.275 billion naira in 2012.

Delta ranked third with the most IGR, the data revealed that 26.087 billion naira was collected in 2010, 34.750 billion naira in 2011 and 45.566 billion naira in 2012.

“It also reflects the social statistics in terms of education, entrepreneurial activities, the development of businesses, the development of commerce and industries across those regions.”

Nonetheless, most states in the North reported very low IGR’s and Agbaje believes that the social systems in that region are faulty, especially the educational system.

“You can’t build entrepreneurial activity if your people are not educated. You can’t build small businesses, IT businesses, small shops and supermarkets, based on an illiterate population. Principally, the major element for me is, dealing with education,” he explained.

While Sokoto state collected the least IGR of 3.888 biliion naira because the state’s IGR for 2011 and 2012 could not be computed, Yobe State’s IGR declined from 5.960 billion naira in 2010 to 1.785 billion naira in 2012.

“On the part of the Government, it probably reflects the state of the investment climate across regions. So government, have they created infrastructure, have they created incentives, have they created laws, have they created security? All of those things are what would want to make investors invest in the region,” he said.

I wonder whether some of you went to school. Economic viable state are not measured by IGR but the quatum of both small and medium scale activities carried by private sector. It is a private sector driven economy not a state or govt driven. To be candid with you the city that is the most viable economically is Aba. Nnewi comes next. These are places where individuals are engaged in one small and medium scale biz. Remeber YOUR POST IS TALKING OF STATE IGR and the post here is talking about cities not state. You mentioned akwaibom, delta, cross river's high igr, does it now means tha uyo, asaba, calabar as cities are economically viable? NO. But look at Anambra state, even not been among the 7 states you mentioned has 2 great economical viable cities of Onisha and Nnewi. That is the reason why this state is the most stable state in naija: debt free, yearly increasing of workers salary when others are cutting down etc. It is igr, it is beyond that.

jieta:
I never knew that lagos is this beautiful look at the sky scappers, beautiful fly over every were

We live here, this is not how it is in real life. If you entered inside some of the neigbourhood in lagos island, you may not like it. But sure, broadway and co are just commercial areas with lots high rise building: banks, companies etc

TheRealAdonye:
Abeg, when did Lagos become a City?
Compare Ikeja with Port Harcourt, Nnewi, Onitsha, Abeokuta, etc and let's see..

you are absolutely right. Lagos is a metropolitant city. If we go by that we may come up with at least two viable city in lagos: ikeja and vi/ikoyi ie lagos Island. I dont think there is any far more than these two places in Lagos state. Remove this two, lagos will just be like any state. I have said it before, Abeokuta, owerri and co are not actually economically viable, not even the big city of ibadan or Enugu. This places are domain of civil servants and where people enjoy their money and retirement. That does not mean they are not great cities in their own respect.

itsIYKE:
All igbo cities shuld appear there.....unless u knw u ar just chewin rubber

all igbo cities for where? Owerri and Enugu may not even be there. Aba, onitsha, Nnewi should be among the first six with lagos topping it. Portharcourt and Abuja. Any thing outside this first six is a joke.

damton:
what of kaduna and minna.

Minna kwa? Nawaooh!

liberty300:
Lol...

Here's the list here, according to none oil IGR

1. Lagos (technically not a city)

2. Onitsha

3. Aba

4. Nnewi

5. Ogun state (Abeokuta): the steel industry

Abeokuta cannot be there because it is civil servant oriented though an ancient city like ib.

vicadex07:
Where u put ibadan?

ibadan is not actually a ECONOMIC VIABLE CITY but civil servants oriented like Enugu coal. That it is large does not make it a viable one. The first 4 cities that sanusi of cbn started the cashless policy are the first tier viable city. They are Lagos, Abuja, Onitsha and Portharcourt. Others are Aba kano kaduna and ibadan. But the first 4 are the most viable economical. Nnewi is invariably included.

HungerBAD:
Universally, anything up to $10.000, even if the post erroneously said it's $5000, not reported to the Customs at the Airport is an offense.

This is not a tribal thing.

Those Trying To Make this a witch hunt thing, are full of mischief.

All the traders needed to do was declare their MONEY.

Trying to sneak a large amount of money out of the country, knowingly or not, is an offense.

They broke the law, and there are consequences for that. And remember, ignorance is not an excuse before the law, incase they claim they did not know they were breaking the law.

How much did you Buhari and co be travelling with in all his almost a dozen trips with scores of corrupt politicians in the person of obj, amechi, fashola, fayemi and co. Hypocrisy?

englishmart:
every verse from Genesis to revelation is my favourite verse

Nope, every verse cant be your favorite. Favourite is favourite.

sonOfLucifer:
Their ancestors were fools. Their ancestor's didnt know nothing. Their ancestors were apes, just walking in the bushes until the Lord found them.

Their ancestors had no culture or tradition. David was an Igbo man.

Another insanity on the loose. Why must you be the cursed one. "And the Lord said to satan, from whence comest thou? And satan said, from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. Job 2:2. I bind that Luciferous spirit and self cursed damnation from you life in Jesus name, Amen. Be Free indeed.

ifeness:
Why not favorite "Eze goes to school" verse?

This is not a joke session son. How old are you after all before i discipline you. Check out this verse. "A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool. Proverbs 17:10

bosa1:
“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
Matthew 6:34 MSG

This scripture open my eyes to the fact that there's something God is doing on the face of the earth and he wants us to get involved in it. All my daily desire, dreams is in what God is doing. All I need to do is to get it right and let my own agenda be replaced with God's Agenda.
Question: What is it that God is doing?
Answer: God is in the business of reconciling people back to himself and that is the reason why he sent his only begotten Son- Jesus and when Jesus was leaving this earth, he committed the same assignment into our hands to continue in what the father is doing.
This might be the time for you to get it right, relax and get employed by God. The Bible says God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

Thats cool but the MSG Version is more of explanation of the King james version. I have to reread it several times to find out what and what.

dacovajnr:
How does that stop me from taking garri tonite? happy happy him though

Continue to sit there dey take garri and be making the number of crowd of spectators. Think, it is your time to shine but not in soaking garri. Lol

sirugos:
Is their religion and tradition, so not my concern

No wonder, which one is your problem before. Baakwomi

doublewisdom:
An 18 year old is not too bad.

Birds of thesame feather....?

Houseofglam7:
Bleached out is the new beautiful huh?
I'm not hating o, but the rate at which black women are going extinct is alarming

Not actually every fair lady you see do not bleach their skin. I was in one school in the city of kano where i saw a nursery school kids under 6yrs of age, about 30 of them, all igbo kids, were as fair as white hispanic. I was like, do they select during their registration or what. Well, this kids would grow up and miscontrued to be bleached queen. Somebody like Bianca Onoh look more of halfcast or more of mulatto. You will be shocked seeing my grandma picture or even my pa extremely light but never albino. You can only identify them as pure black just by the textsure of their hair and not by their fair skin.

sammyj:
This is one of the most smartest intelligent response coming from our president intelligent team. We are solidly behind you PMB ni shakings let wailing wailers group keepon wailing they can never succeed in bring down this government. Shikena! !!!

You people are the ones that will destroy this poor old man when you refused to tell him that there is pit infront of him. Keep on killing your baba saviour

kliq:
Pa Chukwudi (The Harbinger of bad news) just imagine the time of the day a MOD is moving this to the main page

At topic: it's pretty sad and RIP to the victims ...in due course God will see us through this bullshhit and for sure Nigeria will be great again.

God bless Nigeria / Nigerians
God bless PMB and the NA

You bigot, can you stop this tribal rant. This is a news from vanguard. It could be Seun or Afolabi that posted it. So you are hidding some news that do not favour this govt and post only the ones that praises them. You are worst than Pa Chukwudi you are criticing. YOU PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE DESTROYING BUHARI, TELLING HIM ALL IS WELL WHEN THE COUNTRY IS ON FIRE. Bigot?

mascot87:
I declare the favor of God on President Buhari on myself also today. So shall it be, it is so in Jesus name. Amen

Hmnn, it doesn't sound well, rather you say in the name of Allah or muhamad

lalasticlala:
http://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2015/09/hauwa-mohammed-is-not-your-ordinary.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+%2FAqSJb+%28S.T.E.L.L.A%27S*new*G.R.O.O.V.E%29

Many Nigerian female from other tribes are proud to act of be considered igbo. It is in america where some black act white. Nigerian girls act igbo. Well, when we hear of Ngozi, ezekwesili, akunyili, arumah oteh, okere onyiuke, prof ogwu of united nation and many more, all want to be igbo. That's a good one by the way.

midolian:
These are not ordinary kidnappers.. They must be hired kidnappers.

there is nothing like ordinary or hired kidnappers. Kidnapa na kidnapa. God save that man. But kidnapping biz is becoming a SW thing. The incidences is becoming coming. Let something be done. It started in Niger Delta, moved to SE and now resting in SW.

starboi63:
It was revealed some minutes ago that over 200 Boko haram terrorist has surrendered to the nigeria troops in Banki town near Cameroon.

[img]http://4.bp..com/-VzT6vPxR_ZU/VgVQtfVXxOI/AAAAAAAGsCw/AK9MKLAhrH0/s1600/unnamed.png[/img]

https://mobile.twitter.com/hqnigerianarmy

http://www.apexnewsblog.com/2015/09/breaking-over-200-terrorisst-surrender.html

Thats is overdue. Why wont they surrender, their Baba is the one incharge. Who is deceiving who? But i know that amongs them are unrepentant terrorist that we always backfire. I hope we do not hear a serious bombing from now. I observed that when ever we hear of such news, it is followed by massive loss of lives. GOD HELP US

ifyan:
It a welcome development.

Please don't poltisize this topic

I am afraid it may not be a welcome development because i expected things to be improving in some basic sectors of general comsumables. Like now, we expected marginal reduction in fuel price to atleast #80 per litre and further falling in price but things will rather remain static or even increase. Now again, i expected stability in Nigeria economy if i want to believe this govt that Buhari has atleast for the past 4 months blocked all the corruption loop holes. This is not reflecting in the economy but all am still hearing is the lamentation about 16yrs of pdp misrule. I heard also that some invisible politicians in Buhari's dream brought their billions of stollen $. All gullible nigerians clapped and praised Buhari's body odour which they say is his body language. Lets just see changes happening before the average Naija.

dre11:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/09/how-okada-rider-raped-pry-sch-girl/

DECLARE RAPE AN EMERGENCY IN THE SW. Honestly south west should check the high rate of rape cases and incest sex. The rate is going. Dr Joe Odumakin should rise to this task by writing to the govt and all state house in the SW for strict legislation on rape.

modath:
Sure you would have "believed" & maybe privately rejoiced if the News had been negative, in order to validate the obsessive hatred for PMB/APC , right

Still don't & will never understand why a tribe of 99% Christians will continually wish their nation ill cos of deep seated & unwarranted resentment....

i think it is simple. 99% Christian cannot be involved With 99% muslim. I think they cannot go together-methink.

Chanchit:
Before you guys start wailing, the man is from cotonou o, cos only the name Segun is enough to set the ball rolling.

Who asked you that? But wait oooh, i heard that yorubas are in cotonu and Benin. Are you denying them.

brainpulse:
Hiding from who? Still throwing his uncordinated speeches. The worst president in the history of the black race. You left this country worst than you met it.

BRAIN PULSE OR BRAIN DEAD, what did i hear you say?NEVER WORST A COUNTRY THAN WHAT YOU WILL SOON HAVE IF YOU ARE NOT CAREFUL.

chino11:
You are a dunce. We don't want MASSOB or iPAD IPOB in Anambra. If we get you we shall give you Ezu River treatment. Be warned and stay away from Anambra- The light of Nation.

ACTING IGBO AND ANAMBRA FOR THAT MATTER. THEY ALL KNOW YOU NOT FROM THEM BY YOUR FEERFUL ATTITUDE. YOU ARE STILL WHAT THE IGBOS CALLS YOU.

chino11:
Silly Nnamdi Kanu is somewhere in Malaysia while his fools are on ground being used as pawns. We don't want their madness in Anambra or else we shall decisively deal with them. They should keep their nuisance in Imo and Abia States because the 2 clowns- Uwazulike(MASSOB) and Kanu(IPOD) are from those states.

MASSOB and IPOD stay away from Anambra or we shall give you I.diots Ezu River treatment again.

you dont speak like onye anambra. strange blood or dna? WHO ARE YOU?

BuddahMonk:



SURE-P, don't mind the arrogant and flamboyant clannish drunkard of a governor

must you always behave like a tout. who among you and obiano is a drunkard? you must cure yourself of your low self image.

Whynotthetruth:
Thank God I am from SE where my freedom is guaranteed... with NOBODY having to dictate to my conscience and deeds even as an adult irrespective of our political leanings...

Unique tribe ever not wanting a mere individual to lord and dictate to them as slaves.

ylaa:
i know u r a demon but from which part of hell r u?
let dis be d last time you will ever read my response.
nonsense

Poor ylaa, you never change little doll. I have to work on you for the best out of you. Pls dont allow the beast in you to respond negatively to some one who wants to help your life regain meaning. I was just trying to drive sense in your un refined lines that i read. Be a good woman that knows when to respond and when to keep mute. Isn't it time to grow up, poor gal.