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LAZINESS AND INDIFFERENCE

Dear 35 States of Nigeria, LAZINESS AND INDIFFERENCE “How Lagos?”  My unique way of asking how are you will soon become relevant to this discussion. I greet you all. Truth be told, this recession is caused by your collective long over dependence on federal allocation. There is no other way to tell it. The current model where each of you waits for a monthly hand out from the mighty and all-lazy federal government of Nigeria is a fraud and unsustainable. It just has to stop. Lagos generates almost exactly what it gets from the federal allocation and plans to surpass that. Until we have 35 more Lagoses all over this land, we will not make progress. Lagos had the fortune of being the capital, access the border, a seaport and an airport. These brought droves of people seeking opportunities. Every state in Nigeria has peculiar opportunities that it can and must harness to attract people. From tourism, to agriculture, to solid minerals, sunshine, land mass, etc, these are peculiarities that m