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Dear OP
Pls leave my kogi alone

OVB123:
I have been reasoning, having traveled to most state capitals in Nigeria and seening how underdevelop most capital cities are, it is pertinent to state the list of the most underveloped capital cities in Nigeria by geo-political zone:

(1) south east - Umuahia (Abia state).

(2) South south - Yenogoa (Bayelsa state).

(3) South west - Ado ekiti (Ekiti state).

(4) North central - Lokoja (Kogi state).

(5) North east - Damaturu (Yobe state).

(6) North west - Gusau (Zamfara state).

What is your opinion on this rating? Please no insult guys.

Workch:
No state capital in Nigeria is developed, they are all pieces of shit including ikeja and Port harcourt by global standard but the worst I have visited are as follows:

1. Lokoja (this one na dead place)
2. Lafia (na only two dualized road dey for here)
3. Ado Ekiti (mtcheew)
4 Umuahia (the government here is sleeping)
5. Yenegoa (this place na total disgrace).
6. Awka ( it's an expressway capital with 3 flyovers and 2 dualized roads)


The best I have visited by Nigerian standard are:
1. Port harcourt
2. Enugu
3. Ibadan
4. Owerri
5. Ilorin
6. Ikeja

Ps: I have not visited Kaduna and Kano state.

non of this capital reach uyo....

OVB123:
Well said my Bro. The only dissagreement I can see here is Ibadan, she should be replace with Kano or Uyo city.

you dont know what you are saying.. have you been to ibadan before?

Buh akure is missing nah

izombie:
There is no developed city in Nigeria. Development is not by how many buildings you have.
Do you have good accesible road network? Properly equipped hospitals? Access to water and electricity? Etc. It's 2023 and there are pit toilets everywhere in Nigeria. The country itself is not developed. Period.

uyo is the best by this rating

I no see Minna there ooo, the list in inconclusive

alimiadedayo1:
you dont know what you are saying.. have you been to ibadan before?

Egbon, Uyo may not be up to Ibadan but Kano city, "Abeg shoes get sizes"

TYCO77:
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Umuahia township is well planned, what she needs are modern buildings, good infrastructures and sanitation. The shopping complex located at the former Ogwumabiri market should be removed or redesigned.

you well so...wetin they Owerri, during rochas it was nice not now..I left Owerri last week...a city where dey dump dirt on the road..see old road nekede, see Douglas...baba rest uyo beat Owerri hand down...Owerri is not suppose to be in this discussion...nothing to write about Owerri now abeg...if u talk of tress visit uyo...that dirty Owerri I visited last week na wa o .

Try add Kano to your list of developed capital.

Workch:
No state capital in Nigeria is developed, they are all pieces of shit including ikeja and Port harcourt by global standard but the worst I have visited are as follows:

1. Lokoja (this one na dead place)
2. Lafia (na only two dualized road dey for here)
3. Ado Ekiti (mtcheew)
4 Umuahia (the government here is sleeping)
5. Yenegoa (this place na total disgrace).
6. Awka ( it's an expressway capital with 3 flyovers and 2 dualized roads)


The best I have visited by Nigerian standard are:
1. Port harcourt
2. Enugu
3. Ibadan
4. Owerri
5. Ilorin
6. Ikeja

Ps: I have not visited Kaduna and Kano state.

Nchenches:



In bold:
And you think you know what development of state capital is? And you don't take into the development of the entire Imo state?
Okigwe, Orlu and Owerri were on nearly equal status of urban development in 1976 when Imo state was created.

But because people of Owerri zone in a primitive greed style lobbied for, and got located in Owerri all institutions of government that induce modern development wherever located, no consideration for Okigwe and Orlu zones; that is what you are celebrating.
Result is Imo state governors struggle to provide matching urban infrastructures in only the expanding Owerri; as most of the population in Okigwe and Orlu zones drift to Owerri which is now made up of Old Owerri, New Owerri and other Owerris springing up in the once rural areas in Owerri senattorial district.
The underdevelopment of rest of Imo state outside Owerri district is stinking. The underdevelopment has since 2011 been accelerated by two hatefilled governors from Orlu senatorial district who see a political enemy in Orlu LGA. The present governor has since inception of his istration, practically arrested modern development in Orlu, the 2nd largest urban centre in Imo state. He is very happy for what he has done. As he cannot do a development project outside Owerri except reconstructing federal roads linking Owerri to other places in Imo State. You count the blessings of your Owerri hometown but do not count the arrested development of rest of Imo state.

That's one thing with you Africans, after I highlighted factual/verifiable points why owerri is miles ahead in development, you now Wana issues with entire imo..lol but bad news for you... You still can't beat the level of developments in these areas in imo state:

Mgbirichi, umuagwo, izombe, oguta, obowo, 7 and half, Amaigbo (home town of king Jaja), Nkwere, isinweke, umuoguma, owaala, Arondizogu, egbu, okigwe town, okwele,
there's this LGA that's close to Amaraku, like an alternative route to Amuzari, that place is built with sophistication.


Boy!!!, you need to travel!

Workch:
No state capital in Nigeria is developed, they are all pieces of shit including ikeja and Port harcourt by global standard but the worst I have visited are as follows:

1. Lokoja (this one na dead place)
2. Lafia (na only two dualized road dey for here)
3. Ado Ekiti (mtcheew)
4 Umuahia (the government here is sleeping)
5. Yenegoa (this place na total disgrace).
6. Awka ( it's an expressway capital with 3 flyovers and 2 dualized roads)


The best I have visited by Nigerian standard are:
1. Port harcourt
2. Enugu
3. Ibadan
4. Owerri
5. Ilorin
6. Ikeja

Ps: I have not visited Kaduna and Kano state.

Kano and kaduna try Wella

I have not been to Damaturu and Gusau but as for the others you are spot on.

falcon01:
Lokoja is very Very dirty ahhh!! Imagine I thought I was in one of the local governments I didn't know I was inside capital

I don't know of Lokoja of today. But the Lokoja I know as at 2017/18/19 is nothing but dirty. You may be correct when you say it's lacking in basic infrastructure and given it small size and strategic location, it ought to be one of the most developed capital cities in Nigeria.

But Lokoja is not dirty.

manny4u:
North Central.
Lafia is terrible for a capital city.
Minna is not that good too.
Forget lokoja the aura and atmosphere alone oozes of nonsense.

North west
Gusau the name suggest its gutter.
Sokoto that one is just there.

North East
Except for maiduguri and gombe the rest are rubbish.

South South
Yenagoa is over rated.
Benin too many old buildings.

South East.
Umuahia is rubbish.
Abakaliki is picking up compared to the last time I was there.
Awka could still do better.
Owerri is not that bad.

I have been to all the states in Nigeria so I am talking from experience.

Did you say Abakiliki is just picking up ? You say picking up ?

Lokoja is the worst, at times I wonder if that state even has a governor.



Bad roads everywhere, a pregnant woman can have miscarriage after plying most of the roads in Kogi state.

My brother, Lokoja is the worst. Yahaya Bello is leaving the legacy of the first ever governor to construct overhead bridge at Ganaja junction.

Aptly submitted.

Workch:
No state capital in Nigeria is developed, they are all pieces of shit including ikeja and Port harcourt by global standard but the worst I have visited are as follows:

1. Lokoja (this one na dead place)
2. Lafia (na only two dualized road dey for here)
3. Ado Ekiti (mtcheew)
4 Umuahia (the government here is sleeping)
5. Yenegoa (this place na total disgrace).
6. Awka ( it's an expressway capital with 3 flyovers and 2 dualized roads)


The best I have visited by Nigerian standard are:
1. Port harcourt
2. Enugu
3. Ibadan
4. Owerri
5. Ilorin
6. Ikeja

Ps: I have not visited Kaduna and Kano state.

Try visit Akure

manny4u:
North Central.
Lafia is terrible for a capital city.
Minna is not that good too.
Forget lokoja the aura and atmosphere alone oozes of nonsense.

North west
Gusau the name suggest its gutter.
Sokoto that one is just there.

North East

So you havent been to Ogun.ondo,Osun,ekiti,kwara
Except for maiduguri and gombe the rest are rubbish.

South South
Yenagoa is over rated.
Benin too many old buildings.

South East.
Umuahia is rubbish.
Abakaliki is picking up compared to the last time I was there.
Awka could still do better.
Owerri is not that bad.

I have been to all the states in Nigeria so I am talking from experience.

What about Ogun, osun, ondo, ekiti, kwara...be deceiving yourself

For me, I think all state capitals in Naija are still ahead of Jalingo in Taraba State.
There‘s nothing special about the place With just one dualised road and one fly-over which was recently built and commissioned today 19/5/2023.
Every other road in the so called State capital leads to the Farms.

OVB123:
Egbon, Uyo may not be up to Ibadan but Kano city, "Abeg shoes get sizes"

well, I may not know about kano because I am not conversant there but always lemme tell you the truth ibadan has infrasture. sometimes u cannot compare city together because of some factors.. IBadan as a city is larger than kano in of land mass.. Its very hard for any government in the state to develop the city uniformally..

Ofemannnu:

Dont mind them.Tell them to post videos of Igboland.They will post videos of the 52 km square Onitsha from multiple angles and maybe 4 more videos of their buildings and then no more good place to show in Igboland except slums upon slums.

Call them out to post 10 good videos of Igboland.For where

the whole of iboland is same landmass with Oyo state

Sunnyhillsfarms:

The old Calabar, not the Calabar of today..
Calabar stinks now

Wow, so they finally messed that place up. The calabar I stayed in for a month in 2008 was so clean that you'd jail yourself by yourself for littering

Workch:
Ibadan is very okay by Nigerian standard , I'm not joking.

^^^


No.

I was born there so I know what I'm talking about. Even by your so called 'Nigerian standard', Ibadan is not okay (whatever that means). It has very serious problems.

Beere?
Kudeti? (derisively re-named "too dirty" by some mischievous persons )
Bode market? (do you know what is sold there? )
Odo ona?
Gbagi?
Aleshinloye?
Dugbe?

And so on.

I will just touch on one thing: the disposal of human waste. I was part of a team that did a project on this - let's just say the things I saw gave me terrible nightmares for weeks.

Akinomoakin021:

Try visit Akure

I have visited Akure

BanyXchi:
the whole of iboland is same landmass with Oyo state

don't mind those easternbul monkeys

nazicartel:
ilorin is perfectly planned

which ilorin is perfectly planned the same ilorin I grew up in. Go the suburb oja tuntun pakata oja gboro pakata oja Oba gegele u will know ilorin is a shithole. The whole of tanke makes me nauseat oke odo be like shit hole.

OVB123:
Lokoja is a dead city. As worst as Minna, she is ahead of Lokoja. Mtcheeew!

Lokoja is really the worst,I don't know why the governors abandoned Lokoja,since the early 90's there has been no changes in infrastructural development.

mistacoco2:
Abeokuta that is filled with dilapidated buildings and brown roofs. The only manageable place is oke-mason to omida, the rest places are shi.t holes.

abeokuta is a amazing place forget it

Bahamas95:
Lokoja is the worst, at times I wonder if that state even has a governor.



Bad roads everywhere, a pregnant woman can have miscarriage after plying most of the roads in Kogi state.

they are poor now what do u expect since the government has refused to tap into its mineral resources they still remain poor they have oil and steel

manny4u:
North Central.
Lafia is terrible for a capital city.
Minna is not that good too.
Forget lokoja the aura and atmosphere alone oozes of nonsense.

North west
Gusau the name suggest its gutter.
Sokoto that one is just there.

North East
Except for maiduguri and gombe the rest are rubbish.

South South
Yenagoa is over rated.
Benin too many old buildings.

South East.
Umuahia is rubbish.
Abakaliki is picking up compared to the last time I was there.
Awka could still do better.
Owerri is not that bad.

I have been to all the states in Nigeria so I am talking from experience.

Where is South West? You want make they break your head fighting?