Port Harcourt (Pidgin: Po-ta-kot or Pi-ta-kwa) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria.[12] It is the fifth-largest city in Nigeria after Lagos, Kano, Ibadan and Kaduna.[13][14] It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta. As of 2016, the Port Harcourt urban area has an estimated population of 1,865,000 inhabitants, up from 1,382,592 as of 2006.[9][15] The population of the metropolitan area of Port Harcourt is almost twice its urban area population with a 2021 United Nations estimate of 3,171,076.[16][17] In 1950, the population of Port Harcourt was 59,752. Port Harcourt has grown by 150,844 since 2015, which represents a 4.99% annual change.[18]

Kaduna, city, capital of Kaduna state, north-central Nigeria. It lies along the Kaduna River, which is a major tributary of the Niger River.

Sir Frederick (later Lord) Lugard, the first British governor of Northern Nigeria, selected the present site along the Lagos-Kano Railway for a town, and building began in 1913. In 1917 Kaduna (a Hausa word for “crocodiles”) replaced Zungeru, 100 miles (160 km) west-southwest, as the capital of the Northern Provinces; it also served as capital of the Northern Region from 1954 to 1967. Lugard Hall, the legislative assembly building constructed in simplified Islamic style, stands at the head of the main street. The assassination in Kaduna of Sir Ahmadu Bello, sardauna (sultan) of Sokoto and Northern premier, in an Igbo (Ibo) military coup in January 1966 led to the Nigerian Civil War (1967–70).

Since the late 1950s, Kaduna has become a major industrial, commercial, and financial centre for the northern states of Nigeria. It has a branch of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Most industries are grouped south of the Kaduna River near the main railway junction. The city has cotton-textile spinning and weaving mills; knit fabrics are also produced in Kaduna. The food industry produces beer, soft drinks, baked goods, and processed meat. Light manufactures include leather goods, plastics, ceramics, pharmaceuticals, furniture, and televisions; and there are several printing and publishing firms. The city’s heavy industries make steel and aluminum products, cement, asbestos cement, concrete blocks, electrical motors, ordnance, and explosives. There are a steel-rolling plant, an automobile assembly factory, and an oil refinery (supplied by an oil pipeline from the Niger delta oil fields). A petrochemicals plant began operations in the early 1980s. Kaduna is also a centre for the construction industry. The city serves as a collecting point for cotton, peanuts (groundnuts), shea nuts, and hides and skins; there is also a considerable local trade in sorghum, millet, corn (maize), kola nuts, goats, poultry, and cattle.

The Kaduna Polytechnic college (1968), the Nigerian Defense Academy (1964), and Kaduna State University (2004) are located in the city; it also is the site of Christian teacher-training colleges. The Nigerian Geological Survey Agency has a research centre there, and a geology museum is found in Kaduna. The National Museum features exhibitions on the culture of the northern Nigerian states. Kaduna has a racecourse and the Ahmadu Bello Stadium (1964). The Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) Research (1961) and the National Eye Centre are located in Kaduna.

The trunk railways from Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Zaria form a junction in the southern part of Kaduna, and the Lagos-Kano highway passes through the city. There is an airport north of the city. Pop. (2005 est.) 1,375,000; (2016 est.) urban agglom., 1,685,000

Both cosmopolitan and beautiful cities. Good to see Wike opening up PH roads. Last time I visited, the roads were just too narrow and tight.
El rufai is also doin well in the Croc city, massive infrastructural development going on there too.

rexel99:
Both cosmopolitan and beautiful cities. Good to see Wike opening up PH roads. Last time I visited, the roads were just too narrow and tight.
El rufai is also doin well in the Croc city, massive infrastructural development going on there too.

Yes bro, my love for this cities is just too much.

Both cities are beautiful.

I see nothing . Just over hype from backward citizens

tollyboy5:
I see nothing . Just over hype from backward citizens

Another painful eastern fucker

You should be comparing oil rich Port-Harcourt with Cape Town, Windhoek and Nairobi. Rivers state leaders have looted the state dry since 1999.

dreamxhaser:


Another painful eastern fucker

We don't know things we should be expecting from our leaders.
Just because we're living in a cave . I do say something similar about lagos despite the fact that lagos is on track.
The lagos government taking over nurtw and other capital project . Lagos is still far behind were she should be.
But im surprise other backward state are satisfied with their slow level of progress. To the extent of praising their governors

swaggerjack:
You should be comparing oil rich Port-Harcourt with Cape Town, Windhoek and Nairobi. Rivers state leaders have looted the state dry since 1999.

That is my point. But nairalanders just want to see things from tribal lines.

swaggerjack:
You should be comparing oil rich Port-Harcourt with Cape Town, Windhoek and Nairobi. Rivers state leaders have looted the state dry since 1999.

Boss rivers state better. Kaduna has been stagnant for more than 30 years until El-rufai came.

dreamxhaser:


Boss rivers state better. Kaduna has been stagnant for more than 30 years until El-rufai came.

What has changed in Kaduna in terms of public school, healthcare, sanitation and transparency?

swaggerjack:

What has changed in Kaduna in terms of public school, healthcare, sanitation and transparency?

All public schools and health centers have been renovated and upgraded during Mal nasirus el rufais era

And are you even asking me about sanitation? One house close to my street has been declared inhabitable by government officials (, you should know why)

dreamxhaser:


All public schools and health centers have been renovated and upgraded during Mal nasirus el rufais era

And are you even asking me about sanitation? One house close to my street has been declared inhabitable by government officials (, you should know why)

Pictures please- not by mouth.

swaggerjack:


Pictures please- not by mouth.

Pic 1&2: Shika hospital renovation

Pic 3&4: School renovation around the state including the one in my area

dreamxhaser:


Pic 1&2: Shika hospital renovation

Pic 3&4: School renovation around the state including the one in my area

What about transparency?Are government jobs and contracts advertised and are government audited accounts published.


Does the revenue Kaduna has received justify the level of development?

Someone up there wants to compare cape Town with Rivers state? Even Lagos cannot be compared to cape Town. Nigerians are so comfortable with mediocrity.

swaggerjack:

What about transparency?Are government jobs and contracts advertised and are government audited accounts published.


Does the revenue Kaduna has received justify the level of development?

You are trying to sound smart but you are not. When last did wike advertise jobs in your state? Anyways as for kaduna el Rufai works with on tech-savvy people and youths in his government.

"Does the revenue Kaduna has received justify the level of development?"

As at before, it's a NO for now, it's a YES.