Nigeria, Nov. 3 -- The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, has urged the Lagos State Government to pursue urban renewal without displacing residents, while calling on Nigerians to return to God and embrace honesty and discipline.

Speaking at his Iga-Iduganran palace on Sunday during celebrations marking his 82nd birthday and 22 years on the throne, the traditional ruler identified greed, indiscipline, and sycophancy as the root causes of the nation's problems.

"In Lagos and Nigeria, we have no problem except that we are too far from God. Sycophancy, indiscipline, and greed are the real issues. Greed is the cause of all evil," he said. "Everything in Lagos, especially Iga Iduganran, has always been under the control of Almighty Allah and the Ob...