expensiveguyman:
How can we know d exact number of our population? when in northern Nigeria cows are being counted as human being just to gain upper hand in d politics

senatordave1:

I have been there.several areas are uninhabited.also in several parts of the south are largely uninhabited.i can give you instances.most of the southerners that live in the north admit that they are heavily populated.even patience jonathan said they give births anyhow which points to indirect admittance of a higher population

davidif:
For more info, there is a research paper written on the flawed 2006 census.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275595277_Technical_and_political_aspects_of_the_2006_Nigerian_population_and_housing_Census

senatordave1:

Dont we do multiple registrations and thumbprinting down south?

senatordave1:

Dont we do multiple registrations and thumbprinting down south?

joyandfaith:

there is no where in world where deserts will be more populated that tropical rain forest.

joyandfaith:

there is no where in world where deserts will be more populated that tropical rain forest.

joyandfaith:


stop defending North. northerners do not defend South, they will rather remain silent.

einsteine:



Exactly. Niger Republic, like the North, has a high birth rate and is bigger than Nigeria. Yet it's population is low: 21 million people.

Arid and sahel regions are unlikely to support high populations even if there is a high birth rate. There would be high infant mortality which evens things out.

It is clear to discerning people that the population of the North is fraudulent.

senatordave1:

What about egypt that has almost a 100million people? What about iraq and iran that are in the deserts but heavily populated? Do u know that china and the usa has deserts? Your main premises is bordered on the north being a desert.thats not totally true.many areas of the north are forested and arable

joyandfaith:


there are two forms of voting or census manipulation in Nigeria. field and office. both south and North engage in field manipulation. but in office manipulation, North does it better because of United emirate system. figures can easily be manipulated for North than South in Abuja. last two censuses we're conducted during military regimes lead by northerners.

joyandfaith:


Middle belt are forested and arable but not north west that claim larger population. Deserts in united states, iraq and iran have lesser population compared to tropical forest areas.

joyandfaith:

ibo has high birth rates as well. most ibo are Catholics and are against birth control until recently. North has both high birth and death rates.

senatordave1:

Thats one of our problems in africa.were too biased.that i am a southerner doesnt mean i must always support the fallacies cooked up by my folks.i am very objective and truthful what applies here applies there and vice versa

senatordave1:

Ibos birth rate has dropped to 3 kids per woman.a house of reps member complained of that this year.most ibos are monogamous while most hausas are polygamous.the united nations has stated that islamic countries now have the highest birth rates and islamic worshippers would outnumber christians by 2050.lets take a tour of any town in anambra state and assess their birth rate and population

joyandfaith:


That applies to islamic nations with good heaalth system-arab nations generally. In north, birth rate and death rate are alarming. For ibo, until recently, 10 years ago , they used to born like pigs. I said most catholics abhor family planning just like muslims.

joyandfaith:
. I cannot defend lie. I can defend north in other areas, but not this one. See Egypt population concentration, (Egypt lies primarily between latitudes 22° and 32°N, and longitudes 25° and 35°E. At 1,001,450 square kilometres (386,660 sq mi),[106] it is the world's 30th-largest country. Due to the extreme aridity of Egypt's climate, population centres are concentrated along the narrow Nile Valley and Delta, meaning that about 99% of the population uses about 5.5% of the total land area.[107] 98% of Egyptians live on 3% of the territory. Source wikipedia.)

joyandfaith:


stop defending North. northerners do not defend South, they will rather remain silent.

EazyMoh:

That's exactly the difference between North and South!
Virtually all southern states are denser than northern states, but the North is almost four times the size of the south (at least no one can claim they've inflated the land mass as well). So if you multiply the population density with land area, you end up with a higher population in the north.

senatordave1:

Do you also know that pakistan is largely a desert with a smaller landmass than nigeria but has over 200million people? India also has a high infant mortality rate higher than nigeria's but you know their population.there are deserts in india also.remember india has a higher death rate than china but would soon outnumber china.look around all the states in and south south,the hausas possess the second largest non indigenous population after the ibos and are the largest non indigenous groups in the east outnumbering the yorubas who are geographically closer.
One of the major reasons southerners are against grazing reserves is the fear that the fulanis would bear children at an alarming rate and in a few years outnumber the indigenes and expand and dominate them which supports my claims of their higher population despite their high infant mortality rate.

joyandfaith:


Most pakistani lives in fertile area. India has no birth control policy. China has relaxed policy on birth control and india is one of bric nations with emerging economies. Fulani cannot graze in north because the area is desert. Fulanis want to settle in south, not north just to prove that south is more populous that north.

davidif:
The north-south divide has remained salient; there is still an unwritten rule that the presidency should alternate between a northerner and a southerner. Allegations that the north has manipulated its way to a majority continue. The censuses of 1973 and 1991 were annulled. In 2006 arguments flared when 9.4m people were counted in the northern state of Kano, compared with just 9m in Lagos, the commercial capital. The Lagos state government conducted its own, technically illegal, census and came up with 17.5m (probably a vast overestimate). A new national census has been repeatedly delayed. It is now scheduled for 2018, but the NPC’s estimate that it will “gulp” 223bn naira ($708m) may mean the count is put off indefinitely.

Even by other methods, Nigeria’s population has proven tricky to pin down. Africapolis, a French-funded research project, used satellite mapping to estimate the population of towns and cities in 2010. It found several cities, mostly in the north, had hundreds of thousands fewer people than the 2006 census counted. But even those data are not entirely trustworthy: it later transpired that the researchers had underestimated urbanisation in the densely populated Niger delta. Until there is an accurate, impartial census it will be impossible to know just how many Nigerians there really are. That means government policy will not be fully anchored in reality and it will not be possible to send resources where they are most needed.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/06/economist-explains-6?zid=304&ah=e5690753dc78ce91909083042ad12e30

ReubenE:

Who told you the North is almost four times the size of the south? Where did you get the stat? Or you did the demographic studies yourself? I mean no offense.....

What you said is just a political statement among other ones that politicians and their cronies peddle....

senatordave1:

What about egypt that has almost a 100million people? What about iraq and iran that are in the deserts but heavily populated? Do u know that china and the usa has deserts? Your main premises is bordered on the north being a desert.thats not totally true.many areas of the north are forested and arable