Moferere:

Don't get yourself confused with any sentiments.
The indexes for measuring performances are different from your unnecessary sentiments. No state, I mean no state is embarking on aggressive capital developments in the south compared to Ebonyi and A/Ibom, have you asked yourself why the two states are the ones with highest percentage of unemployment in the south.

Let's live poverty and focus on Unemployment first. At least I did a survey on that in 2019 and I am not working for NBS

Be guided pls cos Imo state is the highest unemployment state in Nigeria currently not ebonyi or Akwa Ibom

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Yorubas are only good at propaganda Nigerians knows better, the world know industrious tribe in Nigeria that their presence are felt in all states and beyond, keep giving yourself false hope, the last I checked statistics of students admitting to Nigeria tertiary institutions to study law, Medicine, Engineering and Administration Igbos top the list for more than a decade now low IQ keep giving yourself false hope online, Fulani have sent your people packing while you're looking for Igbos to rub shoulder with, I hope you are not typing this from IDP camp in Port novo?

See pain,this guy is so pained because of high level of poverty in his state, had it been it was the other way round, you will see him creating one useless thread running from pillars to the post.

NkanAkpanika:

Be guided pls cos Imo state is the highest unemployment state in Nigeria currently not ebonyi or Akwa Ibom

On which authority are you speaking?

Share your data with us.

God bless you.

EzeNri:
NBS Yoruba DG had been caught numerous time falsifying data for SW.

The official poverty rate in US in 2019 pre-COVID was 11 percent.

So, Osun with zero industries and only yahoo boys has better poverty rate then US.

Poverty rate in the UK in 2020 was 22%. So, SW the region with the most vulnerable household in the South has better poverty rate than UK?

So Ekiti has better poverty rate than Anambra and Rivers?

So Ekiti has better poverty rate than Abia.

Travel from Abuja to Lagos through Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Ogun and see the kind of houses those that claim they have fewer percentage of poor people than US and UK are living in.

SW low poverty rate exists only in Yoruba media and Yoruba controlled NBS

How can the region with the higher number of vulnerable households (SW) have lesser poor people by a long shot than those with the fewest vulnerable households in the entire country.

How can the region with the lowest income inequality in the entire country have more poor people by a long shot than those with the highest income inequality in the South.

Yoriba Bureau of Stat can deceive themselves not us that drive through SW every week.

A state being underdeveloped does not mean the people there Are very poor 70% of ekii citizens can afford a better life.. ekiti is a full civil servant state and aslo a very educated state.. the poor people in the state are probably those northerners from koji and benue that are littered all over the state

slivertongue:


kai kai u are sure I mentioned SW? I went through the post so and picked out places I know their economic situation. pls do well to interrogate. surveys. the poverty index used by ministry of humanitarian affairs says a different thing. leave me out of ur southern fight on nairaland. except kano &Kaduna, how many states are head and shoulders above their peers in the south. for the north to wake up it must tell herself the truth that she is poor and backward despite been blessed with fertile landmass and energetic people. unemployment is more pronounced down here. a lot of the security challenge here is due to poverty induced by unemployment. inter group tensions is fuelled by unemployment. how southern states have millions of youths roaming the streets looking for food? how many are battling destitution like states down? banditary and criminality is thriving here because the state exist for a elites and LGAs. the kagara school is a true picture of the rural north. need I say more.

So many contradictions in your words. Are you saying that you preferred the data of Ministry of Women Affairs to National Bureau of Statistics?

Moferere:


So many contradictions in your words. Are you saying that you preferred the data of Ministry of Women Affairs to National Bureau of Statistics?

what contradiction? point them out. u are obviously a southerner, u know very little about the ongoings outside ur enclave. poverty ain't what any community can hide. its like saying we are peaceful in the north. u know the rest.

Obamaofusa:


Okay.I am not surprised about SW.They have the highest number of professionals,doctors,lawyers etc.They are the only Nigerians abroad who have multi billion dollar and multi pound sterling businesses abroad and they also have the highest number of indigenous industries in Nigeria.
The Igbos and Niger Deltans are also great achievers to reckon with.Exorcise the core North from Nigeria and watch Nigeria grow exponentially..

What actually surprised me is how badly SE did. Ebonyi and Enugu did as bad as the worse off Northern states and if anything they more resemble their neighbors outside SE than within it.

EzeNri:
NBS Yoruba DG had been caught numerous time falsifying data for SW.

The official poverty rate in US in 2019 pre-COVID was 11 percent.

So, Osun with zero industries and only yahoo boys has better poverty rate then US.

Poverty rate in the UK in 2020 was 22%. So, SW the region with the most vulnerable household in the South has better poverty rate than UK?

So Ekiti has better poverty rate than Anambra and Rivers?

So Ekiti has better poverty rate than Abia.

Travel from Abuja to Lagos through Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Ogun and see the kind of houses those that claim they have fewer percentage of poor people than US and UK are living in.

SW low poverty rate exists only in Yoruba media and Yoruba controlled NBS

How can the region with the higher number of vulnerable households (SW) have lesser poor people by a long shot than those with the fewest vulnerable households in the entire country.

How can the region with the lowest income inequality in the entire country have more poor people by a long shot than those with the highest income inequality in the South.

Yoriba Bureau of Stat can deceive themselves not us that drive through SW every week.

Poverty rate figures is Fluid because different benchmarks for poverty is used. A country with as high a standard of living as America has a very high standard for measuring poverty, that is why their poverty rate is that high.

slivertongue:


what contradiction? point them out. u are obviously a southerner, u know very little about the ongoings outside ur enclave. poverty ain't what any community can hide. its like saying we are peaceful in the north. u know the rest.

This one is confused.
I am a southerner, since 2005, I have been staying and working from Kano, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto and now Abuja.
You think everyone is a tyro like you?

Moferere:


This one is confused.
I am a southerner, since 2005, I have been staying and working from Kano, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto and now Abuja.
You think everyone is a tyro like you?

u have failed to make sense in ur: interventions.

slivertongue:


u have failed to make sense in ur: interventions.

I have successfully confused you

Moferere:

I have successfully confused you

no u didn't. I am not a member of ur roforofo club. Nigeria is stagnated because it lies to itself, it lacks functional data. NBS data has been contested long before Dr yemi kale was appointed. the reality on ground contradicts NBS survey so learn to interrogate issues.

slivertongue:


no u didn't. I am not a member of ur roforofo club. Nigeria is stagnated because it lies to itself, it lacks functional data. NBS data has been contested long before Dr yemi kale was appointed. the reality on ground contradicts NBS survey so learn to interrogate issues.

You have no point? You speak with no authority other than passing through the outskirts of some states.
You must change that your poor mentality

Moferere:


You have no point? You speak with no authority other than passing through the outskirts of some states.
You must change that your poor mentality

am not here to advertise myself but I know my competence. am well travelled. u accused me of mentioning SW but u failed to substantiate ur claim. u are bereft of scholarship. I seek not to continue this discourse with u, u lack intellectual substance

Pecuman:


Poverty rate figures is Fluid because different benchmarks for poverty is used. A country with as high a standard of living as America has a very high standard for measuring poverty, that is why their poverty rate is that high.

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Cashsteady:



A state being underdeveloped does not mean the people there Are very poor 70% of ekii citizens can afford a better life.. ekiti is a full civil servant state and aslo a very educated state.. the poor people in the state are probably those northerners from koji and benue that are littered all over the state

Lol.

Go and see the kind of building dudes in Ekiti are living it. That state is a heap of rickety buildings.

SW has very good interstate roads. Aside this nothing again is impressive

sinkhole:
the DG was manufacturing data and all other staff remained mum?
I all regions are OK, the North has Kwara, Kogi, Benue and Kaduna to boast off

Buhari is displaying nepotism and all other staffremained mum?

NBS released a data that showed Ogun as the third largest producer of rice while Ebonyi didn't make the top 10.

When the National Extractive Industry released their data, Ebonyi made joint second position with Benue while Ogun took 15th.

NBS data always show that SW states have lowest poverty rate in country but when the government released number of vulnerable households, SW dominates in the South.

NBS always report bogus IGR for SW but BUDGIT data shows almost SW states are insolvent while only one state in the SE, Debt Office data shows SW is the most indebted region and SE the least

slivertongue:


no u didn't. I am not a member of ur roforofo club. Nigeria is stagnated because it lies to itself, it lacks functional data. NBS data has been contested long before Dr yemi kale was appointed. the reality on ground contradicts NBS survey so learn to interrogate issues.

One of those DGs was almost sacked during GEJ time for falsifying data.

Their data don't reflect reality

TooMuchStuff:
Can IPOB help us flush out the Terrorists training camp in âfikpo called Islamic College??

Am sure the many present of headslamers in Ebonyi state is the many reasons poverty is most prevalent there. Afterall the seat of Caliphate Sokoto is always the poorest in all things. Poverty can be spiritually transmitted. Do something pls

Lol

This is an old report though.

Omoluabi1stborn:
Oya see how they'll all be attacking Yorubas.

And SW in general.

That one no even concern me, going our separate ways nah my concern

Ose omo iya mi.
Make everyone. answer their papa name jare.

Moferere:

There you go again. Initially it was the SW, now it is kebbi. While I am not here to hold brief for kebbi. Are you aware that kebbi borders 3 countries?
2. On what authority did you say the portion in bold?

You dey mind that poster, foreigners are investing heavily in Kebbi's rice industry,
Seeing is believing.

7lives:


You dey mind that poster, foreigners are investing heavily in Kebbi's rice industry,
Seeing is believing.

2018 December, I was in Galauda, Argungun and other parts of kebbi. I know what I saw

heniford2:
who stated this na mumu

He who calls another a fool shall be in danger of hell. Matthew 5 :22
Remember that you shall be judged by every idle word you speak. Matthew 12 :36
You'll do well to receive Jesus into your life. Tomorrow may be too late. John 3 :16

Nightalan:
If the SW was doing half as bad as what these ungrateful and trespassing pests tend to portray, they won't be arriving in droves like refugees every minute of the day with one polybag and the clothes on their back. Envious losers.

lol
There has never been anytime in the history of Nigeria that Igboland has ever been has progressive or rich as Yorubaland.
Their envy and jealousy for the SW did not start today.
People that can only brag with Onitsha,a 52 square km entity, not up to 5 GRAs in Ibadan.

I don't know on what basis they want to compare themselves with the rich Yorubas.
They are always wailing on facts that are not in their favour. The greenest pastures are in the SW.They should ask Zik.

EzeNri:
NBS Yoruba DG had been caught numerous time falsifying data for SW.

The official poverty rate in US in 2019 pre-COVID was 11 percent.

So, Osun with zero industries and only yahoo boys has better poverty rate then US.

Poverty rate in the UK in 2020 was 22%. So, SW the region with the most vulnerable household in the South has better poverty rate than UK?

So Ekiti has better poverty rate than Anambra and Rivers?

So Ekiti has better poverty rate than Abia.

Travel from Abuja to Lagos through Ekiti, Ondo, Osun, Oyo and Ogun and see the kind of houses those that claim they have fewer percentage of poor people than US and UK are living in.

SW low poverty rate exists only in Yoruba media and Yoruba controlled NBS

How can the region with the higher number of vulnerable households (SW) have lesser poor people by a long shot than those with the fewest vulnerable households in the entire country.

How can the region with the lowest income inequality in the entire country have more poor people by a long shot than those with the highest income inequality in the South.

Yoriba Bureau of Stat can deceive themselves not us that drive through SW every week.

Yardsticks for measuring poverty in each country aren't necessarily the same.

Who is regareded as being poor in the USA may have better monetary resources than an average comfortable person in Nigeria, Ghana or many Sub-Saharan countries.

You need to understand the concept very well and not confuse low poverty rate as the same thing as wealth.

EzeNri:

Buhari is displaying nepotism and all other staffremained mum?

NBS released a data that showed Ogun as the third largest producer of rice while Ebonyi didn't make the top 10.

When the National Extractive Industry released their data, Ebonyi made joint second position with Benue while Ogun took 15th.

NBS data always show that SW states have lowest poverty rate in country but when the government released number of vulnerable households, SW dominates in the South.

NBS always report bogus IGR for SW but BUDGIT data shows almost SW states are insolvent while only one state in the SE, Debt Office data shows SW is the most indebted region and SE the least

The problem with you is that you don't take time to study what each report really means and lack the scholarstic capacity to compare Statistics.

Most of what you are saying were measured using different 'yardsticks' and at times measure different but related things.

Obamaofusa:


lol
There has never been anytime in the history of Nigeria that Igboland has ever been has progressive or rich as Yorubaland.
Their envy and jealousy for the SW did not start today.
People that can only brag with Onitsha,a 52 square km entity, not up to 5 GRAs in Ibadan.

I don't know on what basis they want to compare themselves with the rich Yorubas.
They are always wailing on facts that are not in their favour. The greenest pastures are in the SW.They should ask Zik.

Lol, they are a very funny and delusional set of people, hardly to be taken serious. No mind them.

oyatz:


The problem with you is that you don't take time to study what each report really means and lack the scholarstic capacity to compare Statistics.

Most of what you are saying were measured using different 'yardsticks' and at times measure different but related things.

Lol.

Making excuses for their fraud NBS.

NBS data don't always reflect reality. Its biased to favour the SW.

There is no way Ekiti will have fewer percentage of poor people than Anambra and Rivers. I have been to the three states and I know what I saw in Ekiti.

You can't compare a purely civil service state to a state like Anambra that is commerce-driven.

How many Ekiti people are in the civil service and how much is even their salary?

Ekiti is not industrialized and the state is not even doing well in agriculture. The government is even owing salaries.

Yemi should tell us how placed Ekiti ahead of Anambra in the poverty index.

EzeNri:

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The Bench mark for Poverty is America is either $10,000 and $11,000 a year depending on the study while the study I referenced had the Bench line for Poverty for Nigerians at $381.75

EzeNri:

Lol.

Making excuses for their fraud NBS.

NBS data don't always reflect reality. Its biased to favour the SW.

There is no way Ekiti will have fewer percentage of poor people than Anambra and Rivers. I have been to the three states and I know what I saw in Ekiti.

You can't compare a purely civil service state to a state like Anambra that is commerce-driven.

How many Ekiti people are in the civil service and how much is even their salary?

Ekiti is not industrialized and the state is not even doing well in agriculture. The government is even owing salaries.

Yemi should tell us how placed Ekiti ahead of Anambra in the poverty index.

Going to a State is NOT the same thing as carrying out an academic study in a State.

Most of the commentators lack scholarstic capacity to critique a research work and will like to substitute personal opinions as research works

1) Explain to us, the criteria used in this NBS study.

2) How many tonnes of Cocoa, Kolanuts, Cassava, Timber, Palm oil, Eggs and other poultry products are produced in Ekiti every year?

EzeNri:

Lol.

Making excuses for their fraud NBS.

NBS data don't always reflect reality. Its biased to favour the SW.

There is no way Ekiti will have fewer percentage of poor people than Anambra and Rivers. I have been to the three states and I know what I saw in Ekiti.

You can't compare a purely civil service state to a state like Anambra that is commerce-driven.

How many Ekiti people are in the civil service and how much is even their salary?

Ekiti is not industrialized and the state is not even doing well in agriculture. The government is even owing salaries.

Yemi should tell us how placed Ekiti ahead of Anambra in the poverty index.

You may need to go back to school to be able to ague publicly without being considered as inferior. You hardly known the difference between state wealth, few in wealth and majority being comfortable.

You lay so much emphasis on Ekiti being poor. That they're not building 2 or 3 story buildings or not demolishing their old parents or grandparents buildings doesn't make them poor. How many ordinary people can afford to by land in Awka or Owerri? A teacher or bike man that built bungalow in Ado is better and comfortable than his colleagues living in unkept 3 story buildings without water in Onitsha. Ekiti people are known to be among the best and early educated people in the country and majority of Ekiti people live outside the state: in the cities and abroad because of their early exploits in education which didn't keep them in the state.

There is virtually no Ekiti family without cash crops' farm. You can verify how much cocoa or Kola nut farms fetch in a year: there are hundreds of thousands of people from other states, including your people working on these farms and many farm settlements on the roads you referred to as Ekiti villages.

See, there's no single Ekiti town without pipe borne water; there's also water reservoirs and about 10 large dams in Itapa, Ikun, Gogo, Ureje, Ogbese, Itapaji, Gbonyin, etc. The towns and villages are well served with modest roads networks and many of them have commercial Banks. You can't find all these in Enugu and many of your states. Enugu has just 2 towns and that's where you find banks, except one at Orji. The only dam in Ezeagu is only serving firms at 9th mile and government house.

I have lived in every state of the SE. Don't be deceived by businessmen building mansions everywhere but they're still the minority when compared with the general population of the area. However, majority of Ekiti, Ondo, Osun are comfortable. They may not be building story buildings but most of the spacious bungalows are comfortable. My only issue is continuous use of Iron roofing sheets Zinc) being sold to them by your brothers. They're even buying at higher cost than cheapest aluminium sheet; just because of deception that the later will be condemned quicker. There's need to ban Zinc. Most that get money don't believe in show off; they are very modest and concern more about the education of their children. These are indices used in measuring poverty not because state is in debt or story buildings.
In the East, Anambra is a reference point. It competes with the the best in Nigeria, no doubt about that.

Alba3:


You may need to go back to school to be able to ague publicly without being considered as inferior. You hardly known the difference between state wealth, few in wealth and majority being comfortable.

You lay so much emphasis on Ekiti being poor. That they're not building 2 or 3 story buildings or not demolishing their old parents or grandparents buildings doesn't make them poor. How many ordinary people can afford to by land in Awka or Owerri? A teacher or bike man that built bungalow in Ado is better and comfortable than his colleagues living in unkept 3 story buildings without water in Onitsha. Ekiti people are known to be among the best and early educated people in the country and majority of Ekiti people live outside the state: in the cities and abroad because of their early exploits in education which didn't keep them in the state.

There is virtually no Ekiti family without cash crops' farm. You can verify how much cocoa or Kola nut farms fetch in a year: there are hundreds of thousands of people from other states, including your people working on these farms and many farm settlements on the roads you referred to as Ekiti villages.

See, there's no single Ekiti town without pipe borne water; there's also water reservoirs and about 10 large dams in Itapa, Ikun, Gogo, Ureje, Ogbese, Itapaji, Gbonyin, etc. The towns and villages are well served with modest roads networks and many of them have commercial Banks. You can't find all these in Enugu and many of your states. Enugu has just 2 towns and that's where you find banks, except one at Orji. The only dam in Ezeagu is only serving firms at 9th mile and government house.

I have lived in every state of the SE. Don't be deceived by businessmen building mansions everywhere but they're still the minority when compared with the general population of the area. However, majority of Ekiti, Ondo, Osun are comfortable. They may not be building story buildings but most of the spacious bungalows are comfortable. My only issue is continuous use of Iron roofing sheets Zinc) being sold to them by your brothers. They're even buying at higher cost than cheapest aluminium sheet; just because of deception that the later will be condemned quicker. There's need to ban Zinc. Most that get money don't believe in show off; they are very modest and concern more about the education of their children. These are indices used in measuring poverty not because state is in debt or story buildings.
In the East, Anambra is a reference point. It competes with the the best in Nigeria, no doubt about that.

I will reply your long with just a few sentences.

A country is as wealthy as its citizens. There is no way Ekiti will have rich citizens and be poor.

SW have more vulnerable households than SE.

Stop making excuses for poverty.