Justcash:

And yet Nigeria's economy was almost crippled because some guys decided to blow pipelines. The same boys are receiving huge free salaries just to keep them from blowing the pipelines. No let FG hear you o.
LOL! I told you not to make me to laugh.

Justcash:

And yet Nigeria's economy was almost crippled because some guys decided to blow pipelines. The same boys are receiving huge free salaries just to keep them from blowing the pipelines. No let FG hear you o.
LOL! I told you not to make me to laugh.

ekt_bear:

@Justcash: Never claimed Lagos is my state. However, it is part of my zone, and part of Yorubaland. If you don't like that, unfortunate.

Regarding Ekiti vs Ebonyi, I don't think there is a single statistic Ebonyi is ahead in 

Ekiti leads Ebonyi in the following (and you can look them up yourself):
1) Education rates (some of the best in southern Nigeria, period)
2) Literacy rates (same as above)
3) poverty rates
4) life expectancy (one of the highest in Nigeria)
5) GDP
6) GDP/capita,
7) HIV rates (one of the lowest in Nigeria, while Ebonyi and the SE zone have amongst the highest)

etc, etc. Not so bad for such a young state.

Justcash:

No offense man, but when last did you return to Nigeria. Really, I mean no insult. When last did you visit Nigeria?
Statistics is really different from realities. Statistics are from indicators, and available database. Over-reliance on statistics fakes up reality. Drowns practicality, and promotes theory. If you are depending on it, then you gat some real problems to handle when you meet the reality on ground.

Desola:

What some of you fail to accept is that an Ekiti man, Ijebu man, Oyo man etc is seen first and foremost as a Yoruba son ans for that reason, he is allowed to lay claim to any part of the land. If a Yoruba Beninoise arrives in Lagos today, he would be looked upon more favourably than an Ibo man who has been in our midst for decades. The way we see it, a Yoruba is a Yoruba regardless of where Lord Luggage chose to place him.  

ekt_bear:

*shrug* It what it is. For every pipeline they blow, every foreign worker they kidnap, they cause another multi-national to decide to relocate out of the SS to Lagos  

Abeg, keep blowing up pipelines  

ekt_bear:

@Justcash: Never claimed Lagos is my state. However, it is part of my zone, and part of Yorubaland. If you don't like that, unfortunate.

Regarding Ekiti vs Ebonyi, I don't think there is a single statistic Ebonyi is ahead in 

Ekiti leads Ebonyi in the following (and you can look them up yourself):
1) Education rates (some of the best in southern Nigeria, period)
2) Literacy rates (same as above)
3) poverty rates
4) life expectancy (one of the highest in Nigeria)
5) GDP
6) GDP/capita,
7) HIV rates (one of the lowest in Nigeria, while Ebonyi and the SE zone have amongst the highest)

etc, etc. Not so bad for such a young state.

Anyways, that isnt really the point. . . Lagos is part of my homeland, so I can take pleasure in its accomplishments. If anybody doesn't like that, their problem, not mine.

macjive01:

same way some white trailer park trash wud "take pleasure in the accomplishments" of her country at the breathe hating Jews despite the said accomplishments she relishes has a strong contribution from the Jews.


take a step back and re-exam your head dude. absolutely no need being anti-igbo .

Desola:

@Beaf, isn't your case that of the pot calling the kettle black? I asked you to tell us where you hail from and proclaim your state's achievements over that of Ekiti while bearing in mind that Ekiti is rlatively new and non oil producing but you have shied away from the question. Even with chips on their shoulders and their 'woe is me' attitude to life, the ibos still proudly beats their chests and declare who they think they are.

So, beaf, who are you or at least, who do you think you are?

ekt_bear:

@Justcash: I travel there once a year. Granted, I've not been to Ebonyi (or the SE zone period). But the guys who conducted these studies have. I have no real reason to doubt the results of say a life expectancy study, for example.

Justcash:

Statistics depends on "Significance", which on it's own is roughly mathematically calculated and is a rough estimate. Now, they pick samples, conduct experiments and assume that their findings are genuine, until a new research is conducted to disprove them. With the obvious lack of a sound database of Nigerians, one would wonder how they select their samples, and what indicators they used to assume and reach their findings?

Well, that aside, Ekiti is not in anyway more developed than Ebonyi state. Infrastructurally and otherwise. The string of pathetic leadership that have always led the state have not helped issues. That does not in anyway imply that Ebonyi is close to developed. It is the least developed out of all the SE states.  Ekiti to me is also the least developed in the SW if I have not ignored any state. [/b]

Rhino.5dm:

The low lifer is from Isoko, Delta state. A state that started exporting Pros*tution even with their crude oil, where a short ugly gov. Is ra*ping the hell out them their mooronic ar*s through a constant elections rigging. His case is such a pathetic one without any hope in sight.

mention GEJ's name in any thread and watch him attack you like brainless zombie. Mumu!

ekt_bear:

That isn't how this sort of statistical methodology works. You don't need a database. If you get sufficiently randomized and unbiased samples, it should accurately represent that of the population as a whole. This is pretty much a science, at this point.

And the studies weren't conducted by wuruwuru Nigerian organizations, but by international researchers.

I get your point about statistical significance. But for the AIDs stuff, life expectancy, and education levels, the gaps were huge. Probably statistically significant. . . I didn't read each study that carefully though.

Desola:

Lol, so Beaf is a half breed of Isoko/Urhobo. Now I undestand clearly. No further questions.

For a second, I was hoping he would be from the third majority ethnic group (Ijaw *wink*) but he's only an half and half of, I see why he couldn't come forward to boast of any achievements. Lol,

Beaf:

Bloody hunter.
Yeah, die of jealousy. I'm Isoko / Urhobo, from Warri with swag and owning you.