Brendaniel:
Amaechi, Buhari's anointed candidate...

etokhana:

https://www.facebook.com/100000529389569/posts/5565806913446900/

Dorwadora:
Wetin be "Transport university"

SecretReporter:
Ride on the choosen/Anointed One

Realists:
Good that PMB, copied another GEJ project of building a Federal University in his home Town of Duara, just like the Federal University of Otuke, in Bayelsa State.

Gkemz:


University that grooms motor park touts, agberos and transport revenue collectors and taskforce.

odiniamk0:
one good project amaechi has pioneered, kudos to him

Brendaniel:
Amaechi, Buhari's anointed candidate...

wpadmin:


When you hold an important political post in Nigeria, you will understand how powerful the North is.

For you to climb the ladder, you have to please them. sometimes even dress like them.

Voting population; they have it.

Number of people holding important positions; they have it.

Number of representatives in the house of Assembly; North.

The FCT is in the North.

They can fu** you up and the south won't do nothing.

burudichange:
The same mistake Jonathan did when building alumanjirii schools n the North but las las he collect wotowoto for body nii

and two big f...ls,mrmaestro and aribisala0 thinks and take it that the Igbos are the problem of their destinies :
university of transport,kwa

VPN11:


The story of Nigeria’s 1962 census never gets old. Southern politicians seeking to end the north’s dominance of Nigerian politics decided that the only way to do it was through the census. Population figures at the time determined not only parliamentary representation but also revenue allocation and employee distribution in the civil service. In May 1962, the first census under an independent Nigerian government began. There had been a frenzy of mobilization by politicians in the south of the country using pamphlets, radio, schools, churches and mosques.

Although the final results were not made public, the preliminary results were quite clear as to what had happened: the north’s population had gone up from 16.5 million in the last census in 1952 to 22.5 million, an increase of 30%. But in some parts of the east, the population had increased by up to 200% and more than 70% in general. The west also reported an increase of 70%. What the preliminary results showed was that the north had lost its majority share of the country’s population.

The northern leaders were not about to take that lying down. A new census was held in 1963 and this time, an additional 8.5 million people were discovered in the north bringing the total to 31 million for the north—a figure higher than the population of every other country in Africa at the time—and 56 million for Nigeria as a whole. The power balance had been restored and Nigeria’s census had been duly weaponized at a cost of $6.2 million (about $50 million today). Another census was conducted a decade later in 1973 but was so hotly disputed and produced incredible figures that the government simply nullified the result.

In 1991, the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida had another try at a population count. This time, after some delay, the figures were officially announced in March 1992—there were just under 89 million people in the country. Fifteen years later, in 2006, another census was conducted and the population was announced to have grown by more than 50% to 140 million. It is these two censuses, when compared, that tell a most interesting story about Nigeria.

First, there was a slight wrinkle in the data that made it tricky to directly compare the 1991 and 2006 numbers. In 1991, Nigeria had 30 states but in 1996, Nigeria’s maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha, created an additional 6 states bringing the total to 36. Since the new states had been carved out of existing states, making the numbers directly comparable meant adding the 2006 numbers for the 5 new states back into the states they had been carved out of. So Nasarawa’s numbers went back into Plateau,Gombe went back into Bauchi, Bayelsa went back into Rivers, Ekiti went into Ondo, Ebonyi went back into Enugu (this was a bit tricky as a small part of Ebonyi was created from Abia state but it’s not statistically relevant to affect the comparison here) and finally Zamfara went back into Sokoto. Now I had 30 states in 1991 to compare with 30 states in 2006.

Implausibly, each state had managed to maintain its exact share of the population across two censuses, 15 years apart. A nearly successful military coup in April 1990 badly rattled the military high command and hastened the relocation of the federal capital from Lagos to Abuja, a process that was completed in December 1991, right after the census had been completed. Given the large bureaucracy and patronage networks that followed the government in the move to Abuja, it would have been impossible not to reflect this in the numbers somehow. Thus, Abuja rose from 0% of the total in 1991 to 1% in 2006. The difference was made up by pushing down Abia to 2% of the total in 2006 from 3% in 1991. Every other state remained unchanged.
In 2000, the Nigerian government began a new revenue sharing formula that returned 13% of all onshore oil revenues to the oil producing states. In practical terms, whatever link remained between population and revenue allocation was effectively broken by this new 13% derivation principle. In other words, there was no financial reason to manipulate the distribution of the census figures in 2006 in line with the 1991 numbers.

This is best illustrated with the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) where the federal government and states gather to share oil revenues. The most recent report available on the statistics bureau website is for January 2018. According to the census figures, the most populous state in 2006 was Kano with 9.4 million people. In January it received a total of 6.6 billion naira ($18.4 million) after all deductions. Akwa Ibom state, a major oil producing state but with less than half the population of Kano at 3.9 million, received a total of 16.5 billion naira ($46 million). Of this amount, 12 billion naira was its share of the 13% derivation principle.

While just eight of Nigeria’s 36 states receive this derivation payment, it nonetheless accounts for roughly a quarter of the total revenues shared by states monthly. In the same month, tiny Taraba state with less than a quarter of Kano’s 2006 population received 3.8 billion naira as its share of revenues. If a link remains between population numbers and revenue sharing in Nigeria’s resource based economic model, it is at best tenuous.

What part of Nigeria’s official census figures can be believed? I’ve generally assumed the total figure of 140 million was perhaps correct and the falsification only happened in the way it was distributed across the states by formula. But there’s reason to doubt even that. In 2010, Donald Duke, the former two-term governor of Cross River state, committed a remarkable act of political class suicide by penning an article detailing how he and his fellow governors rigged elections in Nigeria. Buried in the middle of the piece was this line:

When we conducted the census in 2006 or so, the raw figures said we were over two hundred million; when they went and processed the figures it came down to 140 million.

He was a governor at the time so his claim is at least plausible. The question is who or what did the “processing” and what did such an exercise entail? It’s hard to tell.

Nigeria been due another census since 2016 but lack of funds—the Nigerian government can only fund 51% of the costs and is relying on donors to fund the remaining 49%—mean it is now scheduled to hold this year at a cost of 272 billion naira ($759 million) “if necessary logistics are provided”, according to the director general of the National Population Commission (NPC).

In 2013, the former chairman of the NPC, Festus Odimegwu, managed to talk himself out of a job with a series of controversial comments. 24 out of the NPC’s 35 commissioners asked the president to fire him from his job as they had lost all confidence in him. Before then he had been queried by the presidency for giving newspaper interviews where he said there had never been a credible census in Nigeria, including the one in 2006, and that the 2016 one which he had been charged with conducting was doomed to fail. All of this was intolerable candor and president Jonathan eventually tired of his antics and fired him in October 2013.

The country’s finances remain in poor shape and the leadership is currently consumed by politicking in advance of the general elections. But it will have to hold a census at some point and the question of whether people can lay down their weapons and allow a credible count to take place remains a pertinent one. There is no longer any financial reason for any state to lie about its numbers so the country has a unique opportunity to hold its first credible census in its history as an independent nation. The reasons for having credible population numbers are too obvious to restate: Nigeria has essentially been making policy blind since its independence.

State 1991 2006 1991 Share of Total 2006 Share of Total
Abia 2,338,487 2,845,380 3% 2%
Adamawa 2,102,053 3,178,950 2% 2%
Akwa Ibom 2,409,613 3,902,051 3% 3%
Anambra 2,796,475 4,177,828 3% 3%
Bauchi 4,351,007 7,018,106 5% 5%
Benue 2,753,077 4,253,641 3% 3%
Borno 2,536,003 4,171,104 3% 3%
Cross River 1,911,297 2,892,988 2% 2%
Delta 2,590,491 4,112,445 3% 3%
Edo 2,172,005 3,233,366 2% 2%
Enugu 3,154,380 5,444,784 4% 4%
FCT Abuja 371,674 1,406,239 0% 1%
Imo 2,485,635 3,927,563 3% 3%
Jigawa 2,875,525 4,361,002 3% 3%
Kaduna 3,935,618 6,113,503 4% 4%
Kano 5,810,470 9,401,288 7% 7%
Katsina 3,753,133 5,801,584 4% 4%
Kebbi 2,068,490 3,256,541 2% 2%
Kogi 2,147,756 3,314,043 2% 2%
Kwara 1,548,412 2,365,353 2% 2%
Lagos 5,725,116 9,113,605 6% 6%
Niger 2,421,581 3,954,772 3% 3%
Ogun 2,333,726 3,751,140 3% 3%
Ondo 3,785,338 5,859,834 4% 4%
Osun 2,158,143 3,416,959 2% 2%
Oyo 3,452,720 5,580,894 4% 4%
Plateau 3,312,412 5,075,908 4% 4%
Rivers 4,309,557 6,903,231 5% 5%
Sokoto 4,470,176 6,981,549 5% 5%
Taraba 1,512,163 2,294,800 2% 2%
Yobe 1,399,687 2,321,339 2%
Nigeria pop 88,994,211 140,433,796
See, if Nigeria remains a country in the next 50yrs, Northern Nigeria will be cut to size and kept in check. No more fake population or its use in revenue derivation principal.

Federalism of the purest form is coming, because the South have wake up and you'd be the worst hit.

Advocate basic/vocational education for Almajiris.

The system was employed by your leaders/elders to subjugate citizens for election rigging & FAAC.

In a pure Federal or Regional Nigeria, a president is most likely to be ceremonial.

You can't contain Almajiris in your prime.

The advantage you have over that Almajiri is education, so use it well.

The advantage you seem to have over Southerners is the political position your elders/leaders are holding. It'd soon be over.

Make demands of your leaders/elders today.

Nigeria is going RESTRUCTURING!

rofanx13:
Taking off is not the problem. However, getting students to apply and be kidnapped every now and then by bandit terrorists will be the major problem.

Amaechi and ass licking. How could he take such a sensitive university to almajiri quarters.
People who don't know the value of the school

Bugatie:
At the end of the failures administration, he should come down home and give account of his stewardship to his kinsmen.
He’s busy seeking up rail lines crisscrossing the entire North without nothing in the south.

The day of reckoning is coming.

VPN11:
All the wealth of all the various- NATIONS -that make up the geographical space ;they call Nigeria ; are controlled by the fulanis; who are not indigenous citizens in the country. Abdulsalami; fraudulent document called constitution; has enslaved Yorubas igbos; IJAWS and others ;to the fulanis federal government of Nigeria.
Without a solid foundation; you will have trouble creating anything of value. FOUNDATIONAL PROBLEM REQUIRED FOUNDATIONAL SOLUTIONS. Nigeria is build on fraud ONE NIGERIA IS A SCAM. We can't build on a wrong foundation Nigeria. We need a REFERENDUM; not ELECTION
Politics of Nigeria would make; a honest person to be corrupt. You must be satanic; demonic ;wicked; and evil; to qualify to be a Nigerians politicians. Look at this one (The Ubima Judas Iscarot)Nigeria politicians are satanic demonic wicked ;and evil. They have no love for the citizens. We need a REFERENDUM not ELECTION

etokhana:


https://www.facebook.com/100000529389569/posts/5565806913446900/

Firstlieutenant:
Transport university for who?
For bandits to carry on with kidnapping and other nefarious activity.

Dorwadora:
Wetin be "Transport university"

Realists:
Good that PMB, copied another GEJ project of building a Federal University in his home Town of Duara, just like the Federal University of Otuke, in Bayelsa State.

Dorwadora:
Wetin be "Transport university"

wpadmin:


Hopefully, Nigeria gets it right one day and elects a president with balls to take power back from the North.

It will happen one day but I don't think it's any time soon.

The people in the South have not fully awoken.

They don't understand the game the Fulani man is playing.

Majority of the population in the south only see between 4-8 years, the Fulani tribe see and have plans for 100-200 years.