Yes Ekiti is a small state with no major mineral resources n industries,bt yet there r so many positive things there,
*D people r nice,friendly and hospitable.
*little or no crime rate(infact while i was there during my nysc,i heard of a single robbery incident n d people started closing shops in far away n driving goats inside.Even banks @ Ikole didnt work 4 3days.Infact i was amazingly amazed cos its no deal ova here.
*Agricultural viability.
*Good climatic condition.
*Tourism potentials
*Good topography.Etc
All dis cud b annexed 4 maximum dev.Long live Ekiti.Yes Ekiti is a small state with no major mineral resources n industries,bt yet there r so many positive things there,
*D people r nice,friendly and hospitable.
*little or no crime rate(infact while i was there during my nysc,i heard of a single robbery incident n d people started closing shops in far away n driving goats inside.Even banks @ Ikole didnt work 4 3days.Infact i was amazingly amazed cos its no deal ova here.
*Agricultural viability.
*Good climatic condition.
*Tourism potentials
*Good topography.Etc
All dis cud b annexed 4 maximum dev.Long live Ekiti.

So , the Ekiti commissioner talk am? Politicians don start to tell people not to expect much from them. They knew this, when they were promising heaven on earth during campaigns. Nigerian politicians no get heaven.  

Noghayin03:

Yes Ekiti is a small state with no major mineral resources n industries,bt yet there r so many positive things there,
*D people r nice,friendly and hospitable.
*little or no crime rate(infact while i was there during my nysc,i heard of a single robbery incident n d people started closing shops in far away n driving goats inside.Even banks @ Ikole didnt work 4 3days.Infact i was amazingly amazed cos its no deal ova here.
*Agricultural viability.
*Good climatic condition.
*Tourism potentials
*Good topography.Etc
All dis cud b annexed 4 maximum dev.Long live Ekiti.Yes Ekiti is a small state with no major mineral resources n industries,bt yet there r so many positive things there,
*D people r nice,friendly and hospitable.
*little or no crime rate(infact while i was there during my nysc,i heard of a single robbery incident n d people started closing shops in far away n driving goats inside.Even banks @ Ikole didnt work 4 3days.Infact i was amazingly amazed cos its no deal ova here.
*Agricultural viability.
*Good climatic condition.
*Tourism potentials
*Good topography.Etc
All dis cud b annexed 4 maximum dev.Long live Ekiti.

Then you guys should start converting the above to cash, yes cash that is what matters or stop disturbing us here with your poverty issues. I never knew you guys had agricultural land still you guys are still starving, drinking only white garri.

chino11:



You got it right. Your people need to be enlightened on the need to move away from lagos to develop their states of origin, just like the Igbos does. From far and wide Igbos travel back to their[b] home states [/b] to develop[b] it[/b]. No wonder except for lagos, from Ibadan to akure to osogbo to abeokuta to ekiti wears the same outlook, so much of under-development, poor infrastructure, poor real estate development. each time I pass thru Yoruba states it reminds me of stone age era. The region is wallowing is stark neglect and poverty.

Ig.bos are known for poor grammar and lies. Yours needs divine deliverance.  

airmark:

Igbos are known for poor grammar and lies. Yours needs divine deliverance.

Monkey, concentrate on the topic and do not involve the Igbo.

Noghayin03:

Yes Ekiti is a small state with no major mineral resources n industries,bt yet there r so many positive things there,

Some other states too fall in same cateogory

*D people r nice,friendly and hospitable.

Most people (well, with exception to some Northern states, that derive sadist pleasure in murdering themselves and their guest. I hope they are thought good lesson by JTF and maybe Apkot (or whatever their name is)

*little or no crime rate(infact while i was there during my nysc,[b]i heard of a single robbery incident n d people started closing shops in far away  n driving goats inside.Even banks @ Ikole didnt work 4 3days.I[/b]nfact i was amazingly amazed cos its no deal ova here.

Paranoia is not a positive

*Agricultural viability.

Which state isn't?

*Good climatic condition.

Crap.

*Tourism potentials

Have you ever heard of 'slum tourism"

*Good topography.Etc

Whatever that means!

All dis cud b annexed 4 maximum dev.Long live Ekiti.

This is the most important you have said so far. Question is: What are you waiting for? Immigrants? 

una dey speak 2 much grammer. Where is ileke-idi?
Where is ileke-idi? Where is ileke-idick?

This verbosity is getting out of hand. Where is Ekti_bear, eko ile and the rest of Yoruba mushroomers

Ekiti is officially the nigerian Somalia.

chino11:



Then you guys should start converting the above to cash, yes cash that is what matters or stop disturbing us here with your poverty issues. I never knew you guys had agricultural land still you guys are still starving, drinking only white garri.

I think they drink mostly Ijebu garri, which is not white. They drink that with beans meal which they call ewa.  They drink that garri and ewa x3 in each day. As you know, the state is poor.

Chyz*:

Ekiti is officially the nigerian Somalia.

No Somalia is better, in Somalia, they do not line up their dirty, ugly and hungry nude mothers in demonstrations.

Ngodigha:

No Somalia is better, in Somalia, they do not line up their dirty, ugly and hungry Unclad mothers in demonstrations.

Roflmao!

Ngodigha:

No Somalia is better, in Somalia, they do not line up their dirty, ugly and hungry Unclad mothers in demonstrations.

It will be unfair to lay all the burden on Ekiti, because having worked for FG in almost all the Yoruba states. The sampling we got showed that Oson, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Kwara is as much poor as Ekiti. So we will not single out Ekiti alone, all the Yoruba states quite poor as much as we can see in Ekiti, no exceptions. The analysis showed that Yoruba states are sysnonymous with Somalia, Chad, Niger rep.  

[size=16pt]Ekiti is hitting above her weight despite her low revenue threshold. Had it being they had gotten the right man in from the on set, the dire and precarious state of her finance today, would not be something talked about.

It is no more news that Engineer Segun Oni awarded close to 300 contracts to spurious usurpers and absconders who jumped ship the moment the money cleared in their account whether it was done in cahoot of Mr Oni’s knowledge can be anyone’s guess.

Mr Oni paid huge amounts upfront thereby deliberating depleting the scarce resources the state has, but God is good, Ekiti for the umpteenth time as I see it, would surprise so many a state that has a huge revenue base.

The gentleman at the helms of affairs today is not only astute in his methodical approach but he is a smart arse and surely knows his onions. I look forward to seen some mouth watering motivational projects unravel during this dispensation, the opportunism and enthusiasm is high and the people would surely not be disappointed.[/size]

This is a way too dumb topic to have been posted in the 1st place talk less of making front page.
From the comments I've read, I see many didn't read through the interview b4 spewing out mostly tribal induced rants.
I don't see how been 2nd from bottom in the revenue allocation table makes the state 2nd poorest.
What about 9ja as a country?
Watched Monique on BET yesterday while interviewing 2face Idibia say she was in 9ja and 2 things struck her
The people are so happy [size=16pt]
And so poor!
Ouch!
Let's talk about 9ja's collective disease and not pick on Ekiti nor some northern 9ja states.[/size]

so why is ekiti still called fountain of knowledge instead of fountain of poverty. My problem with the southwest is that they are not good in anything except claiming lagos as their own.

Ekiti is not a desert place, is did not suffer war or religious crises, it is not erosion ridden or prone to flood , it is not in any border crises with its neighbours, it didnt suffer genocide or progrom ,yet ekiti is the second poorest state in nigeria. And some lunatics come here to tell us ekiti has the largest number of profs , profs of chronic poverty who cant develop their states

so why is ekiti still called fountain of knowledge instead of fountain of poverty. My problem with the southwest is that they are not good in anything except claiming lagos as their own.

Ekiti is not a desert place, is did not suffer war or religious crises, it is not erosion ridden or prone to flood , it is not in any border crises with its neighbours, it didnt suffer genocide or progrom ,yet ekiti is the second poorest state in nigeria. And some lunatics come here to tell us ekiti has the largest number of profs , profs of chronic poverty who cant develop their states

kettykin:

so why is ekiti still called fountain of knowledge instead of fountain of poverty. My problem with the southwest is that they are not good in anything except claiming lagos as their own.

Ekiti is not a desert place, is did not suffer war or religious crises, it is not erosion ridden or prone to flood , it is not in any border crises with its neighbours, it didnt suffer genocide or progrom ,yet ekiti is the second poorest state in nigeria. And some lunatics come here to tell us ekiti has the largest number of profs , profs of chronic poverty who cant develop their states

so why is ekiti still called fountain of knowledge instead of fountain of poverty. My problem with the southwest is that they are not good in anything except claiming lagos as their own.

Ekiti is not a desert place, is did not suffer war or religious crises, it is not erosion ridden or prone to flood , it is not in any border crises with its neighbours, it didnt suffer genocide or progrom ,yet ekiti is the second poorest state in nigeria. And some lunatics come here to tell us ekiti has the largest number of profs , profs of chronic poverty who cant develop their states

Well done, especially claiming Lagos. They all do. What a shame.

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doesnt surprise me!

daniellle:

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doesnt surprise me!

So how can you help this very very poor state?.

I thought we have already established that the article says 2nd smallest federal allocations?

Not 2nd poorest by the other usual metrics (gdp/capita, poverty rates, etc).

I don't understand the point of most of the comments in this thread.

Now, if it turns out that Ekiti is indeed second poorest by those two metrics I mentioned above (or another such), continue chatting. But somehow I highly doubt this to be true

^^^^^ Ezi okwu?? Or your short of words or confusion or both.

Very interesting to me that all the usual Ebo trolls came out. No surprise, I guess.

Probably shouldn't be surprised that they cannot understand the difference between aggregate federal allocations and poverty.

Reading comprehension has never been the strong point of many of you.

Damn, you can tell that I've given some ppl sleepless nights and wet dreams (and I thought only EzeUche is crazy about me).

All questions will be anwered in the order they came. Let me be done with my finals and presentation first. Yo know how we Ekiti ppl don't joke with our ejumacation.

ROTFLMAO@ open scars on this thread.

chino11:

^^^^^ Ezi okwu?? Or your short of words or confusion or both.   

What is this? I guess the first sentence is Ebo, but what on earth is the second? Can someone please translate from whatever dialect this creature speaks into proper English?

Mpama

Hehe.

Maybe it is better that you stick to that. No point in trying things beyond your skills.

kettykin:

My problem with the southwest is that they are not good in anything except[b] claiming lagos as their own[/b].

Was that what caused your affliction? Mr. K LEG.    Ok LAGOS is an IBO STATE. I hope you are happy now? Odechukwu.  

We are all here for you to tell us why Eketi is not the poorest state by all standards in black race and by extension yorooba states

which state is the poorest if ekiti is second to the poorest?

It doesn't work like that. I'm under no obligation to do anything for you. If you have a position, you are the one required to provide evidence to back up your idea. Not me.

Do you get this, heebo?

Btw, I thought you've acknowledged that you don't speak english so well. How about you speak eboe and we'll have someone translate.

Oyo or ogun

chino11:



It will be unfair to lay all the burden on Ekiti, because having worked for FG in almost all the Yoruba states. The sampling we got showed that OSUN, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Kwara is as much poor as Ekiti. So we will not single out Ekiti alone, all the Yoruba states quite poor as much as we can see in Ekiti, no exceptions. The analysis showed that Yoruba states are sysnonymous with Somalia, Chad, Niger rep.  

comparing the South-West to Somalia,a war zone,appears dumb and idiotic.(no offense)

chino11:



It will be unfair to lay all the burden on Ekiti, because having worked for FG in almost all the Yoruba states. The sampling we got showed that OSUN, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Kwara is as much poor as Ekiti. So we will not single out Ekiti alone, all the Yoruba states quite poor as much as we can see in Ekiti, no exceptions. The analysis showed that Yoruba states are sysnonymous with Somalia, Chad, Niger rep.  

comparing the South-West to Somalia,a war zone,appears dumb and idiotic.(no offense)