rdokoye:
Any sort of poverty statistics in Nigeria is going to be inaccurate, because Nigeria lacks a National Identification System (National Identification Card, National Insurance Number, Social Security etc).

It (Nigeria) has no way of identifying how many people are in the country and their current economic situation, i.e. whether they're in work, claiming benefits (which are nonexistent in Nigeria), taxation payments, household wealth etc...

In short, Nigeria's statistics on poverty are highly speculative; they're simply based on surveys, with a miniscule sample size. How can you extrapolate from 600 respondents in a state like Lagos that has 20 million people? Or in a place like Ogun State, which has over 4 million people in it? It's too small, ideally, you'd want to measure 20% of the populace, given the limitations, but surveying 40 million people is unreasonable.

In short, until Nigeria fully commits to its National Identification Card, you can forget about getting an accurate statistics on poverty in Nigeria. It's all speculation. Extrapolating from less than a fraction of the population is pointless.

Pele all because Igbo land was declared the poverty capital

Even the NBS consumption statistics that came out eastern region was the least

Looooool sorry iPods your not the richest tribe as you falsely claim

Topsic70:


Nwanne, if d available articles, pictures and videos {both local and international}
aren't enough to convince u, but u choose to believe d stories passed down by mouth from ur fathers to u without a single evidence to back up ur claims, what else is there yo be proved again biko?

Every evidence showing DT awo was released by Gowon has bn tendered in ds thread (and previous threads) but d only evidence u have to show dt ojukwu released him was by words of mouth of ur father. Lolz
vvvv


Lolz, d story with sources should be discountenanced for d story without a SINGLE source - according to u

Nwoke, d joke's on u

It’s their dilector that is there source

kayfra:


I stated a basis for my argument. The 1st class traditional rulers in a lot of those states are Fulanis installed by the caliphate and they exercise considerable authority and leadership autonomy. What have you stated apart from conjecture?

That is because power was handed over to Fulanis
In an independent nation that won’t exist again power will be handed over to the locals
Just how igbos don’t hold away over Niger delta again

kayfra:


Fulanis have strong control in Nassarawa and Niger in addition to the one you already mentioned. Nasarawa is part of the emirate and same as Niger

Emir of Keffi
Emir of Lafia
Emir of Lafiagi
Etsu Nupe
Emir of Nasarawa
Borgu emirate
Lapai
Emir of Ilorin

Etc

Ilorin is one town in kwara and should Nigeria divide they can’t go with north unless they want a Lesotho situation

iskoki:
Don't confuse Middlebelt with North Central. North Central is a geopolitical zone in Nigeria that comprises 6 states :
1. Plateau.
2. Benue.
3. Kwara.
4. Kogi.
5. Nassarawa
6. Niger.

However, the Middlebelt is a conglomeration of the tribes that are found in the central part of Nigeria. People of middlebelt include most of the tribes mentioned in the 6 aforementioned states plus tribes from parts of the following :

1. Kaduna - Southern part to be specific.
2. Taraba - Jujun etc
3. Kebbi. - Zuru
4. Bauchi
5. Adamawa
6. Taraba.
7. Gombe.

There are a few other tribes I wouldn't be able to mention.

Brilliantly said

Sammy07:
None of them...
Both regions have huge differences within them.



Benue State, Plateau State, Taraba State, Niger State, Kogi State, Nassarawa State, Kwara State, Adamawa State, and the Federal Capital Territory.

Are you excluding Yorubas of kwara and kogi from middlebelt state

DMerciful:
Being first to do things doesn't mean you cannot be overtaken. Modern football started in England but Brazil is the country to beat!

Show us where you overtook
We need evidence not a paper saying you went to schools and built hospitals no one is saying ibos don’t go to school

DMerciful:
Number of teachers is a good indices, same with doctors to population ratio. These are sustainable metrics

Lool according to bureau of ipod

MetaPhysical:


Every christmas season when ibo go home they are loaded with new script of propaganda. That script is what they will play repeatedly until they return home next year. They dont bother to check if it sounds reasonable or not.

I bet you that ipob is in village as we speak.

I await them next year

DMerciful:
It seems you see development only in form of flyovers and macadamized thoroughfares! Abeg, google indices of development

And yours is based on hospital beds and number of teachers

DMerciful:
Shifting the goal post again! You said no source, I pointed it out, you said its unverifiable. Go to a standard library and look for that book. All he needed to do was cite a reference, he cannot put the book here!

Show me the eastern region was the most developed and wealthiest

We are talking about Yorubas building first tv first sky scrapper and free education and health care and being the wealthiest

[quote author=ZZ22 post=85360412][/quote]

All this page says is igbos educated themselves and were in dominance of federal service due to Azikwe in power

It didn’t say you were the most advance lol

jneutron4000:
Even when Ojukwu was alive, he could not open his mouth to lie that he was the one that released Awolowo but his people would not just stop peddling lies, was it not last week or so that Gowon had to scold Chimamanda against her concocted lies and assumption of the civil war. This people are just terrible and full of lies in order to play victims of their own mistakes.

Don’t blame chimamanda

She read Chinua achebe books growing up so her very foundations were based on a propagandist

DMerciful:
Your video is compelling enough. So I take it that Gowon released him until a contrary evidence surface!

Yup

LordVoldermort:


And this proves Yorubas did not make Lagos rich

Lagos was destined to be rich because it had sea access

A dull statement

DMerciful:
So you did not see the intext citation? Dont tell me you need a link to a hard copy book!

I can type gibberish and add a name
So far it’s unverifiable it’s fake news

LordVoldermort:
You that is typing all this did you receive free education?

Have you ever stepped into a 'free school' in the southwest or in Lagos only someone who has never experienced the sorry state of free schools can boast about this

Education then was better
Yoruba got tv before Canadians and Koreans

NimrodEndOfDays:
so what have you achieved with your riches ? Containers falling on your citizens?

Better than an entire marker burning down in Anambra without fire service

LegendHer0:


If Azikwe had been the premier then, say bye bye to free education, free primary health, skyscraper, first TV, first Stadium, Odua investment, minimum wage Increase, etc.

He won’t fail to do that only because he is Igbo but he will fail because he can’t offer the brain he dosen’t have.

It takes a brainy man like Awolowo to pioneer all those firsts among first. Infact I read a report on what obstacle Awolowo faced when he was trying to implement the free education policy.

The way he handled the situation even against the world powers advice that time and the backlash he got from the Agbekoyas made me salute him more.

Yup the useless Azikwe would have divided Yorubas along religious line
With 0 achievements

Divert all Yoruba resources to Enugu

ZZ22:
yes car, a pointer to booming economy and only the well fed own cars. Meanwhile,
Paul Anber's essay "Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos" published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. See pp 171-172 for excerpt:
" '' A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education.
Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407." ''... His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965
cc pazienza

There’s no source till then it’s nothing but ipod news

And no where’ did it say you were the most developed

DMerciful:
The average Igbo man is richer than the average Yoruba or Hausa man, this is a fact!

Stop diverting topic

Yorubas developed Lagos
The poverty level in Igbo land is higher than Yoruba land

Apart from a select few based in Lagos and abuja

The rest of igbos are wallowing in poverty

That’s why someone like kanu can gain prominence
Remember your people are now stealing Hausa babie s

ZZ22:
Behind in what exactly.. Yorubas trailed the Igbos in all aspects of human development and living standard pre civil war.
The East had more hospitals
Had better Teacher to Student ratio
Had better electricity supply
Had more car registered compared to other regions... So

Loooooool
So development indices is car ? And some unproved statistics
You mean western region the wealthiest region that had the first of every thing

Why do you think Azikwe wanted to die in Ibadan

Na palm oil money you wan use match cocoa money

Your a joker

LegendHer0:


I changed your opinion. It’s actually a tool of psychology and even if you deny it verbally I’m quite sure that deep inside your mind you doubted your earlier stance on the issue of Gowon/Ojukwu releasing Awolowo.

That you even remembered the thread give credence to that assertions.

However you should know that most of you on here will think twice before lying again that Ojukwu released Awolowo. Now you have to do a lot of verbal twisting to even convince any sane person to give you an audience on that subject.

Verbal twist Lool that’s how one said awolowo was not celebrated while alive
I already knew it was the £20 doing the talking

DMerciful:
Do you understand what human capital, standard of living and survivability means?

Do you understand your regions budget was further slashed to a total of 700bn effectively more poverty

That’s why your people fantasize about running Lagos
So you can control a state with sea access

Coupled with the fact you think Yorubas are weak

Abeg come try am

NimrodEndOfDays:
There re 17 european countries that are landlocked.and Nigeria isnt better tha any of them. of which Switzerland is one of them. Man was created to subdue the environment and his disadvantage. Those countries without access to the sea have not all died. stop having this lazy african thinking mentality. The sea and size does not make you a super power. That fable has been debunked abeg.

This landlocked depend on European Union for access to the sea

And the richest European nations have sea access

UK GERMANY FRANCE & ITALY

Same way richest regions and people in Nigeria are Yorubas and Niger delta

They have access to SEA

DMerciful:
I did not say he is a nobody, he was a great man but the hyping now is more than his popularity!

Nope he wasn’t popular o he was a mess
Looool if you like downplay him

LegendHer0:


Lol which Zik. The party Zik was fronting was actually formed by a Yoruba called Herbert Macaulay.

When Macaulay died, he left the structure of the party in the hand of Zik and there are Yorubas in Zik party so it’s not a matter of Zik wining singlehandedly.

However Zik mistake was that he tried becoming the western region premier: such audacity!

The reason NCNC won was because they have a policy with a relaxed tax system. Awolowo party manifesto was about tax due to the fact that the party is planning free education, free healthcare, and a lot of social projects.

The Agbekoyas (farmers) who constitute the class financing the government detest paying high tax and they tried voting NCNC coz they think they won’t need to pay too much tax with NCNC manifesto.

However, the Yorubas are politically conscious about having a Zik as a premier and they collectively let tribe reasoning supersede political differences.

Their argument is this: why should an Igbo man superintend on the Yorubas with such number of intellectuals in the west? Will Azikwe be the one commanding our Obas? Will Zik be the one controlling the Odua investment funds? Will Zik be the one controlling the Yoruba man destiny? Hell no!

Let us thank Allah
Because Azikwe went on to sell Igbo people imagine what he would have done with Yorubas

DMerciful:
We have more Igbos than Yorubas in population. Our census is currently fraudulent. The number of Igbos in different parts of Nigeria is more than Yorubas. Mind you half of Igbos are outside SE! CIA fact record is there and if you're a travellers, you would know!

Yes it’s a known fact Igbos are the most populated locked into a size like Oyo state

So they need to migrate out for a better life

adoboy04:
Everyone knows what Ghana did just of recent, closing shops of Nigerians. I think the Igbo's there were bragging that they developed Ghana too.

They claim to develop Ghana too