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babyosisi: Another one O
No be me write am abeg

I don't think anybody is reading your post anymore. all you are doing is spamming the thread.
the lat three sentences of the opinion article you just posted caught my eyes and had me laughing though. did you make a mistake with the quote button?
or na you write am?

this thread is misleading.
people generally marry from their class/level.
traditional men marry traditional women and vice versa.

the question is: why are traditional men seeking and chasing after non-traditional women. na by force?

logica: Where are the stats? What was the sample size? I just see a jumble of words. Not a single figure.

hahah statistics without numbers.
babyosisi is really trying. let's give her credit.

I also love how the article has neither author nor date.

^ what has that got to do with this topic?
Hausas are being compared to Chinese. LOL what won't we see on nairaland.

babyosisi: You have absolutely no clue
If Igos depended on the govt,they would be eating grass
The Igbo man works for every dime he gets
Most schools in Igoland are built by communities in case you don't know

Now read this
Same Nigerian stats o

i was only kidding o.
of course the igbos are the "hardest working and richest tribe" in nigeria. not to mention, most neglected by FG
these lying statisticians can carry their data and go hug transformer jare

the funniest thing is how ibo states seem to be most dependent on FG.
this is the case where reality doesn't match words.
most of them will be first to create threads upon threads on how they are being "ignored" by the FG. so that is their strategy hehn. they really hide it wellthough. who would have thought.
the yoruba states that are least dependent on FG. hausa states seem to lean toward independence as well.

hahaha irony of all ironies.


States with relatively high performing indices included (lagos, sokoto) Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Borno, Ondo, FCTA, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kogi, Anambra, Kwara, Kano, Gombe, Edo, Abia and Rivers which recorded 10 per cent and above in their IGR.

However, states such as Niger, Delta, Imo, Kebbi, Cross River, Zamfara, Enugu, Plateau, Nassarawa, Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Katsina, Benue, Bauchi and Yobe were among those which relied heavily on federally allocated revenue for its fiscal operations in 2008.


now you can tell the consumer states from the productive states.

babyosisi: You are making absolutely no sense
Sokoto is supposedly fiscally independent by generating funds internally and these funds are being generated from the same poor citizens that are carrying the first position in the poverty scale
How possible is it to you that the state with the poorest citizens generates revenue only second to the most commercialized state in Nigeria I,e Lagos.

That article goes ones on to say

the hausa people aren't as lazy as we assume heh?
they're contributing to the economy without taking too much. isn't that something to be commended?

see this topic for more discussion on the topic:
https://www.nairaland.com/300410/nigeria-igr-internally-generated-revenue/1
I assume it's mostly from livestock and cement.

lagcity: you shld be ashamed of yourself. you no know difference btw IGR and poverty level?

hahah the thing baffle me sef

babyosisi: I am more likely to believe the Niger state figure there is wrong
43.6 cannot follow 86.4 and both are supposedly the poorest

no, it's the tribalist in you that want to ignore the numbers.
the numbers are re-enforced here in this article. same exact numbers:


By IFEANYI ONUBA February 14, 2012 12:50 am

Among the 36 states of the federation, the report stated that Sokoto had the highest poverty rate (86.4 per cent), while Niger had the lowest at (43.6, per cent).
http://myondostate.com/w3/112-5-million-nigerians-live-in-poverty-national-bureau-of-statistics/

at least this is worded right.
if you can't read numbers, at least you should be able to read words.

I hope you've learned well. I want in-kind payment for the statistics lesson in form of egusi soup and pounded yam.
oya, get to the kitchen.

all nigerians need mandatory lesson in statistics and data analysis sha. the ignorance on this thread is on another level.

^ Keep showing your ignorance to the world.
fiscal independence is the measure of your reliance on Federal Govt for funds. Sokoto is a poor state that doesn't rely on FG for funds. that's why it topped the list in both situations.


States with relatively high performing indices included Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Borno, Ondo, FCTA, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kogi, Anambra, Kwara, Kano, Gombe, Edo, Abia and Rivers which recorded 10 per cent and above in their IGR.

However, states such as Niger, Delta, Imo, Kebbi, Cross River, Zamfara, Enugu, Plateau, Nassarawa, Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Katsina, Benue, Bauchi and Yobe were among those which relied heavily on federally allocated revenue for its fiscal operations in 2008.

babyosisi: Read my quoted posts again
You have it all wrong
Both quotes are from 2 different publications one at the beginnings flats year and thie one you are making reference to at the beginning of this year
The same Mr Kale speaking
How possible is it that Niger state is the poorest as stated in Feb 2012 and now the least poor,a mere 10 months after
Does that make sense to you
That right there makes a mockery of him and his useless stats

just admit your mistake.

first article:

January 6, 2013 by ALLWELL OKPI
Sokoto State remained the poorest state in the country, with 81.2 per cent poverty rate,
The state with the lowest poverty rate was Niger with 33.8 per cent.

second article:
Gbola Subair, Abuja Monday, 13 February 2012
Sokoto tops the list of poor states with 86.4 per cent, Niger followed with 43.6 per cent in the year under review.
He said that poverty rate in Nigeria might have risen to 71.5 per cent (<---this is the national average!)


the numbers came from the same source. Mr Kale but the newspaper article author Mr. Subair needs to go back to school because he doesn't know how to interpret data. If Mr Kale said Niger and Sokoto topped the list. what is inferred from looking at the numbers is that they topped the list at the extremes. Niger at the lowest and Sokoto at the highest. this is mis-interpreted by the article author.
It's unfortunate that you also couldn't see this contradiction in the numbers.

babyosisi: [size=18pt]
According to the same man o
Niger state was the poorest in feb 2012 at a rate of 71.5 %,a position it shared with Sokoto
and by The end of 2012 while sokoto remained the poorest now at 81.2% ,Niger state went from the poorest to the least poor at 33.8%
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
Come and see American wonder!!![/size]
I believe the thread should be moved to the joke section
The man is pulling out figures from his butt
The joke of the year

see what numerical illiteracy is causing in Nigeria.
all you need to do is look at the numbers. you and the person who wrote the article have failed miserably. 71.5% was average for the country. Sokoto was 86.4% (the highest) while Niger was 43.6% (the lowest). The man's numbers are consistent. just the article writer's words make no sense but all you need to do was to read the numbers in the article you quoted to catch it :


He said that poverty rate in Nigeria might have risen to 71.5 per cent.
Giving the breakdown, Kale stated that while the North-West and the North-East geopolitical zones had the highest poor, the South-West recorded the lowest with 59 per cent. Whereas Sokoto tops the list of poor states with 86.4 per cent, Niger followed with 43.6 per cent in the year under review.

how can Niger with 43.6% poverty rate, top the poverty list. where as the South-West region was 59%.
clearly what the author meant to say is that Niger and Sokoto topped the list of richest and poorest states respectively.
with Niger topping the least of rich states while Sokoto topped the least of poverty-stricken states

even if the author messed up his words, all you got to do is LOOK AT THE NUMBERS.
there is no contradiction in the numbers. just the authors are interpreting the numbers like true statistic illiterates.
please stop making yourself look like a fool.

wow. these ones don't need DNA test

all4naija: Keep thinking you are still in the 18th century. Spare me this your failure to move with the world. learn to embrace change or else the world is going to leave you behind.

I hereby tattoo you with the stamp of stupidity.
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This is still beside the point. Why is only one tribe given this privilege, period.

it's a privilege of history. it's not a zero-sum game.

positive thinking:
if they have it, why shouldn't I also have the right to have it?

cruel thinking:
if I don't have it, why should they have any right to have it?

the irony is that most of us can't even read and write in our native tongues!! yet we are pissed that an ethnic group that reads and writes almost exclusively in their native tongue shouldn't have a right to feature on the currency.
we can put ours there too but who are we really kidding. most of us can't even count up to 250 in our native tongues. it will just be on the currency for decoration. all because we want to compete with hausas. instead of us to be pitying them that they can't read english.

Reflections on Arabic inscriptions on Nigeria's Currency

By

Dr. Nowa Omoigui

nowa_o@yahoo.com

The only reason an Arabic inscription is, in combination with English, on Nigeria's currency today is the influence of history

It has been so from the very first time paper currency was printed for Nigerian use (either for British or indigenous Traders). Before the Nigerian pound (replaced in 1973 by Naira and Kobo), the old West African Currency Board (WACB) pound (also known as West African Pound (WAP)) was in use, first from 1913 in restricted distribution, and then more generally from 1946 until 1959 in Nigeria, 1957 in Ghana, 1965 in Gambia and 1964 in Sierra Leone. Liberia also used the currency until 1943 when it changed to the U.S. dollar. British Southern Cameroon used it too, until the plebiscite of 1961.

The WAP - from which the post-independence currencies of Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia were derived - also had Arabic inscriptions on it.

The original reason for Arabic was that Frederick Lugard (who was the first Commander of the West African Frontier Force (1897 - 99) and later the first High Commissioner of Northern Nigeria (1899 - 1906); and later the Governor of the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria (1912 - 1914); and finally the first Governor General of post-amalgamation Nigeria (1914 - 1919 ); identified Arabic the only written "indigenous" language anywhere in Nigeria/West Africa, particularly among the widely spread Hausa trader class across the region. (See Lugard report to Parliament, 1919) Arabic inscriptions were, therefore, used as symbols, not only for currency but even on official West African Frontier Force badges etc... which persist until today in Nigerian Army badges etc...

In the mind of the British colonial administrators in Nigeria - whose administrative experience was heavily influenced by their military service in Northern Nigeria and other parts of the sahel belt of West Africa - rightly or wrongly, Arabic writing was to West Africa as Latin was to Europe. In addition to English, therefore, they used Arabic to domesticate British instruments meant for local use. The fact that such symbols still exist is one of many scars of the era of colonial rule. However, not all former British West African colonies still use Arabic translations on their currencies as a footnote to history. Nigeria and Gambia do. Ghana and Sierra Leone do not:

In the West African Francophone colonies, where the local Franc (CFA) was adopted, the French policy of association and assimilation persisted, and the language used was exclusively French. No outlet was allowed for any indigenous written language.

In summary, the persistence of Arabic writing in some Nigerian State instruments to this day is the legacy of one man - Lord FD Lugard - "our" first Governor General.

By the way, coincidentally, the word "Naira" means "big eyes" in the Andean language of Quechua, where it is used as a name for girls. It is also a Spanish name - Naira o Nayra - for both boys and girls. We were probably not aware of this in 1973 when - in an effort to escape from the "colonial" word "pound" - we adapted the name "Naira" from the word "Nigeria" - which in of by itself was originally suggested by then Flora Shaw (later Lady Flora Lugard) by collapsing the colonial geographical phrase "Niger-Area". "Niger-Area" became "Nigeria" on January 8th, 1897.

Even the word "Niger" is not indigenous. As I have observed elsewhere, the word "Niger" is actually a Greek imposed Latin name, which means "Black" or “very dark brown”. Needless to point out that the word "Area" is English.

Lastly, come to think of it, all I have written on the subject above is in English, which, whether spoken or written, is neither indigenous to my Edo nationality or Nigeria.

It seems we have a crisis of identity in every direction we turn!

Regards

NAO

tomakint: I wet my bed at night

eyaa... i'm sorry

we also have the option to start trading by barter if the money does not satisfy us. so those who have a problem with the currency, hand them over to me.

^ GBAM!!
all that law is going to do is encourage gay people to fight for their rights all the more!!

imagine, the reason arab spring turn to disaster in syria is govt crackdown. when govt respond to peaceful protest with violence, it motivates the victim to fight even more even till death. the world will look on and who do you think they will side with.

50 yrs from now, Nigeria will be seen as the primitive country punishing gay people with 15 yr imprisonment and death.
why not just let them be? why is the govt giving them more reason to continue their noise by coming up with these senseless laws?

davidylan: My sisters please done be annoyed. That was not meant to define all women but the fact that at 22, all a boy (at that age he is still a boy emotionally) is interested in is not the woman but the thing she has between her legs.

rotfl. your comment about women = vaginnas is tasteless.
I think that's what they're talking about.

tomakint: It's your assumption, stop hurting my poor feelings

it's best I keep my other assumptions to myself then.

cool

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/03/article-2256816-16BE43A9000005DC-566_634x347.jpg

ok
this thread is a good way to start that. so my assumption is that the "illiterate" northerners are what's pissing you off today. or do they piss you off everyday?how dare they understand a language you don't understand. who gave them such rights.

where are the fools gloating over this woman's death from the other topic?
her crime being that she had an "abortion" or that she wasn't "married"?

ton of foolishness coming out of naija

tomakint: That sentence was actually directed at YOU! You are one of the reasons many other tribes labelled we Yorubas as 'slaves' to the abokis! Just go thru ur post here u will b ashamed of ur sorry life! Perhaps u are from Ilorin or Ogbomosho

oh the irony.
let's just agree that the joke is on you.

"we yorubas"... you and who?
well, i've never seen or heard of a yoruba man who worships biafra and ojukwu as much as you do. Yea I remember the last time I had an argument with you. you had all kinds of ugly words to say about yoruba people.
what state are you from?
should I be kind and give you the benefit of doubt to say that you are a confused mix of ibo and yoruba? LOL
or should I call you on what you really are?
this thread was a clear red flag when I saw it because I recognized the OP. so i'm shocked you have converted to yoruba. hahah there's always entertainment on nairaland.

PeterKbaba:
So funny, you can imagine........ Do you know Aregbesola's sister is also a christian. This shows you that most Yoruba's don't really care about Christianity or Islam, we only hide our sacred world our-story traditional religion behind other religion. That is why our ideology to life and spirits are so different. Watch Yoruba movies and can tell.

the funny thing is i totally agree with this!! and i'm christian.
The ironic thing is that the ones who denounce traditional gods the most will tend to be the ones guilty of pseudo-christianity. Why are they so obsessed and fearful of so called "powerless" traditional gods so much that all their christian life revolves around these so called gods and spirits they are perpetually in "spiritual warfare" with. clearly they still believe in their powers. my parents are guilty of this.

and yeah, I watch a lot of yoruba movies. totally understand what u mean.

tomakint: A slave will always be a slave!

ain't that true?
Biafra will most likely have French as its official language since France will be its ordained liberator from Nigeria.
Let's just hope they can learn fast. master do, monkey do.

ezeagu: It was a simple question which you did not answer. Why is there Hausa in Islamic calligraphy on the naira?

you are stupid if you can't find the answer in the two pages of this thread.
either that or you are looking for an answer that only fits your limited, ignorant world view.

your question even makes no sense. Saying arabic is islamic is akin to saying english is christian.
Why is there christian writing on the naira? is Nigeria a christian nation?

only a fool will not see through this topic as a biafra garbage.

The fact is that ajami is as widely used in the north as english is in the south. in fact novels written in ajami are so popular that people buy them in markets in kano. Common everyday people. let's not allow our own limited knowledge and bigotry blind us to a living social phenomenon in our midst.

yup.
when people say northerners are illiterate the thing is they are defining literacy as the ability to read english only. quite funny

kodewrita: 1) Yes ajami is definitely a hausa INNOVATION.
2) I am Yoruba as earlier mentioned.
3) You are painting a wrong image of us here. Only the misguided ones among us (the lunatic fringe) are swayed by the kinds of arguments being made here. Most yorubas are too busy with making the money to care whats on it. If you are so concerned about it, why dont you find out what it means?

Negro_Ntns: ajami is not an hausa innovation. ajami use was widespread in yorubaland up till the use of latin script to communicatr in yorubaland. yorubas were using ajami before they even knew anything called islam. so its use is not exclusive to hausa.

i'm yoruba as well. sometimes I think our tribe is what keeps Nigeria together
we are influenced by both the arabic and western civilizations historically
wonder why the ibos get so pissed off at seeing arabic script. it's just a language. only ignorance will make you feel there is a conspiracy to it.
ignorance is what breeds fear and fear breeds hatred and violence.

noblezone: The note is a reminder that Nigeria is made of made nations.

Nigeria is like NATO, the only difference is that while NATO came together to form a force, Nigeria came together to form a disaster.

After the Independence of Biafra, Nigeria can have Arabic as her National Language!

more prove of my point.
same ibo people who have half of their population flocking to the north.
you didn't create the english language so why are you defending the exclusive sovereignty of the english language more than the british people themselves who are no longer in our country?