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There is a distinction (perhaps not in Nigeria, but with me at least) between marijuana and hard drugs like cocaine. If you want to say "marijuana capital", I don't much care. But "Drug capital" connotates something quite a bit more sinister.

Also, none of those links mention anything beyond marijuana in connection with Ekiti.

igbobuigbo:
There is something here I just found

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-374285.0.html


That may not be the exact data you asked for, but it provides some insight into your question. It is from the UNDP and follows the trend of  info from the NAPEP

Found lots more documents here on the UNDP website:

http://www.ng.undp.org/documents/NHDR2009/

It is actually a ton of material. Don't really have time to digest it all right now, but there is some relatively accessible data in the following two items:
1) http://www.ng.undp.org/documents/NHDR2009/NHDR_SUMMARY_2008-2009.pdf
2) http://www.ng.undp.org/documents/NHDR2009/NHDR-%20PowerPoint-Rev.ppt

Here is the main beast though:
3) http://www.ng.undp.org/documents/NHDR2009/NHDR_MAIN-REPORT_2008-2009.pdf
Once I read through it and understand it all, I might make a post and add some better plots and graphs.

Who then is #2? What is the annual amount of each drug produced by each state? Etc, etc. That would better illustrate the magnitude of a problem (if any!) than some unsourced rumors. Charts, plots and graphs, not speculation.

igbobuigbo:
Do you have any proof that there is more cannibalism in the SE than say SW?

High_Chief:
^^^Young man, why are you so hateful, we are talking about drugs here which has ravaged the lives of so many people like you and instead of you to be happy that government is actually doing something rather you want to derail this thread. You can start another business and stop playing with drugs. Food for thought, u can do the dishes

In case you did not get the (sarcastic) point of my post, it is silly to make wild accusations without cold hard evidence. I obviously have no clue about cannibalism in the SE, but neither does the OP when making his statement. Both statements are equally stupid; I said mine to prove a point.

OTOH, if either of you have evidence (e.g., statistical data) that Ekiti is the drug capital of Nigeria, please submit it here for us to see. Otherwise it is just hearsay and rumor.

I want nuclear power plants in my own state (assuming it is economically competitive with other choices for power, something I suspect will not be true.) If you don't want one in yours, fine and well.

Abagworo:
@dapobear you seem to conflict yourself with two different things.There is a difference between ethnic affiliations and regional affiliations.North is not an ethnic group.There is a town known as Obigbo in Rivers State and another known as Obohia in Abia State.They belong to thesame Ndoki Igbo ethnic group but are in different zones.The Obigbo man is affiliated with South-south while the Obohia man is Southeast.Some Igala people are Southerners just like I posted earlier.The Igalas in Anambra are Southeasterners.

I understand that. But he himself has rejected his ethnicity for a regional affiliation (carefully read his post with the picture in it, as well as some of his previous posts for his rationale [primarily religious].)

tensor777:
I does not matter the form of energy used as long as it is cheap. In any case this thing MUST NOT AND CANNOT BE  a government run project.
It should be a strictly private sector investment and hence like any other investment a cost benefit appraisal and cash flow statements would have to be produce beforehand  to justify such expenditure
However there has to be total deregulation of the power for the private sector to contemplate such an investment.

Agree with you 100%.

I feed bad for you. There is nothing sadder on the face of the earth than a man who has forgotten his origins and has taken up a false one.

In Yorubaland, even if a man becomes a Hindu he will not forget his culture or his people, and then claim to be Indian just because he became Hindu. Yoruba Muslims don't claim to be Northerners (except for certain fools like Saraki, who was rejected by them.)

No longer Igala, just a Northerner. Very sad.

amingafar:
that is why the white man has divided you people

Which white man? Why is it always blaming the white man? The white man has nothing to do with which group you choose to identify with. Look, me personally, I have 2 or 3 separate and different identities. Christian. Yoruba. American. Nigerian. Student, etc. I'm comfortable with all of them. I don't need to wrap them all up into one (e.g., "Southerner."

You on the other hand want to DEEMPHASIZE your ethnicity, your origins, your ancestry and just blindly claim "The North." When "The North" itself was a tool and idea invented to consolidate the power of Usman Dan Fodio and his heirs over YOUR land!

It really makes no sense to me. How can someone embrace an identify assigned to them by a conqueror and his heirs?

amingafar:
What I am sayin it is it wrong to identify with tribes

Why?

See, this is the problem I have with you, amingafar. Me, I am a Christian. One of my good friends here is a Muslim from Iran. Yet despite his religious beliefs, he identifies with country and ethnicity over religion. I.e., he will support a Christian Persian or a Zoroastrian Persian or even an atheist Persian over an Arab (as you know, Persians and Arabs have been rivals for a long time.)

I could understand if you supported "The North" due to cultural affinity. But the only thing you share with them is religion. Yet we have plenty of Muslims in the south. So why does "North=Islam" for you? How can you conflate your religion with a piece of land, or an ethnicity that is not your own?

amingafar:
did I say I will only vote for hausa fulani? NO I said I will only vote for a muslim

call me igala call me middle belter My vote will still go to a muslims all day everyday anyday.

That is fine. Vote for Muslim, I have no problem with that. But you need to stop conflating Muslim=North in your mind. It is a lie. You are a Muslim middle-belter, a Muslim Igala. Just because you are Muslim does not mean you are a Northerner.

Your language and your blood sef is much closer to Yoruba than to any of the Northern groups.

@amingafar: Did the north itself invent Islam? What allegiance do you owe to Usman Dan Fodio and his heirs? Did he invent Islam, your religion?

"The North" as a concept is not about religion alone, it is about Dan Fodio's heirs using religion to dominate a large territory of land that is not their own.

It boggles my mind that you would be complicit in that. You are a Muslim Igala, not a Muslim Northerner.

^-- Why not explore our vast natural gas reserves or hydroelectric first for power generation? I've noticed that the countries with significant natural resources by and large are less interested in nuclear power. Otoh, France which doesn't have much in the way of natural resources generates 80%+ of its electricity from nuclear power (iirc, correct me if I'm wrong.)

You'd need to do a cost-benefit analysis, but I suspect natural gas or the like would win.

Amingafar, plenty of Yoruba are mixed with various things. Yet they still view themselves as Yoruba. You on the other hand are Igala, yet act more like a Northerner than the Hausa-Fulani sef.

You do realize your own Igala language is classified as Yoruboid? If anything, Igala are cousins to Yoruba and are thus southerners. Ya'll need to wake up. You are NOT northerners, you'll get the Saraki treatment.

Hrm. What type of chat? Like real-time online chat? Or just private messaging?

If a real-time chat like this: http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=nairalandtest

then that is pretty easy to do. Seun, if you need help setting this up, let me know. I've installed an IRC server and AJAX frontend before myself in the past for a past project of mine. It isn't too hard to do, just requires a dedicated machine.

lol @ Jerusalem Pilgrim as a title. Hilarious!

@OnlyTruth: Great thread. I learned a lot, especially about Ojukwu. One point though, killing Bello is like killing the Pope, not an ordinary politician.Bello I guess is/was viewed as the spiritual leader of Islam in the North. Though the 6 month gap is very suspicious. Not sure what to make of that.

@PhysicsQED: Bought the book you suggested from amazon.com.

@amingafar:

Certain traditions even hold that the Igala are of Fulani origin, simply because of the similarities in their physical features.  It IS clear that Fulanis do not speak a Kwa language. And owing to the linguistic affinity, others affirm the Yoruba connections. For Byng Halt notes that, "It is not surprising that within a short period of arrival in Igala land, a Yoruba is well acquainted with the language.”  He attributes the ease in learning the language to the closeness of the two languages. Armstrong sticks to this same view when he said: "the most definite historical statement that can be made about Igala is that . they had a common origin with the Yoruba and that the separation took place long enough ago to allow for their fairly considerable linguistic differences. There is a whole corpus of oral traditions on the origin of the Igala people.

Your language Igala itself seems to be classified as a Yoruboid language by linguists. This is quite interesting to me. Seems to me you guys are closer to SW, rather than the North. I understand that "The North" is more powerful right now so it might be in your interests to identify otherwise, but things may change in the future.

I'm basically very much for people all over the world (white, black, Asian, Hispanic, etc) learning Yoruba. The more connections and exposure our culture has to the rest of the world, the better.

^-- Eh, pretty clear you don't know how to judge people's ages properly. If you think she is 16, then proly some 50 year old white woman has convinced you she is in her 20s before, lol. You must have been pretty angry afterwards when you found out the truth

^-- Fair enough, nothing in life or on earth is absolutely 100% safe, everything has some level of risk associated with it. But I feel the percentage for nuclear power generation is extremely high, and so view it as an acceptable risk.

With that said, I don't necessarily think this is appropriate for Nigeria at this point in time.

^-- She is proly in her 20s, where on earth did you get 16 from? Does she even SOUND like a 16 year old to you, lol?

Lol, this girl is awesome! I'm impressed by the steps she has taken to learn Yoruba. I need to step it up.

Also, is it me or she kinda cute, too?

Err, if a man is calling his ex-girlfriend daily, then they are still f**king, lol.

[quote="davidylan"]i lay the blame squarely at the feet of:

1. the US welfare system - spawned a generation of black men who feel the society owes them and thus have no need to make themselves useful. You can always see this clueless boys/men at bus stops, barber shops e.t.c.

2. Breakdown of the family - how many of these men have any family structure to guide them growing up? Had to understand what responsibility means if your father was non-existent and your mother was hooked on crack, dressing like a teenager at 45.

3. The man himself - nuff said. Get an education and find a job.

4. The women - Most of them dont know what they want. They start out with irresponsible men just because they are attracted to the bling, the fun, the bad-boy image and completely forget they shld spend time planning for a future. By the time they are ready to settle down, the few good men have already disappeared.[/quote]As they say on Nairaland, GBAM!

homerac7:
@ DapoBear

I am not sure of d prices but i think they r cheap on d relative side as their productions r mostly of inferior materials. unfortunately, many students cant still afford dem.

Hrm, I see. So the books are cheap, but somehow people still cannot afford them. Kind of sucks

Any chance someone can answer the question I had on books? How much do textbooks in Nigeria (say at high school level) cost? Are they usually expensive, or cheaply purchased from the market. . .?

Would it bring down costs if textbooks were standardized and made freely available say online in PDF format? E.g., a calculus book, or intro statistics book?

Anyone manage to find a copy of the study online? Would be nice to see how the states compare.

trueword:
For those petitioning for nuclear plant make sure you agitate that they put it next to your village  since you are not worried .

Safety is not an issue; I'd have no problems with one near my own village (though I'd prefer if it were American or French made rather than Russian.)

My own beef with nuclear power plants is not safety, but cost, and relevance given that we have an abundance of things like hydroelectric power, natural gas, etc.

^--- Honestly, these French speaking countries need to  recognize that the entire world is moving towards English as the language of business and that it might behoove them to reconsider their attitude towards it.

Not sure why the rest of us should be held back by their shortsightedness.