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Crime › Re: Guy Disgraced In An Attempt To Defend Nigeria by davidif: 7:31pm On Jul 10, 2017

Ijobalupe:
Washere baba! 400 years of slavery them never pay nothing how I fit connect with you

400 years of slavery ke?? Wasn't it your chiefs and your "Oba's" that were selling people into slavery?

Crime › Re: Guy Disgraced In An Attempt To Defend Nigeria by davidif: 7:29pm On Jul 10, 2017

rydow:
The power of the Media. That thing called Internet eeehn.

I almost lost my relationship because of one stupid Nairaland update on SHIT. When my babes mom went to Google and type Africans marrying Americans and Alas Nairaland was the link she sent to her daughter about Nigerians been scammers. Thank God for the love and Trust.

I swear the more we wash our Dirty Linen outside and advertise for this bloggers to eat the more the Image becomes blur and Bad to the world in General.

The latest now is Evans, Badoo, Fulani Heardsman, Ipob shit and making rounds on the media.

The world is watching and keeping records for there future use against Nigerians citizens.

Chei!!!! Seun are you reading this?? Look what your website has caused?

Crime › Re: Guy Disgraced In An Attempt To Defend Nigeria by davidif: 7:22pm On Jul 10, 2017

NigLasPresident:
Dear Nairalanders,

Well, I don't know if this is the right section to post this, but we need to chill with the way we make fun most times with our image as a nation, the outsiders are watching and they are really laughing hard at our stupidity.

This guy Kenneth Nwoba i saw made an attempt to defend the photo below. When some white dudes were making mockery of Nigeria branding it as the Headquarters of Scammers globally. Well the guy defended the picture saying they weren't scammers as scammers or yahoo yahoo boys won't accept to live like sardines with iron bunk beds. The bunk beds, mattresses and model of laptops the boys had really did contradict and really I believe the patriotic Nigerian was right. Those weren't Yahoo boys or G boys. Those were truly probably Youth Corpers in their camp room.

But read the comments to get a better picture of what went down on LinkedIn.

You are naive if you truly believe that some Yahoo boys are not squatting like this.

Crime › Re: Guy Disgraced In An Attempt To Defend Nigeria by davidif: 7:20pm On Jul 10, 2017

Why do a lot of Nigerians always have a chip on their shoulder and feel that they have to defend the indefensible? This guys should have just kept quiet instead of feeding the flame. While i understand that they had to defend their country, they simply did more harm than good by extending the thread and fanning on the argument.

Crime › Re: Guy Disgraced In An Attempt To Defend Nigeria by davidif: 7:17pm On Jul 10, 2017

PDJT:
-Is Nigeria no longer the Scam capital? Home of The Prince?

-"Nevertheless, Nigeria has earned a reputation as being at the center of email scammers, and the number 419 refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code (part of Chapter 38: "Obtaining property by false pretenses; Cheating" dealing with fraud. - Source: Wiki.

-Abegi, be proud of your country's achievement for once.

-Britain, until the late 18th century was known as the Smuggling Nation and even referred to by other Europeans as the Dirty man of Europe, until the later part of 19th century.

-Guess what, through WTO, they changed the rules to make their kind of smuggling a non issue and indeed a non crime.

What is this one saying sef? Gosh! the length some of you people will go to justify your actions is so disgusting.

Also, on a side note, Britain was the most powerful nation (both millitary and economically) in the world in the 17th and 18th century not a smuggling nation. Learn your history before you start talking nonsense.

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Politics › Re: Melaye’s Recall: There Is No Restraining Order – INEC by davidif: 7:01pm On Jul 10, 2017

SmartchoicesNG:
This s where INEC gets it wrong. Wasted efforts loading. I am going to sue INEC if this process wastes taxpayers funds.

Wait let me get this straight, you are going to sue them for doing their job?

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Family › Re: The Problems Of Family Planning In Nigeria by davidif(op): 6:02pm On Jul 10, 2017

Blue3k:
Making babies.

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Family › Re: The Problems Of Family Planning In Nigeria by davidif(op): 6:01pm On Jul 10, 2017

omohayek:
Most Nairalanders have nothing worthwhile to contribute to topics like this, hence the lack of responses. You might as well have written an essay on the Kantian categorical imperative, or the shortcomings of the Solow growth model, that's how little sense the whole issue will make to the poorly educated hordes who frequent this forum.

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Family › Re: The Problems Of Family Planning In Nigeria by davidif(op): 3:22pm On Jul 10, 2017*

Where is everybody?

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Family › Re: The Problems Of Family Planning In Nigeria by davidif(op): 3:20pm On Jul 10, 2017*

Lalasticlala, mynd44, Seun do the needful please.

Politics › Re: Why Nobody Knows The Population Of Nigeria - The Economist by davidif(op): 3:19pm On Jul 10, 2017

BiafraIShere:
The country was obviously built on lies right from day one. What a shame, its either total resource control or balkanization. Thank God for Nnamdi Kanu, OUR MUMU DON DO!!

Don't stress yourself man, both North and South do it. The way to stop this is to stop allocations.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Robert Mugabe Is Sick, Flown To Singapore by davidif: 11:10am On Jul 10, 2017

connectpoint:
You're kiddin right ? Please tell me you're kiddin plz

Are you seriously trying to have an intelligent discourse with someone on the internet? Come on now, you should know better.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Robert Mugabe Is Sick, Flown To Singapore by davidif: 11:07am On Jul 10, 2017

optional1:
one of the best african leader if not the best self..

Despite he was a dictator leader he is still one of the greatest African leader..

Gen. Mugabe get well soon.

What? You Africans sure have an interesting definition of great that's for sure.

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Investment › Re: Mining Nigeria’s Way To Prosperity by davidif: 11:02am On Jul 10, 2017

It's not going to work. As long as the state continues to be the main driver of the economy this country is going to remain backward. Looking for resources to grow your economy is a fool's errand. It reminds me of the Spanish and their conquest for gold and silver in the Americas during the 1500's.

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Politics › Re: Why Nobody Knows The Population Of Nigeria - The Economist by davidif(op): 10:59am On Jul 10, 2017

blackfase:
...and some mumu idiots down south continue to support the lies of one blurdy Nigeria, continue to denigrate NK for speaking up and standing firm....

May amadioha strike you all dead!

#ogunlomapayin

#iamyorubaandisupportsipob

And what does this have to do with the topic again?

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Politics › Re: Why Nobody Knows The Population Of Nigeria - The Economist by davidif(op): 9:50am On Jul 10, 2017*

Blue3k:
I disn't think getting population census was so hard till reading about Nigeria dilemma.

I remember my teacher who was telling us of when he was part of the 1991 census and describing to us how he observed figures being inflated. That's why for years i've never truly believed the population figures that were just being bandied around.

The solution to this nonsense is to stop revenue allocations period cos as long as money is involved there would always be an incentive to continue making up numbers.

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Family › Re: The Problems Of Family Planning In Nigeria by davidif(op): 7:33am On Jul 10, 2017

Within Nigerian Islam, a debate rages between modernisers and obscurantists. The former may be winning. Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano and a senior Muslim leader, has spoken out against child marriage, and proposes a legal minimum age (there is currently none) of 18. Yusuf Ali, a cleric who joined a debate convened by the emir, married his first wife when she was 14 and he was 26. But Mr Ali, who has four wives and 38 children, now thinks girls should marry “above the age of 15”. He also favours family planning, so long as couples use withdrawal rather than modern contraception. He even agrees that girls should go to school.

https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21721325-faith-and-tradition-favour-high-fertility-education-pulls-other-way?zid=304&ah=e5690753dc78ce91909083042ad12e30

Family › Re: The Problems Of Family Planning In Nigeria by davidif(op): 7:32am On Jul 10, 2017

No one knows how many Nigerians there are. The World Bank says there were 182m in 2015, but this estimate is based on the 2006 census, which was probably inflated (politicians typically exaggerate the count to grab more parliamentary seats and government money for their regions). Most observers agree, though, that Nigeria’s population is growing at a cracking 3% a year. Many Nigerians see this as a source of national pride and strength. But the economy ought to grow faster than the population, and last year it actually shrank, thanks to cheap oil.

To be prosperous as well as populous, Nigeria needs to educate its people better. This would also curb population growth, since well-schooled women tend to have fewer babies. In a sparse classroom in the city of Zaria, 15 adolescent girls swathed in white hijabs learn about reproduction, financial literacy and how to say no. The course is run by a local NGO and paid for by the UN Population Fund. The girls say they want fewer children than when they started the sessions in September, so that they can educate them well.

Most girls in the programme will finish secondary school and delay childbirth (previous cohorts wed an average of 2.5 years later than peers). In places where female literacy has improved, child marriage and maternal mortality have duly fallen.

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Family › The Problems Of Family Planning In Nigeria by davidif(op): 7:32am On Jul 10, 2017

NOT everyone thinks birth control is a blessing. Boko Haram, a jihadist group that terrorises north-eastern Nigeria, deems artificial contraception to be a product of infidel learning, and therefore forbidden. Its ideologues also believe that females should avoid school, marry early (sometimes while still children) and have lots of babies. In the dwindling areas the jihadists control, women have no choice.

Even outside those areas, contraception is controversial. Boko Haram’s ideology didn’t spring from nowhere. Many Nigerian Muslims believe that pills and condoms are part of a Western plot to stop Muslims from multiplying. And in poor, rural areas centuries of experience have taught people that having lots of children makes economic sense. They can be put to work in the fields, they will provide for their parents in old age and, given high rates of infant mortality, if you don’t have several you may end up with none.

So the government in Kaduna, a majority-Muslim state north of the capital, Abuja, does not encourage people to have fewer children. That would be politically toxic. But it does offer free contraception, and suggest that women might wish to pause between pregnancies. It also promotes girls’ education—something that has caused fertility rates to fall more or less everywhere it has been tried. As recently as 2008, women in Kaduna expected to have 6.3 babies each over a lifetime. By 2013 this had fallen to 4.1, well below the national average of 5.7 that year.

When Alheri Yusuf first heard about family planning from a relative, she hesitated. “I thought she didn’t want me to give my husband more children,” says the 33-year-old mother of four, as she waits for a contraceptive hormonal injection at a hospital in Kaduna. Then she realised that spacing her children would give her time to recover from childbirth.

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Politics › Re: Why Nobody Knows The Population Of Nigeria - The Economist by davidif(op): 6:49am On Jul 10, 2017*

feldido:
This is the beginning of Nigeria's Troubles... Now I believe we need Factory Reset or Complete Flashing

That's why I have strong doubts when I hear about Nigeria's population figures.

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Politics › Re: Does The Nigerian Patriot Exist? by davidif: 6:48am On Jul 10, 2017

Chacski:
Are there Nigerian patriots among us? Who have risen above tribal/ethic sentiments? Who treats each individual on the basis of his or her own merit? Who is not given in to tribal/ethic stereotypes?

Has NYSC failed in its mission to provide a generation of Nigerian patriots? A legion of men and women who having gained knowledge are willing to challenge commonly held beliefs even in their own households and enquire about the facts.

I direct my questions to those below the age of 40, those who still have their whole life in front of them. Do we want to repeat the mistakes of our fathers and their fathers before them ? Whose generation frankly speaking failed Nigeria in all ramifications, a generation(two generations actually) who after 50+ years are still struggling to generate more than 4000 [kW] of electricity.

What legacy do we want to leave our children. Do we want them butchering each other on the streets or do we want them to leave in peace & harmony?

why would there be patriots in this country when you have an archaic and polarizing policy of "State of Origin" that divides the people based on tribes and ethnicity?

Politics › Re: Fashola sef, na wa o. by davidif(op): 6:38am On Jul 10, 2017

OAM4J:
Exactly. If we want development, it will come at a prize.

Sorry but that's called "artificial development."

Politics › Re: Possible Causes Of The Flooding In Lagos State by davidif: 6:32am On Jul 10, 2017

cos Lagos is sinking. I created a thread about it some years ago.

Politics › Re: Why Nobody Knows The Population Of Nigeria - The Economist by davidif(op): 6:16am On Jul 10, 2017

For more info, there is a research paper written on the flawed 2006 census.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275595277_Technical_and_political_aspects_of_the_2006_Nigerian_population_and_housing_Census

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Politics › Re: Why Nobody Knows The Population Of Nigeria - The Economist by davidif(op): 6:12am On Jul 10, 2017

The north-south divide has remained salient; there is still an unwritten rule that the presidency should alternate between a northerner and a southerner. Allegations that the north has manipulated its way to a majority continue. The censuses of 1973 and 1991 were annulled. In 2006 arguments flared when 9.4m people were counted in the northern state of Kano, compared with just 9m in Lagos, the commercial capital. The Lagos state government conducted its own, technically illegal, census and came up with 17.5m (probably a vast overestimate). A new national census has been repeatedly delayed. It is now scheduled for 2018, but the NPC’s estimate that it will “gulp” 223bn naira ($708m) may mean the count is put off indefinitely.

Even by other methods, Nigeria’s population has proven tricky to pin down. Africapolis, a French-funded research project, used satellite mapping to estimate the population of towns and cities in 2010. It found several cities, mostly in the north, had hundreds of thousands fewer people than the 2006 census counted. But even those data are not entirely trustworthy: it later transpired that the researchers had underestimated urbanisation in the densely populated Niger delta. Until there is an accurate, impartial census it will be impossible to know just how many Nigerians there really are. That means government policy will not be fully anchored in reality and it will not be possible to send resources where they are most needed.

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/06/economist-explains-6?zid=304&ah=e5690753dc78ce91909083042ad12e30

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Politics › Why Nobody Knows The Population Of Nigeria - The Economist by davidif(op): 6:12am On Jul 10, 2017

https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/06/economist-explains-6

NIGERIA is Africa’s most populous country, a designation it wears with pride. It had more than 182m citizens in 2015, according to the World Bank, and is poised to have the world’s third-largest population, behind India and China, by 2050. But that figure and the extrapolation are based on Nigeria’s 2006 census, which was probably exaggerated. Parliamentary seats and central government money are handed out to states based on population, giving politicians an incentive to inflate the numbers. In 2013 the head of the National Population Commission (NPC), Festus Odimegwu, said that neither the 2006 census nor any previous one had been accurate. He resigned soon after (the then-government said he was fired).

Counting Nigerians has caused controversy since the colonial era. The country was stitched together from two British colonies: a largely Christian south and a Muslim-dominated north. In the lead-up to independence in 1960, the British were accused by southerners of manufacturing a majority in the north, which they were thought to favour. In 1962 unofficial census figures showed population increases in some south-eastern areas of as high as 200% in a decade. The full data were never published and northern leaders held a recount, which duly showed they had retained their majority (their region had apparently grown by 84%, rather than the originally estimated 30%). This politicking led to coups, the attempted secession of what was then known as the Eastern Region and a civil war.

cont.d below.

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Politics › Re: Community Submerged In Flood Along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway by davidif: 2:40am On Jul 10, 2017

vanbonattel:
Buharri has failed this country

Wrong! That's not Buhari's fault thats the fault of a country that concentrates power in the center instead of to the local govts. Blame whoever wrote the constitution for that.

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Crime › Re: Man Who Wears Hijab To Rob People Caught In Minna (Photos) by davidif: 2:35am On Jul 10, 2017

lekjons:
if not for "one Nigeria", these people would still be living in caves..

despite that, they are still centuries behind civilization..

imagine! I can't remember the last time i saw a sword..

Says who? Even before the British came, these guys had one of the most advanced civilizations in West African history. Even some western tourists still like gojng to see what's left of their ancient cities.

Heck there is a reason Lord Lugard loved them because they had a well organized society complete with a hierarchical political structure and infrastructure that nothing in southern Nigeria could match.

Crime › Re: Man Who Wears Hijab To Rob People Caught In Minna (Photos) by davidif: 2:27am On Jul 10, 2017

Leonbonapart:
All atrocities comes from the north

Oh really? What of kidnapping and ritual killing?

Politics › Re: Governor Fayose Recalls Six Sacked Commissioners by davidif: 2:21am On Jul 10, 2017

torres2:
Ekiti has 16lga and each lga must be represented in the SEC

And What is an SEC again?

Celebrities › Re: How Do I Send A DM On Twitter? by davidif: 11:34pm On Jul 09, 2017

Tamarapetty:
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