₦airaland Forum

A month or two after I posted in this thread, I think my answer remains the same.

Pick Python or Ruby. Learn programming using those, master the important concepts.

This FFK guy. . . disgusts me

Even Burundi.

Lmao.

i'm choking with laughter here

Maybe laughter is the only thing that can keep one from crying

So this is the Nigeria that you one-Nigerianists want to hold so badly onto?

A country with a lower literacy rate than Togo? Than Cameroon? Than Rwanda? Than the DRC?

Giant of Africa my azz

Equatorial Guinea, 93.0%

Seychelles, 91.8%

Zimbabwe, 91.4%

Lesotho, 89.5%

South Africa, 89.0%

Sao Tome and Principe, 88.3%

Namibia, 88.2%

Mauritius Islands, 87.5%

Gabon, 87.0%

Kenya, 86.5%

Swaziland, 86.5%

Cape Verde, 84.1%

Botswana, 83.3%

Cameroon, 75.9%

Uganda, 74.6%

Comoros, 73.6%

Malawi, 72.8%

Tanzania, 72.6%

Zambia, 70.7%

Madagascar, 70.7%

Rwanda, 70.3%

Angola, 69.6%

Democratic Republic of Congo, 66.6%

Burundi, 65.9%

Ghana, 65.8%

Eritrea, 65.3%

Togo, 64.9%

Nigeria, 60.1%

Liberia, 58.1%

Central African Republic, 54.6%

So supposedly they have the highest literacy rate in all of sub-Saharan Africa, if you believe this article:

http://www.guineaecuatorialpress.com/noticia.php?id=850&lang=en

I'm not saying that the country is heaven. But I don't think that it is worse off the naija

93% literacy in EG. life expectancy=51

Nigeria:
61% and 51, respectively.

Under 5 mortality: 120.8 for EG, 142.9 for Nigeria.

Poverty rates are 76.8% in EG and 54.7% for Nigeria (using the most recent years on this site.) However, presumably EG is calibrating against a much higher number than Nigeria is. . .

http://data.worldbank.org/country/equatorial-guinea

http://data.worldbank.org/country/nigeria

Any strong evidence for EG being much worse than Nigeria?

Can I see literacy, life expectancy, health, etc data to back this up? I find it hard to believe that an underpopulated but oil-wealthy country is indeed worse than Somalia or Nigeria.

Granted, it is probably just as much on me to back up my point as it is on ya'll. But perhaps you guys have access to data that I don't, and can more rapidly debunk what I said. . .

Is the lot of your typical citizen of EG better or worse than your typical Nigerian?

Perhaps data like life expectancy, literacy, health, etc should be posted.

[quote author]You missed Cross River & Edo.

Looks to me like when push comes to shove Igbos and Hausas are fcu@ked!
[quote][/quote]I dunno if they are fvcked like that.

Since 1999, at least at the governors level they've been in control of Rivers State.

And control of that state gives you access to the sea, and any benefits thereof.

Useless land mass.

"3 times the size", double the population, a tiny fraction of the economic productivity.

Nothing really worth bragging about. . . .

gidiMonsta:
I find it very annoying that the so-called educated Nigerians can call for the dissolution of this country, when we'll only end up inheriting the same corrupt system.

Let's say for instance we decide to carve this country up based on meaningless differences, here's the anticipated result:

Northern Nigeria (or Arewa Republic) - will not differ from the likes of Chad and Niger Republic.
Middle Belt (if they don't go with the north) - will most likely be like Central African Republic, an obscure nation in Africa.
Biafra (SE) - a landlocked monstrosity even worse than Cameroon
South-South - will end up like Cabinda (Eastern Angola) or Equitorial Guinea
Odua Republic (S/W) - probably gonna be worse than Benin Rep. and Togo

My question is this: why give up a country with the potential to rival Brazil and India? Secession is not the answer, don't let this thieving politicians deceive us into making the biggest mistakes of our lives. Our war should be directed at corruption not each other, take a cue from success stories such as Spain and Italy not failures like South Sudan (where tribal warlords have started anoda war).

Err.

Angola and Equitorial Guinea are WAYYYYY better than Nigeria is now. Regarding the rest, who cares? If the people demand independence and are willing to accept both the potential benefits and the risks, wetin concern you?

How will I, a guy with much less than $500 million in net worth fix electricity in Nigeria?

Even if I had that much money, the current regulation makes it very unfavorable to invest.

I can probably raise enough funds to start a small factory of some sort. But not enough for a (big enough) power plant.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=885316.msg10353615#msg10353615 date=1331178427]that's like saying you went to maryland and houston, and saw nigerians there.[/quote]hehehehe

Obiagu1:
I wonder if two persons could have the same 10 finger prints.

You miss the point.

From a technology POV, of course, you can detect duplicates.

But how do you ensure that the technology is used, and more importantly fake numbers aren't just made up?

Where will the political will for this come from?

Credible census in Nigeria is impossible. Too many vested interests.

Only way we'll know the true population of the various pieces of Nigeria is if they are not in the same country

You will not get a penny of anything in the sea. If God wanted you to have it, he wouldn't have located you by the desert

And I say this out of no selfish sentiment. My own state is not coastal, after all.

I think it is a pre-1996 map of Nigeria. It also doesn't show Bayelsa.

Cars.

Trucks.

What else do they have in the north that is not made there but imported through the south?

If men like me were in charge in Yorubaland and the south more generally, we would extract every pound of flesh possible from aboki

Truly, the possibilities are endless.

Not only will you not receive a penny of what comes from the sea, you will even pay a tax per head for everything imported that you consume.

Oil, cement, building supplies, okada, anything that your people spend money on and cannot make locally.

Hehehe

Population of the north is probably 80 million?

You can probably raise $10 or $20 a year in duties per head.

A cool $800 million just like that.

I wonder how much Niger Republic and Chad spend per year on additional fees from being landlocked.

There is potentially a goldmine available here.

I am flabbergasted at the temerity of these guys.

No gratefulness for the current benefits they get from this union. Instead they seek to reap from the sea, a place that their forefathers have no knowledge of, no experience of.

With this, they have bitten off more than they can chew.

It will be very interesting to watch this unfold, heh.

I actually think it is better to simply secede outright. The entire north is then landlocked. You can then charge them a tax for every piece of bread they consume or import.

Anything that must cross your land to enter theirs, they should be paying a tax for right now.

The possibilities for squeezing revenue from the landlocked aboki are endless

The coastal nations should just secede and then agree to a uniform tax policy for any goods crossing their borders into the North.

Hehehehe

Heh.

Then perhaps it is indeed best to pursue secession.

That can most certainly be placed on the table as well.

Be careful what you ask for. . . you just might get it.

https://www.theodora.com/maps/new4/nigeria2.gif

See this map?

Everything in that sea belongs to Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Akwa Ibom.

No man who is closer to the desert than to the Atlantic should claim any portion of it.

Not a penny of offshore resources should you get.

Everything in the sea up to 200 miles or so (whatever the distance the law of the sea says) belongs to the states in question, not some dudes closer to the Sahara desert than to the sea.

Devilish creatures, ndu_chucks and the rest of these abokis.

what of peter obi

Yeah I dunno. AKS is very likely to get 8 years of excellent governance.

Ogun got 4 years of "he tried", then 4 years of disaster.

Perhaps I should lower my expectations. . . I dunno