₦airaland Forum

Man. The way some of ya'll reason and figure stuff out, it isn't much of a surprise that the country is a mess.

Currently the second highest oil-producing zone in the entire country is the SW. The second largest economy in Nigeria, and by far the largest before the discovery of oil (a whopping [size=18pt]+50%[/size] gdp/capita than the other two regions!) is somehow the parasite.

I understand that you guys obviously are not stupid enough to believe the things they are coming out of your mouth.

I understand that it is purely propaganda.

Fine. But this means I have to waste my time combating stupid propaganda. . . when I've got better things to be doing with my life.

Smh

Hmm. I've done a good job not wasting too much time on NL the past few weeks, and I think that I'd be better off continuing this practice.

I've already posted the tables for cocoa and rubber, from 1960-1974.

One of you guys can go to your library and get the table for palm oil.

I've done 2/3s of the work already, surely the rest of you combined can manage the rest.

bashr8:
the only oil in ondo and indeed the whole yorubaland (apart from lagos which is aworiland) is Yoruba and you sure have it in excess(oily soup)

lmao

This cracked me up.

Oily soup is delicious.

On a serious note though. The highest oil-producing state in Nigeria today outside of the SS is Ondo State. It produces more oil than Abia, Anambra, Enugu, etc.

So if the SW zone is a parasite, how much more every other zone in the country aside from the SS?

Including your own Anambra?

Your username may be seenoevil, but your nickname should be readnoenglish.

How can you claim that Nigerian rubber was more valuable than Nigeria cocoa when the two tables I posted in this thread (https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-688547.32.html) absolutely contradicts that?

Do you not know how to read?

Let me make it as easy for you as possible.

Here is the data for rubber: http://i56.tinypic.com/34dirlv.png

Here is the data for cocoa: http://i56.tinypic.com/sxy8eu.png

You are able to read and interpret charts and tables, right? And see that one # is much bigger than the other?

I suppose I will have to pay a visit to the library today and type up the relevant table for palm oil.

So after I do that, will you still be yarning about the importance of palm oil from 1884-1900, before cocoa even existed in Nigeria?

"Our crop was more important than yours, during the time period when your crop wasn't even grown in the country!"  

bashr8:
we know who is scared of breaking up ,it is the yoruba parasites that leach on everything around them, if they are dreaming of edo and itshekiri oil sorry for them , better start investing in that cocoa now.

How can we be dreaming of Edo oil when Ondo State produces more than Edo?

It produces more oil than any state in the SE as well (and yes, I'm sure you'll tell me stories about billions of barrels of oil untapped, blahblahblah).

As for the Itsekiris, if Nigeria breaks up, they'll decide for themselves which way they want to go.

Are we talking about 1884-1900 or the 1940-1960s?

Personally I have no clue what the #s are from the former time period. . . if anyone has estimates of the GDP and economic importance of the different parts of Nigeria in the 1800s, that would of course be interesting to see.

But in the period of time mentioned by the OP, the most economically important crop grown in Nigeria (by far) was cocoa.

I posted here (https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-688547.32.html#msg8756988) data for cocoa. I didn't bother typing up the tables for palm oil just because the amount was so small. . . I didn't see a point in comparing against such a less valuable crop.

Perhaps if one of you has the book handy, you can type up the relevant table so everyone can see.

Err.

Have you read either of those two books I mentioned?

Go to your library, pick up a copy and you can type up the #s from the chart yourself.

Neither groundnut nor palm oil were as economically important.

Lol, watching that I think Ellen did the better job.

Michelle's, she didn't get low enough. Your chest is supposed to touch the ground. . . she was moving only about 6-8 inches vertically.

If your body moves that little per pushup, much easier to do lots of them.

It'll probably take a decade or more to resolve, no?

And he is a pretty old guy anyways. . .

There are two books I expect anyone who is commenting about Nigeria's economy from the 50s and 60s to have read or glanced at.

The first is Economic survey of Nigeria 1959 and the second is Economic Survey of Nigeria, 1960-1975.

Tons and tons of tables about how much each region actually contributed economically.

When I see people implying that the various agricultural products of Nigeria were all somehow equally important, that Nigeria's early money came "equally" or approximately equally from cocoa, grountnut, and palm oil, it tells me that they are speculating rather than speaking from known facts.

One of these crops contributed far more to revenue than the other two.

One region in Nigeria (Western) was literally +50% as wealthy (in a per capita sense) than the other two (https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-699581.64.html#msg8641378).

Even today, the SW is the second wealthiest zone in the country.

So like I said, I have absolutely no opposition to splitting the country apart. We can stand on our own, and have done so before.

Even today, cocoa likely has a higher share of GDP than palm oil and rubber.

Certainly it did back in the 50s and 60s.

Perhaps I'll need to go back to the library and grab this book of economic data from the 60s, scan and post its pages.

In terms of economic value, cocoa was by far king.

See this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-688547.32.html

[quote author=see*noevil link=topic=861564.msg10107322#msg10107322 date=1328211329]However it must be said that cocoa NEVER kept Nigeria's economy up alone and can NEVER be compared to products such as Palm Oil and Rubber not to talk of Crude oil .[/quote]Cocoa was far more economically relevant than palm oil and rubber.

Given that Ondo State is the largest oil-producing state outside of the SS, on what basis can the SW zone be called parasitic?

Not to mention by far the 2nd largest economy in Nigeria.

I have no problems splitting the country apart. Yorubaland can stand on its own.

Sanusi is a demonic little creature

Were they girl pushups (knee touching ground) or guy pushups?

Anyway, good for her that she is fit and in shape.

Hehe

The attempts to paint BH as a universal phenomenon rather than primarily a core North, Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri problem are. . . amusing.

^-- No offense taken.

Welcome to this forum.

wtf is this sh1t?

Perhaps this guy needs to be gotten rid of.

Yeah I dunno

I'm kind of disillusioned

I totally agree with her tweets

damn she sexy

^- What do you mean?

lmao

ya'll should write a book about your adventures in the north. I'd buy it

naijaking1:
Very nice.
In addition, have you ever wondered why standard census tools such as birth/death rate, school enrollment, and most importantly taxable adults are not used in Nigeria? Instead we depend on a hush-hush 2 week political excersise to cook up a figure about our census

+1

Here is one I couldn't do and had to cheat by looking up the answer 

I knew it had to involve bisection of some sort (that is usually the only time you see log(N) time), but couldn't figure out how to do it until I looked it up.

Anyways:

You are given two sorted lists/arrays, one of length M, one of length N.

Find the Kth smallest item in both lists (i.e., if we considered the two lists to be one big list), and do this in no more than O([log(N)+log(M)]) iterations (for example, if you have a technique that does it in 5[log(N)+log(M)] iterations, you win the game.)

(Big hint: use bisection, since the lists are already sorted!)

You can assume that all the elements of the list are distinct (so there cannot be a tie.)

All work and no play makes Jack Sowore a dull boy

She is fine.

Never heard of this Natalie Nunn chick before in my life. But she is a 10

Nothing wrong with a video filled with gorgeous women

This is one of those things where you are best off taking out pencil and paper first, playing with a few examples first rather than directly diving into code.

For part A, you can create a second array if you like.

For Part B, you cannot. You must generate the desired array through a series of operations on the input array.

Part A can definitely be done w/o sorting (once you've picked the pivot, cycle through the input array filling in the appropriate entries of your duplicate array.)

Part B can also be done w/o sorting, and w/o creation of any new arrays.

+1

Sure you don't want to create the PDFs beforehand and serve that?

You could of course create dynamically (lots of tools for converting text documents to PDF). But that might put more demand on your system, no?

Imo, just as soon as you get a science article, create a pdf version (using some code you write, I suppose), save that PDF somewhere (again with code) and serve it up when they request it.