₦airaland Forum

Nice article.

I agree Kilode, Economist and newspapers of that caliber are the best place to get obituaries/retrospectives like this.

For life expectancy, I know that my Ekiti State has the highest life expectancy in Nigeria.

For HIV/AIDs, we have the lowest HIV infection rate in the south. I think there are only two or three states in all of Nigeria with better rates.

"Mortality rates differ by residence. The under-five
mortality rate for the 10-year period before the survey in
urban areas is 121 deaths per 1,000 live births compared
to 191 in rural areas. Under-five mortality ranges from
89 deaths per 1,000 live births in the South West zone to
222 in the North East zone"

Hrm. Childhood mortality by zone:
SW - 89
SS - 138
SE -153
NC -135
NE - 222
NW - 217

From that chart, the only major statistic the SW fares poorly with respect to any zone is stunting in children (see image on page 10.)

SW - 31%
SS - 31%
SE - 22%
NC - 44%
NW - 53%
NE -49%
Nigeria - 41%

I am curious to know why there is such a big disparity, and why the SW rate is so much higher than that of the SE.

Aletheia (or any other medical doctors), any comments?


Regarding the HIV testing rates:
SW - 9%
SS -11%
SE -23%
NC - 5%
NW - 2%
NE - 3%

It looks like that zones which have the highest infection rates in Nigeria (SE and SS) also have the highest testing rates.

Conversely, the zones with the lowest HIV infection rates (SW, NW, NE, NC minus Benue) have low testing rates.

Interesting.

Only briefly skimmed through this doc though, there may be more that I missed.

Gbawe:
Yeah. As  tight as the 'money-maker' of a very active ashewo with 30 years in the game 

Damn!

Lmao

Ignoring the question of how clean Tinubu actually is, it never seemed likely to me that the Nigerian FG would catch him when far more competent authorities (those in the US) were unable to pin him with anything.

He isn't a bumbling dunce, after all.

^-- I hope that this vision of your comes to pass.

SAP or no SAP, if your country doesn't make anything, or the value of the thing it makes plummets, you are screwed.

Unless of course you've saved and invested the proceeds of the oil boom into something that will tide you over when the boom ends.

logica:
And which of the states that were created then was self-sufficient like the regions? Was state creation not the beginning of the tradition of taking trips to the Federal Capital to collect "allocations"? So how was that a good idea?

Surely you are not saying that all states in Nigeria are unviable.

Clearly some are, or at least would be if the FG were as small as it was in the 50s and early part of the 60s.

Btw omo_to_dun, what is the best way to get in touch with you?

Err

Lol.

[quote author=X-mind link=topic=813965.msg9657917#msg9657917 date=1322589201]“Following the devaluation of the naira in 1986, by 1990, almost all the factories closed down in several places because Nigeria was a capital goods-importing country. So the moment you devalued the naira, the capacity to import the goods that we stored in our industries failed and so we entered a period of what I call de-industralisation.[/quote]So devaluation of currency led to deindustrialization and closing down of factories?

Dude doesn't know what he is talking about. . .

Anyway, whether IBB devalued the currency or not, Nigeria would still have done poorly, SAP or no SAP. When the only thing you produce of value (oil) plummets in price, you are screwed no matter what you do.

IBB probably could have done better, but to blame SAP alone for destroying Nigeria's economy doesn't make a lot of sense.

@omo_to_dun: good job.

State creation was a good idea.

But simply too many were created.

And states were created for political reasons rather than merit.

Gowon is mostly right on this, I think. That he says "it was taken too far" doesn't mean he thinks it shouldn't have been done at all.

You'd figure that the Nigerian Senate would have higher priorities.

Petroleum Bill, reducing cost of governance, etc, etc

Lots of good comments, dhtml.

To echo what you are saying, the main advantage of PHP over certain other languages is that there are just a ton of PHP programmers and existing software available.

So you can probably build your web apps more cheaply if you use PHP (since labor is likely to be cheaper and easier to find.)

Sounds fake. . .

highland:
Northern ACN can be depended on, they will soon switch over to PDP.

+1

ACN needs to be more selective about who it chooses to include in the party.

Quality over quantity

ehie:
The lazy man will blame the witch in his village
the reckless driver will blame his enemies for his accident
the thief will blame the devil for his actions
the Nigerian government will blame a government 18 years off,


Self responsibility is a trait that Nigeria obviously does  not have,
Labaran Maku is supposed to be a man over 40 and he talks like a boy of ten,
Grey hair does not mean wisdom,
So why don't ants fold their hands and blame God for making the smallest of his  creatures
instead they are the hardest working insects of things that exist in creation
Niger has just built its refinery and we are still wallowing in stupidity?
what a joke this once promising country has become

+100

lol

oyb:
cant nobody take my crown cant no fisherman hold me down

oh no i got to keep on loungin'

LWKMD

Your timely and appropriate rap lyrics are hilarious

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Under this banner we shall conquer.

Long live the scorpion.

Good.

Where will the factory be located?

As much as I don't think government should be involved in activities best left to the private sector, it is unfortunate that this club will die.

Damn.

*munches popcorn*

Obasanjo really seems to be a very lucky man, I must say.

It doesn't look like he was anywhere near the best soldier we had. He wasn't and isn't very popular politically.

Yet he has survived since the 60s and acheived more than what arguably greater men (Adekunle, Awolowo, etc) could not.

Random luck?

Or something just insidious about Nigeria which doesn't allow our best talent to rise to the top?

Or maybe I am underrating OBJ's innate talent, who knows.

hercules07:
This Adekunle guy was a warrior and a man of his generation, what we need in the armed forces is more Adekunles with more Geneva Convention attitude in them.

It really annoys me though that these Europeans (well, more accurately, the Allies) never seem to apply apply any of these Geneva Conventions to anyone but those they defeat in war, or people they don't like.

Read the text in bolded. Is there not something fundamentally hypocritical about this reporter Stern? The same exact thing they would never consider doing in any of their wars in Europe, this reporter is asking be done in Nigeria.

A bit of inconsistency in the numbers of this writeup.

I also wonder how spending in the different categories has changed from previous years.

Ogun Budgets N187.9 Billion For 2012

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State this afternoon at the floor of the State House of Assembly,Oke Mosan in Abeokuta, presented a total budget of N187,901 billion for the 2012 fiscal year with education taking the largest percentage.
The budget which is N65 billion higher than the N124.61 billion budgeted for year 2011 is  christened ‘Budget to Rebuild’. The budget is made up of N99.594 billion (53 percent) capital expenditure and N88, 306 billion (47 percent) recurrent expenditure.
Amosun disclosed that the budget would be financed through Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of N63. 601 billion or 47 percent and Federation Account of N70.800 billion or 53 percent.
Presenting the budget estimates, the governor explained that 65 percent of the 2012 budget
would be spent on his five-point agenda of “Affordable education (N41.483 billion or 22 percent), Rural and Infrastructure Development and Employment Generation (N33.432bn or 18 percent), Affordable Housing and Urban Renewal (N22.956 billion or 12 percent), Efficient Healthcare Delivery ( N15.706 billion or 8 percent) and Agriculture Production/Industrialization (N8,813 billion or 5 percent).”
Amosun told the crowd who witnessed the presentation of the first budget of the administration that his government plans to put in place an economic plan that would not continue to be dependent on the allocation from the Federation Account.
He explained that he has put in motion a process of re-engineering the finances and the accounting process in the state to eliminate wastage and make the state financially self-dependent.
The governor said he decided to give premium to the education sector because of the belief that education is the future of the state,stressing that with a sound education, the future of the state is secured.
He disclosed that his administration intends to, “ensure the sustenance of the provision of the free and qualitative education at primary and secondary school levels, construct additional buildings in public educational institutions, embark on massive renovation and
maintenance of dilapidated structure in our schools and supply furniture to enhance students enrolment, retention and performance.”
Senator Amosun also revealed plans by the government to establish five model secondary schools with hostel facilities in the three senatorial districts of the state and to procure instructional materials and textbooks for all students in public schools.
On road, he disclosed that the sum of N24.56 billion representing 13.07 percent of the total budget for the year has been earmarked for rural and infrastructure development of the state.
According to Amosun,”It is hoped that this will transform the face of our dilapidated infrastructure, adding that a total of seventeen roads would be rehabilitated during the year.
On health, the governor said it is the consciousness to reduce disease and make healthcare available to its citizens and develop capacity in our state that made his administration to invest heavily in the sector.
On Industrialisation, the governor said, “our administration will kick-start the process of industrialization through the implementation of the Industrialization Master Plan which is currently being fine-tuned. We will also play a major facilitatory role for small and medium scale entrepreneurs.”
A major initiative in this regard will be the creation of several industrial parks across the state while access roads will be constructed in the rural areas to link the existing major roads.
Other plans by the government as highlighted by the governor is “the provision of soft loan and empowerment facilities to micro, small and medium enterprises in the state, establishment of technology incubation centres in Ogun West and Ogun East senatorial districts of the state, and the provision of access roads to the technology incubation centre in Ogun Central senatorial district”.
On housing, Amosun spoke of plans to construct two and three bedroom low income housing units across the state, creation of a robust real estate market that can deliver development at an accelerated rate and renovate existing quarters within Ibara Housing Estate.
Governor Amosun added that with the planned removal of petroleum subsidy by the federal government, the state intends to cushion the effect of the development on the people through the re-introduction of mass transit programme. He disclosed that a sum of over N2 billion has been earmarked for the purpose.
Among the dignitaries who witnessed the budget presentation were some former governors of the state like Aremo Olusegun Osoba, Navy Captain Oladeinde Joseph, Maj. Gen. Oladayo Popoola (retd.), former deputy governor of the state, Alhaji Rafiu Ogunleye as well as the gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election in April 2011, Gen. Adetunji Idowu Olurin.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/11/29/ogun-budgets-n187-9-billion-for-2012/

Ice Prince is the truth. Really a talented rapper.

HNosegbe:
@ OP,

I want to make one point quite clear: Nigeria at this point in our history lacks the technological know-how and infrastructural base to develop simply by looking inwards. I am not saying that we shouldn't make use of our resources our promote intra-African trade, but my point is that it is an overly simplistic submission to state (or imply) that we must look inwards and do things strictly our way in order to make progress, because if we do, we will simply be repeating the mistake many African countries made in the 1960s, when, fresh out of colonialism, decided to adopt the Soviet model of a socialist autarkic economy, while the likes of Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea opened up their economies to trade with the West under favourable conditions. The likes of China and India also realized the power of free markets and economic liberalization, and so they also began to open up their economies as from 1979 and 1991 respectively, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the process.

My point is, there must be a combination of intra-African and inter-continental trade and investment under mutually beneficial terms that will involve knowledge transfer to Nigerians. Nigeria, indeed Africa, cannot go it alone. We must learn from the success of others, the Western nations and especially the BRIC nations. Adapt the knowledge gained to the peculiarities of our environment, and then we can have our own "economic miracle".

+100

Absolutely pathetic.

Is IBB responsible for the 74% recurrent expenditure of the current administration?

Come on now. There is nothing more despicable than politicians who waste the people's time on blame games.

When Adekunle dies, statues of him must be erected in every major town in Yorubaland.

I wish we had 1000s more of him.

He should be celebrated and lauded.

[quote author=ola_pluto link=topic=813161.msg9659943#msg9659943 date=1322610825]I considered my selection for the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to be an honour and a privilege. To my mind, Sandhurst was the best military institution in the World. Not all the Mons graduates were so privileged - for example, while Adegoke, Idiaja, and Chakuka and I was selected, Obasanjo was not. He finished at Mons and returned home.

In later years, I attributed some of the actions of my former course mates in the national arena, especially with regard to their colleagues, to the need to assuage feelings of inferiority which many have sprung from having been publicly adjudged and labeled inadequate in the midst of their cohorts.[/quote]Hrm. Interesting.