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Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro-polygamy or something (my religion doesn't permit it.)

But I think if you want to limit population growth, you limit the # of kids, not # of spouses.

Right. Polygamous households will carry more children. But this doesn't by itself increase the total # of children in Nigeria.

Hmm, sometimes easier to see things if you use an extreme example.

If we pass a law saying that all women in Nigeria are now the "property" (so to speak ) of ekt_bear (a very extreme form of polygamy in which one man has ~75 million wives), then assuming those women don't make any changes about how many kids they want to have, the population growth of Nigeria would be exactly the same.

ekt_bear's household is now huge, but the household of every other man in Nigeria is now very small (just him by himself.)

This is why I say that polygamy in and of itself cannot affect population growth. The total # of children produced is all that matters, not whether a man has 1 wife, 4, or 10.

But there are probably some more subtle effects going on that do cause a relationship between polygamy and pop growth.

Sounds expensive. I think it is good to break the will of these evil unions that plague Nigeria (ok I'm exaggerating a bit, but I've not seen much good come from unions so far.)

However, surely there is a cheaper way of doing it. Hire Nigerian docs from other states? I dunno.

Does monogamy actually reduce population growth rates?

Mathematically I don't see why it should. . . if each woman will have X kids, it doesn't matter if each woman is attached to only one man or several are attached to one (of course, sucks for the guys since there are less women available.)

But maybe polygamy means each woman will for some reason decide to have more kids (perhaps marrying younger and thus start producing kids earlier, for example.)

Anyone seen studies on the topic?

Japanese are kind of impressive. To rise in such a short period of time where you are nearly able to kick British @ss (and would have without US intervention.)

Hmm, would be nice to accomplish the same

Game plan:

1. Lekki FTZ
2. Eko Atlantic
3. Lagos Rail
4. Roads/rail linking rest of SW to Lagos, turning rest of SW into the suburbs
5. Privatized power

That is the recipe for building "black excellence, opulence", to borrow a line from Jay

Aigbofa:
Don't mind these people. Notice that the article came from Sunnewsonline. The same online source from which the likes of WillyWilly gets their anti-Yoruba news from.

Hehe

Sunnewsonline = epic fail

How can any sane Yoruba person support PDP.

Have the provided a single good governor in the SW, ever?

Why keep trying something that doesn't work?

If this ACN experiment doesn't work, by all means then look for an alternative.

But don't jump in a car that broke down in the middle of the road last time you used it. . .

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Her face was beaten until it looked like a pizza:
https://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/recipes/1132001205_fresh-tomato-pizza-recipe.jpg

I am hard pressed to think what justification the dude could have had for this

mbatuku1:
In what way is my example a silly comparison? You said there was no Enugu before the colonialist, which I disputed. Now you come with Ibadan's population being greater than Enugu. That is irrelevant to your earlier assertion of 'no enugu'.

Granted, Ibadan has a larger population, but did you also realise the fact that Ibadan is at least 10 times the size of Enugu in area.

I'm just lol @ enugu having more virgin lands. Where are the virgin lands you are talking of, when the population density in the area is very high? ?

1. There was indeed no Enugu, at least in the modern sense, before the colonialists.
2. The population is part of the point. Part of the reason Abuja was easy to develop is because it was sparsely inhabited farmland. Much like Enugu was sparsely inhabited when the colonialists met it. The same cannot be said of Ibadan.
3. Virgin lands is obviously not a comment about TODAY. But again a comment about what it looked like even as of the 1950s.

It is like comparing the width of the roads in say London (a very old and well-established city)  to Phoenix, Arizona (comparatively quite younger).

Or the width of the roads in certain parts of downtown Houston to the width of roads out in the burbs. . .

^-- Don't disagree with what you guys have said. All I'm saying is, let us at least try.

^-- If Delta is just partitioned into its constituent pieces though?

Partition + population transfer.

Perhaps it isn't off to call Delta a microcosm of Nigeria. A bunch of people who don't really like each other or want to be together.

Anioma wants to go, Warri axis dislikes Anioma axis, Ijaws in Warri axis want a state of their own, etc.

Just seems very messy.

The dude processes 8-10% of the cashews on earth. More than anyone else on this planet. And you think he is afraid of the competition?  

At any rate. . . Gbawe, I don't know how well-connected you are to prominent members of the ACN in those states I mentioned. But this is definitely worth bringing up, imo. The company's contact information is online. Whoever the commissioner for trade is in Ogun or Lagos should give him a call, I think.

Of what relevance is this tirade?

Either the economic policy is good, or it is bad.

End of story.

Lol. I appreciate the sentiment

I mean you are comparing a town that had a population of under 70,000 in 1952 (thus, indicating relatively virgin land), to a town (Ibadan) that had a population of 60,000 in in the 1850s. 100 years earlier!

Lol.

This is just a silly comparison.

Maybe a Gwari man in Abuja will say that Gwarimpa was founded by his people in 1457, and then ask why Ibadan is not as uniformly developed as the town he "founded". . .

The first mayor being Fulani doesn't really mean anything. Wasn't this first mayor in the 1960s or so? Of what relevance is this to who actually made the town significant?

It was an insignificant village prior to the colonialists arriving. They acquired land, started mining coal and this made the town economically attractive.

But you cannot attribute what exists there now to the pre-colonial people.

It would be like if Nigeria falls apart and the Gwari regain control of Abuja, they claiming that they "founded" Abuja. When it was pure bush when first under their control.

This is the type of industrialization I like.

A cashew processing plant will produce goods that are easy to move. Doesn't require any special expertise to work there. We aren't at a competitive disadvantage in this industry (unlike say manufacturing jets, to use an extreme example); won't require massive government subsidies to make the business successful.

And he is creating 1000 good jobs in this town, jobs going primarily to women. A job at this factory might be what a poor woman uses to send her children to secondary school or university.

I really hope we begin to think of how we can attract businesses like this.

Perhaps. But then it is left to those governors I mentioned to do a bit of wooing.

Find out what "offer" Ghana made for this factory in Techiman and what offer Togo will likely make, and see whether you can match or beat it.

Eh. . .

The city didn't get its start until the colonialists came. It was an insignificant town (just a collection of villages) prior to colonization. The same cannot be said of Ibadan.

Seems to me that the Ogun and Lagos governors need to reach out to this Rajkumar fellow, see whether he can be persuaded to locate a factory in their domains.

Oct 19th 2011, 11:00 by P.L. | TECHIMAN

A MOUNTAIN of bulging jute bags hides the far wall of a vast shed. A deafening rattle comes from the machine by the open door, a green contraption of conveyors and rotating metal drums that sorts cashews by size and drops them into sacks. Amid the din, an engineer (Italian, like the machine) explains how it works.

The new factory at Techiman in western Ghana belongs to Rajkumar Impex, an Indian company which processes more cashews than anyone else: 8-10% of the global crop and 20% of Africa’s. Venkatesan Rajkumar, its founder and boss, says that by 2014 he intends to have 18% of the global total. When the Techiman factory is fully open, which it is due to be in November, it will be one of Africa’s few fully mechanised processing plants, drying, roasting shelling and grading some 50 tonnes of raw nuts a day.

African farmers grow about 40% of the world’s cashews, but only around 10% of the crop (less in the west, more in the east) is processed in Africa, according to the African Cashew Alliance, an industry group. Most African nuts go to India or to Vietnam, which grows and prepares more cashews than any other country. The Alliance wants the continent to process 35% of its own raw nuts by 2020.

Mr Rajkumar too believes that “west African nations should develop their own processing capacity” and sees an opportunity for his firm. He is investing $9m in the Techiman factory, expecting to save the cost of transporting bulky material by sea all the way to India. He intends to open factories in Benin and Côte d’Ivoire, and maybe another in Ghana. He is also expanding in southern and east Africa, buying a factory in Mozambique and hoping to build one in Tanzania.

West Africa seems a good base from which to serve Americans and Europeans with pre-prandial nibbles or beer-friendly fistfuls. India has a huge domestic market to satisfy—the world’s biggest, which grew more than 9% a year in the past decade. Vietnam, where Rajkumar Impex also has factories, is best placed for East Asia.

Locals, as well as Rajkumar Impex, stand to gain from the Techiman factory. It will employ 1,000 people, 90% of them women. Mr Rajkumar says their pay will depend on how much they process, but he expects it to be four to five cedis ($2.40-3.00) a day, plus food: a good wage by local standards. The company says it can improve farmers’ incomes as well. It reckons there is a margin of up to 20% between what agents pay them for their nuts and what it pays the agents. By dealing with farmers’ co-operatives instead of middlemen, the company can both pay farmers more and get raw nuts more cheaply.

As well as a boost to its economy, Techiman should also see a green boost to its power supply. Rajkumar Impex is spending another $9m on generating electricity from biomass, using nut waste and other material to be bought in. Of the 6MW it plans to generate, it expects to use 0.6MW and to give the rest to the local community. The government, though, will have to provide the wires. As travellers on the bumpy road to Techiman know, west Africa needs infrastructure as well as factories.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2011/10/cashews-ghana

I've started watching. Very interesting!

^-- Lmao! That video is hilarious

Plus it didn't hurt that the chick at the end looked like she had some booty

Nchara, some women are looking for you:

http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/201110180619.html

Between this and the calls for Anioma State, is it safe to say that a good portion of the populace want Delta divided?

LAGOS, NIGERIA

Gunmen stormed a ship supplying Exxon Mobil's offshore oil operations near Nigeria and kidnapped a contract employee, the firm's local subsidiary said Tuesday, only days after a similar attack saw another worker abducted.

The attack occurred early Monday morning off the coast of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta near Akwa Ibom state, where Exxon Mobil tankers line beaches and its offshore oil rigs can be seen along the horizon. The gunmen attacked the vessel near either an Exxon Mobil oil rig or an offshore platform, though the company declined to give specific details about the attack.

The gunmen seized a contract worker aboard the vessel, Exxon Mobil said without giving his name or nationality. The company said it alerted Nigerian authorities about the attack.

"We do not know the identity of the attackers, nor reason for their action," the company said in a statement issued Tuesday.

This is the second attack to recently target Exxon Mobil supply ships. On Sept. 30, gunmen stormed another supply vessel near an Exxon Mobil offshore operation, kidnapping a contractor and leaving another person wounded. That abducted contractor remains missing, the company said Tuesday.

Foreign firms have pumped oil out of the country's southern Niger Delta for more than 50 years, with its easily refined crude one of the U.S.' top sources for gasoline. Despite the billions flowing into Nigeria's government, many in the delta remain desperately poor, living in polluted waters without access to proper medical care, education or work.

Militants in the delta's winding creeks started a wave of attacks in 2006 targeting foreign oil companies, including bombing their pipelines, kidnapping their workers and fighting with security forces. That violence waned in 2009 with a government-sponsored amnesty program promising ex-fighters monthly payments and job training. However, few in the delta have seen the promised benefits, stirring new discontent in a region awash in weaponry.

Exxon Mobil, based in Irving, Texas, runs the majority of its Niger Delta operations out of Akwa Ibom state. It pumped out more than 165 million barrels of oil in its partnership with the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. last year alone, according to government statistics.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9QEL17G0.htm

avosoft:
there is no need to reinvent the wheel, use existing ones

+1.

Takes a lot of man-hours to develop good software. May as well leverage existing work and build upon it rather than building yet another half-baked CMS.

Unless the point of this is educational. In which case, by all means implement your own.

Eko Ile:
I thought onisha canoe port is taking all the cargo business away from Lagos? I guess not.

Lol.

River port can never defeat a sea port.

Isn't even worth bothering to respond to such

Anyway, what can we do to improve the roads and rail in the SW so lagos port becomes even more attractive to international shippers like Maersk?

Hmm

^-- Damn:

A.P. Moller – Maersk Group (Danish: A.P. Møller – Mærsk Gruppen), also known as Maersk (Danish: Mærsk), is a Danish business conglomerate.[2] A.P. Moller – Maersk Group has activities in a variety of business sectors, primarily within the transportation and energy sectors. It is the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world[3] since 1996.[4]
A.P. Moller – Maersk Group is based in Copenhagen, Denmark,[5] with subsidiaries and offices in more than 135 countries worldwide and around 108,000 employees.[1] It ranked 147 on the Fortune Global 500 list for 2010, down from 106 in 2009.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk

No be small thing