₦airaland Forum

seanet02:
We knew you will always deliver, carry on my governor. Can you please lets take you in OGUN at least on Part time because our governance is in Abeyance

Since the previous censuses in Nigeria had been marred by cases of inflated figures, as early as 1972, arrangements for another population census in 1973
became finalized. The figures though admitted as the most thorough head count anywhere in the world were greeted by a number of protests. Chief Awolowo became the first national politician to publicly reject the 1973 census when he claimed that the figures were absolutely unreliable. The 1973 census became the ‘last straw’ factor that led to the demise of Gowon’s administration. Gowon’s successor, General Murtala Muhammed declined to use the controversial 1973 population census. Instead, the 1963 population census continued to be used. The indignation over the 1973 population census had not been totally erased from the political board of Nigeria before the Babangida administration conducted the 1991 population census. This was contentious and
acrimonious. It became the most controversial and maligned exercise (Salaudeen, 2004). The figures showed that the population of the northern states had surged by 62% from 1963 figures to 47 million, the East by 50% to 18 million the West rose by 10% over a period of 30 years.

Becomrichn:
tinubu, Becomerichn, eku_bear  and they are working with nuhu ribadu to sell yoruba people into slavery. tinubu is a traitor to the yoruba people.
tinubu betray yoruba people for government contract.

fstranger3:
^^^

What are you basing your 3% population growth on?

Isnt 1.5% growth a better estimate?

We are long far from the years when people give birth like rats

and in terms of population migration to the SW, people come and go. Some come and from there travel out, some are there temporarily for jobs and more a lot of people actually do go back to their state of origin.

Kilode?!:
STATES   '63 in Mil     '73 in Mil          %change
West                  9,488         8,920            -0.62

Lagos                1,444          2,470              5.4

PhysicsRND:
I think the Kano state figures are made up, though. But at the same time I just don't believe population density can be used for any convincing arguments for the whole country.

PhysicsRND:
1. I've seen them make that assertion multiple times on this board, and have wouldn't be surprised if that's how they would react in real life to the question of the population data.
3. I really don't have a clue about the big cities. And to make matters worse, some cities are spread out over a larger area than others, resulting in dense but geographically smaller cities having the illusion of being more populated than spread out cities.

PhysicsRND:
1) Proof? The Northerners are always claiming most people in those populated states up north are not in the metropolises, but in the rural LGs. I think they make up this claim to account for the figures because they assume the figures are correct, but I have no way to say that they are really lying. The other thing to consider here is that you said population densities, but you have to consider the size of states and LGs. The population density of the rural north could actually be low and still give them a higher population for each LG than the rural southeast because the rural southeast is still a much smaller area. So whether you go urban or rural, I think the population densities are still not going to be uniform across Nigeria.
2) I guess. Why not?
3) No. There's no way to know. What's the population of Kano city (not state)? What's the population of Lagos?

EzeUche_:
It looks 50/50 to me. Not including the red dots representing offshore oil platforms. The Warri area and Port Harcourt area have by far the largest number of dots. Followed by Owerri, which is actually surprising. I do need a demarcation of Imo and Bayelsa State. However, keep in mind that Bayelsa also have traditional Igbo communities as well, which are mixed with Ijaw communities. President Jonathan comes from such an area.

EzeUche_:
Not true. I think I shall refresh your memory about the boundaries of Igboland, since many people do not know where Igboland begins or ends. As you can see, Igboland is a huge part of Delta, Rivers and parts of Bayelsa state.

hollandis:
@becomerich
All is said was yorubas will be hungry without the igbos and south-south,there will be poverty in their land,hence they have proposed to stick to the oil producing peeps ,the annoying thing is their tribalistic nonsense,you have nothing,yet u r tribalistic ARRANT NONSENSE