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But one event predates the other by decades. Just because gov't high-handedness is the same root cause of both events, doesn't mean the events are closely related.

I don't see how there is any irony here.

^-- So if they'd pulled off the ACN/CPC alliance, landslide victory in favor of Buhari.

Quite interesting.

BTW, figure should be 15 mil for the SW, not 18 mil.

Also, Jarus, do you mean in reality that the NW should be the most populated? I don't see how it can be more populated than the SS or SE. Kano City, let's say the 2.8 million figure they announced for 2006 is roughly accurate. Well, Kaduna was not even @ 800k as of 2006, by their own estimate: http://www.population.gov.ng/state/kadunafinal.pdf

I really question this assertion of the NW being more populated than any of the southern regions. Their cities aren't that big (aside from Kano City) relative to the southern counterparts, and very likely the population densities in the rural parts are more like 50 people/ square km, not the inflated figures publicly listed.

Long live slavery

Xavier: make you no embarrass my state o. Like Mary J Blige has done 

I thought South Sudan split because of a longstanding civil war. The supporter of APC stuff is a separate matter, isolated to Western Sudan (Darfur)/Eastern Chad.

The two affairs are pretty unrelated. Least, this was my impression.

Alcohol?

"Cocaine is a helluva drug"

^--- Damn. That sucks.

Chyz*:
Insulting? Yes. Tribalistic? No. If he called them cowards or snakes, then, although true, it would be considered racist-like.

Coward or snake? Justify this statement. If you cannot, then I'll have no problems calling out you and your kind.

Moreover. . . you know you wouldn't say that to anybody's face.

If it were me, I'd probably have killed them both.

Cosign on DNA test.

@OP: Because jobs are more plentiful and numerous outside of Nigeria for your common man.

I agree with those suggesting moving out of California. This is an extremely expensive state.

@Ogugua88: Don't give up, imo. Finish your degree. Nursing is pretty much one of the better careers to do in the US because of the ease of finding work. Don't limit your job search to only California, apply everywhere in the US. You'll definitely find work. . . it is one of the few careers where demand always vastly outweighs supply. Also, have you checked craigslist for jobs? Should be able to find additional work that way.

By Terfa Tilley-Gyado
February 16, 2011 01:00AM
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President Goodluck Jonathan could be set for a rocky ride in the April elections after Lagos and Kano emerged as the states with the highest registered voters. Figures released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) revealed that almost 12 million people registered to vote in the two populous states alone. With the overall turnout estimated at about 66 million, this amounts to almost one-fifth of the electorate in states expected to swing against the president. Since 1999, the PDP has never produced a governor in Lagos state. In 1999 and 2003, Bola Tinubu won as an Alliance for Democracy (AD) flagbearer. Even when the party metamorphosed into the Action Congress in 2006, they still proved too powerful for the PDP in the elections that brought the ever popular Babatunde Fashola into power. Even with the political newcomer, Nuhu Ribadu at the helm, it is difficult to see beyond overwhelming support for ACN in the nation’s most populous state. In Kano, President Jonathan will come up against the incumbent governor, Ibrahim Shekarau of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP). The PDP has enjoyed only moderate success in the Northern state with Rabiu Kwankwaso serving just one term from 1999. Since 2003, ANPP has been the party in power and it looks like it will amass a significant number of votes in April.

Battling uphill

Muhammadu Buhari, who contested in 2007 as an ANPP candidate, is also expected to have a very strong showing, not just in Kano, but other key Northern states. Paradoxically, Mr. Buhari’s popularity in Kano could be a boon for President Jonathan’s chances. If the former head of state and Mr. Shekarau were to split votes in the state, it could leave the PDP as a beneficiary. It is not surprising that a coalition is still being mooted between the ACN, CPC and the ANPP to minimalise such an eventuality. Even at this late stage, such an alliance could prove powerful.

It is, of course, simplifying things to predict that voters will just vote for the state ruling party. However, the minority status of the PDP in these two states could spell trouble for the president’s chances, according to a political analyst, Peter Webo.

“In 2007, INEC refused to give us a state-by-state breakdown, but it should be easier to predict this time around,” he said.

“Although there are 34 other states in the federation, if you cannot win Lagos and Kano, you are already battling uphill. I still believe that the other parties will unite to defeat PDP in those states.”

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5677829-146/story.csp

lol.

^-- When did the SW rule the country. . . ?

If you mean OBJ's 1999-2007 reign, that was certainly a lot better an 8 year period than almost any other since independence.

Of course. "Done here", in reference to you doesn't mean I won't interact with other folk.

Joe Edeh:
That statement is characteristic of PDP ( Papa deceiving Pikin). It is because south-west refuse to be deceived was the reason for such statement. How I wish there was an open debate between the BRF & GEJ.

+1

adconline:
$4/capita for voter registration, roughly? How much does it cost elsewhere? Your math would stand if it were a census covering over 150 million people, but this  is a voter registration covering about 60 million, so it's about $10/capita.

Cost should be a function of both total citizens in the nation, as well as # of voters registered.

Not clear to me that looking at cost/voter is more/less informative than cost/citizen.

Probably best to collect at all three variables (cost, pop, voting pop) for each nation (Nigeria, say the US, etc, etc.) to see how efficient Nigeria was.

Sort of a chicken and egg thing.

W/o power, cheaper to produce things abroad and ship them to Nigeria.

Banning is only so effective. . . at some point you've got to produce stuff at competitive prices for local consumption.

I agree with Fashola though, it is quite sad

Very interesting country.

$4/capita for voter registration, roughly? How much does it cost elsewhere?

Is that the full article? I don't have a FT membership; maybe someone can post the rest if there is more.

Sad that he'd say this

KnowAll:
Portugal is dead broke, they have noting hence why they are all migrating to Angola can u imagine a  Portuguese man that
should be on d dough in Portugal getting $5,000.00 a month in Angola.

Most of those southern european countries are mismanaged, from what I hear 

SEFAGO:
So sad if NNPC had  managed to monopolize oil profits with little involvement of foreign companies, they could have had enough funds to start buying oil blocs in angola and then enhance Nigerian colonization of africa 

Indeed.

LOL, well that could be one way of looking at it. Most of these expatriates are daft lol and definitely not skilled workers. I met a couple of  french engineers from Total and those guys were dumb as bricks. Then they were telling me how corrupt my country was and I wanted to beat the hell out of them. Lucky they are white 

Yeah, I've seen this too myself. Met a bunch of white programmer/IT types who work for Shell in PHC in 2006. . . some are good, but most are mediocrities.

Must be nice to export mediocre folk to Nigeria and have them paid craploads of cash.

So hold on a sec. . . out of all regions in Nigeria, Yorubaland is the one most populated by non-natives.

Yet Yoruba are the most tribalistic people in Nigeria 

Na wa o. Some people blowing out of their @sses

The problem is we are not tribalistic enough. If we were, you'd definitely feel it Xenophobia is quite a powerful force. . .

As a card-carrying member of the SW/Northern plot for "one nàìjíríà", I disapprove of this post.

Heh.

I thought it was Ajami? Like, Hausa language using Arabic script?

I don't think there is anything religious there. . . just to help Hausa speakers who maybe don't understand English?

Contrast should be Latin script versus Arabic script, not Christianity vs. Islam.

EDIT: Yep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_language#Boko_.28Latin.29

I guess Hausa in Latin script is called boko, while Hausa using Arabic script is called ajami.

Jenifa_:
anyways this is my last post on this thread. I refuse to be a part of this.

enjoy urselves

EzeUche_:
There is a sort of Pan-Slavism though. Why do you think World War I occurred? Russia felt their Slavic brothers in the Balkans needed help against the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

I thought it was more a series of pacts all those countries signed? Like, "saving my slavic brother" was part of it, but even more important was a mutual defense treaty they signed, no?

Ukraine and Russia's beef should not even exist, because they are basically the same people, in which the Rus (Russian homeland) is found in Ukraine. Kiev to be more exact.

They sort of should be the same people. But I don't know how exactly they became different. From what I understand, Ukrainian speakers can understand Russian, and vice versa? Could be wrong on this though. Yet within Ukraine, there is a divide between Ukrainian speakers who want to align more closely w. Europe, and primarily Russian speakers who want to look East.

But there is a Pan-Slav identity though. Not much in Poland though, due to fear of their bigger Slavic neighbor, the Russians. Maybe this is due to religious beliefs, because the Russians and the Christian communities in the Balkans follow mostly the Eastern Orthodox, while the Poles are Roman Catholic.

Poland though has had a distinct identity from Russia for at least 700 years now, though. And I don't think Polish and Russian are mutually intelligible. So there is enough distance for them to be viewed as distinct peoples.

macjive01:
The development is a laudable one but Mehn, the pricing is scary. The government shd find a way to get involved in this. The govt cud provide /secure cheap land for the investors with an agreement on the final prices of the houses. So at the end of the day, the govt is not spending a dime from her pocket yet making available cheaper housing for Nigerians.

No, let the free market set the price. I've zero interest in gov't involvement in the property market. If they want to setup the equivalent of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, that is fine. But directly controlling prices? Recipe for disaster.

SEFAGO:
Also in terms of houses as investment in Nigeria- I partially disagree. The fact is that people in Nigeria love to build there own houses instead of buying them off someone, so even if you buy tons of houses as investments they cannot be easily converted to cash. Most people would prefer to buy land (so land is really more of an asset) in a prime area than buy land with an already built structure. So thats why I think buying houses in multiple locations except you plan to rent them could be a bit excessive.

This I'm not sure can be true. I don't have data one way or another though.

Eko Ile:
What is so massive about housing units on four hectares of land?

Hard to tell if this is an advert, or an article.

Not the best piece of journalism

PhysicsHD:
Prior to the colonization of Northern Nigeria, 50% of the population in the Sokoto Caliphate were slaves (I can't speak for the Middle Belt, though, haven't studied them as much). Above that were non-slaves, above them were the mallams/clerics etc., above that were emirs, then the Waziri, and then the Sultan.

Reference for this?