₦airaland Forum

Kobojunkie:
This is nothing but wickedness. Adults who are supposed to care for children are here beating their chests instead at news/rumors that their ethnic zones may have less number of out-of-school children(chronically high numbers still), than the other zones, when all the innocent children, no matter the zone, deserve nothing less but equal opportunity to a bright future. 

Do you say this when it's the other way round?

How many times have I observed you running your mouth in lashing the south east, but now you are playing an unbiased commentator.

seanet02:
A ritualist like Arapaja is not the type to speak on any AWOLOWO issue. You need to go to your ibo land and tell ojukwu to stop deceiving ibos with GEJ presidency. We YORUBAS will keep following TINUBU in as much as he still gives us Performing Governors like Oshiomole, Fashola, Fayemi and Aregbesola. We don't want Ritualists like OGD and Akala. We are content with ACN ibo man. Omo ajekuta ma mu omi sogba e.

Loser

Most definitely, they should stop deceiving people

Solomon227:
Let me list the NC states FYI Kwara where Saraki (a Buhari fan) looms large, Niger state (which voted against GEJ) at PDP primary they are mainly Fulanis and Buhari is Fulani, Kogi (predominantly moslem) with strong historical allegiance with Buhari, Nassarawa (where GEJ was welcomed with stones), Benue and Plateau (predominatly xtians) where GEJ can manage to have a few

See how the 'total' support Buhari is in a 'fulani' Niger state.
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/29368.html

While you are at it, you might also indulge yourself in finding out how fulani Niger state has become overnight.
http://www.uiowa.edu/intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/niger.htm

The truth is: Jonathan has Niger, Plateau and Benue while Buhari can hope he also has Kwara(due to the fulani-wannabe Saraki), Nassarawa and Kogi. It's a 50-50 game in the NC. Sorry for my earlier not well-researched assertions.

Obiagu1:
So Tinubu did a parallel census at that time? It's really interesting that Tinubu put the official Igbo population in Lagos at 43%.

Yes. He did. This is what the Igbo leaders ought to be doing in Igbo land whenever there's a census instead of running around in Abuja. It shows they are not that smart, no wonder they are politically impotent.

I'll still like to see where Tinubu declared the 43% figure though.

Solomon227:
Which Ramon be this? SW rejected OBJ in 1999 and he lost in SW but elected in the North, SE and SS. This is a different issue for Mr Clueless: GEJ. He is being rejected by SW (15 million voters), NW (19 million voters), NE (8 million voters) and many parts of NC (8 million voters).

So tell me dude where is GEJ votes coming from in a free-n-fair election?

Dude, you should be under the influence of something for you to include the NC.

Jonathan already has 11 states(5 SE+ 6 SS). Thats remaining 25 states.

Most definitely, the NC will not vote any northerners, considering the nefarious activities of the fulani herdsmen in Jos and Benue.

What is left for grabs?

@Obiagu

This is a most likely reason for the lead.

An Igbo family is more willing to venture into hostile territory, with the risk of their heads being chopped up, to seek economic opportunities while a Yoruba family dares not.

I'll take some time out to look into those GDP. But I'll put into consideration the average per capita GDP with population figures to see if this reason holds true.

kildran:
@ excan
You r quotin a 10 yrold data 2 butress 2day's fact! People who study statistics wil tel u dis data is irrelevant, because it dosnt tak in2 acount hw d population is weighed. Bt den dis is probly their best showin at d exam.

Well it agreed with my previous comments when a poster asked if Yorubas were more dumber/less populated than Igbos. Which I disagreed with him, citing a higher per capita income as a reason. This is exactly what the writer pointed out in the case of the North, and that applies across board for others.

Ramnon.2:
What is happening here? It is partly a sad story of gross neglect, misplaced priorities and perhaps a disdain for or lack of appreciation of education. Another reason may be that because the north is economically poorer, parent in the region find it difficult to find the money to pay for the JAMB forms, leading to a situation in which many candidates from such poor homes are unable to write the exam.

I totally agree with the writer on this one.

Exactly the same reasons I gave earlier for the discrepancies.

ACN+Tinubu is not=SW

It's obvious Tinubu is taking things out of context to play the opposition game.

Really pathetic!

First, where do you live and what's your race?

^^^
I'll rather stick to No. 1

One other factor I think that is coming into play is that it's most likely the average Igbo family have a higher per capita income  than than a Yoruba family. So they(Igbos) can afford to send their wards to higher institution of learning. 

This could be the difference despite both groups having a considerable interest in education.

ROSSIKE:
Are these fools trying to say that places like Mogadishu, Kabul, Calcutta, Mumbai, Kinshasa, and so on are more 'liveable'' than Lagos? I don't think so. Very flawed list.

Some of them just sit in their rooms and try to compute nonsense without having a clue to what is really on ground.

eku_bear:
Ibadan has its own famous university, though. And Oyo State is far more populated than Osun. Anyway, I dunno what the deal is there.

Regarding the rest. . . from this data, assuming it is fine for us to accept it on face value (something I'm not sure about yet)  then[b] I think it is fair to say that Igbo are #1 in pop, no? Isn't 100% certain, but certainly seems to suggest it, I think? Similarly, seems likely that the North is pretty empty, no?[/b]

No. Thats not a factor to determine actually population. This is one of the flawed arguments used by the 'Igbos are the largest' school of thought.

One must also give consideration to the level of interest in education. If a large percentage of my folks do not go to school, does that mean that they're non-existent?

I kind of think that the presence of a famous institution like OAU in Ile-Ife could be one factor that encouraging youths in Osun to take more interest in education.

eku_bear:
^-- Interesting comment in that thread from one of the more astute posters on this forum:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-537888.0.html#msg7003487

I'd really like to see more data. Is there graduate state-of-origin data available? Youth corps data?

Hmm, very interesting.

BTW it seemed very odd to me that Osun had more than Ogun or Oyo. . .? Why is that? Osun is certainly much less populated than those other two states, I think. Do they spend more on education there? Do Osun people care more about education than other Yoruba (possible, but seems odd.) Are lots of adults taking JAMB in Osun, but only youths elsewhere. . . ?

This data raises a lot of questions.

I've personally been on the look out for a data on graduate state-of-origin. Still cant find anything tangible. The NYSC should be in position to do that job though.

I kind of agree with with Abagworo to some extent. I've seen a number of these SE graduates turn 'traders'. But I wonder where he got his assertions from? I wished he provided some stats.

^^
I've not seen a state by state figures from JAMB.

But they usually publish the top 6 states with highest number of applicants and the bottom 3 states yearly.

You might check these ones that I found.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-537888.0.html

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-17612.0.html

eku_bear:
Where is the raw data, though? I'm very puzzled.

Take a look at this article, for example:
http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html

So it doesn't quite look like the equivalent of SAT, which is taken by primarily juniors and seniors, not 23+ year olds?

I really wish I could see the raw data.

I'm puzzled. Consider this post for example here by (Ibime https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-237534.0.html#msg3497787):
So I'm really wondering how the data is collected, if it somehow suggests Bayelsa State (least populous southern state) has more college admits than Lagos State (most populous.) Seems like someone is collecting or interpreting the data incorrectly. Or Bayelsa State folk are by far the most intelligent people in Africa (and I guess the world  )

Going to continue reading through this thread though. I went to the JAMB website. . . no raw data there. Anyone else have a link to this type of data?

How does the bolded make any sense?

You are required to fill in your state of origin, not your state of residence in JAMB applications. How many of those living in Lagos are really from Lagos?

Look for the nearest lagoon near you and toss your sim card into it. I tell you, your peace will know no bounds.

Obiagu1:
Do you think it is easy to get to the root of cowardice in Yorubas? How many researchers have been able to do that?

My argument was very compelling that's why they rushed and deleted it. They can't refute it and they wanted to cover the truth; that's how I see it.
My argument was as clear as water!

Nwokem, Hapu ndia.

Surely another jail-bound loser.

Looking forward to another  'thanksgiving' ceremony for another disgraced criminal.

afam4eva:
@excanny
I agree with u.I think ribadu should step down for a more popular buhari. Though I donkt want either of them to win cos it goes against my interest.

I keep having this feeling that Ribadu is working for Jonathan. I'm still on the look out for proofs on this, though.

Having 2 big northern aspirants was the biggest blunder the North committed.

Most definitely, this will backfire.

Lawd, have mercy @ Blazay and co.

lol. What's going on?