₦airaland Forum

Eshinwaju:
Spot on...as they are all living in the south west while Fulanis have taken over their land for grazing ....the rest are forming bravery on NL...populating Malaysian jails...baby factories...fake drugs and selling gala in the street thereby causing traffic jams... ..

Yoruba man always writing rubbish, you and your tribesmen are still in one Nigeria benefiting from natural resourses, still yet your people are leaving in penury and most indebted region in Nigeria, your governor can't pay civil servants and pensioners, there is high rate of ritual killings and kidnapping, high rate of rape cases, high rate of mental illness, high rate of fraud aka 419, high rate of hoodlums aka agboro, The NDLEA describes the South West region of Nigeria as one of the main centers of illicit drug production in the country. 196.5 acres (0.795 km2) of cannabis farmland was discovered and destroyed in the region in 2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Drug_Law_Enforcement_Agency, fake harbal medicine and agbo sellers are all rooted in your region, imagine what will happen to you region when Nigeria cease to exist? I hope you have seen bank deposit/credit by states in Nigeria 2016 NBS report? your region the same level with north,https://www.nairaland.com/3088004/southeast-one-richest-region-after. stop decieving yourself.

G1gbolahan:
Osun is aware of this situation if we're being honest and has been working to turn it around and if we actually take the time to not just criticise but ask questions, we'd find out Osun is gradually getting massive results.
The state has an average of N1bn IGR monthly, and thus the 7th largest state in term of economy and GDP. With the size of Osun, this is no small feat.
It will also surprise many to know that Osun has the second largest tax payer base after Lagos and more recently, more Investments are coming into the state.

So we should give it time, it is not an ideal situation for any state but Osun is handling its and the state is still being run with projects still being worked on. That for me is governance

Ndi ofe una to much! It seems you are not getting it the west media propaganda is not working any longer, stop deceiving yourself Mr man

kayfra:
The pictures above shows historical urbanization vs. recent urbanization. What am I missing?

Historical urbanization southeast wasn't existing then

MegaMan1987:
The South East is so great that Igbos run away from the place quicker than Usain Bolt lol.

Me as a Yoruba man prefers the South West (As do many of your Igbo brethren) I could never live in the South East.

Otondo who is begging you to come southeast, Igbos are just like chines, you can find Igbos business men and women in every corners of the earth doing one thing in-other to eke out live not just west, while you and your like are busy lazing around



Bank credit/deposit in each state may be used as an indicator of the level of activity and well being of operators (households and businesses) in a particular state as it shows what residents are borrowing and the amount deposit in banks


Southeast total balance from 2010-2015 #4'461'997.51


South west total balance from 2010-2015 #2'593'995.78


Pcs 1 and 2 WEST
pcs 3 and 4 EAST

Surbway101:
See this jobless ediot calling that guy Tunde again, everyone on nairaland is tunde cos he slept with your wife. You will end up killing yourself cos of frustration.

Tunde there is poverty in west what are you doing to alleviate their predicaments

I was told if I want to win Yoruba man's heart, just two cups of rice will do the magic, Tunde what type is your favorite cooked or parboiled rice

Surbway101:
See this jobless ediot calling that guy Tunde again, everyone on nairaland is tunde cos he slept with your wife. You will end up killing yourself cos of frustration.

Tunde Osun don enter Ebay, your people are dying in penury

Rayhutar:
You guys want to eat your cake and have it , why will all the yibba that migrated to Lagos the same way Igbo did are claiming Lagos, Lagos is it your state or papa land, you want one Nigeria at the same time you want Lagos for only Yorubas, you cannot serve two masters at the time,Lagos remain a no man land for all Nigerians , Hausa-fulani have shown you guys that in mile 12,because they did run tothe barracks to take cover ,showing you guys that Lagos belong to nobody, in east now they are running to barracks now to take cover but in Lagos they dey kamkpe, if put cone head them go live am for you and stood their ground

Correct! That's what cone heads fail to understand.




One battle of Hero for you

Rayhutar:
E pain nam, My brother Lagos belong to Yorubas when Nigeria divide, not under one Nigeria, no Igbo man is dragging Lagos with you in post Nigeria, they are calling it no mans land under one Nigeria

That is the point brother, ones Nigeria still existing LAGOS IS NO MANS LAND , the can't hide under Lagos been under western region to claim contributions of others, they should go to their various state and replicate Lagos figure Ndi ara.The can claim Lagos figure if Nigeria cease to exit

iblawi:
Now see 2007

see what the smart ones among you was warning see what is now facing your region

Federal Allocation To Each State In March 2016:
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1. Akwa Ibom - N8,945,542,072.36

2. Delta - N6,520,473,654.16

3. Lagos - N5,806,821,749.32

4. Rivers - N4,887,442,606.31

5. Kano - N3,613,387,002.51

6. Kastina - N 2,845,760,627.20

7. Kaduna - N2,803,408,785.61
8. Borno - N2,665,210,123.06
9. Jigawa - N2,563,114,698.48
10. Sokoto - N 2,327,122,322.29
11. Anambra - N2,313,676,693.37
12. Kogi - N2,294,573,542.45
13. Bauchi - N2,257,201,944.88
14. Oyo - N 2,209,928,509.99
15. Enugu - N2,207,795,207.12
16. Yobe - N2,202,678,657.54 3

17. Kebbi - N2,195,741,092.43
18. Bayelsa - N2,165,038,996.96
19. Adamawa - N2,032,039,683.90
20. Ondo - N2,063,521,671.24
21. Niger - N2,062,793,026.06
22. Edo - N1,997,007,555.15

23. Nasarawa - N1,993,193,531.74
24. Ebonyi - N1,993,102,693.24
25. Abia - N1,938,447,217.56
26. Taraba - N1,898,258,023.17

27. Benue - N1,801,576,491.60
28. Kwara - N1,743,743,559.80
29. Imo - N1,630,698,013.12
30. Zamfara - N1,471,857,771.21

31. Gombe - N1,458,257,406.16
32. Plateau - N1,111,836,234.76
33. Ekiti - N1,084,469,706.86
34. Ogun - N999,696,533.32

35. Cross River - N967,494,955.43
36. Osun - N131,555,194.65



SOURCE: National Bureau of Statistics

[quote author=iblawi post=45353671][/quote]Crisis of Yoruba's future
Ulli Beier: There was a short time in Nigerian history — between Independence and the first military coup — in which we lived through a period of great optimism. Financially the people of Nigeria were relatively well off, and they assumed that with independence, things were going to improve steadily. In the West, people believed in the benefits of universal free primary education. They were proud of being the “First in Africa” to have set up a television station. The University of Ibadan was functioning and had a good reputation. Night life was boisterous; people could afford to go out, drink beer and listen to really good bands. Even in Osogbo, which then had 120,000 inhabitants, one could hear three or four bands at weekends. The Yoruba Travelling Theatre was booming. A decade after independence, Biodun Jeyifo counted about a hundred Yoruba theatre companies —all managing to survive somehow off their performances. People actually preferred the theatre to the movies. But then, those were the days of Ogunde, Ogunmola, Duro Ladipo and the Orisun players. Where in the world could you find a comparable constellation?
Wole Soyinka: There was ferment!

Ulli Beier: There was no official planning; little government interference. It was a natural growth. If you now think back to this period, how do you view it with hindsight? Why does it appear to us now as a “golden age” rather than a mere beginning? (From Ulli Beier in conversation.)
Hmmm. Really. Why would a period that was supposed to be our beginning appear to us as actually the golden age? If the take-off of an aeroplane is the only memorable moment of the flight, then that journey is not just a farce, it is a tragedy. When a people have nowhere else to turn to with pride but the past, then they do not need to be reminded that generations after that “golden era” have all failed. And I am not talking about Nigeria now. I am talking about the old Western Nigeria from Ikeja through Benin to Sapele. Nothing can be more devastating for a pupil whose reputation of being the constant first in class is shredded by a distant competitor.

Ex-governor Peter Obi of Anambra State got me thinking. Two weeks ago, he was giving an account of his eight years stewardship and he announced some figures: N75 billion as credit balance in the state’s accounts and no debt over-hang. That figure, he said, included balance in savings and in investment. Then the big one: Anambra State under him invested in bonds issued by other state governments. Since he made that statement, I have not heard anyone say he lied. It was a combination of these that actually got me thinking —Anambra State that was not paying salaries post 1999, pre-2003; Anambra State of war and lawlessness in Chris Ngige era; the same Anambra that was home of violence and inexplicable crimes. Obi said the state he was leaving behind was not owing anybody a dime; rather, the state invested in bonds issued by other states! Then, I remembered that out of the six states in the South-West, only one has not gone to the Capital Market to take money through bond issuance. What has that told me? It means that my South-West is indebted to South East’s Anambra State — and that is serious. I know some partisan fellows will say ‘and so what?’ They can say so because for such fellows, the only reference they make to the past is using it to cover up the eczema of today. None of the founding fathers of Western Nigeria would ever imagine that a day would come when Yorubaland would owe Iboland.

Some international financial experts have warned that the current craze for bonds by African countries, including PDP’s Nigeria, will soon lead to what they call “Eurobond curse” just as the continent is wracked by “resource curse.” Some queer commentators would say the warning was directed at national governments. At the state level, the alarm bell should really sound louder. A recent report quoted Joseph Stightz, a Nobel prize-winning economist, as warning that “the financial sector loves to find people to prey on and their most recent prey are governments in developing countries.” The same is happening at the domestic level. Cash-strapped state governments should know that there are no friendly financial institutions. They are in business to make money and it does not matter how.

I do not know what economics is behind the current craze for bonds. Some are even saying bonds are no loans. What are they? Gifts? Won’t they pay back? And at what interest rate? They would even pay costs of the transaction — they call it ‘issue costs?’ Are there consultants packaging these bonds? If there are, who are they? What are their fees?

Yorubaland currently suffers unprecedented, unfortunate and insulting, venal shut-out in the affairs of the PDP Federal Government. The alternative regimes in the states ought to give reasons for hope, not debt over-hang. Nothing should be done by anyone to bond the race to a future of criminal servitude. Governments have to provide amenities, yes. But have we forgotten what our ancestors said about he that eats benefits derivable from a child even before that child is born? Exactly what Niyi Osundare described as “eating tomorrow’s yam today ”!

Western Nigeria started solid in the 1950s through the early 60s. Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his stellar team gave the West a solid foundation. They made their people first in Africa without hanging ‘slavery bond’ on their collective neck. But after them, what have we had? Public debt, private wealth! Whatever intervening disaster can still be remedied if only we resolve today to make the future more golden than the great start. We cannot do that by mortgaging the future to bonds of bondage.

http://integrityreporters.com/columns/the-crisis-of-yorubas-future-lasisi-olagunju/

iblawi:
Now see 2007

Osun generate more GDP than anambra and enugu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_GDP

Ewu Yoruba have you eating your dinner?

Writing for Naij.com from Magodo, Lagos,

Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye says the Yoruba youths are no longer making their valuable contributions to the political and cultural life in Nigeria. What can the Yoruba people do to restore lost influence?


Lateef Raji, a public policy analyst, in an article titled “Dwindling Oil Revenue: What Next for Nigeria?” posited that today, despite the pitiful state of unemployment in Nigeria, ironically, the nation is still rated as the third destination of investors and one of the fastest-growing economy in the world. Raji noted that Nigeria is a golden land of numerous opportunities for those who are resourceful, ingenious, creative, innovative, inventive, groundbreaking, enterprising, hardworking, focused, visionary and, most significantly, disciplined.

Consequently, as a concerned Nigerian, I want to question the role(s) of Yoruba youths in the current fight against unemployment, starvation and poverty in Nigeria. This question was necessitated by my discovery through indirect observations that Yoruba youths are the most lazy, perfidious and egoistic youths in Nigeria as at today.

I discovered that the pride of an average Yoruba youth has overshadowed his intellectual judiciousness, level-headedness and sagacity. Today, among ten Nigerians submitting their resumes to multinational corporations eight would be Yorubas. Folks from my generation in the Western Nigeria are too lazy to tap from the abundant opportunities that litter the streets of, say, Lagos, for primitive accumulation of wealth.

The Igbos, and, by extension, the Niger-Deltans and the Northerners have indirectly taken over the control of economy of Lagos, Nigeria’s indisputable number one centre of success, excellence and opportunities.

The Apapa wharf in Lagos has virtually been taken over by the Easterners. The data that I got from the Nigerian custom services divulges that 63% of those licensed to transact businesses in Apapa Wharf are Igbos.

More so, data collected from licensing office reveals that owners of 56% of commercial motorcycles in Lagos are Northerners and Easterners. The lucrative transport business has been hijacked from the Yorubas.

Today, the major work of average Yoruba youths on the streets of Lagos is to collect royalty, due and charges from the Hausas and Igbos, using their motorcycles to make cool cash from their land. Ninety-five percent of transport, travel and tour firms operating in Lagos are owned by the enterprising and hardworking Easterners.

The Yorubas stay at various intersections harassing hardworking people transacting their legal businesses in the name of collecting charges and dues for the local government. I also discovered that majority of the few Yorubas riding commercial motorcycles in Lagos are locally-trained automobile engineers that have abandoned their workshops.

Furthermore, the popular Ladipo and Owode motor spare parts markets in Lagos are now solidly in the hands of Igbos. As usual, the Yoruba youths are in the market collecting dues for their local government chairmen and the Iyaloja General of Lagos. Yaba, Oyigbo, Sabo, Oshodi, Agege, Alaba, Idumota, etc. markets have been taken over by the Easterners and Northerners who are predominantly youths.

Let me also assert unequivocally that the Igbo youths are now becoming more prosperous in the entertainment industry than the Yoruba youths. Today, the Yorubas hardly tune their DSTVs to the Yoruba movie channel of the satellite television; rather, they watch some other movie channel that show English movies with actors and actresses of Igbo extraction. Why? Because most Yoruba movies are short of creativity.

I can also articulate that 85% of the CEOs and executive directors of commercial banks operating in Nigeria today are Igbos and Hausas under the age of 50. They are very talented in boardroom politics, unlike their Yoruba counterparts, and they assist each other with an amazing ease.

Educationally, the Yorubas are no longer in the top-three. According to the National Universities Commission (NUC), Anambra, Imo and Enugu have the highest number of professors and doctorate degree holders in Nigeria. Ekiti and Ondo states that used to top the list have been demoted to number four and six respectively.

In 2014, the reports of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) revealed that the Yorubas have been upturned by the Easterners in terms of academic performance. Ekiti, a state known as fountain of knowledge, was number 34 in 2013.

The Yorubas are also missing in the sports sector. The Golden Eaglets, Flying Eagles, Super Eagles, Flamingoes, Falconets, Super Falcons, D’Tigers, other national teams are dominated by the Igbos and Hausas. The team that won the African Cup of Nations for Nigeria in 2013 was tagged Biafran national team by some columnists and social commentators, including myself.

Politically, the Igbos and Hausas are more united than the Yorubas. The result of the 2015 presidential election is a point of reference. The Hausas voted massively for General Buhari of the APC, while the Igbos extraordinarily voted for Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.

Sadly, the Yorubas had no bearing during the election. Jonathan’s inner circle members are currently blaming the Yorubas for their son’s expected defeat. Victorious Buhari’s teammates are reportedly saying that the Yorubas contributed little or nothing to the success of their kinsman.

In conclusion, I want to impel my generation in the Western part of Nigeria to wake up and begin to act. The nation of Nigeria that I am seeing today is hemorrhaging. I suggest we put ourselves in strategic positions. The bitter truth is that our leaders only think for themselves and their children.

scholes0:
Imo Ke??

Which Imo is that? The same IMO competing with the North in IGR?


Hhahahaha.... What is in Imo outside Owerri?
start with Industries in Imo.

From the report bank deposit/credit by states in Southeast from 2010-2015

Bank deposit in Anambra stat #1'844'434.75
Bank Credit # 258'716.37
Balance #1'585'718.38


Bank deposit in Enugu[b] #1'651'741.09[/b]
Bank credit #370'012.75
Balance #1'281'728.59

Bank deposit in Imo # 936'606.57
bank credit #218'853.32
balance #717'753.35

Bank deposit in Abia from #1'031'355.42
bank credit #391'675.25
balance #639'580.17

Bank deposit in Ebonyi #330'841.52
bank credit #93'627.5
balance #237'214.02

Southeast total balance from 2010-2015 #4'461'997.51



From the report bank deposit by states in Southwest from 2010-2015
excluding nation commercial center

Bank deposit in Oyo #1'617'678.48
bank credit #598'298.6
balance #1'019'379.88

Bank deposit in Ogun #1'204'873.59
bank credit # 558'073.3
balance # 649'800.29

Bank deposit in Ondo[b] #821'901.84[/b]
credit #306'621.05
balance #515'280.79
Bank deposit in Osun #648'726.72
credit #417'073.72
Balance #231'653.05

Bank deposit in Ekiti #301'136.23
credit #123,254.46
balance #177,881.77


South west total balance from 2010-2015 #2'593'995.78




Bank deposit/credit from both states from 2010-2015

Bank deposit in Imo # 936'606.57
bank credit #218'853.32
balance #717'753.35

Bank deposit in Ogun #1'204'873.59
bank credit # 558'073.3
balance # 649'800.29

Are you disputing the figures because it didn't favour you, you forgot Imo is oil producing state and one of the most tourist state in Nigeria, this is true figure from NBS not western media propagada, come to Imo then you will know Ogun still have a long way to go

iblawi:
Guy report dey na. Must I educate you on everything free of charge?

Let's talk of education? Which performance you dey talk of? Igbos no go ever see yoruba back when it comes to education.

http://www.punchng.com/education-why-south-west-and-north-should-be-worried/ducation: Why South-West and North should be worried

February 9, 2016
Last week, the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate of Education result was released. The Punch chose to publish the story with an attention-grabbing headline: “Again, South-East leads in the WASSCE performance chart.” The report showed that Abia State dethroned Anambra. The states were ranked according to the percentage that had a minimum of five credits, including in English Language and Mathematics.But the surprise in the report was that almost like in 2014, no South-West state except Lagos was on the top 10 of the chart. The top 10 states were the five South-East states, four South-South states and Lagos: 1st – Abia (63.94 per cent), 2nd – Anambra (61.18 per cent), 3rd – Edo, 4th – Rivers, 5th – Imo, 6th – Lagos, 7th – Bayelsa, 8th – Delta, 9th – Enugu, and 10th – Ebonyi. Ekiti was 11th; Ondo was 13th; Ogun was 19th; Oyo was 26th; while Osun was 29th. In 2014, the top 10 states were similar: Anambra (65.92 per cent), Abia (58.52 per cent), Edo (57.82 per cent), Bayelsa (52.83 per cent), Rivers (52.78 per cent), Enugu (51.91 per cent), Lagos (45.66 per cent), Imo (40.64 per cent), Delta (40.12 per cent), Kaduna (36.12 per cent). Ebonyi was 11th with 36.05 per cent.For 2014, the states with the least performance were Northern states: They were Yobe (36th), Zamfara (35th), Jigawa (34th), Gombe (33rd), Katsina (32nd), Kebbi (31st) Bauchi (30th), and Sokoto (29th). In 2013, the result was similar: 28th – Katsina (10.45 per cent), 29th – Adamawa (8.75 per cent), 30th – Jigawa (7.47 per cent), 31st – Sokoto (7.12 per cent), 32nd – Zamfara (6.65 per cent), 33rd – Kebbi (6.30 per cent), 34th – Gombe (5.68 per cent), 35th – Bauchi (5.28 per cent), and 36th – Yobe (4.85 per cent).Someone from the South-East or South-South could see it as a reason for chest-thumping, but for me, it portends grave danger. Why do I say so? I will explain shortly.
Those who had not been following the trend in education could dismiss this as a flash in the pan. But it is not so. I have followed the trend since the late 1980s. From 1996 when the late military dictator, Sani Abacha, created 36 states out of Nigeria, the three states that have been producing the highest number of applicants in the examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board have been Imo, Anambra and Delta.The Guardian of August 26, 1999, page 31, had some statistics about the 1999 UTME examination. It showed that the six states with the highest number of applications were: Imo (44,274), Delta (36,375), Anambra (34,206), Ogun (33,375), Edo (29,057), and Osun (22,950). Conversely, the states that produced the least number of candidates were all Northern states: Borno (1,572), Katsina (1,054), Taraba (882), Sokoto (782), Kebbi (794), and Yobe (535). The Registrar of JAMB then, Prof. Bello Ahmad Salim, lamented the poor showing of the Northern states, noting that the 65,000 applications from the 19 states of the North were just 20,726 higher than the number of applications from only Imo State. If Imo and Delta states’ applications were combined, that would amount to 80,649 applications: over 15,000 higher than the applications from the 19 states of the North.In 2007, The Guardian newspaper of June 1, page 3, published the results of the 2007 University Matriculation Examination. The top six states with the highest number of candidates were Imo (93,065), Anambra (64,689), Delta (61,580), Edo (57,754), Akwa Ibom (47,928), and Ogun (47,227). The last six were: Kebbi (4,682), Sokoto (3,925), Taraba (3,832), Zamfara (2,904), Jigawa (2,541), and Yobe (2,516).For the 2012 results released by JAMB and published by Vanguard of March 31, the top five states were: Imo (123,865), Delta (88,876), Anambra (84,204), Osun (73,935), Oyo (71,272). The least five states were: Jigawa (11,529), Kebbi (7,364), Yobe (6,389), Zamfara (5,713), and Sokoto (5,664).In the Unity School admission of 2013, the states that got the highest cut-off marks were: Anambra – Male (139) Female (139); Imo – Male (138) Female (138); Enugu – Male (134) Female (134); Lagos – Male (133) Female (133); Delta – Male (131) Female (131); Ogun – Male(131) Female(131); Abia – Male (130) Female (130). The states that got the lowest cut-off scores were: Zamfara – Male (four) Female (two); Yobe – Male (two) Female (27); Taraba – Male (three) Female (11); Sokoto – Male (nine) Female (13); Kebbi – Male (nine) Female (20); Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35).So, for those from the South-West and North who may give the excuse of the South-East and South-South states getting these results by the help of “special centres,” it is a case of trying to hide behind a finger. Instructively, the South-West, which was the first to receive Western education, and was ahead in education, has lost its place in education in Nigeria. Something is killing the interest of the South-West children in education. The six South-West states need to see this as an emergency that transcends party affiliation. This scenario is a source of danger because the South-East and South-West have been counter forces to each other. Whatever feat the South-West produces, the South-East counters it, and vice versa. We can see it in the literary feats of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, the football feats of Shooting Stars and Rangers, the political feats of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo, the academic feats of University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and so on. This healthy rivalry enhances stability, peace and growth in the nation.But if this downward trend continues, in future, that balancing of forces between the South-West and the South-East will no longer exist. And given that the indigenes of the South-East and the South-South dwell in large numbers in the South-West, a time will come when the South-West could feel angry that the indigenes of the South-East and South-South are taking over positions that the South-West indigenes should occupy in the South-West. This may cause problems as witnessed in the xenophobic attacks in South Africa last year. So, it is in the interest of all that the South-West stage a come-back in education.The case of the North is scarier. Many commentators keep quiet about this worrisome issue because of political correctness, but only someone who loves you can tell you that you have mouth odour. It is dangerous that there are 10 million youths in the North with no formal education.The rise of Boko Haram has worsened a bad situation in the North. The few who want to go to school are scared away by this unconscionable terrorist sect.There are those who have erroneously said that the lack of interest in education in the North is caused by religion (Islam). But there are many nations with high Islamic population even in West Africa that embraced education. Furthermore, Northern states like Taraba, Plateau and Benue have a predominantly Christian population. Yet, there is a low interest in education there.There is no proof that Northerners have lower IQ than Southerners. All men are created equal. The prevailing environmental conditions make the difference.So, the quota system is an enemy of the North that every Northerner who loves the North must speak against. Without competition and challenges, there is no burning desire in man to excel.Nigeria runs on a quasi-unitary structure with each link coupled to the other. It moves as a unit. It can only move as fast as its slowest link and perform as good as its weakest link. It is in the interest of Nigeria that the fire of education is rekindled in the North. This will expand the opportunities available for Northern youths and reduce the tensions and suspicion that exist between the North and the South.We must also jettison this failed feeding-bottle federalism that we have and adopt true federalism that allows the federating units to move at their own pace and be competitive. A country that does not promote competition abhors excellence

iblawi:
do you know the current GDP of Lagos and Ogun state alone currently?

Imo state is more viable than Ogun, Imo citizens control more cash than Ogun citizens from ,Ogun is dumping ground, stop consoling yourself with baba Ijebu IGR, a state that can't pay her civil servants and owing many months pension

iblawi:
Idiots of the highest order.

Ewu Yoruba I hope your keeper took you out to eat grass?

iblawi:
Igbo fool

That is in the money left after all the loan deductions. Many states have borrowed money and the money is deducted before the state get anything. At least common sense suppose tell you say osun state no fit collect 6 million while enugu go collection billions.

Ewu Yoruba
southwest states are they most indebted in Nigeria, Your state is even owing my state if you don't know.

iblawi:
Bros Abeg tell us the collective wealth that was used to build Lagos?
Abi you South East governors donate money for Lagos ni?

Lagos is collective wealth go and develop Osun, I'm surprise the way you guys shouting Lagos, no body is claiming Osun, Ekiti, Oyo etc, every yoruba now claim Lagos, that's why all southwestern state look so ancient and backward, up on all the free money your parents got after the war still yet your guys are stagnants.

arresa:
So when Nigeria dabaru and you get your ipob rubbish, shey you go join Lagos to your ipob in SE?

You own Lagos and Abuja, but at the end of the day, you can not join any of them to your ibob village..

You are ending up with nothing but your backward villages..

You people no dey make sense at all..

Village head master I hope the he-goat you call governor don inform you Osun don enter ebay, many investors I tried to convice all declined because of level of poverty and lazy attitude of your kinsmen.

iblawi:
Fool the GDP that other southwest states alone without Lagos add to Nigerian GDP is more than what the entire South east add. This was posted on this same thread except you can't read and understand.

Lagos is a commercial hub not a federal government property

Yoruba made Lagos what it is today. Tell me the thing federal government has done in Lagos since 1999?

You keep shouting Lagos national wealth as if your governors donated money to build Lagos.

Ode I hope you have seen the money shared to states, dodomayana six states in southwest are seeking second bailout funds, with you fake IGR and voodoo economy your governors can pay poor civil servants in your region. Cone head

iblawi:
how many port do you think is in Lagos? Another private port is coming again. The MM2 airport is also privately owned not government property. Abeg Yoruba don too try for una. We are always ready to educate you anytime any day.

Ndi Ofe Lagos is nation commercial hub all tribes contributed in making 70% slum city, southsouth and southeast play major rules in shaping the state economy, go and develop your verious state, once Nigeria cease to exist you can now claim Lagos with north. if you are pain go and join IPOB and protest for quick desolution of Nigeria, let us see how the city will fare, for now we are all stake holders

iblawi:
Another igbo don come.

Oil and gas, even though the oil in Ondo alone is more than the 1 in imo and abia state combined . I never even add lagos that just started exploration and ogun state that is to join.

aircraft parts exports? To who abeg?

port duties even though port no dey south east, and footwear with made in China logo.

Abeg which motorcycle una dey make? N.a. question o.

Even with your oil in Ondo it was a slim gap Onda gave Ebonyi in six years of states finacial records, even with that Ebonyi capital is more developed than Akure

zuchyblink:
The same fake u cannot live without. U are made up of fake.

Same silly excuses for more than two decades southeast has been dominating in education you guys accused us special centers, now on wealth is now fake drugs, I wonder what you guys are using your retuals money for, we all know southwest as capital of retual activities and kidnapping, what are your kinsmen using the money for, seens the money is not reflecting in western transactions, aby ritual money they fear bank?

Yyeske:
Na so, when we tell them to travel and see, dem go dey laugh. Anambra even beats the so called most industrialized state (Ogun).
Open ports(sea and air) in the east and see that of Lagos dem take dey make mouth dwindle to Ekiti level.

na so see the way they are sounding like broken records after exposing their lies, ranting like nkita ala. You know them to well typical Agboros in Lagos their kinsmen is just what you are witnessing, empty vessels, they jump up and down while ranting, when you heat them one heavy Igbotic blow they will clear for road

Super1Star:
Lol. Poverty region that holds over 50% of the entire deposit of this nation. No woder PMB described your worthless and gully eroded region as ''mere 5%''.

How can you even have a brown roof, when your forefathers were too mentally lazy to build towns with centuries of history, they were too military inept to conquer good and fertile land and sexually handicapped to have population to build an empire.

For now Lagos and Abuja are national wealth, go and show your strength in other southwestern

Super1Star:


Yet, they never deemed it fit to migrate to the cursed land of gully erosion.

That says it all.

What am I looking for in your poverty ravaging region when ever I feel like to to sense or feel colonial era I come to your brown roof repubic.

http://www.punchng.com/education-why-south-west-and-north-should-be-worried/ducation: Why South-West and North should be worried

February 9, 2016    Last week, the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate of Education result was released. The Punch chose to publish the story with an attention-grabbing headline: “Again, South-East leads in the WASSCE performance chart.” The report showed that Abia State dethroned Anambra. The states were ranked according to the percentage that had a minimum of five credits, including in English Language and Mathematics.But the surprise in the report was that almost like in 2014, no South-West state except Lagos was on the top 10 of the chart. The top 10 states were the five South-East states, four South-South states and Lagos: 1st – Abia (63.94 per cent), 2nd – Anambra (61.18 per cent), 3rd – Edo, 4th – Rivers, 5th – Imo, 6th – Lagos, 7th – Bayelsa, 8th – Delta, 9th – Enugu, and 10th – Ebonyi. Ekiti was 11th; Ondo was 13th; Ogun was 19th; Oyo was 26th; while Osun was 29th. In 2014, the top 10 states were similar: Anambra (65.92 per cent), Abia (58.52 per cent), Edo (57.82 per cent), Bayelsa (52.83 per cent), Rivers (52.78 per cent), Enugu (51.91 per cent), Lagos (45.66 per cent), Imo (40.64 per cent), Delta (40.12 per cent), Kaduna (36.12 per cent). Ebonyi was 11th with 36.05 per cent.For 2014, the states with the least performance were Northern states: They were Yobe (36th), Zamfara (35th), Jigawa (34th), Gombe (33rd), Katsina (32nd), Kebbi (31st) Bauchi (30th), and Sokoto (29th). In 2013, the result was similar: 28th – Katsina (10.45 per cent), 29th – Adamawa (8.75 per cent), 30th – Jigawa (7.47 per cent), 31st – Sokoto (7.12 per cent), 32nd – Zamfara (6.65 per cent), 33rd – Kebbi (6.30 per cent), 34th – Gombe (5.68 per cent), 35th – Bauchi (5.28 per cent), and 36th – Yobe (4.85 per cent).Someone from the South-East or South-South could see it as a reason for chest-thumping, but for me, it portends grave danger. Why do I say so? I will explain shortly.Those who had not been following the trend in education could dismiss this as a flash in the pan. But it is not so. I have followed the trend since the late 1980s. From 1996 when the late military dictator, Sani Abacha, created 36 states out of Nigeria, the three states that have been producing the highest number of applicants in the examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board have been Imo, Anambra and Delta.The Guardian of August 26, 1999, page 31, had some statistics about the 1999 UTME examination. It showed that the six states with the highest number of applications were: Imo (44,274), Delta (36,375), Anambra (34,206), Ogun (33,375), Edo (29,057), and Osun (22,950). Conversely, the states that produced the least number of candidates were all Northern states: Borno (1,572), Katsina (1,054), Taraba (882), Sokoto (782), Kebbi (794), and Yobe (535). The Registrar of JAMB then, Prof. Bello Ahmad Salim, lamented the poor showing of the Northern states, noting that the 65,000 applications from the 19 states of the North were just 20,726 higher than the number of applications from only Imo State. If Imo and Delta states’ applications were combined, that would amount to 80,649 applications: over 15,000 higher than the applications from the 19 states of the North.In 2007, The Guardian newspaper of June 1, page 3, published the results of the 2007 University Matriculation Examination. The top six states with the highest number of candidates were Imo (93,065), Anambra (64,689), Delta (61,580), Edo (57,754), Akwa Ibom (47,928), and Ogun (47,227). The last six were: Kebbi (4,682), Sokoto (3,925), Taraba (3,832), Zamfara (2,904), Jigawa (2,541), and Yobe (2,516).For the 2012 results released by JAMB and published by Vanguard of March 31, the top five states were: Imo (123,865), Delta (88,876), Anambra (84,204), Osun (73,935), Oyo (71,272). The least five states were: Jigawa (11,529), Kebbi (7,364), Yobe (6,389), Zamfara (5,713), and Sokoto (5,664).In the Unity School admission of 2013, the states that got the highest cut-off marks were: Anambra – Male (139) Female (139); Imo – Male (138) Female (138); Enugu – Male (134) Female (134); Lagos – Male (133) Female (133); Delta – Male (131) Female (131); Ogun – Male(131) Female(131); Abia – Male (130) Female (130). The states that got the lowest cut-off scores were: Zamfara – Male (four) Female (two); Yobe – Male (two) Female (27); Taraba – Male (three) Female (11); Sokoto – Male (nine) Female (13); Kebbi – Male (nine) Female (20); Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35).So, for those from the South-West and North who may give the excuse of the South-East and South-South states getting these results by the help of “special centres,” it is a case of trying to hide behind a finger. Instructively, the South-West, which was the first to receive Western education, and was ahead in education, has lost its place in education in Nigeria. Something is killing the interest of the South-West children in education. The six South-West states need to see this as an emergency that transcends party affiliation. This scenario is a source of danger because the South-East and South-West have been counter forces to each other. Whatever feat the South-West produces, the South-East counters it, and vice versa. We can see it in the literary feats of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, the football feats of Shooting Stars and Rangers, the political feats of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo, the academic feats of University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and so on. This healthy rivalry enhances stability, peace and growth in the nation.But if this downward trend continues, in future, that balancing of forces between the South-West and the South-East will no longer exist. And given that the indigenes of the South-East and the South-South dwell in large numbers in the South-West, a time will come when the South-West could feel angry that the indigenes of the South-East and South-South are taking over positions that the South-West indigenes should occupy in the South-West. This may cause problems as witnessed in the xenophobic attacks in South Africa last year. So, it is in the interest of all that the South-West stage a come-back in education.The case of the North is scarier. Many commentators keep quiet about this worrisome issue because of political correctness, but only someone who loves you can tell you that you have mouth odour. It is dangerous that there are 10 million youths in the North with no formal education.The rise of Boko Haram has worsened a bad situation in the North. The few who want to go to school are scared away by this unconscionable terrorist sect.There are those who have erroneously said that the lack of interest in education in the North is caused by religion (Islam). But there are many nations with high Islamic population even in West Africa that embraced education. Furthermore, Northern states like Taraba, Plateau and Benue have a predominantly Christian population. Yet, there is a low interest in education there.There is no proof that Northerners have lower IQ than Southerners. All men are created equal. The prevailing environmental conditions make the difference.So, the quota system is an enemy of the North that every Northerner who loves the North must speak against. Without competition and challenges, there is no burning desire in man to excel.Nigeria runs on a quasi-unitary structure with each link coupled to the other. It moves as a unit. It can only move as fast as its slowest link and perform as good as its weakest link. It is in the interest of Nigeria that the fire of education is rekindled in the North. This will expand the opportunities available for Northern youths and reduce the tensions and suspicion that exist between the North and the South.We must also jettison this failed feeding-bottle federalism that we have and adopt true federalism that allows the federating units to move at their own pace and be competitive. A country that does not promote competition abhors excellence.

Super1Star:
Tales by moonlight story for children of Umuleri, Abuleri and Afikpo.

southeast are doinating in commerce and industry, education, quality health care system etc, all you can do and your likes is to come online rant and that you crawl back to your face me I face you that littered your region. I'll show you guys another report

Nka eme unu iwa na abania

Emerging trend of social almajiri in Yorubaland By Hakeem Jamiu There is a social malaise which is gradually creeping into the lexicon of Yorubaland and this is the ugly spectre of hungry children begging for food and alms at social events. Older women are equally not left out in this ugly but strange practice in Yorubaland. It is strange in Yorubaland because the concept of almajiri which simply means street urchin is common in the Northern part of the country. Yorubas use to refer derisively to anybody soliciting for arms in Yorubaland in the olden days as almajiri. The almajiri of the North are usually children between the age bracket of 7 and 20 in most cases. Almajiris are so desperate for food that any unsuspecting visitor to the Northern part of the country who goes to a restaurant to eat but mistakenly left his food to wash his hands is likely to lose such to waiting almajiris before he comes back for the food. I first noticed this ugly trend at a ceremony I attended a few months ago at Ayetoro Ekiti. Elderly and middle aged able bodied women from Kwara, Osun and Oyo states invaded the burial ceremony uninvited and were embarrassing guests who refused to give them money. Also noticeable were children with their begging bowls who thronged the venue of the ceremony soliciting for left over food and alms. The children were a pitiable sight. Poverty was clearly written on their faces. I have attended many social functions after that and the same trend was noticeable. But I became worried a few days ago, when I attended the burial ceremony of a friend's father in Ilesha , Osun State . They came in various groups and employ different methods in soliciting for alms. There were the elderly women who were busy harassing guests in the name of praise singing and would not leave until you part with money, there were the men with their public address system which they use in praise singing but which is disturbance and yet, there were Yoruba children in the mould of almajiris with their begging bowls scrambling for left-over and at the same time soliciting for alms. Fellow guests on my table at the event who were also journalists expressed their concern in unison about the growing trend of almajiri of various categories in Yorubaland. They all agreed that it has become a social problem. We started discussing and realised that the culture of begging in the mould of almajiris is alien to Yoruba culture. In those days before the advent of the British, the Yorubas are a proud people known for their hard work and industry. They practiced hoe agriculture and were well known as traders and for their crafts. Yoruba artists have produced masterpieces of woodcarving and bronze casting, some of which date from as early as the 13th century. Many of Nigeria 's best-known artists and writers are Yoruba. Other occupation of the Yorubas at that time were drumming and masquerading which would now be called showbiz. They engage in all the foregoing occupation but a Yoruba man or woman (able bodied) would not beg for alms as it is considered shameful and something akin to a curse. The Yorubas cherish their oriki (folklore) which is a poetic version of eulogizing the exploits of their progenitors which is an incentive for them to excel and even surpass their progenitors. The Yorubas have harsh words for lazy people. Such people are objects of ridicule and butt of jokes in the society. With this background, it is understandable why we became worried with the array of beggars at the Ilesha ceremony. After leaving the party, I reflected on the scenario of the almajiris in Ilesha and I was able to draw a relationship between Political almajiris and social almajiris. I discovered that social almajiri had its root in the advent of the politics of do -or-die introduced into the political lexicon of Yorubaland by apostles of mainstream politics especially ex-President Obasanjo. The grand Patron of political almajiris who recently passed away was Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Many have argued that his death has led to the proliferation of almajiris in Yorubaland. This is because those he hitherto dole handouts to must look for other means of survival since he is no more. These political almajiris are ready to exchange their mothers for few coins. A new political class of men without integrity and anything goes was created and they became political almajiris who survive on crumbs from their masters. They would rig, kill, maim and do all sort of things to acquire political power. With the ascension of these men in power, good governance became a thing of the past. Our collective patrimony was squandered by these political almajiris. Nigeria has never been so blessed with petro dollar with oil selling for $156 dollars per barrel but Nigeria has never been so poor with a chunk of the population living below poverty line. So versions of the political almajiris are the social almajiris that now invade ceremonies in Yorubaland. With these children begging for alms, a ready made market for thuggery and other social vices is assured. The activities of the beggars are not limited to parties. At bus stops in our cities, it is a common sight to see women most of who are still in their mid thirties, who would strap a baby at their backs and approach men with stories of despair to solicit for alms. Many of them would end up in bed with such men. This is another brand of alamajiri and these are Yoruba women. A violent version of almajiri but which is gradually being tackled in Lagos is the 'Area Boys' syndrome. These are Yoruba street urchins who are semi- armed robbers. The underlying factor in this new trend is failure of the Nigerian State on one part and the laziness on the part of these women. Most of them don't want to work, In those days, when everybody's occupation was farming you dare not beg. You must find something to do. But these days, our women and children are too lazy. It is either they steal or beg. In most cases a mother and child become almajiris at social events. So the question now is can a Yoruba man now refer derisively to a Hausa beggar as almajiri when we have many of them now in Yorubaland? The answer is no! This trend must be arrested before it goes out of hand. The almajiris in the North these days engage in novel forms of drug abuse like sniffing of gutter water to get intoxicated, sniffing of adhesives and other drugs so that they are ever ready to unleash terror on the rest of the society whenever they are called upon to do so by the political wing of almajiris. I strongly recommend that guests at public functions must stop encouraging almajiris by giving them money. But can government which itself owns the political wing of almajiris arrest this trend? Time will tell. http://odili.net/news/source/2008/jul/9/221.html

Super1Star:
I never knew it was Nri or Queen Amina or Uthman Dan Fodio that founded Lagos.

Baba God has decided to bless the Land of Oduduwa and curse the land of gully erosion.

Take Baba God to CCT if you are pained,

My friend your kinsmen are dying in penury, I hope you have seen report one of your own wrote about growing Almajiri in southwest, I'll pull it out soon for you to read, stop consoling yourself there is poverty in western region

IamAtribalist:
When an IPOD tries to use IPOB reasoning and logic - I go like this:

Tunde I know you are try to laugh out your frustration, but just know thay this data will fight you in any thread you and your likes , like I told you in other thread from NBS report you can see Ebonyi is doing better than Osun your state and Ekiti