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HacheNoire:
Even if she did, it’s is not a crime.

She is doing out of her heart to assist the poor and less privileged.

She is not doing at the polling unit!

No crime committed!

Oga, don't mind them! When Peter Obi does it, they call it good will. This is even better than what he does! This is direct to the common man not to one Oga because of votes.

It's a pity and a very sad picture that the opposition have nothing to campaign with! All they do is look for loopholes in policy statements! What we expect them to do is to ask "how"! but what they do is to throw shades of insults to issues.

ariesbull:
Nigeria’s Single-Motherhood Pattern: What the 2021 Data Shows — and Why No South-East State Appears in the Top 12

A 2021 data graphic attributed to StatiSense, based on Nigeria’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), highlights substantial differences among states in the proportion of children aged 0–17 living with their mother alone while their father is still alive. The underlying UNICEF/Nigeria MICS data examines children's living arrangements at state level.

The 12 states with the highest percentages

Rank State Percentage

1 Bayelsa 19.0%
2 Cross River 14.4%
3 Edo 14.3%
4 Ekiti 13.7%
5 Ondo 13.5%
6 Delta 12.8%
7 Osun 11.7%
8 Akwa Ibom 10.5%
9 Oyo 9.9%
10 Kogi 9.7%
11 Rivers 9.4%
12 Ogun 8.5%


The striking feature is the regional concentration: six of the 12 states are in the South-South, five are in the South-West, and one is in the North-Central. No South-East state appears in the top 12.

Why is the South-East absent?

The first point is important: the graphic does not prove that South-Eastern states have no single mothers. It only shows that none of the five South-East states made this particular top-12 ranking.

There are several possible explanations, but they should be treated as hypotheses rather than established causes without additional research.

1. Stronger extended-family involvement

One possible factor is the traditional importance of extended-family structures in many South-Eastern communities. Where a father does not live continuously with the mother and children, grandparents, uncles, aunts and other relatives may provide support or accommodation. Consequently, a child may not necessarily be classified as living with the mother alone.

2. Migration and household arrangements

Economic migration can separate parents and children geographically. The MICS data itself demonstrates that children's living arrangements are affected by parents living elsewhere, rather than simply by whether parents are married or divorced.

3. Marriage and family norms

Differences in marriage patterns, family expectations and social attitudes could also influence the proportion of children living with only their mothers. However, it would be inappropriate to conclude from this table alone that one region has "better" families or that another has more irresponsible fathers.

4. The statistic is narrower than the phrase "single mother" suggests

This is perhaps the most important caveat.

The statistic shown is essentially about children living with their mother alone when the father is alive. That is not identical to measuring all single mothers, unmarried mothers, divorced women, widows or separated women.

For example, a child whose father is alive but lives elsewhere may fall into a particular living-arrangement category, while a child whose father has died represents a different category. UNICEF's MICS tables explicitly distinguish these circumstances.

A particularly interesting regional observation

The data becomes more intriguing when viewed geographically.

South-South:
Bayelsa 19%, Cross River 14.4%, Delta 12.8%, Akwa Ibom 10.5%, Rivers 9.4%

South-West:
Edo 14.3%, Ekiti 13.7%, Ondo 13.5%, Osun 11.7%, Oyo 9.9%, Ogun 8.5%

North-Central:
Kogi 9.7%

South-East:
No state in the top 12.

That concentration raises a legitimate sociological question: what distinguishes family and household structures in the South-East from those in the states appearing at the top of this particular indicator?

But the answer cannot responsibly be reduced to culture alone. Household composition is influenced by migration, employment, marriage patterns, economic circumstances, parental residence and extended-family arrangements, among other factors.

One important warning about interpreting the graphic

The image circulating online should not be interpreted as a ranking of "bad mothers," "irresponsible fathers," or the morality of different regions. It is a child living-arrangement statistic.

Indeed, UNICEF's national MICS results show that children's living arrangements vary considerably by factors such as age, urban/rural residence and household characteristics.

The more interesting story is therefore not simply "which state has the most single mothers?" but why children's living arrangements differ so markedly across Nigeria.

Bottom line: Bayelsa stands out at 19%, considerably above the 12th-ranked Ogun at 8.5%. The absence of all five South-East states from the top 12 is notable, but the available table alone cannot establish why. It provides a strong basis for further investigation—not a definitive verdict on regional family culture.

Trash statistics! The validity of a result is determined by the accuracy of its premises!

dominique:
Singer Davido and Chioma had their white wedding in Miami, United States of America on August 10, 2025 at The Havana in Miami.

On Monday August 10, 2026 was the first Anniversary of their wedding and while Davido posted a video collage of their Anniversary on his insta story, Chioma ignored the Anniversary post and instead posted lions on her Insta story....

What stood out clearly was that both of them did not tag each other as usual.
Tongues are beginning to wag and i honestly Hope that all is well? We dont want to hear any divorce stories please, if there is a problem ,they should please sort it out quietly and not let naysayers rejoice oh..... God bless!

https://www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2026/08/singer-davido-celebrates-1st-white.html?showComment=1786443042875&m=1

Listening to Obi's rhetorics has confused this one

Pandora papers! Let's check something!

Glimpsetv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TusumzUtOqg?si=2QG3kfVjhona_st9




Source: https://gtvdaily.com/aerial-footage-shows-massive-crowd-at-rccg-2026-convention-in-redemption-city/

Soon, this image will be posted as Peter Obi's campaign ground pictures!

Josepholome:
Social media influencer, Brian Dennis calls out 2Baba over continued silence on issues with wife Natasha

Social media influencer Brian Dennis has called on Nigerian music icon 2Baba to break his silence over the ongoing controversy surrounding his relationship with his wife, Natasha.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7672697043810389269?_r=1&_t=ZS-98nrNZnGMDd

Dennis questioned the singer’s continued silence, arguing that the lack of a clear statement from 2Baba has left room for social media users to speculate about what may have happened between the couple.

According to the influencer, the situation has gone beyond private relationship matters, as competing narratives and theories circulating online could potentially damage Natasha’s reputation in the absence of clarification from the people directly involved.

Dennis urged 2Baba to address the situation publicly and provide clarity, particularly as social media continues to generate different versions of events.

His comments have added another voice to the growing online conversation surrounding the couple, with many social media users also calling for the parties involved to clarify the situation rather than allowing speculation to dominate the narrative.

All these content creators self! I wonder wetin concern una with someone else matrimonial matter! So you want 2baba to address his matrimonial issues publicly? Is that what your father taught you?

Amongst all the aspirants, Obi is the most qualified to be called an illiterate.

fergie001:
https://punchng.com/professors-now-aiding-illiterates-to-rig-elections-obi/#google_vignette

“Where professors are aiding illiterates to rig elections... and people sing 'On your mandate we shall stand', whether stolen or not.”

Speaking at the 2026 Goodluck Jonathan Democracy Dialogue in Bauchi State, NDC Presidential Candidate Peter Obi decries the decline of… pic.twitter.com/6BTuqnGIHh

— Channels Television (@channelstv) August 11, 2026

iwaeda:
Osun Election: A Call For Attention To President Donald Trump- Davido




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Davido is a mumu, a big clown! Now I know that! Calling the president of another country to interfere in the affairs of a sovereign country! Trump should come and do what exactly? Mumu

Oƙpebolo's certificate is a 100 times better than that of his uncle.

See

Mattswaggz:
I'd rather me not marry than create a problem for my self and the society at large....that's how great minds think.

And speaking of mentality you can see where the one you're advocating for has led this country to right?.....are you happy with the outcome?. .

People must realize that marrying isn't a do or die affair....instead living a good name and a good legacy behind should matter much more.

Oga, you're just making mouth! People have been where you were before! At the end of the day, they ate their words! There's more to life than money! I'm not saying money isn't necessary, what I'm saying is that money is a relative term. What you call money might be kobo kobo to someone else! Therefore, A young man is supposed to get a wife if he can provide for himself and one other. If an uneducated man can provide for a family, how much more an educated man? What did he go to school for? That is what the word potential means. Believing in yourself! As a graduate, the moment you start thinking that arranging a CV and jumping from one office to another is how you'll make it, you've already failed! All you need to survive in this life is a skill that's in demand. If you have that, live your life, money will come 8

Mattswaggz:
Almost everyone has different views about potentials and future prospects and hardly would anyone accepts they don't have potentials to make it......people that think and talk like you are forgetting that this is a gamble that if it fails, the society as a whole could bear the burden and face the consequences just as seen in a lot of third world countries......do the right thing and don't be bothered about crowd mentality and neither should you contribute negatively to the environment because you think you know best. .

Oga! Are you telling me that you'll not live your life unless you make money? Some marriages itself are a path to success you know! Agreed, life is a probability but living is not! Also, this is Africa! We're cultured to leave our roots behind! And your mentality matters too if you must succeed.

Mattswaggz:
For every 1 of that your friend there are 9 others who ended up creating a problem for themselves and the society so what's your point?. .

My point is this: if you have the belief and potential that you'll make it, there no point delaying your life. Live it! After all everything has a beginning. Even if you're into business, you'll start small. So why wait until the business succeed before you marry? The main thing is to have an understanding partner.

Justnation:
I said it that you bunch of confused crooks will soon reverse yourselves on the stupid claim that the FCT is a state and does not have any special status. Then you all were just bent on forcing the woeful failure called tinubu on Nigeria

Stop talking nonsense like the mad man from Agulu! Go and do a research on what happened in 2023 before you spew rubbish on the net! FCT has never been a state. That was why the court ruled that it's not necessary to win it to become president.

Justnation:
FCT is no longer a state ?,

you people are a bunch of confused denigrates using Nigerians to play foolery

FCT has never been a state! That is what we were telling your Messiah Obi when he said FCT was a must in the ⅔of 36 and the FCT. FCT is lower than a State. It is a territory not a State.

Chukwudi4naija:
Graduate and married. What good thing the married graduate achieved after being birthed earlier than your children in secondary school?

For one, the stress of raising children in your old age is no small thing! That's what you're suppose to do at your prime, not in your old age. You meet their energy one on one!

helinues:
EFCC can't freeze state accounts without FG being aware. The bigger picture will be considered first.

The freezing was illegal for FG not being aware

Oga! EFCC is an independent entity. They don't need any signature except that of a judge for them to act.

Ibrahim1985:
If one keep waiting for naija economy to improve in order to marry, one might wait till they are 60 year old except you have decided that you are not the marrying type or you are planning to JAPA from Nigeria as a single person or you do not see yourself dating a Nigerian, You know yourself, The economy might improve but no one knows when it will to be frankly honest. You can marry now and wait to have children later. You do not have to start having children instantly as soon as you get married. There are a lot of couples who have married and waited to have children or decided not to have children as a decision. Yes your parents or your elders want you and spouse to have children but if you cannot afford a child now, then wait or only have one child if family pressure is too much. You and spouse do not have to 3 to 10 kids if you are struggling. 1 child is enough, you are not Father Abraham, after all , Sarah had only Isaac.

There was this friend of mine that got married during our university days. We all laughed at him then. This guy saw hell then! Today, that child is a graduate and married while that of us that laughed at him, our kids are still in secondary school.
Time waits for no man. Live your life. The most important thing is that you have the potential to succeed. Because it would be far worse to raise kids at your old age!

Obi's government would be one hell of a jamboree! Today, he's in one secondary school, tomorrow, he's in the bush fighting kidnappers. Then the next, he's in Egypt studying their electricity. The next day, he's fighting subsidy criminality. Jesus!

kaludestiny10:
With dilapidated structures everywhere.
The hostiles in most of this federal universities are not even fit for the rearing of chicken 🐔.

Hostiles indeed! 😊

Racoon:
Alright! What were the outcome of the EFCC investigations data boy? Abi Peter forfeited $460, 000 somewhere in the US due to heroin drug running? Did Obi told a Nigerian court that releasing his public records will cause him "irreparable damage" as Tinubu is disgracing Nigeria in the US?

We are in a critical situation. If the President of Nigeria is riddled with many moral baggages, then it raises serious concerns about the direction of leadership and the quality of people managing our affairs in this country.

However, Tinubu's govt is somehow a blessing in disguise; the only downside is that it's dishing out a bitter lesson to discerning Nigerians. It also exposed a painful truth that some (if not most) of the loudest chanters of "good governance" who defender all these his criminal pasts are nothing but characterless hungry opportunists.

NEXT was seized and close down for money laundering in the UK

You're not worth a reply! When you're ready, use google

Brendaniel:
You that have read it cannot provide the evidence of what you read?

Brendaniel:
And you have proof to your claim ?

Are you a kid? Go and read what happened then

Brendaniel:
So EFCC can freeze a whole state government account without court order?

What was OBJ's offense to Tinubu and his supporters?

Stop being biased. Tinubu created additional LGA while Adeleke was siphoning state funds into corporate accounts.

No

AhmedPeacemaker:
The issue is not about condemning the road for no reason.
The reason why Southern Politicians are criticizing it is because the amount of money involved in the project is huge.

Lagos-Calabar Coaster Highway: $2.05 Billion US Dollars.
In naira = N2.8 trillion

Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway: $1.47 Billion US Dollars
In naira = N2 trillion

Total cost for the two roads is $3.52 Billion US Dollars.

This amount can fix our healthcare and electricity.

Ask Atiku if $16 billion is enough to fix electricity!
The cost of constructing a kilometre of road on a marshy land if far more than that on solid ground. Also the number of bridges involve and their length in the southern part of Nigeria increases the cost. Then the Bayelsa area is a low lying plain. That area needs to be sand filled to over 3 meters!

This is what we expect from that biased cardinal!

Oga, you're a lawyer. Go to court!

youngalex:
Legal luminaries and fellow Nigerians, is it possible for INEC clear a candidate to contest without the basic academic qualification? If yes, does that mean academic qualifications are irrelevant in the quest for public office?

Before asking this question, you should check the constitutional requirements for becoming a president. The minimum is the ability to read and write and have experience in certain field of endeavour.
If leadership was all about educational qualifications, the the minimum would have been a professorship! This is because leadership is not about educational qualifications but about the ability to take hard and fast decisions for the benefit of the country

AMINDA:
Are you having good governance under Tinubu's muslim-muslim ticket? Why is the presidency arguing with the Bishops and declaring that Catholics are not Christians?

It's like saying Nnamdi Kanu is speaking for IPOB not Igbos. One is a part of the whole.

sirchim:
I, sh it man will handle the security, while THIEFNIBU will handle the economy. Now both of them has knocked them off.

Read what you wrote again! Does it make sense? Tinubu should come from Abuja to guard you while your governors collect security votes and do nothing right?
Everyone is responsible for security. It starts from the home, then your immediate community and so on. It does not start from Abuja!

Esn are killers and murderers

esnbrutality:
Abeg where is the drug baron coming for UN General Assembly..?

Remember his certificate is required from Chicago.

Yeah! The $16 billion you stole for power generation needs a power point presentation