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That information is wrong.

1 South Africa 49 million people
2 Egypt 84 million people
3 Algeria 34 million
4 Morocco 30 million
5 Nigeria over 150 million
6 Libya

Population does not mean economy power. China 1 billion people is less rich than the USA 300 million

Ikengawo:

this brings me back to the actual subject of the thread

i think the will be the first part of Nigeria to develop,and it's already being seen in Rivers which is miles ahead of the rest of the country in HDI, and i think it will be the least focused on social welfare programs because is a very un-igbo concept.

jason12345:

LOL!!!
To be more serious guys, what are WE doing to make a difference, to improve the situation or are we just going to wait for the government to do everything?? there are alot of NGO's in this sector but they lack funding, have WE helped them out??
during our NYSC days, did we teach them appropriately and implement the SEED of hard work and confidence in them??
little things like that can make a difference!!!(remember: a drop of water wil one day make an ocean).

Myne White:

why should they have to eat so little?

Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria is planning tax incentives and improvements to infrastructure in order to attract foreign investors to the country's mining industry, Mines Minister Musa Sada said.

The government "will offer a three-year tax holiday to new companies," Sada told reporters in the capital, Abuja, today. They will also cut the capital gains tax to 10 percent, from 20 percent and companies' profit tax to 30 percent, from 35 percent, he said.

Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer, has reserves of iron ore, gold and coal, among other minerals, according to the ministry's website. Foreign investment in the industry is part of the government's plan to boost revenue from other sources and cut its dependence on oil earnings.

Regulations on health, safety and the environmental impact of mining industries are being planned for next year, Sada said.

The West African nation is also planning to improve access roads to remote mines, he said.
--Editors: Emily Bowers, John Simpson.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/10/18/bloomberg1376-LAHVJ86TTDS201-1QDFNNV0TA9MMHCN18E79O1I7F.DTL#ixzz12jwoucOs

The United States of America (USA), at the weekend, denied that it believed that Nigeria would disintegrate in some years from now.

The new US Consular General to Nigeria, Mr Joseph D. Stafford, stated this on Friday, when he visited the Executive Director of an Ekiti State-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), New Initiative for Social Development, Mr. Abiodun Oyeleye, as part of his familiarisation tour of states of the country.

Stafford said it would amount to doomsday prediction for anybody to say that Nigeria would break or that its oil resources would dry up, adding that the country was strategic, not only to West Africa or the entire continent, but also the whole world.

He added that based on the belief of the USA in Nigeria, he cared, as new world power’s  Consular General to Nigeria and that was why he decided to familiarise himself with states of the country.

He said the United States government was putting in place measures to make accessibility to US visa less stressful, adding that the country was also strengthening bilateral relationships with Nigeria.

“It is doomsday prediction for anybody to say Nigeria will disintegrate. The US does not believe in that. In fact, we are strengthening bilateral relations with the country.

“Nigeria is highly important, not only to the West African sub-region and the entire continent, but also to the entire globe. We are interested in the Niger Delta and the overall security of Nigeria.

Ileke-IdI:

Another thing you could do is find one/more of our NL programmers/geek to coordinate a site for the WP, so that we can know  the budget, where the money goes and basically get updates on the service.

kcjazz:

^^^The South is better even with less government presence, even with their hold on power the Northern leaders have failed their own people

Abuja — Amidst mounting political intrigues foreshadowing the 2011 presidential election, former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu entered the fray yesterday, declaring that he will run for the top job under the platform of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA).



In the unfolding presidential scenario which has pitched the north against the south, Kalu's entry is seen to have opened a significant third front and also represents the first definitive voice from the South-east zone to challenge for the presidency ahead of 2011.

Speaking in Abuja yesterday, Kalu said he had the best credential of all the aspirants jostling for the plum job, adding that he was running to represent the oppressed people of Nigeria and the deprived and marginalized Igbo people living in Onitsha, Aba, Enugu, Ebonyi and all parts of Nigeria who are still feeling that the civil war has not formally ended going by their alienation in the national scheme of things.


"Nobody has thought that in 20 years since the relocation of the seat of power from Dodan Barracks, Lagos to Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, no Igbo man has lived in either the upper or the lower level. Is that justice?', he asked rhetorically. 'We are the salt of the nation. When you go to anywhere from Birnin Kebbi to Nembe; that is, from Sahara desert to Atlantic ocean, you will see canoes and the people you see living there are Igbos. We are the salt of the nation. We are the only people who go to one part of the nation and we start building our houses and make that place our home. So, why don't you make us president? I ask this question as a matter right; that it is our right today to produce the president of this country."

Kalu said given his pedigree as a successful entrepreneur, he has what it takes to turn the poverty of the country to posterity. His words: "Everybody just wants to be president and they have no idea of what it takes to be a president. I am a Nigerian Chief Executive Officer (CEO). I see myself as a CEO.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Members of a radical Muslim sect shot and killed a political leader in northern Nigeria, the latest attack by a group that engineered a massive prison break last month, a police commissioner said Thursday.
Police commissioner Ibrahim Abdu told The Associated Press that investigators believe members of the feared Boko Haram sect shot and killed Awana Ngala, the leader of the state's ruling All Nigeria People's Party. The attack came only three hours after suspected group members shot two security agents stationed Wednesday night outside the home of the speaker of Borno state's House of Assembly.
Ngala's killing could mark the 11th slaying by the Boko Haram sect in recent weeks. The group has lately been responsible for a rash of killings committed by Kalashnikov-carrying men riding motorcycle taxis, and Ngala's death fits that profile.
Many of the killings targeted those who testified against group members in open court after a 2009 riot that sparked a security crackdown that left more than 700 people dead.
Abdu said no arrests have been made.
"We have intensified our investigations on the serial attacks and killings," Abdu said.
Boko Haram — which means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language — has campaigned for the implementation of strict Shariah law. Nigeria, a nation of 150 million people, is divided between the Christian-dominated south and the Muslim-held north. A dozen states across Nigeria's north already have Shariah law in place, though the area remains under the control of secular state governments.
In recent months, rumors about the group rearming have spread throughout northern Nigeria, though its former leader died in police custody after the 2009 riot in what human rights activists described as an extrajudicial killing. A video recording released in late June showed a Boko Haram leader calling for new violence as the one-year anniversary of their attack neared.
In September, the sect launched a coordinated attack on a federal prison in Bauchi that held many of its followers arrested following last year's riot. The raid freed about 750 prisoners — many of whom were members of the sect that still remain at large.

oyb:

the same muslim owned agency that reported on boko haram?

stop running from pillar to post and admit what we can all see

[size=38pt]GEJ is a failure and a (bad) liar to boot[/size]

he has failed us all and he cannot be trusted

Ehoi:

Lets put it this way. You are upset with your dad and started acting rudely and being destructive.
You have already assumed the kind of hard response your dad would come up with and you are prepared for it. But instead of calling you a bad son, your dad says you are a good boy and you only just missed your way a bit. Whatever anger that may be boiling inside you would just melt away. The bible says a soft answer melt great wrath.