European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Fc Barcelona Fan Thread: "més Que Un Club" by nitlad: 11:26pm On Feb 20, 2013 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by nitlad: 12:10am On Feb 20, 2013 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by nitlad: 12:04am On Feb 20, 2013 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by nitlad: 11:49pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
CFCfan: Arsenal's trophyless run continues..
Meanwhile, there is a real possibility that no English team will advance to the quarter-finals. The 2003/2004 season was the last time such had happened; and guess what? Mourinho won the trophy that season with Porto. Guy stop chatting bollocks jor  Shey Chelsea nor reach semi for 03/04 ni abi WTF you going on about  |
Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by nitlad: 11:49pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
ItsModella: Are you high on your urine? 
or are you just looking for my attention today?  Whoa! whoa! whoa! Nor be fight nah Senorita  I'm just making enquiries  I thought yours was a perfect clique. But I noticed things stopped going as smoothly as it used to since you and abiL contested the now infamous Miss Nairaland. Things went awry when Shollypopz and abiL decided to give their votes to a certain Sweetlemon at your expense  no  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Bayern Munich - UCL: (1 - 3) On 19th February 2013 by nitlad: 11:21pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Bayern Munich - UCL: (1 - 3) On 19th February 2013 by nitlad: 9:52pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Bayern Munich - UCL: (1 - 3) On 19th February 2013 by nitlad: 9:51pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
Limaoscar: I don gerrit man...what exactly was that...a joke?
So what now happened to your 'Almighty' Barca thatyear? Go learn some fücking English man.  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Bayern Munich - UCL: (1 - 3) On 19th February 2013 by nitlad: 9:42pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Bayern Munich - UCL: (1 - 3) On 19th February 2013 by nitlad: 9:28pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
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Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Romance Section's Off Topic Chat Room + Derailers Paradise. by nitlad: 8:00pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
[size=50pt]IsiModella nor dey follow dem Shollypopz and abiL roll again like before, wetin happen 
You don collect freedom [/size] |
Celebrities › Re: Elton John And Husband Show-Off Baby Elijah by nitlad: 4:40pm On Feb 19, 2013*. Modified: 6:03pm On Feb 19, 2013 |
Hypocritical pigs!!!! Why do you want a kid when your d1ck/d1ck union can't produce one  It should be made illegal for homo' plebs to have any sorta association with kids! If everyone is as mentally deranged as you demented gibbons, how would reproduction occur  !!!! Oshisko  |
Celebrities › Re: Nairaland Mentioned On Kim Kardashian 's Nigeria Visit On Yahoo Article by nitlad: 10:12am On Feb 19, 2013*. Modified: 11:34am On Feb 19, 2013 |
Billyonaire: And what have you done to put yourself into limelight, criticizing her ? Strawmannism at work!!!!!!! Answer the question: What spousal abuse did she suffer ?!!!!!!!!!If getting to the 'lime-light' is what defines your life, then you are even a worse fame-whor3 git than she is!  You kunty swag-fagg ba$tard!!! Now you Cli!t Kathrashian's kunt lapper, read this and be knowledgeable! Let not your myopia hinder you from focusing on numbers 11 and 12. If you have a brain the size of peanuts, you will see there is more to life than hugging fame and in you and your ho' beast, gutterslime, grossly immoral money grubbing, classless, tactless cow mentor's case, infamy!!!! https://www.nairaland.com/1199318/25-interesting-things-carlos-slimGo and read that you incurable g3nital rash!  Have a horrible day pansy!  |
Celebrities › Re: Nairaland Mentioned On Kim Kardashian 's Nigeria Visit On Yahoo Article by nitlad: 8:48am On Feb 19, 2013 |
Billyonaire: The reason is simple. She is a brand and you are not. Now, should the world blame her cos she was a victim to boyfriend abuse ? Should she, just like an average critic recoil to her momthers kitchen and stay a victim all her life ? I personally know Kim Kardashian is cut out of steel. She is a victor. What spousal abuse are you bleating about  ? Elucidate Mister!  Her s3x tape was a well ochestrated scheme to shoot her to lime-light!!!!!!!! Let her own up to that!!!!!!!!!! |
Celebrities › Re: Nairaland Mentioned On Kim Kardashian 's Nigeria Visit On Yahoo Article by nitlad: 8:27am On Feb 19, 2013 |
Cl!it Kathrashian desrves every vitriolic diatribe coming her way! She has earned it. Her s3x-tapoe made sure of that! If she didn't leak the tape, and she also settled out of court, should it not have been taken off the internet? Why is there still a website charging for it to be downloaded?  |
Celebrities › Re: Nairaland Mentioned On Kim Kardashian 's Nigeria Visit On Yahoo Article by nitlad: 2:14am On Feb 19, 2013 |
Trolling on point!  |
Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Population To Hit 170 Million This Year by nitlad: 8:39pm On Feb 18, 2013 |
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Politics › Re: Bomb Blast Under Amuwo-Odofin/Festac Bridge by nitlad: 3:44pm On Feb 18, 2013 |
aryzgreat: Stop trolling am no homo am bi-s/e/x/u/a/l
Bintu + konki = ? ehmm ehmm Sicktard!  Sharap you rhesus monkey!! Your faggottery tendencies were spotted leagues away! You this paraplegic cl1t!  |
Politics › Re: Bomb Blast Under Amuwo-Odofin/Festac Bridge by nitlad: 3:30pm On Feb 18, 2013 |
aryzgreat: Wia did u read tribal comment?
you are a sick abunna!!!  Your job profiling/stereotyping reeks of tribalism!  You are a stitched twaaaat!  |
Politics › Re: Bomb Blast Under Amuwo-Odofin/Festac Bridge by nitlad: 3:22pm On Feb 18, 2013 |
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Celebrities › Re: Wizkid And Banky.W Fight on Twitter! by nitlad: 8:33am On Feb 18, 2013 |
Billyonaire: Too Early for all these kinds of threads on Front Page, is Nairaland rumour blog now ? I dont understand if the Moderators are confused or if Nairaland has no clear vision. Its Monday morning for Jesus' sake. That it's presence on the front page was made possible by Seun himself makes this all the more nauseating!  Later when SR begins to peddle rumours against his person, he go begin cry blue murder! Character assassination! And all sort of wolf cries! Subjecting these people to this sort of public opprobrium via your forum is a disgrace! |
Celebrities › Re: Wizkid And Banky.W Fight on Twitter! by nitlad: 7:52am On Feb 18, 2013*. Modified: 10:35am On Feb 18, 2013 |
You lot are imbeciles! Gulping this bull crap like it's the fvcking beatitudes! It's either all of you gits posting on here doesn't know what a screen-shot of a Twitter page looks like or you are all just a bunch of pud-whacks! This right here looks like a screenshot of somebody's message inbox. Where are the 'RETWEET' 'FAVOURITE' AND 'REPLY' buttons  ?? Where are the users AVIs   This is just too bland!!!!! https://img.naij.com/n/00/b/wizkid_banky_w_fight.jpgOP you are on Soponna's kill list for bringing this nonsense on here and not leaving it on your useless blog where it would have copped the 2 - 5 views it deserves! You cork-screw!!! |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by nitlad: 7:38pm On Feb 16, 2013 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by nitlad: 7:35pm On Feb 16, 2013 |
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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Population To Hit 170 Million This Year by nitlad: 2:04pm On Feb 16, 2013 |
[size=50pt]Iro nla!!!!!![/size]This huge lie has been expertly tackled and taken apart here before! www.nairaland.com/1087724/Here's the original post from the thread: HNosegbe: [size=50pt]Ladies and gentlemen, below is a piece written by an anonymous author in an edition of the Guardian. It makes for an interesting and revealing read. Mods, this should be on the front page.[/size]
A COUPLE of years ago, I was trying to look for a link between population figures in Nigeria and the monthly allocations from the Federation Account to the states and our local councils. At the time I had just discovered the Federal Ministry of Finance’s website which published the monthly breakdowns in fairly reasonable detail albeit a few months late.
The National Population Commission also had the 2006 census figures on its website broken down to local council level as well as the 1991 census figures broken down to state level. I thought I would find something of a correlation between the sharing of money and population figures fairly easily but I quickly abandoned this task, as it was a nightmare to understand the formula behind the allocations. There are too many different components to the sharing and the only one that is fairly easy to understand is the 13 per cent derivation formula; all of the rest like population, education and even ecology were all over the place. So I moved on.
But the trouble was it had taken me three solid days to extract the census data from the NPC website because the information was in downloadable PDFs that were also ‘security locked’ i.e. I couldn’t copy the data to an excel spreadsheet to make it easier to manipulate. The Internet came to my rescue as I found software to unlock the PDFs and get the data onto a spreadsheet.
Yet again, the data didn’t tell me anything particularly useful. To be clear, there is a link between population and revenue allocation in Nigeria (which explains why our census figures are so contentious) but without some help from people who know, it is hard to work it out. After a few days of staring at the data in frustration, I was speaking to a friend and discussing Nigeria in general when I managed to steer the conversation to census figures. I told him how I had managed to extract the information and how I couldn’t find what I was looking for. He laughed and said ‘every census in Nigeria follows the formula of the one in 1963. The total figure might be correct, but the allocation of numbers follows that formula’. He said it with that Nigerian air of ‘knowingness’ where people are convinced of what they are saying even though they haven’t looked at the data.
So I went back home and tried to test his conspiracy theory. The slight wrinkle in the data was that in 1991, Nigeria had 31 states and by 2006 an additional five states (Nasarawa, Bayelsa, Ekiti, Ebonyi, and Zamfara) had been created. To solve this problem and make sure I was comparing like with like, I simply added the numbers of the five new states to the states from where they had been carved out. So Nasarawa numbers went back into Plateau, Bayelsa went back into Rivers, Ekiti went into Ondo, Ebonyi went back into Enugu (this was a bit tricky as a small part of Ebonyi was created from Abia state but it’s not statistically relevant to affect the comparison here) and finally Zamfara went back into Sokoto.
[b]What I found caused me to rub my eyes in disbelief. My friend was right; the figures followed a formula. There wasn’t even an attempt to hide the formula – it looks as if someone just put a formula in an excel spreadsheet and came up with the numbers.
In 1991, Lagos had a population of 5,725,116 out of a total of 88,992,220 for a percentage share of six per cent. By 2006, Lagos had 9,113,605 out of a total of 140,431,790, again for a percentage of six per cent.
Kano in 1991 had a population of 5,810,470 representing seven per cent of the total. By 2006 there were 9,401,288 people in Kano, again representing 7 per cent of the total. Every single state followed this pattern.
How about the combined states? In 1991 Ondo had a population of 3,785,338 representing four per cent of the total. By 2006 Ondo had 3,460,877 people while Ekiti (carved out in 1996) had 2,398,957 people. Adding these two states together gives a total of 5,859,834 which again comes back to four per cent of the total. This is the same for Rivers – five per cent in 1991 and Bayelsa + Rivers also 5 per cent in 2006.
Pick a random state and the results are the same. Benue had a population of 2,753,077 in 1991 representing 3 per cent of the total and then 4,253,641 in 2006, also three per cent of the total. Akwa Ibom was 2,409,613 in 1991; three per cent of the total and 3,902,051 in 2006, again three per cent of the total. You are getting bored by now so I will stop. I am sure you get the gist. Again I stress – these percentages are exactly the same from 1991 to 2006. The only difference is the FCT Abuja which obviously did not exist in 1991 but had a population of 1,406,239 in 2006 for exactly one per cent of the share of the total. This is effectively a rounding error in the total and so it does not affect the ‘formula’.[/b]
The census figures are now six years old and I did shout myself hoarse at the time about what is a truly scandalous set of figures. I do not know how it is possible to have census figures that grow exactly the same over 15 years. How does Lagos for instance continue to maintain its share of the population when the place is a magnet for people migrating from other parts of the country? We can also conclude that, for the numbers to have been so shamelessly and crudely fudged in this manner, there must be a lot riding on them when it comes to the allocation of scarce resources.
I spoke to some people about this afterwards and they said it is very likely the overall figure of 140,431,790 for 2006 was a very good estimate of the real population of Nigeria given that the EU was heavily involved in the counting and collating process and there was a lot of international help given to Nigeria to conduct the census. But it does seem as if, as soon as the foreigners left, we simply went back to our old ways and allocated the numbers as we have always done.
How do you build a nation on a lie such as this? What exactly is true about Nigeria? Because people who will lie about census figures in this manner will probably lie about unemployment figures and budget spending.
It is never too late to revisit this matter because in a few short years, Nigeria will once again embark on another census exercise. The least we can do is ensure that such a scandal like this is not repeated. This does not mean the 2006 figures should not be subject to a full inquiry; we are a democracy (at least in theory) so whether or not the numbers are six years old, they remain in play for serious debate
For once we should try to tell the truth to ourselves as a nation. Source If you have a brain the size of mustard seed, you will see from the above that this is one cruelly conjured, stupefying, bogus figure!  |
Celebrities › Re: Picture Of Goldie When She Passed Away by nitlad: 7:00pm On Feb 15, 2013 |
OP for this grave and criminal offence you have committed against the dead, may soponna kee you!!!!! Idiota!!!!  |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ivorian Sets Himself On Fire At Rome Airport To Protest Deportation by nitlad: 7:19pm On Feb 14, 2013 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Ivorian Sets Himself On Fire At Rome Airport To Protest Deportation by nitlad: 7:15pm On Feb 14, 2013 |
[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Why would you wanna burn yourself just to draw attention to a cause you won't be alive to ascertain its success? Very dumb. Aren't there other alternatives?[/quote]Ehn ehn  Now that question should be directed to the Dalai Lama , cos koye emi na www.dalailama.com/You can also follow him on Twitter if you sabi use am  @DalaiLama or www.twitter.com/DalaiLama |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ivorian Sets Himself On Fire At Rome Airport To Protest Deportation by nitlad: 6:53pm On Feb 14, 2013 |
[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Smart people. Nobody wants a lick from that fire. Imbe cile prolly thought they'd rescue him.[/quote]O godt!  You don't gerrit do you  Anise, dem this ones nor wan make dem rescue dem.... They want to die! Akin to suicide bombing not involving others shar. This is usually done to draw attention to a cause. Wo help yourself jare www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Ivorian Sets Himself On Fire At Rome Airport To Protest Deportation by nitlad: 6:23pm On Feb 14, 2013 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: Ivorian Sets Himself On Fire At Rome Airport To Protest Deportation by nitlad: 6:15pm On Feb 14, 2013 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: R36L Madrid - Most Successful & Greatest Champ15ns of Spain, Europe & W9rld by nitlad: 5:45pm On Feb 14, 2013 |
^^^ Plastic fan!  |