₦airaland Forum

stonemasonn:
The entire population especially the North-West is over estimated, we're not more than 180 million people.

And how did you arrive at this conclusion? Until we do a proper biometrics capture all we have are estimates

Raskimonojendor:
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1950967443293077878

This is wrong extimate. I believe our population should be around 360,000,000.

Don't ask me if I have been to the North. No region has their population. If the whole SE population are to live in Niger State alone you won't fully occupied Kantagora LG, in Niger State.

Sapiosexuality:
I doubt it though. Have you lived or been to the north? Where exactly are all these numbers? I think we don't have a clue on how many we are. We are probably around 120-140 million

Raskimonojendor:
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1950967443293077878

Come who did the estimate? Be kiafu dia o. haba.

No lies here bros. Mention one politician in the South excluding the Muslim with up to 6 children and I can mention countless North politician with over 10 children each.

omoredia:
Lies. How can a desert have more population than an area close to water. They are lying in order to rig elections

Raskimonojendor:
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1950967443293077878

that's wrong.

unscripted:
there is nọ civilization in the existence of human race where there are more people in the desert than where there is a water source .. nigeria is not more than 150million..

Provisional number of births in the USA in 2024 was 3,622,673. Now bear in mind, this is a country with a population of around 330 million. ((Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr038.pdf) Yet, for the same year, Nigeria issued 10 million birth certificates.

Please learn to argue with facts rather than exaggerated claims about the impact of desertification.

UrPapa:
There’s no way SE won’t be low in contrast to SW
There’s a lot of movement away from SE especially to the SW or SS
I don’t know if it’s political or not but it’s real
A big chunk of the Igbo youth are base in SW or SS and still moving
There’s a big wave of people moving away from the east

Your observations are 💯% correct and on the money. Yet some won't accept the veracity of your conclusions because they never wish to confront reality.

madridguy:
No lies here bros. Mention one politician in the South excluding the Muslim with up to 6 children and I can mention countless North politician with over 10 children each.

U forget that they also have very high death rates. Maternal mortality etc. No where in the world will a desert have more population either human, animal or vegetation than a place close to water. Its all a lie

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been stating this fact for years now but people don't know.

Clean data from JAMB, INEC, NCC and Google maps show proven large expanse of green agrarian unoccupied land in the South-East geopolitical zone which has the smallest land mass area in Nigeria. It is incontrovertible evidence that prior to the use of space and technology, the population of Southeast indigenes have been inflated for political and corruption reasons.

Giving Southeast 5 states from a land mass about the size of Oyo State is a grave injustice to the South West and North which are regions with both high population and huge land mass. The Southeast political elite have been ripping off Nigeria by not turning such a small place with small population into Dubai or Doha.


As a matter of fact, the 3 major tribes in Nigeria are Hausa, Yoruba and Fulani.


That has been done. JAMB data use real biometrics, NIN and registered GSM number. Southeast always turn out the least!

It's so bad that on the analysis of JAMB data, it reveals that about 75% of the JAMB candidates with state of origin from Southeast are registered in South East and about 20% are within the states that border Southeast. Only about 5% are registered in the South West and North. By extrapolation, less than 25% of the total population of Igbo is actually domiciled outside Igboland. It is factually wrong that most Igbo are even domiciled outside Southeast. The population has always been small but overbloated for corrupt purposes by the Igbo political elite and their collaborators in Federal Government.

Oga why are you trying to be mischievous? What you displayed does not in anyway explain the low population even the map itself is grossly inaccurate.

stevebond007:
It is amazing how geographically, a region close to the desert has more population than that close to the sea.

only in nigeria

Southwest does not have more population than SE.
FAKE estimate

A very unreasonable estimation. Let's do the real population census

Buhari was not joking when he used the word "dot in a circle"

And they are already bulabi and balablu about this population estimation, they always kicked against everything if it didn't suit them or not favouring them.

I rest my case....

MrPresident1:
Is like South east people are not joiking enough

President Tinubu need to declare an emergency on joiking in the Southeast. Contraceptives must be banned in the east!

Generally, Nigerians need to be joikng more

With all the baby factories... the population is still low.

All of them have japaed to their Heaven, SW.

omoredia:
U forget that they also have very high death rates. Maternal mortality etc. No where in the world will a desert have more population either human, animal or vegetation than a place close to water. Its all a lie

Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Estonia, Romania, Serbia, the Vatican City (Holy See) all have higher death rates than Nigeria. Check the stats for Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan, and you might be in for a shock as well - since you think it is all doom and gloom in your fatherland.

@Topic.

As usual, Nigerians will fail to see/discern what whatevers from information provided because of ethno-religious bias and sentiments.

This information from statisense is about the number of people in total, not by ethnicity, currently domiciled in regions of Nigeria.

It makes commonsense broadly for SW, the region most Nigerians are migrating to enmasse, to be 44 million.

The SE figure ,with a count of 29 million that bigots and unreasonable people may consider low, cannot be commonsensically viewed surprising as we know Igbos are vagrant by nature always let alone when the SE is now the most troubled and unproductive it has ever been since the immediate period after the civil war ended.

While this information cannot be verified 100% without an accurate census, it makes sense broadly to objective observers and should be a reminder to some, i.e Northerners and Igbos, about their wrong priority and focus in relation to what is in the best interest of their people.

How can nature helps people of vegetation area when decide not to have children?
You will see a man of 30 years old man in vegetation area with good job without a wife or kids but his counterpart in the North his already with 2 wives and 7 children. Its all about orientation and not geographical location.

omoredia:
U forget that they also have very high death rates. Maternal mortality etc. No where in the world will a desert have more population either human, animal or vegetation than a place close to water. Its all a lie

jmoore:
Population of Israel is 9.5 million.

No, it's 11.5 million.

Find out before dishing out wrong figures.

Where did you get your facts?

madridguy:
Don't ask me if I have been to the North. No region has their population. If the whole SE population are to live in Niger State alone you won't fully occupied Kantagora LG, in Niger State.

When you talk about these populations in the manner you do, it's often good to have been to the area to look around for yourself. The projections we are making places Nigeria's population per state to 6 million.

And it we are not to go by that then we have to assume that we have at least 10 states above 10 million lol. Not possible. I was born in the north and I've gone round the country and the only states where I've seen scary numbers is Lagos and Kano. And these scary numbers are still below 20 million.

And one have to also assume that these numbers include visitors etc., who do not register In a proper census.

This is not about water or desert it is about the people. If you are in Lagos let enter the street and check around together.
Let enter Hausa dominated area or market and interview them.
I know a guy personally at abbatior at Agege with 17 children. The guy said his going to 32 because his father has 25 children.

unscripted:
there is nọ civilization in the existence of human race where there are more people in the desert than where there is a water source .. nigeria is not more than 150million..

I think our argument is very different. Nigeria total population could be exaggerated, my point is between the South and the North population.

Sapiosexuality:
When you talk about these populations in the manner you do, it's often good to have been to the area to look around for yourself. The projections we are making places Nigeria's population per state to 6 million.

And it we are not to go by that then we have to assume that we have at least 10 states above 10 million lol. Not possible. I was born in the north and I've gone round the country and the only states where I've seen scary numbers is Lagos and Kano. And these scary numbers are still below 20 million.

UrPapa:
There’s no way SE won’t be low in contrast to SW
There’s a lot of movement away from SE especially to the SW or SS
I don’t know if it’s political or not but it’s real
A big chunk of the Igbo youth are base in SW or SS and still moving
There’s a big wave of people moving away from the east

The insecurity in SE is not helping matters, when a SE man gets rich he quickly relocates to SS (PH, Uyo, Asaba, Calabar, even ordinary Yenagoa), than invest it in SE because of insecurity.

SE is today what SS was in the days of Obasanjo; kidnapping and oil bunkery.

SW has always been a safe haven.


The only thing sustaining SE youths who are still there are the federal and state civil servants, anyone not doing state or federal civil service in SE is leaving for SS and SW.

Pathetic

Worsened by the fact that other tribes are not moving into SE in net droves.

Sapiosexuality:
When you talk about these populations in the manner you do, it's often good to have been to the area to look around for yourself. The projections we are making places Nigeria's population per state to 6 million.

And it we are not to go by that then we have to assume that we have at least 10 states above 10 million lol. Not possible. I was born in the north and I've gone round the country and the only states where I've seen scary numbers is Lagos and Kano. And these scary numbers are still below 20 million.

And one have to also assume that these numbers include visitors etc., who do not register In a proper census.

It will help if you attend to the issue at hand with #Facts and not anecdotes sourced from your travelogue.

In 2023, India - with a population of 1.3+ billion - recorded around 23 million births (according to Unicef).
Yet we know Nigeria issued 10 million birth certificates the next year!

Given these incontrovertible facts, what inference do you draw?

Have you look at the incidents of child marriages in the North? (I was involved in advocacy geared to instituting the Child Rigts Act, so I know what I am talking about). Do you even realise 7 million young Nigerians seek university admission every year?

madridguy:
I think our argument is very different. Nigeria total population could be exaggerated, my point is between the South and the North population.

The north does not really have that number. I doubt it. What part? Where are the people living? I grew in the north and I've been to almost everywhere except the north east and still can't find these massive population we speak about. There is of course a big population but these figures are wrong. I've lived in the north more years than the south even though I'm a southerner but I still can't see how the north have more people.

Sapiosexuality:
The north does not really have that number. I doubt it. What part? Where are the people living? I grew in the north and I've been to almost everywhere except the north east and still can't find these massive population we speak about. There is of course a big population but these figures are wrong. I've lived in the north more years than the south even though I'm a southerner but I still can't see how the north have more people.

Mr/Ms Sapiosexuality, argue with #facts and not conjecture.

If you want to get the actual population of South Easterners, get the state of origin of inhabitants in every state. South Easterners are migrants so this is deceptive.

We don't need to do any census to know the North have the larger population. North was so big that makes everywhere scantling.

Imagine putting the whole Lagos population in a State big as Niger State, believe me many people will doubt if the population is up to 5 million because there will be no more traffic anywhere again.

Put the whole people living in SE to Borno State, someone like you will fight the FG and ask them why they gave them a region.

Sapiosexuality:
The north does not really have that number. I doubt it. What part? Where are the people living? I grew in the north and I've been to almost everywhere except the north east and still can't find these massive population we speak about. There is of course a big population but these figures are too wrong. I always wonder how the north has more population than the south. How exactly? I've lived in the north more years than the south even though I'm a southerner but I still can't see how.

Ebubu:
The insecurity in SE is not helping matters, when a SE man gets rich he quickly relocates to SS (PH, Uyo, Asaba, Calabar, even ordinary Yenagoa), than invest it in SE because of insecurity.

SE is today what SS was in the days of Obasanjo; kidnapping and oil bunkery.

SW has always been a safe haven.


The only thing sustaining SE youths who are still there are the federal and state civil servants, anyone not doing state or federal civil service in SE is leaving for SS and SW.

Pathetic

Worsened by the fact that other tribes are not moving into SE in net droves.

If a real census were taken you will find that other ethnic nationalities are also very abundant in the SE. One Igbo woman once told me she went to Enugu and was surprised the place is filled with Hausas. She actually said half of Enugu is Hausa. I have never been to Enugu myself. Then Yoruba artisans as well as professionals even traders are plenty in the East just like Igbo traders and etc are plenty in the west. While at OAU Ife I knew a Yoruba that grew up in Enugu and another in Aba. There is no border against migration in the country and many things can make you shift base including marriage. All zones have people from other zones in great numbers