₦airaland Forum

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

You're very correct. The accurate population figure might even be somewhere between 120m and 150m.

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.

I can feel your pain and sadly it will.continue for more years to come. Show me any state in Nigeria that has non-green zone around it? But like the venom keep biting you, SE is your problem, you believe every other data is accurate but SE own was bloated. Prepare for more heart ache.

Every empirical data shows SE remains the most urbanised region in Nigeria apart from Lagos but as usual, you will everly cook your own data from your bedroom

Big lie how can a desert North West be more populated than South south, South East, South West, stop this lies , why is Chad and Niger republic is not populated

Population if productive is an asset any nation can have if not it's a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

20M out of school children in the north are still part of population count , only good enough on election day

ggood:
Big lie how can a desert North West be more populated than South south, South East, South West, stop this lies , why is Chad and Niger republic is not populated

Perhaps, that's because there are more teenagers raising children in the North.

The lowest adolescent birth rates are registered in Lagos (22) and Anambra (16). The highest rates are in Bauchi (166) and Jigawa (156).

SmartPolician:
We need to stop this estimation and do a proper census using biometrics to capture authentic information from real people. I don't know why this country is afraid to find out the actual tribal and religious makeup of its own people.

They didn't count those Nigerians in Asian prisons that's why South East is the lowest

madridguy:
A very accurate and perfect survey.

I hope by the time the FG is ready to do the proper census we won't have any region opposing it.

Meanwhile, I'm laughing at some people trying to fault the stats, no how the South can come near the North in numbers.

Check around and see their governors, the number of their wives, and children and go out there to interview an average northerners, a man of below 30 years old is already with over 5 children.

how come Niger and Chad population is less than 45M. People are they not marrying for wife's?

madridguy:
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.

They also Bleep on time too. Access to good health care is also very limited. So it evens out in the end. Beside maternal mortality is high meaning a loss will always be both mother and child.

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

Na lie!

They're mostly languishing in Asian prisons

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

Northwest is no where near 50 million talk more of 62 millions. Make we stop dey deceive ourselves.

madridguy:
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.

You are arguing that they are sparsely scattered and big in their localities yet Alimosho LGA has the highest number of persons in Nigeria. Yet in the top ten lgas only Maiduguri makes the list.

The truth is that our data collection at all levels is deeply flawed and hence we can never truly know. It's pointless analysing a pointless data. That's why we are using our eyes and experiences in the absence of that.

Trying to analyse a data that was collected using a flawed method is a waste of time. I know how census is also conducted in the north especially in the Ba Shiga homes.

Shawarmagirl:
The South East is the Israel in Nigeria. Small but mighty. They can't be intimidated, bold, industrious and ready to confront their adversaries.

They are bold until it is time to open shop on Monday.

Chinedu 45 years one wife and two children
Shehu umaru 45 years three wives 12 children
Bayo Adewale 45 years two wives 7 childre

Uncletony:
The westners will tell u the easters don't have population, not knowing that lagos alone is 60% easthners

Make it 95%. Yorubas are 2% while the rest of the tribes are 3%. Shebi you forget say we have about 5 other Yoruba states around Lagos and Kwara State which is 60% with Yorubas having second largest population in Kogi? You think ibos are the only ones that love to travel to Lagos? You people are too unreasonable. Even if you empty the whole of South East into Lagos, Igbo population can not be high than Yoruba. That's a fact.

Bros we are both still saying the same thing. The North lobby for many local government and this is the reason Kano State has over 44 local government to get more allocation and Lagos has lesser local government. Tinubu is also planning to elevate the status of every LCDA in Lagos State to Local Government as well.

Sapiosexuality:
You are arguing that they are sparsely scattered and big in their localities yet Alimosho LGA has the highest number of persons in Nigeria. Yet in the top ten lgas only Maiduguri makes the list.

madridguy:
Bros we are both still saying the same thing. The North lobby for many local government and this is the reason Kano State has over 44 local government to get more allocation and Lagos has lesser local government. Tinubu is also planning to elevate the status of every LCDA in Lagos State to Local Government as well.

What am saying is that because of the way the north practices religion, their culture, the flawed states of our systems, and their traditions, it is very difficult to make sense of the statistics. But from what I've seen, from my experience, I don't see how the population figures are right.

DaddyJapan:
I think you are shooting the breeze.


Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/654910-npc-registers-420000-births-in-gombe-laments-reluctance-to-register-deaths.html

Do you know what it means to have more than 400K extra mouths to feed in one northern state, in just one year (2023)?

Oga, that figure is bogus. The gombe state I know is just about the size of bayelsa in population. Make we stop nonsense. There's no the whole country will register 10 million births annually, here you are quoting the same NPC lies of 400k+ births only in gombe. No be magic be that?

It is not about religion or culture, our leaders don't just need our actual number because it will expose them all.

Phone number, bank account, NIN,BVN, strict birth and date certificate are enough to get atleast 90‰ accurate number of our population.

Sapiosexuality:
What am saying is that because of the way the north practices religion, their culture, the flawed states of our systems, and their traditions it is very difficult to make sense of the statistics.

immaculatesense:
You are 100% correct.
I do tell people that the population of Hausa people in SW is more than that if Igbo people. But the issue is that Igbos have been integrated with inter tribal marriage with Yorubas which has made them part of us until recently. But an Hausa man will still go back to his town to bring his wife here.
Hausas are more than Igbos in South West but Igbos are more integrated due to Marriage and Education.
The fact is that there are more Yorubas in the North like Kwara, Kogi, Nigeria, Nasarawa, Kano and Kaduna than Igbos but Igbos dey always cause trouble which makes them popular and gives them the wrong impression that they are many.

Yorubas are at least 60% of Kwara, second largest population in Kogi. And they're indigenous to these states. You can mention any other states in the North. Kwara are Kogi have indigenous Yoruba populations.

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.

So it's about landmass abi wetin? Aba alone is larger than the whole Niger state combined or you don't know?

For that south west Lagos alone has over half the population which comes from many tribes of the nation

DeOTR:
Oga, that figure is bogus. The gombe state I know is just about the size of bayelsa in population. Make we stop nonsense. There's no the whole country will register 10 million births annually, here you are quoting the same NPC lies of 400k+ births only in gombe. No be magic be that?

Enrollment figures for NIN as of June 30, 2025.

Bayelsa - Female: 357,333
Male: 434,230
Total: 791,563

Gombe - Female: 874,587
Male: 1,239,957
Total: 2,114,544

Source: https://nimc.gov.ng/nin/enrolment-report/june-2025

When you are ready to back up your contrarian view with evidence, hit me up again.

Live Births in Kwara State

In Kwara State, a total number of 95,565 births was recorded in 2023, comprising 47, 980 females and 4 7,585 males.

Also a total number of 105,692 births were recorded in 2024, comprising 52,707 males and 52,985 females.

The data were obtained from the Ilorin office of the NPC.

Live Births in Jigawa State

In Jigawa State, there are 20 General Hospitals and over 230 primary healthcare centres across the 27 local government areas.

At Jahun General Hospital, 6,742 live births were recorded in 2023 and 6,304 in 2024. At the Birnin Kudu General Hospital, 2,187 births were recorded in 2023, and 1,833 in 2024. The data from the NPC in 2023 was 324,235 live births and 306,215 in 2024.

Source: https://leadership.ng/national-population-birth-rates-fluctuate-across-states-in-3-years

madridguy:
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.

It's true. You have to have sustainable sources of water to support civilization. Someone breeding like rabbit in Lagos is different from someone doing same in Kano. That's the difference. For every northerners you see, at least two of them are either from Chad or Niger. Stop deceiving yourself.

madridguy:
A very accurate and perfect survey.

I hope by the time the FG is ready to do the proper census we won't have any region opposing it.

Meanwhile, I'm laughing at some people trying to fault the stats, no how the South can come near the North in numbers.

Check around and see their governors, the number of their wives, and children and go out there to interview an average northerners, a man of below 30 years old is already with over 5 children.

Remove the Middlebelt which are generally an extension of the south, the SOUTH n middlebelt trumps the north by far

Sapiosexuality:
You are arguing that they are sparsely scattered and big in their localities yet Alimosho LGA has the highest number of persons in Nigeria. Yet in the top ten lgas only Maiduguri makes the list.

The truth is that our data collection at all levels is deeply flawed and hence we can never truly know. It's pointless analysing a pointless data. That's why we are using our eyes and experiences in the absence of that.

Trying to analyse a data that was collected using a flawed method is a waste of time. I know how census is also conducted in the north especially in the Ba Shiga homes.

Don't mind the guy. They count 10 for each person in ba shiga. Everything about the core north is over bloated. Even voter's registers is full of faces of people that are obviously toddlers.
Wetin pesin never see for this country?

I laugh... See ESTIMATION! The owner of this blog is really on an agenda 🤣🤣😂😂.

South East is far more than 50 million.

I don't like to argue too much. Enter the street and do the needful for yourself.

An average 7-10 Northener men within the rage of 20-30 years old will together have over 50 children.

Do the same survey for their counterpart in South and you will be surprised they won't have up to 15 children.

okpouman:
Remove the Middlebelt which are generally an extension of the south, the SOUTH n middlebelt trumps the north by far

DaddyJapan:
Enrollment figures for NIN as of June 30, 2025.

Bayelsa - Female: 357,333
Male: 434,230
Total: 791,563

Gombe - Female: 874,587
Male: 1,239,957
Total: 2,114,544

Source: https://nimc.gov.ng/nin/enrolment-report/june-2025

When you are ready to back up your contrarian view with evidence, hit me up again.


Source: https://leadership.ng/national-population-birth-rates-fluctuate-across-states-in-3-years

The two biggest towns in gombe state are gombe and kaltungo. Both are not even up to million in population. You can choose to believe nonsense. Gombe state is about the size of bayelsa. You're quoting NIN that some people registered multiple times in the North? It would have been a different thing if I didn't know gombe

DeOTR:
The two biggest towns in gombe state are gombe and kaltungo. Both are not even up to million in population. You can choose to believe nonsense. Gombe state is about the size of bayelsa. You're quoting NIN that some people registered multiple times in the North? It would have been a different thing if I didn't know gombe

You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts!

@All,
We cannot argue that there is provable high incident of child-marriages and out-of-school teenagers in the north - as I suggested earlier- only to then feign ignorance when confronted by its resultant outcome.

ARISHEM:
South east is lowest because they are all coming to Lagos. Not to talk of others that are moving to India, china and Ghana with their excuse of developing those places

What is the population of Ibos in the entire SW ?
They are not more than 500,000. We have the stats unknown to them.
We don't know of SS and the north.

FYI, the entire Ibos in Lagos took part in the 2023 presidential electioñs with none voting for any other party but LP

LP's total votes was 800,000 or thereabouts.
Inclusive in this figure was a large number of Yorubas who hated Tinubu to the bones.
Yet inclusive are Yoruba Christians and other minority tribes who voted against the muslim-muslim ticket.
Yet inclusive in the figure were a massive migration of Ibos from the SE to Lagos for the purpose of the election as confirmed by the INEC REC, Lagos. Many of them also criminally transfered their cards to Lagos.
Also confirmed with evidence, were a massive rigging numbers.

BlakKluKluxKlan:
What is the population of Ibos in the entire SW ?
They are not more than 500,000. We have the stats unknown to them.
We don't know of SS and the north.

FYI, the entire Ibos in Lagos took part in the 2023 presidential electioñs with none voting for any other party but LP

LP's total votes was 800,000 or thereabouts.
Inclusive in this figure was a large number of Yorubas who hated Tinubu to the bones.
Yet inclusive are Yoruba Christians and other minority tribes who voted against the muslim-muslim ticket.
Yet inclusive in the figure were a massive migration of Ibos from the SE to Lagos for the purpose of the election as confirmed by the INEC REC, Lagos. Many of them also criminally transfered their cards to Lagos.
Also confirmed with evidence, were a massive rigging numbers.

But what we ought to think here is, if that's really true how come these same Igbos who migrated to vote against APC in the presidential election didn't vote against APC in the gubernatorial? Does it really make sense? Or make it make sense.