₦airaland Forum

Mayflowa:
What is wrong with Nigeria? You do not just divide a state. To what end? Texas state in United States is slightly less than the full Nigeria. No one ever talks of dividing Texas. The larger the size, the better the resources. United states has never divided its states since 1800s. They only buy states from other country to add to their number of states.

DeOTR:
Kebbi and Sokoto states have no business being two states. They should be one. Same as Kano and Jigawa. I don't even know why Yobe and Borno should be different states or Gombe and Bauchi.
Do you think Kebbi, Gombe, Jigawa or Yobe would have a state if they weren't before now?
Ibadan is more economically viable than all the aforementioned states combined. Ibadan satisfies every criteria for State creation, so I don't know your problem.

kheny12:
Ibadan state will be a good idea.... because Oyo state is too large and can carve out like 3 other states.

PigTormentor:
No need for Ibadan state. The states that we have now is enough.

Difrent:
State creation is done to put some agitation to rest. Creating Ibadan state will make political social and economic development spread to the other parts of the present Oyo state have which have been largely neglected because Ibadan alone takes 2/3rd of almost everything.

Besides , Oyo is the largest southern state by land mass, almost as big as the entire south east. Other states needs to be broken too like Kaduna , Niger and Borno. But I don't agree with all agitators even though I wouldn't want to deny them the opportunity to try and make a case for themselves

gidgiddy:
State is not based on land size, its based on population. The population of Oyo may not be up to that of Anambra

gidgiddy:
State is not based on land size, its based on population. The population of Oyo may not be up to that of Anambra

RISQUE:
What's the population of Oyo State?

Goodvibes007:
And Oyo has more population than Anambra.

shox:
Yoruba- Fulani go dominate ido osun

malali:
What exactly is the criteria for demanding statehood?

If someone insists that Ibadan should be made a state, shouldn’t he face the public in a proper press conference to explain why?

Look at America:
• Texas is so massive you can drive 24 hours across it and still be in the same state.
• Some U.S. states even stretch across multiple time zones.E.g California.

Yet, they’re not breaking themselves up into little fragments every time someone feels entitled.

Meanwhile, here, every small local government with three roundabouts wants to crown itself a “state.” For what? Prestige? More political appointments? Access to federal allocation?

This constant agitation for micro-states is unserious. Real states are built around economic viability, infrastructure, and governance capacity, not just sentiment.

Until someone can define the hard criteria, population size, GDP output, landmass, resources, this noise about turning every LGA into a state is nothing but a distraction.

JustYourself:
States in Nigeria is equivalent of counties in USA and Nigeria a equivalent of sates in USA since some state in USA is as big as nigeria such as Alaska and california which almost equivalent,for me more states and LGAs should be created and LGAs made autonomous as this will help bring development much closer to the people and help reduce poverty as it is obtainable in UK.

malali:

Tell us why Ibadan should be a state.
Have you been to Niger state ?
Have you been to kwara state ?
Give us metrics.

DeOTR:
The proposed ibadan state as we know it is more economically viable than Niger would ever be. Ibadan metro alone is almost 4milli in population. What exactly are the remaining criteria after economic and demographic? Argue with statistics. I'm from Kwara State in case you're confused.

malali:
2023 Internally Generated Revenue (IGR)
• Oyo State: ₦52.74 billion (₦40.52B taxes + ₦12.12B MDAs)  
• Kwara State: ₦59.64 billion (₦23.12B taxes + ₦36.51B MDAs)  

Kwara generated more IGR than Oyo state in 2023. There are statistics to prove this and Kwara has more IGR growth than Oyo state. Voodoo politics must stop in Nigeria, we have numbers and statistics to prove it.

DeOTR:
Stop bringing statistics from thin air. You're not dealing with almajiris here.
Of course, you can't justify why almajiri states are being duplicated just for them to enjoy more national cakes unmerited and had to resort to Kwara State. Does Kwara State resemble your average northern state? Kwara is a progressive state with 65% Yoruba populations. We're not beggars.
I've added the screenshot for you to compare since you decided to manufacture your own data. Note that more than half of what you see coming from Oyo state is from the ibadan area. Please explain why we have a Niger or kebbi states, but we can't have ibadan state?

Goodvibes007:
Only kano, lagos, katsina, bauchi have more population than Oyo.