omoelesa:
Thank U For Admiting That Se is A Curse Land With No Natural Resource.As For Biafra U People Should Fight For It Since U People Are Warrior.Nonsence

Lovesdaisied:
I am a bigot for showing that the SW and SE have more in common than not? Hmmm!

scholes0:


Why is it so poor though?
Is it because it was formerly just a backwater province of Enugu state, that received to attention whatsoever?
It is the only Southern state below national average.

tonytony208:


I don't give a damn about ebonyi and their poverty, especially since many of the steupid Igbo's abusing yorubas must have come from that useless poverty stricken state. Their homes are very poor, but the dare call others poor. Useless empty chest beaters!

jcross19:
............. educated illiterate..........All those cloths, shoes , bags and things you have inside your room were bought from south east so wake up and travel

tonytony208:


Eediot, there is nothing like educated illiterate. Illiterate is someone who can't read or write. So, yoiu can't be educated and still be an illiterate. So use your head while making comments. All the shoes, bags et Al are bought in south east, yet you people are rollicking in poverty! Are you people cursed or something? Where should he travel to? Your poverty stricken alaigbo?

Mckennedy:


Needless when Biafrans are all gone back to Biafra land,, then we shall know the true statistics .

jcross19:
ahahhahhaha are you sure , I can sense the pain inside you it seems you have many moniker on here. Well whenever I come outside , one grown man or woman will just come close to me , next you are going to hear is please am going ajegunle and I need 100 from you to complete my transport fair , you see poverty leading cooperate beggers in the street. Well take heart brother don't cry. Find something doing okay bros.

tonytony208:


Yes, you are a bigot. There is nothing common between us. For one, we are not as poverty stricken as you. Secondly we are not ruled by inferiority complex like you. Thidly, we are not empty chest beaters.…...the list is endless.

tonytony208:


You are the eediot that should be crying. Why? Because you came from a poverty stricken village of flaaaaatheads!

jcross19:
that's I said you are educated illiterate!!!!! If you don't know even that boxer you wear now was made in southeast, that suitcase inside your room at the corner, the one use to pack all your cloths was made and bought from southeast. After lagos with respect no any southwest state that can withstand southeast states in terms of industrialisation. In southeast do you know how many places they coupling vehicles? Huh, motorcycles and.....well.

jcross19:
lol na fight take it easy ahaahahhahahah you are big head mofo. Without igbo you can't survive. They come to your land and dominate you . Are you not ashame?

Lovesdaisied:
I came across the below thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/2418994/ranking-nigerian-states-poverty-rates

And was amused by how quick people are to rejoice over what is presented to them, without thinking clearly about the stipulations.

The D***ck measuring contest between the SW and SE was even more amusing, when the truth is that....

SE and SW viritually have the same poverty rate!!!!!!

Let's go over the rates for each state, zooming into the SW and SE specifically. I have excluded border states of Kwara, Kogi and Delta (which are designated as North central and South South, and honestly do not deviate much from what we see in the list). I also excluded Lagos, which is a multicultural bed of different groups and not representative of the strength of each region.

Okay then:

SW
2. Osun 10.90%
4. Ekiti 12.90%
12. Ogun 26.10%
14. Ondo 27.90%
17. Oyo 29.40%


SE

3. Anambra 11.20%
6. Imo 19.80%
7. Abia 21.00%
15. Enugu 28.80%
21. Ebonyi 56.00%


My thoughts....

Osun is only marginally less poor than Anambra (11.2-10.9=.03% difference).

Other SE states and SW states occupy the top lists in equal succession. Look again folks!

The only exception to this is Ebonyi which has a poverty rate comparable to the North. Abysmal, but still....


If you take the simple average of all the states' poverty rate for each region but disregard their populations (which looks like what the OP did in his original thread) you would think that the SW is the least poor. This is just because of the drag that we see in Ebonyi.

HOWEVER.

A weighed average of all the states (taking into account their populations) is a better representative of the poverty rate for each region going by this list. Ebonyi is the least populated state in the SE. Discount Lagos which is a multicultural city and you will see that the SW and SE actually may have similar poverty rates.

I recalculated the poverty rate taking account the populations of all the states. I am basing this on the 2006 census as we don't have any other indicators to go by. If there are more recent numbers I am still certain that calculating the results would yield around the same conclusions.


The real calculations:

SW Population Poverty Rate Population in Poverty
2. Osun 3,423,535.00 10.90% 373,165.32
4. Ekiti 2,384,212.00 12.90% 307,563.35
12. Ogun 3,728,098.00 26.10% 973,033.58
14. Ondo 3,441,024.00 27.90% 960,045.70
17. Oyo 5,591,589.00 29.40% 1,643,927.17
Total 18,568,458.00 4,257,735.10
Poverty rate of SW (4,257,735/18,568,458) 23%

SE Population Poverty Rate Population in Poverty
3. Anambra 4,182,032.00 11.20% 468,387.58
6. Imo 3,934,899.00 19.80% 779,110.00
7. Abia 2,833,999.00 21.00% 595,139.79
15. Enugu 3,257,298.00 28.80% 938,101.82
21. Ebonyi 2,173,501.00 56.00% 1,217,160.56
16,381,729.00 3,997,899.76
Poverty rate of SE (3,997,900/16,381,729) 24%

Now....can these two regions finally shut da feck up and worry about the myriad of problems facing the entire country??

Lovesdaisied:



It may also be the reverse that (as in the case with many industrialized nations such as the US) the immigrants may be better off than the natives on average. Even when the native elites presumably run things.

Or maybe the immigrants are just as wealthy as the natives.

It's a zero sum game arguing about the possibilities so I am treading a neutral path by excluding the state altogether.

WIZGUY69:


Just shut the fuxk up.

You guys brag alot.
I can't just imagine if the iboes are in the same level with the Germans, Americans and the Chinese?.
we won't be hearing word again.

onye nzuzu

tonytony208:


Can you imagine d nonsense you wrote there? You have nothing concrete. Everything is "maybe". Mr, this your post is the height of steupidity!

jcross19:
huh "steupidity" bros take it easy the anger in you have overshadowed truth in you. Take it easy look for work to do.

jcross19:
relax my brother , the kola nut teeth. See they come to your land overcome you build houses in your land, marry your women, infact hail this people.

Lovesdaisied:


Okay. So it looks like Nigerians have a reading comprehension problem.

Not. Repeating. Myself. Again.

tonytony208:


That should be your dad. His head looks like that of someone from poverty-stricken abakaliki!

jcross19:
now I see that in your skull its fish brain that's there. If you don't know in my my state we are oil producing state and in terms of allocation my state any of your state except lagos , in numbers of local government my state beat any of yours except oyo states compare to small land mass of my state to that off osun, ondo state ogun state but poor industrialisation and development.

jcross19:
are you sure? Look at yourself in the mirror you will see that you ass licker. Am sorry to insult you. when they reach the level of those countries you mentioned they become gods to you.

tonytony208:


That should be your dad. His head looks like that of someone from poverty-stricken abakaliki!

WIZGUY69:

hahahaha
mumu
but poverty is eating up your people from ebonyi to enugu to imo.
you know who the boss here.
the s/westerners are way ahead of the iboes in all ramifications.
forget all this nairaland rubbish. go figure that. one fool is even saying that the s/east has the best neighbourhood in Africa.
like seriously.
god help us.

Lovesdaisied:


Yes, I will admit that my thread was created to address the tribal sh*tstorm prevalent in your other thread.

The SW has 6 states. Yes, I agree but you and I know that Lagos occupies a very peculiar position as a state with a HIGHLY diverse population (despite it being located in the SW region). As the former capital territory of the country for close to 100 years and home to significant migrant populations, one can't really discount the impact that it may have on any tribally motivated analysis of wealth and poverty across regions.

Including this in the SW numbers per this thread dismisses the significant number of Igbos who live there too.

The other "core" states that I included have a minority of non-Igbo (for SE) and non-Yoruba (for SW) there but that is besides the point. We know that there is a clear majority as far as ethnic composition in those states.

With that being said, I think that both sides of the coin can now see that that they are more similar than they think.

jcross19:
this one is coming from ondo man. See what you posted that really show that you educated illiterate, even even american leave their motherland for vietnam to reside , you are here spewing dust. [b]All those cloths, shoes , bags and many things you have inside your room were bought from south east[/b]so wake up and travel. Journey is a part of education. What you posted really show that you sit and stay in one place.