₦airaland Forum

superstar1:
Read up on Jalumi war and you will see that we do not need the help of anybody. Hey, Kogi warriors are busy pillaging your land, face it. Better still recover your hijacked abandoned properties and rename your town Obigbo that was renamed.

Igbos are not cowards, they merely reason with their chests and not their brains.
I have told the world who the ingrates and parasites.

How we were treacherous? Are you not daft and stup1d enough to place your destiny in the hands of another. Did we even ever had any pact or agreement with you? So what is the basis of the treachery? Our forefathers and fathers were never in contact you and either do we have any relationship with natural born losers.

Nyamiri from the land of red mud, we shall continue to disprove all your lies and false heroics of your uncles on NL, till you learn.

superstar1:
Please tell us how yorubas took everything you had, Mr Liar?

The fact is a yoruba man gave you Amnesty Programme of £20 (equivalent of 500k of today) to jump start your miserable lives that you ruined with your futile war expedition, despite the fact that you looted the banks in Biafra, looted all the CBN branches in Benin, Calabar, Enugu and PH and you never worked for FG for 3years.

That is a fact.

totit:
Oleeeee omo yeeboo
See wayaoo fraud alert

2009 stats
Shame on you.
Here is the link(pic below) provided by you.

Olodo. Even you link proves me right.
Poverty rate in SW is low when compare with SE counterpart.
Yeye

Ojiofor:
You mean they will scamper abroad to join the radio Biafra Director,chairman,president,and commander in chief of IPOB himself,Nnamdi Kanu?
Well,it's safe to be an Internet/radio freedom fighter/warrior until you cross a red line like Benjamin Onwuka of BZM .Talk is cheap and that's all Kanu does.

superstar1:
Please tell us how yorubas took everything you had, Mr Liar?

The fact is a yoruba man gave you Amnesty Programme of £20 (equivalent of 500k of today) to jump start your miserable lives that you ruined with your futile war expedition, despite the fact that you looted the banks in Biafra, looted all the CBN branches in Benin, Calabar, Enugu and PH and you never worked for FG for 3years.

That is a fact.

tonychristopher:
This piece was prompted by what I saw as benign ignorance amongst some of our Ibo folks and because such ignorance is music to the ears of some other people and Yoruba in particular. In more than one occasion my friends and other Ibo have advanced the argument that if Ibo was that smart, how come Yorubas dominated the commerce industry in Nigeria? What they meant were the domination of Yoruba in the banking, insurance industries, Coco Cola and some other surviving industries. In one particular occasion a friend revealed to me that he recently discovered that the reason why some Yoruba are so wealthy is because they were smart enough to invest their money in corporate stocks and bonds (not realizing that Yoruba actually stolen those corporations) while Ibo is busy engaging in buying and selling. The Yoruba will like people to continue to believe that story, that it was because they were smart that they were able to do all these great investments in the commerce industry. One relevant question that I always managed to ask my interlocutors is whether they were aware of the indigenization decree of 1972, master minded by Awolowo and the Yoruba and the ramifications of that policy, as will be expected, the answer ranged from, I have heard of it but does not understand what it actually meant to I have not heard of the policy. Listening to this ignorance induced perspective from my friends made my heart to skip a beat, realizing that the task of bridging this information gap is not going to be a child’s play. What is disconcerting is that some in their benign induced ignorance believe that the effect of indigenization is inconsequential at this time because it happened about forty years ago. This piece is therefore for those that are educable and for those that have the capacity to appreciate the magnitude and most importantly for those that can relate that gigantic economic event that reshaped the economic foundation on which Nigerian economy settled on after the British/Biafran war and as well as relate our present economic malaise to that economic foundation engendered by indigenization.

There is no doubt that most people, particularly those that do not have either basic or international economics background are overwhelmed by the subject of INDIGENIZATION OF FOREIGN COMPANIES IN NIGERIA because of their inability to understand the economics of it and the efficacies to make the necessary connections and relate it to the present economic doldrums, some simply brush it aside or worse, simple minimize its far reaching implications particularly on the Ibo. In so doing, majority of us dabble into analysis of how terrible Ibo has managed their affairs since after the civil war, while leaving out a huge chunk of the elements that need to be factored into their analysis. The unspeakable effect of the policy of indigenization on the Ibo was wicked and dastardly. The economic damage on the Ibo is impossible to calculate. The psychological toll on the Ibo is still reverberating amongst the Ibotoday and creating identity crisis. Some folks will argue that we should drop the subject because it happened forty years ago, which is equivalent to saying that because slavery, Jim crow and the holocaust happened years ago, and for that reason, they have no relevance intoday’s analysis. How can any credible analysis of American history not include slavery and its implications, or how can any Jewish history not include the holocaust and its implications and effects, but that is what some folks want us to do, to avoid or forget one of the most devastating economic policies that changed the economic landmark of Nigeria, second to the genocide of more than a million Ibo committed by the same man, Awo, and still arrive at any meaningful analysis. I believe that the incredulity that any ethnic group is capable of visiting such devastation on another is still an obstacle that the subject is struggling against and must overcome. It is not that most people do not know what happen, it is simply that they do not what to believe that it happened because it is mind bending. I also believe that if we do not tell the story over and over, the Yorubas will not tell and neither will the Hausa tell it, as a matter of fact they always wish that it will go away. So whether they like it or not, we must continue to broadcast what happened until people start to understand the effect of the policy not only on the Ibo but on the nation as a whole. Suffice to say that after Awo and the Yoruba succeeded in executing the indigenization decree and became overnight millionaires, many Ibo packed their bags and left Lagos to the east –ala Ibo, where they shortly died out of heart break because some of them also suffered the deprivation of their properties due to abandon property policy in Lagos and Port harcourt.

WHAT ENGENDERED THE INDIGENIZATION POLICY?

It is no more news worthy to point out that before the civil war that Ibo out of their capacity for honesty, to work hard, to produce, to innovate, to manage, create and persevere were able to penetrate all facets of Nigerian endeavor, when the British used merit as a yard stick. It is an irrefragable fact that even Yoruba would not dare challenge that fact, if not, what started the Yoruba hate, envy and jealousy against the Ibo in the first place, Yoruba and Hausa claimed that Ibo was dominating everything in the country but what they will not acknowledge publicly was the fact that the British were making the decisions about who to hire by their own standard and not by Ibo standard and that Ibo was good at what they did and better than them. The Yoruba and Hausa wanted not only equal opportunity they also wanted equal outcome regardless of effort and everyone knows that that is impossible.

There is one very important fact in my analysis that I want everyone to get, and that is that before the civil war, Nigeria as a nation did not have an economic of its own. Let me say it again, that Nigeria as a nation before the British/Biafran civil war did not have an economy of its own. I emphasized that point in other to say that whatever seemed like Nigerian economy were British owned. Put differently, if you excluded few of the regional cooperatives and some joint ventures businesses which were mostly British engineered to make buying raw materials easy for the British, ever y other aspect of the economy were owned majorly by the British, even the military, given the fact that almost every military supply came from Britain. It is then save to say that British investment in Nigeria amounted to a great totality of Nigerian economy or that Nigerian economy was at that time synonymous to the total investment of the British.

Below, courtesy of Africa today are the list of some of the companies that constituted Nigerian economy before the war that the Yoruba stole in one swoop, spanning the insurance companies like Lloyd’s of London and all the banks in Nigeria owned one way or the other by the British. This is but a partial list of what constituted the British investment in Nigerian economy.

“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,May and Baker Nigeria Plc,Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,Wahum Nigeria Limited ,CAP Nigeria Plc , International Paints of West Africa [IPWA], Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited, Kabelmetal, Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, Leventis Nigeria Plc ,West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge ],Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc , Nigerian Breweries Plc, new nigerian Bank, Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited, Mushin, Lagos State. Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State Wema Bank Plc, Marina, Lagos West African Portland Cement Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State Great Nigeria Insurance PLC, Ikoyi, Lagos State Glanvill Enthoven & Company Limited ◦Guinness (Nig.) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. ◦International Breweries Plc, Ilesa, Osun State. ◦Macmillian Publishers (Nig) Limited, Ilupeju, Lagos ◦Nestle Food (Nig) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State ◦Nidogas Company Limited, Lagos State ◦Niger Mills Company Limited, Calabar, Cross River State ◦Nigerian Aluminium Extrusions Limited, Lagos ◦SKG-Pharma (Nig.) Limited, Lagos ◦Tower Aluminium (Nig.) Plc, Lagos ◦U. A. C. of Nigeria Plc., Lagos etc.

The necessity of inserting this partial list of the companies/assets that existed before the war was to give the reader a sense of the extent of what the issue is all about and who owned what and when. The Yoruba hardly owned much of anything or any of these assets listed above except in some regional joint cooperative ventures with the British.

The story went like this, before the war the Ibo dominated the economic work force followed by the Yoruba, when British/Biafran war started, Ibo, for their safety left their jobs in different parts of the country to return to the east, the Ibo land. After the end of the war, the Ibo went back to seek for their jobs that they left for security reasons, the Yoruba who took advantage and occupied the positions that Ibo left decided that they will not relinquish those position because according to the Yoruba, Ibo abandoned their positions and do not deserve their position back, reminiscent of the abandon property thievery in Port Harcourt River State and Lagos. However, a dynamic developed as Ibo every morning dressed up and went and occupied the lobbies of their different offices that they used to work in. Tell me, if this is not manifest bravery of the highest order ever exhibited by any group in Nigeria and we are talking about days and weeks immediately after the war was declared over. But the final say as to whether or not the positions that Ibo left for dire life was going to be declared abandoned rested on the British that owned these companies. As the back and forth went on, the British started angling to make an economic decision because they understood the difference between the Ibo worker and the Yoruba worker and the three years of the civil war made that difference even more crystal clear to the British, if not, why would the British bother to accommodate the Ibo after such a long time? What became clear to the Yoruba was that the British were willing to make extra provision to re-absorb the Ibo any way possible. Yoruba was not ready to tolerate any of that because they knew that it was a matter of time before the wheat will be separated from the shaft that Ibo will assume their prominent positions. In order to prevent the British from re-absorbing the Ibo into these British owned companies, the corporate Yoruba decided to solicit the help of Awolowo who was then the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council.

This is where a plan was hashed to wrest the control of these companies, consisting of banks, insurance companies, corporations of different kinds and types from the British. The best way Awo and his cabal found fit was to convince Gowon and the military leadership who in all probability have never had the word indigenization in their lives to promulgate the INDIGENIZATION DECREE in 1972 that stipulated that every foreign owned venture must transfer majority ownership to Nigerian indigenes within a year of the promulgation of the decree or they will forfeit the assets of the company to the Nigerian government. (Emphasis within a year) As expected, the British were caught off guide, not understanding the motive behind the policy, the British thought it was a dream or a joke that will go away, particularly given the fact that they just won the war against the Ibo for the Yoruba and Hausa. After exhausting six months out of the one year in their bid to reverse the decree, the British became frantic and concluded that they could not reverse the decree and went about trying to salvage whatever they could. What was worst was that the British did not even have enough time to evaluate the worth of their ventures because of the limited time the decree allowed, courtesy of Awo and cabal. The situation gave chaos a new name because the British were in chaos. So the first problem the British ran into was limited time that they couldn’t figure what the value of majority of their ventures were, they could not tell how much to sell them for. Mind you that this was happening within a year after the end of the civil war. At this time the Yoruba was running every conceivable federal ministries, departments and agencies plus all the corporations listed above and more that the British owned. It is important to point out that the north had little or no presence in the commerce economy of the country before the war and after the war except in the military leadership and infantry. The economy of the country was dominated by Ibo first and Yoruba second before the war. In order to solidify the economic dominance that the Yoruba attained during and after the war and to make their position even more potent in acquiring the British spoils, Awo as the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council and his Yoruba cabal decided to economically emasculate the Ibo understanding

a) That Yoruba was fully running every conceivable federal parastatals

b) That Yoruba was running every conceivable corporation that the British owned or had majority ownership as listed above.

c) That Yoruba was managing all the Nigerian banks, insurance corporations, National shipping line, Nigerian airways, Nigerian’s Ports authority, Nigerian Railways and all the ministries, Departments and Agencies conceivable.

Decided to destroy whatever was left of the Ibo and putting a finishing touch to it by

a) Stealing through confiscating all the millions of pounds that Ibo had in all the Nigerian banks

b) Offering every Ibo person £20 pounds regardless of how many millions they had in the Nigerian banks before the war.

c) Militarizing every part of Ibo land.

d) Rendering every Ibo without exception a pauper.

e) Banning every importation of stock fish and used clothes to deprive the Ibo of any economic ability to compete with the Yoruba in buying into the British assets.

When that day of infamy arrived for the British to start selling their assets, Igbo having been disenfranchised and emasculated in any and every way stood on the sideline watching the Yoruba in their glee as they scrambled to obtain loans from their Yoruba dominated banks to make the most minimal of offers to the British as there were no competitions. The British had no choice but to accept any offer as the alternative was losing everything to the federal government. The British lost pretty much all their investment to the Yoruba whose stock in trade is robbing and stealing any and everything they can get their hands on. Thousands of Yoruba became millionaires overnight and there was jubilation and owanbe all over Yoruba land. Yoruba had parties day and night and weekends. They closed streets to display their new found wealth as they partied. That day marked the economic death of Nigeria, that day marked the death of Nigerian’s aspiration to join the civilized world. The implication was enormous and it sent a shock wave throughout the Ibo land, It was a dark history day, it was a day of manifest wickedness and viciousness, Ibo was dumbfounded, the days that followed were days of economic , social and psychological morose and confusion that are still lingeringtoday within the Ibo. It might be hard to accept but Awo got the Ibo good and the country as well, he brought the Ibo to his knees economically at least temporarily and Ibo has never recovered from that one blow seven akpus in any appreciable way but Nigeria as whole is worse off for it. I believe that what was more devastating was that Ibo had no place or body to turn to. To be blunt, Awo decapitated the Ibo leadership and through Ibo into great confusion.

It is important to note that by this singular act of INDIGENIZATION DECREE engineered by the Yoruba, the Yoruba de facto constituted the new economic foundation, the sole owner and manager of Nigerian economy without any rivals. So, for those that have wondered why Ibo became traders, this is the why. The Yoruba will not let any Ibo near the management of any of these stolen corporations, will not let Ibo buy any shares of these corporations for decades following the heist. Now, some people without the capacity to comprehend the full seismic implication of this economic shift and restructuring will want us to believe that this does not matter and I will beg to disagree because it is like everything else, the foundation of everything matters and determines the success or failure, be it a house or business. As time has revealed, Yoruba stealing and forming the economic foundation for Nigeria was a bad idea and a monumental disaster. For the ignorants, all things being equal (in a fair fight) the Yoruba knew it, the British knew it, the Ibo knew it and the world knew it that the Yoruba did not possess the capacity, creativity, drive, perseverance, hard work and the competence to do what some are crediting to it if they did not conspire to steal not only from the British and Ibo but from everybody else that had any assets in Nigeria. The apparent dominant control the Yoruba has on the economy since after the war was not out of great honest smartness or creativity or innovation or hard work or competence but out of share robbery of the British and Ibo sweat and hard work. I believe that the question that the benign ignorant should be asking going forward is what did Yoruba do with all these assets and corporations that they stole? How did the country fair under the Yoruba management of the Nigerian economy? How did the Yoruba managed economy relate totoday’s economic malaise. Hope they can make the connections.

My next piece will try to capture the mind blowing implications of that great heist as it relates to Nigerians and Ibo in particular and the flight of international investment from Nigerian for decades.

Fredrick.

http://www.igbofocus.co.uk/The-Biafran-War/The-Greatest-Heist-in-Modern-H/the-greatest-heist-in-modern-history-by-awolowo-and-the-yorubas-.html

xtrorse:
Pathological liar, your memory must be failing you seriously! You still want to blame Igbos for your journey to insanity!

That was how Yorubas were brandishing frivolous statistics scoring Osun State with high GDP on paper, and at the end of the day the State have gone bankrupt, with hunger ravaging her citizens who have not been paid their 7 months salaries!

Child of hatred, treacheery and bitterness, you can have a read:

Poverty Rate in Nigeria

North West = 71.2%
North East = 72.2% 
North Central = 67%
South West = 43%
South South = 36.1%
South East = 26.7%

www.nairaland.com/371485/regional-poverty-nigeria-north-south-west#5182089

While the South West people (Yorubas) are busy fabricating lies, distorting and rewriting history, fanning the embers of hatred, bitterness, tribalism and nepotism, just to gain undue advantage over Igbos, the Igbos are busy developing their South East region and taking the lead in every sector of the country. 

www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment.

xtrorse:
Pathological liar, your memory must be failing you seriously! You still want to blame Igbos for your journey to insanity!

That was how Yorubas were brandishing frivolous statistics scoring Osun State with high GDP on paper, and at the end of the day the State have gone bankrupt, with hunger ravaging her citizens who have not been paid their 7 months salaries!

Child of hatred, treacheery and bitterness, you can have a read:

Poverty Rate in Nigeria

North West = 71.2%
North East = 72.2% 
North Central = 67%
South West = 43%
South South = 36.1%
South East = 26.7%

www.nairaland.com/371485/regional-poverty-nigeria-north-south-west#5182089

While the South West people (Yorubas) are busy fabricating lies, distorting and rewriting history, fanning the embers of hatred, bitterness, tribalism and nepotism, just to gain undue advantage over Igbos, the Igbos are busy developing their South East region and taking the lead in every sector of the country. 

www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment.

superstar1:
Flat.head from the land of bleaching yellow pawpaws, it is normal for a y1bo boy to travel to several states before he is 25 because

1. He is a descendant of cursed cain

2. He is looking for greener pastures that does not exist in his region.

3. His business can never thrive in his gully eroded region

4. His region is already desolate and deserted anyway.

B. Oyinbos prefer the Igbos and the same oyinbos described you as a bunch of uncivilised recalcitrant cannibals, dancing round a pot of boiling human being.

That says it all.

C. All those are going on in the insurance industry and I stand by it. If such are not being done in your region, that clearly shows you are still in medieval ages in alaigbo. Is insurance sector at par with Banking in Nigeria? No. Is it better than 10years? It is much more better. So park well.

Shut your odoriferous akpu filled buccal cavity, if you lack the acumen to present your position logically with your vestigial brain

xtrorse:
A coward is not the man who stands up for his people and took precautions to preserve his life like Washington, Gaulle and Ojukwu but the Yoruba General Oladipo Diya who wept like a kid before a junior officer because he was afraid of his life....after wilfully and knowingly plotting a coup. This disgraceful display of cowardice portray your arrogant and parasitic tribe.

Yorubas started June 12 trouble with their Odua Islamic Republic in mind and were expecting Igbos to fight their wars; Ralph Obioha and Bobo Nwosisi were the only people around your Field Marshall of Odua Kingdom,  AareOnaKakanfo MKO Abiola when he declared himself president-elect. The arrogant and cowardly tribe couldn't even protect him from being whisked away like a common thief. He was eventually slaughtered like a salah ram. 

Apart from talking like parrots and embezzling public funds, what else are Yaribanza people good at - ritual-killings, office charms, tribalism, nepotism, falsehood, noise-making and propaganda?

totit:
You are sooo dulluu

United Nations' Multi Dimensional Poverty Index

The United Nations' Global Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index has three dimensions and 10 indicators in estimating Overall Poverty. Each dimension is equally weighted, each indicator within a dimension is also equally weighted, and added. It uses 10 indicators to measure poverty in three dimensions: Education, Health and Living standards. This report was Published in June 2015, and is based on data collected on years between 2004 and 2014.
According to the MPI Report, as at 2010, 46% of Nigerians lived below the national poverty line (Only 28% in Urban areas, and near 70% in The rural). Although a Report by the World bank, released in 2014, showed that only 33% of Nigerians could be considered Poor.

Now, to the Report........
States by Incidence of Poverty

STATES<-->POVERTY RATE
1. Lagos --------- 8.5%
2. Osun --------- 10.9%
3. Anambra --------- 11.2%
4. Ekiti --------- 12.9%
5. Edo --------- 19.2%
6. Imo --------- 19.8%
7. Abia --------- 21.0%
8. Rivers --------- 21.1%
*. FCT (Abj) --------- 23.5%
9. Kwara --------- 23.7%
10. Akwa Ibom --------- 23.8%
11. Delta --------- 25.1%
12. Ogun --------- 26.1%
13. Kogi --------- 26.4%
14. Ondo --------- 27.9%
15. Enugu --------- 28.8%
16. Bayelsa --------- 29.0%
17. Oyo --------- 29.4%
18. Cross River --------- 33.1%
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** National Avg --------- 46.0%
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19. Plateau --------- 51.6%
20. Nassarawa --------- 52.4%
21. Ebonyi --------- 56.0%
22. Kaduna --------- 56.5%
23. Adamawa --------- 59.0%
24. Benue --------- 59.2%
25. Niger --------- 61.2%
26. Borno --------- 70.1%
27. Kano --------- 76.4%
28. Gombe --------- 76.9%
29. Taraba --------- 77.7%
30. Katsina --------- 82.2%
31. Sokoto --------- 85.3%
32. Kebbi --------- 86.0%
33. Bauchi --------- 86.6%
34. Jigawa --------- 88.4%
35. Yobe --------- 90.2%
36. Zamfara --------- 91.9%

REGIONAL AVERAGES
1 = South West - 19.3% Poverty (+ Average)
2 = South South - 25.2% Poverty (+ Average)
3 = South East - 27.36% Poverty (+ Average)

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** National Avg 46.0%% Poverty
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4 = North Central - 45.7% Poverty (+Average)
5 = North East - 76.8% Poverty (- Average)
6 = North West- 80.9% Poverty (- Average) Damn!!

Sources
The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index by the U.N
http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/ophi/index.php/
Click on Nigeria, and then "Nigeria country briefing, from the dropdown menu".
http://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Multidimensional-Poverty-Index-2015-2-March-2015.pdf?0a8fd7&13666f
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It's 2015, the deadline for the first set of the Millennium development goals.

Download the complete report here: http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/pages/download/254

GOAL 1: TO ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER

Target 1c: Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

Indicator 1.8: Prevalence underweight children under five year of age.

In the year 2008, the proportion of underweight children going by the national average was 23.1%. It went up to 27.4% in 2012 but declined to 25.5% in 2014. For lack of data, concrete trend cannot be established with this report. Although Nigeria has attained the hunger target according to other reports, yet more interventions are needed not only for the under-five children but for their mothers in order to alleviate them completely from the scourge of hunger.

GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

Target 2A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Indicator 2.1: Net enrolment in primary education.

In 2014, The states with very high attendance ratios included Anambra (94%), Delta (92.80), Imo (90.7), Lagos (92), Ondo (92.4), Osun (91.6), Edo (91.0), Ekiti (93.6) and FTC (94.1) while the least were Bauchi (29.9), Sokoto (24.80), Yobe (23.7), Zamfara (37.80).

At the national level, the net attendance ratio was 61% in 2008 and it increased to 71% in 2012. In 2014, there was a shortfall of 2.3% and the net attendance for 2014 thus dropped to 68.7%. When classified by sectors, net attendance in the urban (84.3%) was much higher than in the rural areas (62.2%). Across the geopolitical zones, it was very encouraging in the South East (90.5%), South South (88.1%), South West (87%) and North Central (80.2%). But in the North West (50.5%) and particularly North East (42.5%) net attendance was not impressive.
Although 100% attendance is expected, the result shows that Nigeria is on track.

Indicator 2.2: Primay Six Completion Rate

Nationally completion rate according to fig. 2.2 in 2004 was 82%. It increased to 87.7% in 2012 and dropped to 74.0 in 2014. Within the 2014, the completion rate was higher in the urban (84.4%) when compared with the rural (69.7). In the zones, completion rate was highest in South East (98.7%) zone, followed by South West (94.1%). Primary six completion rate was poorest in the North East (49.5%) zone. Nigeria is also on track.

Indicator 2.3: Literacy rate of 15 – 24 years, women

The literacy rate of youth women between 2004 and 2014 at the national level increased from 60.4% in 2004 to 80% in 2008. In 2012, it declined to 66%. Although it slightly appreciated in 2014 (66.7%), but that is insignificant. At the state level, literacy of youth women aged 15 – 24 was very encouraging in states like Rivers (98%), Enugu (97%), Imo (95%), Akwa Ibom (95%), Delta (94.1%), Anambra (93%), Ekiti (92.7%), Abia (91.3%). Conversely, literacy rate among woman of age 15 – 24 was poor in Sokoto (10.7%), Bauchi (13%), Yobe (16%) etc.

Sectorally, the survey showed that there were more literate youth women (85.3%) in the urban as against the 57.8% recorded in the rural areas. In the zones the literate youth women in the South East (93.5%) were much higher than the rest of the zones. North East (33.0%) and North West (35%) had the lowest percentage of literate youth women in 2014.

GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015.

Indictor 3.1: Ratio of girls to boys in Primary and Secondary education

Nationally, the gender parity in the primary school in 2008 was 0.9. The interpretation is that in every 9 girls in primary school in 2008, there were 10 boys. It increased to 1.0 in 2012 implying 10 girls in every 10 boys. The parity index increased to 1.02 in 2014. The rural (1.01) and urban (1.01) were equal. The GDIs across the zones were exceedingly encouraging. In the secondary schools in 2012, the gender parity index was 1.02. The decline to 1.01 in 2014 was insignificant. There were no disparity in both the rural (1.0) and urban (90.98) in 2012. Nigeria has already achieved gender parity index as illustrated in fig 3.1a, being a chart of gender parity in both primary and secondary schools distributed by state in 2014.

GOAL 4: REDUCED CHILD MORTALITY

Target: Reduce by two thirds between 1990 and 2015, the mortality rate among children under five years old.

Indicator 4.1: Under five Mortality Rate (U5MR)

About ten years ago specifically 2004 (201), Nigeria’s average under five mortality rate was very high. But right from then, there has been a steady decrease till 2014 when there was a record of only 89 children dying before their fifth birthday in every 1000 live births. See Fig4.1. Although the national average in 2014 was 89, yet some states had numbers much higher than the national average. The states include Kogi (169), Katsina (155), Kaduna (167) etc. The death prevalence in 2014 however was much more in the rural areas with 98 deaths against the 66 in the urban. North West zone with 121 and North East zone with 78 had the highest under five mortality rate than the other zones. South West zone had 45 as the least. If the rate in 2004 is adopted as the base value, it implies that some zones and states would have met the MDGs target on under five mortality before 2015.

Indicator 4.2: Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)

The deaths of infants under one year per 1,000 live births in Nigeria was also very high in 2004 where 100 children died without seeing their first birth day in every 1,000 live births. The deaths of infants have been on the decrease since 2008 in which 75 infants died per 1000 till 2014 with a record of 58. The prevalence of infant mortality in 2014 was more prominent in the rural areas with a record of 63 deaths than the urban with a record of 46 deaths per 1000 live births. Across the zones, the North West with 77%, followed by South East with 69, had more infants dying without seeing their first birth day in every 1000 live births.

Indicator 4.3 – Proportion of one year old children immunized against measles.

Measles vaccination is becoming popular and the coverage is improving though slowly. Fig4.3 shows that between 2004 and 2012, the measles vaccination of children under one year of age staggered between 50% and 55.8%. In 2004, there was a record of 50%. It went down to 41.4% in 2008 and appreciated again to 55.8% in 2012. There was a significant increase in 2014 in which 63.1% of children under one year were immunized against measles. The analysis of the survey result by geo-political zones showed that over 80% of one year old children were immunized in South East (82.4%), South West (81.2%) and South South (80.3%). Although North Central (77.0) was not bad, yet North East (42.4) and North West (35.4%) were not encouraging. One year old children were predominantly immunized in the urban areas (56.2%) than the rural areas (39.95).

GOAL 5: IMPROVED MATERNAL HEALTH

Target 5.A. Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the Maternal Mortality Ratio.

The 2004 Maternal Mortality ratio of 800 in every 100,000 live births crashed to 545 in 2008. The performance tracking survey of 2012 recorded a further decrease to 350 per 100,000 live births and the downward trend consistently maintained its course to 2014 with a record of 243 per 100,000 live births. As a remark, the 2014 estimation was strictly based on women within the age bracket of 15 to 49 years, as opposed to the 2012 age bracket of 15 to infinity. The rationale behind this is that the child bearing age for women is within that bracket. Based on this, Nigeria is at the verge of meeting the target on maternal mortality.

Indicator 5.2: Proportion of Births attended by skilled health care attendants.

A zonal disaggregation of this trend shows that of the children born within the period of reference, South East (89.1%) had the highest record of delivery assisted by skilled birth attendant. Eighty three percent was recorded in South West. North Central and South South zones respectively had a record of 67.2% and 64.4%. The least were in North East (30.8%) and North West (24.8%). Sectorally, the urban areas with 79.2 had higher proportion of deliveries assisted by trained personnel’s while the rural areas had 46.6%.

Target 5B: Achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015

Indictor 5.3: Contraceptive Prevalence Rates:

This is the percentage of women aged 15 – 49 years that use any method of family planning. The use of contraceptive is gradually gaining general acceptance. In 2004, only 8.2% of women within the stated age bracket used contraceptive measures for family planning. The percentage increased to 14.6% (about 78% increases) in 2008. It appreciated further in both 2012 (17.3%) and 2014 (18.5%). Contraceptive prevalence was highest in South East zone with a of 43%, followed by South West (24.0%). The prevalence in the urban areas (16.7%) was higher than that of the rural (9.7%).

Indicator 5.5: Antenatal Care Coverage.

In 2008, only 8.2% of the pregnant women attended antenatal for one visit while 44.8% attended for at least 4 visits. In 2012 66.3% of them attended for at least one visit and 57.8% for at least four visits. The record in 2014 was that about 25% of the women that were pregnant never attended antenatal visits. At the same time, 68.9% attended at least once while 60.6% attended for four times and over. The number of visits for antenatal was encouraging in the urban where 75.9% of pregnant women had at least four visits. The rural rears were no exception as 51.6% of the pregnant women visited over four times. With regard to the zones, South East (88.3%) had the highest number of visits. South West (78%), South South (64.1) and North Central (65.80) had encouraging number of antenatal visits. But very few pregnant women in North West (38.1%) and North East (32.9%) attended antenatal up to four times.

Indicator 5.6: Unmet Needs for Family Planning

In 2004, there were about 17% of women in this category. They increased to 20.2% in 2008 and 21.5% in 2012. However, there was a marginal increase in 2014 (22.2%). The prevalence of unmet need was more in the rural sector (22.4%) than the urban (21.8%). Across the zones, there were higher incidences of unmet need in North West (27.4) and North East (25.8%) than the rest of the zones. The experience was very low in the South East (11.4%).

GOAL 6: COMBAT HID/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER MAJOR DISEASES

Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Indicator 6.3: Percentage of Young Women aged 15 – 24 years with comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDs

Knowledge of HIV/AIDS and related diseases among the young women is increasing. There is a general consciousness that HIV/AIDS is real. In 2004, only 18.3% of the young ladies within age 15 – 24 years had comprehensive and correct knowledge about HIV/AIDS prevention, and transmission and others. There was a rise in this percentage in 2012 (33%). There was not much difference in the record for 2014 (32.8%). Thus the trend remained at the national level. But in the sectors, the urban areas with 37.8% showed that there were more young women with comprehensive knowledge than the 30.5% in the rural. At the level of the zones, a large percentage of the young ladies in North Central had comprehensive knowledge. Besides the North Central zone were the South East (37.3%), South West (34.3%) and South South zone (33.2%). Both the North West (26.5%) and particularly North East (23.2%) had little proportion of young ladies with comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDs.

Indicator 6.7: Proportion of children under 5 sleeping in insecticide – treated bed nets

It has to be recalled that only 2.2% of children in 2003 slept in insecticide treated nets. The percentage went up to 34.6% in 2012. The trend showed no difference in 2014 as 34.7% of the children slept in insecticide treated bed nets in the night preceding the survey. Across the sectors showed that the urban areas (41.7%) had more children who slept in insecticide treated bed nets than the rural with a record of 31.2%. In the zone the percentage of children sleeping in insecticide treated bed nets lingered between 47% and 17.8%. Similarly, 28.5% of pregnant women slept in insecticide treated bed nets in 2014 against the 30.3% record of 2012. Majority of the pregnant women were from the South West (45.3%) zone as compared to the least in North East (16%) zone.

GOAL 7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Target 7.C: Halve by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation

Indicator 7.8: Proportion of population using an improved drinking water source

And Indicator 7.9: Proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility

Fifty seven percent of Nigeria households had access to improved water source in 2004. In 2008, there was a slight decrease to 55.8 percent. Fifty seven percent was recorded again in 2012 while in 2014 there was an increase to 62.2%. Access to improved sources of drinking water has been unstable in Nigeria. Although in 2014, the urban areas recorded about 74.6% against the 57.6% of the rural, yet access within the zones showed that it was only in South West that a 70.6% access to improved sources was recorded. The rest of the zones lingered between 68% and 53%.

superstar1:
A coward is a sissy and cradle robber that wore mini skirt, spaghetti strap, high heel, applied mascara and lipstick before Usain Bolting to Abidjan, after sacrificing 3million miserable lives to Amadioha for fun. To some daft souls, they still called that bravery.

Shows us were we called for Odua Republic over June 12 or forever shut up. However, we grounded the country for 6years, ensured economic blockade and sanctions on this country, pressurised Babangida to ran out of Aso Rock, ensured Abacha died there, Abubakar handed over to one of us by compulsion, military were sent packing and we demystified the northern oligarchy. All these with minimal loss of lives . Can that be said of the failed and pathetic Biafra mirage?

What is the contribution of the parasitic y1bos to this country apart from killing the leaders of other regions, declaring war on the country, we wasted our amnesty programme of £20 on them, their call for Biafra, otokoto, Clifford Orji saga, olive shrine, ezzu river filled of floating human being rather than water, hotel that serves human parts as meat, fake products, fake drugs, armed robbery, kidnapping, prostitution, baby factory, distracting Nigeria at international level etx.

Really sux.ks to be one of these greedy in grates feom.the eroded land of the dawning sun.

patrick89:
Criminality must be autosomal and sex linked in yoruba land. Awolowo changed currency immediately and therefore instructed that we all should but our monies in the bank, and we did, my parent took all they had and people contributed from all other clans and gave to business men in our village, only for them to come back with 20 pounds!.
You are making less sense! there was CBB central bank of Biafra, we had currency then! our currency was pounds! so you are just making fool of yourself as expected from yoruba. You hurriedly indigenise all the foreign companies and used the money to build all the rusted roof building scattered in odualand!

I want you to answer this, why is that the old rusted huts outnumber the little Modern one? answer that..

xtrorse:
Apart from talking like parrots and embezzling public funds, what else are Yoruba people good at - ritual-killings, office charms, tribalism, nepotism, falsehood, noise-making and propaganda? 

You may not be mad yet, it's just that madness is seriously chasing you around. But I shall help you out:

A murderer will kill, a thief will steal from you, but you'll never know where you stand with a liar...

Just to keep the record straight, let me remind you what your Odua Islamic Republic of Ritual-killers (OIRR) are known for:

1. Ritual killers, kidnappers, cannibals n human parts merchants
2. Fetish Juju charmers
3. Deadly cultists - Ogboni, Pyrates,  Eiye confra; Soyinka
4. Child kidnappers aka Gbomogbomo
5. Evil forest merchants of death
6. Barbaric Rapists 
7. Experts in Incestuous relations - Obj n d likes
8. Notorious armed robbers - Oyenusi, Godogodo
9. Central Bank used notes robbers
10. Treasury Looters - MKO AbiOLE, Grand Commander of Frustrated Robbers OLEsegun Obj, Thief-nubu, Fashole, ShOLEkan, Bode ROGUE, BankOLE, AkingbOLE, Jimoh Ibhm 
11. International Credit card scammers and Social Security (number) fraudsters  
12. Company wreckers aka pencil robbers 
13. Certificates forgers - Oluwole; Toronto, E bola Thief-nubu Ivy League University affidavit
14. International Terrorists - Adebolajo,  Adebowale (Woolwich attack) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9DbRMIlQ5A

15. International drug peddlers - Thief-nubu, Buruji Kashamu
16. Political thugs aka politicians e.g. Gbajabiamila
17. Street urchins aka Area boys
18. Notorious Assassins n murderers - (cases: Bola Ige, Funso Williams)
19. Bloody Tribalists
20. Notorious propagandists
21. Political liars n History distortionists aka Yoruba lawyers n professors
22. Loud, foul-mouthed Noise makers
23. Coward coup plotters - Oladipo Diya, Abdulkarim Adisa 
24. Treacheerous Back-stabbers...

superstar1:
You are daftness is tending towards a legendary status.

Awolowo changed the currency from Nigerian Pound to Naira. Fact. How does that put anyone at disadvantage, in as much as you have genuine Nigerian Pound?

Or you were expecting us to recognise your Biafra Pounds and convert it to Naira for you? How stup1d can you be? Who says you could not have decided to print 1million Biafra pounds each for your citizens? Your Biafra Pound was not recognised even in countries that were your allies - Gabon and Ivory Coast, how much more Naija?

If I say you are dumbo, it will be an other statement. Yorubaland is not igboland that never had towns. our houses with brown roofs are not a product of indigenisation but an history of evolution of people that have been building empires and kingdoms from time immemorial.

Who stooped Ibos from indigenising the companies on their soil? Sorry you never had any!!! Therefore you wanted to profit where you never invested. Ole.

To answer your daft question, yorubas are not like y1bos they could not evolve enough to build kingdoms and empires. We have built our settlements for nothing less than 500years and we do not demolish them, to protect our heritage and history. The houses built in 1900 and 2000 were built next to those UN World Heritage buildings and up till date. Therefore we have a complete history of our ancestors and several generations. The buildings of now are writing the history of this generation for generations to come.

That is what Igbos can never have the luxury of because they do not have the land, their land is a land of red mud and gully eroded.

xtrorse:
YORUBA - TRIBE OF TREASURY LOOTERS WHO WOULD STILL MAKE NOISE IN EVERYONE AVAILABLE MEDIA JUST TO ATTEMPT TO COVER UP THEIR NUMEROUS ATROCITIES.

patrick89:
This is not NURTW but nairaland must you show the whole world that you are a decendant of fallen angel?

cat face slave. I'm sure you are very ugly and black! ferrous trioxide is really destroying your braincell!
While you wait your abuoku to come and be buried alive, your new oni will be waiting for the delicacy made from the sagged rotten body of Oni! fetish children of fallen angel! Your willi willi face will send people to early grave!!! foooooolisj foooool...

superstar1:
You are daftness is tending towards a legendary status.

Awolowo changed the currency from Nigerian Pound to Naira. Fact. How does that put anyone at disadvantage, in as much as you have genuine Nigerian Pound?

Or you were expecting us to recognise your Biafra Pounds and convert it to Naira for you? How stup1d can you be? Who says you could not have decided to print 1million Biafra pounds each for your citizens? Your Biafra Pound was not recognised even in countries that were your allies - Gabon and Ivory Coast, how much more Naija?

If I say you are dumbo, it will be an other statement. Yorubaland is not igboland that never had towns. our houses with brown roofs are not a product of indigenisation but an history of evolution of people that have been building empires and kingdoms from time immemorial.

Who stooped Ibos from indigenising the companies on their soil? Sorry you never had any!!! Therefore you wanted to profit where you never invested. Ole.

To answer your daft question, yorubas are not like y1bos they could not evolve enough to build kingdoms and empires. We have built our settlements for nothing less than 500years and we do not demolish them, to protect our heritage and history. The houses built in 1900 and 2000 were built next to those UN World Heritage buildings and up till date. Therefore we have a complete history of our ancestors and several generations. The buildings of now are writing the history of this generation for generations to come.

That is what Igbos can never have the luxury of because they do not have the land, their land is a land of red mud and gully eroded.

tonychristopher:
pls don't tell me that your intellectually lazy to do simple research

Google is a friend bro ...make him your pal

it helps

superstar1:
See this osikankwu apprentice, conquered slave of Nigeria and 5tu class citizen of Nigeria.

You are nothing in this country and you can never amount to anything in this country, until we are done with you and your miserable lives.

superstar1:
J

Which brothers?

Your brothers are Aguleri vs Umuleri or the Ikewerres and various ethnicities you want to do attache by force with, that are dissociating themselves from you and your forefathers that could not build a village talk less of an empire.

HopeAtHand:
The Igbos can talk about facts because the BBC and other foreign press sent their correspondents to cover the battle in company of Federal forces, there was little to report from the biafran side.

Our facts comes from the lips of our parents and the city of Port Harcourt and its abandoned properties tell its own version of a story told in lopsided fashion by Igbos.

patrick89:
No the ijebu have told you times without number that they are not from yoruba, but from sudan! Aworis have warned you leeches to stay clear from their land! even modakeke and ife are always slaughtering themselves...

tonychristopher:
I still get am before mentality ..where are the kingdoms is it Ibadan or ilorin I don't see kingdoms but hamlets here

can you show us the kingdoms in the league of British empire

xtrorse:
Yea, even without Igbos doing anything, Yoruba people and their greedy leaders have constant night mares that they wake up each morning with epilepsy, convulsing terribly on every available media houses.

You shall be made to eat your words! If you doubt it, and you still believe you can retrieve Ilorin city from your Fulani slave-masters, enter the streets of Lagos and prove yourselves. Just this once... It is no threat!

superstar1:
I.get am.before is better before I no get am before and I still no get am up till now.

We still have it in form.of our modern region that your kinsmen are rushing to like ants, which is an off shoot of our fathers empires and kingdoms

superstar1:
No one have any fear of who is down and out. Igbos were conquered and they are down and out in this country. They can only keep ranting and there is nothing until when we, your masters and lords free you from your servitude to us.

I repeat, recover your hijacked properties from minority ethnicities, rename your streets they renamed, as well as your obigbo. Shows how bunch of chest beating noise making never do wells you all are, if a mere minority did all that and got away with it.

xtrorse:
A typical Yoruba person hardly believe one can achieve success without resort to ritual killings.

Bunch of greedy, parasitic ingrates!

superstar1:
Coming from someone from the capital of ritualists and kidnappers.

y1bos are the greedy lots and ingrates descendants of cain.

c33b33:
*yawn* Well,his cheap talk has made everyone including you to begin to talk about Biafra.

Ben Onwuka tried his best but didn't succeed. Nnamdi Kanu didn't lead the Heroes Day in Aba on 30th May from the radio. Why don't you chill and wait for Nnamdi Kanu to finish his cheap talk. Stop disturbing yourself about the outcome.

Your mention has become less intelligent,mention me if you have a better discussion.


IPOB Youth

xtrorse:
You seem to be current, Yoruba land is indeed the world capital of Ritual-killers!

Parasitic descendants of a fallen demon!

superstar1:
U

Nahhhhhhh

Where is Okija, the capital of human head?

Where is Ezzu River, the river that flows with human body and not water?

The capital of all crimes in Nigeria was is and will forever the land of Biafra.

Y1bos are the parasitic ones that contribute nothing to Nigeria, apart from being economic saboteurs. Bunch of laughing stocks, descendants of the cursed cain.