The state of Osun has ranked second in human Capital on Nigeria’s first sub-national competitiveness index released by the National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria.

Osun ranking in human capital

The report which was release early November by the council took two years of research into the factors that drive competitiveness in Nigeria’s 36 states and the FCT.

The research was funded by Ford Foundation and The Tony Elumelu Foundation.

The research covered more than 2,000 businesses, 8,000 households, 400 indicators and 4 pillars.

In Human Capital which covers education, migration, gender equality and health, Osun came second after Delta State whilst Enugu state took the third position, whilst Kebbi, Borno and Gombe took the last three positions respectively.

Osun ranking in human capital

The State of Osun has received several knocks after BudgIT, a socio-economic organisation released its State of the State 2016 report, stating Osun cannot meet its obligations due to its huge deductions for debt repayment from its Federal Allocation.

Though the state continue to pay it workforce in an arrangement that sees workers in levels 1-7 (67% of workforce) receive their full salary, whilst workers in grade level 8-12 (25% of workforce) receive 75% of their salaries and workers in grade level 13-17 (8% of workforce) receive 50% of their salaries.

Osun ranking in human capital

Meanwhile, the state government in its defense on the BudgIT report revealed the state invested heavily in human capital, saying independent reports from several credible local and international organisations has ranked Osun high in all the Human Development Index.

The commissioner for Information, Mr. Adelani Baderinwa reacting to the report on Sub-National Competitiveness Index revealed that, “this again has vindicated our government.

We borrowed funds for infrastructural and human capital development.

Osun ranking in human capital

“The ranking of Osun as Second in Human Capital amongst the 36 states in the Federation in the First Sub-National Competitiveness Index is an endorsement of our belief that investment in Education and other critical infrastructure can never be overemphasized.

“Again, I must appreciate our workers who have made this possible.

They have remained steadfast and continue to sacrifice for the future of Osun and its children yet unborn in the face of daunting challenge in meeting our monthly obligations.

“You can be rest assured that the state government will complete all the projects its embarked upon before the end of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s administration”, the commissioner noted.

It can be recalled that Osun also maintained the 2nd position after Lagos in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently released the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) for the year 2016. The report concludes that Osun has the least poverty outside Lagos.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/osun-ranks-second-in-human-capital-on-nigerias-first-sub-national-competitiveness-index/

people will cry like usual over this report I can already smell the salt. How can delta 1st place. Why is Enugu 3rd.

I know what aragbesola would do if he has enough resources.




Ipob yute, drop hate and toast to this goodnews in the spirit of sportsmanship.

The state of osun also has the least povery outside/after lagos. This is nothing but fact, but detractors will soon be here to tell us otherwise. Verry funny people who claim their region is the most developed and also the most neglected.
SW is the glory of Nigeria.

Do you really believe that? Check this out.
www.nairaland.com/4159209/competitive-index-really-reliable

SouthEastFacts:
Do you really believe that?
Check this out.

www.nairaland.com/4159209/competitive-index-really-reliable

The reports measure different things!


Just accept this report and that of competitive index if you really deal with facts and not petty sentiments and tribalism!

Osun workers are sacrificing a lot. May their children enjoy the benefits of their selflessness. I also hope the state's finances get better soon so they can have some deserved relief.

Lol have you noticed that they always come up with a sponsored stat to massage their browny ego?
Osun is in comatose! Comparing osun with yobe is the only reasonable thing to do.

Ah no talk am? Detractors are here already with their ussual nonsense, see one above. But who takes them seriously? Go to osun or any sw state and you'll see thousands of folks from SE there, their migration to SW is unconnected to the progress of the region, but the ignorant ones are on the internet 24/7 posting rubbish.

Lalasticalala

Please let people read the positive as regards this man of great vision o, for once
The narrative has always been negatively biased against him

If this is a bad news about Osun, it will fly fast to front page...but heck!!! Good news about Osun is not good for consumption to some people.

I don laugh sotee i fall inside gutter...............that moment one hears that that state of Osun came second in competitive index rating.........hahahahahahahahahahohohohooho

These floor kissing slum dwellers will not kill us with lies & propaganda. A state with idp camp littering everywhere., how can people suviving with aid donor be competitive enough? A state with the second biggest slum capital, in africa after Ibadan. With over 75% of the houses having no toilet facility or batroom. A state where its capital is littered with mud houses, thatched & brown roofs .........oh, no no no, no one mentions the gorry site of Osun villages that depict or resembles what we see in foreign horror movies. A state that has consistentely came last in every human development index, both education wise. These propaganda marchant are not helping the poor Osunite who are expecting free donor from rest of us.

Osun's ranking is what happens when people do not forget about farming while chasing the golden fleece . Even professors carry their Cutlasses and hoes on Saturday and Sunday while still maintaining their white collar jobs .

Osun's ranking is what happens when people do not forget about farming while chasing the golden fleece . Everybody from professors , traders , to okadaman carry their Cutlasses and hoes on Saturday and Sunday while still maintaining their white or blue collar jobs .

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Danladi7:


The reports measure different things!


Just accept this report and that of competitive index if you really deal with facts and not petty sentiments and tribalism!

According to that same report, Abia ranks first in waste management above FCT and Lagos.

Katsina ranks first in business sophistication. Do you know what business sophistication means?

Believe that report at your own peril.

another fake news from lagos ibadam expressway media

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Presidiotbuhari:
These floor kissing slum dwellers will not kill us with lies & propaganda. A state with idp camp littering everywhere., how can people suviving with aid donor be competitive enough? A state with the second biggest slum capital, in africa after Ibadan. With over 75% of the houses having no toilet facility or batroom. A state where its capital is littered with mud houses, thatched & brown roofs .........oh, no no no, no one mentions the gorry site of Osun villages that depict or resembles what we see in foreign horror movies. A state that has consistentely came last in every human development index, both education wise. These propaganda marchant are not helping the poor Osunite who are expecting free donor from rest of us.

[/s]This one still living in stone age

Ejanla07:
another fake news from lagos ibadam expressway media

Abi o, when osun is not the last and Abia is top. It will be fake news. Normal ipob reasoning. And you think I am surprise.

some people claim that they know Osun state while they know nothing.


poverty and Osun state are like two parallel lines

Kiss the truth or u do the needfull!

Gotze1:
[s][/s]This one still living in stone age

Cinkq:
Ah no talk am? Detractors are here already with their ussual nonsense, see one above. But who takes them seriously? Go to osun or any sw state and you'll see thousands of folks from SE there, their migration to SW is unconnected to the progress of the region, but the ignorant ones are on the internet 24/7 posting rubbish.

you are right my brother, out of every 100 people you see in south west at least 10 of them are not Yorubas while about 60% of the identified non natives are most likely igbos

SouthEastFacts:
Do you really believe that?
Check this out.

www.nairaland.com/4159209/competitive-index-really-reliable

Feel free to rubbish a report -sponsored and made by credible bodies- because of your perception.

However, the UNDP, World Bank, NBS, Oxford, and now the NCCN have all said the same thing - that Southwest Nigeria is the least imporverished region and Osun has one of the lowest amount of poor people nationwide.

Now, would I rather believe them or SouthEastFacts who's job on Nairaland, apparently is to propagate 'pro-south east' reports and discredit 'anti-south east' ones?

Lalasticlala Seun , Vanguard is the source.

Gotze1:
Abi o, when osun is not the last and Abia is top. It will be fake news. Normal ipob reasoning. And you think I am surprise.

.yes ooo. i think u re surprise and a head slammer. also a hydraulic toilet soup drinker wit shit looking amala

Gotze1:
Abi o, when osun is not the last and Abia is top. It will be fake news. Normal ipob reasoning. And you think I am surprise.

the only statistics osun lead in d south is IDP CAMP. the come second to ogun in skull mining

Blue3k2:
people will cry like usual over this report I can already smell the salt. How can delta 1st place. Why is Enugu 3rd.

I read the competitiveness report the NCCN published in all the various categories and these metrics don't represent any hard data and the methodology is hardly fool-proof. In economic metrics, are war-ravaged and impoverished Borno and Yobe really ahead of Delta who were 1st in human capital and is Sokoto (ranked 3rd from 36 states plus FCT) really ahead of Ogun or Anambra? Really? Does the same Katsina that ranks near bottom in education (35th nationally) and infrastructure (34th) really rank 1st in business sophistication? Does Borno really rank ahead of Imo and Oyo in health (Imo probably has as many hospitals and health professionals as the whole North East)? Does Abia, easily in the top 5 of the filthiest states in Nigeria, really rank in the top 10 of Nigeria in waste management ("clean and green" Abuja ranks 18th). Is Yobe, with over a million people displaced in IDP's really ranked higher than Anambra in stability and security and how did Bayelsa end up right at the bottom in 37th, even while the Niger-Delta militancy capital, Delta state, ranks one of the highest at 7th?

Just because some people, for tribalistic reasons, childishly dismiss reports that don't favour them doesn't somehow mean the data is beyond reproach. For starters, if you compared this results with similar studies on the same states from other bodies, you'll see a wild swing in rankings of several states. It's impossible for reliable data to yoyo in such a fashion.

Ejanla07:


.yes ooo. i think u re surprise and a head slammer. also a hydraulic toilet soup drinker wit shit looking amala

What is this one saying?