₦airaland Forum

Lol. This whole going to the U.S matter sef no make brain. Like say Nigerians will now decide to vote for Atiku just because he somehow bribed his way into obtaining a U.S visa.

They should have waited he returns from America. He's going there to bring them dollars for sharing.

Wild exaggeration. What of George Opong Weah??

Damn! Jimi Agbaje must be missing ATM Dasuki right about now. Truth is that nobody will be willing to stick their necks out on behalf of Jimi as per funding his electoral ambition because they don't believe he stands a chance. Who has money to waste?

Oh well, as the regular customer wey Jimi be, he can always try again in the next 4-yrs.

ZombiePUNISHER:
Well we know Sanwo olu isn't lacking any cash...
He owns the key to the nation's treasury

But una wicked for that PDP sha. So, not even cash-money Saraki, Atiku, nor Wike can dash Jimi some small change to prosecute the upcoming election? Odikwa very serious o.

ZombiePUNISHER:
I think i read the thread... Yet to find anywhere they talked about the dead Ojukwu...

They are asking lagosians to free Lagos from greediness and wickedness of one man

Thank me later for helping you

Biafra needs more freedom than Lagos would ever do. If Lagosians were in any form of bondage, it won't be on Twitter that they will be fighting for it.

Poor Jimi. In the absence of Dasuki-type windfall, he has to adopt the cheaper routes of selling himself via Twitter, Facebook and the likes. Omo, odiro easy. It is well with you, Jimi.

Omotola is just talking out of ignorance. Back in 2007 Ghana redenominated its currency by slashing off a couple of zeros to put it at par with the dollar (10,000 old cedis became 1 new cedi), but inflation is already eroding the value of the new cedi once again relative to the same dollar coz the fundamentals didn't change much. I recall that Soludo proposed doing the same to the Nigerian currency back then, but it was rejected

Omotola is just talking out of ignorance. Back in 2007 Ghana redenominated its currency by slashing off a couple of zeros to put it at par with the dollar (10,000 old cedis became 1 new cedi), but inflation is already eroding the value of the new cedi once again relative to the same dollar coz the fundamentals didn't change much. I recall that Soludo proposed doing the same to the Nigerian currency back then, but it was rejected.

tungamaje:
People won't believe her because she didn't 'bark back' on time

No sane and rational person would even entertain Kanu's crap to begin with, let alone believe it. Only mentally ill and delusional dupes keep falling for his foolishness.

You are right Op, they are not foolish, rather they are just mentally ill and should be pitied, really. Arguing with them is tantamount to trying to convince a mad person that he is mad. Na you go tire.

Sad to say this but ipobs are really making Igbos look very silly.

tungamaje:
So do you mean me or your wife would just keep quiet over such an issue? Bros, please be realistic. This is Africa, no wife will keep quiet. She would bark back so that people will know there is nothing wrong somewhere

Yimu. And if she 'barks back', una go still look for yet another reason why Buhari has to be 'Jubrin'. Fact of the matter is that you lots have already made up your minds to believe a stvpid lie so you alone can free yourself from the mental illness, not Aisha or any other person for that matter.

Smh. These ipobs are really making Igbos look very silly.

Lol @ 'ik obona'.

Internet never forgets. Peter Obi talks too much and in the process of trying too hard to sound intelligent he ends up misfiring like a loose canon, with that tiny voice of his.

Omo, this move come be like say the guy give Saraki the middle finger.

So barbaric.

Bobo is really hustling for votes, though he is the frontrunner in the race.

This guy is really hustling for votes, though he is the frontrunner in the race.

Unless Saraki succeeds in mobilizing his numerous online ipob supporters that litter Nairaland to vote for his candidates next year, he's a goner as far as Kwara is concerned.

Looks like PDP and its affiliates of bloggers and other media outlets are banking on fake news to help them win the upcoming elections.

engineerboat and fake news are like 5 & 6.

'Enugu is the hands of god' na, abi no be so the governor dey talk? That god will provide work for the unemployed youths of Enugu.

Sirjamo:
No need to even campaign in the south west, how can we abandon Osinbajo for one Obi? When we are not mad

Abi? Obi ko, Kolanut ni.

In wonder how much he intends to spend on Atiku's campaign.

bigfrancis21:
@bold...if you say this, it is believable. Population spread relates very little with actual ethnic figures. More members of an ethnic group could be located in another part of any country at a given period and the 'spread figure' of that part of the country would be higher. Scarce resources located mostly in one part of a country tends to attract people from all parts of that country to the location of the scarce resources, thus the spread being higher around the scarce resources and much less dense around the spread source points. This is the whole point of the data you presented. Lagos, being the former country's capital, attracts more 'population spread' from other parts of the country to the region. Being a small state unable to contain everyone, there is a huge spillover of people into neighboring states such as Ogun and Oyo aka 'the Lagos effect'. Igbos are spread out all over Nigeria and the 'Igbo population spread' contributes immensely to increasing the population of their host states. How deserted Lagos can be during Christmas times when non-indigenes travel temporarily to their villages tells you the actual population of Lagos stay.

Egypt is a huge country but over half of its landmass is desert and unused land. Being a huge desert land, water was scarce. Development in Egypt started around the Nile river, being the major source of water in the country, attracting Egyptians all over the country to settle and develop around the Nile. Thus, the population spread living around the Nile is greater than at other parts of Egypt.

Dude, it's not rocket science. Give it up already. No serious person or advanced country would rely on internet subscribers to extrapolate true census figures. It is not even hard for an average Joe to point out the fallacies in such argument.

Lol. Calm down because you sound frustrated. You so badly want to beileve that your people are more populated than any other single ethnicity in Nigeria but unfortunately you can't prove it. So far you have failed to prove your position with any concrete data to support it. I presented you with data of active voice data that atleast shows a ballpark estimate of the population spread of Nigerian states, in the absence of a credible census data. Lagos state govt puts the state's population at an estimated 20-million strong. Igbos cant be more than 6-million in Lagos, they definitely aren't up to the Yoruba population in the state. But let's even give them 7-million just for arguments sake (that is certainly larger than the population of any single SE state). The combined population of Igbos put together in Ogun, Oyo and the remaining SW states can't be up to a million, and that's a statement of fact. Igbos are insignifant in numbers in the SW outside of Lagos. It's like you are attempting desperately to push the narrative that Igbos constitute a sizable bulk of the data from Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, and Yoruba-speaking Kogi, which cannot fly anyway because there's absolutely no basis for such postulation to begin with.

You may have to seek other explanations as to why the SE population account for the lowest in the data in question, but the attempt to appropriate non-Lagos SW based figures without credible evidence to support such won't fly. You can try claiming a sizable portion SS, NC, NE and even NW (I don't care), but certainly not the SW (non-Lagos especially).

bigfrancis21:
The data you presented has approximately 93m active subscribers, not 143m as you claimed.

Total Nigeria Active Internet Subscriptions: 92,424,736

REGIONS:
South West = 28,563,034 Active Internet Subscriptions (31.0%)
South South = 14,192,945 Active Internet Subscriptions (15.35%)
South East = 9,313,209 Active Internet Subscriptions (10.0%)

North West = 14,430,574 Active Internet Subscriptions (15.61%)
North Central = 13,978,344 Active Internet Subscriptions (15.12%)
North East = 7,441,345 Active Internet Subscriptions (8.05%)

F.C.T = 4,132,172 Active Internet Subscriptions (4.47%)

No, check it again. Perhaps you are referring to the internet subscription. I am talking about voice data. Or perhaps you are referring to scholes', which is relatively outdated.

Donelli:
You fail to understand my point. When I said "those assumptions will not fly", I was referring to these:





In the first instance, the debate here was that the statistics in the original post are grossly misrepresented, but basing your own argument on telecoms active voice subscription is totally off point in this discuss.

If you even consider that most people use multiple lines it will probably slash the actual head count by half which would mean that the data spread is just about 25% of the population which does not sufficiently address the topic, but I understand what you are particularly interested in anyways.

Dude, no matter how you want to slice or dice it, the fact remains that the data in question is the closest to anything credible to guesstimate the country's current population spread. If you wanna argue about multiple lines, then that 'slash' you speak of would have to apply across board. And unless you wanna argue that SE folks prefer single sim phones or are too broke to recharge their phone lines in order to keep them active compared to Nigerians in other parts of the country then I don't see the point. The remarkable thing about the data is that it is devoid of bias, unlike general censuses that are always mired in controversy.

bigfrancis21:
Data that captures less than half of the Nigerian population is credible?

Less than half of Nigeria's population you say?? I know you are smarter than this so quit the mischief. What is Nigeria's current population? Unless you can answer that then you have no basis to make that statement. Nigeria's current estimated population is 180 to 200-million or thereabout. The data I presented covers 143-million plus active lines. Is that not more than half of the country's estimated population?

Donelli:
Those assumptions will not fly.

In the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 'You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts'. I have presented some credible and verifiable data that at least serve as a guide to the estimated population spread of the country in the absence of a recent census. You Mr. are free to believe whatever you please.

Donelli:
You do recognize that this data does not sufficiently address the population by tribe right?
Let us assume everyone is fully captured, how then do you account for the non-locals in other regions

Go back to my earlier posts where I addressed that.

kettykin:
This is really hilarious. The telecom data does not equate to population . Do you factor the foreigners in lagos and most phone users have dual sim and multiple network

Even if you subtract 10-million from the Lagos numbers and dash them to the combination of Igbos, foreigners and other tribes in the state, the difference will still be as clear as 7-up. And the dual sim argument will apply to every state and region. Or are you trying to insinuate that Igbos in the SE don't use dual sims too??