₦airaland Forum

BKayy:
I don't think the Aboki is correct in that statement that the size of Nigeria is the determinant factor of Nigerian territorial sea because Benin Republic has more sea claim than Nigeria and if I can remember very well, Benin Republic is not up to half of Nigeria in land mass.

Nigeria's territorial sea claim is: 12nm
While Benin Republic Sea claim is: 200nm

Even small Togo is: 30nm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters

This is just territorial waters not Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

Nigeria can apply for an extension of its territorial waters if it so wishes.

Igboid:
But there is a factor people are not considering regarding the offshore fields.

NIGERIA only have claim to these fields because of our landmass that the North contribute the bulk of. As you level of claim to intercontinental waters I learnt is determined by your landmass.
If there is disintegration of NIGERIA, Akwaibom might not have enough landmass to claim those oil Wells from other smaller countries in the region like Cameroon, Gabon, Equitorial Guinea, etc.

What do you think about this?

That is Fulani wayo lies breh. All sovereign nations, no matter how tiny have exclusive navigational and exploratory rights to their territorial waters as well as the right to exploit the natural resources embedded in the shelf of their Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). Size's got nothing to do with it.
Even a sovereign speck of littoral land will have an EEZ as long as it is a natural landform (not reclaimed/landfilled/artificial). That is why some of these old colonial powers like France are clutching hard to their offshore islands not wanting to let go of them.

mrvitalis:
LMAO most Nigeria offshore oil are on productive except the few that are in the deep sea where no one gets 13%

The rest are used to collect loan abroad n live as big boys by the owners

How is this reply relevant to the topic??
Most Akwa Ibom oilfields are offshore. (Both shallow and deep) and they are always in number 1 or 2- flip flopping with Delta for top spot.
If you notice- they are one of the few oil producing states that don’t have much issues with oil spills and land degradation.

You better rethink any previous notion that you might have had.

mrvitalis:
Eche and omuma , ekpeye these are the other oil producers in rivers State the ijaws barely produce 20% of rivers oil this is me even calling opobo , andoni and bonny ijaws ooh only bile kingdom is the major oil producers in ijaw land and they claim they are not ijaws

lol... you think oil ends Onshore?
The Ijaw (Rivers) territorial waters shallow and deep field offshore plus onshore production alone catapult them past all Igboid rivers put together.

Ijaws.

Delta ijaw fields
Bayelsa Ijaw fields
Rivers Ijaw fields.
They move into number one. (1st)

Ibibios don't have oil unless you are considering the Orons, Obolos and Ibenos as part of a meta-ethnicity called "Ibibio""...
That would push them into number 2. (2nd)

Then the Igboid groups (Including Ukwuani and Ekpeye) all together would come third. (3rd)

Then itsekiris would come Fourth. (4th)

My unbiased Opinion.

MrMaestro:
Yorubas dominate the list of Africa’s Digital Landscape.

https://www.theafricareport.com/146660/africas-digital-top-40/amp/

Maad o.

Evolution at work.

Just woooow

Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44

FallenShitHole:
All the websites above which you quoted have nothing to do with your posted statistics. All what you posted can easily be designed by anyone. FAKE!!

Information is free, however Interpretation, expression and representation of Data requires people who actually have a functioning brain to do that. That you can't pull out statistics from an open resource website is no fault of anyone.
Data is free.

plaindealer:
Ethiopians are second on that list because the US let in tens of thousands of them as refugees, but Nigerians hustled in all kinds of ways to get to the US including as fee paying students, you must highlight that context and variables..

Btw, why must Nigerians have larger numbers than other African countries? Are we in some kind of competition?

Unless you are suggesting it now, I have only made a submission on numbers and per-capita representation in response to someone else's opinion that the reason Nigerians can no longer partake in the U.S Visa lottery program is because we are already overrepresented in the U.S

FallenShitHole:
Stop talking garbage like a brainless mofo. The nigerians you see in USA are 98% Southern nigerians. That brings you to approximate 100Million nigerians. That's the number you can use to work on your so called mathematics.

Another pained MoFo getting abusive and agitated for no reason.
So the other countries where people emigrate to the US don't have regional imbalances in emigration as well? Look at the Ethiopia in my example, the majority of its American diaspora are Amharas , whereas Oromos are a majority back home. Has that stopped immigration into US?

Again, the majority of Ghana's diaspora are Akans from the South.

The overwhelming majority of the Cuban diaspora is white, whereas the Cuban population is more multiracial than it's US diaspora would suggest.... It isn't a new thing, and has got nothing to do with per-capita analysis.

When world bank comes and tells you that Nigeria's literacy rate is 62% , I wonder if you start ranting to them that the literacy in your southern state is over 90% instead and that they should scrap the figures.

plaindealer:
Ethiopians are second on that list because the US let in tens of thousands of them as refugees, but Nigerians hustled in all kinds of ways to get to the US including as fee paying students, you must highlight that context and variables..

Dude I only gave two examples. There are several more.... It's even more glaring when you look at ratios outside the continent, but within WA here; Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gambia, Guinea, Senegal and many more have much higher representation per capita/vis-a-vis their populations (at least comparatively speaking)
You didn't even address Ghana, the other example in my two example submission.

christistruth01:
The Balance is in Europe where it is heavily weighted in Nigeria's Favour

Which part of Europe?

OfoIgbo:
I don't remember arguing with you on this topic.

I'm even surprised Igbo speaking families are that much. Most ethnic Igbos don't bother teaching their kids Igbo, and that is why the EPIC channel on AfRICA Magic is the most widely viewed channel, on DSTV.

Now even though I don't have this data, but I expect the AM Yoruba channel on DSTV to be more widely viewed than the AM Igbo channel, b cause Igbos are much more likely to be watching AM Epic, which is 95% dominated by Igbo culture and settings.

Language attrition affects most Nigerian groups abroad at almost equal or similar levels. Even if there are nominal differences it shouldn't be bad to heavily throw off the figures by multiple factors. Africans like Somalis, Ethiopians and even Ghanaians are much more in tune with their indigenous languages and pass it on to their children compared to Nigerians across board.

As for Africa Magic channels, of course AM Yoruba is much more watched than AM Igbo. All Nigerians from all regions watch General AM channel from Benue to Ogun to Rivers.

LegendHero:
I think the reason USA gave them for exempting Nigerians was because more than, 50,000 natives of Nigerians immigrated to the United States in the previous five years.

Nigerians plenty normally, if not for the strict visa approval self, we go don reach millions for USA.

But think about this, Ghana; a country of 30 million people has 162K people in the US. If we were to go by proportional representation, then Nigeria with 7 times more people (over 200 million) should have at least 1.13 million people in the US proportionally, instead Nigerians are just 462K (2.8X Ghanaians)

Same goes with Ethiopia with 322K people with half Nigeria's population... if we do a 2X based on number of Ethiopians, then there should be at least 644K Nigerians in America.

The truth is that Compared to our population, the figure for Nigeria is very very low.... so, this perception that "Nigerians are already too much in the US" does not really sound all that to me actually especially if you look at other countries still enjoying the benefits of the visa lottery program.... Infact Nigerians are still "learning toddlers" when it comes to Global migration.... If you really want to know those who have made it a 'national program', go check the Filipinos, Eastern Europeans and the likes ... those ones migrate in the millions.

mancoconut:
What year was this study released?

It isn't a study. It is a report from the United states census board. check links to explore further.

American states by largest Nationalities present.
20 out of 50 U.S Sates in the USA have a Nigerian Majority. Mostly in the South , Midwest and Mid Atlantic/Northeast.

Sources:
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ancesty&g=0400000US04,32,33&tid=ACSDT1Y2019.B04006&hidePreview=true
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ancestry&tid=ACSDT1Y2019.B04006
http://data.census.gov/mdat/#/search?ds=ACSPUMS1Y2019&rv=LANP&wt=PWGTP
http://data.census.gov/cedsci/

And last but not least, here is a representation of the geographic spread of the 3 most represented Nigerian ethnicities/languages (Yorubas, Igbos and Edoid Languages/Peoples) in the top 10 U.S states with the largest Nigerian populations, starting with Texas (1st) and ending with Massachusetts (10th).

Of the various African languages spoken in U.S Households, only a handful were statistically significant enough to obtain discrete codes and statistical representation.codification. Out of the West African languages represented, some such as Yoruba, Igbo and Wolof are stand alone languages, while others such as Edoid, Gbe and Manding languages are linguistic groupings of similar languages. The following are the 10 largest West African languages spoken in America. The big 3 are:

Yoruba - 149,358

Akan Languages
(Incl. Twi) - 141,583

Igbo - 94,788

The other 7 represented languages are:

Manding Languages - 30,381
Wolof - 26,255
Fulah - 18,563
Kabuverdianu - 18,451
Gbe Languages - 17,212
Edoid Languages - 16,699
Ga - 10,542

Source: https://data.census.gov/mdat/#/search?ds=ACSPUMS1Y2019&rv=LANP&wt=PWGTP

Also, Nigerians represent the largest African Nationality by ancestry in the United states. Here are the top 10 African Nationalities represented in the U.S as of 2019.

Nigerian - 461,695 Persons
Ethiopian - 321,742
Somali - 182,951
Ghanaian - 162,145
Cape Verdean - 101,013
Kenyan - 91,455
Liberian - 81,838
Sudanese (North & South) - 75,254
South African - 69,701
Sierra Leonian - 29,153

Source: https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ancestry&tid=ACSDT1Y2019.B04006&hidePreview=true

The American Community Survey (ACS) arm of the United States Census Bureau is the source for detailed population, linguistic, demographic and housing information about United States residents. Here are the statistical and graphical representations for various Nigerian/West African and African nationalities and ethnic populations by reported ancestries and languages in the U.S states.

According to the U.S Census Bureau 461,695 individuals reported Nigerian ancestry in 2019. The top 10 states with the largest number of Nigerians are in order:

Texas: 105,255
Maryland: 43,814
California: 38,907
New York: 37,675
Georgia: 28,711,
New Jersey: 25,095
Illinois: 24,897
Florida: 16,467
Pennsylvania: 13,841
Virginia: 10,079.

DOTian:
No
It was there all along..
Just that the locals didn't know what to do with it because they were busy with owameda...

And yet it was still “founded” by the 110 year old man

Lori irọ

Kudos to the phantom founders

Ebi2233:
I have Yoruba tribal marks too, because I was born in Yoruba area.
come and claim me as Yoruba

OIL RIVERS STATE
…Why Ibeno opted out - IBENOS DENY BEING IJAW

The National Coordinator of Ikpoto Akwa Ibom, one of the several groups campaigning for Etteh, Mr. Nsima Uwak, however, says the Ijaws know that Ibeno is not an Ijaw territory and cannot, therefore, lay claim to it. According to him, Ibeno was founded by Mbang, a brother to Ukpabang, the progenitor of Oron Nation. “This informs the wide acceptability of Etteh among the Oron,” Uwak said.

Ijaws can claim for Africa.

Ebi2233:
You are more confused than Buhari.
Tell Sowore from Apoi West clan, that he is not Ijaw. And tell both the Ijaw National Affairs Commissioner and the Ijaw Youth Council President Worldwide both from Obolo that they are not Ijaws.

Lmao. Sowore is a Yoruba man even with tribal mark. Anyways Apois (which I highly doubt will follow any Ijaw nation) and arogbos can do whatever they like, just know that the entire coast is Ilaje territory and a NO-GO Area.

... Anywyas, everyone have said their own.

jneutron4000:
We know how you migrated to Ese Odo in Ondo state, make Una no do pass Una self Una dey live there peacefully and una get all right to live there but if 9ja breaks today, no single part of Ese Odo wey no go dey under Yoruba Nation. As I speak now, in some part of Ogun creek there are some Ijaws who have migrated to that place now, and they are giving birth and as well aggregating their community, we welcome them and maybe in the next 500 years to come, they will start claiming ownership if they do not integrate properly. That Yoruba Anthem has being passed, if not for the Nigeria government using their constitution, una go get the mind to even protest against am before?

Gbam.

Ebi2233:
Whatever you say, is your personal problem what is an enclave, then what did u say? Them no tell your mumu say I study English and literary studies, for University.

Thief Ole... Una wan carry people coastline dey go ijo republic. Lmao.... If you need a guide, You better check Adaka boro's ijo republic for cross reference of where you should be claiming.
Akwa Cross nation have been sleeping, Ijaws will soon steal you people's entire coastline..

Ebi2233:
Okay, go and tell that the Obolo man who is the Ijaw National Affairs Commissioner and the other Obolo guy who is the Ijaw Youth Council President Worldwide.
Them no tell u say that time wey them say Ijaw Youth Council President kidnapped, that was the Obolo guy

Ijaws with their double logic....

You people claim Ibenos, and Obolos/Andonis that don't speak your language as Ijos but at the same time want to claim Apoi that don't eve now what ordinary water is in Izon..

See the Apois you people are claiming...smh.

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Ebi2233:
Tompolo is from Gbaramatu go and tell him he is Itsekiri.
Deputy Governor of Delta state too,
Tell him too.

You have reading problems.

I said Gbaramatu are an enclave. Did I say they are Itsekiris. ?