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FrontPageLawyer: Same oyinbo people tell us say make we nor put our horse before the cart. Haba!! Its just 2013. Most of us reading won't even be alive by 2050. Sad but true

The life expectancy in Nigeria is that bad?

Who will feed these Nigerians?

Can Nigeria handle all these excess people or is Nigeria going to become like Bangladesh?

He might not sound educated, but if he can get the job done, so be it.

Horus: They are already declining right now.

While non-white Hispanics are surging ahead.

Census Benchmark for White Americans: More Deaths Than Births

Deaths exceeded births among non-Hispanic white Americans for the first time in at least a century, according to new census data, a benchmark that heralds profound demographic change.

The disparity was tiny — only about 12,000 — and was more than made up by a gain of 188,000 as a result of immigration from abroad. But the decrease for the year ending July 1, 2012, coupled with the fact that a majority of births in the United States are now to Hispanic, black and Asian mothers, is further evidence that white Americans will become a minority nationwide within about three decades.

Over all, the number of non-Hispanic white Americans is expected to begin declining by the end of this decade.

“These new census estimates are an early signal alerting us to the impending decline in the white population that will characterize most of the 21st century,” said William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution.

The transition will mean that “today’s racial and ethnic minorities will no longer be dependent on older whites for their economic well-being,” Dr. Frey said. In fact, the situation may be reversed. “It makes more vivid than ever the fact that we will be reliant on younger minorities and immigrants for our future demographic and economic growth,” he said.

The viability of programs like Social Security and Medicare, Dr. Frey said, “will be reliant on the success of waves of young Hispanics, Asians and blacks who will become the bulwark of our labor force.” The issues of minorities, he added, “will hold greater sway than ever before.”

In 2010, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, more non-Hispanic whites died than were born in 11 states, including California, Florida and Pennsylvania. White deaths exceeded births in a majority of counties, including Los Angeles, the most populous.

The disparity between deaths and births in the year that ended last July surprised experts. They expected that the aging white population would eventually shrink, as it has done in many European countries, but not for another decade or so.

Nationally, said Kenneth M. Johnson, the senior demographer at the Carsey Institute, a research center based at the University of New Hampshire, “the onset of natural decrease between 2011 and 2012 was not anticipated.” He attributed the precipitous shift in part to the recession, adding that “the growing number of older non-Hispanic whites, which will accelerate rapidly as the baby boom ages, guarantees that non-Hispanic white natural decrease will be a significant part of the nation’s demographic future.”

Professor Johnson said there were 320,000 more births than deaths among non-Hispanic whites in the year beginning July 2006, just before the recession. From 2010 to 2011, the natural increase among non-Hispanic whites had shrunk to 29,000.

Census Bureau estimates indicate that there were 1.9 million non-Hispanic white births in the year ending July 1, 2012, compared with 2.3 million from July 2006 to 2007 during the economic boom, a 13.3 percent decline. Non-Hispanic white deaths increased only modestly during the same period, by 1.6 percent.

The census population estimates released Thursday also affirmed that Asians were the fastest-growing major ethnic or racial group. Their ranks grew by 2.9 percent, or 530,000, with immigration from overseas accounting for 60 percent of that growth.

The Hispanic population grew by 2.2 percent, or more than 1.1 million, the most of any group, with 76 percent resulting from natural increase.

The non-Hispanic white population expanded by only 175,000, or 0.09 percent, and blacks by 559,000, or 1.3 percent.

The median age rose to 37.5 from 37.3, but the median declined in Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma. It ranged from 64.8 in Sumter, Fla., to 23 in Madison, Idaho.

The number of centenarians nationally neared 62,000.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/us/census-benchmark-for-white-americans-more-deaths-than-births.html?_r=0

I enjoyed this song the second time I played it. But maybe I am biased, because I love Hip-Hop beats and it sounded good in my car.

Big props to Big Sean and Snoop Lion (formerly known as Snoop Dogg) as well.

This may get some rotation in the US music scene, and that is what D'Banj wants.

I must say that the only Nigerian that I have heard on the Hip-Hop/Dancehall radio stations in the US is Flavour.


That includes a DC radio station and a Houston radio station.

I might even hear this song on the radio here.

D'banj may can make it big in the US if he focuses on hooks first. Something like Roscoe Dash.

His accent adds a new layer to Hip-Hop that is different from Dancehall collabos with Sean Paul or Beenie Man.

How are black people going to get respect, when many of us do not respect ourselves?

Let me ask the South Africans a question, you say all Nigerians residing in South Africa are bad, so you are condoning this type of violence.

But what did the Somalis, Zimbabweans and Mozambicans do? They are often the victims of violence in South Africa.

There is a reason why South Africa is considered one of the most dangerous nations in the world and South Africans cannot blame Nigerians for that.

Nigerians should either invest in Nigeria, or they should invest in countries with a friendlier business climate.

I think the xenophobia in South Africa is at a crisis level.

Just the other day, I read an article on South Africans attacking Somalis.

Somalis march in Cape Town against South Africa attacks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22810926

This is simply tragic.

No wonder some cabbies do not like picking up black people in the states or go into poor areas.

The leader of the free world has spoken.

Professor Chinua Achebe's name has been etched in history.

Interesting...

But one point of correction. Stanford University is not an Ivy League university. It is often ranked high along with the Ivy League, but it is not one of them.

I think it went over some of y'all heads, but I am actually poking fun at the way some of you are celebrating toll booths.

Yes they are needed, but to be celebrated? When was the last time you celebrated the tax man? LMAO

Eko Ile: Why trouble your head over what they are not forcing you to do? Don't you have something better to do with instead of driving yourself crazy over other peoples business....? Abeg quit wasting my happy and joyous time..

We celebrate progress, not bad bele...

I guess you get a cut in the profit from these toll booths. It pays your salary bro?

I would be celebrating as well Mr. Eko Ile if I was you. This is indeed progress! Funny people some Nigerians are...

Eko Ile: Which one be all this headache and diarrhea? Then force or put a gun to your head to celebrate Abi we co join enter this world.
You people are like pests and saddists, nothing makes you happy, it's always anger and bad bele over common progress.


Smh....

Why such anger at my post?

Where I am from, NO ONE celebrates toll booths. Actually, we dread them.

I guess toll booths are celebrated in Nigeria.

Well at least they look nice and new to take people hard earned money.

Hahaha

Eko Ile I normally like the pictures you post, but this one I cannot share in the celebration.

Toll booths bro? Celebrating toll booths? I guess I can't get away from these things! They are a necessary evil, but you wont see me celebrating this other form of taxation. lol

Sheath your swords tribal champions of the Igbos and Yorubas.

We all know that the North would suffer if Nigeria divides. This should not even be up for debate.

Their education system is backwards, local economy is in shambles and their healthcare is in deplorable conditions.

It is either GEJ is working or he is not.

Nairaland is confusing me with this back and forth.

So if she is Nigerian, wouldn't it make those two men in the UK who committed that dastardly act Nigerian as well?

One of two guys was born in Nigeria.

She is definitely German of Igbo origin.

The girl's only connection to Nigeria is through her father.

Ola Johnson: It's none of my business where you come from. What has your being Igbo or otherwise got to do with your HERITAGE?

I see you cannot comprehend English very well and to be frank, I will not waste my time with you anymore on this thread.

So it would seem that when Nigeria shines, Ghana shines a little.

The little brother came up with a new dance, but it took the big brother to make it popular.

Ola Johnson: Your dream of being like the Israeli Jews who have things come to them easily, hence your calling yourselves 'Jews', is a mirage. Until you realize this you will remain where you are even in the politics of Nigeria. It was that same mirage that made you feel Things Fall Apart which is not rich in literary skills could fetch CA the Nobel Prize. For me, its being used in the United States is more of an anthropology/sociology for people to see the culture of the Igbo. All his books put together could not fetch him anything. Nadine Gordimer only compensated him with a mere verbal statement.

First of all, who told you that I was Igbo?

I have never mentioned my heritage.

all4naija: The Brit never even called them Nigerians yet you are quick to label them as some. Indeed, it is clear they are Brit citizens by birth and become Jihadists in that country out of their own silly volition.

They are Brits with bad and barbaric ideology.

They are British of Nigerian or Yoruba descent.

You act as if Nigerians have not been known to commit such barbaric acts. Do we not see this same type of fanatical ideology in Northern Nigeria?

all4naija: Point of correction, they aren't Nigerians.Nigeria has had a share of its problems, please, don't add others that aren't Nigerian's.

What should I call them? Of Nigerian descent? Or should I use their ethnicity as Yoruba? Or is it Nigerian-Briton, because we know they were not Anglo-Briton.

Either way, every time I see those two animals name in the news, it simply brings shame to us all, because they will be associated with Nigeria.

The Nigerian name is going down the drain very fast.

Last week, we witnessed horrors from two Nigerian men in the UK when they committed that despicable act.

Now Nigerians are beings chased from their homes in South Africa?

Son-Of-El:
God, is this guy teachable or is he just being stubborn? Okay, let me try this instance. WS likes similarizing african (yoruba) myths to european (greek) myth which on the surface, is not bad. However, his pursuit in desperately wanting to sound, feel, and think european in african shades has made him a nobel sweetheart, but an african oddity. As an atheist, he thinks he is enlightened, very unafrican.

I think your post may go over some people's head. Maybe Wole Soyinka should also be classified as a "peau noire, masques blancs." (Black skin, white mask)

You know you have arrived when you are able to perform with the great HOV.

Ola Johnson: And what point are you trying to make? What correlation does this have with your post that I quoted?

I am still trying to see the point you have been trying to make for at least 30 pages.

Chinua Achebe must be giving you sleepless nights, since he was give the title "Father of Modern African Literature.

It is funny and pathetic at the same time, that you cannot just deal with it.