Hi All,

Compliments of the season.  I am sure 2007 is heavily pregnant and I pray it brings forth a new dawn for all Nigerians, home and abroad.

So the Nigerian population is officially 140,000,419.  Why does the figure end with 419?  How miraculous that the figure surprisingly ends with 419?  It only means that even the Nigerian Government does not believe in the census figures.  They know that the figures have been doctored abi how you see am Mazi Uche N?  Bro. Wale make you speak out o.  Sis Jumi and Soul Sizzling, Auspy, you dey there?  Oga Lawyer J.D. abi wetin you think?   Akuluouno, I hear you wel wel for another thread.

It should not be a great surprise however that the number of men is actually more than that of women.  It will be recalled that the 1991 exercise put Nigeria's population at 88, 992, 220 made up of 44, 529, 608 males and 44, 462, 612 females.  That is to say the population of men has always been greater than that of women in Nigeria but how come men can still marry as many as 4 or 5 wives, have many concubines, yet we hear there are still many women looking for husbands.  Where did we get the phrase ‘Senior Girls’ from?  Those our sisters who are in their late 30s and 40s and unmarried.  Why do we not have an equivalent of senior girls – that is senior boys in Nigeria?  The senior boys we know in Nigeria are not necessarily unmarried at 40 or 50.  Rather they are those with plenty of naira to throw around, those who drive big cars and live in big houses.  If it is true that men have always been more than women, I need someone to explain this trend to me and other confused Nigerians.

 

In many Nigerian families where a relationship is not blessed with a male child, we all know the anxiety that follows the birth of every successive female child.  In short most Nigerian marriages are incomplete without a male child and some families will go to any length to have a male child.  The desire to have a male child is one of the reasons some men often give for marrying a second wife.  In fact, many Nigerian men are known to have male children outside their matrimonial homes because their official marriages are not blessed with a male child. No be for my mouth you go hear of Nigerian State Governors wen born bobos outside Governor’s house because first lady na mama born girl.  In one particular instance that I am aware of, a woman’s name was changed from Bonita to Abigail after she had the 4th girl.  

Please pardon me if you think I am asking too many questions but if the search is on and constant for the elusive male child, how come the Nigerian Government tell us that men are more than women?  Where are the men if our senior girls continue to remain single abi na by choice?  Which kind ojoro be dat?  Does the Government expect us as women to jubilate? 

This is not the only surprise; preliminary reports say Kano is likely to be ahead of Lagos in terms of the number of people in both States.  The Nigerian government will never cease to amaze me.  How can anybody think that there are more people in any Northern State than in Lagos abi as Fela bin ask; na the donkeys and carmels wen dey for Kano them count?  Abi na the groundnuts?  What about my friends and family in Lagos and Port Harcourt that they did not count?  These are people living in urban areas with proper okada, danfo, and even molue accessibility.  Even keke Marwa dey reach where dem dey stay.  Chinedu, Gwobe (long time), Don Abraxas, Techsista, Papino, abeg una dey hear wetin dem dey talk for that our country?  Cdimkpa, you hear them?  Nonyellum na true you talk.  We dey wait for State by State analysis?  Which year Nigerian Government go stop all these 419?  Fela talk am before e die after the 1991 census.  Dem still dey do the ojoro.  Dem no go stop. 

Another question Nigerians should be asking is what about the brothers and sisters and their families in diaspora?   We no be Nigerians again because we dey live for abroad?  Or did they include us in the figure of 140 million?  Will we ever know the true population of our country when those of us living abroad have no voting rights?  What about the undocumented Nigerians in diaspora?   My questions plenty no be small.

My estimate is that Nigerians are in the region of 200 million including the number of Nigerians in diaspora.  I have also heard that among every 5 Africans abroad, one is a Nigerian.  That gap might have closed a bit more.  What will it cost the Nigerian Government to direct our embassies to carry out a census of Nigerians in diaspora whether you are legit or not?  The choice should be yours as a Nigerian whether you want to take part or not but at least the opportunity should be given.  Here in Ireland, a Nigerian passport for the purpose of regularizing your stay with the Irish Authorities cost €400 per person.  It will not cost too much to inform passport applicants that their details can be used for the purpose of Nigerian census but our country has no interests in its people at home or abroad.  What a shame.     

These are some of the reasons why some of us think democracy is not a sport whereby some people are active and others are spectators.  Move from your comfort zone and get involved, that is the message from this 419 census.

Robot  # 1 | 30.12.2006 10:25

That is to say the population of men has always been greater than that of women in Nigeria but ho...Read the full article.

cdimkpa  # 2 | 30.12.2006 10:41

Dear Sis Bennah, I hear you oh! But first, compliments of the season. Hm! 140,003,542 is the figure I have seen in many of the Nigerian papers online. This new figure with 419 as the last numbers is interesting and portends a sign of things to come between now and 6 months:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Given the internal flow of humans betwen the Nigerian zones, my early prediction is that Lagos, followed by Kano (on account of all the hausa beggars that throng that state from other northern states)/Rivers State (on account of Port Harcourt and oil attraction) and then Oyo (on account of enough landmass) will be the biggest four states. Let's see how it goes though. There should be a way of taking the 17M plus diasporan Nigerians into account, as well as the internal migrants. In the absence of this, the Igbo will be the biggest losers as her population is significantly outside their natural homes. Had ethnicity been considered, I have no doubt that the Igbo would be the largest, again, especially if diasporans are accounted for. If ''ojoro'' has been played, then it seems as with us, the ''ojoro'' players have left some loose ends: 1. Many men have many wives, no woman has many husbands. 2. Many girls are single (so-called senior girls) 3. Less females are abroad than males 4. Many families complained of not being enumerated. No wonder the 140M + declared is fraught with suspicion

akuluouno  # 3 | 30.12.2006 11:38

Dear Sista Bene, This population abracadabra dey bambozwhelm meoo. Since my papaborn me they say woman pass man, bicos we carry xx while them carry yx. Today Makama, don say man pass woman for Nigeria. Wetin we go do. i don tell my husband it is finished, the word our saviour said on the cross. He asked me why? I brought out Makama statistics showing that for Naija today, man don pass woman so I don get too many choose to make. That was when the poor man declared the figures 419. Well all naija sister will now meet in Abuja on 19th April (19/4) to review the dowry that men will be paying inview of the increased demand. Up Women Power. We are free at last. Praise the lord. Down with polygamy, up polyandry. :D :D :biggrin: :biggrin:

What?  # 4 | 30.12.2006 13:37

how come men can still marry as many as 4 or 5 wives, have many concubines, yet we hear there are still many women looking for husbands. Where did we get the phrase ‘Senior Girls’ from? Answer - Most of the supernemerary wives are recycled. Mary "City People", the "big" girl goes from Anefiok, to Bala, to Chike, to Derin, and then Eghosa. Thus counting as a wife or concubine for five different men. In keeping with the spirit of the NPC without mentioning any particular states, in certain areas you find women that have married and re-married several men and had children for them.

forshow3  # 5 | 30.12.2006 18:29

=cdimkpa;146419>Dear Sis Bennah, I hear you oh! But first, compliments of the season. Hm! 140,003,542 is the figure I have seen in many of the Nigerian papers online. This new figure with 419 as the last numbers is interesting and portends a sign of things to come between now and 6 months:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Given the internal flow of humans betwen the Nigerian zones, my early prediction is that Lagos, followed by Kano (on account of all the hausa beggars that throng that state from other northern states)/Rivers State (on account of Port Harcourt and oil attraction) and then Oyo (on account of enough landmass) will be the biggest four states. Let's see how it goes though. There should be a way of taking the 17M plus diasporan Nigerians into account, as well as the internal migrants. In the absence of this, the Igbo will be the biggest losers as her population is significantly outside their natural homes. Had ethnicity been considered, I have no doubt that the Igbo would be the largest, again, especially if diasporans are accounted for. If ''ojoro'' has been played, then it seems as with us, the ''ojoro'' players have left some loose ends: 1. Many men have many wives, no woman has many husbands. 2. Many girls are single (so-called senior girls) 3. Less females are abroad than males 4. Many families complained of not being enumerated. No wonder the 140M + declared is fraught with suspicion cdimkpa , do not come to wrong conclusion and mislead nigerian... We all have seen satellite picture rivers state would not be among the first 4 most populated state.. even from satellite picture shows Benin is more populated than port harcourt.. please download google earth.. It would not be lagos, kano.. if you saw the satellite picture Ibadan is larger than Kano... so also is benin.. so please do not twist information.. and mislead people.. let us see the data.. and we would see if it right or wrong.. from satellite picture it would be Oyo, lagos, ondo,, kano, kaduna and mostly edo state, Please download google earth or order for NASA pictures.. if you doubt me.. go and check satellite picture.. Port harcourt is small compare to benin city...

oloyede  # 6 | 30.12.2006 23:09

________________________________________________________________________ Bene!!!!!!! “Where are the men if our senior girls continue to remain single abi na by choice? Which kind ojoro be dat? Does the Government expect us as women to jubilate? “ ________________________________________________________________________ Good questions Bene!!! I wrote in the other thread that I was in Nigeria about two months ago. I was in Lagos state, Sokoto state, Abia state and other cities. I do not see any prove that men are now ratio 1.05 in Nigeria. Experiment is simple, wait in any bus-stop In Lagos for about five minutes; You will be surprise where in the world the girls comes from; same in Sokoto, Umahia and other cities. This is everywhere, not in Nigeria alone. Even, here in the U.S. There was a party here in Dallas (Lady T’s birth day) about two weeks ago, there are Too many Nigerian single senior girls in this party hunting for a partner. Talk of ratio 5.1. They came from everywhere – Chicago, Minnesota, N.Y, Houston. Seattle to name few. In the weird hours of the party, When ariya started and everybody got drunk, you can hear them jokingly/singing in Yoruba: Won ni Dallas loko to da wa, eyin okurin Dallas, owo Yin da, eje Ka rowo yin o: Meaning: someone said there are good men In Dallas, men from Dallas raise your hand lets see you. It’s quite a scene, hard to describe. You have to be there to feel What I’m talking about. When those women read this figure from (NPC), I hope they are not jubilating. It is a big time 419!!!!!!!! Like we say in Texas, Y’all have a good one now!!!!!!! E. Oloyede

cdimkpa  # 7 | 31.12.2006 07:42

=Forshow;146489>cdimkpa , do not come to wrong conclusion and mislead nigerian... We all have seen satellite picture rivers state would not be among the first 4 most populated state.. even from satellite picture shows Benin is more populated than port harcourt.. please download google earth.. It would not be lagos, kano.. if you saw the satellite picture Ibadan is larger than Kano... so also is benin.. so please do not twist information.. and mislead people.. let us see the data.. and we would see if it right or wrong.. from satellite picture it would be Oyo, lagos, ondo,, kano, kaduna and mostly edo state, Please download google earth or order for NASA pictures.. if you doubt me.. go and check satellite picture.. Port harcourt is small compare to benin city... Forshow (Adesegun), Predictions (what I made) can never be said to be conclusions (what you accuse me of), my friend Forshow. I see that communication is really a problem for you, as most villagers have noted. What satelite pictures ''have we all seen''? I have not seen any and as far as I know the NPC did not conduct the population counting exercise using any satelite imagery means. If Benin is more populated than Port Harcout, that is good for them. I don't see why it should heat up your innards. For me, it would be the biggest shocker if Lagos, followed by Kano are not the biggest states. However, Anambra and Imo may yet give a good fight. Boy! Cities and towns in those two states are amongst the most densely populated per square km, anywhere around.

forshow3  # 8 | 01.01.2007 21:19

=cdimkpa;146534>Forshow (Adesegun), Predictions (what I made) can never be said to be conclusions (what you accuse me of), my friend Forshow. I see that communication is really a problem for you, as most villagers have noted. What satelite pictures ''have we all seen''? I have not seen any and as far as I know the NPC did not conduct the population counting exercise using any satelite imagery means. If Benin is more populated than Port Harcout, that is good for them. I don't see why it should heat up your innards. For me, it would be the biggest shocker if Lagos, followed by Kano are not the biggest states. However, Anambra and Imo may yet give a good fight. Boy! Cities and towns in those two states are amongst the most densely populated per square km, anywhere around. I am sorry, I assume you have seen all the satellite picture.. But you may be in for a shock.. because Kano come fourth in Nigeria large cities on satellite picture after Lagos, Ibadan, Benin , then kano.. sorry your port harcout is like 7,8 or 9 if i remember clearly, but you can either see the picture on nigeriaone.com or download google earth and see it yourself. I am sorry again..

forshow3  # 9 | 06.01.2007 19:23

Any new news about the census.

forshow3  # 10 | 06.01.2007 19:23

Any new news about the census.

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