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(17) VERIFIABLE FACTS: ANAMBRA STATE VERSUS ENTIRE NORTHERN NIGERIA- COMPARE AND CONTRAST
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SOURCES:
VERIFIABLE DATA, FACTS, RECORDS AND INFORMATION FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA RECORDS, STATE RECORDS, WORLD BANK, UNITED NATIONS, UNDP, MINISTERS, PRESIDENT YARADUA, PRESIDENT JONATHAN, NORTHERN LEADERS, SCHOLARS, NGOS, AREWA YOUTHS, AREWA SUMMITS, NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN LEADERS, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, EUROPEAN UNION, UNIVERSITIES, JAMB, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME AND Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, UN Human Development Index, WORLD BANK Global Hunger Index, 2002 Universities Matriculation Examination (U.M.E.)., NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, WEBSITES, Paul Anber's essay "Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos" published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. To be more specific see pp 171-172, and let me quote the relevant portion of Dr. Anber's essay:"A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, WIKIPEDIA AND FINALLY FROM Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations in his address lamented the poverty level of the North using grim statistics.
DATAS, STATISTICS AND VERIFIABLE INFORMATION ON POVERTY, EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE
IN SOUTH EASTERN STATES OF NIGERIA (ANAMBRA STATE IN PARTICULAR) VERSUS THE ENIRE 19 NORTHERN STATES OF NIGERIA.
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North has World's highest illiterate children —World Bank
Written by Emma Ujah & Luka Binniyat of Vanguard newspaper
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
* Poverty in the North, embarrassing – Yar'Adua
* North, by far, the poorest, says Gambari
ABUJA—The Northern Nigeria Economic and Investment Summit, kicked off in Abuja yesterday with the World Bank, saying that Northern Nigeria has the highest number of children not going to School in the world.
Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations in his address lamented the poverty level of the North using grim statistics.
"On Health and Education", he said, "the level of immunization of Children against dangerous childhood diseases, in the South-East is 44.6% immunization coverage, but the North-West has 3.7% and the North-East 3.6%.", he said
"If you take the education of the girl-child as indicator, you see similar pattern of inequality with the South-East having an enrolment rate of 85%, South-Wes having an enrolment rate of 85%, South-South 75%, while the North-East 20% and North West 25%."
The Minister of Finance, Dr Usman Shamsudeen, while addressing the gathering of eminent Northerners at the Summit alluded the aforementioned to a recent World Bank statistics.
According to him, the level of education of a people has direct correlation with their living standards.
He then lamented that based on that correlation, Northern Nigeria was far behind all of humanity when it comes to Child Education.
His words: "About two months ago", he said, "the Ministry of Finance organised a review session with our Development Partner like the World Bank. The World Bank representative gave a list of statistics that should shock all of us into action", he said.
He said that "Northern Nigeria remains, and represents the only place in the world that has the highest number of Children that are not going to school. The Highest number of children that are not going to school in the world are in Northern Nigeria", he emphasized.
He blamed the problem on lack of commitment and efforts on the part of Northern leaders. He then called on responsible, experienced and educated retired Northerners to take up political leadership of their various states, as politics has been hijacked by hoodlums who have turned it to total warfare
President Umaru Yar'Adua whose speech was read by the Minister of Commerce, Mr. Charles Ugwu, noted that there still remained a worrisome and embarrassing poverty situation in most part of Northern Nigeria.
This, the President said, is in spite of a sustained Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate of 6%; relatively stabilised Naira, controlled inflation and an enviable Foreign Reserve presently put at over $63 billion in a stable polity.
"In fact, in most of the Northern States the poverty level is very high", Yar A'dua observed.
"In some of these States, there is equally high unemployment rate, near total collapse of infrastructure, virtual absence of new investments, while practically all the States depend essentially on revenues accruing from the Federation Account", he said.
He then called on Northern States to take the advantage they have in Agriculture and Solid Mineral and harness them for the well being of their people.
Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations in his address lamented the poverty level of the North using grim statistics.
"On Health and Education", he said, "the level of immunization of Children against dangerous childhood diseases, in the South-East is 44.6% immunization coverage, but the North-West has 3.7% and the North-East 3.6%.", he said
"If you take the education of the girl-child as indicator, you see similar pattern of inequality with the South-East having an enrolment rate of 85%, South-Wes having an enrolment rate of 85%, South-South 75%, while the North-East 20% and North West 25%."
==========================================================================================(2) ON EDUCATION: SCHOOL ENROLLMENT AVERAGE 2008-2010
EXPOSES FALLS CENSUS AND POPULATION DATA FROM JAMB, INEC AND OFFICE OF STATISTICS
ZONE
POPULATION
COLLEGE ENROLLMENT
PER CENT
% OF TOTAL
% of Population
SS
21,014,655
140,000
0.7%
24.9%
15%
SE
16,381,729
190,000
1.2%
33.8%
12%
SW
27,581,992
116,000
0.4%
20.6%
20%
ZN TOT
64,978,376
446,000
0.7%
79.4%
46%
NW
29,460,613
30,000
0.1%
5.3%
21%
NE
22,999,885
21,000
0.1%
3.7%
16%
NC
22,564,668
65,000
0.3%
11.6%
16%
ZN TOT
75,025,166
116,000
0.2%
20.6%
54%
36 STATES
140,003,542
562,000
0.4%
100.0%
100%
================================================================================(3)POVERTY IN NIGERIA LOWEST IN IGBO SOUTH EASTMonday, February 13, 2012 PUNCH NEWSPAPERSPoverty, education and Boko Haram
by Olufemi Adebiyi'From available information at our disposal, pieced together from publications by the World Bank and United Nations, there is a very strong correlation between some demographic factors and poverty in Nigeria. Firstly, there are more poor people in the rural areas relative to the urban centres; and poverty is disproportionately concentrated in families whose primary livelihood is agriculture. Secondly, and within these agricultural households, 75 per cent in the North are poor compared with 59.3 per cent in the South. This underlines the preponderance of poverty in the North relative to the South. Thirdly, and in terms of geographical distribution, the highest concentration of poverty, at close to 70 per cent of the population, is in the North-East, followed by the North-West and North-Central in approximately the same proportion of more than 60 per cent of the population. The zone with the least proportion of poverty incidence is the South-East at about 33 per cent, closely followed by the South-West at about 42 per cent, and South-South at about 50 per cent."There is no single, universally accepted, definition of poverty. This is because poverty is multidimensional. However, it is not uncommon to describe poverty as a general state of deprivation or as Baker says, "A state of being deficient in money or means of subsistence."
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In recent times, poverty has been frequently defined relative to the standards of living in a society. Thus, it is recognised when all available income is spent on food and the results still fall below a certain minimum level of calories. Recently available information places Nigeria at number 154 out of 179 countries on the Human Development Index, but Nigeria is a frontrunner on the Global Hunger Index, coasting in at number 20!
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Northern Transformation Impact Summit Sponsored by the Arewa Transformation and Empowerment Initiative
Arewa House Kaduna
May 10th to 12th, 2012
QUOTE - General O.A. Azazi, CFR National Security Adviser The Presidency Federal Republic of Nigeria."The Arewa Transformation & Empowerment Initiative (ATEI) has sensitized us to the need for change through statistics I trust that they will share with you. For example, while there is massive unemployment all over Nigeria, our Northern states are particularly hard hit. The 2011 national unemployment rate is 23.9%, but the rates are 60.6% in Yobe, 42.6% in Zamfara and 39.4% in Niger. Likewise, the North, in general, features lower per capita income, vis-a-vis other parts of the country. The North-West has the highest poverty rate in the nation, with 71% of its people living below $1 per day. According to a CBN report, the literacy rate in the North is cause for concern, especially amongst women. For example, the female literacy rates in Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Jigawa, Katsina, Bauchi and Niger States average one-quarter of the average for Ekiti, Imo, Anambra, Ogun and Lagos States. If the numbers do not tell us that we must embrace change, what else will? Whatever we have tried in the past have obviously not worked well. We must, however, also take responsibility for our past actions, recognizing that we have had leaders that have not been able to deal with these same problems since independence. State Governments clearly have a lead role to play in addressing these issues." UNQUOTE General O.A. Azazi, CFR National Security Adviser The Presidency Federal Republic of Nigeria=================================================================================
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Polio in 5 states worries FG
It is inconceivable that polio is still raging in the northern part of Nigeria in Borno, Kebbi, Jigawa, Kano, Zamfara, Sokoto and Yobe states due to ignorance and not accepting polio vaccination.
This non acceptance of the vaccine stems from disinformation and brain washing from local religious leaders.
Can I appeal to Nigerian Doctors especially those from the affected states to initiate a campaign to dispel these negative rumours about polio vaccine and protect the lives and health of these innocent children. SEO
NewsBy Daniel Idonor & Victoria Ojeme
The Federal Government, yesterday, condemned the polio status in the country, noting that Nigeria, in August 2011, recorded 26 cases of polio in six states in contrast to six during the corresponding period in 2010.
The affected states are Borno, Kebbi, Jigawa, Kano, Zamfara, Sokoto and Yobe. The cases mainly are due to the high number of unimmunized children as a result of refusal of the vaccine by some parents and caregivers as well as children being absent.
President Goodluck Jonathan, who disclosed this in Abuja during the national flag-off ceremony of the September 2011 sub-National Immunisation Plus Days (SIPDs) and launch of the Polio- free Torch Campaign, said, "I understand that in August this year, 26 children in six states across the nation were confirmed to have been paralysed by the virus. This is unacceptable".
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ANAMBRA AND INFACT IGBO STATE HAVE BEEN LEADING IN EDUCATION ENROLLMENT AND GRADUATION IN THE LAST 20 YEARS
March 31, 2012 | 2:09 am VANGUARD - EDUCATION AND SCHOOL ENROLLMENThttp://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/03/only-3-score-over-300-as-jamb-releases-results/
By Favour Nnabugwu
About 1,048,314 out of the 1,503,931 candidates who participated in this year's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, passed the examination. Out of this number, three candidates scored the highest with over 300 marks.JAMB Registrar, Prof Dibu Ojerinde, who made this known at a news conference in Abuja yesterday said that 181 candidates from Kaduna and Ikoyi Prisons were among those who wrote the examination, adding that malpractices were recorded in 52 centres across eight states in the country over which the results of 27,266 candidates in those centres were being withheld.
The JAMB Registrar noted that six southern states registered the highest number of candidates for this year's examination. Imo led with 123, 865, followed by Delta- 88,876; Anambra- 84,204; Osun- 73, 935; Oyo- 71, 272 and Ogun with 71, 173.
Also, six northern states, including Jigawa- 11, 529, Kebbi- 7, 364; Yobe- 6, 389; Zamfara- 5, 713; Sokoto, 5,664 and FCT with 3, 380 recorded the lowest number of candidates just as other states fell within the average.============================================================================
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==Sept 2002
In the 10th of July, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) released the results of the 2002 Universities Matriculation Examination (U.M.E.). According to JAMB Registrar, Prof. Bello Salim, 1,007,326 had completed and returned their admission forms to the Board out of which 975,060 candidates sat for the examination.
Giving a breakdown of the entries, Prof. Salim said Imo State presented the highest number of 95,984 or 9.84 per cent of the total entry. Delta State is the runner-up with 80,448 or 8.25 per cent while Anambra State came third with 64,296 or 6.59 per cent. Edo, Ogun and Ondo had 61,897 (6.37 per cent), 54,272(5.6 per cent) and 46,592 (4.7 per cent) applicants respectively, to occupy the third to sixth positions. States with the lowest number of applicants for UME included Borno with 4,358 , Taraba with 2,934 , Katsina 2,530 , Kebbi 2,438 (0.24 per cent), Zamfara 2,169 (0.22 per cent) and Yobe having 1,178 (0.12 per cent). The entries of Imo and Anambra States alone
amounted to a total of 160,280 or 16.43 per cent of the total entry, with the remaining 34 states and the F.C.T. making do with the remaining 83.27 per cent.
It should be noted, for the sake of emphasis, that Imo and Anambra States are in South-East Nigeria while Igbos make up about a quarter of the population of Delta State and Rivers State. Igbos in Delta State can be found in Agbor, Anioma, Asaba, Ibuzo, Ndokwa, Ogwashi Uku,Okpanam, Oshimili, etc.
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Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 18:24:43 -0500
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: Are the Igbos the best educated group in Nigeria?Folks:
In reading the Obituary of Chukwuemeka Ojukwu in The Telegraph, December 9, 2011, I found this interesting assertion that "The Ibo...were the best educated group..." Is this statement true or incorrect? I would like to have some reactions from the forum or contributions from people with the accurate information and knowledge on educational attainments among Nigeria's diverse ethnic groups. My understanding is that the Yorubas are the best educated ethnic group in Nigeria. If this is not the case, I stand to be corrected. Then, which ethnic group is best educated in Nigeria? Where is the empirical data to support the Ibo claim or any other claim for that matter? Thanks.
Joel Ademisoye
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