emee701:
Stop talking like an illiterate. Top states with highest igr are lagos, rivers, ogun, delta, oyo. Top states in vat are lagos, rivers, oyo. Top states in network subscriptions are lagos, ogun, kano, oyo, kaduna. edo is no where to be found in all these which means it isnt economically viable like those above

UGBE634:
This is not necessary, I said Benin city as a single entity and not Edo state. These remittances up to 90 percent of it are going to Benin city. And the remittances going to Edo state is close to 100% more than any other state. The indigenes of Bini city are on the average more comfortable than indigenes from other states

If Igr is the only factor that really matter in all these, tell me one city that is close to Benin size in Ogun and delta states

SugarGirl44:


We don’t beat our chest like you guys, so I can’t be proving anything to a nonentity online.
When the time comes, you’re all going to be frustrated out of our land.
Your fathers and uncles at Jalande, Ajah are still crying over their shanties and okrika shops that were pulled down there.
Una go cry blood.

emee701:
edo remmittance is more than lagos. Should we now say benin is more economical than lagos. Ph, ibadan, kano, kaduna are more economically viable than benin which shows from the igr, vat, network subscriptions etc

SugarGirl44:


Your mum right?

ogwumgbe:


Your cursed generation

SugarGirl44:


No, your generation is the cursed one, you’re never seen on any positive list, only the negative ones.
Bunch of scavengers sleeping in shops in Lagos.

Mrnairalandd:



Thank you my brother for those undiluted facts! I can bet my life on it that if census of Nigerians in Cali should be taken all over again, Yorubas beat Igbos in that state hands down. Let me cite gyms as a case study, if you visit most popular gyms in Santa Clara, Alameda and others, trust me, 8 of 10 Nigerian members are Yorubas while the other two are either Igbo or other Nigerians. It’s the same story in UK, if you visit most gyms in London, Manchester, Birmingham and others, 90% of Nigerian members are Yorubas.

If you go to the local shops in USA and Europe, you ll hear the Asians shop owners saying “Je kin fi Jara si” which means “let me put extra for you”. That’s how much Yorubas population has significantly influenced those Asians.

Just before i go, let me state this fact about the igbos, if one igbo man begins to produce Laptops in commercial quantities in the East, guess what, the igbos ll scream about how they are technologically advanced than other Nigerians even though there are 10 x Yoruba owned companies in the West producing quality laptops in commercial quantities. If you call their attention to this fact, the igbos ll continue to tell the whole world about how they are the only one producing such product in Nigeria arrogantly. A typical case study is it Innoson motors. The Igbos make so much noise about it in the East while the Yoruba owned two to three of such company without making a noise. ProForce is one of Yoruba owned vehicle producing companies.

This attitude reared its ugly head in Nollywood few years back when the actors, investors and others were trying to build Actors/movies producers association umbrella that house all part of Nollywood. The Igbos in Nollywood wanted the history of movies production to start from when they(The Igbos) started arriving and producing movies such as Isakaba… But the likes of Kunle Afolayan told them that the Yorubas have been producing movies for years. The likes of Ogunde, his father- Ade love. This issue generated a lot of brouhaha in the industry, today, in the same country, they have different version of Nollywood. In sane society, the igbos would have respected what Kunle Afolayan said and incorporated that into their plan. And this would have put all of them under one umbrella.

The same misconception about Igbos being good at buying and selling, this is total bullshit. Let’s take a quick look at this fact, all the Oja-Obas(King markets) in Yoruba land and beyond are mostly occupied by the Yoruba women and few men. Out of 10 markets today in Oyo state or Ogun state, you ll only see few Igbos in one or two of those markets but 90% of the occupiers are the Yorubas. The same thing in the North, the Hausas re the 90% occupiers of their several markets. So where is this misconception-“Igbos know how to buy and sell” coming from?

Finally, the number of industrialists in Yorubaland is up there but if you listen to the Igbos, you ll think other Nigerians have nothing. However, if you look at the names of captains of industry in Nigeria, you ll realise that Igbos are years behind the Yorubas and the North.

Look at Cubana-Igbo for example, do you know SujiMoto-Yoruba might be able to buy that guy but you won’t know cos it’s not loud like Cubana. The same business Cubana is doing is the same Pele Quilox is doing but he is quiet…

Stay blessed.

EcoBrick:
https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1603631547810254848?t=Hk_H6ZM4EXok_aTdaTKHhg&s=19

Konquest:

My younger bruv lives in England and uses his GTBank UK account to simply transfer funds via e-banking into folks and associates bank accounts in Nigeria for instance. No agents used.

olahero:
International Ashawo remittance plenty

Bonaventura:
Without any sense of prejudice, I can categorically tell you that the Edo remittances come from the practitioners of the oldest trade in the world.

It comes from the sisters in Italy, Spain, United States and all over the world 'hustling' with their kpekus

Buddha3:
Moment I saw the heading, I suspected Edo state was going to top the list.

Their hoes in Italy have been very consistent in sending monies to their Nigerian families in the last decade. So this comes as no surprise. At least Edo is generating forex with coitus.

Worth commending!

Buddha3:
Moment I saw the heading, I suspected Edo state was going to top the list.

Their hoes in Italy have been very consistent in sending monies to their Nigerian families in the last decade. So this comes as no surprise. At least Edo is generating forex with coitus.

Worth commending!

CheapHomes1:


So you mean all the remittances to Edo came from prostitution in Italy?

johnfem321:
They should change it to yahoo remittance.. edo and Ibadan have the highest number of yahoo boys.. it’s no surprise they too the list

Igboid:
I think this stats is misinterpreted by readers here.
The stats is talking about percentage of families in the above listed on states receiving remittance from abroad, and not the volume in terms of amount received by the states from the total amount of remittance from abroad.

For example, if 1000 families from Edo received 1 dollar each, and only 10 families from Imo receive 10k dollars each, this stat will show that greater percentage of Edo household received remittance ahead of Imo.
Because this stat is not about amount received.
It's about% of people receiving.

lawani:


You can't receive dollars directly in Nigeria, how can they know when even if you have dom account it will be useless for collecting dollars?. They are just using location of Dom accounts and it does not reflect anything more than location of those cutting corners with government assistance or connivance

Evboesi:
if you are familiar with a place in Benin they call Erie, it is these Abokis money changer’s place. That’s where they usually send it to and ask their siblings to go coleect it there

lawani:


Even Abokis with Dom accounts can not withdraw cash. I collect money from the US like every other week and the money appears in my zenith without me knowing the beneficiary dom account which may be in Edo state. It can be anywhere in the country. Before the data can be reliable,then we must be able to collect dollars over the counter like during Jonathan's time

Evboesi:
I don’t think that’s true, if it is for thier business purpose, why can’t they withdraw cash? If at all they can’t withdraw cash as you opined, they will have access to the money, and transfer to whoever is in need of it



Why will the Dom account be in Edo state and not Lagos or Oyo when there are several bureau de change offices in Almost every state in Nigeria

The list of bureau de change office in Nigeria, is over a thousand with majority being in Lagos, Abuja and Kano. With just a few in Benin .

The Binis are not your mate, and as we grow larger in population, and as our population increases in these countries mightily, you will notice it.

Don’t be deluded, accept reality

https://www.cbn.gov.ng/Out/2022/FPRD/LIST%20OF%20CBN%20LICENCED%20BUREAUX%20DE%20CHANGE%20AS%20AT%20DECEMBER%2031,%202021.pdf

AreaFada2:
These figures finally confirm what we have already said here before but some tribalists wouldn't see beyond their noses.

Now that Edo tops the list, the usual envious neighbours will be shouting prostitution.

As if narcotics and wire fraud are better than prostitution, which by the way no tribe can claim not to have.

Or as if the girls juggling 7 boyfriends alongside hook-ups to pay rent, school fees, feed, buy iPhone and wigs in Abuja, Lagos, PH, Owerri or anywhere in 9ja are any better.

Even the Lagos figures, SS and SE people at Festac and Alimosho will have a big chunk of it.

Oyo and Lagos are SW's most populated and both combined can't be less than 15m people. Yet Edo alone with about 5.5 to 6 millions roughly equals Lagos and Oyo in remittance.

It confirms what I have said before that Edo expects nothing from Nigeria as a country. Because since 1897, we already knew that any British contraption would be a fraud of a country. So Edos are positioning themselves abroad. As with immigrants typically, whatever hustle MO they used to survive initially, the next generation will be far better positioned.

The actual figures yearly should be about $20 to $25bn.

Money people send directly through friends and family travelling home are often more than official transfers.
Containers, cars, bags, boxes and others sent through courier companies by diasporans amount to a lot of money earned abroad.

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