Godstraight:
stop being ignorant,Lagos is among the 6th most populated cities in the world,even more than new York and london

u know there's different between metropolitan and urban area

Ighoga898:

u know there's different between metropolitan and urban area

lagos state is 22m ,the city population is around 14million,Google it

Godstraight:
lagos state is 22m ,the city population is around 14million,Google it

thank God u know what I meant

Who doesn't know that census has always been skewed to favour the north, Nigeria is the only country in the world where arid and dry areas outpopulates the more rainy coastal areas.

I have traveled from Kano to Dutse some years ago and all I saw were goats, sheep, dry land and sand dunes for Kilometres non stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDfuVJqfO8E

Lagos and Kano Senators fight over population figures

Ighoga898:
thank God u know what I meant

lol seriously?

RockHard:
Crap. Everyone knows that even that 2006 census was a fraud. Nigeria has always politicized population censuses for obvious reasons. But Thank God there are other data sources that give a ballpark extrapolated estimate of current states populations, like the one below gotten from the Telcos, courtesy of the same NBS, where you can easily deduce the most populated states in the country. The good thing about these sort of numbers is that they're devoid of ethnic/tribal, political or sentimental colorations that have always plagued national censuses. These are reliable enough data that points to the actual estimated population of each state as at today, whichever way one chooses to slice or dice it (you can choose to add 1 or 2 million to any of those numbers, doesn't make much difference in the end):

http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/report/486

You are intelligent to debunk this Northern lies using the stats by the telecom industry.

Pls create a thread for this

If the percentage proves that they are more humans in the South 55% than in the North 45%

By the time you put into consideration the fact that more Southerners live in the North than Northerners in the South, that figure will put the population of Southerners 55%-75% to be far ahead of Northerners 45-25%

tbarrister:
are you stupid? oh so that's your prayer, for bombings to kill us lol, oya browse your phone and check the estimates of people boko have killed , boko have not killed up to 100k (over estimate) in the north, so back to sender

what's ur problem? are u telling me kano is more than lagos in term of population? hmmmmm! pele ode oshi

Lincoln275:

what's ur problem? are u telling me kano is more than lagos in term of population? hmmmmm! pele ode oshi

Iwo ni ode oshi, I made clear points, chew on that

tbarrister:
Iwo ni ode oshi, I made clear points, chew on that

ok, u live in kano abi? av heard u, brother I don't think ds has gotten to this level ooo,its very clear that in term of population, lagos is no 1. just don't know y u r reasoning like ds ni. egbon emabinu

i think kano can be more populated than lagos because the size of kano is about 7times that of lagos state. lagos will definitely have more population density but kano will have more people by the virtue of its size.

cjrane:
Nigeria is the ONLY West African country with the anomalous population distribution where the northern arid zones of West Africa supports more population than the southern rainforest belt near the Atlantic ocean.

In every other west African country, the southern areas have more population than the northern area EXCEPT Nigeria.

If you dig into this anomaly, you will discover Nigeria is the one that distributes resources based on population. Little wonder why merely counting themselves is such a hugely important event to rig in favor of the north.

Lol, u forget Nigeria bellies statistics

Godstraight:
lol seriously?

yeah. u know some people include some parts of ogun state as Lagos State, hence their population as well.

betterABIAstate:
i think kano can be more populated than lagos because the size of kano is about 7times that of lagos state. lagos will definitely have more population density but kano will have more people by the virtue of its size.

You are wrong

Check out the stats put up by the Telecom industry on the front page

Nigeria is a country where well known theorems stand on their heads, how can an arid region be more populated than water bounded areas?How can Kano be more populated than Lagos? In population projections of the world,Lagos is always mentioned when u hardly hear of Kano state. It's this same injustice that is used in distributing resources, imagine Kano and Lagos were created at about the same time bt now between that Kano and Jigawa which was carved from it, they ve about 71 L. G. As where as Lagos still has its old L. G A of 20 which was the main reason y Jagaban created L. C. D. As in his time as governor and which the North kicked against using their stooge O. B. J..

Nigeria is injustice personified...

Godstraight:
do u even know the meaning of norminal GDP?,purchasing power purity?do you know Nigeria has the largest in Africa ?,do you know southafrican biggiest company dstv and mtn make 50% of their profit in Nigeria?, do also know south Africa has a populated of 53 million compare to Nigeria 193million?,removing the 46% of Nigerians living below poverty lines will still almost 90 million middle/upper class folks,talking about Honda how do even expect them to displace Toyota,we the largest importers in this continent sadly the third largest exporters

You sound like Buhari, an economic illiterate.

For GDP per capita which is the most important GDP measurement seeing that it takes population into consideration, South Africa ranks 87th in the world while Nigeria ranks 12th.

How many people buy new cars in Nigeria? You are not ashamed that Nigeria is one of the largest importers of used cars globally? And you want to compare importation of used cars to new cars? Smh

ConqueredWest:



You are intelligent to debunk this Northern lies using the stats by the telecom industry.

Pls create a thread for this

If the percentage proves that they are more humans in the South 55% than in the North 45%

By the time you put into consideration the fact that more Southerners live in the North than Northerners in the South, that figure will put the population of Southerners 55%-75% to be far ahead of Northerners 45-25%

Far higher percentage of Southerners are active in telecommunications than the North as well as school enrollment and banking thereby making those factors extremely biased in terms of statistics. Nigerian population will remain a mystery until having high population is made unattractive.

Our political arrangement should be made to nullify the effects of population inflation. Regionalism is the way out to the extent of regional fiscal and socioeconomic autonomy that will render all the inflammatory postulations and estimates useless and only feign relevance within the deceitful region.

As someone with some knowledge of different zones in Nigeria, I don't accept Kano being more populous than say Ibadan as city to city comparison. When you combed through the rural areas, of course you can claim Hausas has huge rural populations, may be to an extent but you know how long it will take you to transverse their states before you get to count sizeable number of towns, I mean, how do you just assume such bogus figures?

If Nigeria is serious about its census its a simple thing, use biometrics with registered house address etc. Kano state cannot be more than 6million residents and Lagos state like 15million residents but you may wish to see a state like Ogun having up to 6million
.

amnesty7:
And this is where Nigeria's greatness lies: population. Ask all these multinational corporations, especially the telecoms. But many people coming here will rather see the mud below instead of the beautiful sky above. May God continue to bless Nigeria for us. Amen.

Telecommunications 3rd in Africa, we never try?
Richest nko we no try?

zizirecords:
Do not, I repeat, do not take these figures seriously.

You mean the population of Lagos dropped from 12m in 2006 to 9m in 2016? Really?!

This is madness. Lagos population is definitely above 22m and continues to increase.

don't mind dem if Lagos the most populous city in Africa is only 9m then wagoff Cairo?

tbarrister:
yes we also counted our palm oil and palm wine, nitwit

nwabobo:


You sound like Buhari, an economic illiterate.

For GDP per capita which is the most important GDP measurement seeing that it takes population into consideration, South Africa ranks 87th in the world while Nigeria ranks 12th.

How many people buy new cars in Nigeria? You are not ashamed that Nigeria is one of the largest importers of used cars globally? And you want to compare importation of used cars to new cars? Smh

I think you need to work on you comprehension I was only trying to correct your earlier blunder when you said south African had a bigger market, PPP is a blend of GDP per capital and population, sA is 6234,while Nigeria is 3,124,but our population is 3.5 Thiers and the south with 90 million peeps with almost 90% of the gdp is has a better GDP per capital than 3,124 so even the south alone already have a bigger market, am not intreasted in politics just a random so am not trying praise anybody,Nigerians buy used car,do we also buy used electronics? or other stuff imported here,south Africa and Nigeria both are not rich countries so why the fuse

ImoRiver:


Far higher percentage of Southerners are active in telecommunications than the North as well as school enrollment and banking thereby making those factors extremely biased in terms of statistics. Nigerian population will remain a mystery until having high population is made unattractive.

Close your mouth

Most Northerners use phones to communicate even if the phones are Nokia Touch or 3310

Please if u were counted recently say Hi..Cuz i don't know where they got these highly falsified figures from..

kano population cannot be higher than Lagos population even Rivers. where do they place Abia or are they still rigging Abia population?

All these are preparations towards rigging 2019 presidential election.

ConqueredWest:


Close your mouth

Most Northerners use phones to communicate even if the phones are Nokia Touch or 3310

They use big phones more than southerners. But truth be told, Nigerian population figures are always rigged.

This is an indication that more people have moved to Anambra for greener pastures..

God Bless the light of the nation.

Nigerians!Now i know the reason why the process and procedure of national identity card was stopped.Is there any way out of this unnecessary vicious circle we found ourselves in this country?

very informative article