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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Aug 4, 2016 4:07:38 GMT
 According to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was conducted from Saturday, February 27 to Wednesday, March 23, 2016 with 1,592,305 registered candidates.The examination was conducted throughout Nigeria and eight foreign centres, namely: Benin Republic, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and United Kingdom Plans for admission into tertiary institutions are ongoing. However, nobody has ever published a report that shows how the six zones of Nigeria stand in this annual examination into Nigerian higher institutions. What the media usually publish are highlights of the top states and least states as regards number of candidates and similar information. For the first time in Nigeria, a zone-by-zone breakdown is made public by Writers War Room. While filling the JAMB form, each candidate enters his or her state of origin, irrespective of state of residence. This helps JAMB to know how many people from each state registered for the exam, and which state is improving or decreasing or even stagnant in this annual examination that determines those who get admitted into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. The zonal breakdown is as follows in alphabetical order: Northcentral = 6 states plus Abuja FCTS/n State No. of candidates 1 Benue 60,160 2 Kogi 57,694 3 Kwara 54,606 4 Nasarawa 18,231 5 Niger 18,231 6 Plateau 34,469 7 Abuja FCT 4,087 Total 259,846 Northeast = 6 statesS/n State No. of candidates 1 Adamawa 15,615 2 Bauchi 19,462 3 Borno 15,697 4 Gombe 19,729 5 Taraba 15,672 6 Yobe 10,045 Total 96,220 Northwest = 7 statesS/n State No. of candidates 1 Jigawa 12,664 2 Kaduna 54,227 3 Kano 48,579 4 Katsina 23,522 5 Kebbi 8,947 6 Sokoto 10,006 7 Zamfara 5,295 Total 163,240 Southeast = 5 statesS/n States No of candidates 1 Abia 51,619 2 Anambra 77,694 3 Ebonyi 32,806 4 Enugu 69,381 5 Imo 104,383 Total 335,883
Southsouth = 6 statesS/n States No. of candidates 1 Akwa Ibom 62,369 2 Bayelsa 21,208 3 Cross River 29,763 4 Delta 78,854 5 Edo 66,107 6 Rivers 41,331 Total 299,632
Southwest = 6 statesS/n State No. of candidates 1 Ekiti 34,398 2 Lagos 24,160 3 Ogun 62,973 4 Ondo 54,110 5 Osun 72,752 6 Oyo 72,298 Total 320,691 2016 UTME – zone-by-zone rankingPosition Zone No. of states No. of candidates 6th Northeast 6 96,220 5th Northwest 7 163,240 4th Northcentral 6 + FCT 255,759 3rd Southsouth 6 299,632 2nd Southwest 6 320,691 1st Southeast 5 335,883 Read more at: writerswarroom.com/2016/08/04/jamb-2016-zone-by-zone-ranking/ |
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Aug 4, 2016 4:08:04 GMT
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 4, 2016 12:14:43 GMT
Not soo bad for the SW but to me, it doesn't mean much
Those who failed last year are rewriting
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 4, 2016 12:16:02 GMT
And why is Imo state so high?
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Post by omohayek on Aug 4, 2016 13:04:10 GMT
These raw stats don't mean much without additional information about the total number of eligible school-age children in each region. Considering the SW probably has the lowest population growth rate, while the north has the highest, it's quite possible that there is something on the order of a 4x greater JAMB registration rate in the SW than in the northern regions. Similarly, the fact that the SE has the highest registration rate doesn't tell us much without knowing how many children of the relevant age group there are in the region.
In any case, these numbers are just for registration, and don't tell us how all the registrants will actually perform at test time. There's little point in registering large numbers of badly educated students.
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 4, 2016 13:10:13 GMT
These raw stats don't mean much without additional information about the total number of eligible school-age children in each region. Considering the SW probably has the lowest population growth rate, while the north has the highest, it's quite possible that there is something on the order of a 4x greater JAMB registration rate in the SW than in the northern regions. Similarly, the fact that the SE has the highest registration rate doesn't tell us much without knowing how many children of the relevant age group there are in the region. In any case, these numbers are just for registration, and don't tell us how all the registrants will actually perform at test time. There's little point in registering large numbers of badly educated students.✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓ |
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Aug 4, 2016 18:12:34 GMT
These raw stats don't mean much without additional information about the total number of eligible school-age children in each region. Considering the SW probably has the lowest population growth rate, while the north has the highest, it's quite possible that there is something on the order of a 4x greater JAMB registration rate in the SW than in the northern regions. Similarly, the fact that the SE has the highest registration rate doesn't tell us much without knowing how many children of the relevant age group there are in the region.In any case, these numbers are just for registration, and don't tell us how all the registrants will actually perform at test time. There's little point in registering large numbers of badly educated students. It is not exactly based on the number of people in each region, but rather total number of indigenous from a state, resident anywhere in Nigeria. The SE is the least populated region of Nigeria. OYO seems to be lagging though, how can they be dragging number of registered sitters with Osun , when the former is nowhere in the league of the later in population size? |
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Aug 4, 2016 18:13:56 GMT
In 2015 though, SW seems to have led, as both Oyo and Osun both had above 80,00+ candidate with origins from there.
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Post by omohayek on Aug 4, 2016 20:04:11 GMT
It is not exactly based on the number of people in each region, but rather total number of indigenous from a state, resident anywhere in Nigeria. The SE is the least populated region of Nigeria. OYO seems to be lagging though, how can they be dragging number of registered sitters with Osun , when the former is nowhere in the league of the later in population size? Sure, but even then, the proportion of people between 16-18 who are Igbo could be very different from the share that Igbos constitute in the Nigerian populace, depending on their fertility rate; demographic changes are the same reason why whites still constitute 60% of America's population even though they're already less than 50% of Americans under 18. I'm not saying there are more (or fewer) Igbo teenagers than there are Yoruba equivalents, but given that we already know fertility rates differ by ethnicity in Nigeria, it simply isn't possible to conclude much from these numbers, except that the much higher fertility rate in the north indicates the educational gap is still very large (otherwise the number of registered northerners would probably be twice or more of what these figures indicate). |
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Post by Ogbeni Ogunnaike on Aug 4, 2016 20:47:03 GMT
It is not exactly based on the number of people in each region, but rather total number of indigenous from a state, resident anywhere in Nigeria. The SE is the least populated region of Nigeria. OYO seems to be lagging though, how can they be dragging number of registered sitters with Osun , when the former is nowhere in the league of the later in population size? Sure, but even then, the proportion of people between 16-18 who are Igbo could be very different from the share that Igbos constitute in the Nigerian populace, depending on their fertility rate; demographic changes are the same reason why whites still constitute 60% of America's population even though they're already less than 50% of Americans under 18. I'm not saying there are more (or fewer) Igbo teenagers than there are Yoruba equivalents, but given that we already know fertility rates differ by ethnicity in Nigeria, it simply isn't possible to conclude much from these numbers, except that the much higher fertility rate in the north indicates the educational gap is still very large (otherwise the number of registered northerners would probably be twice or more of what these figures indicate). Actually forget about the statistics, it is totally useless. As I just factored in the number of students in the West entering universities through the pre degree program, and then enter 200L straight away. Also, do you really think the fertility rate among igbos is that much greater than it is among Yorubas? I doubt if it is even greater. |
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Post by omohayek on Aug 4, 2016 20:56:44 GMT
Actually forget about the statistics, it is totally useless. As I just factored in the number of students in the West entering universities through the pre degree program, and then enter 200L straight away. Also, do you really think the fertility rate among igbos is that much greater than it is among Yorubas? I doubt if it is even greater. I wouldn't be so sure. The Nigerian government's own population web site says the following: If these stats are correct, I don't consider this a bad thing at all, as a declining fertility rate usually is associated with increased female educational attainment - better educated women don't want to waste their lives breeding like rabbits, and would rather have fewer children they better care for. Runaway population growth is one of the biggest factors holding African countries back developmentally. PS: I just found an interesting research paper on the subject on PubMed: take a look at Table 2 and Table 3 in the paper, and you'll see that Yoruba women have the lowest fertility rates of any of the groups under study, much lower than the figures for Igbo women - and this has been true since at least 2003, which was the earliest time recorded in the paper. Considering this trend probably goes back much further than 2003, it suggests that it could very well be the case that there are simply more Igbo teenagers around than there are Yorubas of the same age. |
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 4, 2016 21:22:42 GMT
Hmmnnn meaning the Igbos probably have a higher population than yorubas hun
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Post by omohayek on Aug 4, 2016 21:36:05 GMT
Hmmnnn meaning the Igbos probably have a higher population than yorubas hun Maybe not yet, but give it a decade or two ... This, plus the even more rapid population growth of the northerners, is why we need to go our own separate way from the rest of Nigeria before it's too late - otherwise we won't have any legal way to keep all of these other groups from continuously migrating to our region and eventually turning us into a minority in our own homeland. In addition, it doesn't matter how well SW governors like Ambode and Amosun perform if all of their good work is swamped by a never-ending tide of immigrants from the north and the south-east; as soon as one slum like Maroko is cleared, or a new mainland bridge is built, the hordes of new arrivals undo all the good work by creating new slums and jamming up the new transport infrastructure. Yorubaland must not become the final destination for all of the rest of Nigeria's excess population. |
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 4, 2016 21:42:18 GMT
Hmmnnn meaning the Igbos probably have a higher population than yorubas hun Maybe not yet, but give it a decade or two ... This, plus the even more rapid population growth of the northerners, is why we need to go our own separate way from the rest of Nigeria before it's too late - otherwise we won't have any legal way to keep all of these other groups from continuously migrating to our region and eventually turning us into a minority in our own homeland. In addition, it doesn't matter how well SW governors like Ambode and Amosun perform if all of their good work is swamped by a never-ending tide of immigrants from the north and the south-east; as soon as one slum like Maroko is cleared, or a new mainland bridge is built, the hordes of new arrivals undo all the good work by creating new slums and jamming up the new transport infrastructure. Yorubaland must not become the final destination for all of the rest of Nigeria's excess population. I was about to say that. A huge chunk of the Igbo population will most likely end up in the west same with the Northern population. Besides the pressure on infrastructure, inter-ethnic clashes between these groups and Yorubas will surely increase as well |
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 4, 2016 21:45:56 GMT
omohayek, has anyone written the reasons why Yorubas need to have a separate country?
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