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Nigeria best cities challenge is a contest which we intend to rate Nigerian cities in accordance to the criteria submitted to our premium Ratings site by majority of our respondents as to what they considers most important to living the good life. The following are the criteria most rooted for and the criteria to judging our best cities will be based upon them.

    Standard of living
    Security
    Beauty/aesthetics
    Serenity/orderliness
    Relaxation/Hospitality

            BRIEF BREAKDOWN OF THESE CRITERIA

STANDARD OF LIVING: people tend to live better in cities with higher standard of living compared to people living in cities with lower standard of living. Per capital income is one of the widely accepted quantitative measures of the standard of living of people in a given locality. It shows the average earning of individual in a given locality in one year and quantitatively expressed as the ratio of the GDP to the total population in a given year. GDP per capital does not capture the dynamics of distribution of income and may be misleading at times. We therefore, at this end, also have to consider the inflow and circulation of income to and within the cities as a result of the prevailing economic activities in the cities such as the presence of industries, commerce, tourism and hospitality, the level of government spending etc. we will also consider the employment potentials vis a vis the extent of the labour force pressure; the purchasing power vis a vis the cost of living. So where are the cities in Nigeria that have the fairest share of high standard of living?

SECURITY: Security of lives and property is central to living the good life and it is by no means unexpected that most of our respondents considered it very important in living the life after all who would not want to stay safe. So the big question is: where are Nigeria safest cities?

BEAUTY AND AESTHETICS: one of the trappings that lure and keep people in a place is it beauty and aesthetic design. Little wonder why historic cities like Eldorado, London, Paris, etc are synonymous to beauty and destination cities. So where are the Nigerian beautiful cities located? Where can we find the impressive skyline, eye catching city aerial view, beautiful road network, quality structures, lush and well mowed city flowers and grasses, etc?

SERENITY AND ORDERLINESS: people tend to prefer to live in a clean, orderly and peaceful neighborhood as such it is not a coincident that a whole lot of our respondents fingered it as a major criterion to living the good life. Nobody would prefer by free will to leave in a slummy, shanty and garbage ridden environment to a serene one. So where are the serene cities in Nigeria? the cities with the cleanest neighborhood; effective refuse management system; orderly building in relation to road network; greenery; well thought out city segmentation (in terms of commercial area, industrial area, residential area, etc).

GROOVE/RELAXATION/HOSPITALITY: most people considers unwinding and relaxation as an indispensable aspect of living the good life especially after some hectic hours of day work. So where are the cities having the groove thing going on for them all day, all week and round the year?. The cities with the touch of las Vegas (aka sin city aka the entertainment capital of the world!). Where are the cities with ample of relaxation spots, hotels, casinos, night life, women and all other ingredients necessary for groove, relaxation and hospitality?

RULES FOR VOTING

You may vote in the following format: criteria/chosen city or any intelligible way
For example if you feel city A is the most secured then you may simply vote for it as: security/city A.
for more criteria you may vote as:

    Standard of living/city C
    Security/ city A
    Beauty/aesthetics/city D
    Serenity/orderliness/city B
    Relaxation/Hospitality/ city E

After voting you may go ahead to state reasons with maybe pictorial evidence to support your choices

Each vote is worth three points and you may vote for at most three cities in each criteria with the first choice city having three points, the second having two point and the third having one point any additional city will not be considered. Typical example; security/City A/City B/City C, here city A ,B and C would have 3, 2 and 1 points respectively

From time to time you will be updated with a league table showing the standing of the cities against each criteria
The voting will last for two weeks
As premium Ratings model this polls is being carried out in other social networks platform to allow for larger sample. At the end of the polls, the final result is collated from these social network in addition with the one on our site to have the premium final results. the city that emerges top in this challenge becomes Our Nigeria Destination City 2015.

http://premiumratings.org/prt-timeline/nigeria-best-cities-challenge/

let the poll begin

This is a Premium Ratings  featured subjective poll and we intend to know the African popular choice for its sexiest female celebrity. the criteria for this poll is entirely discretionary and relative to your ideals of sexiness.

Poll procedure and rules

    you may nominate at most three female celebrities
    your fourth nominee does not count
    the top 15 celebrities with the highest nominees qualifies for the grand finale
    the Nomination stage will last for three weeks
    the grand finale will last for two weeks after which the top 10 emerges
    From time to time we shall be updating the results of this poll

As premium Ratings model, this polls is simultaneously taking place in other social networks platform to allow for larger sample. at the end of these polls, the final result is collated from these social networks in addition with the one on our site to have the premium final results. The celebrity that emerges the winner becomes our Sexiest African Female Celebrity 2015
source: http://premiumratings.org/prt-timeline/your-sexiest-african-female-celebrity/
Let the poll begin

The telecommunication industry contributes over 10% of Nigeria GDP and has been a major employer of labour in both the formal and informal sector of the Nigerian economy. According to the Nigeria communication commission (NCC), the tele density of Nigeria has exceeded 85% and active mobile subscription has grown to over 140 million. Mobile network operators are polling all the stops to hold sway in the telecommunication market in Nigeria which is the biggest in the African continent.

To this end, operators are investing billions of dollars in new Tele infrastructure in order to improve their services and to reach the underserved region of the country. This competitive landscape is putting pressure on the operators who accordingly have embarked on marketing campaign which include expensive commercial ad, artist endorsement (brand ambassadors), promo and so on. They have also in recent times brought down call and data rates so as to lure more subscribers.

The question is which of the mobile operators have the fairest share of all the ideals of mobile communication in the country?

The criteria for this poll will be based on the ones submitted by respondents to the premium Rating site and as worked upon by PRT experts. The criteria are:

    Quality of service
    Best tariff charges
    Most innovative
    Best internet services
    Most “freebies”

                                                           BRIEF BREAK DOWN OF CRITERIA

   Quality of service:- Quality of service as a criteria covers areas such as: network reliabilities (call set up success rate, drop call rate, call completed rates and traffic channel congestion), network coverage, customer care services and any other relevant services

   Best tariff charge:– Here we consider network that has comparatively the cheapest call rate in terms of calls within the same network, calls to other network and international calls.

   Most innovative:– which network provider is most innovation in terms of being the first to introduce an innovation product, embracing new technology, adopting new method of marketing, etc. in fact who are the pace setters in the industry.

    Best internet services provider:- It has been shown in various research that over 40% of Nigerians are online. little wonder why most responders rooted for this criteria as one of the ideals for the best mobile services providers. The question remains: which of the numerous mobile network providers does it best when it comes to internet services. Here we consider the internet network reliability, cost of data/bundles and data speed.

   Most “freebies”:- It was not surprising when we noticed that a lot of our respondents rooted for freebies because Nigeria like most countries love freebies aka Awof. in this regard, which network provider is champion at that

RULES FOR VOTING

You may vote in the following format: criteria/name of mobile operator or any intelligible way.

Example if you feel mobile operator A has the best quality of service then you may simply vote thus:
Quality of Services/A. voting on more criteria you may vote as:

    Quality of services/A
    Best tariff charges/C
    Most innovative/ D
    best internet service provider/ B
    Most freebies/E

After voting you may go ahead to state reasons to support your choices

Each vote is worth three points and you may vote for at most three mobile network in each category with the first choice network having three points, the second having two points and the third having one point. Any additional vote will not be considered.

Typical example; Quality of Service/A/ B/C. this vote means network A have the best quality of service followed by B and then by C. hence network A ,B and C would have 3, 2 and 1 points respectively.

From time to time you will be updated with a league table showing the standing of the mobile network against each criteria.

this poll will last for two weeks.

As premium Ratings model, this polls is simultaneously taking place in other social networks platform to allow for larger sample. at the end of these polls, the final result is collated from these social networks in addition with the one on our site to have the premium final results. the mobile network that emerges tops in this challenge becomes our Nigerian Most Outstanding mobile Network 2015

let the poll begin

pardone my link the link is actually premiumratings.org

The Rivers State Governor Rt Hon Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi emerged the overall winner in the best performing Nigerian governors poll. The poll which ran across various online fora, social network platforms as well as the premiumratings site lasted for one month and saw several participants within and across Nigeria. The poll was based on the major sectors of the Nigerian state economy which include: Agriculture, Infrastructure, Education, Health, Security, Rural and region Development (development outside the state capital), Job Creation/Human Capital Development and Resource management/ Prudence.

After collation and computation of all the poll results the Rivers State governor Rt Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi emerged the overall winner polling 47.11% of the total polls after coming tops in Education, Health, Job creation/human Capital development and Agricultural sectors of the economy. The Lagos State government Babatunde Fashola came second after polling 9.61% of the total and the Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha came third after polling 9.25%.

the following table shows the top 15 most performing governors in Nigeria and their percentage polls

 
N   Governor                   State                   % poll of total
1   Rotimi  Amaechi   Rivers            47.11
2   Babatunde Fashola   Lagos           9.61
3   Rochas Okorocha   Imo                   9.21
4   Godswill Akpabio   Akwa Ibom   8.19
5   Sule Lamido           Jigawa            6.41
6   Rabiu Kwankwaso   Kano             4.27
7   Ahmed Abdulfatah   Kwara           3.91
8   Willie Obiano           Anambra            3.56
9   Sullivan Chime           Enugu            2.49
10   Shehu Shema          Katsin                1.78
11   Rauf Aregbesola     Osun                 1.07
12   Aliyu Wamakko           Sokoto               0.71
13   Adams Oshemole   Edo                   0.7
14   Abiola Ajimobi         Oyo                    0.7
15   Ibinkunle Amosun   Ogun              0.36
                                                           SECTORAL BREAK DOWN OF THE POLL RESULTS

Agriculture: the Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amachi came tops in the Agricultural sector after polling 34.15% of the total polls in the Agric sector while Kwara State governor Ahmed Abdulfatah polled a total of 29.27% and the Sokoto State governor Wamakko came third by managing 4.88% . participants who rooted for the Rivers State governor pointed out his various Agricultural initiative and programs which includes but not limited to: Songai farm initiatives which some pointed out is twenty times its prototype in Porto novo, Benin Republic, fish farming taking place in several LGAs , Banana plantation in Tai covering over a thousand hectares of land, oil palm plantation, rubber plantation, cassava plantation, poultry farming, among others.


                                                            Some Rivers  Government owned farms


Infrastructure: The Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio came tops after polling 41.67% of the total polls in this sector. The Lagos and Rivers State governors Babatunde Fashola and Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi tied in second position after polling a total of 20.83% each while Jigawa state governor Sule Lamido came third after managing 6.25% of the total polls. A Cross section of participants who commented emphasized the uncommon transformation of Akwa Ibom state from relatively rural town to a modern city with one of the best road networks in the country. Some commentators also made reference to some monumental projects embarked by the state government such as the new airport, stadium, aesthetic bridges among others


                                                      
                                                     Some Infrastructure in Akwa Ibom State


Education: In Education sector, the Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi came tops with 67.92% of the total polls while The Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha came second after securing 26.41% of the polls. Kano State governor came third with 3.77%. most participant who commented stated that the Rivers State government built the best Schools in the country numbering hundreds with facilities of international standard. Some also pointed out how the Rivers state government has been able to transformed the once ailing state university to one of the best universities in the country.

 

                                                                          Rivers State Primary Schools

                                                                     
                                                                                    Rivers State Secondary Schools

Health: In Health sector, the Rivers State governor Chibuike Amaechi once again sits at the top after garnering an outstanding 85.11% of total polls. The Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha came second with 6.38% while Kano state governor Rabiu Kwankwaso came third after managing 4.26% of the total polls. Majority of the participants who commented noted that the Rivers State government health policies remains the best in the country as its free Medicare is being carried out in over a hundred primary health centers built across the state in addition to a few secondary health centers built. some also cited that he trained over four hundred doctors abroad to manage the health centers and its facilities.




 

 

this is a very sad development

let the voting begin

Much have been said about Nigerian governors, the performing and the seemingly non performing ones. In recent times, there have been a commendable and appreciable bar raising in the art of governance amongst the state governors as each state government strive to outperform his counterparts in the other states. This has in recent times prompted the media to be awashed with countless of adverts showcasing projects, policies, etc embarked by the various state governments ostensibly to better the lives of their subjects. In Good governance challenge we tend to look beyound the rhetoric and hypes of the media and dig down to the nitty gritty of good governance in Oder  to extensively and exhaustively analyze these governors in all the critical sectors of the economy.

Though, it may appear to be a double standard drawing parallel amongst the governors considering the fact that they do not have to get and receive the same IGR and federal allocations respectively. However, the art of good governance transcends just having huge money at your disposal. It entails the ability to effectively utilize the little you have to effect positive change in the various sectors of the economy as well as putting fort winning strategies in  order to expand your revenue base. It also entails cutting down reckless, frivolous and unnecessary spending in addition to blocking loopholes in the system so as to free up more money for capital projects. Good governance is all about effective leadership that is built around core values, sincerity of purpose, good leadership skills and the drive/passion to effect positive change.

The Nigeria governors challenge also known as good governance challenge/league is a competitive challenge where the performances of all the 36 state governors in the various sectors of the economy are showcased and appraised by the general public who accordingly vote/nominate their choice governor(s) (by perhaps given us verifiable facts) on the sector of the economy which they think they perform best. The governors scores points according to the impression they made on the general public who vote/nominate them. The governor with the highest accumulated points at the end of the league becomes the best governor or ‘The Crowned Good Governance Ambassador of Nigeria’ for the year. In this ‘ Good governance challenge’ we are going to explore and appraise the performance of the 36 states governors and carry out an extensive and comprehensive evaluation of how they have been able to transform the following major sectors of the economy of their various states:

    Agriculture
    Infrastructure
    Education
    Health
    Security
    regional and rural development (development outside the state capital)
    Job creation/Human Capital Development
    Resource Prudence/management

The first seven are very clear since they represent the major sectors of the economy which the other sub-sectors can be found within (if  you wish you may get the key points pertaining these sectorshttp://premiumratings.org/prt-timeline/good-governance-league/ .). The eighth item which is Resource Prudence/management goes to tell us how well and prudent the states have been able to put good use of the resources available to them. Are the monies they receive commensurate to what is on ground in their various states? Where they able to manage even with the little at their disposal? To what extent were they able to expand their IGR. what is their capital to recurrent budget ratio and to what extent are they implemented( you may get the states budget analysis here)  How well were they able to curtail unnecessary expenses and block loopholes in their government? Are their borrowings and debt profile in conformity with the fiscal responsibility act? Is their state highly indebted during their tenure without good strategy to service the debt? On the flip side are they been over frugal ( ie saving unnecessarily) when there are many sectors of the economy begging for attention? A good balance of judicious borrowing, savings, strategic debt servicing and result oriented spending makes one a good resource manager.

The seemingly double standard of privilege and non privileged states competing together is being addressed with the concept of the premium normalizing index ( np ) explained below:

Premium Normalizing index ( np ): this is a statistical factor that is based on the average budget per capital of each state. It is a factor that cancels out the perceived advantage of the very rich state and the not so rich state, the not so populated states and the very populated states. For instance Bayalsa State with a population of less than two million and an average yearly budget of over N200b has the highest budget per capital and a premium normalizing index of 0.8 while Katsina with a population of over six million and an average yearly budget of less than N100b has a premium Normalizing index of 1. The following link here shows a table of state arranged according to their total budget(2007-2014), average yearly budget, budget per capital and np.

The total point accumulated by each governor in the league table will be multiplied by The premium Normalizing index to get the premium point of which the governors is to be rated. This normalizing factor fairly places all states to a common base eliminating the perceived advantage of the so called rich states with higher budget per capital.

The good governance league starts here.

It involves two stages namely:  the preliminary stage and the final stage.
The preliminary stage

In the preliminary stage you match governors against the sectors you think they have performed best. This stage is more or less a nomination stage where you nominate eigth governors and match them in the sector you think they have performed best relative to other governors ( you may nominate less than eight depending on your knowledge about the governors and the sector). In your nomination you state the sector/the name of the governor/the name of his state. for example if you wish to vote governor Elechi as the best in Agriculture you may simply type Agriculture/Elechi/ebonyi state. you may go further to state your reasons in form of achievement he made in that sector. You do the same for other sectors. This stage will last for one week with the league table showing the governors standing being updated every twenty four hours. the five governors with the highest votes from each sectors will qualify for the finals. A total of forty slots in all sectors will be for grab in the first stage. which means five for each of the eight sectors
The final stage.

Here is where the real points are accumulated. Once a governor made it to this stage in any of the sector then you are sure of at least a point. At this stage the competition get tougher as there will be extensive and critical evaluation of the performances of the top five governors in each of the sectors. Each sector is given three days to evaluate and appraise the five governors within the sectors. The governor with the highest votes gets five points, the second gets four points and so on till the fifth which gets one point. This stage will take a total of twenty four days that is three days each for eight sectors. The league table showing the points and the standing of the governors will also be shown intermittently. At the end of the league the governor with the highest point (after normalizing) becomes our ‘Crown Good Governance Ambassador of Nigeria’ and of course the best performing governor in Nigeria, the second becomes ‘First runner up Good Governance ambassador of Nigeria’ and the third ‘Second runner up good governance ambassador of Nigeria’
Rules:

    No double voting. that is you cannot vote for two governors in one sector eg security/Fashola/Lagos, security/Chime/Enugu.  Here only your first option is valid
    You may decide to use any format of voting other than the one given here as long as it is intelligible enough
    Given reasons for your choices though optional may help to convince others and perhaps influence their choices as they may not be aware of your choice’s achievement.
    We should try as much as possible to be objective in our choices and in all our analysis.
    We should eschew all kind of sentimentality
    Personal attack of any kind will not be condoned

The preliminary stage starts now (time: 4:50pm, Date: Friday 19  December 2014 to Friday 26 December 2014. One week in total)
here you nominate your eight best governors in the eight listed sectors. You may also go ahead to state your reasons if you wish. The top five nominees for each sector will qualify for the finals.

Typical example of how you may nominate your candidate is

    Agriculture/Dickson/bayalsa
    Infrastructura/orji/Abia
    Education/Fashola/Lagos
    Health /Aliyu/Niger
    Security/sule Lamido/Jigawa
    regional and rural development (development outside the state capital)/Abiola Ajimobi/Oyo
    Job creation/Human Capital Development/Murkhter yero/Kaduna
    Resource Prudence/management/Amaechi/Rivers

You may go ahead to state your reasons

Note: it is not compulsory to vote in all sectors.  vote in the sector you are convince that your choice governor is the best.

the voting starts now