By Lexi Elo
New Year Special poll results released by NOIPolls Limited have revealed that the two areas Nigerians[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″] would like the President to focus on in 2015 include Security, especially in the North East region, followed by Job Creation and Electricity.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]
While Job Creation was top priority to Nigerians in 2013 and 2014, Security has become paramount for Nigerians given its current state and ill effect in the nation.[pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]
The report however revealed that most Nigerians (81%) indicated they experienced enjoyable holidays
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over Christmas and New Year and this proportion has increased over the past three years.
Most Nigerians stayed back at their respective places of residence to enjoy the Christmas and New Year holidays instead of travelling. However, the reverse was the case for the larger proportion of the South-East residents who utilized the holidays to travel to various locations (69%). This, the report stated, probably stimulated a more positive experience as 61% of South East residents confirmed their holiday was very enjoyable.
Given the general increase in prices of goods and services which mostly characterises festive periods in Nigeria, the slight majority (52%) of Nigerians who travelled for the festive holidays reported a rise in the cost of transportation; although this was a slight decline in the proportion of Nigerians who were affected by this from the previous year 2014.
Also, the larger proportion of Nigerians (69%) who travelled reported an improvement in the roads when asked to evaluate their experiences with the Nigerian roads during their journey; this however indicates a 6-point decline from 2014.
In an assessment of the state of security across the country during the holidays, most Nigerians reported the environment where they spent the holidays as ‘peaceful and secure’, although a considerable proportion of the North-East residents considered their environment ‘peaceful but not secure’ and ‘tense and insecure’ during the holiday.
Findings revealed that slightly more than half of Nigerians (52%) who travelled during the festive holidays experienced an increase in the cost of transportation. Again this was mostly experienced by residents of the South-East region as a higher proportion of Nigerians in this region travel led during the holidays
