Hello dear, I see what you're trying to do but in trying to get yourself a local board by riding on the success of the Nigerian local baord, don't make it seems like we deserve this achievement any less please. You guys should work on your request and put some determinations into your request, we did similar thing and it worked out for us. The dominance of Nigerian on the forum in less than 3years since the availability of the hangout thread has been impressive, We even have some many users that have identify themselves to be Nigerians but are yet to identify with the community due to the fear of been discriminated but we let their wishes be (the forum is anonymous so we can't force an identity on anyone).

I see you comparing the numbers but I don't think it's all about that in getting your request approved, you had just 18 active members last month while we had over 70, all engaging in production discussion as we mandated on the thread with low quality been deleted (discouraged). Lets talk about the activeness of our local users on the general forum, you can take a look at the names on the table, alot of them are quite productive on the general forum and Nigeria like thread are filled all over the forum.

You guys should come together and make some quality noise for yourself and try to encourage other native users to engage on your thread and carry your total engagement up in regards to users contributing to the thread instead of posts been made. Goodluck on your request, make it a little less competitive and professional.