Abali1:
Please tell me you are joking. Are you for real? I should help an abdullahi to get Western Education, when the same Aboki is seeking for Virgins and ready to bomb to hell if I try to tell him otherwise.

ShyM-X:


Deal with it.

Is GEJ the most qualified person to rule Nigeria? If not for quota system(and giving the SS a chance) - do you honestly think someone as ridiculously dumb as he's should be ruling a country as complex as Nigeria? That's how your country is structured - deal with it, brother.

I don't care about how they choose to lead their lives in that part of the country. If the purpose of unity schools is to unify the country - then they deserve their quota regardless of whatever score they get, period!

If you don't like it - avoid unity schools and look for alternatives. That's the beauty of having options.

SLIDE waxie:
It's easy. So many presidents including jonathan shld av reversed dt. The concept was a good move, but jes like jakande said, they shld av learned to keep up! But seriously, 'wld they av'? No!

Abali1:
keep exagerating your foolishnesss. Have you ever read any of my post where I have to take sides with GEJ or call him the best from SS?
Do you think my parents (and so many other Igbos) are so daft that they cannot see the decay that Quota system will cause in the nations education system and decided to opt for better options.
The truth is that Dayo and Katsumoto decided to have a contrary opinion and seem to side for quota system in the other thread, because the OP mentioned BIAFRA.
Deal with it, you are just Dayo's azz licker.

SLIDE waxie:
It's easy. So many presidents including jonathan shld av reversed dt.

IGBO-SON:
If Nigeria -at the very least- is not restructured so everyone can progress at their own pace and be in control of their own destiny, we will still be talking of potential-potential, murders, corruption, and all what not, even ten years from today.....and it would do us like film when even countries like Somalia pass us on the highway to economic prosperity, and we'll be open mouthed and look on in horror as they disappear in the distance and leave us trudging along at a snail pace in the jalopy that is 'one Nigeria'!

saintneo: I hope this is from the archives, I find it difficult to believe that NYTIMES had a live website in 1988 prior to creation of the internet.

ShyM-X:
After reading what Katsumoto and DK posted on another thread about the same topic - I understand why the quota system is necessary in such schools. If the concept of "Unity Schools" was to unify the country by getting kids from different parts of country to attend the same schools - I honestly don't think there's anything wrong in applying quota system a la affirmative action for parts of the Nigeria that are educationally backwards. If you don't apply that; then it defeats the reason why those schools were created in the first place.

There's a similar policy in the UK and America for kids from inner cities. Since most of you believe in Nigeria; you need to stop moaning about everything and help the other side get to your level. That's the spirit of one country and being your brother's keeper.

ShyM-X:


Keep posting like a duffer!

I'm sure the unity schools exist in all the 36 states(including Northern states). Now imagine not admitting students from the North into unity schools in the South because they scored low in the exam - and the North retaliating by increasing the cut-off score for southerners to a score most of them can't get. And with that; you'll have southerners going to southern "unity schools" and northerners going to the northern ones. Don't you think that would defeat the purpose of the schools? Those schools are more of symbolic schools - not a do or die affair.

Stop thinking out of ya ar.se - and use your damn brain cells.

Aigbofa:

Nice ranting. Not long ago on this forum, I said Ironsi laid the foundation of mediocrity in Nigeria by making Nigeria a unitary state. I was abused by some Igbo here and one of them asked why subsequent administrations did not revert the system back to what it was.
The question is; why would the beneficiaries of Ironsi's action want to change anything. If you are playing a game in which your opponent score an own goal, giving you an advantage,would you ask the referee to revert the score to where it was.
This is why the south is clamoring for restructuring and the north is resistant.

ShyM-X:


Deal with it.

Is GEJ the most qualified person to rule Nigeria? If not for quota system(and giving the SS a chance) - do you honestly think someone as ridiculously dumb as he's should be ruling a country as complex as Nigeria? That's how your country is structured - deal with it, brother.

I don't care about how they choose to lead their lives in that part of the country. If the purpose of unity schools is to unify the country - then they deserve their quota regardless of whatever score they get, period!

If you don't like it - avoid unity schools and look for alternatives. That's the beauty of having options.

mu2sa2: This report is biased. The quota system is not just for hausa/fulani- it benefits everybody, north to south, east to west. Its aim is to avoid a situation where Unity Schools end up with students from just a section of the country, thus destroying the purpose of establishing the schools in the first place - bringing together children from all parts of the country to promote national unity.
The policy does benefit all- check out Bayelsa; and mark you North is not only hausa/fulani.

Abali1:

Man, you are not making any sense.
No wonder a wise man once said that "A illiterate is far better to a half-educated".
Please am done with you, because the more I reply you the more your stupidityy shines forth.

ShyM-X:


I explained the concept behind the schools to you, yet you kept ranting like a git. It shows you're dumb beyond redemption and you definitely need a refund from wherever you got your education from because education without critical thinking is absolutely useless.

Let me leave you with this quote:

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

ACM10:
Between Jonathan and Obasanjo, who is dumber? Jonathan is well educated(by Nigerian standard), Obsanjo is poorly educated(by any standard). What makes Jonathan dumber than those that came before him?

SouthEast: Ethnic Quota For Nigerians Is Challenged
By JAMES BROOKE, Special to the New York Times
Published: November 06, 1988
In Ibadan, the nation's largest city and one that is largely Yoruba, Dapo Ajayi, a high school principal, said the national quota system discourages southern students who see it as reverse discrimination.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/06/world/ethnic-quota-for-nigerians-is-challenged.html

Abali1:
Ok, you have a point.
But do you think (independently) that the quota system is a good idea? either in politics, schools or at the employment level?

Aigbofa:

Absolutely not! People should be able to compete on a level playing field.

IGBO-SON:
If Nigeria -at the very least- is not restructured so everyone can progress at their own pace and be in control of their own destiny, we will still be talking of potential-potential, murders, corruption, and all what not, even ten years from today.....and it would do us like film when even countries like Somalia pass us on the highway to economic prosperity, and we'll be open mouthed and look on in horror as they disappear in the distance and leave us trudging along at a snail pace in the jalopy that is 'one Nigeria'!

ShyM-X:


What's the correlation between your rant(in ugly font) and the topic in discourse? And how come you always post like an illiterate? You went from not being able to spell "lying" to using "lameduck" in the wrong context - you definitely need to go back to wherever you got your education; and ask for a refund. I initially thought you were a decent poster; but you're more of an uneducated political jobber with blinkered brain cells - get a life!!

ShyM-X:


Keep posting like a duffer!

I'm sure the unity schools exist in all the 36 states(including Northern states). Now imagine not admitting students from the North into unity schools in the South because they scored low in the exam - and the North retaliating by increasing the cut-off score for southerners to a score most of them can't get. And with that; you'll have southerners going to southern "unity schools" and northerners going to the northern ones. Don't you think that would defeat the purpose of the schools? Those schools are more of symbolic schools - not a do or die affair.

Stop thinking out of ya ar.se - and use your damn brain cells.

Pyrrho:
An aboki speaking....