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Illiteracy Rate In Southeastern Nigeria by adekunle0000: 5:09pm On Sep 19, 2015
“The Great Ibo race to the East of the Niger, numbering some 3 million, and their cognate tribes had not developed beyond the stage of primitive savagery” Lord Fredrick Lugard, 1914.This is the list of secondary schools in Nigeria in order of their years of foundation as the time Lord Lugard’s statement:1. CMS Grammar School, Bariga, Lagos, (West) 18592.Methodist Boys High School, Lagos, (West) 18783. Methodist Girls High School, Lagos (West) 18794. Baptist Academy, Lagos (West) 18855. Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar (South South) 18956. Wesley Collage Elekuro, Ibadan (West) 19057. Abeokuta Grammar School, Ogun (West) 19088. Kings College Lagos (West) 19099. Alhuda College, Zaria, Kaduna State (North) 191010. Ijebu-OdeGrammar School Ogun (West) 191311. Eko Boys High School, Lagos (West) 191312. Government Secondary School, Ilorin (North) 191413. Government College Katsina-Ala (North) 1914As at 1914 when Nigeria was amalgamated, there was no secondary school in Igboland. The West had 9, the North 3, and the South South had one. So, what we know today as the South East Geopolitical Zone had no secondary school in 1914. What measure did Nigeria put in place for South East to catch up?While it took the Igbo 25 years to catch up and spearhead Nigerian’s independence, the North is yet to catch up despite all the privileges put in place since the end of the Biafran war in 1970.It is ironic that candidates from the region that had no secondary school in 1914 are now required to score higher for admission into federal institutions than those from regions that had secondary schools.Below is the full list of the cut-off marks for all 36 states of the federation, as well as the FCT.Abia – Male (130) Female (130)Adamawa – Male (62) Female (62)Akwa-Ibom – Male (123) Female (123)Anambra – Male (139) Female (139)Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35)Bayelsa – Male (72) Female (72)Benue – Male (111) Female (111)Borno – Male (45) Female (45)Cross-Rivers– Male (97) Female (97)Delta – Male (131) Female (131)Ebonyi – Male (112) Female (112)Edo – Male (127) Female (127)Ekiti – Male (119) Female (119)Enugu – Male (134) Female (134)Gombe – Male (58) Female (58)Imo – Male (138) Female (138)Jigawa – Male (44) Female (44)Kaduna – Male (91) Female (91)Kano – Male (67) Female (67)Kastina – Male (60) Female (60)Kebbi – Male (9) Female(20)Kogi – Male (119) Female (119)Kwara – Male (123) Female (123)Lagos – Male (133) Female (133)Nassarawa – Male (58) Female (58)Niger – Male (93) Female (93)Ogun – Male (131) Female (131)Ondo – Male (126) Female (126)Osun – Male (127) Female (127)Oyo – Male (127) Female (127)Plateau – Male (97) Female (97)Rivers – Male (118) Female (118)Sokoto – Male (9) Female (13)Taraba – Male (3) Female (11)Yobe – Male (2) Female (27)Zamfara – Male (4) Female (2)FCT Abuja – Male (90) Female (90).The Ibo as The great Achebe said had within a span of 40 years bridged the gap and even surpassed the Yoruba in education by the’60s. Many a Yoruba people perpetually indulge in self-deceit: that they were the first to go to school;to be exposed to Western education; that they are academically ahead of other Nigerian cultures of peoples. Another ignorant lie.Why then would several Yoruba people peddle allthese falsehoods to show that they are ahead educationally in Nigeria? The true facts from the Federal Office of Statistics on education tell otherwise, showing that 3 Ibo states for the past 12 years have constantly hadthe largest number of graduates in the country, producing more graduates than Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. These eastern states are Imo, Anambra and Abia. Yet they calls Ibos traders. Indeed, the Igbos dominate because excellence dominates mediocrity – truth.The first ever known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is the narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom and documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom inthe middle of the 18 th century. He later marriedan English womanand had 3 children. He died in 1795. Equanoh OLAODAHThe first Nigeria doctor was an Effik man Silas G. Dove who obtained a medical degree from Franceand returned to practise medicine in 1840 in Calabar. This fact can also be verified from historical medical records in Paris.Edward Wilmot BLYDEN – an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. He is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja.The third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – again, a man of Ibo descent.Who was the firstNigerian Professor of Mathematics – an Ibo man – Professor Chike Obi– the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem.AnotherIbo man, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differentail Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant.this great Ibo man. He laterbecame the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and one of the founders of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre.Nigeria’s first Professor of Histroy – Professor Kenneth Dike who published the first account of trade in Nigeria in pre-colonial times. He was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan.The first Professor of Microbiology – Professor Eni Njoku; he was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos.The Anatomy and Physiology – Professor Chike Edozien is an Asaba man and current Obi of Asaba. Who was the first Professor of Anatomy atthe University College Ibadan.The first Professor of Physics, Professor Okoye, who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960.He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics. He was also a founding member of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Ibo man .Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early ’50s.FirstProfessor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research.The firstNigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war.Professor Ntukoju – was the first to earn a doublePh.D in Astronomy and Mathematics. and also in Astronomy – again this Ibo man was the first Professor of AstronomyLet’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Ibo man –Professor Okonjo whoset up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics.Professor G D Okafor, became a Professor of Philosophy at the Amherst College USA in 1953. Economics –Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.Din Economics.Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at the University College Zambia in 1952.Let me enlighten this falsehood’s mouthpiece even further: before the civil war Ibos controlled and dominated all institutions in the formal sector in Nigeria from the universities to the police to the military to politics:•The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Ibo man•The first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos was an Ibo man•The first Nigerian Rector of the thenYaba College of Technology was also an Ibo man•The police was run by an Ibo IG•The military as a professional institution was also run by elite- Ibos.All we are saying is, give us Biafra and see the greatest
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