This is so disheartening as the injustice continues where even a female child from Anambra has to score 66 and above to get admission while a child from sokoto has to score only 7 to get same. Is it fair? Where is the merit in this case?

I am a full blooded Igbo but that is not injustice it shows superiority.

Why target Igbos? This shows Igbos are far ahead others academically in this country but when it comes to appointments they are sidelined. Shame on Nigeria

obum88:
I am a full blooded Igbo but that is not injustice it shows superiority.

You now confirm Igbos are superior and should really be on their own.

The problem is that igbos are progressing too fast,so we have to show down so that the rest of Nigeria can catchup

We are still ahead in all areas.

For how long will this injustice continue when mere children cannot get admission strictly on merit

For how long will this injustice continue when mere children cannot get admission strictly on merit?

Each state is filling its guaranteed quota in a federal education scheme designed for unity. It is not an admission based on academic merit but on compulsory NATIONAL representation.

It is nobody's business what low score or high score you require to fill up your own state quota. The high score only suggest better literacy indices in the South as opposed to the North.
No state is cheating the other, neither will any state yield its quota to another state until there's no candidate from the original state to fill their rightful quota.

The high cut-off score in the South is what internal competition demands to fill up their quota, while the low cut-off score in the North is what the low literacy levels ensure would fill up their own quota also.

Anyone who has no space to fill in their state quota can always try the myriad of state owned public schools or private school.

Lastly, what has the released marks got to do with a specific targeting of Igbos? You guys should please shut the hell up.

Enough of this unnecessary misinformation.

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StOla:
Each state is filling its guaranteed quota in a federal education scheme designed for unity. It is not an admission based on academic merit but on compulsory representation.

It is nobody's business what low score or high score you require to fill up your own state quota. The high score only suggest better literacy indices in the South as opposed to the North.
No state is cheating the other, neither will any state yield its quota to another state until there's no candidate from the original state to fill their rightful quota

Anyone who has no space to fill in their state quota can always try the myriad of state owned public schools or private school.

Lastly, what has the released marks got to do with a specific targeting of Igbos? You goes should please shut the hell up.


Enough of this unnecessary misinformation.

Why are you such a hypocrite? Are you now saying we should jettison merit for mediocrity? I thought you said you guys are the most educated in the country then why are the cut off marks allocated to south western states lower than South East ?
For how long will this disparity continue? Does this affirm the believe that the south Eastern part of Nigeria remain the most educated? As for the insults, you're forgiven as you have just shown you're a product of the quota system.

obum88:
I am a full blooded Igbo but that is not injustice it shows superiority.

but wen it coms 2 appointments dey com up wit all manner of dubious excuses y d igbo man is not qualified 4 it. If dat isn't double standard/ injustice,I don't kno wot is

nedu2000:
The problem is that igbos are progressing too fast,so we have to show down so that the rest of Nigeria can catchup

oda nigerians shd be made 2 sit up n catch up if not overtake d igbos. No wonder d country is a joke

Carry your Igbo Sister go Sokoto go school.


Funny guy.


Na real in justice.

mightyhaze:
oda nigerians shd be made 2 sit up n catch up if not overtake d igbos. No wonder d country is a joke

Can you imagine; in this time and age someone from sokoto needs only 7 to get admission over a person from Anambra that scored 65 and some morons sees nothing wrong with it

warrior01:
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Why are you such a hypocrite? Are you now saying we should jettison merit for mediocrity? I thought you said you guys are the most educated in the country then why are the cut off marks allocated to south western states lower than South East ?
For how long will this disparity continue? Does this affirm the believe that the south Eastern part of Nigeria remain the most educated? As for the insults, you're forgiven as you have just shown you're a product of the quota system.

Go and change the laws that established the unity schools and stop making noise where it is of no relevance. It is not a school of merit or for the gifted. It is a unity school for National Integration.

If you are not interested, get your kids into private schools where you may actually get admission by academic merit, but you would also pay the true worth of the education received, unlike the subsidized unity school.

Why must you always covet what does not belong to you?
You have your quota, they have theirs, is that too difficult for a greedy soul to deal with?

I have no time for tribal arguments on a Monday.

Do you ever give yourself any rest from tribal agitations?

Their are even marginalizing the people that are far better than them. matcheeew

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StOla:


Go and change the laws that established the unity schools and stop making noise where it is of no relevance. It is not a school of merit or for the gifted. It is a unity school for National Integration.

If you are not interested, get your kids into private schools where you may actually get admission by academic merit, but you would also pay the true worth of the education received, unlike the subsidized unity school.

Why must you always covet what does not belong to you?
You have your quota, they have theirs, is that to difficult for a greedy soul to deal with?

I have no time for tribal arguments on a Monday.

Do you ever give yourself any rest from tribal agitations?

Why are you this dumb? So sorry I forgot you were born and brought up with a slave mentality.

The igbos are too intelligent to be in Nigeria. We deserve to be on our own so we can make use of our full potentials and highly prevalent intellectuals. The world bodies and other nations keep stealing our best mind. Not impressive.

Ndi Igbo are the best, in all legal ramifications, while others lead in terrorism and ritualists

StOla:
Each state is filling its guaranteed quota in a federal education scheme designed for unity. It is not an admission based on academic merit but on compulsory NATIONAL representation.

It is nobody's business what low score or high score you require to fill up your own state quota. The high score only suggest better literacy indices in the South as opposed to the North.
No state is cheating the other, neither will any state yield its quota to another state until there's no candidate from the original state to fill their rightful quota.

The high cut-off score in the South is what internal competition demands to fill up their quota, while the low cut-off score in the North is what the low literacy levels ensure would fill up their own quota also.

Anyone who has no space to fill in their state quota can always try the myriad of state owned public schools or private school.

Lastly, what has the released marks got to do with a specific targeting of Igbos? You guys should please shut the hell up.

Enough of this unnecessary misinformation.

Bros,

1. I am very happy each time I see some idiots get schooled by people like you. It gives hope that sane people still do exist.
2. If someone's brain has regressed to the point of "Igbos are this-and-that....." then a translation from neurosis to physchosis is on the way.
3. Unfortunately other idiots will latch on to a flawed position, established by a prior idiot and then idiocy is perpertuated...

warrior01:
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Why are you this dumb? So sorry I forgot you were born and brought up with a slave mentality.

I was brought up with objectivity and not with a victim mentality typical of the conquered.

That objectivity is what you and your co-travellers lack despite all the education. The lack of which ensures you cannot even argue without inputing tribal innuendos.

Do you even know what a school of unity that requires the federal common entrance is all about?

Kudos to Igbos, you guys are truly great.

Have you ever wondered why some scholarship slots are reserved for African students despite the fact that some foreign nationals who would have scored higher in SAT, TOEFL and GSCE are not given such priviledges? because African students have better blood?

StOla:
Each state is filling its guaranteed quota in a federal education scheme designed for unity. It is not an admission based on academic merit but on compulsory NATIONAL representation.

It is nobody's business what low score or high score you require to fill up your own state quota. The high score only suggest better literacy indices in the South as opposed to the North.
No state is cheating the other, neither will any state yield its quota to another state until there's no candidate from the original state to fill their rightful quota.

The high cut-off score in the South is what internal competition demands to fill up their quota, while the low cut-off score in the North is what the low literacy levels ensure would fill up their own quota also.

Anyone who has no space to fill in their state quota can always try the myriad of state owned public schools or private school.

Lastly, what has the released marks got to do with a specific targeting of Igbos? You guys should please shut the hell up.

Enough of this unnecessary misinformation.

you made sense only to the gullible, unpatriotic or tribalists.
I thought we are all born equal?
These are mere children for Christ sake!

TIMEISWISDOM:
you made sense only to the gullible, unpatriotic or tribalists.
I thought we are all born equal?
These are mere children for Christ sake!

Let me give you a final education as I do not want to be tied up with Igbos who are determined to whine about other people's property, while trying to appear as a victim of injustice.

If the North picks up overnight and start scoring high in these entry exams, their cut off mark will be as high as Lagos or Anambra or Delta, but the number of Northerners admitted would still be the same because they are only filling their guaranteed quota without taking away what belongs to another.

If Anambra state or Abia state suddenly starts scoring low, by extension their cut off mark could fall as low as 20, but they will still fill up their guaranteed quota with that low mark, without any state taking what belongs to them.

Is this very plain principle of quota too complex for the educated Igbo to grasp?

StOla:


Let me give you a final education as I do not want to be tied up with Igbos who are determined to whine about other people's property, while trying to appear as a victim of injustice.

If the North picks up overnight and start scoring high in these entry exams, their cut off mark will be as high as Lagos or Anambra or Delta, but the number of Northerners admitted would still be the same because they are only filling their guaranteed quota without taking away what belongs to another.

If Anambra state or Abia state suddenly starts scoring low, by extension their cut off mark could fall as low as 20, but they will still fill up their guaranteed quota with that low mark, without any state taking what belongs to them.

Is this very plain principle of quota too complex for the educated Igbo to grasp?

What happens to merit?
For how long will we maintaining a system that rewards mediocrity?
I completely understand the system as explained by you but still not comfortable with it because it is an obsolete that shouldn't still be practised in this 21st century

IGBOS in this forum should not complain.... this will only do us good in the long run, When the competition is high the IQ grows.its now obvious that an average Igbo child is more intelligent than other children including the sophisticated ppl from the West..... Igbo brain is beginning to look like bundling the brain of a Japanese, Chinese, Jews and Russian into one skull,....what do you expect.

I attened Unity school ( one of the best 5 unity schools in Nigeria then) and I dont want any of my kids to go to any one, the standed now is lower than what an Average Igbo man can give his kids

The way things are going, we will still fill up their universities in sokoto and nothing will still happen.

Some of all this Biafran wailer just won't stop frustrating well meaning Nigerian. Igbo should be careful with all this war mongering and wailing. What your Kanu is doing on radio was what led to about a million death within only three days in Rwanda.

If Igbo state do not want to be cheated they can lower their score to zero, every state as the prerogative to dictate what is desirous to their state. Kudos to Igbo States the highest required score. It's a bench mark for future succes.

TIMEISWISDOM:

What happens to merit?
For how long will we maintaining a system that rewards mediocrity?
I completely understand the system as explained by you but still not comfortable with it because it is an obsolete that shouldn't still be practised in this 21st century

Thank goodness you understand. Finally!

Sadly as the schools are set up, merit will never trump national representation.
That is why they are termed unity schools.

If merit is exaulted, some states will never make it to the schools even in their domain, ultimately defeating the purpose of the system.

You do know the schools were set up to foster national unity as an aftermath of the civil war? Except for older government schools like KC or QC that were also included to the pool of schools.

As long as the schools enjoy federal subsidies, they must remain federal in admission.

They are not the only secondary schools in Nigeria, they don't even constitute 1% of secondary schools in Nigeria, but all the time this list of cut off is realised, another opportunity beckons for sentimentalism.

I did not make it in my own time despite a high score, while a thousand Northerners might have made it with lower scores, but guess what?
The Northerners did not cheat me, I failed to measure up among my own peers to secure a place in Lagos state quota for very top schools in a Lagos.

Naturally, I moved on to another school that is non-unity from an ocean of choices.

StOla:


Let me give you a final education as I do not want to be tied up with Igbos who are determined to whine about other people's property, while trying to appear as a victim of injustice.

If the North picks up overnight and start scoring high in these entry exams, their cut off mark will be as high as Lagos or Anambra or Delta, but the number of Northerners admitted would still be the same because they are only filling their guaranteed quota without taking away what belongs to another.

If Anambra state or Abia state suddenly starts scoring low, by extension their cut off mark could fall as low as 20, but they will still fill up their guaranteed quota with that low mark, without any state taking what belongs to them.

Is this very plain principle of quota too complex for the educated Igbo to grasp?

You are right about quota but quota system is one of the banes of Nigeria. Merit is superior to quota.