Igbos Are The Most Achivers In Africa.

Igbos are the most  Achivers in Africa.

The inventor of the internet, Phillip Emeagwali,
  Ndi Igbo have:

Produced Nigeria's first president (Zik)

Produced some of Africa's best literature ever (Things Fall Apart) that is world famous

Were the first in all of Sub-saharan Africa to perfect bronze metalworking (Igbo-Ukwu)

Have a unique form of democracy in the region that is only shared by the Ewe of Ghana

Are considered the "brains" of Nigeria

Lead the way in the movie department (Nollywood)

Are by far Nigeria's best and brightest business people

Fought valiantly against the oppressive and genocidal forces of Nigeria and were only subdued due to foreign intervention

Produced one of the main candidates for the position of the Pope (Francis Cardinal Arinze)

Were the first to provide a firsthand account of the trans-Atlantic slave trade (Equiano)

Produced the first female fianance minister of Nigeria (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala)

Produced some of Africa's best football players (Kanu, Okocha, etc).
Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, Second Republic Vice President of Nigeria
Emeka Ojukwu, The President of the defunct Republic of Biafra
P.N. Okeke-Ojiudu, Nigerian Politician and Businessman
Cardinal Francis Arinze, Roman Catholic Cardinal
Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, Priest and Beatified Christian Monk
Dr. Pius Okigbo, Distinguished economist
Philip Njoku Emeagwali, Computer scientist
Dr Chuba Okadigbo, Former Senate President of Nigeria
Christopher Okigbo, Poet
Charles C.Soludo, CBN Governor .
Pats Acholonu - Supreme Court Justice
Sir C. Chukwu - first Nigerian airplane pilot
Donatus Ibeakwadalam Nwoga - philosopher
Patrick Ibeakamma Acholonu Igwe X of Orlu - senator and Eze of Orlu
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - first female Finance Minister; Foreign Minister; former Vice President of the World Bank
Damian Anyanwu - inventor and diplomat
Sam Mbakwe - former governor
Christina Anyanwu - journalist and senator
Obianuju Catherine Acholonu - writer
Michael Echeruo - poet and scholar
Adiele E. Afigbo - history professor
Chikezie V. Uchendu - classical anthropologist
Onyeka Onwenu - singer, journalist, actress, humanist
Felicia Ekejiuba - academic
Sylvester Ugoh - Governor of the Bank of Biafra; Former Minister of Science and Technology
Augustine Njoku-Obi - developer of cholera vaccine
Genevieve Nnaji - Nollywood actress
Ezekiel Izuogu - scientist and inventor of the first automobile of indigenous all-African technology, the Z-600
Chika Sylva-Olejeme - President of the International Peace Institute
Collins E. Ijoma - First African and youngest person to obtain position of Trial Court Administrator in the USA.
Francis Arthur Nzeribe - senator and businessman

Some names their need not tobe mentioned because they did nothing for the betterment of their family members talkless of being prominent igbo figures like Obianuju Acholonu, Pat Acholonu,Arthur Nzeribe and many more. Their achievement in life is not anywhere near spectacular. If u include their names then my mum is suppose to be their as well.

Don't you guys have better things to do with your time than to feud and promote segregation?  what is the intention of this useless topic?  how do you know that the Igbos Are The Most  Achievers In Africa?  your shameless list has no credibility.  its just like a child that has never stepped out of his fathers house taught his father has the biggest house in town.

Am igbo but i get uncomfortable with all this igbo garlandry. A great people don't have to remind themselves that they are so.

look at it this way, we igbos make things happen in nigeria and its major cities, all you yorubas do is block the streets with owambe parties and steal government money, tribalise everywhere you enter(thanks to your f-kd-up father awolowo), smell around in your laces and agbada like old frozen chicken cartons, disgrace us everywhere with your dirtiness and disorganised nature e.g london, give birth to kids like rabbits without thinking of how to feed them thereby over-populating nigeria and breeding more agberos(yes kudos to you guys our populations is rising thanks to your "bi mo bi mo" without thinking nature ), the only development you people are contributing to nigeria is in the entertainment sector which of course the igbos pioneered, stabilised and are still maintaining, the government that you are shouting that your son, OBJ, is improving-go and check who are his key men/women that are running the show for him.

Chichi81,
go spew your toxin in the tribalism/race section. You so lame.

@chichi81

Ignorance is a very powerful weapon. You must always carefully choose when to use it or else it may backfire.

If well calculated, Emeagwali should be among the Top 10 Africans of modern time. Currently, I believe it is between himself and Mandela. But you didn't have to lie.

You even listed a lot of rubbish names along with the name of the great Zik. Why do you people do this?

one would start to wonder why this project was not carried forward, naija na useless country.

May God continue blessing Igbo people. Am proud to be Igbo

 JIMADA-THANI 18 , 1428 A.H.
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  Media onslaught against child trafficking

By Buki Ponle
In a remote jungle of Ondo state reside three able-bodied teenagers. They have been labouring away for two years in an expansive cocoa plantation.
They can neither read nor write except to communicate in their native Cross River state dialect. The teenagers speak pidgin English as well.
They neither own the farm nor any other property, or even aspire to; the boys only live from the handout offered by their 'master' who has arranged for their departure to the 'Promised Land'.
''Now the land is cursing us, and we want to return home, but it is becoming increasingly difficult,'' says one of them, amidst sobs, through an interpreter.
These hapless children, adored in the African tradition and seen as a great asset to the family and the community, have been trafficked internally, becoming labourers in another man's empire.
Child trafficking is assuming an increasing dimension in the face of pervasive economic recession, unabated joblessness, pulverising poverty and rapid urbanisation.
Other causes are weak institutional framework, breakdown of the extended family system and perverted value system.
The trafficking of children for domestic service, prostitution and other forms of exploitative labour is a widespread phenomenon in the country.
In view of the clandestine nature of trafficking, accurate and reliable figures are hard to get, according to experts.
Globally, child trafficking is one of the fastest growing organised crimes with an estimated 1.2 million victims per year, of whom 32 per cent are African.
Traffickers exploit the trust of people rooted in a widespread, culturally accepted common practice of placement and fostering as part of the extended family safety net.
In some instances, desperately poor and uninformed parents willingly cooperate with the traffickers, giving away their children in exchange for a pittance.
In the hands of unscrupulous guardians, these children are increasingly trafficked and exploited for money.
These circumstances have created a large pool of inactive and unengaged children and adolescents who are more vulnerable to trafficking than their peers who go to school.
According to experts, motivation, especially of teenagers, to find work away from home is often driven by the increasing taste for material things. For many others, it is a question of survival.
Trafficked children have been known to develop impaired knowledge, poor identity, ego problems, loss of self-esteem and emotional insecurity, among others. They could also be delinquent as their rights are violated.
The scourge of trafficking also manifests in increased incidence of diseases and early deaths, borne out of poor health and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS.
It diminishes human and national development, as well as constitutes a stumbling block in the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.
No wonder, the theme of this year's Day of the African Child, ''The Fight Against Child Trafficking'', was very instructive.
The day is commemorated every June 16 in honour of hundreds of children massacred by apartheid South Africa on June 16, 1976.
Of the number, 40 per cent are at the risk of being trafficked both internally and externally for domestic and forced labour, prostitution, entertainment,  armed conflict and sometimes ritual killings.
According to the survey, conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics in conjunction with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Nigeria is a source, transit and destination country for child trafficking.
Currently, external trafficking of children exists between Nigeria and Gabon, Cameroon, Niger, Italy, Spain, Benin Republic and Saudi Arabia.
In 2003, the Trafficking in Persons Prohibition and Administration Act was passed in Nigeria, prohibiting all forms of trafficking in persons and protecting children and adults against criminal networks.
Consequently, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffick in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) was set up to fight human trafficking through investigation of cases, prosecution of criminals, rescue and rehabilitation of victims.
NAPTIP has opened shelters for rescued or repatriated children while investigations are being carried out and their families.
According to a situation assessment by the UNICEF and NAPTIP, repatriated children are in the female and male ratio of 7 to 3.
Boys are mostly trafficked from Imo, Abia and Akwa Ibom in the South-East and South-South geographical zones to Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo, while those from Kwara go to Togo and faraway Mali to work on plantations.
Nigeria has recently witnessed a rising repatriation of trafficked victims from many foreign countries such as the UK, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, US., Belgium, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and South Africa.
Immigration and NAPTIP reports have also shown an increasing number of cases in the Northern part of the country.
In 2006, a regional conference in Abuja wrapped up a pact to combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children in West and Central African countries.
These are some of the activities embarked upon by the federal government, NGOs as well as development partners to combat trafficking in persons.
In a report on global trafficking, the US government applauded Nigeria for progress recorded, saying it was proud to have teamed up the country in achieving the success.
However, the Nigerian broadcast and print media are awash with reports on politics and the economy in apparent neglect of human-related issues which form the core of other development issues.
Children, as a part of their rights to take part in their survival, development and protection, should constantly be sensitised on the dangers of trafficking.
They should be empowered with the right information which should be shared with their peers and parents/guardians.
The antics of trafficking agents should be made known to them; they should be able to identify a friend in trouble so as to report cases promptly to the appropriate authorities.
Avenues should be provided for them such as 'Children's Parliament' and Child Rights Clubs to enable them to share common issues and concerns.
Many development partners, notably ILO and UNICEF, have been collaborating with the media in the offensive against child trafficking.
The tempo of such collaboration should be intensified while other agencies must offer support.
With so much effort at local and international levels against child trafficking, the media should acknowledge that children still face the same situation today, if not worse than the children massacred in Soweto more than 30 years ago.
Massacres are on the increase, as well as sexual abuse, rape, ritual killings, abandonment, neglect, hunger, trafficking, ravaging HIV and AIDS as well as other forms of debasing treatment.
There is no doubt that generally, reportage of health/population/environment and related development issues has been scanty in the media.
Experts say the media must show greater commitment and shun the pattern of conventional journalism which is skewed toward elitism.
The media, as the watchdog of the society, should also defend the mighty and the low.
They have the social and constitutional mandate to sensitise the society on the problem of child trafficking and influence government policies, laws and regulations.
Women and children should be rescued from the clutches of traffickers. They should become less vulnerable and disenfranchised so that the country's values are no longer compromised.
Observers say the modern day slavery and patent abuse of child rights, which can turn into social degeneration and stunt the growth of tomorrow's leadership, can be averted.
The US has called on Nigeria to build on the successes recorded and re-double its efforts by prosecuting suspected offenders, assisting the victims and raising awareness of the dangers of trafficking.
Similarly, the media should set free the three teenagers in the cocoa plantation, as well as the boys and girls toiling in other parts of the countrY.

na true but what of the robbery and armed people in your beautiful place called ijawland

don't hate
you meant to say that yorubas are the most awesome people on the planet, right   


anyways, the crown will have to go to the senegalese people for their mbalax music. 'cause i can't get enough of it.

Mamajagwa or Mama Oseni can you plz tell us where you descended from? OBJ blood sister, you people cannot put us together at all. We are God's chosen people, so if we die we go to heaven, when you die you go to pheroe.

I took a glance at that punk SEUN, he looks like Monkey. He resembles his blood brother OBJ, He took me out from this thread, but i guess he's an illitrate and doesn't know what what tribalism means, He taught i shouldn't talk about tribalism, then he shouldn't create thread for Racism, Tribalism, Sectarianism etc.

Just to show you he's ignorant and still have his punk blood ruining through his veins.bastard!

A.B.A4LIFE

I'm still alive, real brothers never die.

Even common mumu laborer like me know say na only primary 3 failure go fit write by-force grammar say " Igbos Are The Most ACHIVERS" like how as Mahadana write am.

Make Igbo people begin dey pray now say no be Mohadana them go call to promote them cause for international stage, because the kind monkey-miss-road grammar when the man go dey nak go make everybody conclude say na Chinese people dey teach Igbo people how to massacre English  language.

Mohadana make you do softly with ya beer-parlour grammar o, because some people don wound already with the one when you first throway here.

 For where I dey even try to find another ambassador-spokesman for Igbo them, na him I mistake come go jam BIAFRABOY
From frying pan to fire.  Una no see am ?  The man dey talk of ISRAELISTIS, how as them dey STRAP.      Nnna Biko, E for good make everybody take cover now o, as water don pass garri true-true.

the person that posted this threas has a big problem. What a stupid thread

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