Yorubas Are The Most Educated Tribe In Nigeria

LOL, no really i am just curious. Is not that it matters to me. I just wanted to confirm the fact.

Because a friend and I argued about it.

What's the hating about. I am seeking an answer to a question, you guys are just busy hating. I didn't say so.

Yeah!  It really shows in Nigeria!--I think I prefer to stay ignorant for life then if "education" as you call it is anything to go by.

I am not saying that Yorubas are smarter, i said  i heard that Yorubas are more of all the educated Nigerians,

home and oversea. Some of the Igbos want to get rich quick, therefore they don't spend more time in school,

rather they go into business, that don't mean they are not as smart.

personally i think that is a fact. however, that does not necessarily make them the most intelligent or the smartest set of people in naija(and before any yoruba person decides 2 eat me alive, i am not saying they r not either).i think people on here r getting education and intelligence/being smart mixed up ,see they r not one and the same.

the yorubas have this obsession with education and school and all that and that is just the way it is.  i believe yorubas tend 2 equate education with success or at least potential success and that is why they pursue it that way. that is my own 2 cents.

BTW i am yoruba so i ain't dissing no one.

Hehehe. . . . .make I perch for this corner, dey siddon look!  Am waiting for the Yoruba folks to give you a good response to this comment. Wey my groundnuts and popcorn, sef?? This promises to be ver-rr-ry interesting. Am just curious though. How many of them have stabbed you in the back or have acted as chameleons, under your own very nose?


Don't worry, am sure they will be here soon to answer your question! 

Where is your own proof? this topic is too controversial because people will confuse being educated with being smart. this is a matter of quantity and by so saying the poster us likely to be correct. I'm yoruba so Bite me!! As for the awolowo issue i refuse to be drawn into any  foolish argument about political icons but just to inform Chika98 look to the country's banking and business sector and check out which tribe dominates.

Check out JAMB statistics:

http://www.jambng.com/adm_ume.php (UNIVERSITY)

http://www.jambng.com/adm_pce.php (POLYTECHNIC AND COLLEGES OF EDUCATION)

What you see for the last 7-8 years (or so) will blow your mind. Why do we have to walk these paths (debating to and fro) again, after all the data show what is on the ground currently?

Yoruba appear (no 100 % surety) to dominate in banking sector, but things have also changed after the CBN consolidation exercise. Please check the list of the CEOs of the 25 banks. Nonetheless, Yoruba so-called domination of Banks means nothing because banking is not the only thing in Nigeria
Who dominates in business? The Yoruba/Igbo/Hausa/Ijaw, etc?
Who dominates in IT?
Who dominates in science?
Who dominates in Engineering?
Who dominates in literature?
Who dominates in public relations?
Who and who are the graduates in the entertainment industry?
Who are who amongst the Nigerians in diaspora?

Moreover, there is something you may not appreciate, and that is the fact that due to unemployment, many Nigerian graduates go into business. Does this mean they are not educated? I myself hold a post graduate degree, yet I am a business man (I was never unemployed, just decided to go into business.

Look no make me vex now

   I see the Igbo's don't want to admit the facts that the Yorubas are more Educated. Its okay,

  you guys are good in lots of other things as well. Long  its all for a better NIGERIA.  You can be

 Educated and not be successful. But as the saying goes, "Education is the key to success"

  Nigerians are the most educated in Africa, lets stick to that fact, maybe behind South Africa.

  @FSU
         Its not by the percentage admitted, but by the percentage graduated. The Rate of admission is not
         
        directly proportional to the rate graduation.

See as you trip yourself up? You asked what you claim is an innocent question yet here you are making categorical statements. Shame on you! Instigator! 

I am very sure you are not yourself educated.

1. I have proved that in the last several years, Igbos, followed by the south south, are the most (not necessarily the best) educated Nigerians. So says JAMB, and that includes UME for universities and PCE for polytechnics and colleges of Education. Check the JAMB statistics again.

2. If  you passed through JAMB, you would have known that it deals with state of origin , just like other things in Nigeria. That is how they arrive at quota sytem, catchment area, educationally disadvantaged states, and all such trite stuff.

3. There is no unified record of who is graduating from the university and who is not. In the absence of such handy national graduation record, JAMB statistics hold. Nevertheless, by virue of percentage, it should go that if more Igbos are admitted into the universities than Yorubas, it follows that more Igbos should also graduate. Unless you are implying that Igbos are less intelligent than the Yoruba, which of course is not the case. Intelligence is individual and has nothing to do with tribe.

4. Do you have a record of the number of skilled workers in all Nigeria's 25 banks? If not, then shut up. However, to educate your small mind, Igbos are known to be the second most populous Nigerians after the indigenes of a place. And Igbos are known to compete well in job search, even outside Igboland. Now walk into the Bank in Lagos/Ibadan and tell me the number of Igbos you will find there. Do the same in Aba/Onitsha/PH etc and tell me the number of Yoruba you will find there. Do the maths. I can estimate, based on the fact that other Nigerians do not reside in Igboland in dramatic numbers, that more than 80% of bank staff in all Igbo states, and Rivers state are Igbo. Can you say the same for Yoruba bank staff in Yoruba states, especially Lagos?

5. Lagos is the only commercial hotspot and not the entire southwest (SW). Note the difference. With the slow rate of growth of Nigeria, it will take far more time to de-emphasise Lagos in terms of economic strenght. Remove Lagos, and the SW is as dead as dead wood, economically speaking. Ibadan is far less economically viable when compared to Onitsha, Aba or Nnewi, not to talk of PH. You really need to travel out a bit from your cocoon in Yorubaland. As for Ekiti, Ondo, Abeokuta etc, those are boring places. Nothing happens there.

3. The north cannot dominate even in primary, not to talk of secondary education. Everyone knows that.

When you finish these assignments I have given you, then you can come and talk again. Ewu most educated Nigerian.

1. According to you, virtually all the Igbos in the North are traders. Now this shows your warped sense of analysis. Many of the so-called traders are elderly people with children. These children attend universities in the North. It was in the North that Igbos like Zik, Ojukwu, Cyprian Ekwensi, Rochas Okorocha, the minister of information in OBJs govt (I forgot his name) and hundreds of thousands of Igbos were born. Many of these people schooled there. Thus, Igbo traders have their kids in universities in the North. You should ask yourself why more Igbo people are being admitted in unis and polys than others. Do you think all of those are Igbos based in Igboland?

2. Being a trader is more dignifying than being an Agbero which many Yoruba youths are today. In Port Harcourt, Kano etc, the Yorubas own most of the mamaput (those dirty olonjes) and are mostly taxi drivers. Is that more dignifying than being a trader?

3. You are still to define which skilled labour the Yoruba populate. Assumming they populate in banking, what of other human endevours? Do they populate those too?

3. A yoruba with all your claims of education was CBN governor before Soludo. The banking system practically collapsed under the Yoruba CBN gov.

3. Most of the banks run by Yorubas were deceptive family banks that collapsed soon afterwards. Societe Generale Bank (Saraki) is a living example. Is that the education?

4. I have had Yorubas as class mates. They are not in any way better than anyone. I schooled at UNA primary school Inalende and at Loyola school in Molete, both in Ibadan. I know the Yoruba people and their ways like the palm of my hands. So quit your noise making.

5. I want you to understand that a significant proportion of business men in Nigeria are graduates. Unemployment pushed them into trading. Does that make them uneducated?

6. You claim to have travelled out of your small world in Yorubaland. Now, apart from Lagos, can you say candidly that any economic activities go on in other Yoruba towns more than Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi?

7. Lagos is a conglomerate of all Nigerians. Thus, the Yoruba cannot arrogate all the economic activities taking place there to themselves. As a matter of fact, it is known that 30-35 % of Lagos population is Igbo. Remove this and remove the hausa, Edo and Niger Delta people in Lagos and lets talk what is left of the rump of Yoruba there.

Ewu, educated Yoruba who is better than others.

After they finished their English lessons in universities home and abroad
        they took a ministerial post or administrative post in top nigerian firms
                sit there only to speak grammars and loot the government.
                     the pratical works and inteligient works will be left to Igbos to do.
                          any way they're educated sha

why is the poster of this thread always starting threads that would bring nothing but trival war,hate and confusion ?


@ topic nigerians are educated.ciao

you posted it in a wrong thread this place is for
            tribal related topics if not hatred related
                  it's for those who hate IGBOS
                                   NOT BANKING