ikennaf1:


Leave them, lying and deception is what they are known for. If you bring up jamb stats., they will call jamb corrupt. Waec nko, they will still call it corrupt because it doesn't suit their lies.

Imagine someone telling me to forget statistics and all...
And I am now asking what informed their erroneous view that the Yorubas are more educated...on what premise is the erroneous assumption made?

I hardly comment when any topic has to do with tribal supremecy of any sort, and that's because people would just talk out of sentiments, without recourse to facts and figures.

While I was at Ahmdu Bello university, you see lecturers preaching to the class and telling us that the Hausas are better in leadership than any other tribe, while the Igbos are good in business, and the Yorubas good in education; this is basically the mindset of an average northerner, educated ones at that(lecturers). They will keep drumming this into students and at a point I started seeing this as a form of mind conditioning.
One day in class, I had to speak up, I had to ask a certain lecturer questions; I said 'sir, you always come with this notion of the Hausas are better in leadership, Igbos business, and Yorubas education, then why is the richest business man in Africa from Hausa, how do you explain that? Why not an Igbo man? Why is it that north has produced more leaders since independence and yet they have not even impacted the north, let alone the country at large? Why do you have Igbo people flourishing in every academic field available in world? Is Chike Obi a Yoruba man? Is Emeagwali a Yoruba'? The man resorted to harassing me instead of giving me answers.

The point I just wanted to make in class then is that, no tribe has a monopoly of anything, in every tribe you'd still find people who are exceptionally good in different areas. Back at school, I knew how much we were being challenged by some northern students who were exceptionally brilliant.

Point is, we should stop all this age-long lies of who does what better, it's a stereotype, a mindset and an erroneous one at that, a mindset that is not based on facts but ethnic bigotry.

blackpanda:



There is no line seperating anybody. Those lines are just a product of ur imagination born out of hate and bias. Nigeria remains one and indivisible. If my father is yoruba, mother is igbo and she raises me in awka, names me chukwudi and I speak only igbo, Will u call me yoruba?? This silliness in trying to draw lines where they dont exist must stop. We are only related and bound by a single destiny

The only hate I see is from you. Since it clouded your vision to see and understand that the person who you are arguing with has agreed with you.

http://punchng.com/education-why-south-west-and-north-should-be-worried/

Education: Why South-West and North should be worried[b]

Last week, the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate of Education result was released. The Punch chose to publish the story with an attention-grabbing headline: “Again, South-East leads in the WASSCE performance chart.” The report showed that Abia State dethroned Anambra. The states were ranked according to the percentage that had a minimum of five credits, including in English Language and Mathematics.

But the surprise in the report was that almost like in 2014, no South-West state except Lagos was on the top 10 of the chart. The top 10 states were the five South-East states, four South-South states and Lagos: 1st – Abia (63.94 per cent), 2nd – Anambra (61.18 per cent), 3rd – Edo, 4th – Rivers, 5th – Imo, 6th – Lagos, 7th – Bayelsa, 8th – Delta, 9th – Enugu, and 10th – Ebonyi. Ekiti was 11th; Ondo was 13th; Ogun was 19th; Oyo was 26th; while Osun was 29th. In 2014, the top 10 states were similar: Anambra (65.92 per cent), Abia (58.52 per cent), Edo (57.82 per cent), Bayelsa (52.83 per cent), Rivers (52.78 per cent), Enugu (51.91 per cent), Lagos (45.66 per cent), Imo (40.64 per cent), Delta (40.12 per cent), Kaduna (36.12 per cent). Ebonyi was 11th with 36.05 per cen.

For 2014, the states with the least performance were Northern states: They were Yobe (36th), Zamfara (35th), Jigawa (34th), Gombe (33rd), Katsina (32nd), Kebbi (31st) Bauchi (30th), and Sokoto (29th). In 2013, the result was similar: 28th – Katsina (10.45 per cent), 29th – Adamawa (8.75 per cent), 30th – Jigawa (7.47 per cent), 31st – Sokoto (7.12 per cent), 32nd – Zamfara (6.65 per cent), 33rd – Kebbi (6.30 per cent), 34th – Gombe (5.68 per cent), 35th – Bauchi (5.28 per cent), and 36th – Yobe (4.85 per cent).

Someone from the South-East or South-South could see it as a reason for chest-thumping, but for me, it portends grave danger. Why do I say so? I will explain shortly.

Those who had not been following the trend in education could dismiss this as a flash in the pan. But it is not so. I have followed the trend since the late 1980s. From 1996 when the late military dictator, Sani Abacha, created 36 states out of Nigeria, the three states that have been producing the highest number of applicants in the examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board have been Imo, Anambra and Delta.

The Guardian of August 26, 1999, page 31, had some statistics about the 1999 UTME examination. It showed that the six states with the highest number of applications were: Imo (44,274), Delta (36,375), Anambra (34,206), Ogun (33,375), Edo (29,057), and Osun (22,950). Conversely, the states that produced the least number of candidates were all Northern states: Borno (1,572), Katsina (1,054), Taraba (882), Sokoto (782), Kebbi (794), and Yobe (535). The Registrar of JAMB then, Prof. Bello Ahmad Salim, lamented the poor showing of the Northern states, noting that the 65,000 applications from the 19 states of the North were just 20,726 higher than the number of applications from only Imo State. If Imo and Delta states’ applications were combined, that would amount to 80,649 applications: over 15,000 higher than the applications from the 19 states of the North.

In 2007, The Guardian newspaper of June 1, page 3, published the results of the 2007 University Matriculation Examination. The top six states with the highest number of candidates were Imo (93,065), Anambra (64,689), Delta (61,580), Edo (57,754), Akwa Ibom (47,928), and Ogun (47,227). The last six were: Kebbi (4,682), Sokoto (3,925), Taraba (3,832), Zamfara (2,904), Jigawa (2,541), and Yobe (2,516).

For the 2012 results released by JAMB and published by Vanguard of March 31, the top five states were: Imo (123,865), Delta (88,876), Anambra (84,204), Osun (73,935), Oyo (71,272). The least five states were: Jigawa (11,529), Kebbi (7,364), Yobe (6,389), Zamfara (5,713), and Sokoto (5,664).


In the Unity School admission of 2013, the states that got the highest cut-off marks were: Anambra – Male (139) Female (139); Imo – Male (138) Female (138); Enugu – Male (134) Female (134); Lagos – Male (133) Female (133); Delta – Male (131) Female (131); Ogun – Male(131) Female(131); Abia – Male (130) Female (130). The states that got the lowest cut-off scores were: Zamfara – Male (four) Female (two); Yobe – Male (two) Female (27); Taraba – Male (three) Female (11); Sokoto – Male (nine) Female (13); Kebbi – Male (nine) Female (20); Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35).

So, for those from the South-West and North who may give the excuse of the South-East and South-South states getting these results by the help of “special centres,” it is a case of trying to hide behind a finger. Instructively, the South-West, which was the first to receive Western education, and was ahead in education, has lost its place in education in Nigeria. Something is killing the interest of the South-West children in education. The six South-West states need to see this as an emergency that transcends party affiliation. This scenario is a source of danger because the South-East and South-West have been counter forces to each other. Whatever feat the South-West produces, the South-East counters it, and vice versa. We can see it in the literary feats of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, the football feats of Shooting Stars and Rangers, the political feats of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo, the academic feats of University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and so on. This healthy rivalry enhances stability, peace and growth in the nation.

But if this downward trend continues, in future, that balancing of forces between the South-West and the South-East will no longer exist. And given that the indigenes of the South-East and the South-South dwell in large numbers in the South-West, a time will come when the South-West could feel angry that the indigenes of the South-East and South-South are taking over positions that the South-West indigenes should occupy in the South-West. This may cause problems as witnessed in the xenophobic attacks in South Africa last year. So, it is in the interest of all that the South-West stage a come-back in education.

The case of the North is scarier. Many commentators keep quiet about this worrisome issue because of political correctness, but only someone who loves you can tell you that you have mouth odour. It is dangerous that there are 10 million youths in the North with no formal education.

The rise of Boko Haram has worsened a bad situation in the North. The few who want to go to school are scared away by this unconscionable terrorist sect.

There are those who have erroneously said that the lack of interest in education in the North is caused by religion (Islam). But there are many nations with high Islamic population even in West Africa that embraced education. Furthermore, Northern states like Taraba, Plateau and Benue have a predominantly Christian population. Yet, there is a low interest in education there.

There is no proof that Northerners have lower IQ than Southerners. All men are created equal. The prevailing environmental conditions make the difference.

So, the quota system is an enemy of the North that every Northerner who loves the North must speak against. Without competition and challenges, there is no burning desire in man to excel.

Nigeria runs on a quasi-unitary structure with each link coupled to the other. It moves as a unit. It can only move as fast as its slowest link and perform as good as its weakest link. It is in the interest of Nigeria that the fire of education is rekindled in the North. This will expand the opportunities available for Northern youths and reduce the tensions and suspicion that exist between the North and the South.

We must also jettison this failed feeding-bottle federalism that we have and adopt true federalism that allows the federating units to move at their own pace and be competitive. A country that does not promote competition abhors excellence.[/b]

ikennaf1:


The only hate I see is from you. Since it clouded your vision to see and understand that the person who you are arguing with has agreed with you.

Nwanne, leave them Biko.

Igboid:


No Yorubas are part of Igboland, anymore than there are Igbos in Isokoland.

Those people you call Yoruba had since assimilated into the Enu-ani Igbo culture, and today share same cultural, political and philosophical beliefs as Ndiigbo, also are partakers in our commonwealth, and so are Igbos today, just as Igbide though originally from Eastern Igbo, but having migrated into the heartland of Isokoland, had since assimilated into the Isoko cultural, Linguistic and political realm. They are in all ramifications Isokos and Igbos can nolonger lay claim to them.

I'm sorry my friend, there are no Yorubas in Igboland(Enu-ani). If you mean Igbos of Yorubas ancestry, then you are right, as Olukumis( Odiani) are of Yorubas ancestry, just as we have Ossomaris who are of Igalla ancestry, the Ettes and the Adukwus of Enugu Ezike Who are of Idoma ancestry, the Effium and Ntezi who are of Ukwelle ancestry, the many families in Ika who are of Edo origin, the Aros who assimiliated the non Igbo speaking Akpas within them during the war for the soul of Arochukwu with the Ibibios.

You see my friend, Igbo is not a monolithic group, we come in different shades. We are a conglomerate, yet we are one people, United by Igbo language spoken in a continuum of myriads of forms called dialects ,and many shared cultural and spiritual beliefs.

You guys cannot make your point without mentioning the Yorubas. It makes you look weak. The weak always complain about the strong. The same Yoruba do not allow you to go, they are marginalizing you and suppressing you on one hand according to many of you guys on NL. On the other hand you can do anything to prove that you are better than the yorubas. You create thread upon thread to prove supremacy everyday. We got to stop this nonsense. We are all human being first. Love your neighbours as yourself and stop this annoying promotion of hatred.

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ikennaf1:


The only hate I see is from you. Since it clouded your vision to see and understand that the person who you are arguing with has agreed with you.

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Mtscheeew. What is dis one saying

Well done sir for such a wonderful, comprehensive, detailed, non biased, and well explained article and research historical work, God bless you, let's focus on merit driven economy, and make this country a better place for all, forgetting any form of ethnic divide.

bakynes:

Your argument is not what the issue is about. The igbo scholar is countering FFK's submission of Yoruba's been the first graduates in various fields.

The submission is not abt Igbos now topping results in Jamb, WAEC etc.

To me if Yoruba's first encountered the British before the rest of other tribes and the Western region was the first to declare free education,built the first Nigerian University then it's most likely that they produced the most first graduates in various fields more than other Nigerian tribes.

But you chose to turn a blind eye to the fact that Igbo happened to be pioneer indigenous Vice Chancellors in the Yoruba universities.

Lemme give you a yardstick to measure with... go to any University in southeast you will find out that 90% of the students are Igbo. Then go to Unilag, OAU, even LASU, you will find Igbos constituting up to 30% and even more in Unilag. Do the maths.

KingsleyJohn:


But you chose to turn a blind eye to the fact that Igbo happened to be pioneer indigenous Vice Chancellors in the Yoruba universities.

Lemme give you a yardstick to measure with... go to any University in southeast you will find out that 90% of the students are Igbo. Then go to Unilag, OAU, even LASU, you will find Igbos constituting up to 30% and even more in Unilag. Do the maths.

That's because igbos have a huge population in the SW and you rarely find Yoruba's in the SE. That's easy now

Hmm, smart people. Please continue