plessis:
being an igbo man is a priviledge.

BankeSmalls:
Professor Kenneth Dike from Anambra was the first VC in this school abi?

Adelaide2:
Esther is from Anambra State. Igbo Amaka; Igbo kwenu

Adelaide2:
Esther is from Anambra State. Igbo Amaka; Igbo kwenu

Throwback:


Yes he was made vice principal of the University College Ibadan ahead of the most senior African on the academic board and first ever Nigerian professor, Prof. Oladele Ajose.

Dike's appointment was facilitated by the Igbo dominated NCNC who had also installed Dr Akanu Ibiam who was the first Igbo doctor, as the School Council chairman. While Oladele Ajose was most senior and readily available at the school, Dike was called back from the USA where he was on an unfinished sabbatical, to come take a position (Vice Principal) he wasn't the most qualified for.

When the British eventually withdrew their administration of the school, Akanu Ibiam as School Council Chairman, further ensured that Kenneth Dike who was a fellow Igbo like him, became the first Nigerian principal of University College Ibadan. Professor Oladele Ajose realised that he was forever going to remain a victim of the NCNC and Igbo version of "merit" system that only found the Igbos qualified for positions that their better educated and more experienced Yoruba superiors did not qualify for. Ajose read the Igbo writing on the wall and moved to the Western Region owned University of Ife, to become its first principal.

Prof Kenneth Dike and Akanu Ibiam led school council would eventually go on to conduct recruitment into UI after the departure of the British. Out of 115 new hires, only 3 were Yorubas while the bulk of the remainder were from the Eastern Region.

That is how Igbos practice a merit based system.

The foolish Yorubas who were members of NCNC were never offered any sensitive position in the NPC/NCNC partnership of the first republic. Not even the Eastern minorities were offered critical positions.

All that was good that the Northerners could not occupy, the Azikiwe led NCNC ensured it went to the Eastern region, and ultimately to only the Igbos of that multi-ethnic Eastern Region.

plessis:
being an igbo man is a priviledge.

imhotep:
Igbo di egwu cc lzaa

adadike281:
If I didn't come to this world as an Igbo girl, I would still have given anything to marry an Igbo boy. Igbo Amaka!!!

Throwback:


Was Dike more senior to Oladele Ajose who was the first tenured Nigerian professor in history?

Is it false tale that Dike was called back from sabbatical in the USA to take the position of Vice Principal. While a more qualified Oladele Ajose was right there in Ibadan on the campus?

You cannot erase the facts, and even Dike was apprehensive to accept the position that was being forced on him.

I repeat merit to the Igbos is Igbos first, others follow.

IGBO - I Go Before Others.

Adelaide2:
Esther is from Anambra State. Igbo Amaka; Igbo kwenu

Mandeyy:
VCship isn't based on seniority, but based on who can make a good & proactive administrator, which Dike was. As a prof, Dike had a right to be VC just as Ajose. B4 his appointment, Akanu Ibiam travelled to England to inquire from d last principal (a whiteman) who should succeed him, to which he said that Dike was d best to take over, that he was a good manager of men & resources. Eni Njoku also repeated d feat at UNILAG. Was Akanu Ibiam there too? Stop this lie!!!

Mandeyy:
VCship isn't based on seniority, but based on who can make a good & proactive administrator, which Dike was. As a prof, Dike had a right to be VC just as Ajose. B4 his appointment, Akanu Ibiam travelled to England to inquire from d last principal (a whiteman) who should succeed him, to which he said that Dike was d best to take over, that he was a good manager of men & resources. Eni Njoku also repeated d feat at UNILAG. Was Akanu Ibiam there too? Stop this lie!!!

ofai:


Your self-serving and face-saving revisionism cannot fly this time.

NCNC my foot.

Professor Dike, Nigeria's first professor of history, in a clearly stated mission to narrate and preserve African history from the African perspective became the first VC of Univ. Of Ibadan based only on MERIT.

It was your awolowo that introduced tribalism and nepotism into academia.

Even unilags first black VC was pioneer professor Eni Njoku, another great academic of botany.

These men were the pioneers of their time. There was no egbe omo oduduwa in academics then. Everything was purely merit based that even your awolowo was scared of competing with igbos. no long revisionism can change the narrative.

ofai:


Of course whatever your Fulani masters say is correct and acceptable by you.

Dike's detailed research on Africa's history was groundbreaking because before then it was the foreigners that was writing our history for us. Dike put an end to it by narrating it with scientifically back research. Dikes research covered a lot of ethnicities and language clusters....even ajose's own language and your language, YORUBA included.

LaudableXX:


Eni Njoku repeated which feat at Unilag? Una sabi lie, o!

Mandeyy:
U're d liar! Eni Njoku was d 1st VC of UNILAG. I thought u knew this before.

LaudableXX:

Don't be daft. Eni Njoku was indigenous VC of Unilag, but he was certainly NOT an expert manager of men and resources, like you claimed. So why are you lying? His legacy in Unilag, was nothing to write home about. Go and check.

Throwback:


Zik got Nigeria independence yet he was a protege of a Yoruba politician who himself was in the midst of other Yoruba politicians already demanding for home rule.

Zik got us independence, yet it is recorded as historical fact that the different times the motion for independence was moved, it was by the members of the Action Group, starting with Anthony Enahoro.

The question then goes that, if CMS with its many Yoruba returnee slaves were able to realise the need for education among the Yorubas, why didn't freed Igbo slaves return to establish even a kindergarten that early?

I gave a challenge early to an empty head. I now lay same challenge before you as BankeSmalls with a small brain couldn't face such mission impossible.

Mention 10 Igbo doctors and 10 Igbo lawyers before the year 1900, who were known to practise in what exist as present Nigeria.

Let us see who were the illiterate tribe as at 1900, and who did not have a secondary school as at then.

mercyville:


Yoruba did not know anything about skull mining until you exported it through okija and otokoto to the SW.You Igbos that were still walking n.aked until 1920 when the whites visited you and took pictures of your dangling mantool comparing yourselves to Yoruba who built empire?
Wonders if I may say.

Mandeyy:
Don't be stupid. Do u have any evidence to prove he did not perform? I need an objective evidence from u or else u're a tribalist.

ofai:


Really? Okija and otokoto was exported to Lagos? Lol.... It shows you and your "likes" are seriously unschooled. Olodo, So igbos exported okija to soka forest, Ogun shrines, etc...? Your people must be real dumbasses then.

Yoruba built empire? Lol.... Pls show me the empire abeg. Pls show me the brown roof republic.... Lol...

cooldipo:
To what gain is the ethnic card being played here?

Diademk07:

What thrash is this one saying?
How does this nonsense justify appoing 113 Ibos and only 3 Yoruba in a Sw university? I go before others is really Osu name indeed.

LaudableXX:

Didn't I call you daft before? Okay, maybe ignorance has blinded you. Google is your friend. Search for the facts, and stop bellyaching. If you are too lazy to do so, then ask anyone who graduated from Unilag. The story is still told, till today. Eni Njoku was not infallible. People criticised his tenure, the same way they criticised the tenure of Prof. Nurudeen Alao, and Prof. Adadevoh. Were Alao and Adadevoh from Igbo land?

When you were alleging that Eni Njoku was an expert manager of men and resources, where was your proof or infallible evidence? Did you provide any?

Mandeyy:
Didn't i say u're stupid? U disputed d fact; then, disprove it by giving facts or else u're brain.less. He that objects must corroborate it with facts.

Mandeyy:
VCship isn't based on seniority, but based on who can make a good & proactive administrator, which Dike was. As a prof, Dike had a right to be VC just as Ajose. B4 his appointment, Akanu Ibiam travelled to England to inquire from d last principal (a whiteman) who should succeed him, to which he said that Dike was d best to take over, that he was a good manager of men & resources. Eni Njoku also repeated d feat at UNILAG. Was Akanu Ibiam there too? Stop this lie!!!