₦airaland Forum

tevinsolt:
y'all need to calm down with Igbos - "most intelligent black Africa race" it looks really bad. These are young kids who have worked hard to achieve they've achieved, the success of these two intelligent individuals doesn't make you the op smart or the average Igbo smart not does it make them dull either.

last year or two years ago a Ghanian got into all 8 but they don't take this a validation for their "intelligence", a year ago another kid from the Yoruba side of the country got into all 8, few(2-3yrs) years back a 15yr old yoruba girl still in High school got into all 8 ivy leagues, and so did many other whites and asians and hispanics. Britain's brainiest family are from Edo state Nigeria

a constant validation at the expense of others achieve is saddening. those are facts all online, if anyone cares to check.

Oga calm down....it wasn't Igbo that wrote this
It was not the Igbo that conducted the research
It wasn't Igbo that funded the project

These research was done in far away UK and USA.... Pls calm down

He who doesn't know who is greater than him hasn't grown ...that's an Igbo adage


Have you forgotten the term ...Igbo sense
Have you forgotten why they introduced quota system
Have you forgotten why Igbo have the highest cut off marks
Have you forgotten the Bi.afra ingenuity
Have you forgotten the Igbo literary giants
Have you forgotten the nnewi and ABA technology marvel
Gabe you forgotten Igbo contribution to Internet


Gave you forgotten so many things ....the Igbo Jewishness


Well have a pleasant weekend

EzeNri:
They knew that already but are too jealous to admit it.

Well what can a son of man do?
Gwam

Igbo sense

Free101:
What is pitiable there biko?

A whole lot nna, the question is
IBU onye igbo ka obu onye Yoruba ?

Za m

Realman87:
My brother, accepting this fact is like suicide for some tribes. Am not igbo and I dislike the overbearing attitude of some igbos, but I must admit that they are by far more superior to their adversaries.

That's impressive ..how over bearing are Igbo and what tribe are u

Smellymouth:
Ella cheri, I can speak hausa ( fluently), Arabic(Fluently),Itsekiri ( fluently) ,Igbo(not quite fluenty), Yoruba(Not quite fluently) I am a Muslim , but I grew up in a strict christian home. BTW,it's the same God we are serving

Pls Muslim god is different from Christian God

Free101:
@ op, I didnt read through your espistle but seriously, Yoruba boys sucks at relationships. Just as someone says, they are not romantic (telling you this from experience, stayed with Yorubas for a long time and am partly one; from my mommas side). They are also not adventurious; 90% of my Yoruba friends don't believe in giving a lady heads and performing some stunts in the inner chamber apart from the status quo. The ones you see the ladies dying for are the ones that are exposed, especially to other tribes and sometimes, the rich ones.
But am still proud of my Yoruba blood, because no be any Yoruba girl go date Igbo guy; so I do tell them am Olaitan instead of the Chukwudi I normally use.

Such a pity

deutchroyal:
but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Igbos are very intelligent people

But the rest of Nigerian are taking it to be a rocket science to figure this simple fact out

LadyJul:
Hello landers... Over the years I've come to love igbo guys because of some unique features I've found in most of them. .. It's not like am being tribalistic or anything.. .but I just admire them a lot although am not really an igbo gal... .Most igbo guys are...
HANDSOME: most igbo guys are very handsome.. . It's like being handsome is just part of dem.. U hardly see an ugly igbo guy and dey have height too...

HARDWORKING: I rarely see a lazy igbo guy... Almost all igbo guys are very hard working... It's true dey love money a lot dats y u see dem hustle around 247 to make money...

GREAT COOKS: igbo guys can cook for Africa... U hardly see an igbo guy dat can't cook... most of dem don't like the idea of eating outside so dey prefer cooking their own food and dey love eating like mad.. . My igbo brothers can confirm dat

WISE: Nna igbo niggas get sense ooo... U can hardly dupe dem... dey have business ideas and dey use their wisdom to create more wealth.. . Dey hardly spend unnecessarily... Instead dey spend on wat will bring more money and other things will follow...

FAMILY ORIENTED: Dey value their family eh... they like being close to their love ones including their extended families... that's y most of dem always travel to their villa during the holidays... Dey don't joke with that..

I have many other reasons why I love igbo guys but am too lazy to continue typing... you're free to add yours.. . Haters are also welcome to contribute

Nne, what tribe are u from ?

Danfuster:
bro... I didn't say you wrote it, don't get it twisted. It's just the tradition around here which you're well acquainted to.

Good news all the way

Noted

There will be no significant growth in enterprise hardware in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region for 2016 despite promising, rising trends in converged systems and cloud computing. Blame “challenging economic and political conditions” says a new report by International Data Corporation (IDC).



Global economic meltdown, plummeting revenue from crude oil export which underscores much of the FOREX of many countries in the MEA would mean that growth will stay flat for enterprise hardware market comprising servers and external storage when compared to the annual revenues seen in the previous year. According to http://itedgenews.com/2016/04/13/2016-will-chilled-growth-server-market-africa-middle-east/



Notably, the Africa enterprise hardware market which suffered a 5% year-on-year downturn in value in 2015 will limp further with no thanks to currency depreciation in key markets like South Africa and Nigeria, along with political instability in several pockets of Africa.

Danfuster:
Sauce ooor

http://www.itrealms.com.ng/2016/04/why-nigerian-igbos-are-most-brilliant.html
http://www.elliothammond.com/igbos-most-brilliant-black-africa-race-us-academic-report/
http://naijanewsmetro.com/igbos-are-the-most-brilliant-black-african-raceus-academic-report-2015
https://www.google.com/search?client=aff-maxthon-maxthon4&channel=t26&q=Igbo%20the%20most%20brilliant%20black%20race&gws_rd=ssl

Its not me that wrote that but a research. IGBOS AGAIN

The report that suggested the outstanding academic performance of the Igbo revealed that if only environmental factors were responsible for the different Intelligence Quotients (IQs) of different populations, the world may expect to find some countries where Africans had higher IQs than Europeans.

The report cited empirical backup using theories propounded by eminent scholars such as Richard Lynn, a British Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster and Arthur Jensen, who was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

The report’s findings also revealed that while the fact remains that black immigrants to the U.S have shown achievements that were superior to native black Americans, studies had also shown that it had been a phenomenon studied since the 1970s at the least.

Using Lynn theory, who was also an assistant editor of the controversial journal Mankind Quarterly, who is known for his views on racial, ethnic and national differences in intelligence, the report revealed that: “Failure to find a single country where this is the case points to the presence of a strong genetic factor.”

For Jensen, the report said: “Regression would explain why Black children born to high IQ, wealthy Black parents have test scores two to four points lower than do White children born to low IQ, poor White parents.” The report also stated that at first, it was just the Caribbean blacks who were a subject of this unexpected outcome.

As black Africans kept immigrating into the U.S, they showed even higher levels of achievement than the native blacks. Many scholars theorised on the reasons for these differences, from Thomas Sowell’s proposal that this disproved the validity of discrimination against native blacks as an explanation for their underachievement (Sowell, 1978), to other scholars who suggested that these immigrants were just the most highly driven members of their home countries as evidenced by their willingness to migrate to a foreign country (Butcher, 1990).


Source: SkyNews

A United States academic report for 2015 has suggested that the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria are the most brilliant black Africa race. According to the report: “a search through the promotional materials of school for a black student – all schools and colleges would always show some black faces in their promotional materials if they have any – reveals that they have had at least one black student, and it was, unsurprisingly, a Nigerian Igbo.”

This is just as two teenage Nigerian high school students, Harold Ekeh and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, have broken a record of being accepted by eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Ekeh is a 17-year-old senior student at Elmont Memorial High School, Long Island while Uwamanzu- Nna is a high-school student from Long Island, New York. Schools within the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

However, the feat, according to two online news portals, NBC News and MSN, revealed that both teenagers are faced with “a big decision to make soon.” For instance, Ekeh was granted admission by 13 universities, including all the eight Ivy League schools.

The NBC News reported that Ekeh is faced with the dilemma of whittling down his college prospects, having applied to 13 colleges, with the hope to “maybe” get into Stony Brook University, about an hour east of his home in Elmont, Long Island.

But, in recent weeks, the cascade of reply letters started pouring in: Harvard. Yes. Yale. Yes. Princeton. Yes. Not only did he get accepted to all of the schools he applied to, those include all eight Ivy League institutions. Speaking with NBC News, Ekeh said: “It’s very, like, stunning.

It’s like getting hit with a brick, honestly. When you see congratulations, you’re like, wow your hard work has paid off, definitely.” The straight-A student has accomplished the rare feat of getting into all of the nation’s Ivy schools, crediting his parents’ work ethic for setting an example and a desire to strive in his adopted homeland after emigrating from Nigeria 10 years ago.

“I find that I’m very over-involved,” Ekeh said, counting advanced placement classes and extracurricular activities, such as science research, school plays and being editor-inchief of his school newspaper, as filling up his time. Ekeh, who scored a 2270 out of 2400 on his SATs, said: “I do have conflicts that maybe I’ll have this programme at the same time as I have another programme and so it’s hard to choose which one to be involved in.

I expected to maybe get into Stony Brook, a couple of other safeties, just based upon the SAT and the GPA, but I was still never certain of anything. There are so many variables taken into consideration in college admissions, so I was never certain of anything at any point.”

Ekeh, one of five brothers, said he wants to study biochemistry and become a neurosurgeon. He is inspired by his grandmother, who began showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s when he was 11. He wants to find a cure. “There are so many researchers working for Alzheimer’s disease right now and many neurogenic disorders that definitely a cure can be found soon,” he said.

As for where he is going to college, he isn’t quite sure, but would like to stay close to family. “I am leaning towards Columbia right now because I’d like to stay in New York City for I guess the rest of my career and work at Mt. Sinai,” Ekeh said, adding that America has given his family a life they might never have had in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, Uwamanzu- Nna, who also had found herself in the same situation, told MSN News that she has a big decision to make soon. The Elmont High School valedictorian, who was accepted into all the eight Ivy League schools, also gained admission into Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Uwamanzu-Nna is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, who said her parents instilled in her the value of education. “Though I was born here in America, I visited Nigeria many times. And I’ve seen that my cousins don’t have the same opportunities that I have.

So, definitely, whatever I do, I want to make sure that it has an impact on Nigeria,” she said. She also said her own tenacity and persistence helped shape her into becoming a great student. But as with a lot of students, she did face hardships with some classes.

“I struggled with numerous classes in the past. But I guess what allowed me to be successful, ultimately, in those classes, is my persistence and my tenacity,” she said. Though Uwamanzu- Nna hasn’t decided on which college to attend, having scored a GPA of 101.6, and with a recent invitation to the White House Science Fair, reports indicated that there’s no doubt that she would continue her academic excellence.

The report that suggested the outstanding academic performance of the Igbo revealed that if only environmental factors were responsible for the different Intelligence Quotients (IQs) of different populations, the world may expect to find some countries where Africans had higher IQs than Europeans.

The report cited empirical backup using theories propounded by eminent scholars such as Richard Lynn, a British Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster and Arthur Jensen, who was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

The report’s findings also revealed that while the fact remains that black immigrants to the U.S have shown achievements that were superior to native black Americans, studies had also shown that it had been a phenomenon studied since the 1970s at the least.

Using Lynn theory, who was also an assistant editor of the controversial journal Mankind Quarterly, who is known for his views on racial, ethnic and national differences in intelligence, the report revealed that: “Failure to find a single country where this is the case points to the presence of a strong genetic factor.”

For Jensen, the report said: “Regression would explain why Black children born to high IQ, wealthy Black parents have test scores two to four points lower than do White children born to low IQ, poor White parents.” The report also stated that at first, it was just the Caribbean blacks who were a subject of this unexpected outcome.

As black Africans kept immigrating into the U.S, they showed even higher levels of achievement than the native blacks. Many scholars theorised on the reasons for these differences, from Thomas Sowell’s proposal that this disproved the validity of discrimination against native blacks as an explanation for their underachievement (Sowell, 1978), to other scholars who suggested that these immigrants were just the most highly driven members of their home countries as evidenced by their willingness to migrate to a foreign country (Butcher, 1990).

What most of these theories failed to predict was that the children of these immigrants would also show exceptional achievements, especially academically. It is only in recent years, as the immigrants have stayed long enough to produce a sufficiently high number of offspring, that it had been observed that they are over-represented among high academic achievers, especially when compared to native blacks, particularly at very elite institutions.

What has been missed in the IQ debate is the full logical implication of these achievements: they have effectively nullified any arguments for a racial evolutionary explanation of the well-known IQ test score gap between blacks and whites.

Even more fatal for the racial hereditarian side of the debate has been the corroborating data of school children performance in the UK, particularly when the black Africans are divided into their respective nationalities and tribal ethnicities.

Arthur Jensen gave at least two empirical tests that could potentially falsify his thesis of a race based genetic explanation for the black-white IQ gap.


Two Igbo students get admissions in 8 Ivy League Schools

Ekeh scores 2270 out of 2400 on his SATs

Uwamanzu-Nna scores 101.6 GPA

I will not even fill bad..wetin concern me with that ...oh dont bomb us here...ISLAM ALWAYS KILLING PEOPLE SINCE THE DAYS OF YORE

HaneefahAde:
I will go loco on u all I want. How would you feel if I called Christainity a useless religion filled with rapists? Hypocritic coward, you threw the first stone and we are tired of silently taking all your bullshit. Next time if your brain can't come up with anything meaningful other than bigotry, just keep quite. Afofungbemu.

what did islam talk about people of the book, did muhammed wage war? I will want to know islam position on JIHAD and killing of non believers and people of the book...can i give you list of people killed by ISLAMIC WARS just this month ?

Pls lets talk and be civil...dont go loco pls

dahaz:
They might call themselves muslim but islam does not support what they do. We muslims in Nigeria dissociate ourselves from these barbaric act these people are carrying out. They are just spoiling the name of islam

HMMMMM STORY DON DEY ENTER THE 50 BILLION MTN MONEY..IN SHORT STORY BEGIN ENTER WHEN MTN PAID THAT MONEY WITHOUT NCC KNOWLADGE ...NOW READ THIS...NO BE ME WRITE AM I JUST DEY REPOST AM...SO MUCH FOR MANY SHOUT ON CORRUPTION...WE ARE GETTING THERE GRADUALLY. BREEZE, HURRICANE, TORNERDO AND WHIRLWIND DEY BLOW...FOWL NYASH HAS BEEN OPENED NOW WE CAN AUTHORITATIVELY SAY THAT FOWL NO GET TOTO....

I just dey laugh Naija ....lol na for http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/mtn-n50bn-fine-senate-accuses-malami-of-having-ulterior-motive/ i see this one as I dey browse jeyjeyly

MTN N50bn fine: Senate accuses Malami of having ulterior motive ON MARCH 14, 20169:30

AMIN NEWSCOMMENTS By Joseph Erunke

ABUJA—THE Senate has accused the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami,of having ulterior motive in the payment of N50 billion by MTN, as part of fine imposed on it by the Federal Government for failure to deactivate 5.2 million unregistered subscribers on its network. Abubakar Malami (SAN) The red chamber queried the intentions of the Attorney-General in unilaterally opening a special new account with a name that had no correlations with the issue at hand and then ordering MTN to credit same, despite the existence of Treasury Single Account, TSA. To this end, the Senate, through its Committee on Communications, has vowed to launch immediate probe into the matter, with a view to unraveling all those behind the act and their intentions.

Speaking,yesterday, in Abuja, the committee’s chairman, Senator Gilbert Nnaji, said the red chamber had resolved to unmask those behind the payment of N50 billion by the Mobile Telecommunication Network,MTN. Nnaji said the Senate was interested in knowing why MTN was directed to pay the money into a recovery account instead of routing it through the regulatory agency, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.

Mr. Donald Trump might be hated by many....WHY? because the truth is bitter and he has droped another bombshell. Africa is an embarrsement to humanity. We have elected daft and idiotic people to rule AFRICA...Now imbeciles like TRUMP.D has the effrontery to castigate us. read on http://www.ritafamous.com/index.php/2016/03/13/where-is-the-change-donald-trump-insults-nigeria-administration/

Donald Trump, a front-line US presidential contender blast Nigeria for claiming to be giant of Africa. One of The highest producer of crude oil in Africa without nothing tangible to show for it. 56 years after independence, Nigerian leaders still can’t deliver

“ordinary” electricity, water, home-refined petroleum products, transportation – road, rail, water and air – infrastructure.

Here’s a quote from Donald Trump, a front-line US presidential contender:

“Look at African countries like Nigeria or Kenya for instance, those people are stealing from their own government and go to invest the money in foreign countries.

From the government to the opposition, they only qualify to be used as a case study whenever bad examples are required.

How do you trust even those who have run away to hide here in the United States, hiding behind education? I hear they abuse me in their blogs but I don’t care because even the internet they are using is ours and we can decide to switch it off from this side.

These are people who import everything including matchsticks.

In my opinion, most of these African countries [like Nigeria] ought to be recolonized again for another 100 years because they know nothing about leadership and self-governance.”

I just dont know what to say they will ban me?
****
if i say that APC are bunch of lies : when they technically said they have technically defeated boko haram. they might also ban me
If i say that these IPOB guys are right when they said they want out, they might ban me

But if i say

Rest in Peace to the death...may they soul have eternal rest, may they find peace in the bossom of our LORD JESUS CHRIST....i know they wont ban me.


the question is ...WHY ISLAM? why puncture global peace?


GOD BLESS US ALL

peacengine:
Hahahaha okay, keep deceiving yourselves

No quote me again, i just dey pity una

Okay wike is a Latin name

Agreed.... Atulu

peacengine:
So Rivers state na Igboland? hahahahahaha

But wike is an igbo Name .do the deductive reasoning biko

I give up on Nigeria,
I give up on APC

10billion is 1 million into 10,000 places and if you can disburse one million to start-ups in ICT and other sectors. The guys that want to open up their little firm as a soft loan and with little interest let’s say like 5% interest payable within 4 years you will create minimum of 10k new firms with multiply domino effects. You have 10k new jobs minimum which I know that the job created will be more than 10k .

Okay, lets assume that these guys are daft that they won’t envisage the impact of 10billion in job and SMEs eco space, lets then use that 10 billion to build new town at the rate of 2 million for two bedroom flat in a virgin land . You have created a small town of 5,000 units of two bedroom flats which will accommodate 4 person each and you will have

4 x 5,000 = 20,000 people in this small town, what do you gain here in building this towns? Hotels, schools, banks, hospital and other amenities like stalls will move in to cater for these 20,000 people and this will create jobs also with other attendant domino effects. But it is unfortunate that APC wont hear of this.

Okay, let us say we do not want to build town nor empower intelligent people to stater their own SMEs. Let us face R and D or Infrastructure.
With 1 billion you can build a small modular refinery that can cater for two states . this will also create jobs and boost the economy with attendant derivables in value chain supply. But the blackman will not hear of this, the average blackman will want it all eaten. OK give it to the IDP what will be the derivable if the IDP gets the money? They will feed, marry more wives and have more kids.

I just give up finally!!!

lol...we are in for it

eyeview:
Very very true. When faced with a national challenge,he just wishes it away.

Professor Ben Nwabueze, a renowed Lawyer and President of the Patriots, a revered group of Elder statesmen in Nigeria, says President Buhari lacks the intellectual capacity to rule a complex country like Nigeria. Nwabueze said this in an interview with The Sun newspaper.

this news can be found at http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2016/03/buhari-lacks-capacity-to-rule-nigeria.html#more

"I do not think that it is a question of not being prepared. Don't forget that the 2015 election was his fourth time of contesting, of making an attempt at being President. He tried to be president for 12 years. So, he had more than enough time to prepare himself if he had the capacity. So, it is not that he was not prepared. The fact is that he lacks the capacity to govern as the problems are beyond him.

Even if you give him 20 years to prepare, it would still be beyond his capacity. Nigeria is a very complex country. I have told you before, that we have 389 ethnic nationalities. The complexities and the issues involved in ruling such a country are huge. Leading such a complex country is an intellectual issue and Buhari does not have the intellectual capacity to comprehend what it means to govern the country"he said

ypeace:
Christopher123, this is an exam period for me. I hope you will be patient enough for me to gather the response to you reply. If you do not have the patience, I will really like you to study the development of America and Japan, then china.......


You made a statement about growth and development. From that statement, I guess you are not a science student. Take it to any field present on earth, from philosophy to biology, go to business or just any field there are enough example to show that there can be growth and no corresponding development..............

If you are done with your examination we will talk, I wish you good luck, mind you that those companies that you are encouraging people to work once started as SME maybe facebook, Twitters, Dangotes, Emzor, Innoson et al will not be where they are if they bought into the OP submission. I for instance have seen the impact of SMEs in an economy.
I used China and Vietnam as an international case studies and I used Nnewi and Anambra as a local case studies. Bring it on bro....I wish you successful exams

Sorry, for responding late, been a bit busy here at work.Got presentations and meeting but I am waiting

Mack3N:
Whatever you do,be sure never to include we igbos in delta state(anioma) on that imaginary south-south!

Tell them ..they think anioma have forgotten what and how they killed them in Asaba , Benin and warri during the warc

kingzizzy:
Being landlocked has never been a problem, Countries like Switzerland and Austria are landlocked but each of those countries are far richer than Nigeria. The important thing is to have access to the sea and it has been proved that Azumini blue river in Obuaku, Abia state is even closer to the Athlantic Ocean than Porthacourt and a river port can be built. There is even a river port in Ontisha. Another thing with this SE you mentioned is that Igbo's are far larger than it. Today, there are 7 Igbo Governors but 5 Igbo States, how do you think that is? SE dies not mean anything, what matters is the "greater Igbo confederation" made up of all Igbos, Igbo speaking people and Igboids. That area is one of the most economically viable area in Nigeria.

There used to be 8 igbo governors liyel imoke but we still have igbo deputy in kogi also and still counting

coolitempa:
Rivers people will not allow their rivers to be used without compensation.....and on what basis other than being landlocked are you comparing Switzerland and Austria with the dream of Biafra.

Here the transgendered go again

APC... Change


Nonsense ....those that die died for nothing

River state is their motherland's .....nonsense braggars...killing themselves for no reason

Just imagine

Babatundetinubu:
The states are empty as most of them are immigrants elsewhere....including South Africa..Malaysia...SW...north etc.... ...secondly....they do not contribute to the economy in anyway other than trading...seriously....they only collect allocations from the centre and share among the political elite...

So the south east States are empty

When you feel that you have seen idiots in real life ..come to nairaland you will see the grand master in idiocy


That's what you have just displayed

Bye

Babatundetinubu:
Apart from the SE being small and landlocked ....they are uneconomically viable....let us be honest...the SE is a parasite in contributions to the national coffers...

Ikpu nne yi is very viable ...how can you define viability


Bami soro ..ejor