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Very good questions. You impress me with the questions you ask. Let me get back to you on some of those questions.

However, if I am correct about the financial crisis that occurred in 2009 within Nigeria, these bad loans were given to companies as well as private investors who attempted to use these loans to buy shares within other companies.

Yet, no one expected the financial crisis to happened in this magnitude that occurred throughout the world, and many investors and companies were not able to pay off the loans, because they expected greater returns from their investment in the various shares. They were actually gambling and when these shares did not appreciate, the banks could not recoup their money, because the investors did not have the money to payback those loans.

Very nice achievement by Mr. Olulade. This is truly a vote of confidence for him and his company since the South African Department of Defense give him a contract to build luxury planes on their behalf. Kudos to him and South Africa.

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=638211.msg8077280#msg8077280 date=1302230785]Ah, yeah that I wouldn't know. Even white American culture, if you meet a guy named Petrykowski somewhere in Boston, no matter how New England blue-blood he seems, Bostonian his accent, etc. . . you know that he has some ancestry from Poland. It really depends on whether you define ethnicity by blood or by culture.[/quote]What about white American with Polish ancestry Anglicize his last name. This is quite common amongst European immigrants who came to the U.S., in which "native" Americans cannot pronounce their names. That caused them to change their last names for them to be easier to pronounce. Maybe the last name Petrykowski will be change to Petercrow or something of that nature.

Generations later, people would forget that their ancestor was Polish.

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Not that I underestimate your abilities. . .I am sure that you are an intelligent young woman, but I doubt most people on Nairaland would understand why some Nigerian stocks rose in the banking sector because of the buying up of debts. Most people in the world cannot grasp the market concept.

However, this is very beneficial for the the Nigerian market. By the state owned company buying up debts from lenders, the banks will not have to worry about recouping the money from "bad" loans, and that allows the banks to operate more freely without being saddled with debt.

The banks can focus on other financial endeavors. However, I am worried about who is going to pay for these debts that state owned company bought. They are most likely toxic loans.

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I am not trying to derail this thread. Simply saying that you probably do not understand what is happening. But that is ok. If you want me to explain this to you, it shall cost you.

It is not like you understand what is being discussed. This is above your pay-grade.

I am proud of the university that I attend. UMD has treated me well.

PhysicsMHD:
1. How high is a "high rate"?
2. How small are these "small groups"?
3. In the SW? Where? Lagos? Ondo? A few locations here and there can hardly lead to the complete assimilation of a group. It has to be on a substantial scale.
4. You say that in the East, Igbos have intermarried with "Igala, Ibibio, Ijaw, etc." but your basic assertion that "some of these groups will not exist in 500 years" seems to be rubbished by the fact that just these groups alone went from having populations of less than 300,000, 1 million, 1 million, respectively to having populations of over 2 million, 4 million, and nearly 5 million.
5. The Mongols did not get "absorbed" by the Han Chinese. That should be pretty easy to understand. A small segment of the Mongols ventured into Han China and were massively outnumbered and eventually became subsumed over time into the Han Chinese population. Similarly, a small segment of Edo people ventured into Yorubaland (Ondo, for example) and later became completely Yoruba over time. Yet the population of unmixed Edo still just kept increasing. The Mongols are alive and well in Mongolia.

1. I do not know the rate, because we do not any study for me to point to. I am just speculating, because I have seen a lot of intermarriage in my lifetime. Remember I am a product of an intermarriage.
2. Well some of these groups range from a mere hundred thousand to a few million.
3. As larger groups expand into other regions, they can displace other groups. Look at what happened to Lagos, which was originally part of your Benin Empire. Now it practically a Yoruba city.
4. In the smaller groups will be absorbed. It is only a matter of time. Do not be upset, this is how the world works and how societies change. Smaller groups get absorbed into bigger groups. An example is in Germany and France. When Rome collapsed, Franks invaded Gaul, but other groups invaded as well. However, the Franks became dominant and absorbed the other groups.
5. The Mongols who settled in China did get absorbed. As well as countless other groups whose names have been forgotten. You could not deny the Manchu who were practically absorbed by the dominant Han culture.

Physics, I think you are worried about your people being absorbed by a larger group. Let me give you a possible scenario, a huge influx of non-Edo move into Edo state and before long outnumber the Edo. How long do you think your people will be able to keep their identity? Especially if the other group has a stronger identity.

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timbuk two:


lucky for us no one cares what YOU think

You BB people need to wake up before it is too late. I am fearing how you all will react when BB loses big throughout Nigeria except for the core North. But looking at where Buhari is getting his main support, we know it is from the uneducated masses in the North, one has shutter why anyone but these illiterate would support the man.

PhysicsMHD:
1. Well, you're presuming that there's a high rate of intermarriage between the small groups and some larger groups. This doesn't seem to be the case at all. Perhaps you know something I don't, or maybe you're thinking of a country other than Nigeria.
2. Who did the Han Chinese absorb? Not the Mongols.

1. There is definitely a high rate of intermarriage between small groups and with the larger groups. You cannot deny this fact. If you go up North, you will see plenty of Hausa men with wives from some of the smaller groups up North. In the SW the Yoruba are know to intermarry with neighboring groups. Especially you precious Bini people. In the East, Igbos have intermarried with Igala, Ibibio, Ijaw etc. The larger groups will absorb the smaller groups. It is only a matter of time.

2. The Han Chinese did absorb the Mongols who settled in China. After the Mongolian invasion of China, many of the Mongols such as Kublai Khan and his descendants were practically Chinese in name, language and culture. The same goes for the Manchu who conquered China.

Seems like fstranger cannot understand simple English. A pity isn't it. No wonder he is ridiculed in all sections that he post.

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You better hope so.

However, I highly doubt that. The lines between groups are blending. Either some groups will lose their culture and language.

Or they will be bred out into oblivion.

I understand you fears though.

It doesn't long for people to lose their identities. Look at how the Han Chinese were able to absorb so many groups. Even though who had conquered them like the Mongols.

Lets be honest with ourselves in 500 years or more, some of these groups will not even exist and shall be absorbed by the larger groups. This has occurred throughout the world.

fstranger3:
You lack basis analytical skills.
Sorry!

You can shut up. Am I wrong? Or will you make yourself look like fool again in this thread.

There are more African American women in college than their men. FACT

Even the stats support what I am saying. And you can never beat me when it comes to numbers. My analytical skills should never be in doubt. Understand?

Give Igbo women credit where credit is due. Igbo women seems to be the only group that challenger their men in terms of education. I don't if I should be happy or worried. Because that can be found amongst African American community, in which the women excel more than the men.

Who cares about these Ivy League institutions? There are plenty of good quality universities in the United States such as UCLA, MIT, Fordham, and UMD.

My eldest brother graduated from Princeton and he was the "darling" of the family, but my brother who went to VA Tech is doing a lot better than the Princeton grad in terms of the amount of money each are making. Even though they are both successful.

Alj Uche:
i know, but yet they don't make noise

Who is making noise? It was a Yoruba man who wrote this article. He was singing Igbo women praise. Give us a break.

I hope people understand that there is competition amongst Yorubas and Igbos. The author of this article is a Yoruba man and he perceives, rightly or wrongly that Igbo women are performing better than there counterparts.

Personally, I have seen Igbo women in the United States do better than the men. I hope my fellow Igbo men wont crucify me.

Alj Uche:
you see when you people start like this it really piss me off, what is special about igbos that others do not have CHINA today is the world's economic power and they are every where

ghanaians are everywhere as well

japanese too

mexican etc


so what has igbo done that others have not done

Shut the hellll up. This thread concerns the success of IGBO WOMEN. Do you understand or do I have to put that into your thick skull?

Igbo women are being successful. And we are celebrating that fact. Do you even know who is Chief Femi Fani-Kayode? The man is just stating his opinion and can you even deny the fact that Igbo women are at the forefront? Other groups should be trying to emulate the success of Igbo women. No nation can succeed without helping their women as well.

This poll seems very believable.

I do not mean any offence to Nigerian women by asking the question that I am about to ask or by making the assertions that I am about to make in this note. However this is an important question that I have not been able to answer myself for a number of years even though I have tried my best to do so. And the question is as follows. What precisely is it about Igbo women that have made them excel in public office, business, politics, the arts, the sciences, religion, leadership and social activism in just the last 12 years when compared to their counterparts from other parts of our country?


There are, of course, some equally notable and brilliant non-Igbo women in our country as well who are doing, and have done, a great job in both our private and public sectors and who have also done great things in their local communities and in our nation. However when I ponder on this issue and I consider the names that are on my list of distinguished Nigerian women that have been outstanding in their various fields of endeavour over the last few years, the overwhelming majority of them are Igbos. A few names will serve as an illustration of what I am trying to say and let me assure you that I have had the distinct honour and privilege of either knowing most of them quite well or working closely with at least a few, so I am speaking from an informed position.


They are all well-educated, forceful, strong-willed, focused, creative, disciplined, passionate and decisive characters who are almost ''German-like'' in their work ethics and in their pursuit of excellence and perfection. They really don't take any prisoners when it comes to their work or calling and they all do their jobs, or whatever it is that they are doing, with an almost ''messianic'' zeal. I am talking about people like Ngozie Okonjo-Iweala (the former Minister of Finance and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria who is now the Managing Director of the World Bank), Obi Ezekwezile (the former Minister of Solid Minerals and former Minister of Education of Nigeria who is now the National Vice Charman of the World Bank), Dora Akinluyi (the former Director- General of NAFDAC and the former Minister of Information for Nigeria), Ndidi Okereke-Onyiuke (the former Director- General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the person that was credited with building it up literally from scratch), Roz Ben-Okagbue (a leading pro-democracy activist in Nigeria and one of the conveners and leaders of the Save Nigeria Group), Violet Yough (a successful, wealthy and well-respected industrialist and business woman of many years standing), Stella Chinyelu Okoli (the Chief Executive and founder of Emzor Pharmaceutical, the most successful and largest indigenous pharmaceutical company in Nigeria), Irene Iroche (the Chief Executive of Finbank), the late Genevieve Onyuike (one of the most versatile and brilliant lawyers in Nigeria and the former President of the Oxford and Cambridge Club of Nigeria), Joy Ogwu (the former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nigeria and presently the Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations), Evelyn Oputu (the Chief Executive Officer of the Industrial Bank), Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie (a well respected and notable writer of international standing and repute and the author of the international best-seller titled ''Half A Yellow Sun''), the late Flora Nwapa (the poet, writer and essayist who was the author of the Nigerian bestseller titled ''Efuru''), Akachi Ezeigbo (a highly respected Professor of African Literature of international standing and repute) , Stella Oduah Ogiemwonyi (the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sea Petroleum and Gas Group of Companies and who is one of the biggest players in the Nigerian oil and gas industry), Genevieve Nnaji (a leading Nigerian actress), Amaka Igwe (the respected film producer and director and a key figure in the Nigerian movie industry which is known as ''Nollywood'), Bishop Peace Okonkwo (the wife of Bishop Mike Okonkwo and the co-founder of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission TREM, one of the largest and most respected Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria) and so many others.


If you care to do the necessary research and see what they have achieved in their various fields you will be very impressed with each and every one of them. Of course we yorubas of the west have our very own female legends, bright shining stars and great innovators too (as does every other part of Nigeria) and we have had them for the last eighty years when none in Africa could come anywhere near Yoruba women in terms of leadership, class, style and innovation. A few names that come to mind are Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (who was the most formidable female leader and the greatest activist that we have ever had in Nigerian modern history), Kudirat Abiola (the second wife of Chief MKO Abiola, a formidable and utterly fearless pro-democracy fighter and the first woman to be martyred in the fight for democracy in Nigeria), Funmi Goka (who is both the first female and the first Nigerian Deputy Managing Director of Agip Petroleum), Folake Solanke (who is the first woman to ever be appointed as a Senior Advocate of Nigeria), Lola Shoneyin (who is one of the most forceful and insightful writers of her generation), Bola Kuforiji-Olubi (the first female Chairman and chief executive of a Nigerian bank), Eniola Fadayomi (a leading and notable banker in the early '90's), Aurora Kayode(the matriach and doyen of Lagos high society in the '30's and '40's), Bolanle Awe (a revered and highly respected professor of philosophy and the leader in her field), Ebun Oyagbola (the first woman to ever be appointed as a Federal Minister in the history of Nigeria), Nike Akande (the first woman to ever be appointed as a Federal Minister for Industries in Nigeria), Joke Silva (probably the greatest and certainly one of the most versatile and respected actresses in the Nigerian film industry), Biola Alabi (the executive director of MNET Africa), Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade (who has contributed enormously to breast cancer research globally and especially amongst African and African-American women) and so many others.


However in the last 12 years the Igbos seem to have taken over in this respect and are now well-ahead of the rest of Nigeria. Just a few years and look at what they have achieved. It really is quite remarkable. Can anyone tell me their secret or why this is so? What could be responsible for their doggedness, their natural drive, their tremendous energy and their great strength of character? What is it about these strong-willed eastern women of Bantu and Igbo extraction that now and all of a sudden sets them so far apart?

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode was the spokesperson to President Olusegun Obasanjo; he subsequently became Minister of Tourism & Culture & later served as Aviation Minister for Federal Republic of Nigeria.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/323651/1/between-igbo-yoruba-and-other-nigerian-women.html

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Literacy
Female literacy is seen as the key to raising living standards for the next generation. For example, a newborn child is far likelier to survive if its mother is well-educated. In Nigeria we see a stark contrast between the mainly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south. In some northern states less than 5% of women can read and write, whereas in some Igbo areas more than 90% are literate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12953393

Thank God that we Igbos make sure our females get an education, just like their male counterparts. There is nothing more attractive than an educated Igbo woman.

Mr. Fani-Kayode is truly a man that I respect. My respect continues to grow for this man who comes from such a well respected lineage. He speaks the truth and is not afraid to go against the norm. Excellent write-up from the man. He doesn't look through "tribal" lens when assessing a situation.

The secret to the success of Igbo women is based on Igbo culture. Igbo women will continue to excel, and I am so proud of them. As they continue with their educational achievement, all I can do is smile. Just look at the recent BBC report that say 90% of Igbo women are literate.

The OP is a LIAR.

This OP needs to be banned for spreading lies.

About time people are rising up against those corrupt police.

Eziachi reminds me of my uncle who support Buhari. He makes valid points, but just like my uncle, Eziachi is part of that generation that suffered during the civil war.

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That explains it. Then she needs to tell her Igbo boyfriend to translate then.

Must they always blame PDP for everything.

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Exactly my brother.