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Alj Uche:
so long as you know that ebonyi state is part of northern states incase this country breaks

there are loads of northerners infact mostly kanuri in ebonyi and anambra

if you know this i am cool,.,. i am not claiming though

i am serious

You are a joker! 

Now you have the audacity to claim 90% + Igbo state?

Even the Igbo homeland of Anambra? 

Leave my people out of this thread.  

Utomi blames decay in tertiary education on military incursion into politics

Abeokuta – The Director of the Lagos Business School, Prof. Pat Utomi, on Friday blamed the decay in the nation’s tertiary education on the incursion of the military into Nigerian politics.

Utomi spoke at a convocation lecture at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB), saying that it was regrettable that the military interregnum was characterised by “love-hate relationship between the military and the academia’’.

Utomi, the presidential candidate of Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP), spoke on the topic “Education, Institutions and Nation Building’’.

“In my own view, tertiary education fell into bad times because of how policies evolved under the military. There was a love-hate relationship between the military and the academic community.

“In some ways, young officers who had political power in the 1970s wanted to democratise access to the academia. This, in principle, was not bad, but the process was flawed,’’ he said.

Utomi noted that the military forced universities to increase intake exponentially; caused fees to be set aside, and did not increase funding accordingly.

While stressing what he called “absence of rigour in decision-making’’ by the military, he recalled the setting up of several panels and commissions by successive military administrations as sources of policy choice.

Utomi, however, said that although all the panels and commissions noted the importance of higher education and advised on appropriate funding, their recommendations were never implemented.

“While the Etsu Nupe Panel asked that 30 per cent of budgets go to education and the Vision 2020 Committee supported the UNESCO minimum of 26 per cent, reality has been far different.

“Not only has real allocation been often below six per cent but that which is allocated is inefficiently and corruptly misapplied,’’ he said.

Utomi recalled the period when the education minister, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili, had to cry out about the collapse in the education sector.

According to him, no sustainable progress can take place in Nigeria until adequate attention is paid to education.
“Higher education is even more peculiar in that it determines the higher level of the needs of the leadership for progress,’’ he said. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/utomi-blames-decay-in-tertiary-education-on-military-incursion-into-politics/

This is no concern for me though. Anything West of the River Niger is like France to me.

As long as the Igbo communities are not being claimed, I am comfortable with you all sorting this all out in Delta State.

Kilode?!:
^^ Mazi EzeUche, Anioma is a Yoruba word  

Omg Kilode no go kill me oh!  

Chyz*:
No pls cite where they vote along the same lines(whatever the hell that means). Provide the link. I can't believe how you people now are trying to claim so many people,even to the extent you all are trying to claim the Urhobos now,lol. Hypocrites!

Soon they will be claiming Anioma, then we will be trouble.

I do not want to hear another word from a Yoruba poster talking about the Ikwerre situation in Igboland.  

You all concern yourself with Delta State, but make sure you do not come into Anioma, Ika or Ukwuani land.

When you have crap vs crap, who can you choose from?

I am going to stick with mediocre GEJ, because that is the only choice, that seems to be the best. Just call it a tribal vote.

Kilode?!:
Dude, like that smart lemming-dude at the back of the horde- some of them have lifebuoys  

A lot of GEJ/PDP supporters have life-buoys too.

I'm more worried about ignorant Nigerians who are voting for GEJ/PDP because they think he can reform the goons in PDP and bring True federalism for Nigerians.

Good observation. Some BB supporters do have an life vest, if they have to go in the water. I would say the Northern leaders who are supporting BB are just like the lemming who has the life vest.

justwise:
Silly comment, keep waiting for the West to come and solve the whole World prob, since the West did not turn up where is AU? Can't they solve the prob? We call the west to come and help and when they do we start shouting about oil and gun.

Reread my statement, I am pointing out hypocrisy. Can't you comprehend? Or should I "dumb it" down for you?

I am not a fan of the West involvement in other countries, so take your statement somewhere else.

The Arab League are hypocrites. They supported a "No Fly Zone." What did they think was going to happen? That is like an act of war. Everyone seen how the Arab League voted for a "No Fly Zone," even before the UN voted.

Brainwash Africans are in this thread. How come the West has not come to the aid of the people of Cote D'ivoire or Gabon?

In Cote D'ivoire, the military fired upon unarmed women who were protesting against their president. Where was the West?

The West supports dictators in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, but has a problem with Libya. Don't you people understand that this is due to OIL and only OIL.

The faster the West can defeat Gadaffi, the sooner oil will be flowing again.

Africans are just so dumb, that they do not understand World Politics. You can many of them are posting on this thread.

Whenever the West is involved in any nation, you have to wonder why, because there tyrants all around the world who have done far worse than the Mad Dog Gadaffi.

People use your mind for once and stop being naive. The West is involved in Libya, because of oil. Have you seen oil prices in the West? They are on the rise, because of this conflict.

The West is so hypocritical when it comes to international politics.

There are plenty of tyrants who need to be ousted and they target their own citizens, but when oil is at stake, they interfere within these nations. Who do they think they are fooling?

Kilode?!:
@ Mazi Ezeuche, I agree with you my brother, Eku_bear will become food for Area boys and Mopol once he opens his mouth.

Abuja should be his destination if he wants to live comfortably.

eku_bear:
Me? I am infinitely adaptable. Plop me in the middle of Afghanistan and I'll survive and prosper. . . not to talk of Nigeria 

Liar! Liar!

The only way you would survive in Nigeria is if you are wealthy. Yankee accent would give you away.  

Some of these ajebutter children can't even survive without their parent's support.

That is why I put in quotations "judged by a jury of her peers."

The Texas Court system is known not to be kind of blacks who committed lesser offences.

This young woman could possibly spend life in jail for the mere fact that she ran.

If I were here, I would have two choices. Either stay in Texas and plead for mercy, or fled to Nigeria and "disappear."

With all this focus on Ancient Egypt, why not focus on Kush, which had a far older civilization than that of Egypt?

How about the Kingdom of Aksum? Another powerful African kingdom, that had a direct impact on Mohammed's life. A few years before he was born, the Aksumite kingdom sent an army to capture Mecca.

Her life is over, due to the fact that she ran.

Public opinion is against her, and remember that she will be "judged by a jury of her peers."

And your point?

Good discussion people. I respect everyone's view, but I may not agree with you. Anyway, where shall I start?

Ileke-IdI:
hmmm.

I suggest you ready a true anthropological journal, learn how claims about how humans became bipedal  and gendered roles were rubbished out by new evidence.

[img]http://palma.blog.is/users/55/palma/img/c_users_notandi_pictures_bugaga-karaul-dofiga_feminism_no_feminism.jpg[/img]

Ileke-IdI:
When was the book publish and when were the datas collected?

It was published in 1974. Can't say when the data was collected, because it has been a while since I have picked up the book.

Read this book, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop

I think you would enjoy it.

http://www.amazon.com/African-Origin-Civilization-Myth-Reality/dp/1556520727/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1/183-1686997-6089432

Ileke-IdI:
Do you have any tangile evident for this claim? Or are you going to rely on B.S told by anthropologists?
Just like the B.S story about men being originally hunters and women gatheres, just for that "men are dominant" feeling.

While there's an actual tangible fact that shows that Ile-Ife was the cradle of humans, and Ekiti state later became human's place of  solace before the mass emigration out of Africa.

NO!!!

Don't go down that route! 

I know where you are trying to lead this discussion. I wont allow you go further. Full STOP!

^^^

No one is talking about the Itsekiri. I prefer an Igbo Republic, but I would not mind if Ibibios/Efik/Annang join as well as the various Cross River communities.

Ijaws can choose their own destiny.

And Itsekiri, they are not even my concern. Let the Edo, Urhobo or Ijaw concern themselves with your affairs.

IG:
But the Original Semites are not white. The Arabs we are talking about are not the light skinned people today claiming to be Arabs.
The following links will help give you an idea

http://realhistoryww.com/
http://savethetruearabs..com/

I already know that as well about the original Semites. But the Arabs have always been present in Arabia. The original Israelites looked more Arab than white. But remember that the Romans dispersed the Jews to all parts of their empire, so of course many would intermarry with the Europeans.

Ileke-IdI:
B.S.

Ile-Ife is the cradle of all man-kind.

Say what you want, but the early man traces it origins to Eastern Africa, not Western Africa. Even my people's origin myth says we migrated from the East in either present day Sudan or Ethiopia.

^^^

Oil is the reason. And maybe they want a stable Libya so they wont be flooded with "Africans."

^^^

And I doubt that as well.

Most humans originated from a region in Ethiopia. That is the cradle of mankind.

https://slog.thestranger.com/files/2007/06/man_lucy_med-1.jpg

https://www.crystalinks.com/fossilhuman305.jpg