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Yes ooo, history can never be erased. A few years from now what this Igboman has achieved, however less significant to Taslim Elias', will become historical fact whenever he leaves office.

Abi you think say office or position is forever? We are all in this world to make history, and the Yorubas made history that you are yet to attain.

Na im dey pain you for body pass, and that is the motivation for Igbos to succeed in life.

Every Igboman trains his child to ensure to be more successful than the Yorubas have attained, while the Yorubaman tells his child the rich history of his tribe's accomplishments in Africa so as to set him on the right path without regards to any other tribe.

Abogwara:


Show us schools built by Obiano. This is politics section not education. Every State has beautiful private and mission schools but the Governor deserves no credit for them.

Nigeria’s foremost novelist Chinua Achebe
has claimed that Nigerians, especially of the
Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba stocks, do not
like his Igbo ethnic group because of the
southeast’s cultural advantage.
He made this claim in his new book, There
was a Country, which has generated
controversy for his onslaught on the role of
Obafemi Awolowo as the federal
commissioner of finance during the Nigeria
civil war. He accused Awolowo of genocide
and imposition of food blockade on Biafra, a
claim that has drawn rebuttals and
contradictions of emotional intensity from
some southwest leaders and commentators.
“I have written in my small book entitled
The Trouble with Nigeria that Nigerians will
probably achieve consensus on no other
matter than their common resentment of
the Igbo,” he wrote under the heading, A
History of Ethnic Tension and Resentment.
He traced the origin of “the national
resentment of the Igbo” to its culture that
“gave the Igbo man an unquestioned
advantage over his compatriots in securing
credentials for advancement in Nigerian
colonial society.”
He observed that the Igbo culture’s
emphasis on change, individualism and
competitiveness gave his ethnic group an
edge over the Hausa/Fulani man who was
hindered by a “wary religion” and the Yoruba
man who was hampered by” traditional
hierarchies.”
He therefore described the Igbo, who are
predominantly Catholic, as “fearing no god
or man, was “custom-made to grasp the
opportunities, such as they were, of the
white man’s dispensations. And the Igbo did
so with both hands.”
He delved into history with his claim,
asserting that the Igbo overcame the earlier
Yoruba advantage within two decades earlier
in the twentieth century.
“Although the Yoruba had a huge historical
and geographical head start, the Igbo wiped
out their handicap in one fantastic burst of
energy in the twenty years between 1930
and 1950.”
He narrated the earlier advantage of Yoruba
as contingent on their location on the
coastline, but once the missionaries crossed
the Niger, the Igbo took advantage of the
opportunity and overtook the Yoruba.
‘The increase was so exponential in such a
short time that within three short decades
the Igbos had closed the gap and quickly
moved ahead as the group with the highest
literacy rate, the highest standard of living,
and the greatest of citizens with
postsecondary education in Nigeria,” he
contended.
He said Nigerian leadership should have
taken advantage of the gbo talent and this
failure was partly responsible for the failure
of the Nigerian state, explaining further that
competitive individualism and the
adventurous spirit of the Igbo was a boon
Nigerian leaders failed to recognize and
harness for modernization.
“Nigeria’s pathetic attempt to crush these
idiosyncrasies rather than celebrate them is
one of the fundamental reasons the country
has not developed as it should and has
emerged as a laughingstock,” he claimed.
He noted that the ousting of prominent
Igbos from top offices was a ploy to achieve
a simple and crude goal. He said what the
Nigerians wanted was to “get the achievers
out and replace them with less qualified
individuals from the desired ethnic
background so as to gain access to the
resources of the state.”
Achebe, however, saved some criticisms for
his kinsmen. He criticised them for what he
described as “hubris, overweening pride and
thoughtlessness, which invite envy and
hatred or even worse that can obsess the
mind with material success and dispose it to
all kinds of crude showiness.”

[b]At first the igbos entered the urban enviroment as traders, shopkeepers, clerks, skilled workers amd domestic employees. They rose into white collar positions in a short time, soon to cultivate an intellectual elite constiting of educators, Journalist, professionals and businessmen. They formed mutual beneficts, credit societies and improvement organisations, which had ties with their rural homeland. An Igbo union was formed in Lagos in 1934 and later expanded to become Igbo federal union (subsequently the Igbo state union) in 1944 to include all local Igbo associations throughout the country. Frequently, the "improvement" or "progressive" associations as they were called functioned as organs of local self government, providing ad hoc courts to settle disputes, supplying members with welfare benefits and employment opportunities, levying taxes and generator command civil spirit. Igbos absorbed western education as readily as they responded to modernisation. Although the Yoruba's led the thrust for education because of their advantage of first contact with the british, the igbos since 1930 have shot ahead. By late 1940s, the disparity between the Yoruba's and the igbos had virtually disappeared. There were nearly as many igbos students (115) as Yoruba's (118) in the University College ibadan by 1952. Many igbos studies abroad principally the U.S.A in contrast to the Yoruba's who tended to favour the U.K. More than two-third(2/3) of Nigerian students studying in the U.S.A were of Igbo origin until the late 1940s[/b]

In the North, for example, the Hausa-Fulani have always been the most Ethnocentric, suspicious of cultural penetration nd economic competition from the south, protective of deeply ingrained traditional institutions, united by discipline of their Muslim religion, and strongly resistance to change in their theocratic emirate system of political rule. Despite the history of their dominance in the federation, the North has largely segregated themselves from the rest of the nation, remainded the most insular region in the country and became resentful of the progress being made modernization of the southern region.

wristbangle:


Lol except if that person is the son or daughter of vc or a prominent politician.

I would maintain the cut off point to gain admission to the mentioned universities is on the high side

wristbangle:
The criteria for admission in south west is of high standard and very high. To study medicine in UI, Unilag and OAU, you need to have a Jamb score of at least 300 with excellent grade in O level result.

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Oral Oluwole stats my foot.
Imo started leading from 1991

Kolping:
@nwabob
Could you give me the title and author of the book where you got the page/image from?

In the North, for example, the Hausa-Fulani have always been the most Ethnocentric, suspicious of cultural penetration nd economic competition from the south, protective of deeply ingrained traditional institutions, united by discipline of their Muslim religion, and strongly resistance to change in their theocratic emirate system of political rule. Despite the history of their dominance in the federation, the North has largely segregated themselves from the rest of the nation, remainded the most insular region in the country and became resentful of the progress being made modernization of the southern region.

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Anambra boast of best secondary schools in the Nigeria, for years now the produced best in common entrance exam, JSCE and SSCE, and Anambraschools are leading in ddebates in Nigeria and represented Nigeria for more than three conservative times


Photos of Anambra best schools