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The IQ of Famous People

Albert Einstein
IQ Score 160  
Andrew Wiles
IQ Score 170  
Andy Warhol
IQ Score 86  
Arnold Schwarzenegger
IQ Score 135  
Benjamin Netanyahu
IQ Score 180  
Bill Clinton
IQ Score 137

Bill Gates
IQ Score 160  
Bobby Czyz.jpg
IQ Score 140  
Bobby Fischer
IQ Score 187  
Brendan O' Carroll
IQ Score 153  
Carol Vorderman
IQ Score 154  
Chris Langan
IQ Score 195

Clive Sinclair
IQ Score 159  
Dolph Lundgren
IQ Score 160  
Dwight Eisenhower
IQ Score 122  
Ellen Muth
IQ Score 156  
Garry Kasparov
IQ Score 190  
Geena Davis
IQ Score 140

George W. Bush
IQ Score 125  
Gerald Ford
IQ Score 121  
Hillary Clinton
IQ Score 140  
James Woods
IQ Score 180  
Jayne Mansfield
IQ Score 149  
Jean Auel
IQ Score 140

Jimmy Carter
IQ Score 156  
Jodie Foster
IQ Score 132  
John Sununu
IQ Score 180  
Jola Sigmond
IQ Score 161  
Judith Polgar
IQ Score 170  
Judy Holliday
IQ Score 172

Kim Ung Yong
IQ Score 210  
Lee Harvey Oswald
IQ Score 118  
Lyndon B. Johnson
IQ Score 126  
Madonna
IQ Score 140  
Marilyn Vos Savant
IQ Score 228  
Muhammad Ali
IQ Score 78

Nicole Kidman
IQ Score 132  
Paul Allen
IQ Score 160  
Philip Emeagwali
IQ Score 190 
John F. Kennedy
IQ Score 119  
Quentin Tarantino
IQ Score 160  
Reggie Jackson
IQ Score 160

Shakira
IQ Score 140

Source: www.kids-iq-tests.com/famous-people.html

Perhaps he also bribed the IQ testers.

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I believe that Ribadu, BRF, Amechi, PU, Soludo, El Ruffai,Duke are for the future. Not now. Beaf's advice is apt. NR should goto the house and after 4 years he will be ready.

These folks are wasting Nigeria's Time. Sia ! is our man.

A friend of mine said he enjoyed the MTN to MTN 10 Naira per minute call on monday but he thinks it is not prorated in seconds. I will test it again today bw 12 and 4 pm

sounds fair

The OP's conclusion is faulty

I hope this is not a hoax. I tested this today and it was not true. I called an MTN line from my MTN around 3 pm for 37 secs and it cost me 18 Naira. Is it that it has not yet started? Then why advertise it and give it a deadline of 28th october or is their a code for it?

I got this message today from MTN 'Make MTN to MTN calls between 12 pm and 4pm everyday for only N10/minute. Vald until oct28.'
I hope it will be pro-rated on per second billing and that it will extend in time  and date eventually. This might be their response to the Etisalat and glo tariff reduction promos. Nigerian GSM users are really in for a better bargain.

marcdunu:
Endorsement, endorsement!!!! all based on nothing!!!!!!

what are his reform policies on small businesses support? is there anything Jonathan has said he will do that will benefit the lives of Igbos on the streets?

Whom would you suggest?

Onlytruth:
So the Ohanaeze endorsement is very real.

Yes it is . I read the full text in the Sunday Sun today pg 59 and have been searching the online version to post it on NL. See if you can locate and post it.

ChinenyeN:
If this is the case, then they must let an Igbo socio-political organization do that; not a socio-cultural one. It's out of place.
Hmm. . . So, Ohanaeze has since been a political group, masquerading as a socio-cultural organization?

Bros the only thing constant in life is change. The Dinosaur knows too well the disadvantages of the contrary. Semantics are what they are - semantics. I actually have nothing wrong with this self re-invention or transition especially if they have discovered that the old order is not working anymore as it did in the times of Justice Eze Ozobu and Prof Nwabueze. What they needed to transit is wide consultation with the Oha and Eze which they said they did. It is the same army that transforms itself from a defensive formation to an offensive one in the blink of an eye. One is only concerned whether the time is now but with respect to the Nigerian project, the question is not if but when. The transition was inevitable.

marcdunu:
South East is badly in need of an Alex Samond of the Scotish National Party

Someone who know what they are doing who will promote Igbo agenda through democracy and politics not violence.

Someone who can transform the aspiration of Ndigbo into achievable targets like liaising with the Minister For Commerce and Industry to introduce business policies that will safeguard all Nigerians doing business in any part of Nigeria and prevent this culture of bigoted Governors maltreating traders without compensation in the name of regeneration.

Create agencies where Businessmen can go ask questions about the position of the law on their plans on development or expansion of their business. Not peoples livelishoods being destroyed later merely because Business owners were ignorant of the law.

I guess if Ohaneze continues on this part of self re-invention, they will get there sooner than later.

Obj is one of the luckiest living Nigerians. The only person that has had the opportunity to rule the Nation twice in two different spells. He achieved much as a military head of state, eventually handing over to the civilians. Coming out of prison in 1999, and with ,by his own confession, a salvation experience he came in as a civilian president with a lot of sincerity in moving the nation forward and actually achieved much in neutralizing the restive military and stabilizing the country from so much divisive forces thrown up in the aftermath of the June 12 1993 election annulment and other erstwhile dormant forces that had suddenly found their voices in the absence of the khaki boys

He went ahead to involve technocrats and reputed individuals in his bid to solve Nigeria's myriads of problems and he succeeded in setting up certain structural foundations that are benefiting the nation today. With these individuals especially his crack finance and monetary team, he was able to garner a lot of international respect for Nigeria to the extent that a partial debt forgiveness was extended to Nigeria by the Paris club of creditors and with the help of high price of crude Oil, Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner,and deft financial management, Nigeria became the first Nation in sub-Saharan Africa to pay of all her foreign debts. So promising was the country's financial profile that by 2005, Goldman Sachs, the American investment bank predicted that by 2015, Nigeria and Egypt would be the only African countries in the N-11 ie the next eleven largest growing economies after the BRIC states of Brazil, Russia, India and China.

A little into his second term when he should have consolidated his achievements and probably tackled tough National questions he was curiously led astray by his third term ambition. This was when he should have left for Nigeria legacies that would have written his name in gold and made him enter the pantheon of the greatest Nigerian statesman of the Pre-Independence era. Legacies such as true federalism, electoral reforms, a people's Constitution, a perfect census, uninterrupted power supply, capacity building and self sustenance in oil and gas, institutionalized infrastructural development and maintenance, sustainability in the corruption war, Independence of the judiciary and Legislative maturity,educational, health and housing,etc reforms.
Some of the institutions he had set up were compromised in that his pursuit and with them his reputation as well as that of certain individuals previously perceived as unimpeachable , national and ethnic reconciliations he initiated through the Oputa panel were abandoned and a golden oportunity in the life of a Nation was lost and Gods plan of greatnes for Nigeria put in abeyance
Experts may one day capture the reasons for his political Hara-Kiri since he came out of his military Carreer appearing un-ambitious. True, appearances could be deceitful but it remains to be understood what the leftovers in Aso Rock were that he was still interested in, a jibe he had once aimed at General Gowon. History may put them down to be due to a mesiah complex caused by sycophancy a la Abacha's one million man march or ambition or seductin by the lure of power, or ego trip and muscle flexing especialy since he was derided by some sections of being too scared to rule in in his first experience in the aftermath of the Murtala assasination. I hope history will look kindly on him and present his achievements strongly while dismissing his third term bid as a moment of weakness and madness and see him as a great leader. However he is certainly not Nigeria's greatest leader. We have got our Lincolns, Ghandis and Mandelas but are still waiting for our , Washingtons, Churchills, Castros, et al.

Could this be true? OMG why all this disgrace on Nigeria? We are still battling with the sudden scourge of drug usage on our sports people in India.

Katsumoto:
I agree with some of points and I used to have the same view but I have come to the realisation that we may have to take a step backwards before we can move forward. The current system is deeply flawed and is not working. Unfortunately, there has been deep mistrust amongst the Nigerian entities, enough to prevent us from working together. Diversity is to be celebrated but in Nigeria, it is ridiculed. Nigeria needs a constitutional conference but the thieves in Abuja will not allow it or will even hijack it, if it is ever arranged.

How can we have a system that always produces corrupt and inept individuals such as IBB, Atiku, Buhari, OBJ, and GEJ? None of those nitwits has what it takes to move Nigeria forward. The unitary system in place will always produce individuals who are not wanted by their own people. OBJ would never have won an election in Yorubaland. Nigeria has too many states, many of them unproductive. We need to go back to confederationism or true federalism and failing that, a peaceful disintegration. I am not advocating these because I think our problems will simply disappear. They will not but it will eradicate one major problem - godfatherism in politics. As an example, OBJ was not voted for in Yorubaland but with the power from the centre, he was able to install visionless, corrupt, and murderous brigands such as Akala, Daniel, and Oyinlola.

Sir the bolded may even worsen as the smaller the nation the easier for a cabal to control.

Where have you been all my life and all these NL years? We need folks like you to keep coming here to weight the balance of opinions away from the destructive and divisive aspects of ethnicism to a more uniting Nationalism. Since you are new on Nl please remain pristine. do not join those that will come tomorrow and say that they used to believe in this but now blablabla.

Ayolugbema:
Amazing!
I have just stumbled on the discussion. And If I say I am shocked at the level of ignorance amongst the present day Nigerians; then I may be branded naive as Azikiwe was.

I find nothing wrong with the rhetoric of Tafawa Balewa. He was just playing stoop to conquer with the British. If he was as simple as he was branded he would not have accepted to become prime minister. His politics of denying Azikiwe, Imoudu, Macaulay was only a way of raising his own profile and that of his master Sir Ahmadu Bello: Strange Ahmadu Bello a prince now a knight (servant of the British Crown).
In the game of politics you play to your strengths against your opponents weaknesses. He would have been foolish to have accepted Azikiwe and Macaulay and Imoudu as his superiors he would have been a bad politician to do that.

Azikiwe, wanted a greater united Nigeria because he saw the potential but he underestimated the influence of Islam and tribal allegiances. Just like Gandhi wanted a Greater India because he genuinely felt a greater Nigeria will have power and influence in the world for the black race.
He could have pushed a three state solution at independence having experienced  being booted out by the Yoruba in the West in the late 50s.
So in my analysis he believed that a greater Nigeria will be the best in the long run. Some of us still do.

The NCNC was not a tribal party: It was largely a party formed in Lagos by Herbert Macaulay Azikiwe and many others as a national party and they wanted the Southern Cameroons. It was actually called the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons. Its name changed after Southern Cameroons left the Nigerian Federation after the plebscite.
My disappointment with Nigeria is not in what it could have been under the past leaders: it is the narrow and shallow tribalism instincts of some us the younger generation.
Nigeria has failed in its governance and its development trajectory but the nationhood has not failed. We were the first rainbow nation in Africa. Thanks to Azikiwe and those who allowed the Nigerian state to be as one at independence. Thank God we did not create the Northern Nigeria Republic and the Republic Of Western Nigeria and of The Republic of Eastern Nigeria. may be by now we would have 36 mickey mouse countries instead of 36 states. Lagos would have been awful as a typical Yoruba town,  it would be just the most boring place on earth! May be like Ijebu Ode or Abeokuta or Ilorin! Or Ogbomosho! What is Lagos without Ibo, Hausa Yoruba, Edo, Efik, Ijaw, etc! What will PH be without its mixed population? We have actually created unique Nation where the people love each other until they remember their tribe. I am Igbo and would not trade it for any other tribe. But I would not have had such a rich life but for all the other tribes from all over who have made my life so much richer. Could you imagine if everybody I have known in my life is from my village in Anambra State. Goosh we we will all look and talk like Peter Obi; God forbid!

Our football when is good is a unifying force for pride! Our music is the same! Our Pentecostal Christianity sing yoruba, ibo, efik and hausa songs. Nollywood is unifying except we now have oduwawood, kollywood but its Nigerian. Our food is all mixed up now amala.edikaing kon, afang, ewedu, nsala, suya, ogbono, native soup, oha ugu, tuwon shinkafa!

The governance issue will be sorted the democracy or civilian is only just started.
But truly speaking what are 50 best things that Nigeria is worth staying together for!

1. So much arable land if we commercialised our agriculture we can feed the world
2. 200m if we had 100m as a middle class the economy will dwarf some economies like Britain and France
3. Some of the best untapped coal reserves in the world
4. So much Iron Ore
5. Gold
6. Tin
7. Columbite
8. Aluminium
9. Rubber
10. Cocoa
11. Coffee
12. Tea
13. Hydro Electricity we can generate 50,000 MW and export it
14. 1000km coast line some of the most beautiful beaches in the world are in Nigeria
15.So much forestry we can regrow our timber
16. Palm Fruit and Rafia Palm
17. Ogogoro new Africa Vodka Gin etc
18. Shrimp
19. Snails
20. Savanah we can create our Safari Lands
23. Our Cuisine Jollof rice is to die for!
24. Pounded Yam and Fresh fish
25. Our attires what life without guinea brocade or ankara?
26. Nigerian Wedding wine carrying etc
27. Nigerian Music all Sorts
28. Football  Yoruba Football?? Naa wont be the same: you need to pepper it up with some other tribes
29. Nollywood
30. Kilishi and Suya
31. National Youth Service Corps
34. Abuja complete and total Mallam town forget it?
35. All the Delta banks will move out of Lagos? Zenith, UBA, Oceanic, PHB etc
36. Wole Soyinka
37. Chinua Achebe
38  Ben Okri
39. Gabriel Okara
40. Ben Enwonwu
41. Erabor Emokpae
42. Red Onions
43. Nigerian Law School
44. University Of Ibadan
44. University Of Lagos
45. University Of Nigeria
46. Ahmadu Bello University
47. Cashews
48. Cotton
49. Tinapa
50. Obudu


These things in my view are worth saving the country for
Sorry before you disagree with me; These are my views.



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First of all historically, Ohaneze has never, to my knowledge endorsed any candidate above others as they have always acted as an umbrella for all Igbos and Igbo friends that are running so the veracity of this report needs  to be ascertained.If however it is true, it means that they are emerging from the cocoon of a laidback leadership to a more assertive one. Part of me prefers the old order lest they commit themselves to a loser but the other part says, WTH, Principles should come first even if you lose but I know that in Nigerian politics the principled guy most times is seen as the fool so why not let an umbrella socio-cultural body remain neutral while politicians and political groups keep playing the partisan card. Time will tell on what is the best approach.

Secondly the reasons given for coming out on GEJ's side are consistent with Ohaneze's stand over the years for a president of SE extraction modified later to SE and SS to balance the power sharing equation in the Nation and the position they canvassed at Abacha's constitutional conference for power rotation along geopolitical lines not between North and South. The fact that PDP came to adopt the Northern view in their constitution should not make Ohaneze jettison their stance.

Thirdly Ohaneze on their website as far back as when GEJ was the VP mentioned his name among the list of Igbos for special mention ie they saw him as  Igbo. But for me the best candidate and an even better Igbo representation in the race is PU but I doubt if he has the political sagacity to beat an incumbent GEJ or deadly IBB or slimy Atiku or bullish Buhari but I think his time will come. For now GEJ who is more like the one eyed man in the land of the blind presidential runners in PDP.

I have no doubt in my mind that GEJ will sweep Igbo votes. It is only some Igbo elite, politicians and generally the older generation that associate GEJ with bitter past experiences of Ijaw subterfuge personified in Clark and hasty verdicts of inept performance. The youths and the common man on the street in Igboland will root for Ebele Azikiwe more than a certain Ribadu or Babangida ,etc. Igbo votes are Jonathan's to lose. Granted votes will be shared in each zone by all candidates but I am talking of the majority votes. GEJ is gradually developing in political sagacity and politese ( If there is any word like that) and will only lose Igbo votes if he commits very serious blunders against Ndigbo in this run up to the polls. His body language so far despite his few missteps does not show one with the disposition of committing an october faux pa ( as the Americans will say ) against Ndigbo. His youth, electronic and other 21st cy approaches to politics and governance portray him as being intellectually savvy lending him to easy kinship with the youths and young at heart and also his story of grass to grace when linked to his name adds an element of sentimentality and myth slightly comparable to the Obama myth that draws sympathy and goodwill from the neutral, unencumbered, uncensored, uninitiated and unprejudiced. If these positive capitals can be cashed at the polls barring voter apathy especially among the youths, the windfall will purchase a shocking electoral landslide in Igboland and beyond, assuming that franchise is upheld to the letter. This endorsement if true will add to that momentum.

Those qaurelling with Onlytruth should realize that in politics there should be only permanent interests not permanent friends or enemies. So I in as much as I do not agree with many of his views but I have not seen him change his interest from protection of Igbo interests through whichever candidate than can ensure it most.

GEJ has mastered the art of diplomatese and politese. BTW how come he has to go to Anambra before realizing that the FG had abandoned the mausoleum of his namesake? Something is missing in the communication chain if so. If not please they should stop playing politics with a dead hero's resting place like they are doing with the second Niger bridge.

NADECO was in the forefront of the call for a National Conference. When NADECO ought have taken the call to another level during OBJ's 8 year reign and beyond they disappointed us all by losing steam . Can this new call for a National Conference by this distinguished body again regain its top spot on the National Psyche without being pilloried as self serving and not altruistic. If it does and is heard by the powers that be and is sincerely carried out and its decisions implemented, it could be the panacea to the impending political logjam.

Since Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's president, created his profile in June of this year, rarely a day goes by without a fresh update -- which appear to be written by Jonathan himself -- concerning recent news events, government policy and, of course, the coming elections.

It's this direct and personal form of interaction that seems to be endearing the Nigerian president to his country's growing young and web-savvy electorate.
Each new post from Jonathan attracts thousands of comments and some have garnered in excess of 6,000 responses.
"What distinguishes Jonathan from other politicians is that he seems to have genuinely embraced Facebook," explained Jideonwo. "You can consistently hear his voice in the posts and it feels like he is really trying to communicate with the voters -- this is what makes him so popular.

From CNN

Jarus I do not think Jonathan is using proxies on facebook. The views there sound consistently like him

Jarus:
I honestly don't see any reason GEJ should be on NL. He doesn't need it. Even those facebook comments, I strongly believe, are managed for him. This is not to discount NL, but it is unpresidential to have GEJ commenting himself on NL. NVS is more formal, but even at that, it is still unnecesary to have GEJ himself. What then will be the job of his image handlers(Chief Press Secretary, Media adviser, SA on Media, information ministry etc) if he has to himself be on a private public forum like NL or NVS? This is taking closeness to people too far.

That said, I expect his image handlers to have known NL. Whether they have decided to explore it or not is what I don't know, but I have not observed there is a coordinated GEJ PR job here.

One political personality I can bet is using NL in his image laundry is Bukola Saraki. Whether he himself is the one using those guys or his handlers is what I don't know.
Bisola Oni, Kola Yusuf, Bisi Lawal, are few of the many nairalanders(if not same person), I know actively and guidedly doing PR job for Saraki here.

Dele Momodu also knows what's going on here. Prof Pius Adesanmi orf Next & NVS, Dr. Reuben Abati of Guardian, Joseph Adeyeye(Editor, Punch) are other people I know are visitors on NL.

How are you so sure that of the 300,000 members of NL( factoring in the incidence of multiple registrations) that they are not registered? Anonymity can cover up a multitude of things. Beside folks like Ajanlekoko, Ibime, Maxsiollun, etc, ( whom I have ran into their names in my researches), that appear with their names, anybody can be anybody. GEJ could be you Beaf/ Faeb, Chukwumerije could be Dede or Onlytruth, Reuben Abati could be Kusamotu or Babapupa or Tsy , Ribadu could be Gadogado,etc
All we can say is that the village sqaure removes the shroud of anonymity while NL permits it so more silly posters might be here but also more responsible ones; all hidden.

Beaf:
If GEJ steps in here, you would be shocked at the miraculous change in behaviour of those that have a herd mentality or worse, a "see me, see me" mentality.

T[b]he fact is that they are not registered members of NL[/b]; whereas, you would find that Nuhu Ribadu, Reuben Abati, Ben Igbokwe etc are registered members of Nigeria Village Square.
A lot needs to be done for NL's politics section to gain that sort of clout; there's just too much childishness in the place, people with no input simply attack personalities or ethnicities; it can be shameful really. No serious politician would want to get involved in some of the jungle arguments that hold here.

Having said the above, it might take the presence of a heavyweight like GEJ to change the trend here and nurture more political responsible youth.

This type comes once in a century

You underestimate NL. Many big folks visit here. Some are registered and do contribute while others just read and go. I really suspect that folks like GEJ, OBJ, IBB, OUK, Chukwumerije, Reuben Abati and many journalists, politicians,academics and there advisers and proxies do visit here to spy out opinions.

GEJ is alive and well on NL. I will not tell you his username.

Oh please, !!!!

The SE state governors are so happy at what the lecturers are doing. They are helping them conserve funds for the 2011 elections. For all they care, the strike action can continue till may 2011. I think it is a dumb move striking just before elections.

I actually thought that GEJ had plans for Ribadu either in the anti-corruption war or NP or power or works ministry. Just any where that Nigeria needed to plug a hole. Why bring him back for nothing(?) Or is there something he is using him for surreptitiously? If not, it is waste of a human material.

I Pray that this is true. I wish that it is true. I want it to be true. But alas I canot see where IMF actually said this. Can anybody help direct me to a link or did they just phone the minister?