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TundeBricklayer:
Take you time and read this, revolution from your region media, you are ignorant and refused to learn.
http://punchng.com/education-why-south-west-and-north-should-be-worried/

Education: Why South-West and North should be worried

Last week, the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate of Education result was released. The Punch chose to publish the story with an attention-grabbing headline: “Again, South-East leads in the WASSCE performance chart.” The report showed that Abia State dethroned Anambra. The states were ranked according to the percentage that had a minimum of five credits, including in English Language and Mathematics.
But the surprise in the report was that almost like in 2014, no South-West state except Lagos was on the top 10 of the chart. The top 10 states were the five South-East states, four South-South states and Lagos: 1st – Abia (63.94 per cent), 2nd – Anambra (61.18 per cent), 3rd – Edo, 4th – Rivers, 5th – Imo, 6th – Lagos, 7th – Bayelsa, 8th – Delta, 9th – Enugu, and 10th – Ebonyi. Ekiti was 11th; Ondo was 13th; Ogun was 19th; Oyo was 26th; while Osun was 29th. In 2014, the top 10 states were similar: Anambra (65.92 per cent), Abia (58.52 per cent), Edo (57.82 per cent), Bayelsa (52.83 per cent), Rivers (52.78 per cent), Enugu (51.91 per cent), Lagos (45.66 per cent), Imo (40.64 per cent), Delta (40.12 per cent), Kaduna (36.12 per cent). Ebonyi was 11th with 36.05 per cent.
For 2014, the states with the least performance were Northern states: They were Yobe (36th), Zamfara (35th), Jigawa (34th), Gombe (33rd), Katsina (32nd), Kebbi (31st) Bauchi (30th), and Sokoto (29th). In 2013, the result was similar: 28th – Katsina (10.45 per cent), 29th – Adamawa (8.75 per cent), 30th – Jigawa (7.47 per cent), 31st – Sokoto (7.12 per cent), 32nd – Zamfara (6.65 per cent), 33rd – Kebbi (6.30 per cent), 34th – Gombe (5.68 per cent), 35th – Bauchi (5.28 per cent), and 36th – Yobe (4.85 per cent).
Someone from the South-East or South-South could see it as a reason for chest-thumping, but for me, it portends grave danger. Why do I say so? I will explain shortly.
Those who had not been following the trend in education could dismiss this as a flash in the pan. But it is not so. I have followed the trend since the late 1980s. From 1996 when the late military dictator, Sani Abacha, created 36 states out of Nigeria, the three states that have been producing the highest number of applicants in the examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board have been Imo, Anambra and Delta.
The Guardian of August 26, 1999, page 31, had some statistics about the 1999 UTME examination. It showed that the six states with the highest number of applications were: Imo (44,274), Delta (36,375), Anambra (34,206), Ogun (33,375), Edo (29,057), and Osun (22,950). Conversely, the states that produced the least number of candidates were all Northern states: Borno (1,572), Katsina (1,054), Taraba (882), Sokoto (782), Kebbi (794), and Yobe (535). The Registrar of JAMB then, Prof. Bello Ahmad Salim, lamented the poor showing of the Northern states, noting that the 65,000 applications from the 19 states of the North were just 20,726 higher than the number of applications from only Imo State. If Imo and Delta states’ applications were combined, that would amount to 80,649 applications: over 15,000 higher than the applications from the 19 states of the North.

In 2007, The Guardian newspaper of June 1, page 3, published the results of the 2007 University Matriculation Examination. The top six states with the highest number of candidates were Imo (93,065), Anambra (64,689), Delta (61,580), Edo (57,754), Akwa Ibom (47,928), and Ogun (47,227). The last six were: Kebbi (4,682), Sokoto (3,925), Taraba (3,832), Zamfara (2,904), Jigawa (2,541), and Yobe (2,516).

For the 2012 results released by JAMB and published by Vanguard of March 31, the top five states were: Imo (123,865), Delta (88,876), Anambra (84,204), Osun (73,935), Oyo (71,272). The least five states were: Jigawa (11,529), Kebbi (7,364), Yobe (6,389), Zamfara (5,713), and Sokoto (5,664).

In the Unity School admission of 2013, the states that got the highest cut-off marks were: Anambra – Male (139) Female (139); Imo – Male (138) Female (138); Enugu – Male (134) Female (134); Lagos – Male (133) Female (133); Delta – Male (131) Female (131); Ogun – Male(131) Female(131); Abia – Male (130) Female (130). The states that got the lowest cut-off scores were: Zamfara – Male (four) Female (two); Yobe – Male (two) Female (27); Taraba – Male (three) Female (11); Sokoto – Male (nine) Female (13); Kebbi – Male (nine) Female (20); Bauchi – Male (35) Female (35).

So, for those from the South-West and North who may give the excuse of the South-East and South-South states getting these results by the help of “special centres,” it is a case of trying to hide behind a finger. Instructively, the South-West, which was the first to receive Western education, and was ahead in education, has lost its place in education in Nigeria. Something is killing the interest of the South-West children in education. The six South-West states need to see this as an emergency that transcends party affiliation. This scenario is a source of danger because the South-East and South-West have been counter forces to each other. Whatever feat the South-West produces, the South-East counters it, and vice versa. We can see it in the literary feats of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, the football feats of Shooting Stars and Rangers, the political feats of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo, the academic feats of University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and so on. This healthy rivalry enhances stability, peace and growth in the nation.
But if this downward trend continues, in future, that balancing of forces between the South-West and the South-East will no longer exist. And given that the indigenes of the South-East and the South-South dwell in large numbers in the South-West, a time will come when the South-West could feel angry that the indigenes of the South-East and South-South are taking over positions that the South-West indigenes should occupy in the South-West. This may cause problems as witnessed in the xenophobic attacks in South Africa last year. So, it is in the interest of all that the South-West stage a come-back in education.
The case of the North is scarier. Many commentators keep quiet about this worrisome issue because of political correctness, but only someone who loves you can tell you that you have mouth odour. It is dangerous that there are 10 million youths in the North with no formal education.

who has time to read this gibbering....

if u are pained go jump inside lagoon

kernel507:
I'm based in the West. Go to Ogun state suburbs, you will see people who don't understand, nor speak Pigeon English.

thank God u said surbubs. on the streets of aba in the city centre there are people who can't speak English

oluwaahmed:
Stay there and be deceiving yourself. Yoruba were the most educated, not anymore. I schooled in a federal school in Lagos in the mid 90s half of my class were ibos. Now in d SE all of d students in FGC schools are igbo mixed with maybe SS. In d north it's basically the same as ibos are in majority of FGC schools. In the next 30 years igbos will be everywhere both locally and internationally. U better wake up.

guy u dey lie o.. in my sec school. the highest in number were d yorubas. i served in d north in a federal school... in d whole of d school only one igbo. .

Igbos can lie sha . .

.yorubas lead everywhere in education. the first 5pointer na Yoruba..

only UI a Yoruba uni is in d world's ranking.
OAU UI Unilag are d best schools in Nigeria
Lasu is the best state school in Nigeria
Covenant is the best Private school in Nigeria..
all yoruba or residential in yoruba...

Thw best polytechnic is Yabatech.
best secondary schools are in The South West.

Ekiti state has the highest number of professors..

Ogun state has the highest number of Universities...

All the unis in d SE are 3 tier or 2 tier unis...

Hardly would you find a yoruba person who doesnt at least have SSCE..
Go to the East so many people without SSCE... all dey speak is pidgin...

Even obj in his old age had to go for his phd.. this shows u d zeal to have education in d west..

bring a Yoruba boy and an Igbo boy.. the yoruba boy eill come out tops....

We pride ourselves in education...

no difference between an easterner and northerner in terms of education

Philpham:
I was just advising ur tribe out of the goodness of my heart. Yoruba's are wonderful only that they need to improve on their hygiene. I know a lot of Yoruba families that don't care whether the have had a bath, washed their clothes or kept their children clean. Their homes look like a dumpster, trash everywhere and you wonder why they have failed to be tidy. Even the very educated ones are no exemption. Even when they still live abroad that dirtiness still follows them. Go to London and see the slum the Yoruba's live in And you will be ashamed to call yourself a Nigerian.
All said and done, yourubas are still educated.

im advising your tribe too. go to apapa and see how dirty u guys are or go to aba nd u will cry for the Igbos..


more than half of your people are dead due to drug offences... See what happened in ozobulu recently. u girls are everywhere doing olosho. even d educated are not left out. ur boys have picked up a trade in kidnapping. u guys are cursed

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Facts only known by Afonjas
All statistics lead to Igboland

shut up fopl

CSTR1003:
Yoruba are no longer the most educated.
The title belongs now to the igbo nation with every relevant stat pointing to that direction.

South Africa has the highest number of world class schools in Africa.

The citizens themselves are not very educated.

shatap. Yorubas are far morw educated than the Igbos... all i see everyday are able bodied Igbo men roaming d streets hawking and engaging in d sale of spare parts who can't speak English fluently except pidgin

[quote author=TundeBricklayer post=68626090][/quote]in drugs , kidnapping u guys lead.. Evans comes to MInd

TundeBricklayer:
Ogun was bailed out by FG twice, they recently borrowed from world bank few months ago

shove this trash up ur ass. the fact remains ogun state is richer than all the erosion ravaged Eastern States

TundeBricklayer:
Same Ogun was decleared bankruptcy and was bailed-out twice during recession, they couldn't pay workers salary, they borrowed $350 million few months ago to fund projects they started six years ago, my stop confusing yourself

lie kill u there. ogun has never been declared bankrupt before and was never bailed out.. ogun is far richer than all d SE States.. go and meet with ur governor in imo or abia that can not pay pensioners for 12months now..

Philpham:
Agreed but could u ask ur Yoruba brothers and sisters to be more hygienic and less dirty. Yoruba's dirtiness doesn't have part 2

and can u tell ur igbo sisters to stop doing ashawo all over Lagos with their smelly pussies and tell ur Igbo brothers to stop going on suicide mission to Asia by selling drugs... ewu

oluwaahmed:
Have u 4goten so soon that igbos dominated all the sectors of the economy b4 d war or after independence? Have u 4gotten the infamous speech by ahmadu Bello echoing that fact and deciding that northernization is there only way out for them? D rest of the Nigerian tribes ganged up against the igbo and dose foolish soldiers gave them the opportunity to annihilate innocent igbos simply because they hated igbo progression in Nigeria. They termed it igbo domination.
Igbos should be wiser to protect her children leading great strides bcoz a lot of other tribes still envy igbos. Igbos need to be united and have strong diplomatic ties abroad just in case other tribes gang up against them again.

which economy? no wonder Ogun state is more viable economically than all the South Eastern States combined.. oga no dey lie

oluwaahmed:
Have u 4goten so soon that igbos dominated all the sectors of the economy b4 d war or after independence? Have u 4gotten the infamous speech by ahmadu Bello echoing that fact and deciding that northernization is there only way out for them? D rest of the Nigerian tribes ganged up against the igbo and dose foolish soldiers gave them the opportunity to annihilate innocent igbos simply because they hated igbo progression in Nigeria. They termed it igbo domination.
Igbos should be wiser to protect her children leading great strides bcoz a lot of other tribes still envy igbos. Igbos need to be united and have strong diplomatic ties abroad just in case other tribes gang up against them again.

which economy? no wonder Ogun state is more viable economically than all the South Eastern States combined.. oga no dey lie

Kennydoc:
You're right. In the next 30 years, more Nigerian professionals will be Igbo than any other tribe. The advantage Yorubas have now is still based on the seed Awolowo and other former Yoruba leaders sowed over 40 years ago which unfortunately wasn't sustained.

see this one wey no sabi read.. in 2015 Delta took first and ogun second beating all d SE States..

Oga in educating and literacy we beat other regions hands down

oluwaahmed:
Igbos have virtually taken over or covertly taking over major strides in commerce, and education. Igbo are truly a very old tribe. They adapt sharply to their environment and lead it. I sincerely blame the lack of education in the north on the leaders and the decline of n the SW on also her leaders. D SW were d first to enjoy quality education but the did not pass that knowledge down to their generations. Other tribes should beefing igbo and learn from them. In the USA majority of Nigerian doctors are igbo. SS is also gradually climbing the education ladder being led by the igbo.
Hmm IGBO AMAKA

lie kill u there... it is a known fact that Yorubas are the most educated in Nigeria...

No tribe beats the Yoruba to that...


u go just dey talk false stats...

The two best black doctors in The US are Crispin Adeniyi-Jones and Bankole Johnson, the best black doctors in the UK are yorubas... the best lawyers in the country are yorubas...

The igbo man is still in alaba or araria market selling spare parts.

The best universities in Nigeria are domiciled in The South West. UI, OAU, UNILAG. the best state university is LASU..


so stop lying.. i guess u didn't read d article sef

God bless the yorubas, dem no dey use school play..
God bless Nigeria

CodeTemplar:
Sowere is more Ijaw than Yoruba.

oga sowore na yoruba boy . cuz he grew up in Niger Delta doesn't make him more of ijaw.. na thoroughbred yoruba boy

bubu2019:
afonja deceiving himself upandan.

your papa

emeijeh:
Igbo kwenu!


Igbo amaka

attache by force.. claiming everything. when did igbos start wearing ankara that they are selling... nonsense!

Some people are born bastards.. they said ex leaders were not jailed, one got jailed, they said he was PDP. An APC leader was jailed they said he was not Hausa/Fulani, A Hausa/ Fulani guy got jailed they said he was A Christian. .

To those using partisan politics, religion and tribe to divide us so the fight against corruption is not won... It shall not be well with your generation and your families yet unborn.. you all shall wail till death. no good thing shall come out of your household.
Mad fools!

dedons:
He pain am!
Silly Afonja.

Fool stupid idiot at old age u still roaming the streets aimlessly

OkpaAkuEriEri:
Imagine d otteranx of a man dt d Dullard make GCFR.
Afonja traitor
Tnx God he died.

Mumu fool.
Bastard Abiola
Ritualist man,u wnt 2 b President.

Abiola fada yansh der.

May your life be filled with sorrow forever...

insulting a man that fought for our democracy..

you don't know me but i will teach. u a bitter lesson for insulting a dead mam who fought for ur and my freedom....

you are a bastard, your family is a bastard, may the treatment meted to Abiola locate you and your generation...


U will never succeed.. now u will know that not everybody you insult on a faceless forum like this....


It just began...

dedons:
HYPOCRITE!!!

Afonjas and hypocrisy are like bread and butter.

Your father!


you are a bastard, your family is a bastard, may the treatment meted to Abiola locate you and your generation

OkpaAkuEriEri:
Sowore is a traitor 4 supportn evil man lyk Abiola dt deserve 2 die

you are a bastard, your family is a bastard, may the treatment meted to Abiola locate you and your generation