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Lol, why are you stupid

people from this church are always full of fire. I remember attending a service there, I was really scared by the end of it

Impliment:
Does woman wear Red cap in Igbo land not to talk of this small girl? This fellows are just messing up big time.

They could have given her a nice red ichafu, at the same time doesn't really matter

I think they were just trying to make it match since they're twins

Quiz shows..we love them. And the news. We used to like watching animal documentaries too

Most interesting TV shows and movies are too awkward to watch with family or they must have some kind of awkward moment

CzarChris:
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1.The genes contain every single information about an individual and I also noticed that most times last borns though spoilt, display a higher level of intelligence than their elder siblings, probably because the genes/chromosomes of the parents at a later age have gained more intelligence and wisdom which was also stored in their genes than when they had their first kids.

2?

Maybe you should also consider certain social factors, the way a first and lastborn child are nurtured and parented are often completely different. You used the word "spoilt", the extra attention lavished on such children and increased positive interaction with the caregiver may be just enough to push them into higher levels of attainment.

The parents may also trial a different way of raising that child from learning from the ones that didn't work on the previous siblings. Equally a younger child may observe and learn from the errors of his elder siblings

Also the parents may be more financially buoyant later in life which will confer on the baby all the benefits that extra wealth does

I think the genetic phenomenon you are referring to is called "epigenetics" but I don't know much on the subject

Genetics has a fair influence but so does early-life experience, home environment, diet, personal motivation and the type of teaching one responds to

What you've referred to as "inheritance" I feel is more home environment and parental encouragement. If a child is surrounded by stimulating materials and is urged on by their caregiver to explore and seek knowledge, they are more likely to do so.

If you come from a family where people are ridiculed for reading too much or where you are not encouraged to think for yourself, you are more likely to neglect it since you don't want to be victimised by your own parents, this is probably why you observed some kinds of ignorant attitudes or uncouth behaviours from the parents being replicated in their wards.

This is also why you get professors from families who don't particularly value schooling and you get people from highly educated homes who just don't seem to "grab book". It's a multi-factorial issue

Also there are different types of intelligence, a child may not be too sharp with a calculator but may know just the right way to comfort his crying sibling, another may not be great with books but may be great at manipulating others to his advantage, a third still may be at the top of the class but struggles to connect well with others or to make wise life decisions.

Life itself and its systems contain a certain amount of redundancy, it's easier to be skilled and intelligent in at least one area of your life than it is to be totally "dumb". If you are bad in one you can still be good in another one. A family comprised of plenty of so-called "dumb" people is probably suffering from low-self esteem or a wrong approach to issues rather than an inherited low intelligence.

Genes that code for certain neurones or synaptic proteins can be wrongly transcribed or developmental complications can occur in the womb, leading to a chronic type of low intelligence referred to as a learning disability...but this is leaning more towards disease than the average low-intelligence student seen in class .

Conversely, certain genetic and developmental accidents have given rise to "child geniuses" who are the source of simultaneous joy, pride, worry and frustration for their parents.

There's also the issue of class which is very important, upper-class elites produce educational systems that only educate people up to a certain level and in a particular way, most countries need a certain amount of so-called "dumb population" to manipulate so that the upper-class will remain in power. Most human beings are not exposed to the type of information that we really need to know, in fact millions of people worldwide are not even literate up to primary school level so their potential is never properly realised. They may be intelligent but only in a way that keeps them alive, not in a way that elevates them in society or in terms of experiencing certain echelons.

In America and the UK where people have basic amenities that we have been dreaming of for decades, you will still see entire families of people living below the poverty line, this is partly due to an inculcated negative attitude towards learning and self-improvement, even though light is always on, water is piped and school is free. In fact society is purposely arranged that way, grouping poor people together in slums and festering a feeling of hopelessness so that you won't have the means, the brain or the guts to question your masters, choosing instead to engage in complicated and fruitless gang wars. Even those gangsters display a certain amount of cleverness in evading the law, profiting from contraband goods and living to fight another day.

By the way I am framing my comment around acquired knowledge because it is a specific measure of intelligence,they are linked and OP drew his thought from it due to his experience as a teacher.

The ability to apply acquired knowledge to a task and succeed in that task is the essence of being considered intelligent.

I sympathise with you but reading this, it doesnt say whether you have confronted her about it or not. in fact you said you sometimes "wriggle out of it", which suggests that youve actively avoided flagging it up even though it bothers you.

It seems you both have different ideas about who should be spending what and how much time you should be spending together, why not task her on it openly and see what she says

Maybe you can both come to some kind of compromise since she doesnt seem to realise why you feel her behaviour is selfish

Money is the number one reason for divorces, even if it leads to a n explosive argument and you end up parting ways, it's better than suffering in silence.

Arewa1408:
I dont think this is Nigeria. Aside Yankari Game reserve, i doubt if you have elephants anywhere else, last time i checked there are no trains or railroad by Yankari. The fact that location is not listed shows this is poor reporting.

I saw the headline and thought to myself, "do we have elephants in this country?" So i did a quick google search and saw some info about some reserve somewhere.
So i assumed thats what the article was referring to
Yeah its poor reporting but the subject is still important, in my opinion

i think atiku is slimming down

good development sir.. please continue,,we dont want to lose you to any disease..

When your driver is rushing, urge him not to speed...

Empiree:
Your parents have wasted millions of naira sending you to school. In 21st century some people still think like this shows Nigeria can never ever move forward when the people can't see beyond their nose.

My God, this generation is a waste. I don't even know why people are saying they need youth politicians or youth president. Let's just keep maintaining those old politicians. I give up on Nigeria. I have highlighted stupidity.

If you know you know

You refused to answer the other guy for insulting you, yet you insult another

I wonder which of the angels on either of your shoulders is going to record that deed.

Rubbish! Better go and sleep so you can wake up early to pray Fajr and then go out into the world and insult more people in the name of Most Magnificent

nazram1:
idiot! dumb followers who their pastors uses their urine or what so ever on them in the name of washing their sins, which sins when they them selves are satans.

you can't be Christine and be using your brain

see this one! you cant be "Christine" and using your brain, so you guys are Jennifer using your brains?... what did they use to wash the children in the OP?

by the way, that thing they sell to you guys and call zamzam water, do you know all the poisons they mix inside there before you pour it on yourselves? mtchew!

Empiree:
Do you judge Islam based on this alleged incident whilst ignoring other standard islamic schools?. You don't see other licensed and transparent Muslim schools out there?. If by using this incident to judge entire religion and it's adherents, then, "education" that you guys received is useless and the future of the country is not bright.

Indeed, Nigerian politicians are reflection of their people vice versa. I will not dignify the other guy with my reply. He retorted to insults because he's unsecured illiterate.

With all due respect, you are just as bad as the people you are lambasting because you are taking shelter in ignorance and avoiding the truth.

I specifically asked, apart from this incident, why Islam seems to be at the forefront of all sort of unthinkable agendas. I asked you to enlighten me since you seemed to think that I had misunderstood the situation.

Instead of thinking up something reasonable tell me, you went back and started talking about the OP when i already conceded that you have a point.

How can our education be useless? Are we the ones going around the entire world murdering people!?

Why cant you be honest and admit that your religion, or certain interpretations of it, has and is the cause of a lot of terrible problems all around the world? Why cant you people work on reforming it into a less harmful version instead of being defensive every time somebody asks you a question?

Thats when we're even allowed to ask, since it seems nobody is allowed to approach you or say anything without first swearing allegiance to your god smh

yungvade:
This boy,I never see am laugh b4 , na so so frown frown , ��

Some children are very serious, I have a baby cousin like that

kettle84:
Do you understand the' term insecure' or you just say words the way you like.Dike which is her surname is an Igbo name.Her people speak a dialect of the broader Igbo language,practice Igbo culture and bear Igbo names .so what is your point?we are all in a big group but in different locations .

Entrust leadership?lol.what none sense is that.we are one of the main three ethnic groups in Nigeria ,well travelled and well spread ,that is the fear of our rivals and nothing can change that.we have nothing to worry because who God have blessed no one can curse.Those ruling you since you can remember,how are they better off than us?

Lol as if rivers state is an ethnicity...oh dear

kettle84:
The boy belongs to the Dike's family,according to the tradition of the soil of Igbo land once the pride price is returned the baby belongs to the girls family.The boys is welcome and well taken care off by his mom and family.

..?

once the bride price is returned the man no longer owns the baby

lilwetdick:
in Nigeria, we are in the pioneer stage of development, so as a researcher, you must strive hard to get your name out there

and who told you researchers dont do natural observation till today, not all research needs equipments

i think i was looking at it from the point of collating academic research and performing studies.

you are correct that theres still room for things like patented designs or producing novel uses for natural phenomena

Empiree:
SOKA didn't happen in SW?. Baby factory didn't happen in SS or SE?. Whom did you blame for those?. Underground ritual den discovered somewhere is Lagos/Ogun is what?. Whom did you people blame for that?. Even if this situation is not tagged "Islam school or islamic rehabilitation center", for fact that it happened in the North, you nincompoops would still tagged it "Islamic"

Just because this is allegedly "islamic school" means they follow islam standards?. It was reported they have no license to run the place. So how do you even prove veracity of the entire claim?. Anyways I no longer take Nigeria media serious bcuz by the way next week they may come up with different headline with same pictures

You have a point, but educate me. What are the islamic standards and why is it that they seem to value learning Qur'an over a practical education?

even if in this instance, these people are not following islamic standards why do islamic elements seem always to move against progress and open dialogue, why

lilwetdick:
but most pioneers of western inventions didnt have labs, many of them used personal resources to fund their projects or is that the average Nigerian researcher is lazy.

Are you talking about in olden days or in the modern period? i think nowadays, you need proper research and equipment because the scientific paradigms have diversified beyond just wondering and making natural observations about "why does the apple fall down from the tree"

executive12:
So you are blaming westerners for the stupidity of Nigerians that keep voting useless leaders (like the bigot Buhari) because of their tribalistic mindset? Nigeria got independence in 1960, you know.

We didnt really vote the elderly fellow in, you and I both know that. Thats what I mean by "meddling" in our weak infrastructure. I dont think i heard a particular policy or stance on a particular issue or social problem in that election. just pledging money everywhere

Yea we got "independence" but we are still being manipulated by external factors. Its up to us to stand up and be counted though

lilwetdick:
Those ones that the bloggers over hype, you got first class, it is over hype, you work in Microsoft, it is over hype, you work in a robotics center, in Nigeria, it kinda of genius, this things are normal stuff but in Nigeria, it is remarkable.

If Nigerian Phd Know their Onions, how come there is no invention from any of them

Phd is all about research that can bring new inventions like new drugs, new sceintific way of doing things etc but how come we see nothiing here in Nigeria.

As far are the government refuses to provide up to date equipment for labs and provide funding for research

As far as phd candidates are underpaid and victimised

As far as appointments are shadowed by nepotism

you wont see anything! where will people learn their onions when the farmland is barren...

SocialJustice:
I read it like twice, the third time, my conscience gave me a stern warning not to work my brain again in trying to make sense of the junk.

Lol very funny something

Gerrard59:
Please explain how western countries are "tampering" with Nigeria's infrastructure but cannot do same with say Indian or Chinese infrastructures? Or are you not going to hold Nigerians responsible for the nation's decay but rather hold westerners?

@Topic: Let the floodgates be open!!!

Im not absolving Nigerians of the blame at all, but I do believe that the country's weak infrastructure can be and has been politically tampered with, especially in the early 90s and 2000s

for example i intuit that the recently concluded election had at least some foreign meddling, or strong-arming to suit covert western interest. I should also think that some shadowy "big men" do receive large slice of the pie when it comes to harnessing of natural resources, or at least the taxes and interest on those profits

Of course we owe to ourselves to brush up and stop allowing it to happen, but that doesnt rule out the existence of sinister elements behind the scenes and the consequences down the line for ordinary people

Empiree:
The day nonmuslims in Nigeria emancipate themselves from religious bigotry, only then foreigners may be able to reason with Nigerians. See many comments used this avenue to bash Islam as if Islam is responsible for this, as if the same nonesense didn't happen in other parts of the country?. I am not disappointed at all. I was just talking about to Africa American friend restart who brought up the topic.

I have screenshot some comments here to forward to her to read how myopic Nigerians are

Its an islamic school and youre arguing that islam is not the cause..so whats the cause...?

In what other area of the country does this happen

In fact in what other part of the world do people do this...?

selemempe:
no. Check neighboring countries without Fulani or Hausa in it. Ghana Benin Togo ivory coast

To be sincere all those countries have a considerable hausa population, cote d'ivoire has fulani (fuula). this is our problem in particular

Kennitrust:
I still don't understand what kind of relationship we really have this northerners. Why can't this people sees that we in the southern part of the country have nothing in common with them.

Chaaaaah! What an unlucky relationship with people that doesn't have the words #civilisation and development # in their dictionary.

North are truly, problem of this country.

I wish there is way out to get out!

Just take them as your family members. After all, you cant select them either.

SocialJustice:
Just take a gun and shoot me. My brain is crying from reading the rubbish you wrote here.

You no go school at all? Haba! Seun, please get a person to proof read these topics before they hit the front page. I know there are people here who will gladly do the work for N20k monthly.

"Being in critical condition, the elephant finds it very difficult to move, had to crawl and drag self away from the rail slowly in anguish, but then the journey has got to pause for a while now as the train was partial damaged. "

Lol The subject matter is serious but the writing is so funny

contigiency:
This kind report self. The op couldn't even state where this incident happened, which country, if Nigeria which state?

Again, with the way he narrated how the elephant suffered and was in severe pain as a result of the accident with the train, you still said that the elephant later died in peace after struggling with the pains. How is it possible to be struggling in pains and still died in peace?

Lol i developed some tension headache after reading and re-reading it but its still a good way of informing people. We dont pay enough attention to wildlife aside from what it tastes like

doctorkush:
lai lai, u are a baby... its actually sweet you know... I wish I was born then too... oya awa u omo 20th century

lol baba 15th century, i am fine oh