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JIMMY1393:
What did your brother study

Business administration.

chocboi78:
Y'all should stop ranting...
No school in Nigeria is easy, and whats with the ' I was very very intelligent all through my primary and secondary trash "
You don't enter a new challenge with past glory and expect to excel, each stage in life requires a new skill to get tru..
Someone even said he was way intelligent than his older brother but graduated with a lesser GP coz he went to uniben and the Brother to CU...Lmao..#guy wake up, he put more effort after recognising his lapses while u dwelled on past glory..
Besides there is more to brilliance than mere grades...
Work on ur skill and mindset and u will definitely excell

I am the one who made the comment you are quoting.
You are getting everything all wrong.
Did you attend a public Nigerian school and have a sibling who attended a private one? Maybe if you did, then I can take you serious.

Not everyone you see making a comment here was just lazy or stupid. Rushing in to make a comment here without understanding where people are coming from reeks of shallowness.

I carefully compared the system of learning in my brother's school with mine and I clearly knew that I was not meant for a public Nigerian school.
In my brother's school, they have online access to all the materials for all the courses at the beginning of the semester. This gives the students flexibility to study at their own pace. Meanwhile in Uniben, uncountable times, we have gotten materials an evening to the examination, meanwhile a huge chunk of the questions in the exam were from that material.

I won't even talk about the conduciveness of the learning environment in his school and mine. The biggest student community in Uniben (Ekosodin) can go for months without power supply. We are regularly harrassed by cultists and sometimes we had to flee for our lives and face the trauma. These stories were like fairy tales to my brother.
In my brother's school, they get to see their results a few weeks after the end of the semester, meanwhile in Uniben, we did not see our 100lvl first semester results until almost halfway into our 200lvl first semester. We didn't even know where to stand.
In Uniben, it was like every lecturer wanted something different and without understanding that lecturer and what he wants, you stand to fail.
Some lecturers want a copy and paste of their materials, others wanted you to surprise them and expansiate with the knowledge you get from other sources outside the materials. Some lecturers will set questions outside the syllabus while others will adhere to the syllabus e.t.c.
Isn't this madness? In private schools, it is a one-way street.

If I want to outline all the terrible and unfortunate discrepancies I noticed by the juxtaposition of my brother's learning experience and mine, I could write a whole book.

Anyway, there was something very true you highlighted in your comment about learning new skills for new levels. That is very valid. If I had understood the system of Uniben and especially my department, before I was part of it, I would have done better.

Fast forward today, my brother still comes to me for more enlightenment on more neutral and basic topics of life and I enlighten him. Whenever he wants to write an online aptitude test for a job application, he beckons on my assistance and knowledge. It is very clear like daylight between both of us, who possesses a higher IQ.
I went into business and have made profits in the millions. I joined a line of business and within a few months, I became a mentor to people who have been in the line of business for over a decade.

I took this time to put down this lengthy writing in order to correct your wrong thinking.
I hope you can see where I am coming from.
The public Nigerian education system is just too rigid, un-innovative, un-straightforward and terrible for lots of Nigerians. Little wonder we do far far better when we go to school abroad where the system is more sane and proportionally rewarding of commensurate effort and hardwork.

Grandest:
Faculty of medical science? There is no such thing as that.. In uniben, we have School of medicine and faculty of basic medical science..
I don't know where you got yours from..

Yes, Anatomy which I finished from was in Basic Medical sciences, under school of Medicine. As was Physiology, MBC, MLS, Nursing and later introduced Physiotherapy.
Dr(Mrs) Oboh who cleared me in 100L was the Dean of BMS when I finished, I don't know about now.

I was typing in such a rush, perhaps the reason I mixed things up.
Are you an alumni of the same faculty or currently a student there?

Ayomide002:
I didn't experience this in Uniben I went for five years. I never even checked my raw score in any course for once. I believe it all depends on students.

No one should paint Uniben black. Though there are sadists and annoying lecturers. But not this bad abeg

I'm sure you finished from Engineering.
Engineering is or at least was a sane faculty when I was in Uniben. I don't know about now.

However, Physical sciences, Life sciences, Basic Medical sciences were all thrash.

Collinsemegreat:
what faculty and department in college of Medicine?

Anatomy. Basic Medical sciences.

RTSC:
Forget IQ.
Uniben does not respect your IQ. It takes luck and grace to excel there.
That is after you must have worked very hard.

I have seen a mathematics Olympiad contestant probate in physics department of Uniben.

I was far far far more intelligent than my elder brother right from childhood till we entered universities. I was always the star pupil and intelligent one in the family while he lagged behind.
He went to Covenant varsity and I went to Uniben. He finished with a high 2.1, almost to get first class, while I finished with 2.2 in Uniben, after having an extra year . Department of medical sciences.

WonderWoman5775:
You are so right.. Lecturers in uniben rejoice when students fail

God bless u.
I wish I could relike this comment.

I used to wonder why lecturers in Uniben derive pleasure when students fail. I realized it's because it makes them feel important, cos students start flocking around them, anxious to know how they fared and what they can do about it in cash or kind.
If students pass, they don't get the kind of highlights and attention they desire. Very satanic group of people.

Ribspot:
Greatest uniben students, uniben never really made me feel great, right from the day I wrote my post utme which I prepared so hard for, down to my final year, because all my result were never reflection of the efforts which I put in.

Did anyone else feel this way, i would love to here from you.

My brother you are not alone in this, believe me.

I finished from Uniben in 2017 from the faculty of medical sciences and believe me, going to Uniben was the biggest mistake and regret I have in this life till now. Especially when I had the option of going to a private varsity.

Throughout my primary school and for most of my secondary school, I was a star pupil and always came at the top of the class.
Uniben was a very different story for me and I actually had an extra year.
Till now I hate Benin city as a whole and avoid going to that city like a plague, even though I have lots of family members there. Cos whenever I go there, I remember the frustrations from that school called Uniben.

Almost everything about Uniben is fvcked up. Only few faculties are sane. The rest are like a death trap.
I was an intelligentsia and erudite before I got into Uniben. I was very passionate about an academic career and education. However, I have lost all that steam attending Uniben and all my heart and attention in life have been diverted towards business.
I don't even want to hear of a master's degree with my 2 ears, in spite of how much my family is on my neck to pursue a master's.

When I was in my final year and I saw the new intakes who were very happy and excited to gain admission into Uniben, I shook my head. I pitied them.
Uniben is just like the road to hell, where before you realize how far you have gone, it's too late to turn around.

My brother, it is well.
You are definitely not alone in this.
Dust yourself and pick yourself up, things are going to be fine.

SegFault:
The black man do well, what a joke. Look at Africa, a big shithole, Who runs it is it not the black man. Under any condition can the black man beat the white man going by your low logic. I wanted to argue sensibly with you but it seems that your male ego has gotten the best of you so bad that you had to go so low to use science to discriminate against women, go and research on scientific racism and see how you are no different. When I first came across your comment in that sleep paralysis thread I thought you were smart, Now I'm just seeing a dumb fool who thinks he is superior to others because of their sex.

Ancient Egypt, the first human civilization was built by Black men. I hope you know that?

There were lots of empires and great inventions created by Black men.
All other men lost it during the middle ages and only European men won from that time till this century when Asian men have almost picked up. Who says African men will not pick up as soon as possible?

Anyway, I somehow support you guys badmouthing Nigerian men. We have better priorities than invading threads meant for ladies and attacking them.

pocohantas:
Typical mansplaining. Why does it bother you so much that you typed epistle? Leave us na!!!

Men are less complicated by complicating the whole world.

You obviously didn't read what I wrote.

It bothered me cos I cared about women a lot. I defended women against my fellow men on the fact that it was possible for men and women to be good friends without anything involved. Most men do not see women as being able to offer anything beyond their bodies. I don't subscribe to that and that is why I wrote an 'epistle' according to you.

Besides, don't think women are left out when it comes to wars & political conflicts! Europe have had many Queens and female Emperor's whose destructive policies the world have not recovered from till date.
Even here in Nigeria, we had Queen Amina of Zaria who lead thousands of people to their death on the battlefield.

Women could have been worse if they had the opportunity to lead nations.

pocohantas:
What role did you and your ancestors play? Selling yourselves for mirrors and wristwatches?

Go sit your ass down.

Have been following your comments and I swear you get bad-mouth die !!
Anyway, you can keep up the good work of repping women and urging their unity. However, I must let u know that you and the other ladies here like Palema007, Dande55 et al are fighting an impossible battle and a lost cause.

Men and women are not created the same way and can never function the same.
Take me as a guy for example, most of my guy friends and even my brother do not believe in making friends with ladies. I believe against that. I used to believe and to an extent still believe till now that a guy and a girl can be friends without anything involved.
I have actually had more ladies as friends in my lifetime than guys, and believe me, most of my friendships or efforts on being friends with ladies have not ended well. But with my guy friends, It always ends well, we hardly ever have quarrels or outbursts.
I have officially given up on being in any form of friendship with any woman in this life. If I want to date you, that is it. If we are not dating, friendship is a no no.
I have cut all my friendships with ladies currently after a very bad experience with a lady I tried to be friendly with recently.

Women are just naturally very complicated than men.
Men are a one way street, unlike women.

Men only fight themselves for honour, territory, glory, expansion and bigger and more important things. Women fight and get bitter over very petty and trivial things.
You guys can never be united. You are too emotional for that.
Just see the never ending feud between mother inlaws and daughter inlaws.
No matter how much a father loves his daughter and bonds with her, when she gets married, he lets her go and fully hands her over to her husband. Hence, father inlaws and son inlaws hardly have any clashes, but for women, it is something else.

Anyway, you guys good luck on your sis code.

Iegendhero:
I know it’s circumstances but you can’t know the Yorubas more than me and I am telling you authoritatively that the factors for breeding extremism is not just there.

Core North already made the crusade for Shariah law as back as 1999 and their ancestor Dan Fodio already proclaim Jihad as far back as 1804 or so.

Firstly, the Yorubas are mostly 50/50, so there will be a lot of barrier the extremist need to break before that can proclaim the nonsense like Boko Haram is doing in the North.

Also, the SW states are fairly 50/50 in composition and even Oyo that has major Muslim population is not up to 60/40, so which state will be the first one to bell the cat?

It is hard to see two generation of pure Muslim in the core Yoruba states (excluding only Ilorin) and that is a major barrier for extremism especially the one that requires people sympathy and acceptance like we see in the North.

Also, religion to the Yorubas is now more of spirituality because we have been too mixed for religious toxicity to tear its head in such massive scale like the North.

Although nothing is impossible, but I just don’t see the signs of extremism in Yorubas like the case of the core North coz the factors are totally different.

I clearly understand you and I know that I can not know the Yorubas like you do.

However I countered you because you feel like Yorubas are so special or unique while Hausa fulanis are easily prone to extremism, however I had to show you that there are tens of millions of Hausas & Fulanis living in other parts of West Africa who are very liberal and secular muslims.

Just to let you know that ethnicity has nothing to do with this.

However, I think I agree with you that Islamic extremism is a bit difficult among ethnic groups that are 50-50 or predominantly Christian. It is easier with predominantly muslim ethnicities.

However it could also be bred in heavily muslim dominated cities just like you see in Ilorin. Places like Iwo e.t.c could also experience such.

Have u heard of the recent Islamic terrorists terrorizing parts of Mozambique? They have gained a stronghold in that country and shockingly muslims are not up to 10% in Mozambique!
Meanwhile neighbouring Tanzania where muslims make up around half of the population has never experienced such things, cos the founding fathers of Tanzania crushed such tendencies from the inception!
Infact the people who nursed this Islamic extremism in Mozambique came from Tanzania!

Arabians really want to destroy Black Africans with this religion called Islam just as they almost destroyed India.

kizyalex10:
The rate of racism abroad eh,u will wonder if these people regards us as humans,even here in korea,they give us d hardest jobs and still talk to us harshly while an egyptian counterpart who is fair is treated nice cos of his colour.sometimes when i have a bad day at work,i jst begin to curse our leaders because if they had done the right thing and not to steal the future of our country we would have been living fine like the whites but then our country is also messed up to a point that u avoid police the way you avoid armed robbers because they re no different.or public office holders.its well.sometimes they can abuse u racially that u might enter depression

Cursing our leaders alone is not enough and will never help us.
The average Black African is a coward!
See the way lots of us run away abroad and never do anything within our power from the diaspora to change our country and uplift our people.
I am very happy about racism abroad, and I will keep on encouraging whites and others to keep on treating we blacks as shît in their countries until we black Africans have enough senses in our heads to come together and fight and die to make out homeland good.
The only people I feel for are those like Black Americans who have nowhere else to call home apart from America. But a Nigerian, Ghanaian or even a Jamaican/Haitian? We need to be dealt with more and more.

mu2sa2:
The whites are Christians. The blacks they oppress are Christians.
WHY are Christians oppressing fellow Christians in USA?

See this donkeey.
Do you think Christians are brainwashed muslims who do not know their left from right?

No Christian especially a Black Christian will ever trade their race, ethnicity or origin in the name of a religion. To us, religion is secondary, unlike you brainwashed föolish Black muslims that desperately want to become Arabs.

Iegendhero:
Nope Yoruba Muslims are not at what Hausa Fulani are because right from inception the Fulanis have always been religious fanatics like the Jihad of Dan Fodio.

The numbers are not rising tbh and they can’t get the required momentum as compared to the North. A lot of factors will mitigate against them turning to extremist because our culture is totally different from the Core northern culture.

People like MURIC are normal. In a tribe of over 35million+ there will always be outliers and that does not imply that extremism is on the horizon. We are not all zombie and people should be allowed to voice their reason, just that their wishes will only die with their thought.

Hausa/Fulani and Yorubas are totally different in their approach to religion and the factors are totally different.

Have you met fulanis from Senegal, Guinea e.t.c? Most of their women do not even wear hijab there! They are very liberal and secular.

Nupes were used to spread jihad to Ebiras, Okun Yorubas, Auchi e.t.c in the pre-colonial era, but today Ebira muslims are more extremist than Nupe muslims. .....

Have you ever heard of religious killings or Sharia in Niger republic where there are millions of Hausas, Fulanis & Kanuris?
Why Nigeria?
Are you aware that Sharia law is non-existent in Niger republic?

The pattern does not always follow the way you think it does!
No group of muslims are special or less prone to extremism than others. That's nonsense.

These things are based on circumstances!
Circumstances beyond the control of the common man.

RTSC:
This is also why I always tell immigrants to be grateful to the African American.

They paid with their blood and sweat for the privileges you enjoy.

A black man from ilesa will Immigrate to America and become a judge in 10 years.

Just because people like Malcolm X, MLK, Curtis Lewis, Jesse Jackson and countless slaves refused to take the status quo.

If not, the America up till the 60s was a deadly jungle for the black man.

Thank you very much for this.
This is why I always get angry at Nigerians or other Africans who ever talk bad about the Black Americans.
Black Americans are heroes to me!

LegendHero:
Sin should be punished if it goes contradictory to the established physical laws of the land but it is barbaric and insane to punish someone for spiritual sin at this age and time.

Now who did he sin against? Mohammed? Who did Mohammed tell anyone he sinned against him such that death is now the last resort?

Do you agree that anyone that blasphemy against Orunmila should be killed? Do you know how many times Muslims and Christians have blasphemed against the traditional practices? You know how many time several shrines have been demolished by religious folks.

I’ve always tried to distinguish the Northern practice from the Southern practice in this kind of scenario coz the North is lost forever and they have no remedy to their multidirectional problem.

Lastly, I’m thankful people that reason like you are in the minority and infact infinitesimal to the extent of making any change in the west.

I have a another question to you coz I assume you’re Yoruba:
Since some scholars have said Allah don’t want us to associate with infidels (Christians and pagans), can you boldly say that there is no Christian within your extended family?

If they exists, why don’t you denounce them and follow the laws?

Yes, thank God that extremist Yoruba muslims are still few, but the numbers are rising day after day.
Who would have thought some years ago that a group like Muric will come up in Yoruba land? A group being sponsored by Alqaeda.

Just as Openbusiness has been singing to you.
Yoruba muslims are currently where Hausa fulanis were in the 70s and 80s, give them 20 more years and watch where they will be.

Amah70:
But who in his right mindset except far north Moslems still see Nigeria as one country?

Lots and lots of irredeemably föolish and wasted Christians from the SS, SW and NC still think Nigerian can work.

I myself being from the NC gave up on Nigeria being one country in 2017 and I now hate Nigeria more than Nnamdi Kanu does.

I am currently very happy that things like this keep on happening in Nigeria, so that the remaining percentage of föols who call themselves Christians who still believe in Nigeria can have their doubts cleared.

feejay70:
Muslims are responsible for all the misfortune we are facing in north today. This means sharia law is functioning in hausa states... But they can't try such a wickedness in northeast!

Who told you that this cannot happen in the NE?
It cannot happen in Taraba & Adamawa because of the huge numbers of Christians in this state, but it can happen in Gombe, Bauchi, Yobe & Borno! Cos these states are officially under Sharia!

North-central is the only place such madness cannot take place.

Openbusiness:
See you are very correct and I used to share this your views too, until recent events upgraded my perceptions. As for North, let's face the facts, can anybody in the 80's ever believe that the North can turn to a region where Northerners themselves will turn to suicide bombers and terrorists that will be destroying cities, destroying military barracks and fighting war with the military like it is happening now? The signs were there since the 70's that the North was heading in that direction, but people generally dismissed it like you are doing now that it can never get to that point. But that's what happens when we forget history, because if we had not forgotten the history of Uthman Danfodio era then we should know the foundation was still there and hibernating and the wrong steps could wake up those ideas of national religious conquest again that went to sleep in the wake of a new era. Now, look at the North today. A region known for calm and tranquility that it had attained after a dark era of bloodletting is now back to the era of bloodletting. The Southwest may not be as fragmented as the North in terms of oneness of tribal identity but I am telling you that the bond the Yoruba ancestor has among themselves and community is getting weaker and not like before again. Slowly, fanatic groups like MURIC are creeping in, don't they have followers, don't they have youths they are schooling and influencing and teaching their fanaticism to? The Yusuf guy that started Boko Haram, that was how he used was a preacher in his sect too, and slowly they grew into what the Nigerian Army has not been able to conquer in over 10 years, a whole army of the country oh, not like they are fighting against a single agency like LASTMA or Civil Defense. The Armed Forces of the federal republic itself. So, it's better the southwest leaders start taking conscious decisions and take deliberate precautionary actions to guide its people away from that path, and instill the ideology of their ancestors into the youths that Tribe before religion, so that the southwest won't end up like the North.

What you have been singing to Legendhero is very very correct.

In the 70s and 80s, there was nothing like religious extremism in the north. Then in Kaduna, Jos, Bauchi, Zaria e.t.c, Christians and muslims lived together in every quarters, every neighbourhood, Compound and streets together as one, but from the 90s, all these changed and it has been getting worse and will only get worse!

If Yorubas do not leave this cursed nation called Nigeria on time and build a united country on strong cultural values, Islamic radicalism will grow among Yoruba muslims in no time!

Were Boko Haram members not discovered in Okene some years ago? Is Okene not a stonethrow from Yoruba land?

Things will only get worse.

JONNYSPUTE:
....The truth is that most of our Igbo girls are shameless.

They don't see anything wrong in sleeping with whomever provided money is involved.

A Fulani girl will never sleep with an Igbo guy in such a manner even if that Igbo man is richer than Dangote.

Some people will want to counter me but go around Owerri road in Enugu state where the abokis change currencies and see how our girls are shamelessly falling and sleeping with those Alhajis just for peanuts.

It's really a shame.

Hahaha, who told you this?
Do you know the number of Hausa fulani Girls that Southern male youth corpers normally sleep with year in year out in the core-north, free of charge?

Go and ask questions from people who lived in the core-north, they will tell u how it is.
Hausa fulani Girls are actually worse, but they are very good in hiding and pretending.
The only thing Hausa-fulani girls will never do is marry a Christian cos they would be disowned or killed for it.

Besides how does this thread relate to Hausa fulani? Or is Kiddwaya now a Hausa fulani?

JayromWrites:
Southern Kaduna is core north Oga


Goan study geography

The concept of Middlebelt and Core-north is not tied to Geography. It is more or less tied to history, culture and politics. This is what most of you don't get.

The Middlebelt identity and definition started since the colonial era in the Northern protectorate. It preceeds all these erroneous present day geopolitical zones that were created by Babangida in the 90s.

So, go and learn history to know the difference between core-north & Middlebelt.
During the old Northern region in pre-colonial times, all the northern Minorities from present day Southern Kebbi down to Southern Borno, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Southern Gombe, Niger, Benue, Southern Kaduna, Plateau, Southern Bauchi, Taraba e.t.c all voted for the MIDDLEBELT POLITICAL PARTY and identified as such.

Lhimeet:
Nengi na Nina reloaded

Nina 2.0

Exactly my thoughts.

seunmsg:
You don’t know what you’re talking about. All the states in the north west and north east are referred to as core north.

You are actually wrong! Even with correcting Olamidebaby.

Core north is basically Hausa fulani Kanuri Homeland.

Middlebelt is for most of the Northern minorities whether from Northeast, Northwest or North-central.

Taraba is far more of a central Nigerian (middlebelt) state than Plateau state is. Look at the latitude.

Hatima:
Oh may Gawd..it's not that serious..just enjoy the show and let it go Oh may Gawd..it's not that serious..just enjoy the show and let it go

Yeah, let's not politicize the thread
One luv.

Nowenuse:
Kaisha is most likely a Hausa Christian.

There are millions of them, but most people are not aware of them.

Dansuqi:
Say something about kaisha

Already did.

Dansuqi:
What of bauchi,kebbi,gombe? What makes them core north

Do you know the history of how Middlebelt started? It started around 1920s in the old Northern region and people from Southern Gombe, Southern Kaduna, Southern Kebbi, Plateau and all northern minorities identified with it.

Geopolitical zones are a modern political creation.

Zaria is Hausa Land and it can be core north, but never drag Southern Kaduna into the madness of Arewa or whatever.

Southern Kaduna people have nothing in common with Hausa fulanis. They have everything in common with Plateau, Nasarawa, Niger indigenes e.t.c.

Dansuqi:
So where is core north

Core north is Hausa fulani Kanuri Homeland.

Most of all the Northern minorities who are predominantly Christians are not core-northerners.
Including Southern Gombe, Southern Borno, Southern Kebbi and Southern Bauchi. These people are of the same stock and ethnic groups with people from Plateau, Niger, Southern Kaduna and Taraba.

Gboliwe:
Kaisha is from sokoto state.

That's a first. I hope she doesn't come with Islamic fanatism.

I will be stanning her if she is cool

Kaisha is most likely a Hausa Christian.

There are millions of them, but most people are not aware of them.

Dansuqi:
Diane was a core northerner.oga nowenuse come and analyse her

Diane was from SOUTHERN KADUNA.

Since when has Southern Kaduna become core-north?

Dansuqi:
Any rivers person so far

Yes, the person entering now.
Katrina.