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Racoon:
SETTING THE RECORDS STRAIGHT:
Here are some facts about academia in Nigeria. Don't let anyone deceive you as these facts can be verified:

-1). The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Igbo man named Professor Kenneth Dike. He was also the first Nigerian professor of History was an Igbo man.

-2). The first Nigerian Professor of Botany was an Igbo man named Professor Eni Njoku. He went on to become the very first vice chancellor of the university of LAGOS. He also became a vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka from 1966 to 1970. He fought the war on the Biafran side.

-3). The first Nigerian Rector of the then Yaba College of Technology was also an Igbo man.

-4). The first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics was an Igbo man named Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. Chike Obi was followed by another Igbo man named Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differential Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant.

-5). The first Nigerian Professor of Anatomy and
Physiology is Professor Chike Edozien an Igbo man who is also the current Obi of Asaba.

-6). The first Nigerian Professor of Physics was Professor Okoye an Igbo man who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 1960.
Okoye was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics.

In Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Igbo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early 20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early 1950s.

-7). The First Professor of Statistics, Professor James Nwoye Adichie whose research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research. Adichie is the father of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the well known author of Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun (which was a Biafran story).

-8 ). The first Nigerian Professor of Medicine was also an Igbo man named Professor Herbert C Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war from 1971 to 1975.

-9). What about Astronomy – again another Igbo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – Professor Ntukoju He was the first to earn a double Ph.D. in Astronomy and Mathematics.

-10). Let’s go to the Social Sciences: Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Igbo man – Professor Chukwuka Okonjo.

He is the father of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala former Nigerian minister of finance whose all children attended Harvard University. Ngozi also studied at Harvard. It was Prof Chukwuka Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early 1960s.

He was also a double Ph.D holder in Mathematics and Economics. He was the first Nigerian Head of Department and Dean of Faculty (UNN).

-11). Philosophy – Professor G. D. Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at the Amherst College USA in 1953.

-12). Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo (elder brother to Chris Okigbo, the poet, who died in action at Nsukka during the war) who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D. in Economics.

-13). Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at the University College Zambia in 1952.

At the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC), the state with the highest number of professors in Nigeria and as at 2018 is Imo State. You can go to this commission and verify. Anambra state was the first in WAEC, UNITY SCHOOLS ENTERANCE EXAMS, NECO AND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Therefore, whenever some people address you Igbos as mere traders, tell them that in addition to doing very well in business, science, technology and SPORTS you are also ahead in academia.No amount of hatred can change blessings from God almighty. Let the hating continue while we keep doing what we know best....

DEVELOPMENT ADVICE FOR NIGERIANS. Let Nigerians compete fairly (without quota system) and give the best positions to the brightest – be it Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa or Fulani, and then we shall see who the most successful Nigerians are.

Researched and written by Dr. Maduka Ogwueleka (MRCPUK) and Dr. Samuel Okafor (PhD History).

© Maduka Chinemelum Ogwueleka.

can you show us the thread or the conversation you were having with someone that led to this?

what exactly is the purpose of the above information?

See below the first female Nigerian pilot.:

Hadiza Lantana Oboh (1959–1998) was a Nigerian pilot. She was the first and only female pilot for Nigeria Airways. She was murdered on 8 February at her house, in a suspected robbery involving members of her domestic staff.


Stop dropping fake news just because she is an Igbo woman and that makes her the first female pilot.
If you claim she is the first female Igbo pilot. At least we can understand

Someone said something like Igbo amaka up there

Obidients who wan burn Nigeria down see one pikin wey mama born as dem born you but you are here only to burn Nigeria down, see better pikin a blessing to her parent.

Shameless lazy idiots.

Chucks13:
Obidients who wan burn Nigeria down see one pikin wey mama born as dem born you but you are here only to burn Nigeria down, see better pikin a blessing to her parent.

Shameless lazy idiots.

hope you are not one of those agbero that voted for buhari and this current tinubu

Hotfreeze:
The guy is doing what most of his people are known for. Fraud, stealing and dishonesty.

A Yoruba man was already a Professor of mathematics when his ancestors didn't even know what clothes were. I will fact-check the idiot.

Yoruba don't brag about these things it’s a shame that the poster decided to throw his people in the mud with his fake statistics

Agbadorians a.k.a urchins left the WhatsApp group chat.

Racoon:
we shall see who the most successful Nigerians are.

The most successful Nigerians are outside the country. This is an exercise in futility. But if one is still interested in carrying out such surveys, then go ahead and beam the searchlight globally. You would find out what you need is not competition among tribes, it is not chest beating about which tribe is better. It is humility in being provided the opportunity to serve and NOT vain chest beating. Do that research and you would find out these very same trailblazers are the most humble people. As an immigrant, you are not appointed into position in a white man's country only to lord it over them and call them dunces. You serve with humility and with humility comes more reward, not vain pride. Same thing with Nigeria. What used to be healthy competition in now unhealthy rivalry and unbridled hatred. The way forward is still equality and for all tribes to sheath their swords, verbal swords too. As long as verbal exchanges continue about superiority, the hatred among tribes would never end.

CyrusVI:
Born in 1970

It took us this long to have a female pilot

Wow...A great feat from her. We would have waited till 2018 if not for her

I studied about her feats in commercial aviation in the early 80s' so she couldn't have been born in 1970.
Wikipedia actually claimed she studied at Nigeria College of Aviation Zaria in 1980 so it's obvioue she couldn't have been to a flying school at 10

[quote author=Racoon post=131083722][/quote]Igbos are too brilliant abeg now I understand why they brag and make so much noise everywhere they are found.

[quote author=Racoon post=131083722][/quote]False

I taught this was to celebrate Nigeria but reading further, its about Igbo agenda.

No go dey fly for airline wey their plane tyre dey burst o

Those demons chased out of heaven by Angel Gabriel will start foaming in the mouth.

IGBO AMAKA

SE in progress

Racoon:
Cho cho cho

Upon all this long tales why is south east such a hell hole that its people are developing other places instead of developing their own region?
Are they all brilliantly clueless people who fail to understand that charity begins from home

dododawa1:
SE in progress

Progressively terrorised by IPOB and ESN kidnappers and killers?
Or what other progress in the region

Well done ma,so impressive 👍

greypencils:
The most successful Nigerians are outside the country. This is an exercise in futility. But if one is still interested in carrying out such surveys, then go ahead and beam the searchlight globally. You would find out w[b]hat you need is not competition among tribes, it is not chest beating about which tribe is better.[/b]

It is humility in being provided the opportunity to serve and NOT vain chest beating. Do that research and you would find out these very same trailblazers are the most humble people. As an immigrant, you are not appointed into position in a white man's country only to lord it over them and call them dunces. You serve with humility and with humility comes more reward, not vain pride. Same thing with Nigeria. What used to be healthy competition in now unhealthy rivalry and unbridled hatred. The way forward is still equality and for all tribes to sheath their swords, verbal swords too. As long as verbal exchanges continue about superiority, the hatred among tribes would never end.

Is it not senseless for impotent men to be bragging about the size of their useless tools

She is Nigeria's first female pilot but she was not born in 1970.

Kobicove:
I don't think this woman is Nigeria's first female pilot...if I'm not mistaken I think there was another female pilot before her (the one who was murdered by her domestic servant over 15 years ago).

By the way I'm Igbo, just in case any of you stupid tribal bigots want to attack me!

Thekaghan:
The first Professor of Medicine is from the south western Nigeria. A Yoruba man and I actually don’t have the time to factcheck you but I am sure most of your list are wrong. The first professor of physics in Africa is also a Yoruba Professor named Ajakaiye. Kindly throw your fake statistics in the bin

“I will be the first to concede that the Igbo as a group is not without its flaws. Its success can and did carry deadly penalties: the dangers of hubris, overweening pride, and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or, even worse, than can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness. There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behavior that can offend by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness.[color=#990000][/color]”

That is how BLUNT Achebe was. Who could have said it better than an Igbo man by the name CHINUA ACHEBE.

ogelekpomgam:
Agbadorians a.k.a urchins left the WhatsApp group chat.

I understand today is sit at home, so you may not be able to do much mental work as you've been caged.

There's a rebuttal there. Look at it

When bloody Hausas and cunning Yoruba mooslims were busy guarding their poosays with hyjab, these Igbos were doing feats.

Shitty thread full of ethic nonsense.

Y'all mad on this forum

[quote author=Racoon post=131083722][/quote]You forgot Professor Ben Enwonwu.

[quote author=Racoon post=131083722][/quote]Why you no mention drug trafficking, human trafficking, and manufacturing of fake products that yeeb pipu are known for all around the world?

greypencils:
The most successful Nigerians are outside the country. This is an exercise in futility. But if one is still interested in carrying out such surveys, then go ahead and beam the searchlight globally. You would find out what you need is not competition among tribes, it is not chest beating about which tribe is better. It is humility in being provided the opportunity to serve and NOT vain chest beating. Do that research and you would find out these very same trailblazers are the most humble people. As an immigrant, you are not appointed into position in a white man's country only to lord it over them and call them dunces. You serve with humility and with humility comes more reward, not vain pride. Same thing with Nigeria. What used to be healthy competition in now unhealthy rivalry and unbridled hatred. The way forward is still equality and for all tribes to sheath their swords, verbal swords too. As long as verbal exchanges continue about superiority, the hatred among tribes would never end.

Interesting, I love your point about how tribal sentiments is derailing our sense and spirit of unity, only problem is the point you try to put across comes off as very contradictory to the entire scope of your lesson here which is humility.

Why do they allow themselves to be victim of brain drain if they were truly humble? One will argue that as humans it is biologically imperative that we seek comfort and security so it’s understandable why the most intellectual and “successful” (i strike through intellectual because most intellectuals are living like peasants back in Nigeria being the nature of our society that doesn’t directly favor you solely from being just “intellectual”, the problem is more nuanced than that.) So the question begs, as more young Nigerians become successful with the ability to emigrate, will collective nation building totally lose its novelty if we haven’t already lost it?

What’s happening right now in Nigeria is just the top hierarchy maintaining the status quo and killing time to steal more resources to maintain a pseudo-status in the western world. Your post was interesting but in the end it comes off as hypocritical. Just like someone said that time (can’t remember who it was) “it’s better to be patriotic to Nigeria from afar”… I think they said that because one will argue if a white mans land is truly your home, but you can’t argue about your real home.

[quote author=Racoon post=131083722][/quote]Were these the first Nigerians to be executed for drug trafficking in Indonesia?
Samuel Iwachekawu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwaoysa