₦airaland Forum

Hemanwel:
The south-south has always been known for high literacy rate since time immemorial. They are the real sophisticated region.

Chai! See Awolowo's legacy now playing a catch up with the oyel people.

Awolowo must be wailing in his grave now.

Hemanwel:
The south-south has always been known for high literacy rate since time immemorial. They are the real sophisticated region.

Chai! See Awolowo's legacy now playing a catch up with the oyel people.

Awolowo must be wailing in his grave now.

RichBoy247:
Okay.

So all these Igbos that dropped out of Primary school in their villages and jumped into Mallam’s trailer carrying tomatoes to Yoruba jabs to come and slave, are they also counted as part of Sourh West out of school children?

Hemanwel:
The south-south has always been known for high literacy rate since time immemorial. They are the real sophisticated region.

Chai! See Awolowo's legacy now playing a catch up with the oyel people.

Awolowo must be wailing in his grave now.

LegendHero:
2023 LITERACY RATE IN NIGERIA

Percentage of individuals (aged 5yrs & older) literate in any language

South South — 84.1%
South West — 83.1%
South East — 79.2%
North Central — 55.3%
North East — 47.8%
North West — 44.6%

#Statisense
(GHS 2023/24, NBS)

banku:
Some people are so ignorant, it is unbelievable. Most of the so-called Southsouth were part of the same Free Education created by Awolowo.

Maybe we have to show their pictures with no clothes posing with Awolowo in their village school again.

Awolowo's UPN captured the Midwest with Prof. Ali, you remember?

Hemanwel:
The south-south has always been known for high literacy rate since time immemorial. They are the real sophisticated region.

Chai! See Awolowo's legacy now playing a catch up with the oyel people.

Awolowo must be wailing in his grave now.

Konquest:
Absolutely... Well said. I'm glad you brought up the historical FACT of the former Bendel State UPN Governorship of Professor Ambrose Folorunso Alli up. UPN was led by Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo during the 1979 to 1983 election cycles and the people of the Old Bendel State (now Edo and Delta States) voted for UPN because of the developmental strides of the party and they remembered Awolowo's progressive strides when he was the Premier of the Old Western Region which they also belonged to till the referendum of 1963. A lot of posters here are youngsters who are deeply ignorant of historical facts hence they type nonsense like the person you quoted.

Back in the late 2010s, I read a full-page Punch newspaper interview online of former Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa's biological father who said he attended a fantastic institution in the Old Western Region (the institution is now in Delta State) that was established by Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN. If Awolowo had been biased towards the people of the current Edo and Delta States when they were with the Yorubas in the Old Western Region of the 1950s till the 1963 referendum, the Okowa family would probably have prevented Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa's daughter from getting married to the Yoruba guy she is currently married to.

There's another popular Ijaw activist called Comrade Eva from Delta State who eulogized Chief Obafemi Awolowo in a media publication for introducing the free education program and more which enabled them to go to school. These FACTS put paid to the FAKE news being circulated by some demented trolls that the Yorubas and Awolowo did NOT do anything for the current Edo and Delta States when they were originally in the Old Western Region of Nigeria. Action Group politicians led by Awolowo were even in support of the referendum of 1963 because they believed it would bring more developments to the new Mid-Western Region and predictably that is what happened.

LegendHero:
I don’t understand something. The statistics said literacy in any language, does it also mean almost 55%+ of their population cannot even read or write in Hausa too?

I do not believe that is possible for such huge numbers. If that is the case, then their matter is beyond redemption.

LordIsaac:
How was this survey conducted?

LegendHero:
I don’t understand something. The statistics said literacy in any language, does it also mean almost 55%+ of their population cannot even read or write in Hausa too?

I do not believe that is possible for such huge numbers. If that is the case, then their matter is beyond redemption.

LastGiantAlive:
Since APC came to power, NBS is now officially the propaganda mill of the demo nic party. Most Ibadan domiciled muslims have nothing to do with education. Sophisticated stark illiterates that queued up under the hot sun for hours to vote a microphone licking braindead cow are anything but literate.

DmonSlayer10:
The stats can be termed ambiguous...

You know why??

I may be wrong oo,But I'm damned sure that 43% percent of these literate individuals in the South South are actually people from the SouthEast living in the South south.

...while 39% of these literate individuals in the South West are actually people from the South East living in the SouthWest...especially Lagos...

As South Easterners continue diasporizing themselves to other regions,they'll continue to donate their numbers and sweats to their hosts in every stats...

See?

Justiceleague1:
Once you see legendhero as opposed,just know exactly what to expect....these guys sleep and wake tribalism all their lives and existence

Dalohad:
Oyo state where you can hardly find anyone who can speak pidgin (talk less of English) in Omi Adio in Ibadan is more literate than Owerri? Laughable..

I am Yoruba, but we need to tell ourselves the reality. Go to Sarki, Fiditi, Ogbomosho, the level of illiteracy is appallingly high. Meanwhile, even in SE villages, as a stranger you can still meet people and communicate with English or pidgin.

Facts are sacred.

SonofLagos:
Mumu man, shameless ibo loser….claim your tribe with your full chest😆😆 i served in owerri and I met some locals too who couldn’t speak English fluently but pigin and ibo.

Yoruba is the most educational advanced region and the cradle of civilisation in Nigeria even some of your ancestors benefited from Awolowo free education in west😆😆you better read up on history and stop disgracing yourself 😆

LegendHero:
I don’t understand something. The statistics said literacy in any language, does it also mean almost 55%+ of their population cannot even read or write in Hausa too?

I do not believe that is possible for such huge numbers. If that is the case, then their matter is beyond redemption.

RichBoy247:
Okay.

So all these Igbos that dropped out of Primary school in their villages and jumped into Mallam’s trailer carrying tomatoes to Yoruba jabs to come and slave, are they also counted as part of Sourh West out of school children?

NativeGem:
The north really needs to buckle up

Hemanwel:
The south-south has always been known for high literacy rate since time immemorial. They are the real sophisticated region.

Chai! See Awolowo's legacy now playing a catch up with the oyel people.

Awolowo must be wailing in his grave now.

RichBoy247:
Okay.

So all these Igbos that dropped out of Primary school in their villages and jumped into Mallam’s trailer carrying tomatoes to Yoruba jabs to come and slave, are they also counted as part of Sourh West out of school children?