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See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 2:00pm On Mar 06, 2025
Finland gave their citizens free education in schools 🏫 .

Ireland gave its citizens free education in schools 🏫 too.

Did awolowo Free education end on paper 🗞️.


Or was it just another lie caught?

Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 2:00pm On Mar 06, 2025
Helinues see na greatness
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by wizelink: 2:04pm On Mar 06, 2025
Hmm nawaooh. Unbelievable
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Mystic216:
Normally them no get sense
Only propaganda and telling their fellow illiterates that they are most educated in Nigeria

Yeye people
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 2:09pm On Mar 06, 2025
wizelink:
Hmm nawaooh. Unbelievable
All thanks to Genz for breaking barriers of aged lies by the predecessors of helinues
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Freetech: 2:27pm On Mar 06, 2025
Have you forgotten so soon that most the so called Igbo scholars attended Awolowo school in SW. This includes Azikiwe.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Racoon(m): 2:29pm On Mar 06, 2025
Civilization reached the West and East earlier than other regions of Nigeria but there continued to be senseless tussle of supremacy.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by AdeYORUFAFO: 3:28pm On Mar 06, 2025
Freetech:
Have you forgotten so soon that most the so called Igbo scholars attended Awolowo school in SW. This includes Azikiwe.
Nnamdi Azikiwe’s educational profile is as follows:
Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Lincoln University in 1930.
Masters degree in Religion and Philosophy from Lincoln University in 1932.
Masters degree in Anthropology from University of Pennsylvania's in 1933.
He was a Doctoral candidate at Columbia University in 1934 before returning to Nigeria.
He was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Liberia.

Nnamdi Azikiwe is by far senior to Awolowo and thus couldn’t have benefited from Awolowo’s educational policies in the SW. He obtained his degrees long before Awolowo became a politician.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by AdeYORUFAFO: 3:32pm On Mar 06, 2025
KonteYoruba:
Finland gave their citizens free education in schools 🏫 .

Ireland gave its citizens free education in schools 🏫 too.

Did awolowo Free education end on paper 🗞️.


Or was it just another lie caught?
The SW statistics is up to 70% because of the older generation of them who benefited from Awolowo’s free education policy. The younger generation of SWner are grossly undereducated and are fast becoming area boys and miscr*ants who are a menace to society and internet.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by EmeeNaka: 3:38pm On Mar 06, 2025
It's the Sharia proponents in the Yorubaland that are dragging the region back.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 5:36pm On Mar 06, 2025
Freetech:
Have you forgotten so soon that most the so called Igbo scholars attended Awolowo school in SW. This includes Azikiwe.
That is not what the thread is saying oga

This is not an algae soup discussion

Run to helinues
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 5:37pm On Mar 06, 2025
AdeYORUFAFO:
Nnamdi Azikiwe’s educational profile is as follows:
Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Lincoln University in 1930.
Masters degree in Religion and Philosophy from Lincoln University in 1932.
Masters degree in Anthropology from University of Pennsylvania's in 1933.
He was a Doctoral candidate at Columbia University in 1934 before returning to Nigeria.
He was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Liberia.

Nnamdi Azikiwe is by far senior to Awolowo and thus couldn’t have benefited from Awolowo’s educational policies in the SW. He obtained his degrees long before Awolowo became a politician.
KaaaaaaaaaaaaaBooom 🎤
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by helinues: 5:45pm On Mar 06, 2025
KonteYoruba:
That is not what the thread is saying oga

This is not an algae soup discussion

Run to helinues
I have made you to cry well well today

Chai, 15 monikers wiped at once. Helinues, you are bad oo

grin cheesy
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 6:50pm On Mar 06, 2025
helinues:
I have made you to cry well well today

Chai, 15 monikers wiped at once. Helinues, you are bad oo

grin cheesy
You are mistaking me for your father ehh Yoruba ?
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by helinues: 6:58pm On Mar 06, 2025
KonteYoruba:
You are mistaking me for your father ehh Yoruba ?
No. You can only do this kind of ranting wey no dey hurt

But targeting your hustling on this forum dey hurt badly
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 8:14pm On Mar 06, 2025
helinues:
No. You can only do this kind of ranting wey no dey hurt

But targeting your hustling on this forum dey hurt badly
Gibberish from a psychiatric patient
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by mightyhaze: 8:28pm On Mar 06, 2025
Freetech:
Have you forgotten so soon that most the so called Igbo scholars attended Awolowo school in SW. This includes Azikiwe.
Azikiwe senior awolowo for age and everything
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Stilloracle: 11:13pm On Mar 06, 2025
100% FAKE
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 9:35am On Mar 07, 2025
Stilloracle:
100% FAKE
Because there was a caught?
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Putinofrussia: 9:44am On Mar 07, 2025
What are the methodologies used because everybody knows that Yorubas are distinctively the most educated people in Nigeria.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Putinofrussia: 9:51am On Mar 07, 2025
Fake list written and produced in your one room.
Anybody with minimal knowledge in ICT can produce this kind of list.
Give us a verifiable source.




According to the NUC website which can be accessed seamlessly by any interested researcher,there is now a shift and a takeover by the Northerners as the Igbos are pushed off the sidewalk of Professorship into the 3rd position in the rank of who has the higher number of Professors between the two educational gladiators.

SW still continues to be the stallion and champion of Education in Nigeria as the number of their Professors is almost triple that of the Igbos according to the Directory of full Professors in Nigerian Universities.
Kudos to the gallant Igbos just as the Northerners are also heralded into the second position of Professorial hierarchy in Nigeria.
Welcome..



This is the Nigeria University Commission website's link...

https://www.nuc.edu.ng/
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by mrvitalis(m): 9:59am On Mar 07, 2025
We igbos should be ashamed of ourselves are are 26.6 % of the igbo population that are not literate? .. This is shameful honestly

There is absolutely nothing to celebrate here

Japanese have a literacy rate of 99%
Israel has 91 %
Germans 99%
Russia is 99.69%
Chinese is 95%
Even Ghana is 80.1%

This is absolutely rubbish.. We need to bury our head in shame and work harder
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by KonteYoruba(op): 10:29am On Mar 07, 2025
Putinofrussia:
What are the methodologies used because everybody knows that Yorubas are distinctively the most educated people in Nigeria.
Said by awolowo?
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by ibechris(m): 10:34am On Mar 07, 2025
Igbos have maintained literacy since independence.

I saw a statistics that validated that claim.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Bobloco: 10:43am On Mar 07, 2025
AdeYORUFAFO:
Nnamdi Azikiwe’s educational profile is as follows:
Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Lincoln University in 1930.
Masters degree in Religion and Philosophy from Lincoln University in 1932.
Masters degree in Anthropology from University of Pennsylvania's in 1933.
He was a Doctoral candidate at Columbia University in 1934 before returning to Nigeria.
He was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Liberia.

Nnamdi Azikiwe is by far senior to Awolowo and thus couldn’t have benefited from Awolowo’s educational policies in the SW. He obtained his degrees long before Awolowo became a politician.
Thank you for puncturing their barefaced lies, falsehood and propaganda with facts
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by ibechris(m): 10:47am On Mar 07, 2025
Putinofrussia:
What are the methodologies used because everybody knows that Yorubas are distinctively the most educated people in Nigeria.
Be waiting for methodologies.

Person wey pass u,pass u any day.

U guys used propaganda to feel good in the past. Igbos have been ahead educationally,just that the war slowed things down for them but today,they have come out strong and better in almost every area of human endeavours.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by oluztx:
The Edo that you see neck and neck with Igbo are mostly the Esan, Afamai and Ogbona people, who are actually related to Igbos if you study ancient Idu Kingdom. That's why their tradition and culture is similar to Igbos, and they even resemble Igbos. Don't mistake them with Yoruba blood Bini people aka Ile bino that invaded that land and stole it. These ones resemble and behave like Yoruba, and usually carry last in school.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Putinofrussia: 11:52am On Mar 07, 2025
ibechris:
Be waiting for methodologies.

Person wey pass u,pass u any day.

U guys used propaganda to feel good in the past. Igbos have been ahead educationally,just that the war slowed things down for them but today,they have come out strong and better in almost every area of human endeavours.
Stop deceiving yourself because it will take more than a thousand years before Igbos can achieve what Yorubas have achieved educationally and otherwise.


This is the genuine record not that one prepared in your bedroom...

According to the NUC website which can be accessed seamlessly by any interested researcher,there is now a shift and a takeover by the Northerners as the Igbos are pushed off the sidewalk of Professorship into the 3rd position in the rank of who has the higher number of Professors between the two educational gladiators.

SW still continues to be the stallion and champion of Education in Nigeria as the number of their Professors is almost triple that of the Igbos according to the Directory of full Professors in Nigerian Universities.
Kudos to the gallant Igbos just as the Northerners are also heralded into the second position of Professorial hierarchy in Nigeria.
Welcome..



This is the Nigeria University Commission website's link...

https://www.nuc.edu.ng/
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by ScamHunter: 11:58am On Mar 07, 2025
even with using quota suprression against Igbo. The Tribe still leads

Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by Dalohad:
Freetech:
Have you forgotten so soon that most the so called Igbo scholars attended Awolowo school in SW. This includes Azikiwe.
So Zik attended Awolowo's school? The same Awolowo who was sitting on the grass and listening to Dr Ziks (Who already had his PhD) speeches as a lowly journalist intern in the late 1930s, before he (Awo) got inspired to go study law in the UK?

Have you read Awolowo's autobiography 'Awo'? Do you morons even read at all nowadays?

Enigmatic Zik became educated and popular in Nigeria far before Awo went to study law in the UK and come back to Nigeria.

Gen-Z mugus make Una dey read o. I fear for Una generation..
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by ibechris(m): 2:10pm On Mar 07, 2025
Putinofrussia:
Stop deceiving yourself because it will take more than a thousand years before Igbos can achieve what Yorubas have achieved educationally and otherwise.


This is the genuine record not that one prepared in your bedroom...

According to the NUC website which can be accessed seamlessly by any interested researcher,there is now a shift and a takeover by the Northerners as the Igbos are pushed off the sidewalk of Professorship into the 3rd position in the rank of who has the higher number of Professors between the two educational gladiators.

SW still continues to be the stallion and champion of Education in Nigeria as the number of their Professors is almost triple that of the Igbos according to the Directory of full Professors in Nigerian Universities.
Kudos to the gallant Igbos just as the Northerners are also heralded into the second position of Professorial hierarchy in Nigeria.
Welcome..



This is the Nigeria University Commission website's link...

https://www.nuc.edu.ng/
I am not arguing with u.
U can use AI to investigate what I am saying.

Ask AI about the most educated tribe in 1960...the answer would shock u.

There has never been a time when Yorubas were more educated than igbos...rather it was propaganda that made it so.

There is no state,federal or private university in Nigeria where u won't find igbos.

No matter how interior it is around Nigeria,u will find igbos either schooling and doing business in the same village IN SOKOTO,ZAMFARA,KEBBI AND name it.


Below is my finding using AI.

The most educated tribe in 1960?
According to various sources, including a 1960 report by the Nigerian Government, the Igbo tribe was considered one of the most educated tribes in Nigeria at that time.

In fact, a 1960 census report showed that the Igbo people had the highest literacy rate and the highest number of university graduates among all the ethnic groups in Nigeria.

This was largely due to the Igbo people's strong emphasis on education and their willingness to embrace Western education, which was introduced by British colonialists in the early 20th century.
Re: See Literacy Rate By Ethnicity In Nigeria by franchasng: 2:12pm On Mar 07, 2025
Edo is not an ethnicity in Nigeria.

I think we have different tribes or ethnicities in Edo. They should do better, Bini would have made more sense than Edo.


And many people would come here to say Igbos aren't supposed to be the number one because to them, Igbos are known for business and entrepreneurship and not education, but they are so wrong.


In the 60s to 70s, Awolowo did a remarkable thing that helped Yorubas acquire education for free, and this made them catch up with Igbos because Igbos dominated most sectors in Nigeria including in the North which made Ahmadu Bello to say he would stop it and rather hire foreigners to fill up spaces Northerners couldn't fill than allow Igbos fill it.


That Igbo spare parts dealer or the one helping you to butcher your car or fix your car at Ladipo or othe markets, or that Igbo guy offloading container you see as an illiterate is probably a graduate and if he didn't attend a university, he probably have an OND or at worst a WAEC.


I am a graduate and soon to become a PhD holder, funny enough, my Church members who are mostly Yorubas do see me as someone that didn't finish university because they know I am not working for anybody but own my own small firm which they call business, so to them, as an Omo Igbo, I no go school, but the day they will find out that I am in the process of acquiring a PhD they will be shocked cheesy



This is one thing about Igbos that most Nigerians, especially Yorubas don't know. That Igbo guy selling Okrika wears or women underwear in the market is probably a graduate who went into business after school or was combining both, so stop looking down on Igbo business owners, traders and entrepreneurs as illiterates, most of them are graduates and even enrolled in part time studies to acquir hire certificates cheesy



In Igbo land, from the 90s, it became a competition for every family to train their child to university level and if your child hasn't gained admission to study in the university or polytechnic, you are seen as a failure and the child is seen as future failure or lout lol, this pushed many Igbos to take education more seriously despite holding on to their family business cool


Note, Ekiti State may have the highest number of Professors, but that doesn't make them the most literate state because literacy is not measured by the number of those who acquired PhD but by the number of those who obtained at least Secondary school certificate and a university/polytechnic certificate. So let's not mistake the two
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