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Please free NdIgbo: Stop exposing these facts. Let them build quietly, steadily, tenaciously breaking through in all human endeavours Globally.

They do need this distraction right now.

ednut1:
yoruba 60m, edo 2-3m. Stats does not always tell the full story

Absolute nonsense. It's obvious you have zero knowledge of the subject matter. Statistics use a sample size, it doesn't matter if 1 side is just 50 while the other side is 50 million. That's how how you get correct stats. Edo has always topped Yoruba in education

Is this not Edo that I schooled?
Or we have different Edo ni
Yoruba people dominated AAU and Uniben
Only few people in Edo state are educated

This is accurate.

As a Bini man, I know that it's only the Igbos can match us or slightly edge us in the whole of Nigeria. Others are noise makers.

jaszplus12:
Boss, I'm pretty sure you're feeling kinky about the stats shown. I lived in SE for long enough to know the results don't tell what's on ground!!
I don't know if attending school means educated...if na so, then stats may be right

There's no one you'll meet in the SE who doesn't know how to, at least, speak English. The first time in my entire life where I met men who couldn't speak a single word in ENglish language or even pidgin english was during my NYSC in Ogun Waterside LGA and it was shocking because even my aged grandmother could speak pidgin

banom:
The ultimate question is why is Fulani ( the second Lowest in the country ) the one controlling the government and the rest of the country ?

With AAK4777, you can tell a big man to lie down on top shiiit. They control the army and banditory so, they lead by example.

Zeebuy:
There's no one you'll meet in the SE who doesn't know how to, at least, speak English. The first time in my entire life where I met men who couldn't speak a single word in ENglish language or even pidgin english was during my NYSC in Ogun Waterside LGA and it was shocking because even my aged grandmother could speak pidgin

Yes in a remote part of Ibadan, they no Sabi come and go

colossus91:
Lol i absolutely disagree. Yes i
We igbos are very intelligent but the standard number of schools in the east can never match the omes in lagos for instance. Make we accept the one wey dem give us atleast!

It is not by standard school but who are the students in those schools? If u tour Nigeria round u will notice one surprising thing about the igbos,they are in virtually all the schools in the west,south south and the northern parts of the country. How many yorubas are in igbo land schooling?

StatiFAKE is very correct for the first time.

givedemwotowoto:
The best is at 58 percent?

I don’t agree with 58%

Imo State alone has a literacy rate of above 93% almost every one in Imo State understands and Speaks English.

SE should be at 78%.

It used to be us, but things are changing now due to tribalism and bad leaders. I've never seen an igbo boy or girl beg alms on the street or roaming the streets during school hours. I stand to be corrected

You need money to upgrade HDI. Kano gets less than one third what the SE gets on a per Capita basis. For Kano children to be at par with the SE, the Nigerian revenue sharing formula can not help them. They have to generate revenue to help themselves as Lagos and Ogun are doing. No free lunch anywhere. No state in the country can really beat the children in Lagos or Ogun for instance and that is not because of their DNA but because they generate revenue some of which is spent on their education sector. They are trying despite that their population is huge. Ogun by NIN is half of the SE and Lagos by NIN is 120 percent of the SE but both normally top the HDI for Nigeria and it is not because of their DNA but because they are spending money

ibechris:
It is not by standard school but who are the students in those schools? If u tour Nigeria round u will notice one surprising thing about the igbos,they are in virtually in almost all tge schools in the west,south south and the northern parts of the country. How many yorubas are in igbo land schooling?

There are Yoruba in the Eastern schools but the western schools are the first choice of the majority of Nigerians so you expect more Yoruba to choose their own schools as others do. How many US citizens school in Nigeria or even the UK? My neighbor here graduated from UNN and he is Yoruba. I have friends that graduated from UNN and they are Yoruba As for Northern schools, there is no school in the North where the number of Yoruba lecturers or students is not more than Igbos. You can search for any link online showing staff in Northern schools to disprove this. There are numerous links online showing the staff in departments of Northern schools with their names.

Igbo should be 85%, not 58%.
My 4 years old in KG 4 can already read very well.
Boy Igbo is too much

Timmi:
Statisense is a road side pseudo organization without credentials.
Since you rely on them, ask them to show the source of the data - the raw data and let others perform statistical analysis on the data.

Statisense is not a credible source of statistical analysis.

did I say otherwise in my comment?

It is what it is!
Facts don't lie.

JuanDeDios:
Are you sure they're more than the Fulani? Tiv? Igala? Ijaw?

they are more than them, their rivals are the ijaws.

helinues:
Edo above Yoruba as how? Who conducted the survey?

E shock you?? Nobody dey dispute that Igbos are number one

Macphenson:
Why always Igbos?
Even the quality of education in south east is on another level.
I told somebody that it would be difficult for people who attended school in other regions to compete with south east People.

The comment says Igbo households, not regions; that doesn't necessarily translate to the fact that they households are all located in the south east.

Hemanwel:
Isn't Edo a State? How does it rank as an ethnic group?

Edo tribe:

Edo State
Delta( including ANIOMA:70% of us).
Rivers
Bayelsa

Edo people are naturally book lovers and BRAIN.

Bendel people naturally thrive in Education, Sports, Banking, Media/ Journalism, Law.....Na we get am.

Edo child wherever State they are based will speak pidgin and English ( no matter how small)together.

CyracksMrBlogger:
the coup carried out by igbos against the northern people, and then installing Ironsi, where he started promoting igbos to higher ranks in the army, promoting igbos in other sectors while demoting notherners and yorubas, why didnt you mentioned them? You didn't mentioned all the injustice committed by igbos against the northern people that instigated the civil war, you think we don't know? Abegi

the person I quoted was asking why "2nd lowest in the country" is the one controlling the govt and I responded to him that the SE politicians and soldiers had zero knowledge of economics could not forecast the oil boom that awaited the SE region and due to their superiority complex and mindset to always dominate non-SE people..

SE leaders and soldiers indirectly put their people in poverty because they believed they were superior to non-igbos..

if you can not understand what I wrote that's your business..

go back to school...

AreaFada2:
But a sample of 200 Yoruba and 200 Edo kids in similar socio-economic circumstances, should be broadly representative. Irrespective of overall population of each ethnicity.
You can compare health indices, poverty, GNI per capita and others in tiny Andora or Monaco to massive India or China. There are reliable statistical tools to use.

However, if you were to sample a mix of Ekiti and Ondo state kids, it would be quite close to Edo/Igbo figure. I know this because I know both areas (Edo and Ondo) very well from experience.
Many of us knew this decades ago. But politics and tribalism muddy everything in 9ja.

By the way, Edo is about 5.25 to 6 million.

Areafada is here again.

Nice to see you.

tete7000:
The comment says Igbo households, not regions; that doesn't necessarily translate to the fact that they households are all located in the south east.

So Igbo house holds is now different from Igbos? The statement Igbo house holds simply prices that anywhere Igbos are, they excel in education. The prove to this assertion abounds all over the globe.

According to Statista:


Nigeria's most educated regions are the South East and South West, both boasting adult literacy rates often exceeding 80–90%.

According to the Statista Literacy Rate in Nigeria data, the South West leads with an 89% male and 80.6% female literacy rate, while the South East closely follows with 86.7% and 79.3%, respectively.

victoryenergy:
Ibibios are the fourth largest tribe in Nigeria, but so many Nigerians won't agree.

No, they are not.

Ijaws are.

The reason "many Nigerians" in your own words don't agree is because they are not.

You are using your emotions to generate statistical data, and that is not how it works

AreaFada2:
But a sample of 200 Yoruba and 200 Edo kids in similar socio-economic circumstances, should be broadly representative. Irrespective of overall population of each ethnicity.
You can compare health indices, poverty, GNI per capita and others in tiny Andora or Monaco to massive India or China. There are reliable statistical tools to use.

However, if you were to sample a mix of Ekiti and Ondo state kids, it would be quite close to Edo/Igbo figure. I know this because I know both areas (Edo and Ondo) very well from experience.
Many of us knew this decades ago. But politics and tribalism muddy everything in 9ja.

By the way, Edo is about 5.25 to 6 million.

You are not correct. HDI in the SW when last measured was highest in Lagos and Ogun state and they are the two states with the highest igr. Lagos and Ogun state also happen to top the chart of HDI in Nigeria. It is about money spent on the education sector per Capita. A low population state collecting big allocation should do better than a state with a higher population collecting the same allocation

Nigerian states by HDI showing Lagos and Ogun states as chart toppers

https://www.nairaland.com/7762518/2021-human-development-index

https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/NGA/

It is a result of money available for government to spend consisting of federal allocations and internally generated revenue. If you don't have igr and revenue sharing is skewed against you then there is no magic you can perform

[quote author=colossus91 post=139913428]Lol i absolutely disagree. Yes i
We igbos are very intelligent but the standard number of schools in the east can never match the omes in lagos for instance. Make we accept the one wey dem give us atleast!


Who is talking about the structures?
We are talking about the ESSENCE, THE TEACHERS QUALITY AND DELIVERY, THE MENTAL ACUITY OF STUDENTS ETC.
Does lagos have it?!!!.

[quote author=colossus91 post=139913428]Lol i absolutely disagree. Yes i
We igbos are very intelligent but the standard number of schools in the east can never match the omes in lagos for instance. Make we accept the one wey dem give us atleast!


Who is talking about the structures?
We are talking about the ESSENCE, THE TEACHERS QUALITY AND DELIVERY, THE MENTAL ACUITY OF STUDENTS ETC.

Does lagos have it?!!!.
How many of them are in ROME FOR THE OLYMPIAD as we speak?

helinues:
Edo above Yoruba as how? Who conducted the survey?

National common entrance exams cut off mark should be a good pointer to that... Edo and delta dust SW any time and everytime.