Majority of Nigerians Are Intellectually Retar-ded

Majority of Nigerians are actually intellectually retar-ded even though many people may disagree and they include many of the students and graduates of Nigerian colleges, polytechnics and universities. When even majority of Nigerians cannot read and write, then don't be surprised that majority of Nigerians are intellectually retar-ded.

A simple survey of the environment is enough to show you that majority of Nigerians are intellectually retarded and the tragedy of it all is that they gloat in their predicament in willful rebellion against conventional wisdom of rational human behaviour; which is the cause of their own corruption and destruction. Ironically, majority of them live in denial of the facts of life and prefer pointing accusing fingers at corrupt politicians when they are the same people who breed the contagious corruption plaguing the nation.

The most intellectually retar-ded people in Nigeria are the majority of the Hausa Muslims who are the most intolerant of other tribes with different cultures and religions. The fact that majority of the intolerant Hausa Muslims are disciples of the same clerics of the Hausa Muslims who claim to be educated, but have never stopped the intolerant groups among their population from violent acts shows the fallacy and hypocrisy of their clerics and leaders, because they all worship at the same mosques and would have been able to have a consensus against the ethnic-religious bigotry of their larger Hausa Muslims population. In fact, the Hausa Muslims in tertiary institutions have also displayed irrational human behaviour in their intolerant acts against non-Muslims.

Majority of the Hausa Muslims are not as intellectual and tolerant as the majority of the non-Hausa Muslims and other tribes in the south of Nigeria who supported and voted for the Hausa Muslim Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) in the 2015 presidential election, because they will never support and vote for a non-Hausa Christian presidential candidate. Why? They are intellectually retar-ded and don’t have the ratiocination for rational thinking, because they are ruled by their herd mentality. Only intellectually retar-ded people are ruled by herd mentality; as can be seen in the recurrent ethnic-religious conflicts in the Middle Belt and northern states of Nigeria. Many of them are still living like primitive uncivilized people in dark ages of history centuries ago when we are now in the digital age of modern civilization.

When you are not capable of ratiocination and rational thinking in behavour and lifestyle, you are intellectually re-tarded, because you have failed to use your intellectual capacity for rational human behaviour. And Nigerian politicians of the greedy ruling class exploit the intellectual illiteracy of the majority of Nigerians by using them as mere expendable pawns in their political power struggle. They are the political thugs, political assassins and bigoted voters who constitute the majority of the electorate in Nigerian politics. That is why Nigerians have been having incompetent political office holders and public officials since 1960 to date. They are products of the same negative thinking.

It is very easy to define and identify an incompetent government from the local government level to the central government by looking at the environment from the street to the State House.
A dirty and filthy environment is the evidence of an incompetent government.
The state of an environment shows you the state of the human development in every community.
No competent government will tolerate a dirty and filthy environment.
Only intellectually retar-ded people have dirty and filthy environments as can be seen from Lagos to Abuja and from the Niger Delta to Lake Chad. Majority of Nigerians are dirty and living in filthy environments. Visit the campuses of the tertiary institutions and their environments are enough to show you the irrational human behaviour of the students and lecturers who later end up as political office holders and carry over their abnormal characteristics to the government.
Majority of Nigerians are annoyingly dirty.
They can be so comfortable dining and wining in the midst of stinking heaps of refuse and stinking toilets. Of course, only sick people will feel comfortable living and working in a nauseating environment which is common in majority of private and public workplaces in Nigeria.
Every filthy environment is caused by an incompetent management of the community or company.
Most people will call it indiscipline. But the educated ones among them will not admit that they are guilty of indiscipline.
How can authorities of an intellectual institution have a filthy environment if they not incompetent?
Majority of the intellectual or academic institutions have filthy environments and they still contest for bragging rights as the breeding grounds of future leaders of the nation. No wonder they have been breeding such corrupt leaders messing up the country by their mismanagement of the government.

The intellectual minority in Nigeria are at the mercy of the intellectually retar-ded majority.
The intellectual minority can be compared to a dozen of wise people besieged by legions of criminals, idiots, prostitutes and parasites and these legions have messed up the country and turned the Nigerian Dream into the Nigerian nightmare.

Can the herd mentality of the intellectually retar-ded majority be changed in the new dispensation of a new government?
Behaviour change does not happen overnight, therefore the new government must know how to use the National Orientation Agency (NOA) working with other government ministries; especially Ministry of Education to develop models based on proven behavioural change theories for the teaching of Nigerians of all cultures on strict adherence and obedience to rational behaviour in living and working together in the nation building of a New Nigeria for the common good of all Nigerians.
The government must search and seek out mischievous clerics, ministers and leaders wherever they are in Nigeria; whether in the schools, mosques, churches and other places and address their insecurities at the earliest signs of intolerance and irrational intentions to prevent them from misinforming and misleading their believers and followers. A stitch in time saves nine.
The fringe elements of tribal bigotry and religious intolerance don’t turn into legions of blood thirsty terrorists overnight. It all starts with misinformation.
There will be no positive change without positive thinking.
Without positive thinking for positive behaviour change in the psyche of majority of intellectually retar-ded Nigerians, the vicious circle of the Nigerian crisis will continue until Armageddon.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, author of "Children of Heaven", "Song of Patriotism", "Sleepless Night", "Scarlet Tears of London", "Bye, Bye Zimbabwe", "In the House of Dog"s, "The Prophet Lied", "Diary of the Memory Keeper", co-author of "Na-ked Beauty", editor of "The Language of True Love" and Publisher/Editor of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® series. His new book on the 2015 elections, "The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream" will be released worldwide on May 29, 2015. His books are distributed by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Tower Books, Lulu, Glendora and other booksellers.

OK.

I thought northern muslims voted for obasanjo and Jonathan who are non hausa christians

Another "intellectual" rant.

Do thses muderfuckers look like they are ready for the 21st century? I don't think so,even pre muhammad Arab society is still far from their imaginations.

Bigotry has blinded most people for some 60 yrs now. It can be still reversed.

Intellectually retarded.
This writer is Intellectually stupidz and dumb.
Even the arguments lacks logic.
He claims cities are dirty because people are retarded.
Dumb conclusion.
Answer : problems beyond capacity of the governing class due to many reasons. E.g overpopulation, lack of resources/institutions , breakdown in societal values, corruption, incompetence, stupidity,illiteracy, poverty,governing structure.
the problem is not that of the hausa alone. It is applicable to all parts of the country.
Religion and oil has run that country mad. And yes problem affect the hausa /fulani more than the rest of the country

LMAO @ The tittle.

Summary:

The most intellectually retarded people in Nigeria are the majority of the Hausa Muslims.

Majority of the Hausa Muslims are not as intellectual & tolerant as the majority of the non-Hausa Muslims.

The intellectual minority [Non-Hausa Muslims] can be compared to a dozen of wise people besieged by legions of criminals, idiots, prostitutes, and parasites; and these legions [Hausa Muslims] have messed up the Country and turned the Nigerian dream into the Nigerian nightmare.

Observation: A provocative piece written by a Nigerian Jew, targeted at the Hausa Muslims [especially Mohammadu Buhari] for the simple motive of causing chaos & disharmony between the East & the North.

Hmmmm.

oduastates:
Intellectually retarded.
This writer is Intellectually stupidz and dumb.
Even the arguments lacks logic.
He claims cities are dirty because people are retarded.
Dumb conclusion.
Answer : problems beyond capacity of the governing class due to many reasons. E.g overpopulation, lack of resources/institutions , breakdown in societal values, corruption,

Niqqa you just proved the writer's assertions...and in style!
Just like the blacks in the states living in denial of the reality of their environment...some react by calling you coons and uncle toms.
Don't attack the messenger...attack the message!
The op was spot on and except you're being dishonest, he hit the nail on the head.
Ofcourse your inability to take personal responsibility could be blamed on a couple of factors...but that would be diagnosing effects rather causes. Don't ya think so?
Be honest...our mentality, environment, lifestyle needs a cleanup.

Zoharariel:
Summary:

The most intellectually retarded people in Nigeria are the majority of the Hausa Muslims.

Majority of the Hausa Muslims are not as intellectual & tolerant as the majority of the non-Hausa Muslims.

The intellectual minority [Non-Hausa Muslims] can be compared to a dozen of wise people besieged by legions of criminals, idiots, prostitutes, and parasites; and these legions [Hausa Muslims] have messed up the Country and turned the Nigerian dream into the Nigerian nightmare.

Observation: A provocative piece written by a Nigerian Jew, targeted at the Hausa Muslims [especially Mohammadu Buhari] for the simple motive of causing chaos & disharmony between the East & the North.

When you've attended one too many burials of friends, relatives and colleagues brought back from the North....who lost their lives to the loving and peaceful nature of the Northern fundamentalists....maybe you'll understand.
When you are called to visit the surviving families of victims of ethnic violence and religious terrorism,bombing for Allah and 72 virgins...for whom there might never be any justice...maybe you'll understand.
When you witness first hand the crass and senseless looting and impoverishment of a vast population by a few born to rule...maybe you'll understand.

Till then...keep calm and let the affected voice their concerns.

Babalegba:
I thought northern muslims voted for obasanjo and Jonathan who are non hausa christians

That is Nigeria for you. Divide and Rule.

PabloAfricanus:


Niqqa you just proved the writer's assertions...and in style!
Just like the blacks in the states living in denial of the reality of their environment...some react by calling you coons and uncle toms.
Don't attack the messenger...attack the message!
The op was spot on and except you're being dishonest, he hit the nail on the head.
Ofcourse your inability to take personal responsibility could be blamed on a couple of factors...but that would be diagnosing effects rather causes. Don't ya think so?
Be honest...our mentality, environment, lifestyle needs a cleanup.

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Thank you for your rational analysis.
Some people just want to argue against the facts out of ignorance or spite.
Tribal bigotry alone is an evidence of intellectual backwardness and by their populations, majority of Nigerians are tribal bigots. And followed by religious bigots. Then, the third category of those who are intellectually backward are those who went to school, even to universities, but fail to use the academic education in positive human development like majority of our political office holders who are only interested in the acquisition of the status symbols of political titles for political powers but fail woefully in public service.
Look at the environment of Abia State (my state of origin) and compare it to the environment of Akwa Ibom State (my in-laws state) and rate the two state governments. Even a kid in primary school can see that the governor of Abia State is incompetent and intellectually retar-ded and a disgrace to Igbo Intelligentsia, while the governor of Akwa Ibom is competent and intellectually advanced.

Even on campus, in the same department, you can see the intellectually advanced students in contrast to the intellectually retar-ded students. And they will all graduate and end up in different or similar occupations and professions. But not all graduates are intelligent. In fact, many graduates are still behaving like fools among us. And by their characters you know them.
My analysis is based on simple logic with proven facts as the realities in Nigeria can show us the difference between the goats and the sheep. In fact, I have seen better parenting among sheep than among many Nigerian parents in Nigeria.
Parents who cannot teach their children how to read and speak good English, but teach them how to twerk to "Shoki" and other X-rated hip hop songs and they are graduates.

Thought dis was a poem earlier

Orikinla:
Majority of Nigerians Are Intellectually Retar-ded

Majority of Nigerians are actually intellectually retar-ded even though many people may disagree and they include many of the students and graduates of Nigerian colleges, polytechnics and universities. When even majority of Nigerians cannot read and write, then don't be surprised that majority of Nigerians are intellectually retar-ded.

A simple survey of the environment is enough to show you that majority of Nigerians are intellectually retarded and the tragedy of it all is that they gloat in their predicament in willful rebellion against conventional wisdom of rational human behaviour; which is the cause of their own corruption and destruction. Ironically, majority of them live in denial of the facts of life and prefer pointing accusing fingers at corrupt politicians when they are the same people who breed the contagious corruption plaguing the nation.

The most intellectually retar-ded people in Nigeria are the majority of the Hausa Muslims who are the most intolerant of other tribes with different cultures and religions. The fact that majority of the intolerant Hausa Muslims are disciples of the same clerics of the Hausa Muslims who claim to be educated, but have never stopped the intolerant groups among their population from violent acts shows the fallacy and hypocrisy of their clerics and leaders, because they all worship at the same mosques and would have been able to have a consensus against the ethnic-religious bigotry of their larger Hausa Muslims population. In fact, the Hausa Muslims in tertiary institutions have also displayed irrational human behaviour in their intolerant acts against non-Muslims.

Majority of the Hausa Muslims are not as intellectual and tolerant as the majority of the non-Hausa Muslims and other tribes in the south of Nigeria who supported and voted for the Hausa Muslim Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) in the 2015 presidential election, because they will never support and vote for a non-Hausa Christian presidential candidate. Why? They are intellectually retar-ded and don’t have the ratiocination for rational thinking, because they are ruled by their herd mentality. Only intellectually retar-ded people are ruled by herd mentality; as can be seen in the recurrent ethnic-religious conflicts in the Middle Belt and northern states of Nigeria. Many of them are still living like primitive uncivilized people in dark ages of history centuries ago when we are now in the digital age of modern civilization.

When you are not capable of ratiocination and rational thinking in behavour and lifestyle, you are intellectually re-tarded, because you have failed to use your intellectual capacity for rational human behaviour. And Nigerian politicians of the greedy ruling class exploit the intellectual illiteracy of the majority of Nigerians by using them as mere expendable pawns in their political power struggle. They are the political thugs, political assassins and bigoted voters who constitute the majority of the electorate in Nigerian politics. That is why Nigerians have been having incompetent political office holders and public officials since 1960 to date. They are products of the same negative thinking.

It is very easy to define and identify an incompetent government from the local government level to the central government by looking at the environment from the street to the State House.
A dirty and filthy environment is the evidence of an incompetent government.
The state of an environment shows you the state of the human development in every community.
No competent government will tolerate a dirty and filthy environment.
Only intellectually retar-ded people have dirty and filthy environments as can be seen from Lagos to Abuja and from the Niger Delta to Lake Chad. Majority of Nigerians are dirty and living in filthy environments. Visit the campuses of the tertiary institutions and their environments are enough to show you the irrational human behaviour of the students and lecturers who later end up as political office holders and carry over their abnormal characteristics to the government.
Majority of Nigerians are annoyingly dirty.
They can be so comfortable dining and wining in the midst of stinking heaps of refuse and stinking toilets. Of course, only sick people will feel comfortable living and working in a nauseating environment which is common in majority of private and public workplaces in Nigeria.
Every filthy environment is caused by an incompetent management of the community or company.
Most people will call it indiscipline. But the educated ones among them will not admit that they are guilty of indiscipline.
How can authorities of an intellectual institution have a filthy environment if they not incompetent?
Majority of the intellectual or academic institutions have filthy environments and they still contest for bragging rights as the breeding grounds of future leaders of the nation. No wonder they have been breeding such corrupt leaders messing up the country by their mismanagement of the government.

The intellectual minority in Nigeria are at the mercy of the intellectually retar-ded majority.
The intellectual minority can be compared to a dozen of wise people besieged by legions of criminals, idiots, prostitutes and parasites and these legions have messed up the country and turned the Nigerian Dream into the Nigerian nightmare.

Can the herd mentality of the intellectually retar-ded majority be changed in the new dispensation of a new government?
Behaviour change does not happen overnight, therefore the new government must know how to use the National Orientation Agency (NOA) working with other government ministries; especially Ministry of Education to develop models based on proven behavioural change theories for the teaching of Nigerians of all cultures on strict adherence and obedience to rational behaviour in living and working together in the nation building of a New Nigeria for the common good of all Nigerians.
The government must search and seek out mischievous clerics, ministers and leaders wherever they are in Nigeria; whether in the schools, mosques, churches and other places and address their insecurities at the earliest signs of intolerance and irrational intentions to prevent them from misinforming and misleading their believers and followers. A stitch in time saves nine.
The fringe elements of tribal bigotry and religious intolerance don’t turn into legions of blood thirsty terrorists overnight. It all starts with misinformation.
There will be no positive change without positive thinking.
Without positive thinking for positive behaviour change in the psyche of majority of intellectually retar-ded Nigerians, the vicious circle of the Nigerian crisis will continue until Armageddon.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, author of "Children of Heaven", "Song of Patriotism", "Sleepless Night", "Scarlet Tears of London", "Bye, Bye Zimbabwe", "In the House of Dog"s, "The Prophet Lied", "Diary of the Memory Keeper", co-author of "Na-ked Beauty", editor of "The Language of True Love" and Publisher/Editor of the NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® series. His new book on the 2015 elections, "The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream" will be released worldwide on May 29, 2015. His books are distributed by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Tower Books, Lulu, Glendora and other booksellers.

I agree with you that majority of Nigerians are intellectually backward but am reluctant to believe that it has anything to do with tribe and ethnicity. I have always felt sorry for our people because of their retrogressive ways of thinking and acting, especially the youths. The reasons for this intellectual deficiency can be traced to some or all of the following :
1. Our culture and traditions
2. Many proverbs in the south west that discourage hardwork but promote laziness such as (1) ise ko lowo (2) kita kira o dola (3) aro ti ko le rin , o n rale, o nkole (4) mi o le wa ku , etc.
3. Lack of the spirit of excellence ( our heads gets swollen with very little achievement)
4.Religion and religious leaders ( God is able to do all things for you with prayers, not hardwork)
5. Fear and aparthy ( nigerians are afraid to ask questions on important issues but easily resign to fate)
6. Lazy attitude of the youths towards reading and research
7. Weak government and institutions.
You way wish to refer to my profile and previous posts on this subject.

akoaki:


I agree with you that majority of Nigerians are intellectually backward but am reluctant to believe that it has anything to do with tribe and ethnicity. I have always felt sorry for our people because of their retrogressive ways of thinking and acting, especially the youths. The reasons for this intellectual deficiency can be traced to some or all of the following :
1. Our culture and traditions
2. Many proverbs in the south west that discourage hardwork but promote laziness such as (1) ise ko lowo (2) kita kira o dola (3) aro ti ko le rin , o n rale, o nkole (4) mi o le wa ku , etc.
3. Lack of the spirit of excellence ( our heads gets swollen with very little achievement)
4.Religion and religious leaders ( God is able to do all things for you with prayers, not hardwork)
5. Fear and aparthy ( nigerians are afraid to ask questions on important issues but easily resign to fate)
6. Lazy attitude of the youths towards reading and research
7. Weak government and institutions.
You way wish to refer to my profile and previous posts on this subject.

Thank you for your explanations.
This is an important sociopolitical topic and I am glad to see the positive contributions, because we are addressing the fundamental causes of the Nigerian crisis.
But as we say, charity begins at home, majority of Nigerian parents preach, practice and teach tribal bigotry and religious bigotry to their children.
Go to the Islamic schools and you will see how Islamic clerics preaching dogmatic religious intolerance to impressionable innocent children. And I have seen Muslim parents with PhDs warning their sons and daughters not to date or marry non-Muslims.
Majority of Igbos will kick against their daughters dating and marrying Yorubas and Hausas.

Orikinla:

Thank you for your explanations.
This is an important sociopolitical topic and I am glad to see the positive contributions, because we are addressing the fundamental causes of the Nigerian crisis.
But as we say, charity begins at home, majority of Nigerian parents preach, practice and teach tribal bigotry and religious bigotry to their children.
Go to the Islamic schools and you will see how Islamic clerics preaching dogmatic religious intolerance to impressionable innocent children. And I have seen Muslim parents with PhDs warning their sons and daughters not to date or marry non-Muslims.
Majority of Igbos will kick against their daughters dating and marrying Yorubas and Hausas.

I cannot agree less. My concern here is that we dont have many people on this forum who understand what you and i are talking about. I just feel sorry for nigerians, especially the youths.
However, your impression about muslims being warned by parents not to marry people of the other faiths is not limited to muslims. Many christians, especially the pentecostal group believe that whoever is not a christian may go to hell because they are not "born again". When a muslim invites a "born again" christian to an islamic programme in the mosque, he hardy attends but muslims are more liberal in this sense as they fellowship with christians in their activities and sometimes attend vigils.
In my opinion, the best way to look at this menace is to critically review religion as a whole and see where it offends our sensibilities and how it has contributed to the backwardness of our society. My position on this topic is propelled by my having been a devout muslim and a devout christian at different times.

akoaki:


I cannot agree less. My concern here is that we dont have many people on this forum who understand what you and i are talking about. I just feel sorry for nigerians, especially the youths.
However, your impression about muslims being warned by parents not to marry people of the other faiths is not limited to muslims. Many christians, especially the pentecostal group believe that whoever is not a christian may go to hell because they are not "born again". When a muslim invites a "born again" christian to an islamic programme in the mosque, he hardy attends but muslims are more liberal in this sense as they fellowship with christians in their activities and sometimes attend vigils.
In my opinion, the best way to look at this menace is to critically review religion as a whole and see where it offends our sensibilities and how it has contributed to the backwardness of our society. My position on this topic is propelled by my having been a devout muslim and a devout christian at different times.

. Yoruba Muslims are more tolerant than Hausa Muslims. I have visited mosques and sat with Imams and my father was an Ifa priest highy respected by the Yorubas in Lagos even though he was Igbo. And he taught me Ifa divination before I became born again Christian. So, I have been exposed to the three most popular religions in Nigeria. Ignorance has done worse things to Nigerians than political corruption. The poverty plaguing majority of Nigerians is caused by their ignorance and not the corrupt government.

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Orikinla:
. Yoruba Muslims are more tolerant than Hausa Muslims. I have visited mosques and sat with Imams and my father was an Ifa priest highy respected by the Yorubas in Lagos even though he was Igbo. And he taught me Ifa divination before I became born again Christian. So, I have been exposed to the three most popular religions in Nigeria. Ignorance has done worse things to Nigerians than political corruption. The poverty plaguing majority of Nigerians is caused by their ignorance and not the corrupt government.

So far we on the same page . What nigeria has in much abundance is ignorance followed closely by poverty. All other problems are derivatives of these two but most of us dont see it that way. Majority of nigerians hate to seek new knowledge but prefer sticking to what they knew already, not minding whether it is right or wrong. And dont invest too much time in trying to change their position, they are very comfortable with it.

akoaki:
So far we on the same page . What nigeria has in much abundance is ignorance followed closely by poverty. All other problems are derivatives of these two but most of us dont see it that way. Majority of nigerians hate to seek new knowledge but prefer sticking to what they knew already, not minding whether it is right or wrong. And dont invest too much time in trying to change their position, they are very comfortable it.

this comment is bullseye

What do you expect, they're all bunch of monkey's and baboons

@ op: I agree with you but I don't think it's just about the Hausas or Muslims;no. There are so many intellectually challenged folks spread around the country from the south to the east and among Christians and muslims(I even think they are evenly shared amongst both religions). You don't need to look far for facts to back up yyour claims. Nairaland is enough for yyou to do your research and make your conclusion.

khia:
LMAO @ The tittle.

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Goodkidd:
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