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obailala:
Haha... so in your peculiar wisdom, the title of this thread is what you call smart and a defence of Igbo interests?... Enjoy your fools paradise!

I am not just talking about this thread.
But since you claim to be detribalized than Nnamdi azikiwe, this thread definitely does not show it.
What could be more pro-Nigeria than merit? Even at that, you still had to disagree just because igbos may end up dominating.

xtrorse:
Stop amusing yourself by arrogantly assuming a mien of objectivity when it's obvious you're not far from a hypocrite.

You don't need to claim Igbo to make a valid point.
Did you bother to raise the faintest voice to challenge the political appointments thus far?

If you're well trained from home you would castigate the wicked Quota System put in place of merit to short-change certain people.

Igbos don't need your silly talk; take it to your preferred tribe!

I have never supported the retrogressive quota system in my life. But I do not think it's a nice thing to insinuate that only Igbos are affected by the senseless policy (just like the title of this thread says). My point is very simple on this and I can't understand what's too difficult to understand in that.

obailala:
I have never supported the retrogressive quota system in my life. But I do not think it's a nice thing to insinuate that only Igbos are affected by the senseless policy (just like the title of this thread says). My point is very simple on this and I can't understand what's too difficult to understand in that.

Thus far it was not insinuated that Igbos are the only people affected by the Quota System policy. But the fact remains that such policies were put in place to checkmate the aspirations/progress of Igbos especially. Q.E.D!

obum88:
I am a full blooded Igbo but that is not injustice it shows superiority.

Igbos are freaking worthless and useless for God sake.... Jeez!!!! I initially thought it was only Igbos that need to score 60 and above before being offered admission but i realised that SW-Yorubas are equally required to score the same 60 and above.

And Yorubas are not wailing cos they are too intelligent to notice who is scoring less than 60.....

Chest-beaters.

Go to their universities in the East and see advanced secondary schools with typical igbo students all over the place, speaking English Language like Igbo language.

If you want to die before your time, attend their church services on Sunday in the East and see their so called graduates giving testimonies in church with Igbotic English language

mapet:
Bros,

1. I am very happy each time I see some idiots get schooled by people like you. It gives hope that sane people still do exist.
2. If someone's brain has regressed to the point of "Igbos are this-and-that....." then a translation from neurosis to physchosis is on the way.
3. Unfortunately other idiots will latch on to a flawed position, established by a prior idiot and then idiocy is perpertuated...

Those flat headed nuisance shud just be ignored.

GentleToks:
Igbos are freaking worthless and useless for God sake.... Jeez!!!! I initially thought it was only Igbos that need to score 60 and above before being offered admission but i realised that SW-Yorubas are equally required to score the same 60 and above.

And Yorubas are not wailing cos they are too intelligent to notice who is scoring less than 60.....

Chest-beaters.

Go to their universities in the East and see advanced secondary schools with typical igbo students all over the place, speaking English Language like Igbo language.

If you want to die before your time, attend their church services on Sunday in the East and see their so called graduates giving testimonies in church with Igbotic English language

Frustrated Yorrobber clown and specialist in evil concoctions from Odua Islamic Republic of Ritual-killers, what have you to say about this great research, analysis and revelation of the educational exploits of the Great Igbo Nation?

While you are at it, note that in spite of the over-hyped Awo's free education and the much taunted 'sophistication' of Yoruba tribe the SW has the most population of illiterates in the South of Nigeria.

First, go deal with that revelation...

manchy7531:
LOOK WHO IS GOING TO SCHOOL IN NIGERIA:
THE STATISTICS MAY SURPRISE YOU
Ikechukwu Agbor Tuesday, February 10, 2009
ikeagbor@yahoo.com
Dallas, Texas, USA


"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence". --John Adam's (1735 - 1826) argument as he defended soldiers in the Boston Massacre trials in December 1770.

In every conceivable hamlet in Nigeria and most of Africa are men and women from the South-East who toil to make ends meet, and because of their sheer number, the press in Nigeria has continued to assert, albeit wrongly that the South-Easterners have abandoned education.

Why is that so?

Come along with me as we meander through the maze, bare the facts and bust the myth of who is in school and who is not.


We will begin by consulting JAMB, culling figures from UME admissions in the years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, and then crunching the numbers and provide the statistics.

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Fig.1. Total Admissions for the six year period for the six geo-political zones


It is noteworthy that the South-West lags behind among the three zones that comprise the South, and so for the purposes of this presentation, I will limit the study to the three Southern zones as the Northern zones have historically lagged behind their Southern counterparts.

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Fig.2. Admissions for South-East, South-West and South-South


From the above, it can thus be established that the South-East has more of her young men and women admitted to Nigerian universities than either the South-West or the South-South; "quota" system not withstanding. The South-South has been next to the South-East in the number of university admissions in all the years except 2006 and 2007 when South-West made a nominal gain. Within the South-South, it is interesting to note that Delta State is tops, and no attempt will be made on the part of the author to divvy up the South-South for the purposes of this presentation in spite of the fact that Delta and Rivers States have more of their young men and women admitted than Kwara and Kogi put together, so no numbers will be appropriated from the South-South into South-East, in as much as in the same token no remnants of Kogi and Kwara States will be consigned into the South-West.


The South-East and the South-West have far more homogeneity within the population that occupies its geographic space due to language. It is also noteworthy that there is a presence of Ijaw in the South-West but still my subsequent comparison will be solely confined to only the South-West and the South-East.

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Fig.3. Male / Female admissions in the South-East


It can be seen from the above that it was only in 2004 that the number of women surpassed the men by a miniscule number. Also note the spikes in 2003 and 2004; I am not sure whether to attribute that to the number of universities under the wing of JAMB or to some other factors. The spike is also apparent when South-East is compared to both South-West and South-South (See Fig.4). It is also noteworthy that the South-East women have continued to keep pace with their male counterparts. To make a blanket statement that the South-East has abandoned education is totally false; that there are a number of men who are gainfully employed either as artisans or traders only goes to show that the South-East population has always been underestimated.

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Fig.4. South-East and South-West total admissions


It is discernible that in the years from 2002 until 2007, the South-East has continued to lead the South-West in university admissions. The South-East bested the South-West in terms of number of admissions in both genders also. As to the spikes in 2003 and 2004, my best bet would be that in the subsequent years, JAMB divested from the number of universities under its wing. (See also Fig.3.)
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Fig.5. South-East and South-West admissions for males


We can glean from the above chart that there are more Southeast males in the universities than their counterparts in the Southwest. In 2005 ad 2006 the numbers essentially remained the same for each zone.

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Fig.6. South-East and South-West female admissions


From the above, there are more South-East females in the universities than their SW female counterparts.
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Fig.7. South-East Female and South-West Male admissions for six years



From the above, there are more S females in the universities than SW males.
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Fig.8. South-East Male and South-West female admissions for six years



From the above there are more SE males in the universities than SW females

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Fig.9. South-East and South-West male and female admissions for six years





From the above, among all genders, SE males lead the SE females barely, who in turn lead the SW males. The SW females are fewer in number of admissions than all others.

We can deduct from the above bar charts as follows:


From fig.1: among the six geo-political zones for six years admissions from 2002 through 2007, the SE leads followed by SS, then SW, NC, NW while NE bottomed out.

Fig.2: The SE leads the three zones in the south

Fig.3: Total male admissions in the SE is more than the female admissions for the six year period

Fig.4: SE leads SW in total admissions for six years in a row

Fig.5: SE males lead their SW counterparts in admissions for six years in row

Fig.6: SE females lead their SW counterparts in admissions for six years in a row

Fig.7: SE females lead SW males in admissions for six years in a row

Fig.8: SE males lead SW females in admissions for six years in a row

Fig.9: In all genders, SE males are tops, followed by SE females, then SW males, while S females bottomed out

In conclusion, if we add up the number of young men and women who are admitted into Nigeria universities together with the South-East men and women who are in the remotest conceivable hamlets of every state in Nigeria, and the rest in the West African sub-region and other parts of Africa, who are wrongly accused of having abandoned higher education while there South-East peers hold their own, it makes me to still demand to know how many we really are; the Nigerian state continues to spew out spurious population censuses.

Finally, if the South-East has more people in the universities when there is no reason other than that they have more candidates applying for same, it would be right and appropriately so to postulate that it in terms of population, there are more people in the South-East than either in the South-West or the South-South.

So the next time they tell you that South-East males have abandoned school, point the statistics in their face. And more poignantly ask them: O bu anyi anaghi eme ofuma; anyi oga egburu unu onwe anyi? (Aren't we doing well already; do we commit suicide for you all?)

But wait, in the next segment when the 2006 population census will be analyzed, the reader will be in for more shocker; the 2006 population census has Oyo State as the most populated State in the South-West outside Lagos, with a population of 5,591,581, while the most populated state in the South-East is Anambra State with a total population of 4,182,032. However in 2007 JAMB admissions, Anambra State recorded a total of 8,725 in admissions while Oyo State had 3,788….I am crunching the numbers.




Ikechukwu Agbor is the author of the novel "Kisses from America"

Due to space limitation all the figures could not be uploaded; however the rest of the figures can be studied at the link below

http://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2009/feb/101.html

xtrorse:
See a previous year's Unity Schools Admission Cut-off Marks for your comparison:

Abia - Male(130) Female(130)
Adamawa - Male(62) Female(62)
Akwa-Ibom - Male(123) Female(123)
Anambra - Male(139) Female(139)[
Bauchi - Male(35) Female(35)
Bayelsa - Male(72) Female(72)
Benue - Male(111) Female(111)
Borno - Male(45) Female(45)
Cross-Rivers - Male(97) Female(97)
Delta - Male(131) Female(131)
Ebonyi - Male(112) Female(112)
Edo - Male(127) Female(127)
Ekiti - Male(119) Female(119)
Enugu - Male(134) Female(134)
Gombe - Male(58) Female(58)
Imo - Male(138) Female(138)
Jigawa - Male(44) Female(44)
Kaduna - Male(91) Female (91)
Kano - Male(67) Female(67)
Kastina - Male(60) Female(60)
Kebbi - Male(9) Female(20)
Kogi - Male(119) Female(119)
Kwara - Male(123) Female(123)
Lagos - Male(133) Female(133)
Nassarawa - Male(58) Female(58)
Niger - Male(93) Female(93)
Ogun - Male(131) Female(131)
Ondo - Male(126) Female(126)
Osun - Male(127) Female(127)
Oyo - Male(127) Female(127)
Plateau - Male(97) Female(97)
Rivers - Male(118) Female(118)
Sokoto - Male(9) Female(13)
Taraba - Male(3) Female(11)
Yobe - Male(2) Female(27)
Zamfara - Male(4) Female(2)
FCT Abuja - Male(90) Female(90)

Summary:
Anambra - 139
Imo - 138
Ebonyi - 112 (the odd one out)
Abia - 130
Enugu - 134

Why can't we just agree on my simple point?... From the summary you just gave, why can you not see for the full list that :
Delta - Male(131) Female(131)
Lagos - Male(133) Female(133)
Ogun - Male(131) Female(131)?

I have never supported the quota system and I always condemned it as the greatest recipe to disaster/backwardness in Nigeria. You can go through my posts to confirm that. But I think the title of this thread which insinuates that it is an injustice to Igbos is rather unfair to people of the other states I just listed for instance.

It is the responsibility of state governments to provide secondary education not the Federal. Unity schools are set up for one purpose only and so the money that goes into those schools belongs to everyone. If people do not want unity schools they can say so and the money returned to respective states. The schools are not centres of excellence. The only issue I have with the schools is they do not make provision for the disabled and boys are overrepresented.

If for example we decide to have an African Unity School the same principle will operate and there will be quotas.
The reality is Eboes are greedy and we know that Teachers write these exams in some cases all in a bid to get an advantage that is not forthcoming.
By the way when did they start releasing common entrance in October?

What is the source of this story and is it new?

obailala:
I am a full blooded Igbo man so it is my business when I see people bringing ridiccule to my tribe. Imo, Anambra, Delta, Ogun and Osun have consistently had the highest cut-off points and are regarded as the most educationally advantaged states in Nigeria. Continually insisting that it is an Igbo only issue will only expose you as an iredeemable tribal bigot and this repulsive acts is what mainly attracts resentment to Igbos by other tribes who also suffer from this same discrimination.

I do not know how some of you were rasied by your parent but you need to rid yourself of this retrogressive mentality. Stop ridiculing yourself!

Thank you brother from another mother. On your Account, i therefore render unreserved apology for my last post against Igbo nation as whole.

It's annoying to see these Igbo bigots to scream of discrimination against Igbos when it's obvious that others are equally affected.

mapet:
Bros,

1. I am very happy each time I see some idiots get schooled by people like you. It gives hope that sane people still do exist.
2. If someone's brain has regressed to the point of "Igbos are this-and-that....." then a translation from neurosis to physchosis is on the way.
3. Unfortunately other idiots will latch on to a flawed position, established by a prior idiot and then idiocy is perpertuated...

I was thinking that you will say something very important to add up or buttress the points he already made but you ended up spiting and insulting people. Next time come up with a superior reasoning not insults and tantrums. Better still don't comment if you don't have any reasonable thing to offer.

GentleToks:
Igbos are freaking worthless and useless for God sake.... Jeez!!!! I initially thought it was only Igbos that need to score 60 and above before being offered admission but i realised that SW-Yorubas are equally required to score the same 60 and above.

And Yorubas are not wailing cos they are too intelligent to notice who is scoring less than 60.....

Chest-beaters.

Go to their universities in the East and see advanced secondary schools with typical igbo students all over the place, speaking English Language like Igbo language.

If you want to die before your time, attend their church services on Sunday in the East and see their so called graduates giving testimonies in church with Igbotic English language

You are a fool.
Asia is laughing at your backward ass.

xtrorse:
Thus far it was not insinuated that Igbos are the only people affected by the Quota System polity. But the fact remains that such policies were put in place to checkmate the aspirations/progress of Igbos especially. Q.E.D!

Lol.. you dont give up do you?

P

chuna1985:
""Each state is filling its guaranteed quota in a federal education scheme designed for unity. It is not an admission based on academic merit but on compulsory NATIONAL representation""

But national representation goes to the dust bin when ministers n appointments are made.

TUFIAKWA.

Please don't mind the hypocrite

Chinese students speak english like chinese.
Only a yoruba man would call that a disadvantage.
Which is why i don't rate professors in yorubaland. They talk too much, carry files everywhere, but have very little technical substance.
Queen-english mumbling talkatives.

obailala:
Why can't we just agree on my simple point?... From the summary you just gave, why can you not see for the full list that :
Delta - Male(131) Female(131)
Lagos - Male(133) Female(133)
Ogun - Male(131) Female(131)?

I have never supported the quota system and I always condemned it as the greatest recipe to disaster/backwardness in Nigeria. You can go through my posts to confirm that. But I think the title of this thread which insinuates that it is an injustice to Igbos is rather unfair to people of the other states I just listed for instance.

How do you want it to be captured? Is that post a campaign of calumny against any tribe with a view to short-changing anybody?

The post was simply against the wicked Quota System that's applied in place of merit at the whims and caprices of the practitioners whenever it suits them.

CSTR2:
I am not just talking about this thread.
But since you claim to be detribalized than Nnamdi azikiwe, this thread definitely does not show it.
What could be more pro-Nigeria than merit? Even at that, you still had to disagree just because igbos may end up dominating.

I have never supported the quota system... and I also dont support your continuous insinuations that only Igbos are the victims of this.

obailala:
I have never supported the quota system... and I also dont support your continuous insinuations that only Igbos are the victims of this.

Forget about it.
If you don't get my point now, you never will.

omonnakoda:
It is the responsibility of state governments to provide secondary education not the Federal. Unity schools are set up for one purpose only and so the money that goes into those schools belongs to everyone. If people do not want unity schools they can say so and the money returned to respective states. The schools are not centres of excellence. The only issue I have with the schools is they do not make provision for the disabled and boys are overrepresented.

If for example we decide to have an African Unity School the same principle will operate and there will be quotas.
The reality is Eboes are greedy and we know that Teachers write these exams in some cases all in a bid to get an advantage that is not forthcoming.
By the way when did they start releasing common entrance in October?

What is the source of this story and is it new?

Deluded disciple of anger, slavery, hate and propaganda from a juju-infested Yoruba enclave, you must be relentlessly sniffing your own fart thinking you can get high to withstand the Igbos.

Note that Abacha, Obj, IBB, MKO Abiola, Danjuma, Abdulsalam, Tinubu, etc. who wrecked this country and brought her to the present miserable state are not Igbos. Greed and Wickedness#

How dare you insinuate that Igbos are greedy?

Recall how Northerners in collusion with Yorubas robbed Nigeria blind using the Indigenization decree in 1972, and proceeded to plunder the crude oil resource and owning virtually all the oil blocks. Greed and Wickedness#

Since then the North and their Southern stooges have been sucking Niger-delta crude oil and degrading the environment for decades. Greed and Wickedness#

The reckless inflating and selling of lands in Abuja and Lagos at exorbitant prices ranging from hundreds of millions to billions of Naira per plot is mostly being perpetrated by non-Igbos. Greed#

It's is hypocrites like you that would sell plots of land in Lagos to Igbos at a rate of over N300 million per plot and yet you wouldn't want Igbos to exercise their rights as landlords. Greed#

And yet bigotic beings like you cannot cough out just N20 million to buy a plot of land in choice areas of Enugu, Owerri, Awka, Nnewi, Orlu, Afigbo or Aba in SE as if you don't see such sales advert in the media. Greed#

Igbos have helped in building Lagos and Abuja amongst other states, and you dare insinuate that they are greedy and selfish. Wickedness#

If Igbos are the problem with Nigeria why would mischievous hypocrites like you become embittered and rattled that Igbos seek self-determination. Wickedness#

If you and your lots are not the arrogant, selfish and greedy parasites why do you always weep and wail at the mention of Biafra as if your life sustenance is being is taken away

Bunch of bile-filled, greedy, treacheerous, tribalistic, diabolic, lousy and hypocritical parasites!

GentleToks:
Igbos are freaking worthless and useless for God sake.... Jeez!!!! I initially thought it was only Igbos that need to score 60 and above before being offered admission but i realised that SW-Yorubas are equally required to score the same 60 and above.

And Yorubas are not wailing cos they are too intelligent to notice who is scoring less than 60.....

Chest-beaters.

Go to their universities in the East and see advanced secondary schools with typical igbo students all over the place, speaking English Language like Igbo language.

If you want to die before your time, attend their church services on Sunday in the East and see their so called graduates giving testimonies in church with Igbotic English language

I hope you have a ceiling hook...you can help yourself out. Hang your miserable life...no one gives a f^ck

omonnakoda:
It is the responsibility of state governments to provide secondary education not the Federal. Unity schools are set up for one purpose only and so the money that goes into those schools belongs to everyone. If people do not want unity schools they can say so and the money returned to respective states. The schools are not centres of excellence. The only issue I have with the schools is they do not make provision for the disabled and boys are overrepresented.

If for example we decide to have an African Unity School the same principle will operate and there will be quotas.
The reality is Eboes are greedy and we know that Teachers write these exams in some cases all in a bid to get an advantage that is not forthcoming.
By the way when did they start releasing common entrance in October?

What is the source of this story and is it new?

That is all the whining has been about.

Greed!

xtrorse:
How do you want it to be captured? Is that post a campaign of calumny against any tribe with a view to short-changing anybody?

The post was simply against the wicked Quota System that's applied in place of merit at the whims and caprices of the practitioners whenever it suits them.

Obviously you are still blind and cannot read the title.

You cannot wake up a man pretending to be asleep.

StOla:
Obviously you are still blind and cannot read the title.

You cannot wake up a man pretending to be asleep.

Some hours ago I gave you a response but your hypocrisy and great delusion made you to mischievously avoid giving a rejoinder.

Here it is staring at you:

xtrorse:
If you're not a hypocritical bigot, pronto stay off the petrol-dollars, seek the much needed funding from groundnut or cocoa, hand over all the oil blocks in your possession and dissolve your numerous LGAs designed to perpetually loot the commonwealth!

And stop your crass display of arrogance and callousness as if you feed the people who have sustained your existence and wastefulness thus far in this entity!

That should be simple enough for you to undertake...soonest!

expect the awusa/fulani slaves (yolooba) to come and defend the action of their masters.the never see anything wrong in anything,provided that thing is against igbo people

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GentleToks:
Thank you brother from another mother. On your Account, i therefore render unreserved apology for my last post against Igbo nation as whole.

It's annoying to see these Igbo bigots to scream of discrimination against Igbos when it's obvious that others are equally affected.

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xtrorse:
But when it comes to revenue sharing you've created numerous LGAs for your parasitic States at the expense of other viable States, to rip off the country and short-change others in the name of 'One Nigeria'.

You would rather use the petrol-dollars from another's backyard to fund the Unity Schools than develop and depend on your solid minerals for the funding.

To add insult to the already festering injury you've appropriated over 85% of the oil blocks at another's backyard to yourselves.

You'll not remember Quota System in political appointments or revenue sharing. And you will not fail to put for the 'strong' reason that the land mass of your sparsely populated State is 10 times bigger than mine.

When it suits your whims and caprices you shift the goal-post and use the Quota System to your advantages.

You would rather perennially rob Peter to pay parasitic Paul in the name of maintaining a phantom unity.

In deed, all animals are equal but some are more equal than the other, in this fraudulent union.

Little wonder folks like you are hell-bent in maintaining the status quo than have the system restructured; a lopsided system that has favoured you and your co-travellers.

Other people are wiser...It's a matter of time!

You are just ranting here and there without any sense or direction. If you want to discus any of the issues you raised and other injustices and imbalances in the Nigeria federation, open individual topics on them and we can discuss. The topic here is the alleged injustice against Igbos tribes in admissions into unity schools.

As they say, the most empty drum makes the loudest noise. The people that has the oil that run this country hardly make any noise, but you people that have little or no oil make the loudest claim that you feed Nigeria. Ijaws and Itsekiris, two tribes that contribute more than 50% of Nigeria's oil revenue hardly talk, it is the Igbos that contribute less than 5% Nigeria's oil revenue that makes the loudest noise. For your information my local government area - Warri North contribute more oil revenue than all the Igbos states and communities added together.

Back to the Topic, Unity schools were set up for a purpose, if you do not agree with the principles it was set up to achieve, simply do not apply to send your kids there. If less and less Igbos apply, maybe the cut off mark will reduce to 50. In the alternative, if you are so pained by Unity Schools, write a petition to the national assembly through your senators and representatives, demanding a repeal or amendment of the laws setting it up. You can get other like minded comrades and lead a protest to the National assembly. It is Futile and unreasonable to the ranting and wailing all over social media, screaming Igbos victimization. You are only embarrassing other reasonable Igbos.

wirinet:
You are just ranting here and there without any sense or direction. If you want to discus any of the issues you raised and other injustices and imbalances in the Nigeria federation, open individual topics on them and we can discuss. The topic here is the alleged injustice against Igbos tribes in admissions into unity schools.

As they say, the most empty drum makes the loudest noise. The people that has the oil that run this country hardly make any noise, but you people that have little or no oil make the loudest claim that you feed Nigeria. Ijaws and Itsekiris, two tribes that contribute more than 50% of Nigeria's oil revenue hardly talk, it is the Igbos that contribute less than 5% Nigeria's oil revenue that makes the loudest noise. For your information my local government area - Warri North contribute more oil revenue than all the Igbos states and communities added together.

Back to the Topic, Unity schools were set up for a purpose, if you do not agree with the principles it was set up to achieve, simply do not apply to send your kids there. If less and less Igbos apply, maybe the cut off mark will reduce to 50. In the alternative, if you are so pained by Unity Schools, write a petition to the national assembly through your senators and representatives, demanding a repeal or amendment of the laws setting it up. You can get other like minded comrades and lead a protest to the National assembly. It is Futile and unreasonable to the ranting and wailing all over social media, screaming Igbos victimization. You are only embarrassing other reasonable Igbos.

See a bloody hypocrite whose ethnic group have only survived by being stooges and weak-minded fellows, and are gullibly satisfied with the few crumbs their slave masters throw at them while they loot the oil wealth to better their own region, religion and elites!

Since you produce more than 50% of the crude oil revenue why are your folks rattled and agitated that some other tribe that produce less than 5% seek self-determination?

I don't blame you I blame this forced union under which you had the guts to rant carelessly and senselessly against the Great Igbo Nation.

A greedy and backstabbing Itsekiri man who cannot stand on his own, stands for nothing! Little wonder Ijaw people remain your nemesis!

xtrorse:
But when it comes to revenue sharing you've created numerous LGAs for your parasitic States at the expense of other viable States, to rip off the country and short-change others in the name of 'One Nigeria'.

You would rather use the petrol-dollars from another's backyard to fund the Unity Schools than develop and depend on your solid minerals for the funding.

To add insult to the already festering injury you've appropriated over 85% of the oil blocks at another's backyard to yourselves.

You'll not remember Quota System in political appointments or revenue sharing. And you will not fail to put for the 'strong' reason that the land mass of your sparsely populated State is 10 times bigger than mine.

When it suits your whims and caprices you shift the goal-post and use the Quota System to your advantages.

You would rather perennially rob Peter to pay parasitic Paul in the name of maintaining a phantom unity.

In deed, all animals are equal but some are more equal than the other, in this fraudulent union.

Little wonder folks like you are hell-bent in maintaining the status quo than have the system restructured; a lopsided system that has favoured you and your co-travellers.

Other people are wiser...It's a matter of time!

CSTR2:
Chinese students speak english like chinese.
Only a yoruba man would call that a disadvantage.
Which is why i don't rate professors in yorubaland. They talk too much, carry files everywhere, but have very little technical substance.
Queen-english mumbling talkatives.

The best statement ever. Some people equate speaking good English as being intelligient not knowing that common sense is better than good English

warrior01:
Can you imagine; in this time and age someone from sokoto needs only 7 to get admission over a person from Anambra that scored 65 and some morons sees nothing wrong with it

it simply means the competition in the east is high, so to get into such schools, coming from the east you have to match your peers. if the North starts getting some sense and they start seeing the value in formal education as supposed to "Arabically" and "Islamically" brainwashing and cheating their kids from acquiring the necessary skills to compete and become positively contributing individuals in the society, the competition would improve and every region would be leveled all out. It is not rocket science bro.

tevinsolt:
it simply means the competition in the east is high, so to get into such schools, coming from the east you have to match your peers or forget it. if the North start getting some sense and they start seeing the value in formal education as supposed to brainwashing and cheating their kids from acquiring the necessary skills to compete and become positively contributing individuals in the society, the competition would improve and every region would be leveled all out. It is not rocket science bro.

From your logic and reasoning it then means excluding the SE from the 40 important political appointments made so far by the present administration is rocket science.

Try some other tales...

what's it with ibo people and unity schools.
why the obsession?

warrior01:
This is so disheartening as the injustice continues where even a female child from Anambra has to score 66 and above to get admission while a child from sokoto has to score only 7 to get same. Is it fair? Where is the merit in this case?

i think we really av to start thinking straight. This is nothing to worry abt nd if at all, it is, IGBOS SHOULD BE PROUD BECAUSE THIS SPEAKS VOLUME! You get d gist?

obailala:
Abia 65
Akwa Ibom 63
Anambra 66
Delta 65
Edo 63
Enugu 65
Imo 66
Lagos 65
Ogun 65
Ondo 64
Osun 64

Chuna1985, there is no doubt Imo and Anambra consistently have the highest cut-offs and are considered the educationally most advantaged states in Nigeria, but taking a look at that list above, it is clear that states like Delta, AkwaIbom, Lagos, Osun, Ogun etc also have considerably similar cut-off points to Imo and Anambra when you consider the entire list.

So my point is simple, can we please for once, put into consideration the feelings of others when we open such threads and make it look like it is only Igbos that are discriminated by some of these retrogressive policies?... A honest question for you, how do you think a hard-working person from Delta state for instance would feel about the title of this thread?... What do you think would be the genuine perception of this hard-working Delta man about Igbos when he reads this title?

U keep missing d whole point, probably intentionally.



Why must it be d igbos that have the highest cut off Mark's, the ones u listed r similar, but igbos still needs to score the highest marks on the average.

A deltan or lagosian can defend dem selves, I don't care. As for the igbos, they have truly been marginalized in dis country in every aspect.