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‘ Paul Anber’s essay “Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos” published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. To be more specific see pp 171-172, and let me quote the relevant portion of Dr. Anber’s essay:

” ” A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education. Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407.” ”…

His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965), Table 2.4, p. 14..


IGBOS are naturally ahead of you... FACT

ofai:
‘ Paul Anber’s essay “Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos” published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. To be more specific see pp 171-172, and let me quote the relevant portion of Dr. Anber’s essay:

” ” A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education. Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407.” ”…

His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965), Table 2.4, p. 14..


IGBOS are naturally ahead of you... FACT

Uncle, this was a study published in 1967, with data taken from 1965. If you recall, 1965 was way before the civil war started. Since then a lot of things have regressed, while others have progressed. So what is the current state of affairs in each of those regions, now? Has another study been conducted since then, (within the last 5 years) using the same parameters or indices used in the 1965 - 1967 study?

ofai:
‘ Paul Anber’s essay “Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos” published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. To be more specific see pp 171-172, and let me quote the relevant portion of Dr. Anber’s essay:

” ” A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education. Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407.” ”…

His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965), Table 2.4, p. 14..


IGBOS are naturally ahead of you... FACT

Can you tell us more about this "Dr." Paul Anber? Just a short biographical sketch like where he studied, where he bagged his PhD, lectured and the overall trajectory of his career.

An Igboman, Achebe writes, has “an unquestioned advantage over his compatriots…Unlike the Hausa/Fulani he was unhindered by a wary religion, and unlike the Yoruba he was unhampered by traditional hierarchies…Although the Yoruba had a huge historical head start, the Igbo wiped out their handicap in one fantastic burst of energy in the twenty years between1930 to1950 (pg 74).” Beside the fact that this has a language consistent with white supremacist literature, Achebe, to demonstrate he is not partial or a chauvinist, based himself on a 17 page report by Paul Anber in Journal of Modern African Studies entitled “Modernisation and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos.”

I looked up the 1967 journal. Curiously this ‘scholar’ was designated as “a member of staff of one the Nigerian Universities.” Why would a scholar hide his place of work in a journal? I checked the essays and book reviews in all the 196 issues of Journal of Modern African Studies from Volume 1 issue 1 of January 1963 to the last issue Volume 49 November 2011, there was nowhere a piece was published and the designation of the scholar vague or hidden. Also this Paul Anber never published any piece before and after this article in this or any other journal. I wanted to start checking the academic staff list of the five universities in Nigeria then until I realized again that it says “he is a staff of Nigerian university;” I would have to check the names of janitors and cleaners, and other non-academic staff too. The truth is Paul Anber is a fake name under which someone else or a group of people possibly Igbo is masquerading. And he/they never used this name again for any other piece or books. So that this ruse would not be found out was the reason he/they hid his/their university. And this piece like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has been the cornerstone of books and widely quoted by other journals over a period 45 years. It is the cornerstone of the chapter A History Of Ethnic Tension And Resentment which Achebe used to skew the motive for Igbo people’s maltreatment from the fallout of January 1966 coup and the inflammatory provocations they published to resentment for being allegedly the most successful and dominant tribe in Nigeria.

http://thenationonlineng.net/achebe-and-the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-2/

Olddirtywizard:
Can you tell us more about this "Dr." Paul Anber? Just a short biographical sketch like where he studied, where he bagged his PhD, lectured and the overall trajectory of his career.



http://thenationonlineng.net/achebe-and-the-moral-obligation-to-be-intelligent-2/

As usual, ewedu media crying blue murder

ofai:
As usual, ewedu media crying blue murder

Paul Anber is fake and his article, a political hit job. It shouldn't be difficult to know or state credentials of a scholar. Afterall, we all know Esther Uchendu bagged a PhD from Oregon State University and is on the faculty of the University of Ibadan.

Just a short biographical sketch about this scholar, Paul Anber, is all you need to silence your critics.

Olddirtywizard:
Paul Anber is fake and his article, a political hit job. It shouldn't be difficult to know or state credentials of a scholar. Afterall, we all know Esther Uchendu bagged a PhD from Oregon State University and is on the faculty of the University of Ibadan.

Just a short biographical sketch about this scholar, Paul Anber, is all you need to silence your critics.

Do the digging yourself.... Lazy researcher. The essay has been published in several journals both on and offline for decades, then suddrnly its an igbo writer masqurading as paul amber. I actually thought you were learned. Obviously you are just a wannabe.

Olddirtywizard another one for you:

In a White House memo dated Tuesday, January 28, 1969 to President Nixon, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger describes the Igbos as “the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”(foreign relations document, volume E-5, documents on Africa 1969-1972)

This one too na fake abi? Idiat

ofai:
Do the digging yourself.... Lazy researcher. The essay has been published in several journals both on and offline for decades, then suddrnly its an igbo writer masqurading as paul amber. I actually thought you were learned. Obviously you are just a wannabe.

Lol. I could feel the pains in your response as well.

Let me make it simple:

Paul Anber was born in -------- and went to University of ------------- where he bagged PhD in --------------. Thereafter, he lectured at University of -----------from 19xx to 19yy. He is still at live, and he resides at -------- OR he passed away in 19ww at --------.

Olddirtywizard:
Lol. I could feel the pains in your response as well.

Let me make it simple:

Paul Anber was born in -------- and went to University of ------------- where he bagged PhD in --------------. Thereafter, he lectured at University of -----------from 19xx to 19yy. He is still at live, and he resides at -------- OR he passed away in 19ww at --------.

*yawns* Yoruba, envy and laziness are like the 3 blades in a ceiling fan. Shior

ofai:
....In a White House memo dated Tuesday, January 28, 1969 to President Nixon, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger describes the Igbos as “the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”(foreign relations document, volume E-5, documents on Africa 1969-1972)

This one too na fake abi? Idiat

Guy, you did not finish quoting the source of that article. It was a memo written by Kissinger, to the US President to offer advice on how they (America) should proceed, with respect to the two sides in the Nigerian civil war, at that time. It contained an update on the status of the war, its' causes and how both parties were prosecuting the war, along with a synopsis of the character of the leaders of both sides.

MEMORANDUM

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

Tuesday, January 28, 1969

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT

FROM: Henry A. Kissinger

SUBJECT: U. S. Options in Biafra Relief

You asked for a study of the Biafra relief problem by January 28. A member of my staff prepared the attached survey. I have taken the liberty of underlining the most significant parts.

Underlying is a sketch of the background of the problem with a useful map. I thought it important to trace in some detail the interplay between politics and food. Each of the following Tabs, however, is designed to stand alone for a quick overview.

At Tab A. is a list of six basic realities of the U. S. involvement in the relief effort.

At Tab B are the main options for expanding relief into Biafra. (The data here are drawn from recent AID and Defense studies, but the details of cost and availability might be subject to change in a formal, up-to-the-minute review by all agencies concerned.).....

Background of the Problem

The civil war is rooted in the failure of the first generation of British-tutored politicians to make something of independence and unity. While London and Washington poured in money and high expectations, corruption grew apace and decisions were drained of content by the tribal bickering that lay behind the facade of national parties. In one sense the first coup in 1966 was a classic effort by young officers to set things right. But they were also eastern Ibos who murdered with ritual flair a northern Hausa Prime Minister, along with the Premiers of the Northern and Western States......

Biafra (3, 000 sq. miles, 4-6 million). Colonel Ojukwu -- 35, British-trained, erstwhile playboy -- presides over the popular support and military morale of a people convinced that defeat means extinction. The Ibos are the wandering Jews of West Africa -- gifted, aggressive, Westernized; at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by the mass of their neighbors in the Federation. They have fought well (by African standards) against heavy odds; their cynical public relations use of the starvation has been brilliant.

Current Position: Ojukwu says in one breath his sovereignty is not negotiable, yet in the next talks about a compromise "confederation" or "commonwealth" which he never defines. He has ruled out the British as mediators and distrusts the OAU, just as the Feds accept-it, because of its pro-Federal stance.

Biafra proffers a "ceasefire" knowing that neither Gowon nor his coalition could survive a hiatus, which only gave a respite to the rebel-lion. The rebels seem more aware than before of their desperate food situation, but are convinced they can hold out (or will be bailed out) until the Feds collapse. Short of that, Biafra is almost certainly unable to win the war militarily. If Gowon (as he likes to see himself) is Lincoln fighting it out in the Wilderness with draft riots and copperheads back home, Ojukwu is Jeff Davis before Gettysburg with time on the side of secession.

Relief and Diplomacy

The immediate food crisis is on the Biafran side, which has been reduced to a 70- by 40-mile enclave in Federal-held territory. The only relief access is to the one working airstrip used for both arms and relief flights at night only. The planes come from two small islands off the coast. The religious voluntary agencies (some U.S., some European) fly from Portuguese Sao Tome. But Portugal has been sympathetic to Biafra and occasional arms flights also go in from Sao Tome.

The Red Cross had been flying from Fernando Po until stopped last week by their landlord, the government of Equatorial Guinea. That problem is a mixture of high-handedness by the Swiss Red Cross people, perhaps some pressure on the Guineans from the Feds, and mostly the urge of a new and uncertain black regime to show the white men in their midst who's boss. State is hard at work on this. The Red Cross should be able to "rent" a grace period to continue flights until an agreement is negotiated......

- Both sides have obstructed relief, but the balance of guilt rests with Biafra. In part, there are military priorities over food, but in the last account the rebels know well there's political profit in going hungry.

-- Biafra blocks daytime relief flights (which could substantially increase deliveries), because they're afraid Fed MIGs will tailgate and knock out the airfield (which the MIGs avoid at night or in daylight, when anti-aircraft is free to shoot at anything in the air.) The rebels also enjoy the "cover" their arms flights get from relief planes at night, should the Feds grow bolder after dark.

-- The Feds endorse daytime flights in principle (to isolate the night arms run, and maybe get a daytime crack at the field, despite pledges to the contrary). But they regard (with reason) the voluntary agencies flying from Portuguese Sao Tome as pro-Biafran potential gun-runners, and thus illegal. And they don't want the Red Cross, which they do accept, flying in the fuel necessary to distribution of food.

-- The Feds want the airlift to operate from Federal territory, which would let them inspect the food for hidden arms. Biafra argues a Federal-based airlift means poisoned food (a potent fear in West Africa) and at very least that relief would be hostage to their mortal enemy. The relief people contend a Federal base will (a) hamstring their flights where military operations would take precedence in already overtaxed facilities, (b) cripple what does go out with endless bickering over what's relief (fuel, spare parts, tools) and what's military.

-- The Biafrans oppose an overland corridor unless it's policed by an army as big as the Feds', to prevent a sneak breakthrough. The Feds talk about a corridor -- again, in principle -- but manage objections to specific proposals, and usually demand prior agreement by the rebels.

TAB A
BASIC REALITIES

1. We must not be enmeshed in irrelevant experiences of our past involvement in Africa. Others -- most notably the Congo -- have put down secession and minimum U.S. help (a few C-130's in quick operation) made a difference. Unlike most in Africa, this is a real war....

5. There is at least an even chance an outright Fed military victory would bring some slaughter of the Ibos. The rebel charges of genocide are exaggerated and unproven. Gowon is an honorable man who knows Nigerian unity would be lost, if victory led to mass murder. But he may not be able to bridle his Northern troops fresh from the bush. "One Nigeria" is probably still possible, but we must be prepared to deal with some possibility of atrocities as a result, or scuttle the concept as carrying an unacceptable risk of "complicity" in supporting the Feds even diplomatically....

Read the rest here: https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e5/55258.htm

LaudableXX:
Guy, you did not finish quoting the source of that article. It was a memo written by Kissinger, to the US President to offer advice on how they (America) should proceed, with respect to the two sides in the Nigerian civil war, at that time. It contained an update on the status of the war, its' causes and how both parties were prosecuting the war, along with a synopsis of the character of the leaders of both sides.

Goal Post shifting as usual. Jumping from one topic to another. Anyway its midnight. *yawns*

LaudableXX:
Guy, you did not finish quoting the source of that article. It was a memo written by Kissinger, to the US President to offer advice on how they (America) should proceed, with respect to the two sides in the Nigerian civil war, at that time. It contained an update on the status of the war, its' causes and how both parties were prosecuting the war, along with a synopsis of the character of the leaders of both sides.

Don't waste your time on him. He seems to be inebriated in an adulation of a politician. Dude, no one is interested in what a politician says especially of Kissinger's ilk. No serious individual would even waste a minute debating the merits of Kissinger's opinion since a politician's opinion is often like a weather that changes from time to time. But a scholar is not entitled to peddle a lie and one whose identity is unknown for that matter, can't be the authority on which the so called Ibo exceptionalism is built.

What next, he would quote Trump, Xi or Queen Elizabeth?

@ofai

Please fill in the gaps. Thanks.

Paul Anber was born in -------- and went to University of ------------- where he bagged PhD in --------------. Thereafter, he lectured at University of -----------from 19xx to 19yy. He is still at alive, and he resides at -------- OR he passed away in 19ww at --------.

Olddirtywizard:
Don't waste your time on him. He seems to be inebriated in an adulation of a politician. Dude, no one is interested in what a politician says especially of Kissinger's ilk. No serious individual would even waste a minute debating the merits of Kissinger's opinion since a politician's opinion is often like a weather that changes from time to time. But a scholar is not entitled to peddle a lie and one whose identity is unknown for that matter, can't be the authority on which the so called Ibo exceptionalism is built.

What next, he would quote Trump, Xi or Queen Elizabeth?

Hehehe.... I even forgot that the same Kissinger was condemned as a war criminal, by some journalists, activists, and human rights lawyers in America.

Olddirtywizard:
I could feel the pains in your response, since the fake news you concocted and pushed to FP eventually unraveled. I won't engage in a diversionary obtuse argument that leads to nowhere but if you can use your so called googling skills to prove that she, indeed, won this award, I would engage you. Otherwise, as one who opened this thread, you have a responsibility to notify the moderator that you have found the thread to be fake and as such taken it off the front page, or have the moderator added a cautionary note that readers should consume the contents at their risk. You can add a caveat to the title or to the first page of this thread.

If you pause and reflect , provided you have a capacity to engage in such, you would realize a thread like this is ultimately a disservice to a woman you seem to have vicariously appropriated her "success" for your personal agenda.

You need to apologize to yourself (I do not need your apology) for being such a poor rookie researcher. I hope that today you have learned from me how to find out how many papers a scientist has published. Omo cheap googler

Throwback, Y0ruba and other folks. You guys really enlightened me and brought me out of my myriads of confusion!


Those pathetic buffoons will always remain pigs...... Nnamdi Cownu followers....

IamGoke:
Throwback, Y0ruba and other folks. You guys really enlightened me and brought me out of my myriads of confusion!


Those pathetic buffoons will always remain pigs...... Nnamdi Cownu followers....

The most important learning point is that one should never be deceived by the crocodile tears of hypocrites who in one breath daily lament about marginalization, yet in another breath gloat about how they dominated public office by employing keduism that is misconstrued as meritocracy.

One chronic Igbo supremacist that calls himself a journalist, even had the nerve to state that the successive Igbo School Council chairmen working with an Igbo Principal in UI, ran the school well until it was taken over by Yorubas. In essence the Igbos were meant to rule in University of Ibadan forever, and I reckon they are so great in administration that we have seen how they later turned the SouthEastern universities to Ivy League schools in comparison to SouthWestern universities.

If they had their way, only Igbos would have remained as school council chairman even after the first 3 consecutive Igbos, but thankfully they self destruct when they overreached themselves with the military coup of Jan 1966. They would have found another Igbo to replace Kenneth Dike, or look outside the qualified Nigerians as they already threatened.
By now, they would have populated themselves such that only Igbos would be employed in any federal university.

I intend to do a throwback expose series before the end of the year, just like the little excerpt below, where the rot, nepotism and tribalism of the 1960 independence government will be unearthed for the enlightenment of every Nigerian.

But in the case of Orizu, who was the intellectual proponent of Zikism, Mbonu Ojike, Azikiwe, Mbadiwe started to entrench the false narrative that Orizu was convicted by the British colonial government not for embezzlement but as a revenge for his fiery anti-colonial speech given at the 1947 Enugu Coal riots rally. Never mind that more important figures such as H.O. Davies also gave fiery speeches at the rally too but were not fraudsters hence not fated for conviction by the colonial government. But in the case of Orizu, colonialism became the excuse for a crook to be turned into a national hero. Azikiwe made Orizu whole by nominating him unopposed to represent Nnewi in the Federal elections of 1959 that ushered in self-rule.

The existence of colonialism provided Nigeria’s moral system the perfect excuse to develop and strengthen the disdain for the objective perception of value on which any civilised society must rest. When colonialism expired in 1960, the disdain remained alive and thriving through the force of habit. In 1961 for instance, Dr Okejukwu Ikejiani, the pro-chancellor of University of Ibadan was caught lying about a certificate he never had. A visiting scholar from University of Toronto who happened to be from the same department which allegedly awarded Ikejiani’s certificate was the first to point out that Ikejiani never had that esteemed Doctor of Science degree. Ibadan erupted and there were calls for Ikejiani to resign and be prosecuted. To Azikiwe who was the head of government, the visitor to the university and in charge of such appointments, Ikejiani was being “persecuted” because he, Azikiwe, had dared to appoint an other Igbo after Francis Ibiam as the Pro-chancellor and head of the governing council of a flagship Federal University in a non-Igbo region in particular when the Vice chancellor was already an Igbo. Before departing Toronto University where he rightly earned his undergraduate medical degree, Ikejiani seduced and frequently unhooked the lovely secretary at the Vice Chancellor’s office until she embossed a Doctor of Science certificate in his name complete with authentic signatures but with no education behind it. After the Toronto University investigation into the matter, the secretary realised her wrongdoing and quietly accepted her dismissal. But that was Canada. In Nigeria, one of the criteria of eligibility for being considered a national hero was to be a bonafide crook. When Ikejiani was forced to finally resign, being a medical doctor, Azikiwe made him whole like Orizu by appointing him to the State House as one of his personal physicians. He was not done: Azikiwe then reappointed him again to his former unfilled post less than two years later. He still was not done: In 1964, Azikiwe decorated him with the national honour – Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) – pun unintended – ‘for his service to the nation.’ If anyone is interested in why Nigeria ended up being a pit latrine of implacable corruption where intelligence cannot assert itself in the conduct of public affairs, the Orizu and Ikejiani Affair is where to begin. Azikiwe put into disorder all considerations based on value. And the absence of the objective perception of value produced the will to tribalism which eliminated the prospect of any meaningful progress for the nation.





Had the ministers who came to Orizu for the swearing-in request been from his party NCNC, had the candidate they presented been Ozumba Mbadiwe, Orizu would never foot-dragged or pretended to be calling Azikiwe on a phone that lacked dialling tone. Ironsi too would have looked the other way, gone back to his subordinate officers and inform them that according to their code of conduct, the military must aid civilian power not to take over it. Orizu who claimed he needed Azikiwe’s consent before considering swearing in Dipcharima would later publicly hand over the government to Ironsi without the need for Azikiwe’s consent. The Northern soldiers saw through all these phonies and they quietly fumed.

Throwback:
I intend to do a throwback expose series before the end of the year, just like the little excerpt below, where the rot, nepotism and tribalism of the 1960 independence government will be unearthed for the enlightenment of every Nigerian.

And as usual, the culprits will be Igbos right? If you like write an encyclopedia against us, it won't stop our greatness and goodwill.

Jobless sicko.

ofai:
And as usual, the culprits will be Igbos right? If you like write an encyclopedia against us, it won't stop our greatness and goodwill.

Jobless sicko.

I assure you that this historical expose will only focus on "meritocracy" that was very widespread then.

There is no need for apprehension on your part.