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Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by OkCornel(m): 12:47pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
Good afternoon Nairalanders... So I was checking my feed on Quora this morning and came across the question (which is the Topic of the thread), but one of the answers to the question from Hertz Fauzan kept me thinking; I am a foreigner in Nigeria. The largest part of my job is to study societies and build products for them on behalf of either my company or larger corporations. I have worked with every industry ranging from medicine to politics. And I believe I am qualified to answer this more than even a Nigerian. Because I look at it with a foreign analyst’s perspective, not a country man’s view which may greatly be subject to nationalistic bias. But I will tell you for free from the jump, NIGERIANS are not smart. Well they aren’t dumb either but they aren’t smarter than your average Rwandan or Kenyan. If anything, the dumbest people I have been amongst have either been Nigerians, or Americans. But surprisingly, both people are looked at as the smartest nations from their continents. One being a global world leader and the other Africa’s leader. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Nigerians-so-smart-1 What are your thoughts? Cc: Lalasticlala, Seun 5 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by budaatum: 1:00pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
First, let me get rid of the betidiot! We Nigerians are not as smart as we wish to believe. Most people who say we are have never been to someone else's father's farm so think their father's farm is the biggest. One just need look at the fruit produced on each farm to know which is better. But I guess not everyone's father has a farm. You'll have a home though, or at least a surrounding. So look around you Nigerian, and tell please how many Made in Nigerias do you see? Now check the quality of those things and tell which were smartly produced. There are very smart individual Nigerians, but collectively, smart is not the right word to describe us if intelligence and the ability to produce fruit is concerned. 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by SarkinYarki: 1:12pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
Nigeria has one of the lowest average IQs on earth , the average IQ in Nigeria is 67 which is considered mental retardation and you can see it everything we do and that's why nothing works 5 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by OkCornel(m): 1:26pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
budaatum: Very annoying fellas they are budaatum: You're spot on. We have intelligent and rational Nigerians, but they are fast becoming an endangered specie... 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by budaatum: 1:36pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
OkCornel:I don't think the intelligent and rational Nigerians are becoming endangered. I think they are slowly increasing in number. One day there'd be so many that there is bound to be a rapture, except it would not be like the rapturetians expect. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by OkCornel(m): 1:40pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
SarkinYarki: As harsh as it sounds (not entirely sure about the claims that we have the lowest average IQs on earth), it is painfully obvious nothing works here. Even a part of the OP mentioned something; But, Nigeria has constantly disappointed the global scene. It has constantly elected dunderheads into power, it has constantly eroded systems that were of value to its people, Nigerian city girls at an alarming rate double between their day to day jobs and prostitution and it is deemed normal, Nigerian people are constantly hoodwinked by pastors with even the stupidest of magic shows passed off as miracles, Nigeria’s infrastructure continues to crumble, an oil producing nation that imports gasoline and has fuel scarcity of celestial proportions year in year out, a nation with corruption so high you can literally buy your way into heaven, Nigerians believed it when a clerk claimed that over $100,000 of government money was eaten by a snake. She stood upon this in court and won the case. Without evidence of the snake, or the money in its snake belly. Although they reported that EFCC acted on her, insiders know she got away with it. Why the public didn’t riot about this, your guess is as good as mine. Which is the bitter truth the average Nigerian runs away from 5 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by OkCornel(m): 1:45pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
budaatum: I think the intelligent and rational ones might have made their calculations about the mid to long term future of this country and decided that the best way up is out of the country. I mean... this country can be likened to a man that lives from pay check to pay check (i.e. stumbling from one vision-less government to the other every 4 years)... It's scary to think that you only need to see 4 different visionless presidents serving two terms each. Add that to your current age and booooom!!! you've started collecting your pension with your grand-children running up and down... If one is to predict the future using past and present data, going by cold logic...the future of this country could be a horror movie... |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by budaatum: 1:58pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
OkCornel:Or leaving the country makes them rational and intelligent. Our stupid just don't sell in the real world. Imagine praying to some god for daily bread instead of going to work for it. A lot of people do wise up once they step out of the so called 'spiritual Nigeria' and into the rational world. You can't exactly beg your landlord you'd pay next week since landlords can't beg the banks they are mortgaged to. We aren't the first to go the way we are going. Empires fall because the people go stupid, and so would we. But out of that failure do new empires evolve. Unfortunately evolution is a very slow process so it might be the next generation, or the one after, or the one after or ones after those. Pity. I would have loved to be around to see it. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by HarryDuce(m): 2:26pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
Lol. These days whenever anyone attributes smartness to Nigerians, I immediately think of something negative; something redundant, or a recycled garbage. Nigerians are very proud people: pride that can easily become delusions. The good news is, not everyone follows this Nigerian mentality. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by OkCornel(m): 2:41pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
budaatum: Cold truth. I have a slimmer of hope it turns out well in our lifetime, but we might be grand parents before that glorious future becomes a reality 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by Nobody: 3:07pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
The Adaptation aspect is the realest. Damn nothing can be truer. Nigerians Excel elsewhere because you can't simply have worst anywhere. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by budaatum: 3:15pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
OkCornel:Grand parents or very long dead. |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by budaatum: 3:18pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
HarryDuce:Despite being Nigerian. Perhaps we should not call it a "Nigerian mentality". Except its a pretty prevalent mentality amongst Nigerians. |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by Nobody: 3:40pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
OkCornel: Think of it this way Hertz Fauzan All of your opinions and findings about Nigerians is what make us unique and smarter than the rest. You could easily earn a Ph.D for this write up |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by DamolaIbrahim: 4:08pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
How can you say Nigerians are smart, when we have millions of Buhari supporters who run around everywhere with empty skulls? 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by Curlieweed: 4:32pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
Another bad belle African “brother” bitching about Naija. Who gives a fvck? |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by dollytino4real(f): 5:04pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
hunger and poverty |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by Arda1000(m): 6:13pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
SarkinYarki:the op was not talking about Afonjas and Amajiris like u.. The title should be "why are Igbos so smart"? 1 Like |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by OkCornel(m): 6:47pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
Arda1000: No no no please let's not allow this thread degenerate into a tribal fight. If you read the OP, the content is not a compliment per se... |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by RuthlessLeader(m): 10:16pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
This man is actually right. For a long time, I thought that nigerians really were smart. But, this has proven that all we do is mostly make noise and rely on numbers. 5 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by pr0sper0: 10:47pm On Apr 18, 2019 |
Arda1000:pls shut up don't you know yorubas were the first to embrace education while igbos were sticking to delusional "chief priest can save us" and the hausas were the first to have a written language and are only deemed stupid due to western education |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by MrPresident1: 7:14am On Apr 19, 2019 |
Nairaland is contributing in its own way to make Nigerians stupider. Pentecostal churches are trying their best too. You hear a lot of IQ reducing testimonies in Pentecostal churches. I did not read for my exams and I passed with an A, praise the Lord. I was not qualified for a job, and did not know anything about it, but I got the job, praise the Lord...bla, bla, bla... If Nigerians are indeed intelligent people, we would not be the poverty capital of the world with so much human and material resources, we would complete Ajaoukuta steel, we will manufacture our own cars, we will not be so religious, yet so godless... Nigerians used to be intelligent, but not again, the odds are stacked against us, even Nairaland also is a vehicle of the dumbing down agenda. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by coolzeal(m): 8:11am On Apr 19, 2019 |
This is an insult to the Japanese, Chinese, Israelis and other Nations that have contributed immensely to the advancement of the global world. If Nigerians are smart, why will they allow incompetent people to lead them? Nigerians are dumb. Shi*thole country. 4 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by Robisky001(m): 9:26am On Apr 19, 2019 |
An acclaimed smart nation whose President is a dundee. How then, do you tag such nation a smart nation? 3 Likes |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by budaatum: 11:11am On Apr 19, 2019 |
MrPresident1:Oh I don't agree with you that "Nairaland is contributing in its own way to make Nigerians stupider". Not at all Mr, I wouldn't. Nairaland is in fact one place to get cured of stupid for there's people here making people think and reason which cures stupid unless they close their eyes to the evidence then we at least all know them for the stupids they are. |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by Nobody: 11:32am On Apr 19, 2019 |
It is natural God given wisdom you call smartness. We just use am the wrong way. |
Re: Why Are Nigerians So Smart? by Bizibi(m): 12:10pm On Apr 19, 2019 |
The dumbest part is true,just take a look at some of them defending a failure and that Nigeria city prostitute increasing in numbers is quite true.everything is upside down. 2 Likes |
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