Racoon:

Perfect! I totally agree with you.However, there is nothing that can be done about Igbos who deliberately deny their ancestry.

justosee:

you don't know anything about Igbo speaking groups in South South.

valentineuwakwe:



you maybe right my brother but those igbos in other states outside the south east are yet to come to terms that they are igbos or trace their origin to igbo.

1) Igbos in the south east are not the ones pushing away Igbos from other areas! On the contrary, Igbos from other areas, especially the fulani invented "south south" are the ones fiercely clamouring for a separate identity! The only time you see Igbos from the south south speak up about how they're being pushed away from their so-called Igbo heritage is during times like this..This forum is littered with so many examples of this! We have threads here where for many pages, it was a tug of war as some BROTHERS from mainly Rivers State and Delta State unleashed all sorts of diatribes on the igbo, simply because in the heat of the political persecution going on against the igboman at the moment, it looks convenient for folks to claim a new identity! That in my opinion is evil and should be condemned! Essentially, your advice should go to the Igbos in other regions to man up, actively identify with their kind in the hinterlands and boldily move forward to possess their possessions!

2) You also get it wrong when you talk of creating a "world class igbo economy" within Nigeria, without the Igbos not being interested in the leadership positions/decisions in Nigeria. That can't work my brother! Folks easily forget that politics come first before the economics. You can't get the right economic policies you need to create a versatile economy, if your traducer is in charge of making political decisions over your head on a daily basis! To even create an export oriented economy for instance, you need to get the macro/micro economic policies right! The CBN for instance, needs to get the fiscal and monetary policies right! Otherwise the final prices of your goods will struggle against the prices of similar goods from other competing economies.. That's just one single consequence of having the CBN governor making policies that run contrary to your interest! Who appoints the CBN governor? It's the president! So how can you create an economy that's competitive enough, if you have a hate filled president appointing officers who will make policies that will kill your initiatives?


High exchange rate means costly prices for raw materials to be imported. It means costly imported machinery since we import most, it means highly costly remuneration policies for foreign expats who might be needed to help with setting up some manufacturing processes.., the list is endless. . We haven't even gone to policies related to setting up the basic infastructures needed to fast track the course of rapid industrialization such as power projects, rail ways, gas distribution, roads, ports, soft loans to SMEs etc... You need to have the right policies at the center to make this happen! Look at how Obasanjo turned Ottah into a manufacturing hub with the gas line biuld up.., look at how Buhari is doing the same in Kaduna. How can any eastern city compete with those cities if policy makers deliberately starved the eastern cities of such foundamental structural investments?

LadySarah:


How do we reconcile Late PA Elechi Amadi, Wike and co denying their heritage while Late Obi Wali, Rotimi Amaechi accepting it.

Are you not confusing us?

justosee:
the man is trying to say southeast slot should not be going to the South South. always read with your brain. I am not from the southeast but I understand what he is trying to say.

StainlessG:
Una don start for nairaland
i am from anioma and i am 100% Igbo

Make una nor come deny me of my tribe biko

AlhajiImam:
Southerners are hell bent on spoiling the image of this nation through financial crimes and money laundry. Like Invictus, like Tinubu, like Okorocha, like Ibori and Hishpuppy.

But in the midst of all these evil, Buhari have never been involved. He's a man of integrity

Babalegba:
Sadly and unfortunately there are far more goats than sheep among Nigerian youths.The value system is upside down and to correct something like that takes decades.I find it painful that Nigerian youths live such empty materialistic lives and even wash hands with expensive champagne at nightclubs just to appear rich.

Babalegba:
Yahoo Yahoo,cultism, reckless and criminal pursuit of money.Any of this ring a bell.One fool phoned me five days ago purportedly from my bank about bvn, activities that are extremely damaging to the economy.

Babalegba:
Sadly Nigerian youths are worse than their elders.They are vacuous,vain,greedy and extremely unpatriotic.They are a sorry pitiable bunch

dangotesmummy:
Nigeria is on fire una dey do shihoulette challenge

Many of Nigerian youths are senseless.you have a fool as a president,wicked and unreasonable politicians who feel They are not accountable to you

Economy dwindling yet you are still doing shihoulette challenge.sho tosiiyin? Shoriyinpe?

Quality20:
I really wonder o. During Buhari's first term when he appointed the recently relieved service chief, he sidetracked the hausas and the whole of Northwest with 7 states and the largest population, yet we the Northwesterners were all quiet, no body as much as said pim. But igbo ppl with a tiny land mass and few population woudnt let the world be. In fact do u know that Oyo state alone is far bigger and more populous than those five enclaves called states in d east? I really wonder why these tiny minority of a ppl cant maintain sanity. South is south, be it south east or south west. We in d north see north west and north east as the same and even north central.

BRATISLAVA:


Be that as it may, I tend to think of them as one of the best, if not the best. It's only recently Wits has been getting there. How the mighty are fallen.

favor914:
You are whining over ordinary routine recognizance mission? Who told you they were looking for those miscreants?

BRATISLAVA:


But Stellie is that good. It's more prestigious.

collagiatepaper:
Very useless biased ranking without credible bases.

ArticleBeast:

It ranked based on online publications

theFilmtric:
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you are talking in the rubbish

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gwafaeziokwu:


Two academic researchers. One using the USA population as sample, the other using Uk population as sample arrived at the same results. None of them were Igbos( we don't have time for such anyway ). No researcher has ever come out to counter this. Yet you call it boasting and bragging.

Someone should tell me what news is again.

Tyrant28:
Another one from ipob bereau head of operations CHANDA CHISALA

mike8804:
before I open the thread I know it will be from Igbo, always boasting and bragging.

Sammy07:


From the record, I could deduct that Igbos were reducing

From 100 (2009) % to 80% (2010) to 76% (2011)

What's the assurance that it hasn't reduced


Check,Yoruba own, its increasing from 35% (2009) to 75%(2011)

Are Igbos The Most Brilliant Black African Race? Facts And Figures From The US Academic Report 2015 Gives An Answer.
Besides the recent report of a number of Igbo students in the USA and Europe excelling at spectacular levels in academics - such as the case of Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna and Harold Ekeh who both scored admissions into all the eight Ivy League Schools in the USA, the intelligence of the Ibos (Igbos/Ndigbo) of southeastern Nigeria has been a subject of many discussions. Below is a US Academic report that addresses the subject using facts, figures, numbers, and charts (see Images/Charts) below.
"If only environmental factors were responsible for the different IQs of different populations, we should expect to find some countries where Africans had higher IQs than Europeans. The failure to find a single country where this is the case points to the presence of a strong genetic factor.” Richard Lynn.

“Regression would explain why Black children born to high IQ, wealthy Black parents have test scores 2 to 4 points lower than do White children born to low IQ, poor White parents.” Arthur Jensen.

The fact that black immigrants to the United States have shown achievements that are superior to native black Americans has been a phenomenon studied since at least the 1970′s. At first it was just the Caribbean blacks who were a subject of this unexpected outcome. As black Africans kept immigrating into the US, they showed even higher levels of achievement than the native blacks. Many scholars theorized on the reasons for these differences, from Thomas Sowell’s proposal that this disproved the validity of discrimination against native blacks as an explanation for their underachievement (Sowell, 1978), to other scholars who suggested that these immigrants were just the most highly driven members of their home countries as evidenced by their willingness to migrate to a foreign country (Butcher, 1990).

What most of these theories failed to predict was that the children of these immigrants would also show exceptional achievements, especially academically. It is only in recent years, as the immigrants have stayed long enough to produce a sufficiently high number of offspring, that it has been observed that they are over-represented among high academic achievers, especially when compared to native blacks, particularly at very elite institutions. What has been missed in the IQ debate is the full logical implication of these achievements: they have effectively nullified any arguments for a racial evolutionary explanation of the well-known IQ test score gap between blacks and whites. Even more fatal for the racial hereditarian side of the debate has been the corroborating data of school children performance in the UK, particularly when the black Africans are divided into their respective nationalities and tribal ethnicities, as reported in the latter section of this article.
black brilliance chart



Arthur Jensen gave at least two empirical tests that could potentially falsify his thesis of a race based genetic explanation for the black-white IQ gap. Firstly, if the gap is caused by genetic racial differences, the blacks with more white admixture should tend to show a higher IQ than blacks with less whiteness. Secondly, “regression to the mean” implies that children (or siblings) of extraordinarily high IQ blacks should tend to a lower IQ than the children or siblings of similarly high IQ whites. Social experiments concerning the first test have not been decisive, especially due to the difficulty of separating out environmental factors since lighter American blacks have historically faced more favorable socioeconomic conditions. The second test did indicate some evidence of regression to a lower black mean for African Americans, which only means that the racial genetic hypothesis was not nullified; it remained a valid proposition. Until now.

Using Jensen’s own empirical framework, the racial genetic hypothesis can be tested by comparing black African immigrants with native blacks, intellectually. If the genetic hypothesis is correct, children of elite African blacks will tend to have lower IQs than children of native black Americans, and perhaps even lower than children of low IQ blacks, the same phenomenon observed between American blacks and whites since native blacks are basically “more white” than African (or Caribbean) immigrants.



In the US, it is not only at elite universities where there is a clear over-representation of black immigrant children, it is also at public gifted schools and any kinds of intellectually gifted programs that are highly selective on intelligence. For example, when the New York Times did a story to show the experiences of blacks at Stuyvesant High School in New York, they had to use the personal account of a West Indian black child there (Ann-Marie Miller); if they had many native blacks, that would have certainly been their preferred subject. Furthermore, the only other student who was interviewed for that article, Opraha Miles, a former president of the black student society at Stuyvesant, also just happened to be Jamaican; no black American student was mentioned in the story. A close look at a number of other such institutions shows even more clear evidence of a tendency for black immigrants to be over-represented as selectivity requirements for an academic institution (or complexity of a subject) goes higher.

In the world of intellectually gifted schools, perhaps the most selective in the United States is a special program called the Davidson Academy started by Jan and Bob Davison in 2006 in Reno, Nevada. The tiny school boasts of selecting only the most profoundly gifted children (the highest of the five levels of giftedness) whose IQ is so high that “only one in every ten thousand children in America” can qualify to the school in any one cohort; it is more selective than Stanford or Harvard can ever be. The school makes no efforts or pretensions to affirmative action and as such, they have had very little “diversity.” However, a search through the promotional materials of the school for a black student – all schools and colleges will always show some black faces in their promotional materials if they have any – reveals that they have had at least one black student, and it was, unsurprisingly, a Nigerian Igbo.

Continued Discussion And Additional reading (from Chanda Chisala):
Just like in anything that attempts to compare or contrast one race or people with/from another, the the issue of IQ gap or comparison is not without its own arguments. In a lengthy article, Chanda Chisala involved territories outside USA in the analysis by using students in the United Kingdom. Her article verified the brilliance of the Igbos but also further concluded that blacks are ahead of their fellow students from the United Kingdom and even Asia. Below is an excerpt from her piece titled - Blacks-Especially-Igbos-Prove-More-Intelligent-Than-Whites-Including-The-Asian-Leaders.

"The most definitive proof of Africans’ grossly underestimated genotypic IQ (80 according to Lynn, or 70 according to Jensen and Rushton, et al) has come in recent years from the performance of African school children in the UK. These results sparked instant reactions in the IQ debate world as soon as they started being reported by the news media, with some strong hereditarians suddenly becoming some kind of neo-environmentalists just to explain why white school children were not showing the kind of academic superiority over blacks that they have become accustomed to in the United States (wrong tests, declining white culture, an alleged war on whites, etc – the same kinds of reasons they always dismissed from liberal environmentalists explaining black underachievement in the US)."

"The first report that caused some consternation in the IQ blogosphere indicated thatblack African pupils were apparently catching up with British white pupils on their GCSE tests and that in fact, they had already overtaken them at the lower end: the poor black kids were now performing better than poor white kids (The Guardian, 2010). Hereditarian psychometricians and scholars from Jensen to Gottfredson, Lynn, Rushton, et al had after all declared that IQ predicted test scores on all kinds of tests since a common factor of intelligence, g, was highly robust."

"As the table above shows, some African nationalities, particularly Ghanaians and Nigerians, score way above the England mean (and the white British mean), while others, like the Somalis and Congolese, score way below (but still not as low as the Portuguese immigrants, apparently). The low scoring African groups are the ones that migrated as refugees and/or could not speak English, besides being very poor. Improvements among the Somalians have been impressive, especially due to programs dedicated to teaching them English."

"Although the Chinese and Indians are still very conspicuously above even the best African nationalities, their superiority disappears when the Nigerian and other groups are broken down even further according to their different tribal ethnicities. Groups like the famous Igbo tribe, which has contributed much genetically to the African American blacks, are well known to be high academic achievers within Nigeria. In fact, their performance seems to be at least as high as the “model minority” Chinese and Indiansin the UK, as seen when some recent African immigrants are divided into languages spoken at home (which also indicates that these are not multigenerational descendants but children of recent immigrants)."


Partly culled from: http://newsrescue.com/blacks-especially-igbos-prove-more-intelligent-than-whites-including-the-asian-leaders/#axzz4Rp1GjGQd

favour32:

Murderous Fulani herdsmen supporter.

Chimookigwe:


You are a disgrace to Ndigbo, you son of a street dog.

Koulture:


Abeg cownu should just STFU.
The name igboho shouldn't be in same sentence with kanu.

One is a coward who abandoned his people and fled to uk,the other is a gallant warrior ready to defend his people.

Once again kanu pls STFU.

HallaDaTruth:
Buy popcorn and enjoy as things unfold