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Ministerial Nominee fails simple questions.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-255.0.htmll

seanet02:
Na lie go kill you. Can you provide the name and link to this unimpressing lie?

I will find it, but here is another Yoruba failed minister to ruminate on first

Ministerial Nominee Fails NEEDS Test
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505190259.html

seanet02:
Why do you blame her? Ibos don't believe in Nigeria likewise me myself. The only grudges i have with her is trying to eat her own vomit. Since you don't believe in one Nigeria why try to be one of the Ambassadors of One Nigeria? How did she got promoted to secondary school? Educational standard in ibo land is stone age standard! Lol

A minister nominee from Ondo could not recite the anthem either and did not know the capital of Taraba. This happened in 07 (before this Igbo one) during Yaradua's time

2011 World university ranking for Nigeria
1=Ilorin
2=Jos
3=UNN
The rest na PAKO

http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=africa

Lol! Even Makerere Uganda is by far better than the best in Nigeria

Jeel:
Politics in Nig has gone the next level if an Igbo man will dictate for a Yoruba man in his own land.GOD BLESS NIG

What is dictatorial in the news?

Lagos Ohanaeze lists conditions for Fashola’s endorsement
By PETER ANOSIKE
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Babatunde Raji Fashola
Photo: Sun News Publishing
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The Lagos State chapter of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has listed conditions for which it would endorse the candidacy of the incumbent Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola in the April 16, governorship election.

Speaking after an emergency general meeting of the association yesterday in Lagos, the President, Chief Oliver Akubueze said after due consultations with other Igbo socio-cultural organizations, market associations and town unions, they came to an agreement that Fashola should appreciate the contributions Igbos are making towards the development of the state and should reciprocate it by carrying them along in the scheme of things in the state.

According to the president, it was agreed that more Igbos should be appointed commissioners in his cabinet as well as into boards of parastatals and agencies in the state. According to him, Ndigbo in Lagos are full of praises of Fashola’s first term in office and agreed that he deserves another term.

However, he said the governor should ensure that Ndigbo is not left behind in the scheme of things going by the large number in the state as well as their contributions to the development of the state.
“After due consultations with the other Igbo socio-cultural organizations here in Lagos as well as town unions and market associations, Ohanaeze which is the apex Igbo socio-cultural organizations has come out with conditions by which we will endorse Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola for second term. I also want to make it clear that these are the conditions to endorse Fashola as an individual candidate but not his party.

We have already endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for the presidency. This is very important. The conditions are that Governor Fashola should appreciate our contributions to the development of the state and should reciprocate that by appointing Igbos as commissioners. In his cabinet what we are asking are not out of place because Ndigbo make up about 46 percent of the total population of the state. But this does not reflect in political appointment, she should also appoint Igbo into the boards of parastatals and agencies. Our business interests and welfare also need more protection. However, we acknowledged that the governor performed wonderfully well in his first term and as it said in politics ‘One good term deserves another’.

Akubueze also commended the Ndigbo for turning out in their large numbers during the voters registration exercise.
He advised them to vote wisely in the April general elections.
Aknbueze said that it was not fair that KAI, LASTMA and other agencies should always target the Igbos for exploitation.
The Lagos Ohanaeze boss said that he is not saying that whoever goes against the rules and regulations in the state should not be punished but that his worry is the discriminatory way of giving the punishment which has made it obvious that the Igbos are the major target.

I agree that the young shall grow but for now the old ones will always hold sway. One of the ranking criteria is research publications of faculty members. Now can you point to one research work conducted and published in an internationally peer-reviewed journal by any fac member of the private universities in Nigeria whereas there are easily such publications from UNN and the old Unis.

wills:
Rankings are controvarsial issues especially higher education rankings. What are the parameters used for these ranking and what authorities validate these rankings? These are questions to ask rather than worry about UNN or UNILORIN being ranked this or that. In times past we have seen some other Nigerian based rankings that uses the prestige of name and age to rank 1st generation University as top ranking regardless of the rot being experienced in some of this institutions. Presently there are a few Universities in Nigeria that can compete favourably with top notch Uni in the Africa but yet get no mention in rankings simply because they are young Universities,Privately run Uni or state owned Uni. To me this just makes nonesense of the entire ranking system and I would advice would be students to use more than just these ranking to make there choice of where to learn and gain a qualification

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Solomon227:
Which Ramon be this? SW rejected OBJ in 1999 and he lost in SW but elected in the North, SE and SS. This is a different issue for Mr Clueless: GEJ. He is being rejected by SW (15 million voters), NW (19 million voters), NE (8 million voters) and many parts of NC (8 million voters).

So tell me dude where is GEJ votes coming from in a free-n-fair election?

Mumu. So the 15 million voters in the SW are all Yorubas? How about the millions of Igbos in the SW? How about 100s of 1000s of SS people in the SW? Who will they vote for?

*Cougar*:
you are a tool!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-371485.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-554457.0.html
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-371635.0.html (this one may sound comical but it is coming from a Yoruba)

2011: Igbo will assert electoral strength in Lagos-Uche
By DURO ADESEKO
Saturday, February 26, 2011
•Uche
Photo: Sun News Publishing

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Chief John Uche is the chairman of the Coalition of Lagos State Opposition Political Parties (COLLASOP) now warming up to give the incumbent Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola a good fight for the Lagos House in 2011.
Chief Uche is confident that the 26 parties would win the governorship election. He spoke of the numerical strength of non- indigenes in Lagos during elections and emphasised that the Igbo constitute more than 52 per cent of the electorate.

During the last census, he said, former Governor Bola Tinubu realised that the Igbo constitute well over 60 per cent of the population but officially reduced it to 43 and gave the Yoruba 47 per cent.

According to Uche, Lagos is a no man’s land and only the Lagoon can claim to be a Lagosian. To him, every tribe in Lagos came from somewhere.
He posited that the days when the Igbo in Lagos can be exploited are over. According to him, the Igbo contributed immensely to the economy of Lagos and would be ready to assert its electoral strength at the general election next year.

He confidently stated that the Igbo in Lagos are merely waiting for INEC to blow the whistle at the beginning of the registration exercise and anybody who cares to monitor the exercise would realise that the Igbo and other non-indigenes are determined to take over Lagos.

Chief Uche however said a memorandum of understanding with other parties in the coalition stated that a Yoruba would be governorship candidate while a non- indigene would be his deputy.
He also spoke on the much talked about performance of Fashola.
Excerpts:

We leant that 26 political parties came together with the intention of taking over Lagos from the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). What informed your decision to come together?
We believe Lagos is a cosmopolitan state. We also believe nobody can lay claim to Lagos. Some people may think nobody can challenge them. They think because we are smaller parties and we don’t have resources and they are at the helm of affairs. We now have to form a coalition and muster our resources to take over power in Lagos State in 2011. We are confident of doing so.

The point is that 26 political parties are involved under your chairmanship and people don’t believe that the parties put together have grassroots support.
I don’t know if ACN has grassroots support either because all the political parties started at the same time. When I brought APGA to Lagos, they did not believe that APGA could spring a surprise. I know what I did to make it in Lagos. At the end of the day, I disproved the impression that I am an underdog. Today, I want to assure you that we are on ground. The only thing that can stop us in Lagos is if one-man one vote does not count. If one-man one vote will count, I can assure you, on May 29th 2011,the governor of the coalition would be sworn in Lagos.

Many believe Governor Babatunde Fashola has done a lot of things people can see and many believe you are all jokers because you don’t have the financial muscle and you don’t have the structure in all local governments and wards?
Well, I don’t know what you mean when you say Fashola has done a lot. We have not seen that. Recently, somebody argued with me that he has performed very well in Lagos and how do you think you can defeat him? I said there is not a single thing Fashola has done in Lagos State. I will like to know what he has done.
I believe if Fashola has done well, there will be no need for us to challenge him. We are progressives. I also believe that if any of the progressive’s is doing well, it is our duty to support him so that he can do more. But Fashola has done nothing. What has he done? All the photo tricks you see in Lagos are World Bank assisted projects. LAWMA is World Bank assisted project. LAMATA is World Bank assisted project. Agricultural Project Scheme is World Bank assisted project. Water is World Bank assisted project. Then what is he doing with the statutory allocation from the federation account? What has he done with Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), which runs into N53.6 billion every month? Though he declares only N30 billion.

Go to the streets of Lagos and you will see that all the local councils chairmen did nothing. The roads are bad. When there is little rain, Lagos is paralysed. So, tell me what has he done? Some said he constructed Cele /Itire bridge and I said it is a World Bank assisted project. All the contractors are the people they invited and they are the people siphoning the economy of the state.
In our World Press conference, we raised a lot of issues that they should respond to. To my greatest surprise, the ACN Publicity Secretary who we all know is a political jobber could not even say one or two things against what we raised in our Press Conference. We believe that he is an errand boy. I cannot trade words with an errand boy. Fashola has done nothing in Lagos.

Politically, people believe ACN has the structure to win election any day in Lagos. They meet regularly and plan while the 26 parties in the coalition cannot win a councillorship election.
I think election is around the corner. We would know who-is who-when the time comes. This is no longer a time they will sit at the Government House and write results. In 2008, during the council elections, we were persuaded to participate and we won in many local governments. But they wrote results and schemed all of us out. But we have no laws to contest the result in the tribunal because the Lagos Electoral Commission did not give us copies of the laws governing the election. But this is a Federal election. We would know-who is-who at this election. We are on ground and we are putting the structure on the 57 councils and not on 20. We shall match them one on one and Naira for Naira. We shall match them rice for rice and propaganda for propaganda. We are prepared.

It is believed that some corporate organizations are funding you.
If corporate organisations are prepared to bank-roll us, we won’t say no. But I can tell you that the 26 political parties are buoyant enough to finance us.

Does that mean the allegation is not true? Or you are not expecting assistance from corporate organisations?
Our room is open to donations from anywhere. Even if you can donate we shall appreciate it and record your name as one of the people that assisted the party. It is allowed. But, I am telling you that we are not banking on any business community. The 26 political parties are prepared. We are not jokers as some are saying. It is at their own peril to think we are jokers. We are prepared to take over the government of Lagos State.

Is it true that the Igbo community in Lagos is in support of the move by the 26 political parties? It is believed that the Igbo constitute 30 or 40 per cent of the Lagos electorate.
Let me tell you that the Igbo in Lagos State constitute 52 per cent and not 30 or 40 per cent. In the last voter exercise, Igbo in Lagos constitute 60 per cent of the total voters register in Lagos State. What I want to tell you is that in 12 out of the 20 local governments, Igbo are 60 per cent. But each time there is election the cabal in Lagos would come to the Igbos and use them as campaigners and voters and after election, they dump them and wait for another election. We have already had our meetings, we have concluded to slug it out this time. Whoever is associating with them is pretending. We have concluded that we must be part of governance of Lagos State. We contribute 80 per cent to the economy of Lagos.

If Nigeria can congratulate Obama on winning election as president of US, what stops us from doing the same in Lagos? There are some people answer Smith, Ransome- Kuti, Cole, Jonhson, Williams and they’re tolerated and they held political power in Lagos. So tell me, what stops Ibrahim, Musa, Okonkwo, Okorie, Uche from contesting in Lagos? Most of the people that ruled Lagos apart from Mobolaji Johnson and Micheal Otedola, the rest are non-indigenes. So, if somebody from Osun State can be governor in Lagos and somebody from Ekiti can be governor, it means somebody from Kano, Imo, Anambra can also be governor. Lagos is a cosmopolitan state. It is a no man’s land. The only indigene in Lagos is the Lagoon. All others migrated from different places to settle in Lagos. Therefore, we are all Lagosian and we shall leave Lagos better than we met it.

The argument that Lagos is a no mans land dates back to a very long time. But there are traditional rulers all over the place. They consider it an insult to say that Lagos is no man’s land.
Those people should check their race to know where they come from. The Benin people who first came to Lagos never laid claim to Lagos. The first Oba of Lagos, Oba Kosoko is from somewhere. Why is it that …I don’t want to talk about Obas so, I don’t insult some people.
But let me tell you, before 1817, Igbo have come to Lagos to settle, inter marry, socialise and intermingle with people they met. They contributed immensely to the development of Lagos State. Their contributions have run into several billions of Naira. Lagos was just a swamp. We sound filled and built houses. If anybody can go to Oweri, Onitsha and Enugu and contribute economically, he would be made governor without contesting election.
Everybody has the right according to the constitution of Nigeria to contest election anywhere you find yourself if you have stayed over 10 years. I came to Lagos with nothing. Today, I have children, I built my house, and I have cars and other things. So, I am a Lagosian. I only travel home once in a year and I come back to settle in Lagos. Why must you call me non- indigene? Are you the ocean? Only the Lagoon can claim to be omo onile. All others are settlers.

You said Igbo constitute 60 per cent of voters. But those called the indigenes said you are not up to 20 per cent.
If you talk of the Aworis, it spills to Ogun and Oyo States. They are not only in Lagos. They come from somewhere. But I am telling you that the last census count, when the Federal Government was conducting the count, Bola Tinubu, His Excellency was also doing his own. He was able to do accurate count and found that Igbo is 52 per cent. But for the fact that he cannot say so, he reduced it and said we are 43 and Yoruba 47. Even if we are 43 per cent, we can seize Lagos if we like. We only need 5 per cent of the Yoruba. We are the beautiful bride and the numerical strength of Ndigbo determines who becomes the governor of Lagos.

Are you implying that an Igbo would likely be presented as governorship candidate on the platform of the 26 parties in the 2011 election?
Anybody can be governorship candidate. We are not discriminating. As I am talking to you, we have seven governorship aspirants from different tribes of Nigeria. But we believe that a Yoruba man must be the governor. Then, we have ceded the position of deputy to non-indigene. There must be a credible candidate who may be Hausa, Igbo or any other tribe in Nigeria. They will all go through primaries and whoever emerges would become our candidate.

Would that not result in fighting?
We know ourselves. We have a memorandum of understanding and we are gentlemen. We have come a long way in political movement.

How do you hope to get the message across to all Igbo in Lagos?
We have concluded and mobilisation has almost been concluded. We are only waiting for the day to come. When the voters registration starts, you will be a witness to what I have been saying. You as a journalist can go to INEC to check those who registered. We are prepared. It is not only Igbo but also other non-indigenes. What is happening in Lagos is affecting everybody.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/politics/2011/feb/26/politics-26-02-2011-005.htm

Igwe-1:

Here is the article here
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/politics/2011/feb/26/politics-26-02-2011-005.htm

2011: Igbo will assert electoral strength in Lagos-Uche


By DURO ADESEKO  Saturday, February 26, 2011

•Uche
Photo: Sun News Publishing
Chief John Uche is the chairman of the Coalition of Lagos State Opposition Political Parties (COLLASOP) now warming up to give the incumbent Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola a good fight for the Lagos House in 2011.
Chief Uche is confident that the 26 parties would win the governorship election. He spoke of the numerical strength of non- indigenes in Lagos during elections and emphasised that the Igbo constitute more than 52 per cent of the electorate.

During the last census, he said, former Governor Bola Tinubu realised that the Igbo constitute well over 60 per cent of the population but officially reduced it to 43 and gave the Yoruba 47 per cent.

According to Uche, Lagos is a no man’s land and only the Lagoon can claim to be a Lagosian. To him, every tribe in Lagos came from somewhere.
He posited that the days when the Igbo in Lagos can be exploited are over. According to him, the Igbo contributed immensely to the economy of Lagos and would be ready to assert its electoral strength at the general election next year.

He confidently stated that the Igbo in Lagos are merely waiting for INEC to blow the whistle at the beginning of the registration exercise and anybody who cares to monitor the exercise would realise that the Igbo and other non-indigenes are determined to take over Lagos.

Chief Uche however said a memorandum of understanding with other parties in the coalition stated that a Yoruba would be governorship candidate while a non- indigene would be his deputy.
He also spoke on the much talked about performance of Fashola.
Excerpts:

We leant that 26 political parties came together with the intention of taking over Lagos from the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). What informed your decision to come together?
We believe Lagos is a cosmopolitan state. We also believe nobody can lay claim to Lagos. Some people may think nobody can challenge them. They think because we are smaller parties and we don’t have resources and they are at the helm of affairs. We now have to form a coalition and muster our resources to take over power in Lagos State in 2011. We are confident of doing so.





The point is that 26 political parties are involved under your chairmanship and people don’t believe that the parties put together have grassroots support.
I don’t know if ACN has grassroots support either because all the political parties started at the same time. When I brought APGA to Lagos, they did not believe that APGA could spring a surprise. I know what I did to make it in Lagos. At the end of the day, I disproved the impression that I am an underdog. Today, I want to assure you that we are on ground. The only thing that can stop us in Lagos is if one-man one vote does not count. If one-man one vote will count, I can assure you, on May 29th 2011,the governor of the coalition would be sworn in Lagos.



Many believe Governor Babatunde Fashola has done a lot of things people can see and many believe you are all jokers because you don’t have the financial muscle and you don’t have the structure in all local governments and wards?
Well, I don’t know what you mean when you say Fashola has done a lot. We have not seen that. Recently, somebody argued with me that he has performed very well in Lagos and how do you think you can defeat him? I said there is not a single thing Fashola has done in Lagos State. I will like to know what he has done.
I believe if Fashola has done well, there will be no need for us to challenge him. We are progressives. I also believe that if any of the progressive’s is doing well, it is our duty to support him so that he can do more. But Fashola has done nothing. What has he done? All the photo tricks you see in Lagos are World Bank assisted projects. LAWMA is World Bank assisted project. LAMATA is World Bank assisted project. Agricultural Project Scheme is World Bank assisted project. Water is World Bank assisted project. Then what is he doing with the statutory allocation from the federation account? What has he done with Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), which runs into N53.6 billion every month? Though he declares only N30 billion.

Go to the streets of Lagos and you will see that all the local councils chairmen did nothing. The roads are bad. When there is little rain, Lagos is paralysed. So, tell me what has he done? Some said he constructed Cele /Itire bridge and I said it is a World Bank assisted project. All the contractors are the people they invited and they are the people siphoning the economy of the state.
In our World Press conference, we raised a lot of issues that they should respond to. To my greatest surprise, the ACN Publicity Secretary who we all know is a political jobber could not even say one or two things against what we raised in our Press Conference. We believe that he is an errand boy. I cannot trade words with an errand boy. Fashola has done nothing in Lagos.



Politically, people believe ACN has the structure to win election any day in Lagos. They meet regularly and plan while the 26 parties in the coalition cannot win a councillorship election.
I think election is around the corner. We would know who-is who-when the time comes. This is no longer a time they will sit at the Government House and write results. In 2008, during the council elections, we were persuaded to participate and we won in many local governments. But they wrote results and schemed all of us out. But we have no laws to contest the result in the tribunal because the Lagos Electoral Commission did not give us copies of the laws governing the election. But this is a Federal election. We would know-who is-who at this election. We are on ground and we are putting the structure on the 57 councils and not on 20. We shall match them one on one and Naira for Naira. We shall match them rice for rice and propaganda for propaganda. We are prepared.



It is believed that some corporate organizations are funding you.
If corporate organisations are prepared to bank-roll us, we won’t say no. But I can tell you that the 26 political parties are buoyant enough to finance us.



Does that mean the allegation is not true? Or you are not expecting assistance from corporate organisations?
Our room is open to donations from anywhere. Even if you can donate we shall appreciate it and record your name as one of the people that assisted the party. It is allowed. But, I am telling you that we are not banking on any business community. The 26 political parties are prepared. We are not jokers as some are saying. It is at their own peril to think we are jokers. We are prepared to take over the government of Lagos State.



Is it true that the Igbo community in Lagos is in support of the move by the 26 political parties? It is believed that the Igbo constitute 30 or 40 per cent of the Lagos electorate.
Let me tell you that the Igbo in Lagos State constitute 52 per cent and not 30 or 40 per cent. In the last voter exercise, Igbo in Lagos constitute 60 per cent of the total voters register in Lagos State. What I want to tell you is that in 12 out of the 20 local governments, Igbo are 60 per cent. But each time there is election the cabal in Lagos would come to the Igbos and use them as campaigners and voters and after election, they dump them and wait for another election. We have already had our meetings, we have concluded to slug it out this time. Whoever is associating with them is pretending. We have concluded that we must be part of governance of Lagos State. We contribute 80 per cent to the economy of Lagos.

If Nigeria can congratulate Obama on winning election as president of US, what stops us from doing the same in Lagos? There are some people answer Smith, Ransome- Kuti, Cole, Jonhson, Williams and they’re tolerated and they held political power in Lagos. So tell me, what stops Ibrahim, Musa, Okonkwo, Okorie, Uche from contesting in Lagos? Most of the people that ruled Lagos apart from Mobolaji Johnson and Micheal Otedola, the rest are non-indigenes. So, if somebody from Osun State can be governor in Lagos and somebody from Ekiti can be governor, it means somebody from Kano, Imo, Anambra can also be governor. Lagos is a cosmopolitan state. It is a no man’s land. The only indigene in Lagos is the Lagoon. All others migrated from different places to settle in Lagos. Therefore, we are all Lagosian and we shall leave Lagos better than we met it.



The argument that Lagos is a no mans land dates back to a very long time. But there are traditional rulers all over the place. They consider it an insult to say that Lagos is no man’s land.
Those people should check their race to know where they come from. The Benin people who first came to Lagos never laid claim to Lagos. The first Oba of Lagos, Oba Kosoko is from somewhere. Why is it that …I don’t want to talk about Obas so, I don’t insult some people.
But let me tell you, before 1817, Igbo have come to Lagos to settle, inter marry, socialise and intermingle with people they met. They contributed immensely to the development of Lagos State. Their contributions have run into several billions of Naira. Lagos was just a swamp. We sound filled and built houses. If anybody can go to Oweri, Onitsha and Enugu and contribute economically, he would be made governor without contesting election.
Everybody has the right according to the constitution of Nigeria to contest election anywhere you find yourself if you have stayed over 10 years. I came to Lagos with nothing. Today, I have children, I built my house, and I have cars and other things. So, I am a Lagosian. I only travel home once in a year and I come back to settle in Lagos. Why must you call me non- indigene? Are you the ocean? Only the Lagoon can claim to be omo onile. All others are settlers.

You said Igbo constitute 60 per cent of voters. But those called the indigenes said you are not up to 20 per cent.
If you talk of the Aworis, it spills to Ogun and Oyo States. They are not only in Lagos. They come from somewhere. But I am telling you that the last census count, when the Federal Government was conducting the count, Bola Tinubu, His Excellency was also doing his own. He was able to do accurate count and found that Igbo is 52 per cent. But for the fact that he cannot say so, he reduced it and said we are 43 and Yoruba 47. Even if we are 43 per cent, we can seize Lagos if we like. We only need 5 per cent of the Yoruba. We are the beautiful bride and the numerical strength of Ndigbo determines who becomes the governor of Lagos.



Are you implying that an Igbo would likely be presented as governorship candidate on the platform of the 26 parties in the 2011 election?
Anybody can be governorship candidate. We are not discriminating. As I am talking to you, we have seven governorship aspirants from different tribes of Nigeria. But we believe that a Yoruba man must be the governor. Then, we have ceded the position of deputy to non-indigene. There must be a credible candidate who may be Hausa, Igbo or any other tribe in Nigeria. They will all go through primaries and whoever emerges would become our candidate.



Would that not result in fighting?
We know ourselves. We have a memorandum of understanding and we are gentlemen. We have come a long way in political movement.

How do you hope to get the message across to all Igbo in Lagos?
We have concluded and mobilisation has almost been concluded. We are only waiting for the day to come. When the voters registration starts, you will be a witness to what I have been saying. You as a journalist can go to INEC to check those who registered. We are prepared. It is not only Igbo but also other non-indigenes. What is happening in Lagos is affecting everybody.

Igwe-1:
^^
IGBO population is around 40%  in lagos and this is not an overinflation. I saw an article from a lagos press recently about it but i cannot find it. I will share it when i do. There was similar article that Igbos control 70% of oyo business and economy and Ezeindigbo of  Oyo was given a commendation by oyo government on contributing positively to there economy. No matter what some nigeria animals make you think, igbo's are the most open minded, open hearted nigerians, willing to go anywhere and everywhere to contribute. Nigeria will never acheive its highest potential until it taps into the can-do spirit of the IGBO man fully.

I read that article too. The interviewee alleged that when Tinubu, who had conducted an independent population count, found out that Igbos were huge in Lagos he underrepresented their population by giving them 43%. Please get it and share it.

Though in general, it is worryingly shameful that the best Naija uni is only # 20 in Africa
We are indeed the giant midget of Africa

Uni Ilorin has consistently been the best Uni in Nigeria for 2-3 years running. What is the secret?
I read where they (Uni-Ilorin) gave postgrad grants to foreigners to come study in there Uni. Impressive

UNN has been denied funding by the FG which affected its fortune. Now things are looking better again and UNN is slowly taking back its position as the once best Uni in Nigeria

For now, Uni Ilorin is # 1 (20 in Africa) followed, surprisingly, by Uni Jos (42 in Africa) and then the UNN (54 in Africa). With time, UNN shall be # 1 again as it was in the 60s.


See full African ranking here

http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=africa

EzeUche_:
Enough of the chest beating my Igbo brothers. Everyone knows that our population is getting educated.

No one is chest-beating. We are only taking back the lies that Yoruba press have peddled all these years due to the skewness of the press and especially, Igbo penchant not to always challenge issues to avoid been branded names. Now every single point is up for challenge, including the census and the Igbo population in Lagos.

Tinubu, oh! Fasola oh! all na rascals

SW rejected ObJ in 1999, yet he won.
So they can go ahead and reject GEJ in 2011, he will still win
A good %tage of the voters in the SW are not Yoruba
Those will vote for GEJ
Jonathan has said it that he does not need rascally SW votes.

Speak Yoruba ke?
Even Anyaoku whose wife is Yoruba does not speak that language

Kildran
Yoruba hardly patronize public unis? This one is a big fat lie.

Come to the US and see Igbo students compared to Yoruba
Go to Germany and Singapore, South Africa just to mention a few, the story is the same
Go to Ghana, our neighbour, the story is similar. Igbos beat Yoruba everywhere

UK has lost attraction as a destination for Niaja student because of cost consideration
Nigerians now even go as far as Australia, Philippines, Canada etc to study
Moreover, an average Yoruba family is poorer than an average Igbo family
So you cannot claim to be able to go study abroad more than the Igbo
If you claim so, please provide the proof.

Kildran

Please list the 18 private unis in the SW and the 2 in the SE. Define what you mean by private uni and state how many students are in those unis. Get the state of origin of those students
That way you are making a complete story
In Aba alone, there are more than 3 private unis
Take for e.g. lead university in Ibadan which was unapproved and yet went to market recruiting students
Did you know of the Catholic University in Abia state?
Did you know of Rhema University in Aba?

Many of those private unis, SE or SW, are mostly fake, just duping students of their money. Most lecturers there are not qualified to teach in community colleges
Every dick Tom and Harry wakes up and opens a university and you brag with that?

http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/narticles/ndigbo_and_school_enrollment.htm

Nd'igbo and school enrollment


By

Chinedu Anekwe
Enugu, Nigeria



In the 10th of July, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) released the results of the 2002 Universities Matriculation Examination (U.M.E.). According to JAMB Registrar, Prof. Bello Salim, 1,007,326 had completed and returned their admission forms to the Board out of which 975,060 candidates sat for the examination.



Giving a breakdown of the entries, Prof. Salim said Imo State presented the highest number of 95,984 or 9.84 per cent of the total entry. Delta State is the runner-up with 80,448 or 8.25 per cent while Anambra State came third with 64,296 or 6.59 per cent. Edo, Ogun and Ondo had 61,897 (6.37 per cent), 54,272(5.6 per cent) and 46,592 (4.7 per cent) applicants respectively, to occupy the third to sixth positions. States with the lowest number of applicants for UME included Borno with 4,358 , Taraba with 2,934 , Katsina 2,530 , Kebbi 2,438 (0.24 per cent), Zamfara 2,169 (0.22 per cent) and Yobe having 1,178 (0.12 per cent). The entries of Imo and Anambra States alone
amounted to a total of 160,280 or 16.43 per cent of the total entry, with the remaining 34 states and the F.C.T. making do with the remaining 83.27 per cent.



It should be noted, for the sake of emphasis, that Imo and Anambra States are in South-East Nigeria while Igbos make up about a quarter of the population of Delta State. Igbos in Delta State can be found in Agbor, Anioma, Asaba, Ibuzo, Ndokwa, Ogwashi Uku,
Okpanam, Oshimili, etc.



For long, there has been this erroneous notion created in the Nigerian media that the quest for intellectual improvement by sons and daughters of Igboland has been poor in recent times. However, statistics from JAMB and the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) as regards the registration of candidates from different states of the federation points to the contrary. The trend as regards the registration of JAMB students in the last five years has shown that the Igbo rank tops. In 2001 U.M.E. entries, according to states of origin, Imo State equally took the first position. It is equally noteworthy that the first position for the 2002 U.M.E. JAMB examination went to John Uchenna Efidi of Ebonyi State who scored 326. Chike Collins-Gregory Ndive from Anambra State came second
with a score of 325 while Henry Tolulope Jibodu and Ashimuyi Babatunde Durojaiye (both of Lagos State) jointly took the third position by scoring 319.



The truth of the matter is that there have been drop in male enrolment in schools in Anambra and Abia States due to the commercial nature of the states. Young boys in these states who see their mates doing business and who seem to be "making it" (in the short run though) tend to abandon school for business. That notwithstanding, these states still have many of their indigenes spread across different parts of the country, likewise other Igbo states.



Writing in an article on the Back page of Thisday Newspaper of 25th March 2002, Olusegun Adeniyi stated inter alia : ", a region (South East) where most young people are driven by the urge to make money with little or no value attached to mental self
improvement". This can no longer be accepted by Ndi Igbo. It is an intimidation of the Igbo race. Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu complained of this intimidation of in an interview with Newswatch Magazine of April 8, 2002. On page 29 he said: "I
found that there is an orchestrated attempt at intimidating the Igbo with their own shortcomings. And these are shortcomings that are rampant across the entire country".



A halt must be put to this mixture of tribal sentiments to obfuscate crystal clear facts. Just to digress a little, we all saw the kind of encomiums that was poured on the Nigerian coaching crew to the Japan/Korea World Cup even though it is visible that that coaching crew were inept. Just because the head of that crew comes from a particular section of the country. I thank Mr. Emeka Odikpo of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) for putting facts in their proper perspective in the July 13 edition of "Sports Spectacular" on Radio Nigeria. Did Onigbinde perform at the World Cup? Odikpo's Verdict: CAPITAL NO.



In conclusion therefore, I think the onus now lies on the objective press and Igbo sons and daughters in the media to correct this erroneous claim, now given life and which seems to have worn the garb of validity. As the Igbo would say, "aru gbaa afo, o ghoo omenala" (when an abomination lasts for a year, it becomes a
norm).


Sept 2002

Visit any university/polytechnic in Nigeria and try to find out how many Igbo versus Yoruba are there
You will see that even in Unilag, UI, Ife, ABU, Unijos, etc Igbos are well represented, but the reverse is not true about Yorubas in universities outside Yorubaland