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asuustrike1:
All these you highlighted are not in Nigeria

You are right. Although the point I am making is about opportunity to be excellent.

It is all driven by vision in my opinion.

Europe was not the first to have universities and the United States were not the first to have universities. But today, they have the top 3 universities.

Just because the best university in the world isn’t in Nigeria today doesn’t mean we can’t create the best university in the world.

What I would like to ask if why no-one wants to develop the best university yet?

beatmonster:
Answer : YES

Why?

1. It divides humanity.
2. It robs people of their hard earned income
3. It deludes people's thinking faculty
4. It gives few people (religious leaders) so much influence (which they use to further their selfish interests)
5. it makes people docile
6. It negates science
7. (...)

https://thinkafrica.net/2018/10/19/the-oldest-university-in-the-world-is-not-bologna/

In the link I explain the religious origin of the University Of Oxford, Of Cambridge, the University Of Paris and the University Of Bologna.

Law has its origin in religion - shall we live without the law.

Education has its origin in religion - shall we live without education.

The wide spread use of written English had its origin in the struggle between people like William Tyndale and king Henry the VIII. Tyndale wanted all men to be able to read the bible themselves. The reformation lead to a difference between Europe and other societies where the working class were not taught to read and write.

Google the Gutenberg Bible if you don’t understand .

The intellectual race between the Islamic world and the Christian world led to advancements in knowledge for mankind.

Did the 80% world supply of gold and silver from Potosi that Europe enjoyed between 1500-1800 support your theory that religion robs of income? They had religion , the Peruvians had religion , violence and wealth redistribution still happened to Europe.

asuustrike1:
Yes we can. We should remove sentiment aside and look inward in what most private universities are doing. Harvard isn't a public university yet it is rated as one of the best universities in the world. The beef between public universities and private universities must enter before we can move forward. Every university has its own uniqueness that makes them stand out. The private sector is the way forward as they are more efficient in their delivery

Harvard has endowment funds. Investments created from the donations of former students. In addition to being private , a big proportion of students can receive scholarships to attend with bills paid from the endowments.

Shelumiel:
Nigerian educational system is subjective; not objective . Hence , no Nigerian university or graduate will ever (I say this again ) , ever meet up to Harvard standard

Ever is a long time. Harvard was established in 1636 AD.

At the time Harvard was created, Oxford had already been around since 1137 AD ; that's a gap of 450 years.

Imagine , if Americans had the attitude of "We suck! We'll never be better than them!"

Excellence starts in the imagination and having vision, not looking at what you see today.

Nigerians already get into Harvard and graduate from Harvard. We already attend all the best Universities in the world, our best students at that Clever, with a capital C.

Next to take down Oxford university, here is what the Romans 1000 years before Oxford said about Britain:

Strabo's comments on Ireland. (20-60 AD; 2000 years ago) "Lying beyond Britain, the men there were rumored to be even more debased, who slay and eat their fathers, and sleep with their mothers and sisters" (IV.5.4)

Diodorus Siculus about Britain/ the United Kingdom, (30-90 AD; 1,900 years ago) "The home of men who are complete savages and lead a miserable existence because of the cold; and therefore, in my opinion, the northern limit of our inhabited world is to be placed there" (II.5..

The farther away from the civilizing influence of Rome, in other words, and the more mysterious and unknown the land, the more fearsome and barbaric its inhabitants.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/miscellanea/geography.html

University of Chicago.

Is it not the job of other countries to laugh at our potential ; and for us to SMACK OUT OF THE BALL PARK our potential?

Our universities are not respected abroad because we don't respect ourselves.

Google the oldest university in the world!

https://thinkafrica.net/2018/10/19/the-oldest-university-in-the-world-is-not-bologna/

And No, it's not Harvard!

Africa’s earliest universities, the University of Al-Azhar and the University of Karueein, are older universities than Harvard and Europe’s earliest studia generale.

To all my brothers and sisters in Niaja, become the best - a Master - the money and prestige will follow!

Why do we underestimate ourselves?

marqueetim:
Pleaae stop saying stuff like this. 300hrs whether more or less does not guarantee success. Depending on his reading pattern and strength he should read for the exam with a very good material shweser, curriculum, ift videos, mark meldrum etc. All the Best Bro

clearly, this is an internet forum ; its not like I am going to know the guy/girl's reading patterns. Schweser books have a truncated version of the cfa issued textbooks. If a student doesn't want to miss out on technical information I highly recommend reading the cfa textbooks over schweser. Doing less than 300 hours is asking to do a re-sit. The point I'm making is anyone that wants to pass should have a minimum level of work that they are putting in.

oluwasegun007:
THIS GROUP THINK THEY ARE SPEAKING FOR THE YORUBA RACE........

Technically, there is no Yoruba race. when the twin princesses from Oyo founded Ondo, there were indigens already there. When Oodua arrived at Ile Ife, there were indigens already there, when Oranyan founded Oyo (old Oyo / Katunga), it was a Ego group / Oranyan family union.

I think we know from history that when the elite claim to speak for all Yoruba people, it's a power grab attempt.

morpheus24:
Its not fare fetched at all and I have always suspected that Europeans and Asians had some sort of introduction of another human species into their gene pool. it would make sense if all these "types' of humans were loitering around the continents as sapien wondered out of Africa.

We have the same behavior even today where as modern groups of people venture and encounter other groups there is a high probability of inter mixing with them. In the truest sense there are no pure humans rather racists or people who wish to push a particular narrative usually use the information they deem fit that fits that narrative without really exploring the entirety of the subject matter.

The San are for example some of the closest modern descendants of the earliest homo sapiens that moved around Africa. They display certain archaic traits and by traits I mean "body anatomy, phenotypical representations and genetics" even till today without a doubt as their ancestors had remained isolated for a long period of time.

Europe and North America have malnutrition rough sleepers too. This is non-sense. I m done responding.

Onechancearmy:
It is actually black people who have a problematic ancestry. Neanderthals actually had a larger brain than Homo Sapien. So when they interbred, the off spring between the Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals who are the present Europeans inherited the larger brain of their Neanderthal ancestors.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbBEMJjX4AAwaOV.jpg

Homo Sapiens in Africa on the other hand intermarried with an ape like hominid creature with ape like features, hence the strong resemblance that the black man shares with the ape.

This drivel is called Pseudo science. In your desperation for identity don’t swallow b/s - phrenology in past times

Joelaking:
Hello house. I have a background in engineering. What do I do to enable me write CFA? THANKS.

Good teachers, Hard work and discipline. As long as you do the 300 hours of private study per level, should pass.

CAPSLOCKED:

DID THIS "GOD" DIRECTLY TELL YOU IT NEEDS YOUR WORSHIP?
WHY ARE WE FOND OF LOOKING FOR THINGS THAT ARE NOT THERE?

Dope Name!

I think you are conflating a complex world with over simplistic analytics.

Research of world beliefs Today does not explain causality. You can’t point to beliefs today and say look , that’s how all world nations arrived at their relative levels of wealth.

As an example, when the world had as its top 4 top powers , Eastern Rome Empire (Christian), Persia, Axum (Christian) and China, where was atheism?

When the Unites States were exporting Cotton (60% of 1800-1850 GDP) from slavery (9% of the population), where was atheism as an explanation of material wealth.

Blaming religion , ignores how the loss of Haiti to a slave revolt led to the French selling Louisiana (millions upon millions of square kilometres) to 13 American colonies to raise money. Without land sold at undervalue, would America have risen so easily.

Blaming religion, ignores the Indian Removal Act, which added a lot of land to the US by force.

I am using the US because it can be shown if you have a few years of your life to dig to real world events that blaming religion for poverty is a bit oversimplified.

What does the Stepstonian policy have to do with religion ?

Rafikizolo:
Axum.. This isn't about being black. This is about building a peaceful and prosperous Africa. It does not matter the ethnic or cultural makeup of the country. Some of the most successful countries in the world are those that are the most diverse and welcoming of immigrants from different backgrounds. USA, Australia, UK Part of the success of the United Arab Emirates rapid development was their openness int heir economic growth and allowing workers from all over the world to get visas to come live and work there. Now only 39% of the residents of the UAE are Arab (both UAE citizens and people from other Arab countries. UAE arabs are only 16% of the country).

Meanwhile Somalia, one of the most homogenous countries on Earth is the single most lawless, dangerous and impoverished country in all of Africa, despite how much you boast about how great your people once were. The Romans, Greeks and Ottomans were once great, but all empires fall, and yours seems to have fallen the farthest. Call yourself whatever you want to. I don't care if you're black or not, we can agree that you are African, and it has been proven time and time again in the modern era that those who embrace diversity can succeed at far higher rates than those who close themselves off from the world (especially their neighbors).

you mean well, but this is oversimplistic.

Why are we so gullible and ready to pin hopes on simple prophecies that promise to solve complex problems quickly?

I was looking at the front page and it bothered me that some people think Nigeria will have a national Messiah. Really?

Oyinbo anthropologists studied India and African believe systems prior to colonisation and identified that religion could be used as a tool for social control, both in terms of traditional religions and abrahamic religions.

Why don't people come to church or the mosque with their thinking hats screwed on?