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iSpitonYourGrav:
I just went through the list on this link you pasted and I was able to count 6 Yoruba names and 1 igbo name for the PhD and master's candidate.you can as well recount it

Then you must either be disingenuous (cause I've seen about 5 Igbo names so far and counting for different degree programs/fields) or simply blind, hopefully your brother LegendHero isn't both.

Covidodo:
Please tag me when you are set

I'm Currently downloading all my pdfs for CSULB, CSULA, CSUDH, UCLA, USC and UC San Diego, I get time today, good thing I'm off all day. You can also have the head-start of starting a thread and posting your database from ATL for any academic year/semester of the schools you've found, and I'll meet you there when I'm done with mine.

LegendHero.

Covidodo:
Please tag me when you are set

LegendHero,

I'm right on my compilations, it will of course take me some time but I should have a set of convocation list from 2016-19/20 available by tonight or tomorrow, lots of names so I've got to take my time to identify and indent all the Nigerian sounding ones for ease of streamlining down to number basics (Igbo and Yorubas)

I've come across the Georgia Tech commencement list for 2020 I believe, already preening that one for the Nigerians as well as I type.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://commencement.gatech.edu/sites/default/files/images/spring-commencement-2019.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjzu6-lnfDoAhVUqJ4KHb2zAIkQFjACegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw0lOdFXVZTlT0tqiApZDDcv

Diiet:
You can say this again

What a daft thing to say, the constitution clearly gives every Nigerian the right to live in any part of the country, and Yorubas last time I checked are still part of the Federation. So stop acting like you are doing anybody a favor cause other Nigerians stay in your region, I'm a PH boy and your people flood my state and region like flies on fecal matter too, nobody is doing no one a favor in Nigeria as long as you're a law abiding tax paying citizen in any part of the country you reside. Last time I also checked, Igbos didn't put a gun to your heads and force you to sell lands and other landed properties to them in the areas they dominate, they do their business and pay their taxes...I don't see all these energy and noise for Fulani herdsmen that are forcefully building clandestine communities all over your region, at least going by latest reports.

candidtalk:
You don't top the Yorubas anywhere we wish to live and work in or have a presence. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.

Where Yorubas are absent, because of disinterest in said place, of course you Igbos can be flawed kings there.

All you Igbos know to celebrate, because of inferiority complex, are phantom achievements and fraudulent embellishments.

Have you been to the North before? Like any part in the North

South South nko? have you even traveled outside your region before? The only aspect where you at par with Igbos across the regions in Nigeria is education (and I'll still give the Igbos a slight edge here cause we have bigger populations than you people anywhere in Nigeria), every other indices whether in the private and public sectors nationwide? una no reach one bit. The only place you can boast about beating Igbos considerably is your region, and not by impressive margins for that matter cause Igbos are significantly present in whatever areas you hold sway in your region.

LegendHero:
Okay let us go. Yes some of the schools always have their commencement lists online.

Let us paste Engineering and IT department of those schools especially in Graduate schools (MS and PhD) to streamline the data.

I can only preen the infometric data for Nigeria students in the undergrad and graduate programs for IT, pharmD, Nursing, Public Health, Humanities/arts here in California, I have no info for ATL. I'll open a new thread in a bit and tag you, so we should rest these noise once and for all. I hope you have your lists available, even in GIT and GSU, I can guarantee you the best Nigerian students from all recent academic calendars were Igbos on the higher number index, with Yorubas grappling for second place.

LegendHero:
Okay. I don’t like too much stories and I always love doing things with references.

I live in ATL and working in one of those corporate America industries and before I can speak like this you should know I am well versed in this kind of issue.

Let’s take 10 schools and check the list of the Graduating students. Let’s take Graduate schools (master’s and PhDs) for example to streamline the data.

Most school always release their graduating list online and we can deduce from that one. Are you game?

No need of too much back and forth!

Do you have access to the academic database for previous and recent undergrad and grad programs for schools in ATL (I'm sure you can get those from the school catalogs online)?, post just one academic year, and let's compile all the Nigerians in all the fields, release your own make I release my own
I'm game bro.

candidtalk:
I won't speak for others but I know you are surely not addressing Yorubas with that statement in bold.

Why would any Yoruba, even for the purposes of investment, go to the SE? A hotbed of monotony, tedium and intolerance lacking in vibrancy and cosmopolitan appeal? You think everything is about money above all else for Yorubas as is the case for you Igbos?

Yorubas are not emptily materialistic like Igbos who can invest in and move their entire generation to Afghanistan or Sambisa forest.

For an educated and exposed Yoruba with choices there are far better and more rewarding places to invest in than the SE with it intolerance over religion, culture, ethnicity, caste, etc etc. Backward sums it up.

Even when the Yoruba invests outside his domain, he wants to learn and move forward. How does any investment in the backward SE facilitate that for an omoluabi? Yorubas who have anything to do with the SE are there because they have no choice.

Yorubas who have choices never go to the SE willingly because there is nothing attractive about the place. It would be a horrible and nightmarish downgrade move for me.

You can never beat the East when it comes to commerce, property ownerships, civil service, education in any part of the South South and North

Even in the diaspora it's the same story

Other Nigerians especially Northerners are heavily present in the East, they buy lands here and develop them into small communities... Enugu is fast becoming a cosmopolitan state as a result of influxes of many foreign and local investors.

Your people are the myopic and starkly ignorant ones who NEVER travel out to see and explore the other sides of reality besides the nonsense they read online about the East, na only UK una dey run go. There's no point arguing with a man who's mind and perceptions are precluded on ignorance and lack of exposure, that's why the Igbos will always top you in all indices all over Nigeria except in your region.

LegendHero:
You are saying none sense. What do you mean by Igbos out-compete Yorubas in the USA?

Let’s put it like this, go to universities across USA and check all their graduating lists both Undergrad and graduate schools (Especially graduate schools). The Yorubas far dominate those lists. I challenge any Igbo to come here and contest this claim.

Now talk to anyone working in corporate America. Those companies of Google, VISA, Intel, Deloitte, Microsoft, and many more companies have a large concentration of Yorubas than any tribe in Nigeria.

Infact ask any Igbo guy in USA that attend the NSBE convention which is a large composition of black engineers in USA. The Yorubas are usually the most of the employees that speak with students in those conventions. You will know they are Yorubas because of the name tag around their necks. Ask anyone that went to NSBE Pittsburgh convention in 2018.

Most of those Fortune 500 companies have WAZOBIA network within them . Ask anyone from there and they will tell you the Yorubas dominate that sector when you’re talking about Africans.

Next is the African restaurant/ food store industry coz that’s where most informal sector of Africans invest in. Ghanaians top in these when we are talking of Africans but I am very sure the Yorubas are the top when talking about Nigerians. Even in Atlanta here you will see a lot of those Nigerian restaurants/food stores have major Yorubas.

Next will be if you’re trying to talk about the people working minimum wages and it will be so hard to quantify that or even go as far as checking for ethnic domination coz it’s baseless.

What do you mean by Igbo outperform Yorubas in USA? I’ve been asking lot of you guys to always substantiate your statements with evidence.

Dude I live in the USA AND I'M CHALLENGING YOU to prove to me that Yorubas top the indices among the Nigerians in any field of academia, I CHALLENGE YOU! na fool you dey follow talk? I challenge you to name any academic landscape or terrain in whatever major/field right now among all the top HBCU's, Ivy leagues, private schools, state schools etc name it and I'll deny you with even more cognitively researched facts. All the top graduating lists for Undergrad, graduate and doctorate programs in all the majors you can think of almost invariably has Igbos/Yorubas and other South South tribes especially Edos among the preponderance of names, but Igbos always have the edge on a cumulative average. I go to school in UC San Diego here in California, and I have access to a good catalog of academic years of all semesters for all the graduating sets for both UC's, CSU's and even the high schools here in California, and I can guarantee you that if you see 10 Nigerian names of the best performing students orchestrated for scholarship programs, at least 5 of those names are Igbo sounding names. And I'm sure the same applies for other top schools across the states as well.

candidtalk:
You don't get one thing and you probably never will. This is that everything a Yoruba man does is done in reaction to his natural sophistication and finesse as a human being.

For educated, enlightened and exposed Yorubas, we are aware we already live in the best, most liberal, most socio-economically fulfilling, most cosmopolitan and most advanced States and region in Nigeria.

What do we then want houses in the North, SS and, God forbid, SE for?

It is the few Yorubas that personal circumstances, marriage affiliation and job circumstances take to those places who endeavor to buy properties there as many Yorubas will not go to or have anything to do with many States of Nigeria of their own free will.

Yorubas, of all Nigerians, are the classic example of economic migrants. We go where we perceive offers more socio-economic opportunities than where we are coming from. This is why our intelligentsia go the to UK and USA. Not Wretched Abia, monotonous Anambra, sedentary Nasarawa, crude Bayelsa, simple Plateau or anywhere else.

For others, like the Igbos, it is the pinnacle of self-achievement to claim home-ownership or landed property in the SW whereas Yorubas see no reason to buy properties outside their states where they know they already have the best and most valuable property in Nigeria and Africa.

Property is about everything around it and not just its construction and aesthetic. I would live in an old colonial house in Adeniran Ogunsanya in Surulere rather than ever accept to live in the finest Estate in Zamfara or Ebonyi even if they offered me those properties for free.

That is a downgrade move for me, personally or for business, because the people I mingle with daily are part of the mix of conditions use to deem a place suitable to associate with.

Same mix of conditions also deem most Stateses in Nigeria unsuitable hence our disinterest in buying personal or investment property and/land there . I won't even buy an investment property in any State of the SE as that would mean I have to visit now and then. Something I have zero interest in doing.

When Sanusi Lamido was dethroned, he headed to Lagos not Abuja, Kaduna, Jos or the many other States I am sure he has palatial homes in. Go figure buddy.

Noise noise noise. Ogbeni you can't invest in the East because the level of competition is too high there, and the cost of living is higher compared to your region. All these your yarns na just tales by moonlight. Lots of your brothers and sisters are plenty in the East, especially in Enugu, Owerri and parts of Anambra... even Obigbo in PH where I come from, na your people plenty here mostly doing artisan works, cabu cabu and other semi-skilled forms of labor... The problem with your Yorubas is that your people HARDLY travel out except to the UK... so your views and perceptions of others is very tunnel-visioned to a spectrum of sheer ignorance and myopia. Travel out and see your people all over the East! the most popular stock in trade of your people here in the East is hawking agbo jedi jedi in motor parks. In every part of Nigeria, in the South South regions and far North Igbos have 10x more properties, economic presence and commercial monopoly than your people (FACTS NOT FEELINGS). Even in the so called USA and UK, Yorubas CAN NEVER out-compete the Igbos in any area and indices of accomplishments whether in education, political appointments, sports, etc you name it! I'll give you a slight advantage in the UK cause you have the highest ethnic demography in Nigeria/Africa... but anywhere else? No fuccking way mate.

I no dey even pay attention to the fight, na that kele on white with better nyansh I dey gauge well well.

StreetFight:
I am a Yoruba man. I am a Muslim. My wife is a Christian. Hausa/Fulani did not establish Islam, so they cannot be the one to say who is a true Muslim and whi is not.

I agree, much h to your credit you people are very tolerant. Yorubas are the most liberal people you will ever come across... I see a peaceful Yoruba Muslim married to a Christian, and then I see a violent Hausa/Fulani fanatic who is ready to behead anybody at the slightest provocation... and then I wonder if these two sets of people practice the same faith?

But where the lie though? It's common knowledge that the Northerners regard their Yoruba Muslim brethren as "infidels" just as much as they see other Christians. They treat their fellow Yoruba Muslims as inferiors, I doubt if a Yoruba Imam can even lead the prayers in the mosque, even in the Southwest.

flokii:
When you go about beating chest about buying up other people's lands and enslaving them.. what do you expect?

Yorubas are not the blood-thirsty type, reason why you lots get away with your utterances most times.

PS: I don't support violence but let's call a spade what it is.. a spade.

You do know they slaughter your people up North as well right? Don't be so naive and daft to think it's just a one sided affair, any and every Southerner in the North is an easy target when their religious madness starts, especially Christians, Aboki no dey discriminate between Igbos, Edo, Ijaw and Yoruba etc.. You are all "Nyamiri" to them. The only reason Igbos seem to take more of the brunt is because of their huge commercial presence all over the North compared to other demographics, plus we are probably the only Southerners that join ranks with the Christian natives in the North to fight back, anyone who has lived in the North especially during the religious crisis years can confirm that.

Last time I visited and toured major cities in the East, I marveled at the explosive rate of urban and top class real estate developments taking place, every square mile of distance covered even in the remotest areas were nicely built houses, road networks and even street lights lining some major roads in the inner cities... and no be government work ooo, this were done by INDIVIDUALS who gave their communities the best face-lifts you can imagine... I went to Mbaise and the type of architectural designs and edifices I saw were clear indications that the owners of these mansions were based abroad... I mean the concepts alone were profoundly foreign. And many more areas like Owerri, Akwa, Arondizuogu, Akokwa, Abriba etc, all rolled out breathtaking landscapes, all projects done and undertaken by single individuals in most cases. And then I asked myself, "if Igbos are this blessed with people and wealth home and abroad... THEN WHY THE FUCCK CAN'T WE COME HOME EN MASSE AND INVEST?" The question set a myriad of questions that ran riot in my head... Although I'm loving the think-home mindset lots of Igbos especially the young ones are beginning to adopt, as I see many of our people abroad massively investing and creating jobs in the East, as opposed to the unwise trend of doing so in other regions... But we can definitely do better, we are far from perfect... but boy have we got an enormous reserve of untapped human resources in Igboland, Igbos seriously need to start thinking home... I won't say more than this.

EgunMogaji2:
It’s the best state in the union but I’m partial

We have everything.

Disneyland
Hollywood
International border
Numerous international airports
Snow
Beach
Mountains
Desert
Lake
Ocean
JPL
Tesla
Los Angeles
San Francisco
San Diego
Wine Country
PCH
Pacific Ocean
Space Shuttle Landing
Ronald Regan
Gold Coast
Many more

Amen brother

LegendHero:
Lol. You want them to engage you guys calmly like we always do so you can turn around and term the goodwill docility?

Isn't that what the Yorubas have always been about? We have always tried to listen to other people's opinion and always remain humble even in the face of success but yet you guys all term that omoluabi attitude as being docile.

I love what all the Yorubas are doing on this thread, both the abusive and calm ones. They are doing exactly what needed to be done about Nigeria and I hope more Yorubas take up that radical mindset to show all of you guys that we can all be crazy.

And you're not the only people who are successful, stop these chest beating vain-glorious and overused cliches already. Your people that were been social nuisances over bags of garri and bread represent the true image of what every average Nigerian suffers, real successful people don't need to beat their chests about it, that's just plain narcissistic and dumb. Na for internet dem dey prove success? I doubt any successful man will have the time to spend more than two hours on the cyberspace when he has bigger and better goals to meet.

LegendHero:
Lol. You want them to engage you guys calmly like we always do so you can turn around and term the goodwill docility?

Isn't that what the Yorubas have always been about? We have always tried to listen to other people's opinion and always remain humble even in the face of success but yet you guys all term that omoluabi attitude as being docile.

I love what all the Yorubas are doing on this thread, both the abusive and calm ones. They are doing exactly what needed to be done about Nigeria and I hope more Yorubas take up that radical mindset to show all of you guys that we can all be crazy.

There's a time to be civil, and there's a time to be mad... so far the level of interaction on here has been nothing short of sensible and rational heads on one hand vs Ojuelegba Ill-bred touts on the other. Ok now, let's all fucck up these thread then, since we all want to be mad at the same time.

The irony of these thread has exposed one fact so far, and it's that yoruubas are actually the very emotional and rash people and not the Igbos they accuse of been too emotional blah blah blah . Let every viewer or neutral observer take note on how , Nowenuse and other non-yoruubas on here are arguing with more calm, tact, and maturity... while the other parties are arguing like unbridled touts straight from Ojuelegba Bridge...just throwing insults and tantrums around like high school degenerates smh...

But according to afonja idiots, Igbos are their problem.

My bread has finished oooo
With our world class IGR stats, we shouldn't be fighting gidigbo for agege "buredi" oooo
After all we are richer than all the Igbo states put together ooo
Infact we are the richest and most suffersticated tribe in Africa oooo
Yet awawa boys, 1 million boys and other Igbo criminal outfits are killing us in these quarantine period ooo
Our Forbes list billionaires e joor e wa ran wa lo wo ooo

Redcrafton:
Enugu inner roads...despite all odds Enugu city, one of the Rockefeller tag cities in the world, is resilient and pulling its weight.

Sometimes you shouldn't waste your time replying this idiots, they want a reaction from you and they will try any means possible to get it out of you. So far you have been civilized and mature in your rebuttals, yet it's best to sometimes ignore ethnic baiting threads like this.

That's why I love my state, California all day!

NigerianSage:
Refugee, the fact that you life is nothing without agege bread doesn't mean you have to let the world know that economic refugees and vagrants can not survive without agege bread.

Poor migrants.

See me see trouble o

Na me say make una dey gidigbo una sef over agege bread? I get pishure evidence ooo! before you say I dey form matter over nothing ooo
Our economic refugee blodas must not see this one ooo

NigerianSage:
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Economic refugee and poor migrant consoling himself.

Abi don't mind those Yeebos jare, awon oniranu oshi... have you gotten your own share of agege bread already?

Covidodo:
I go add sardine to the agege buredi when I wake up . Good night my osu slave Tobrasky

Good night egbon, we dealt with those inferior Yeebos, hope you wake up early and wait in line cause the next consignment of buredi arrives very early oooo
Our Forbes list billionaires came true to their words finally!

Covidodo:
Only if these innocent chaps had the agege buredi. I mean the really soft one made with butter and red oyel.

Tobrasky , Is that you with the outstretched hands begging for agege buredi below .

Egbon mi we showed those Yeebos hell, I even masturbate to these pictures as a psychological boost ni ooo, but that was in 1967 egbon, 2020 la wa yi oooo, many of those kwashiokor kids have now bought all our landed estates and properties, AAHHH! we must renew the starvation policy on these Yeebos or they will finish us here ni ooooo

So what about our bread egbon? have you placed a call to your own Forbes list billionaire yet?

Covidodo:
Yeah ..
We must never allow the repititon of the kwashiokor that plagued Osu land in time past.

I have some photos to show you my osu slave .

But before I post them I need to know if you have enough tears in your lacrimal glands??

We finished those Yeebos with hunger, now they have taken over our lands ooo, they demolished my baba's abule the other day and erected their new shops on the land . Walahi I regret why we didn't finish all those Yeebos in 1967,you can imagine how they even look more healthy than us these days? Rara ooo! We must chase out those Yeebos from Lagos before they take over our ancestral homes and convert it to their poultry farms.

But meanwhile how can we face these hunger crisis killing us here egbon? My Igbo neighbor was cooking some very delicious ofe nsala yesterday, and the nice aroma had me drooling... but I couldn't summon the courage to beg him cause he's Igbo
Now my ration of agege bread that I fought tooth and nail to get has finished... egbon ran mi lowo oooo

Covidodo:
Is that Abakaliki ??
The red mud and the gully ravaged topography are apparent

Egbon it's those inferior Yeebos, walahi our Forbes list billionaires are some where laughing at those dirty oil scooping Osus right now ooooo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooSUROIU-YE

Covidodo:
Nah ..
Won't hunger and kwashiokor kill those Osus that way ??
I hope it's not some sort of generational curse repeating itself on the flat..headed Osus in 2020.

I heard millions of them succumbed to the cold of hands of kwashiokor between 1967 and 1970.

My osu slave Tobrasky , Is that true ??

Egbon how will all these tales bring us manner oops! I mearnt agege "buredi" from above? Let us mandate our lawmakers to visit every home of our Forbes list billionaires so they can listen to us before hunger kill us finish for here, abi kini gbogbo awon nonsense yi?

Covidodo:
Aburo we were never in any competition..
You are an inferior tribe living on the magnanimity of the great Yoruba race .
We are the puppeteers of your destiny . We pull your strings in whatever direction we want . Go figure !

Egbon we are saying the same thing, why are you fighting me? those inferior Osus are no close to our sophistication and superior civilization. But right now we are still waiting for our next delivery of agege bread from our Forbes billionaires ooo
We will deal with those inferior Yeebos later ooo.