₦airaland Forum

esther1994:
Just take the advice and stop looking for who to argue with.

That's not an advise that's grand standing


Before you advise you have to put your house in order


The question is that the op is so ashamed that he can't even call his place so as not to sound stupid



He should give us a model to follow

OBAFEMIawolowo:
what truth didn't I say?

Igbos are competing instead of cooperating

Igbos are arrogant.

Only a true friend will tell you your flaws, I love Igbos much but sometimes they fall my hand.

So where are you from

Igbos are competing ...or is competing bad? Competition brings out the best

Cooperation igbos are also doi g amongst their sates ..or have you seen where Igbo states are fighting each others like what we see in ekiti and ondo

What about the south east and south south cooperation

What makes you think that ikwerre hate Igbo...have you mastered the act of reading thousands ikwerre and inaw minds


Well Mr omnipotent your mistaken


Where are you from again ?

OBAFEMIawolowo:
its not all about development, I'm giving you a reason why Igbo people will continue to be marginalized.

Let me ask you a question, do you think an ikwerre or ijaw man will vote any Igbo presidential aspirant?

Igbo should drop arrogance already.

How are Igbo arrogant

Pls can you tell me ....


Or are you saying that the Igbo shouldn't be proud if his achievement.... If you have it flaunt it .


Hausa has been in presidency all these decades has it changed the poverty index in the north

Osibanjo is the VP now ..has it stopped the agbero in Oshodi


Pls tell us how igbos are proud ....

VickJames:
you dont need to know where he is from, he said the truth and you should give him a round of applause for that.

He did not say the truth ..I really need to know where he is from so that we can copy their economic model

OBAFEMIawolowo:
My mom being a delta Igbo, I have to still make my Igbo maternal brothers understand some facts about them. I just have seven advice that will move Igbo nation forward wherever they want to be (either Biafra or Nigeria).

1. Stop competing and start cooperating

2. Drop your arrogance and start being friends with other parts of Nigeria.

3. Forget about ikwerre, opobo and ijaw people, they don't like you.

4. Every Igbo man should make alaigbo his first line of investment ( no one will developyour land for you)

5. Start respecting your host communities outside alaigbo, ezeigbo of akure was flogged for his arrogance.

6. Stop building mansions outside and start building industries in alaigbo.

7. Be your brother's keeper and respect other Nigerians.


The IsraeIi control american economy today because they are cooperative, america today cannot emanate laws that will go against the Israelis because they contribute to sponsor any emerging president.


MY LAST ADVICE FOR NDIGBO
You may not succeed in Biafra if you haven't solve the issue of intra-ethnic segregation and start cooperating. Biafra will end up being a joke if an anambra man cannot see an IMO man as a brother or an ngwa man detests an Onitsha man.

Stop competing and start cooperating, Igbo will be very great with this.

Nice post ..but can I know where you are from so that I can know if your place is that developed more than lets say anambra .then only then I can talk with you

In a nutshell


Where are you from ?

MrkenOkonkwo:
CC : Tonychristopher. mkpi.
onye nzuzu

Lol

The Christmas season, is a season of forgiveness, love, rejoicing, and thanks giving to God, for the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who died on the cross, that the whole world may be saved,with the salvation of their Souls.


In Igbo land, there are two major religions, the traditional African religion, which involves the worship of gods, ancestral spirits, and idols, and Christianity.

Most communities in the South East like other African communities,practised the worship of a specie of the python, known as Python Regius.A harmless and beautiful snake, which used to roam about the villages. Now in this part of the world, Pastors and indigenes biker whether to kill or not to kill the snake, due largely to the Biafran war, when people ate the snake without repercautions. Unfortunately,this reptile must be facing extintion in the South East today.

Christianity,is the next major religion of the Igbo land, as introduced by early missionaries, mostly the Catholic Church, the Church Mission Service (CMS), protestants as they were called in those good old days.The Catholic church is of serious prevailence in Igbo Land. Most adults have at one time or the other served mass in the Catholic church, or worked in the CMS, until now when we have pentecostals too.

In those days, most christian Igbo families,as early as the month of August of the year, the tailor would be invited to take measurements for christmas clothes, shoes will be bought, the small hand guns for the boys, and assorted christmas gifts, arranged and kept away by September. The girls would form a group, and one Auntie will be rehearsing one kind of dance or the other for christmas. We all would continue to live with high expectations for the Christmas rice, clothes, shoes and dances.
From 15th December, we would be moved to the village, to remain there till about 15th January, when schools would reopen.

xmas

It was a lot of fun, for us as kids.We met with all our relations, played, went to the river, swam, went into the bushes around to hunt small creatures, doing what young kids do. We would arrange how to spread our breakfast from one house to the other. It still happens today,
Christmas is beyond going to church, exchange of goods, and gifts, for the Igbo man. It goes beyond sewing clothes, buying new cars and property. It offers opportunity for reunion, marriages, friendship, resolution of family matters, community meetings, town hall meetings, conferment of titles, development plans for the people, and their society.

It is also a time for conscious, and serious assessment of an idividual’s life achievements in the year, enabling people to plan for the new year.When you meet your mates and age grades, you see for yourself, and know if you need to catch up some where in your affairs.

This is why the Igbo man must pay special attention to the condition of roads, airports, because they will constitute the majority of commutters from all parts of the country to the Igbo land during christmas, given our presence all over Nigeria.

Year in year out for the past 20 years, I have seen huge traffic gridlocks on all roads towards the South East during this period.Benin Ore road, has remained a source of pain,danger and anguish, for travelling Easterners during Christmas for the past over 20 years. If the past Federal Governments have failed to address this perrenial problem, should the South East Governments not do something about it? I think the South South and South East Governors should create a Task Force, empowered and equiped to augument the efforts of the FRSC and the Police to keep the roads free and safe during the months of December and January every year.

The Task Force should have Giant Hiabs and Tow vehicles located at strategic locations along Benin-Ore Road, Benin-Onitsha Road, Helicopters, and Patrol vehicles to cover the road during this period.The Major Road Transport Companies, like, ABC, De Young, Ifesinachi,Ekene,GUO, God is Good, Agofure, Edegbe, Peace Mass, ITC, Tracas, Entraco,Abia Teansport, and many more should be made to partner with government in funding the Task Force. The idea is to ensure that 2014 December does not visit us with same hardships again.

Our transporters must as a matter of dignity, and honour, stop the exploitation of their own, during the Christmas period. While it is true, that airfares increase during christmas and peak travel seasons in other countries, those airlines have christmas packages for their patrons/customers. In Igbo land, nothing special is offered to commuters during, in and out of the seasons. All we get is arbitrary change in fares during Christmas, except ABC that maintains a dignified constant fare in and out of seasons. The, ABC is a great team, a winning team, and should be emulated by others in keeping the discipline of stable fare during Christamas, and other festive seasons.

This year’s Christmass appears likely to be less boisterious and humble, generally, beause of sheer economic hardship.

The rate of poverty has increased in the last 10 years. Some say it is a period of sacrifice for a better tomorow, but many of our leaders, senators, members of Houses, political office holders and their cronies are having house warming parties, launching news cars, with many thanks giving services. That is the country we are ending up with; Their own Nigeria, and Our own Nigeria.God help the common man in Nigeria, especially the Igbo Man.

Ndigbo should begin to delevelop solutions, and structures to address their own perculiar problems, and challenges in this great nation.

sisisioge:
Those mofoos usually have no use for brains, they are as dull as idiats! They collectively stabbed the deceased in the gut, neck and chest areas...no missing the kill. Awon idiats!


Anyways, it's high time they get taken off the roads!

Who will take them off the roads ?

It all starts by orientations dear

kilokeys:
say what?

He "only" stabbed him in the Chest ?

Ooh... He must have thought the Chest housed the ankle, jaw and intestine..

The heart and lungs are in the legs. ..

What a foooo*coughs*oool

You don't blame the tajudeen blame illiteracy on their part ..the monkey forgot that chest houses vital organs like heart , liver and major arteries


It's unfortunate and to be honest ..this is getting out of hand .go to ikeja and ikpodo axis in the morning you will see able bodied men laze around in morning ...the ones that has job end up harrasing keke people


This should be frowned upon

wiseoneking:
SW should work on their young people. This is getting out of hand. Approximately 35% of their 16-25 are doing stuff like this, with many of them in eiya/aiya cult. Many are lazy doing nothing. Is high time they learn from abakaliki igbo road sellers who toiled day and nite to eke out a living. They have been mocked by both yorubas and their igbo brothers but this guys are making it: some sponsoring their education in many higher sch in lag, some taking up some little house project in their village, some raising their siblings in some low income private sch etc. I met one humble Ebonyi boy that is planning to enter Lasu next yr to study Law. He started life as a hawker. He planned to put a bus on the road to be generating income while in sch and skeletally run his biz to still be independent. This is a true story and he is just 24 yrs. SW should do something asap

They will term you tribalistic and your postulation bigotry ..mark my words. They will make this Igbo fight instead of focusing on the social malaise that is engulfing the region


Do you want to bet on this ?

I bought a charger from one ebonyi boy and he told me that if the cahrger doesn't work that I should bring it back ..this is around Anthony . this was last two weeks . when I went there to change the charger I was told that he has gone to school. As an Igbo man I felt happy knowing how education has taken me this far ..I encouraged him when next I saw him. Didn't return the charger but bought another one as an encouragement

They call them usain bolts yes they might be selling galas but I respect hard working men and these ebonyi guys are trying to catch up with anambra and Enugu peeps . that was how we in anambra started 25yrs ago today we have moved to real businesses and I so support these ebonyi guys

There are so much money in Lagos that is to be just that most if these sophisticated oneones who t see it. Go to airport you will swe Asians trooping in. The problem is that most of the. Have the mentality that you can't be rich without doing something fetish ..u just keep asking who gave them their orientation


If you only sell akara in Lagos bus stop with all humility ...you will make it . there is dignity in labour

Look at the Hausa ..they have taken over the kiosk and food business virtually then the icing on cake is the bdx


So these boys have more added advantage than immigrants ..I don't see why they should be doing agbero

Sijo01:
30 years old, married with 3 wives I nor read pass there

I keep asking how can a 30 yr old man 3 ..women must have been absolutely cheap in his place

This is why I support the Igbo marriage ...you pay and value marriage


How can a man at that age marru 3


Nawa for people



Can somebody teleport me to Biafra land lol

InMyOpinion:
[size=15pt]Very simple matter- let him also be stabbed in the chest and left unattended for 2 hours, after that he may go home (dead or alive)[/size]

Such a wicked way to judge bro

eyeview:
That tribe that loves money most but don't like working for it. They prefer you work and 'dash' them

Pls don't start oooooo


I am just here to read comments ...lazing around

So I no fit laugh

exlinkleads:
A 30-year-old Lagos driver, Samuel Adamo, Adamo, who was married with three wives and five children, was stabbed to death in Oshodi, Lagos State. He was said to have been attacked in one of the motor parks in the Oshodi-under-bridge area, while calling passengers into his bus. It was learnt that some motor park thugs aka agbero, had approached him for a ‘loading fee’, but the deceased allegedly declined payment, saying there was no passenger in his bus yet.

This supposedly caused an argument, which led to a fight between the victim and the thugs. Three of the area boys allegedly stabbed Adamo in the neck, chest and stomach and he reportedly bled to death. It was gathered that the police arrested one of the suspects, 21 year old Teslim Tajudeen.

Tajudeen however, claimed not to be responsible for the death, adding that he only stabbed Adamo in the chest.

He said in Yoruba:

“I work as a conductor, although I do not have a permanent bus I work with. Whenever I don’t work as a conductor, I help touts to collect money from drivers in Oshodi. “I was actually walking down to the spot where I usually stay to collect loading fee when I saw a driver arguing with some of our boys – Lateef, aka Eba, and and Baba Oba. “When I got there, I was told that they asked Adamo to pay for loading before taking passengers.

“The driver refused, claiming he had yet to load his bus. The argument led to a fight. The driver threatened to stab Eba and Baba Oba. “I tried to separate them, but the driver also threatened to stab me. Eba subsequently picked a bottle and smashed it on the ground. He stabbed the driver in the stomach; I also picked the broken bottle and stabbed him in the chest, while Baba Oba stabbed him in the neck.”

http://www.exlinklodge.com/2015/11/just-in-thugs-kill-danfo-driver-in.html#sthash.80olRaqO.dpuf

If I talk they will term my reply tribalistic and bigoted

All I can say at this point is

Rest in peace bro

What are responsible for Igbo and Jewish higher intelligence?

I would aver that the Jewish people have exhibited remarkable intelligence in many more areas of endeavor; more than any other group of people in our world.

On the position that the Jewish people have demonstrated what I chose to identify as higher intelligence, some other persons seem to have an opinion similar to mine. The Economist of 4th June, 2005, has a story that presents the Jews of Eastern and Northern Europe (the Ashkenazi) as having shown more intelligence than their peers (the non Jewish population), on the average.

Quoting the story briefly would help: ‘Ashkenazim generally do well in 1Q tests, scoring 12—15 points above the mean value of 100, and have contributed disproportionately to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the careers of Freud, Einstein and Mahler-affirm.’

The above is part of a study by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy and Henry Harpending of the University of Utah; in which they sought to prove not only that some ethnic groups are more intelligent than others, but the process through which that become possible.

In the story the scholars averred that while the Jews generally succeeded by using their brains, their non Jewish peers generally achieved success by engaging in activities like conquests and colonization of other peoples, brigandage, and wars, etc.

Thomas Cahill, Christian scholar, and author of The Gifts of the Jews sums up the mental acuity of the Jews with the following words: ‘The Jews started it all-and by “it” I mean many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and gentile, believer and atheist, tick’.

I am interested in studying the possible reasons why the Ashkenazi (Jews), and peoples akin to the Jews have shown more intelligence than their peers.

According to the above-mentioned authors, ‘persecution and marginalization’ of the Jews in Europe; might have enabled the Ashkenazi Jews to become conspicuously intelligent.

I will try to find out if what the above-mentioned authors listed can contribute to higher intelligence; by discussing Jewish and Igbo intelligence, and comparing both from the prism of their experiences, and other variables. The Igbos who are also widely seen as ‘Jews’ are observed to be a very intelligent people too. I will look at other things which I feel that they could be possible contributors to higher intelligence. Things like ‘culture’. I feel that culture, and other factors, may even have been more crucial in making the Jews formidable; perhaps more than ‘persecution and marginalization’.

Before continuing I would like to show some statistics which depict the Jews as an intelligent and brilliant people:
Though the global Jewish population is approximately only Fourteen millions (14,000,000m) i.e, about 0.02% of the world population, yet, from 1910 to 2000 the Jews won the following Nobel Prizes: Literature:1910 - Paul Heyse1927 - Henri Bergson1958 - Boris Pasternak1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon1966 - Nelly Sachs1976 - Saul Bellow1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer1981 - Elias Canetti1987 - Joseph Brodsky1991 - Nadine Gordimer World Peace:1911 - Alfred Fried1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser1968 - Rene Cassin1973 - Henry Kissinger1978 - Menachem Begin1986 - Elie Wiesel1994 - Shimon Peres1994 - Yitzhak Rabin Physics:1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer1906 - Henri Moissan1910 - Otto Wallach1915 - Richard Willstaetter1918 - Fritz Haber1943 - George Charles de Hevesy1961 - Melvin Calvin1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz1972 - William Howard Stein1977 - Ilya Prigogine1979 - Herbert Charles Brown1980 - Paul Berg1980 - Walter Gilbert1981 - Roald Hoffmann1982 - Aaron Klug1985 - Albert A. Hauptman1985 - Jerome Karle1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach1988 - Robert Huber1989 - Sidney Altman1992 - Rudolph Marcus2000 - Alan J. Heeger Economics:1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson1971 - Simon Kuznets1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow1975 - Leonid Kantorovich1976 - Milton Friedman1978 - Herbert A. Simon1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein1985 - Franco Modigliani1987 - Robert M. Solow1990 - Harry Markowitz1990 - Merton Miller1992 - Gary Becker1993 - Robert Fogel Medicine:1908 - Elie Metchnikoff1908 - Paul Erlich1914 - Robert Barany1922 - Otto Meyerhof1930 - Karl Landsteiner1931 - Otto Warburg1936 - Otto Loewi1944 - Joseph Erlanger1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser1945 - Ernst Boris Chain1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller1950 - Tadeus Reichstein1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman1953 - Hans Krebs1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann1958 - Joshua Lederberg1959 - Arthur Kornberg1964 - Konrad Bloch1965 - Francois Jacob1965 - Andre Lwoff1967 - George Wald1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg1969 - Salvador Luria1970 - Julius Axelrod1970 - Sir Bernard Katz1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman1975 - Howard Martin Temin1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow1978 - Daniel Nathans1980 - Baruj Benacerraf1984 - Cesar Milstein1985 - Michael Stuart Brown1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]1988 - Gertrude Elion1989 - Harold Varmus1991 - Erwin Neher1991 - Bert Sakmann1993 - Richard J. Roberts1993 - Phillip Sharp1994 - Alfred Gilman1995 - Edward B. Lewis Physics:1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson1908 - Gabriel Lippmann1921 - Albert Einstein1922 - Niels Bohr1925 - James Franck1925 - Gustav Hertz1943 - Gustav Stern1944 - Isidor Isaac Rabi1952 - Felix Bloch1954 - Max Born1958 - Igor Tamm1959 - Emilio Segre1960 - Donald A. Glaser1961 - Robert Hofstadter1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman1965 - Julian Schwinger1969 - Murray Gell-Mann1971 - Dennis Gabor1973 - Brian David Josephson1975 - Benjamin Mottleson1976 - Burton Richter1978 - Arno Allan Penzias1978 - Peter L Kapitza1979 - Stephen Weinberg1979 - Sheldon Glashow1988 - Leon Lederman1988 - Melvin Schwartz1988 - Jack Steinberger1990 - Jerome Friedman1995 - Martin Perl


Even though we know that certain people who have shown exceptional intelligence have not been awarded the Nobel Prize, we can still say that the Prize is more or less won by people who demonstrate above average brilliance, intelligence and achievement.

Discussing Igbo Intelligence
The Igbos were observed to be on the average; exceptionally intelligent. Nigerians have recognized the uncommon and unusual Igbo intelligence in the coinage “Igbo sense”. In the recent past if a person in Nigeria displayed uncommon intelligence he was said to have Igbo sense. A witty Bini (non Igbo Nigerian) musician; Joseph Osayomore; had in his album entitled ‘Igbo no be beggars’ rhetorically questioned why there is no Yoruba or Hausa sense. The Yoruba and Hausa peoples are the other big nations that are in Nigeria.

The Igbos have been observed to have a certain genius which is not common. I will try to elaborate with the following illustration. Between 1999 and 2007 Nigeria’s president was Olusegun Obasanjo. This man took over from the military who had ruled the country for many years, and had in the estimation of many Nigerians ran the country aground. When Obasanjo came there was a sort of consensus to rebuild the country. Many of the ‘best’ Nigerian brains were sought out and invited to come and man strategic places in the country. Without fear that I would be contradicted, I would say that most of the Igbos that were invited stood out. They introduced and implemented revolutionary and successful changes in their various domains. A young Igbo, Chukwuma Soludo became the Central Bank governor, and stabilized the Nigerian banking industry which had been in shambles. It is generally agreed that if Soludo had not stabilized the Nigerian banking sector, that the Nigerian economy would have collapsed completely when the global economic malaise started. Another, Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, a young woman called back from the World Bank became Nigeria’s Finance Minister. While in that position she devised strategies that enabled Nigeria to get debt relief. Before Iweala came and presented an articulate Nigerian position on the need for debt relief Western donors had shunned all entreaties for Nigeria to get relief. Another, Dora Akunyili tamed the menace of fake drugs manufacturing and importation into Nigeria. Before Akunyili a Nigerian suffering from diarrhea would more likely than not get talcum powder as ampicillin from many of Nigeria’s pharmacies and hospitals. Still another, Ngozi Ezekwesili was able to introduce ‘due process’ which is an euphemism for orderliness and discipline, into the Nigerian government business. Remarkably before these Igbos stepped into the positions from which they did so well, Nigerians from other Nigerian nations with equivalent formal education have been in the positions, but as we say in Nigeria they ‘didn’t perform’.

A British colonial officer, Robert Collis, was clear in his comparative study of Nigeria’s peoples that the Igbos had sufficient nutritious food in the era when whole populations starved to death due to inadequate knowledge of farming techniques and occasional droughts. That the Igbos achieved the feat of self-sufficiency in food production, and knew the right and proper things to eat in the period that Africa was described by outsiders as the ‘Dark Continent ‘(which Africans have not risen to deny) are in themselves evidence of high intelligence.

The same Robert Collis, the author of Nigeria In Conflict, was clearly hostile to the Igbos in his book. In fact because of his clearly demonstrated hatred for the Igbos I drew close to labeling him an anti-Semite in another write-up of mine: The Igbos: Jews In Africa. It is interesting that even though he couldn’t hide his hatred for the Igbos, yet he mentioned the following repeatedly:

‘(The Igbos) Being more hardworking and energetic by nature than the other Nigerians………But there is no doubt that Ibo men are the hardest workers in Nigeria, and their women among the most charming and the most intelligent. They are neither mentally nor physically lazy, and have shown themselves to have IQs as high as any race or group anywhere in the world’………..Many expatriates have found the Ibos easier to work with than the men of other tribes in Nigeria. I, myself, found them very pleasant work companions. They had a greater capacity for hard work than most and could grasp the significance of what they were doing very quickly. They often made first-class research workers’.

The author was British and quite hostile I repeat. So his opinion can be relied upon.

Also, after the British left Nigeria, the Igbos, still new to Western methods of life, were still able to set up the rudiments of a modern state in their Eastern Region in Nigeria. This Eastern Region’s economy was the fastest growing economy in the world in the period- 1950-1966. And during the Nigeria-Biafra War-1967-1970, in which the Igbos as the Biafrans tried to protest against genocide by attempting to secede from Nigeria, they achieved unimaginable feats; scientific and otherwise. Even though there was clear evidence that genocide was attempted and carried out against them, the whole world with the exception of four African states and Haiti turned their backs on them. Blockaded by Cameroun and other neighbors, and isolated, while their foes were supported by most of the World powers, they fell back on their intelligence, and so acquitted themselves that they were variously described as the Israel and the Japan of Africa, because of their ingenuity and resilience. During the ‘War the Igbos were able to conquer science and technology; the bogey-man of Africa.

In support of the foregoing are other evidences that the Igbos are a highly intelligent people:

One of their own, Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart is definitely always mentioned as one of the icons of literature for all times. His book is listed by the British Broadcasting Corporation as one of the greatest one hundred books of the twentieth century. He is acknowledged to be the ‘Father of African literature’. Many believe that his greatest contribution to the peoples of Africa and the rest of mankind in extension, is that he first saw that political independence, not coupled with cultural independence for Africa’s peoples, amounts to nothing. In other words that the resources, human, material, aid, etc that is available in Africa will not improve the lot of the African peoples until the people look inwards; at their own history, and culture, and from them fashion out the systems and institutions that will work for them.

Another one of them Philip Emeagwali is referred to as the ‘Father of the Internet’, because of the revolutionary work he did in that field.

Also recent research is revealing that an Igbo, Olaudah Equiano, was one of the real beginners of the anti-slave trade movement (the Abolitionist movement). Now what he did may seem quite common-place and ordinary, but when he did it, it was quite revolutionary. It can be averred that he used his brains well by initiating the battle to eradicate an aberration like slavery which I can make a case that the average person in the middle of the 18th century might have thought of as natural.

While all that I have enumerated above may show that the Igbos are a brilliant people, they may not prove that the Igbos have shown as much intelligence as the Jews. My opinion is that expecting the Igbos to have achieved as much as the Jews would be unfair, because of the following reasons: While the Jews in discussion live in Europe-the continent that has moved the world more than any other since at least the last five hundred years-the Igbos live in Africa-the continent that has been most upset and moved by the Europeans. In addition the Jews in discussion have never lost control of their affairs to the extent that the Igbos have. Since the advent of the Europeans in West Africa the Igbos have lost control of their affairs to the extent that even the educational curriculum available to the Igbos was not designed by the Igbos. An Igbo has to give more attention to learning English language, than his own language-Igbo. European history and culture have been presented to the Igbos as more important to the Igbos than Omenana-the Igbos culture. Yet in spite of all these the Igbos have managed to find meanings in things that are strange, and to thrive. But the people’s best can’t be expected to come out, because much of their time and resources is spent in trying to understand things that really shouldn’t be important to them. From all the foregoing we can see that the Igbos have used their brains well, even though they haven’t done as well as the Jews.
Now as to what could have contributed to the intelligence of the Jews and the Igbos: The above-mentioned Economist report suggests persecution and marginalization for the Jewish case. We have overwhelming evidence that Europe mistreated the Jews of Europe for centuries, and that the Arabs though not as cruel as the Europeans, were nevertheless not paragons of tolerance to the minority Hebrews in their midst. Because of some factors which I will talk about soon I can accept, though with reservations that persecution and marginalization contributed to Jewish intelligence. With reservation; because it could be argued that the intelligence existed before the persecution and marginalization. That in fact the intelligence of the Jews helped to make the conditions that aroused the jealousy of their neighbors. We can argue that the persecutors and marginalizers of the Jews were plainly evil men and women who were out to loot a vulnerable minority community. We can also argue that the Jews would not have been singled out for special persecution and marginalization if they had behaved like, and had believed in what their neighbors believed in. We can argue that clearly they were different, and they had a higher (more decent standard/not necessarily materially) standard of living which they were ready to fight to preserve, so they were perceived as a threat that had to be checked. We can argue that the checking was the ‘persecution and marginalization’. All the foregoing hints that the Jewish way of life was unique, better and superior. And what, if it is not higher intelligence that would have enabled the Jews to have a better way of life? And that it is the Jewish way of life that created the condition that excited their neighbors jealousy. And that their neighbors paid them back with persecution and marginalization. From this point we can go on and aver that the persecution and marginalization helped to sharpen the already existing unique intelligence of the Ashkenazim.

Evidence that may be regarded as ‘empirical’ has not been thrown up that the Igbos suffered extraordinary persecution before their contact with Europeans, to the extent that the Jews of Europe suffered. Perhaps this is because very little is known about the Igbos prior to their contact with Europeans. But there is evidence that they suffered more persecution and suffering than their neighbors since they made contact with Europeans. Their odyssey during the trans-Atlantic stave trade was quite harrowing. The following taken from A Hundred Years of the Catholic Church in Eastern Nigeria, 1885-1985, more than illustrates the extent of suffering that befell the Igbos during the trans-Atlantic slave trade:
‘…… it is strange and humiliating that West Africa received the true Faith in the
context of colonization and a dehumanizing phenomenon like the slave trade
……The inhuman trafficking in human lives went on for over three hundred
years during which a large population of black Africans was transported into
Europe, the United States and Central and South America. At the end of the
18th century, Eastern Nigeria alone supplied 20,000 slaves a year. It is equally
on record that the Igbo as a race, suffered most during the slave trade’.
And F.K. Buah noted on page 138-9, of his History of West Africa that:

FreeGlobe:
talk to me when you are proud enough to use yoruba name on social media impostor.

I dey shame for the guy...he dey use Igbo name..he must be so ashamed of his tribal names


So indolent that he has nothing to do than stalk online ...his mode of fight is to post picture ..and this is a MAN! nawa ...me seff wey be man I dey shame for am .

MrkenOkonkwo:
look at this village goat calling his/her god a villager.

Thank God for nairaland.
its a known fact that all of you are billionaires until we burst you.

Tony owns dolphin estate before his real self was revealed. remember

Small boy grow up...get a life ..get a job and

MrkenOkonkwo:
This is the wretched aba tout that' said he can't sleep after seeing omo nile.
Pictures of his mgbeke house wife loading....


CC : tonychristopher.

see your life.

I am far better than you in years .....your busy posting of people ..stalking people and thatthat has shown how useless and indolent you have turned out to be

At your age I know you must be living with your guardians


Oh the defender of universe ..go get a life ..by the grace of God do you want me to show you pictures of me


Guy you dey fall ur hand badly ...OK as you don post the picture wetin come happen...my hair don fall

Idiot ....how old are u

Is this the way you do your own fight..posting pictures of people and snooping around ..lol

Oh my oh my


You must be a good fighter ...


And you call yourself a man ....oh a boy

Keep snooping and stalking


I have seen how low a man can be

Some people colonial masters went to town to add their former langauge in their radio station they went to town shouting kumbaya ...


Why do Blackman always want the white man to validate him ...very preposterous. We need to change this mindset

If this is not neocolonialism ...pls can somebody tell me what this is ....its a good thing though but never a a stride



So why the much bragging and noise whereas there are things begging for attention such as poverty in the region and other social malaise ..Japanese and Chinese don't give a damn if their languages are on BBC but they are force to reckon with

This has been my logic


The black man need to rise above mediocrity and vane things



Has the BBC Hausa language changed Hausa lives ?


So why the tea party


I got better things to do

MrkenOkonkwo:
90% is how to donate money for your dying wife to buy blood tonic

tony you are a fool and a nobody, hide your head in shame.

Oh the Igbo wanna be ....long time .


I have noticed you ..can you now bounce pls

But know that it's your life and that of your family is dying ...

ezeagu:
Japanese people didn't migrate to Brazil because of the war, actually most migrated before, but that's besides to point, because Lagos was still developed with oil money and became a landing ground for everyone who wanted to be successful, especially after Igboland was levelled after the war. What emotional impulses when you mentioned me? Emotional impulses is discussing Igbo people for 30 pages on a thread about your commonwealth. That's not done on the Enugu thread. Lol. Can't you just halt that for a few pages? Take the advice and tell the others on the thread please.

Igboland is such a dead end that it takes up 30 pages of discussion on your commonwealth thread? Here: https://www.nairaland.com/2698050/nigeria-holding-back-south-east

Did you read that their commonwealth thread? I read it and shook my head

90% of their discussion was Igbo

I just pitied them

IlekeHD:
Same igbos begging on BBCAfrica twitter?

Same igbos telling us that speaking English is more advanced than one's own native language?


LMAOOOOO

Is that why your folks are failing exams year in year out ?


Evidences abound
Eyes have seen
Ears heard

nwanlecha:
Funny movie! I don't know if you've watched Nwanyị ụdị. That movie is giving me life now. Their Ụdị dialect is funny as hell, I swear. Another good one is, Okenwa na Ọnitsha. The only thing we're dealing with now though, is that the millions of non - Igbo speakers who are used to our actors doing movies in English, keep bugging us with request for the English version of our movies

Where can I buy it NNE

jstbeinhonest:
And when i read news of igbos being caught carrying drugs or baby factories being busted,i sure dont envy you guys,i just smh.

Have you been to soka forest lately


What is that name of the una actor that ingested drug that refused to go to toilet again ....? What about that pastor they caught in Enugu


Oga saint Bernard

IlekeHD:
You ARE jealous!

Don'
t worry, your people are already begging for BBCIgbo on BBCAfrica twitter handle. But who wan carry rotten egg for market?

Igbo have better things to do than celebrating one oyibo master in their radio ....can't you think


Neocolonialism is a bad thing

Grow up

ezeagu:
Well, PSquare has the most views online, and the biggest song last year was like Johnny by Yemi Alade.

Your correct even yemi can't be called Yoruba because she has a lot of Igbo flavour

The johnny was produced in Enugu
And by skelebobo

jstbeinhonest:
Biyi bandele and kunle afolayan are probably the most respected directors in nigeria.2 Of the top 20 highest grossing movies were yoruba movies,12 of the top 20 had yoruba directors.

Oga pls blow your trumpet

But while doing that ..tell us their box office hit that surpassed figurine


Is it that floppy October first that afolayan produced that I find nauseating?

nwanlecha:
Go tell that to the millions of people all over the world that now know so many Igbo words all thanks to our Nollywood. Heck, Goodluck Jonathan was hailed as Ìgwè when he visited a certain African country. Where do you think they learnt that from? Your guess is as good as mine.

Chefuo aturu ahu ,biko

IlekeHD:
Very jealous folks.

They won't let us hear word because BBCAfrica no wan do BBCIgbo

When I will be jealous is when I get to challenge if I don't see agbero or owo mi da

Then I can be jealous ..but as of now


Any time I get to Oshodi oke and see those urchins


I won't even lose sleep

superstar1:
The same way the odour of your buccal cavity can kill an elephant.

We sabi you, no be today.

Too infantile


Oga go sleep
You no get yarns

jstbeinhonest:
Oh really?,Davido is the biggest artist in africa currently.Dbanj is on the same level as Psquare.Asa ooh Asa....

Oh you are Forbes that rate him...is it not the same way that you said that you guys are the most educated in the whole galaxy

Yet no international acclaim

What happened to that fraudulent professor that claimed to solve maths ..last week

Learnt his from your place ?/

Pls update me

I have been busy lately

ArodeTsolaye:
If the Igbo producers don't want them there in nolly, they'll be kicked out back to oshogbo forest to act in your usual ritual/fetish yoruba movies that no one watches but only yorubas. LWKMD

Dont mind him

Just a handful of them ...they won't let us hear word

Very mouthy folks