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Politics › Are Igbo Really Smart ? by tonychristopher(op): 10:38am On Nov 24, 2015
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:
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 10:24am On Nov 24, 2015
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 .
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 10:13am On Nov 24, 2015
MrkenOkonkwo:
look at this village goat calling his/her god a villager. grin

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 wink
Small boy grow up...get a life ..get a job and
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 10:08am On Nov 24, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 10:02am On Nov 24, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 9:56am On Nov 24, 2015
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 ...
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 7:37am On Nov 24, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 12:00am On Nov 24, 2015
IlekeHD:
Same igbos begging on BBCAfrica twitter? grin

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


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


Evidences abound
Eyes have seen
Ears heard
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:59pm On Nov 23, 2015
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 grin
Where can I buy it NNE
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:58pm On Nov 23, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:57pm On Nov 23, 2015
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? grin
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:55pm On Nov 23, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:54pm On Nov 23, 2015
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?
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:52pm On Nov 23, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:52pm On Nov 23, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:50pm On Nov 23, 2015
superstar1:
The same way the odour of your buccal cavity can kill an elephant.

We sabi you, no be today.

cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy
Too infantile


Oga go sleep
You no get yarns
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:49pm On Nov 23, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:47pm On Nov 23, 2015
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
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:46pm On Nov 23, 2015
superstar1:
They are y1bos that came to ply their prostitution trade.
I was thinking you will deny challenge isn't in Ibadan ....


You can sink a nuclear powered submarine with your mouth


We know you
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:45pm On Nov 23, 2015
IlekeHD:
So Yorubas are your masters now?

lol....you're correct tho wink
Yes

In ashawo and agbero

I duff my hat for their invention


I shamefully admit


Dont take it personal
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:44pm On Nov 23, 2015
jstbeinhonest:
In some of their songs,YES,also,there are yorubas in nollywood who are respected continent-wide,kunle afolayan,desmond elliot,funke akindele etc.
Oh you are respecting desmomd ...but hope you have exhausted the list

Do you wnat me to start with Igbo artistes?
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:43pm On Nov 23, 2015
superstar1:
cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy
Coming from a y1bo boy. I can't stop laughing in mandarin.

Is it not in this Nigeria that Owerri is the renowned number prostitution capital. grin grin grin grin

Ask Chino, he will tell you.
And what happened at challenge in Ibadan ?
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:42pm On Nov 23, 2015
IlekeHD:
Not according to Nnamdi Kwanu and Rochas wink wink

"99% of igbo girls are ashewo".
Which means that they have learnt the trade from their masters. .the inventors

BBC take a mental note of the term

Ashawo and agbero

That is their invention.

Then BBC don't forget the term okuwole



Bye
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:39pm On Nov 23, 2015
superstar1:
Is it not better for you to keep your bad character at home rather than disgracing your ancestors, father and entire family outside?

No wonder y1bos do not see any shame in disgracing Nigeria all over the world, spoiling our good name.
The term and ashawo are Yoruba words

That is Yoruba gift to Nigeria


BBC take note
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:36pm On Nov 23, 2015
IlekeHD:
Aww is that why no one watches nollywood anymore?

Quantity, not quality.

Whereas Yoruba movies have festivals in South America......hopefully with BBCYoruba we can spreader further wink
Which Yoruba movies . pls tell me . hope it is not this we watch at mitv
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:35pm On Nov 23, 2015
IlekeHD:
Which ones have turned miscreant? The shameless vagabonds protesting when they should be tending to their jobs and/or be in school? Or the increasing culture of drug pushing in igboland?

wink wink
They have a purpose of protest ..he who doesn't stand for something falls for anything

But never in history have your ilks ever galvanised the guts to make a protest ...or will u call that jamboree @ ojota protest


Mr big mouth go sleep


The whole Nigeria know u

No wonder they are afraid of Biafra leaving them

It's in your post history


Consider this response an honor

Go give thanksgiving... I don't reply tour type
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:32pm On Nov 23, 2015
IlekeHD:
Got more?

So it's your high literacy in igboland that you're using to push drugs to Indonesia? cheesy

If high illiteracy equals reviving Yoruba and spreading it globally, I say welcome!
I know you people

You have the capacity to use mouth to bring down an orbit satellite


We know the yorubas are begging behind in education in south
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:30pm On Nov 23, 2015
superstar1:
At least they are not vagabonds in another man's land., like some clowns from the gully eroded part of east of the niger.
They have turned miscreants and urchins in their father's land


It's better to be a vagabond in faraway land than in your own land


What a shame
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:28pm On Nov 23, 2015
[quote author=IlekeHD post=40338736]As long as they understand Yoruba.

Even with your Aba-made stats and your shameless appraisal of another man's language, Yoruba will continue to spread. It is global!

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Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:28pm On Nov 23, 2015
superstar1:
Why yoruba language dominates 95% of the music industry. Ask Africa and the world.
Does it make Yoruba artistes richest ?
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:27pm On Nov 23, 2015
IlekeHD:
Does the English language remove drug pushing from the igbo land?
Maybe the Yoruba will be good because of high illiterate rate in southwest as jamb and waec confirmed


This welcome
Politics › Re: BBC To Launch Pidgin And Yoruba Service by tonychristopher: 11:25pm On Nov 23, 2015
jstbeinhonest:
No it dosent,same way baby factories still litter igbo land.
So its not yet Uhuru

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