A United States academic report for 2015 has suggested that the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria are the most brilliant black Africa race. According to the report: “a search through the promotional materials of school for a black student – all schools and colleges would always show some black faces in their promotional materials if they have any – reveals that they have had at least one black student, and it was, unsurprisingly, a Nigerian Igbo.”

This is just as two teenage Nigerian high school students, Harold Ekeh and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, have broken a record of being accepted by eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Ekeh is a 17-year-old senior student at Elmont Memorial High School, Long Island while Uwamanzu- Nna is a high-school student from Long Island, New York. Schools within the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

However, the feat, according to two online news portals, NBC News and MSN, revealed that both teenagers are faced with “a big decision to make soon.” For instance, Ekeh was granted admission by 13 universities, including all the eight Ivy League schools.

The NBC News reported that Ekeh is faced with the dilemma of whittling down his college prospects, having applied to 13 colleges, with the hope to “maybe” get into Stony Brook University, about an hour east of his home in Elmont, Long Island.

But, in recent weeks, the cascade of reply letters started pouring in: Harvard. Yes. Yale. Yes. Princeton. Yes. Not only did he get accepted to all of the schools he applied to, those include all eight Ivy League institutions. Speaking with NBC News, Ekeh said: “It’s very, like, stunning.

It’s like getting hit with a brick, honestly. When you see congratulations, you’re like, wow your hard work has paid off, definitely.” The straight-A student has accomplished the rare feat of getting into all of the nation’s Ivy schools, crediting his parents’ work ethic for setting an example and a desire to strive in his adopted homeland after emigrating from Nigeria 10 years ago.

“I find that I’m very over-involved,” Ekeh said, counting advanced placement classes and extracurricular activities, such as science research, school plays and being editor-inchief of his school newspaper, as filling up his time. Ekeh, who scored a 2270 out of 2400 on his SATs, said: “I do have conflicts that maybe I’ll have this programme at the same time as I have another programme and so it’s hard to choose which one to be involved in.

I expected to maybe get into Stony Brook, a couple of other safeties, just based upon the SAT and the GPA, but I was still never certain of anything. There are so many variables taken into consideration in college admissions, so I was never certain of anything at any point.”

Ekeh, one of five brothers, said he wants to study biochemistry and become a neurosurgeon. He is inspired by his grandmother, who began showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s when he was 11. He wants to find a cure. “There are so many researchers working for Alzheimer’s disease right now and many neurogenic disorders that definitely a cure can be found soon,” he said.

As for where he is going to college, he isn’t quite sure, but would like to stay close to family. “I am leaning towards Columbia right now because I’d like to stay in New York City for I guess the rest of my career and work at Mt. Sinai,” Ekeh said, adding that America has given his family a life they might never have had in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, Uwamanzu- Nna, who also had found herself in the same situation, told MSN News that she has a big decision to make soon. The Elmont High School valedictorian, who was accepted into all the eight Ivy League schools, also gained admission into Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Uwamanzu-Nna is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, who said her parents instilled in her the value of education. “Though I was born here in America, I visited Nigeria many times. And I’ve seen that my cousins don’t have the same opportunities that I have.

So, definitely, whatever I do, I want to make sure that it has an impact on Nigeria,” she said. She also said her own tenacity and persistence helped shape her into becoming a great student. But as with a lot of students, she did face hardships with some classes.

“I struggled with numerous classes in the past. But I guess what allowed me to be successful, ultimately, in those classes, is my persistence and my tenacity,” she said. Though Uwamanzu- Nna hasn’t decided on which college to attend, having scored a GPA of 101.6, and with a recent invitation to the White House Science Fair, reports indicated that there’s no doubt that she would continue her academic excellence.

The report that suggested the outstanding academic performance of the Igbo revealed that if only environmental factors were responsible for the different Intelligence Quotients (IQs) of different populations, the world may expect to find some countries where Africans had higher IQs than Europeans.

The report cited empirical backup using theories propounded by eminent scholars such as Richard Lynn, a British Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster and Arthur Jensen, who was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

The report’s findings also revealed that while the fact remains that black immigrants to the U.S have shown achievements that were superior to native black Americans, studies had also shown that it had been a phenomenon studied since the 1970s at the least.

Using Lynn theory, who was also an assistant editor of the controversial journal Mankind Quarterly, who is known for his views on racial, ethnic and national differences in intelligence, the report revealed that: “Failure to find a single country where this is the case points to the presence of a strong genetic factor.”

For Jensen, the report said: “Regression would explain why Black children born to high IQ, wealthy Black parents have test scores two to four points lower than do White children born to low IQ, poor White parents.” The report also stated that at first, it was just the Caribbean blacks who were a subject of this unexpected outcome.

As black Africans kept immigrating into the U.S, they showed even higher levels of achievement than the native blacks. Many scholars theorised on the reasons for these differences, from Thomas Sowell’s proposal that this disproved the validity of discrimination against native blacks as an explanation for their underachievement (Sowell, 1978), to other scholars who suggested that these immigrants were just the most highly driven members of their home countries as evidenced by their willingness to migrate to a foreign country (Butcher, 1990).

What most of these theories failed to predict was that the children of these immigrants would also show exceptional achievements, especially academically. It is only in recent years, as the immigrants have stayed long enough to produce a sufficiently high number of offspring, that it had been observed that they are over-represented among high academic achievers, especially when compared to native blacks, particularly at very elite institutions.

What has been missed in the IQ debate is the full logical implication of these achievements: they have effectively nullified any arguments for a racial evolutionary explanation of the well-known IQ test score gap between blacks and whites.

Even more fatal for the racial hereditarian side of the debate has been the corroborating data of school children performance in the UK, particularly when the black Africans are divided into their respective nationalities and tribal ethnicities.

Arthur Jensen gave at least two empirical tests that could potentially falsify his thesis of a race based genetic explanation for the black-white IQ gap.


Two Igbo students get admissions in 8 Ivy League Schools

Ekeh scores 2270 out of 2400 on his SATs

Uwamanzu-Nna scores 101.6 GPA

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Sauce ooor

The report that suggested the outstanding academic performance of the Igbo revealed that if only environmental factors were responsible for the different Intelligence Quotients (IQs) of different populations, the world may expect to find some countries where Africans had higher IQs than Europeans.

The report cited empirical backup using theories propounded by eminent scholars such as Richard Lynn, a British Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster and Arthur Jensen, who was a professor of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

The report’s findings also revealed that while the fact remains that black immigrants to the U.S have shown achievements that were superior to native black Americans, studies had also shown that it had been a phenomenon studied since the 1970s at the least.

Using Lynn theory, who was also an assistant editor of the controversial journal Mankind Quarterly, who is known for his views on racial, ethnic and national differences in intelligence, the report revealed that: “Failure to find a single country where this is the case points to the presence of a strong genetic factor.”

For Jensen, the report said: “Regression would explain why Black children born to high IQ, wealthy Black parents have test scores two to four points lower than do White children born to low IQ, poor White parents.” The report also stated that at first, it was just the Caribbean blacks who were a subject of this unexpected outcome.

As black Africans kept immigrating into the U.S, they showed even higher levels of achievement than the native blacks. Many scholars theorised on the reasons for these differences, from Thomas Sowell’s proposal that this disproved the validity of discrimination against native blacks as an explanation for their underachievement (Sowell, 1978), to other scholars who suggested that these immigrants were just the most highly driven members of their home countries as evidenced by their willingness to migrate to a foreign country (Butcher, 1990).


Source: SkyNews

Danfuster:
Sauce ooor

http://www.itrealms.com.ng/2016/04/why-nigerian-igbos-are-most-brilliant.html
http://www.elliothammond.com/igbos-most-brilliant-black-africa-race-us-academic-report/
http://naijanewsmetro.com/igbos-are-the-most-brilliant-black-african-raceus-academic-report-2015
https://www.google.com/search?client=aff-maxthon-maxthon4&channel=t26&q=Igbo%20the%20most%20brilliant%20black%20race&gws_rd=ssl

Its not me that wrote that but a research. IGBOS AGAIN

Anyway sha, Igbos are indeed doing very well

It's only Igbos that can save Nigeria

IGBOS oh yes. we can do better than this. Congrats to them.

Mood-lifter Fox TV,the most "racist" TV spends time celebrating our own


Hear her explain what she wants to develop....


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154194757061320&id=39442131319&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.10207940461482824%3Atl_objid.10207940461482824%3Athid.1035691586%3A306061129499414%3A2%3A0%3A1462085999%3A-3441813288344585198

Danfuster:


bro... I didn't say you wrote it, don't get it twisted. It's just the tradition around here which you're well acquainted to.

Good news all the way

Noted

Carefully read through these links, you would be surprised that the world know how brilliant the igbos are than the igbos knw themselves


http://www.unz.com/pfrost/the-jews-of-west-africa/

http://www.unz.com/pfrost/no-blacks-arent-all-alike-who-said-they-were/

http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-1/

http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-2/

http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-3/

lol. predictable. like a clockwork.

that's good news to the Igbos and rest of Nigeria


However, it's not good news because so far, d govt hv unable to incorporate Nigerians' brilliance into national devpt

First in history first black nollwood actor Kenneth Okonkwo invited to white house by his excellency president of united state of American Barak Obama

making progress since 200ad

Dainfamous:
First in history first black nollwood actor Kenneth Okonkwo invited to white house by his excellency president of united state of American Barak Obama

lol you try for this your photoshop. Igbos are great indeed anybody who disagree is a heater

damn!!!! this is good news. her entire family should be proud.

Blessed Igbo people...the pillar of the black race all over the planet! Despite the genocide perpetrated on them to wipe them off the face of the earth, their wealth coveted; all done to weaken them, yet they they came back stronger than before...this time around PERMANENTLY!

xharder:
Carefully read through these links, you would be surprised that the world know how brilliant the igbos are than the igbos knw themselves


http://www.unz.com/pfrost/the-jews-of-west-africa/

http://www.unz.com/pfrost/no-blacks-arent-all-alike-who-said-they-were/

http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-1/

http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-2/

http://www.unz.com/article/closing-the-black-white-iq-gap-debate-part-3/

@ bolded
Thanks bro for having that thought, I can bet that they d'never attain such lofty height if they were born & breed in the east. I think the Ibos shine brighter outside than at home. Maybe because of some distractions from the so called 'ones people'

We must synergize if we want to control our destinies and make a name for our people. Let every Igbo who has got the attention of the media and in the spot light declare the intention of our people. We want a country we can truly call our own. Kudos to the duo.

cone heads won't like this news
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superstar1
igbotic
vivianudeogu
ngeneukwenu
After1
1after
kropotkin2
etc

but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Igbos are very intelligent people

deutchroyal:
but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Igbos are very intelligent people

But the rest of Nigerian are taking it to be a rocket science to figure this simple fact out

tigerclaws:
cone heads won't like this news
cc
superstar1
igbotic
vivianudeogu
ngeneukwenu
After1
1after
kropotkin2
etc

Real Cone heads: Y*R*B*

Not again...Igbos makes a statement of their intellectual superiority.

funny nation with crazy govz..

deutchroyal:
but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Igbos are very intelligent people

My brother, accepting this fact is like suicide for some tribes. Am not igbo and I dislike the overbearing attitude of some igbos, but I must admit that they are by far more superior to their adversaries.

I love this news

Realman87:


My brother, accepting this fact is like suicide for some tribes. Am not igbo and I dislike the overbearing attitude of some igbos, but I must admit that they are by far more superior to their adversaries.

That's impressive ..how over bearing are Igbo and what tribe are u

christopher123:



But the rest of Nigerian are taking it to be a rocket science to figure this simple fact out

They knew that already but are too jealous to admit it.

We are better than the best

They know it

That's why they want to suppress us

But we will out-smart them.