Obiagu1: @ PhysicMHD,
Shame on you! When you’re defeated in an argument, you go around attacking someone’s grammar to score a cheap point. There are few things some of you that grew up in the US or UK don’t know.

It’s hard to see a well educated Nigerian that grew up in Nigeria and had his/her first degree in Nigeria that speaks/writes impeccable English.

The reason is because the foundation was poor; the English teachers weren’t good enough.

That does not diminish someone’s IQ or intelligence or education or achievement.

They will still travel abroad and excel in their field of study with their “poor English”. Bring Math, Physic etc, they will beat you hands down, so what were you trying to achieve?

If everyone should be flawless in English to underscore their intelligence, education, IQ, smartness, I wonder why there are proofreaders

You claimed to have an IQ of 140 or there about

but you did not know the meaning of compromise Huh

So why where you attacking someone because of few errors here or there and try to diminish his/her status?

If others tell you their own IQ, all you’ll end up doing is find where they made one or two mistakes and attack them as if IQ is equivalent to English.

Moreover, this is a forum and not a committee that scrutinizes posters’ English.

I’ll say you and your likes should go screw yourselves!

ekt_bear:

A little too fawning of Dan Fodio. But overall, it seems that he isn't the villain some in this thread have portrayed him to be. Seems to be far better than the guys he replaced.

EzeUche:

I could not have said that better myself. The young man walks around thinking he has a superior intellect

because he can copy and paste sources on the internet better than most

but that does not show his true intelligence.

Thank you for shedding light on his behavior.

I can see that I am not the only one who has noticed that from his post.

PhysicsMHD:

And you base this claim on. . .?

There's a book called Nigerian Perspectives by Thomas Hodgkin. Excerpts of primary sources presented in that book paint a different picture entirely.

EzeUche:

I shall take the side of [b]RichyBlacK [/b]in this battle of intellectual titans.

RichyBlacK:

World Civilizations: Volume II: Since 1500 By Philip J. Adler, Randall L. Pouwels
Published by: Wadsworth Publishing; 4 edition (2005)

chic2pimp:

Hehehehe so according to Igwe he schooled at Princeton abi nah Harvard

Plus Thunder fire all of una who claim to have 15 brothers and 20 sisters at Ivy League Unis.

henry101:

Is it your money?

chic2pimp:

Hehehehe so according to Igwe he schooled at Princeton abi nah Harvard

Plus Thunder fire all of una who claim to have 15 brothers and 20 sisters at Ivy League Unis.

Onlytruth:

I'm rotfl to see that this thread made it to 12 pages. In normal societies, this wouldn't be much of a big deal, afterall we are all Nigerians. But not in Nigeria!
Watch how some folks are mining the internet just to divert as much attention as possible from this topic and by so doing diffuse away as much glory as possible from these Nigerian women.

Like I stated in another thread, Nigeria's biggest problem is not corruption. FAR FROM IT.

Nigeria's biggest problem is injustice which is a product of wickedness, which is a product of foolishness and reta-rdation.

Suddenly, praising Nigerian women of Igbo extraction has become boasting and "blowing trumpet".
If tomorrow, the Super Falcons snag the female world cup, it would no longer be true that overwhelming majority of the team is Igbo. Some folks will die first before acknowledging that fact.

Until Nigerians are able to rejoice in the achievement of fellow citizens irrespective of tribe (which currently they are incapable of), let us all keep lying to ourselves about being one.

I'm still singing the praises of my sisters, mothers and daughters. And if I have a baby girl tomorrow, I will put in my blood to send her to Harvard, Stanford or Princeton; just like my father did for me.
That is the spirit of the Igboman. . . and culture.     

fstranger3:

. . . bought on by their desire to stand up to and catch up with their more successful neighbor, the Yoruba people, NO?

Onlytruth:

Obasanjo tried to employ the best Nigerians he could find. They only happened to be Igbos, and were among his best achieving ministers and technocrats, hence the encomiums from Fani Kayode.

He didn't do it out of altruism. He really wanted to leave a legacy, and he did not fail completely because of these women.

Onlytruth:

Obasanjo tried to employ the best Nigerians he could find. They only happened to be Igbos, and were among his best achieving ministers and technocrats, hence the encomiums from Fani Kayode.

He didn't do it out of altruism. He really wanted to leave a legacy, and he did not fail completely because of these women.

Despite the knocks against majority of President' Yar'Adua's cabinet, some ministers won the admiration of the Americans. [size=18pt]Babatunde Osotimehin, the then Minister of Health, was described as "one of Yar'Adua's better appointments"; Aderemi Babalola, then Minister of State for Finance, was said to be "extremely competent, knows his portfolio well".
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About Mansur Muhtar, the then Minister of Finance, who played a major role in the negotiations that led to Nigeria's exit from the Paris and London Clubs of creditors, the officials said, "A senior U.S. economist who worked closely with him at the Africa Development Bank described him as by far the best Executive Director at the bank , smart, articulate, and gets the big picture.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5684996-146/aondoakaa_is_a_thug_says_us.csp

Basseti:

My friend stop hating LOL

Me sef get 5 uncles wey be Obama course mate. Eat your heart out LOL

tpiah!:

Onlytruth i may not agree with a lot of your comments here but i cannot fault you for saying you'll sing the praises of your sisters, mothers and daughters.

This is the kind of attitude that makes them (your female kin)attractive to others who then cannot sleep until they have an igbo woman. They say it takes a village to raise a child.

Unfortunately i have to confess our yoruba brothers do not have this same sense of ajobi but rather are the opposite. Sorry if my words are painful to anybody.

I hope fani kayode has now seen the answer to his question.

[size=18pt]Clueless, incompetent ministers[/size]

It was also revealed that many of the ministers were chosen solely because of their closeness to the president and not based on national interest. Sayyadi Abba Ruma, then Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources; and Hassan Lawal, then Minister of Works and Housing, and the only other minister, after Mr. Madueke, to have served in Messrs. Obasanjo and Yar'Adua administration were described to fit this profile. Mr. Ruma's several appointments, including heading the Labour Ministry and the Ministry of Health following the removal of the former Minister on corruption charges are said to be tied to him attending the same secondary school with Mr. Yar'Adua.

US agencies "found him ineffective as the supervising Minister of Health from April to December 12, 2008." "Ruma is part of the Katsina clique (President Yar'Adua's home state) and has the ear of President Yar'Adua. Ruma is reportedly also President Yar'Adua's cousin. We have been told that he served as the first kidney donor to Yar'Adua," the cable said.[size=18pt] Deziani Allison-Madueke, the then Minister of Mines and Steel Development, was described as "ineffectual" and said to have done "a poor job in her last Ministerial position as Transportation and Aviation Minister".[/size] The Americans remembered her more for having wept in public at the state of disrepair of the Lagos-Ore Expressway while serving as Minister of Transportation. After several interactions with Bagudu Hirse, the second Minister of State in the Foreign Affairs ministry, the Americans said "he appeared thoroughly unbriefed on foreign affairs". The then Minister of Science and Technology, Alhassan Zaku, was said to have "made no real noteworthy contributions in his previous position as Minister of State for Science and Technology

Aigbofa:

This is not true.

ekt_bear:

@tpiah!: It varies from family to family. My sisters for example have gone to pretty excellent schools and in fact are being given more resources than I. 16 year old will match or exceed my accomplishments. The youngest one will significantly outperform me. . . equal or superior raw intelligence, better work ethic, more money available to her, and better guidance than I had.

fstranger3:


All the women in my family have all done very well, with advanced degrees from some of America's finest institutions.

Onlytruth:

I'm rotfl to see that this thread made it to 12 pages. In normal societies, this wouldn't be much of a big deal, afterall we are all Nigerians. But not in Nigeria!
Watch how some folks are mining the internet just to divert as much attention as possible from this topic and by so doing diffuse away as much glory as possible from these Nigerian women.

Like I stated in another thread, Nigeria's biggest problem is not corruption. FAR FROM IT.

Nigeria's biggest problem is injustice which is a product of wickedness, which is a product of foolishness and reta-rdation.

Suddenly, praising Nigerian women of Igbo extraction has become boasting and "blowing trumpet".
If tomorrow, the Super Falcons snag the female world cup, it would no longer be true that overwhelming majority of the team is Igbo. Some folks will die first before acknowledging that fact.

Until Nigerians are able to rejoice in the achievement of fellow citizens irrespective of tribe (which currently they are incapable of), let us all keep lying to ourselves about being one.

I'm still singing the praises of my sisters, mothers and daughters. And if I have a baby girl tomorrow, I will put in my blood to send her to Harvard, Stanford or Princeton; just like my father did for me.
That is the spirit of the Igboman. . . and that is Igbo culture.