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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by goodnessme1(f): 4:58pm On Nov 14, 2023
tsdarkside:
make you igbos keep makin noise....let other africans notice una....

when they start abusin una,dont come to us nigerians complainin about xenophobia....
we nigerians no send una....
Igbos no send you people. tongue tongue

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by goodnessme1(f): 4:59pm On Nov 14, 2023
tsdarkside:
stvpid tribe causin trouble everywhere they go....
Yet foolish people want to continue sharing the same country with them by fire and by force grin grin

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by goodnessme1(f): 5:01pm On Nov 14, 2023
Goodvibes007:

🤣🤣🤣. I hope it stops them from fleeing their region to the SW in their thousands on a daily basis.
South West is our extension.



We will continue buying until........ tongue tongue

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by goodnessme1(f): 5:08pm On Nov 14, 2023
90dbest:
Yoruba are insecure people.
The most hate filled tribe.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Tochi3(m): 5:25pm On Nov 14, 2023
See pure hate & jealousy everywhere. See self inflicted pains of the enemies grin grin

Ndigbo ... God really bless una grin grin

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by tsdarkside(m): 5:26pm On Nov 14, 2023
goodnessme1:
Yet foolish people want to continue sharing the same country with the by fire and by force grin grin

goodnessme1....
chaii....

this quarrel is not gonna end....am very sorry.... undecided undecided
i dont even understand why its that important which people are smarter sef....

but be belittlin other tribes in nigeria or even africa is not gonna work....
no tribe will put another tribe over theirs....

you igbos need to understand that....

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Christistruth03: 5:36pm On Nov 14, 2023
The Nigerian invention which has impressed me most in the Last 10 years was the lights using CDs that was made by Hausas

Which was more baffling because they are not noted for their Technical or Engineering ingenuity
I even doubt if those who invented it ever went to University

It just shows that if God gives you a gift he has given it

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Tochi360: 5:39pm On Nov 14, 2023
Igbos are the smartest Tribe in Africa.
Who needs any yeye US to certify this point grin

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by OmoFiditi: 5:43pm On Nov 14, 2023
There is no group of people who will go through collective adversity and will not survive to become stronger and smarter. None.

It is a natural evolution that has happened since time began.
Facts are stubborn and sacred.
Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by T9ksy(m): 6:22pm On Nov 14, 2023
Tochi360:
Igbos are the smartest Tribe in Africa.
Who needs any yeye US to certify this point grin


Hell NO! Point of correction. Igbos are the smartest group on planet Earth, ok? They can use their great IQ however way they deemed fit, to benefit their people and region.

Now, can we move on, pls?

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Ooni: 6:52pm On Nov 14, 2023
OmoFiditi:
There is o group of people who will go through collective adversity and will not survive to become stronger and smarter. None.

It is a natural evolution that has happened since time began.
Facts are stubborn and sacred.

You lie.
What did the blacks learn from apartheid in South Africa? Does the current situation of the country under their control prove they are smarter?

have the Hausas moved on from jihad to become smarter? No they were completely conquered.

Did we Yorubas survive our internal civil wars to become smarter and stronger? No. Rather it was a Yoruba man that went to Lagos colony to invite the British to colonize us. The first time such is happening in the history of human civilization.

If we see something we can learn from, Pls let us leverage on such opportunity and do away with pride and envy.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Emetex22(m): 7:09pm On Nov 14, 2023
Ola9ja23:
Take Igbo seriously at your own peril



Everything about them is to measure diiick


Drug trafficking people
Skull miner, have you slammed your head today, how is your human spare parts delivery going, go and gobble your smelly rotten oily soup, descendant of the fallen angel, spits

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Emetex22(m): 7:12pm On Nov 14, 2023
goodnessme1:
South West is our extension.



We will continue buying until........ tongue tongue
We will buy thier graveyard join, one Nigeria
Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by aswani(m): 7:21pm On Nov 14, 2023
90dbest:
Yoruba are insecure people.

Farook Kperogi is not Yoruba nau, ah ah.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by PHIPEX(m): 7:43pm On Nov 14, 2023
Ola9ja23:
Take Igbo seriously at your own peril



Everything about them is to measure diiick


Drug trafficking people
Igbos didnt call themselves the smartest, others around the world called them so. You can now go and cry a river

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Antivirus92(m): 8:13pm On Nov 14, 2023
Goodvibes007:

This one is in severe pains. The most barbaric tribe? Yes.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by ThatFairGuy1: 8:34pm On Nov 14, 2023
Is Farouk Kperogi a Yoruba?
What's your obsession with Yoruba
90dbest:
Yoruba are insecure people.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Isobug: 8:38pm On Nov 14, 2023
ThatFairGuy1:
Is Farouk Kperogi a Yoruba?
What's your obsession with Yoruba
Which people are defending Kperogi here? Hausas? Abi Fulanis?
Yorubas are insecure shekina

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by goodnessme1(f): 9:47pm On Nov 14, 2023
tsdarkside:


goodnessme1....
chaii....

this quarrel is not gonna end....am very sorry.... undecided undecided
i dont even understand why its that important which people are smarter sef....

but be belittlin other tribes in nigeria or even africa is not gonna work....
no tribe will put another tribe over theirs....

you igbos need to understand that....
We don't need to understand anything and don't care.


We know you people expected Igbos to be worshipping you after the war.

Begging for food and work.


We know why you and your master Hate us.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Gajagojo: 9:50pm On Nov 14, 2023
Don't deny them their right to victimhood and grandiosity

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by paschalj4(m): 9:57pm On Nov 14, 2023
[quote author=Ola9ja23 post=126966351]

If this would help and console Igbo to stop crying about marginalization then I pray a mob should push this to front page

You na done hear ?
Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by tsdarkside(m): 10:08pm On Nov 14, 2023
goodnessme1:
We don't need to understand anything and don't care.


We know you people expected Igbos to be worshipping you after the war.

Begging for food and work.



We know why you and your master Hate us.

....
Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Christistruth03: 11:02pm On Nov 14, 2023
Ooni:
You lie.
What did the blacks learn from apartheid in South Africa? Does the current situation of the country under their control prove they are smarter?

have the Hausas moved on from jihad to become smarter? No they were completely conquered.

Did we Yorubas survive our internal civil wars to become smarter and stronger? No. Rather it was a Yoruba man that went to Lagos colony to invite the British to colonize us. The first time such is happening in the history of human civilization.

If we see something we can learn from, Pls let us leverage on such opportunity and do away with pride and envy.

It was Herod that Invited the Romans to Colonize the Jews
The British were invited by the Yoruba Christians most of whom were ex Slaves themselves to end the Slave Trade since their own Rulers were so immersed in it they could not see it's evils
And they tried to Persuade Dosunmu not to sign the Document of Cessation of Lagos but the British now brought money in the form of a monthly pension into the equation to induce Dosunmu to sign it
Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Bendeco2020: 11:47pm On Nov 14, 2023
I don't buy the idea of claiming smarter or superior than others. But Igbo are unique, every other tribe are unique on their own version too.

We don't measure dicks with anyone, those people that brags with yorubas here are on their own.

But this kperogi or so is insecure.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by creativehubb: 11:59pm On Nov 14, 2023
Inferiority complex makes a people seek validation.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by Ruke1989: 12:20am On Nov 15, 2023
The only thing I get from this article is that yorubas have low IQ. According to kperogi, American born blacks which is slave descendants generally recorded lower IQ than whites but blacks from Caribbean and Africa came into America and even beat those whites IQ.
Ask yourself, who are the native American blacks? They are descendants of slaves. Who were the slaves sent to America? Yorubas. Yoruba slaves worked in south and north America plantain farms. Calabar slaves were sent to Caribbean.
Note: the article didn't say south America blacks have higher IQ, it only mentioned some Caribbean blacks and African blacks. Those native American blacks with poor IQ are children of Yoruba slaves. Now I can understand why Nigeria is backward with Yoruba and Fulani ruling the country. The people with worst IQ should never be allowed to govern

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by adamusuleiman3: 12:21am On Nov 15, 2023
Ruke1989:
The only thing I get from this article is that yorubas have low IQ. According to kperogi, American born blacks which is slave descendants generally recorded lower IQ than whites but blacks from Caribbean and Africa came into America and even beat those whites IQ.
Ask yourself, who are the native American blacks? They are descendants of slaves. Who were the slaves sent to America? Yorubas. Yoruba slaves worked in south and north America plantain farms. Calabar slaves were sent to Caribbean.
Note: the article didn't say south America blacks have higher IQ, it only mentioned some Caribbean blacks and African blacks. Those native American blacks with poor IQ are children of Yoruba slaves. Now I can understand why Nigeria is backward with Yoruba and Fulani ruling the country. The people with worst IQ should never be allowed to govern
Yorubas were mostly sent to the Carribean and South America. A few made it to the USA. Ibo slaves were mainly sent to the US. A few made it to the carribean..

There were even common reports about Ibo slaves commiting mass suicides in the USA.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by adamusuleiman3: 12:28am On Nov 15, 2023
Ruke1989:
The only thing I get from this article is that yorubas have low IQ. According to kperogi, American born blacks which is slave descendants generally recorded lower IQ than whites but blacks from Caribbean and Africa came into America and even beat those whites IQ.
Ask yourself, who are the native American blacks? They are descendants of slaves. Who were the slaves sent to America? Yorubas. Yoruba slaves worked in south and north America plantain farms. Calabar slaves were sent to Caribbean.
Note: the article didn't say south America blacks have higher IQ, it only mentioned some Caribbean blacks and African blacks. Those native American blacks with poor IQ are children of Yoruba slaves. Now I can understand why Nigeria is backward with Yoruba and Fulani ruling the country. The people with worst IQ should never be allowed to govern
Talking about Slaves.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by favor914: 12:30am On Nov 15, 2023
Ruke1989:
The only thing I get from this article is that yorubas have low IQ. According to kperogi, American born blacks which is slave descendants generally recorded lower IQ than whites but blacks from Caribbean and Africa came into America and even beat those whites IQ.
Ask yourself, who are the native American blacks? They are descendants of slaves. Who were the slaves sent to America? Yorubas. Yoruba slaves worked in south and north America plantain farms. Calabar slaves were sent to Caribbean.
Note: the article didn't say south America blacks have higher IQ, it only mentioned some Caribbean blacks and African blacks. Those native American blacks with poor IQ are children of Yoruba slaves. Now I can understand why Nigeria is backward with Yoruba and Fulani ruling the country. The people with worst IQ should never be allowed to govern
Ignorant Dummy.

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by adamusuleiman3: 12:59am On Nov 15, 2023
Quranisforfools:

Farooq Kperogi

Several Nigerian websites, including the online version of the traditional New Telegraph newspaper, quoted a putative ‘US study’ to have averred that Igbos are the “most brilliant black Africa [sic] race.”

As you would expect, this has animated a frenzied debate in Nigerian cyberspace.
But let’s get the facts straight. The article from where the notion of Igbo IQ superiority is extrapolated isn’t a study, nor is it American.

It is a reflective essay by a Zambian man called Chanda Chisala. The essay, titled “The IQ Gap Is No Longer a Black and White Issue,” was first published on June 25, 2015 in “The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection,” an American-based website that bills itself as “A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media.”


“The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection” isn’t an academic journal, nor are essays published in it considered scholarly. Although the essay that caused Nigerian websites to claim that Igbos have been crowned as the most intellectually endowed African race is a synthesis of scholarly and popular articles, it is itself not a systematic scholarly study. It is merely one writer’s perspective.

The author of the essay, Chanda Chisala, isn’t an American; he is a Zambian born in the Zambian town of Chingola. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Zambia and graduated in 1997. He is known in Zambia as an intrepid Internet entrepreneur who founded Zambia Online, Zambia’s leading Internet portal. He later relocated to the United States where he has held fellowships at Stanford University, the Hoover Institution, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

So headlines attributing Igbos’ unparalleled brilliance to a “US academic study” are factually inaccurate.

In the essay, Chisala merely sought to disprove the notion that whites are innately more intelligent than blacks. As most people know, IQ tests in the US consistently show native-born American blacks underperforming their white counterparts, leading some to conclude that racial difference, not income or environment; is the most important causative factor for white intellectual superiority and black intellectual inferiority in IQ tests.

Over the last few years, with the increasing migration of black people to the United States from the Caribbean Islands and Africa, many settled certainties about racial disparities in IQ tests are being exploded. African immigrants in the US are high academic achievers. In some cases, they outperform white Americans. For instance, Nigerians are the single most educated demographic group in the United States, although it must be admitted that Nigerians in the United States are both too numerically insignificant (we are a mere 228,000) and too self-selected to be representative of the general population at home.

Before Africans began migrating to the United States in fairly large numbers since the 1970s, Caribbean immigrants had excelled, and still excel, in academic pursuits in ways that disrupt notions of racial hierarchy in cognitive endowment.
So Chisala’s basic argument is that if race is the only explanatory framework invoked to account for the IQ gap between white Americans and native-born American blacks, then native-born American blacks should be smarter than recent African and Caribbean immigrants since native-born American blacks have more white genes in them than both Caribbean and African immigrants.

He also dismissed a controversial 2009 Harvard IQ study that found black African immigrants in the United States to have an average IQ of 89. “They lump together black Africans into one homogenous group when there are different kinds of black Africans, including a good number coming in as refugees from highly troubled countries, while other nationalities consist of the most educated ethnicities in America. [T]he different groups of African immigrants can have very large background differences that reflect in cognitive gaps among them that are even higher than the gap between American blacks and whites…In other words, the mean IQ of African immigrants may be as unrepresentative of black Igbo immigrants as it is of white South African immigrants. It’s a meaningless mean,” he said.

The putative average IQ of 89 among African immigrants (it is 83 among black Caribbean immigrants) is lower than the average IQ of native-born American blacks, yet African and Caribbean immigrants, on average, outperform American blacks in academic pursuits and rival, in some cases outrival, whites. Chisala argues, therefore, that the IQ tests aren’t representative of all Africans. “As the UK data below shows, it is very unlikely that children of immigrants from the Igbo or Yoruba groups of Nigeria or the Ashanti group of Ghana, for example, have an average IQ below the white mean IQ,” he wrote.

The data he presented to make his case uses Igbo academic achievement in the US and the UK, and that was the basis for the notion that a “US academic study” has pronounced Igbos as the most “brilliant African race.”

The article “resurrected” from last year because an Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, a Nigerian-American high school graduate born of Igbo parents, was recently accepted by all eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Last year, Harold Ekeh, another Nigerian-American born of Igbo parents, was also accepted by all Ivy League schools.

However, although Nigerian websites, including the New Telegraph, claim that these brilliant young Nigerian-Americans “have broken a record of being accepted by eight Ivy League schools,” it is actually not true. Every year, a few smart teenagers get accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. In 2014, for instance, a Ghanaian-American teenager by the name of Kwasi Enin was accepted in all 8 Ivy League schools. In 2015, a high school student by the name of Ronald Nelson was accepted by all the Ivy League schools, but he rejected every single one of them and instead went to a state school.

This is in no way intended to diminish the praiseworthy achievements of the two brilliant Nigerian Americans. Nor do I want to be understood as denying that Igbos, on average, have a higher intellectual drive than the rest of us. (In my high school in Nigeria we often jokingly questioned the Igboness of any Igbo person who wasn’t among the top three in his class).

Nevertheless, no systematic scholarly study anywhere, and certainly not in the US, has proved that Igbos are the most brilliant people in Africa. That study may yet come, but Chanda Chisala’s opinion article is not it.


https://dailytrust.com/no-us-study-ever-said-igbos-are-the-most-brilliant-black-african-race/

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Re: Farooq Kperogi: There Is No US Study Saying Igbos Are Smartest Tribe In Nigeria by tonystark007(m): 1:01am On Nov 15, 2023
Ola9ja23:
Take Igbo seriously at your own peril


Everything about them is to measure diiick

Drug trafficking people
people like you chase after their girls offline

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