Throwback:


Prof Dike Kenneth was made vice principal of the University College Ibadan ahead of the most senior African on the academic board and first ever Nigerian professor, Prof. Oladele Ajose.

Dike's appointment was facilitated by the Igbo dominated NCNC who had also installed Dr Akanu Ibiam who was the first Igbo doctor, as the School Council chairman. While Oladele Ajose was most senior and readily available at the school, Dike was called back from the USA where he was on an unfinished sabbatical, to come take a position (Vice Principal) he wasn't the most qualified for.

When the British eventually withdrew their administration of the school, Akanu Ibiam as School Council Chairman, further ensured that Kenneth Dike who was a fellow Igbo like him, became the first Nigerian principal of University College Ibadan. Professor Oladele Ajose realised that he was forever going to remain a victim of the NCNC and Igbo version of "merit" system that only found the Igbos qualified for positions that their better educated and more experienced Yoruba superiors did not qualify for. Ajose read the Igbo writing on the wall and moved to the Western Region owned University of Ife, to become its first principal.

Prof Kenneth Dike and Akanu Ibiam led school council would eventually go on to conduct recruitment into UI after the departure of the British. Out of 115 new hires, only 3 were Yorubas while the bulk of the remainder were from the Eastern Region.

That is how Igbos practice a merit based system.

The foolish Yorubas who were members of NCNC were never offered any sensitive position in the NPC/NCNC partnership of the first republic. Not even the Eastern minorities were offered critical positions.

All that was good that the Northerners could not occupy, the Azikiwe led NCNC ensured it went to the Eastern region, and ultimately to only the Igbos of that multi-ethnic Eastern Region.

AustineE1:
Yoruba revisionists always think that they can turn history to favour them,who does not know that in pre independence Nigeria, Igbos where more exposed,educated,ambitious,welly travelled and adventurous,as its obtainble today.
The colonial masters were said to be more at home with Prof. obi,going by his exposure,training abroad and managerial know how,they couldnt risk giving an institution of that magnitude to an ill-exposed prof. Whom may plunder there legacy and in those days,as it is now,Yorubas are not so good in managing big establishments,they are more inclined to social life,wasteful celebrations(Owambe),extravagancy etc
Little wonder how multinational companies that where forcefully collected from whites,through an obnoxious law known as 'nationalization',formulated by Awolowo and co,which was hurriedly implemented in early 70's,just shortly after the civil war,so as to prevent Igbos who where just coming out of a bloody war,from participating in the bids. Fast forward to present day,all such companies as criminally acquired by Yoruba elites are all folded up or in the verge of collapse. I think most yorubas are bad managers,prefers partying to work,i stand to be corrected.

Emilokoiyawon:
[b]So, I was just in my office in the US relaxing (jejely) after a meeting, when I saw the post of UNN, Nsukka's provisional admission list released by the registrar Chris Igbokwe. So, I took a few minutes of my break time to peruse the names. I observed that over 99% of all the newly admitted students are ALL Igbos. Out of the over 15,000 admitted students I could only count about 10 confirmed Yoruba names. In fact, many of the departments do not have a SINGLE non-Igbo student admitted. This is a federal University for God sake! 99% from the same region! We understand that its situated in the East but haba take it easy Igbo people. When the Hausas do it, you are always the first to condemn them. The problem is that my Yoruba people in the SW will be the ONLY ones admitting people based on merit from across the country to the detriment of our own people - because we want to be seen as decent human beings. The Hausas and the Igbos do not give a fvck. The are just too tribalistic. We should start doing in the SW what the Igbos are doing in Nsukka - No more admission for Igbo students in UNILAG etc. until the Igbos change their ways.[/b]

saintkash:
well said my friend but am sorry to let u know that the hausas are not guilty on this.... A northern federal university admits all tribes but more of the northerners based on quota system. ... but menh this igbos own na die ooo

smellingmenses:


Throwback:


Prof Dike Kenneth was made vice principal of the University College Ibadan ahead of the most senior African on the academic board and first ever Nigerian professor, Prof. Oladele Ajose.

Dike's appointment was facilitated by the Igbo dominated NCNC who had also installed Dr Akanu Ibiam who was the first Igbo doctor, as the School Council chairman. While Oladele Ajose was most senior and readily available at the school, Dike was called back from the USA where he was on an unfinished sabbatical, to come take a position (Vice Principal) he wasn't the most qualified for.

When the British eventually withdrew their administration of the school, Akanu Ibiam as School Council Chairman, further ensured that Kenneth Dike who was a fellow Igbo like him, became the first Nigerian principal of University College Ibadan. Professor Oladele Ajose realised that he was forever going to remain a victim of the NCNC and Igbo version of "merit" system that only found the Igbos qualified for positions that their better educated and more experienced Yoruba superiors did not qualify for. Ajose read the Igbo writing on the wall and moved to the Western Region owned University of Ife, to become its first principal.

Prof Kenneth Dike and Akanu Ibiam led school council would eventually go on to conduct recruitment into UI after the departure of the British. Out of 115 new hires, only 3 were Yorubas while the bulk of the remainder were from the Eastern Region.

That is how Igbos practice a merit based system.

The foolish Yorubas who were members of NCNC were never offered any sensitive position in the NPC/NCNC partnership of the first republic. Not even the Eastern minorities were offered critical positions.

All that was good that the Northerners could not occupy, the Azikiwe led NCNC ensured it went to the Eastern region, and ultimately to only the Igbos of that multi-ethnic Eastern Region.

revolt:
Revisionists. DID YOU KNOW THE VC THAT REPLACED NJOKU WAS STABBED BY PROTESTING YORUBA STUDENTS. After the nationalisation by awlowo which only Yoruba s inherited all existent multinationals. How many are standing today?!!! Even wema bank that's supposed to be a subsidiary of odua group is wobbling and the likes of diamond, zenith, fidelity, una can comfortably buy off the bank..look at Nitel, NEPA. Nnpc etc....need I say more?

AustineE1:
Yoruba revisionists always think that they can turn history to favour them,who does not know that in pre independence Nigeria, Igbos where more exposed,educated,ambitious,welly travelled and adventurous,as its obtainble today.
The colonial masters were said to be more at home with Prof. obi,going by his exposure,training abroad and managerial know how,they couldnt risk giving an institution of that magnitude to an ill-exposed prof. Whom may plunder there legacy and in those days,as it is now,Yorubas are not so good in managing big establishments,they are more inclined to social life,wasteful celebrations(Owambe),extravagancy etc
Little wonder how multinational companies that where forcefully collected from whites,through an obnoxious law known as 'nationalization',formulated by Awolowo and co,which was hurriedly implemented in early 70's,just shortly after the civil war,so as to prevent Igbos who where just coming out of a bloody war,from participating in the bids. Fast forward to present day,all such companies as criminally acquired by Yoruba elites are all folded up or in the verge of collapse. I think most yorubas are bad managers,prefers partying to work,i stand to be corrected.

revolt:
Revisionists. DID YOU KNOW THE VC THAT REPLACED NJOKU WAS STABBED BY PROTESTING YORUBA STUDENTS. After the nationalisation by awlowo which only Yoruba s inherited all existent multinationals. How many are standing today?!!! Even wema bank that's supposed to be a subsidiary of odua group is wobbling and the likes of diamond, zenith, fidelity, una can comfortably buy off the bank..look at Nitel, NEPA. Nnpc etc....need I say more?

AustineE1:
Yoruba revisionists always think that they can turn history to favour them,who does not know that in pre independence Nigeria, Igbos where more exposed,educated,ambitious,welly travelled and adventurous,as its obtainble today.
The colonial masters were said to be more at home with Prof. obi,going by his exposure,training abroad and managerial know how,they couldnt risk giving an institution of that magnitude to an ill-exposed prof. Whom may plunder there legacy and in those days,as it is now,Yorubas are not so good in managing big establishments,they are more inclined to social life,wasteful celebrations(Owambe),extravagancy etc
Little wonder how multinational companies that where forcefully collected from whites,through an obnoxious law known as 'nationalization',formulated by Awolowo and co,which was hurriedly implemented in early 70's,just shortly after the civil war,so as to prevent Igbos who where just coming out of a bloody war,from participating in the bids. Fast forward to present day,all such companies as criminally acquired by Yoruba elites are all folded up or in the verge of collapse. I think most yorubas are bad managers,prefers partying to work,i stand to be corrected.

Bane2020:

It's no surprise why the fear of "Igbo domination" was as popular as modern day pop culture back in the first republic... And can you blame the paranoia of the Yoruba and the rest of Nigerians at the time? I mean the best academicians then were Igbos, civil service was Igbo controlled, politically we held sway with giants like Zik(even though he was too nationalistic, was never his fan), military we had the best Sandhurst trained officers and NCO's, including those commissioned from the officer ranks... we were like first in everything even dominating our host on their own turfs in other regions... Little wonder Ahmadu Bello bluntly pointed out his ill feelings about Igbos natural proclivity to always dominate others in that interview with an European journalist which is still on YouTube, they always saw as as invincible, that's why the Northerners backed by the rest of Nigeria and foreign powers did all they could to exterminate the Igbos in the Nigerian Civil War, post war policies were implemented to reduce Igbos to beggars, but they only succeeded in one thing... Which was reducing our political status quo knowing fully well another Igbo attempt at rising politically should bring back the good old fear of Igbo domination... But they failed to stifle our glory in other endeavors of life cause we are NATURALLY a blessed race, too resilient to beg! Yorubas took over everything we left during the war and began the beautiful brides of the North with all the alliances they formed, yet Igbos still closed the gap left by the berth created by the war which destroyed the best cream of Igbo talents... we closed that gap in no time and today who leads in education, human capital growth index, sustainability and commerce? facts are there to know the answers to those questions


I still make bold to know no ethnic group in Nigeria would have endured 1/10th of what we suffered in that war to emerge unscathed few years later, even the Yorubas would have been an extinct nationality if they experienced the horrors of the war! Let's not even talk about Northerners cause they are naturally not resilient people

Throwback:


Name 10 Igbo lawyers and 10 Igbo doctors before year 1900, and I will name 10 of same that are Yorubas but are 2nd generation?

Name any political party that was formed by the Igbos prior to 1940?

Name any Igbo who served in the colonial service anywhere in Nigeria that was a university graduate prior to 1900?

igbodefender:
Stop this stinky tribalism please.

Adelaide2:
Before you go on with your baseless and vile revisionism typical of Afonjites

1. First VC of Unilag was also Igbo Professor Eni Njoku: 1962-1965
2. First Rector of Yaba Tech was also Igbo

Now tell me how these people got their positions
Yeye dey smell

smellingmenses:

THAT WE ARE ACCOMMODATING IS NOT IN DISPUTE..

Adelaide2:
A few Igbo firsts in Nigeria

The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Igbo man named Professor Kenneth Dike.
•The first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos was an Igbo man named Professor Eni Njoku.
•The first Nigerian Rector of the then Yaba College of Technology was also an Igbo man
The first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics was an Igbo man named Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followed by another Igbo man named Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differential Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant.
The first Nigerian professor of history was an Igbo man Professor Kenneth Dike who also became the first black vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan.
The first Nigerian Professor of Botany was an Igbo man named Professor Eni Njoku. He went on to become the very first vice chancellor of the university of LAGOS.
The first Nigerian Professor of Anatomy and Physiology is Professor Chike Edozien an Igbo man who is also the current Obi of Asaba.
The first Nigerian Professor of Physics was Professor Okoye an Igbo man who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 1960. He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics.
In Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Igbo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early ’50s.
First Professor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research.
What about the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war.
What about Astronomy – again another Igbo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – please, look up Professor Ntukoju – he was the first to earn a double Ph.D in Astronomy and Mathematics.
Let’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Igbo man – Professor Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics.
Philosophy – Professor G D Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at the Amherst College USA in 1953.
Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D in Economics.
Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at the University College Zambia in 1952.

Throwback:


We are not challenging that Igbo's did not have their own firsts later in the 1900s toward independence in 1960. For every Igbo first achieved much later, there is a double Yoruba firsts achieved before Igbos even knew what was called a grammar school or secondary education.

Name the educated Igbo's that existed and contributed their expertise to their society before 1900, and prove that Yoruba's were illiterates in the jungle of Yorubaland as at the time the Igbos were educated.

And of course, you know Prof Dr Oladele Ajose was the first professor of any discipline in Nigeria, making your list a worthless attempt to debate Yoruba academic prowess in comparison to our catch-up Igbo pursuers.