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Ajanaku Olamilekan's avatar

Reason I have no hope for Nigeria even in the next century because we see the most retarded of us impregnating many women in the streets and giving birth to kids they cannot cater for. The smarter ones have 3 kids or less and leave the country with their smart kids. We are left with a majority low intelligence population that would overshadow the few high intelligence one and sabotage their efforts.

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Ridhwan Badamasi's avatar

Haha, I love the term 'Very Serious Nigerians'!

We're obsessed with stereotypical 'strong men' leaders, often idolizing the leaders of successful nations while glossing over their problematic views & bloody track records. You'd get this when you look at the way everyone's moving like Traore's PR officer.

If someone tried to replicate LKY's policies here, Nigerians would hit the streets in protest.

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Olamide Olanrewaju's avatar

Source for this study of yours?

By the way, before colonialism, these same Northerners were in a higher state of civilization that all Southern polities.

All of them.

If the Southerners back then had been like, "Northerners are so smart, the only hope is eugenics" they would be nowhere today.

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Yaw's avatar

What you are saying is true. Before colonialism, the Hausa, Fulani, and Kanuri had a small literate political/clerical & merchant elite. The Caliph of Sokoto - Usman dan Fodio wrote about astronomy, law and etc.

The Yoruba, Igbo, Ibibio, and Edo were largely iliterate except for the very few Edo that could write in Portuguese to communicate for trade and the "secret society" symbolic alphabet that a few Igbos had (Nsibidi).

https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/the-remastered-history-of-nigeria?r=garki

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Olamide Olanrewaju's avatar

Unfortunately, their descendants today have dropped the ball.

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Jumbo's avatar

For us as a Country to progress, we have to accept a damning truth about the degree of our intelligence. The system reflects the nature of the people.

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Yaw's avatar

It doesn't make sense to compare Nigeria, country that mashed a loosely held Muslim caliphate in the north with a bunch of southern tribes that raided each other (Oyo, Arochukwu, etc.), with Singapore. There is no ethnic supremacy in Nigeria where on ethnicity is over 50%, unlike Singapore.

There closest comparison for Nigeria would be Indonesia or India, countries that used to be poorer than Nigeria over a decade ago, but have now surpassed Nigeria.

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Temitope Alo's avatar

LKY was a great leader.. He had his views.. And his views worked for Singapore.

The end may justify the means after all.

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Ernestine's avatar

I don't think Nigerians sit sometimes and really think about what they wish for. We as a people are highly moved by flashy-on-the-outside things, and the minute we identify such as an attribute to a person, place or belief, we're gone. Completely sold.

It's quite frankly sad that this is the state of us in general as a people.

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Olamide Olanrewaju's avatar

I was wondering when you would bring your Twitter Uncle Tomism here.

Yes. Lee Kuan Yew subscribed to the view that different races had different IQs. He implemented eugenic policies. Did they work as intended? The answer is a big no.

Now the same Singapore is running helter skelter, looking for ways to boost its population.

We have about 70% of Nigerian kids who haven't even been to school. They don't get proper nutrition, etc. You look at that and think, the solution is eugenics!

Like, you haven't even made step towards improving the environmental factor in intelligence. But you want to reach for the irreparable loss that would come with implementing eugenics.

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Josie Elewa's avatar

What do you means the answer is big no? Is Singapore not successful today? They still have a racial immigration quota. What are you talking about?

Additionally, this article makes no suggestions for what Nigerians should do to fix their country. I only point out that the LKY worship amongst “intellectual” circles is incoherent. Any other thing is up to you and fellow Nigerians to debate on.

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malik's avatar

This reminds me of when they ran an IQ test between rich black kids and poor white kids and the poor ones came out on top.

Eugenics is real btw, the average southerner is way intelligent than the avergae northerner

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