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Nigerians- Most Educated In U.S
May 20, 2008, 2:11AM
BACHELOR'S AND BEYOND
In America, Nigerians' education pursuit is above rest
Whether driven by immigration or family, data show more earn degrees
By LESLIE CASIMIR
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
For Woodlands resident David Olowokere, one of Nigeria's sons, having a master's degree in engineering just wasn't enough for his people back home. So he got a doctorate.
His wife, Shalewa Olowokere, a civil engineer, didn't stop at a bachelor's, either. She went for her master's.
The same obsession with education runs in the Udeh household in Sugar Land. Foluke Udeh and her husband, Nduka, both have master's degrees. Anything less, she reckons, would have amounted to failure.
"If you see an average Nigerian family, everybody has a college degree these days," said Udeh, 32, a physical therapist at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. "But a post-graduate degree, that's like pride for the family."
Nigerian immigrants have the highest levels of education in this city and the nation, surpassing whites and Asians, according to Census data bolstered by an analysis of 13 annual Houston-area surveys conducted by Rice University.
Although they make up a tiny portion of the U.S. population, a whopping 17 percent of all Nigerians in this country held master's degrees while 4 percent had a doctorate, according to the 2006 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, 37 percent had bachelor's degrees.
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for who sai.........na only bad bad one like the one Oprah carry for her show they fit put for cover
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Ummm, read the comments after the article! Na wa o!
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Originally Posted by NTB
May 20, 2008, 2:11AM
BACHELOR'S AND BEYOND
In America, Nigerians' education pursuit is above rest
Whether driven by immigration or family, data show more earn degrees
By LESLIE CASIMIR
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
For Woodlands resident David Olowokere, one of Nigeria's sons, having a master's degree in engineering just wasn't enough for his people back home. So he got a doctorate.
His wife, Shalewa Olowokere, a civil engineer, didn't stop at a bachelor's, either. She went for her master's.
The same obsession with education runs in the Udeh household in Sugar Land. Foluke Udeh and her husband, Nduka, both have master's degrees. Anything less, she reckons, would have amounted to failure.
"If you see an average Nigerian family, everybody has a college degree these days," said Udeh, 32, a physical therapist at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. "But a post-graduate degree, that's like pride for the family."
Nigerian immigrants have the highest levels of education in this city and the nation, surpassing whites and Asians, according to Census data bolstered by an analysis of 13 annual Houston-area surveys conducted by Rice University.
Although they make up a tiny portion of the U.S. population, a whopping 17 percent of all Nigerians in this country held master's degrees while 4 percent had a doctorate, according to the 2006 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. In addition, 37 percent had bachelor's degrees.
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na wah o, foluke don enter news be that,foluke and her sis are family friends she and her hubby lives in houston.
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Oh Wow...I stopped reading at the fourth one!!!! Its those kind of never ending debates/arguments....everyone will always have their own view point....
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05-20-2008, 06:31 PM
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I gave up, Bro. We all need to go back home and make that country better, just to spite all of them and get them begging us. The time will come...
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05-20-2008, 07:24 PM
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If you continue reading the comments you will find that a lot of people come to the defense and praise of Nigerians and the haters get silenced. You also find that the underlining cause of all that backlash is fear and jealousy.
In fact most people know we are very smart.
Nigeria will become a strong nation. I truly believe that.
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05-20-2008, 07:45 PM
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Thats absolutely amazing...I am a proud Nigerian both in my field of work and in the country I live in because they make me sooo proud....I've never come across a bundle of intellects than I have in these two sectors.
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...and where is the money to show for a lot of these degrees and doctorates? Nigeria is still a third world country! How many of these people who hold degrees actually practice in their field of study?
I really don't understand this pursuit of degrees when a lot of times, they really don't make much difference - most especially in Nigeria!
We are just education junkies! How many of these so called professionals have actually invented something, anything! We obtain all these degrees yet we are very poor in management!
Nevermind that you wouldn't really practise as an Engineer, so long you fulfil mum and dad's wishes, it's all fine. Nevermind that your passion is really in hairdressing or fashion. Tell me the essence of spending all those years in the university, then. Is it to keep up with the jones' or to enter the US stats as the most educated in the country? I wonder, I just wonder! Despite all these degrees, our name is still synonymous to fraud, child trafficking and all sorts! What do we plan on doing about that? I know, get another doctorate, that's what!
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...and where is the money to show for a lot of these degrees and doctorates? Nigeria is still a third world country! How many of these people who hold degrees actually practice in their field of study?
I really don't understand this pursuit of degrees when a lot of times, they really don't make much difference - most especially in Nigeria!
We are just education junkies! How many of these so called professionals have actually invented something, anything! We obtain all these degrees yet we are very poor in management!
Nevermind that you wouldn't really practise as an Engineer, so long you fulfil mum and dad's wishes, it's all fine. Nevermind that your passion is really in hairdressing or fashion. Tell me the essence of spending all those years in the university, then. Is it to keep up with the jones' or to enter the US stats as the most educated in the country? I wonder, I just wonder! Despite all these degrees, our name is still synonymous to fraud, child trafficking and all sorts! What do we plan on doing about that? I know, get another doctorate, that's what!
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N'ever mind...education is still power...we didnt drop out of school at 14 to work at Mac Donald and thinking that Africa is a country and India is a continent of its own...in a land where opportunities are shortened because of your skin colour, your place of birth, stereotypes & where you obtained your first degree from...Nigerians are doing just fine.
Seriously, how many people around the WORLD are really practicing what they studied, with or without parents influence....how could one know at 16 that sitting on the computer designing the handle of a airplane in the shadow of being an engineer could be their passion.
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N'ever mind...education is still power...we didnt drop out of school at 14 to work at Mac Donald and thinking that Africa is a country and India is a continent of its own...in a land where opportunities are shortened because of your skin colour, your place of birth, stereotypes & where you obtained your first degree from...Nigerians are doing just fine.
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It's this kind of sweeping, condescending, pompous and holier than thou attitude that turns me off Nigerians! What makes you think you're better than these people? Because you have a degree from an American university? Africans and their silly prides! I wonder!
You talk as if there aren't Nigerians in Nigeria who has this same mentality! If it's not the government who don't provide jobs, it's the fault of their uncle who didn't pay their school fees or it's Nepa that deprived them light to study for their SSCE exams! Come on!
Don't trivialise the struggles these group of people have had to face. If their fore-fathers hadn't paved the way, you wouldn't have been able to take advantage of the education you boast of now that makes you suddenly feel that you are better than them.
You say not many people practise their course of study. Why then at all do you bother to go to university? Is it a status thing to you? Is it to say you also passed through college? Does having an education suddenly make you more intelligent that one who doesn't? I thought studying a particular course makes you knowledgeable in that particular study? Not so?
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