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– Senator Ben Bruce has revealed the smartest states in Nigeria

– Ben Bruce says Abia, Anambra, Rivers, Imo  and Edo states are the smartest

– He used their educational growth as yardstick for measurement

The social-media savvy senator has said that twenty years ago the southeast states lagged in education and had poor boy child school enrollment, today they lead in WASSCE results.


Ben Murray Bruce says he just wants to make common sense.

He noted that Abia, Anambra, Rivers and Imo state came first, second, fourth and fifth respectively. Ben Bruce also commend Edo for coming in at third.

Senator Bruce said the Federal Government and other states should study what these states have been doing right and replicate it nationally.

Disclosing this via his Facebook page, Ben Bruce said what has happened in the southeast is nothing short of a miracle.

He said: “They receive some of the lowest federal allocation, yet they have achieved such remarkable educational and economic growth.

There is something to be learned from them. Is it their policy? Is it their budgeting practice? Is it their sense of community? Whatever it is, it is working!”

Ben Bruce was recently prevented from greeting President Muhammadu Buhari by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have reportedly prevented Ben Murray-Bruce .

In a series of tweets posted on Monday, May 30, the senator representing Bayelsa East senatorial district, revealed that the incident happened at the Aso Rock presidential villa during a dinner organized to mark 2016 Democracy Day.

The dinner was hosted by Buhari, and had in attendance Bukola Saraki, the president of the Senate; Yakubu Dogara, the speaker of the House of Representatives; Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president; Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress, among others.

Meanwhile, the Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Olusola Adeyeye has cleared the air on the allegations made by Senator Ben Bruce that he was blocked by DSS officials from greeting President Buhari.

According to Adeyeye, it was Senator Dino Melaye who first went to greet those seated at the president’s table including the president in what he described as a clear breach of protocol.

Adeyeye stated that after Senator Melaye’s action, other senators got up to do the same but the scene became clumsy and indecorous prompting the DSS officials to intervene.

He also informed that an All Progressives Congress (APC) senator, Barnabas Gemade was also turned back by the security operatives, dismissing the claims of Bruce who interpreted the DSS move as political.

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Proudly 5%

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We re naturally endowed with working brain.

Have u wondered why we re persecuted, envied etc. It's because they know THIS nd they re determined to stop our shine..

But our Light is already shining out for the world to see.

Proudly 5%...

Then Ben Bruce is not smart by sitting his business headquarter in an UN-SMART state like Lagos.

Chineke my enugu miss out on this êwo ranking

Bayelsa state no dey dere No wonder you are dull. Well people from dat region are smart truly cos it takes someone smart to be able to smuggle drugs into all these advanced countries.

It is a lie..

Ben Bruce is IPOB

EMMYLBANKS:
Chineke my enugu miss out on this êwo ranking

He said the smartest states, who told you that enugu people are smart, imagine 5 cattle herdsmen held your state to ransom.

Na only okpa una sabi produce.

story for the gods

phemmyutd:
Then Ben Bruce is not smart by sitting his business headquarter in an UN-SMART state like Lagos.

Lagos is 6th....

when some law makers just it the truth haters continue to implore their mocking

Laughing in kenya

FakeNEWSevryday:
Laughing in kenya

Make I follow you laff in Uganda

I quite agree with that of anambra buhh that of abia and IMO joke of the century abia people that have never seen tarred road in their life

Even in Edo and Rivers that are mentioned, you will find out that it's the factor that made those state to appear in the list.

Igbos in Rivers are in majority why we have a lot of igbos living in Edo.

Proudly superior tribe

buharisbae:
I quite agree with that of anambra buhh that of abia and IMO joke of the century abia people that have never seen tarred road in their life

LOL ..

Not here for toto measuring competition but Abia remains the first alphabetically, educationally and rich with human and natural resources.

Tarred road reach my compound kpomkwem in the 80's

It's a known fact that Almajiris_ don't have High IQs...doubt me?. Just take a look at the GCFR Dullard_...if you still doubt then you a pathological liar and living in self denial.

But Ben Bruce anyone can "Cram" high school material, take a look at The brain drain of Nigerian immigrants and you find most geniuses are from the south west then like 35% from the east...just a wild guess, not necessarily true.

I don't know whether to agree or disagree, but I quite agree that Edo people are really smart.

Proud to be from 5%.

Coming from the twitter pdp dude, my concern is edo.

Edo got on that list with strategy and plan when oil states couldnt.

Say no to IZE IYAMU

phemmyutd:
Then Ben Bruce is not smart by sitting his business headquarter in an UN-SMART state like Lagos.

A state doesn't have to be smart before you sit your business there. As long as you make good money there, it's all good. That's why it's called business.

facelessangel:
Even in Edo and Rivers that are mentioned, you will find out that it's the factor that made those state to appear in the list.

Igbos in Rivers are in majority why we have a lot of igbos living in Edo.

Proudly superior tribe

Be wise!

Am coming

Na wa

phemmyutd:
Then Ben Bruce is not smart by sitting his business headquarter in an UN-SMART state like Lagos.

Didnt you get the memo?..."In the land of the blind (Lagos,no mans land) the one-eyed man (this includes smart business men like BMB and hordes of young enteprising igbos) is KING."

Aki you are right

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Laughing in Swahili
Na news like this dey IPad yoots elated

Common sense will tell u dat Anambra is de smartest of all. But if u don't know, den u lack common sense.

Tribalist will spoil this thread now...Seun Mbok your forum promotes ethnic division.... I never knew Nigerians were this divided until I started frequenting your politics section

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