| Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by Nobody: 3:54pm On Jan 14, 2009 |
If you get power to read, take your time and read this fine piece and let us know if philip's findings and solutions are right for Nigeria and Africa at this critical time. Does he also have the moral right to educate us on African issues? Just curious. How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain?
by Philip Emeagwali
For 10 million African-born emigrants, the word "home" is synonymous with the United States, Britain or other country outside of Africa.
Personally, I have lived continuously in the United States for the past 30 years. My last visit to Africa was 17 years ago.
On the day I left Nigeria, I felt sad because I was leaving my family behind. I believed I would return eight years later, probably marry an Igbo girl, and then spend the rest of my life in Nigeria. But 25 years ago, I fell in love with an American girl, married her three years later, and became eligible to sponsor a Green Card visa for my 35 closest relatives, including my parents and all my siblings, nieces and nephews.
The story of how I brought 35 people to the United States exemplifies how 10 million skilled people have emigrated out of Africa during the past 30 years. We came to the United States on student visas and then changed our status to become permanent residents and then naturalized citizens. Our new citizenship status helped us sponsor relatives, and also inspired our friends to immigrate here.
Ten million Africans now constitute an invisible nation that resides outside Africa. Although invisible, it is a nation as populous as Angola, Malawi, Zambia or Zimbabwe. If it were to be a nation with distinct borders, it would have an income roughly equivalent to Africa's gross domestic product.
Although the African Union does not recognize the African Diaspora as a nation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) acknowledges its economic importance. The IMF estimates the African Diaspora now constitutes the biggest group of foreign investors in Africa.
Take for example Western Union. It estimates that it is not atypical for an immigrant to wire $300 per month to relatives in Africa. If you assume that most Africans living outside Africa send money each month and you do the math, you will agree with the IMF that the African Diaspora is indeed the largest foreign investor in Africa.
What few realize is that Africans who immigrate to the United States contribute 40 times more wealth to the American than to the African economy. According to the United Nations, an African professional working in the United States contributes about $150,000 per year to the U.S. economy.
Again, if you do the math, you will realize that the African professional remitting $300 per month to Africa is contributing 40 times more to the United States economy than to the African one. On a relative scale, that means for every $300 per month a professional African sends home, that person contributes $12,000 per month to the U.S. economy.
Of course, the issue more important than facts and figures is eliminating poverty in Africa, not merely reducing it by sending money to relatives. Money alone cannot eliminate poverty in Africa, because even one million dollars is a number with no intrinsic value. Real wealth cannot be measured by money, yet we often confuse money with wealth. Under the status quo, Africa would still remain poor even if we were to send all the money in the world there. Ask someone who is ill what "wealth" means, and you will get a very different answer than from most other people. If you were HIV-positive, you would gladly exchange one million dollars to become HIV-negative.
When you give your money to your doctor, that physician helps you convert your money into health - or rather, wealth.
Money cannot teach your children. Teachers can. Money cannot bring electricity to your home. Engineers can. Money cannot cure sick people. Doctors can. Because it is only a nation's human capital that can be converted into real wealth, that human capital is much more valuable than its financial capital.
A few years ago, Zambia had 1,600 medical doctors. Today, Zambia has only 400 medical doctors. Kenya retains only 10% of the nurses and doctors trained there. A similar story is told from South Africa to Ghana.
I also speak from my family experiences. After contributing 25 years to Nigerian society as a nurse, my father retired on a $25-per-month pension. By comparison, my four sisters each earn $25 per hour as nurses in the United States. If my father had had the opportunity my sisters did, he certainly would have immigrated to the United States as a young nurse.
The "brain drain" explains, in part, why affluent Africans fly to London for their medical treatments. Furthermore, because a significant percentage of African doctors and nurses practice in U.S. hospitals, we can reasonably conclude that African medical schools are de facto serving the American people, not Africa.
A recent World Bank survey shows that African universities are exporting a large percentage of their graduating manpower to the United States. In a given year, the World Bank estimates that 70,000 skilled Africans immigrate to Europe and the United States. While these 70,000 skilled Africans are fleeing the continent in search of employment and decent wages, 100,000 skilled expatriates who are paid wages higher than the prevailing rate in Europe are hired to replace them.
In Nigeria, the petroleum industry hires about 1,000 skilled expatriates, even though we can find similar skills within the African Diaspora. Instead of developing its own manpower resources, Nigeria prefers to contract out its oil exploration despite the staggeringly high price of having to concede 40% of its profits to foreign oil companies.
In a pre-Independence Day editorial, the Vanguard (Nigeria) queried: "Why would the optimism of 1960 give way to the despair of 2000?"
My answer is this: Nigeria achieved political independence in 1960, but by the year 2000 had not yet achieved technological independence.
During colonial rule, Nigeria retained only 50% of the profits from oil derived from its own territory. Four decades after this colonial rule ended, the New York Times (December 22, 2002) wrote that "40 percent of the oil revenue goes to Chevron, [and] 60 percent to the [Nigerian] government."
As a point of comparison, the United States would never permit a Nigerian oil company to retain 40% of the profits from a Texas oilfield.
Our African homelands have paid an extraordinary price for their lack of domestic technological knowledge. Because of that lack of knowledge, since it gained independence in 1960, Nigeria has relinquished 40% of its oilfields and $200 billion to American and European stockholders.
Because of that lack of knowledge, Nigeria exports crude petroleum, only to import refined petroleum. Because of that lack of knowledge, Africa exports raw steel, only to import cars that are essentially steel products.
Knowledge is the engine that drives economic growth, and Africa cannot eliminate poverty without first increasing and nurturing its intellectual capital. Reversing the "brain drain" will increase Africa's intellectual capital while also increasing its wealth in many, many different ways.
Can the "brain drain" be reversed? My answer is: yes. But in order for it to happen, we must try something different. At this point, I want to inject a new idea into this dialogue. For my idea to work, it requires that we tap the talents and skills of the African Diaspora. It requires that we create one million high-tech jobs in Africa. It requires that we move one million high-tech jobs from the United States to Africa.
I know you are wondering: How can we move one million jobs from the United States to Africa? It can be done. In fact, by the year 2015 the U.S. Department of Labor expects to lose an estimated 3.3 million call center jobs to developing nations.
In this area, what we as Africans need to do is develop a strategic plan - one that will persuade multinational companies that it will be more profitable to move their call centers to nations in Africa instead of India. These high-tech jobs include those in call centers, customer service and help desks - all of which are suitable for unemployed university graduates.
The reason these jobs could now emerge in Africa is that recent technological advances such as the Internet and mobile telephones now make it practical, cheaper and otherwise advantageous to move these services to developing nations, where lower wages prevail.
If Africa succeeds in capturing one million of these high-tech jobs, they could provide more revenues than all the African oilfields. These "greener pastures" would lure back talent and, in turn, create a reverse "brain drain."
Again, we have a rare and unique window of opportunity to convert projected American job losses into Africa's job gain, and thus change the "brain drain" to "brain gain." However, aggressive action must be taken before this window of opportunity closes. India is a formidable competitor. Therefore, we need to determine the cost savings realized by outsourcing call center jobs to Africa instead of India. That cost saving will be used as a selling point to corporations interested in outsourcing jobs.
A typical call center employee might be a housewife using a laptop computer and a cell phone to work from her home. As night settles and her children go to bed, she could place a phone call to Los Angeles, which is 10 hours behind her time zone. An American answers her call and she says, "Good morning, this is Zakiya." Using a standard, rehearsed script, she tries to sell an American product.
Now that USA-to-Africa telephone calls are as low as 6 cents per minute, it is economically feasible for a telephone sales person to reside in Anglophone Africa while virtually employed in the United States, and—this is important—paying income taxes only to her country in Africa.
I will give one more example of how thousands of call center jobs can be created in Africa. It is well known that U.S. companies often give up on collecting outstanding account balances of less than $50 each. The reason is that it often costs $60 in American labor to recover that $50.
By comparison, I believe it would cost only $10 in African labor (including the 6 cents per minute phone call) to collect an outstanding balance of $50.
Earlier, the organizers of this Pan-African Conference gave me a note containing eleven questions. The first was: Do skilled Africans have the moral obligation to remain and work in Africa? I believe those with skills should be encouraged and rewarded to stay, work, and raise their families in Africa. When that happens, a large middle class will be created, thereby reducing the conditions that give rise to civil war and corruption. Then, a true revitalization and renaissance will occur.
The second question was: Should skilled African emigrants be compelled to return to Africa? I believe controlling emigration will be very difficult. Instead, I recommend the United Nations impose a "brain gain tax" upon those nations benefiting from the "brain drain." Each year, the United States creates a brain drain by issuing 135,000 H1-B visas to "outstanding researchers" and persons with "extraordinary ability." The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), working in tangent with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), could be required to credit one month's salary, each year, to the country of birth of each immigrant. Already, the IRS allows U.S. taxpayers to make voluntary contributions to election funds. Similarly, it could allow immigrants to voluntarily pay taxes to their country of birth, instead of to the United States.
The third question was: Why don't we encourage unemployed Africans to seek employment abroad? Put differently, if all the nurses and doctors in Africa were to win the U.S. visa lottery, who will operate our hospitals? If we encourage 8 million talented Africans to emigrate, what will we encourage their remaining 800 million brothers and sisters to do?
The fourth question was: Should we blame the African Diaspora for Africa's problems? Yes, the Diaspora should be blamed in part, because the absence it's created has diminished the continent's intellectual capital and thus created the vacuum enabling dictators and corruption to flourish. The likes of Idi Amin, Jean-Bedel Bokassa and Mobutu Sese Seko would not be able to declare themselves president-for-life of nations who have a large, educated middle class.
The fifth question was: Should we not blame Africa's leaders for siphoning money from Africa's treasuries? It becomes a vicious circle: the flight of intellectual capital increases the flight of financial capital which in turn increases again the flight of intellectual capital. Leadership is a collective process, and "brain drain" reduces the collective brainpower needed to fight corruption and mismanagement.
For example, the leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria did not call a news conference after Sani Abacha stole $3 billion dollars from it. The bank's Governor-General did not go on a hunger strike. He did not report the robbery to the police. He did not file a lawsuit. Had they the intellectual manpower to counter corruption, the results would have been very different.
The sixth question was: Is it possible to achieve an African renaissance? Because by definition, a renaissance is the revival and flowering of the arts, literature and sciences, it must be preceded by a growth in the continent's intellectual capital, or the collective knowledge of the people. The best African musicians live in France. The top African writers live in the United States or Britain. The soccer superstars live in Europe. It will be impossible to achieve a renaissance without the contributions of the talented.
The seventh question was: For how long has the "brain drain" problem existed? A common misconception is that the African "brain drain" started 40 years ago. In reality, it actually began ten times that long. Four hundred years ago, most people of African descent lived in Africa. Today, one in five of African descent live in the Americas. Therefore, measured in numbers, the largest "brain drain" resulted from the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Contrary to what people believed, Africa experienced a brain gain during the first half of the 20th century. Schools, hospitals and banks were built by the British colonialists. These institutions were the visible manifestations of brain gain. At the end of colonial rule, skilled Europeans fled the continent. Skilled Africans started fleeing the continent in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. The result was the widespread rise of despotic rulers.
The eighth question was: Is "brain drain" a form of modern slavery?
By the end of the 21st century, people will have different sensibilities and will describe it as modern day slavery. In the 19th century, which was an Agricultural Age, the U.S. economy needed strong hands to pick cotton, and the young and sturdy were forced into slavery. In the 21st century, which is an Information Age, the U.S. economy needs persons with "extraordinary ability" and the best and brightest are lured with Green Card visas. Africans who are illiterate or HIV-positive are automatically denied American visas.
The ninth question was: Do you believe that the "brain drain" can be reversed? As I sta
ted earlier, "brain drain" is a complex and multidimensional problem that can be reversed into "brain gain." India is now reversing its "brain drain," and turning it into "brain gain;" I believe Africa can do the same. But unless we reverse it, the dream of an African renaissance will remain an elusive one.
The tenth question was: Can we blame globalization as a cause of brain drain? Globalization began 400 years ago with the trans-Atlantic slave trade that brought the ancestors of 200 million Africans now living in the Americas. It has accelerated because the Internet and cell phone now enable you to communicate instantaneously with any person on the globe.
Overall, globalization is a force that is denationalizing the wealth of developing nations. Economists have confirmed that the rich nations are getting richer while the poor ones are getting poorer. We also know that the globalization process is increasing the foreign debts of developing nations, accelerating the flight of financial and intellectual capital to western nations.
The economics of offshoring will force multinational corporations to outsource to developing nations where lower wages prevail.
To remain competitive and profitable, companies will be forced to reduce costs by hiring five-dollars-an-hour computer programmers living in Third World countries and lay off expensive American programmers that demand $50 an hour. In the long term, offshoring will reverse the flight of financial and intellectual capital from western nations to the Third World.
The eleventh question was: Why have I lived in the United States for 30 continuous years? Africa has bitten at my soul since I left. My roots are still in Africa. My house is filled with Africana - food, paintings, music, and clothes - to remind me of Africa. I long to visit the motherland, but I must confess that when Africa called me to return home, I couldn't answer that call. The reason is that I work on creating new knowledge that could be used to redesign supercomputers. The most powerful supercomputers cost $120 million each and Nigeria could not afford to buy one for me. I created the knowledge that the power of thousands of processors can be harnessed; this knowledge, in turn, inspired the reinvention of vector supercomputers into massively parallel supercomputers. New knowledge must precede new technological products and the supercomputer of today will become the personal computer of tomorrow. And so to answer your question: even though I reside in the U.S. the knowledge that I created is now materializing into better personal computers purchased by Africans.
Finally, millions of high-tech jobs can be performed from Africa, but may instead be lost to India. We must identify the millions of jobs that will be more profitable when transferred from the United States to Africa. Doing so will enable us to create a brain drain from the United States and convert it to a brain gain for Africa.
Transcribed from speech delivered by Philip Emeagwali at the Pan African Conference on Brain Drain, Elsah, Illinois http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/philip-emeagwali/how-do-we-reverse-the-brain-drain.html 1 Like |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by texazzpete(m): 4:22pm On Jan 14, 2009 |
Really such a shame that he is entire clueless on the amount of oil profit the Government retains. Nigeria keeps well over 80% of the proceeds from the sale of Crude oil. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by asha80(m): 4:25pm On Jan 14, 2009 |
\and what are we doing with the 80% of the proceeds  1 Like |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by noetic(m): 4:27pm On Jan 14, 2009 |
texazzpete:
Really such a shame that he is entire clueless on the amount of oil profit the Government retains. Nigeria keeps well over 80% of the proceeds from the sale of Crude oil.
how true is that? |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by texazzpete(m): 6:26pm On Jan 14, 2009 |
noetic:
how true is that?
Completely true. In the NNPC, SPDC, Agip and Elf joint venture, the partnership is about 50% NNPC, 30% Shell, then 10% Agip and Elf. But this sharing formula applies after taxation!When a barrel of oil comes out, the government takes 80% flat as Royalties the remaining 20% is now taxed, and after the costs have been recovered from the remaining, the remainder is shared in the Joint Venture percentage. For example, at $60 per barrel the Federal Govt and NNPC combined take more than $50. The volumes are usually big, so there's still enough profit to go round, but the govt takes by far the most amount. Not sure what the contract terms with Mobil and Chevron since they aren't int hat joint venture partnership. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by oderemo(m): 6:32pm On Jan 14, 2009 |
this is one rhetoric's after another, he is full of air, go and relax matey. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by lacrimose(f): 2:50am On Jan 16, 2009 |
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| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by earTHMama: 2:55am On Jan 16, 2009 |
Really such a shame that he is entire clueless on the amount of oil profit the Government retains. N[b]igeria keeps well over 80% of the proceeds from the sale of Crude oil[/b] And they are already hurting badly because of the oil price drop of yesterday.  |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by earTHMama: 2:57am On Jan 16, 2009 |
People should read this, i dont know why he keeps promoting himself
http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/emeag.html
Farce. If his claims were vague, major news carriers would've dealt with him here in the US and not only a gossip column. Gossip columns also said that Elvis Presley is still alive. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by BecomeRich: 3:19am On Jan 16, 2009 |
The problem is with nigerian abroad, most like Philip Emeagwali, we feel the same way. What is there to return to. A sick government look it is so bad in nigeria that they even trick bill clinton to go to Nigeria under thisday award. Nduka his working for yar adua, thisday is a govt newspaper. It is just like bribe to get to hilary . Even most nigerian here do not want to associate with nigeria and they hate talking about nigeria. Most nigerian have made up their minds never o return to nigeria. What is difficult to have electricity? what, It is not rocket science. Look I read electrical engineering and with my knowledge. I can provide 24 hrs supply in nigeria. It is not rocket science. And Brain Drain can not be stopped because until you remove yorubas from nigeria and we join the republic of benin. When we have a country we can call our home, we would stop coming abroad. One university in the USA have 30 nigeria prof. total number of Nigeria prof in the USA is more than 250 or more. There are nearly as many nigerian with PHD in the USA than nigeria. Some of them even use thier PHD to drive taxi, they would rather drive taxi , if they do not find jobs than return back to Nigeria, because we have like they say here " " in power. For God sake we just want our own country, were slowpoke can not rule. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by earTHMama: 3:24am On Jan 16, 2009 |
What is difficult to have electricity? what, It is not rocket science.[size=14pt] Look I read electricity engineering [/size]and with my knowledge. I can provide 24 hrs supply in nigeria. It is not rocket science.
I believe it's called Electrical Engineering. You should at least know the name of the course you read. Nairaland and their gist sef. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by Nobody: 3:44am On Jan 16, 2009 |
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| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by BecomeRich: 3:46am On Jan 16, 2009 |
Are you blind. ?
what do you see there. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by BecomeRich: 3:47am On Jan 16, 2009 |
where did you electricity engineering i wrote electrical engineering |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by earTHMama: 3:48am On Jan 16, 2009 |
But what if he really can do it? Nigeria has been throwing away our skills. We have surgeons and advanced medical researchers and practitioners abroad. Ask them if they want to return to Nigeria? It's a shame! The fact that he cannot correctly spell the name of the course he read should be enough warning to stay clear of him. We have enough electrical engineers in Nigeria and we don't want more electricity engineers. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by earTHMama: 3:50am On Jan 16, 2009 |
where did you electricity engineering i wrote electrical engineering You changed it?. Sorry I've copied you before the change. Electricity engineer ko medicine doctor ni.  |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by Nobody: 4:03am On Jan 16, 2009 |
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| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by BecomeRich: 4:17am On Jan 16, 2009 |
earTHMama aka 9jaganja , I know you are the same person. I even know your real name. Stay clear of me ?? Go and check my record. I am not your fake nigerian. Or go and check my waec result, I no be Olodo, na A's dey there. even some of your leaders in nigeria can not make that claim. Any one at the university of ilorin can confirm this? My classmate is a lecturer there. He would remember me very well. I went to ilorin.
And you I am better qualified to be minister of information and communication than your minister. I have worked for one of the largest telecommunication companies in north america($13 billion) and other companies. they do not need to lie to back me up. I even use to help to promote nigeria before. I run several radio stations.
Like i said electricity is not rocket science. The problem in nigeria, who make people who have no experience in electrical engineering minister or Dg all because they have PHD.
Over here PHD does not get you a job. It is what you can do for the company. You can have a PHD and take it to a company. And someone with first degree apply for the same job but he has experience , they would not employ the PHD holder.
Most Nigerian when they get here run back to get a PHD and now start looking for jobs. By the end of the day end up with no job. They start claiming white people are bias. Look when I got here, a nigeria engineer who works for one of the large telecommunication companies just told me, brother. Oyibo no go employ you. even the person that want to employ you get first degree. You want become his oga abi. Many african end up driving taxi with the PHD. If they do not get a job. I have a friend from east africa after is PHD program and he stay at home for 10 years no job, return back to africa. You have to know what the society want. Most people stop at master level.
How do you expect a PHD holder who never had any experience in electrical engineering to solve NEPA problem. ? how? Look at prof Iwu of Inec, he is not qualified to be INEC boss. He as no experience. they joke over here Iwu can not count.
It is the experience that count and not the universities degree. Your PHD is worthless to a company if you cant contribute anything to thier company.
PHD is just for people who want to teacher university student , like 18 year to 23 year old. You would now tell a teacher to take over electrical engineering just because he as a PHD in electrical engineering , what experience does he have in electrical engineering. None.
What nigeria need is experience people and not PHD holder. People who can apply science principle to make system work and not paper qualification, which is what they do in Nigeria. Even over here, 90% of the time employer never ask you to show certificate, they put you there and if you fail , sake you. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by earTHMama: 4:34am On Jan 16, 2009 |
earTHMama aka 9jaganja , I know you are the same person. I even know your real name. Stay clear of me ?? Go and check my record. I am not your fake nigerian. Or go and check my waec result, I no be Olodo, na A's dey there. even some of your leaders in nigeria can not make that claim. Any one at the university of ilorin can confirm this? My classmate is a lecturer there. He would remember me very well. I went to ilorin. Stop denting Unilorin's image abeg. And you I am better qualified to be minister of information and communication than your minister. I have worked for one of the largest telecommunication companies in north america($13 billion) and other companies. they do not need to lie to back me up. I even use to help to promote nigeria before. I run several radio stations. You've said that before but we don't want any electricity engineer informing us as a minister. Name one radio station you are controlling from your electrucity engineering lab?
PHD is just for people who want to teacher university student , like 18 year to 23 year old. You would now tell a teacher to take over electrical engineering just because he as a PHD in electrical engineering , what experience does he have in electrical engineering. None.
Stop assassinating english please. She is not an Ekiti politician. Lmao @ me be 9jaganja.  |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by Nobody: 5:02am On Jan 16, 2009 |
BecomeRich:
earTHMama aka 9jaganja , I know you are the same person. I even know your real name. Stay clear of me ?? Go and check my record. I am not your fake nigerian. Or go and check my waec result, I no be Olodo, na A's dey there. even some of your leaders in nigeria can not make that claim. Any one at the university of ilorin can confirm this? My classmate is a lecturer there. He would remember me very well. I went to ilorin.
And you I am better qualified to be minister of information and communication than your minister. I have worked for one of the largest telecommunication companies in north america($13 billion) and other companies. they do not need to lie to back me up. I even use to help to promote nigeria before. I run several radio stations.
Like i said electricity is not rocket science. The problem in nigeria, who make people who have no experience in electrical engineering minister or Dg all because they have PHD.
Over here PHD does not get you a job. It is what you can do for the company. You can have a PHD and take it to a company. And someone with first degree apply for the same job but he has experience , they would not employ the PHD holder.
Most Nigerian when they get here run back to get a PHD and now start looking for jobs. By the end of the day end up with no job. They start claiming white people are bias. Look when I got here, a nigeria engineer who works for one of the large telecommunication companies just told me, brother. Oyibo no go employ you. even the person that want to employ you get first degree. You want become his oga abi. Many african end up driving taxi with the PHD. If they do not get a job. I have a friend from east africa after is PHD program and he stay at home for 10 years no job, return back to africa. You have to know what the society want. Most people stop at master level.
How do you expect a PHD holder who never had any experience in electrical engineering to solve NEPA problem. ? how? Look at prof Iwu of Inec, he is not qualified to be INEC boss. He as no experience. they joke over here Iwu can not count.
It is the experience that count and not the universities degree. Your PHD is worthless to a company if you cant contribute anything to thier company.
PHD is just for people who want to teacher university student , like 18 year to 23 year old. You would now tell a teacher to take over electrical engineering just because he as a PHD in electrical engineering , what experience does he have in electrical engineering. None.
What nigeria need is experience people and not PHD holder. People who can apply science principle to make system work and not paper qualification, which is what they do in Nigeria. Even over here, 90% of the time employer never ask you to show certificate, they put you there and if you fail , sake you.
See person weh divide Nigeria ooo!!! You be yansh my guy. And I'm not earthmama. Just because we both find your post funny doesn't mean we are the same okay? cause the electric plugs and diodes makes it possible for electrical appliances to operate doesn't mean they are the same. Or isn't that taught in your electricity engineering?  First you start with dividing 9ja now na electricity engineering hhahahahah. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by BecomeRich: 5:09am On Jan 16, 2009 |
Let me joke now. Prof Iwu say he saw vote in some places in Nigeria. You know what satellite picture shows that some of this places have NO Human been. Most part of Sokoto state, have no human ,
I do not have time now. i would finish this map tomorrow. This place in red. There is nobody living there . There is more places , You would not find anyone living there. So who did Prof Iwu registered or Makama counted. 
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| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by Busybody2(f): 5:15am On Jan 16, 2009 |
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| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by thetruth90: 11:34am On Jan 16, 2009 |
BecomeRich:
PHD is just for people who want to teacher university student , like 18 year to 23 year old. You would now tell a teacher to take over electrical engineering just because he as a PHD in electrical engineering , what experience does he have in electrical engineering. None.
walahi you Bleep up! yeah, no be lie. so much for a graduate of unilorin. personally i know graduates of any school north of the niger are educated illiterates. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by WilyWily: 6:27pm On Jan 16, 2009 |
BecomeRich:
And Brain Drain can not be stopped because until you remove yorubas from nigeria and we join the republic of benin. When we have a country we can call our home, we would stop coming abroad.
For God sake we just want our own country, were slowpoke can not rule.
Remember that all the Morons that lead Nigeria into this mess are Yorubas and Hausa/Fulani North. because of their short-sighted they thought that a Nations Economy are built through Corruption and Embezzlement |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by earTHMama: 6:31pm On Jan 16, 2009 |
walahi you mess up! yeah, no be lie. Grin so much for a graduate of unilorin. personally i know graduates of any school north of the niger are educated illiterates. Except Kwara. He must have read his Electricity engineering at the University of Kebbi, Damaturu campus. I am sure he is pursuing a masters degree in earthquake/google earth images in Tudun wada university[Canada campus]. Their professors there do know how to murder the english language. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by lacrimose(f): 6:47pm On Jan 16, 2009 |
is BecomeRich the same as Nigeria1. i wont be shocked |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by earTHMama: 8:20pm On Jan 16, 2009 |
is BecomeRich the same as Nigeria1. i wont be shocked Same ol same ol. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by Nobody: 8:52pm On Jan 16, 2009 |
thetruth90:
walahi you mess up! yeah, no be lie. so much for a graduate of unilorin. personally i know graduates of any school north of the niger are educated illiterates.
you dumb. . .biatch. . .i schooled in unilorin  earTHMama:
Except Kwara. He must have read his Electricity engineering at the University of Kebbi, Damaturu campus. I am sure he is pursuing a masters degree in earthquake/google earth images in Tudun wada university[Canada campus]. Their professors there do know how to murder the english language.
tell the numbnuts |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by Nobody: 11:19pm On Jan 18, 2009 |
BecomeRich:
where did you electricity engineering i wrote electrical engineering
Why do i get the feeling BecomeRich is the same as Nigeria1. I remeber how obsessed you are with maps. Whether you studied electricity or nepa engineering is not the issue as this will not solve anything. The problem with Nepa is policy and not the knowledge. Until you get full deregulation, nothing good will happen. It's common sense. The nations population has been increasing while power generated has been stagnant or decreasing. Individual states should be responsible for power generation and distribution which they can outsource to private investors |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by cold(m): 1:14am On Jan 19, 2009 |
Confirmed,bcomrich is the same person as nigeria1 or his younger brother.Read thru thier posts;the secession plots,grammatical blunders and of course their love for google maps.It aint hard to tell. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by BecomeRich: 2:55am On Jan 19, 2009 |
You this uneducated moderator or owner of the site. What do you think you would get out of this. at 26 go to school. Get a university degree. Look google owner went to school. They have university degree. You are uneducated. You can not even modify simple php code.
Do you know what heritance is in computer programing.? Do you know how to write computer code. you dont even know how to write simple html. You dont know. You are an uneducated 26 year old been used by politician for the wrong purpose. And you claim you are a yoruba boy. And you so much hate your people. for less than $100 you would get for hits on google ad. You sell you birthright for $100. You are selling your people for $100. I posted satellite picture that would benefit Yorubas for generation to come. You delete them just for $100 the northerner have bribe you. Or do you think I do not know. They try the nonsense on me to stop posting picture for money. And I assume they came to you when I refused. How much did they pay you.
Ask yourself , is it worth selling the future of yorubas children for $100. Do you want to die like Judas that stole Jesus.
Think about this. Look nothing in this world would stop me from what I am doing. I would never sell my birthright to northerner for some few dollar. I think they have paid you.
If not why modify post. Go get a degree. I have my degrees. No one would take it from me. Your modification of most of my post because you have been paid would not remove anything from degree. It only make you look dishonest.
If you want to good in computer science. There is a master degree in software engineering at the university of maryland in the USA or Howard. But you need to have a degree in computer science or engineering. Go to school. And stop sitting on the internet , thinking you would become the next bill gate. You would not. And stop thinking we do not know that you are the same person bearing different name insulting people and modify post. |
| Re: Emeagwali; His American Life And African Brain Drain by JahAngel(f): 3:12am On Jan 19, 2009 |
Becomerich, you show your ignorance and total unwavering support of the old colonial masters education system. I myself have diplomas and degrees and have met a fair few idiots in university I can tell you. The degree does not hold the cache it used to. A degree makes you academic, not necessarily intelligent in a holistic manner. By the way, many millionaires do not have degrees, off the top of my head I can name Richard Branson and Sir Alan Sugar. My point? A degree does not a rich man make. Characteristics like tenacity, vision etc definitely help. Any takers ?, |
