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Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Adelaide2: 9:41pm On Mar 07, 2018
By Segun Atanda
March 4, 2018

Dr Esther Eyiuche Uchendu of the Department of Agronomy, University of Ibadan, has won the 2018 Young Scientist Award by the Society for In Vitro Biology (SIVB), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.

A statement from the Vice Chancellor (VC), University of Ibadan (UI), Prof. Idowu Olayinka, reveals that the letter of award by the SIVB President, dated 2nd March 2018, says the award is in recognition of her contributions and achievements in the In Vitro sciences. As a scientist her ‘involvement and dedication within the Society has impacted the careers of many students, young scientists and colleagues’.


Says the VC University of Ibadan, Prof Idowu Olayinka. “We are delighted that Dr Uchendu is on our Faculty. I am sure you will join me in congratulating her while wishing her further successes in her career,” Prof Olayinka stated.

http://www.newsmakersng.com/2018/03/04/ui-don-wins-2018-young-scientist-award/

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Adelaide2: 9:45pm On Mar 07, 2018
Esther is from Anambra State. Igbo Amaka; Igbo kwenu grin grin grin grin grin grin

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Adelaide2: 9:50pm On Mar 07, 2018
Adelaide2:
Esther is from Anambra State. Igbo Amaka; Igbo kwenu grin grin grin grin grin grin
cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by plessis: 9:52pm On Mar 07, 2018
being an igbo man is a priviledge.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Adelaide2: 9:54pm On Mar 07, 2018
plessis:
being an igbo man is a priviledge.

Duh! This one is an Igbo woman. cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by chuksjuve(m): 9:56pm On Mar 07, 2018
Igbo always making the country proud ..

Land of the rising sun ..

You can't take it away from them...

Congratulations

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by BankeSmalls(f): 9:56pm On Mar 07, 2018
Professor Kenneth Dike from Anambra was the first VC in this school abi?

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by plessis: 9:58pm On Mar 07, 2018
Adelaide2:


Duh! This one is an Igbo woman. cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy
she is still igbo and not an ewedurudeen.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Adelaide2: 10:00pm On Mar 07, 2018
Igbo make Nigeria proud 70% of the time and make Nigeria ashamed 30% of the time
Yoruba make Nigeria proud 50% of the time and make Nigeria ashamed 50% of the time
Hausa make Nigeria proud 10% of the time and make Nigeria ashamed 80% of the time
Fulani make Nigeria proud 0% of the time and make Nigeria ashamed 100% of the time

No be me oh talk am oh! Na from BBC

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Adelaide2: 10:01pm On Mar 07, 2018
plessis:
she is still igbo and not an ewedurudeen.

But she is not a man. Just go and correct your statement and stop arguing. Women in Nigeria deserve better.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by hornyofife: 10:38pm On Mar 07, 2018
Adelaide2:
Igbo make Nigeria proud 70% of the time and make Nigeria ashamed 30% of the time
Yoruba make Nigeria proud 50% of the time and make Nigeria ashamed 50% of the time
Hausa make Nigeria proud 10% of the time and make Nigeria ashamed 80% of the time
Fulani make Nigeria proud 0% of the time and make Nigeria ashamed 100% of the time

No be me oh talk am oh! Na from BBC

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ConAir(m): 10:39pm On Mar 07, 2018
Proudly representing ANAMBRA # IGBO AMAKA....... I love you all.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by hornyofife: 10:46pm On Mar 07, 2018
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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Yoshy: 10:46pm On Mar 07, 2018
Throwback:


Yes he 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 he wasn't the most qualified for.

When the British eventually withdrew their administration of the he 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 I've, 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 Yoruba's 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.


Shut up with these lies

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by hornyofife: 10:53pm On Mar 07, 2018
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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by czarina(f): 11:02pm On Mar 07, 2018
Kudos lady.
















If you live in Jos and environs, check my signature

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Okoroawusa: 11:03pm On Mar 07, 2018
Can't we simply celebrate this wonderful woman,Doctor, scientist and probably wife and mother without making a mess of her achievements with our tribal wars and comments on Nairaland which seems like all we do here all day and all year round on every thread and IT IS GETTING ON MY NERVES!!!!

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Michael004: 11:11pm On Mar 07, 2018
Yoshy:



Shut up with these lies
Which lie, you think everybody is like you people that lie to the world that awolowo starved you all?

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 11:37pm On Mar 07, 2018
Throwback:


Yes he 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.

Your self-serving and face-saving revisionism cannot fly this time.

NCNC my foot.

Professor Dike, Nigeria's first professor of history, in a clearly stated mission to narrate and preserve African history from the African perspective became the first VC of Univ. Of Ibadan based only on MERIT.

It was your awolowo that introduced tribalism and nepotism into academia.

Even unilags first black VC was pioneer professor Eni Njoku, another great academic of botany.

These men were the pioneers of their time. There was no egbe omo oduduwa in academics then. Everything was purely merit based that even your awolowo was scared of competing with igbos. no long revisionism can change the narrative.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Yoshy: 12:10am On Mar 08, 2018
Michael004:
Which lie, you think everybody is like you people that lie to the world that awolowo starved you all?

Lols, if they tell you the real story of Awo, you will be ashamed to call him a hero.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Throwback: 12:20am On Mar 08, 2018
ofai:


Your self-serving and face-saving revisionism cannot fly this time.

NCNC my foot.

Professor Dike, Nigeria's first professor of history, in a clearly stated mission to narrate and preserve African history from the African perspective became the first VC of Univ. Of Ibadan based only on MERIT.

It was your awolowo that introduced tribalism and nepotism into academia.

Even unilags first black VC was pioneer professor Eni Njoku, another great academic of botany.

These men were the pioneers of their time. There was no egbe omo oduduwa in academics then. Everything was purely merit based that even your awolowo was scared of competing with igbos. no long revisionism can change the narrative.

Was Dike more pioneering than Oladele Ajose, a medical doctor and most senior African on the academic board of University College Ibadan?

Was Dike more senior to Oladele Ajose who was the first tenured Nigerian professor in history?

Is it false tale that Dike was called back from sabbatical in the USA to take the position of Vice Principal. While a more qualified Oladele Ajose was right there in Ibadan on the campus?

You cannot erase the facts, and even Dike was apprehensive to accept the position that was being forced on him.

I repeat merit to the Igbos is Igbos first, others follow.

IGBO - I Go Before Others.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 12:37am On Mar 08, 2018
Throwback:


Was Dike more pioneering that Oladele Ajose, a medical doctor and most senior African on the academic board of University College Ibadan?

Was Dike more senior to Oladele Ajose who was the first tenured Nigerian professor in history?

Is it false tale that Dike was called back from sabbatical in the USA to take the position of Vice Principal. While a more qualified Oladele Ajose was right there in Ibadan on the campus?

You cannot erase the facts, and even Dike was apprehensive to accept the position that was being forced on him.

I repeat merit to the Igbos is Igbos first, others follow.

IGBO - I Go Before Others.

Your lies will keep hunting you. Who told you ajose was MORE QUALIFIED than dike? Which research of his was groundbreaking? you think VCship is all about age? Its like trying to compare Amos tutuola's palmwine drunkard to Achebe's things fall apart.

If your ajose was more qualified in EVERY respect to take the job, it would have been indisputable by all and sundry including the british who were about leaving. They knew who would be MORE proactive and innovative.

Dike had the papers, the drive, the age and the better competitive advantage in research works compared to ajose. Keep exposing your biase.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Throwback: 12:56am On Mar 08, 2018
ofai:


Your lies will keep hunting you. Who told you ajose was MORE QUALIFIED than dike? Which research of his was groundbreaking? you think VCship is all about age? Its like trying to compare Amos tutuola's palmwine drunkard to Achebe's things fall apart.

If your ajose was more qualified in EVERY respect to take the job, it would have been indisputable by all and sundry including the british who were about leaving. They knew who would be MORE proactive and innovative.

Dike had the papers, the drive, the age and the better competitive advantage in research works compared to ajose. Keep exposing your biase.


It is no news that the British could never stand the "I know my rights uppity attitude" of the Yoruba employees in the colonial era. From Doctors to Engineers to Lawyers, Yorubas had them all, and they were not prepared to play servant to the British who most times were not better educated or experienced than the Yorubas, but the British felt no Briton must ever work under an African. And rightly, the Yoruba's wasted no time in forming a political party as early as 1908 to demand for the rights of the Yoruba people, at a time some tribes were still learning how to recite ABC.

So Ajose was a riff-raff academic, yet became the first tenured African at the university that had a globally multicultural academia? Do you know what it takes for a Blackman to break such a glass ceiling? What is more pioneering than being the first in a race that is purely academic and research focused? What is more experienced than being the most senior on the academic board?

You see why I rightly said that to the Igbos, merit means I Go Before Others?

I can only imagine if Ajose was the younger and less experienced academic who was chosen over an Igbo professor who was more experienced, qualified and pioneering?

Marginalization is the word the Igbos would have cried from that time till now.

Keep exposing your hypocrisy, while I continue to haunt you with your ignoble past.

Did the British who were also leaving the army not nominate a Yoruba Brigadier ahead of his peers who were a total of 4 Brigadiers, with the Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi being the most senior?

Was it not Aguiyi Ironsi who was eventually promoted to become the Major General, and head of the Nigerian Army?

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by adadike281(f): 3:58am On Mar 08, 2018
If I didn't come to this world as an Igbo girl, I would still have given anything to marry an Igbo boy. Igbo Amaka!!!

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by cooldipo(m): 6:36am On Mar 08, 2018
To what gain is the ethnic card being played here?

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Okoroawusa: 6:47am On Mar 08, 2018
TheSorrowfulMan:


If to say na crime she commit, Nigerians won't condemn her as Nigerian, they will start insulting all Igbo people.
So allow Igbos to celebrate her
I can see that all I wrote there didn't ve any impact on you
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Michael004: 7:16am On Mar 08, 2018
Yoshy:


Lols, if they tell you the real story of Awo, you will be ashamed to call him a hero.
Whether I call him hero or not, stop peddling lie against him. We have heard what happened from foreigner Robert S Goldstein that walked with ojukwu in his letter. Awoo is not a saint but you people too dey lie Abeg. What that guy said is a complete truth about what happened in UI then. God is not foolish remember.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by anaton(m): 7:18am On Mar 08, 2018
Throwback:


Yes he 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.

We were not there when it all happened.So it's your version, Kenneth Dike version and the TRUTH.

But Prof Kenneth Dike rose UI to greater heights.

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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by NaijaMutant(f): 7:24am On Mar 08, 2018
Throwback:


Yes he 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.


History revisionist undecided

Imagine how you seek to change the course of history to reflect your hate filled biased and vindictive mindset.

You can't still change the fact that Igbos were Nigeria Trailblazers in all spheres before the civil war.

I won't argue with a tribal bigot like you. undecided

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