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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 1:57pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
Throwback: Dike's VCship was a product of nepotism right? You are really biased. Assuming I have stayed longer than you ( though marginally) in professorship, yet you publish more relevant and groundbreaking research works than mine, it means you have a competitive advantage over me. IT IS THAT SIMPLE! Enough of this trash post you churn out. Dike had competitive advantage over your ajose or whatever his name is. 3 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 1:58pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
Throwback: [img]https://media1./images/70e6d45d537df0749ab8dafa8db43a27/tenor.gif?itemid=9747881[/img] 5 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 2:00pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: And who told you Ajose did not publish more relevant works than Dike? Especially when he was senior to Dike? 1 Like |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 2:02pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: And what did Eni-Njoku do in Unilag, at the end of the day? Wasn't it the same thing that Dike did in Ibadan? 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 2:08pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
LaudableXX: Senior to who? Let's not even start with that. Ajose was a medical practitioner right? His field differs from Dike who was a historian. What did ajose accomplish that was new or unaccomplished by the whites or that wasn't theirs? But dike had what wasnt owned by the whites, and that is african history. Dike made outside world seek for his research works because he narrated with prove about Africa's history from a seasoned African research perspective. 7 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Throwback: 2:13pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: That you continue to spell Ajose as ajose, while ensuring to spell Dike as it is, does not surprise me when you eventually conclude with your text in bold. You are the one who is biased to see that the only qualification that Ajose had a shortcoming was his tribe being too achieving to the disliking of the British, and not being Igbo at a time Igbos had the political power, owing to the poor literacy of their Northern senior partners in government, to appoint school council chairman, or university Principal. History will always remember Ajose for the pioneer that he was, and how he was a victim of Igbo style of meritocracy - appoint the most qualified Igbo over the most qualified Nigerian. 15 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 2:19pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: So in your view, history is more superior to medicine, right? 3 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 2:24pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
LaudableXX: No. Non supercedes the other. It is only the strength and global relevance of ones work that may outpace the other. 7 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 2:31pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: That is not what your former post says. You were applauding Dike's historical endeavours to the highest heavens, and looking down on Ajose's medical activities. 4 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Throwback: 2:31pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: If history was so critical to being considered for the position of University Principal, why was Saburi Biobaku who was in Unilag and considered as most notable Nigerian academic historian besides Kenneth Dike, not appointed as the first African Principal of University of Lagos? Instead, an Igbo professor from the sciences just like Ajose, Eni Njoku a Botanist, was considered as most qualified Igbo to be Principal. All of a sudden, the need for historians was not critical to the progress of University of Lagos, as no notable Igbo was historian there. By the time the Yorubas got their acts together, they ensured that Eni Njoku was not returned for another term as Unilag Principal, and Prof. Saburi Biobaku assumed the role merit should have ordinarily conferred on him from the onset. 12 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 2:32pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
Throwback: I honestly didn't mean what you are insinuating as regards the small letter casing I gave to ajose. My conscience is clear. But who is ajose? How noteworthy were his research compared to dike's research in African history? History will be kind to dike for proving his mettle as a distinguished historian and pioneer of contemporary African history, something the whites couldn't lay claim to. Africa needed a historian that would the narrative of sfrican history. All the world know about Africans then were jungles, slavery, colonialism. Dike's scientific research debunked all that. You yorubas and your sense of entitlement is your Achilles heel. 5 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 2:37pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: Strangely enough, I have never noticed a sense of entitlement among the Yorubas, even though I have lived among them for quite a while. The sense of entitlement you speak of, is more commonly found among the Igbos, surely? 6 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 2:38pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
Throwback: Oh now you have shifted to Eni Njoku? UI was a colonially established university. Nigeria wanted to prove a point by forwarding a distinguished historian who had what whites didn't. Unilag was a university built by the federal government, not western, eastern or northern region. Nigeria's thriving economy was run on plant based agriculture. Eni Njoku was the pioneer professor of botany (study of plants). Join the pieces together. 4 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Throwback: 2:41pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: Ajose was and will forever remain the first tenured African Professor in Nigeria. A status and academic distinction that was not earned because he could eat Amala or dance Fuji. You are the ones who felt entitled to both federal jobs and regional jobs in regions far removed from your own. Even terming the great Awolowo a tribalist for daring to contest and democratically win the premiership of his own region, and also terming Ahmadu Bello an ethnicist for looking out for his own Northern citizens as a Northern Premier in his own region. You are so entitled, that anyone rightly seeking his own good in his own region, is termed a tribalist for not allowing the Igbos to dictate policy for them. Meanwhile you remained king in your own enclave that despite being ethnically heterogeneous, had the majority Igbos in total control of everything. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 2:43pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: You obviously know very little about botany. How can you equate the study of botany, to agriculture and/or agronomy? If Njoku had studied agronomy, agriculture, agricultural economics etc. it would have made sense, if you wanted to link his appointment as VC to the Nigerian economy! 8 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 2:44pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
LaudableXX: I never did. That's the way you chose to see it. Ajose's work in medicine was definitely not new in the western world. But whenever you mention researched history about Africa from an African viewpoint, Dike stands tall among others. 1 Like |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Throwback: 2:45pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: Just as Biobaku was the pioneer professor of history at the university of Lagos. So what are the pieces to join besides Igbo dominated federal government appointing Igbos to federal positions. Meanwhile the pioneer African professor of anything at all in the whole of Nigeria and University of Ibadan, was Prof Dr Oladele Ajose, yet just because he wasn't singing Nzobu Nzobu as an Igbo clansman, he had to be overlooked for his Igbo subordinate. 8 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 2:48pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
LaudableXX: You mean Njoku, not Dike. Botany encapsulates any plant based endeavour, from agriculture to biotechnology. Courses were not as diverse as it is today. A botanist could become a biologist, agriculturist, etc 2 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 2:53pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
Throwback: You can stick to your viewpoint as much as you want. Njoku was qualified, he was Nigerian in the then FCT, Lagos. OAU didn't pick an Igbo, they picked Yoruba. just as ABU picked a northerner, and UNN picked an easterner. So what's your grouse? 3 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 2:55pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
Professor Omooba Oladele Adebayo Ajose (1907-1978) who died 25 years ago this July, was a Prince of the Royal House of Lagos, but he was much more than a prince. He had an air of authority about him, that came from the profound knowledge of his field of medicine, and his absolute integrity and honesty. He was eager and ever ready to use his professional knowledge, to the advantage and benefit of the people. 5 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 2:58pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: Yes, thanks for the correction. I meant Njoku not Dike. And studying Botany does not make a person qualified to take on the duties of an Agriculturist. Agriculture is wider and far more encompassing of the lifecycle, uses and structure of farming and other agric based endeavours than botany could ever hope to be. Please do not mislead people. agriculture 3 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 3:04pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: Please go back and do your research on Ajose. 2 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by Throwback: 3:17pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: My grouse is that the NCNC Igbos introduced nepotism and tribalism to the federal academia, and also sacrificed merit for tribalism in federal appointments. The regional universities employed citizens of their region. No one should have any grouse with that. It is only Igbos that had a problem with the Northernization policy of the North, and continue to lament over Awolowo rightly becoming premier of his own Western region ahead of Azikiwe. A move they found so bitter that they accorded him the special toga of tribalist for daring to rise above an Igbo immigrant in the Western Region. Lagos being the capital has nothing to do with Njoku's desirability, when Dike had already been appointed in Ibadan the capital of the Western Region. What mattered most is that rather than appoint the most qualified Nigerian, Azikiwe and his Igbo band of NCNC party men, appointed the most qualified Igbo. Those ones then took it further as evidenced by the University College Ibadan tribal oriented recruitment of Igbo staff. Akintola that complained about such was also termed a tribalist. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 4:25pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
LaudableXX: I should be one telling you that. 2 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 4:27pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai:Meaning...? 2 Likes
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Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 4:28pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
LaudableXX: Dude, in the 50s and 60s, botanists were researchers for farmers. Because botanist were experts in ANYTHING of plants in terms of structure and mechanism. Botany is highly relevant to agriculture in terms of plant research. 3 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 4:36pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai: Why do you keep getting things muddled up? First you said a botanist could do the job of an agriculturist. When the error in your reasoning was pointed out, you switched and now started talking about how botany is relevant to agriculture in terms of research. Kindly try to stick to the original topic. You were the one who asserted that Njoku's selection was based on the fact that he was a botanist, and you tried to link it to Nigeria's economy which was agriculture. Or have you forgotten your fallacious reasoning? 4 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 4:43pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
LaudableXX: Meaning you didn't properly search on Ajose. 1 Like |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by LaudableXX: 4:44pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
ofai:Really? Is that what you think, or what you were told? 2 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 4:48pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
LaudableXX: You just don't get it do you? Somebody wanted to downplay njoku's botany, and I reminded the person that botany was relevant to agriculture particularly plant crops in which Nigeria's economy was built on in the 50s and 60s. What's confusing here? Stop this faultfinding and stop stick to the point stated. 5 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by ofai: 4:53pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
Throwback: You are only stating your conviction without empirical evidence. Meritocracy thrived during the pre-war era. When awolowo's biobiaku challenged njoku, he was called to order. He wasn't more qualified than njoku. He only raised dust based on tribal sentiments forgetting that Lagos was the FCT, not western region and njoku was an eminently qualified Nigerian. 4 Likes |
Re: Esther Eyiuche Uchendu Wins 2018 Young Scientist Award by DerideGull(m): 4:57pm On Mar 08, 2018 |
cooldipo: If you are a Nigerian, you will not waste your brain cell contemplating the above question. Ethnic card is everything in the shithole called Nigeria. |
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