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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 2:51pm On Oct 27, 2015
Professor Jacob K. Olupona



Jacob K. Olupona is Professor of African Religious Traditions and Chair of the Committee on African studies at the Harvard Divinity School with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

His current research focuses on the religious practices of the estimated one million Africans who have emigrated to the United States over the last 40 years, examining in particular several populations that remain relatively invisible in the American religious landscape: "reverse missionaries" who have come to the United States to establish churches, African Pentecostals in American congregations, American branches of independent African churches, and indigenous African religious communities in the United States. His earlier research ranged across African spirituality and ritual practices, spirit possession, Pentecostalism, Yoruba festivals, animal symbolism, icons, phenomenology, and religious pluralism in Africa and the Americas.

In his book City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination, he examines the modern urban mixing of ritual, royalty, gender, class, and power, and how the structure, content, and meaning of religious beliefs and practices permeate daily life. His other books include Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture, co-edited with Terry Rey, and Kingship, Religion, and Rituals in a Nigerian Community: A Phenomenological Study of Ondo Yoruba Festivals, which has become a model for ethnographic research among Yoruba-speaking communities. In 2012, he was named one of Harvard's Walter Channing Cabot Fellows, for distinguished publications.

Olupona has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Ford Foundation, the Davis Humanities Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Getty Foundation. He has served on the editorial boards of three influential journals and as president of the African Association for the Study of Religion. In 2000, Olupona received an honorary doctorate in divinity from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and in 2007 he received the Nigerian National Order of Merit, that country's prestigious award given each year for intellectual accomplishment in the four areas of science, medicine, engineering/technology, and humanities.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 2:52pm On Oct 27, 2015
Have folks posted Dabiri and Olukotun's profiles?

Just checking so as not to post them again.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 2:54pm On Oct 27, 2015
Someone posted Olukotun's profile but i'm sure about Dabiri's
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by sanmibukunmi: 2:55pm On Oct 27, 2015
Aareonakakanfo:
Osun State

-Osun is the highest producer of plantain
-Osun is known for her Ancient culture
-Unique tourism corridor: Olumirin waterfall, Osun river etc.
-Osun is the home of gold mine

what about oil palm.... i believ they have that in abundance too.... osun should not be poor
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 2:57pm On Oct 27, 2015
Aareonakakanfo:
Someone posted Olukotun's profile but i'm sure about Dabiri's

Okay.

I'll post Dabiri then.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 2:57pm On Oct 27, 2015
sanmibukunmi:

what about oil palm.... i believ they have that in abundance too.... osun should not be poor


I would have loved to post the one i compiled myself.That one is much more comprehensive but since i've started with DAWN's own, i don't think its necessary to post mine again
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 2:59pm On Oct 27, 2015
Another genius!

Prof. Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande

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Akintunde Ibitayo (Tayo) Akinwande is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Professor Akinwande received a B.Sc. (1978) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Ife, Nigeria, a MS (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Professor Akinwande joined Honeywell Inc. in 1986 where he initially conducted research on GaAs Complementary FET technology for very high speed and low power signal processing. He later joined the Si Microstructures group where he conducted research on pressure sensors, accelerometers, thin-film field emission and display devices.

Professor Akinwande joined MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) in January 1995 where his research focuses on micro-fabrication and electronic devices with particular emphasis on smart sensors and actuators, intelligent displays, large area electronics (macro-electronics), field emission & field ionization devices, mass spectrometry and electric propulsion.

Prof. Akinwande is a recipient of the 1996 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award. He has served a number of technical program committees for various conferences, including the Device Research Conference, the International Electron Devices Meeting, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the International Display Research Conference and the International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference. Professor Akinwande holds numerous patents in MEMS, Electronics on Flexible Substrates, Display technologies and has authored more than 100 journal publications. He was a visiting professor at the Cambridge University Engineering Department and an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College in 2002-2003. He is a current member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council.

Research Interests

Microstructures and nanostructures for sensors and actuators, and vacuum microelectronics. Devices for large area electronics and flat panel displays.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:03pm On Oct 27, 2015
John Dabiri

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John Oluseun Dabiri (born 1980) is an biophysicist, professor of aeronautics and bioengineering, and dean at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his research of the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion and the design of a vertical-axis wind farm adapted from schooling fish. He is the director of the Biological Propulsion Laboratory,[2] which examines fluid transport with applications in aquatic locomotion, fluid dynamic energy conversion, and cardiac flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts of optimal vortex formation.

Dabiri's parents are Nigerian immigrants, who settled in Toledo, Ohio, in 1975. Dabiri's father was a mechanical engineer who taught math at a community college. His mother, a computer scientist, raised three children and started a software development company. It was watching his father, who would occasionally do engineering work on the side, that encouraged Dabiri's love of engineering.

John Dabiri is a professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty in 2015, he was Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at Caltech, where he also served as Chairman of the Faculty and Dean of Undergraduate Students. His research focuses on science and technology at the intersection of fluid mechanics, energy and environment, and biology. Recent honors for this work include a MacArthur Fellowship, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Popular Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008. For his research in bio-inspired wind energy, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its Technology Innovators in 2012, and MIT Technology Review magazine named him one of its 35 innovators under 35 in 2013. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Academic Appointments
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Honors & Awards
Fellow, American Physical Society (2014)
MacArthur Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2010)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Office of Science and Technology Policy (2009)

Professional Education
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Bioengineering with minor in Aeronautics (2005)
M.S., California Institute of Technology, Aeronautics (2003)
B.S.E. summa cum laude, Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2001)
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:06pm On Oct 27, 2015
Shymm3x i think you've posted John Dabiri's profile before.I thought you were reffering to Abike Dabiri. How come no one has profiled the "Akoka Giant" himself Prof Ayodele Awojobi
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:07pm On Oct 27, 2015
Dr. Adetokunbo Lucas

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Adetokunbo Lucas, who earned a master of science in hygiene at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in 1964 and went on to play a major international role in fighting neglected tropical diseases, has won a Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID).

Established by the NFID in 1997, the award honors individuals for work that has contributed significantly to the health and welfare of humankind. The first recipients were Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Other previous recipients included Bill Clinton, Bill and Melinda Gates, and William Foege, MPH ’65, who helped eradicate smallpox.

Appointed as professor of international health at HSPH in 1990 and, since 1995, an adjunct professor of population and international health, Lucas has worked over the years as a clinician, medical educator, researcher, administrator, policy specialist, and public health leader.

In 1976, Lucas was appointed director of the World Health Organization’s Tropical Diseases Research Programme (TDR), run in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank. Under his 10-year leadership, the program collaborated with academic institutions and drug companies on the development of new products to fight leprosy, onchocerciasis (river blindness), African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), and other tropical diseases.

“A new pattern of public-private partnership emerged from TDR’s collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry,” Lucas said in an interview, noting that several drug companies now donate medications to fight tropical diseases. “This new model of pharmaco-philanthropy is accelerating the elimination of major neglected tropical diseases.”

Lucas came to study at HSPH in 1963—already armed with a medical degree and diplomas in public health and tropical medicine—to boost his skills in statistics and epidemiology. He later returned to his homeland, Nigeria, where he taught clinical and community medicine at the University of Ibadan, serving as head of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine for 11 years. He noted that his decision in 1962 to switch his focus from clinical work to public health was “perhaps my most important contribution to health services in Nigeria.”

Lucas was one of 20 distinguished people to receive the Harvard Medal at the university’s 350th anniversary celebration in 1986.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:16pm On Oct 27, 2015
Dr. Olakunle Akinboboye



Dr. Ola completed his internal medicine residency and part of his cardiology fellowship at the Nassau County Medical Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook. He subsequently moved to Columbia University, where he completed his fellowship in cardiology with one year of dedicated training in nuclear cardiology and another year of training in advanced echocardiography.

He obtained a master’s degree in Public Health from the School of Public Health at Columbia University. He also received a master’s in Business Administration from Columbia Business School. Dr. Ola then served on the teaching faculty of Columbia University from 1995 to 2000.
Today, his main areas of expertise include the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease, particularly in patients with diabetes. He is a renowned expert in cardiac imaging, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, CT angiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Ola is also a renowned expert in the management of clinical hypertension (high blood pressure). He is one of the few Certified Specialists in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension.

Awards, research and teaching activities
Dr. Ola was selected by Castle Connolly for inclusion in its prestigious Top Doctors: New York Metro Area – 9th ed. representing the top 10% of doctors in the region. He was also named by The Network Journal as one of the Best Black Doctors in the New York Tri-State area in 2005 and cited as one of the Top Docs in Cardiology by New York Magazine in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

He received a humanitarian award from the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2005 for his ongoing efforts to teach cardiopulmonary resuscitation and save lives in Nigeria. He also received an award from the Association of Black Cardiologists for his dedicated service as a board member from 1999 to 2005 and is currently the organization’s national president.

Dr. Ola is an accomplished clinician, teacher and researcher. In 1986, he received a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of treatment on the cardiovascular complications of hypertension in African-Americans.

Dr. Ola has also trained several generations of Fellows in Cardiology at New York Presbyterian Medical Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook and New York Hospital in Queens. Dr. Ola presently chairs the Eligibility Committee of the Board of Nuclear Cardiology and the CME Committee of the Association of Black Cardiologists.

Professional affiliations
Board-Certified: American Board of Cardiology, American Board of Nuclear Cardiology, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Sleep Medicine
Fellow: American College of Physicians
Fellow: American College of Cardiology
National President: Association of Black Cardiologists
Member: American Heart Association, International Society of Hypertension in Blacks, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Certification Board of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:17pm On Oct 27, 2015
Aareonakakanfo:
Shymm3x i think you've posted John Dabiri's profile before.I thought you were reffering to Abike Dabiri. How come no one has profiled the "Akoka Giant" himself Prof Ayodele Awojobi

My bad.

I don't think the other name is on my list but I'll check now.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superstar1(m): 3:21pm On Oct 27, 2015
Can you imagine the effect of an Oodua nation having access to these plethora of diverse and highly skilled diasporans?

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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by FFKfuckedBIANCA: 3:22pm On Oct 27, 2015
Aareonakakanfo:



According to DAWN, its nine(9)
covenant university

babcock university

redemeers university

olabisi onabanjo university


university of agriculture, abeokuta

tai solarin university of education

crawford university

chrisland university

bells university

adetokunbo university

christopher university

mountaintop university

hallmark university

mcpherson university

crescent university

southwester university
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:23pm On Oct 27, 2015
Prof. Winston Wole Soboyejo

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Winston Wole Soboyejo is an American Scientist of Nigeria parentage (son of Prof Alfred Sobojeyo of Ohio State University), currently a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, with special interests in Material Science and Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials.

Wole Soboyejo was educated at King's College London, and the University of Cambridge before returning to the United States in 1988 to become a research scientist at The McDonnell Douglas Research Labs in St. Louis, MO. In 1992, he worked briefly as a Principal Research Engineer at the Edison Welding Institute before joining the engineering faculty of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Soboyejo moved to Princeton University in 1999 as a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials. Current areas of interest include micromechanical machines, nanoparticles for disease detection, biomedical systems for prostheses, and cardiovascular systems, infrastructure materials, and alternative energy systems.

Professor Soboyejo is the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Materials at the Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:26pm On Oct 27, 2015
FFKfuckedBIANCA:

covenant university
babcock university
redemeers university
olabisi onabanjo university
university of agriculture, abeokuta
tai solarin university of education
crawford university
chrisland university
bells university
adetokunbo university
christopher university
mountaintop university
hallmark university
mcpherson university
crescent university


Are they all registered? If they are, should we stop relying on information from DAWN? What do you think?
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:31pm On Oct 27, 2015
This thread is an inspiration, very very proud YORUBA

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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:32pm On Oct 27, 2015
My continuation of the amazing stories of wealthy Ijebu entrepreneurs





Molade Okoya-Thomas

Molade Alexandria Okoya-Thomas MFR was born in Lagos on June 8, 1935 to Late Hussam Okoya-Thomas (the first Baba Adinni of Furabay Mosque, Olowogbowo, Lagos and the first local staff of CFAO, who served the company for 52 years) and Late Alhaja Suwebat Okoya-Thomas (née Gbajabiamila, Otun Iya Adinni of Idita Mosque.

Molade Okoya-Thomas had his elementary education at princess school, Lagos, between 1942 and 1946. He subsequently proceeded to Baptist Academy for his high school education and left Baptist Academic in 1956 as the best graduating student, hence earning the honor of his name been listed on the school’s DUX BOARD (Honors Board).

Immediately after his education at Baptist Academy, he studied accountancy at Balham and Tooting College of Commerce between 1956 and 1959 and a further training in Accountancyat Columbia University, New York in 1981. He returned to Nigeria the very year he completed his studies at Balham and Tooting College of Commerce 1959 and was instantly employed as an accountant by CFAO.

He was appointed Director, Transcap Nigeria Limited; Director, Niger Motors Industries Limited; Chairman, Studio Press Nigeria Limited and as been the Chairman of CFAO Nigeria Limited since 1987.

He served as Chairman of many organizations including CICA (Nigeria) Ltd., Transcap Nigeria Ltd., Oktom Investment Ltd., Itochu Nigeria Ltd., Chiyoda Nigeria Ltd. and Anchoria Investment & Securities Ltd. He also serves as Director of NFI Insurance Company Plc and Gateway Bank Plc.

He was been recognized as the Asoju Oba of Lagos, Babasuwa of Ijebu-Remo, Odofin of Ife. He is currently the Chancellor of Lagos State University.

He also contributed to the development of Lagos state by serving in numerous committees including; member, Lagos City Council between 1971 and1975, member Lagos State Development and Property Corporation, Chairman Board of Trustees Glover Memorial Hall and Tom Jones Hall.

He is a recipient of the Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, the highest national honour given by the French to a foreigner cool
Molade Okoya-Thomas was an active sportsman in his youth, he was a Joint All Nigeria Record Holder of 4 X 220 yards relay race while at Baptist Academy Lagos. He has been the sole sponsor of the annual Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championships for over four decades setting a record as the only Nigerian to have single-handedly and consistently sponsored a competition spanning over four decades.

As a philanthropist he has similarly served as Vice-Chairman, Lagos State Sports Council, President Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Chairman 3rd All-Africa Games Appeal Fund Committee, Chairman National Appeal Fund for Sports Development and Chairman Sports Trust Fund. Molade Alexandria Okoya-Thomas built and donated a Modern Sports Hall for students and staff of the Lagos State University (LASU) in 2009.

He was also a prominent member of the fund raising committee for the construction of Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:32pm On Oct 27, 2015
Prof. Babatunde Ogunnaike

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Babatunde Ayodeji Ogunnaike (1956–present) is an American Chemical Engineer of Nigerian descent and the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University Of Delaware (UD). He also is the dean of UD's College of Engineering.

Babatunde was born on March 26, 1956 in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria. He attended the University of Lagos for his bachelor's degree, graduating with First Class Honours in Chemical engineering in 1976. He commenced academic work as a lecturer at the department of Chemical engineering, University of Lagos, in 1982 and became Senior Lecturer and successively, Associate Professor of Chemical engineering. He continued lecturing at the University of Lagos until 1988. He furthered his studies and earned an M.Sc. degree in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Chemical engineering also from the same University in 1981. He was a Research Engineer with the Process Control group of the Shell Development Corporation in Houston, Texas from 1981 to 1982. He worked as a researcher for DuPont and was also a consultant to several companies including Gore, PPG Industries, and Corning Inc. He joined the faculty of the University of Delaware in 2002 and became the Dean of the College of Engineering in July 2011. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja.[4] He is the author and editor of several books, papers and book chapters, used to educate engineers in instrumentation, systems and control at many universities. He was associate editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the American Chemical Society’s Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. His research focuses on modeling and control of industrial processes; the application of process analytical technology for control of pharmaceutical processes; identification and control of nonlinear systems; the interaction of process design and process operability; applied statistics; biological control systems; and systems biology with application to neuronal responses and cancer

Honours
American Institute of Chemical Engineers 1998 CAST Computing Practice Award
2004 University of Delaware’s College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award,
2007 ISA Eckman Award
2008 AACC Control Engineering Practice award.
Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering,
Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers,
American Statistical Association,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American National Academy of Engineering
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:33pm On Oct 27, 2015
[size=14pt]Running a free zone in Nigeria: Q&A with LADOL’s managing director[/size]

The Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) is a 100-hectare free zone and logistics hub for multinational industrial and offshore enterprises. It is located at the entrance to Lagos Harbour and accommodates a range of foreign and local companies such as Shell, Total, Samsung Heavy Industries, Dorman Long and Fortune Global. Construction on the base started in 2001 and development is still ongoing.

How we made it in Africa talks to Dr Amy Jadesimi, LADOL’s managing director, about setting up the hub in Nigeria and the potential for similar free zones in West Africa. Below is the edited extract of the interview.

Tell us about LADOL and its development.

The free zones in Nigeria are quite similar to those in Dubai 15 years ago. Dubai started its free zones with bare land and had different zones to focus on different sectors. Similarly LADOL has been built from scratch. It is a 100% private development, and we focus on high-value industrial projects, where the inputs or outputs – or the process – is expensive. These are generally projects that value at hundreds of millions of dollars and, because the projects are either so valuable or so difficult to do, they typically haven’t been done in Africa before. We focus on that end of the market because we know that if we can create an environment where those projects can be done in Nigeria, it will have a huge multiplier effect.

An example of one such development is our shipyard. We built a US$300m shipyard, and that is the largest vessel integration yard in West Africa. Right now we are involved in a project where we are building a $3.8bn offshore oil and gas vessel, and that is going to enable, for the first time in Nigeria’s history, a vessel of this kind to be birthed onshore in Nigeria. This means that instead of the entire project being centred around an offshore location – either in America or more recently in South Korea – all of the work can now be done in Nigeria.

What is the impact of this?

In real terms this means that if you’re fabricating something that needs to go onto this vessel, before LADOL built this facility you would have had to put whatever it was you are fabricating – and these are massive structures, weighing like a 1,000 tonnes – on a ship and send it to South Korea to be made part of something else. And clearly the economics of that don’t make sense. So because it was so difficult and so expensive, people didn’t fabricate in Nigeria. It just wasn’t worth it. Now, because we have this facility at LADOL, we have created a space where you can do this fabrication in country and it is economically viable because you don’t have to ship the fabricated pieces to the other side of the world – everything stays in country. So the local demand for fabrication is going up four times and we are creating 50,000 jobs directly and indirectly because there is a 10x multiplier effect.

By building this all-in-one industrial village, we are able to give people the sort of specialised infrastructure, equipment and trained personnel they need, all in one location. And we are able to do these massive projects in Nigeria instead of doing them outside of the country, which obviously has tremendous benefits for Nigeria.

But clearly building this kind of infrastructure and setting up this kind of operation takes a long time… We’ve been building the facility now for almost 15 years. We have invested $500m and the investment is still continuing.

Other than skilled labour and manufacturing facilities, what are some of the infrastructural and operational benefits of LADOL’s industrial village?

The town has been built with infrastructure which is tailored towards heavy industrial activity. So the roads can carry a much heavier load, and the equipment, buildings, and everything is built with a very high level of structural integrity. We have very heavy cranes, which aren’t available elsewhere in the country. And because we focused exclusively on this high-value industrial end of the market, throughout the whole village the health and safety standards, as well as the security standards, are also very high. So if you’re a foreign company coming into this environment, you will literally be able to land and just focus on doing your business. You won’t have to make any further investment nor worry about safety and security considerations.

On top of this, the village is also a free zone which means it comes with another set of benefits such as duty free importation, zero corporate taxes, and ease of bureaucracy. In a free zone, all of your visas, customs, tariffs, and so on, are all done in the same place. This all adds to its efficiency, coupled with the fact that we have specifically designed it to operate 24/7 and have all the government agencies in the free zone. This enables companies to have a very predictable manufacturing or fabrication schedule, which is important for these industrial projects.

So someone sitting in Houston or London can predict how much they are going to spend, when they are going to spend it, and what the timelines are. Because of the environment we have created, when they do their planning for their project, they will find that they will be able to do their project in Nigeria as cheaply (or even more cheaply) than in South Korea or in other places in Europe.

How much room exists for more free zones like this in West Africa?

The market is grossly, grossly underserved.

While I am a huge believer in free markets and an advocate of competition, at the stage we are at now, I am actually advocating that in Nigeria – and even countries across West Africa – we actually look at collaboration. Because within Nigeria we could do with 10 or 15 LADOLs, providing different infrastructure for different business focuses.

Look at the market in terms of local content. Local content is the amount of a given project that is done in country. In Nigeria right now, if a project is worth $10, the average local content level is probably about 10%. So out of that $10 only $1 is being spent in Nigeria. Our new local content law, passed in 2010, stipulates certain levels of local content – the minimum is around 50% with a target of reaching 70-100% depending on the area you’re looking at.

So with the new local content law stipulating such high levels of local content and if you look at the existing level of activity, there is a need to increase the facilities that we have at least five-fold. It is probably more because we want to service not just Nigeria, but also the West Africa market. And so the capacity that the market has right now exceeds the available services and facilities by a factor of at least five to seven.

If you look at Nigeria over the next 10 to 20 years… oil and gas is supposed to double. This is massive. We will go from two million barrels of oil a day to about four million. If you then think about in terms of local content, currently at 10%, we are then talking about a 10 times increase in the amount of local activity we are targeting. So that means we are looking to employ and train hundreds of thousands of Nigerians in this sector.

And if you look at what happened in Norway, when it did exactly what Nigeria is doing now between 1970 and 1990, it went from being a sort of fishing-orientated rural country, to now being the leading most technologically-advanced country in terms of oil and gas engineering and fabrication. They became world leaders in this, and they started out by relying on technology transfer from the British, as well as coupling that with investments from Norwegians and the Norwegian government.

In Nigeria we are doing exactly the same thing. We are getting technology transfer from the Koreans, Americans as well as some European companies, and we are relying on that technology being passed onto Nigerian companies, with a lot of private sector investment building facilities like LADOL.

So the market is not endangered of being saturated for at least another 20 years.

http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/running-a-free-zone-in-nigeria-qa-with-ladols-managing-director/52302/

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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by FFKfuckedBIANCA: 3:33pm On Oct 27, 2015
Aareonakakanfo:



Are they all registered? If they are, should we stop relying on information from DAWN? What do you think?
They are all registered and more are still coming up. Anchor University is still waiting for the NUC accreditation, so i did not include it. The list on the DAWN website is outdated

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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:35pm On Oct 27, 2015
@quimicababes

I saw ya post and I'll post a reply in a bit.

Just wanted to get a few profiles out to kick today rolling.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:37pm On Oct 27, 2015
Dr. Soni Oyekan

Chemical Engineering Graduate Dr. Soni Oyekan receives the Percy L. Julian Award
Dr. Soni Oyekan has received the 2009 Percy L. Julian Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. The Percy L. Julian Award is the most prestigious award presented by NOBCChE. The award recognizes and honors a recipient's scientific contributions and achievements, dedication to research, commitment to the educational development of others and passion for the chemistry profession. Dr. Oyekan was specifically recognized for his contributions in oil refining and chemical engineering. He has 10 patents and numerous publications on a variety of topics in petroleum refining and catalysis.

Dr. Soni Oyekan has over 30 years experience in the field of petroleum refining and associated technologies. Soni came to the United States in 1966 from Nigeria and earned his B.S. degree from Yale University in 1970. He subsequently went on to garner M.S. (1972) and Ph.D. degrees (1977) from Carnegie Mellon University in chemical engineering. Soni is the Reforming and Isomerization Technologist of Marathon Oil Company. Soni's contributions in the chemical engineering profession are notable due to his contributions with respect to the efficient use of reactor engineering and catalysis in the processing of crude oil to meet consumer demands for transportation fuel, heating oil, propane and butane gases and for his extensive volunteer and leadership roles in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Soni has held a variety of positions in AIChE.

The positions include chair of Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (F&PD), chair of the Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) and he served as a director of the AIChE Executive Board. He is a member of the AIChE Foundation Board of Trustees and a Fellow of the AIChE. Soni has contributed over the years in technical discussions on petroleum refining at the annual National Petroleum Refiners Association (NPRA) Q&A conferences. He has been honored for his academic achievements and research in petroleum refining. Soni is a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He is a member of the Yale Manuscript Society. He was honored by AIChE's Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) with MAC's Distinguished Service award in 2000. The Fuels and Petrochemicals Division honored him with its Distinguished Service award in 2002. He is listed in the 2000 13th edition of Who's Who Amongst African Americans. Dr Soni Oyekan was named an Eminent Black Chemical Engineer by MAC at the AIChE Centennial Meeting in 2008. He is the recipient of the AIChE MAC 2008 William W. Grimes award for excellent contributions in chemical engineering and mentoring of under represented minority groups.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:37pm On Oct 27, 2015
I don't know why i'm not just comfortable with the whole idea of setting up everything in Lagos, it makes no sense!



Look at this



[size=13pt]Lagos IGR ‘outstrips’ 31 states put together[/size]

The internally generated revenue (IGR) in Lagos state is more than that of 31 other states put together, according to data from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Lagos internally generated N276.16b in 2014, ahead of Rivers and Delta which generated N89.11b and N42.82b respectively. On the low end were Borno, Yobe, Zamfara, Ekiti and Kebbi, generating N2.8b, N3.1b, N3.2b, N3.5b and N3.7b respectively.

TheCable confirmed from the report that the Lagos state IGR was more than the combined internal income of 31 states. The states are Cross River, Ogun, Abia, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Kaduna, Kano, Ondo, Kwara, Benue, Anambra, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Imo, Plateau, Osun, Jigawa, Katsina, Sokoto, Adamawa, Bauchi, Kebbi, Niger, Kogi, Gombe, Nasarawa, Yobe, Taraba, Ekiti, Zamfara and Borno. The 31 states internally generated a total of N263.8b while Lagos earned N276.2b for the same period. None of the 25 states above generated up to N15b in the year under review, with more than 75 percent generating under N10b per annum.


The revenue generation in the Nigerian states, however experienced a steady growth from 2010 to 2014, starting out at N401.4 billion in 2010 to N487.5 billion in 2011. The figures grew to N584.4 billion in 2012, N662.1 billion in 2013, closing at N707.9 billion in 2014. The Lagos state government generated a total of N1.08 trillion in IGR between 2010 and 2014, while Borno state generated N11.3b within the same time.

https://www.thecable.ng/lagos-igr-outstrips-31-states-put-together

Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by WIZGUY69(m): 3:38pm On Oct 27, 2015
Aareonakakanfo:



Are they all registered? If they are, should we stop relying on information from DAWN? What do you think?


It's 15 in all, but only 9 are accredited.

like McPherson university for example, its not accredited, the school is still in construction phase.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:38pm On Oct 27, 2015
Shymm3x:
@quimicababes

I saw ya post and I'll post a reply in a bit.

Just wanted to get a few profiles out to kick today rolling.

It is well....I done tire lol grin
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:41pm On Oct 27, 2015
Saheela Ibraheem



Saheela Ibraheem was accepted to Harvard College at age 15, and arrived at 16. She took ultra-tough Math 55. She was a teaching fellow for Harvard’s largest class, CS50. She introduced President Barack Obama at a reception in March. Now, she is graduating at just 20.

So she’s planning a well-earned rest.

Ibraheem is a Quincy House neurobiology concentrator with a computer science secondary and an aim for a career in academia. That means graduate school is in her future. But first she’s taking a gap year and, for once, has no specific plans for it yet.

Ibraheem, who grew up in Piscataway, N.J., has long been in the spotlight for her academic achievements. At 16, she was named to a list of “The World’s 50 Smartest Teenagers,” which got the attention of the White House. She was invited to Washington, D.C., in early March, where she introduced the president and first lady at a reception to kick off Black History Month.

“She’s like the State Department and the National Institutes of Health all rolled into one,” Obama said during a short speech. “Young people like this inspire our future.”

Ibraheem became interested in neurobiology in high school — which she entered after skipping sixth and ninth grades — when she picked up a copy of “Gray’s Anatomy” at the school library. She fed that interest at Harvard not just in class, but also in the laboratory of Emery Brown, who investigates the neurobiology of anesthesia and holds appointments at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.

Ibraheem’s parents are both numerically inclined. Her father is a quantitative analyst for a New York bank, and her mother is an accountant. She has three younger brothers, two of whom are in their first years at Yale University and Dartmouth College. Lest her academic accolades give her a big head, one brother reminds her occasionally that he got into Yale, and she didn’t.

Being younger than her Harvard classmates didn’t prove too difficult, Ibraheem said, though she recalled that one first meeting with a classmate devolved into an argument about how old she really was. Other than that, she said that being too young to buy some cold medicines or to see R-rated movies were the most significant obstacles.

At Harvard, Ibraheem has been a member of the Harvard Islamic Society, and worked with two other student groups: the Science Club for Girls, which provides after-school mentoring at the Amigos School in Cambridge, and, Dreamporte, which uses 3-D technology to teach geography and world culture to foster children.

When asked what advice she had for incoming students, Ibraheem said that they shouldn’t shy away from challenging classes, but that they also shouldn’t sacrifice sleep and free time just to study endlessly.

“There are so many new people. Meet as many as you can. Maybe try out extracurriculars you didn’t [try] before,” Ibraheem said.

Ibraheem said her Harvard experience transformed her from a shy person to someone comfortable meeting people, talking with them, and listening to them.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 3:45pm On Oct 27, 2015
Just to add a few things before people mix things up. Saheela ibraheem speaks Yoruba despite not growing up in Nigeria.Her mother’s name is Shakirat Ibrahim and her father Sarafa Ibraheem is a graduate of the University of Ibadan

I added this because some people might think she's hausa because of her name

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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:46pm On Oct 27, 2015
Deborah Ajakaiye



Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye (born 1940) is a Nigerian geophysicist. She is the first female physics professor in Africa and her work in geophysics has played an important role in mining in Nigeria.

Ajakaiye was born in 1940 in the city of Jos, the capital of Plateau State in Nigeria. She was the fifth of sixth children. Her parents believed in equal education of the sexes and distributed household chores among both the male and female children. In 1962 she graduated from the University of Ibadan with a degree in physics. She received a master's degree at the University of Birmingham in England, and in 1970 received her Ph.D. in geophysics from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. Originally interested in mathematics, Ajakaiye says she chose to pursue geophysics because she believed it could help her country.

Ajakaiye became the first female professor of physics in Africa in 1980. She has taught at Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Jos, serving as the dean of natural sciences at the latter. Her work with geovisualization has been used to locate both mineral deposits and groundwater in Nigeria. She has also created a map of the topography of Nigeria, working with several of her female students. Ajakaiye stated that many male scientists had changed their perception of women scientists after interacting with her and her students.

Ajakaiye has been recognized for both her scientific advancements and her aid to the nation of Nigeria. The Nigerian Mining and GeoSciences Society honored her for her work, making her the first woman to receive the award. She was also the first black African to be named a fellow of the Geological Society of London
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:48pm On Oct 27, 2015
Ronke Ige



Ronke Ige is a serial entrepreneur and founder of two London based companies, Emi & Ben and Bread + Butter Communications.

Founded in 2009, Emi & Ben is a natural skincare company, specialising in handmade body butters produced with 100% unrefined shea butter.

Bread + Butter Communications is a full service PR agency. Founded in 2005, the company specialises in fashion and consumer PR in addition to representing entertainment professionals, experts and business personalities.

In addition to running two successful businesses, Ronke serves as an ambassador for The Prince’s Trust and Enterprise UK.
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by WIZGUY69(m): 3:49pm On Oct 27, 2015
cry *Just seeing thread where Kwankwanso insulted Yoruba elders in there land*
and I was thinking: How or why are we joined together with those Leeches & saboteurs? am vexed right now?
what were Yoruba elders doing when the son of a b*tch was spilling trash? IMHO that isn't sophistication again, it's docility! and been docile isn't healthy in Africa? I ask again, can any Yoruba man talk like that in the North? I know north too well, they will stone the person to death? what do we stand to gain in this eye service union? God bless FFK. From now on, I am now your fan & supporter.
To hell with APC/PDP thingy.
Some factions are trying to move froward, some are drawing us backward.
nonsense!
To All the Northern Elites that refuse to give your people education & the basic needs of life, they will be the ones to extinct you from the face of the earth!

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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 3:53pm On Oct 27, 2015
Bolaji Aluko



Mobolaji E. Aluko (b. 2 April 1955; in Lagos, Nigeria) is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Howard University, Washington, DC, and was Chair of its department from 1994-2002. With an BSc degree (1976) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ife (Nigeria; now Obafemi Awolowo University), he also attended Imperial College, University of London; University of California, Santa Barbara; and State University of New York, Buffalo (for graduate and post-doc studies). He has had sabbatical teaching and research stints at various times at the University of Washington, (Seattle; Materials Science Department); the University of Maryland (College Park; Chemical Engineering), and the Ekiti State University (Nigeria; Mechanical Engineering Department). He started teaching at Howard University in August 1984. His research interests are mathematical modeling, chemical reaction engineering, electronic materials processing, energy systems, information technology and education pedagogy.

He is President/CEO of Alondex Applied Technologies, LLC: one-time Lead Consultant and International Coordinator of the LEAD Program at the National Universities Commission (NUC) in Nigeria; and Principal Academic Consultant and Member of the Board of AfriHUB (Nig.) Ltd., a ICT resource provider for universities in Nigeria.

He is an activist and frequent commentator on Nigerian and African affairs. He was recently (February 2011) appointed as the Vice-Chancellor (i.e., University President) of the Federal University, Otuoke, in Bayelsa State of Nigeria, one of nine new federal universities established by the Federal Government.

He is the uncle of professional footballer Sone Aluko who plays for Hull City in the Premier League, and Eniola Aluko who plays for Chelsea Ladies of the FA WSL.

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