TOBI KAZIMone thing in common here is they all went abroad which depicts a set of men who went ahead in knowledge to become their dreams#kudos

TOBI KAZIM.one thing in common here is they all went abroad which depicts a set of men who went ahead in knowledge to become their dreams#kudos

Karmanaut:

Because he is.
Read this exposè.
www.elendureports.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=33

...And what the hell is elendureports? Huh?

Who says Nigerians can’t do it? Ask Professor Nok (Trypanosomiasis busted)

Culled from Daily Trust Newspaper.
Nok is back in the news again with one of her sons receiving Nigeria’s National Merit Award for path breaking research, which discovered the gene responsible for sleeping sickness.
Nok in Kaduna state is famous for its terracottas which came to light in the 1940s, and brought the quiet community to global attention. Nok has also produced a famous son in the person of Professor Andrew Jonathan Nok, a Professor of Biochemistry at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, who was last year conferred with a national honour, being Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) by President Good luck Jonathan, which also carries with it a handsome $10 million. This is one of Nigeria’s highest honours. Professor Nok, who has had his entire education and training in Nigeria, and is in this sense, truly homemade or home grown, has many firsts to his name, and shows that what is World-Class and profound can also emerge from within the borders of our country. This is also a big plus for the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where Professor Nok was trained. Professor Nok is the only African so far to win the prestigeous Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience Research Award. Most previous winners of this award went on to win the Nobel Prize. He is one hundred percent a truly Nigerian and global Star, and his achievements are correspondingly, stellar.

naturalwaves:
...And what the hell is elendureports? Huh?

Website owned by a Nigerian. I think the owner used to wok for Sahara Reporters. If you don't want that site, then this one is by a nairalander: www.nairaland.com/19285/philip-emeagwali-media-hype

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You are the most gullible Nigerian!

I invented poundomala, pounded yam and Amala mixed together, it took me 5hrs to invent and only 20mins to devour.. a round of applause for me please, e no easy

There is also Professor Animalu.

Alexander Obiefoka Enukora Animalu, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Physics at University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

He holds a B.Sc. (London), M.A. (Cantab.) and Ph.D. (Ibadan), FAS, NNOM, IOM [1]

A pioneer of solar energy in Nigeria, Animalu is a physicist of international repute, member of the highest advisory body on Science and Technology to the Nigerian government, Honorary Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (2001–2003) and former Director National Mathematical Centre, Abuja.

The only African member till date of the Advisory Board of the Euro-Journal Physica(B)[2] and the only African member of the Editorial Board of the Hadronic Journal, he is also the founding editor of the Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy and one of the pioneering editors of the Bulletin of the Nigerian Institute of Physics. Foundation President of the Solar Energy Society of Nigeria, foundation editor, Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy, foundation member, United States Energy Research and Development Administration and Foundation member and former President of the Nigerian Academy of Science, Animalu is author of 28 books in both the sciences and the humanities, including the famous Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids and biographies of Rt. Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Professor Chike Obi, Professor Kenneth Dike, Professor Samuel Okoye, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor Chukwuedu Nwokolo, Professor Cyril Onwumechili among others.


Between January, 1966 and December, 1967, Animalu was Research Associate in Division of Applied Physics, Stanford University and between January, 1968 and August, 1968, he was a visiting scientist at the Department of Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In September, 1968, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri, Rolla. His research work was in solid state and elementary particle physics. In 1970, he moved to Drexel University in Pennsylvania, as Associate Professor of Physics. A major breakthrough in his career came in April 1972 when he was appointed a research physicist, at the Lincoln Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) working under H.J. Zeiger and J.B. Goodenough on research projects related to development of computer core memory and primarily on the development of the transition-metal model potential, thus extending his Ph.D. thesis area to now include all elements of the periodic table. It was within this period that he completed his principal book, Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids published by Prentice-Hall in 1977. It became a world-wide classic with an Indian Edition published by Prentice-Hall of India in 1978. It was also translated into Russian by the Russian Academy of Science in 1981, reprinted in US in 1994 and is currently on the World Wide Web

It was this College Scholarship that saw him through the University of Cambridge in the UK between October, 1962 and December, 1965 when he obtained the M.A. (Cantab) and Ph.D. (Maths) in Theoretical Solid State Physics. The high quality of his Ph.D. thesis was attested to, when the main results were published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1965 and included in W.A. Harrison's book entitled "Pseudopotentials in the Theory of Metals".[3] The book contained the model potential tables which were in such high demand by researchers in the field of metal physics and semiconductor electronics that the Ph.D. thesis work as published in Philosophical Magazine became by 1983, a citation classic, having been cited more than 729 times between 1965 and 2001.[4] He is the only African in Physics to have earned such a record of citations, his paper being the best among the best twelve cited papers from the University of Cambridge in fifty years (1930–1980). It is of interest to note that four of these twelve most cited works from Cambridge have subsequently won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Karmanaut:

Website owned by a Nigerian.
I think the owner used to wok for Sahara Reporters.
If you don't want that site, then this one is by a nairalander:
www.nairaland.com/19285/philip-emeagwali-media-hype

So, nairaland is now a source again? Huh? Fine, he was denied a Phd degree which isn't a new thing, happens even in Nigerian universities so, what exactly is your point? That he didn't win the Gordon Bell prize for his application in a model or what?

princeogbeide1:
This great men exceedingly had their break through in the wilderness of Biafra and Boko harram crises which had been developing long ago. Am still proud of my country" If not for Phillip Emeagwali, wireless connections wouldn't have been intensely experienced in the globe. He created the fastest computer in 1989-1998 that can perform 3.1billon calculations per second which is faster than the speed of a cray supercomputer " this is a man who was born in 1954 and was raised in the town of Onitsha in a family of eight. Thats an unbeatable remark of Nigeria in Africa" Remarks still goes to late Mohammed Bah who invented a natural cooling system wit clay soil far back as 1900" no wonder we got the true title of being the giant of Africa" we miss our lost peace"

And this man innovated an independent power generator, no solar support, no inverter, no fuel, no engine oil, no sound etc

naturalwaves:

So, nairaland is now a source again? Huh? Fine, he was denied a Phd degree which isn't a new thing, happens even in Nigerian universities so, what exactly is your point?

Google his website and read his acclaimed achievements.

That he didn't win the Gordon Bell prize for his application in a model or what?

That's the only true part of the story, however according to the charlatan the Gordon Bell prize is equivalent to the Nobel prize for computer science.
Spoiler alert: it doesn't come close.

Read his website to see the list of all his "achievements", a TL;DR is in on the first page, then maybe you'll see why he's considered a fraud.

what is philip doing on that list . . .

Here is a comprehensive list of the 50 most influential scientists in the world based on a gathering of data from the top 100 Universities and Research Institutes from across the globe.
As you can see from the list no "local champion" Nigerian scientists came within a whisker of significance.

NAME AND FIELD

1. Alain AspectQuantum Theory
2. David BaltimoreVirology—HIV & Cancer
3. Allen BardElectrochemistry
4. Timothy Berners-Lee Computer Science
5. John Tyler Bonner Evolutionary Biology
6. Dennis Bray Molecular Biology
7. Sydney Brenner Biology—Genetics
8. Pierre Chambon Genetics & Cellular Biology
9. Simon Conway Morris Evolutionary Paleobiology
10. Mildred Dresselhaus Carbon Science
11. Gerald M. Edelman Neuroscience
12. Ronald Evans Molecular Genetics
13. Anthony Fauci Immunology—HIV
14. Anthony Fire Genetics—RNAi
15. Jean Fréchet Biotechnology
16. Margaret Geller Astronomy
17. Jane Goodall Primatologist
18. Alan Guth Inflationary Cosmology
19. Lene Vestergaard HauQuantum Physics
20. Stephen Hawking Physics & Cosmology
21. Peter Higgs Physics—Higgs Boson
22. Leroy Hood Systems Biology
23. Eric Kandel Neuroscience
24. Andrew Knoll Paleontology
25. Charles Kao Fiber Optics

26. Martin Karplus Quantum Chemistry
27. Donald KnuthComputer Programming
28. Robert Marks II Computational Intelligence
29. Craig Mello Molecular Medicine
30. Luc Montagnier Immunology—HIV
31. Gordon Moore Physicist—Intel Corp.
32. Kary Mullis DNA Chemist
33. C. Nüsslein- Volhard Developmental Biology
34. Seiji Ogawaf MRI Technology
35. Jeremiah Ostriker. Astrophysics
36. Roger Penrose Mathematics & Physics
37. Stanley Prusiner Neurodegeneration
38. Henry F. Schaefer III Quantum Chemistry
39. Thomas Südhof Neurotransmission
40. Jack Szostak Genetics
41. James Tour Nanotechnology
42. Charles Townes Quantum Electronics
43. Harold Varmus Oncology
44. Craig Venter Human Genetics
45. James Watson Molecular Biology—DNA
46. Steven Weinberg Theoretical Physics
47. George Whitesides Chemistry—Spectroscopy
48. Edward Wilson Biology—Myrmecology
49. Edward Witten String Theory
50. Shinya Yamanaka Stem Cell Research

You have forgotten prof Gordian Ezekwe

waShine:
And this man innovated an independent power generator, no solar support, no inverter, no fuel, no engine oil, no sound etc

Wow" more details please

kaakulator5:
[size=15pt]WHEN WILL YOU GUYS ADMIT THE FACT THAT EMEAGWALI IS A FRAUD AND HE DIDN'T DO SH*T[/size]

http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame

[size=15pt]SEMOUR CLAY IS THE FATHER OF SUPERCOMPUTING[/size]

Thank you for this post, I never knew the guy was a fraud

favAMEBO:
lalasticlala needs to see this... Please show the world Nigeria is not all about bomb blast, kidnapping and other evil vices.

You produce five scientist,then on contrary,allow five hundred teenage girls to be brainwashed into suicide bombing. Abeg my sis,Balance the equation.

kaakulator5:
[size=15pt]WHEN WILL YOU GUYS ADMIT THE FACT THAT EMEAGWALI IS A FRAUD AND HE DIDN'T DO SH*T[/size]

http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame

[size=15pt]SEMOUR CLAY IS THE FATHER OF SUPERCOMPUTING[/size]

u are so mentally re.tarded that d only 'credible' u could quote to discredit Emeagwali's work is Saharareporters. You and SR are PHD ( pull him down-syndrome) holders

Karmanaut:

Google his website and read his acclaimed achievements.

That's the only true part of the story, however according to the charlatan the Gordon Bell prize is equivalent to the Nobel prize for computer science.
Spoiler alert: it doesn't come close.

Read his website to see the list of all his "achievements", a TL;DR is in on the first page, then maybe you'll see why he's considered a fraud.

Fine, one thing is common with the site, he boosts his ego but there was no where he called himself a Doctor the only issue is that when people call him "doctor" like the newspaper invite from Jamaica on the first page, he doesn't deny it, that's all! As for the father of internet and so on, he didn't claim he is, he just put them under related posts in which there is a likelihood his name pops up when such are read or discussed. His picture on the postage stamp, was that false too? I only see a man that is proud of his little achievements, nothing like fraud too and yes! He is an excellent mathematician too, went through some of his writeups. Cut him some slack!

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ProfDumbledor:

u are so mentally retarded that d only 'credible' u could quote to discredit Emeagwali's work is Saharareporters. You and SR are PHD ( pull him down-syndrome) holders

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YOU'RE MAD EXCEDINGLY.U'RE A GOAT WITH MONTAGE MADNESS SYNDROME.I'M SURE YOU MEANT YOUR FATHER IS MENTALLY SLOW STUP1D LUNATIC.USELESS SON OF A NON ENTITY.

kaakulator5:
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YOU'RE MAD EXCEDINGLY.U'RE A GOAT WITH MONTAGE MADNESS SYNDROME.I'M SURE YOU MEANT YOUR FATHER IS MENTALLY SLOW STUP1D LUNATIC.USELESS SON OF A NON ENTITY.

Now I know who u are and where u come from. No need for d binge

Nigerians must bring federal character in everything, WTF is pot in pot refrigration? he inserted one pot into another & that becomes invention? op remove that man from there & replace it with Achuzie that invented Ogbunigwe, a remote controled bomb that was extensively used during the Biafran war, at a point during the war, it single handedly decimeted a batalion of Nigerian soldiers at Abagana in present day Anambra State.

ProfDumbledor:

u are so mentally re.tarded that d only 'credible' u could quote to discredit Emeagwali's work is Saharareporters. You and SR are PHD ( pull him down-syndrome) holders

Yorubas are despicable, the more you reply that dude the more he feels important, they are so envious that they dont have anybody that comes close to Philip Emeagwali's invention that they resorted to cheap blackmail to discredit him. That God those that matters acknowledg his invention so they can die in their hate for all we care.

kaakulator5:
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YOU'RE MAD EXCEDINGLY.U'RE A GOAT WITH MONTAGE MADNESS SYNDROME.I'M SURE YOU MEANT YOUR FATHER IS MENTALLY SLOW STUP1D LUNATIC.USELESS SON OF A NON ENTITY.

He told you the bitter truth. Of all sources, it is sahara reporters you were able to quote. Now, let me educate you a bit because you didn't study computer science as it is very obvious from the way you made Clay's name so bold. Of course, it is an undisputed fact that Cray evented the first super computer the Cray 1 and other series but super computers could have different variants; it just refers to a machine that can process several calculations within a very minute time.

As for Emeagwali, he worked on a super computer known as CM-2(he didn't invent it); there was CM-1 before that time. There is something called "parallel processing"...a type of architecture used in computers in order to make it work faster (read more), that was the section of the CM-2 he worked on and he achieved the right result in the model that was further developed using that same CM-2 thus earning him the Gordom Bell Prize for that year.

The only issue is that his achievements was exaggerated particularly by people who don't read nor listen well. Did he invent the super computer? NO ( every knowledgeable person knows this). Did he work on a super computer? YES, he did and got a prize for his efforts on the CM-2 he worked on.

Geraraheremehn:
Buhari should be there, he invented boko haram, insurgency, west germany and osinbade

lollll

MrKontrovErsy:
I can see 3 Igbo men representing where it matters most. and no yorobbber man on d list. we for no hear word today.
now where are those Flat Head amala eaters that always talkin rubbish.?
I hope they are seeing this. its not all about propaganda and stuffz

wen will we ever grow to love each oda,,its a fight our fathers nd forefathers lost a long time ago nd we r still dwellin on it,,the past is long gone lets build a better future....#peace

Philip Emeagwali and Prof. Oyibo should be removed from the so-called list. In my opinion, Philip Emeagwali seems to be a brilliant mind that allowed his ego to derail him. His greatest mistake was jumping from Mathematics to Civil Engineering where he had little or no expertise. Except the Gordon Bell Prize, Philip, neither invented the Internet, nor had any patent ascribed to his name. Prof. Oyibo kwanu? A promising academic that became unhinged for unclear reasons.

Seunaj05:
Where is Jelani Aliyu on that list? Jelani Aliyu (the Nigerian who designed GM's First Electric Car)
Albert Einstein and the likes did not aspire to become the president of their nations. Instead of aspiring for a presidential ticket I believe they can start a foundation dat will afford young Africans to achieve more. I celebrate them

He designed the car, he didn't invent it.

Oyibo and Emeagwali are confirmed fraudsters

Intellectual 419: Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo Compared By Farooq A. Kperogi Ask an average Nigerian to name the country’s most famous scientists. In all likelihood, they would mention “Dr.” (or “Professor”) Philip Emeagwali and Dr. Gabriel Oyibo. This, in a way, is excusable ignorance. After all, the great President Bill Clinton has been scammed into undeservedly calling Emeagwali “one of the great minds of the information age” and the “Bill Gates of Africa.” And such prestigious Western news organizations as TIME, CNN and BBC fell for Emeagwali’s smartly orchestrated intellectual fraud. Philip Emeagwali As for Dr. Gabriel Oyibo, he was for many years touted in the Nigerian media as the great successor to Albert Einstein, as a four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics, and as the inventor of the "almighty" GAGUT (God Almighty Grand Unified Theorem), which he farcically calls “the theory of everything.” On the basis of his comically delusional intellectual fraud, Oyibo has been celebrated in Nigeria as one of the greatest scientists that ever lived. Gabriel Oyibo However, the elaborate intellectual fraud of Emeagwali and Oyibo are now unraveling rapidly. SaharaReporters, the enormously popular, muckraking diasporan citizen media site, has done a series of exposés on the intellectual fraud of Philip Emeagwali. At least two mainstream Nigerian newspaper columnists have done the same in the last few weeks. I'd had cause to call attention to the intellectual chicanery of these characters in my July 15, 2006 Weekly Trust column, then called “Notes from Louisiana,” which can be found on this blog. Oyibo and Emeagwali are certainly different in many respects. But they are also similar in more ways than one. First, Oyibo started out as a productive scholar who actually published a number of peer-reviewed, scientific articles before he degenerated into his current patently psychoneurotic state (I will give evidence for my conclusion shortly); Emeagwali, on the other hand, never had a Ph.D., is/was never a professor by any understanding of the term, has never published in any peer-reviewed journal, nor owned any patent—all contrary to his claims. However, Emeagwali did win an actual award—the Gordon Bell Prize— whose significance he has exaggerated beyond the bounds of reason and decency. Note, though, that Oyibo also claims to be a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics. This is pretty much like Emeagwali's fraudulent claims to being "a" or "the" father of the Internet. The Guardian's U.S. correspondent, a certain Laolu Akande, is the biggest accomplice in Oyibo's fraud. Until the last few years, the Guardian often reported that Oyibo was among the top three candidates being considered for the Nobel Prize in Physics. This intentionally deceitful newspaper speculation was/is the basis for his unearned popularity in Nigerian elite circles. I don't know if this has changed, but when I was in Nigeria it was customary to identify Oyibo in Nigerian newspaper narratives as a "three-time Nobel Prize nominee in Physics." In the Afro-romantic digital black diaspora, in fact, it is usual to identify him as a four-time Nobel Prize nominee! Now, the Nobel Committee does NOT disclose the identities of the nominees for any of its prizes until at least 50 years after the prize has been announced. How in the world did Oyibo and the Guardian's Laolu Akande know that Oyibo was a nominee for the Physics Prize? In fact, Omoyele Sowore, publisher of SaharaReporters.com and former citizen reporter for the now tame and compromised ElenduReports.com, unmasked this fraud years ago. He sent emails to the Nobel Committee asking to know if Oyibo had ever been a nominee for their Physics Prize. Of course, they flatly disclaimed it. They said it was impossible for anybody to know if he was a nominee for any Prize until several decades after the fact. So, in more ways than one, Oyibo is guilty of the same intentionally fraudulent self-promotion that Emeagwali has a dubious honor for. Like Emeagwali, he currently feeds on this fraud since he, like Emeagwali, is effectively jobless now. Plus, Oyibo stakes his claims to unparalleled scientific genius on the basis of his ludicrously incoherent and insane GAGUT theory, which hasn't been published in any peer-reviewed scientific journal or book, although he has a vanity, self-published book that he flaunts every time—much like Emeagwali's claims to having 41 patents, which have turned out to be patents in sophisticated, intricately multi-layered intellectual frauds. But any one who has followed Oyibo's life closely will agree that the man needs help—seriously. The brother has lost it. He has no job as I write now. He left the university system as an untenured associate professor years ago. (Hmm.... Can you imagine a four-time Nobel Prize nominee in Physics who no U.S. university or research institution wants to touch with a barge pole?) If you need evidence of Oyibo’s undisguised psychic imbalance, read his deleted profile on Wikipedia, which he wrote of himself. Here is a sample from the profile for your amusement: “Honors and Awards: Professor G. Oyibo has been recognized as being closer to GOD (intellectually and in other ways), than any other human being because of the GAGUT discovery. He has also been recognized by the Nigerian Federal Government as Mathematical Genius which was inscribed on a Nigerian Postage Stamp that was issued in 2005. Professor G. Oyibo has also been recognized as the Greatest Genius and the Most Intelligent Human Being ever created by GOD. He has also been recognized as the Greatest Mathematical Genius of all time. Professor G. Oyibo has been recognized by the Nigerian Senate, representing the entire population of Nigeria of over 200 million people, through a Senate Motion No. 151 page 320 presented in the Federal Republic of Nigeria Order Paper on Tuesday, 15th March, 2005." If the above is not proof of a man who is truly in need of psychiatric help, I don't know what is. Emeagwali and Oyibo honored on Nigerian postage stamps by the Nigerian government in 2005 But the greater concern for me, however, is that our hunger for heroes has predisposed us to be easily susceptible to all kinds of cheap intellectual frauds. By officially celebrating Emeagwali and Oyibo, the Nigerian state has inadvertently become an accomplice in intellectual 419. And by engraving their images on our postage stamps, the Nigerian state has unwittingly and permanently stamped deceit and false pretenses (otherwise known as 419) on our national consciousness—and on our international image. That’s a shame.

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By Farooq A. Kperogi My article titled “Intellectual 419: Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo Compared” which compares and contrasts the tendency for Dr. Oyibo and Mr. Emeagwali to romanticize and hyperbolize their contributions to knowledge—to put it mildly—attracted quite a buzz on the Internet. I have been told that the hate-filled, barely literate commenters that swarm Sahara Reporters like fetid maggots hurled vile and vicious personal insults at me for exposing the intellectual fraud of these swellheaded, egotistical imposters. I have stopped reading comments on my articles on such Nigerian Internet sites as Sahara Reporters and the Nigerian Village Square; they are too sadly familiar and too predictably malicious and ignorant to deserve being read by any serious person. So I didn’t get to read the insults thrown at me. But two article-length responses were written to my write-up by two respected Nigerians. The first was by Mr. Sonala Olumhense, the cerebral Guardian columnist whose exceedingly well-written essay I had the pleasure to read in my secondary school Practical English class several years ago. (I had no idea that he was still alive until I rediscovered him in the Guardian in the 1990s). That he wrote such a kind and flattering defense of me is at once humbling and inebriating. The second article-length response to my article was written by a certain Dr. Dare Afolabi, a mechanical engineer who teaches at the Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis, which I thought was a fair and thoughtful, if misguided, rejoinder. The substance of the rejoinder was that although Oyibo may be “crazy,” he did make substantial contributions to knowledge in his field, and that it is not impossible that the Guardian was right in speculating that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics. He then brought the example of a certain Arthur Clarke whom the New York Times reported to have been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1994. “The whole world knew, in 1994, not fifty years later, the same way Arthur Clarke knew that he was a nominee for the Peace Prize in 1994: someone leaked it. Leak? In journalism? How in the world is that possible?” he wrote. Well, these are valid points. Recall, though, that I admitted that Oyibo did, in fact, make original contributions to scholarship through his many peer-reviewed, scholarly publications. Not being a scientist, I am, of course, in no position to sit in judgment over the quality of these contributions, but I am persuaded by the fact that he did lots of work that went through the crucible of peer review. My point—which Dr. Afolabi seemed to agree with when he said "More recently, however, I must confess that Gabriel has lost me when he started speculating on Atum, Atom, God, and so on”—is that Oyibo's GAGUT theory, which is at best an unpersuasive conflation of science and metaphysics, on which he stakes his claim to genius and Nobel Prize nomination, has never been peer-reviewed, hasn’t been published by an academic press, is pooh-poohed by his peers, and therefore can’t be anything but the vapors of a once brilliant but disturbed mind. So, that leaves us with the question: on the strength of what contribution to knowledge was Oyibo nominated for the Nobel Prize? His routine academic articles as a university professor which, by the way, his colleagues didn't find worthy enough to grant him tenure at two separate U.S. universities? If that were the case, every intellectually productive scholar should be a Nobel Prize nominee. And as I said earlier, he couldn’t have been nominated on the strength of GAGUT when, in fact, the "theory" has never gone through the rigors of peer review, which is crucial for the circulation and acceptance of ideas in the scientific community. Afolabi’s point that Oyibo may indeed have been nominated for the Nobel is well taken. But the fact is: thousands of people get recommended--or, if you like, nominated-- for Nobel Prizes by several different organizations and people, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. Since I haven't read of any groundbreaking, earth-shattering work that Oyibo has done in his field to deserve a serious consideration for the Nobel, I am inclined to think that his nomination, if there ever was one, falls in the region of the ridiculous. But the impression often created when Oyibo’s putative Nobel Prize nomination is mentioned in the Nigerian press and in the black diaspora is that he was on the shortlist of people being seriously considered for the Prize, and not that he was merely recommended by some person or organization. For me, there is perhaps no greater proof that his nomination—again, if there ever was one—was of the flippant kind than the fact that Oyibo has been fired by the two low-end universities he worked for, is presently unemployed, and wrote a Wikipedia profile on himself that betrays flashes of incipient insanity—to put it nicely. Anybody who can describe himself as “closer to GOD (intellectually and in other ways), than any other human being because of the GAGUT discovery,” “the Greatest Genius and the Most Intelligent Human Being ever created by GOD,” and “the Greatest Mathematical Genius of all time” can’t be anything but demented. Lastly, the Nobel Peace Prize, with which Afolabi contrasted the politics of Oyibo’s nomination, is intensely political, isn't anchored on knowledge production, and is therefore amenable to wild newspaper speculations. The Physics Prize, on the other hand, isn't. It's a specialist prize. I don't recall reading newspaper speculations about Nobel prizes in physics, medicine, and economics before and after the prize winners are announced. Only the Nobel Peace Prize is subject to newspaper speculations. So the contrast is flawed. I call Oyibo a 419er because he owes his popularity to the falsehood he promoted in the Nigerian media that he was seriously considered for the Nobel Prize in Physics three or four times in a row supposedly on the basis of his farcically harebrained GAGUT. Well, if he had merely been popular as a result of these speculative indulgences and ridiculously wild exaggerations I wouldn't have had a problem with him. But he was put on the national postage stamp, was celebrated by the Nigerian state, and gets invited to speak to different groups and organizations in gullible sections of the black diaspora on the strength of claims that are at best speculative and at worst intentionally fraudulent. That puts him in the same intellectual 419 boat as Philip Emeagwali.

source: http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2010/11/intellectual-419-philip-emeagwali-and.html
http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2010/11/gabriel-oyibo-and-philip-emeagwali.html

MrEverest:
Nigerians must bring federal character in everything, WTF is pot in pot refrigration? he inserted one pot into another & that becomes invention? op remove that man from there & replace it with Achuzie that invented Ogbunigwe, a remote controled bomb that was extensively used during the Biafran war, at a point during the war, it single handedly decimeted a batalion of Nigerian soldiers at Abagana in present day Anambra State.

has the almighty Ogbunigwe stopped Nigerian army from beating the crap out of the igbos?

Mtn, glo bla bla won't make this guy's their brand ambassador smh

While we discriminate against polytechnics grads over here in 9ja, most of the aforementioned accomplished inventors mentioned above got their Phds from a polytechnic in Yanki... I think its high time we change our mentality of class difference and focus on what is obtainable.