Philip Emeagwali is a computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer – a machine featuring over 65,000 parallel processors – to help analyze petroleum fields.

Philip received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977. He received a master's degree in environmental engineering from George Washington University in 1981, and another master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1986. He also received a post-master's degree in ocean, coastal and marine engineering from George Washington University in that year.

In 1989 Emeagwali received the Gordon Bell Prize, based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer for oil-reservoir modeling. Over the past years, he has received numerous further awards and recognitions based on his Bell Prize win, ranging from one from the World Bank-IMF Africa Club to being voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist) of all time" in a survey by New African magazine.

His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity.

laudate:


Guy, you had earlier said that Samsung did not carry out the project with Ladol. I reminded you that Ladol took Samsung to court, appealed to the Federal Govt and got the project back, because Samsung violated the Local Content Act.

Then you turned round to say that Samsung could execute the project without Ladol, or any local firm. I pointed out to you that it was not possible, in view of the Local Content Act which made it imperative for them to partner with a local company.

Now you are turning round again to twist the matter in another direction, by saying that Ladol is just a host which any other local company can be. Well, with the complexity of the requirements, structure, equipment, machinery & expertise needed to drive the project, there are very few companies who could have acted as the host, for this project. Now, Ladol has been given the contract, and is currently executing it. Kindly deal with it!

where did I say that? Ladol was about to be played but thanks the fg n her policy.

Scholes007:
like I said earlier LADOL is just a host which another indigenous firm can be. There is nothing exceptional about them as you had portrait earlier.
The project which has been applauded as first -of- its- kind in the sub-Saharan Africa is being handled by the Korea-based Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) on behalf of Total Oil Exploration, with LADOL serving as its local content partner. He said the indigenous oil and gas logistics service provider is a testimony of the success story of local content laws in Nigeria. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/03/10/ncdmb-to-flag-off-egina-project-in-q4-applauds-ladol-compliance-to-local-content/

Don't mind them, they claimed in their thread that Egina fabrication yard is owned by Ladol, Ladol is not among top ten oil servicing firms in NIGERIA

vonxe:

No bro!
supermaster, polystar are not igbo owned but igbo owns the franchise in Nigeria. They are chinese and korean product meant for developing/third world countries

Thank you, but these individuals should tap into producing as their brand. Eva soap was once a franchise to one Arab firm but today it is proudly produced by Evans nig. ltd.

FKO81:

Don't mind them they claimed in their thread that Egina fabrication yard is owned by Ladol, Ladol is not among top ten oil servicing firms in NIGERIA

There are many false claims there but I always mind my business. If not the unnecessary interferance I will still aviod discussing them. I am always pro-Igbo and am proud of it.
By the way Local content law is mainly aimed at transferring tech. knw. how. And visiting firms always look for weak players. Maybe that was why they had the gut for that. Nigerian Obijackson n chrome have always excute similar projects solely or in a mutual partnership.

laudate:


Now, the Agbami oil field stretches across 45,000 acres and is located some 70 miles (113 kilometers) offshore the Niger River Delta. Situated on Nigerian Blocks OML 127 and 128, Agbami's water depth is 4,500 feet (1,372 meters).

OML 127 is owned by Famfa Oil, which is the oil firm owned by the Alakijas. As usual, NNPC owns a minority stake in it. Chevron(through its subsidiary Star Deep Petroleum Limited) is the operator of that oil field, because it has the technical expertise and equipment, to carry out drilling activities on behalf of Famfa.

OML 128 is owned by Statoil as it has a Production Sharing Contract, with NNPC. Statoil does not have any interest or shares in the oil field OML 127 owned by the Alakija's company known as Famfa. Petroleo Brasileiro Nigeria Limited (Petrobras) is also part of OML 128 along with Statoil. :

Now, Agbami FPSO was constructed to serve as a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the area covering the two oil fields. The entire area called Agbami oil field is made up of OML 127 (owned by Famfa/NNPC), and OML 128 (owned by Statoil & Petrobras/NNPC). The operators across both oil fields are Chevron & Texaco Upstream.

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https://www.chevron.com/worldwide/
Chevron operates the Agbami Field, which lies 70 miles (113 km) off the coast of the central Niger Delta region and spans 45,000 acres (182 sq km). Discovered in 1998, the Agbami Field is at a water depth of approximately 4,800 feet (1,463 m). Chevron has a 67.3 percent interest in the field. In 2016, net daily production averaged 120,000 barrels of crude oil and 12 million cubic feet of natural gas.

Agbami is a subsea development with wells tied back to a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The first two phases of infill drilling, Agbami 2 and Agbami 3, are nearly completed, with the last of the 15 wells expected to come on line in the second half of 2017.

Agbami Field

http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/statoil
Currently, Statoil has 20.21% interest in Agbami, operator Chevron has 67.30%, and Petrobras holds the remaining 12.49% interest. The field lies approximately 110 kilometers off the Nigerian coastline and it started producing oil in July 2008.

According to Statoil’s press release on Friday, the company has received an Expert calculation of revised tract participations for the Agbami field. Assuming the revisions are implemented, Statoils says the calculation will result in a reduction of 5.17% in Statoil’s equity interest in the field to 15.04%.

“Statoil previously initiated arbitration proceedings to set aside interim decisions made by the Expert. By a decision received by Statoil on November 4, 2015, the arbitration tribunal has declined to set aside the Expert’s interim decisions,” the company explained in its press release.

Statoil says it is currently assessing its position in relation to the Expert’s decision and the decision of the arbitration tribunal.

Statoil says it has so far made an accrual of NOK 7.5 billion ($877M). Assuming implementation in accordance with the Expert ruling, Statoil will have to compensate other equity owners at Agbami of about NOK 1.6 billion in addition to the accrual as of end third quarter 2015, the company explained.

Statoil added that eventual settlement of any imbalance amount would be made over time through cash-calls issued by the unit operator.

Agbami is a subsea development with wells tied back to a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. As of early 2015, eight of the wells were producing. According to Chevron, the next phase, Agbami 3, is a five-well drilling program that began drilling in early 2015 and is expected to start production in 2016. Drilling is scheduled to continue through 2017.

Anyone you watched Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony on CNN, wouldn’t have failed to spot commercials describing a skin care product called Adure.

Dr Iheatu Obioha is the man behind Clear Essence Cosmetics USA Inc, the manufacturers of Clear Essence, Adure and Chimere skin care products.

Clear Essence® Skin Care System was developed to address the skin care concerns of men and women of color. Today, the company’s products are distributed worldwide in the United States, Europe, Africa, South America, the Caribbean Islands and Canada. The products are manufactured at the company’s FDA-approved, 40,000 square-feet facility in Ontario, California.

Iheatu is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and an illustrious philanthropist.

FKO81:
https://www.chevron.com/worldwide/
Chevron operates the Agbami Field, which lies 70 miles (113 km) off the coast of the central Niger Delta region and spans 45,000 acres (182 sq km). Discovered in 1998, the Agbami Field is at a water depth of approximately 4,800 feet (1,463 m). Chevron has a 67.3 percent interest in the field. In 2016, net daily production averaged 120,000 barrels of crude oil and 12 million cubic feet of natural gas.

Agbami is a subsea development with wells tied back to a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The first two phases of infill drilling, Agbami 2 and Agbami 3, are nearly completed, with the last of the 15 wells expected to come on line in the second half of 2017.

Do you know your problem? You take half of the information that is available, and then you run with it, forgetting that the other half of the info., is just as critical & as important as the 1st half. Do you even know what a subsea development system is?

I have explained to you that Agbami oil field consists of 2 different OMLs, that are owned by different companies. Not only that, it is believed that many untapped oil wells still exist within the Agbami oil field. Chevron is not the owner, but the operator. Now, in exploration & production circles, can you explain the difference between an operator, an owner or concessionaire and a financier?

Do you realise that Chevron too has an interest in the FPSO being used in that Agbami oil field? Are you aware that Chevron's operating interest covers both OML127 AND OML 128? Do you realise that the 67.15% operating interest that Chevron has is just restricted to OML 128 jointly owned by Statoil & Petrobras? In OML 128 Statoil has 18.85%, Petrobras has 13% while Chevron has 67.15 %. Add all these together, and it accounts for the 100% shareholding in OML 128! Please go back & do your research so that you do not look stuvpid.

Scholes007:
where did I say that? Ladol was about to be played but thanks the fg n her policy.

Oh you didn't say it? My bad. But you agreed with your clueless brother that said it, not so?

FKO81:

Don't mind them, they claimed in their thread that Egina fabrication yard is owned by Ladol, Ladol is not among top ten oil servicing firms in NIGERIA

Provide the list of Top 10 oil Servicing Firms here, so we can read it and verify! Include the criteria used for judging them as the top 10! Every correct answer gets 20 marks.

FKO81:
Agbami Field

http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/statoil
Currently, Statoil has 20.21% interest in Agbami, operator Chevron has 67.30%, and Petrobras holds the remaining 12.49% interest. The field lies approximately 110 kilometers off the Nigerian coastline and it started producing oil in July 2008.

According to Statoil’s press release on Friday, the company has received an Expert calculation of revised tract participations for the Agbami field. Assuming the revisions are implemented, Statoils says the calculation will result in a reduction of 5.17% in Statoil’s equity interest in the field to 15.04%.

“Statoil previously initiated arbitration proceedings to set aside interim decisions made by the Expert. By a decision received by Statoil on November 4, 2015, the arbitration tribunal has declined to set aside the Expert’s interim decisions,” the company explained in its press release.

Statoil says it is currently assessing its position in relation to the Expert’s decision and the decision of the arbitration tribunal.

Statoil says it has so far made an accrual of NOK 7.5 billion ($877M). Assuming implementation in accordance with the Expert ruling, Statoil will have to compensate other equity owners at Agbami of about NOK 1.6 billion in addition to the accrual as of end third quarter 2015, the company explained.

Statoil added that eventual settlement of any imbalance amount would be made over time through cash-calls issued by the unit operator.

Agbami is a subsea development with wells tied back to a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. As of early 2015, eight of the wells were producing. According to Chevron, the next phase, Agbami 3, is a five-well drilling program that began drilling in early 2015 and is expected to start production in 2016. Drilling is scheduled to continue through 2017.

You have just shot yourself in the foot. Oya, list all the different wells that make up Agbami oil field, and list the name of the owners, too. No one is arguing about the percentage that Statoil & Petrobras owns in their OML 128/OPL 217 located within Agbami. We were talking about Famfa Oil, remember, and its ownership of OML 127? But you are here trying to make it look as if Chevron is the owner of all the different oil wells and OML leases within Agbami, when what it only has is an operating interest, in it.

Calculate all these percentages and tell us what the final sum would be: Statoil (20.21% interest), Chevron has (67.30%), and Petrobras (12.49% interest).

Please go back and read this part again from the same online publication that you cited up here:

The $3.5bn Agbami oilfield project is Nigeria's largest deepwater development. The field lies in OPL blocks 216 and 217, approximately 220 miles south-east of Lagos and 70 miles offshore Nigeria, in the central Niger Delta.

In late 1996, Texaco and Nigerian independent oil company Famfa were granted exploration rights to the 617,000 acre block 216. Agbami was proven in this block by Texaco in 1998 and two years later Statoil's Ekoli-1 well confirmed that the discovery extended into block 217.

Development of the field was unitised between the two blocks. Chevron Corporation (Chevron) has a 68.15% interest and operates the field through its Nigerian affiliate, Star Deep Water Petroleum. The remaining working interests are held by Statoil (18.85%) and Petrobras (13%).

The field is owned by the terms of a deepwater production-sharing contract (PSC) between Chevron and Famfa. http://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/agbami/

Do you even understand what is meant by unitising the development of an oil field between 2 blocks??

Ceecon energy oil and gas limited is a company that is fully into importation of petroleum products such as ago, pms, dpk. we are also into leasing

Like I wrote before it will be hugely unfair to entertain our countless sports men in the listing.
Igbo race dominate sports in Africa. Just take a look at this write up

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laudate:

'Electronic franchise,' indeed! You were shouting about how well your people 'manufacture' everything, now you have changed your tune, and started talking about franchise. Na wa for una. Is that the new name you coined for importation and sales of generators and motorcycle parts? Because that is what Ezechuddy does, with Summec & Firman generators. He does not manufacture, or even assemble them. All he does, is to import and sell those gensets, to as many people as possible.

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The Citydia kiosk you posted in your page are they not franchise? Toyota guy you litter your page with are they not franchise? Proforce nko? Mad people..

prodigy24:
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The Citydia kiosk you posted in your page are they not franchise? Toyota guy you litter your page with are they not franchise? Proforce nko? Mad people..

Wetin dey bite you? Was it not your people that first started saying that they are the masters when it comes to manufacturing? Did they not sing praises of how they were the best in deploying technology, and making technologically advanced products? They even poured scorn on the businesses being featured on other threads, claiming it did not match their acclaimed manufacturing standards.

I only asked why you and the rest of your crew, are now showcasing franchises. Dats all. Are these franchises now as important as those other companies engaged in manufacturing and other areas of technology, that your people claim to dominate?

laudate:

Provide the list of Top 10 oil Servicing Firms here, so we can read it and verify! Include the criteria used for judging them as the top 10! Every correct answer gets 20 marks.

Trust me, that joker won't show up with an answer, but expect him to pick up and latch on to another silly and irrelevant argument.

Remember how he was running mouth and going on and on about aiteo, but after asking him to show us aiteo's revenue, he basically kept quiet and moved on.


These clowns argue based on sentiments, emotions, needless bragging and chest beating that they can not support with facts and figures.

Ken's technology career spans over 30 years, commencing with IBM where he held various posts in systems, engineering, sales and marketing, before joining Wang Laboratories in 1981.

Ken moved on to test his entrepreneurial mettle by founding Interregnum in 1992 which was floated on London’s AIM exchange in 2000.

At Interregnum, Ken worked at the forefront of the entrepreneur/technology growth cycle.

As well as serving on the Boards of many of Interregnum’s investment and advisory clients, Ken notched up some interesting firsts, including chairing the IPO of Vossnet, the UK’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP) DMATEK the first Israeli technology company to be listed on AIM. He was also a principal advisor to, and Director of, uDate.com - one the UK’s few dotcom successes which was sold to USA Interactive in 2003.

Ken retired from Interregnum in 2006 and founded boutique technology merchant bank – Restoration Partners. He is a Director of Thomson Reuters and Canadian software developer – Open Text, and serves on the Board of, or is an adviser to, several privately held and innovative companies including Prevx, BioWisdom, Independent Audit and Metapraxis.

A believer in the Victorian ethos that successful commerce is the fuel of public service, Ken is a Freeman of the City of London; a Warden of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; Director of the Reuters Foundation; Chairman of homeless charity Thames Reach; and was an inaugural Postal Services Commissioner from 2001 to 2004.

In 2003 Ken won the BVCA/Real Deals Private Equity Personality of the Year Award and in 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society, becoming a Vice President in 2007.

In 2008, a panel led by Baroness Amos of Brondesbury drew up the Powerlist 2008 published this week by Powerful Media.

Ken was recognised for his business and charitable achievements, including directorships of two FTSE 100 companies (ENRC and Thomson Reuters) and long-term chairmanship of Thames Reach - a charity determined to end street homelessness in London by 2012.

The Powerlist highlighted that there are only two FTSE100 companies whose boards include black directors, and Ken is two of them.

Chairman AiQ Capital Management Limited, Chief Obiozor

For defining new pathways and templates of engagement for Nigeria which will en­hance her fruitful relationships in a com­petitive global village; for deploying real­ism and pragmatism as the new language of international diplomacy, Professor George Obiozor is The AUTHORITY Icon
He is an informed diplomat’s diplomat who mastered his turf through deep erudition and a searching mind. He shaped the way Nigeria should engage the world, par­ticularly, the United States. A top-flight academic, with his life’s works he dem­onstrated that the power of rigorous thinking can indeed be used to bridge deficits in governance and elevate soci­ety. Meet Professor George A. Obiozor.
He was born on August 15, 1942, in Imo State. He serves as the Chairman at AiQ Capital Management Limited. Obiozor is Nigeria’s former ambassador to United States. Prior to this, he was the nation’s ambassador to the State of Israel, and High Commissioner to the Republic of Cyprus between 1999 and 2003. He studied at the Institute of Af­rican Studies, and Albert Schweitzer College. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) Summa Cum Laude at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, US, in 1969; Masters of Arts (MA) and Doctorate (PhD) De­grees at Columbia University, in 1974 and 1976 respectively.
From 1964 to 2003, Obiozor held many important positions in Nigerian government and academia including Senior Research Fellow at Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and Director-General of Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Lagos (1991-1999). He was actually one of the most distinguished Director-General of NIIA.
He has written many books and arti­cles on Nigeria’s foreign policy, interna­tional affairs, and diplomatic politick­ing. His vast experience and profound knowledge in diplomacy has become a great asset in rebuilding Nigerian im­age and the relationship with the United States.
He is the author of “Uneasy Friend­ships: Nigeria-United States Relations”, a hand book for Diplomats and has provide politicians with deep insights to Nation Building with his work on “The politics of precarious balancing: an analysis of contending issues in Ni­gerian domestic and foreign policy”
For defining pathways and templates of engagement for Nigeria which will enhance her fruitful relationships in a competitive global village; for deploy­ing realism and pragmatism as the new language of international diplomacy, Professor George Obiozor is The AU­THORITY Icon.

Wonderful job developeast and prodigy

Chinedu Echeruo is the founder and creator of Hopstop. Hopstop is a city transit guide launched in 2001. It provides door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City. One can also search for places to restaurants, bars and hotels. Other popular features include sending directions by e-mail or text messaging to a cell phone directly from the website and planning a trip with multiple destinations using the itinerary. Users can get directions or the locations of nearby subway and bus stops remotely on their cell phone or PDA with the HopStop Mobile service.

Today, the site serves about a million customers each month and generates annual revenues in excess of $3 million.

Chinedu holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Syracuse University.

Emeka is a well established member of the African blogosphere, a leading thinker, and as Erik Hersman stated a doer. He also manages and coordinates one of the world’s top technology conferences held in Africa: TED Global. He is responsible for assembling a list of speakers that speak to the heart of the new Africa -- the "cheetah generation" of inventors and investors, policymakers and bloggers, who are bringing new energy to the African continent.

His two blogs should be considered regular reading for anyone interested in technological development in Africa. His first blog, Timbuktu Chronicles seeks to spur dialogue in areas of entrepreneurship, technology and the scientific method as it impacts Africa. It aggregates some of the most interesting and exciting models of entrepreneurship happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. The second blog, Africa Unchained allows Emeka to "think out loud" about paradigms of development, innovation and politics.

Emeka is an entrepreneur who lives in New York City, and one of his endeavours is Caranda Teas and Coffee in which he is a partner. The company is repositioning itself as a Fine Foods company.

Currently, he is working on projects that focus on infrastructure and SME development in Africa.

Chief Onuigbo - Board Chairman - International Glass Limited

For his positive, proactive contributions to the national parliament, large vision of life expressed in philanthropic game-changing interventions; for his exemplary discipline, focus and sincerity which have meshed to leverage society, Rep. Sam Onuigbo is The AUTHORITY Icon.
He is a national parliamentarian, strong believer in the power of edu¬cation for socio-economic transfor¬mation, philanthropist of note and a lover of knowl­edge. A Harvard-trained leadership guru, he was officially commended by two former US Ambassadors to Nigeria and is a recipient of Meritorious Honour Awards from the US Department of State. Meet Chief (Hon.) Sam Onuigbo, Odozi¬ Obodo 1 of Ugwu-Ibere Ancient Kingdom.
He was born on October 1, 1960, in Umua¬hia, Abia State. He had his early education at Community Primary School, Obuohia Obi-Ibere, Ikwuano and later at­tended Oboro Secondary Commercial School, Umudike, Ikwuano, Abia State. Subsequently, he pro¬ceeded to Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Imo State for National Certificate in Education; Diploma in Law, University of Lagos; Master’s in Business Ad­ministration, Enugu State University of Sci­ence and Tech¬nology, Enugu.
Chief Onuigbo attended Executive Educa¬tion Programme on Leadership at the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA and also attended a course at US Department of State Foreign Service Institute, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Washington, DC. He also benefited from Training on Security by ASIS Interna¬tional at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He trained in Finance, Accounting and Corpo¬rate Governance.
He has held several management, execu¬tive and political positions at the national and state levels. He is a teacher, Fraud Pre¬vention Spe­cialist, Management and Finan¬cial Consul­tant, and a Public Affairs Analyst. After over 17 years of unbroken and merito¬rious service with the US Embassy Nigeria, during which he held the highly sensitive position of the Super­visory Fraud Preven¬tion Specialist, he volun­tarily resigned.
He is a recipient of several awards some of which include Professional and Voca¬tional Service Awards from Rotary Club Interna­tional and Award of Honour from the Forum of Commissioners of Finance of Nigeria. At the national level, he was Special Adviser, Pub­lic Affairs, Office of the Speak¬er, House of Representatives. At the state lev¬el, he was the Hon. Commissioner, Ministry of Lands and Survey; former Commissioner for Finance; a former Board Member, Inter¬national Glass Industries Limited, Aba.
Chief Onuigbo embarked on this laudable project to end the hardship of the students who had to trek upwards of 12km to and from school every school day. He also attracted the on-going construction by NDDC of the Okwe-Obuohia-Umue¬menike-Ahiaorie Ring Road, as contained in the 2013 approved national budget on NDDC.
In recognition of his verifiable contribu¬tions to infrastructural and human capital develop­ment efforts in Ikwuano Local Gov¬ernment Area, he was in 2001, bestowed with the award of Okeosisi of Ikwuano by Ikwuano Develop­ment Union. Chief Onu¬igbo, holds two tra­ditional titles: Odozi¬ Obodo I of Ugwu-Ibere Ancient Kingdom; and Ebubedike I of OtuUzo Autonomous Community.

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy was born in Awka, Anambara State, Nigeria, and took up painting as a profession in 1988.

Much of her work is in pastels and oils, and her subjects range from portraiture and landscape, to pictures which capture the traditions and cultures of the African continent.

She has exhibited widely and her work is represented in public and private collections in France, Grenada, Kenya, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, United Kingdom, and U.S.A.

She received worldwide recognition for painting the official portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her Golden Jubilee Other recent commissions include the President of Norwich City Football Club, Mr Geoffrey Watling; His Excellency Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; His Excellency Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Secretary-General of The Commonwealth; President of the Senate, Grenada, Margaret Neckles; Lord Mayor of Norwich, Derek Wood, Diagio Africa MD & wife, Mr. & Mrs. David Hampshire, David 'Rocky' Rocastle, Kriss Akabusi, athlete and TV personality, for whom she also undertook a series of large paintings on the theme of the African Diaspora and was commissioned by Martin Keown to paint Arsenal’s Highbury Stadium. Her work is in the Queens collection. In 2006 her work was reproduced on the national postage stamps of 5 countries.

Develpeast:
Philip Emeagwali is a computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer – a machine featuring over 65,000 parallel processors – to help analyze petroleum fields.

Philip received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977. He received a master's degree in environmental engineering from George Washington University in 1981, and another master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1986. He also received a post-master's degree in ocean, coastal and marine engineering from George Washington University in that year.

In 1989 Emeagwali received the Gordon Bell Prize, based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer for oil-reservoir modeling. Over the past years, he has received numerous further awards and recognitions based on his Bell Prize win, ranging from one from the World Bank-IMF Africa Club to being voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist) of all time" in a survey by New African magazine.

His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity.

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WILLINGBORO -- Philip Emeagwali, a man of immeasurably high intelligence, spurns the description people most often attach to him: genius.

"I don't like that term. People think it only means genius in the mathematical sense or that it refers to a select group of people," Emeagwali, 44, told about 50 parents last night at a public forum on schools. "But I think every one of us has the power to be a genuis. I was not born a genius; it was nurtured in me by my father."

When he was 10, growing up in western Nigeria, Emeagwali was drilled daily by his father to solve 100 math problems in one hour. There was no time to write solutions on paper -- he had 36 seconds per problem. So Emeagwali did them in his head.

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Award-winning scientist Philip Emealgwali (left) finaliy met face to face with sixth grader Robert Matthews at the Garfield Park School in Willingboro.

"People later called me a mathematical genuis, but you would be a genuis, too, if you had to do 100 math problems in an hour," he said.

In the last two days, the man who has been called "one of the greatest intellectual giants Africa has produced" has been taking his message -- the importance of homework, cultivating encouragement at home, and surmounting obstacles -- to a school district that has been mired in problems.

Standardized test scores here sank to such lows in recent years that the state placed the district in a special monitoring program. And even as the roofs of the town's school buildings crumbled, taxes soared.

Not that Emeagwali didn't have his own trials to overcome.

When he was 12, Emeagwali lived underneath ceilings that crumbled from rocket shells. From 1967 to 1970, Nigeria fell into civil war, forcing schools to close. Emeagwali had finished only seventh grade.

"We ate only once a day. Some days we had nothing to eat. We were among the poorest families in the world," Emeagwali told students at a high school assembly earlier in the day. "Growing up poor and overcoming several obstacles made me a stronger person. I became more determined to succeed in life."

Studying on his own from 6 a.m. to midnight, Emeagwali passed entrance examinations to the University of London with top grades. In 1974, he immigrated to the United States, obtaining degrees in several subjects. His parents and eight younger brothers and sisters followed him to America.

Since then, Emeagwali, whose IQ is too high to be measured on conventional tests, has put together a resume that extends like the decimals of pi. He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America. He has won numerous awards, including the Gordon Bell Prize -- computer science's Nobel Prize. He devised ways of making oil fields more productive, saving the United States hundreds of millions of dollars a year. His inventions include the world's fastest computer, which in 1989 computed 3.1 billion calculations in one second.

He is now setting up a consulting firm in Baltimore, whose services are wanted by everybody from the United Nations to telecommunications firms.

While this was only his third speaking engagement in schools, students in Willingboro gave an enthusiastic response to his message, mobbing him with questions and requests for autographs after his speech. He is scheduled to speak at Willingboro's Bookbinder and Pennypacker Park Elementary Schools today.

Emeagwali came to Willingboro after Robert Matthews Jr., a sixth grader at Garfield East Elementary School, asked him, via e-mail, to speak at his school. Matthews had been assigned to do a report on an African American scientist for Black History Month.

School administrators then asked Emeagwali to speak to parents at a public forum, which was scheduled for last night. Draped in a sky-blue North African robe and cap, Emeagwali stood out in an otherwise formally suited crowd.

"Genius is not beyond the reach of these students," he told the parents. "You just need to show them how to tap into the genius that lies within them."

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WILLINGBORO -- Philip Emeagwali, a man of immeasurably high intelligence, spurns the description people most often attach to him: genius.

"I don't like that term. People think it only means genius in the mathematical sense or that it refers to a select group of people," Emeagwali, 44, told about 50 parents last night at a public forum on schools. "But I think every one of us has the power to be a genuis. I was not born a genius; it was nurtured in me by my father."

When he was 10, growing up in western Nigeria, Emeagwali was drilled daily by his father to solve 100 math problems in one hour. There was no time to write solutions on paper -- he had 36 seconds per problem. So Emeagwali did them in his head.

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Award-winning scientist Philip Emealgwali (left) finaliy met face to face with sixth grader Robert Matthews at the Garfield Park School in Willingboro.

"People later called me a mathematical genuis, but you would be a genuis, too, if you had to do 100 math problems in an hour," he said.

In the last two days, the man who has been called "one of the greatest intellectual giants Africa has produced" has been taking his message -- the importance of homework, cultivating encouragement at home, and surmounting obstacles -- to a school district that has been mired in problems.

Standardized test scores here sank to such lows in recent years that the state placed the district in a special monitoring program. And even as the roofs of the town's school buildings crumbled, taxes soared.

Not that Emeagwali didn't have his own trials to overcome.

When he was 12, Emeagwali lived underneath ceilings that crumbled from rocket shells. From 1967 to 1970, Nigeria fell into civil war, forcing schools to close. Emeagwali had finished only seventh grade.

"We ate only once a day. Some days we had nothing to eat. We were among the poorest families in the world," Emeagwali told students at a high school assembly earlier in the day. "Growing up poor and overcoming several obstacles made me a stronger person. I became more determined to succeed in life."

Studying on his own from 6 a.m. to midnight, Emeagwali passed entrance examinations to the University of London with top grades. In 1974, he immigrated to the United States, obtaining degrees in several subjects. His parents and eight younger brothers and sisters followed him to America.

Since then, Emeagwali, whose IQ is too high to be measured on conventional tests, has put together a resume that extends like the decimals of pi. He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America. He has won numerous awards, including the Gordon Bell Prize -- computer science's Nobel Prize. He devised ways of making oil fields more productive, saving the United States hundreds of millions of dollars a year. His inventions include the world's fastest computer, which in 1989 computed 3.1 billion calculations in one second.

He is now setting up a consulting firm in Baltimore, whose services are wanted by everybody from the United Nations to telecommunications firms.

While this was only his third speaking engagement in schools, students in Willingboro gave an enthusiastic response to his message, mobbing him with questions and requests for autographs after his speech. He is scheduled to speak at Willingboro's Bookbinder and Pennypacker Park Elementary Schools today.

Emeagwali came to Willingboro after Robert Matthews Jr., a sixth grader at Garfield East Elementary School, asked him, via e-mail, to speak at his school. Matthews had been assigned to do a report on an African American scientist for Black History Month.

School administrators then asked Emeagwali to speak to parents at a public forum, which was scheduled for last night. Draped in a sky-blue North African robe and cap, Emeagwali stood out in an otherwise formally suited crowd.

"Genius is not beyond the reach of these students," he told the parents. "You just need to show them how to tap into the genius that lies within them."

Dr. Philip Emeagwali, who has been called the "Bill Gates of Africa," was born in Nigeria in 1954. Like many African schoolchildren, he dropped out of school at age 14 because his father could not continue paying Emeagwali's school fees. However, his father continued teaching him at home, and everyday Emeagwali performed mental exercises such as solving 100 math problems in one hour. His father taught him until Philip "knew more than he did."

Growing up in a country torn by civil war, Emeagwali lived in a building crumbled by rocket shells. He believed his intellect was a way out of the line of fire. So he studied hard and eventually received a scholarship to Oregon State University when he was 17 where he obtained a BS in mathematics. He also earned three other degrees – a Ph.D. in Scientific computing from the University of Michigan and two Masters degrees from George Washington University.

The noted black inventor received acclaim based, at least in part, on his study of nature, specifically bees. Emeagwali saw an inherent efficiency in the way bees construct and work with honeycomb and determined computers that emulate this process could be the most efficient and powerful. In 1989, emulating the bees' honeycomb construction, Emeagwali used 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer, which performs computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Dr. Philip Emeagwali's resume is loaded with many other such feats, including ways of making oil fields more productive – which has resulted in the United States saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year. As one of the most famous African-American inventors of the 20th century, Dr. Emeagwali also has won the Gordon Bell Prize – the Nobel Prize for computation. His computers are currently being used to forecast the weather and to predict the likelihood and effects of future global warming.

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Chinedu Echeruo is the founder and creator of Hopstop. Hopstop is a city transit guide launched in 2001. It provides door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City. One can also search for places to restaurants, bars and hotels. Other popular features include sending directions by e-mail or text messaging to a cell phone directly from the website and planning a trip with multiple destinations using the itinerary. Users can get directions or the locations of nearby subway and bus stops remotely on their cell phone or PDA with the HopStop Mobile service.

Today, the site serves about a million customers each month and generates annual revenues in excess of $3 million.

Chinedu holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Syracuse University.

Echeruo grew up in South-East Nigeria and attended Kings College Lagos, Nigeria before proceeding to Syracuse University where he obtained a B.S in Finance and Accounting (Honors). He also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

In 2005, Echeruo set up HopStop.com which provides door-to-door directions to city residents and tourists via public transportation systems. The Company’s services are delivered through its website, SMS and voice interface and a downloadable mobile application; allowing users to access the HopStop service anywhere and anytime.

HopStop was purchased by Apple, Inc. in July 2013 for a whopping $1bn.

Circa 2007, Echeruo founded Tripology.com, a lead generation company for the global travel industry. Tripology.com connects consumers to specialized travel professionals and provides travel professionals with high-quality leads. The company was acquired by Rand McNally in 2010 and is now owned by USA Today.

Echeruo is a CEO and Founder of Gigameet.com a global cause-driven platform that promotes global human connections by making it easy to request and schedule 1-hour in-person or video conference meetings with people for business, social or entertainment purposes for a fee. A portion of the fee goes to support a chosen charity.

He is also a Partner – Private Equity at Constant Capital Partners.

Before his entrepreneurial career, Echeruo was with AM Investment Partners, a $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to completing his M.B.A. in 2000, he spent several years (1995 – 1998) in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, financing and private equity transactions.

He was also named Black Enterprise Magazine‘s Small Business Innovator of the Year and listed in the magazine’s Top 40 under 40.

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