I was opportuned to meet with Professor Adesuyi Ajayi over the weekend. Being an Ife Alumni and we had a long discussion which got to Nigerians doing well in the field of academics in the USA and all over the world.

He mentioned several names which I had to write down and research them later.

I am so impressed by what our countrymen are doing in the academic field in Diaspora.

I would give you a list of those we discussed and my findings about them.

If you know anyone also you can contribute and lets celebrate our countrymen who have done us proud.

Sure. But I don't think we have enough, in proportion to our size (or even just the size of the South), compared to other countries, so I don't know if we really ought to be celebrating.

1.

[size=18pt]Kunle Olukotun[/size]

Kunle Olukotun is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and he has been on the faculty since 1991. Olukotun is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS). Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems; the Afara microprocessor technology, called Niagara, is at the center of Sun's throughput computing initiative. Niagara based systems have become one of Sun's fastest ramping products ever. Olukotun is actively involved in research in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems. Olukotun currently co-leads the Transactional Coherence and Consistency project whose goal is to make parallel programming accessible to average programmers. Olukotun also directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas.

1.Toyin Falola

2. Peter Ekeh

3. Isidore Okpewho



These are all professors/historians, listed in order of the quality of their work. They were all at one time in diaspora or were in the diaspora.

PhysicsQED:

Sure. But I don't think we have enough, in proportion to our size (or even just the size of the South), compared to other countries, so I don't know if we really ought to be celebrating.

Most of those we discussed were Yorubas cos we were having an OAU Ife related discussion.

If you know anyone you can contribute. I am sure a lot of Igbo, South South, hausa and other groups too are doing great somewhere.

I would bolden some part of their profile that got to me

PhysicsQED:

1.Toyin Falola

2. Peter Ekeh

3. Isidore Okpewho
These are all professors/historians, listed in order of the quality of their work. They were all at one time in diaspora or were in the diaspora.

Give a little of their profile for us to read

[size=18pt]ILESANMI ADESIDA[/size]

Adesida earned his bachelor’s degree in 1974, his master’s in 1975, and his doctorate in 1979, all in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. After finishing his doctorate, he worked briefly at [b]Cornell Univ[/b]ersity and then as a university administrator in Nigeria, his native country. He joined the Illinois faculty in 1987, and became a U.S. citizen in 2002.

Adesida is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Vacuum Society, and the Optical Society of America. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, the Materials Research Society, and the Society for Engineering Education.


http://news.illinois.edu/news/06/0503adesida.html

Most of these guys are in the field of Science and Engineering not African culture and Dance

[size=18pt] OLUFEMI OLOWOLAFE[/size]

B.Sc in physics University of Ife in Nigeria; M.S California Institute of Technology and

Ph.D (Applied Physics) California Institute of Technology
: Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware

URL: http://www.ece.udel.edu/~olowolaf/index.html
email:

RESEARCH

He has 7 patents and has contributed to over 100 journal papers and technical papers

Toyin Falola

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, he is the author of numerous books, including Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, and many edited books including Tradition and Change in Africa and African Writers and Readers. He is the co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History, Series Editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and the Series Editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press. He has received various awards and honors, including the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, and the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Award for Research Excellence. For his singular and distinguished contribution to the study of Africa, his students and colleagues have presented him with three Festschrifts - two edited by Adebayo Oyebade, The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and one edited by Akin Ogundiran, Pre-Colonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. He has recently published an acclaimed memoir, A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir.

Peter Ekeh

Peter P. Ekeh came to the University of Buffalo’s African American Studies as Professor in 1989. He was Chair of this department from 1993 to 2001. Before coming to Buffalo, Dr. Ekeh taught at the University of  California, Riverside (1970-73); Ahmadu   Bello  University, Zaria, in northern Nigeria (1973-74); and at the University of  Ibadan, Nigeria (1974-1989). He was Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan (1978-1983) and Chairman of the Ibadan University Press (1983-1988).

Peter Ekeh received his undergraduate education at the University of Ibadan (1961-64) and his graduate degrees in sociology from StanfordUniversity (1965-66)  and University of California, Berkeley (1966-70). Dr. Ekeh’s early research interest was in sociological theory, in which he published Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions (1974), and in psychoanalytic theory. He has since developed special interests in African politics and history, in which he has some leading publications. Dr. Ekeh’s article “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement” (1975) is one of the most cited publications in the field of African studies, inside and outside Africa. Peter Ekeh’s publications span several fields and have been particularly influential in African studies.

Peter Ekeh has held several fellowships in Europe, United States, and Japan. He was a Fellow of the WoodrowWilsonCenter for International Scholars, Washington, D.C. (1988-89). Dr. Ekeh has received various research and scholarship awards in Nigeria and the United States. He was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar for his graduate studies. He has received and supervised research grants from Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.

Peter Ekeh is the founder of Urhobo Historical Society whose influential web site URHOBO WAADO he edits. He was also founder of Nigerian Scholars for Dialogue. He is active in the campaign for the protection of the endangered environment of Nigeria’s Niger delta.

EDUCATION

   * Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1970
   * M.A.,StanfordUniversity, Palo Alto, 1967
   * B.Sc. (Econs.),University of London (at UniversityCollege, Ibadan) 1964.

GRADUATE COURSES

   * Ancient African Civilizations(At UB)
   * Africa and the Slave Trade(At UB)
   * Sociological Theory (UC.,Riverside)
   * Social Exchange Theory (UC, Riverside)
   * Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences. (UC, Riverside)
   * Political Sociology (University of Ibadan)
   * Comparative Politics (University of Ibadan)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

   * A Survey of African Studies (At UB)
   * Current African Nations (At UB)
   * Colonialism in Africa (At UB)
   * Political Sociology of Africa (At UB)
   * Ancient African Civilizations. (At UB)
   * Political Socialization and Personality (UC, Riverside)
   * Social Psychology (UC, Riverside)
   * PoliticalSociology. (UC, Riverside)
   * Introduction to Politics (University of Ibadan)
   * Political Socialization (University of Ibadan)
   * Nigerian Politics. (University of Ibadan)

FIVE SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Ekeh, Peter P. (1974) Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Ekeh, Peter P. (1975) "Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 17:91-112.

Ekeh, Peter P. (1976) "Benin and Thebes: Elementary Forms of Civilization." Pp. 65-93 in Werner  Muensterberger, Aaron H. Esman and L. Bryce Boyer, eds., The Psychoanalytic Study of Society. Vol. VII. New Haven and London: YaleUniv. Press.

Ekeh, Peter P. (1983) Colonialism and Social Structure. An Inaugural Lecture. Ibadan:  Ibadan University Press.

Ekeh, Peter P. and Eghosa Osaghae, eds., (1989) Federal Character and Federalism in  Nigeria. Ibadan: Heinemann  Educational  Books.

Ekeh, Peter P. (1990) "Social Anthropology and Two Contrasting Uses of Tribalism in Africa." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32(4): 660-700.

Isidore Okpewho

State University of New York Distinguished Professor
of Africana Studies, English, & Comparative Literature
at Binghamton University.

Born in Nigeria, Isidore Okpewho has a B.A. in Honors Classics from the University of London, a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Denver, and a D.Lit. in the Humanities from the University of London. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1974-76), University of Ibadan (1976-90), Harvard University (1990-91), and Binghamton University (since 1991).

Okpewho’s areas of specialization are in African and comparative literatures, with a specialist emphasis on comparative oral traditions. His major publications in this field include The Epic in Africa: Toward a Poetics of the Oral Performance (1979), Myth in Africa: A Study of Its Aesthetic and Cultural Relevance (1983), African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity (1992), and Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity (1998). His edited scholarly volumes reveal an expansion of his academic interests from oral literature (The Oral Performance in
Africa, 1990), to modern African literature (The Heritage of African Poetry, 1985; Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook, 2003) and diaspora studies (The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, 1999). He is currently completing a book on an African epic under the title Blood on the Delta: Art, Culture, and Society in The Ozidi Saga, as well as working on a new book project African Mythology in the New World. He has also published some four dozen journal and book articles in these areas.

Professor Okpewho is also an active novelist with four titles, The Victims (1970), The Last Duty, winner of the African Arts Prize for Literature (1976), Tides, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa (1993), and Call Me By My Rightful Name (2004). He is gradually developing his fifth novel, Fish Scales.

PhysicsQED,

I am biased towards those in the Science field. You might provide a balance in the humanities.

But I personally respect a Science/Medical/Engineering Professor More than anyone

I already posted this in a much earlier thread called "What's the Benefit of Education to Nigerians" that a poster called davidif made.

I should probably elaborate on these individuals, or maybe someone else can, if they have the time or info. I might just elaborate on the most significant ones.



"Alexander Obiefoka Enukora Animalu -MIT and later University of Nigeria (very highly cited solid state physicist)
Winston Soboyejo -Princeton (highly published mechanical engineer)
Ilesanmi Adesida -University of Illinois (highly published and highly cited electrical engineer and now Dean of that engineering college)
Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande - MIT (highly published and highly cited electrical engineer)
James Ezeilo (highly cited and published mathematician)
Olufemi Olowolafe- University of Delaware (highly published and highly cited computer scientist)
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade- University of Chicago (very highly cited oncologist)
Ofodike Ezekoye- University of Texas (highly published mechanical engineer)
Kunle Olukotun- Stanford (very highly cited electrical engineer)
Charles Ejike Chidume- International Center for Theoretical Physics (highly cited mathematician)
Ethelbert Chukwu- North Carolina State University (highly published mathematician)
Olaniyi Kehinde (deceased)- highly cited doctor, researched skin grafting
Abraham Atta Ogwu- Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (highly published materials engineer)
Adedeji Badiru- University of Tennessee (industrial engineer, head of the Department of Industrial & Information Engineering at the University of Tennessee)
Samuel Okoye (deceased)- astrophysicist who worked with Nobel laureate Anthony Hewish in the discovery of pulsars
George Okikiolu (highly published mathematician)
Joe Ordia- highly cited neurosurgeon
Ayodele Awojobi (deceased)- mechanical engineer, author of an important paper on mechanical vibrations
Sunday Iyahen- mathematician, author of an important paper on topological spaces

up-and-coming:

J.O. Dabiri- California Institute of Technology
Deji Akinwande- University of Texas


Nosa Omoigui (Nervana Inc.)
Kunle Olukotun (already mentioned, but Sun Microsystems bought his company, Afara websystems which is worth mentioning)"

dayokanu:

PhysicsQED,

I am biased towards those in the Science field. You might provide a balance in the humanities.

But I personally respect a Science/Medical/Engineering Professor More than anyone

I have the same bias, particularly towards those fields with mathematical foundations, but I wanted to diversify things, really. Falola's work is really quite important, and so is Ekeh's.

[size=18pt]Mobolaji E. Aluko[/size]

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

He is an activist and frequent commentator on Nigerian and African affairs.

Dont let Ileke idi know that this guy is from Ekiti before she kills us all here

A petroleum engineering professor at the University of Texas:


Ekwere J. Peters
Professor
Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering
The University of Alberta, Canada

Dr. Peters has served on the faculty since 1980. He has four years of industrial experience and specializes in fluid flow in porous media. His research interests include application of advanced imaging technologies for the physical and mathematical modeling of fluids in porous media. Dr. Peters has published more than 70 technical articles and reports.

Current Research Projects

   * Computer Imaging in Enhanced Oil Recovery
   * Numerical Modeling of Laboratory Flow Experiments
   * Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media Assisted by X-Ray Computed Tomography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Honors:

Frank W. Jessen Professor in Petroleum Engineering
George H. Fancher Professor in Petroleum Engineering

Kunle is a badass. I wish my own research were good enough to get a faculty job at a school of that level, lol.

Dabiri looks to be an absolute stud. PhD in 4 years from CalTech, and hired by the same school as a professor? This rarely, rarely happens, you have to be amazing for your own school to hire you. MacArthur Genius grant, too?

Wasn't aware of this Deji Akinwande guy. UT is a damn good job to get out of grad school.

dayokanu:

                                                                                   [size=18pt]Mobolaji E. Aluko[/size]



Dont let Ileke idi know that this guy is from Ekiti before she kills us all here

Lol, apparently this guy is part Edo (Owan Edo) or something, but I'm not eager to claim him since all he seems to do is write mostly poorly researched and thought out political articles. His actual research is ignorable.

He also mentioned some guys but I am still trying to get more information on them

e.g Ojo Ayeni, Soji Adeyi, Dabiri.

Why is my name not there?

And this was the guy I spoke to below

[size=18pt]Adesuyi A Leslie Ajayi, M.D., Ph.D.[/size] , is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, at Chicago State University College of Pharmacy. He was Professor of Biomedical Science, in the Department Health Studies, College of Health Sciences at Chicago State University (2007-2008).  Dr Ajayi is also currently an adjunct Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas. He obtained his MD at the University of Ife in Nigeria in 1980, and his PhD from the Glasgow University, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1985.

Dr Ajayi is a trained internist and cardiologist and Fellow of the West African College of Physicians. He was Professor and Chair of Medicine at  the Obafemi Awolowo University (previously University of Ife, ile-ife, Nigeria)  from 1992-1999. Dr Ajayi was a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the University of Nottingham, Queen’s Medical Center, England ( 1991-2) and a Merck international Fellow in clinical pharmacology at the Department of Medicine, Medical university of South Carolina, Charleston SC (1992-94). He also was a Visiting professor and Senior Scientist at the NIH funded Center for Cardiovascular Diseases at Texas Southern University (1999-2004), and Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Ross University School of Medicine at the Common Wealth of Dominica.

Dr Ajayi’s research interest is in cardiovascular pharmacology& pathophysiology, thrombosis, and endocrine regulation of the endothelium upon which  he has published many peer- reviewed journal articles. He is an elected Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society (FBPharmacolS), and Editorial board member of the journals Current Diabetes Review and the Open Journal of Heart Failure. Dr Ajayi has authored 4 books including Diaspora Medicine (2001) and Immigration and Health (2008).

http://www.csu.edu/pharmacy/pharmscifaculty.htm

PhysicsQED:

Lol, apparently this guy is part Edo (Owan Edo) or something, but I'm not eager to claim him since all he seems to do is write mostly poorly researched and thought out political articles. His actual research is ignorable.

You are right. Bolaji is no scientist. He is a social commentator. His last ever published work was in the 90s. Little wonder he remained in backwater Howard university (black only)

FIRST NORTHERNER


Abba Gumel, a mathematical biologist with some interesting papers on epidemics.


Abba Gumel is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Director of the Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences (IIMS) of the University of Manitoba. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Bayero University (Kano, Nigeria) and Brunel University (London, England) respectively. His main research interests are in (i) Mathematical Biology, (ii) Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and (iii) Computational Mathematics. The main objective of his research work is to use mathematical theories and methodologies to gain insights into the transmission and control dynamics of human diseases of public health interest. He has supervised a number of research students (NSERC-funded summer undergraduate and graduate students) and postdoctoral fellows. Professor Gumel has been the coordinator of the Mathematical Biology Team of the IIMS since its inception in 1999, and represents the University of Manitoba on the Board of Directors of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto. Professor Gumel is an active member of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS). In addition to serving on its various committees earlier, Professor Gumel was elected Secretary of CAIMS from 2007-2009 (he was re-elected for a second term: 2009-2011). Professor Gumel is also a member of the Canadian Mathematics Society (CMS) and serves on the Outreach Committee of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB). Owing to its interdisciplinary nature, Professor Gumel’s work enjoys fruitful collaborations with mathematical and medical scientists from around the world. Professor Gumel has received the following research awards and honours:



(1) Elected fellow, African Academy of sciences (December 2009)

(2) Elected Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Sciences (January 2010)

(3) 2008 University of Manitoba (UM/UMFA) Merit Award for Excellence in Research.

(4) The 2009 Dr. Lindsay E. Nicolle award for excellent paper published in the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. June 2009, Toronto, Canada. (The Award, given annually, is given to an author who has made a significant contribution to Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology as
demonstrated by the impact of their original research published in the journal). The work is co-authored by Miriam Nuno (Harvard School of Public Health) and Gerardo Chowell (Arizona State University).

(5) University of Manitoba Award for Outstanding Outreach, December 2008.

(6) 2007 University of Manitoba (UM/UMFA) Merit Award for Excellence in Research. July 2008.

(7) The Rh Award for Outstanding Contributions to Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Research (University of Manitoba, March 2004; this is the highest research award given at the University of Manitoba).

( Manitoba Science and Technology Certificate of Achievement in Science and Technology during 2003 (Winnipeg, April 2004).

(9) Young African Mathematician Medal for Excellence in Applied Mathematics (African Mathematical Union in Conjunction with the International Conference for Mathematical Sciences, UNAAB, Nigeria, November, 2003).

Professor Gumel is actively involved in so many initiatives and programs for the advancement of mathematical sciences (and science and technology in general) in Africa. He is listed among the top African Mathematicians of the 1990s on the website of the Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madgreatest.html).

Northerner in Mathematics?

I heard Prof Jubril Aminu too was a badass guy in University of Ibadan I dont think he went out though.

Jerome Nriagu, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development

6630 SPH Tower
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029

Office: (734) 936-0706; Fax: (734) 936-7283

E-mail: jnriagu@umich.edu

Website(s): Arsenic Research Project
Professional Summary

Prof. Nriagu's research and teaching programs center around three main issues: (i) sources, behavior, fate and effects of metals in the natural and contaminated environments; (ii) environmental justice and disproportionate exposure of communities to environmental pollutants; and (iii) environmental health problems in the developing countries. His work includes applied laboratory and field studies and has led to 28 books (authored/edited) and over 250 published articles. He is listed (http://isihighlycited.com) as one of the most cited scientists in the fields of Environmental Studies and Ecology. He has been the director of the Environmental Health Program since 1996, and is also affiliated with the Center for Human Growth & Development (as a Research Scientist) and has been active in a number of community-based organizations. Before joining the department in 1993, he was a research scientist with Environment Canada, Burlington, Ontario. Prof. Nriagu is editor-in-chief of the journal Science of the Total Environment (one of the largest environmental science journals in the world with 54 issues a year) and the editor of book series published by Wiley-Interscience (New York) and Elsevier Science (Amsterdam). In 1987, he was awarded the first ever meritorious Doctor of Science degree by any Nigerian university for his work in environmental biogeochemistry. Prof. Nriagu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His other awards include Senior Fulbright Fellowship and the Miroslav Medal of the Royal Society of Canada.

Courses Taught

EHS502: Environmental Health in Developing Areas
EHS574: Environmental Chemistry
EHS591: Equity Issues in Environmental Health
EHS615: Water Quality and Human Health in the Great Lakes Basin
Education

D.Sc., University of Ibadam (Meritorious), 1987
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1970
M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1967
B.Sc., University of Ibadan, 1965
Research Interest & Projects

Research activities in recent years include: natural and anthropogenic sources of trace metals at the local, regional and global scales; potential impacts of global change on metal cycles; processes and mechanisms of cycling of pollutants (especially heavy metals) in air, water and soil leading to human exposure; biomarkers of exposure and effects of metals from analysis of body fluid and tissue samples; trace metals in human oral environment; water quality issues in the Great Lakes; behavior of metal ions and oxyanions in water treatment systems; environmental risk factors for asthma; environmental justice within the community-based research framework; lead pollution and lead poisoning in communities in various parts of the world; chemistry of arsenic in groundwater; dermal and carcinogenic effects of exposure to arsenic in drinking water. Some of the research has been conducted in the developing countries.

Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of New Reproductive Technologies
Principal Investigator: Inhorn, M.
Sponsor: NSF

Development of Indoor Air Quality Education and Information Materials
Principal Investigator: Nriagu, J.
Sponsor: State of Michigan - MDCH

In-Situ Immobilization & Stabilization of Contaminanted Great Lakes
Principal Investigator: Weber, W.
Sponsor: OVPR Award - University of Michigan

There are a LOT of Nigerians as Howard faculty.

@Akin-Egba: Very likely you are not good enough to even get a PhD, not to talk of getting tenure at even a school of Howard's level.

@PhysicsQED: Poorly researched political articles? You might disagree with the conclusions, but he is pretty careful with his work.

(And yes, as you might have guessed, while not related to him, I know him and his family pretty well.)

dayokanu:

Northerner in Mathematics?

Iya Abubakar was another Northerner, who broke the wall years back, though he's no longer in academia so I didn't bring him up. Abba Gumel research seems more significant than his.

I heard Prof Jubril Aminu too was a badass guy in University of Ibadan  I dont think he went out though.

Apparently he was a visiting professor at Howard, according to wiki.

Okezie Aruoma (MBA, Ph.D, DSc)
http://www.touro.edu/pharmacy/NewsMay2007.pdf

Dr. Kemafor Anyanwu (North Carolina State University, USA)
Education

* 2007: Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
* 1989: Biochemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

Appointments

* Aug 2007 – present: Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
* Aug 2004 – July 2007: Graduate Research Assistant, Large Scale Distributed Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia.
* May 2006 – August 2006: Summer Research Intern, Advanced Database Group, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.
* Aug 1998 – Jul 2000: Graduate Research Assistant, Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia.

Awards and Honours

* NSF grant ~500k (3yrs). Title: III:Small : MOSAIC – Advanced Querying Paradigms For Supporting Discovery Oriented Tasks on the Semantic Web
* IBM Faculty Award, 2009 (1yr)
* IBM Faculty Award, 2008 (1yr)
* NSCU Faculty Startup (2yrs)
* WWW2005 paper designated as “Notable Contribution to the Semantic Web”. Invited for special issue.

Prof. Charles Chidume (International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy)
Education

Prof. Charles Chidume

* Ph.D. (Mathematics), 1984: The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
* M.S. (Mathematics), 1984: The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
* M.Sc. (Mathematics), 1977: Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, CANADA.
* B.Sc. (Mathematics), 1973: University of Nigeria Nsukka, NIGERIA.

Research Interests

* Nonlinear Functional Analysis
* Nonlinear Operator Theory
* Differential Equations
* Nonlinear Optimization
* Nonlinear Integral Equations

Prof. Godwin Chukwu (University of Alaska, USA)
Background and Research Interests

Dr. Chukwu has worked for the firms of Elf Petroleum, Petroleum Associates of Lafayette, Agip Energy and Natural Resources, in different engineering and professional capacities. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate engineering and related economics courses at the University of Port-Harcourt Nigeria, and currently the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In addition, he has taught several short courses in fluid hydraulics and hydrodynamics, and drilling optimization, as a consultant. He served as the chair of the petroleum engineering department at UAF from 1992-1995 and 1996-2002.

Dr. Chukwu has authored and co-authored over 65 research publications in the areas of drilling, hydraulics, gas-to-liquids transportation, petroleum geology and
natural resource utilization. He is internationally known for his work in the area of non-Newtonian fluid hydraulics applied to oil well drilling/production technology, and hydrodynamics of GTL transportation in pipes. His current research work in gas-to-liquid transportation and operational challenges through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is sponsored by the US Department of Energy, and supported by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.

Dr. Chukwu is a registered professional engineer in both Nigeria and the state of Alaska. He has served in several professional bodies and organizations which include the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Dr. Chukwu served as the UAF Faculty Senate President-elect (May 2001-May 2002), and subsequently, the Faculty Senate
President (May 2002-May 2003).
Education

* Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 1989
* MS in Petroleum Engineering, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, 1980
* BS in Petroleum Engineering, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, 1979

Areas of Specialization

* Drilling engineering and optimization
* Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow and Pipeline Hydraulics
* Production Analysis and Optimization
* Resource Utilization and Economics

Research

* Dr. Chukwu's main research interests are in areas of; Drilling Fluid hydraulics, Hydrodynamics of Gas-to-Liquid products flow in pipelines, Resource economics of transportation of Gas-to-Liquid products.

Awards and Honors

* UAF Faculty Senate Recognition Award, 2003
* Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Nigerian Council Recognition Award, 2002
* Outstanding Faculty Award (UAF), 2000

DapoBear:

@[size=14pt]Akin-Egba: Very likely you are not good enough to even get a PhD, not to talk of getting tenure at even a school of Howard's level[/size].

gbam gbammmm

even as i am doing english lesson i know that akin-egba is not educated,,,,,fact