| Brain Drain: A Worrisome Development In Nigeria by constancefriday(m): 1:11am On Apr 27, 2023 |
Greetings Nairalanders;
I recently came across an article that talked about how Nigeria is full of great minds but the system operating within the country is mediocre and those in power pay little or no attention to the systematic emergency.
Take sometime to read the article below, it will help explain more why our leaders need to sit up and revive the system. Nigeria has more than enough brains to develop the country.
Nigeria shouldn't be a third world country by now.
Read the article below for more.
SMARTEST PEOPLE, MEDIOCRE NATION - THE IRONY OF NIGERIA.
BRITISH Nobel laureate, Dorothy Hodgkin once noted that the University of Lagos was one of the world centres of expertise in her specialist field of Chemical Crystallography.
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria had the first world-class Computer Centre in Africa.
The University of Ife had a notable pool of expertise in Nuclear Physics.
Our premier University of Ibadan had an international reputation as a leading centre of excellence in Tropical Medicine, Development Economics and the Historical Sciences.
The Saudi Royal family used to frequent UCH for medical treatment in the sixties.
The Engineering Scientist, Ayodele Awojobi, a graduate of ABU Zaria, was a rather troubled genius.
He tragically died of frustration because our environment could not contain, let alone, utilise his talents.
Ishaya Shuaibu Audu, pioneer Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of ABU Zaria, collected all the prizes at St. Mary’s University Medical School London.
His successor in Zaria, Iya Abubakar, was a highly talented Cambridge Mathematician who became a professor at 28 and was a noted consultant to NASA.
Alexander Animalu was a gifted MIT Physicist who did work of original importance in Superconductivity.
His book, Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids has been translated into several languages, including Russian.
Renowned Mathematician, Chike Obi solved Fermat’s 200-year-old conjecture with pencil and paper while the Cambridge Mathematician, John Wiles achieved same with the help of a computer working over a decade.
After the harsh environment of the 1980s IMF/WB Structural Adjustment Programmes, the Babangida military dictatorship undertook massive budgetary cutbacks in higher education.
Our brightest and best fled abroad.
Today, Nigerian Doctors, Scientists and Engineers are making massive contributions in Europe and North America.
Philip Emeagwali won the 1989 Gordon Bell Award for his work in Super-Computing.
Jelani Aliyu designed the first electric car for American automobile giant, General Motors.
Olufunmilayo Olopede, Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago won a McArthur Genius Award for her work on cancer.
Winston Soboyejo, who earned a Cambridge doctorate at 23, is a Princeton Engineering professor laurelled for his contributions to Materials Research.
He is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Washington University Biomedical Engineering professor, Samuel Achilefu received the St. Louis Award for his invention of cancer-seeing glasses that is a major advancement in radiology.
Kunle Olukotun of Stanford did work of original importance on Multi-Processors.
National Merit laureate, Omowunmi Sadik of State University of Binghamton owns patents for Biosensors Technology.
Young Nigerians are also recording stellar performances at home and abroad.
A Nigerian family, the Imafidons, were voted “The smartest family in Britain” in 2015.
Anne-Marie Imafidon earned her Oxford Masters’ in Mathematics and Computer Science when she was only 19.
Today, she sits on several corporate boards and was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to Science.
Recently, Benue State University Mathematician, Atovigba Michael Vershima is believed to have solved the two-centuries-old Riemann Conjecture that has defied giants such as Gauss, Minkowski and Polya.
Another young man, Hallowed Olaoluwa was one of a dozen “Future Einstein” awarded postdoctoral fellowships by Harvard University.
He completed a remarkable Doctorate in Mathematical Physics at the University of Lagos at the age of 21.
While at Harvard, he aims to focus on solving problems relating to “Quantum Ergodicity and Quantum Chaos”, with applications to Medical Imaging and Robotics.
Another Unilag alumnus, Ayodele Dada graduated with a perfect 5.0 GPA, an unprecedented feat in a Nigerian university.
Victor Olalusi recently graduated with such stellar performance at the Russian Medical Research University, Moscow, and was feted the best graduate throughout the Russian Federation.
Habiba Daggash, daughter of my friend, Senator Sanusi Daggash, recently graduated with a starred first in Engineering at Oxford University.
Emmanuel Ohuabunwa earned a GPA of 3.98 out of a possible 4.0 as the best overall graduate of the Ivy-League Johns Hopkins University.
Stewart Hendry, Johns Hopkins Professor of Neuroscience, described the young man as having “an intellect so rare that it touches on the unique…a personality that is once-in-a-life-time”.
There is also young Yemi Adesokan, postdoctoral fellow of Harvard Medical School who patented procedures for tracking the spread of viral epidemics in developing countries.
Ufot Ekong recently solved a 50-year-old mathematical riddle at Tokai University in Japan and was voted the most outstanding graduate of the institution. He currently works as an Engineer for Nissan, having pocketed two patents in his discipline.
This is only the tip of the iceberg.
If our system were not so inclement to talent, we would be celebrating a bountiful harvest of geniuses in all the fields of human endeavour.
This is why the correlates between our gene-pool and national development are so diametrically opposed.
We are becoming a failed state.
We punch miserably below our weight in the hierarchy of world economics and politics.
None of our institutions come near the top 500 in the World Universities League Table.
An estimated 50% of our people live in extreme poverty.
Youth unemployment hovers around 45 percent (70% for the far-North).
The poverty is heartbreaking.
Our per capita GDP is less than $3,000 as compared to Singapore’s $55,252.
We have the worst road carnage record in the world, with more than 20,000 lost to road accidents annually.
We wasted over $18 billion on the Power sector and our people still live in darkness.
The State governments are virtually bankrupt.
It is only by investing in Science and in our young people can we forge a better future.
Without Science and innovation, the African people will never overcome their millennial servitude.
And the African Renaissance of our dream will become a mere phantasmagoria.
We must create an ecosystem that enables Science and innovation to flourish.
And we must incentivise talent while building a merit-based society.
In Brazil, a Nobel laureate is entitled by statute to the same pension rights as a former President.
Society must adequately recognise and reward all men and women of excellence.
Our government should keep a roster of all super-achievers of Nigerian origin and we should tap their brains for the building of our country. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Brain Drain: A Worrisome Development In Nigeria by BeardedmeatR(m): 1:18am On Apr 27, 2023 |
Nigeria doesn't deserve them, let the drain Continue. 1 Like |
| Re: Brain Drain: A Worrisome Development In Nigeria by Nobody: 2:11am On Apr 27, 2023 |
If our thieving politicians really gave a damn about the brain drain, they'd do something about increasing wages, rebuilding the environment and public services like transportation and housing, tackling insecurity (although they're the enablers of crime cos they use criminals for their political agenda) and reducing corruption. 1 Like |
| Re: Brain Drain: A Worrisome Development In Nigeria by LikeAking: 2:39am On Apr 27, 2023 |
constancefriday:
Greetings Nairalanders;
I recently came across an article that talked about how Nigeria is full of great minds but the system operating within the country is mediocre and those in power pay little or no attention to the systematic emergency.
Take sometime to read the article below, it will help explain more why our leaders need to sit up and revive the system. Nigeria has more than enough brains to develop the country.
Nigeria shouldn't be a third world country by now.
Read the article below for more.
SMARTEST PEOPLE, MEDIOCRE NATION - THE IRONY OF NIGERIA.
BRITISH Nobel laureate, Dorothy Hodgkin once noted that the University of Lagos was one of the world centres of expertise in her specialist field of Chemical Crystallography.
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria had the first world-class Computer Centre in Africa.
The University of Ife had a notable pool of expertise in Nuclear Physics.
Our premier University of Ibadan had an international reputation as a leading centre of excellence in Tropical Medicine, Development Economics and the Historical Sciences.
The Saudi Royal family used to frequent UCH for medical treatment in the sixties.
The Engineering Scientist, Ayodele Awojobi, a graduate of ABU Zaria, was a rather troubled genius.
He tragically died of frustration because our environment could not contain, let alone, utilise his talents.
Ishaya Shuaibu Audu, pioneer Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of ABU Zaria, collected all the prizes at St. Mary’s University Medical School London.
His successor in Zaria, Iya Abubakar, was a highly talented Cambridge Mathematician who became a professor at 28 and was a noted consultant to NASA.
Alexander Animalu was a gifted MIT Physicist who did work of original importance in Superconductivity.
His book, Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids has been translated into several languages, including Russian.
Renowned Mathematician, Chike Obi solved Fermat’s 200-year-old conjecture with pencil and paper while the Cambridge Mathematician, John Wiles achieved same with the help of a computer working over a decade.
After the harsh environment of the 1980s IMF/WB Structural Adjustment Programmes, the Babangida military dictatorship undertook massive budgetary cutbacks in higher education.
Our brightest and best fled abroad.
Today, Nigerian Doctors, Scientists and Engineers are making massive contributions in Europe and North America.
Philip Emeagwali won the 1989 Gordon Bell Award for his work in Super-Computing.
Jelani Aliyu designed the first electric car for American automobile giant, General Motors.
Olufunmilayo Olopede, Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago won a McArthur Genius Award for her work on cancer.
Winston Soboyejo, who earned a Cambridge doctorate at 23, is a Princeton Engineering professor laurelled for his contributions to Materials Research.
He is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Washington University Biomedical Engineering professor, Samuel Achilefu received the St. Louis Award for his invention of cancer-seeing glasses that is a major advancement in radiology.
Kunle Olukotun of Stanford did work of original importance on Multi-Processors.
National Merit laureate, Omowunmi Sadik of State University of Binghamton owns patents for Biosensors Technology.
Young Nigerians are also recording stellar performances at home and abroad.
A Nigerian family, the Imafidons, were voted “The smartest family in Britain” in 2015.
Anne-Marie Imafidon earned her Oxford Masters’ in Mathematics and Computer Science when she was only 19.
Today, she sits on several corporate boards and was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to Science.
Recently, Benue State University Mathematician, Atovigba Michael Vershima is believed to have solved the two-centuries-old Riemann Conjecture that has defied giants such as Gauss, Minkowski and Polya.
Another young man, Hallowed Olaoluwa was one of a dozen “Future Einstein” awarded postdoctoral fellowships by Harvard University.
He completed a remarkable Doctorate in Mathematical Physics at the University of Lagos at the age of 21.
While at Harvard, he aims to focus on solving problems relating to “Quantum Ergodicity and Quantum Chaos”, with applications to Medical Imaging and Robotics.
Another Unilag alumnus, Ayodele Dada graduated with a perfect 5.0 GPA, an unprecedented feat in a Nigerian university.
Victor Olalusi recently graduated with such stellar performance at the Russian Medical Research University, Moscow, and was feted the best graduate throughout the Russian Federation.
Habiba Daggash, daughter of my friend, Senator Sanusi Daggash, recently graduated with a starred first in Engineering at Oxford University.
Emmanuel Ohuabunwa earned a GPA of 3.98 out of a possible 4.0 as the best overall graduate of the Ivy-League Johns Hopkins University.
Stewart Hendry, Johns Hopkins Professor of Neuroscience, described the young man as having “an intellect so rare that it touches on the unique…a personality that is once-in-a-life-time”.
There is also young Yemi Adesokan, postdoctoral fellow of Harvard Medical School who patented procedures for tracking the spread of viral epidemics in developing countries.
Ufot Ekong recently solved a 50-year-old mathematical riddle at Tokai University in Japan and was voted the most outstanding graduate of the institution. He currently works as an Engineer for Nissan, having pocketed two patents in his discipline.
This is only the tip of the iceberg.
If our system were not so inclement to talent, we would be celebrating a bountiful harvest of geniuses in all the fields of human endeavour.
This is why the correlates between our gene-pool and national development are so diametrically opposed.
We are becoming a failed state.
We punch miserably below our weight in the hierarchy of world economics and politics.
None of our institutions come near the top 500 in the World Universities League Table.
An estimated 50% of our people live in extreme poverty.
Youth unemployment hovers around 45 percent (70% for the far-North).
The poverty is heartbreaking.
Our per capita GDP is less than $3,000 as compared to Singapore’s $55,252.
We have the worst road carnage record in the world, with more than 20,000 lost to road accidents annually.
We wasted over $18 billion on the Power sector and our people still live in darkness.
The State governments are virtually bankrupt.
It is only by investing in Science and in our young people can we forge a better future.
Without Science and innovation, the African people will never overcome their millennial servitude.
And the African Renaissance of our dream will become a mere phantasmagoria.
We must create an ecosystem that enables Science and innovation to flourish.
And we must incentivise talent while building a merit-based society.
In Brazil, a Nobel laureate is entitled by statute to the same pension rights as a former President.
Society must adequately recognise and reward all men and women of excellence.
Our government should keep a roster of all super-achievers of Nigerian origin and we should tap their brains for the building of our country.
The black man problem is he is preoccupied with negative thoughts. So no matter how intelligent or talented he may be , he creates less impacts in the society. Take the Nigerian music industry for example most of the top artist have not created any none music impact on the society despite their wealth. Most of them have not signed or make any younger artist grow... Oga despite their talents, most of them don't think good about humanity. |
| Re: Brain Drain: A Worrisome Development In Nigeria by LikeAking: 2:41am On Apr 27, 2023 |
Linda Ikeji and co made money and locked them selves up in Bannana island. Black man style.
Even if our so called smart guys make it, don't expect much...
You won't see that American or Western effect here... |
| Re: Brain Drain: A Worrisome Development In Nigeria by Berrityga: 4:46am On Apr 27, 2023 |
Weirdo. This life you better stay wicked and focus on making money. |
| Re: Brain Drain: A Worrisome Development In Nigeria by Debangis20(m): 6:17pm On May 02, 2023 |
TO: OP,
That's a commendable piece put up there. It is high time Nigeria, and Africa at large start encouraging excellence and innovation especially in STEM fields. |
| Re: Brain Drain: A Worrisome Development In Nigeria by Najdorf: 2:53pm On May 16, 2023 |
constancefriday:
Greetings Nairalanders;
I recently came across an article that talked about how Nigeria is full of great minds but the system operating within the country is mediocre and those in power pay little or no attention to the systematic emergency.
Take sometime to read the article below, it will help explain more why our leaders need to sit up and revive the system. Nigeria has more than enough brains to develop the country.
Nigeria shouldn't be a third world country by now.
Read the article below for more.
SMARTEST PEOPLE, MEDIOCRE NATION - THE IRONY OF NIGERIA.
BRITISH Nobel laureate, Dorothy Hodgkin once noted that the University of Lagos was one of the world centres of expertise in her specialist field of Chemical Crystallography.
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria had the first world-class Computer Centre in Africa.
The University of Ife had a notable pool of expertise in Nuclear Physics.
Our premier University of Ibadan had an international reputation as a leading centre of excellence in Tropical Medicine, Development Economics and the Historical Sciences.
The Saudi Royal family used to frequent UCH for medical treatment in the sixties.
The Engineering Scientist, Ayodele Awojobi, a graduate of ABU Zaria, was a rather troubled genius.
He tragically died of frustration because our environment could not contain, let alone, utilise his talents.
Ishaya Shuaibu Audu, pioneer Nigerian Vice-Chancellor of ABU Zaria, collected all the prizes at St. Mary’s University Medical School London.
His successor in Zaria, Iya Abubakar, was a highly talented Cambridge Mathematician who became a professor at 28 and was a noted consultant to NASA.
Alexander Animalu was a gifted MIT Physicist who did work of original importance in Superconductivity.
His book, Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids has been translated into several languages, including Russian.
Renowned Mathematician, Chike Obi solved Fermat’s 200-year-old conjecture with pencil and paper while the Cambridge Mathematician, John Wiles achieved same with the help of a computer working over a decade.
After the harsh environment of the 1980s IMF/WB Structural Adjustment Programmes, the Babangida military dictatorship undertook massive budgetary cutbacks in higher education.
Our brightest and best fled abroad.
Today, Nigerian Doctors, Scientists and Engineers are making massive contributions in Europe and North America.
Philip Emeagwali won the 1989 Gordon Bell Award for his work in Super-Computing.
Jelani Aliyu designed the first electric car for American automobile giant, General Motors.
Olufunmilayo Olopede, Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago won a McArthur Genius Award for her work on cancer.
Winston Soboyejo, who earned a Cambridge doctorate at 23, is a Princeton Engineering professor laurelled for his contributions to Materials Research.
He is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Washington University Biomedical Engineering professor, Samuel Achilefu received the St. Louis Award for his invention of cancer-seeing glasses that is a major advancement in radiology.
Kunle Olukotun of Stanford did work of original importance on Multi-Processors.
National Merit laureate, Omowunmi Sadik of State University of Binghamton owns patents for Biosensors Technology.
Young Nigerians are also recording stellar performances at home and abroad.
A Nigerian family, the Imafidons, were voted “The smartest family in Britain” in 2015.
Anne-Marie Imafidon earned her Oxford Masters’ in Mathematics and Computer Science when she was only 19.
Today, she sits on several corporate boards and was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to Science.
Recently, Benue State University Mathematician, Atovigba Michael Vershima is believed to have solved the two-centuries-old Riemann Conjecture that has defied giants such as Gauss, Minkowski and Polya.
Another young man, Hallowed Olaoluwa was one of a dozen “Future Einstein” awarded postdoctoral fellowships by Harvard University.
He completed a remarkable Doctorate in Mathematical Physics at the University of Lagos at the age of 21.
While at Harvard, he aims to focus on solving problems relating to “Quantum Ergodicity and Quantum Chaos”, with applications to Medical Imaging and Robotics.
Another Unilag alumnus, Ayodele Dada graduated with a perfect 5.0 GPA, an unprecedented feat in a Nigerian university.
Victor Olalusi recently graduated with such stellar performance at the Russian Medical Research University, Moscow, and was feted the best graduate throughout the Russian Federation.
Habiba Daggash, daughter of my friend, Senator Sanusi Daggash, recently graduated with a starred first in Engineering at Oxford University.
Emmanuel Ohuabunwa earned a GPA of 3.98 out of a possible 4.0 as the best overall graduate of the Ivy-League Johns Hopkins University.
Stewart Hendry, Johns Hopkins Professor of Neuroscience, described the young man as having “an intellect so rare that it touches on the unique…a personality that is once-in-a-life-time”.
There is also young Yemi Adesokan, postdoctoral fellow of Harvard Medical School who patented procedures for tracking the spread of viral epidemics in developing countries.
Ufot Ekong recently solved a 50-year-old mathematical riddle at Tokai University in Japan and was voted the most outstanding graduate of the institution. He currently works as an Engineer for Nissan, having pocketed two patents in his discipline.
This is only the tip of the iceberg.
If our system were not so inclement to talent, we would be celebrating a bountiful harvest of geniuses in all the fields of human endeavour.
This is why the correlates between our gene-pool and national development are so diametrically opposed.
We are becoming a failed state.
We punch miserably below our weight in the hierarchy of world economics and politics.
None of our institutions come near the top 500 in the World Universities League Table.
An estimated 50% of our people live in extreme poverty.
Youth unemployment hovers around 45 percent (70% for the far-North).
The poverty is heartbreaking.
Our per capita GDP is less than $3,000 as compared to Singapore’s $55,252.
We have the worst road carnage record in the world, with more than 20,000 lost to road accidents annually.
We wasted over $18 billion on the Power sector and our people still live in darkness.
The State governments are virtually bankrupt.
It is only by investing in Science and in our young people can we forge a better future.
Without Science and innovation, the African people will never overcome their millennial servitude.
And the African Renaissance of our dream will become a mere phantasmagoria.
We must create an ecosystem that enables Science and innovation to flourish.
And we must incentivise talent while building a merit-based society.
In Brazil, a Nobel laureate is entitled by statute to the same pension rights as a former President.
Society must adequately recognise and reward all men and women of excellence.
Our government should keep a roster of all super-achievers of Nigerian origin and we should tap their brains for the building of our country.
Many of your the things you stated are wrong |
