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Zeiya:
I don't know the couple oh

Here they are

iamord:
achimotan thanks a lot. You see these mofos make too much noise and feel that the world revolves around them. There are alot if Africans in NASA. Playing key roles and not making noise. The sad part is the he gets his news like it's from the village town crier.. In addition to your point. We also have Francis allotey. A mathematical physicist.. He was the key person in calculating the speed for one of the space shuttle to pass through earth into the orbit. He is also
Created The Allotey Formalism". the technique used to
determine matter in outer space, which has helped NASA and other space agencies explore space. There are alot of them making africa proud yet stay humble Some empty headed peeps just like to brag

He says its an oversight so lets grant him that. But the way Rocky, i like your contributions on skyscrapercity forum

Legonviking:
Nigerians are funny.Everyday you would hear one tribe saying we own 70% of business in Lagos and Abuja etc This same empty chest beating is extended to other countries.Those saying Nigerians control the real estate in Ghana are living in their own dream land.Is Regimanuel,Manet ,Taysec,Mobus Properties who build most of the house here owned by u. I know u all relying on the assertion of the marketing manager of ambasssdor heights in Accra to delude yourselves.Visit www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f==2883 and tell me one project being done by a nigerian

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2883


Don't mind them.Always exaggerating and boosting.Next time u would hear them lying and saying they own Accra mall, Oxford mall,A&C mall,West hills mall and the rest.

@ Lezz

[.b]Nigeria is the only African country that have her citizen in NASA
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Nigeria is the only African country having an unmanned satellite in space

Nigeria has africa's richest woman

africa's richest blogger

highest gsm penetration

highest internet access and usuage

Africa's spiritual headquarters



Typical Nigerian .Always boosting.What gives u the impression that only your citizens among all Africans work in NASA.You dont know the number of Africans working there ,yet u make that emphatic statement

Ave K. P. Kludze, Jr.[1] is a Rocket Scientist, an African pioneer, U.S. Civil Servant, Complex Systems Engineering[2] and Design Expert, and a senior NASA Spacecraft Systems Engineer.[3]

Contents

1 Life
2 Career
3 References
4 External links

Life

He was born in Hohoe, in the Volta Region of Ghana. He arrived in the United States in the late 1980s with only a High School diploma from the Adisadel College in Cape Coast, Ghana and 'A' levels from Swedru Secondary School . Shortly after his arrival in the United States, he enrolled at Rutgers University where he set out to pursue a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.

[b]After graduation, he contemplated a return to Ghana to pursue an interest in the development of various solar gadgets and merchandize, including solar freezer, solar air conditioning, solar water heater, solar lamps, etc. He believed strongly that, for Africa to develop, it must utilize its natural resources and must incorporate technologies that benefits the continent. He considered the sun to be a natural resource and its harness and utilization may be of great benefit to the continent.

Kludze, who grew up in Dansoman-Sahara, a suburb of Accra, made a name for himself as a young genius, who was fascinated with science at an early age; he had a reputation for questioning almost everything, and also for his unusual “domestic scientific experiments” and thinking.

His love of science began at an early age; his parents once remarked that they were fearful to leave him at home in case he dismantled the radio.[4] At friends’ houses, he would take apart their televisions to see how they worked. By his own admission, Kludze’s fascination with aviation began with a trip to the airport in Accra as a young boy. His father had intended him to become a lawyer but supported him regardless in his ambitions.[4]
Career

Kludze has held positions at various NASA Centers including the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where he became if not the first African, the first Ghanaian to ever fly (command and control) a Spacecraft in Orbit (including the ERBS and TRMM Spececrafts, etc. for NASA from a mission control center).[5]

He designed the Human Locator System, which he called the "HuLos" in partial fulfillment of the requirements for his Masters degree at the Johns Hopkins University. The HuLos uses nanotechnology (microscopic technology) and is intended to locate human beings anywhere on this planet using satellite communication, GPS and other technologies. What made the system unique at the time of its conception, though considered weird by even his advisor, were the miniaturized size and the concept of global location. The device is to be implanted under the human skull, skin bone or teeth and activated when required. The system as envisioned could be used e.g. in locating missing children, the elderly, stolen cars and hardened criminals. The thesis which contains the design is currently at the Applied Physics Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University.

In 2004, Kludze and a group of NASA engineers developed the Extravehicular Activity Infrared (EVA IR) camera for space-walking astronauts. The EVA IR camera was designed to fulfill a critical inspection need for the Shuttle Program; the on-orbit IR Camera can detect crack and surface defects in the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) sections of the Space Shuttle's Thermal Protection System. This camera may help discover and prevent some of the problems leading to the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Kludze was selected to join the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), an organization made up of some of NASA's best and brightest, created after the Columbia incident, as a systems engineering expert. Before joining the NESC, Kludze was the manager of NASA Langley's state-of-the-art Integrated Design Center (IDC) which he helped to develop. He was also the Traceability and Verification Manager for the CALIPSO spacecraft. His pioneering work in systems engineering has been published worldwide; he has a number of publications, several NASA and external awards and recognitions to his credit. Kludze will be involved in several space initiatives including the implementation of the U.S. President's Space Exploration Vision to the Moon, Mars and beyond.[6]

Kludze holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in engineering.
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For his distinguished achievements, Dr. Kludze was in 2002 recognised and honoured at the Second Biennial Adisadel College Excellence Awards at a ceremony at the State House in Accra, by the Adisadel College Old Boy's Association and the College.

For his outstanding accomplishments in Space Science and Technology, he was profiled on Cable News Network (CNN) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The following links should take you to the CNN documentary and the BBC feature article:

- CNN: "Ave Kludze: Ghana's rocket man" or http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/03/ave.kludze.NASA/index.html

- BBC: "Profile: Ghana's rocket man" or http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7881708.s

Another Non Nigerian and a Ghanaian

Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, Ph.D, CEng FIEE, SMIEE
Senior Member of Engineering Staff


Biography
Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu (FIET, FRAeS, SMIEEE, PMP) is a Group Lead and Robotics Engineer at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, CA and a Fellow of the IET (U.K.), a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, U.K., a Senior Member of the IEEE and Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). His current research at JPL focuses on Planetary Rovers, Manipulation, Multiple Mobile Robots (Planetary Outpost), Reconfigurable Robots and Man-machine Interaction. Dr. Trebi-Ollennu’s research has resulted in more than 95 publications. He currently works on the InSight Mission as an Instrument Deployment Systems Engineer and MSL (Curiosity Rover) a Robotic Arm Systems Engineer.

Education
Ph. D. in Control Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied
Science, Royal Military College Science, Cranfield University, U.K., 1996.
B.Eng. in Avionics, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen Mary College,
University of London, 1991.

Professional Experience
Highly accomplished visionary Multidisciplinary Engineer with a broad background and extensive hands-on experience in Space Robotics Systems, Flight Systems Integration & Test, Planetary Rover Operations, System of Systems Design, Distributed Mobile Robotics, System Architectures, Dynamic Modeling, Control Systems design for Aerospace and Mechatronics Systems and Contract Technical Management.
Results-oriented, decisive leader with proven success in transitioning technology into flight.

Research Interests
Planetary Rovers
Adjustable Autonomy
Mechatronics,
System of Systems
Manipulation
Planetary Rover Operations
Multiple Mobile Robots
Reconfigurable Robots
Man-machine Interaction.

Nakuza:
I don't why Ghanians keep on comparing the size of their economy with ours. Ghana is just like one state in Nigeria, so why all this noise about.

who has compared the size of economies here.it appears some of u just comment by heart.

We are currently experiencing power rationing and our authorities some times give the example of nigeria which has huge gas reserves and supply us with gas where power rationing is worse than ghana.
What jamila who posted on Instagram was simply saying was that Nigerians might have taken it in their stride and not complaining but we Ghanaians are not going to give u the politicians reprieve until u fix the situation .A demonstration has been scheduled for 16 may to register our outrage.24 hour electricity is a right not a privilege.

RoyalPearl:
Exactly well said Bro. Ghanaians are fed up and don't want to tolerate this nonsense kwasiasem dumsor any longer. He'll no

Am glad the pastors,civil society and the celebrities are all voicing out to put pressure on the government about the issue.Maintenance of thermal plants cannot take over a year to be repaired.We are tired of excuses

[quote author=lezz post=33646515]Only Ghana can make such baseless comparison.

Ghana's yearly budget is still heavily dependent on IMF donations. making ghana officially a begging nation.

There so-called electricity is derived from the gas Nigeria gives them for a pittance.

I do not make excuses for our thieving leaders but Ghana is in no position to deride Nigeria. we are roughly 200 million people and it is forever tougher producing power for that kind of population.


Ghana is roughly 35million and still have problems with electricity. their so called uninterrupted power not withstanding they still have a laughable GDP of roughly $30 b which is roughly the economic size of Lagos state alone.


Nigeria still is the most important country in africa with or without power.



ALL this na grammar. You have huge gas reserves enough to generate about 20,000 MW instead of the 4000mw you currently generate.You are using the size of your population to justify the power u currently generate.What you conveniently forget is that if your leaders really want you to enjoy uninterrupted power ,they can.You export about 22m tonnes of lng annually .HALF of that can give u light.Again u have 160trillion cubic feet of reserves.Dude irrespective of population size, Nigeria should be generating enough power and export the excess to countries in the sub region without gas.

The reason she mentioned Nigeria is that you have over 165 trillion cubic feet of gas capable of powering the whole of the sub region.You currently supply us with about 60m cubic feet a day, which is 40m cubic feet short of the contractual agreement by the way.Our POLITICIANS are quick to point to Nigeria's huge gas reserves in relation to your power situation to justify what we Ghanians are experiencing and tell us to exercise patience as Nigerians have. But our celebrities led by Yvonne Nelson and co are saying hell no.This is not rocket science! fix the power crisis now and are embarking on a demonstration on the 16th of May to put pressure on the government to hasten the process of ending our power crisis.

gunnersjohn:
But why did the Ghana media treat one of their own like that? Would they have done that to someone with Ghanaian name? Xenophobic attack in Ghana too!

This has nothing to do with xenophobia. It had to do with her being an on air personality and the desire of those media houses to attract readers.

Trust me, even if it was one of the daughters of Prez Rawlings that was raped, you would still have seen a pix of her in a section of the media

mulattoclaro:
Any girl that was raped deserved to be raped.

No girl deserved to forced into an unwanted sexual intercourse.

Rape is an act you should not even wish for your enemy

Sad story. But OP ,she is a Ghanaian as well cos she was born to a Ghanaian mother and has lived all her life in Ghana and has a Ghanaian passport as well.
The intriguing thing for me was her agreeing to meet her kidnappers who had sent her threatening text messages

My brother why replied a Yoruba bastard who doesn't know his father. Don't u know that bastards are always abusive and don't u know that 98% Yoruba's are bastards who doesn't knw their fathers. I haven't being to lagos and hav no business going there. But 99% Yoruba's I met in Kaduna, Bayelsa and here in Portharcourt doesn't know their fathers and village's and they also very abusive and dirty. Their ugly bleaching dirty women are busy giving birth to many children from different men.

www.nairaland.com/2132612/lagos-apga-candidate-asked-speak/2#30475081


Mbilla !U may come with different monikers but your bigotry and bad grammar would always give u away

Typical primitive Yoruba agbaro. Why not claim Kenneth Omerue is from Yoruba than using Uhrobo as an example. Fool! U primitive scumbag think that every Nigerian was born n bread in Lagos. Fool get this in ur oily brain, I was born in PH, I schooled in Enugu and am working in Abuja. All these 3 cities I mentioned are well planned, organized and cleaner than that ghetto u called Lagos. If not sea port, international airport and Lagos being the former capital of Nigeria. I don't think a sane person will live in that smelling slums u called Lagos. Pls live that ur cave in lagos and just travel to some cities in Nigeria like PH, Calabar, Enugu, Owerri, Uyo, Asaba, Abuja, Jos, Kaduna, Gombe. U will realize how silly ur living in overpopulated ghetto u called Lagos. Listen again u poky, before federal government enriched Dangote, Adenuga and that criminal otedola, there hav been honest, hardworking Igbo billionaires like Jaja of Opopo ( the first Nigerian to trade with white people), Linus Ojukwu( The first African billionaire) who made their wealth through hardworking.



www.nairaland.com/2136749/kenneth-omeruo-super-falcons-star/3#30568015

Mbila! the fool that u are. Look at y write about ur own country

Mbilla:
Typical lazy burnt Ghanaian that reason with his burnt anus. Poky senseless I.d.i.o.t! Listen ugly burnt ape, Yorubas, Igbos, Hausa's are one. Due we may have our differences' but we are one and we will always remain one against you envious poky I.d.i.o.t. F.o.o.l continue spending ur time on Nigeria forum while Nigerians are busy buying off ur tiny country.

u are one of the silly guys here. Delusional slowpoke claiming to be from Abia Today and morrow be claiming to coming from Akwa Ibom. Always lying to boost ur ego. I would expose ur tomfoolery today

Mbilla:
My brother is only Nigerian who has not been to Ghana that will take Useless Ghanaians serious. Before Glo telecommunication network sent me to Ghana for installation of network mass across Ghana, I reasoned like some Nigerian here in nairaland who see those ugly lazy Ghanaian fools as their brothers and entertaining them on nairaland. But the first day I arrived Ghana that I started witnessing hatred, envies and pull him down attitude of an average Ghanaian. MTN own by Southafrica, Vodafone own by British, Airtel and Tigo own by india puts their mass across Ghana and Ghanaians didn't destroy it but immediately Glo own by a Nigerian start putting mass in Ghana, Ghanaians started destroying it. Lazy Ghanaians casual workers that we employed started sabotage Glo effort, until we sack them and replaced them with Ewe tribe in Togo and Frafra tribe in Burkina Faso. Most Nigerians in Ghana who trust or keep wicked, hypocrites pretender Ghana as friends are currently in Nsusaw prison in Ghana for a crime they don't know about because their so called Ghana friends set them up because of jealousy.

Phuck off Cusababa aka GoodySydney. Your hatred against Ghanaians and your own country folks the Yorubas are legendary.Goon like you always lying about working for Glo but cant differentiate a MAST and MASS
Kwasiasem! Go on with your numerous delusions from dating an ewe girl and a mother coming from the north.You can come with different monikers but you would always be found out

CFCfan:
You'll see Nigeria make history by being the first African team to win all male age-grade trophies: U-17, U-20, and U-23 world titles- in June.
The addition of 4-5 regulars, that missed this tournament, will produce a complete team.

Where is the guy who won the player of the tournament in UAE? Has he been loaned to a another club or he is still at Man City?

AOB1963:
The Ghanaians should just bury their heads in shame. Even with Avram Grant sitting on their bench as Technical Adviser, they still cannot beat what is really our 2nd option team. If you introduce Ihenacho, Ndidi, Moses Simon, Success and Yahaya into this side then we are talking. They can abuse all they like on this forum, the fact is they are not playing well enough. Why did they have to bring Avram Grant for a job Sellas Tetteh has been doing so well? Colonial mentality!!

U have every reason to brag about ur victory and our poor performance.Trust me u would see a much improved Ghanaian team in New Zealand

Leading goal scorer at the ongoing African Youth Championship in Senegal, Taiwo Awoniyi has vowed that the Flying Eagles will triumph over the Black Satellites of Ghana in the semi final game between the two West African giants today.

The Manu Garba-led side progressed to the last four of the tournament with seven points after winning two games and drawing 2-2 with Ivory Coast in their final group game, last Saturday.
Flying Eagles


On records, Nigeria have only beaten the Black Satellites once in their last five meetings at the AYC, but the nation’s U-20 team understand the task ahead of them and have promised to deliver nothing but victory to all Nigerians at the end of the game.

It was at the 2011 tournament in South Africa when a goal by Uche Nwofor and the individual brilliance of Ahmed Musa combined to dump the defending world champions.

However, the Flying Eagles have lost to their West African rivals on the other four occasions they have clashed – in 1985 (2-1), 1993 (1-0), 1999 (1-0) and 2001 (4-1).

“We know the entire country expects only one thing from us – victory. And we will deliver and in the final on Sunday,” vowed striker Taiwo Awoniyi, who has shone at this tournament with three goals thus far.

“There will really be no point qualifying for the World Cup, if we cannot go there as champions of Africa,” added coach Manu Garba ahead of this epic semifinal.

“Our tournament starts with this game and we have to be prepared to win it so as to stay on track for our main target, which is to be champions of Africa.

“This is the final before the final; it will even be tougher than the final.”

Ghana, who have won this competition four times, were disappointing against fellow West Africans Mali in a final group game on Sunday, but coach Sellas Tetteh insisted he gave several untested players a run so as not to risk star players like Yaw Yeboah and Samuel Tetteh, who were already on a booking each.

“We will put our house in order to face Nigeria. We’re capable,” maintained the coach, who led the Black Satellites to win Africa’s first U20 World Cup six years ago.

The Flying Eagles will go into Wednesday’s encounter with a psychological edge having defeated their rivals 2-0 in Tema in a friendly last month.

The first warm-up between both teams in Accra ended in an exciting 2-2 draw.

Dega128:
Chai! this is the weakest Ghanaian team I've seen for a while ..

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We would beef up with about 4 Europe based players for the world cup in New Zealand

lexyman:
Going by Ghana game against Mali and the previous game against Zambia , it showed that they re not match for Nigeria .
The Malians dominated the game right from the beginning to d end , the eagles attacked them from the wings and I wonder why their midfield went to sleep .


I see the black satelites falling again to their superior come wednessday .

4 regular players did not feature against Mali.

The groups the CAF countries would be placed.
In the world Cup in New Zealand the best 3rd placed teams would join the group winners and runners up for the round of 16


Guys ,which group at World Cup would you prefer your country to be placed?

Its pity i have not watched a single match of my Ghanaian boys.I understand 4 regular players did not play the match against Mali though.
For me, what is important is that they have qualified for the world cup which would enable them showcase their skills to the foreign scouts.

Tonylyte:
And the whites should wear suites to the pitch? Do the right thing at the right time. Ankara is not jersey, therefore it shouldnt be useD in football.

For ur information it is not ankara.It is Kente and we are proud to infuse our heritage in our jersey

amofah1:
guy u de Ghana or Nigeria?

I dey GH

OMG.To say am nervous is an understatement.I was very relaxed in 2010 when we met Egypt at the final in Angola but today am shaking all over.
! Avenge the defeat of Senegal 1992

Player for player the ivorians have marquee names such as africas most expensive player W Bony,Y Toure.,Gervinho and Aurier.But we in Ghana can also boast of A Ayew and Gyan who have a wealth of big tournament experience coupled with the industry of Wakaso and Atsu who have shown hunger for success and have ridden on great team effort and impressive work ethic.
It is going to be an uncomprising battle but i trust my black stars to sail through.
We have waited patiently for 33 years.This is the hour

So much talk about rough play by Ghana but at the end of the day we all know the team which had the most cards.5 yellow cards for Guinea and non against Ghana

chriskwaku:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfLz-WgbqY8

i hold gyan in high esteem becos he helped in qualifying ghana to the world cup 3x .despite yeboah's wonderful goals in england, he and abedi could not take ghana to the world cup

bison

jay jay

Drogba