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Ritchiee:
You are the pathetic one here because you compare authentic widely educated people with your miracle centres peolple and say they are educated when everything genuine happenings home and abroad signifies that Yorubas are more educated than the Igbos.
And for your information,individuals beget a nation...
I WANT YOU TO BRING OUT YOURS AND WE WOULD ALWAYS DWARF WHATEVER YOU BRING AUTHENTICALLY.

LOOK AT THIS...EXCERPTS:



Mathematicians of the 1990s:

Seven mathematicians of the 1990s, Adebisi Agboola, Jonathan Farley, Wilfrid Gangbo, Abba Gumel, Trachette Jackson, Katherine Okikiolu, and Arlie Petters show extraordinary promise, "should be" (but are not necessarily) located at the very best institutions, and may be the Fields medal candidates of the future.













Petters: Belize born American citizen Arlie Petters, the most senior of the group is a member of Duke University's Bass Fellows. He is Full Professor of Mathematics and of Physics (their first tenured Black professor in the sciences - congratulations Duke). He is chiefly interested in the mathematical theory of gravitational lensing and related areas (differential geometry, singularity theory, general relativity, Astrophysics). Though Petters received his Ph.D. about ten years ago, he has published 30 papers and a book, chiefly in the area Gravitational Lensing. Petters's book on Gravitational Lensing is considered a tour de force in mathematical physics. In 1998, Petters was awarded the most prestigious award for "young" mathematicians, the three year Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2002, he was recipient of the first Blackwell-Tapia Prize.

K. Okikiolu: Born to Nigerian and British parents, but educated in the U.S., Katherine Okikiolu (was once on Princeton's faculty) received special distinction in 1997 when she was the first Black to win a Sloan Research Fellowship. Later in 1997, she won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for "Innovative research in geometric analysis, particularly the determinant of the Laplacian under smooth perturbations, and developing student workshops and mathematics curricula for inner-city children." This particular award is worth $500,000 and is only granted 60 scientists and engineers in the U.S. per year. Okikiolu's work on elliptical differential operators is considered a major contribution, going well beyond what experts had considered feasible, given the current state of knowledge. Her 2001 publication Critical metrics for the determinant of the Laplacian in odd dimensions in the Annals of Mathematics, is receiving high acclaim. She is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego.

Farley: Born in an extremely successful academic family of Rochester, New York, Jonathan Farley, graduated second in his class with an A.B. from Harvard University and obtained a mathematics Ph.D. from Oxford University where he was awarded the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson Prize for his research. During a two year visit to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute [MSRI] in 1996, Farley solved very important old problems in the Theory of Ordered Sets. He also works in Lattice Theory. He is currently publishing at an average of more than three papers a year, and in 2003 was a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University in England. Currently is Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Massachusettes Institute of Technology.

Gangbo: In just nine years from a Ph.D. to a Full Professor - this is incredible. Wilfrid Gangbo was born in Benin and in 1992 earned a Ph.D. from Swiss Federale Institute of Technology. Among his twelve papers is his 1996 The geometry of optimal transportation remains the single publication by a Black in the Mittag-Leffler Institute's Acta Mathematica, one of the world's strongest mathematics journals. In 2001 he was appointed Full Professor by Georgia Institute of Technology.

Agboola: In mathematics, one does not always know of young persons working in fields outside their own, and it is a great honor to the individual if the case is otherwise. Adebisi Agboola's work in Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry has been mentioned to me as very good by Kevin Corlette and two of my non-Black colleagues whose area of research is mutually exclusive with Agboola, Corlette, and each other. Agboola is Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara

Gumel: Born in Nigeria, Ph.D. in England. Abba Gumel is an extremely prolific in the areas Mathematical Biology, Non-linear Dynamical Systems, and Computational Mathematics. Currently he is a Full Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

Jackson: American Trachette Jackson was a mathematics major at Arizona State in Tempe. Four years later she earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Biology. Five years later she had ten articles under her belt and a Sloan Fellowship. Currently, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics University of Michigan

Johnson: British born Mathematical Physicist Clifford V. Johnson has over 60 publications since his 1992 Ph.D. Since that time he has immersed himself within String Theory (also see Sylvester James Gates) with papers and books. He is currently on leave at USC.


http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madgreatest.html

You are just being pathetic. That topic had already been exhausted here: https://www.nairaland.com/567700/nigerian-academia-diaspora


Yoruba high flyers are easily cancelled out by Igbo high flyers.


This topic isn't about the high flyers, it's about the average performance of the SEners which more than trumps that of SW.

Ritchiee:
It is a well known FACT,so nobody recognizes the Igbos when you talk about education.HOME AND ABROAD...EDUCATION HAS BECOME THE BIRTHMARK OF THE YORUBAS.
MIRACLE CENTRES THING AND YOU ARE HAPPY.SMH...
Look at the real thing.

EVEN ABROAD..


The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, UP, says Romola Adeola is its youngest doctoral graduate. In a statement on its website, the centre said: “Romola Adeola, 26, has set a record in being the youngest person to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) in the 30-year history of the Centre for Human Rights.

Furthermore, she is only the 2nd youngest person to achieve this in the Faculty of Law, UP, since its establishment 107 years ago. She distinguished herself by completing the LLD in under 3 years. During her undergraduate years at Lagos State University (LASU), she was the Best Student in International Law.

Romola’s relationship with the Centre for Human Rights began from her participation in the 2008 African Human Rights Moot Court Competition. In 2012, she was selected as a DAAD scholar to study for the LLM/MPhil degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa.

She graduated cum laude, earning two awards: the Kéba M’Baye award for the overall Best Dissertation and the Victor Dankwa prize for the Best Performance in the module: Human Rights in Africa. Her excellent record earned her admission to the Centre’s doctoral programme in 2013.

In her PhD thesis, she analyzed the obligation in article 10 of the African Union Convention in relation to the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa. She has given interviews, presented papers at international conferences and been the voice of the Centre on issues of internally displaced persons, migrants and refugees. .

During her time here, she led the Disability Rights Clinic and served as Alumni Coordinator. In this latter capacity, she led a campaign calling for the release of prominent Swazi human rights activist – Thulani Maseko, and raised funding to support his family.

She attributes her success to her supportive parents, personal discipline, perseverance and prayer. In her words, ‘be faithful to God, be true to yourself and be of service to humanity.’ She also holds two diplomas from Åbo Akademi University.”
http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/02/26-year-old-lasu-alumnus-emerges.html

Lol! This is your comeback? Hahaha! Individual awards? Bwahaha!

Didn't an Igbo man just win a science Award at AU conference in Ethiopia?http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2016/01/photo-nigerian-scientist-prof.html?m=1

Lol! You want us to flood this thread with individual awards? Lol!


You are pathetic. We are talking of percentages here, group average performance and a supposedly educated person like you is using a few Yoruba high flyers who are easily cancelled out by Igbo high flyers to console yourself.
Ndo.

DikeOha882:
Igbo nmanmanu o, o ga diri Igbo nma.


A time for sober reflection to our Enugu,Imo and Ebonyi governors to brace up and compete with Abia and Anambra for that position.

True.

But with 5 SE states in the top ten, I am so impressed.
Even our Ebonyi brothers are catching up fast and furious. I had always known that they are not intellectually challenged but were just unfortunate to have been exposed to western civilization much more later than the rest of us.

Right now, Ebonyi is breaking even, and would soon top that chat.

Also good to see Delta and Rivers up there, we have too many Igbo speaking groups there, and it's obviously showing in the high ranking of the state.

Alonu Alonu o! Tokpehunuo! Nma nma nuo! unu anwula o! Maazi nuo!

Kwezunuo!

babyfaceafrica:
PMB did not say this......

Your fellow Yorubas and Northerners are already looking for means to explain this Buhari statement away, and you are here doubting if he said so, like it would make any difference to you if he said so or not, since we all know that you will continue supporting him and see no wrong in this his statement, once you finally confirm he truly uttered them.

the President said those of them, who participated in the nation’s 30-month civil war that left millions of Nigerians dead, found the belief of Nigerians, who lived in oil-rich areas that the natural resources belonged to them, very irritating.


Kikiki! Aha! Now you are talking. One Nigeria built on Crude oil. What happens when crude oil becomes useless?

dradoyi:
Super Doc. A renowned Professor of pathology. Am proud to be one of his products. Proudly an Abusite.

Renowned? Kam nukwa. Who knows him outside ABU Zaria?
What are his contributions to the advancement of human knowledge base of pathology?

klax:
Nwanne don't mind him he want to start blame silly game. My parent are fully igbo to the core but what does it profit anyone to be trying to creating another civil war and innocent village people dying agaIn pls for what

This same issue made me not to have a single uncle today my grand parent have 6 boys and a girl five of these boys I mean my supposed uncle were forcefully taken by a biafra commander to fight then till today 2016 none returned the shock send my grandfather to his early grave after the war my grandma is 86 years now in the village crying where are my sons everyday unconsoleabble and one idiot from nowhere again want to start from where it stops and finally killed the old woman and some people are expecting me to join this nonsense mba it won't happen if anyone has family to waste he or she can join them ok.

Kanu you are mad I repeat kanu you are mad ok.

Your uncle was a weakling, a dredge of the society, if he was forced to defend his homeland from invaders when his mates willingly enrolled into the military to defend our motherland from invaders hell bent on exterminating us, you should be ashamed of him and not broadcast his cowardice in the public.

Your family weren't the only ones who suffered loss in the civil war, every family within the rising sun nation did, but unlike you, we knew those who bombed our cities, we know those who chose to exterminate us rather than restructure the country, we know those who promised to shoot at anything that moves, that killed our people in Benin, makurdi, Asaba, and invaded our nation to continue their killing spree, we are not in anyway confused about their identity and can never accept them as countrymen.

Btw, neither Kanu nor Ojukwu called for war on Nigeria, they called for freedom of motherland, it was and remain the parasites who threaten war and maim innocent people to preserve a colonial entity, simply because they can't thrive as a people outside this colonial entity.

It's funny that only Ngwa people speak of non existent Ukwa-Ngwa.

The Ukwas don't recognize such union and only rightly see Ngwas as big neighbors who want to use their( Ukwa) population and natural resources as a bargain chip in their quest for power.

Why must the so called quest for Ukwa-Ngwa governor always end with the governor coming from Ngwa area?

Abeg, I believe Ngwa people should be allowed to have their turn of ruling Abia, but no Ngwa should be speaking of phantom Ukwa-Ngwa area, to start with, there is no Ukwa clan, what we have is Ndoki and Asa clans, both of which are clearly independent and distinct from Ngwa.

Ngwa people should respect their boundaries. The sea corridor of Igboland rests with Ndoki, an independent Igbo clan and not Ngwa.

Lol! The Igbo slaves who became lords over Ijaw people never stopped seeing themselves as Igbos, Jaja never failed to keep telling people where in Amaigbo he came from, those Igbo slaves merely stooped to conquer, and conquer they did, as their reigned as lords over Ijaw subjects.


Igbo slaves being sold at Eastern ports is not a new story, it's an old story,I only wanted to dispel any notion of Igboland being ransacked for slaves by Ijaws.

The Ijaws were the sea people, the whites lodged at the sea ports, and the only access the Igbo had to the Whites was through the Ijaws, so everything we sold to the Whites, be it Palm oil or slaves passed through the Ijaws. But we know that at the peak of it all, Igbo personalities were the leaders of those Ijaw trading houses.

And at a point, the Whites were no longer comfortable with the Ijaws bringing the goods to them, they wanted the goods sold directly to them by Ndiigbo, and that was how the Ijaws lost all their relevance in the scheme of things. They were never producers of Palm oil or slaves, they were just opportunists that capitalized on the Igbo reluctance to march out the sea and the white man reluctance to match inland.

fx45:
Thank God you're Ibo... We know all of una. When the time comes we will separate Paul from Barnabas. The real Igbos will rid the land of all unclean and impure blood.

Which one is Real Igbos?

Ibibio/Annang/ Efik/ Oron/Ogoja, wonderful people.

The only people that understand the Igbo nation.

Stupidity is when Igbo youths vote in one Nigeria apologist leaders, and end up running around the streets like mad dogs in protests for secession.

Get your priority right, vote out pro one Nigerian leaders you are plaqued with, empower yourselves into political offices in Igbo land via votes and rule your world.

Is that too hard to decipher?

I earlier thought that IPOB rallies and radio talk was all about to create publicity and fan base needed to hijack the political offices in Igboland, but since I found out that these people have no such plans, but would rather keep constituting nuisance,I lost whatever respect I had for them.

Ndiigbo should let the dead bury themselves, no need dragging the Igbo nation into this.

Be a spectator in this match and learn one or two lessons about these people.

coolscott:
[size=13pt]Stop exposing your ignorance. The name Biafra has nothing to do with Igbo. Biafra was a Portuguese controlled region in what is now present day Cameroun.

This is the definition of a bight below:

In geography, bight has two meanings. A bight can be simply a bend or curve in any geographical feature,[1] usually a coast. Alternatively, the term can refer to a large (and often only slightly receding) bay. It is distinguished from a sound by being shallower. Traditionally, explorers defined a bight as a bay that could be sailed out of on a single tack in a square-rigged sailing vessel, regardless of the direction of the wind (typically meaning the apex of the bight is less than 25 degrees from the ). ~ Taken from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bight_%28geography%29

Bights are named after the lands that host them. Hence in the 16th century, the current Bight of Bonny was referred to as the Bight of Biafra.

As the relevance of the British grew along with that of their interaction with the Bonny kingdom of the South-south of Nigeria, the bight south of Nigeria became referred to more as the Bight of Bonny. Both the bight and Bonny were very crucial to the existing slave trade that the British ships came to carry out with the Bonny kings and chiefs, who sold Igbos captured from the hinterland to the British slavers.

And when the slave trade became abolished and palm oil became the in thing, once again, the Kings and chiefs of the Bonny kingdom were crucial to the British who came to buy from the Bonny kings/chiefs or pay taxes for doing business in their area.

Princeton university website source of the map:
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/maps-continent/continent.html

The map still on Princeton's
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/africa/maps-continent/1584ortelius.jpg

Now when did the Fed govt start existing under Nigerian control? If I remember correctly, that was 1960.

See photo attached below:
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There was never a time Bonny captured and sold Igbo slaves. They mainly served as middle men between the Aro slave merchants and the white slave buyers and the same thing happened in the oil Palm thread, Ijaws had no Palm trees, Palm trees grow on lands, Ijaws had no lands.

They mainly served as middle men between Ndiigbo who produce the palm oil and the white men.

And for all its worth, the major trading houses of Bonny at its peak were mainly headed by Igbo slaves who wielded influence over their Ijaw subjects.

http://countrystudies.us/nigeria/7.htm

DerideGull:
Per the bolded, the region know as Oil River Protectorate was not limited to the goofy south-south lexicon in today's Nigerian polity. Most Nigerians are calibrated dunce. In fact, the Oil in the Oil River Protectorate had nothing to do with the crude oil but palm oil. In addition, there were two rivers that gave rise to the Oil River Protectorate, thus, Imo and Qua Iboe Rivers.

Words of wisdom.

Do the Ijaws live on land? Do they own Palm trees? How then can they lay claim to Palm oil production?

What sort of government goes on to blow up oil pipelines just to set Tompolo up and turn the masses against him? Definitely a desperate one.

If people keep encouraging this, then no one else is safe. All the government need to gag opposition is to commit crimes and attribute it to them, and then arrest them with the help of the masses who are too naive to listen to two sides of the story.

Tompolo said he didn't blow up the pipeline, I would want to believe that he is innocent until proven otherwise.

Those that are advising Tompolo to submit himself to the court are not being sincere. Nigeria currently has no Judiciary, as the Judiciary had become merged with the executive, the FG have taken away the trust of any accused sensible citizen, in the judiciary.

The FG can decide to jail Tompolo forever without court order, by filling one fictitious charges after another, and we will still have sycophants abetting the government. Already some of them are telling us that they voted for change( dictatorship) and not for rule of law, that is the level the country has degenerated, and yet people want Tompolo to subject himself to the judiciary of such a country?

explorer250:
bros why you dey do like newbie for nairaland. Change the thread tittle to something a little bit controversial and see it reach page 20

No. He needs to add a little "Igbo flavour" to it.

Something like: " Half of Okrika is Igboland".

Do that and see the hawks and vultures feast on this thread as the pages elongates and mod moves it to front page.

Thank me later.

Why would Tompolo want to blow up the pipelines?

I'm scratching my head to figure out why he would do that, and I am yet to find out a rational reason for that.
Tompolo is rich, famous and easily the most influential individual not in government in Niger delta today, he wields enormous power,, naturally he would want to enjoy the money in peace, like Asari is doing.

Why would Buhari set Tompolo up?

Buhari has a dictatorship background, he wants absolute power and would pull down any suspected powerful individuals not willingly to bend to him, as a show of power to other weaker strongmen in the region he considers not loving of him, he did this with Ojukwu in 1983.

He wants to frame up the most powerful individual in ND , drag him through the mud using fictitious charges, demystify him and in turn diffuse any would rebellion from the ND region. Go after the strongest man, make a meal of him, and watch the rest fall in line for you.

It's an old and trusted strategy used by dictators.

By claiming Tompolo bombed those places, the FG intends to isolate Tompolo from the people that would ordinarily have defended him, the FG seeks to label him an enemy of the state and with the support of Nigerian( read SW, northern and gullible SE and SSners) arrest him, it's a psychological strategy that is easily deciphered by the less gullible ones.

This is my view of the matter. I pray tactless IPOB don't draw Ndiigbo into this saga.

It's time Ndiigbo learn to let the dead bury themselves.

Chukwumah is right and wrong the same time.

Igbos don't need secession at the interim, but they do need it ultimately.

What they need now is an " in house clean up" to rid themselves and their land of political jobbers who at the moment hold sway there.

Once they do this, they wouldn't need to scream for secession from Nigeria, they will get the autonomy and self determination they desire.

Yes, IPOB is misguided and have misplaced priority, their anger should first be beamed at the Igbo political jobbers who had sold out the region for crumbs, and there after towards the Nigerian state, going after the Nigerian state without first taking care of their home front is akin to puting the cart before the horse.

Stop projecting your own pathetic insecurities on me. How does sharing the same ethnicity as someone who will never even know you exist make any positive difference in your life?

Lol! I should be asking you this question already. I never mentioned any name on this thread, let alone associating with them.

You are the one who was pained and subsequently complained of " tribal chest beating", even though thread was all about facts and stats, and subsequently ended up dropping a Yoruba name that have no link whatsoever with WB.

Why exactly did you feel the need to produce a non World bank product of Yoruba origin, in a topic that speaks of World bank, insecurity much?

advocates:
Please, please save that mumbo jumbo to kids, will you. See how you are trying to twist and turn the whole thing. You will make a bad politician with this your vague and weak defence. Who is Obiano trying to please? Is it APC that he doesn't belong ? Be humble enough to accept your error instead of trying hard to be smart.

That mosque was not burnt, isn't that clear from the pictures from the scene of Obiano visit?

Did Obiano tell you that the Mosque was burnt?
How hard are all these simple facts veritable by visual pictures hard to comprehend?

Yes, the Igbo political class are constantly on the look out for means to be invited by the masters for a piece of the crumbs falling off their tables, they are falling over each other for such opportunity, they wouldn't mind dragging the rest of Igbo people to hell, to get their hands on those crumbs.

Obiano is no different. That is why I currently see IPOB as a bunch of misdirected/ misguided youths with a sense of misplaced priorities.