₦airaland Forum

OdenigboAroli: What ultimatum did Ijaw give ? Are you even in Nigeria? Because I followed all the events that led to the emergence of Jonathan and Ijaw didn't play any significant role in it. Not that they could have done anything. You make it sound as if we voted Jonathan at gun point.
Those that have ruled Nigeria,is there tribe better off? IBB,Gowon,Obasanjo,Buhari,Abdulsala are their tribe better off? Dont forget we lost a war and these people know we are still bitter and that scares them. I am a realist and I hate sugar coating things. An Igbo will rule Nigeria but you cant achieve that by being aggressive. Accept your situation,strategize and move forward.

OdenigboAroli: What ultimatum did Ijaw give ? Are you even in Nigeria? Because I followed all the events that led to the emergence of Jonathan and Ijaw didn't play any significant role in it. Not that they could have done anything. You make it sound as if we voted Jonathan at gun point.
Those that have ruled Nigeria,is there tribe better off? IBB,Gowon,Obasanjo,Buhari,Abdulsala are their tribe better off? Dont forget we lost a war and these people know we are still bitter and that scares them. I am a realist and I hate sugar coating things. An Igbo will rule Nigeria but you cant achieve that by being aggressive. Accept your situation,strategize and move forward.

OdenigboAroli: "Funds" ? What funds?
Presidency is not by turn...If you seduce a credible and trustworthy candidate and give him your support you will become his best friend,whether he is from your tribe or not. He doesn't necessary need to favour you but he will make sure your are not marginalised and what is due to you gets to you. This is very simple. And thats what Peter Obi did with Jonathan. We dont want favor,rather equity,justice and transparency. Shikena. Why is Anambra the number one destination for international agency? Answer that first...People think they know politics but they are really ignorant. And I am not referring to you.

OdenigboAroli: And who said Igbo Presidency is the answer to our problems?
Why are you people so intoxicated with ruling Nigeria?
It make you look vulnerable and desperate.
This isnt our problem.
We will be better off if we put our house in order and develop our land.
Nobody will cheat you out of what belongs to you if you have a good strategy.
Anambra isnt a PDP state but we have attracted more federal projects than most PDP state.
Abeg,think and be wise.

Cuche: I don't see any reason why inspite of the imminent collapse of APGA, he will insist on sinking with a party whose ideology has been slaughtered on the altar of greed. He doesn't have any pact with the late Ojukwu to preserve the party Mr Obi Peter, the smart crook has and should be left to keep that. Obiano will not require the endorsement of the late Ibo leader to win an election in Anambra State if he keeps the pace of changes he has started in the State.
His joining PDP will not bring Anambra to the dark old days of under-development, all he needs to do is to meet with the president and discuss. I have weighed the options, it can be negotiated and remains the best for himself and the state. Afterall, all that was stolen by the so called pdp godfathers is a child's play to what was spirited away by Chief Obi the Okwute.
First, APGA has been regarded as an appendage of the PDP and can be crushed to oblivion if the powers that be desire with so much ease. APGA's relevance in the past governorship elections was only because the PDP's interest in not having to allow their fiercest opposition any hold in the State superseded. Most of the Characters remaining in APGA at this moment are there because they needed empire of their own where they can play gods dictating who should rise or fall. As it stands today, PDP's support for APGA which was so strategic in the immediate past elections is not guaranteed beyond 2015. There shouldn't be any fears as to the resounding wellcome Obiano will get should he decide for the PDP now and there is no better time than now.
Secondly, Anambrarians aren't fanatical as such concerning political parties as history has shown in fact, the language that sways our support is development, quality projects and efficiency in governance. Obiano has started well and the populace are showing sincere identification with his government. The doubts about the process that brought him to power are gradually being erased simply because of his Sterling performance these few months. And as long as he continues to win our hearts through laudable projects genuine supporters will follow him whichever party he decides on.
From all permutations he will definitely have troubles, unavoidable troubles in APGA and the reasons are too obvious. The masterminds of the troubles are not difficult to pick from the pack of APGA.
My worry is that he Obiano doesn't seem to possess the liver to handle these men when it begins. He doesn't seem to be as Sinister as some who will fight fire for fire. These could hamper the development of our beloved state on the long run.
The time to move is now

Idrico: Do you worship God or his creator in Jesus.

Intellectual 419: Philip Emeagwali And Gabriel Oyibo Compared
Ask an average Nigerian to name the country’s most famous scientists. In all likelihood, they would mention “Dr.” (or “Professor”) Philip Emeagwali [1] and Dr. Gabriel Oyibo. This, in a way, is excusable ignorance. [1] http://www.saharareporters.com/report/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame

BY SAHARA REPORTERS NOV 07, 2010


Ask an average Nigerian to name the country’s most famous scientists. In all likelihood, they would mention “Dr.” (or “Professor”) Philip Emeagwali and Dr. Gabriel Oyibo. This, in a way, is excusable ignorance.

After all, the great President Bill Clinton has been scammed into undeservedly calling Emeagwali “one of the great minds of the information age” and the “Bill Gates of Africa.” And such prestigious Western news organizations as TIME, CNN and BBC fell for Emeagwali’s smartly orchestrated intellectual fraud.

As for Dr. Gabriel Oyibo, he was for many years touted in the Nigerian media as the great successor to Albert Einstein, as a four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics, and as the inventor of the "almighty" GAGUT (God Almighty Grand Unified Theorem), which he farcically calls “the theory of everything.” On the basis of his comically delusional intellectual fraud, Oyibo has been celebrated in Nigeria as one of the greatest scientists that ever lived.

However, the elaborate intellectual fraud of Emeagwali and Oyibo are now unraveling rapidly. SaharaReporters, the enormously popular, muckraking diasporan citizen media site, has done a series of exposés on the intellectual fraud of Philip Emeagwali. At least two mainstream Nigerian newspaper columnists have done the same in the last few weeks. I'd had cause to call attention to the intellectual chicanery of these characters in my July 15, 2006 Weekly Trust column, then called “Notes from Louisiana,” which can be found on my blog.

Oyibo and Emeagwali are certainly different in many respects. But they are also similar in more ways than one. First, Oyibo started out as a productive scholar who actually published a number of peer-reviewed, scientific articles before he degenerated into his current patently psychoneurotic state (I will give evidence for my conclusion shortly); Emeagwali, on the other hand, never had a Ph.D., is/was never a professor by any understanding of the term, has never published in any peer-reviewed journal, nor owned any patent—all contrary to his claims. However, Emeagwali did win an actual award—the Gordon Bell Prize— whose significance he has exaggerated beyond the bounds of reason and decency.

Note, though, that Oyibo also claims to be a perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in Physics. This is pretty much like Emeagwali's fraudulent claims to being "a" or "the" father of the Internet. The Guardian's U.S. correspondent, a certain Laolu Akande, is the biggest accomplice in Oyibo's fraud. Until the last few years, the Guardian often reported that Oyibo was among the top three candidates being considered for the Nobel Prize in Physics. This intentionally deceitful newspaper speculation was/is the basis for his unearned popularity in Nigerian elite circles. I don't know if this has changed, but when I was in Nigeria it was customary to identify Oyibo in Nigerian newspaper narratives as a "three-time Nobel Prize nominee in Physics." In the Afro-romantic digital black diaspora, in fact, it is usual to identify him as a four-time Nobel Prize nominee!

Now, the Nobel Committee does NOT disclose the identities of the nominees for any of its prizes until at least 50 years after the prize has been announced. How in the world did Oyibo and the Guardian's Laolu Akande know that Oyibo was a nominee for the Physics Prize? In fact, Omoyele Sowore, publisher of SaharaReporters.com and former citizen reporter for the now tame and compromised ElenduReports.com, unmasked this fraud years ago.

He sent emails to the Nobel Committee asking to know if Oyibo had ever been a nominee for their Physics Prize. Of course, they flatly disclaimed it. They said it was impossible for anybody to know if he was a nominee for any Prize until several decades after the fact.

So, in more ways than one, Oyibo is guilty of the same intentionally fraudulent self-promotion that Emeagwali has a dubious honor for. Like Emeagwali, he currently feeds on this fraud since he, like Emeagwali, is effectively jobless now. Plus, Oyibo stakes his claims to unparalleled scientific genius on the basis of his ludicrously incoherent and insane GAGUT theory, which hasn't been published in any peer-reviewed scientific journal or book, although he has a vanity, self-published book that he flaunts every time—much like Emeagwali's claims to having 41 patents, which have turned out to be patents in sophisticated, intricately multi-layered intellectual frauds.

But any one who has followed Oyibo's life closely will agree that the man needs help—seriously. The brother has lost it. He has no job as I write now. He left the university system as an untenured associate professor years ago. (Hmm.... Can you imagine a four-time Nobel Prize nominee in Physics who no U.S. university or research institution wants to touch with a barge pole?) If you need evidence of Oyibo’s undisguised psychic imbalance, read his deleted profile on Wikipedia, which he wrote of himself.


Here is a sample from the profile for your amusement: “Honors and Awards: Professor G. Oyibo has been recognized as being closer to GOD (intellectually and in other ways), than any other human being because of the GAGUT discovery. He has also been recognized by the Nigerian Federal Government as Mathematical Genius which was inscribed on a Nigerian Postage Stamp that was issued in 2005. Professor G. Oyibo has also been recognized as the Greatest Genius and the Most Intelligent Human Being ever created by GOD. He has also been recognized as the Greatest Mathematical Genius of all time. Professor G. Oyibo has been recognized by the Nigerian Senate, representing the entire population of Nigeria of over 200 million people, through a Senate Motion No. 151 page 320 presented in the Federal Republic of Nigeria Order Paper on Tuesday, 15th March, 2005."

If the above is not proof of a man who is truly in need of psychiatric help, I don't know what is.

But the greater concern for me, however, is that our hunger for heroes has predisposed us to be easily susceptible to all kinds of cheap intellectual frauds. By officially celebrating Emeagwali and Oyibo, the Nigerian state has inadvertently become an accomplice in intellectual 419. And by engraving their images on our postage stamps, the Nigerian state has unwittingly and permanently stamped deceit and false pretenses (otherwise known as 419) on our national consciousness—and on our international image. That’s a shame.

Author can be reached at farooqkperogi@gmail.com
He blogs at www.farooqkperogi..com

IdiatFF: You need to read this piece http://saharareporters.com/2010/11/07/intellectual-419-philip-emeagwali-and-gabriel-oyibo-compared Philip Emeagwali is a fraud!

Philip Emeagwali (born in 1954) is a Nigerian-born engineer, mathematician and computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE,which is awarded each year to recognise outstanding achievement in high-performance computing for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer to help analyze petroleum fields.

the BBC Hausa Service reported.

Chino72:
They are only deceiving themselves.
No Anambran or any Anambra community will join them in their useless state creation. It feels great being under the Anambra umbrella.
They should go and create themselves, we are not interested!

Mr9iceGuy: The present Orlu comprises of 12 local govt. So any anambra part will be a minority, u can as well reject to be part of us no wahala, as for the name Njaba, it is derived from a famous Njaba river ok, so stop seing it there other way round, just as Imo is derived from Imo River, Orashi State from Orashi river so wise up. Orlu wu eze ruo echi