I love Lagbaja’s music now. But let me reminisce and take you back in time.

At an art show in Oduduwa Hall, University of Ife around 1982 or 83, there was this guy, who would later become Lagbaja played a piece that was not rehearsed before with a trumpeter.

There was a girl (I can’t remember her name) that was supposed to sing Omo mi seun rere by the late Christie Essien in the show and my job was to play the trumpet solo that accompanies that song.

Started playing my solo and lo and behold this guy joined me on the stage with his Tenor Saxophone. That song was then turned into a performance galore that we musician called “JAMMIMG”. That was totally unplanned for. But the music was good. That was Great Ife back then.

Can’t forget that experience with the then young musician now called Lagbaja. He was special back then too.

Just reminiscing. That young trumpeter is the writer of this piece. And yes I still play for fun….And I still love Lagbaja’s music.

I just saw that movie. The movie was one of the best movie I've watched ever. The song you are referring to is the crown of the movie. What a song. One of the best song I've ever heard. Wow. I've listened to that song now for over 20 times.

Yes! most of what is stated here really took place!
The Greek gods ain't myth ...Olympus, Zeus, Valhalla, Odyssey etc.
Many of this legends are true ...more especially when it talks about the enlightened and their clique (cult).

Old boy, Valhalla no dey for Greek mythology men; that's Nordic.

Just imagine driving through a nondescript gate that leads to a winding road in a tropical lush forest, you wonder what the hype is about this university. After all this is not so impressive. That was the impression a young boy from Lagos had in 1979. It was my first day in campus.

Until this bend in the said road and voila, one of the most beautiful scenes of buildings nested amidst nature with mountains comes to view. A gorgeous campus that is indeed beautiful to look at. A little bit smoky in the morning. Seeing is indeed believing. I cannot forget that first view of the campus.

And in my 1979-1984 sojourn in GREAT IFE, and after visiting so many Universities and Campuses in Nigeria at least, I’ve always come back to appreciate the serenity of the Great Ife campus and be wrapped in it’s beautiful lush African surroundings.

It is truly a great university. And don’t let the beautiful campus fool you; the academic load and expectation is highly rigorous, hence the saying “FOR LEARNING AND TORTURE”.

Long live GREAT IFE.................I guess those are the glory years....

This is perfect example of news getting twisted.

That piece about not washing your chicken before cooking is meant for the Western world or at least to people that buy pre-packaged and processed chicken popularly referred to in Nigeria as “AGRIC”.

The researcher/s are used to people buying their chicken from a supermarket and are not familiar with the fact that some people actually buy or raise their chicken for consumption and they do kill and process this chicken by themselves. There is a gap between practice and reality of what some people in the Western world perceives of the rest of the world. Hence the conclusion that you do not need to wash the chicken (which has been processed already) before cooking it.

If you raise, buy and kill your chicken, which is very common in Nigeria and other parts of the world; of course the chicken need to be washed before cooking. This is common sense.

ROY CHICAGO should be a contender. Onile Gogoro comes to mind,

This is a very important mathematics theorem that is solved by a Nigerian. Kudos to him. Also an encouragement to our youth to persists in Mathematics.
http://www.nairabytes.net/nigeria/nigerian-scientist-michael-atovigba-solves-262-years-mathematical-puzzle
You can read the paper if you are interested in mathematics, and can keep up with the abstraction and symbols.
http://bsum.academia.edu/MichaelAtovigba/Papers/314120/Proof_of_the_Riemann_Hypothesis

Yes the graphics is good. But please spell "deceiver" correctly. The whole world is watching,

I want you all to remember that you (all newly married ladies now) will all become "mother's in law" too one day. You will reap what you sow.

2. Good books are essential. I'll give a short list (for beginner and intermediate-level math; NOT advanced undergraduate or graduate-level math):
i. Pure Mathematics for Advanced Level (1986) [528 pages] by H. Mulholland and B. D. Bunday (Gives a gentle introduction to mathematical rigor; excellent book!)

ii. Additional Pure Mathematics (1980) [356 pages] by  L. Harwood Clarke (The late Harwood Clarke taught mathematics in the finest of English tradition; a gem!)

iii. Engineering Mathematics (2007) [1,200 pages] by  K. A. Stroud and Dexter J. Booth (as mentioned by engineerd) (Written for engineers but, hey, engineers are applied mathematicians, and so are economists! Approaches math with a step-by-step method.)

Those are very good books but I have to add "Intermediate Mathematics" by "Blakey" to that list.

Mathematics is fun if you just let your imagination govern by logic run wild. Maths is not difficult. It's fun. It's like building a house. You cannot start with the roof first. You must build a good foundation, then a good frame, then the roof, then you add as you want to the house. You must have a good foundation to excel in Mathematics.
I did study a lot of Mathematics in my course of study as an Electrical Engineer, but what is lacking in those early years that I picked up later is the History behind the Mathematics.  The study of Fermat last Theorem comes to mind and how it was eventually proved by "Wiles". This is high power mathematics but the concept of Logic and Problem Solving shine forth. If you also consider the study and History behind Complex Number, you will see fascinating stuffs about how letting your imagination run wild, but governed by logic reigns. Look also at the history behind Pi (Ratio of the Circle Circumference to the Diameter). A lot of people, engineers and Mathematician alike, will tell you mathematics; but why, the application is missing.

Then you still need that extra leap of genius to take Mathematics to the next level as Euclid, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Euler, Godel, Hilbert, Riemann, Gauss, etc did
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