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I cannot understand someone watching their neighbor get shot, not call the police, and also withhold information. Aren't the neighbors complicit, then? Or am I reaching?

In any case, they are heartless b@stards.

I dunno, just the way she acts seems Yoruba. I could easily be wrong though, just my guess.

Regarding date, if attractive and under 27 or 28 (I'm 25) then yes. She seems pretty sharp, despite her ornery and caustic attitude. Smart + attractive naija chicks I'd date easily. Doesn't hurt that she seems into agriculture and programming, two things I like too 

Though I question her choice of Ohio as a state. I have a grudge against the people of Ohio due to their mistreatment of my beloved LeBron.

Sounds very Yoruba to me, somehow. Plus I doubt any Igbos would spell their ethnic group as "Ibo."

igbobuigbo:
I heard also that Buhari is going for Ngige as his VP under ACN? Tinubu don work for nothing

God forbid!

What is this, monkey dey work, baboon dey chop?

If the ACN tries such, count me out of supporting them at the presidential level. We have plenty of good ACN guys that can be chosen. And if for some reason we think it is a bad idea to make the VP Yoruba, then choose one of our Edo State allies.

@Kobojunkie: you are overall a pretty cool cat, but your lack of respect for "innocent until proven guilty" is somewhat annoying and alarming

igbobuigbo:
Who told you I have anything to do with a PhD studentship at the moment? Now you are prodding to know more. Sorry that is as far as you get.

Eh, 20 journal publications before entering a PhD program suggests either genius, or low quality work.

igbobuigbo:
Really I do not care. Thanks.

Not a problem, any time.

igbobuigbo:
You do not know my qualification; forget about what we all claim here. I will not reveal much too about myself. No. it is difficult working in an interdisciplinary field that combines Chemistry, Biology, Environmental science and bioengineering. You will have to be able to talk to any audience in all the areas that make up your inter-discipline.

How far along are you in your program? How many years does your PhD program take, and how many years progress do those 20 first-author journal papers represent? That will be a better judge of the value of your work so far, I suspect. If it is a six year program and everyone by their third year has 20 first-author journals, then your earlier statement doesn't mean very much.

If you have 2 versions of the same data, with the purpose of publishing it again later, even if modified to obfuscate the truth, that is simply unethical and is the reason why publishers ask if the work you submitted is in consideration for publication in another journal.

The purpose is not to publish again a a journal. You might submit it for your masters or PhD thesis, for example. Or an expanded version as a book or book chapter.
Also, I'm not some sort of biological scientist. The data doesn't matter in my line of work, lemmas and theorems do. Though you usually do some simulations/experiments to demonstrate that your theory is practical. In any case, Google around a bit, look at the pages of mathematicians/statisticians/computer science/certain areas of engineering. Usually you can find a copy of a paper both on the author's site and that of the journal.

You should be able to say th ename of the journal you have published in. There is no way one will know you from that because there are thousands of other authors in any one journal. You are also not giving the date of publication and title of your paper. So no need to fear.

Nah, my name is a bit too unique within this field. I'll pass.

igbobuigbo:
I am talking of peer-reviewed papers not conference papers which I have in quantum.

Is this ordinary in your field to have so many publications? 20 first author journal papers in almost any reasonable field is usually enough to obtain a PhD. Pardon my skepticism, but I wonder a bit about the quality of the work, given that the volume is so high. In certain fields, everyone has enormous amounts of papers, and they use other criterion to figure out who is performing and who isn't (namely quality of work.)

I am also a reviewer myself in two journals. As far as I know, you cannot retain copyright of your paper in any good journal. That is why you sign copyright transfer agreement once your paper is accepted and prior to publication.

As I said, one can avoid this issue by having two separate versions. I usually tex up a draft to which I retain copyright. I take this draft and put it into the journal's format. It is only this 2nd document to which I give up copyright.

Where have you published in; may be some Ado Ekiti journals ? I have my papers in ES &T, journal of hazardous materials, Environmental Microbiology, etc. Those are among the highest impact factor in my interdisciplinary field of research

I have only one journal paper to my name. It is in a pretty good journal. However, I won't say the name of it, as this combined with some others things I've written here will reveal a bit too much personal information about me.

^-- True. But I'm pretty risk adverse. CC fraud is a high-risk gamble. If you lose, you not only lose all your wealth, you lose your freedom for a long time.

Plus if you have 1 or 2 mil in capital, you can find investment opportunities in the US that will pay off a good 10 or 15% ROI at minimal risk. In Nigeria, you can probably find things that will give you a good 40 or 50%.

igbobuigbo:
You then do not know how book publishing works. Most, indeed, all book chapters (such as this one) published are not peer reviewed. Experts who can stand their own in the field are usually invited by publishing companies to write book chapters which are then collated and edited by an editor, also a very prominent expert in the field. Only journal articles are peer-reviewed by experts.

So you yourself know that the editor of a book gets almost zero credit for the book. Why then did you spin it as the work of a single man, rather than of 45 authors?
Yes, book chapters are not peer reviewed. But at least in my area, they are either (A) literature survey papers (B) essentially modifications/more accessible rewrites of previously peer-reviewed work.
Thus if high-quality research work is appearing in say book chapter form, it falls under case (B).

Just so you know, I have written more than 20 first-author peer-reviewed articles in international journals including the prestigious ES&T and I have about 5 book chapters as co-authors. This is no withstanding that I am still an upcoming scientist in my field. So you are in no position to tell me how scientific publishing is done.

Are these conference papers or journal papers? In my field, there is a distinction between the two. And at my school, the goals are a bit different; we aim for quality over quantity. Publishing one journal-quality paper every 1.5 or 2 years is pretty typical; most guys have 2 or 3 such by the time they receive their PhD.
Your field seems to differ quite a bit in publishing frequency.

You also lie. You cannot publish already published work even of your own in its entirety, except specific data of which you need the permission of the journal to do so. Comprend?

No, this isn't quite true. I usually write the manuscript first, something which I and my coauthors entirely retain copyright over. Afterwards, we massage that manuscript into a form suitable for the publisher. It is this latter document which we give up the copyright to.
Now, of course I cannot massage/resubmit this same manuscript to another publication. But I can of course use it as a chapter in a thesis, or massage it into a book chapter (with more citations and rewritten for accessibility.)
For example, my own advisor, he wrote 3 or 4 very good papers, selected some to assemble into a thesis, and later this thesis won a fairly prestigious award and was published as a book (not by some fly-by night book company, but by the book division of his university.)

^--- Undergrad rankings are different from grad school rankings. For example, Harvard is #1 for undergrad. But a PhD in say engineering from Harvard is less prestigious than one from say Georgia Tech. GaTech engineering is superior to Harvard's almost across the board. Engineering is simply not Harvard's speciality or strength.

Here is a list of best graduate schools for electrical eng:

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/electrical-engineering

Harvard isn't even in the top 10.

birdman:
Politics is all about pragmatism. Progressives must be willing to compromise the lesser of our ideals so we can achieve the bigger ones. If breaking the stranglehold of the Northern elders on Nigeria involves an electable Buhari/Tinubu or Buhari/Bleep ticket, so be it. They serve their two terms max, and if they indeed break PDP/North's back, we get to pick a progressive Fashola/Ribadu/Utomi ticket the next time.

I detest Buhari, but I'd be willing to vote for him. In a democratic govt, AC Senators and governors will always serve as effective counterweights to any rubbish he may try. This is how democracy REALLY works, even in the west.

+1000!

ROSSIKE:
This guy should have just pocketed 1 or 2 million dollars from his deals and used that amount to move on to something legit.

This is exactly how I'd do it if I turned to a life of crime. Make my money quickly, live frugally, then get out ASAP and do legit business. If you are a young guy with a couple mil to your name and few expenses, there are lots of profitable, legal things you can do. Makes zero sense to stay in the crime world.

igbobuigbo:
Plus, JHU is among the best schools in the US

In biosciences and medicine it is very strong, but in most other areas fairly weak. In particular, it is not a first-tier school in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech, UIllinois are probably considered the first tier. Cornell and Princeton are very good too. Schools like GaTech, UMich, UTexas are also very strong. There are lots of good schools in the US, but only a handful are considered the best.

^-- This should tell you a bit about the quality of this book publishing company. When you perform research, you submit it to a leading journal in your field. It is then reviewed anonymously by experts in your field (in my own area, usually 2 or 3 reviewers), then accepted or rejected for publication in the journal. If your work is first-rate, then your paper will be heavily cited and used by your field. Later on down the line, you might publish it in a book. And not a random book company like this one, but you'd choose one of the more prestigious ones specially targeted for your area.

Anyway, you've made much ado about nothing, really.

igbobuigbo:
You will have to do the googling to prove me wrong

I have zero interest in doing your work for you. Check the science and engineering departments at Caltech, MIT, Stanford, UMich, UIUC, GaTech, UTexas and you'll find plenty of naija names there.

If the award is irrelevant, the publishers will not be giving it. It is like a father giving an award to his kids for best-behaved child of the year and you ask the old man the relevance of his award. IGI gave an award to the best book it published in 2010 and you sit here asking what the relevance is? What is the relevance of any award except to those involved?

See, TED for example is a significant award, because it was made by a party entirely unconnected to this guy. In academics, this is the type of validation you seek. Validation from your community and established researchers in your field. You don't get credit for editing books, or even writing chapters of books, unless these books represent (A) cutting edge research and are (B) peer-reviewed. Doesn't look like this book satisfies either of A or B.

I'm not questioning his intelligence or capability, he seems like a sharp guy. And being a TED fellow is quite an accomplishment. But there are plenty of Nigerians who have similar or better achievements (honestly, just google around a bit.)

In any case, those achievements are not relevant to the discussion at hand, namely the merit of this award.

Read this article too:

http://www.africaninterest.com/front-page/how-tobechi-onwuhara-masterminded-44-million-bank-fraud-in-america/

$44 million stolen!

Agents say Onwuhara is well-traveled and may have hidden millions away in foreign banks. Because Onwuhara was an out-of-control spender, it is hard to tell where the money went. Officials say Onwuhara would spend $50,000 a night in strip clubs up to three times a week. He also stayed at five-star hotels and casinos whenever he traveled. They know Onwuhara was in the process of building a luxury home in Nigeria and had several expensive cars shipped there — all paid in cash.

Man, that is some serious avarice.

igbobuigbo:
IGI presumably published tons of books in 2010 and this one was chosen among those as the best. How is that conflict of interest when they published all the books used in the award?

The conflict of interest has nothing to do with how many books they publish. Again, the award has limited merit for the same reason selecting one of my own posts for the DapoBear Grand Prize would be a sham.

He was not just the editor, he was also a co-author

One of 45 authors, yes. None of whom you chose to mention or acknowledge. As I said earlier, being the editor of a book contributes roughly epsilon in value, since it is primarily an administrative job, not original research.

My assertion is not questionable until you show me any other Nigerian with 4 MS and 2 PhD degrees in the broad engineering field, one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult subject area. The guy is already manufacturing PCs- google Ovim Tablet PC or something like that

Well, as I said, it is irrelevant to the discussion. And it is quite questionable; in academia (at least in the US) people are not judged on the # of degrees they have, but some combination of:
a) The prestige of the university they received their PhD from
b) The quality of their own individual research.

It is generally seen as better to have a single PhD from a first-rate institution than several PhDs from 2nd and 3rd tier ones. Anyway, as I said, his education levels are not particularly relevant in this case.

igbobuigbo:
No matter. The book and the ensuing award may not be important to you but certainly is to those in the field of nanotechnology and microelectronics

The book may be of value. But the award isn't, since it is given by the very company publishing the book. Surely you see the conflict of interest.

The guy was two things rolled in one per the book. He was an author as well as the editor of the book.

The editor of a book gets almost zero credit for the book. The editor is not the one who wrote each of the 20 chapters, he is simply the one who proofread it, arranged the ordering, perhaps culled the 20 chapters listed from possibly a larger number of submissions.

Please google him to know more about him. Simply the most educated Nigerian out there.

Questionable assertion, and irrelevant to this discussion.

Two comments:
1) Seems you left out any mention/praise for the other 44 authors of this book, many of whom are Nigerians.
2) The publisher is called "Information Science Reference", and this seems to be an imprint of the company giving out the award (see their list of imprints here: http://www.igi-global.com/Books/BookInformation/Imprints.aspx). Not really clear how much value an award of this sort has.

Ribadu simply is not the best the ACN can do. No hard feelings, just politics. . .

Those women are scary. No woman should be that ripped, lol

People can read what was written in this thread and judge for themselves. But since the arguments suggesting he is a criminal (at least in the US) have been thoroughly debunked, it is not hard for to guess what most will conclude.

Is it so easy to be viewed as leadership material? One nice statement he made about his willingness to resign from his job?

Surely more than that is needed. Let him run for a governor somewhere and administer a state properly before he contests for the presidency.

If the EFCC manages to nab Cheney, my respect for them will rise 1000-fold.

This isn't a goat or chicken they are hunting; this is a rhino!

Akin-Egba:
^^^^
In like manner, would you agree that majority of credit card and other fraud are committed by Yoruba in US?
Would you agree that majority of the fake marriages are done by Yoruba in the UK?
Would you agree that more Yoruba youths have been killed in the US and UK for undisclosed reasons which could be due to their involvement in shady deals?
Would you agree that 90% of fake visa racketeers are from the SW?

You are a tribalist and the earlier I help unmask you the better it will be for the Yoruba.

It is what it is. If you want to believe that both groups are equally crime-prone, you are entitled to your belief. I've lived here in the US for 20+ years now and keep my eyes and ears pretty open. I've noticed certain trends here in the US among Nigerian immigrants, and from my observations and readings of Nigerian newspapers, those trends are also true in Nigeria. If this makes me a "tribalist", so be it.

The guy should just publish all the material all at once on BitTorrent. That way nobody can prevent the data from being available. Dunno why he is so pressed to release it slowly. Very annoying. . .

Akin-Egba:
Given the Ibo population in Lagos, only on ignoramus will say they are not involved in crime in that state, but to say most of the crimes in Lagos are committed by Ibos is pure lie. Unless we are also willing to accept that most people living in Lagos are ibos.

Further flawed reasoning. A majority of the crime in the US is committed by AAs. Should we then say they are a majority? It is possible for one group of people to be more prone to criminality than others. After all, if you hear a story about some "Nigerian" being caught in Brazil with cocaine in his anus, what ethnic group is this person likely to be from, with 60%+ probability?