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CramJones again displaying his rank ignorance. Everybody knows that JayJay meant this to be a joke, afterall. Jokes do not always have to be interpreted. For your information, Okocha is a lot smarter than you if one had to judge your level of intelligence by the garbage you vomit on Nairaland daily. And speaking about ability to speak foreign languages, maybe you should go ask questions. JayJay is very multilingual and can effortlessly speak German, French, English and Igbo. I wonder what other language you can speak.

cramjones:
Jay Jay, that is not patriotism that is inability to learn and resistance to CHANGE. If you speak spanish in America and travel to spain and spent 30 years but never improved your spanisPh then you are only saying you are resistant to CHANGE and effectively equate yourself with the clueless, classless, and dumb President you are trying to impress, who by the way is loosing on Saturday. Nigerians know better, CHANGE is now inevitable, don't be left behind!

-CramJones

TheSonOfMark:
I don't know if it's because of the rich upbringing or nature itself but little Cameron Okoye is going to grow into a self-conceited, egoistic adult. His stinct in the 'Personally' music video confirms it.





I know so 'cause I'm guilty of it...but I'm working on it.

ENDTIMES:
May God continue to bless Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige for rescuing Anambra state, risking his life and all, from the uba family and their co-conspirators who have since been"buried" alive in Anambra state.

Anambra adigo mma, Anambra ga n'adi mma Na aga!!

Which Ngige? Hahahaha!! You mean that impostor who went to Okija with his evil godfather in order to conspire and steal the governorship seat in Awka. Bros, you funny o. Why dont you seriously consider a career in stand-up comedy. Very hilarious. Hehehehe. I can't stop laughing.

FreeGlobe:
Thanks for finally accepting obi has nothing tangible to show for governing Anambra for 8 years except propaganda. May I also remind you that the phantom 'signature project' you alluded to obi fell flat because Chris Ngige trounced obi's rigging machinery in the last senatorial elections, it took obi going to Aso rock to beat Ngige at the governorship election. Now who is in political dustbin? A serving Senator or an errand boy accompanying the president to every function despite not being invited. jokes on you man.

Please go through this and be enlightened:



https://www.nairaland.com/2201876/one-year-obiano-carried-out

FreeGlobe:
All this long post and yet you couldn't mention just 1 signature project of Peter obi in 8 years. Ngige started road revolution in Anambra which mischievous Peter obi supporters like you are now claiming is a fact. say what you want about Ngige but he is still more popular than Peter obi in Anambra and Nigeria at large. Keep deceiving yourself.

Obi's "signature project", since you insist, was that he threw the impostor and political brigand called Ngige, along with his bunch of marauding 'godfathers', out of government house right into the dustbin where he belonged. Then Obi cleansed Anambra State up before handing it over in a pristine and healthy state to his chosen successor who has continued from where he left off. Peter Obi is without a doubt the Father of Modern Anambra State, the one who cleansed the state's Augean Stables for good and set it on today's irreversible path of progress and true development. I am sure some people are bound to choke on that blunt truth.

FreeGlobe:
All empty propaganda. Mention just one signature project of Peter obi in 8 years. The roads you mentioned were mostly done by Ngige. How is it now an achievement that Peter obi invited dangote to his function whereas he couldn't get dangote to invest 1 kobo in the state. Anambra always did well in Weac, Peter obi or not. The fact is that Peter Obi's tenure was a big disaster for Anambra. We are glad Obiano decided to do away with greedy and selfish aka gum Peter obi and is focusing on really building Anambra

There's no point bandying words with you. Like someone on this same thread has already noticed, you are consumed by an irrational hatred for Peter Obi, so much so that you are blatantly ascribing his daylight achievements to that impostor called Ngige who got rightfully thrown out of power when the fraudulent way in which he and his band of thieving Godfathers imposed him on the hapless folks of Anambra State was eventually revealed in its shocking ugliness. You claim that Anambra always did well in WAEC. Of course, we are all aware that before Obi Anambra did not have a national epidemic of young boys dropping out of school in alarming numbers just to 'go learn a trade.' It was also obvious to everybody that before Obi Anambra had always come first in national SSCE exams on consecutive years, so much so that even Anambra parents living outside the state were sending back to attend schools n Anambra State. It is also clear to everyone that there was no reign of terror in Anambra State before Obi became governor and that there were no Bakassi Boys with their murderous gands as well as the free reign of kidnappers and armed robbers in and around the state. We also know that once Obi became governor he did nothing in terms of getting rid of crime and that soon these hoodlums became even more emboldened and even nearly ran him out of the state. Isn't it interesting that despite the roguish path that Ngige followed to becoming "governor', there are still people like you who unashamedly still want to be identified with him. Show me your friends and I will instantly tell who you are. Tufiakwa!!!

Peter Obi is a visionary in the current transformation of Anambra regardless of what you think. His rural developmental achievements in roads, hospitals, schools and security will continue to speak for him in decades to come. He was a disciplined governor both in his personal and official capacities. That Anambra State is today the undisputed numero uno in secondary and primary education culminating in unrivaled performances in WAEC exams nationwide is all down to his foresight. Today Anambra boys and girls no longer drop out of school. Obi was so prudent with Anambra's resources as a governor that his aides angrily nicknamed him Aka Gum because he would refuse to fritter away the state's money on frivolities. The result? Not only did he build hundreds of new roads, hospitals and schools, he left 27 billion, yes BILLION, naira in the state's coffers as he ended his tour of duty. Obi also insisted on having a man he knew would continue from where he left off to succeed him despite the shenanigans of power seekers like Prof Soludo. It is more a testament to Obi's sense of leadership selection that today his carefully chosen successor is living up to billing. It is true there are people who hated him. People who were used to feeding fat freely on the resources of the state, for example. There are also the Ngige APC crowd who are still bitter for their defeat in the governorship elections of last year and who hold Obi responsible for it. But honest Ndi Anambra know a true leader when they see one. It was not an accident that the valedictory day of Obi's tenure ship became a carnival where all the notable Igwes in the state including the revered Obi of Onitsha outdid themselves to honour him for an outstanding tour of duty. Even Africa's richest man Alhaji Aliko Dangote who is not known to associate with failures put in a conspicuous appearance same day. Anyone who for whatever reason disparages Obi's tenure as Anambra State governor must really have a twisted understanding of what outstanding and selfless leadership is all about.

FreeGlobe:
Peter obi had no vision except enriching himself . He didn't start any revolution rather he impoverished the state

Peter Obi's vision coming to reality. He did not only start the revolution during his momentous two-term tenure as governor, he also ensured he installed a successor who would continue the revolution. Anambra adibago nma.

You should be the one shutting your miserable, childish, sycophantic and ignorant mouth. As far as Ndi Abia are concerned, anyone but T.A.Orji and his servile cronies is good enough for that long-suffering state.

guideman:
Everyone should just shut up and hold their peace and stop talking what they know nothing about. T.A. Orji is the best award winning governor. He severally introduced Alex Otti as his personal friend during public functions. Moreover, Alex Otti graced most of the occasions T.A.Orji received these awards. Alex Otti is only antagonizing the governor simply because he refused to ordain him the next governor of Abia state. Lets face the truth. I personally see Alex as an overambitious personality who disclaimed his Arochukwu origin when he learnt that the PDP in Abia had zoned the governorship slot to Ukwa-Ngwa. He dumped the party when the zoning was restricted to Abia South senatorial zone. It is on record that Alex Otti and his running -mate are both from Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal constituency. Is this fair. Does this comply with the principle of equity. He is simply trying to cunningly obtain what doesn't belong to him and his Arochukwu kinsmen. Abians can't be fooled. Alex Otti is not from Isiala Ngwa as he claims. If he doesn't believe in power rotation, why is he making a frivolous claim simply because power has been zoned to an area. He should stop fooling himself because he can't fool Abians. We know his antics and antecedents because we don't forget in hurry.

Abia State must be freed from the wicked, corrupt and incompetent clutches of T.A. Orji come May 29, 2015. It is non-negotiable.

Temmi001:
So??should that be New??I concluded everything about Quantum mechanics and Relativity at age three...

You must be a super genius.

kilokeys:
wtf " british girl with nigerian parentage"..

shouldnt it be Nigerian with a british passport?

She apparently doesn't own a Nigerian passport having been born and raised in the UK. So, how does that make her Nigerian?

In view of the recent media hysteria about the 10 year old British girl of Nigerian parentage Esther Okade who is already studying for a university degree in Mathematics at the UK Open University after making A and B grades in Mathematics in her O and A Levels respectively, one had to seek out her other illustrious Maths forebear, Ruth Lawrence. Lawrence went ahead of Okade and was also a maths prodigy in the 1980s. She got admitted into Oxford University at 10 years of age after straight As in Maths at O and A levels and graduated three years later with a First Class in Mathematics. Today she is an professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem after teaching at one of America's most prestigious universities for the study of maths: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She still studies and teaches her pet love, Mathematics and this time Lawrence is into a branch of mathematics so arcane and abstract that they are referred to as the Knot Theory Algebraic Topology. According to a report on her, the Knot Theory is "so mind-bogglingly complicated for the non-mathematician that it will be years before technology and science advance enough to make any practical use of it."

Read further:

"Knot theory is the broad term for the rarefied branch of maths Ruth is now studying and teaching at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, near Detroit. Broadly speaking, it is about, well, knots - their geometry and behaviour, the more complicated they get. But try to narrow it down and you will find yourself in a dense thicket of phrases like "partition functions of a topological quantum field theory".

"Maths is in the end a tool which can be used," she says. "But you shouldn't expect that deep fundamental research will be applicable to anything in the next 50 years."

Ruth was the girl who, aged nine, won the top maths A-level mark; who went to study mathematics at Oxford in 1983 before she was even in her teens, accompanied for all three years by her father, Harold; and who graduated with a first in 1985.

After that, she seemed to disappear from view, though in fact nothing really changed. She simply carried on working, pursuing a brilliant career in mathematics that in 1993 led to her appointment at Michigan.

Nobody there, she says, has any problems with being taught by a 25-year- old. "I don't think they notice after the first day."

Like others her age, she has embraced the Internet with enthusiasm, using it to meet other mathematicians and scientists; she has her own Web page, offering links mostly to mathematical resources, but also to an exhibition of Chagall pictures and a florist. If a Web page indicates a person's character, one would judge that Professor Lawrence is intensely wrapped up in her work. That, certainly, makes no change from the past.

And her personal life does not appear to have changed significantly, either. When you call her home near the university, in Ann Arbor outside Detroit, it is her father, now 57, who answers. It was he who almost obsessively taught her maths from the earliest days. Is he visiting now, or living there? She pauses. "He's ... he does help with typing up papers. But we don't collaborate on them, on research. He helps with proofreading."

She has a word of advice for Sufiah Yusof, the Northampton girl who later this year will, just like her, go to Oxford to read mathematics at the age of 12.

"Enjoy the subject, the beauty of the subject, " she says. "My father brought me up with maths always around me. I always thought it was very beautiful."

Her chosen topic was topology, or the study of surfaces and interconnections. The language of it is complete gibberish to the layman. Her CV says: "My main research interests are in the vast area which has come to be known as Jones-Witten theory." This is where knots and those topological quantum field theories come in. Putting it into words is virtually impossible. Even pictures don't really do it justice. Like all high maths, only equations will do.

"Paraphrase it? Mmmmm," she says, sounding mistrustful of the idea. "Any reader would probably get the wrong impression. It's not like a piece of biology that you can put on a microscope slide. Knot theory is about the very beautiful connections that exist between the invariance of knots" - that is, how some knots just can't be untied or simplified - "and manifolds" (not engine parts, but multi-dimensional constructs).

Surely that's about as abstruse, and unapplicable to anything in real life, as they come? She systematically squashes the suggestion, citing the theory, developed at the beginning of this century, of infinite-dimensional complex spaces. Abstruse? Then, certainly.

"But it led in the 1920s to the possibility of quantum theory; and that made it possible to understand the idea of energy levels of quantum objects. Which led, in time to the laser.

"And even when lasers were invented, people were saying, 'What use is that?' Now, of course, it's everywhere, in compact disc players, laser printers... That's what maths is like: it has always shown itself to be useful in the end."

So somewhere in the future there lies a physical use for phrases she uses with carefree abandon, such as the Jones-Witten theory, and the Yang-Baxter equation, and braid groups, and the Iwahori-Hecke algebra. But it lies somewhere ahead - at a time when Ruth Lawrence will be remembered for her work, not her name."

Actually, from my own observation, frustration has nothing at all to do with the cases of Yoruba ladies married to Igbo men that I know of. In fact I know of a particular case in which a friend of mine was practically trying to freed himself from a Yoruba girl he was dating when the parents of the girl started making trouble for him because they said he was trying to deceive the girl into dumping a young Yoruba naval officer that the parents of the girl had bethroted her to. But the girl said she didnt love the officer; that it was my friend she loved. Things came to head. My friend said he was no longer going ahead with the relationship. The girl said she would remain single if she couldnt marry my friend. In the end reason prevailed after the intervention of the girl's grandmother whose words were highly respected. Today my friend and his wife have celebrated their 16th anniversary.
I could have married a Yoruba girl myself except that at the time the girl was ready I wasnt. She had a lot of suitors who were Yoruba but she said it was me she loved. I told her I wasnt ready at all at the time and she said she could wait. I was not comfortable with making her wait especially since I was just finishing my NYSC and wasnt certain when I would get a decent job before talking of settling down.
In all, people marry others for one reason or the other but I want to believe that frustration isnt exactly one of them.

VirginFinder:
It's ok.
However the scenario I dont fancy rarely happens.

You will agree with me that most Yoruba/Igbo intertribal marriages are between a Yoruba man and an Igbo woman.

Any Yoruba lady who marries an Igbo must have done so out of frustration/desperation after having waited in vain for a Yoruba suitor.

Egba(Abeokuta) ladies find no qualms in marrying non Yorubas especially ibos. I dont know why.

Ondo/Ekiti men marry ibo ladies a lot.

CharlesNneji1:
Lol. *smiles*

Nice try OP with your tips. But I think you only tried to localize David Deangelo's well-known tactics for getting girls to eat from your palms as guy. He pointedly discourages what he famously calls the WUSS mentaliy in guys while seeking to 'toast' girls.

Anyone interested in DeAngelo's works should google his full name along with his Double Your Dating website.



Thank me later.

CHM11:
Very good post from someone with a functioning brain.
If you read my comment, I said I WOULDN'T want to marry an igbo person...didn't say I WON'T marry an igbo person.....there are some that are still very intelligent and real...atleast I know a few here in Lagos. My bad experiences were with those that are based in the east....

Be there splitting hairs while Igbo people are busy getting married to people of all races and nationalities who LOVE and DESIRE them. With or without you, an Igbo marriage will continue to hold till forever.

VirginFinder:
I dont fancy a Yoruba lady marrying an ibo man, at all.
But the reverse is ok by me.

Same here. I hate the Ifeanyi/Paul Adefarasin combination. But I hail the Emeka/Modupe Anyaoku combo.