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shachris:
Because
the vast majority of Anioma people speak dialects derived from
the Igbo language, it is assumed that they are "Igbo." Anioma
history records individuals from diverse origins. There are in
Anioma the "Olukunmi" who speak a variant of Yoruba spoken
around Owo. Ebu people in Anioma speak Igala as their mother
tongue.

I guess one wonders why the ignorant assumption of Anioma being Igbo. Did the Olukunmi not pass through Bini on their way to present day habitation? Yet they did not loose their Yari.ba vernacular. Why would the Bini ones suddenly abscond from Edo vernacular? Does it means that so-called migrants from Bini are dumber?

princdebola201:
Orobator was in Benin, the capital of the
Midwest, at the time of the Biafran invasion,
and describes himself as keenly aware of
developments during the period . He later
conducted research on the invasion and went
on to become a professor of
history, specializing in international relations.
The essay is "The Biafran Crisis and the
Midwest".
Published in African Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 344
(Jul., 1987), pp. 367-383.
Published by: Oxford University Press on
behalf of The Royal African Society.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/
stable/722748 .
The entire essay on the Biafran misadventure
in the Midwest is moving in its analysis of what
the Biafrans lost through the invasion in
terms of goodwill as well as in creating a
situation that united the Midwest with the
Federal forces against Biafra in the
subsequent events that marked the turning
point of the war.
I will present Orobator's summation of the
cost of the invasion to Biafra in another mail .
I post below an extract from the essay.
The most relevant sections on Biafran war
crimes are highlighted:
"
The relationship between the two
sides deteriorated progressively and
the Biafran efforts to secure the
people's support failed.
The battle front reports were
equally unfavourable to the
Biafrans who then resorted to
extensive witch-hunting against
suspected saboteurs.
The Biafran forces, who were
relatively calm during the first one
month of the occupationperiod,
became progressively edgy,
tightening the various governmental
gadgets of societal control.
As the Biafran hostility developed to
crisis proportions, the dusk to dawn
curfew was further enforced, the
Vigilance and Security Councils
given additional powers, and the
Biafran Army and Militia became
more ruthless in their dealings with
the civilians.
The civilian collaborators doubled
their spying activities to callous
dimensions. [45]
The situation drifted for the worse.
Taking the MidWestern refusal to
support the secessionist movement
as a demonstration of an anti-Ibo
and pro-Hausa stance, the Biafrans
intensified their search for
suspected saboteurs as every set-
back on the battle front was
invariably blamed on sabotage.
Heavier reprisals followed.
At Abudu, over 300 bodies,
including those of children, were
found in the Ossiomo river as the
Biafrans withdrew. [46]
Similarly, on 20 September 1967,
'there was a mass killing of non-
Ibo MidWesterners at Boji-Boji
Agbor', and on 23 September,
'non-Ibo speaking MidWesterners
were apprehended by rebel
soldiers at Asaba, Ibusa and
Agbor and taken [in two lorries]
to a rubber plantation along
Uromi-Agbor road and
massacred'.[47]
The more minor cases of rape,
extortion, seizure of properties,
and other punishments featured
abundantly.

For instance, a Warri-based
lawyer, E. K. Iseru, testified at the
Tribunal that he was stripped
naked and detained for three days
without food for agitating for the
Rivers State, and, when he
complained of hunger, he was
promptly told: 'there is no food
for Hausa friends'. [48]
45. Author's personal file. Also see
Press Release No. MW 215 of
1/2/68, p. 5.

46. This disclosure was made at
the Tribunal[ Rebel Activities
Tribunal of Inquiry (Ministry of
Information, Benin City)] by Chief
D. N. Oronsaye, formerly Principal
of the Provincial Teacher Training
College, Abudu. See also Press
Release No. MW 157 24/1 /68, p. 4.
47. Press Release No. MW 410
23/2/68, pp. 6-7.
48. Press Release No. MW 157 of
24/1/68, pp. 2-3.
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If the alleged author of the above crap is a renowned history professor at Uniben, I pity the students that took a course from him. One of the reasons Nigeria is in sorry state points to goofy figures such Stanley Orobator. The bolded is the same crap espoused by Nowa Omogui and probably copied from his series. I can recall that when Nowa was tasked to name a brigade or even battalion of Biafran army that committed the alleged atrocities, the dumbass drew blank. Till date, Nowa Omogui has failed to come up with even a shoulder insignia worn by Biafran soldiers. The funny part of the saga is that these imbecilic dingbats turned quark historians were able to remember the dates, places like Boj-Boji, Agbor, Asaba, Ibuzor and even rubber plantation along Uromi-Agbor road yet could not remember any unit of Biafran army or sector commander. The Biafrans are not worried if certain basement fools from southern Nigeria chose to play slave to northerners but appreciate the fact if they leave Biafra out of public foolery.

Rotjijatau:
I boarded a kekenapep to my office this morning & i met this airforce babe in her uniform and I said "hi" but she didn't answer. so everybody kept quite till she got to her destination, she dropped and was paying the driver then i noticed her purse at where she sat down and i immediately said in a soft voice "hello, look" but before I could finish she shouted and started insulting me saying "You dey craze, you no dey see woman leave am ba, carry your wahala dey go" Then I kept quite and the kekenapep man continued our journey. when i got to the office and opened the purse behold her airforce ID Card was inside with four ATM cards of different banks. What are the consequences of her misplacing the card?

Few minutes of inconvenience. The ID card should be replaced before she leaves office. The only headache lies with four ATM cards with respect to the jungle called Nigeria.

If any Ogoni person is remotely sold on this cleanup mumbo-jumbo, I say Ogoni is practically expendable. What Ogoni needs is the transformation of Bori into Lagos or even Ikeja.

“Our slaves in southwestern region of Nigeria performed once more. It is like 1967 all over again.”

The parentage, especially the paternity of this jackass called Joe Igbokwe, should be examined. During the second term of the ninny named OBJ, every politician of Yoruba descent including the political party in the southwestern region of Nigeria became PDP.

pazienza:
ChimaObi Ibeneche an Igbo man from Imo state forced the relocation of NLNG headquarters from Lagos to Rivers state. Guess who were those behind the location of such in Lagos to start with? Yea you guessed right, the Yorubas. Guess who tried to use every blackmail tactics possible to armtwist Chimaobi and delay/ possibly prevent the relocation of the company to Rivers state? The Yorubas. http://saharareporters.com/2011/10/27/nlng-managing-director-70-million-headquarters-relocation-controversy


Now we know why some people are holding tight to the Mirage of One Nigeria and are having heart attack at the mention of Biafra.

Okpara over saw the relocation of Shell from Owerri to PH, cos he knew that was the right thing to do. But after the war, Awo ensured all the oil companies Headquarters were located to Lagos.


Hope the usual " Igbo want our Oil people" are listening.

Only a dumbass non-Yoruba southerner does not know that Yari.ba people are the most deceitful, deceptive and dubious group of beings in Nigeria. Those non-Yoruba southerners who have allowed their idiotic bunch to be misled by chameleonic Yari.ba people do not deserve a day on earth without hard labor.

banku:
NDI-IGBO HAVE MORE TO GAIN AS NIGERIANS

There are those of us that have never had Federal or State scholarships but are still grateful for the discipline instilled in us in primary and secondary schools. So when people say those that want Nigeria to exist as a Country are members of the looters club, they are dead wrong. We just cannot imagine our Country without Igbo or Hausa. Where do the so called minorities that have contributed more, to our existence in social and all aspect than the mega ethnics go?

The call for Igbo separation after each disappointment is usually misplaced but understandable. However the loss of breaking up Nigeria is monumental to the point of shaping the rest of the world. The amount of refugees alone will destabilize many countries, not only in Africa but in Europe and America. Worldwide repercussion is secondary, local disaster is immediate.

Religious riot in the North is a topic in itself; otherwise most Hausa are usually low-key outside the North. In the Federal Government they are willing to go alone since the days of Tafawa Balewa. It is the Southern parties that seek unions with the Northern parties. This time around, the Yoruba of the South-west have decided to form alliance with the North for the first time in the history of Nigeria. It is usually the South-east and South-south parties in union with North.

It is even doubtful how long the new union of the North and South-west is going to last. But cat calls, prediction of dooms and wishful thinking have crept up each day to create problems. Each and every move has been criticized and the union is “no longer at ease”. Even if this alliance fails, it is not going to break up Nigeria. The Hausa and Yoruba are not as keen as the Igbo to call for the breakup of the Country. Though everyone is fed up and may accept a loose union.

What does a loose union mean? It is either united group of ethnic nations or the confederation Ojukwu asked for. This is what led to the creation of more and more states to the point where everyone has their own governor, super secretaries and government workers that are now owed many months in salaries. Even worse is the discharge of workers from state positions because they are not from within the individual states.

If this is the chaos creation of states is creating, we cannot imagine the disaster creation of ethnic nations would create. In fairness, the Ndi-Igbo are not the only ones agitating for their own Country; the fever has caught the rest of the Country. It has caught fire amongst the Ijaw of South-south. They want their own Country to manage and spend the income mostly located in their backyard. Even worse, their leaders have been kicked out of power as President.

If there is anything to learn; it is that Ijaw leaders will spend oil income the same way they pocket it when they ruled Nigeria. The only habit Nigerians have in common more than anything else is the conspicuous spending and looting of the treasury. It is the way you can distinguish a Nigerian from a distance.

Unfortunately, some Igbo want to use the defeat of Ijaw leadership from federal power to recreate the Eastern bloc in the name of Biafra. It will never work. South-south is not made up of Ijaw alone. Both the Igbo and the Ijaw have allied with the North in the past to rule Nigeria and the rest of the Nigeria have never used that as a reason to break up the Country. The fact is, some minorities in the South-south have used their alliance with the North as a poison pill.

Indeed, it is only recent that ijaw has become a big minority. The fact is they are still not the main ethnic group in the South-south, the Edo are. Sometimes, present difficulties and pressing problems make us forget the past. Many have temporarily forgotten that amicable coexistence between Urhobo, Ijaw and Itshekiri was broken before Ijaw gained power. Families that have lived together for ages began killing one another: My People Are Killing My People!

Ndi-Igbo must remember that when they had less friends after the War and their properties were “abandoned”, the only place they got all their properties back, up to the present day is from Yoruba land. When they were ostracized from Federal Government after the War, their friends crying for inclusion were Yoruba. The first Government to bring them out from the cold and included them in sensitive and important federal position was Obasanjo Government.

The animosity between Yoruba and Igbo is very uncomfortable for many of us because we have never seen it at this dangerous level. Yes, we’ve always had conservatives on both sides warning us about the dangers of the other. What we see now that is so discomforting is the amount of insults thrown to one another by young people that are supposed to be more open minded than their parents. The parents are now more liberal than their children.

Some Igbo have five years plan to leave Lagos and Yoruba are fed up. The reason the Igbo have more to lose is because they have always been welcomed and well tolerated in Yoruba land. Majority of them have appreciated this accommodation and have contributed in return for the friendship by integrating well into the agbule (compounds) and families of Yoruba. The trend we see now is hostilities between Yoruba and Igbo.

I[b]t is not good for both and it may spell disaster for the Country as a whole. The union between political parties is for temporary convenience in order to rule or gain power. It never lasts as differences always show up. Shehu Shagari on why NPN and NPP alliance had to crumble: NPP kept on asking for more and more ministers and power. No position is permanent. This is not the first time that we have had political alliance in Nigeria and it will not be the last time.[/b]

Ndi-Igbo and Ndi-Yoruba must re-evaluate their relationship because the new generation is being poisoned by bad vibes between the two. It is not good for Hausa and most Nigerians.

Source: Farouk Martins Aresa
Story from The Nigerian Voice News:
http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/182557/1/ndi-igbo-have-more-to-gain-as-nigerians.html

Published: Monday, June 15, 2015

The jackass named Farouk Martins Aresa is not qualified in any platform to advice Ndiigbo on issues pertaining the jungle termed Nigeria. I suggest he or she shove the gains up his/ her hole.

BabaO2:
No, you guys always celebrate half truth. The most so called delta ibos are not igbo. All my delta friends with ibo-like names always vehemently reject igbo/ibo identity.

You did not say that such idiotic denial started after Nigeria/Biafra civil war ended. I remember that those who slightly denied their ancestral identity never amounted to anything in human endeavor.

Esdb3:
People Oju-iku sacrificed just because he didn't want to bow to gowon because he felt he ranked higher and the ibo are here calling him a hero......smh

Display of brazen ignorance!!!

midolian:
Biafra is not the Igbo nation, but the Igbo nation was part of Biafra. I think those agitating for BIAFRA should clearly state what Biafra is. And to make Biafra a reality, all Igbo speaking and non-Igbo speaking Easterners (SS/SE), who were part of the original Biafra must be involved. Otherwise we are mistaking the Igbo nation for Biafra. The circumstances that led to the declaration of Republic of Biafra cannot be wished away; and that was why the region as it were gave Ojukwu their support and looked up to him. And there is the general view that there was sabotage from non-Igbo speaking members of that union.

Nigeria as a nation has come a long way after the civil war. In reality, as much as we want to deny it, there has been much more integration among and within ethnic nationalities in Nigeria after the war. Be that as it may, I am proudly Igbo and can`t exchange my “Igboness” with anything else. But I think we are better off in a prosperous Nigeria. Igbos has sacrificed a lot to get Nigeria to its present state and we would be short-changing themselves to leave and then start nursing another country. Fortunately or unfortunately, the Igbo man has helped in developing other parts of Nigeria where he lives than he has developed Igboland. So we cannot be building and developing businesses all over Nigeria and not Igboland yet clamour for a country in a region that has no economic base whatsoever. Maybe we think it is buying and selling in Aba and Onitsha that will determine our economic prosperity as a nation.

Let’s forget our unalloyed support for former President Goodluck Jonathan; our people were entitled to their conscience and whoever they want to support. But the truth is that there is mutual distrust between the core Igbos and our Riverine neighbours, who incidentally are Biafrans as well. But are they ready to go along this revival of the Biafran nation? If yes, then that’s a starting block. But their body language does not suggest that. Therefore the result of the agitation will now be a Republic of Igboland and not Biafra.

Inasmuch as we complain of marginalisation, there have always been Igbo sons and daughters around our “oppressors” who are only interested in personal gains. Have we got real and charismatic Leaders in the mould of Ojukwu, Azikiwe, Okpara, or even Sam Mbakwe in Igboland now? Maybe one can say Ekwueme and Anyaoku, but those ones without disrespect are almost past their prime presently in terms of the physical rigour required to lead a new nation. We are likely going to be between the rock and hard surface.

And if that is the case, we will now be a landlocked nation, surrounded on every corner by Nigeria. Do we even have enough space for everyone coming back? My mind runs back to chaotic situations during Christmas and festive periods. Let no one deceive you, life will be pretty more difficult economically than we might imagine. And because there are no industries in Igboland, even our “traders” will have to pay the only country surrounding us to bring in goods. There needs to be collective and intelligent thinking here.

I strongly believe that we are marginalised, or are meant to believe. Most developments, which are phenomenal, in Igboland are individual and community funded. That is why the Igbos are the only region doing one launch after the other, one fundraising after the other to bring basic amenities to the people. I know Igbo students have to endure high cut off points to gain admissions into schools and Universities. I know, and I personally suffered this, that our names alone rule us out of some jobs in Nigeria. But we have to unfortunately accept the fact that this was compounded after the war. Igbos were in high and mighty places before that period and deservedly the first of this or that in the army, police, business, politics etc. We have gradually built ourselves to that level and beyond. It is not our fault that whatever we lay our hands on prosper, even in the face of oppression. But agitating to be move on alone with some of the reasons being postulated is like playing the victim always. We are part of our marginalisation. Where are our Igbo leaders and politicians?

The probable Igbo nation’s leaders are the present day governors, senators, National Assembly members, etc. Your guess is as good as mine on their capabilities. Let’s be sincere with ourselves, in the 16 years of PDP government in Nigeria the only position Igbos did not hold was just the Presidency. We have had about five Senate Presidents, Deputy Senate President, Deputy Speaker, the Army chief, Immigration boss, the Prisons boss, Central Bank governor, ministers in key ministries of Power, Finance, Education, Petroleum, and Health. What has Igboland got to show for these positions other than installation of one chieftaincy title or the other? As much as the majority of our complaint are genuine, we are part of the problem as well.

Inasmuch as we complain of marginalisation, there have always been Igbo sons and daughters around our “oppressors” who are only interested in personal gains. Have we got real and charismatic Leaders in the mould of Ojukwu, Azikiwe, Okpara, or even Sam Mbakwe in Igboland now? Maybe one can say Ekwueme and Anyaoku, but those ones without disrespect are almost past their prime presently in terms of the physical rigour required to lead a new nation. We are likely going to be between the rock and hard surface. The probable Igbo nation’s leaders are the present day governors, senators, National Assembly members, etc. Your guess is as good as mine on their capabilities. Let’s be sincere with ourselves, in the 16 years of PDP government in Nigeria the only position Igbos did not hold was just the Presidency. We have had about five Senate Presidents, Deputy Senate President, Deputy Speaker, the Army chief, Immigration boss, the Prisons boss, Central Bank governor, ministers in key ministries of Power, Finance, Education, Petroleum, and Health. What has Igboland got to show for these positions other than installation of one chieftaincy title or the other? As much as the majority of our complaint are genuine, we are part of the problem as well.

The Igbos should not shy away from requesting what is due to them. The Igbo politicians should fight for the Igbo cause in Abuja, no one from another tribe will do it for us. But to me that should be within the Nigeria nation, in a prescribed and orderly manner.

I am of the opinion that the Igbos’ should continuously agitate not to be marginalised or side-lined in the scheme of things in the Nigerian federation. We should shout it to the roof tops without being violent when over a dozen-and-half political appointments are made and no Igbo person is there; when other regions have at least six states each and the South-East has only five. You are entitled to use any radio station at your disposal to alert the world of the vindictive actions of the government against the race.

Marginalising Igbos is a sad reminder of a war mentality; of people who have been “defeated.” And it can only lead to agitations and more agitations for sovereignty.

The Igbos should not shy away from requesting what is due to them. The Igbo politicians should fight for the Igbo cause in Abuja, no one from another tribe will do it for us. But to me that should be within the Nigeria nation, in a prescribed and orderly manner. Marginalising Igbos is a sad reminder of a war mentality; of the attitude to a people who have been “defeated.” And it can only lead to agitations and more agitations for sovereignty. So the present government should be addressing the anomalies that are making the Igbo seek to go it alone. Let there be a level playing ground for all Nigerians.

In agitating for Biafra, we should be careful what we wish for and give it thorough thinking. Igbos fought a war, lost the war, lost a million people, lost properties in several cities of Nigeria. And these are things we should never lose again. Igbos are dynamic and very mobile people; the large Nigeria nation enables us to express our ingenuity and doggedness. Igbos have invested a lot in making Nigeria what it is today. Inter-ethnic marriages, business and personal relationships have been built across the bridge, and we cannot not wish these away.

Let us think before we take this Biafra issue further. Let us study South Sudan, Eritrea, Ukraine before we plunge into the lake of ice or fire.

http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/?p=168324

The writer of the above crap is either delusional or outright idiotic. The writer forgot that Biafra is a name. If the current agitators have decided to call Igbo land Republic of Biafra, who the hell is the writer to tell them what Biafra should comprise? It is laughable to read about what this goofy airhead had to write about land-lock. I must say that this ninny has not see Atlas and economic progression chart in decade to realize that economical development is not limited to countries with long coast lines.

This dude is a backwater dumbass. Why would Ndiigbo expand energy on imaginary marginalization that only exists in the minds of goofy goons like the writer instead of using such energy to build a nation state such as Biafra that shall be independent of zoo called Nigeria?
It is unimaginable idiocy to link the agitation of independent country by Ndiigbo to the defeat of Jonathan Goodluck. I can safely say that Jonathan Goodluck was apparently nobody when the Ndiigbo started the agitation of nation state other than Nigeria.

lygn19:
I keep wondering one thing, Yorubas and some other useless tribes say they hate igbos, but it's over der dead body for the people they hate to leave.

Yoruba nation cannot survive a day as an independent entity if the zoo called Nigeria disintegrates.

Nigeria is a misguided drawback to Nidiigbo. The dumbass country needs go away and fast.

ibotjaycob:
Biafra war was all about Ego between Ojukwu and Gowon.

The above post is 100% dumb.

ibotjaycob:
“There are a number who believe that neither Gowon nor Ojukwu was the right leader for that desperate time, because they were blinded by ego, hindered by a lack of administrative experience, and obsessed with interpersonal competitions and petty rivalries. As a consequence, according to this school of thought, these two men failed to make appropriate and wise decisions throughout the conflict and missed several opportunities when compromise could have saved the day.”

Excerpts from There was a country by chinua achebe

Please could you furnish the page?

princefunmmy:
Can't they just sit down and think? Learn from Mr President, you don't do rubbish because you wanna please people...

It is an insult to word - "think " to associate it with most Nigerians.

FrenchBiafran:

Yorubas are nothing but vermins and treacherous leaches.

Yari.ba are worse than the above definition.

APC, Daura Dumbass and supporters are bunch of idiotic ingrates that do not deserve a pint of fresh air. I had wished Nigerian society should be allowed to carry guns that theses goons should be treated with heat. Anytime Nigeria slides backward into darkness, Yoruba have always been in the ugly picture assisting the ninnies from northern region of Nigeria drag the cesspit further down.

The brazen display of idiocy and knack for brutality by Nigerian police and other branches of the armed forces will not stop until Nigerian citizens have the freedom to bear arms.

Anybody who thinks people calling for disintegration of Nigeria are bigot is a bloody fool. One of the major problems among Africans is imagery fear. Nigerians have pretended to be united for more than 50years yet few goons are calling for the continuation of the pretence. Nigeria will never work

Feelingfree:
You actually said Igbos are cursed. You shd be banned. It's sad that I see little hope for dividing this country into feasible units if even SE and SS people cannot live together. Unfortunately, the so called south south is a combination of varied ethnicities with 'a thousand' languages. How could they themselves cooperate if you get ur Niger delta as a country. We, in Nigeria, are so diverse that any division of this country will not work unless some ethnicities agree to live together in larger units. My thoughts tho......otherwise we can as well divide the country into more than 250 parts to correspond to the various ethnic groups. Ikwerreboy ...do grow up pls

The Republic of Igbo land is none negotiable. Only a fool in the zoo called Nigeria does not know the boundary of his or her ethnic home land.

Truckpusher:
In as much as the writer highlighted some of the problems bedeviling Nigeria's unity it is worthy to note that our disunity started in 1958 when oil was discovered in the Niger Delta in commercial quantity, hence fueling the greed that a particular region would become economically dominant and a dissenting voice of the minorities of the then Eastern region which was used as a launching pad to divide,rule and plunder - Ojukwu was only naive to have taken the bait at the wrong time.

And finally , as long as our overdependency on oil is not checkmated by other source of revenue generation the disunity and fraudulent unitary system of Governance would always stay and my greatest fear is that a people would have no choice than choose the barrel of the gun and it's a lose lose situation.

No region in this country deserves the marginalization and environmental degradation we are witnessing in the Niger Delta.
With all this in mind I suggest that we should go back to fiscal federalism with a strong militarily strong center to curb in any form of secession which has been the greatest fear of the other regions.
If we fail to use peaceful agitation to right our wrongs ,we would have to make a hard choice at some point.

The bolded is one of the major problems of Nigeria thus being economical with the truth or outright display of ignorance.

vision2022:
Following the recent appointments by President Buhari so far shows that President Buhari is purely a president of NORTHERN part of Nigeria, thereby dividing the country into ethnic and religious line, and if he did not redress his steps to correct the imbalances; more sections in this country will agitate for independence.

Are you so slow as depicted with the above post? Nigeria had always been divided however pretenders seemed to be in constant denial.

jpphilips:
I wish I had time to educate you, the reason you have no idea who and who are close to a patent or find the names I mentioned obscure is because you are a nobody.
"Nobodies" like you are not entitled to be discussing "somebodies".
Don't abuse your freedom of speech.
Your father is in the best position to discuss 1986 not you.















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Bros do not waste your precious time on dumbass Nigerians. Most of them on this forum are the most ill-educated dunces I have ever read the crap they wrote. Nobel Prize is a joke that had been politically tinted.

bayooooooo:
Philip Emeagwali myths

This page briefly addresses some specific claims appearing on Emeagwali's self-promotional website and elsewhere. For a more in-depth discussion of Emeagwali's "outright lies, half-truths, and numerous unsubstantiated claims," see the article Self-Promotion and Self-Authentication: "Father of the Internet" by Chioma Ezeilo.

MYTH #1:
Emeagwali made the "world's fastest computation" in 1989

Each year since 1987, the judges for the annual Gordon Bell competition have given out multiple prizes for supercomputing applications, usually including one forperformance (fastest speed), and one for price/performance (best speed/cost ratio; specifically, "price-performance ratio as measured in megaflop/s per dollar on a genuine application".

Despite what you may have read on the Internet, the 1989 prize for the fastest performance was awarded not to Emeagwali, but to another entrant:

In the performance category, we awarded the prize to a team from Mobil Research and Development and Thinking Machines Corp. [...] Their solution of a seismic data-processing problem ran at almost 6 Gflops on a CM-2 Connection Machine.

"Special Report: 1989 Gordon Bell Prize," IEEE Software, May 1990, p. 101

The winning speed of 6 Gflops was almost double that of Emeagwali's entry (3.1 Gflops, a speed that Emeagwali has repeatedly misrepresented as the "world's fastest". The Mobil/TMC team achieved the best price-performance ratio too, but since no entry was allowed more than one prize, the price/performance award passed to Emeagwali (who also used a CM-2 Connection Machine) even though his score in that category was about 20% worse than the leading score:

We awarded the price/performance prize to Philip Emeagwali [...] His model ran at a price/performance of slightly less than 400 Mflops per $1 million.While the Mobil/TMC team achieved almost 500 Mflops per $1 million, we decided to award only one prize per entry.

"Special Report: 1989 Gordon Bell Prize," IEEE Software, May 1990, p. 101

See the yearly results for the performance and price/performance categories. In no year did Emeagwali achieve what he claims he did.

MYTH #2:
Emeagwali won computing's equivalent of the Nobel Prize

In spite of efforts by Emeagwali and his admirers to hype up his $1000 Gordon Bell award as the "Nobel Prize" of computing, the rest of the computing world continues to associate that lofty label with the Turing Award, which Emeagwali has never won. [/b]The Gordon Bell prize, however, is just one of many other annual computing awards, respectable but not at all comparable to either the Nobel Prize or the Turing Award in prestige or prize money. Nor are the selection criteria analogous: Emeagwali was awarded for his performance in an annual competition, not in recognition of lasting contributions to his field.

[b]MYTH #3:
Emeagwali is a "Father of the Internet"

1. Emeagwali's paternity claims to the Internet are judged and found baseless. Emeagwali has not shown any evidence that he was involved with ARPA or any other research organization or company connected with the genesis of the Internet, nor did he express his ideas in technical journals or any other channel through which he could have influenced the development of the Internet during its formative stages.

2. Is there a father of the Internet? A discussion of the main contenders: JCR Licklider, Bob Taylor, Paul Baran, Donald Davies, and Lawrence Roberts.

MYTH #4:
The "Connection Machine" was invented by Emeagwali

A few Web sources expand the fallacy that Emeagwali created the fastest computer program, insisting that he was also responsible for the massively parallel supercomputer on which the program ran. However, the 65,000-processor "Connection Machine" that allowed such speedy computations was actually the brainchild of Danny Hillis and was built by Thinking Machines Corporation, the company Hillis co-founded. The fact is extensively documented on the web and is so well established that I won't devote more attention to it.

MYTH #5:
Emeagwali has lots of patents or patent applications

The number of Emeagwali's patents or patent applications is sometimes claimed to be as high as 30. However, a search of the USPTO and esp@cenet patent databases (as of September 2003) reveals the true number to be zero. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which has a fully searchable online database for all U.S. patents since 1976 as well as all current applications, simply has nothing on file for Emeagwali.

MYTH #6:
"Dr." Emeagwali?

Emeagwali is frequently referred to on his own and other websites as "Dr. Philip Emeagwali" or simply "Dr. Emeagwali." Though he did in fact enroll in a PhD program at the University of Michigan, he did not get the degree after failing his qualification examinations twice and having his thesis rejected by a committee of faculty members. Emeagwali subsequently sued the university, alleging civil rights violations and racial discrimination. His case was dismissed without trial. When Emeagwali appealed to a higher court, a three-judge panel rejected his discrimination claims unanimously.

The bolded under myth#2 destroyed any credibility the junk could have fetched you.

[quote author=Bluetooth2 post=6970891]The guy claimed to have a Nobel Award ! [b]Is Gordon Bell Award = Nobel Award ? No !!!![/[/b]quote]



What are your variables in the bolded dumbass equation?

Any red-blooded Igbo person that worships with this dumbass donkey known as Mr. Ejike Mbaka should be shot.

OPCNAIRALAND:
Chief Sylvester O. Dimunah, the vice chairman of the Council of Village Heads in Imo State, has been converted to Islam.



The traditional ruler, whose name is Musa Dimunah now, said that the truthful nature of the religion, is the reason why he made the switch. He revealed that the good character of Malam Ibrahim Biobonlomije, the former secretary of the council and the executive secretary of Justice Mamman Nasir Islamic Centre for Peace and Research influenced his decision to embrace Islam.

“I did not accept Islam, I only revert to the religion that our forefathers practice and the universal religion of humanity. I’m impressed by the good nature of Muslims’ love for everybody and hatred for none apart from the way they revere Allah and all the Prophets without discrimination,” he said.

“I am also impressed by the brotherhood and mutual respect for each other and other members of the community.”

He however insisted there was no pressure to change his name, after he became a Muslim.

http://dailypost.ng/2013/01/13/imo-traditional-ruler-converts-to-islam/

What arrant nonsense. The bolded has cosigned this crap to a trash bag. What a village head. By the way, village heads are not traditional rulers in Igbo land.

The answer to the question is NO with capital letters. Ndiigbo did not panic immediately after the civil war and were braced to continue fighting if there was a need. Today does not resemble 1967 and unease rests the head that wears the hat. This government of APC under the leadership of Daura Dumbass remains the only variable in Nigeria’s equation that is subject to failure and panic.