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They are not the pioneer set, UNN has been training dental surgeons in the years past but lost accreditation due to dearth of equipment. They resumed after some years.

Memfys neurosurgical hospital is the only private centre that has accreditation to train board certified neurosurgeons in West Africa.

The number of recipient of the 33 year
old award which spreads across all areas
of human endeavours with the two new
awardees has increased to 67, an
average of two per year.

President Goodluck Jonathan
today (Thursday 6) presented
the 2012 Nigerian National Order of
Merit Award to Professor Samuel
Ohaegbulam (medicine) and Professor
Emmanuel Oyeleye (humanities) at the
Council Chambers of the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
The president said that the purpose of
the award is to encourage technological
research essential for socio-economic
development of the country.
Jonathan also assured the Nigerian
National Merit Award (NNMA) of
Federal Government continuous
support.
Prof Samuel Ohaegbulam is a consultant neurosurgeon at the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus and director of Memfys neurosurgical hospital Enugu.
His son Chima is also a celebrated consultant neurosurgeon in the US.
Prof Emmanuel Oyeleye is with the University of Ibadan.
The national order of merit award is
the highest and most prestigious
honour the nation bestows on its
citizens at home and in the Diaspora
for proving creative intellectual and
academic contribution of national and
global significance.
channelstv.com/home/2012/12/06/jonathan-presents-merit-award-to-two-professors/

Ogun is a GROSS under achiever, that is not utilizing her proximity to Lagos optimally.
Abeokuta is a shadow of what it shld be(a glorified semiurban settlement, instead of a thriving tourist destination).
There is nothing of note in those pics.

The one with AMOSU in a pit struggling to commission a project is outright ridiculous!

AMOSU may well be doing some work.
However, going by these pics, i cant see anything impressive.
Pls lets not help these politicians loot us freely by blowing their trumpets

Abyjah: Way to go , boy. The entire armies of the UN put together cannot stop a vision whose time is at hand. Be steadfast and you'll colonize planets.

And now, let's talk about Jesus.

How His Spirit, speak through Solomon the wise, made it clear that a diligent man has no business standing before whinny commoners.

Dayuum!
Spot diagnosis substance abuse.
?weed, cocaine, LSD, Gum, BZDP

UNN at it again!
Just yesterday a UNN prof sold his art work for 11.4M
I believe UNN still produces the best graduates till date.

@petrodollar
Ben Enweonwu's work went for 13.5M previously.
His works also rake in big cash

jammyng: He's ghanaian by birth, very quiet man. He taught me a borrowed course while in school.

I am beginning to wonder if Ghanaians are better at everything.

okpara ugo: I visited one man's house in Ohafia, Abia state, there wasnt any type of artefact i didnt see.

A table standing on carved elephant tusks(in wood), painting and wood carvings of ''Jesus dining with his disciples''(the best), wall mirror engraved in wooden art works, classicically carved furniture for sofa. I wasnt surprised since he was a billionaire.

I love this trend in Nigeria. We used to hear of art auctions as far back as the 80's in U.S. Now it's here.

It is an impressive trend.
Many of the buyers are foreigners though, who end up reselling to international art collectors and museums at higher prices.

Edokpa (Palmtree alter 3), Okukugha (Owl and other animals), Aro obo esiri (Fortune alter) by Bruce Onobrakpeya
(copper foil repoussé on board 1983-1985)

Erhabor Emokpae
Dancing faces
(Oil on board 82 x 57 cm. 1969)
3.2M

afam4eva: WOW!!! That's a lot.

Going by the economic situation in the country, that seems to be a lot for the work.
Art is however priceless.

Ojukwu = frontpage
MTCHEEWWW!

The top 10 from 111 lots of the ninth ArtHouse auction (Hammer price).
1. El Anatsui (b.1944)
Grandma’s Cloth Series VI
(Oil on wooden panels
132 x 262 cm. 1992) N11.4 million

2. Yusuf Grillo (b. 1934)
Sango Worshipper (Oil on board
122 x 56 cm. 1961) N7.4 million.

3. Ehrabor Emokpae (1934-1984)
Dancing Faces
(Oil on board 82 x 57 cm. 1969) N3.2m

4. Bruce Onobrakpeya (b. 1932)
Edokpa (Copper foil repoussé
on board 1983-1985) N3m
Ben Enwonwu (1917-1994)
Agbogho mmoo (Oil on board
84 x 54 cm. 1979) N3m.

5. Amon Kotei (b.1915-2011)
Untitled (Oil on canvas 151 x 80 cm) N2.5m
Ben Enwonwu (b.1917-1994)
Remi (Bronze cold cast 23 cm. 1977) N2.5m

6. Demas Nwoko (b.1935)
Indian Girl In Sari
(Oil on paper 51 x 74 cm1965) N2m
Uche Okeke (B.1933)
March Of Masquerades
(Charcoal 30.5 x 84 cm 1974.) N2m
Abiola Akintola (B.1960)
Believe In Yourself (Stainless steel 78 cm 2011) N2m

7. Okpu Eze (b.1932-1995)
Fertility Figure (Wood 25 cm 1984) N1.8m
Kolade Oshinowo (b.1948)
Prayer Time (Mixed media on canvas
117 x 40 cm. 2012) N1.8m
Abiodun Olaku (b.1958)
Evening Enterprise
(Oil on canvas 76 x 92 cm. 2008) N1.8m
Rom Isichei (b.1966)
Rhythm Of The Season (Mixed media on canvas
140 x 255 cm. 2012) N1.8m

8. Peju Alatise (b.1975)
Aso-Bora (Mixed media on canvas
229 x 122 cm. 2012) N1.6m

9. Ben Enwonwu (b.1917-1994)
Portrait Of A Black Boy
(Watercolour, ink on card board
42 x 27 cm) N1.5m
Ben Osawe (b. 1931-2007)
Untitled (Wood 22 cm. 48 in. 1993) N1.5m.

10. Billy Omabegho (b.1953)
Homage V (Aluminium & bronze 2011) N1.3m
Edosa Ogiugo (b.1961)
Exchange Centre (Oil on canvas
120 x 182 cm. 2007) N1.3m
Alex Nwokolo (b.1963)
Guatanamo Bay ( Mixed media on board
122 x 274 cm 2012) N1.3m
http://africanartswithtaj..com/

Yusuf Grillo's rare painting 'Sango worshipper'(oil on board 122 x 56cm 1961)

“Grandma’s Cloth Series VI” worth N11.4M by El Anatsui(Oil on wooden panels, 132 x 262 cm. 1992)

The ArtHouse Contemporary Limited auctions really deserves a resounding round of applause. Also laudable is the full-house gathering at every one of its editions. On its ninth edition last Monday at the Ikoyi, Lagos-based Wheatbaker Hotel, the biannual art event trundled on, in blissful oblivion of the gloomy economic prognoses of the outside world.

El Anatsui’s oil on wood panels “Grandma’s Cloth Series VI” (Lot 54) edged out others to become the auction’s bestselling work at the hammer price of N11.4 million.

Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana. He began teaching at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1975, and has become affiliated with the Nsukka group.(wikipedia).
Yusuf Grillo’s oil on board painting, “Sango Worshipper” sold for the hammer price of N 7.4 million, as the second bestselling work.
Ben Enwonwu’s oil on board painting, “Agbogho Mmoo” and his bronze head, “Remi”, sold for the hammer prices of N3 million and N2.5 million, respectively.

Granted, there was this homage to the masters, which accounted for the fact that their works clinched the first five positions as the bestselling works. Yet, it is undeniable that the bidders’ whims – albeit momentarily – seemed to take flight, far off into more conceptual realms. That explains why[b] Nnenna Okore[/b]’s clay and burlap work, “Akwa Ocha”, could sell for a respectable hammer price of N1.5 million or Chidi Kwubiri’s pointillist oil and acrylic on canvas offering going for N1.1 million. Then call the N1.6 million hammer price sale of Peju Alatise’s mixed-media relief, “Aso-Bora”, a nod to both industry and creativity.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/a-time-for-masterly-offerings-/132276/

Two ill bred individuals displaying their uncout upbringing

Spyder
Can you pls give some update on the proposed secretariat building.
Heard it is a massive project

Since Aba residents and the traders' association are not vocal enough to fight for their right to good governance.
I can only say that they deserve what they are getting.

PROUD-IGBO:
^^^Bros, i think you're refering to jetways......that would be nice and bring the airport terminal fuctionality up to date, but i don't think (going by what we see so far) that they have that in mind; the terminal building would have to be at least a story high for it to work.

They installed some at Asaba airport (as an afterthought, as it wasn't in the original design), and that is the way modern airports should be; but don't ask for too much b/4 they say we're being greedy....we should be happy with the one we've been given so far and not be an 'Oliver twist'.

Pic attached is Asaba airport during construction, and it illustrates my point.

Thanks for throwing more light.

I dont think the jetways will be asking for too much since it is an international airport.
It should be standard.

Pls can anyone answer this question?
Has it been proved beyond reasonable doubt that the 2 pharmacists actually sold the said medication to the murderers?

Wonder if the passengers can board the aircraft directly from the terminal building without having to walk to the plane, that will really be nice.

4chi: And why not? Your brothers have taken their brigandage to another level and you don't want the world to know. Your land lies is infested with extreme criminality and you sit down in Lagos talking crap. It's amazing that up till now, ohaneze has not made a single pronouncement on this extremely negative tendency of the ibo to make money out of the pains of their kith.continue to hide your head in the sand spuriously claiming 99% of Lagos and 101% of Abuja yet unable to go home for Xmas..pathetic lot

Have u met me in Lagos before?
Is there any ethnic undertone in what i said for u to resort to name calling or are u hallicinating?
You come across to me as a gullible nitwit.
Stop fabricating and conjecturing what i never said.

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adjain: LOOOOL

All these mindless P-Square fans on here are all agitated. Go and sleep, all of you. Shoooo! Those Peter and Paul nigglets are copy-cats, and they do it shame-facedly.

That said, NIGERIA IS NOT A GOOD COUNTRY FOR JUDGING MUSIC BASED ON FOLLOWERSHIP. I mean, this is a country where Terry G's "Free Madness" was a smashing hit. And, yes, that was crap too. P-Square making hits doesn't mean their songs are good. It just means we have collectively done what we know how to do best : wriggle and writhe to junk

And i guess it's ok when Americans crave their own wrap artists.
Mind u P square is not just a Nigerian sensation.
You probably belong to the group that believes nothing good can come from Nigeria, yet u want another country to treat u with respect.
Pls quit that thing you've been smoking.