₦airaland Forum

yabadabado:
the italian team that won the world cup in the recent past are allfrom the northern part of italy, alot of people do not know this and quiet frankly who gives a ```` where they are from.

but the truth is na only them dey get moustache , but we love them like dat

nattyman:
It is becos they are stronger - maybe becos of the "akpu" wey dem de chop.  Hausas de cover face, u hardly get to see them and yorubas nor fit carry body - front and back too much! lol!!

bk.babe97y:
Clearly, u've never been choked by someone waaay bigger and much more stronger than you. Oh, and I dont have to choke u with both hands! With my size (except ure at least 6'0) I guarantee I can choke u out using four fingers!

snowdrops:
[size=15pt]Perhaps thats what bankole did[/size]

bk.babe97y:
. . . . . well, not if I'm choking your aszz out!!!

Aigbofa:
You don't get it do you? Even if all these people are liars, it still does not absolve Emeagwali of guilt!

Aigbofa:
Does the word "allegations" mean anything to you. He is alleged to parade himself as Dr. Emeagwali without having a doctorate degree. He is also accused of exagerating his contributions to computing and the internet.

These are serious allegations and only him can dispel them. Not me, not Soyinka or Achebe.

Meldrick:
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You are doomed not Nigeria. Your states are doomed and you want to rule Nigeria. Come rule make we see.

oyb:
me, an avowed saraki backside licker - shows the sort of intelligence to be expected of these unrepentant worshippers at the altar of duplicity and mediocrity - idiotic conjecture and desperate personal attacks

pele , nd, oya go and do what nigerians do best - organise an honorary phd for your hero

DapoBear:
When did I say he did? All I know is that he lets people call him what he is not in interviews without correcting them. Anyway, my purpose was to answer your original question; when did the onus get put on me to dissect what he did and did not claim? You are the one starting the thread, not I.

Hamid O:
You think they don't have a negative side right??
Nigeria is a country with people from diverse backgrounds. Every part of Nigeria has its own strength and weakness, the only reason we are a country is because we make up for each others weaknesses. I really don't think it's right to start saying we did this, we did that,

DapoBear:
You miss the point. For their specific field of endeavor (literature), paper certificates are less important. I could get a BS in Chemical Engineering, work for 20 years as an engineer for Chevron, and write literature part time, say at night when I get home from work. If the literature I write becomes famous enough, I can then quite possibly be invited to be a professor of literature somewhere.

However, mathematics, engineering and hard science are not like this. I cannot get a BS in Chemical Engineering and then spend the next 20 years dabbling in Mathematics, write brilliant papers and then be offered a professorship somewhere. Well, it is possible, but extremely unlikely, you would have to be some sort of super, super genius to do this. And if you were that smart (and I don't mean smart relative to average human beings, I mean smart relative to the best mathematicians in the world), then you'd just go back to school and get the PhD in 2 years, then apply for tenure-track professorships.

Anyway, this is how it works in the US. I have no clue how it works in Nigeria.

Anyway, long story short, Emeagwali never even got to the point where he could ever be called a professor in the US in hard sciences. You need to write good papers and have them accepted at prdstigous journals, basically. I don't think he he wrote any papers. I googled his name and couldn't find any, anyway. So the way it works is you write a bunch of good papers, apply for a job at a university, interview, and then hopefully get the job offer (for a tenure-track position, as opposed to some sort of non-tenure track lecturer/instructor position.) Emeagwali didn't do any of this.

Meldrick:
Jews indeed.

And they lost the war 1967 - 1970. They are indeed blessed by God and they were begging for food during the Biafra war, eating rats and lizards.   .They are blessed and they go around kidnapping and perpertrating 419 activities. Don't 4get the cannibal. Clifford Orji. Blessed indeed.

Ha Ha Just an observation ohhhhhh

DapoBear:
Basically, you are confusing two different titles, people can cal you "Doctor" once you have a PhD. People can call you "Professor" if a university decides to hire you as a Professor. In the hard sciences/engineering a PhD is usually a prerequisite to being hired as a Prof. In fields like literature, law, journalism, they are not. You don't even need to necessarily even have any degree to be a professor of literature; in literature, you are primarily judged on the strength of the works you've written.

Anyway, Emeagwali is in the hard sciences/engineering, where a PhD is required before becoming a Professor, while Soyinka and Achebe are writers, where the PhD is not.

In fact, nobody can call Emeagwali a Professor, since he was never hired as a tenure-tracked professor at any university. At best, he could be called "Doctor." And this is only if he earned a PhD somewhere. I'm not even sure if an honorary doctorate allows you to be called "Doctor", I'm a bit fuzzy about the protocol for honorary degrees.

oyb:
these con men worshippers are pathetic

before it was bad belle

now it is leave emegwali alone

keep weeping and wringing your hands for your toppled idol

koastar:
Igbos don't have any historic lineage. I'm not sure if they know their history as a people. They can only tell a tale of a village in Igboland but not the historic evolution of the Igbo people. With the way China is growing in technology now, soon, they will start claiming to be Chinese  

oyinda.:
i think it partially has to do with their physique.
yoruba women are more curvy while igbos have a relatively more athletic physique. and hausas are slim and lanky. I may be wrong but that's my guess.

Why do we blame Emeagwali for exaggerating his achievements? Is what he did not typical Nigerian?
Do these names and their claims ring any bell?

-Prof Gabriel Oyibo and his almighty GAGUT formula
-IBB- who exagerated his contribution to the civil war
-Prof Uwemedimo and his Comandclem claiming to have discovered a paint product worth billions that Mobil Oil company used and refuses to pay for
-Prof Chike Obi who claimed to have found an elementary proof to Fermat’s Last Theorem.
-Yabatech that once (looks like they have changed it on their website now) claimed to be the third oldest higher institution of learning in the world and first in Africa
-Dr Abalaka who claimed to have found a cure for AIDS
-Another Nigerian (names forgotten) claimed to be able to cure AIDS with orange juice
-Prophet Joshua claims to be able to cure everything
-Thousands of our lawyers, doctors, academicians, politicians, school teachers, civil servants, private sector executives and staff all hold one false certificate or another
-Take a look at this FAKE man who practiced law for many years before he was caught http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?t, 00902223264739
-We still remember the Toronto certificate saga of our former Speaker Salisu Buhari, and Tinubu's legal battle with Fawehinmi on account of a fake Chicago certificate of Tinubu's.
- Even Prof Iwu's certificates were once questioned, as are those of the current Controller General of the Nigerian Customs
- Was Obasanjo not said to hold a Higher National Diploma? Pray, tell, from where did he obtain it?

Jakumo:
There is certainly a genetic component that enables Igbo students to rise to the top of the class in academic pursuits, particularly those in the technical field.  Having reviewed large numbers of resumes in Nigeria, it quickly became apparent that there exists a statistically significant MAJORITY of Igbo graduates who excel at mathematics and the sciences, in comparison to the relatively modest numbers of applicants of such high caliber from other tribal categories.

The above conclusions have been drawn after meticulous reviews of literally thousands of resumes, as well as involvement in the subsequent follow-up written interviews of selected candidates.  The natural predisposition of the Igbo student towards technical studies is a compelling reason for Igbo leadership to do all within its power to reverse the current retrogressive trend which sees increasing numbers of Igbo youths forsaking academics in favor of petty trading and motor parts imports.