₦airaland Forum

yousouph:
The preparation of India in hosting the common Wealth games has met a lots of international condemnation. Inadequate accommodation for the athletes, colapsed bridge and stinking toilets with surroundings filled with mosquitoes are few of the reason why top athletes have refused to attend the games.

df2006:
^^^^^^ you guys should enlighten us more how is he a fraud?

http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/emeag.html


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.
http://magazine.biafranigeriaworld.com/cezeilo/2003nov09.html

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 for performance (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. 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.

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.

article describing the court decision
decision from the MI Court of Appeals.

Among the charges brought against the quartet are:

• Payment of estacodes/allowances of $800,000 to 220 delegates to the World Cup in South Africa. Only 47 of which were authorised NFF officials

• mismanagement of N900million World Cup funds;

• purchase of over-inflated luxury buses for the Super Eagles;

• incurring a $125,000 fine in South Africa over a deal with Hampshire Hotel;

• mismanagement of $250,000 to charter a faulty aircraft for the Super Eagles from London to South Africa; and

• spending $400,000 for a friendly match between Colombia and Nigeria in London.

The officials were originally questioned on July 6 by the EFCC.

medjai:
FIFA have exposed themselves to the world as a very corrupt body. FIFA are supposed to be ones to call off the elections owing to the glaring irregularities but they sat down and folded their arms and even threatened us with a ban.
Anyway, lets see the way things turn out because i'm sure this isnt the end. The elections held despite 3 court injunctions barring it from going on

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20100811063996


[size=16pt]Zoning is democratic[/size]


I write to comment on the raging issue of whether zoning of political offices among federating zones or regions is democratic or not.

Democracy or democratic system as a form of government in spite of all its liberalisation allows for certain limitations and restrictions.

For instance, the right to vote or be voted for is restricted to certain age depending on the country in issue. To those deprived, it could be argued that the practice is undemocratic. Why disallow a person of 17 years of age from voting while the person of next age could vote?

In many societies and or institutions, headship is restricted or zoned to pal1icuiar grade or level for certain justifiable reasons. Even in the Nigeria Bar Association, there is unwritten convention to rotate the headship of the Association among members from different zones.

Zoning of political offices in Nigeria is to ensure fairness, justice, national peace and integration. It is through such practice that minority areas could have a shot at the top level through the front door without necessarily entering through the back door. The practice must not only be retained but must be encouraged by all parties.

There is no area or zone in Nigeria which could not boast of good material to rule this country. For instance, Obaship in Yorubaland is restricted to ruling houses and among the ruling houses and there is rotation in order to ensure fairness. Whenever it is the turn of a ruling house to produce an Oba, they look for the best in their house, who will still be screened and must. be acceptable to all.

Although exceptional circumstances could warrant the ruling party in which the incumbent President is a member to review the gentleman‘s agreement, such a situation has not arisen. If the present national government under the headship of a former ASUU member could budget about six to N10 billion to celebrate Nigeria‘s 50th birthday, then there is no justification to dump the zoning arrangement.

For peace and tranquility, let us retain the zoning arrangement. Afterall, between 1999 and 2007, whenever the Senate President was removed, the zone was allowed to produce another person. The last time the Speaker of the House of Representatives was removed, her zone produced another Speaker.

Zoning in Nigeria will not only further the course of democracy and stabilize our nation, it would guarantee that people from both the majority and minority areas have a say and way in governance.

honeric01:
And who told you it was zoned to the SS? just because those who won it came from SS did not mean it was zoned, can you please stop promoting all these rubbish?



BTW, why is FIFA here to inspect? why Nigeria all the time?

honeric01:
The congress of the Nigeria Football Federation, which is the highest decision-making organ, is the major problem. It is dominated by a power block of state football association chairmen and secretaries who have become a massive pawn. You will not win an election without them. They are 74 in number, two each from 36 states and the federal capital territory. As shown four years ago, their interest is best served by sticking together.

This position is not lost on the outsiders, hence the call for amendment of the NFF statutes already cleverly amended two years ago to elongate the tenures of all state chairmen beyond the 2010 elections, effectively handing the crucial votes to the incumbents.

This scenario played out four years ago when Ibrahim Galadima was hounded out of office by “the stakeholders” - the political party in the Nigeria Football Federation. Believe me, I witnessed it first hand from within during the 2006 elections and what a soap opera that was. It was shockingly endorsed by Urs Linsi, Fifa’s general secretary, and I had fun running as a candidate, never once believing I could win.

I followed the guidelines and entered the race on the last day. In a bizarre day, I got the Lagos FA and my state FA to endorse me, and after clearing the impressive screening process, I witnessed, in three days, the marketplace and horse trading at the NFF hub Chida Hotel. On election day I did get a seat in the house and an informed perspective on the hollow ritual.

It’s four years after and nothing has changed. Nothing will change. I am not surprised, nor am I disappointed, nor will I be contesting. It makes no sense even watching the proceedings. I believe that change can only come when the structure of the game is addressed from the local government level to the national level. The candidates for Elections and the delegates often call themselves stakeholders and I ask, what is their stake?

The state football associations never used to conduct elections and in fact do not exist s associations because they do not have a functional congress. The loose term football association is supposed to represent the very constituent members, which in this case should be the various elements of the game; clubs, players, coaches and district, local government, state, regional and national levels, with officials beginning from the base and working the way up the ladder.

Somehow, in spite of all the sembleance of disorder, the outgoing board, on the strength of achievements, will appear to have performed well despite the world cup failure. At least they qualified, which was something the previous board did not achieve.

They won the Under-17 World Cup in South Korea, hosted in 2009; finished runners up, winning silver at the Beijing Olympics; won the beach soccer titles and the Women’s Under-20 Football Team came second recently in Germany. It tells you that with proper structure and the emergence of the right candidates, Nigeria has the potential to be great because of the sheer abundance of two key ingredients, passion and talent.

12large:
i don't know how to put pictures on this forum, but anybody that wants to see the banana sign should go to "kickoffnigeria.com" and see it for yourself

medjai:
Folem, what is right about extending the tenures of state FA chairmen? When FIFA extended Iraq's FA tenure, it was for a reason. It was because their elections was postponed and FIFA has warned that if their elections are postponed again, they would face a ban.
FIFA extended their tenure so they could go back and put their house in order.
What was the reason given for extending the state FA chairmen tenure if not for the sole reason of re-electing the ousted Lulu and his cohorts

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/08/22/nff-elections-bio-clears-president%E2%80%99s-name/


“There was nothing the ministry did not do to postpone the elections but we did not agree. The minister told us that he thought that the tenure of all the FA chairmen had expired and that he did not know that some people still had six months, some up to one year. He was the one that calmed matters,” one FA chairman and a delegate to the Congress said on phone. Two other delegates confirmed this.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201005210361.html


[size=16pt]"Why We Elongate Tenure of State Football Association"[/size]


A member of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Congress, Mallam Ibrahim Musa Gusau yesterday explained why some state football association (FAs) executives has been allowed to continue in office after their tenure's expiration.

Gusau, who is the chairman of Zamfara State Football Association, told a news conference in Abuja that the decision, which was taken at last year's Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Federation in Makurdi, was to harmonize all football association elections in the country.

According to Gusau, after the decision in Makurdi, the state football association chiefs went back to their various states and briefed their constituencies who agreed that the decision was in the best interest of the Nigerian football.

He added that the decision was not aimed at favouring anybody, as some state association's executives will not benefit from the new arrangement.

"We as a family have the right to sit and unify what is being done at the national level, and that is exactly what we did at the NFF AGM in Makurdi where we agreed that the tenure of football associations in the country fall within a particular period.

"So, after the 2010 elections, all football association elections in the country together with that of the national body will hold at the same time, unlike what is currently happening.

"You should note that some state football associations' tenures expired in 2009, while others are to expire in 2011, but we agreed during the Makurdi meeting that they should all be harmonized for us to have a uniform calendar of election", Gusau stated.

honeric01:
That's what i am telling you, these council people don't have to conduct any election themselves because they automatically qualifies to vote for the state FA, or where on the article was it written that the clubs in the states have to conduct election within themselves first before they determine who's eligible to vote for the state FA members?

honeric01:
Those who vote in the FA do not get voted in on their own, these people do not have to do election before they are qualified to vote in an FA chairman.

honeric01:
You still aren't making sense with that, we all know it's only the state FA that votes and there's nothing like local government election when it comes to the issue of NFA, so abeg na u know wetin u dey post up and down

rasputinn:
Hope they will now do the first(right )things first,sack all the state excos and organise elections at the state level before moving up to the national level

honeric01:
do you have to type?

Why do you want state FA elections before Local government Football Council elections?

I am the elected Chairman of the Ewekoro Local Government Football Council, affiliated to the Ogun State Football Association. From that position I contested and was elected into the board of the Ogun State Football Association that is an affiliate member of the Nigeria Football Association.
The Ewekoro Local Government Football Council, made up of football clubs in the local government area, is empowered by the Local government to function. It is a body completely independent of the Ogun State Football Association but related to it by affiliation only. We register for competitions under the State FA and seek the permission to organise matches and competitions.

honeric01:
Let them first conduct the state election and let the people in each states select their own state FA first before we talk about the NFA membership election.

http://wizardssolutions.com/ondostate/news_details.php?id=379

ALL SET FOR ONDO FA ELECTION (Jan 30,'07)

New board members of the Ondo State Football Association would emerge this morning as the final phase of elections into the boards of local government, zonal and state FA holds at the Akure Sports Stadium.

The elections, which have witnessed high-tension intrigues and horse-trading, have successfully been held at the local government and zonal levels.
Speaking with our correspondent yesterday morning, Chief Leke Olokungboye, a member of the Electoral Committee supervising the elections, assured that the stage is set for a fair and credible election.

We have successfully conducted that of the 18 local governments and that initially had problems, we have settled them. We promised to conduct a free and fair election and we will certainly do that,? Olokungboye told our correspondent in a telephone chat.

Two members of the State Referees Council, Ola Ilesanmi and Dele Ogungbemi are the two aspirants jostling for the Chairmanship seat of the state FA

http://wizardssolutions.com/ondostate/news_details.php?id=529

ONDO FA BOARD MEMBERS TAKE OATH (Mar 10,'07)

Newly elected board members of Ondo State football Association will formally be inaugurated this morning at the premises of the State Sports Council.

According to information reaching Sporting Hope, the inauguration of the board members follows the formal swearing in of the Chairman and the two Vice Chairmen a fortnight ago.

At what is expected to be a brief ceremony, the remaining nine members would formally assume duties this morning after the inauguration.

The nine men, three each from the three senatorial districts of the state are:  George Die, Erejuwa Babado and F.P. Oludokun representing the southern senatorial district.

The trio of C.A. Ogunyanmodi, I.O. Olagunju and Bayo Olafusi fly the flag of the Central Senatorial district while A.A. Ahmed, Gabriel Aborowa and A.O. Ogunleye complete the picture from the northern senatorial district.

It will be recalled that the new chairman, Bamidele ogungbemi is from the southern senatorial district while the two Vice Chairmen: Dele Ajayi and  Akintunde Akinsemola are from the central  and northern senatorial districts respectively.

honeric01:
Yes i know and thank God all of them have seen this.


It's purely illegal bro whichever way you look at it, the people in office when that decision was made are not out of the NFA, so that decision should go too and be abolished, we are talking about a new era in our football, we can't afford to allow old wine to dictate what should be put in a new bottle, nah nah nah, let the state election go on first before anything.

You don't build a house from the top, rather it's from the bottom.

Nothing like Harmonization of calendar, you don't use 2 years to harmonize an election calender, it's a fraudulent and we all know it.

12large:
yeb he said 20 in the npl but he did not know the other junior numbers anyway i just found a blog on complete sport that said the whole story let me post it

medjai:
If the elections had held, it would have been the height of illegality. The State FA's tenure in office have since expired and they were the ones supposed to vote people in. I dont mind us sacrificing a year if it will secure the years ahead

[/quote][quote author=mama-gee link=topic=499041.msg6595794#msg6595794 date=1282157467][color=deeppink]This thread is biased. . .

Nigeria won the 1994 [size=16pt]World Cup[/size] with a foreign coach.

I think he was [size=16pt]swedish[/size], so what's this poster talking about? [/color]

ov:
The issue at hand is this:
Eighteen (18) World Cups have been held since the maiden edition held and won by Uruguay in 1930 and only six other countries have been successful.


http://www.soccerroomtoday.com/news/history-and-africa-winning-the-world-cup/