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Jaqenhghar:
Hey Jace!
Long time. I heard from her about a week ago. She good

Jaqenhghar:
Serious waste.

Uf they are that serioustheir guests can go through france

iyapont:
let me correct you All western African countries are shithole, Southern Africa are more developed SA,namiba,botswana r okay

othermen:
Congratulations to the ones mentioned. We are a remarkable people and would do even more if the necessary infrastructure and support exists.

The criteria for this recognition is publishing in top journals, but many of the top journals requires not just an evidence of competence or relevance in your work or study or research, they also want money… so you pay to get published in many of the remarkable journals.

In the most cited universities in the Stanford study, or generally top universities worldwide, the university has a fund set aside for helping researchers publish in the high end journals, all the researchers has to bother on really is the actual study—/ , this is not so in Nigeria federal universities, some of the Nigeria based scholars you see, listed, paid the money out of their very limited resources to sponsor the research in the absence of a grant, they paid out of their meagre resources to publish the paper in an high end journal.

And this speaks to the passion of our academia in the country. There could be a lot more, if universities provide the necessary resources or were provided the necessary resources. And so if a private university, say covenant university recognizes rightly that publication in high end journals, relevant researches is the way to becoming an Ivy League contender, they put the resources to it, attract the best minds from our public universities, giving them the right incentives and they are up there. This is already ongoing, and it has been at the cost of quality to our federal universities.

ASUU is hoping to address it, but while they can get the government to commit, they can’t force the hand of the government to act beyond such commitment.

Again, we have to put our academics in a decent pedal, and pay them not necessarily what is obtainable everywhere better than our universities, but create a system that aids the visibility of their research outputs.

So I know we could do much more, I think we are not doing close to our capability in our universities or research institutions, I think the reason is because survival is the foremost need of most of the employees in such institutions; you cannot afford a decent neighbourhood, you cannot afford a creche for your child based on your salary, you have a non existent laboratory and yet they do remarkable studies, with the facilities they have...but between survival and the cost of publishing in high end journals, Maslow says rightly that survival is foremost.


You can access the study here: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3

However, I did a break down…

So there is the list that is based on authors career and about 186, 178 names are listed

Using Excel, I probed the data a little further. 162 countries are listed.

While the USA has 75,899 individuals listed, the UK has 17, 237 listed, Australia has 6369, Canada has 8127, China has 6943, Germany has 9986, France has 5912 listed, India has 2042, Japan has 7362,

In Africa, South Africa has 669 names listed, Egypt has 327 names, Nigeria has only 73 names listed which represents less than 0.04% globally.

In Nigeria, 12 are from UI, 8 from UNN, 6 from Covenant, 5 from FUTA, IITA has 4, ABU has 3 names respectively…no other university in Nigeria has above 3 names. Harvard University alone has about 1717 researchers listed.


while there is another list based on authors output just for the year 2020 and about 190, 064 names are listed. Again, using excel, I probed the data a little further.

About 165 countries were listed.

Australia has 7140 names, China has 16,604 names, Canada has 7478 names, Germany has 9434 names, France has 5272 names, UK has 15,843 names, Italy has 6126 names, Japan has 5416 names, the USA has 66,233 names listed, South Africa has 752 names listed, while Nigeria has 121 names listed which is about 0.064% globally.

In Nigeria, 17 are from UI, 8 from Covenant university, also 8 from UNN, 6 from FUTA, 5 from OAU, 4 from Landmark University, 4 from Unilag…no other university in Nigeria has up to 4 names listed. Harvard University has about 1763 names listed.

Zooposki:
You have no idea of history. Don’t talk about what you don’t know, boy.

DeadCountry:
Sane countries respond with job creation through making use of their brains. South Africa and the dungeon called nigeria respond by killing foreigners in their land.

TMKsouth:
Hmmm, just today in Naija-o.

IronGalaxy:
No lies detected.

TMKsouth:
Apparently we sent them Omicron while Illegally crossing the Mediterranean in boats. Like WTF I wonder if this is from a major newspaper or some dumb community publication.

TMKsouth:
Spanish cartoon - as if...

IronGalaxy:
ey bro, dude thinks he's some Einstein

TMKsouth:
I noticed that, the video is doing the rounds. Another shot in the leg from govt. He's always blamed for indecisiveness, so here's him asserting himself - deal with it guys!

morpheus24:
That's because Zulu is your first language and we know you suffer with English comprehension down there.

morpheus24:
Was that the point being made in my response. Not liking us and not having comprehensive knowledge of West Africa are two different things. Stay on track mampara



AhH stop lying Mfethu, your sensitive azz will not let you.

morpheus24:
Stay on track. The questions asked did not insinuate the above which is why i say your interpretation of logical arguments are based on your own confirmation bias.

The white man also converted these resource, no matter how he attained them, into a system and structure of which you inherited. He possessed superior weaponry that was used to engage in these heinous acts. Does that negate that facts that he was in this "superior".

You conflate the ability to acquire knowledge and the propensity at which one acquires knowledge as the same exact thing.

You are an emotional wreck really Fana!



How can he have had a head start, did we not all exist on the same planet at the same time, so where were your people when the world was acquiring all this weaponry, building ship and sailing around the world?

Your logic is flawed my friend.

Try again.

morpheus24:
Pay attention when I comment young padowen. My initial response stated "which none of you had anything to do with "in the first place".

morpheus24:
The aforementioned peoples cept the Namibians were not so cut off from African continental affairs much like the Saffers and so cannot be equated to the damage caused by isolationism.

East Africans on a whole do not travel to the west of Africa yet they are not that "stupid".

PS, no one is holding your hand Mfethu, you can live your whole existence in South Africa without ever talking to a Nigerian and probably do so. Why are you even on this Platform if its not born from some sort of inferiority- sensitive ass complex.

Poof begun and no one will miss you here.

morpheus24:
Do whites control much of the land in South Africa, if they do, is that not a superior position, Hmmm?

On the wealth disparities in South Africa, Do the whites not still constitute the richer of the two racial groups, is that not a superior position.

When will you learn to understand the etymology and meaning of words?


Stupid is as stupid does _says the wise old Forrest gump.

morpheus24:
Dummy, The mention of infrastructure is not confined to buildings and the likes it as well alludes to an economic infrastructural base and political infrastructural base..

Look up the definition.

Bantu education I tell you!

morpheus24:
The bolded simply highlights the effect of isolationist policies from the apartheid era on the next generation of Saffers.

Por Brecito!

morpheus24:
Hey Slow poke do I always have to spell stuff out for you. The video is meant to show that there are semi illiterates in South Africa as well who aspouse ridiculous sentiments.

TMKsouth:
So I take it you're completely against mandatory vaccination . We already have mandatory vaccines for babies and school children u know - so I don't know what the fuss is about - especially when we're told lack of vaccination creates crazy variants. But we are adults now and can't be forced to do things we dont want to - but sometimes we gotta do things for the common good. Unvaccinated people create variants.

TMKsouth:
Dude, that's crazy - four siblings ! So why u still sceptical? U feel the numbers are exxagerated? The vaccine is just a money making scheme?

TMKsouth:
They shot themselves in the foot there. Only added to the skepticism and vaccine hesitancy. But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that there are people we know who have genuinely had covid and that others have died.

IronGalaxy:
He really doesn't