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No. Just sample of opinions and atmosphere, oga.

I'll be here by God's grace.

1st of March      North West         Kaduna

I see the whole of Kaduna standing still for Buhari on this day, if what my friends in Kaduna are telling me are anything to go by.
I learnt teh atmosphere is extremely charged for Buhari.

In fact, one of my corper-friends, who did registration in Sambo's ward said even in the VP's ward, Buhari was going to win.

I wrote thsi article to express my anger at Buhari's campaign team: http://dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12676:candidate-buhari-and-citizen-taofeek&catid=7:opinion&Itemid=12

I have so far received a number of emails strategising on how to go about it. I ahve got mails from all parts of teh country, from US, all comparing notes with me on how to go about it.

He actually committed that gaffe in Ibadan. It took whisper from his aides after about 10 minutes for him to know that he mentioned 'governorship' not 'presidential' election.

This governorship election I am contesting for, by the grace of God I will win

Ositafred,
Don't stop at you only, BB needs Niger Delta, if he can get 10% votes there, its strategically significant. So speak to ND family, friends about Buhari. Let them see what you saw.

Let me set the ball rolling.

In my immediate household, my wife, my cousin living with me, my friend are already for Buhari. They went with me for Ribadu and when I converted to Buharism, they have followed me.

In my department in office, at least among those of us that are politically conscious, majority are for Buhari. From my reading on FB, drawn from my series of notes and status updates on Buhari, majority of my FB friends are also for Buhari, and a sizeable for Ribadu too.

I was at my clinic a couple of weeks ago and I opened the discussion with my doctor. He was neutral and tried to play the devil's advocate but at the end of the day I realized he also wanted Buhari, only trying to drill me on my Buhari advocacy.

More and more to come

Now to the matter at hand, I'm opening this thread as an arena of sorts for all supporters of BB. What did you do today/recently? What are you doing? How is the BB candidacy selling in your area? Who have you talked to?

Preamble: I'm opening this thread as NL member Jarus, a supporter of Buhari-Bakare ticket, not Jarus as Mod. As I expect you all to know, being a Mod doesn't preclude me from having my private opinions. I become partial when I use mod privilege to the favour of a candidate, which I'm reiterating I'll not do. I will accomodate all threads and posts about other candidates,in as much as forum rules are not breached.

Thanks.

When Buhari's poster comes out, I'll like to have copies. I'm interested in passing the message but there is a limit to what I can do. Maybe when I paste his poster on my car, it will easily stick into the sub conscious of my neighbour at least.

Ironically, the people that are already well-known in every nook and cranny of the country are the ones actively doing campaign around. If the President has abandoned his official duties to embark on personal campaigns, I wonder what is keeping Buhari, who doesn’t have presidential duties to attend to, busy. Even Ribadu, another candidate I admire but not sure he hasn’t become too soft and compromised to tackle the corruption menace, has been more visible than Buhari.

That is my reason.

Abi o my oga, I don't know how fs smuggled Ife into his critique

The speed at which Hurricane Buhari is spreading is something else

fstranger3:
Jarus = Becomrichn = Benin republic = Nuhu Ribadu


On a more serious note, I thought the OP did a fair to average job, but erred with his harsh criticism of Taofeek's background. And yes, Taofeek represents the common man, including yours truly at that age. His characterization of Taofeek was unnecessary and reeks of arrogance and baseless pride in his acquired western education, saying: ". . . but he couldn’t say anything coherent. I found it pardonable, although at that age somebody like me was already expressing political opinions on pages of newspapers, but today these children or men not only lack the basic English grammar skills to express themselves, they can only analyze English Premier League in Yoruba!" And, so what is wrong with analyzing EPL in Yoruba language? It does seem that with his education, the OP for a while lost his senses.

A little bit of introspection who have made it clear to the OP that Taofeek's first Language is Yoruba and it would be out of place and really silly for anyone to expect him to express himself in a language foreign to him. How often do our colonial masters criticize themselves or their children for speaking in a foreign language? But this is what we have reduced our national discourse to, creating divisions among ourselves on the basis of our ability or inability to converse in the Queen's language. And it seems the educated elite like the OP passed through school, but failed to allow the school to pass through them. It seems that the OP, like , sadly enough, Nigerian educated commentators, has fallen deep into the abyss of Colonial mentality where feelings of inferiority to and wanton regard of foreign values and culture are seen or perceived to be superior to our own culture and language.

And to buttress the OP's lack of critical thinking skills, he wrote "they don’t listen to news, don’t read newspapers, don’t know anything about politics or economy." as though Taofeek got to know about GEJ from his dreams. And when does not knowing about politics and economy become a character flaw to the point that it made Taofeek unsuitable to vote or participate in our nascent democracy. We all did not go to OAU like the OP, and even if we did, we all cannot study economics like the OP. It is high time the OP and his Ilks broaden their knowledge beyond their immediate sphere of focus, as failure to do so can only bring more shock to the OP as he progresses in life

I see nothing wrong in Taofeek's ignorance, on the contrary I see a lotta good in it. It tme that, unlike his peers, he is up and doing, working hard, lookin out for himself, and have little time for trivialities. And, these characteristics of Taofeek IMO are good. It has been my experience that people who follow politics religiously often fall into two groups: the very educated and the very lazy and jobless bunch. It is not out of place even in the west to come across educated fellows who are ignorant of their immediate surroundings. I know a lot of very educated people in the US who have no idea who their governor is, cared less who their senate is and yet are not castigated as the OP as done to our poor Taofeek

Ultimately, this article was written in poor taste and , let no one be deceived, it was not about Buhari or his failing campaign. It was always about the OP, his narcissistic attitude, his baseless pride and arrogance and his deep seated desire to feel better than others. It is about the OPs desire to feel some sense of accomplishment, in the gloom political landscape, and to save face and ego from his inability to achieve or bring to reality fast enough what his western-style education promised. And, unfortunately, he found this in poor Taofeek and in the so many innocent and hardworking Taofeeks all over the country he has never met, but on whom he had already conjured grim outlook.

Honestly, this is the most reasonable post I have ever seen you make on NL, forget about the fact that I was the subject of attack.  Save the last paragraph, where you were off-mark, I accept what you wrote in upper paragraphs, even if I share a contrary view. I particularly found reason in your criticism of my jibe at Taofeek's English grammar skills, political 'ignorance' and preference for discussing football.

Until you got to the last paragraph where you brought out your mind-o-scope and read my mind that my intention was driven by a 'deep seated desire to feel better than others' and 'to feel some sense of accomplishment', your comment made sense to me. Your last paragraph is better ignored because I cannot open my mind and let people see that that was not my intention. But a look at other articles I have written recently, available below that piece in NVS, which are all on Buhari should be enough to tell a sensible mind that the write-up was driven by my serious concern about Buhari and the lethargic disposition of his campaign team. And I hope that reference will not be termed by you as yet another show of 'sense of accomplishment'.

Having questioned my being an OAU & Economics grad before, I know there is more to your criticism that meets the eye. Your favourite line anytime you want to come down on me is referring to OAU, Economics bla bla.

All these said, at no point did I deride Taofeek's hardwork. I opened the paragraph by saying he helps his mum in her business. I mentioned, not once, not twice, that his ignorance of politics is pardonable. Yes, I said he was politically uninformed. I stand by this. I mentioned that many Nigerian youths of today know nothing about governance, I don't care if Americans also know nothing about their leaders. My messages are clear: 1, Many people don't know anything about the candidates, other than their names, and shockingly, some people don't even know their names, and I believe knowledge of basic things about the candidates is important in making choices 2, Buhari's team are no helping matters as their enlightenment efforts have been less than far-reaching. For a serious contender, that doesn't speak well

All in all, your critique was a nice one, a sound one.

KnowAll:
Jarus=Sanusi=Buharism
JARUS = Buhari

You're very correct. I have never hidden my Buharism and Sanusism.

BECOMRICH NO GO KILL PERSIN O

Wetin concern INEC with sexuality?

Okobo=impotent man

seanet02:
I kinda agree with the Writer, youth of nowadays include Jarus seems not to know anything about Their immediate environment not to even talk of the Nations sociocultural and political environment. Dont even mention the Economic sphere, they dont even know there exist a Minister of Planning like jarus. Dont be suprised if jarus dont know the Nations Minister of Finance. Mu he he

Guess what? Jarus is the author of that article
Thanks for agreeing with 'the writer'.

Both

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/guest-articles/voter-taofeek-and-candidate-buhari.html
Taofeek is a 21 years old Yoruba boy (young man, actually, but in Nigeria a 23 years old is still a boy, like Farouk Mutallab Nigerian media saw as boy while international media addressed him as young man). He lives in Langbasa, in Ajah axis of Lagos. When he is not in school, he helps his mother in her recharge cards business. I had a brief encounter with him that passed a very strong but unfortunate message about General Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign strategy ahead of the April polls.

I had stopped to buy recharge card from Taofeek. As has been the case with gatherings of two or three people in the last few months, normal talks between Taofeek and his friends drifted to presidential politics, and it was at that point I stopped to ask for MTN card. I heard Taofeek mention the name of the presidential candidate of the largest political party in Africa. At that point, I got interested in their discussion and spared two minutes to spread the message of hope to Taofeek, the message of Buhari-Bakare, that is. I asked him why he was supporting the candidate, but he couldn’t say anything coherent. I found it pardonable, although at that age somebody like me was already expressing political opinions on pages of newspapers, but today these children or men not only lack the basic English grammar skills to express themselves, they can only analyze English Premier League in Yoruba! They don’t listen to news, don’t read newspapers, don’t know anything about politics or economy. The nearest they come to politics is watching some flowery campaign theatrics on TV and, and after analyzing Arsenal and Barcelona in their evening sittings, delve into political discussions, better described as recharge-cards-tents analysis, which ranks even worse than motor park and pepper soup joint commentaries.

Back to my encounter with the young man, in my bid to preach the Buhari message to him as I do in chance meetings with people where environment permits, I told him there was another candidate that meant better for this country and that was tested and trusted to lead this country away from its present shambolic state. Before I finished, he cut in: ‘Ribadu?’. I said no, I’m talking about Buhari. And wait for the shocker: Taofeek has never heard of Buhari! His response was: ‘Who is Buhari?’.

I didn’t know where to start. A 21 year old Nigerian, a registered voter, in Lagos, not knowing who Buhari was! And a presidential election in which Buhari is participating is less than 60 days away. Immediately I concluded there was problem, a serious one, not with the boy, but with Buhari’s handlers. Like I mentioned earlier I can pardon the boy for having been bought by our good friends that have inundated the media with all manner of campaign adverts, appealing to emotions and divinity, telling us their grass-to-grace story, as if other candidates too did not have a grass-to-glory tale, telling us they walked bare-footed to school in one swampy village as if Buhari too was not once a bare-foot-walking Fulani cattle boy in a desert village who, through dints of commitment and focus in his chosen military profession , rose to become the country’s No 1 man, and a step further than their tale, after reaching glory, doesn’t parade the type of opulence they now parade, even though he has been around for a longer time and sat on top of the most juicy offices in the land(Minister of Petroleum, state governor, PTF Chair, Head of Military government).

Registered voter Taofeek did not know anything about corruption. He knew nothing about the economy. He believes some divine luck is all we need to save this country. He doesn’t know the indices to measure a good leader or one with potential. Even if he has heard the saying that show me your friends and I will tell who you are, he doesn’t know who Ibori is, he has never heard of Tony Anenih, he knows next to nothing about Alao Akala and Gbenga Daniel, you can see why I forgave him for believing those fine rhetoric in the adverts of his candidate.

I was too shocked by the revelation and at the same time angry with the Buhari campaign machinery, to talk to Taofeek, whose impressionable mind appeared already glued to those songs he hears every now and then on radio and those beautiful jingles he sees on the TV screens. As I walked off, I remember the millions of Taofeeks in other parts of the South, who, even if they have heard about Buhari, don’t know anything about him. I felt demoralized that I began to ask myself: is this Buhari project I have voluntarily taken up not going to be an exercise in futility? Where is the Buhari campaign team itself? I have never seen a single poster of Buhari in central Lagos, not to talk of Lagos suburbs like Langbasa where Taofeek resides. I have never seen a Buhari jingle in the electronic media. The only Buhari advert I came across in newspapers was that by Professor Tam David West late last year, and I buy four papers everyday.

Those of us rooting for Buhari in the South are drawn from the educated, politically informed class. Even that cadre is divided almost equally among the three major contenders. The less informed multitude in the streets of Lagos, Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Enugu or Benin know nothing about Buhari. This is why I am surprised the Buhari formal campaign team has not reached these places, either through massive media jingles, leafleteering, or rally. Even worse in popularity in this side than Buhari himself is his party, CPC. It was only a couple of days ago that I knew that CPC had a gubernatorial candidate in Lagos. That is me, an active follower of politics and news, how much more the millions that don’t even follow events. And Buhari expects to do well in these areas.

Ironically, the people that are already well-known in every nook and cranny of the country are the ones actively doing campaign around. If the President has abandoned his official duties to embark on personal campaigns, I wonder what is keeping Buhari, who doesn’t have presidential duties to attend to, busy. Even Ribadu, another candidate I admire but not sure he hasn’t become too soft and compromised to tackle the corruption menace, has been more visible than Buhari.

Granted that Buhari doesn’t have the foreign reserve to deplete to fund his campaign, neither does he have the governors to brow-beat, he can do far better than this. My people will say good name is better than gold and silver. This is true, Buhari has the goodwill, all he needs now is a practicable strategy. Any strategy that doesn’t incorporate early campaign, enlisting of youths and active use of local media, I’m afraid, cannot be effective. Buhari and his team should spare us these endless meetings and jolt into action. The message of Buhari must be carried to every Taofeeq in the South. I hope Buhari and his team are listening.

For those saying Buhari was a despot, a dictator, too hrash etc, Sanusi Lamido reminds you of the inevitability of such measures for the nation to move:

[b] "Draconian policies were a necessary component of this struggle for transformation and this has been the case with all such epochs in history. The Meiji restoration in Japan was not conducted in a liberal environment. The Industrial Revolution in Europe and the great economic progress of the empires were not attained in the same liberal atmosphere of the 21st Century. The “tiger economies” of Asia such as Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia and Thailand are not exactly models of democratic freedom. To this extent Buharism was a despotic regime but its despotism was historically determined, necessitated by the historical task of dismantling the structures of dependency and launching the nation on to a path beyond primitive accumulation. At his best Buhari may have been a Bonaparte or a Bismarck. At his worst he may have been a Hitler or a Mussolini. In either case Buharism drawn to its logical conclusion would have provided the bedrock for a new society and its overthrow marked a relapse, a step backward into that era from which we sought escape and in which, sadly for all of us we remain embedded and enslaved."[/b]

Sanusi Lamido, July 12, 2002.

See my PM.

Yes, possible. But I'm not sure sending CV thru those online email addresses will work, except if they advertise and ask you to do so. You may have to go extra mile. Get somebody that works there, send soft copy to him, he passes it on their HR, do one or two talking to, and you may be called for test if you have a good CV.

^^^^
It is not about teh North, it is about the tribe of corrupt people that cuts across all ethnic groups. From the same North that produced IBB, Atiku, etc, we have Lamido Sanusi that abhors corruption in its entirety, we have a Nuhu Ribadu that fought corruption tooth and nail. From the South you want us to believe is different here, we have an Obj, an Alamesiya, an Alao Akala. So I don't believe it's about North or South, it's about our best hands irrespective of the region of origin.

I, for one, will not discard someone because he's from the North or gullibly follow someone because he's from the South. Stop the tribal card, examine Goodluck, Buhari and Ribadu, not based on their tribe, but on what they can offer.

Now the debate is getting ridiculous and I may have to quit.

How can anyone say Emeka Offor is richer than Mike Adenuga?

Just few pages away I posted an article by Times in 1965 discussing Nigeria's richest men at the time. Yes, Ojukwu's name featured but 2 Ogun men were equally there(Adeola Odutola and Bayo Braithwaite). These men were mentioned in the same report with your Ojukwu and someone is still saying no Yoruba men can be mentioned in the same breathe with Ojukwu. How can someone discount Abiola's wealth? How can someone mention Emeka Offor and Mike Adenuga in the same sentence? Bring any rating of Top 10 richest Nigerian, local or international, and let's see whether Offor makes it and let's see if Adenuga doesn't make Top 3.

I get irritated with ridiculous assertions like this.

I now agree he was the richest of his generation, that means Dantata was generation after him cos I'm sure Dantata was also reported in media as richest Nigerian of his genertation. Meanwhile Abiola was also the richest Nigerian of his generation.

Ojukwu Jnr, though stupendously rich, was not the richest man of his generation. Kano's Alhaji Dantata was. In Abiola's generation he was unanimously agreed to be the richest Nigerian(from 1980-1993), just as Dangote is regarded as the richest Nigerian now(even thougj some people will disagree that Adenuga is as rich as, if not richer than, Dangote, only that most of his companies are not quoted. But let's leave it at Dangote richest). At no time was an Anambra indigene regarded as richest Nigerian.

loma:
Just got an expression of interest in the project from this great Nigerian.

Who is Ndubuisi Ekekwe?
Ndubuisi Ekekwe was born in Ovim, Abia state. He attended Secondary Technical School, Ovim where he passed the SSCE/WASC with 8 distinctions including A2 in Further Mathematics and set his school all-time best result in that examination. Ndubuisi was so gifted that while in SS1, he self-prepared himself for none-science subjects and passed them with distinctions in GCE. He continued in school because of his passion for sciences. He obtained bachelor in engineering degree from Federal University of Technology, Owerri as the best student in the department of electrical & computer engineering with specialization in electronics/computer engineering in 1998.

He holds four masters degrees: MBA (University of Calabar), MTech (Federal University of Technology, Akure), Ms (Tuskegee University, USA), MSE (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and two doctorates in management from St. Clements University and Electrical & Computer Engineering specializing in microelectronics & medical robotics engineering, at the Johns Hopkins University, USA in March 2009. His research involves making integrated circuits with applications on alternative energies, medical robotics, biomedical systems and neuromorphics-an area that involves creating artificial human organs like retinas, cochlea and brain.

Ndubuisi began his doctorate in the Johns Hopkins University, USA after completing his Ms at Tuskegee University, USA with a CGPA of 4/4 in electrical engineering. That academic brilliance gave him the prestigious United States ERC/National Science Foundation and Johns Hopkins University fellowships. During his masters, he received the United States EMCWA scholarship and worked on the NASA’s Jet Propulsion project that focused on distribution of high frequency in the space environment. He has received many awards including the United Kingdom Congress on Computer Assisted Surgery and nomination for the Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Recognition Award. In June 2007, the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering awarded him the SAMSTAG fellowship for ‘outstanding performance by a graduate student’.

Ndubuisi is certified in many key technologies and has published many technical papers in leading journals and conferences. His working experiences include NNPC and Diamond Bank. He holds two pending patents on microelectronics and has consulted for universities, World Bank, and firms. He also holds visiting appointments in two African universities and presently the principal investigator of emerging Africa’s first microelectronics institute. He is attending the African Union congress in Kenya this March and will join a leading US semiconductor firm as a team shaping the future of computing.

Ndubuisi is the Founder/President of African Institution of Technology. He is selected for inclusion in the Marquis Who’s Who in America (2010 edition) and Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide (2009). His first book, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy, by IGI Global, USA will be ready early next year.

What is www.afrit.org?
Afrit stands for African Institution of Technology. Our mission is to provide practical educational support, enable technology policies, and facilitate bottom-up creative technology diffusion in African economies. My vision on this organization is simply to provide support to tertiary institutions interested in introducing cutting edge programs in their curricula. We understand that many African schools do not have the human skills to properly educate their students on these areas. What we do is to work with these institutions to develop the courses, lab manuals and necessary experiments that will facilitate practical academic experiences for the students. We do not charge for our services; they are free and open to all institutions in Africa. We focus mainly on microelectronics, semiconductors, computing (hardware), and robotics. We also source for textbooks from Western publishers and donate to schools. These books are usually technical textbooks. We have members across Europe, Canada and USA.

Another important area of our work is provision of computer aided design (CAD) tools. CAD tools are software programs created to facilitate design and automation in science and engineering. They are very expensive to acquire and license and certainly beyond the reach of our schools. However, even in the United States, schools do not buy some of them from their vendors or manufacturers. The companies simply donate them as part of their strategies to ensure that students get used to their products. Afrit has written many of these companies and they are simply ready to help our schools. For the really cheap CAD, they give us the permission to use them in teaching. These are the activities of Afrit. When a school needs a CAD, we can help them get free license for some of them for their educational and research needs.

Afrit has also worked with foreign partners to enable us fabricate integrated circuits designed by students in Africa. For instance, if a student designs integrated circuits (or chips) for camera, brain interface, cell phone, calculator, etc, we have the capacities to fabricate those chips and send back to the student for testing. The goal is to help our students experience the complete design cycle: from design to testing.

What are the aims and objectives of www.afrit.org?
Our major objective is to help African nations, especially Nigeria, to transfer and diffuse cutting edge technologies like microelectronics and nanotechnology. We believe so much that the hope of Africa will be by creating knowledge and training armies of knowledge workers towards diversifying our mineral- or hydrocarbon-based economies. Based on this motivation, we work to create awareness on the need to focus on these technologies and not just information technology (IT). Many African governments have IT policy and no technology policy; in short across African many people think that IT is synonymous with technology. For us, we want to push the notion that IT, though a great technology, is not the only technology. Without microelectronics, there will be no IT as the computers must be designed before we can experience the IT. Fortunately, the wealth comes from microelectronics and IT design and not the consumption as we presently have in Nigeria. We consume IT as we do not create it. By consuming IT, we waste lots of resources that would have been saved if we can develop some of the IT infrastructures. Microelectronics is the bedrock to making routers, switches, computers , etc as it is the engine of modern commerce that continues to revolutionize all aspects of our lives. We have developed what we call Afrit-model to diffuse microelectronics in Africa.

To realize these goals, we focus on three constituents: governments, schools and small and medium enterprises (SME). We help schools improve their programs. For governments, we provide experience to help them develop policies on technology transfer for these technologies. For SME, we help them identify areas where they can contribute towards facilitating the diffusion of microelectronics. For instance, we note that the computer business center model was very successful in advancing IT in Nigeria. We can create a program that can help graduates to start programming microprocessors and FPGA instead of wasting time on computers composing 419 emails.

As we do these, we connect Nigerian students to scholarship opportunities; give our schools information on grants, provide collaboration linkages with foreign schools.

What are Afrit challenges and success?
Our major challenge is simply reaching our audience: schools, small and medium enterprises, and governments. For the schools, we have made attempts in the past to send CDs containing the CAD tools, but without our presence, we noticed that some of the schools were unable to properly use them. The challenge is having the time to train at least the teachers on the software as they apply to IC or chip design. For governments, Afrit is truly committed to assist them develop infrastructures like semiconductor institutes that will become the bedrock to diffuse this technology. Also, being students, it is natural that we do not have enough funding for travel we make. However, since our organization does not distribute hardware, rather, ideas, we try to cope. When we ask a firm to send us their tools to help schools educate, it does not cost us anything, except time. One area we would have made more impacts if we have money is buying development boards and donating to schools. Some of these boards cost less than $20 in US and can add values to education. The same goes with biomorphic robots, which go for $36 and can help students understand how to design systems that mimic nature and push human towards immortality.

We have had successes across the continent. We are working on projects with African Union, World Bank, Nigerian universities, and other African schools. I hold visiting appointments in some of these schools. We have attended conferences in Hungary, Canada, many cities in the US and have CAD licenses to train with. I will be going to one in Kenya next month organized by African Union. Our publication is also extensive. We are working on two books right now. One is focusing on how technology will be used to turn brain drain into brain gain. In other words, I do not need to live in Nigeria to make contributions in Nigeria. While in the US, I can continue to advance my skills and using the right mix of technology, can help my nation. Afrit is also working on a project that will offer the blueprint on how Telepresence can be deployed in Africa. Yes, having the capacity to teach at Bayero University from my house in the United States. We want to see that schools have these facilities for collaborations. We have helped universities in Nigeria prepared international grants to foreign agencies to meet the best standards. While it may not be wise to give names of schools, we have developed microelectronics curricula for many universities across Africa.

How do you intend to overcome those challenges?
Simply, by reaching schools, small businesses and governments and telling them what we can offer to them. That is why we appreciate this exposure Triumph newspaper is giving us. Thank you very much. We want to see relationships from schools in the Northern part of Nigeria. We are yet to have a project from this region. We missed an opportunity to work with one of the schools in the North few years ago. The period we planned to arrive, lecturers started strike and it was cancelled.

http://www.triumphnewspapers.com/ho1122009.html
http://afrit.org/si.aspx
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate, ng_ted_22.html
http://etienne.ece.jhu.edu/people/nekekwe/index.html
http://naijatechtalk./2, ubuisi-ekekwe/


PC named after his home town Ovim, Abia state
Ovim- Nigeria’s Tablet PC- Ready for Electronic Medical Records Systems
http://goafrit./2010/11, cords-systems/

loma, beg me before I reel out your own CV too

Abio.
I agree Zik is greater than Awolowo, but other than that I don't see any of their First 11 or Top 10 not being floored by somebody from Ogun. Obj floors Ojukwu Jnr, Abiola floors Ojukwu Snr, Soyinka floors Achebe, Adenuga doesn't even have a match(it'll be ridiculous to compare Coscharis et al with Mike),

I have asked them to bring forward their First 11 

There are hundreds of Anambra military officers that started with Obasanjo, Diya and are no where near where Obj and Diya reached in their chosen profession, so don't downplay their achievements pls.

Cosmas Maduka and Adenuga in the same sentence? The only businessmen that should be mentioned in Adenuga's class are Dangote, Otedola, and maybe Jim Ovia.
Even Oba Otudeko(another Ogun son) is ahead of Coscharis and Innoson in entrepreneurship and wealth. Not to forget the Subomi Baloguns(FCMB owner, and father of merchant banking in Nigeria), another Ogun great who may not even enter Top 5 Ogun entrepreneurs.

That aside, you had to go back to Ojukwu Snr of the 40s to 60s to find a match for Adenuga in Anambra, guess what? At that time, Ogun had two representatives in the list of Nigeria's richest/most successful businessmen.

Friday, Sep. 17, 1965
Africa: The Nigerian Millionaires


Along with pride in status and problems of self-government, independence for the 31 nations of black Africa means the emergence of black businessmen. A few flourish on cottage industries, that early stage of every economy; some are the opportunistic agents of the colonial companies that formerly ruled them. Now, however, more of Africa's new businessmen are not only university-trained and experienced but surprisingly sophisticated in trade and finance. In Equatorial Africa, it is no longer unusual to see a $200,000 letter of credit emerging from the folds of a native robe. Nowhere is the new African businessman doing better than in Nigeria, black Africa's most populous and most prosperous nation. With a population of 55 million and an economy that grows 4% each year, the number of Nigerian millionaires is growing almost as fast as the country itself.

Peanuts & Petroleum. Even before Britain withdrew five years ago, Nigeria had a flourishing trade, exporting peanuts, cotton, palm kernels and cocoa and importing in exchange manufactured goods, foods and tobacco The first native millionaires made their money by competing with the white man for his trade. Among Nigeria's richest businessmen is Alhaji Sanusi Dantata 46, who buys and ships much of the rich Kano region's peanut crop. Dantata's agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu 66, knighted shortly before independence, started off by importing dried fish for resale to the nonfishing Nigerians then decided to ship the fish inland himself instead of leaving the job to others. He also amassed the country's largest fleet of "mammy wagons," the trucks that carry Nigerians (including market women, which gives the trucks their name) from place to place.

In today's new Nigeria, businessmen are more likely to succeed by producing new goods or services. Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, 59, known as "The Black Englishman" for his impeccable manners and imperturbable air, began by importing cuckoo clocks and marble statues. He now controls or owns part of ten companies, including a tanker fleet and a charter airline. Emmanuel Akwiwu, 43, earned law degrees at Cambridge; returning home just as Nigeria's oil boom began he organized a company that now has 70 vehicles, hauls oil rigs and supplies for British Petroleum Ltd. Chief Shafi Lawal Edu, 54, who is president of Lagos' chamber of commerce, has built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He owns a silver-blue Rolls-Royce, but usually drives around in a Mercedes—thinks it is less ostentatious.

No Need to Clash. Many Nigerian businessmen have taken advantage of the novel opportunities that inevitably accompany broadening prosperity. Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola, 63, a onetime farmer, developed a business to produce bicycle tires for the growing army of bikes, has done so well that he is adding a $1,700,000 plant, plans eventually to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation. A former office worker, Ade Tuyo, 63, cast around for a business that would have 'first priority in people's spending" opened a bakery that today has four shops and makes 115 products. The firm's unusual name—De Facto Works Ltd.—was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business

Bayo Braithwaite, 36, one of Nigeria's younger businessmen, left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided. So successful has Braithwaite been that his African Alliance Insurance Co Ltd occupies a six-story Lagos home office and has 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lives in an elegant house in suburban Ikoyi, where glass and concrete are deliberately intermixed with African folk art to prove that "the two need never clash."

So, it is, too, with Nigerian business. The Nigerians feel that they and their onetime white masters need never clash. "The time is coming," says Timothy Udutola, "when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets" Against that time, Nigeria is seeking joint ventures in Europe and the U.S., has also concluded negotiations for eventual associate membership in the European Common Market. Already it exports more to the Market than to its old master, Britain.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842145,00.html

So in Ojukwu's generation, Ogun had two reps, in Adenuga's generation, bring a representative. Pls don't tell me Adenuga and Cosmas Maduka are in teh same class. Even Oba Otudeko(Honeywell group and highest shareholder in First Bank, and rated one of teh Top 10 richest Nigerians floors Maduka and Innoson, not to talk of The Bull himself.)

He is neither normal nor racist.

One sure thing I know, after the certainty that there is something wrong with his head, is that he knows very much about the history of Nigeria.