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Phut:
You must be out of your ever loving mind. The article states that he has not been charged and that Ebony is being charged to court on an unrelated matter.

his business has been charged already.... But him as a sepreate entity has not been charged

Phut:
But the matter is not even in a U.S Court. Ebony Mayfield is being charged to court on a different matter altogether and the court has not filed any charges against Allen Onyema and Ejiroghene Eghagha. So the title of this thread is entirely misleading and the whole publication is a witch hunt

do you read at all, he is a Co defendant. He has been added to the lawsuit.

Excuzeme:
Onyeama's Problem is "from `Home".

We all know Onyeama has a pending case in Court but why did this Post on Nairaland, come TODAY?
Why not yesterday, why not two weeks ago, why not two weeks from now or a day to the Court Date?

Incase many people did not Notice,
- Onyeama is the Chairman of Airline Operators in Nigeria.
Airlines threaten to down Tools, last Monday9th, May, 2022 because they were buying Diesel at over #800/Liter and it is crippling their business.
- The NASS called for a Public Hearing and invited the Airline Operators, the GMD of NNPC (Kyari), the Head of the Petroleum Product Marketers and many other People involved in the DIsesel/Aviation Fuel Chain.
- Onyeama said it openly: That 25M C3 of Fuel was approved to be given to the Airlines but that Kyari, GMD of NNPC refused to release it. The GMD simply told Onyeama, in a Meeting, that he would not release the Approved Product, which would have eased the problem of the Airline.

So, it is the GMD of NNPC that is racketeering our Fuel, causing scarcity and pain to Nigerians, to Airline Operators and Business Organisations, while he (the GMD) makes a ton of Money from the Racketeering.
This is one of the people sabotaging the development and growth of Nigeria but he is a "Buhari-Man", so nothing will be done about it.

Thus, l am not surprised that this "Post" suddenly emerges a day after!
The Cabal wants to start their character assassination.

I am not holding brief for Onyeama but the matter is in a US Court and Mr Melee Kyari and his Cabal cannot use it as a leverage to silence Onyeama, on behalf of the Airline Operators.

The NNPC GMD is a worse Fraudster, a Saboteur and a Racketeer, than Onyeama (not justifying whatever Onyeama is alleged to have done, he will have his day in Court).
Buhari has imposed Criminals like Melee Kyari at every critical Agency in Nigeria, just because they are his people and we are seeing the result ..... Nigeria keeps going from bad to worse, everyday.
God's judgement will visit these evil people, in His time.

Lmaoooooooo very stupid assertion

yuzjet:
Where was it in the Bible that jesus was a black man?

where in d Bible was Jesus described as a white man

yuzjet:
Let me drop this here.

Gradually, we'll get there. The enlightenment is on.

mumu quote. Don't u know Jusus is a black man? Melanin skin colour

Gas wey never reach us

Common thing in Dubai.... But transportation should have been halted

Please note that the full story has been redacted. For full story visit :

http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame

Philip Emeagwali stirs up diverse emotions in Nigerians, Africans, and black people around the world. His claim of being a father of the Internet, of having invented the Connection Machine, of possessing 41patented inventions, of winning “the Nobel Prize of Computing” and of being a “doctor” and/or “professor” have been conclusively debunked with widely documented evidence.



Specifically, Mr. Emeagwali claims to have invented the Connection Machine (CM-2). This false claim is displayed boldly and shamelessly on Emeagwali.com in the section on “inventions” and “discoveries.” Some black websites like this one http://inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/a/black_historyE.htm credit Emeagwali with inventing the Hyberball Machine Networks (or the supercomputer). Both claims are demonstrably false. The connection Machine, which is capable of conducting simultaneous calculations using 65,000-processors, was conceived by Daniel Hills and built by Thinking Machine Corporation, which Mr. Hills, along with Sheryl Handler, founded in 1982. This information is widely available on the web. The so-called supercomputer is therefore clearly not the child of Mr. Emeagwali by even the most generous stretch of the imagination.



It is noteworthy that both Emeagwali and the Mobile/TMC Team relied on the CM-2 Machine (the Connection Machine) for their calculations, the same machine that Emeagwali falsely claims to have invented!

A final point to note here is that the research for which he won the Gordon Bell Prize (by default) has application and relevance only in the narrow area of oil flow reservoir modeling and oil prospecting. His entry for the competition utilized and optimized the capacity of parallel computing, that is, relied on an already existing Internet. Emeagwali’s own website states that he “accessed the supercomputers over the Internet from local workstations.” Neither the research nor the prize had anything to do with the Internet. The Internet was already invented and fairly perfected by then; otherwise he would not be, in his own words, “accessing the supercomputers over the Internet.” This clarification is necessary and important because some of Emeagwali’s supporters and victims tend to assume wrongly that his purported fatherhood of the internet derives from the research for which he won the Gordon Bell Prize. All these facts can be easily accessed here: http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/emeag.html

“Dr.” Emeagwali Or Doctored Emeagwali?

Emeagwali’s final fraudulent claim is that of being a “doctor” and “professor.” Several years ago, before eagle-eyed Nigerians and Africans decided to scrutinize his eye-popping claims, his website audaciously referred to him as “doctor” and “Professor.” Because of recent exposures of his scam, he no longer refers to himself on his website as “Dr. Emeagwali” or “Professor Emeagwali.” However, in what is typical of the Emeagwali scam, his website is still littered with many media references to “Dr Emeagwali” and “Professor Emeagwali.” These stealthily promoted references then get picked up by unsuspecting black media people who are eager to promote black achievement and excellence. Sometimes, he approaches black websites and organizations, asking them to link to or publish his false claims. In the course of the discussion on the USAfricadialogue forum, Ms. Funmi Okelola , the owner and webmaster of cafeafricana.com, revealed that Mr. Emeagwali approached her a few years ago, asking her to help propagate the lie that he is “a father of the internet.” Ms. Okelola, herself an Adjunct Professor of IT, flatly turned down his request, refusing to participate vicariously in his fraud. For good measure, she advised him to seek help for his delusions of grandeur.

But many proprietors of black websites and publications have not been as alert to Emeagwali’s antics as Ms. Okelola and have been falling for his scam. In their eagerness to embrace what they believe to be the proud achievements of a “brother,” they have inadvertently donated space and platform to Emeagwali to consolidate and spread his false claims. Because of the virility of the internet, even some non-black websites have picked up these ubiquitous references that are patently false. Here, on this website http://www.answers.com/topic/philip-emeagwali for instance you will find a clear reference not only to “Dr Emeagwali” but also the following reference in their documentation of his education: “Ph.D., Scientific Computing, University of Michigan, 1993.”

He will not correct what is clearly a false reference, preferring to take cover in the deniability of being able to say that it is others, not him, who use these false, unearned titles to refer to him. The reason he will not correct this falsehood is that it emanated from him in the first place; most of the references were picked up from his website in the days before scrutiny spooked him into avoiding such direct self-referencing. The clearest evidence yet of his complicity and culpability in this misrepresentation is that he sits through interviews where the clueless, awed interviewers refer to him as “Doctor Emeagwali” and “Professor Emeagwali” and he does not correct them. There is a particularly revolting video on youtube <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMFy9sBLFQQ&feature=related>(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8244498418903739405#) in which the female interview repeatedly calls him Dr. Emeagwali, obviously assuming and/or reading from her script that he has a PhD. He sits there and nods and smiles through those references without correcting her. Having planted the false biographical information about himself in the first instance, he understandably makes no effort to discourage people from using it or to correct them.

The false references to him as “doctor” and “professor” are not the only falsehoods that Emeagwali coyly and deftly promotes; he routinely lets interlocutors repeat the many false claims that are based on his own prolific misrepresentations. On this website http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111097a.htm, for instance, the misinformed interviewer, a black woman who is proudly interviewing “a black inventor” for a book she was writing on black inventors, asks him the following question: “You have submitted 41 inventions to the U.S Patent and Trademark Office concerning seven technologies. Can you give us expanded details?” Clearly, the interviewer was repeatedly the false claim on Emeagwali’s website and in his self-written biographical profiles, without realizing that, as we showed at the beginning of this essay, he has no patent for any technology or invention.

Here is Mr. Emeagwali’s response to her question: “Inventors are reluctant to provide expanded details of their inventions until they receive full patent protection. The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provide details of their invention.” But the truth is that he has neither registered patents for his non-existent inventions nor a patent-pending status. He has no inventions or technologies to patent! The response itself contains a lie. Contrary to Emeagwali’s insinuation that inventors cannot publicly discuss their work until they are patented or that doing so would jeopardize their patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), inventions and products with “Patent Pending” status are routinely discussed, advertized, and marketed on American television. In fact these public discussions of unpatented inventions always carry the disclaimer that patents are pending, meaning that applications have been made. If public discussion of inventions and technologies were detrimental to patent applications, none of these unpatented and “patent pending” technologies and inventions would be on the American market or be advertized on television. This was Emeagwali seeking to perpetuate the myth that he has several technological inventions that are patented or awaiting patents but avoiding having to mention or discussion the specific fictitious inventions for which he claims to have patents in order to have deniability when checks are made at the USPTO and he is confronted with the truth of his falsehood.

Racism Or Laziness?

The case of Philip Emeagwali is a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of self-delusion, laziness, and a sense of entitlement. Mr. Emeagwali enrolled in a doctoral program in Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1987. His coursework over, he took the comprehensive examination that qualifies one for candidacy. He failed the exam twice and did not take it a third time. In the meantime, he conducted the research that would later win him the Gordon Bell Prize, a research he began as a class project for one of his graduate courses. In 1991, two years after winning the Gordon Bell by default, he petitioned the Dean of the School of Engineering to be allowed to submit a dissertation (despite not having passed his candidacy exam and therefore not being a doctoral candidate) in a different department — the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His request was curiously granted in what was clearly a sidestepping of standard procedure. Emeagwali submitted the dissertation, basically a rework of his entry for the Gordon Bell competition, on July 24, 1992. A team of internal and external evaluators examined it and found it unworthy of a doctorate and turned it down.

Emeagwali then sued the University of Michigan for racial discrimination. The lawsuit was dismissed for lacking merit and also failed on appeal in 1999. The details of Emeagwali’s graduate school records and of the dueling contentions in the lawsuit are all documented here http://www.michbar.org/opinions/appeals/1999/102999/5473.html in the court record of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

A dispassionate analysis of the details, affidavits, and arguments submitted in the lawsuit and in the appeals process reveals the following:

• Emeagwali was a fairly brilliant student but he was lazy and would not put in the work necessary to earn his degree.

• He had a sense of entitlement, feeling that since he was black and had made it into the University of Michigan, he was entitled to a special treatment and academic favors.

• This sense of entitlement escalated after he won the Gordon Bell Prize. He thought that he was entitled to a PhD on the strength of the Gordon Bell competition entry when in fact he was not even a doctoral candidate, having failed his comprehensive examination twice.

Emeagwali is not a doctor of whatever kind. He is not a professor. He has not held any research or teaching job in any educational or research institution since he failed to geta doctorate degree at Michigan. He has also not done any new research. Emeagwali has no single publication in any scientific journal. A search of the most comprehensive scientific publication database (which can be done online) yields only a reference to his Masters Degree dissertation.

Here we have a man who is unemployed, has no serious standing in the scientific, engineering, or computing communities. Yet he is widely referred to as “a father of the internet,” “an internet pioneer,” “the greatest black scientist that ever lived,” “Bill Gates of Africa,” among other over-the-top and unearned titles. The question to pose is: how did the world get so deceived and why did many reputable people and organizations buy into Emeagwali’s con job? Emeagwali is a very industrious, persistent, and successful scam artist; you have to give him that. Very few intellectual frauds have successfully mainstreamed their false claims as Emeagwali has done.

Intellectual Fraud And Its Unwitting Validators

Even former president Bill Clinton was suckered by the fraud, famously referring to Emeagwali as “one of the great minds of the information age” in his speech to the Nigerian National Assembly in 2000. The Clinton reference has provided cover and alibi for Emeagwali to perfect and spread his false claims. Predictably, Emeagwali’s defenders point to the Clinton reference and to CNN’s and TIME Magazine’s references to him as “a father of the internet” and “the unsung hero” of the internet age respectively. These references are boldly displayed on Emeagali.com for the obvious purpose of convincing the uninformed that his claims have been vetted and endorsed by these entities. The problem is that these media organizations sadly endorsed the claims without vetting them. Part of it is sloppiness, but much of it is the result of what black intellectuals who live in the West understand and experience as white liberal pandering, which is itself borne out of white liberal guilt and the fear of the “r” word (racism).

Obviously Clinton was pandering to his Nigerian hosts who believed Emeagwali to be a scientific genius and national hero. Clinton, the savvy politician that he is, and a man who perfected white liberal outreach and pandering to black/African peoples, was relying on the image and descriptions of Emeagwali that was already in the black and mainstream press —descriptions that are traceable to Emeagwali's own misrepresentations on his websites. What Emeagwali does is so clever as to ensnare even a skeptical and vigilant observer, especially one that is already inclined to believe or seek out claims of black scientific achievement for whatever reason. As indicated earlier, Emeagwali plants these autobiographical write-ups that are ridden with falsehoods and misrepresentations in unsuspecting black publications. He does this by aggressively pitching these claims to their editors as he tried to do unsuccessfully with Ms. Okelola. Then, fired by liberal guilt and a desire to seem welcoming to black achievement and excellence, the mainstream media like TIME and CNN, lazily pick up these references and descriptions. Emeagwali then links to, disseminates, and publicizes these mainstream press references and descriptions (which are actually based on his own descriptions of himself and his "achievements”), thus perfecting and furthering the fraud. This way, he creates deniability for himself. The deception comes full circle but the cycle continues to repeat itself, populating and repopulating the Internet with Emeagwali’s falsehoods.

The sophistication and complexity of the fraud notwithstanding, there is no excuse for reputable organizations like CNN and TIME not to have done a simple due diligence on the false claims of Emeagwali. It is true that at the time that TIME and CNN made the glowing references to Emeagwali, the now widely available refutations of his claims were probably not yet available on the internet. Even so, a basic inquiry from the appropriate quarters would have revealed the truth about the claims on which the references to Emeagwali were based. The two reputable organizations failed to carry out this basic fact checking, an elemental reportorial and investigative duty of journalists. Instead, they relied on Emeagwali’s widely disseminated falsehoods for their stories. The case of TIME is particularly scandalous. The story in which it extols Emeagwali is clearly directly based on Emeagwali’s own autobiographical claims on Emeagwali.com. In fact it is a faithful, almost verbatim reproduction of Emeagwali’s self-written profile. It is lazy, sloppy journalism at its worst.



Emeagwali is a very clever, self-conscious scam artist. That is however no excuse for the black community to allow itself to be used to actively promote a fraud.

Testimonies To Fraud And Deception

A participant in the USAfricadialogue discussion, Professor Pablo Idahosa of York University, Toronto told of how, as the institution’s Director of African Studies, he summarily dismissed the request of black students in the institution who came to him seeking sponsorship for their proposal to bring Mr. Emeagwali to the campus to speak to them. Professor Idahosa told of how a cursory scrutiny of the biography that Emeagwali had supplied to the student group convinced him that the man was a fraud and his claims false. Subsequently, he declined to fund the proposed event, refusing to use the institutions name and funds to validate a deception.



Yet another member of the forum, Wassa Fatti, a Gambian resident in London, narrated how he had been a fanatical believer in Emeagwali as an African scientific hero and thanked members for providing the overwhelming evidence that convinced him of Emeagwali’s monumental, sophisticated fraud. He was so enamored of Emeagwali’s legend that he, along with like-minded Africans, wanted to write a children’s inspiration book...... . (redacted)

Conclusion

Mr. Philip Emeagwali is entrenched in his fraud. Being jobless, he earns a living off it. He will not come clean on his own, for that would be economic suicide. It is therefore the duty of everyone invested in black scientific achievement to educate himself on Mr. Emeagwali’s pyramid of intellectual fraud. Mr. Emeagwali knows that there will always be gullible black people and guilt-ridden white liberals to swindle with his false claims. We recognize that there will always be Nigerians and black people who will not get off the self-comforting bandwagon of Emeagwali’s fraud regardless of how much evidence one puts out. Some of it is ego. Some of it is a naïve, misplaced desire to find black heroism where none exists. This essay may not sway those people. But there are many Nigerians, Africans, and black people the world over who are honest, humble, and open-minded enough to recognize and accept that the man they have been led to adore and lionize is a compulsive liar, intellectual fraudster, and a shameless, self-promoting exaggerator. Those people deserve the truth about Mr. Philip Emeagwali.

http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame

Agbebakun22:
i'm sure they kept blind eyes and deaf ears on the northern having some good with a cow but suddenly awoke and manhunting a lady that her video went viral for sleeping with dog. That's a big hypocrisy and beside that law shouldn't be in place now. Every human have the right to live and that shouldn't be an issues to others. Since every human can't live freely then that freedom to live in the constitution should be omitted. Its a free world

right to live doesn't cover bestiality. That's the northern problem. We are the sane region and we shall continue to be sane. If North likes they should continue.. But such shouldn't be contained in the SW SE SS.

Agbebakun22:
i dnt knw why nigerians always want to force their idealogies on that. I thought the law stated there's right of freedom, she has her life to live so allow her to live it.

do not be ignorant of the law. Nigerian law totally frown at it. It is punishable under section 284 and 214of the penal code and criminal code respectively, maximum sentence is 14 yrs with fines

FutureIsFemale:
Actually, what she said about men being dogs already is the truth. But for sleeping with dogs, that's her life and her business.

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Islandlady and MadamVanessa you guys should stop jumping on the threads I create. I hate fake people. I hate people who are not proud of their gender. Why do you guys chose to use female accounts to access Nairaland? You guys better go to romance section and play because that's where you guys belong.

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MadamVanessa here you are condemning someone. And you forgot so soon that you came here to tell us you had threesom with a married man (though we all know you are not a female).
You claim you speak up against evil. Same you who supported Judy for snatching someone's husband.

See ehn I am not saying you are a male simply because you fight my opinion.

You are not the only one here who fights my opinion. Ishilove does and I never for once said she is a male.

You and Islandlady are males and you guys should be proud of your gender.

There are many factors I used in knowing that you are not a female.

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Meanwhile, behold our next president.

don't forget your papa and brothers are men

SeriouslySense:
Wow, insightful.

its not that insightful.... He's saying it as it safou is d real name

Kobojunkie:
While searching, I found the name for a popular fruit in Nigeria. Locally called Ube, is Safou. One of the most distinctive features about safou is the way that the fruit have a texture like butter when they are cooked. This texture is why the fruit is sometimes referred to as butterfruit.

Safou is an evergreen tree found in the humid tropical forests of Africa, as far south as Angola and as far north as Nigeria. The fruits are also known as African pears and are oblong dark blue to violet fruits up to 14cm in length, with pale green flesh inside. These fatty fruits have been said to have the ability to end starvation in Africa, as 48% of the fruit is made up of essential fatty acids, amino acids, Vitamins, and triglycerides. They have estimated that a one-hectare plantation would produce 7-8 tons of oil, and all parts of the plant can be used.
https://listverse.com/2011/07/08/top-20-fruits-you-probably-dont-know/

Why using safou.... Its also called safou in some African countries.. So. Its not the name

Hublot1:
Read before you comment rubbish.
The truck lost control and ran into the others. Where did you read about the victims overspeeding?

the tipper was on top speed oga.

Nice one... Underrated post

anewchapter:
Meanwhile UAR banned it

its not banned in Nigeria

yanabasee:
Sue his azz.......


This is how some parents strike in poverty into their family....


Stop listening to these people... get a good council and seek legal address and know how to play it....


Highest, he should will some of the properties to you and your siblings and sell the rest.....

lmaooo he has the right to sell his property whatever way. He's not under any law to leave inheritance for his offspring

G

9182736455O1999:
Aswear.
but when they climb you, you will start display of madness.

omooo that time you will forget you are a man

qekng40:
Very irritating insect especially the flying ones

omooooo ....there was this house i just rented back in school, i was about to start living in the house till i saw matured big brownish black roaches flying late at night....i slept outside that day. couldnt sleep in the room for days till i fumigated it. the flying roaches pursues ooo, they will fly after you as if you owe them money

Thanksful:
Can this man mention anywhere he has gone to acquire land in the south east and he was told no?

i can attest to that... And one of my friend cried because he was denied this opportunity too

And it made fp... Seun osewa this is strange.

siofra:
She's lucky.

Meanwhile some women after giving birth to one baby their wombs are ruptured.

i dont understand your point

Donoghue Vs Stevenson at play...if u know u know

Malory:
Their license should be revoked and they should also be stripped off their 'wayo' suits which they use to 'obtain' gullible people

so when did a private opinion becomes a professional advice. It has nothing to do with the hippocratic oath.

Venerable612:
Might be long term effects of using cream, she used to be very fair.

She may not be poor as alluded in the tweets.

is she not family of Shina Peller

saphiere:
https://radionigeria.gov.ng/2022/04/07/sexual-abuse/

tell us your experience with your dad

MadamVanessa:





You're fun of saying this. I know it's hurtful when things like this happen, as such, our emotions drives us to say things that sound so stupid on ears.


Darling, deep down you , you know that not all men are paedophile, pervert, animal or whatever demeaning names you may call them.


You're always one sided with your judgement. I have never seen you condemned any evil done by women, it's only men you talk much about, and I hardly see my fellow girls here condemned any evil done by women, but under this thread you'll see men condemning this action of their fellow man, that makes them so different from us and that's the reason I like them regardless of their endless insults on women.

My account have been called catfish account severally because I am not the type that when my gender does wrong I tried to justifies it, but when a male gender does wrong I carry it on my head like galla. I said it the way it is . It was on this ground that I discovered that nairaland has been structured in such a way that if a girl go against a fellow girl action and condemn such action, nairalanders both male and female will see such account as a fake account owned by a man. So pathetic.

She should tell us her experience with her dad

post=111795504:
We hope you aren't one of them kiddo

tf is this.... I was sent a message from a staff EKDC who happens to be my friend 4 days before the grid collapse that there won't be light for like 3 days nationwide.... What fuckery... Who is your kiddo... Then obviously your gullibility already made you a Nigerian foooool

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