Sincere 9gerian: Evil people have now congregated in APC. If we can nuke APC now, over 50% of Nigeria's problem would have been solved.

dazey: Apc the muslim brotherhood party are not welcome in south east

iconize:
Please with due respect don't quote me again. Quote your ilk.

chino11: [s][/s]


Pointless..

What matters most is that he is one of the fathers of the internet. He does not need to carry oluwole certificate..

iconize: I've always warned kairoseki77 to stop being a bigot and a tribalist rather he should be an advocate of one united Nigeria . But he has always chosen to be a tribalist and a bigot, the topic was all about the masquerade festival in aguleri Anambra. But he came about spewing gibberish about the easterners, and when chino challenged him he started hiding behind bars.
Now he has been defeated.

On one united NIGERIA I stand.

chino11: [b][/b]


You don't have a point..

What matters is that he is one of the fathers of the internet, please live with it.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111097.htm

chino11:


Was he one of the father of Internet? YES OR NO

No wonder yorobars accumulate oluwole certificates with nothing to bring to the table..

chino11:



"Nigerian born Dr. Philip Emeagwali first entered the limelight in 1989 when he won the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for his work with massively parallel computers. He programmed the Connection Machine to compute a world record 3.1 billion calculations per second using 65,536 processors to simulate oil reservoirs. With over 41 inventions submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Philip Emeagwali is making big waves in the supercomputer industry, amazing achievements only surpassed by an even more amazing life."

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111097.htm


Now you can see that even in the next 200years to come yorobars cannot achieve what Emeagwali achieved. Emeagwali is one of the founders of the Internet..

chino11:


I have been dragging you in the mud. You have not been able to show me what yorobar people have manufacture through their oluwolo certificate accumulation just like Innoson is doing.

Instead you showed us the DG of Nigerian Space Agency who got there through federal character. If it were to be by competence Igbo man would have clinched it..

chino11:


But did he win the Gordon Bell Prize for his input to the advancement of computer? YES OR NO

That is what I want you to show me. Show me what yorobars contributed to the advancement of Nigeria, Africa and world just like the Igbos are doing..

chino11: Did you read the part where they noted that he was one of the fathers of the internet? That is what am talking about..

Emeagwali studied for a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan from 1987 through 1991. His thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and external examiners and thus he was not awarded the degree. Emeagwali filed a court challenge, stating that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his race. The court challenge was dismissed, as was an appeal to the Michigan state Court of Appeals.

Leading American computer experts, including the man after whom the prize he won in 1989 was named, have lately pooh-poohed claims by Nigerian American-based scientist, Philip Emeagwali, that he was one of the fathers of the Internet.

In 1989, Mr. Emeagwali won the $1,000 Gordon Bell Prize, which is awarded each year to recognise outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

His award was for an application of the CM-2 massively parallel computer for oil reservoir modeling. Following the feat, Mr. Emeagwali proceeded to claim, for several years, that he was a father of the Internet; that he improved upon Isaac Newton's laws of motion; that he owned the world's first personal website; that American computer giant, Apple, uses the microprocessor technology he pioneered in its Power Mac G4 model, among many other claims.

But responding to separate enquiries by NEXT, some of the world's leading computer experts said there was no truth in most of the claims that Mr. Emeagwali had propagated about himself over the years.

Gordon Bell, 76, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing for whom the prize won by Mr. Emeagwali is named, said the entry that earned the Nigerian scientist the award had nothing to do with the Internet.

"He was able to get time on the Connection Machine at the right time and run a large program of oil reservoir modeling," Mr. Bell, a principal researcher with Microsoft Silicon Valley Research Group in San Francisco, said in an email to NEXT.

"The Internet is another thing. No evidence that he had anything to do with the Internet," he said.

Mr. Bell, who provided the financial support for the annual Gordon Prize, is an influential fellow of the world's two largest professional associations of computer experts - the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Association for Computing Machinery.

But when asked whether he was aware of Mr. Emeagwali's contribution to the evolution of the Internet, Mr. Bell said, "Not that any of my friends who worked on the Internet recall. His bio on Wikipedia is most interesting and in itself seems to be controversial," he said, in reference to the Wikipedia article on the Nigerian scientist, which only stopped short of calling Mr. Emeagwali a liar.

"Apart from the prize itself, there is no evidence that Emeagwali's work was ever accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, nor that it had any other lasting impact on the field of high-performance-computing or the development of the Internet. Neither does he hold any recognized patents for his results," the article said.

Asked whether Mr. Emeagwali is qualified to be regarded as one of the great minds of the Information Age, Mr. Bell said,

"Like many of us, in each of our minds, we may all think of ourselves as "one of the great minds of the information age. The real question is ‘does anyone else, besides our mothers, fathers, spouses, children, relatives, and friends think of us in this way?'"

Mr. Emeagwali is often celebrated in his native Nigeria and Africa as a computer genius who invented the Internet and is often listed among leading and globally respected icons such as Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, and novelist, Chinua Achebe. He was so well respected that he once got on the Nigerian stamp.

Although he is not known to have made any other contribution to science or invented anything since he won the Gordon Prize 20 years ago, Mr. Emeagwali travels around the world, giving speeches and portraying himself as one of the greatest scientists in the world.

Speaking during a visit to Switzerland in April 2009, Mr. Emeagwali said he was the first to program an hypercube "to solve a grand challenge defined as the 20 gold-ring problems in computing. That discovery, in part, inspired the reinvention of supercomputers as an Internet."

He claimed that by his effort, he was able to set three world records and improve on Newton's Second Law of Motion.

But of late, Americans and Nigerians alike have raised questions about the claims. Alan Karp, a principal scientist with Hewlett - Packard Laboratories, and one of the judges who selected the Nigerian scientist for the Gordon Bell prize in 1989, said Mr. Emeagwali's claims were false and exaggerated.

In response to NEXT's inquiries, Mr. Karp wrote, "To the best of my knowledge, the work he submitted for the Gordon Bell Prize had no influence on the Internet. The material he submitted for the Gordon Bell Prize did not address adjustments to Newton's Laws.

"Many people programmed the Connection Machines, both the CM-1 and the CM-2 that Mr. Emeagwali programmed. To claim that sending emails programmed is misleading. The work Mr. Emeagwali submitted for the Gordon Bell Prize did not set a world record. In fact, another team produced better performance and better price performance that same year and was awarded the Gordon Bell Prize for performance.

"There were other hypercube machines in use before the CM-2, and others had programmed them to solve important problems. Today, a supercomputer is not a union of supercomputers communicating as an Internet. Individual supercomputers with proprietary internal networks do sometimes coordinate over the Internet, but the work Mr. Emeagwali submitted for the Gordon Bell Prize did not do this," Mr. Karp said.

Many disputed claims

Mr. Karp also debunked another oft-repeated claim by Mr. Emeagwali that the prize he won was the Nobel Prize of computing.

We also sent a list of Mr. Emeagwali's numerous claims, gleaned from his speeches, interviews, and articles, to Jack Dongarra, another widely respected American computer scientist, and a judge on the panel that awarded the Gordon Bell Prize in 1990.

But Mr. Dongarra, a professor at the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, simply carpeted the claims in a two-sentence response.

"This was over 22 years ago and I really don't remember," he said. "I would disagree with much of what you have written."

Because his claims had bounced around for long without any major challenge, many people around the world believe them as true, and Mr. Emeagwali enjoyed celebrity status. And from time to time, he adds new layers to what many scientists now believe to be a pack of lies.

On his poorly designed website, Mr. Emeagwali claims he has been ranked number one in computing in the past five years. He looks forward to being named again in December this year, although he is not known to have done or be doing any work on the subject since the 1989 prize.

He also claimed, in a June 2007 interview with BusinessDay, that the Nigerian government was owing him for the investigation he conducted into the country's diminishing resources. Yet, the last time he visited Nigeria was over 20 years ago.

He said his technology is being used to forecast the weather and to predict the likelihood and effects of global warming. At a point, he claimed he was working on a fibre optic cable for Africa that will make calls to the continent not to be routed through Europe. NEXT sent Mr. Emeagwali a 14-question inquiry on his claims. But his response did not address any of the questions.

"The most important questions, such as his twelve years of postgraduate education, Newton's 2nd Law of Motion, discoveries and inventions, 41 patents [that he never claimed, he claimed 41 "patent claims"] and father of the Internet," said Donita Brown, who responded on his behalf.

"For example, he will explain that "the internet" is to "an internet" what the supercomputer is to a computer. That is, both are equivalent technologies," Ms. Brown added.

Mr. Emeagwali said he would provide details in two weeks.

Ms. Brown, who is Mr. Emeagwali's wife, has double identities as well. She is widely known as Dale Emeagwali. But in correspondences and on her husband's website, she is identified as Donita Brown.

For two weeks, NEXT had consistently made efforts to talk to Mr. Emeagwali on the telephone. But each time, a telephone operator would say he was not available. The four telephone lines on his website are usually diverted to the same operator.

On his Facebook page, Mr. Emeagwali listed +4402070787400 as his mobile line. But our checks indicated that it was a landline in the United Kingdom, which was again diverted to the same operator in Washington.

Mr. Emeagwali was of recent a subject of debate on Nigerian Internet discussion groups and the preponderance of opinion was that his claims were fraudulent.

"The ‘debate' on Emeagwali's intellectual fraud has long been settled in the Nigerian cyberspace," said one Moses Ochonu.

"Only the most fanatical Nigerian and African American sentimental (as opposed to a rational) investors in black scientific heroism still take the fool seriously," Mr. Ochonu said.

In his own contribution to the debate, Ola Kassim, a former leader of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation, said, "I have always stayed away from the Emeagwali controversy simply because I do not enjoy watching Nigerians/Africans pull each other down.

"However, there are some instances when we must speak up, or else the work of our true heroes - the genuine achievers become rubbished by association when the falsehoods perpetrated by some of us are finally discovered," he said.

Self promotion

Mr. Emeagwali's Internet self-promotion has earned him a lot of attention. He branded himself so well that he became subjects of CNN, BBC, and TIME magazine articles and was able to get on United Nation's list of former refugees who have achieved special status within a community due to their achievements. He is also widely celebrated in Nigeria and America, where he is a consistent feature of the Black History Month.

In February 2005, Ebony magazine ran a Toyota advertisement describing Mr. Emeagwali as one of the founders of the Internet and as having a PhD; whereas, he never earned a doctorate because the University of Michigan did not find his dissertation good enough.

Responding to a NEXT inquiry regarding why it misrepresented Mr. Emeagwali to the world, Toyota simply dissociated itself from the Nigerian scientist.

"Toyota has no connection to Mr. Emeagwali and is not responsible for his credentials. In addition, Toyota had no involvement with a ‘Gordon Bell Prize.'" said Mike Michels, the company's vice president, communications.

Mr. Emeagwali was also once described by former President Bill Clinton as one of the great minds of the information age.

The U.S State Department would not comment on why Mr. Clinton described the Nigerian scientist in that way. It simply directed inquiries to the former president himself. Mr. Clinton's office is yet to respond to NEXT's questions as at the time of this report.

Razak Okoya was born in Lagos on January 12th, 1940 to Tiamiyu Ayinde and AlhajheIdiatu Okoya both of blessed memory. He had his education in the present Ansar-un-deen School, Oke popo, Lagos. He worked with his father who had a tailoring business, who also sold tailoring accessories. After working with his dad for a while, he began to do a few things on the side, like amending shirts and trousers for a fee, for instance, turning long sleeves to short sleeves or trousers to shorts. He saved every penny he made.

When Razak had saved about twenty pounds, he wanted to go into trading. Back then, ordering for goods directly from manufacturers was not popular; most people bought goods imported into Lagos. But Razak got hold of the catalog of a manufacturing business in Japan. He liked the goods but he needed seventy pounds to be able to order and ship to Lagos. He approached his mother for the money.

After telling her what he wanted to do and getting his father’s permission, his mother gave him the 50 pounds he needed. By the time his goods arrived, they were not only of better quality, they were also cheaper than what was available in the market. He sold out quickly and ordered more. That was how it all began. As the business grew, he went into other things. He later branched out into manufacturing.
As his business started expanding, he traveled far and wide and saw how different things were manufactured. He always felt that we could do as good, if not better.

By this time, he had married his first wife. She would bring jewelery that cost so much. He used to be baffled at how much she said they cost. He felt it was ridiculous. These were metals that he felt could be designed and at a cheaper price; especially as we had the metals available in Nigeria. He saw the way women loved to wear jewelery. Challenged by what he felt was a healthy demand, he traveled abroad, bought the machines and came with some experts. That marked the birth of Eleganza Jewelery. The success was phenomenal. They could not keep up with the demand because, the products were beautiful, durable and cheap. They were instant best sellers.

He was also manufacturing and selling Eleganza buttons and jewelery. Then, he began to import shoes in large quantities. He paid the factory to manufacture and import to Nigeria. On one of these occasions, after paying, the goods were not delivered. He waited a while and traveled to Italy to see the manufacturer. He arrived there and discovered that they had used his money to settle their bills. He was so angry that he decided there and then to begin manufacturing his own shoes and that is what he did. He imported all the machines and brought in some experts who trained his workers. And that was how they began making shoes.

Today, under his Chairmanship, the Eleganza Industries practically produces all manner of household goods and utensils including cutlery, collieries, food warmers, ice chest, electric fan, cosmetics and ballpoint pen. Spread across different locations in Lagos namely, Oregun-Ikeja (Site he& II), Isolo, Alaba and Iganmu, the Company now directly employs over five thousand Nigerians and non-Nigerians including those working in his RAO Property Investment Company. Okoya’s Eleganza Group is one of the biggest homegrown conglomerates in Nigeria today, with over six factories, and its products are household names in Nigeria neighbouring African markets.

chino11:


You are talking too much. Show us here and now the so called invention of yorobars..?

chino11:


You are beginning to get my point. I said that Igbos are trailing the UK, US, Chinese, Japanes..

Igbos produced the brand of their bomb called OGBUNIGWE.

Today Igbos are manufacturing vehicles in Anambra does it mean that it is the first time vehicle is manufactured in the world? NO. It only means that Igbos are trailing their Oyibo masters in the world of technological advancement.

Area-Fada:
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The Japanese, Chinese and South Koreans even Indians who retained their culture/traditions are respected worldwide than we Africans who throws our away.

You seem ashamed of your culture.

chino11: Do you know that Igbo were already inventing bombs in 1967..? That is the kind of feat am talking about. And that is what I meant when I said that Igbos are trailing the British and Americans..

chino11:


Runs Nigerian Space Agency how? He is just an ordinary DG of the agency. What expertise has he brought to the agency? The same Oluwole certified professor who cannot invent anything other than carrying files up and down..

chino11:


Yes GOD first spoke to the Oyibos that was why they got to the moon when Africans were still in the stone age..

Today Oyibo is speaking through the Igbos..see pictures below..

Show me part of Nigeria that can challenge the Igbos in these..? That is the perspective am talking about..

chino11:


This is still the same oluwole certification am talking about...

Show me how they used those certificates to better the lives of Nigerians or contribute to the advancement of Nigeria just like Innoson, Barth Nnaji etc, has done..

chino11:


Barth Nnaji an Igbo man from Enugu state is the only Nigerian that single-handedly built a power station. Tell me one Nigerian from any other part of Nigeria who can try that feat? Its only an Igboman, that is what I meant that Igbos are trailing the Oyibos in the world of creativeness and advancement. Nobody can wish away the fact that GOD first spoke through the Oyibos and now Oyibo is speaking through Igbos/Ibos.