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While you were fighting the Biafran wars yesterday - Sorry just couldn't resist  , this topic was already beating to death over here Government To Investigate Emeagwali

This is beside the point. If anyone should plan a successful attack on any current or past leader of a respectable country they must not expect to be able to get close to him without considerable force. That this could happen in the midst of all that is going on speak volumes about the vulnerability of Nigeria.

Now they will be calling the guy a mad-man. Given that the president was in Lagos at the same time and the guy had attempted to go into the presidential area of the airport, there is more to this story. OBJ may have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Shame on his security details - they all deserve to be fired!

alphabet43:
These people need to start being held accountable and not feel invincible. Kudos to the brave brutha that has more guts than 99.99% of Nigerians

violent:
my countrymen perish cos they lack knowledge!

From all angles this country is in danger! Didn't we just have an outbreak of cholera. Who knows what killed the Whale? Life is 2 for 1 Naira in Nigeria

Can't you see the guy is making comedy? Photoshop is written all over that poster.

Environer:
Before election day, we would be having like 10,000 aspirants, most from the North.

I see U are into comedy

ocho cinco:
Of course he stole nothing. Not even an undeserved reputation.

Oh . .those are allegations yet to be proved of course.

But it really sucks that these allegations should surface against a prominent
Igbo son. Why are they no allegations against the likes of Wole Soyinka or Ahmed Yerima?

I am sure those two must have made some wild claims in their time. I think I heard somewhere
Wole claimed he got the inspiration for the National Theatre design while taking a poo in Okija Forest
during the Biafran war. He got it from the innovative Beret the Biafran comrades wore on their head.
All sounds very fishy to me to be honest. But no one said anything.

Now imagine if it was Chinua that made that claim. . All hell would break loose.

Ewu Hausa, Ewu Yoruba. Iti Bolibo

~Bluetooth:
He claimed what he is not ! Is that not 419 ?

Not quite. He did not cause anyone to give up their property fraudulently. He might have exaggerated, but it behoves the Nigerian govt. to do her homework b/4 putting someone on the stamp.

ocho cinco:
Help me tell them. That was exactly what I told the police when I snatched the bag from this old lady in Ba Shangisha three weeks ago. I said why the are picking on small fry like me. Why don't they go and arrest billion naira thieves like Babangida and Obj.

Is there a God?

No comparison betw this case and your bag snatching. He stole nothing.

Can't she also tell them it is a stupid move?

slap1:
She is NOT probing Emeagwali, the government is stupidly doing so and she is just its mouth-piece.

Beaf:
After all the sensible stuff posted for the first time in your history, you end it with google and satellite pictures?
Damn!Dude, you don kolo bad bad!

I was surprised by that ending too!

Well it has been a while since I saw a Nigerian stamp - so they put Emeagwali on one?

So now the Nigerian government has to go and eat crow for being deceived. An entire government deceived - that tells you the kind of fraud called the Nigerian government. Can we have more information on the procedure for doing such a thing? Was the Minister of "Postal Affairs" a friend, friend of a friend or from the same village as Emeagwali or relied on the same public media that is being used to crucify the guy now?

Ndipe:
Well, take off his image from the Nigerian stamps if its proven that he lied, instead of according him a hero of Nigeria. Dont defend him, it's stories like this that also gives us a bad name abroad. The man has lied, despite being exposed as a fraud.

So what if you were deceived into believing he was a father of the internet. Now you know better, move on - if he seeks your favor ever don't grant it because he "lied".

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore insinuated that he was instrumental to the internet. Of course, he was ridiculed for it - but that was not a crime by any measure. He went on to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

Did it cost you a kobo or something? Worry more about the frauds allocating huge sums to themselves and calling themselves your leaders - they are the ones who will really stop your kids from seeing the 4 walls of a classroom. All the resources end up in their belly.

People are shipping deadly arms through your territory, and Nigeria is quiet over it, but the information minister is ready to bust a blood vessel over Emeagwali?

Ndipe:
This is a right step. Goodness, we were deluded into believing that he was the father of the internet. If this is not done, then our children will be imparted with wrongful information that this man founded the internet. This lies would compete alongside that of Mungo Park 'discovering' River Niger or Christopher Columbus 'discovering' America.

Your point got swallowed by the support for a government wasting its time attempting to investigate Emeagwali. He deserved his honor - it is not as if he stole it. So what if he blew his own trumpet - what you will discover is that it is the culture. Emeagwali may have taken it a bit too far, but that shouldn't concern the Nigerian government - he committed no crime and even accusers cannot point to any real fraud.

Emeagwali has not brought any disrepute to Nigeria. In fact, I would argue he has done more good for Nigeria than all our pot-bellied government officials put together. A hundred Emeagwali's, perhaps with a little toned down rhetoric, would do Nigeria wonders.

It is those trying to pull him down that are doing Nigeria no favors. Nigeria, no doubt, needs to concentrate on providing positive support to develop its scientific capital.

The other day someone cried out about our patent office stealing his invention - Aunt Dora can probe that for a start.

Beaf:
If you look slightly deeper, you will spot what I am saying. The govt is ready to probe Emeagwali, because he's been blowing his trumpet; thats highly ironic when genuine talents have cried out for govt and been left to their own devices to rot away and suffer in frustration, at home and even worse, in foreign lands.

Beaf:
I think it is the right step for the govt to take. It is high time govt got interested in those who are talented, and it shouldn't stop with Emeagwali.
All Nigerians who have made claims to genius should be investigated and anyone found to be fraudulent should be declared so by govt and jailed as fraudsters whenever they step into the country; conversly, those genuine Nigerian talents that have cried for help over the years and only faced abandonement, ridicule and scorn must get the sort of support other nations give to their gifted ones.

@Beaf
I disagree with you completely. What crime would you charge Emeagwali with? Or are you just being sarcastic?

Before the Nigerian government even remotely concern itself with people who fought within a high standard system and got honours, they would need to commit a mass purge of the fraud called government in Nigeria. If Emeagwali committed a crime the Nigerian government would not be called upon before he gets punished for it. At least his honorary degree was deserved, what about this open fraud below - if Aunty Dora has the guts let her march to the NA tomorrow, it is not too far from where she seats.