₦airaland Forum

Antiquated methods of doing everything.
Nigeria is stuck in time.
The reason for the fire is staring at you right from the picture.
Improperly disposed wooden chips(fuel) waiting for the spark.
Lawlessness.

Mtseeew

Just look at them.
Same kind like those who sold their own to slavery.
They cannot help themselves even if the lack of social amenities /physical infrastructure is going to kill them and their family members in future.

"They only shot in the air"
Nigeria plus lawlessness is the new normal

Never too late to leave a corrupted organisation

He definitely succeeded in liberating Nigeria of her colonial dollars.
Odia is high on kain kain
You can smell a liberation soldier from a thousand mile away.
Sankara,Mandela, malcom X.
Jonathan ain't one.

This idea of politicians waiting for the president at the airport,after a routine official visit, is archaic.
I can understand a governor waiting for the president during an official state visit but for the vice to be at the airport all the time........

Ambode is totally out of his depth. I sussed out the guy during the campaign. He is simply not on top of the issues.
If you like gather all the papers from havard,Oxford or whereever, it still does not make you competent.
My profile of him is that of a person who believes governance is about minor symbolic gestures than actually doing the big transformational stuffs.
Like,
1 150 million for boko haram ravaged states
2 2500 c of o,
3 1 Road per LGA
and stuffs like that.
An intelligent governor should have thrown all available resources at the metro line. As a temporary measure, maybe construct 50 miles of normal railway for the busiest routes of the city like from ikorodu to yaba.
More like a fayose but without the thuggery.
The person who should have been governor was Babatunde Fowler.
I believe Tinubu overplayed his hands on this one thinking that it was brand Tinubu which endeared people to the party.
In actual fact, Fashola was the one who sprinkled the star dust.
My guess is that he is going to go the way of Femi pedro.
Still better than the bullet we dodged( jimi agbaje and his criminal godfather bode George ).

Lola Omoluabi
Senior lecturer of law, let trobe law school
Le trobe university, Australia.

Lola is admitted to practice law in Victoria, Australia (2004) and Nigeria (1992). Lola is also a Nationally Accredited Mediator (Australia). Prior to joining La Trobe University, Lola practised law for about ten years at a top tier law firm in Nigeria, Punuka Attorneys and Solicitors Lola's academic research career commenced in 2005 through undertaking a PhD in the field of conflict resolution focusing on the impact of culture on conflict and conflict resolution and how underlying values of the United Nations' Charter may assist with resolution of seemingly intractable conflicts. This research resulted in the development of a framework for conflict resolution. Since completion of her PhD in 2008, Lola has researched and published in the field of conflict/dispute resolution including on DR processes and access to justice for disadvantaged groups and individuals and ethics in mediation practice. Lola is also interested in the role of international law in promoting global peace and justice.

Aareonakakanfo:
How do we pass this message to those who will do it? Remember aareonakakanfo and oduastates aren't the ones who are going to make that happen.We can only give ideas

These guys visit nairaland.

Aareonakakanfo:
Brilliant idea man.The only issue i have here is how do we turn these ideas into reality .Check out what this man is doing,we need more of this.



http://techpoint.ng/2015/08/25/how-showroom-ng-plans-to-make-at-least-100k-furniture-makers-millionaires-by-2020/

Aare how ke?
Build the damn thing and force all the artisan back to school, Nightly lessons on how to do stuffs the modern way.after, give them subsidised tool and equipments like lathe machines, millers, grinders , butcher electric saws.Anyone who refuses loses his licence.

Aareonakakanfo:
Mr Big boss Oduastates doesn't seem to be buying that though Ki olorun ko ko wa yo

Bro,fact is that,all those pictures do not impress you. Show me a virgin forest and I see a land that can be built to taste. the homeland is being abused.
I am concentrating on those STEM professors because their achievement not only inspires, it also show their are alternative leaders to the clowns wrecking havoc back home.
Can you can imagine having all these project managers, civil engineers, electrical engineers and yet the over rated leaders give out construction contracts to illiterate and semi - literate plumbers,carpenters from China, Syria, Lebanon.if after 16 yrs in power, they cannot look beyond their cliques, identify and train the brightest and most enterprising omoluabis by sending them out of work placement abroad and cannot overcome the inferiority complex of handing contracts to foreigners who end up doing inferior work, then frankly,they are not good enough.
Imagine one of these guys vs Fashola in an election, instead of the likes of odumakin and Obanikoro polluting the air.
Personally, while I am one of the most ardent defenders of the tinubu clique and will not swap them for any of the clown at home , it does not mean I am impressed with them.
Just imagine what a yoruba language technical school to retrain and reequip all our artisans ( the plumber, the carpenters, Electricians,Butchers, bricklayers etc, will do. They all still exist in the past even though they are very skilled.

Worthy mention

Remi Kolawole
Rapper ripping all the way from Australia


The politically and socially active 23-year-old Remi, whose full name is Remi Kolawole, and his producer Sensible J have broken through internationally already with this album. However, being named the album of the year in Australia, along with a $30,000 cheque, has him feeling "ridiculous" but also pretty proud as a hip-hop act in a country that was slow to accept the American form.

"We appreciate that beyond anything [being the first hip-hop act] to win," he said. "If we can help in any way that shines a light on [local hip-hop] we're really happy."

Not only is Kolawole breaking new ground for hip-hop, he has done the same for two "fringe" groups: Tasmanians and Africans. Born in Australia, Remi's mother is from Tasmania and his father from Nigeria and his raps encompass racism, partying, social justice and urban dislocation, "representing all parts of my heritage".

"That's what hip-hop is about, representing the community that its from," Remi said. "That's the realest thing you can provide."

PROFESSOR PHILIP OGUNBONA

University of Wollongong Australia , School of Information Technology and Computer Science Dean of Informatics.




Philip was educated in Nigeria where he obtained the BSc(Hons)(1st Class) (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) from the University of Ife (now named Obafemi Awolowo University). He studied at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London and obtained the DIC and PhD for research conducted in the field of Image Processing.

He joined the University of Wollongong, School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering in 1990 and taught subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Subjects taught include, Circuit Theory, Electronic Circuit and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Queueing Theory. His research interest include, image and video compression, image segmentation and analysis, and digital signal processing.

He left the University in 1998 to join the Visual Information Processing Lab, Motorola Labs in Sydney. He was Principal Research Engineer and later became the foundation Manager of the Digital Media Collection and Management Lab, Motorola Labs, Sydney. While at Motorola Labs, he worked on a range of research projects including, image and video segmentation, image compression (he was part of the Motorola team that worked on the JPEG2000 standardization), digital camera image processing, stereo image processing, multimedia security (watermarking and authentication) and multimedia content management for broadband applications.

Shymm3x:
Oduastates

Nice.

You can add these two to ya list cos every time I post the profiles, the spambot keeps throwing me in jail mysteriously, even when I posted just their names:

https://www.essex.ac.uk/law/staff/profile.aspx?ID=729

http://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools-and-institutes/faculty-of-science-and-engineering/all-faculty-staff/school-of-architecture-and-the-built-environment-staff/david-oloke/

The UK list is quite impressive cos there are less than hundred black tutors at UK Universities, and shockingly I saw over 30 Yorubas. That means about 30-40% of all black university tutors are Yorubas. Highly impressed.


And if you can check the top 50 Universities in America - you should be able to dig up about 20-25 names. I had them before, but lost everything at work.

I checked them out. There are thousands like them. They have not reached the pinnacle just yet despite being part of the elite. I am doing mostly professors with bias for STEM

Professor Babs Oyeneyin
Professor of petroleum engineering.
Robert Gordon university, Aberdeen.

Teaching, Research, Consultancy, Technology Facilitation
Academic Background
BEng (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering (1975) from University of Benin,
MSc (1978) and PhD (1983) in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University
Research Interests / Professional Background
Professor Oyeneyin's major interests, expertise and current research projects are in multiphase fluid flow dynamics, integrated sand management, produced water management, oil/gas well engineering [Drilling & Completion Technology], unconventional reservoir management [heavy oil & condensate reservoirs], flow assurance and production optimisation in deepwater environment, the areas of which he has had over 100 technical publications to his credit.

PROF. AKINTOLA AKINTOYE
DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
College of Science and Technology
University of Central Lancashire




Professor Akintoye is research active within the area of built environment and sustainability and is a member of the Centre for Sustainable Development.

FULL PROFILE
QUALIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy, Construction Economics and Management, 1991

Master of Science Degree, Construction Management, 1986

Bachelor of Science(Hons) Degree in Quantity Surveying, Second Class-Upper, 1982

Professor Paul Olomolaiye
University of West of England, Bristol


Position: Pro Vice Chancellor ＆ Executive Dean


Department: Faculty of Environment and Technology
Professor of Construction Engineering and Management and currently Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Technology here at UWE-Bristol. holds a PhD from Loughborough University in Civil Engineering and widely published with over 200 journal and conference publications and authorship of 2 major books on Construction Productivity and Stakeholder Management. passionate about the experiences of staff and students of my 6000 strong faculty which spans Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science and the Environment. I'll describe my faculty as a large 'academic space' for world-class education and research based on cross-subject collaborations and full engagement with the industries that we serve. I am happily married with 3 grown-up children and active in the community in various charitable activities and organisations.

Prof. Stephen Ogunlana


School of the Built Environment

Heriot watt university, Edinburgh

Research
Project management in a global context including: risk management, contract management, procurement strategy, time and cost management, performance management, etc.
Organisational learning through simulation of construction processes (project based simulation and construction business simulation using system dynamics)
Public private partnerships for infrastructure delivery
Social and environmental impacts management (conflict management, stakeholder communication, environmentally sound construction, sustainability, etc.)
People in organisations (Motivation, Productivity, Leadership, Human Resources Development, etc)
Construction industry development

Prof Imran Oluwole Smith
SAOS university of London.


Prof Imran Oluwole Smith was the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos (UNILAG). He is the first Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to get the job. An alumnus of the Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands, he is a legal consultant and member, Council of Legal Education. He is a Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, and has been an Expert Witness on Nigerian Law before the High Court of Justice in England on several occasions. He is the author of many books cited by lawyers and the courts. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK, and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Smith, in this interview with JOSEPH JIBUEZE, speaks on how to improve the quality of the Bar and the Bench, curb corruption in the judiciary and the country, tackle insecurity, and how the structure of the National Judicial Council’s (NJC) violates federal principles.

Abosede George

Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies

Abosede George joined the faculty of Barnard College and Columbia University in 2007. She received her PhD in History in 2006 from Stanford University. Her research and teaching interests have been focused on urban history of Africa, the history of childhood and youth in Africa, and the study of women, gender, and sexuality in African History. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Social History, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and the Scholar and Feminist Online. Her new book, Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development was published in 2014 by Ohio University Press in their New African Histories series.

Increasingly her research interests have turned to the 19th century in Lagos, to issues of gender, ethnicity, migration, and the records of reverse diaspora communities from the Americas, the Caribbean, and other regions of West Africa. She is currently at work on The Ekopolitan Project, a digital archive of family history sources on migrant communities in nineteenth- and twentieth century Lagos, West Africa.

She maintains faculty affiliations with the Africana Studies Program at Barnard, the Institute for African Studies at Columbia (IAS), the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), and the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (CCASD). She received her B.A. from Rutgers University (1999) and her Ph.D. from Stanford (2006).
Others:

Msteew.
The Nnamdi and his bunch of clowns. One thing for sure, they are not the brightest bulbs in the basket.Itshekiri do not share any link; be it historical, linguistic, cultural or ideological roots with biafra.
I just dey laugh when they include itshekiris as part of that contraption.
Like I said before, there will never be a biafra on the western side of the Niger. The nearest natural boundaries( rivers,forest and hills will be used to separate those who share such links with such a contraption and those who don't.

Rayhut:
No tribe in Edo and Delta is speaking Youruba

HYPOCRISY is when YORUBA people claim some part of Kwara, Kogi, Lagos as Yoruba land when Igbos claim the Igbo speaking areas of some part of Delta, Rivers and Edo as part of Igbo land, YORUBA'S will start shouting land grabbing, oil thief, is this not hypocrisy at highest level, if Igbo go with only 5 Igbo state and leave the rest of the Igbo land, then Yoruba should leave Lagos, Kwara, Kogi and parts of Ondo ilaje axis alone.

Ode.
Where are you from? You think countries are formed on the Internet.
The yoruba country is fully formed already and her borders are well documented.
Borders which have been drawn since 1700s.
All your states exist for administrative convenience.

I am giving up for now. Someone should take the Asian baton and run with it. Preferably the STEM professors. We can deal with the liberal arts, law and social sciences later.

Moshood Fadeyi

Professor of Building Services
Singapore institute of technology


Chartered (Registered) Engineer (UK)
Chartered (Registered) Builder (UK)
Chartered (Registered) Construction Manager (UK)
Educator (Sustainable Design of the Built Environment)
Scientist (Human Interactions with indoor environment- Indoor air, thermal, acoustics and light)

expert in above areas thanks to academic and professional education I received from Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria, Africa), National University of Singapore (Singapore, Asia), Technical University of Denmark (Denmark, Europe), and Harvard School of Public Health (USA, North America).

WIZGUY69:
Chief Afe Babalola
Femi Falana
Prof. Funmi Falusi
Alhaji Musa Ayeni
Prince Julius Adelusi
Antonia Yetunde Alabi
Bishop Peter Awelewa
Oluwatosin Helen
Mrs Folusho Olaniyan
Professor Akin Oyebode
Chief Woke Olanipekun

Please we want proven researchers, inventor and achievers and not political, civil service and paper professors.

Professor Adekunle Adeyeye
professor of electrical and computer engineering.
National university Singapore ( university world ranking : 12th)


Dr. Adekunle Adeyeye is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is one of the principal investigators at the Information Storage Materials Lab. He is also a Fellow of the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA), Advanced Materials for Micro & Nano Systems. He has won many awards and was named one of the top 100 young innovators in the world by TR100, an award winning MIT magazine on technology. He was a winner of the 2004 NUS Young Researcher Award. Dr. Adeyeye graduated with a First Class Honors from the University of IIorin, Nigeria in 1990. He obtained his MPhil in Microelectronics Engineering and Semiconductor Physics and PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 1993 and 1996 respectively. He was elected a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1996. He then worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the Data Storage Institute, Singapore in 1997, before returning to Cambridge to take up his fellowship at the Nanoscale Science Laboratory. Dr. Adeyeye joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in May 2000 and was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in January 2006. In July 2012, Dr. Adeyeye was promoted to a Full Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, NUS. In January 2013, Dr. Adeyeye was named one of the distinguished lecturer by IEEE Magnetics Society. Dr. Adekunle's research focuses on the fundamental understanding and exploration of magnetic nanostructures in applications such as ultra high density storage, magnetic random access memory (MRAM) and spin logic. We are developing new functional nanomaterials such as multiferroic and half metals nanostructures for spintronic applications and ultra high sensitive biosensors. He has co-authored more than 150 papers in international refereed journals.

Your HND is not the end of the world. Build on it.
I am deviating a bit from the big guns. Take this guy as an inspiration. Life is like a ladder. He is on his way to the top. I am also going to attack the Asian connection in the academia.



Dr Sylvester Olubolu Orimaye
. Lecturer
. Monarch university, Malaysia

researcher in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. works on context/meaning understanding for Opinion Search and Retrieval systems; application of Machine Learning techniques to Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis; Data Mining; Artificial Intelligence with Bayesian Belief Networks and Artificial Neural Networks; application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to predicting early onset Alzheimer's disease and Mild Cognitive Impairments.

Bankole Johnson

Professor of medicine, University of Maryland


Bankole A. Johnson, DSc, MD, MPhil, FRCPsych (born 5 November 1959) is a licensed physician and board-certified psychiatrist throughout Europe and the United States who served as Alumni Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. Johnson's primary area of research expertise is the psychopharmacology of medications for treating addictions, and he is well known in the field for his discovery that topiramate, a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) facilitator and glutamate antagonist, is an effective treatment for alcoholism. Professor Johnson also received national media attention for his appearance in the Home Box Office (HBO) original documentary feature, "Addiction", which won the prestigious Governors Award, a special Emmy Award, from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Professor Johnson recently accepted an appointment to join the University of Maryland as the Chairman of Psychiatry and to lead a Brain Science Research Consortium in the neurosciences.

Kunle Olukotun
Professor of Electrical engineering,Stafford university


Kunle Olukotun is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and he has been on the faculty since 1991. Olukotun is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS). Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems; the Afara microprocessor technology, called Niagara, is at the center of Sun's throughput computing initiative. Niagara based systems have become one of Sun's fastest ramping products ever. Olukotun is actively involved in research in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems. Olukotun currently co-leads the Transactional Coherence and Consistency project whose goal is to make parallel programming accessible to average programmers. Olukotun also directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas. Olukotun is an ACM Fellow (2006) for contributions to multiprocessors on a chip and multi threaded processor design. He has authored many papers on CMP design and parallel software and recently completed a book on CMP architecture. Olukotun received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan.

SpambotKiller1:
Oduastates

I have already posted Akinwande, Ogunnaike, Soboyebo, and Dabiri.

Don't post Ilesanmi and Olupona, someone posted Ilesanmi already and I posted Olupona.

Anyway, I'm at the gym now... Should post more from the UK and US tomorrow. The UK has less than 100 University Tutors and a large chunk of them are Yorubas. Posted 3 already but should get to 20 tomorrow hopefully. Then get more from the US and probably Canada.

There are some top Yoruba doctors in the UK as well, but it is somewhat difficult to find them on the internet. I will check tomorrow.

Did not see that. It is good to give our people alternative role models. I am focusing my effort on omoluabis currently active in the sciences.i am consciously leaving out the profs of old

Olufunmilayo Olapade

Professor of medicine and human genetics
University of chicago




Dr. Olopade, a board certified internist and medical oncologist, is the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Associate Dean of Global Health and Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at The University of Chicago.

An international leader in cancer genetics, Dr. Olopade seeks to identify BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers and those at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer earlier in life, intervene aggressively to reduce risk and preempt disease development She studies molecular mechanisms of tumor progression in high-risk individuals as well as genetic and non-genetic factors contributing to tumor progression in diverse populations. Her laboratory is focused on using whole genome technologies and bioinformatics to develop innovative approaches to accelerate progress in cancer research, improve quality of care and reduce costs of cancer care.

An expert in individualized treatment for the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, Dr. Olopade has developed novel population management strategies that include comprehensive risk reducing strategies and prevention, as well as earlier detection through advanced imaging technologies.

Dr. Olopade is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She has received numerous honors and awards, including honorary degrees from Bowdoin University and Princeton University, Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist and Exceptional Mentor Award, American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship, MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship and Officer of the Order of the Niger Award. Dr. Olopade currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine, the National Cancer Advisory Board, the Susan G Komen for the Cure and the Lyric Opera.