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Professor Babatunde Ogunnaike

Chair of Chemical Engineering
Professor, Center for Systems Biology
University of delaware

Babatunde was born on March 26, 1956 in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria. He attended the University of Lagos for his bachelor's degree, graduating with First Class Honours in Chemical engineering in 1976. He commenced academic work as a lecturer at the department of Chemical engineering, University of Lagos, in 1982 and became Senior Lecturer and successively, Associate Professor of Chemical engineering. He continued lecturing at the University of Lagos until 1988. He furthered his studies and earned an M.Sc. degree in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Chemical engineering also from the same University in 1981. He was a Research Engineer with the Process Control group of the Shell Development Corporation in Houston, Texas from 1981 to 1982. He worked as a researcher for DuPont and was also a consultant to several companies including Gore, PPG Industries, and Corning Inc. He joined the faculty of the University of Delaware in 2002 and became the Dean of the College of Engineering in July 2011.[2][3] He has been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja.[4] He is the author and editor of several books, papers and book chapters, used to educate engineers in instrumentation, systems and control at many universities.[5] He was associate editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the American Chemical Society’s Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. His research focuses on modeling and control of industrial processes; the application of process analytical technology for control of pharmaceutical processes; identification and control of nonlinear systems; the interaction of process design and process operability; applied statistics; biological control systems; and systems biology with application to neuronal responses and cancer.[6][7]

John Oluseun Dabiri
(35 years old professor of something at one of America's greatest research institutions.
This shows the degree at destinies are being mortgaged in Nigeria. I know many brilliant people who are unemployed in Nigeria who could easily have been this guy.)


professor of aeronautics and bioengineering, dean at the California Institute of Technology

(born 1980) is an American biophysicist, professor of aeronautics and bioengineering, and dean at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his research of the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion and the design of a vertical-axis wind farm adapted from schooling fish. He is the director of the Biological Propulsion Laboratory,which examines fluid transport with applications in aquatic locomotion, fluid dynamic energy conversion, and cardiac flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts of optimal vortex formation.

In 2010, Dabiri was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his thests and Engineers (PECASE),and being named as one of Popular Science magazine's "Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008. Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its 2012 Technology Innovators.

Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande
Professor of electrical engineering ( MIT)


Akintunde Ibitayo (Tayo) Akinwande is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Professor Akinwande received a B.Sc. (1978) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Ife, Nigeria, a MS (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Professor Akinwande joined Honeywell Inc. in 1986 where he initially conducted research on GaAs Complementary FET technology for very high speed and low power signal processing. He later joined the Si Microstructures group where he conducted research on pressure sensors, accelerometers, thin-film field emission and display devices.

Professor Akinwande joined MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) in January 1995 where his research focuses on micro-fabrication and electronic devices with particular emphasis on smart sensors and actuators, intelligent displays, large area electronics (macro-electronics), field emission & field ionization devices, mass spectrometry and electric propulsion.

Prof. Akinwande is a recipient of the 1996 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award. He has served a number of technical program committees for various conferences, including the Device Research Conference, the International Electron Devices Meeting, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the International Display Research Conference and the International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference. Professor Akinwande holds numerous patents in MEMS, Electronics on Flexible Substrates, Display technologies and has authored more than 100 journal publications. He was a visiting professor at the Cambridge University Engineering Department and an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College in 2002-2003. He is a current member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council.

Research Interests

Microstructures and nanostructures for sensors and actuators, and vacuum microelectronics. Devices for large area electronics and flat panel displays.

Alfred Soboyejo
. Professor of food, agriculture,biological engineering. Ohio States university


Alfred Soboyejo is a professor in Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering as well as Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University. Dr. Soboyejo was a Fullbright scholar and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Soboyejo specializes in multivariate analysis of biological systems, and has published two books on the topic, and co-authored over 10 book chapters. Dr. Soboyejo is a lifetime fellow and member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a faculty fellow of the NASA John Glenn Research Center, and has been awarded multiple awards from the National Science Foundation.

Winston wole Soboyejo
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.( Princeton university)


Wole Soboyejo was educated at King's College London, and The University of Cambridge before coming to the the United States in 1988 to become a research scientist at The McDonnell Douglas Research Labs in St. Louis, MO. In 1992, he worked briefly as a Principal Research Engineer at the Edison Welding Institute before joining the engineering faculty of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at MIT.

Dr. Soboyejo moved to Princeton University in 1999 as a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials. Current areas of interest include micromechanical machines, nanoparticles for disease detection, biomedical systems for prostheses, and cardiovascular systems, infrastructure materials, and alternative energy systems.

Principal Research Efforts

Biomaterials and nanoparticles for disease detection & treatment
MEMS and BioMEMS
Fatigue and fracture of materials
Alternative energy systems
Affordable infrastructure

Please avoid putting people who simply collect paper certificates, politicians and pastorprrneurs on this thread. It should be about omoluabi achievers and those contributing to humanity.
That barrister up there should not be on this thread. There are thousands let like him.
When they reach the pinnacle of their chosen careers, come back then we can dance.

HAKEEM OLUSEYI

(Associate professor of physics)

Oluseyi’s enthusiasm is infectious, making him an inspiring educator. Besides conducting research, he teaches astronomy in Africa and leads the One Telescope Project to supply every country with at least one research-grade telescope. He also appears regularly on four Discovery Channel series. In How to Survive the End of the World, which debuts on the National Geographic Channel on Tuesday, he explains how to survive a killer pandemic, volcanic cataclysm and other doomsday scenarios.

As a kid, Oluseyi moved with his single mother from one inner city to another. When she noticed him getting in trouble with the law, she moved him to rural Mississippi to live with his dad. When Oluseyi wasn’t acting up, he was tinkering with his chemistry set. “I just love to discover and invent,” he said. “It’s what always fulfilled me.”

Oluseyi doesn’t see himself as the next Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson … ”I want to be the next Albert Einstein.”
After high school, Oluseyi enrolled at Tougaloo College in Jackson, where he struggled to stay afloat. Although he aced his physics classes, he got Cs in math and kept getting in trouble on the streets. Dejected, he dropped out during his junior year and took a hotel janitor job. But when he couldn’t move up to a bellhop position, even after months of working, he’d had enough.

So he returned to Tougaloo. But this time, he resolved to do things right. While his friends partied, he worked on solving every problem in his calculus textbook. To master math, he majored in it.

Oluseyi had another breakthrough when three black physics students from MIT and Harvard invited him to meet graduate school recruiters at a conference in Washington, D.C. Recruiters from Stanford University ended up accepting him to the school’s physics PhD program.


But Oluseyi had to fight through Stanford too. He had trouble navigating social norms. On his first day, he asked a classmate, a little too loudly, “Man, see all these squirrels on campus? How come nobody eats them?” The room fell silent. Other students were just mean. He isolated himself from them and retreated next door to East Palo Alto, the murder capital of the country at the time.

Just like their forefathers, they sold their people to slavery for a bottle of gin.
Their country remains a cesspit and their people are suffering but who cares.
Go to the schools attended by most of these people and you will cry.
That is why the level of enlightenment attained by the Thomas Sankara of this world will remain rare.
First of all, you cannot be bowing to foreign gods and call yourself a visionary. What vision?

Separation is necessary and the Niger delta militants hold the trump card.
Nothing else holds the country together other than oil. Once that oil stops flowing, the illegal and diabolical construct of an outrageous pseudo -feudal state would become weak.
Nothing joins the country together better than the monthly sharing of revenues.
You only need to ask a few questions before you determine that all the shouts of "One Nigeria" does not make a country.

Separation is necessary and the Niger delta militants hold the trump card.

Stop flogging a dead horse.
Leave the fence, get on your bike to get all the people of the yoruba country out of that contraption.
The funniest thing is that they are ready to wait for another 100 years for some to get mass educated or others to become liberal minded.
Never mind that you are being outbred like 3 to 1.
Nigeria is a dead country and it has been like that since independence.

azat:
I don't know how people become too sentimental to think that this country will ever work. It's blind faith. I wish I could get such a faith, but unfortunately pramatism will not let me.

I do not feel bad when people refer to Nigeria as a zoo. It is almost like a zoo.

I rest my case. Talkin abt this place, this entity called Nigeria, will only bring you headache.

I refuse to blame anyone who seem to have lost hope here.

They are simply used to mediocrity. I criticised Fashola and tinubu recently,some I did not do before, because the dangers of GEJ clueless regime.
We cannot afford to remove the better ones from the chessboard while the clueless ones are wrecking havoc.
While the money might not be there to build world class infrastructure, you do not need too much money to enforce town planning rules.


In 2008, South Africa's estimated share of world platinum production amounted to 77%; kyanite and other materials, 55%; chromium, 45%; palladium, 39%; vermiculite, 39%; vanadium, 38%; zirconium, 30%; manganese, 21%; rutile, 20%; ilmenite, 19%; gold, 11%; fluorspar, 6%; aluminium, 2%; antimony, 2%; iron ore, 2%; nickel, 2%; and phosphate rock, 1%.[28] South Africa also accounted for nearly 5% of the world's polished diamond production by value.[28] The country's estimated share of world reserves of platinum group metals amounted to 89%; hafnium, 46%; zirconium, 27%; vanadium, 23%; manganese, 19%; rutile, 18%; fluorspar, 18%; gold, 13%; phosphate rock, 10%; ilmenite, 9%; and nickel, 5%.[28] It is also the world's third largest coal exporter.

The mining sector has a mix of privately owned and state-controlled mines, the latter including African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation.[32]


From Wikipedia

SkyBlue1:
Not disagreeing, but saying their infrastructural development is on par with Europe is silly. Even America is not up to Europe when it comes to certain infrastructure (public trasnport being one).

Apart from the old western European countries with their classical infrastructure mixed with modernity, south Africa's infrastructure is actually better than most of the other European countries. Coming From someone who has visited 15 of them countries. The likes of Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Latvia,Albania, Hungary do not have comparable infrastructure.

NewNigeriaMind:
Watch this thread for more pics mainly from their main business district similar to our Victoria Island and you will pity Nigeria.

More pics will come tomorrow.

Victoria island and ikoyi were destroyed in the 70's.Look closely and what you spot the keys, ipanja and the mushin in the island. Same open gutters, lack of walkways, bus stops, same containers and Pako shacks ,

Largest economy my butt.
Nothing but Iweala statistical 419 for Jonathan's reelection.
Even after massaging and inflating the figures from agriculture, it is easy for the discerning to figure out that the South African economy is not only larger, but deeper.
It shows not only from the size of their budget but even from their agricultural output. Products which are exported all over the world.
What about banking, telecommunications, IT,statistics, tourism, mining, show business, construction etc. South Africa totally owns Nigeria.
Lastly, when I say that Abuja is rubbish for the money spent and wasted on it, your picture proves it all over again.
South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia etc were building power plants, steel plant,aqueduct,pharmaceutical, IT,industrial and technology Hubs while our useless leaders were wasting money on building a chappy and soulless capital.
Guess what? they are still wasting money on that rubbish.
The worst thing is that Nigerians cannot even build their own damn roads. They give the contracts to foreigners to build them substandard infrastructure.

We are missing their daily dose of hate from hate radio ,aren't we?

Puuff.
Play or dance,
I can assure you of one thing, countries are never formed by drawing lines around where oil Wells are located.
There will never be a Biafra on the western side of the river Niger.

spanishkid:
I'll only take them serious if they fire the first shot. I can't wait to go on a killing spree on the igbos. These cockroaches should wiped once and for all this time.

You do not have to wait, you can as well head to Syria or Afghanistan now.
You mentally deranged Idiaaat.

my score for Fashola is 30 %, which is better than the -100% I score the other foolz.
In other words,most of the others are not fit to manage a small poultry, and they should be nowhere near government.

Why 30%?
I spared Fashola and tinubu of any criticism when the diabolical and evil Jonathan regime was around, but this was not because without fault.
We are so used to mediocrity that an outlier is always celebrated.
We cannot even build our damn roads.( Note that the streets of Ife were paved more than 600 years ago)
For example, after 16 years In government, the SW governors have not deemed it necessary to educate enough citizens to do most of the technical work which are given to foreigners.
They are incapable of looking beyond their immediate political and family circle. And to these people,they give minor the work on which they deliver substandard work.
You want to build bridges, call the Germans in Julius Berger.

You want build roads, call some uneducated Syrians, a Lebanese plumber or a company called RCC.
As " better than the rest " as Fashola is, he is still far from the mentality of the leaders who developed south Korea and Singapore.
One thing for sure, their leaders did not spare the change on primary, secondary, tertiary and civic education.
Technical education was also so important that south Korea at a point sent 20,000 nurses to Germany because they had trained so many.
Also, every spare change and borrowing was spent on industrial infrastructure like Steel, power,machine tools, chemical plant, water, agriculture etc.
What about the arrogance of nationalism? They made sure that whereever possible, they built their stuffs themselves thereby learning from mistake.
If Fashola and tinubu cannot find competent enough and young omoluabis to do most of the jobs they contract out to foreigners, then they are what they are;
Persons in positions of leadership for the times.

Yep. Most of it is concocted rubbish.
Like
Was there a progrom in the north which consumed
50,000 lives ( not only igbos even if they made up the majority,all outsiders were attacked ) .
Yes
But there was also a reprisal progrom in the East in which 5000 resident northerners were massacred.
Someone may argue that those eastern massacre would not have happened if igbos were not attacked in the north.
Yes
The same argument can be applied to the coup and massacre of leaders from other regions.
The counter coup, the progroms and the civil war would not have happened if the coup had not happen.

Nigeria and Nigerian have a misunderstanding of what it takes to achieve growth and development. Development equals Road, flyover and a few tacky houses( "mansion").
Firstly , you cannot allow Iweala, others like her and the organisations they represent( IMF and world bank) to dictate your policies.
Secondly, states like benue, kogi,taraba, kaduna, osun,jigawa,kwara etc should be buying tractors and not wasting money on airports.
Thirdly, The wasting of money on a mediocre capital ( Abuja) must stop. Designed After Brazilia and Canberra, Abuja is substandard when the money already spent is taken into account.
Education is the basis of development. Well groomed and educated people do not vote for idiots.
Another example,
Teaching LCM,HCM,binary,mode, mean, median etc in primary school and not following it up with their physical application in computing,statistics,medicines etc at the secondary and tertiary level is diabolical.
I can go on an on.

The corrupt People who were the beneficiaries of IBB'S government remain loyal to him till today.
Same goes for Jonathan.
It seems the only way you can buy loyalty is to allow absolute corruption to reign,and to be absolutely corrupt yourself.
A serving commissioner is the one defending his master who is no longer a governor.

$1000 bore hole?
I can do with one.
Is this guy confusing a well for a borehole.

They should both keep quiet

I've said it before. Beyond corruption, Nigeria is suffering from a lack of competent managers

GogetterMD:
Just 300 strong? Don't bother then. Just give us needed weapons

300 can be more effective than 50,000.
2 spotters and 1 markers calling airstrike on targets can be more effective
They are definitely not coming to hold ground.

They are suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

Something is wrong if the terrorists can move on a paved Road unchallenged.
No aerial threat visible in that video.

You have answered the question already.
A matter of one broom stick or the whole bunch.
What matters is how each fits into making the whole structure rigid.

Where should they have come from?

PDP?
SDP?
UPN?

When governance is reduced to anything and nothing.