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otumfour:
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I guess he came to plead wit your presido to release u (omo-tori) from the shackles of your ignoramus-ity
don't worry, it will be o.k. someday tunde  ,  Omo-tier1 chill cuz tht ain' tha way to ask for gari on a public forum
lmao!
can't u see the excoba's and the l.kravitz discussing malay?, I suggest u join 'em cuz tha fight is ova, u late

Tell us, did he come to ask for more money to fund your budget or He came to pay home call on Pastor T.B. Joshua ? FYI, I have lots of Ghana matey in the UK but they are just "NEUTRAL" matey, nothing more than hey we both have black skins, (err maybe not the huge muscles ya got,  ). Shame I have to say this, Ghana,  SA and Jamaicans are the least of the black skin people I would call my own in the UK. Remember when some Ghanians came over to the UK to study construction management and I helped them srt out student jobs thinking we were one Africa but I was wrong.

Remember when I was in university in england and the Ghanian dude was ranting about how Ghana was leading Africa and one of my course matey (white dude) that was chilaxing with us asked him how much was the average salary of a young graduate in Ghana and if Ghana has a space programme like some other African countries and the Ghana dude went quiet!

Is it today you guys realize that UN and her agencies don KO LO ? Why do you think in the last 18months Nigeria barely pays attention to their figures? That is the beauty of THIS LIFE ( hmmm no I am not talknig about WAE ADENUGA PRODUCTION), REALITY can never be confused with assumptions! WE NIGERIANS that live in Nigeria know better so we just gloss over these reports 'cos they are meaningless. Did they not publish one recently that bothers on the easy of doing business in Nigeria and the report was found to be riddle with so much inaccuracies and their paid Nigeria counterpart start making stupid comments on AIT.

Just like CHINA, We, NIGERIANS should just ignore the UN and her agency reports and let focus on doing what is right to develop Nigeria and empower fellow citizens. Today, the UN takes permission from CHINA before she publishes any report(s) about her for the obvious consequences of what will follow if such permission is not sort! SOON Nigeria will assume that position if we seek to do what is right NOW.

eewule:
ALL THE PEOPLE POSTING HERE FIGHTING EACH OTHER OF WHICH COUNTRY IS BETTER
YOU ARE ALL FOOLS, LOOK AT THE E.U, (EUROPEANS) THEY ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO CREATE A REGION
SO POWERFUL, WHERE THE ECONOMIC STABILITY IS SHARED BY EVERY COUNTRY.
YET WE WEST AFRICANS, GHANA AND NIGERIA WITH SO MUCH IN COMMON COULD LEAD WESTERN AFRICA
TO THE FRONT LINE, YET WE COME ON THIS POTENTIALLY USEFULL WEB FORUM TO SPEND TIME CURSING AND INSULTING EACH OTHER.

YOU ARE AS MUCH OF A LIABILITY TO OUR WEST AFRICA AS THE LEADERS WHO LOOT AND WONT
DEVELOP THE REGION.

SORRY MATE, WE DO NOT NEED GHANA TO SURVIVE AND GHANA IS NOT OUR TRADING PARTNER, RATHER IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND! NIGERIA HAS SPENT YEARS BANKROLLING ECOWAS, GIVING ASSISTANCE TO SO MANY COUNTRIES IN THE REGION INCLUDING THE WIGGY GHANA! GHANA HAS BEEN ONE COUNTRY THAT HAS WORKED AGAINST THE UNITY OF ECOWAS, RESISTING FREE TRADE AMONGST MEMBER COUNTRY, TRYING TO BE A PROTECTIONIST!

@that otumfour ( oh boy make una ear name!!) you havent told us what your president came to do in Nigeria two weeks agowith a pretence courtesy call! hmmm something tells me , he came to beg for money as usual!

homerac7:
Omo_Tier1,
Chei, na yawa wan gas for u so, abi no b so? no fear, d 'local graduates' dey house to yield way 4 your 'foreign graduate' lordship when mama charlie give u quit notice.

anyway sha, no b say i wish u ill, na just to caution u on use of words when next u wan yarn okpata for NL.

wishn u well, even if tempest shoul arise brother.

oh boy,  e bi like say you don miss road! shooo, you don see where dem dey give landlord quit notice o? oh boy, you yeye pass ogiridi erosion oh! as e bi say una no like truth,  i go yarn d truth for NL until ewkoroto water begin flow again! Local graduates na yawa! You don employ any of them before? me don do am! no be so so theory nah hin local graduates know? ask am make e do practical e go begin tell you tory how thier school take go on strike for 50years,  how e mama no take like kpokpo garri with dry okpokotor stock fish!, abeg leave matter with mattais,

as for d the matter wey me post,  me no post am for boboyeye like you,  nah for people wey dey do their agbokiri residency permutation , nah them me post am for,  and FYI,  me hold ground naija and UK nah only holiday home for me, that na why I always dey represent naija anywhere I go, because our grandpapa wey dey village do yarn before say , "there is no place like home". Oh before I forget,  if u still dey roam street, my company for naija get two posts going, e bi like say you go qualify for the one wey the people dey wear brown kaki shirt with long trouser and them dey take stand for door and gate every now and then,  mind you our pay  take small better pass NDLEA own.

you don be Dora Akunyili, a bi? if u never be dora, why u come dey caution people for the words nah? chineke!! see wetin madam rebranding don do to our Naija youths ,  err make u no fear,  omo_Tier1 no be person wey erosion go carry from heathrow come dump for murtala,

The United Kingdom Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has recommended that holders of Tier1, 2, Work Permit Holders and HSMP related visas should loose right to settle in the UK, see the attached link for report details. Current in-countr holders of these category of visas would likely face immigration cap by before 2014.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/workingwithus/mac/mac-limits-t1-t2/report.pdf?view=Binary

idupaul:
I must commend homerac and beaf for showing that there are stil nigerians that cant be bamboozled. And even dora the great scientist<lol> stood there and listened to utter rubbish. That school should be monitored by the education ministry to make sure they are nt charlatanizing educational curriculum

arrant nonsense!

homerac7:
@ Omo_tier,
Next time u want to challenge me on engineering judgement, go get better knowledge or shut up.

Maybe you have not be told his before, you only challenge wat is bigger than you and since I know you aint, I wouldn't waste my time on you. Haven read both post, I conclude your just a rage tag who thinks He knows alot yet sounds like an empty vessel. I think my first post sums you up very well and please when next you care to make comments on sujbect matter were you have ery littleexpertist try to limit your comment to your knowledge pool and avoid sounding like your anyway better, which is always the problem of so called Nigerian home gaduates.

netotse:
of recent, there have been quite a number of people advertising 'fuel-less' generators which they say are not inverters and dont need any form of input, in addition to not having any moving part, one even came to constitute a nuisance in the electrical engineers thread. That's the proper context of the story. . .the reporter is a quack who didn't feel the need to verify the idea he was praising before going to the press.

I am not aware that this reporter is a quak, only reading that from your post - sigh you may be right. I may be wrong but your post seems to imply that the idea these kids where displaying isnt novel and that it is common, yet you have completely failed to explain to us what is so common in what these kids hae displayed rather you went about ramblng on how someone esle did A or B. Typical Nigerian, always criticizing but never providing the right solution! You mind explaining to us in technical terms why you think what the kids have displayed is not so novel after all and please be specific so that a layman can read your post and make up his mind without any prejudice

ROSSIKE:
Beaf, I think you're wrong in stating that free energy technologies are all fraudulent. In fact, you are very very wrong my friend.
There is a LOT of suppressed technology out there - suppressed because making it widely available would end the wealth of the tiny minority who milk us by our dependence on their costly, fuel-based technologies, from cars to airplanes.

Whilst I apreciate your perspective and level of reasoning on this issue, I beg to differ from your conclusion as par the part in bold of your post. The only reason crude oil based energy source is still widely used today is simply because of the following issues:
1. Relatively cheap at source and good value for money compared to alternatives.
2. Attendant risk is well known to a large exent compared to alternatives.
3. The multi-purpose derivatives of crude oil based energy source compared to alternatives.
4. The enormous value added chain crude oil based energy source which leaves government with swollen purse of tax revenues compared to alternatives.
5. It is a complete myth for anyone to make you believe that alternatives to crude oil based energy will solve the world's energy need. Come to think of it, even the so called hybrid technologies, they all rely on crude oil based energy in one form or the other e.g. electric cars: How do you manufacture the so called lithium or other form of batteries currently being used in these cars?

Finally, I think God knew best that the earth will rely on crude oil based energy for her survival hence the reason He (God) opened the eyes of men to not only discover crude oil but also to work out how vastly it could change humanity and human development forever!

homerac7:
In as much as I commend d efforts of d young Pupils I feel obliged to rebuke d reporter for sensational colouration.

I am a mechanical engineer an sense of professional duty demands dt d newer generation r groomed appropriately.

While d work of d youngsters is praiseworthy, it should not b presented as though they own d technology. D technology is all over town and is ordinary.

Secondly, d description is most inappropriate, unscientific and mischievously calculated to misguide unsuspecting public. There is nothing as fuel-less engine just as there is no effortless machine. It's a basic law dt energy(electricity inclusive) can neither b created nor destroyed. U only get conversion from a form to another. So if there's electrical energy output, wasn't there input? Is work output over input unity, thereby creating a perpetual motion machine wc engineering laws say r impossible?

D claim as published is plain silly and irresponsible. It's an engineering professional duty to show responsibility to d society and not mislead them. D project is merely a junior students work wc an electrical engineer will b quick to point out its crudeness as cheaper and less moving-part electrical components can easily b substituted for d mechanical parts to reduce wear losses and improve performance. They r only students dt need to b tutored properly and developed character wise. Definitely by teaching them sincerity and not deception or mediocrity.

Are you trying to be clever or you'r suffering from a daft a la daftism illness? Since you claimed to be a professional Mechanical engineer, and if true, what on earth about power generation through magnetic flux don't you understand? Where in that article did the kids claim there was no "input" into the system? So funny that with all your education, you could not fathom that the headline was written in the contex of the present predicament of Nigeria as par electricity generation using Fuel (aka PETROL)? Funny how you fail to understand what the whole article was trying to point out! I.e. these kids (albeit mere Junior students as you stupidly claimed) were able to grasp the fundamentals of such a core technology and took a step further to put their understanding to work. Hence if given the need impetus, these kids nd their likes all over Nigeria will form the back bone of the Industrailized Nigeria in 2050 and beyond.
I am lost as to how you came to your obnoxious conclusions that these kids were being misled, deceived and misinformed! I think I could summarize your post thus: senseless rants! Take the article for what it is and stop insinuating! The part of your comment in bold leaves me wondering if you truly know so much about heat transfer and power generation!

For those clamouring for Gas to Light as a way of solving Nigeria's electricity problems, hope you guys are taking into account the cost of gas say by 2005 and beyond? No doubt we can generate lots of electricity from te abundant gas reserve Nigeria has again we have to realised that once we have stable electricity more industries will spring up and vast majority of these companies will using gas to power their machineries!

As for the location of the Nuclear reactors, I my own opinion, the following states would be suitabe locations

1. Cross River - Due to easy access from the high sea and available mountain range (Bakassi Penisula a possible site) - Risk level Low to Medium
2. Awka-Ibom - Due to easy access from the high sea and it is a fringe state too -Risk level low to medium
3. Adamawa - A boarder state with vast landmass, close proximity to and already existing national grid and sub-station -Risk level: Low to Medium
4. Sokoto - A boarder state with vast landmass, close proximity to and already existing national grid and sub-station -Risk level: Low to Medium
5. Pleatue - A mountain range, already a host state to national grid and sub-stations - Risk level : Low to Medium
6. Lagos -Island - A remote location with good security,easy acess from the high sea, already a host of base stations, national grid - Risk level: Medium to High

Wonders shall never end!, Just watched it on NTAnews24 and on AIT, Siliverbird! First Lady (aka GEJ's wife) bags Dr. of aba da bi di from a University in Benue State! why 9ja dey rubbish Doctorate like this now? or this woman wan be Dr. like her husband by all means?, hmmm something like Dr, DAME Patience J. First lady, Federal Republic of Okirika!

ezeagu:
So the faulty Russian planes all those Nigerian airlines used to use (?) with all those nose dives have been forgotten so soon?

I am not sure if you are aware that the Russians have one of the world most advanced 4th Generation fighter jet ( with only J35/F35 as her rival) and are currently building another 5th generation fighter jet which would enter into service between 2015 and 2020. Technology wise, russians aint laid back and they can give you what you want if you have the money! The planes Nigeria bought from them was at least world class as at the time we bought them and its not fault of russia if Nigeria could not put theirs to good use (ask the indians how they used their MiGs and now they can boast of technical know how in fighter aircraft design and manufacture)

SapeleGuy:
Omo_tier1 - if Nigeria's progress was to be measured in white papers and proposals we would be leading the developed world in all development indices.
We have to be a bit light hearted sometimes. The scepticism witnessed here is wholly justified when you bear in mind that this a country that can not maintain ordinary drainage gutters. On a serious note, the north is the best place for it because there is already a small reactor in Zaria.

Where in my previous post did I mention that Nigeria's should be measured on paper? I was only saying the obvious that Nigeria's quest to generate electricity (an d/or energy) from Nuclear power did not just come out of the sahara desert winds! There is a white paper that is being implemented and it appears that the meeting held by the Forieng Ministers of Nigeria and Russia may have been occassioed by the implementation of blue print/white paper on Nuclear technology acquisition and utilization. Are you also aware that the EU is assisting us in that regard in acquiring the needed human capacity in nuclear medicne and the University of Ibadan is one of such beneficiary of the EU/un ASSISTANCEprogramme? As for the part of your post in bold, could you provide an technical and strategic justification (including security, logistics and otherwise) for your choice of North  other than the reason of a small teaching demonstration nuclear reactor in Zaria? How about the mountainious regions in South-East Nigeria which also boarders some water bodies, hence facilitating the easy of transportation and removal nuclear materials true the sea instead of roads. Also, google up the UK and France's nuclear sites and observe one thing  the locations have in common.

Sad 80% of the post on this topic are neither educative nor objective. I was expecting to read Nigerians talk ( based on scientific knowledge and Nigeria particularity) about the merit and/or demerits of Nigeria's quest to engage nuclear energy rather all one can read is typical fear factor and nonsensical comments.

How many of us truly know where we are as a country as par our white paper on Nuclear technology acquisition and utilization both in medicine and power generation? I believe this white paper was drawn up during the Obasanjo's government and the first phase of that paper on acquisition nad utilization of nuclear materials for medical usage is currently being implemented. Also, as part of this plan, a good number of Nigerian scientist are currently bieng trained in the USA and Europe just like we did in Space technology which is gradually paying off as Nigeria can today boast of engineers and scientist who can design, implement and deploy small scale satellites into orbit.

@joganut  

Thank you for that post. I think you are right and I am sure its not just the FG alone that needs "rebranding" on mainteance culture, every Nigerian truly does need it!

Justcash:
That is if it is not Nigerians that will own your Oil sector like we own every economic sector in Ghana. Lol! When we own it, you guys will continue crying like Hot baboons that you are.
Don't forget that Ghana started using Mobile phones before Nigeria. How come Globacom that was formed less than 20 years ago is in control of your telecom industry? Where are the Ghana owned telecom companies? Recognise your boss when you see us.

Like I told a Ghanian in the UK, they are being deceived by their new quasi-status of oil producing country! Beside they have not even started producing upto 200,000bpd of oil and they are already behaving as if they have the world's largest reserve of oil.

As I already mention, Ghana is not a country to reckon with! Human capacity and otherwise they have nothing going for them. They claim to be pace setters but we own much of what is in their country! Banking sector is controlled by Nigerian Banks (Gtb, etc) , Telecom -Glo, IT-Omatek, Zinox, Entertainment -Nollywood! hmmm how are they pace setters?,  mumulogy must be a common degree in Ghana!!

For all I care, where and when it matters, Ghana is not a country to be reckoned with! Funny that in Nigeria we are kicking or bad leaders 'cos of the present state of our infrastructure cmpared to other advanced countries but come to think of it Ghana, a country that claims to be the frontier of advancement in Africa aka pace setters can not boast of half of the infrastructure Nigeria already has!

otumfour:
people what am abt to show is very ill, Nigerians! u need to wake up and stop your leaders from turning u into savages, your people are hungry, jus look @ what armed robbers did to their hostages on the Sagamu-Benin road this is sadly the reality in Nigeria, am concerned cuz if things get outta hand most Nigerians would want to move to Ghana but I pray nothing like this eva happens
so instead of turning into keyboard ninjaz (which means fearo's) fight the inner problem

Hope your President did not come to Abuja asking for more money again when He came paying so called "Courtsey" call on our GEJ. Let Ghanians continue to deceive themselves with the over hype about their country. For all I care, Ghana can think of flexing her muscles with Nigeria when amongest other :
1. They can produce brains who will authors books to be used in Ghanaian's schools
2. Attract one of the largest FDI
3. Own banks that can serve her own people (Apart from Barclays which is a foriegn bank, the Major lending Banks in Ghana are Nigerian Owned)
4. Generate their own Electricity and not rely on other countries.
You can call our leaders names as you like, I am sure that Ghana is no better when it comes to leadership and corruption otherwis one of the main issue in your last election was the perceived corruption of the the outgoing President!

Maybe you need to look at all the current reports about emerging economies in the world and ask yourself the question as to why (despite all the hype about Ghana) your country is not mentioned as amongest the top 5 countries that investors are currently pouring their money into!

I am not into supercomputing but while doing some research involving Artificial Intelligence (ANN), I came across an article on an international Scientific magazine bothering on Emeagwali's works on oil reservior simulation and the hard nut the dude cracked for the world. So I am in no doubt that this guy is what we call "BRAIN" in the scientific community.

It is a sad reflection that most Nigerians hate success with hardwork and their mind set seems to be engraved in diatribe. If this dude was and/or is fraudulent, then I think all the officials of the state of Michigan are also fraudulent and the FBI/CIA are an unserious agency for letting him make all these claims without anything to back them up.

As for the poster who said giving talk in IEE is just something any dude can be invited to do, you must be kidding! I would question if you have every presented a paper in a regional summit of experts, and compare that with Emeagwali presenting his papers in a conference of who is who in the world of advanced computational Mathematics.

Funny how people claim South Africa military is the strongest yet she has never fought and won in any Major conflict in Africa. I thought it was the man who made his opponent surrender that was the strongest man in the fight and not the man with the biggest muscles?

Those who think Nigeria military are unprofessional I guess you truly do not know anything about the Nigerian military. For goodness sake, do not equate the Nigeria military to the Nigeria Army! They are not the same thing.

Yes when it comes to equipment, Nigeria military is currently renewing much of her weaponary due to years of neglect. And by the way, can someone try to justify South Africa's purchase and/or interest of purchase of A400M, Euro Fighter jets costing millions of Dollars. Which country in Southern Africa is a serious treat to SA? Beside other power brokers in Africa who could pose serious treat to SA reside in regions outside Southern Africa! Excuse my shortcomings; other than economic partnership/knowledge exchange but I think SA purchase of these highly sophisticated military planes is just for showmanship/big boys club thingy!

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU HAVE A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE! THIS WOMAN HAS LOST THE PLOT COMPLETELY! SINCE SHE GOT INTO THE MINISTRY OF TATAFO, HER VALUE HAS DIMINISHED COMPLETELY!

     , SOMEONE SHOULD TELL DORA THAT NAIJA IS STRONGLY PART OF THE REBRANDING!, NIGERIA IS KINDA FORIEGN TO US AND IF MADAM TATAFOE DOESNT KNOW IT YET, NAIJA IS OUR OWN UNIQUE WAY TO REBRANDING AND CREATING IDENTITY FOR OURSELVES AND WE A PROUD OF IT,
     NAIJA 4 LIFE, 0809JA!

Ymodulus:
my friend will you go and sit down. This is my problem with the Nigerian goverment they allow Retards like you use the net your sense correct

May I advise you to go back and read most of my post on NL. I do not trade tackles with ingrates and you would not be the first, hence I this is not a reply to your self esteemed stupidity rather I am only bring to your knowledge that not all in NL are bigots like you are and I would I would stop to pay attention to what you may have to say.

I once believed that capital was another word for money, the accumulated wealth of a country or its people. Surely, I thought, wealth is determined by the money or property in one’s possession. Then I saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed: “Ideas are capital. The rest is just money.”
I was struck by the simplicity of such an eloquent and forceful idea. I started imagining what such power meant for Africa. The potential for progress and poverty alleviation in Africa relies on capital generated from the power within our minds, not from our ability to pick minerals from the ground or seek debt relief and foreign assistance.

If ideas are capital, why is Africa investing more on things than on information, and more on the military than on education? Suddenly, I realized what this idea could mean for Africa. If the pen is mightier than the sword, why does a general earn more than the work of a hundred writers combined? If ideas are indeed capital, then Africa should stem its brain drain and promote the African Renaissance, which will lead to the rebirth of the continent. After all, a renaissance is a rebirth of ideas. And knowledge and ideas are the engines that drive economic growth.

When African men and women of ideas, who will give birth to new ideas, have fled to Europe and the United States, then the so-called African Renaissance cannot occur in Africa. It can only occur in Paris, London and New York. There are more Soukous musicians in Paris, than in Kinshasha; more African professional soccer players in Europe, than in Africa. African literature is more at home abroad than it is in Africa. In other words, Africans in Europe are alleviating poverty in Europe, not in Africa. Until the men and women of ideas — the true healers of Africa — start returning home, the African Renaissance and poverty alleviation will remain empty slogans.

After all, the brightest ideas are generated and harnessed by men of ideas.
The first annual report by J.P. Morgan Chase, a firm with assets of 1.3 trillion dollars, reads: “The power of intellectual capital is the ability to breed ideas that ignite value.” This quote is a clarion call to African leaders to shift purposefully and deliberately from a focus on things to a focus on information; from exporting natural resources to exporting knowledge and ideas; and from being a consumer of technology to becoming a producer of technology.

For Africa, poverty will be reduced when intellectual capital is increased and leveraged to export knowledge and ideas. Africa’s primary strategy for poverty alleviation is to gain debt relief, foreign assistance, and investments from western nations. Poverty alleviation means looking beyond 100 percent literacy and aiming for 100 percent numeracy, the prerequisite for increasing our technological intellectual capital. Yet, in this age of information and globalization when poverty alleviation should result in producing valuable products for the global market and competing with Asia, the United States, and Europe — shamefully, diamonds found in Africa are polished in Europe and re-sold to Africans.

The intellectual capital needed to produce products and services will lead to the path of poverty alleviation. Intellectual capital, defined as the collective knowledge of the people, increases productivity. The latter — by driving economic growth — alleviates poverty, always and everywhere, even in Africa. Productivity is the engine that drives global economic growth.

Those who create new knowledge are producing wealth, while those who consume it are producing poverty. If you attend a Wole Soyinka’s production of Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart,” you consume the knowledge produced by Soyinka and Achebe as well as the actor’s production, much like I consume the knowledge and production of Bob Marley’s through his songs.

We will need wisdom, that which turns too much information — or information overload — into focused power, not only to process, but also to evaluate the overwhelming amount of information available on the Internet. This wisdom will give us the competitive edge and enable us to find creative solutions.
The following story illustrates the difference between information and wisdom. Twelve hundred years ago, in the city of Baghdad, lived a genius named Al-Khwarizmi, who was one of the fathers of algebra. In fact, the word algebra comes from the title of his book Al-jabr, which for centuries was the standard mathematics textbook. Al-Khwarizmi taught in an institution of learning called the House of Wisdom, which was the center of new ideas during Islam’s golden age of science. To this day we computer scientists honor Al-Khwarizmi when we use the word algorithm, which is our attempt to pronounce his name.
One day, Al-Khwarizmi was riding a camel laden down with algebraic manuscripts to the holy city of Mecca. He saw three young men crying at an oasis. “My children, why are you crying?” he enquired.

“Our father, upon his death, instructed us to divide his 17 camels as follows: ‘To my oldest son I leave half of my camels, my second son shall have one-third of my camels, and my youngest son is to have one-ninth of my camels.’”
“What, then, is your problem?” Al-Khwarizmi asked.

“We have been to school and learned that 17 is a prime number that is, divisible only by one and itself and cannot be divided by two or three or nine. Since we love our camels, we cannot divide them exactly,” they answered.

Al-Khwarizmi thought for a while and asked, “Will it help if I offer my camel and make the total 18?”
“No, no, no,” they cried. “You are on your way to Mecca, and you need your camel.”
“Go ahead, have my camel, and divide the 18 camels amongst yourselves,” he said, smiling.
So the eldest took one-half of 18 — or nine camels. The second took one-third of 18 — or six camels. The youngest took one-ninth of 18 — or two camels. After the division, one camel was left: Al-Khwarizmi’s camel, as the total number of camels divided among the sons (nine plus six plus two) equaled 17.
Then Al-Khwarizmi asked, “Now, can I have my camel back?”

These young men had information about prime numbers, but they lacked the wisdom to use the information effectively. It is the manipulation of information to accomplish seemingly impossible purposes that defines true wisdom.

Today, we have ten billion pages of information posted on the Internet — more than enough to keep us busy the rest of our lives, and new information is being added daily. More information has been created in the last 100 years than in all of the previous 100,000 years combined. We need the wisdom to sift through and convert these billions of pages into information riches.

The genius of Al-Khwarizmi was not in his mathematical wizardry or even his book knowledge: It was in his experiential knowledge — his big-picture, right-brain thinking; creativity; innovation; and wisdom. It was his wisdom to add a camel to make the total 18 and still get his camel back.

Prime numbers are to whole numbers what the laws of physics are to physics. Twenty years ago, I used an Al-Khwarizmi approach to solve a notoriously difficult problem in physics. I added inertial force, which enabled me to reformulate Newton’s Second Law of Motion first as 18 equations and algorithms, and then as 24 million algebraic equations. Finally, I programmed 65,000 “electronic brains” called processors to work as one to solve those 24 million equations at a speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Like Al-Khwarizmi, I derived my 18 equations through out-of-the-box thinking in an in-the-box world, adding my metaphorical camel: inertial force. In other words, I applied wisdom to known knowledge to generate intellectual capital.

Unless Africa significantly increases its intellectual capital, the continent will remain irrelevant in the 21st century and even beyond. Africa needs innovators, producers of knowledge, and wise men and women who can discover, propose, and then implement progressive ideas. Africa’s fate lies in the hands of Africans and the solution to poverty must come from its people. The future that lies ahead of Africa is for Africa to create, after the people have outlined their vision. We owe it to our children to build a firm foundation to enable them go places we only dreamt. For Africa to take center stage in today’s economic world, we have to go out and compete on a global basis. There is simply no other way to succeed.

•Transcribed from a lecture delivered by Philip Emeagwali at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Therefore, a study of history of science is an effort to stitch together a quilt that has life, texture and color. African historians must insert the patches of information omitted from books written by European historians. There are many examples of the mark Africans have made on world history.

Americans are surprised when I tell them Africans built both Washington’s White House and Capitol. According to the US Treasury Department, 450 of the 650 workers who built the White House and the Capitol were African slaves. Because the White House and Capitol are the two most visible symbols of American democracy, it is important to inform all schoolchildren in our globalized world that these institutions are the results of the sweat and toil of mostly African workers. This must also be an acknowledgement of the debt America owes Africa.

Similarly, discussions of globalization should credit those Africans who left the continent and helped build other nations throughout the world - most nations on Earth. Africans who have made contributions in Australia, in Russia, and in Europe must be acknowledged so our children can have heroes with African roots - so they can know their own roots and be proud of them.

The enormous contributions of Africans to the development and progress of other nations has gone unacknowledged. We have yet to acknowledge, for example, that St. Augustine, who wrote the greatest spiritual autobiography of all time, called “Confessions of St. Augustine,” was an African; that three Africans became pope; that Africans have lived in Europe since the time of the Roman Empire; that Septimus Severus, an Emperor of Rome, was an African; and that the reason Beethoven was called “The Black Spaniard” was because he was a mulatto of African descent.

Why are we reluctant to acknowledge the contributions and legacies of our African ancestors? We cannot inspire our children to look toward the future without first reminding them of their ancestors’ contributions.

Look at the long struggle of African Australians, who recently became citizens with rights on their native continent. Africans have been living in Australia for 50,000 years. Yet, African Australians were granted Australian citizenship just 42 years ago, in 1967. According to CNN, African Australians were not recognized as human beings prior to 1967. They “were governed under flora and fauna laws.” African Australians were, in essence, governed by plant and animal laws. For many years, African Australians were described as the “invisible people.” In fact, the first whites to settle in Australia named it the “land empty of people.”
The contributions of Africans to Russia must be reclaimed. Russia's most celebrated author, A.S.(Aleksandr Sergeyevich) Pushkin, told us he was of African descent. Pushkin’s great-grandfather was brought to Russia as a slave. Russians proclaim Pushkin as their “national poet,” the “patriarch of Russian literature” and the “Father of the Russian language.” In essence, Pushkin is to Russia what Shakespeare is to Britain. Yet Africans who have read the complete works of Shakespeare are not likely to have read a single book by Pushkin.

I was asked to share today the story behind my supercomputer discovery. It would require several books to tell the whole story, but I will share a short one that I have never told anyone. The journey of discovery to my supercomputer was a titanic, one-man struggle. It was like climbing Mount Everest. On many occasions I felt like giving up. Because I was traumatized by the racism I had encountered in science, I maintained a self-imposed silence on the supercomputer discovery that is my claim to fame.

I will share with you a supercomputing insight that even the experts in my field did not know then and do not know now. In the 1980s, supercomputers could perform only millions of calculations per second and, therefore, their timers were designed to measure only millions of calculations per second. But I was performing billions of calculations per second and unknowingly attempting to time it with a supercomputer timer, which was designed to measure millions of calculations per second. I assumed my timer could measure one-billionth of a second. It took me two years to realize my timer was off a thousand-fold.
I was operating beyond a supercomputer’s limitations, but I did not know it. The supercomputer designers did not expect their timers to be used to measure calculations at that rate. I almost gave up because I could not time and reproduce my calculations which, in turn, meant I could not share them, two years earlier, with the world.

After years of research, my supercomputer’s timer was the only thing stopping me from getting the recognition I deserved. I realized the timer was wrong, but I could not explain why. I spent two years mulling over why the timer was wrong. It took two long and lonely years to discover why I could not time my calculations. My 3.1 billion calculations per second, which were then the world’s fastest, were simply too fast for the supercomputer’s timer.

What I learned from that experience was not to quit when faced with an insurmountable obstacle – and that believing in yourself makes all the difference. I learned to take a step backward and evaluate the options: Should I go through, above, under, or around the obstacle? Quitting, I decided, was not an option. Indeed, the old saying is true: When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Looking back, I learned that most limitations in life are self-imposed. You have to make things happen, not just watch things happen. To succeed, you must constantly reject complacency. I learned I could set high objectives and goals and achieve them.
The secret to my success is that I am constantly striving for continuous improvements in my life and that I am never satisfied with my achievements. The myth that a genius must have above-average intelligence is just that, a myth. Geniuses are people who learn to create their own positive reinforcements when their experiments yield negative results. Perseverance is the key.

My goal was to go beyond the known, to a territory no one had ever reached. I learned that if you want success badly enough and believe in yourself, then you can attain your goals and become anything you want in life. The greatest challenge in your life is to look deep within yourself to see the greatness that is inside you, and those around you. The history books may deprive African children of the heroes with whom they can identify, but in striving for your own goals, you can become that hero for them – and your own hero, too.

I once believed my supercomputer discovery was more important than the journey that got me there. I now understand the journey to discovery is more important than the discovery itself; that the journey also requires a belief in your own abilities. I learned that no matter how often you fall down, or how hard you fall down, what is most important is that you rise up and continue until you reach your goal. It’s true, some heroes are never recognized, but what’s important is that they recognize themselves.

It is that belief in yourself, that focus, and that inner conviction that you are on the right path, that will get you through life’s obstacles. If we can give our children pride in their past, then we can show them what they can be and give them the self-respect that will make them succeed.

[quote author=kayci_d77 link=topic=549807.msg7134543#msg7134543 date=1289641210]The Name EGUNJE na which language, see what you ppl have done to our Nigerian police, , I lived most of my life in yoruba land, i know what they can do, this fighting skill can only be exhibited by a YORUBA MAN, ahh ma kpa yi[/quote]Very stupid and daft comments to make. Your generation can not see beyond tribal bigotry and the likes. I am not a yoruba but I think I am right so say that the lack of professionalism in our institutions, hence the NPF alike has nothing to do with tribes. We as a nation must accept that there is a standard expected of us when we go about our civic duties and that regardless of where we were told we are from or where we were born.

No tribe in Nigeria can claim to be a saint! Hence we will be deceiving ourselves if we bring tribal sentiments into issues that bothers on our collective refusal to accept our failings as a people and the need to trace our steps backwards and try to imbibe the spirit of doing what is right eve when it does not favour us or our friends, families and tribes men.

Haven read all the comments posted so far, it strikes me that only about 5 or 6 postings made effort to look at those pictures objectively whilest not letting their sense of reasoning to be beclouded.

One thing I know for sure is that majority of you making nonsensical comments about the picture and the NPF in general are no way better and most of you are even worse than those most officers of the NPF.

While I have several reservations about the NPF, however as I examined those pictures, I am left wondering as to why the two of the officers appeared to be wel dressed, armed and look more like the elite Mobile Police Force, while the other that was being wrestled to the ground looks more like an impostor.

As for the reporter, typical of the new generation journalist that write reports on "hearsay" and "them say". One would have expected that the Journalist would have gone further to unearth more information about these officers and from where they were deployed. The Journalist leaves one wondering who is more dangerous: is it the NPF officers fighting or the Journalist that engage in half baked Journalism dissiminating half truths; leaving readers with inconclusive reports.

Finally, in my own candid opinion, these two groups are worst than NPF officers:
1. Nigerian Bankers especially the staff at the counter and the backroom staff that are directly involved with customers accounts. These are "white class" criminals
2. Civil Servants in government owned sensitive establishment. They are a bunch of disgruntled element who see dignity and sincerity as an enemy.These are criminals of the "dark ages"

HAVE YOU ALL NOTICED THAT IT IS ONLY THE UNEDUCATED BACKWARD AND IDIOTIC LEADERS IN THE NORTH ARE THE ONES CRYING ZONING ZONING? WHY 'COS MANY OF THEM KNOW THEY CAN'T WIN A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION IN THEIR OWN STATE!

FEDERAL CHARACTER AND ZONING IS NOT THE SAME THING! OUR OWN FEDERAL CHARACTER CAN BE LIKENED TO THE BRITISH OR THE US RACE AND ETHNICITY EQUALITY LAWS/ACTS WHICH RECOGNIZES EQUALITY FOR ALL RACES AND ETHNICITY.

FEDERAL CHARACTER SHOULD BE SUPPORTED AS THIS WILL ENCOURAGE DIFFERENT PART OF THE COUNTRY TO INVEST AND PRODUCE THE BEST FOR NIGERIA. FEDERAL CHARACTER IF NOT ABUSED WILL GAURANTEE THAT NIGERIA GETS THE BEST FROM EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY WHEREAS

ZONING PICKS THE DUMBEST FROM THE RICH FOOLS (AS THE BIBLE WOULD PUT IT) AND THEN IMPOSE IT ON THE CITIZEN! GET RID OF ZONING, IBB, ATIKU, GEJ, RIBADU, AND ALL OTHERS SHOULD SPILL THE BEANS ABOUT THE 'HOW' THEY WOULD FIX NIGERIA AND TELL US HOW MUCH OF OUR STOLEN COLLECTIVE WEALTH THEY ARE PREPARED TO RETURN!

A lagos High Court sitting in Lagos has voided the Newly Amended Constitution following the case brought by former President of Nigeria Bar Association, (NBA), Olisa Agbakogba. The judge while giving his ruling stated that Mr. President must append his signature to the constitution before it becomes valid since the bill which gave rise to the constitution was an 'ACT' of the National assembly.

This vedict has rendered the current constitution amendment process in both houses of assembly none and void as spoke person for the Senate has told the press that the Senate would appeal the decision. However chairman house rules and business committee of the House of Representative has told the press that the house would abide by the ruling of the court for now but the House would seek to get the matter settled once and for all and most likely, getting the matter settled in final finality by the supreme court.

So where do we go from here? There are two options:

1. The first option is Mr. President signs the amended constitution with some many flaws and wie ranging implications or the president withholds his assent for 30days with grave implication and political limbo for not just INEC but several functions of the government could also be affected.

2. The second option is for the Cheif law officer of the Federation to approach the suprem Court and seek an experte hearing of the case in order to resolve the matter once and for all.

The first of the two options is more likely as the present timid AG has failed to live up to his responsibility on issues which bothers on constitutionality

Could this be the part two of the third term agenda of former President Olusegun Obasanjo?,  Your guess is as half good as mine 

[quote author=fASH-CEO link=topic=545927.msg7103278#msg7103278 date=1289234861]My simple question is, what led these scavengers to take such actions?

Until that question is answered, no one is either right or wrong.[/quote]Good question that the dumb Journalist who published the story should have made effort to find out! We can only speculate about the proable reasons but to hook it on poverty is share stupidity more so that the author of the picture doctored it just to put their story across and some dumb wanna be Nigerians are taking it in hook line and sinker!

ocho cinco:
And I hope you do not drown in your own misguided smugness.

So in your mind now, you have discovered a part solution for Nigeria's problems. A billion dollars is not enough he proclaims. Jeez, why stop there. Why not hand over the whole budget eh. . . .No amount is too much obviously.

Pray tell, how much of the government's money in America that you cite as an example
is ploughed into the entertainment sector. See how silly you now sound.

Perhaps now, if your mind is working a little better, you might
start to see other ways the government could help the entertainment industry without
meddling and falling prey to accusations of cronyism.

Like say the government could help with piracy and even with better allround infrastructure so the producers
make use of better facilities alongside the general populace.

People like you talk so much about governance yet know little or nothing about it! Go research properly, everything in USA is massively subsidized with government money. Hollywood is hugely supported by the USA government in form of different grants 'cos the USA sees Hollywood as a diplomatic tool outside of entertainmant! Again let me remind you that this $200million is a load facility and not a pa pa dash me money thingy! I think this should be welcomed by all sane Nigerians and it is well well long over due! How do you think American film producers gain acess to $100million they use to shoot just a single film?

@ DeLaRue,
I completely agree with your post that it is not the government's responsibility to create jobs! In fact if you check some of my previous post on people complaining about the FG not creating jobs, I have always pointed out that government's true responsibility is to create the enabling environment for jobs to be created and sustained, i.e. good road network, top notch security, good health facilities, good water, cheap electricity and of course, good education system that would continue to chunk out brains to sustain innovation and competitiness.

However, what I was trying to drive at in my post is the uncoordinated manner in which the present governor (susposedly an experience individual when it comes to democratic governance i.e his labour experience) is currently bringing about the infrastructural development in the state. Just like you rightly mentioned, there are well over 250 roads currently being reconstructed by the state government and that in itself will bring about employment for the people engaged in such jobs, however like you and I know very well, 65% of people engaged in construction jobs in Nigeria are casual workers who are laid off immediately the present contract is completed! Hence in reality, true jobs are not being created as these individuals pay little or no taxes at the end of the day.

On the issue of creating jobs hence employment, (it might sound like I am contradicting myself) in a "virgin" economy the statement (that individuals should cerate jobs) would be completely true, however if one carefully examines the US style of self generation and/or creation of jobs especially in manufacturing ( which I believe Nigeria should emulate), one would see that the US government (state or FG or both) usually establish or own large percentage of MEGA-industries ( in some cases with private equities) which then create room for individuals to start up small, medium companies to serve as a beespoke and/or componet feeders to these MEGA companies and as a result, these smaller companies which tend to be sparsely located in various communitis end up creating jobs in those communities, hence reducing poverty, increasing government income through taxation.

In the case of Edo state, a state so richly blessed with Solid and Liquid minerals, the state government would have set in motion an industrail growth and development frame work through legislation in the House of Assembly,(as rivers state has done) with a clear blue print of what role the state govt intend to play in either regeneration of existing factoris in the state and/or establishment of new factories so that experts/investors like myself start will then put together ideas of how to approach investment in new start-up and/or beespoke feeder companies in the state.

Before any one start thinking along political lines, let me clarify that I do not belong to any Political party neither am I rotting for any particular party but rather I am a concerned Nigerian, more so an some one who has actively observed how the state governoe would engage true governance which He trumpheted while He was the Lbour leader.

For real, I am beginning to wonder if Edo State government truly has any blue print to bring the state back to where it ought to be in Nigeria! Yes we can see raods are being constructed, yes we can see few schools being rennovated, yes some hospital are being built and/or rennovated, however despite all of these efforts, after spending close to two years in office ( in comparison with Fashola's two years in office) I am yet to see any true blue print of the Edo state government in reviving the state own industries that are moribound, and even those partly owned by the state. More worrying is the fact that there appears to be no coherent plan on governance in the state. Let me take time to butress my points.

Any sane democratic government that wants to impact positive change in the lives of her citizens, the first step such a government takes immediately after assuming office is to set the tone of their government through legislative frame work, (Fashola knew and did this at very on set his administration, another very good example is rivers state government) sponsoring executive bills that would back much of their developmental and/or social welfare drive. However, one is yet to observe such in Edo State. Yes I know there was initially a PDP led house in the state which led to some deadlock but it has being well over 6months since the ACN led house has being in charge, yet there has been no serious drive by the executive arm to set such legislative frame work in motion and rather what one reads, or listen to daily on what is happening in the state is mass movement of certain people from one party to another, leaving one to wonder if the head of the executive arm truly knows what governance in a democratic setting truly means.
While it is commendable that the governor in making efforts to improve infrastructure, however my overriding concern is how will these structures be maintained? To any good observer in Nigeria, since 2008, it has become clear that any state that set her developmental plan based on Federal allocation is bound to fail! A good example is Delta and Bayelsa states who in my opinion have not been able to achieve anything meaningful mainly due to their very poor Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state when one takes into account the strategic location of both states. I think that is another topic of discussion for another day!
In the case of Edo state, following in the good steps of Rivers state, I am of the opinion that Edo state governor should work with the legislators to provide sound laws that will put in place how funds can be raised internally for the maintenance and renewal of these infrastructures, hence will might re-witness the Ogbemudia era when so much was done while He was in office, however there was no laws in place to provide for the funding, hence maintenance and renewal of such infrastructures!

Now over to your forumites, what is your take on this issue?

AS indication emerged at the weekend that former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar might been picked by the Adamu Ciroma-led wise men, the Coalition of Civil Societies of Nigeria, has also backed the former vice-president ahead of the other aspirants, saying he is the best among all of them considering their credential and antecedents.

The coalition said going by their credentials, Abubakar had the better electoral value and commitment to electoral value, hence the wise men should pick him as the consensus candidate.

Addressing journalists in Abuja on the outcome of the meeting at the weekend, the General Secretary of the coalition, Mallam Jibrin Abubakar, said the Civil society groups had looked at the “credentials, antecedents, electoral value and commitment to democratic ethos and have come to the irresistible conclusion that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Turaki Adamawa, is the best of them all.”

Justifying their stand, Abubakar said “Atiku is a grassroots democrat and this will make him acceptable to all Nigerians since he has, over the years, built a bridge of friendship across the nation.”

According to him, the people of the North wanted to break away from the ugly past of presenting an unwilling, unsuitable and unprepared candidate, hence the decision of the coalition to search dutifully and come up with a candidate with proven integrity and unassailable track record.

“Atiku Abubakar is the best material available. He is a consummate democrat and unarguably, the best man with unparalleled democratic credential,” the coalition said.

The coalition, therefore, urged the Adamu Ciroma-led wise men working on the possibility of picking a consensus candidate among the leading presidential aspirants from the North jostling for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to be mindful of the track record and antecedents of each aspirant before settling for any of them.

The coalition said he showed his commitment to democracy when the former vice-president fought former President Olusegun Obasanjo to a standstill over constitutional issues.

“We are all living witnesses to how Atiku Abubakar risked his life, risked his comfort, was ready to forfeit his office, all in his bid to protect our constitution which former President Olusegun Obasanjo was flouting at will, especially in his bid to perpetuate himself in office.

“We are witnesses to how former vice-president Atiku Abubakar toed the path of honour and constitutionality by challenging the numerous, unconstitutional and outright violation of the rights of Nigerians by the imperial majesty – Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.

“More than any living politician and presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar has defended our hard earned democracy and, in the process attracted to himself, a sizeable crop of opponents who, out of envy and jealousy, are out to pull him down,” the coalition added.

It implored Nigerians to settle for only a tested, trusted and untainted democrat, with a track record of performance in office, adding that only a detribalised Nigerian who believed in the rule of law and constitutionality should be allowed to lead the nation.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/13218-2011coalition-of-civil-societies-of-nigeria-backs-atiku