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Needless verbosity. I don't see how the family of any deceased person, upon hearing such a tribute wouldn't think that the speaker was speaking merely to show off their own vocabulary rather than to commiserate with them or the nation or to actually honor the deceased's memory.

This Obahiagbon character can be annoying, though he at least stands for some things.

Bennyboy11 if you don't know anything, don't just speak up merely for the sake of peaking. Why fabricate stuff just because you feel offended about something?


In reality, as Nigerian in America, I have heard many Nigerian Americans refer to themselves as African American, especially the kids of immigrants (though not necessarily the parents themselves), no doubt because within American society that's what they are ultimately seen as, and because some identify with the AA struggle/culture/etc. I've seen many NA's in AA cultural groups while in college. And for official census purposes and for filling out racial information before tests or surveys, Nigerian Americans are "African American or black American" (1 choice, as in, these two are considered equivalent).

safariman is obviously not a kid, so he doesn't have the excuse of just actually seeing himself as no different from an AA, but if you were in America, you would have immediately realized that his use of African American despite being Nigerian was in the more general sense it is used to distinguish black Americans from non-blacks. While he and some other Nigerian Americans may refer to themselves as African American to demarcate what ethnic bloc of America they belong to or for official purposes, he should have avoided using it in the context of this discussion, but that doesn't mean that it has anything to do with insecurity.


As for him being one of those "ghana hating nigerians" I haven't seen any evidence of that and he admitted upfront that Lagos was more dangerous than Accra without trying to diss or downgrade Ghana in anyway to make up for having to make that admission, like a real Ghana hating Nigerian would have. His claim on ghana being more dangerous than Jamaica seems implausible without any evidence and only based on supposed "atmosphere" so I can why you're annoyed, but don't resort to character assassination ("ghana hating nigerian" and fabrication ("Any Nigerian or Ghanaian for that matter that refers to themselves as an African American has some insecurities,". This whole digression should end here.

Pifa:
Was the deceased related to one Peter Enahoro who was a newscaster with the television station in Lagos back in the late 70s? I remember watching Peter on TV when I was a child in Lagos.

Not likely. If this Peter Enahoro is the historically relevant journalist then this Peter Enahoro, aka "Peter Pan" was pro-Biafran/pro-East and anti-North and left Nigeria during the war out of anger (or possibly government persecution).

Onlytruth: I will post a comment by a reader from Next website http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5654169-146/anthony_enahoro_dies_at_87_.csp:

"He will be remembered for the blood he helped spill in BIAFRA,this man was sent as head of Nigerian delegation to negotiate a cessation of hostilities in Addis Ababa but when he got there,he changed and insisted on annihilation and total surrender of BIAFRA only to turn around later and fight the very government he supported to emasculate a portion of Nigeria,I am sure that all the children that died from kwashiokor in BIAFRA will be waiting for him".

Lol @ this rubbish. This is why it's a tragedy that any shameless worthless degenerate with a keyboard can fabricate history behind the veil of anonymity. In actual matter of fact, at the conference in Addis Ababa, the tone was supposed to be one of reconciliation, and gains were supposed to be made toward a cessation of hostilities. Then, Ojukwu, much to the revulsion and disgust of the head of this reconciliation meeting, Emperor Haile Selassie, launched into a massive, aggressive, hostile, damning speech the minute he was given the chance to speak. Ojukwu destroyed any chance at a cessation of hostilities by getting emotional and damning everything in sight, and refusing to yield an inch. Why would a group of people who have you cornered and retreating cease defeating you when all you offer is curses? All of these beer parlor historians of the civil war annoy the hell out of me. Enahoro had nothing to do with the failure of reconciliation at Addis Ababa. Enahoro went there, Ojukwu demonstated his oratory skills, and nothing changed.

It is a fact that a man's final legacy is mainly carved by the evils he did, not his good (if any). It is even more so if the evils impacted millions of people. You would need a GOOD that either equally impact millions, or billions of people to undo his evil against the millions in Biafra.

The Anthony Enahoro I knew spent his last days on earth trying to achieve the SAME THING he was fighting against in Biafra. He tried, but I would say he never could muster the same zeal to fight for those things like he did against Biafra.
So, his legacy is one of blood and curses from the victims of the Biafran war.
Those who underestimate the Biafran war victim feelings are either fools or lying to themselves.

I wish he died fighting to undo his past. HE DIDN'T. He died of old age.

Nobody can name even one thing this man did which could have directly impacted Biafra because in fact there was no such thing. This man was a showpiece, a notable figure recruited, just like Isaac Boro and Awolowo to give legitimacy to the Gowon government as a Nigerian rather than a Northern thing. Enahoro was the minister of information and not in anyway in charge of any kind of military policies. He was asked by foreign journalists what the government's position on starvation was and he gave it, in his capacity as a minister of information and with no need to sugarcoat anything or contradict the government's actual stance. That he supported the military government of Gowon against his direct enemies (those who invaded his home region) is nothing to fault him for.

It's ironic to hear all this talk about starvation now when one of Ojukwu's first propaganda messages (all of the claims of which were untrue) after the onset of the war specifically mentioned the enemy being starved (see Sunset In Biafra, by Elechi Amadi), among other awful things supposedly being inflicted upon the federal dogs by the gallant Biafrans. Apparently Ojukwu was throwing around the idea of starvation of one's enemies rather lightly. There's a world of difference between actually doing a thing and lying and saying you are doing something, of course, but this idea that Ojukwu was unaware of starvation as a weapon of war is implausible, especially given Ojukwu's academic background in history, so it's not surprising that he mentioned it.  (Elechi Amadi's own account of radio propaganda may not be the best source, however he describes other occurences that paint the Biafrans or the federal government in a good or bad light with detachment and with a very high level of detail and his accounts of these broadcasts have never been disputed despite other studies (Craig W. McLuckie, Aubrey McPhail, Dieter Riemenschneider) which dispute other positions he took or statements of fact that he made in that book, so I see no reason to doubt the veracity of these undisputed radio broadcasts.)

I'm not a fan of Enahoro's but the record needs to be set straight and all these emotional people reasoning like children need to stop and think logically. Enahoro was of little relevance to Biafra since Biafra would have been starved anyways with or without him since Biafra was importing weapons under the guise of food and aid and Enahoro, as a Midwesterner, was a direct enemy of Biafra in any way one looks at it, through no actions of his own, but as a consequence of the Biafran invasion.


What is silly however is this claim that Enahoro spent the rest of his life fighting for what he earlier rejected. In 1966, the choice was between confederation and federalism (the continuation of the 4 regions). Enahoro opted for the former (confederation) initially, but after meeting with some more patriotic (as Nigerians, rather than sectionalists or loyalists to their region, ethnicity, etc) intellectuals of Midwesternern origin, he opted for federation under the  (naive) assumption that a confederate Nigeria would be weak (speaking without one voice) in international affairs, and all groups would be treated fairly.

One justifiably sectionalist region (the East) decided to opt for confederation after feeling it could no longer be in a real union with the murderous North and feeling absolutely no patriotism about the idea of one Nigeria and knowing that they could prosper economically regardless, but the Northern civil servants/intellectuals were a little too clever, (even if Ojukwu was able to outsmart the military guys at Aburi) or at least clever enough to appreciate the advice their British advisors were giving them and realized that confederation could just be a prelude to secession or would put them at a loss economically. The consequence of this was that the North rejected confederation out of a desire for economic gain or subsistence.

Enahoro and those Midwesterners at Aburi could have scuttled or ignored the advice given them after meeting with those patriotic Midwestern intellectuals, but they didn't out of "blind" patriotism for Nigeria and agreed with their advice. The Midwest, under Enahoro's authority/direction, rejected confederation out of blind patriotism for Nigeria and for this he can be faulted for being too patriotic to idea of the country he helped to originally bring about. The unfortunate truth is that the man was never a sectionalist, even when it was even in his best interests to do so. This same man (Enahoro) rejected the idea of the Midwest out of loyalty to the Action Group, even though it was clear that this party was ethnically chauvinistic and biased against his own group's (Ishan) development.

To make a long story short, Enahoro never called for confederation. 18 regions means even "truer" federalism than that was originally practiced in 1963 with the 4 regions, not that unworkable, prelude-to-disintegration, phantom concoction, called a confederation. So to say that he spent the rest of his life fighting for what he initially rejected is completely incorrect. After initially opposing the Midwest, he supported one Nigeria with 4 regions, and spent the rest of his life supporting one Nigeria with even more regions and with the powers for those regions that they had originally had in the 1960s.

Anyways, maybe Nigeria should have disintegrated along sectional lines, and maybe Enahoro's blind, anti-tribalistic, anti-sectionalist, patriotism and devotion was wasted upon an unworkable colonial construct filled with too many power hungry groups. Maybe. We'll find out soon enough. 2011 or 2015.

How are most other countries with large amounts of oil failures? Which ones? Middle Eastern countries? Cause those places would all be no better than Yemen without oil.

eku_bear:
Under his hypothesis, I can sort of his see his perspective. But at the same time, imo another plausible hypothesis is that Igbo leaving/staying will not have a significant impact one way or another on the remaining groups of Nigeria. This latter hypothesis is my own personal belief.

You do realize that if any of the three major groups leaves, Nigeria will immediately split? Saying that if the Igbo leave then Nigeria will cease to be is accurate but maybe you're attributing to Onlytruth the idea that all the other groups in Nigeria will fail without the Igbo. I'm not certain that that's his position.

"Marmaduke"?

"arrested without incident at her dilapidated trailer home "?

"Marmaduke plans to sue the dead man’s estate for child support."?


The story would be amusing as hell, even if it were real.

I suspect that that state is in a state of dependency, but more so than the rest of the Nigerian states.

"Playing with shi-t"?

Fecophilia. I don't approve of that under any circumstances.


public note to self: I don't see how, when I make a vile and morbid joke about what is clearly a vile and dirty but humorous article, somebody with no sense of humor will come in here and start preaching and pontificating. My response was appropriate to the original article, all this talk about depravity is senseless.

Onlytruth, that is an entire 13 page article. The 7th page of that article may be what DapoBear is referring to and not the 1st page. He will probably clarify and maybe quote the relevant parts. If you cannot access the article though, try going to a university library or something sometime if you're still interested in reading it.

Lighten up. This forum exists merely for my amusement. Don't you know that already?

Occasionally I'll say shocking things and watch people react and fall over themselves with confusion.

I don't approve of necrophilia, just that in this case the move to get child support makes up for the perversion. It shows that the real motive would be monetary, rather than sexual. She knew what she was doing. It's always about the dollars in the end.

Yeah the story is fake.

Still, I APPROVE!

Suing for child support afterwards??!!





I APPROVE!

SEFAGO:
Theoretical chemists go into finance especially hedge funds. Remember, theoretical chemists focus on statistical mechanics and thermodynamics  and quantum theory just like theoretical physicists. They study the same concepts, they just apply it to different systems. Most of the skills sought after in quanitative finance (building of stochastic probability models and computational finance) are possessed by chemists, engineers and a lot of engineers (most engineers in academia are jack of all trades because engineering is a dying field, and most research grants are now on biotech or "bio-based projects.

Infact a lot of the theories in operational research was by a theoretical chemist, I cannot remember his name.

Oh. Well now I know, thanks for the info.

Remember quantitative finance involves a lot of computational work- who is more skilled in computational and building complex algorithms to model behavior more than theoretical chemists?

Applied mathematicians and some physicists (nuclear and plasma) are equally skilled, if not better.

I would also point out that lot of chemists go into finance though mostly at boutique investment banks. Its just not as highly publicized as physicists because they are far and few.

That would explain why I was oblivious to their contributions.

Its just different for Physics because there are not that many physics  industry jobs so if you dont get tenure track position in the US then your next bet is finance.

Yes, but a qualified physicist can easily get an engineering job. The pay wouldn't be as good as finance though.

Physics unlike chemistry or biology has very few applications in industry.

I'm not sure if I understand this correctly but I guess what you mean is that physics as it is taught for a degree- and not the subject matter itself- has few applications because the students go "too far" into theory and avoid much more of the subject matter relevant to current technology that engineering would cover.


Otherwise I would have to point out that lasers, semiconductor devices, nuclear magnetic resonance, giant magnetoresistance (find out what that has to with the very computer you're using ), fiber optics, nanotechnology, solar power, and of course applications of solid state physics in general are some industry applications and also point out that applied physics is more or less the same or overlaps with engineering so there will also be those engineering applications.

Actually it does. I dont know about what happens at the graduate level but if you go to say any top undergraduate in the US, all you are going to hear about is Investment banking. Even if you have never heard the word before, you will learn all the vocabulary within a week. Its a sort of conformity, people in those schools are conforming to ideas that they should move into finance or consulting as opposed to academia. Most of the physicists at the undergraduate level end up working in finance instead of pursuing Physics PhDs, and these are intellectually curious people I bet.

I simply haven't encountered this. Maybe you have some firsthand experience that I don't though.

Good news. Thai rice, indeed.

This makes no sense. Why is the patent, for the purported "cure," in Louis Obyo Obyo Nelson's name when they could have both shared credit?

http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT6531461&id=gBkOAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=dr.+louis+obyo+obyo+nelson&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q&f=false


I guess this herbalist was duped. But let's not make this an ethnic thing. Any naive herbalist could get played like this.

And Larry Summers can choke on a cli.t   That guy is a nuisance. The same guy saying first world countries should dump their pollution in Africa and you're quoting him? Anyways, more on Summers:

AMY GOODMAN: The role of music in your life was part of perhaps why you ended up leaving Harvard, not as a student, but you were at Princeton, then you moved to Harvard to be with Skip Gates and a number of other professors in the African American Studies Department. You were also in Religion. Can you tell us what happened in your encounter—you write about it in your memoir—in your encounter with the president, Larry Summers, who plays a key role in the economic meltdown today?
CORNEL WEST: Oh, I know. No, indeed. But no, Brother Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people’s culture and working people’s culture and so forth. You know, he’s made remarks about putting pollution in Africa, because they suffer from overpopulation. Allegedly already deeply insensitive and so on.
When he arrived at Harvard, he met with every department other than Afro-American Studies. And so, Skip, my dear brother Skip Gates, knew something was wrong, so Skip Gates had already written a three-page single-spaced letter to Larry Summers when Larry Summers requested to meet with me, because he figured that Summers had something to say to me. And I said, “Why do you have to write that to the president?” I’d never met him before. But Neil Rudenstine, who was magnificent, who had been president, we had no problems with.
And as soon as I walked into the office, he starts using profanity about Harvey Mansfield. I said, “No, Harvey Mansfield is conservative, sometimes reactionary, but he’s my dear brother.” We had just had debates at Harvard. Twelve hundred people showed up. He was against affirmative action; I was for it. That was fine. Harvey Mansfield and I go off and have a drink after, because we have a respect, but deep, deep philosophical and ideological disagreement. He was using profanity, so I had to defend Harvey Mansfield.
AMY GOODMAN: Wait, so you’re saying Lawrence Summers was using profanity?
CORNEL WEST: Larry Summers using profanity about, you know, “help me ‘F’ so and so up.” No, I don’t function like that. Maybe he thought that just as a black man, I like to use profanity. I’m not a puritan. I don’t use it myself. I have partners who do. But I don’t like people who feel comfortable using it without my permission and not knowing me, you see what I mean? And then from there, it went on and on. “Well, you supported Bill Bradley, didn’t attend classes.” Not true. “Well, you’re deeply into hip-hop, and it’s an embarrassment.”
AMY GOODMAN: Wait, saying that you supported Bill Bradley as president, for presidential candidate?
CORNEL WEST: Exactly, which I had.
AMY GOODMAN: Yeah.
CORNEL WEST: He was my dear brother. But I didn’t miss a class, and anybody knows that, flying back and forth, Iowa, New Hampshire and so on, and ended here in New York for my dear brother Bill Bradley. But talking about the hip-hop, “it’s an embarrassment.” I said, “Embarrassment to who?”
AMY GOODMAN: Wait a second.
CORNEL WEST: What kind of hip-hop?
AMY GOODMAN: Larry Summers talking about you and your hip-hop CD?
CORNEL WEST: Right, exactly.
AMY GOODMAN: That it’s an embarrassment.
CORNEL WEST: Exactly. “I don’t want you to have anything to do with the hip-hop.” Well, no, I’m a free black man. I do what I want to do. I could do ballet, I could do Baroque. I can work with Chuck D, I can work with Talib Kweli. I can work with KRS-One or Rah Digga. You see what I mean? But I had to tell him that.
He has a Harvard, I have a Harvard. I was as much Harvard as he was. Harvard has a vicious anti-Jewish tradition, vicious anti-black, vicious anti-woman, and homophobic, too. I said, but Harvard also has critiques of anti-Semitism, critiques of white supremacy.
AMY GOODMAN: And, of course, Larry Summers was in the midst of a anti-woman debate that had to do with women’s role in math and science.
CORNEL WEST: Well, that came a little after. You see, that came right after my encounter, you see. So he continually got in trouble and got in trouble. And I say this not to really just bash the brother. But that kind of arrogance and ignorance is dangerous in public places.
That’s why I was so surprised when Barack Obama chose him to be the national economic adviser. I said, here’s somebody who has no history whatsoever of sensitivity to poor people or working people, who had been supporting deregulation for a long time as a Clintonite, in the Clinton administration. What is going on here? Or has Obama already become so comfortable with the establishment that you had to have an economist who was legitimate to the establishment in order for him to get his regime off the ground? OK. I mean, if that’s the kind of argument you have, then put it forward. But don’t tell me you’re a progressive, then, and generate that kind of support or major advisers speaking to you—speaking to you every day. Now, if he had Paul Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz or Sylvia Ann Hewitt, I’d say, “Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.”
But I do forgive Larry Summers for this reason: that I think we all ought to have joy in life, and you can only have joy when you overcome arrogance and open to your own ignorance, because you end up being smart and brainy, but suffering from spiritual malnutrition, emptiness of soul, you see.
AMY GOODMAN: But what happened after that meeting?
CORNEL WEST: What happened? I knew I had to go.
AMY GOODMAN: Why?
CORNEL WEST: Because I don’t—I draw a line in the sand.
AMY GOODMAN: Could you have stayed if you wanted to?
CORNEL WEST: No way. I don’t believe in any kind of disrespect or dishonoring in that way. The latter part of the meeting, he said he wanted to monitor my work, meet with me every two months to make sure he knew what I was writing, what I was doing. I said, “You must be losing your cotton-picking mind.” Here I am a university professor, twenty-two university professors out of 2,000, already published fifteen books.

strangerf:
Okkikiolu is not a Nigerian

BTW, she is ding donging a white fella

I would not call her Nigerian.

I know she is not Nigerian. I even highlighted the fact that she was only "half Nigerian" (half Yoruba actually, I didn't write that article). However I felt compelled to include her because she was a black woman.

And as for "ding donging a white fella"? So what? What's the issue there? Did her father not "ding dong" a white woman?

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SEFAGO:
Tell that to theoretical physicists and chemists who spend most of their life working on the most difficult concepts and end up working on wall street after their PhD.

In case you dont know, a significant bulk of quantitative finance theory was devised by chemist and physicist with PhDs.

^^^

I'm well aware of that (physicists (where did you hear theoretical chemists were involved? I would be interested to find out) involvement in finance), but in case you don't know, that's NOT what they initially got into the field of physics for. That they can have so much success in finance isn't due to any passion for finance but due to their inability to find success in physics and their ability to apply their high intelligence to finance.


If you had more familiarity with the subject matter you would know that those who go into finance simply could not hack it in pure research or could not land a position and decided to cut their losses. Landing a position higher than a post-doc after a physics Ph.D is no cakewalk and some people can't be bothered to put in the years to move beyond the post-doc stage. Physics Ph.D's do end up job hunting, and that's where the very appealing post of financial consultant would snatch away a disillusioned ph.d into the world of finance.

There is no real connection between a passion for physics and any sort of interest in finance but the difference is that finance theory is still theoretical. They still get to think creatively and describe real world occurrences mathematically. They get a small fraction of the same pleasure but with none of the same significance or importance or "glory" but while also getting well-paid.

And to make more distinct the point I was making, many physics Ph.D's go on to work for companies that use applied physics for practical applications, especially applications of photonics or condensed matter, but this is quite different from just giving up all physics and going into medicine or finance just because these areas are more practically useful to the immediate community. I think that the example you mentioned of  quantitative finance, while not exactly fitting into my idea of surrendering to conformity for the reason that practical careers are better for immediate development, exactly fits into my idea of sacrificing one's dreams and aspirations for the practical reason of comfort and monetary satisfaction.

Dapobear: Hrm. Thinking about it further, I'm starting to think that the fields more likely to be immediately useful to Nigeria are things like medicine and finance. PhDs in math/physics/engineering aren't as practical for a country that doesn't really develop anything.

Otoh, expertise in medicine and finance are useful everywhere, even in Nigeria. Finance especially will lead to enough capital to develop other areas. Econ and finance are certainly viewed as less prestigious than these other areas, but being able to build a good banking system (for example) is likely to be of more practical benefit to Nigeria than most other things.

Thoughts? Am I totally off base?

Everything you are saying makes sense from a practical point of view but the real problem is this:

Past a certain level of intelligence, or a certain level of intelligence & creativity, no intellectually minded person can give up something like scientific research for finance. To do so would mean the complete surrender of one's own inclinations, desires, dreams, aspirations, etc. to unrewarding conformity. Thus even if one were to do so- and I doubt that this often happens- one would enter one's new, more practical field with no passion or seriousness about the field.

Consequently people beyond a certain level of intelligence pursue their theoretical interests and end up, ironically, being less "useful" to Nigeria than most others that are less intelligent despite the fact that the research these people (physicists, mathematicians, research engineers, etc.) pursue might be more significant and useful to posterity and to the world than practical pursuits.

dayokanu:
He also mentioned some guys but I am still trying to get more information on them

e.g Ojo Ayeni, Soji Adeyi, Dabiri.

Dr. Olusoji Adeyi is the coordinator for the World Bank's Communicable Diseases Team. But I couldn't find any more information than that.

Let's leave money out of this. There are far more Nigerian entrepreneurs with no connections to academia than there are entrepreneurial professors and furthermore, there are more Nigerians with or without connections to academia that are entrepreneurs but are not in diaspora and thus would not qualify for discussion in this thread. This thread really started off about good research and ideas from those abroad- whether science, history, art, comparative literature, etc.

Ileke-IdI:
Are you the same dude as the PhysicsMHD dude?

So confusing!

Yes. I only use that name when I get banned and it even says in the signature of the PhysicsMHD poster, "formerly PhysicsQED" which is true, until they unban me.

igbobuigbo:
Is this the first Nigerian prof to be fired for corruption in the USA?

No. One Bini guy and one Igbo guy were fired from a HBCU a few months ago for sexually exploiting their students. I don't know what the purpose of this thread is, but it's an unwelcome embarrassment after the Nigerian Academia thread.

US HEALTH INSTITUTION HONORS NIGERIAN SCIENTIST FOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCH

One of US government-owned leading health institutions, the Centers for Disease Control, CDC has honored a US-based Nigerian scientist who led a research study that won this year CDC's award for outstanding research, Empowered Newswire reports.

Dr Joseph Igietseme, Nigerian-Born Bio-Medical Scientist, a top scientist and researcher at the Atlanta based, US federal government- owned Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) led others to win the this year's prestigious Charles C. Shepard Science Awards, which is to recognize excellence in science achievement by CDC scientists and authors of outstanding scientific papers, according to the CDC.

His expertise in the US scientific research community is underscored by the fact that the American government through its agencies like the CDC and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimate about $20 million to support Igietseme's research over the last decade and he is also reputed to have over 200 peer-reviewed research publications, reviews articles and presentations as an academic scientist.

The Shepard awards is named after Dr. Shepard, a former CDC scientist, whose career was marked by the pursuit of scientific excellence and given to authors of the most outstanding peer-reviewed research paper published by CDC scientists during the preceding year on an annual basis.

According to the CDC, the awards which began in 1986 was presented to Dr. Igietseme by the CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden and President Obama's White House Senior Advisor on Science and Technology, Dr. John Holden at an impressive event in Atlanta recently.

Igietseme's 2009 research paper, which was titled Role of T lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of Chlamydia disease, had other co-authors, including two other Nigerians Dr. Francis Eko and Godwin Ananaba, while Igietseme led the pack.

While Eko is an Associate Professor at the Moorehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, US, Ananaba is also an Associate Professor from Clark Atlanta University, US. Igietseme who formed and led the team became a full-ranked US Professor in 2002. While Igietseme is from Edo State, Eko is from Cross River State and Ananaba from Abia State

The other co-authors of the award-winning article which was published in the Journal of Infectious Disease, volume 200, include Dr. Qing He, Ms Kahaliah Joseph, Dr. Deborah Lyn, Ms Angela Campbell, Dr. Claudiu Bandea, and Dr. Carolyn Black,

Dr. Igietseme was trained at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Science and later got his PhD from Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Regarded in the CDC and the US as a seasoned Immunologist, Microbiologist and biomedical science expert, Igietseme was appointed after his training as Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Arkansas for Medical sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas from 1993 -1996.

He was later promoted Associate Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta Georgia from 1998-2002, and as Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta Georgia in 2002.

The ranking in main US universities for academics starts from Instructor to Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Professor rank is the highest. It takes several years in-between to attain the promotion.

It was in 2002 that the CDC named Igietseme, its Chief of Molecular Pathogenesis Laboratory, while he still maintains a part-time Adjunct Professor position at Moorehouse School of Medicine Emory University Medical School, Atlanta.

Dr. Igietseme is also a member of US Govt Expert Advisory panels and boards with expertise and skills in the development of biomedical science and research infrastructures and projects in medical schools, universities and agency (Govt/private) settings.

Dr. Igietseme’s current research focus is in Basic and applied immunology and microbiology, infection and immunity, vaccine development and unraveling the mechanisms of disease, pathogenesis. He is also an active member of the Nigerian Diaspora in the US. For he instance, Dr. Igietseme is a co-founder or member of several Diasporan Socio cultural and Economic Organizations, including: Nigerians in Diaspora Organization (NIDO), where he served as a Board Member, and the Arkansas Association of Nigerians (AAN), which he served as General Secretary.