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Jakumo, given his verbosity and his knowledge of obscure details of aeronautics and weaponry, probably belongs to some exclusive, elite brotherhood of decadent, elitist, champagne sipping, caviar devouring, big game hunters/socialites/daredevil helicopter journalists, probably with a funny name like The Distinguished Bastards of Nigeria. It's extremely likely that one of the members of this self-indulgent journalist cabal made the mistake of crossing Gen. Buhari or writing something unfavorable about his illegally imposed government and paid the ultimate price. Consequently, Jakumo has sworn an oath of vengeance, which due to his inability to realize, makes him vent his frustration and hatred on public fora at the slightest mention of Buhari's name.


There is no other conclusion any discerning mind can reach. The Master has spoken.

There are over 6 billion people in the world, not 3 billion.

SEFAGO:
LOl that is the professor I know hehe

He is actually not native igbo 

The guy even has more achievements

You mean that he's from Trinidad and therefore not Nigerian?

Mischief-making. I await igbobuigbo's response.

Ileke-IdI:
Olubusayo Awomolo would have been one of these people.

But the cruel world took that away. But there's a God they say  

I have to agree with this. At the rate he was going he would definitely have been an engineering prof.

The problem I do have with this, as with the National Mosque, and funding the Hajj, is that state money is being used to develop a purely religious enterprise. If they objected to interest/usury on purely ethical or cultural grounds and not even religious grounds, I might still have a problem with other people's money- people other than those interested in the idea of the bank- being used to develop or lay the groundwork for this scheme.

lolatom:
Go n steal in zamfara n tell them u can't be tried in a sharia court cos u're a christian.

I won't stop saying that sanusi would be better off an imam than a banker, Nigeria is hetero-religious,why introduce islamic banking? Like Chyz rightly said, this guy is trying to islamize Nigeria through the back door. Rubbish!

Stealing in zamfara is a crime regardless. If the only court available is a sharia court, then I would fight it and use all my resources to get a trial in a regular court.


As for Islamicizing Nigeria, Nigeria is already over 45% Muslim, so how would he be trying to Islamicize Nigera? Sanusi has written multiple articles which explain his stance on sharia and his stance is nothing like the diabolical vision I think some people in this thread are insinuating or claiming it is.

DapoBear:
@Akin-Egba: Very likely you are not good enough to even get a PhD, not to talk of getting tenure at even a school of Howard's level.

@PhysicsQED: Poorly researched political articles? You might disagree with the conclusions, but he is pretty careful with his work.

(And yes, as you might have guessed, while not related to him, I know him and his family pretty well.)

I might have been a bit harsh, so let me not say poorly researched, let me just say that some of his articles, particularly those defending Obasanjo, irked me.

dayokanu:
Northerner in Mathematics?

Iya Abubakar was another Northerner, who broke the wall years back, though he's no longer in academia so I didn't bring him up. Abba Gumel research seems more significant than his.

I heard Prof Jubril Aminu too was a badass guy in University of Ibadan  I dont think he went out though.

Apparently he was a visiting professor at Howard, according to wiki.

There are a LOT of Nigerians as Howard faculty.

FIRST NORTHERNER


Abba Gumel, a mathematical biologist with some interesting papers on epidemics.


Abba Gumel is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Director of the Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences (IIMS) of the University of Manitoba. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Bayero University (Kano, Nigeria) and Brunel University (London, England) respectively. His main research interests are in (i) Mathematical Biology, (ii) Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and (iii) Computational Mathematics. The main objective of his research work is to use mathematical theories and methodologies to gain insights into the transmission and control dynamics of human diseases of public health interest. He has supervised a number of research students (NSERC-funded summer undergraduate and graduate students) and postdoctoral fellows. Professor Gumel has been the coordinator of the Mathematical Biology Team of the IIMS since its inception in 1999, and represents the University of Manitoba on the Board of Directors of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto. Professor Gumel is an active member of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS). In addition to serving on its various committees earlier, Professor Gumel was elected Secretary of CAIMS from 2007-2009 (he was re-elected for a second term: 2009-2011). Professor Gumel is also a member of the Canadian Mathematics Society (CMS) and serves on the Outreach Committee of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB). Owing to its interdisciplinary nature, Professor Gumel’s work enjoys fruitful collaborations with mathematical and medical scientists from around the world. Professor Gumel has received the following research awards and honours:



(1) Elected fellow, African Academy of sciences (December 2009)

(2) Elected Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Sciences (January 2010)

(3) 2008 University of Manitoba (UM/UMFA) Merit Award for Excellence in Research.

(4) The 2009 Dr. Lindsay E. Nicolle award for excellent paper published in the Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. June 2009, Toronto, Canada. (The Award, given annually, is given to an author who has made a significant contribution to Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology as
demonstrated by the impact of their original research published in the journal). The work is co-authored by Miriam Nuno (Harvard School of Public Health) and Gerardo Chowell (Arizona State University).

(5) University of Manitoba Award for Outstanding Outreach, December 2008.

(6) 2007 University of Manitoba (UM/UMFA) Merit Award for Excellence in Research. July 2008.

(7) The Rh Award for Outstanding Contributions to Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Research (University of Manitoba, March 2004; this is the highest research award given at the University of Manitoba).

( Manitoba Science and Technology Certificate of Achievement in Science and Technology during 2003 (Winnipeg, April 2004).

(9) Young African Mathematician Medal for Excellence in Applied Mathematics (African Mathematical Union in Conjunction with the International Conference for Mathematical Sciences, UNAAB, Nigeria, November, 2003).

Professor Gumel is actively involved in so many initiatives and programs for the advancement of mathematical sciences (and science and technology in general) in Africa. He is listed among the top African Mathematicians of the 1990s on the website of the Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madgreatest.html).

dayokanu:
[size=18pt]Mobolaji E. Aluko[/size]



Dont let Ileke idi know that this guy is from Ekiti before she kills us all here

Lol, apparently this guy is part Edo (Owan Edo) or something, but I'm not eager to claim him since all he seems to do is write mostly poorly researched and thought out political articles. His actual research is ignorable.

A petroleum engineering professor at the University of Texas:


Ekwere J. Peters
Professor
Ph.D. Petroleum Engineering
The University of Alberta, Canada

Dr. Peters has served on the faculty since 1980. He has four years of industrial experience and specializes in fluid flow in porous media. His research interests include application of advanced imaging technologies for the physical and mathematical modeling of fluids in porous media. Dr. Peters has published more than 70 technical articles and reports.

Current Research Projects

   * Computer Imaging in Enhanced Oil Recovery
   * Numerical Modeling of Laboratory Flow Experiments
   * Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media Assisted by X-Ray Computed Tomography and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Honors:

Frank W. Jessen Professor in Petroleum Engineering
George H. Fancher Professor in Petroleum Engineering

dayokanu:
PhysicsQED,

I am biased towards those in the Science field. You might provide a balance in the humanities.

But I personally respect a Science/Medical/Engineering Professor More than anyone

I have the same bias, particularly towards those fields with mathematical foundations, but I wanted to diversify things, really. Falola's work is really quite important, and so is Ekeh's.

I already posted this in a much earlier thread called "What's the Benefit of Education to Nigerians" that a poster called davidif made.

I should probably elaborate on these individuals, or maybe someone else can, if they have the time or info. I might just elaborate on the most significant ones.



"Alexander Obiefoka Enukora Animalu -MIT and later University of Nigeria (very highly cited solid state physicist)
Winston Soboyejo -Princeton (highly published mechanical engineer)
Ilesanmi Adesida -University of Illinois (highly published and highly cited electrical engineer and now Dean of that engineering college)
Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande - MIT (highly published and highly cited electrical engineer)
James Ezeilo (highly cited and published mathematician)
Olufemi Olowolafe- University of Delaware (highly published and highly cited computer scientist)
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade- University of Chicago (very highly cited oncologist)
Ofodike Ezekoye- University of Texas (highly published mechanical engineer)
Kunle Olukotun- Stanford (very highly cited electrical engineer)
Charles Ejike Chidume- International Center for Theoretical Physics (highly cited mathematician)
Ethelbert Chukwu- North Carolina State University (highly published mathematician)
Olaniyi Kehinde (deceased)- highly cited doctor, researched skin grafting
Abraham Atta Ogwu- Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (highly published materials engineer)
Adedeji Badiru- University of Tennessee (industrial engineer, head of the Department of Industrial & Information Engineering at the University of Tennessee)
Samuel Okoye (deceased)- astrophysicist who worked with Nobel laureate Anthony Hewish in the discovery of pulsars
George Okikiolu (highly published mathematician)
Joe Ordia- highly cited neurosurgeon
Ayodele Awojobi (deceased)- mechanical engineer, author of an important paper on mechanical vibrations
Sunday Iyahen- mathematician, author of an important paper on topological spaces

up-and-coming:

J.O. Dabiri- California Institute of Technology
Deji Akinwande- University of Texas


Nosa Omoigui (Nervana Inc.)
Kunle Olukotun (already mentioned, but Sun Microsystems bought his company, Afara websystems which is worth mentioning)"

Toyin Falola

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, he is the author of numerous books, including Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, and many edited books including Tradition and Change in Africa and African Writers and Readers. He is the co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History, Series Editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and the Series Editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press. He has received various awards and honors, including the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, and the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Award for Research Excellence. For his singular and distinguished contribution to the study of Africa, his students and colleagues have presented him with three Festschrifts - two edited by Adebayo Oyebade, The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and one edited by Akin Ogundiran, Pre-Colonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. He has recently published an acclaimed memoir, A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir.

Peter Ekeh

Peter P. Ekeh came to the University of Buffalo’s African American Studies as Professor in 1989. He was Chair of this department from 1993 to 2001. Before coming to Buffalo, Dr. Ekeh taught at the University of  California, Riverside (1970-73); Ahmadu   Bello  University, Zaria, in northern Nigeria (1973-74); and at the University of  Ibadan, Nigeria (1974-1989). He was Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan (1978-1983) and Chairman of the Ibadan University Press (1983-1988).

Peter Ekeh received his undergraduate education at the University of Ibadan (1961-64) and his graduate degrees in sociology from StanfordUniversity (1965-66)  and University of California, Berkeley (1966-70). Dr. Ekeh’s early research interest was in sociological theory, in which he published Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions (1974), and in psychoanalytic theory. He has since developed special interests in African politics and history, in which he has some leading publications. Dr. Ekeh’s article “Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement” (1975) is one of the most cited publications in the field of African studies, inside and outside Africa. Peter Ekeh’s publications span several fields and have been particularly influential in African studies.

Peter Ekeh has held several fellowships in Europe, United States, and Japan. He was a Fellow of the WoodrowWilsonCenter for International Scholars, Washington, D.C. (1988-89). Dr. Ekeh has received various research and scholarship awards in Nigeria and the United States. He was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar for his graduate studies. He has received and supervised research grants from Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, and United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.

Peter Ekeh is the founder of Urhobo Historical Society whose influential web site URHOBO WAADO he edits. He was also founder of Nigerian Scholars for Dialogue. He is active in the campaign for the protection of the endangered environment of Nigeria’s Niger delta.

EDUCATION

   * Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1970
   * M.A.,StanfordUniversity, Palo Alto, 1967
   * B.Sc. (Econs.),University of London (at UniversityCollege, Ibadan) 1964.

GRADUATE COURSES

   * Ancient African Civilizations(At UB)
   * Africa and the Slave Trade(At UB)
   * Sociological Theory (UC.,Riverside)
   * Social Exchange Theory (UC, Riverside)
   * Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences. (UC, Riverside)
   * Political Sociology (University of Ibadan)
   * Comparative Politics (University of Ibadan)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

   * A Survey of African Studies (At UB)
   * Current African Nations (At UB)
   * Colonialism in Africa (At UB)
   * Political Sociology of Africa (At UB)
   * Ancient African Civilizations. (At UB)
   * Political Socialization and Personality (UC, Riverside)
   * Social Psychology (UC, Riverside)
   * PoliticalSociology. (UC, Riverside)
   * Introduction to Politics (University of Ibadan)
   * Political Socialization (University of Ibadan)
   * Nigerian Politics. (University of Ibadan)

FIVE SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Ekeh, Peter P. (1974) Social Exchange Theory: The Two Traditions. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Ekeh, Peter P. (1975) "Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 17:91-112.

Ekeh, Peter P. (1976) "Benin and Thebes: Elementary Forms of Civilization." Pp. 65-93 in Werner  Muensterberger, Aaron H. Esman and L. Bryce Boyer, eds., The Psychoanalytic Study of Society. Vol. VII. New Haven and London: YaleUniv. Press.

Ekeh, Peter P. (1983) Colonialism and Social Structure. An Inaugural Lecture. Ibadan:  Ibadan University Press.

Ekeh, Peter P. and Eghosa Osaghae, eds., (1989) Federal Character and Federalism in  Nigeria. Ibadan: Heinemann  Educational  Books.

Ekeh, Peter P. (1990) "Social Anthropology and Two Contrasting Uses of Tribalism in Africa." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32(4): 660-700.

Isidore Okpewho

State University of New York Distinguished Professor
of Africana Studies, English, & Comparative Literature
at Binghamton University.

Born in Nigeria, Isidore Okpewho has a B.A. in Honors Classics from the University of London, a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Denver, and a D.Lit. in the Humanities from the University of London. He has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1974-76), University of Ibadan (1976-90), Harvard University (1990-91), and Binghamton University (since 1991).

Okpewho’s areas of specialization are in African and comparative literatures, with a specialist emphasis on comparative oral traditions. His major publications in this field include The Epic in Africa: Toward a Poetics of the Oral Performance (1979), Myth in Africa: A Study of Its Aesthetic and Cultural Relevance (1983), African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity (1992), and Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity (1998). His edited scholarly volumes reveal an expansion of his academic interests from oral literature (The Oral Performance in
Africa, 1990), to modern African literature (The Heritage of African Poetry, 1985; Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook, 2003) and diaspora studies (The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities, 1999). He is currently completing a book on an African epic under the title Blood on the Delta: Art, Culture, and Society in The Ozidi Saga, as well as working on a new book project African Mythology in the New World. He has also published some four dozen journal and book articles in these areas.

Professor Okpewho is also an active novelist with four titles, The Victims (1970), The Last Duty, winner of the African Arts Prize for Literature (1976), Tides, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa (1993), and Call Me By My Rightful Name (2004). He is gradually developing his fifth novel, Fish Scales.

1.Toyin Falola

2. Peter Ekeh

3. Isidore Okpewho



These are all professors/historians, listed in order of the quality of their work. They were all at one time in diaspora or were in the diaspora.

Sure. But I don't think we have enough, in proportion to our size (or even just the size of the South), compared to other countries, so I don't know if we really ought to be celebrating.

chyz:
Is it me or does it seem like sanusi is trying to make up excuses or a case for why sharia courts are going to need to be established across the country, and also, why the workers within the industry have to made to learn islamic law in order to "get this banking thingy goin"? Sounds like islamization of nigeria through the backdoor.

I doubt these Islamic banks, if they were to take off, would be anywhere other than the North and the Muslim areas of cities in the south. And sharia courts are only applicable to Muslims.

What's the point of this scheme?

What's the opposition to interest for? Do they think it's some form of usury? I know usury is prohibited in Islam, but why would anybody go into banking if they had to just hand out money (loans) with no chance of making profit from the risk they've taken? A non-interest bank sounds like a security holding center for other people's money that the owner (the bankers) have to pay to sustain or keep running at a loss. But then again, I'm no banker and no kind of financial expert so I could be completely wrong about all I've said.

Let the Muslims and the bankers on this board come explain to me what the appeal could be about this proposed Islamic bank for an actual banker.

I'm sorry but this is seems rather bizarre. On the one hand it's good that they aren't too interested in what Atiku is selling, but on the other hand their support for IBB's 2015-Igbo president idea puts them in the exact same camp as the Atiku group. Let's think about this logically:

1) If Atiku has an Igbo VP and gets elected or edges out the competition with the help of Igbo votes, he has just as much of an obligation or just as much pressure on him to help out or favor the south east and do the exact same things Jonathan is doing now. While Jonathan reached out to Igbos in 2006 out of genuine goodwill, and is now reaching out to them out of goodwill and for political points, Atiku is only doing so for political points but the overall outcome/results of their attempts to please the southeast will ultimately be the same. And if Atiku somehow fails to do anything for the south east, an Igbo VP will probably just succeed him in 2015 just by being handpicked by him the way Yar'Adua was and this Igbo VP will get the job done for the south east as president.

2) They seem oblivious to the fact that the very reality that GEJ will not step down in 2015 for an Igbo candidate is what is motivating those in the Atiku camp. Those in the Atiku camp are thinking with realpolitik, while those in the Jonathan camp might only just now have realized or wanted to admit that a Jonathan presidency without a doubt means an Igbo president only in 2023 and were possibly previously blinded by all the moves made to redress southeastern complaints.

3) This Igbo president 2015 idea was purely the orchestration of IBB. It simply was not on Northerner's minds prior to IBB suggestion and they even pushed aside Odili, a Niger Delta Igbo, for a former nonentity like Jonathan. This shows that the idea that 2015 belongs to Igbos as reconciliation for the civil war was purely a political calculation against Jonathan by IBB, since in fact, the same North who are crazy about this zoning thing were actually directly responsible for dashing the chances of a probable 2015 Igbo president (Odili). So this very 2015 some Igbos are calling for might easily have been "handed" by the North over to a non-Igbo Niger Deltan to quash all the militancy/Niger Delta exploitation claims.

4) How will Jonathan, the first and probably only Ijaw president of Nigeria there will ever be, after winning in 2011, if he performs even above adequately, not to even talk of whether he does well, just up and stop his 2015 chances? He would have the opportunity to cement his legacy (if he does well), or correct his mistakes (if his performance is substandard), or improve on his mediocre performance if he has enough momentum or appeal and furthermore, his appeal is not based on ethnic sentiments or ideas of zoning so if he does not step down in 2015 for an Igbo, how could any Igbo politician, no matter how good, win against Jonathan unless Jonathan performed abysmally in his first term? If Northerners don't get the presidency in 2011, they will be a force against GEJ in 2015, but not for an Igbo candidate; instead, they will support a Northerner to make up for their supposedly lost 4 years. Thus the only people supporting an Igbo president in 2015 will be some Igbo, making defeating Jonathan with an Igbo candidate if he decides to contest in 2015 an impossibility, unless, as I said before, Jonathan performs abysmally and the Igbo candidate is just too good.

5) Jonathan is humble and not too ambitious, but even this (this stepping down for Igbo in 2015 idea) requires a kind of low esteem of one's self and a "yes sir I will do whatever you say sir" houseboy kind of mentality, which he's already proven he doesn't have.


I think this Igbo-2015 caveat might be the first sign of a complete swing away from GEJ and towards the Atiku camp. Things are looking bad for the 2nd educated head of state in Nigerian history.

Ibime:
Why should states have freedom to negotiate mining rights when Niger Delta states do not have freedom to negotiate oil mining rights.

Another absurdity of the Petroleum Act.

Cosigned. All states should be allowed to do whatever they want with their resources; East, West, Niger Delta, Middle Belt, North, anywhere.

Hmmm. Unfortunate.

Money from Mr. Mark's salary, and that of other useless state looters could go towards fixing these airports.

Jonathan handled this well. Kudos.

Also the posters in here denigrating Jonathan's humility are all fools. Then when some arrogant, pompous goon like IBB or Abacha with an overblown sense of importance and competence starts ruling you you clowns will actually start complaining. It's disgusting that humility and honesty are openly assaulted as weakness by Africans. This simplistic brutish mentality of only respecting raw arrogance and self-worship has been part of the bane of Africa. Hasn't it dawned on anyone that those kind of qualities- humility and honesty- have eluded the many awful African leaders and heads of state yet are always found the few good ones?

Poland? Strange.

Does this country deserve anything less for its parasitism?

If the economy had been kept diverse and different areas of expertise developed instead of this disgusting dependency, this could never even have arisen.

Considering the 13% scam being perpetuated and adhered to quite faithfully by the majority of Nigerians, this is all just karma and well-deserved. The cost of being a lazy parasite is dependency and as a consequence, POWERLESSNESS. At some point the (Northern) military government turned a nation into a plaything of foreign companies to steal what they should not have and afterward, the "civilian" beast imposed upon Nigeria (Obasanjo) preserved this disarray. You can't complain about this but oppose resource control.

BetaThings:
You really think he is so smart to be able to deceive the US? Think again. Those guys have information.

Deceive the US about what?

Great tactical move. I gotta admit I'm impressed with this quote. I didn't think GEJ could be this cunning (knowing the quote actually portrays him in a good light with the whole "I'm not a politician I'm a regular guy but I'm doing this to save this country" angle) or this honest. I was more neutral before but now I think GEJ is simply more intelligent than anybody else in the running and consequently better equipped to actually change things. We should remember that no intelligent person has ever been head of state in Nigeria. Just mediocrities.

Excellent move overall. Let those dumb enough to think he was confessing some sort of supposed inadequacy wallow in their own misplaced hate.