₦airaland Forum

Ramon2:
Ref Igietseme:

Are we also listing Nigerian professors abroad, many of whom have no name recognition even in their own states? In that case, we know where the thing tilts to

Once again, if you have nothing sensible to say, just be quiet. I didn't list him simply because he was a professor abroad; I listed him because he merited it. There are many other Edo state origin professors abroad, but I'm not just listing any and everybody.

Interesting post, but how do we know that the Ijaws didn't just move there after Lagos started growing? Remember that the Ijaws moved around a lot. They were spread out into separated clans sharing a common language/linguistic characteristic.

The presence of "Ijos" in many places other than what is now Bayelsa, Rivers, and Delta, was noted by early European explorers (Portuguese explorers, Richard Burton, etc.) who were exploring those other places, but there was no evidence that they had actually preceded the "main" groups that were there in settling in those locations, and it's even likely, given their huge involvement in trade, that they moved there after others had established commercially relevant city-states, cities, or villages.


(Just stating the obvious.)

fellis:
Edo
44. Sophie Okonedo (actress)

45. Modupe Ozolua (beauty/cosmetics mogul, philanthropist)

Forgot about those two; but I think Sophie Okonedo is more British. She was even born in London and I don't know if she's ever been to Edo state.

EDO STATE continued. . .

34. Felix Idubor (renowned early artist, opened Nigeria's first contemporary art gallery in 1966)

35. Governor Adams Oshiomhole (labor leader, former president of the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC), responsible for a 25% wage increase for public sector workers during the Obasanjo administration)  


36. Shaibu Amodu (only Super Eagles coach to take the Super Eagles to the World Cup twice)

37. Augustus Aikhomu (vice to IBB, not really great though, but known)


38. Mike Akhigbe (former Vice Admiral of the Nigerian Navy, former chief of Naval Staff, former vice president under Abdusalam Abubakar)

39. Ben Osawe (“In 1965, the year in which he completed his studies of sculpture at the Camberwell School, he was chosen to represent Nigeria at the Commonwealth Exhibition in Glasgow. A year later he went back to Africa, to teach at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, but owing to the war in Biafra he was soon forced to flee to Lagos. He there worked in the atelier of his artist colleague Felix Idubor, till opening an atelier of his own in Benin City in 1979.”
“Since the 60s, Osawe´s works have been shown in many exhibitions in Europe, Africa and the USA. In 1962 he took part in an exhibition of the Artists´ International Association in London, and a year later some of his works were shown in the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. Since then he has taken part in exhibitions all round the world, from Lagos to New York and New Delhi. Sculptures of his are to be seen in many public exhibitions and museums, including the National Gallery of Modern Art in Lagos and the cultural department of the Nigerian Ministry of Information.”

An interesting link on him: http://aachronym..com/2008/08/ben-osawe-retrospective-at-quintessence.html)

40. Samuel Ogbemudia (in terms of the development he bestowed upon his state (Bendel state), one of the best state governors Nigeria has had)

41. Phillip Igbafe (pioneering Nigerian historian, well known among Nigerian historians)

42. Fidelis  Oyakhilome  (former head of Nigeria's anti-drug agency)

43. Julius Momoh Udochi (first Nigerian ambassador to the U.S.A., early leader of the Nigerian Youth Circle with H.O. Davies)

Obiagu1:
@ PhysicsQED (or whatever last 3 letters), I know Edo is loaded though some of those on your list are not famous.

Yeah, but the title of this thread says Great/famous, not just famous. Take a look at Jarus' list, for example. How many of the people after number 6 on his list are nationally famous?


Take a look at the list Andre Uweh posted for Imo state:

Dee Sam Mbakwe.
Sylvester Ugo.
Rochas Okorocha.
Creg Mbadiwe
Ezekiel Izuogu
Charles Ugwu.
Charlie BOY Oputa.
Justice Oputa.
Flora Nwapa.
Dennis Ugwuegbu.
Sam Okparaji
Pat Ekeji.
John Chidozie.
Osta Iheme (of aki and pawpaw).
Emeka Rollas.
KANAYO kANAYO.
Saint Obi.
Alloy AGU.

Are the people in bold nationally famous, or just locally known? If it has to be nationally famous, then the lists might just be stocked full of  Nollywood actors and PDP politicians, not people who might be great in the sense I thought the thread was about.


In the list I posted, the people I posted who are not famous are Joe Igietseme, Friday Okonofua, E.U. Emovon, Kingsley Idehen, Johnson Edosomwan, Sunday Iyahen, Godwin Ekhaguere, and Julius Okojie. They are great, though. The other 24 on the list are known well beyond Edo state.

fstranger3:
Actually, you can have Dele Momodu, we dont want him any longer

lol, "we"? Who had him?

I was  tempted to include Dele Momodu in the Edo state list just because he's "famous" (known), but I feared I might get -50 points for that.

28. Sunday Iyahen (Mathematician, former deputy director and then director of the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja )

29. Godwin Ekhaguere (Mathematical physicist, Vice president of Nigerian Mathematical society, one time head of the department of mathematics at Ibadan, http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/ekhaguere_gos.html )

30. Osaze Osifo – “First Bank of Nigeria Plc (FirstBank) has announced the appointment of Osaze Osifo as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of its new investment banking and asset management business.
Osaze Osifo joined FirstBank from Travant Capital, an investments and advisory firm which he co-founded and led from inception in January 2007. He has led a number of advisory mandates at Travant and managed the fund raising and partial deployment of a $107m private equity fund focused on West and Central Africa”
“Osaze Osifo holds two Masters Degrees, one in Finance from the London Business School, and the other in Management Science and Operational Research from the University of Warwick. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lagos.”

Also: http://www.lagostimes.com/2010/12/13/osaze-osifo/

"Travant is Nigeria’s largest alternative asset management firm and currently has more than $300 million under management. In 2007, Travant made a splash when it coordinated an unprecedented $175 million 5-year loan agreement between Oceanic Bank and Merrill Lynch. It was Oceanic Bank’s first international loan transaction and the largest ever loan raised by a Nigerian bank. Travant’s record led to Osifo being appointed the head of First Bank’s investment banking business after a competitive selection process handled by global recruitment giant Korn Ferry."

32. Dr. Julius Okojie (former Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta., http://www.nuc.edu.ng/pages/pages.asp?id=29)

33. Benson Idahosa  (famous evangelist, founder of the Church of God Mission International.)

19. Stephen Oronsaye (“He joined the Federal Ministry of Finance in December 1995, as Director, Special Duties. Oronsaye was responsible for the merger of the Administrative and Accounting functions of the offices of the State House, computerization of processes and procedures of the State House, Personnel records, Accounts and Access controls for the offices.[1] “
He was “appointed Head of the Civil Service of the Federation in June 2009. He began an energetic program of reform immediately after his appointment.[1]”)

20. Eghosa Imasuen (novelist)

21. “Sir” Victor Uwaifo (famous musician, honored by the Nigerian government for his music)

22. Dr. Raymond Dokpesi (first private television network in Nigeria, first satellite T.V. station in Africa, first private radio station in Nigeria, first indigenous shipping line (African Ocean Lines) in Africa)


23. John Momoh (founder and CEO of Channels Television)

24. Johnson A. Edosomwan (highly published and awarded engineering management expert, founded the Johnson A. Edosomwan Leadership Institute at the University of Miami)

25. Godwin Aretanekhai Adams (“Aret” Adams), the first Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (1985-1990)

26. Dele Giwa (famous investigative journalist)

27. Gabriel Igbinedion (business mogul , founded Igbinedion University, also, he founded “Mid-motors, the first indigenous Nigerian company to be given franchise to distribute cars. Later, he set up plants to assemble tricycles and the famous Nediori cars in partnership with Fiat of Italy. The hostile Nigerian business climate ruined those ventures. And he also popularised private aviation business with the now legendary Okada Air,” http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/narticles/national_honours.htm)

12. Osaze Odemwingie (current star striker for the Super Eagles)

13. Ambrose Alli (one of the better governors  Nigeria has had in the south south, set up Delta State university and the university now known as Ambrose Alli University, among other things)

14. Professor E.U. Emovon (first V.C. of the University of Jos, founding member of the Nigerian Academy of science)

15. Kingsley Idehen (programmer, entrepreneur, founder of OpenLink Software, Inc)


16. Tony  Momoh (Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) chairman, former Minister of Information,  accomplished journalist)

17.  Dr. Jackson Gaius-Obaseki (Chairman of the Board of Directors to BRASS Liquefied Natural Gas Co. Ltd., EMGS Nigeria Limited and SERVIPOWER( formerly UTC ENGINEERING CO.), former Group Managing Director  of the NNPC)

7. Nosa Omoigui (founder and CEO of Nervana, Inc., a software company, Prior to founding Nervana, Nosa spent 6 years at Microsoft Research and Microsoft, where he was a Development Manager, Research Manager and designated Technology Strategist. He has a total of 19 granted patents and 21 pending patents (including 2 granted and 9 pending patents for the “Information Nervous System”, the technology on which Nervana is based). In September 2006, Nosa was named as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the global Life Sciences industry by PharmaVoice magazine.)

8. Hakeem Bello-Osagie (“  ‘Keem holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, a law degree from Cambridge University and an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar. He started his career as a petroleum economist and a lawyer. For over three decades, he has been a key player in the Nigerian economy through his participation in several businesses in the private sector particularly in the energy, finance and telecommunications sectors. “
“He until recently served as the Chairman of the board of directors of the United Bank for Africa Plc one of the largest commercial banks in Nigeria. He is also the founder and former Chairman of First Securities Discount House, Nigeria’s leading money markets and treasury bill trading financial services firm, in which the IFC is an equity investor”
“He has been appointed by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory to chair the board of directors of the Abuja Investment Company. He also serves on the board of Timbuktu Media a new publishing house that intends to publish a national daily in Nigeria”)

9. Nowamagbe Omoigui (former Associate Professor of Cardiology at the University of South Carolina and a respected commentator on Nigerian history)

10. Erhabor Emokpae (pioneering sculptor, painter)

11. Anthony Enahoro (He “became the editor of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe’s newspaper, the Southern Nigerian Defender, Ibadan, in 1944 at the age of 21, thus becoming Nigeria’s youngest editor ever. He later became the editor of Zik’s Comet, Kano, 1945–49, also associate editor West African Pilot, Lagos, editor-in-chief Morning Star, 1950-53. In 1953,Chief Anthony Enahoro was the first to move the motion for Nigeria's independence” (though it was rejected) , also “Chief Enahoro was the chairman of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), a pro-democracy group that fought dictator Sani Abacha till Abacha’s death.”)

EDO STATE

This is a partial list in no particular order:


1. Oba Erediauwa  (one of the most respected and longest serving  monarchs in the country and has intervened positively in numerous political and traditional disputes throughout his reign; has also promoted art and set a standard and example  of good traditional leadership)

2. Peter Enahoro ( famous early Nigerian journalist, author of the popular satirical book How to be a Nigerian)

3. Joseph Igietseme (biomedical scientist, the Centers for Disease Control, (CDC ) honored him for outstanding research recently:
“ 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.”
“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.”

4. Abel Guobadia (Ph.D in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1966, former head of the Department of Physics at Lagos, went on to become Executive secretary of the National Universities Commision, Commissioner of Education for Bendel state, was ambassador to South Korea, formed a private educational consulting firm, and became chairman of WHARC)

5. Friday Okonofua (founder of the Women's Health and Action Research Centre (WHARC), recently awarded an honorary fellowship of Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the UK in recognition of his efforts for women’s health)

6. Cardinal Anthony Okogie (Archbishop, and one of the Cardinals that selected (voted in) Pope Benedict XVI in 2005;  also volunteered to die in place of a woman sentenced to death by an Islamic court for adultery: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/februaryweb-only/2-25-13.0.html)

kabna:
eh oga i have just seen your degrees oo  qed mhd , eh good one but you can appreciate that does not make you more intelligent than i n i ( its a rastafarian term meaning me) but hey i admire your degrees, i knw how tough and discipline you have to be to get qualifications i tried it . bro post a link and invite me so we can start educationg our people diplomatically on this ghana higeria rivalry and try to diffuse tensions. i beleieve we have to confront this issue before it gets blown out of proportion sooner or later waht say you?

Yeah we should diffuse tensions. Anger, stress, and hate are no good for Africa going forward.

Lol, the abbreviations aren't degrees, QED = quantum electrodynamics (or quod erat demonstrandum), MHD = magnetohydrodynamics, HD = higher dimensional, RND = research n' development

It's just pointless nerdiness, on my part

Ghana is one of the most interesting countries in Africa, in my opinion. I even already listed some of the things and people from there that I admired. It's not that I claim that they don't have great people, rather it's just that in the recent Ghana-Nigeria squabbles one of the first things I'll hear as a claim of supposed superiority is that Ghana got independence first. Can anyone in his right mind state that Sudan is better than Ghana or the Sudanese people are better than the Ghanaians because Sudan got independence earlier? Of course not.

kabna:
listen 4give the spellings as u knw this is not an academic exercise. but the fact is ghana is the first black nation south of the shara to gain independence or at least we beat you nigeria to it. i knw nigeria must go, i was the first to bring it up on this site when some ignorant fools did not knw about it. yes both were unfortunate i concur but perharps you have gone beyond it however can you appreciate that these expulsions underpins the animousity between our people?

Yeah, not doubting that you beat Nigeria to it, but when it's used as a point of chest beating over others that can only inspire critical minds to examine whether the claim is actually true or if it's actually partly due to the good fortune of another countries' political alignment and a classification scheme. If you want to believe Ghana was first, go ahead, I'm not stopping you, but when I examine the facts the whole claim isn't exactly rock solid to me.

And yeah the 1983 event was responsible for a lot of unnecessary animosity.

10cirenoh:
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We are waiting for your Edo list oo, or don't you know any?

Start from the Obasekis (both the ones in sports and the ones in the entertainment industry).

And to one great man, Late chief Antony Enahoro.

It's coming, just wait. I want to get specifics, so people would know I wasn't just touting names.

kabna:
NEVERTHELESS WE ARE FRIENDS INIT BRUV?   NAIJA GHANA GHANA NAIJA

ALLOTEY HAS DONE WELL I NEVER MADEE ANY FALSE ASSERTIONS ABOUT HIM WHAT YOU GOT FROM OTHER SOURCES ARE NOT MY ASSERTION GET IT?

HE IS  A GREAT SCIENTIST PERIOD IT WAS YOUR ASSERTIONS OF HIS CONTRIBUTION WAS INSIGNIFICANT THAT PROVOKED ME WHEN CLEARLY HIS MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLE IS APPLIED TO REAL LIFE SPACE TECHNOLOGY. SEE IF HE WAS NIGERIAN YOU WOLUD HAV HAILED HIM INIT?
LEARN TO APPRECIATE GHANA FOR WE AINT GOING NO WHERE AND WE WILL GET EVEN GREATER AND BIGGER. I KNOW THIS FOR A FACT.

I went overboard in saying his contribution was insignificant. What I meant is that it was completely blown out of proportion and used to state that it changed computers, saved spaceships, proved parallel lines could meet in curved space, etc.

kabna:
I AM GONNA POST MY LIST OF 100 TOP PHYSICSIST BUT NO YOU DO SOME ACADEMIC RESEARCHING FOOL

ME DESPERATE TO PROVE WHAT TO YOU? AM ASSERTING THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT MY PROUD CONFIDENT PEOPLE.

ALL MA RESEACRH ABOUT NIGERIAN ANIMOUSITY TOWARDS GHANAIANS POINTS TO THE 1983 HUNGER DUE TO DROUGHT.

JUST BECAUSE PPL COME TO SEEK REFUGE FROM YOU IN TIMES OF NEED YOU THINK THEY ARE LESSER AND SO YOU DEVELOP SUCH EVIL OPPOSITION AGAINST ANYTHING GHANAIANA AND WHEN FACTS ARE BEEN PUT ACROSS, YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE BECLOUDED BY SENTIMENTS AND PREJUDICE FOOLS I SAY FOOLS WHICH I WILL SEEK TO OBLITERATE ANYTIMR ANYWHERE

Guy the "Ghana must go" event of 1983 was unfortunate and I don't agree that it should have happened, but Ghana did something similar in 1969 in a way that just so happened to mostly affect Nigerians:

http://books.google.com/books?id=s3kaTLyAKo0C&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=1969+ghana+nigeria+expulsion&source=bl&ots=RSucVcsqH1&sig=GcvIc2XZ0-CxTyNSZV2ZuWSjZwQ&hl=en&ei=gctdTcrHKdHPgAfJstzzDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=1969%20ghana%20nigeria%20expulsion&f=false

http://www.migrationinformation.org/USFocus/display.cfm?ID=381

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:EZmzupxZvVMJ:www.imi.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/rasheed-olaniyi+1969+ghana+nigeria+expulsion&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj-WwkVPAbLzS-Ed5MvbUAFspJemT5eV6WeFv7-01vUUun-5saZywep8hukaRjG0UFGIKitybHdwYgwkfeLk9jhIBAEIhf-dLPyw5mkesOm0RVu6eqTs9CNIxiY9fXamn8H5zv2&sig=AHIEtbSSqrq88riRFlNdvxNxU28PYyaWbg



Not that the 1983 event was right, but not everyone is innocent.

kabna:
YOU ARE PHOKIND DELUDED; HAVE I NOT EXPLAINED RIGHT FROM THE BEGINING WHY SUDAN WAS NOT CLASSED AS BLACK AFRICAN?
SO WHY ARE YOU MAKING A FUSS?
AS I SAID YOU ERONEOUSLY THINK YOU ARE BETTER THAN MOI SIMPLY BEING GHANAIAN HENCE YOUR NEED TO PROVE SO THATS YOUR ONLY REASON FOR THESE BASELESS ARGUMENTS.

DID YOU CHECK MA REFS?

AND ALSO FOR YOUR INFO DID YOU KNOW YOUR SO CALLED NAFDAC TECHNOLOGY OF DETECTING FALSE DRUGS WRE BY GHANAIAN YOUNG BRAINS? CHECK OUT MPEDIGREE FOOL

You dummy, have you ever seen Sudanese? Some of them are the blackest people on the planet and those that aren't so very dark are still black. To not group them with the other black Africans is a politically inspired error that the UN caved into and that's what I was stating.

I was the one who explained right from the beginning that Sudan was classified as North African on tenuous political ground since the same thing could have been done with Mali, except that the Malians don't have overt pro-Arab world leanings in their government and instead you came in here with some nonsense about the majority of the population actually not living below the Sahara desert. You repeated this nonsense twice and then I hammered it down with facts.

For the record I have nothing against Allotey and it's good that he's encouraging science in Ghana and his past work is laudable, but not to the point of concocting all sorts of fables about him. That was the point.

Yeah, Dumas wasn't trying to philosophize. He was keeping it classic.


Wow@ hating Count of Monte Cristo. It's just so well executed a book in my opinion. The twists, the suspense, etc.

As for sympathizing with villains. They're only interesting when they have a lot of depth and background, which is rare.

Anti-heros do get into more risky situations in good fiction, so they are more interesting when they do pop up. I can how they would evoke sympathy when they inevitably screw things up.

kabna:
hey oga physics it is clear from the non academic references you post that sudan geographically is sub saharan but its not politically so for the arab and political factors. as i said before ghana's accurate claim is the first black african nation south of the sahara would that include arab sudan no sir so why the fuss accept it, in any case i have never been proud of this status of ghana anyway. all i want to see is development regardless of time of independnec which you and i can appreciate that both our countries need it.

Ok. Never said Sudan was not politically inclined to the Arab world. In fact that was part of my point.

kabna:
you as a science person should know how rigorous publising an article let alone having a theory and constant named after you due to your work. now you seem to accept how racist this wolrd is, how than will a racist scientific community assuming it so easily accept a ghanaian's theory and publish it and use it if the work did not speak for itself. check out the only african scientist to be listed in world's 100 top physicsist allotey yep u guessed right how can his theory and constant be insignifcant when nasa uses it consistently

Statements like this false statement in bold are the kind of statements that only provoke me to go even further. If you can produce this so called list of worlds 100 top physicists (as though such a thing actually existed  ) do so. Until then, I can only laugh at all this inappropriate aggrandizement.

ROFL, desperation, desperation. See the cheeky Ghanaian getting flustered.

The maps are not made by wikipedia editors you dummy, they have sources. In the case of the statement about the Sahel that I quoted there were 8 different sources for that statement, which shows that Sudan's grouping with North Africa has more to do with links with the Arab world than common sense.

In the case of the Sudan population density map on wikipedia, the source is Columbia University, one of the more prestigious universities on this planet and certainly not "un academic"

"Gridded Population of the World, version 3 (GPWv3) and the Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) are the latest developments in the rendering of human populations in a common geo-referenced framework, produced by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Earth Institute at Columbia University."

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/



And Allotey? I'm still laughing. My original grouse was some Ghanaian claiming he was the only African scientist with anything named after him.

And "work out space matter"? By that you mean. . .? Do you even know anything about physics? Or will you finally admit that you don't have any idea of what they do or do not use his research for?


Let me give you some samples of the kind of cheeky statements that provoke laughter from me:

"The amazing and most popular Allotey constant, a technique for determining matter in space by scientists at the National  Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA),an independent Agency of The United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight and other successful individuals and organizations in the scientific fraternity. Some He also proved wrong the assertion that parallel lines don’t meet and said, “In the flat space parallel lines don’t meet, but in curved they meet. Eg. If you are in globe start at parallel and meet at the end.

Many computers were upgraded or are upgraded due to the same Allotey constant or fomalism."


"As if the achievements of the Professor are enough, A NASA spaceship was stuck somewhere in space and Professor Allotey was able to bring it down through mathematical calculations. He resolved a huge industrial action in the U.S by mathematical calculations. He can predict results of lotteries."

http://www.ghanaianscientists.org/story233.html


Non-Euclidean geometry was established around 1830 by Bolyai and Lobachevsky, over 180 years ago, so talk of Allotey first proving that parallel lines meet in curved space is laughable.

The other bolded points are too comical to even address.

SEFAGO:
@PhysicsRND

those are recognizable names if you have lived in nigeria. However you are correct- we should check what they have done

Someone included Kanayo O Kanayo  

So just put all the Nillywood movie stars since nollywood is dominated by igbos

I do recognize many of the names in each list so far, but enough are obscure to me that I made the request.

Also, I think that when forced to actually list the achievements of the people instead of just touting their names, it will make people exclude people who are more mediocre in comparison with the other people in their own list and that of others.

Ramon2:
The Igbo ones are definitely famous outside their states as many live outside Igboland. Cannot say the same for the Yoruba ones who are constantly ensconced in Yorubaland

For eg., Kanu Nwankwo needs no introduction in a Yoruba village

? What does the supposed lack of notoriety of Yorubas outside of Yorubaland have to do with my simple request?


Just shut up if you can't type without making a fool of yourself.

SEFAGO:
Holy crap the guy actually had 180 patents to his name

WOW

Nchara which you one you get?

Instead of emulating this guy instead of engaging in tribal battles

Wikipedia just says more than 130; where did you read exactly 180?


Either way, yeah like I said, he was a giant. He would have won it if he had somehow lived up to the 1990s when the impact of all the things he helped pioneer was really being felt, in my opinion.

Yeah, Afrocentrists like to make Charles Drew into some towering medical giant (he wasn't though   ), which is kind of ironic considering how much white ancestry he clearly has.

And Dumas is one of my favorite writers ever. Little depth, but one of the greatest storytellers ever. I still remember reading the Three Musketeers at 12. Then Twenty Years after and the Vicomte book. And of course, the Count of Monte Cristo.

Pushkin is also usually claimed by people who haven't read any of his work.


As far as Percy Lavon Julian, he was pretty important. Do read up on him.

Please say what some of these people have done or go back and edit your lists to summarize what they have achieved because while you may know them they might not be as great and famous to those outside of your state as you might assume and people can't go and look up all 20 or so people on each list.

ROFL at this obnoxious Ghanian. Now he's getting flustered and trying to grasp at shadows.

Do you not know what the Sahel is?

'The Sahel is the transitional zone between the Sahara and the tropical savanna (the Sudan region) and forest-savanna mosaic to the south. The Horn of Africa and large areas of Sudan  are geographically part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but also part of the Arab world.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsaharan_Africa

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/East_and_southern_africa_early_iron_age.png/518px-East_and_southern_africa_early_iron_age.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Africa_Koppen_Map.png

http://www.eduspace.esa.int/Worksheet/images/Africa_Sahel.jpg

If you had an ounce of honesty in you you would admit that the population density map I posted shows that this "north" of the Sudan where the majority of the population lives is actually the Sahel and that even Khartoum is on the border of the Sahel and the desert.  When you add those people in Sudan living in the Sahel and those living south of the Sahel it vastly outnumbers those living in the actual desert.

I know who F.K. Allotey is you dummy. His research is not particularly significant (I would know) and he was obscure before internet Ghanians started touting him as the next best thing since sliced bread. Anyone can publish something insignificant but different and get it named after themselves, but my grouse was with the claim that he was the only African with any scientific idea named after him which is simply not true.

That's why I laugh at the cheekiness of Ghanaians with their funny claims. Rwandans have Augustin Banyaga and Beninese have Wilfrid Gangbo, yet you don't see them chest beating and ranting about these actually highly accomplished researchers and their important, significant theoretical contributions to their fields the way Ghanaians are propping up Allotey.

Funny Ghanaian people.  

Ramon2:
Okonjo was Delta now married in Abia. Her children are Abians. Stop claiming them for Delta

WTF? I'm not from Delta and I'm not "claiming for Delta" you twit.

She's from Delta state so I listed her. It's that simple. I've never read about her marrying into or living in Abia because I don't follow her personal life like you apparently do.

I'm not under the impression that she's a minority, because it's clear she's Igbo, but last time I checked, this thread didn't say "exclude all majority ethnicity people if listing great/famous people from a south south state."

[size=4pt]Olodo.[/size]

SEFAGO:
Most people there dont look black ooh!!

lol. Well,  Percy Lavon Julian is black looking (just look at his childhood pictures) and he's the one there that really matters. Dude was a beast. If he had lived long enough (not that he died early), I think he could have gotten a Nobel prize. Within his lifetime it hadn't sunk in how important his work was.