₦airaland Forum

oge4real: Good job. Nigerians are great achievers. We just need a befitting environment.

^^^Nigerians are achievers indeed! But the nasty badbelle, crabs-in-a-barrel syndrome is what's restricting innovation, academic excellence, and due recognition for the deserving!

Does anyone imagine this man would have reached these dizzying heights of success if he had remained in Nigeria? He probably would have been asked to stand in line and wait his turn which will come only when others have filled their allotted quota; and he'd probably be frustrated every inch of the way by some pen-pushing, bureaucratic, Igbo-hating, quota-benefitting director in the relevant ministry concerned!

You ever wonder why Nigeria didn't take advantage of, and build on the innovations of the Biafran engineers and scientists immediately after the civil war? In sane countries that recognise and reward academic excellence, innovation and brain-power, you find people becoming billionaires solely on the strength and marketability of their ideas; but in Nigeria, you have to be from the 'right ethnic group', have stolen while in gov't, be in or close to the corridors of power, or be dashed an oyel block before you can think of joining the exclusive elite club of dollar billionaires!

EmeeNaka: lol...I am actually asking about his state of Origin and Not whether he is Igbo or Yoruba.

born in umuahia, but he is from anambra state.

WOW

This man is simply a wizard... The land of the rising sun.

Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe was born in Ovim, in Abia State, where he attended the Secondary Technical School. He passed his SSCE/WASC with flying colors obtaining 8 distinctions which included A2 in Further Mathematics thereby setting his school’s all-time record as the best exam results in that examination. His gifted brain power started showcasing at his early years, as attested by the fact that he prepared himself for other none-science subjects and also score highly attaining a distinction in GCE.

Dr. Ekekwe had an insatiable passion for science, which lead him to obtaining Bachelor Degree in Engineering specializing in Electronics/Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Technology in 1998. He was the best student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at that institution. He proceeded with higher learning which lead him to obtain four masters degrees: MTech (Federal University of Technology, Akure) MSE (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Ms (Tuskegee University, USA) and MBA (University of Calabar). He also obtained two Doctorates in Management from St. Clements University and an Electrical & Computer Engineering where he specialized in Microelectronics & Medical Robotics Engineering from the John Hopkins University, USA.

Some of his greatest research work, involved manufacturing of integrated circuits with application on alternative energies, biomedical systems, medical robotics and neuromorphics (area dealing with creation of human artificial organs like the brain, retinas and cochlea). When Dr. Ekekwe began his Doctorate degree at the Johns Hopkins University, shortly after obtaining his Masters at the Tuskegee University, he had a CGPA of 4/4 in the Electrical Engineering field. With such great academic brilliance, he was awarded the very prestigious United States ERC/National Science Foundation and the Johns Hopkins University Fellowships. While undertaking his masters program, he was award the United States EMCWA scholarship as well as given the opportunity to work on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Project whose focus was studying the distribution of high frequency into space.

His remarkable brain power and contribution to science and technology earned him several high profile awards that included the United Kingdom Congress on Computer Assisted Surgery, nomination to the Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Recognition Awards and last but not least the award of SAMSTAG fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering. All this high profiled awards and recognition was for Dr. Ekekwe being an outstanding graduate student.

Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is also certified in numerous key fields in technology and has to his name several high ranking publications of technical papers ranked among the leading journals and conferences about technology. He also has two pending patents on Microelectronics and works as a consultant to Universities, Tech-Firms and the World Bank. He is also the serving principal investigator on emerging Africa’s First Microelectronics institute and has visiting appointments to two high profiled African Universities.

Dr. Ekekwe is also the founder and the President of the African Institution of Technology. This company’s mission is to facilitate provision of practical education support, encourage enactment of technology policies and facilitating the bottom-up creativity technology emanating from the African economies. He also got an inclusion into the Marquis Who’s Who in America in the 2010 edition as well into Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide in 2009, he also authored a high profiled tech-book named, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy, by IGI Global.

coolzeal:
Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe was born in Ovim, in Abia State, where he attended the Secondary Technical School. He passed his SSCE/WASC with flying colors obtaining 8 distinctions which included A2 in Further Mathematics thereby setting his school’s all-time record as the best exam results in that examination. His gifted brain power started showcasing at his early years, as attested by the fact that he prepared himself for other none-science subjects and also score highly attaining a distinction in GCE.

Dr. Ekekwe had an insatiable passion for science, which lead him to obtaining Bachelor Degree in Engineering specializing in Electronics/Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Technology in 1998. He was the best student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at that institution. He proceeded with higher learning which lead him to obtain four masters degrees: MTech (Federal University of Technology, Akure) MSE (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Ms (Tuskegee University, USA) and MBA (University of Calabar). He also obtained two Doctorates in Management from St. Clements University and an Electrical & Computer Engineering where he specialized in Microelectronics & Medical Robotics Engineering from the John Hopkins University, USA.

Some of his greatest research work, involved manufacturing of integrated circuits with application on alternative energies, biomedical systems, medical robotics and neuromorphics (area dealing with creation of human artificial organs like the brain, retinas and cochlea). When Dr. Ekekwe began his Doctorate degree at the Johns Hopkins University, shortly after obtaining his Masters at the Tuskegee University, he had a CGPA of 4/4 in the Electrical Engineering field. With such great academic brilliance, he was awarded the very prestigious United States ERC/National Science Foundation and the Johns Hopkins University Fellowships. While undertaking his masters program, he was award the United States EMCWA scholarship as well as given the opportunity to work on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Project whose focus was studying the distribution of high frequency into space.

His remarkable brain power and contribution to science and technology earned him several high profile awards that included the United Kingdom Congress on Computer Assisted Surgery, nomination to the Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Recognition Awards and last but not least the award of SAMSTAG fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering. All this high profiled awards and recognition was for Dr. Ekekwe being an outstanding graduate student.

Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is also certified in numerous key fields in technology and has to his name several high ranking publications of technical papers ranked among the leading journals and conferences about technology. He also has two pending patents on Microelectronics and works as a consultant to Universities, Tech-Firms and the World Bank. He is also the serving principal investigator on emerging Africa’s First Microelectronics institute and has visiting appointments to two high profiled African Universities.

Dr. Ekekwe is also the founder and the President of the African Institution of Technology. This company’s mission is to facilitate provision of practical education support, encourage enactment of technology policies and facilitating the bottom-up creativity technology emanating from the African economies. He also got an inclusion into the Marquis Who’s Who in America in the 2010 edition as well into Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide in 2009, he also authored a high profiled tech-book named, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy, by IGI Global.

another technological heavyweight.......

he is well known too.......

I spent about 3 hours with this man today. Only at the very end did his wife tell me about his inventions. Very humble man and extremely smart.

charleeez:
I spent about 3 hours with this man today. Only at the very end did his wife tell me about his inventions. Very humble man and extremely smart.

Has this brother got any plans for any sort of technological project in Africa?

Cyprian Emeka uzoh, ndubuisi ekekwe, samuel achilefu, mehn....I feel motivated....

He is a critical asset to the department of defence, silicon valley, and entire american intellectual infrastructure. Leaving the US is not an option for him neither will the US condone it anyway, due to the obvious intellectual level he plays at.
If countries like russia or china gets hold of him, he is probably good enough to advance their semi-conductor cum military technologies ten years into the future, the future that america currently plays at.
God bless america.

Does it mean he won't step his foot on Nigeria again?

EMMASON125:
‘To ba ya nsin, awon were
ti o la’so gidi kan lori’ko
won a tun ni mo n’sepe. Ewo nsin, eyan ti aye e ti ba’je, ko de gbe Ike mi lo si odo lai so fun mi
teletele.
(Mad people)
Omo Ibo oloribu
oloruniya o ni dide nle abi
ile o ti mo ni?

Afonja in pains

More IPOB. Induced pains to yoruba muslim skulls

This is a rare human attribute. Cha Cha Cha Igbo kwenu!!!! Most Nigerians are funny.