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I am not surprised Olamide is on this list. Congrats man.

Sermwell:
see this mumu!!! you are here fooling yourself meanwhile,........one of the scholars Ayo Dada aspires to find solutions to the problems of ethnic and gender prejudice and academic underachievement that are plaguing Nigeria.

Stop hating guy

Graduated together, @ ayodele dada, the guy is a humble scholar, always helping us out with tutorials and so on, am so happy, psy 15 graduating class is so proud of you @ ayodele dada.

Odunharry:
Nigerians are blessed.

Keep making the country proud.

They are in the USA o, not in Nigeria.

rentAcock:
It's great to see these brilliant young minds achieving academic success and what not, but the problem with Nigerians centres around their lack of creativity. It's not always about being book smart, some of the technological inventions we enjoy today weren't created by the top students but by curious minds. I know a guy who's so smart and has 4 PhDs but he has never worked a day in his life, after he completes one degree, he goes back for another one. This guy is 45 years old and he's going for his 5th post graduate degree. I wish them well, and I hope they make us proud. Perhaps one day my own children will sing their song like I recite this quote "in 1994 Rashidi Yekini became the first Nigerian player to score in the World Cup tournament where we defeated Bulgaria 3-0."

Some people just like the school enviroment.

That Olamise guy from UI had an offer from Shell...

Rejected it and went to MIT

Igbo Amaka The 13th tribe of Israel that is better than all other tribes

Wow...congratulations to these bosses!
This is what I love to read and see on front page not one purposeless half naked actress...This will inspire younger generations that hard and smart(mental) work pays! Congratulations once again.

Satan66:
Igbos are certainly great.
An afonja can't acquire this!
Any afonja that can get this far in life is through bribery and corruption!

U are sick upstairs, why are u being tribalistic? Instead for u to get a life u are here commenting nonsense. Must u comment on everything u see? Olodo oshi

Satan66:
Igbos are certainly great.
An afonja can't acquire this!
Any afonja that can get this far in life is through bribery and corruption!

Hahahhha Oti dun werey paaa.

ictjobber:
Don't forget to Nationalize there

See my signature

Olodo **Naturalise**

BravoDe:
Olodo **Naturalise**

Thx for the correction

You're a foolish and a waste product oughtering such statement. Cant you just congratulate them and move on? Must everything be tribalism? Every tribe in Nigeria has set and broke record across the world. I'm sure you're jealous because none of your family has ever gotten such greatness. I'm sure you also criticize the notherns, but let me tell u a story of a Fulani boy who graduated from a Russian school with 5.0GP in a medical course. Please have sense ok

Satan66:
Igbos are certainly great.
An afonja can't acquire this!
Any afonja that can get this far in life is through bribery and corruption!

Disgusting Swine!

Satan66:
Igbos are certainly great.
An afonja can't acquire this!
Any afonja that can get this far in life is through bribery and corruption!

He is a very unfortunate being, check out his posts, and you will realize what I am talking about.

hybridblood07:
You're a foolish and a waste product oughtering such statement. Cant you just congratulate them and move on? Must everything be tribalism? Every tribe in Nigeria has set and broke record across the world. I'm sure you're jealous because none of your family has ever gotten such greatness. I'm sure you also criticize the notherns, but let me tell u a story of a Fulani boy who graduated from a Russian school with 5.0GP in a medical course. Please have sense ok

Trust me, so sad - we have "lost" theses two great minds. Oyibo don't joke with their scholarship and scholars. They will want you to stay and contribute to their country. Until our structural defects as a nation are fixed, we would continue to loose our best minds.

we have lost countless and thousands of record-breakers in foreign universities to the host nation due to stupidity and lack of focus of our leaders. For our leaders, those thing does not make sense to them. There is no data base of our highly brilliant minds and innovators. Those in the helm of authorities do not place priority on human capacity development.

I wish them success in their various endevour.

SolomonUbaniBlo:
Two Nigerians Ayo Dada and Olamide Oladeji were among the 69 scholars that won the prestigious Knight-Hennessy scholarship at Stanford University. The Knight-Hennessy scholarship is poised to develop both the depth and range of subject expertise to confront the numerous grand challenges and opportunities of the future. Knight-Hennessy Scholars receive full funding to pursue graduate study at Stanford. They both join Solomon Oyakhire, an alumnus of the University of Lagos, who was the only Nigerian recipient of the scholarship in the first edition in 2018 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Stanford School of Engineering.

69 students who won the scholarship from around the world for The second cohort of scholars in the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program was announced on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. The Knight Hennessy scholarship received over 4,000 applications this year. The 69 scholars cut across 20 countries across in the world and will pursue degrees in 37 programs at Stanford University. The primary selection criteria used to evaluate applicants were independence of thought, purposeful leadership, and a civic mindset.

Meet the Nigerian Knight-Hennessy Scholars in the 2019 edition

Ayo Dada

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Ayo Dada is not a name foreign to many Nigerians. He became a sensation in Nigeria and on social media when he became the first person to graduate with a perfect 5.0 CGPA from the University of Lagos. He was honored by the House of Representatives for his outstanding academic achievements. Ayo Dada aspires to find solutions to the problems of ethnic and gender prejudice and academic underachievement that are plaguing Nigeria. He interned in security services at the Central Bank of Nigeria, and in business operations at Procter and Gamble. He was named one of Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Nigeria. Ayo Dada would be pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences.

Olamide Oladeji

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Olamide Oladeji is pursuing a Ph.D. in management science and engineering at Stanford School of Engineering. He graduated from the University of Ibadan with a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with dual master’s degrees in electrical engineering & computer science and in technology & policy. Olamide aspires to contribute to industrial efforts in the innovation and regulation of sustainable energy systems, and to serve in Nigeria’s public sector. As a research assistant at the MIT Energy Initiative, he helped develop a computational model to inform electrification planning for increased electricity access in developing countries.

At the University of Ibadan, Olamide was selected as the university’s Google Student Ambassador, and was editor-in-chief of the Bello press organization. He has worked with various organizations across India, Spain, and the United States at the nexus of engineering, data science, and energy economics, and has completed community development and engineering projects in Nigeria.

He was also an MIT Tata Fellow.

https://www.solomonubani.com/2019/03/stanford-knight-hennessy-scholarhsip.html

When REAL people do well, they don't tribalize it; weak people always does.

Oga sir, I don't need to see his post because he's senseless and has nothing to say. Thanks you sir

Guruindahouse:
He is a very unfortunate being, check out his posts, and you will realize what I am talking about.

Satan66:
Igbos are certainly great.
An afonja can't acquire this!
Any afonja that can get this far in life is through bribery and corruption!

Is this one achievement? They're simply pursuing their academic career and you're here ranting, ewu, they may end up unemployed like you and subsequently resort to...........mining, you know now

Well I am not Yoruba but anytime you see positive news like these IGBO hardly features - They are only to be seen when "Nigerian" drug dealers or criminals are executed, arrested, jailed...

KingAzubuike:
With all the wahala no be say dem go later get money pass wizkid or korede bello or baba suwe or even some wretched street yahoo boys. Education na scam abeg. Find your onions and make that money , after all anyway na way.

This is the same mentality you igbos have that push y'all to sell drugs. Education is key

skallion7:
This is the same mentality you igbos have that push y'all to sell drugs. Education is key

With all the education tell me one tangible thing you Africans have done with it? You are still light years behind the whites that brought up those ideas.

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yes. 'Afonjas' like one ding-dong used to call us. we r 'afonjas'.

I often wonder what would happen if the 'shake across the Niger' was for real and the Igbo and Yoruba truly come together and agree on important issues. I guess the Nigeria of our dream would materialize faster than imagined. If and only if we can stop fighting each other and think of showing these gworo chewing abokis where they really belong in the scheme of things. How I wish.

gratiaeo:
Yoruba amaka

Please what's Yoruba amaka?
It's Igbo amaka I know.
New Nigerian like you.

Satan66:
Igbos are certainly great.
An afonja can't acquire this!
Any afonja that can get this far in life is through bribery and corruption!

What is your own with Afonja, this backward baboon? What is the problem? You love Afonja die like that??


Your face like baboon yanshh...Lol

rentAcock:
It's great to see these brilliant young minds achieving academic success and what not, but the problem with Nigerians centres around their lack of creativity. It's not always about being book smart, some of the technological inventions we enjoy today weren't created by the top students but by curious minds. I know a guy who's so smart and has 4 PhDs but he has never worked a day in his life, after he completes one degree, he goes back for another one. This guy is 45 years old and he's going for his 5th post graduate degree. I wish them well, and I hope they make us proud. Perhaps one day my own children will sing their song like I recite this quote "in 1994 Rashidi Yekini became the first Nigerian player to score in the World Cup tournament where we defeated Bulgaria 3-0."

However creative you may be, you would still need folks like these to actually bring your ideas to fruition.

Focusmind:
Trust me, so sad - we have "lost" theses two great minds. Oyibo don't joke with their scholarship and scholars. They will want you to stay and contribute to their country. Until our structural defects as a nation are fixed, we would continue to loose our best minds.

we have lost countless and thousands of record-breakers in foreign universities to the host nation due to stupidity and lack of focus of our leaders. For our leaders, those thing does not make sense to them. There is no data base of our highly brilliant minds and innovators. Those in the helm of authorities do not place priority on human capacity development.

I wish them success in their various endevour.

Not necessarily, as several Nigerians study abroad and actually return...
Nonetheless, even if we lose them physically they can still contribute to Nigeria from wherever they may domiciled. Congrats to both!

KingAzubuike:
With all the education tell me one tangible thing you Africans have done with it? You are still light years behind the whites that brought up those ideas.

Yes, I will tell you. We acquired TV before France

Johnboom:
Yes, I will tell you. We acquired TV before France

You acquired TV before France? Wow where France dey today where naija dey?

rentAcock:
It's great to see these brilliant young minds achieving academic success and what not, but the problem with Nigerians centres around their lack of creativity. It's not always about being book smart, some of the technological inventions we enjoy today weren't created by the top students but by curious minds. I know a guy who's so smart and has 4 PhDs but he has never worked a day in his life, after he completes one degree, he goes back for another one. This guy is 45 years old and he's going for his 5th post graduate degree. I wish them well, and I hope they make us proud. Perhaps one day my own children will sing their song like I recite this quote "in 1994 Rashidi Yekini became the first Nigerian player to score in the World Cup tournament where we defeated Bulgaria 3-0."

Why doesn't he want to work? How does he survive especially if his married?