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I was watching this particular episode of Criminal Minds and the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) Agents gave the profile of the unsob who was a black serial killer. The head of the state police who is White didn't belive the profile, he responded by saying, "he was yet to hear of a Black Serial Killer". And it occurred to me; I
have never heard of a black serial
killer, or seen one on Law and
Order, Could it be true? I mean in
America there would be some of
the gangster types shooting up a
bunch of people, but is that even
considered serial murder?
That
seems to be kind of less psycho
oriented and more power-greed-
bully.
So are there any records of black serial killers? Or is there any such thing as a Black Serial killer?

OP
YOU are even worse!

By SaharaReporters, New York
The Southwark Crown Court in
London, which has sent James
Ibori money-laundering
operatives to jail in recent
months, yesterday granted a
confiscation of proceeds of
crime order against the jailed
sister of the former Delta state
governor.
Judge Christopher Harding ruled
that Christine Ibori-Ibie, who
was jailed for five years last
June, benefited from looted
Delta state funds by over £4
million.
Christine, who appeared in court
yesterday, refused to give
evidence in the confiscation
trial. Under the order, she is
required to pay £832,000 in the
next six months or risk bagging
a fresh five years in the
slammer in addition to the five
years she is now serving for
engaging in money laundering
with James Ibori. The £829, 000
is made of up of the value of
her property in London minus
what she owes in mortgage
loans.
Despite Christine’s refusal to
give any evidence yesterday,
her lawyers agreed that the
figures were correct. She made
it known, however, that she did
not agree that she benefited
from the Delta State loot to the
extent of the amount declared
by the court.
The London Metropolitan police,
working through the "Proceed
Of Crimes Unit ” (POCU),
comprising a few Scotland Yard
police detectives: John
MackDonald, Peter Clarke, Paul
Garnener and Ben Irons, have
relentlessly pursued former
governors James Ibori, Dipreye
Alamieyeseigha and Joseph
Dariye. The three former
governors of Delta, Plateau and
Bayelsa States used UK banks,
to launder funds looted from
their respective states.
The team, working with a
female prosecutor, Sasha Wass,
QC, has succeeded in jailing
accomplices of the three former
governors while they await the
extradition of Mr. Ibori, who is
currently in Dubai. Last month,
Mr. Ibori appealed the decision
of a lower court there granting
an extradition request by the
London Metropolitan Police.
The CPS and London Mets police
will continue with confiscation
hearings to regain all assets
purchased by convicted
members of the Ibori clan.
A number of Delta State
indigenes and officials were
indicted in the trial but could not
be tried as the UK does not try
criminals in absentia except in
terrorism cases. The notable
accomplices who could not be
tried include the recently
deposed Delta State governor,
Emmanuel Uduaghan; his
deputy, Prof. Utuama; as well
as David Edevbie who was
Ibori's commissioner of finance
before taking office as Principal
Private Secretary to Umaru
Yar ’Adua.
Despite his indictment,
Uduaghan is battling to retake
office as Delta state governor,
the position from which he was
sacked two weeks ago by the
Court of Appeal. One of the
attractions of the office for him
is the promise of immunity
while in office.
An attempt by the EFCC to
arrest and prosecute him over
Ibori-era corruption has been
stopped by President Goodluck
Jonathan, according to EFCC
officials that spoke to
Saharareporters under condition
of anonymity.
The political mathematics in
Delta State is straightforward:
Ibori covered his tracks by
putting Uduaghan, his cousin, in
office after him, and Uduaghan
is thought to be interested in
using the same strategy to
protect their future, at least in
Nigeria. But if an opponent of
both men takes office in the
election set for within 90 days
by the Court of Appeal, Delta
State could enjoy a new start.

By SaharaReporters, New York
The Southwark Crown Court in
London, which has sent James
Ibori money-laundering
operatives to jail in recent
months, yesterday granted a
confiscation of proceeds of
crime order against the jailed
sister of the former Delta state
governor.
Judge Christopher Harding ruled
that Christine Ibori-Ibie, who
was jailed for five years last
June, benefited from looted
Delta state funds by over £4
million.
Christine, who appeared in court
yesterday, refused to give
evidence in the confiscation
trial. Under the order, she is
required to pay £832,000 in the
next six months or risk bagging
a fresh five years in the
slammer in addition to the five
years she is now serving for
engaging in money laundering
with James Ibori. The £829, 000
is made of up of the value of
her property in London minus
what she owes in mortgage
loans.
Despite Christine’s refusal to
give any evidence yesterday,
her lawyers agreed that the
figures were correct. She made
it known, however, that she did
not agree that she benefited
from the Delta State loot to the
extent of the amount declared
by the court.
The London Metropolitan police,
working through the "Proceed
Of Crimes Unit ” (POCU),
comprising a few Scotland Yard
police detectives: John
MackDonald, Peter Clarke, Paul
Garnener and Ben Irons, have
relentlessly pursued former
governors James Ibori, Dipreye
Alamieyeseigha and Joseph
Dariye. The three former
governors of Delta, Plateau and
Bayelsa States used UK banks,
to launder funds looted from
their respective states.
The team, working with a
female prosecutor, Sasha Wass,
QC, has succeeded in jailing
accomplices of the three former
governors while they await the
extradition of Mr. Ibori, who is
currently in Dubai. Last month,
Mr. Ibori appealed the decision
of a lower court there granting
an extradition request by the
London Metropolitan Police.
The CPS and London Mets police
will continue with confiscation
hearings to regain all assets
purchased by convicted
members of the Ibori clan.
A number of Delta State
indigenes and officials were
indicted in the trial but could not
be tried as the UK does not try
criminals in absentia except in
terrorism cases. The notable
accomplices who could not be
tried include the recently
deposed Delta State governor,
Emmanuel Uduaghan; his
deputy, Prof. Utuama; as well
as David Edevbie who was
Ibori's commissioner of finance
before taking office as Principal
Private Secretary to Umaru
Yar ’Adua.
Despite his indictment,
Uduaghan is battling to retake
office as Delta state governor,
the position from which he was
sacked two weeks ago by the
Court of Appeal. One of the
attractions of the office for him
is the promise of immunity
while in office.
An attempt by the EFCC to
arrest and prosecute him over
Ibori-era corruption has been
stopped by President Goodluck
Jonathan, according to EFCC
officials that spoke to
Saharareporters under condition
of anonymity.
The political mathematics in
Delta State is straightforward:
Ibori covered his tracks by
putting Uduaghan, his cousin, in
office after him, and Uduaghan
is thought to be interested in
using the same strategy to
protect their future, at least in
Nigeria. But if an opponent of
both men takes office in the
election set for within 90 days
by the Court of Appeal, Delta
State could enjoy a new start.

[quote][/quote]. . . And you be yansh.

Am not saying he is illuminati. I am saying that he deliberately depicted illuminati and masonic symbols in that video. Most of the symbols there are not coincidence, they were actually infused to depict the theme of the song Power.
Both Jay Z and Kanye are very much aware of those symbols, they may not belong to any of those secret societies but don't tell me they are not very well aware of it. Jay Z in particular use masonic signs and designs in his clothing lines, from the eye of Horus to the pyramid and stuff. Jay Z is a very good business man, he may be using those symbols because of their speculative and controversial nature. Controversy sells and Jigga knows that goddam well.

MzDarkskin
You mean ibori? Well, the criminal has been playing hide & seek with the Nigerian law enforcement agency EFFC and the british law enforcement. He was in the process of running from pillar to post when he got caught in Dubai by the Dubai enforcement and international police. Unfortunately, he can't be tried in Dubai as he did not commit any of his crimes in Dubai, besides, Nigeria and Dubai don't ve any pact of extraditing criminals, instead Dubai and Britain do. Already a court in Dubai has given the go-ahead for his extradition to Britain where he will face his crimes and do serious time that will make that of his women seem seem like an easy work in the park. Nigerians are angry with the judicial system here as a lot of the judges have been silenced by Ibori's stolen wealth. Could you believe this same man was charged and acquitted of all his crimes by a kangaroo court of Ibori and friends in his home state? Until the death of the former president-who was hopelessly lethargic and not in control of his goverment as he spent his whole time struggling with his ailing heatlth-Ibori was enjoying some kind of relative peace inspite of the damning evidence of financial impropriety levelled against him both by the EFCC and the Mets in Britain. The attempt by the EFCC to prosecute him was seriously frustrated by the then very very corrupt attorney general of the federation one rogue lawyer that calls himself Mike Aondaaka. This man defended the rogue like he was his defence attorney even though he was the AGF(Attorney General of the Federation). It came to a point, this rogue left his ministerial duties and secretly travelled incognito to Britain to demand that Ibori who was then in detention in Britain be extradited, claiming that the crimes he was being held for were committed in Nigeria and wanted to play thesame overused race card. When Nigerian residents in london learnt of the AGF's antics and gimmick, there was an avalenche of call to the hotel he was lodged to the extent the call traffic was overwhelming that the hotel authorities had to tell him to leave. So my sister, this people are getting what they deserve. Imagine a state government divested his own state's investment in a telecom and lodged all the money divested into his own private account, that is just one of the many crimes this kleptomaniac has committed. His own case was so brazen that he openly boasts about how nobody can arrest him. He was so confident of that because he was the single largest sponsor of the late lethargic presiden't campaign as a result he was able to persuade the then president to take his own former D.A as the AGF cos he knew it will all come down to this eventually. Thank God the president died and his VP whom Ibori vehememtly fought against his replacement is now the president. The first thing the new President did was to sack the rogue AGF and left Ibori vulnerable to the law enforcement agencies both home and abroad. He was going to be arrested by the EFCC when he absconded to Dubai and was later declared wanted by the EFCC. However, the long arm of justice has still caught up with him in Dubai and now he is appealing his extradition verdict to Britain where he would thoroughly tried and subsequently jailed as that that is inevitable.

MzDarkskin
I think you are slightly wrong. Mrs Ibori is not a victim of her race or colour as you think. She is a product of her husband's numerous shoddy deals with the wealth of Delta State. Her husband used her, his Mistress, Uzoamaka and his own sister to illigally transfer huge sums of stolen money to the UK, using it to purchase erroneously purchase cars for Ibori's company in the Uk and aquire properties in their names. The bottom line here is that she is being tried for breaking the financial laws of the UK and I think Nigeria and the UK have a pact to prosecute any of such criminal. She is not the only going to jail, Ibori's sister and mistress are already there.
But the remaining part of your comment, I understand your points and I agree with them, nice babe.

Ifygurl:
@ angrynaija

Do honestly believe all this is happening JUST in Nigeria? 
Seriously?  Do you know the names of African nations listed by FBI as countries to look out for especially for 419? Ghana, Nigeria, Cote D'ivoire, Senegal, Burkina Faso and other nation in Africa.  Nigeria is know for it because Nigeria made it international (unfortunately), the same way Italians are known for mobs but they aren't the only ones involved in it.  There's the Russian mob, Chinese mob and co.
The same way Cubans are known for drug dealing but they aren't the only ones involved with it.
Do honestly believe Nigeria is the only country doing 419?
Do you know the list of corruption index included for Africa? Ethiopia, Tanzania, Gabon and co have less corruption than Nigeria. 
Do honestly believe those countries are doing better than Nigeria?
Angola has a higher corruption that Nigeria yet that nation economy is skyrocketing.  There isn't any African country doing better than Angola right now.
Egypt has lower corruption index, higher crime rate than Ghana and i know for sure Ghana, Nigeria or anyother sub-Saharan African country is not doing better than Egypt
I seriously do not think any of you guys research some stuff. 
I don't deny Nigeria is terribly in some ways and so is every nation in Africa but dude research your nation first or at least research other nations first before comparing.
Like i said before, i think Nigeria just love uplifting stuff just because it's not in Nigeria.

My sister pls help me tell the dude, he keeps making very spurious claims that
will sound ridiculous when you want to start arguing it. Thank God you ve broken it in elementary terms for him to understand the folly of his very naive arguement. He talks about denying it like the manner he complains about it will ve any positive effect on it. You would only get derision and nothing more. Bad mouthing your country does not make you look any cooler, liberal or intelligent than those of us that have refused to take Ur path neither does it mean you are not in denial, it is just a useless venting exercise that will only have a placebo effect on you without taking away the problem. I wish the guy can understand that.
Anyway, Ifygal, you ve made my day with your very persuasive comment. Thank you. Let's hope he will listen to his heart and not the sound of his pumping Adrenalin.

Your partner wont give you sex because you say no to a request she made. I mean, she manipulates you with sex all the time.

[quote author=baby.me link=topic=544092.msg7207099#msg7207099 date=1290597925]Jamb question [/quote]. . .na wa for dis kind babi O. . .U wan take rhymz make love abi?
anyway, na U saka jor!

Cmanforall:
Seun also moderates,I was just bn subtle make dem no ban me but let's see how it goes.

. . .hahahaha. . .you are funny! Seun Moderates? Which Section? Account Dept, I guess! Abeg forget that thing jare, homeboy has become so big that he does not even knows what goes on here as long as it does not affect the streams of ad incomes that NL brings him. As for the fear of being banned, duh, that shiot is overrated jare!

[quote author=baby.me link=topic=544092.msg7201408#msg7201408 date=1290521009]^^
Sorry Sweerie,i wanted to say Rhymz. Hope im forgiven Thanks for the compli [/quote]. . .rhymz?? Wetin I do?

Cmanforall:
Moderators why delete most posts,are they biased in anyway?I see nothing wrong,it was a reasonable debate between szy&rhyme or is it BC the IGBO was kicking backside.there are worst threads out from bk.babe &co,ok even if we agree with u why take it to tribalism SECtion.If you guys want to kill the thread no wahala it's your site.

. . Like seriously, you believe the moderators own the site? I ve already petitioned them, let me just wait and see what their response will be based.
Sjeezy and I were actually arguing in strong terms, nothing tribal and that's btw the two of us to complain and I doubt he will complain coz we go way back. The Mods have no basis for their action except they do not like any thread that supports Emeagwali.

Confiscated and perhaps returned to Delta Statement.

She was found complicit in the case of helping her husband to Launder money illegally into britain and some other properties illegally bought in the Uk using her name. God don catch all of them. The main criminal is her husband, am sure after the completion of the extradition from UAE to Britain to too, we will be getting his mugshot as well. His own to will be much bigger and worse.

Dear Moderators,
I am posting this to register my displeasure at the way you ve discriminately erased commentaries on a thread I created: "An Unbiased Look at Philips Emeagwali".
I believe that as a moderator, you must show discretion irrespective of your prejudices and respect other people's prerogatives to air their views whether they conflict with yours or not.
Those posts you so eagerly wiped off in one fell swoop are the honest and sincere opinions of commentators who have been following the Philips Emeagwali stories and allegations, none of them carry any pontentially damaging message or violate the rules of the forum, why you will see it fit for deletion is what I fail to see.
We all must learn to be professionals when heading a department or in position of leadership and that entails not letting your own beliefs interfare with the way you carry out your duties. I bet if that thread was about promoting Nuhu Ribadu, you wont be so eager to delete any of the posts as long as they support his cause.
Finally, your responsibility is to moderate, therefore, it behoves on you to ensure that every thread in your section gets a fair hearing of the public opinion without anyone derailing or killing the thread with alien or potentially damaging discussions that violates the forume rules. Do your Damn Job!

Ojiofor:
U neva see anything,when Ejiofor posted this very rejoinder on NVS within mnts it was deleted by MODs, after 48hrs of protest it was reposted again.they dont want to see any pro-Emeagwali thread,

. . .I am still appalled by this kind of Bias. What exactly was wrong in those posts that were deleted. Who the Hell is the moderator to choose the comments he likes? There are countless very offensive posts and threads that violate the forum rules and thread that will make a redneck cringe and shudder at the bareface racism and tribalism, this same thoughtless Mods have not done anything rather they cynically hide under the Guise of freedom of speech to support such nonsense. Obviously, there is an Anti-Emeagwali Campaign going on in this forum and this is the climax of it all.

Jesus Christ of Mbaise!
Moderators!! Where are the other comments? I hope this is not a ploy to silence the thread. Let me assume there has been a mistake while I wait for corrections.

orgasm:
in as much the sentence is not commensurate with her crime i still believe they did far better than our judicial system.afterall bode george and cecilia ibru stole more and got less sentence. Is all a shame. but it sure sends a message to the numerous thieves in helms of affair in this country. God will judge you all

. . .at least she is going to get a mugshot. . Hahahaha. . .criminal. . .one down! Next is the Thief Himself.

angrynaija:
@rhymz:

rhymz, my bro, i perfectly understand where you are coming from, however,  i think your are in denial. while we are on the topic of relating nigeria's issues to ghana and; whether or not ghana is better--- and not issues pertaining to the u.s. let me remind you again that nigeria's issues as a country are on a scale that singularly supercedes those of ghana or any other west african country. do we not have issues with corruption by government officials on a scale that truly boggles the mind? do we not have serious issues with persistent kidnappings? do we not have major issues with 419 throughout the world? which other african country is known around the world with these issues that even comes close on the scale that they exist with nigeria? i know we feel shameful when nigeria is talked about in a derisive manner, but being in denial will not help us. as you well know, being probably the most educated, and endowed with tons of natural resources, nigeria has the potential to really BE the 'giant of africa' as opposed to simply laying claim to the title by virtue of our population. and there in lies the problem---- we are so full of a thing called foolish pride.

. . .With all due respect, I am forced to ask you how old you are because you are not discussing like an informed adult. The import of my previous arguement with you is very simple but in your rush to reply me with your usual baseless complaints, it has gone over your head. In summary, I am saying just as our problems are in large scale, so are our developmental scale, strides and influence in Africa, so it is useless comparing Nigeria to Ghana and outlining only her weakness while playing  dumb to its strength.
As for the rest of your post, they are too jejune to give any serious reply to them, if you have gotten any better arguement than your usual boring list of complaints then we can talk.

sbeezy8:
Zinadine Zidane is berber Albert cadmus is french european.

Ive always said you are an idio.t Albert Cadmus was born to french immigrants so hes not north african, berber or arab but French. No shiot north africans are not black but this guy is not a north african. As his parents were part of the colonial french society.

Albert Camus was a "Pied-Noir"

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it refers to "a person of European origin living in Algeria during the period of French rule, especially a French person repatriated after Algeria was granted independence in 1962."

how du.mb are you and the author? lol you no get shame? very petty As for Soyinka he was never a guy i or many in the west respected more than Awo, so continue to abuse him ive always said Slowyinka guy na ode, wasted his time during biafra and hes wasting it now in the nigerdelta.

infact to me theres no difference between him and Obj both foo.ls- na same ting, so small boy go and play ill be back in naija for good anytime from now to either give your unemployed nigerian azz a job, take your girlfiriend from you or sell you some of my clothes so you can look fresh.

. . . Like I ve always told you, ignoramus common sense will always elude you even if it is shoved through your anus to your shitty brain, you will still not recognize it. Let me make it clear to you bozo, any kid born and raised in the US by any Nigerian immigrant couple is Nigerian-American and not just Nigerian cos besides his parents country and race, he is nothing Nigerian.
Here is a brief history of his Biography, I hope your peanut brain will be able to comprehend it:
"On November 7, 1913, Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria to Lucien Camus, whose family had settled in Algeria in 1871. Albert's father, a vineyard laborer and thus essentially part of the peasant class, was nevertheless a self-educated man. A year after Albert's birth, his father was mortally wounded in the Battle of the Marne during World War I. Albert's mother, Catherine Sintes, was an illiterate woman with Spanish roots who worked as a cleaner. Catherine Sintes moved her sons, Lucien and Albert, into her mother's apartment in the working- class Belcourt neighborhood of Algiers".
The young man did not leave Algeria until he was 25 yet you open your filthy mouth that smells like fart to say he has no African ties. So let me ask your faggoty ass Gadafi is what? Mr I sabi everything. I bet you didn't know that even Arabs were also colonialists that's is why you ve a lot of them in North Africa abi na because dem no call them pied-nior? Abeg enough of this elementary arguement with a retard jare! If you want knowledge you will ve to pay for it. As for coming down to Nigeria to give Ur papa and Ur low-life relations job, I say it aint a bad idea.

Oxygenmayo:
your partner get jealous of the time you spend wiv sum1 else on phone conversation, while you kept him waiting, lolz

. . .that can be an issue especially when we are in the middle of a very important thing and all of a sudden she got this call and spent hrs talking and lafin on the phone with some friend(be it male or female). Another abuse is when a partner is in the habit of engaging in a long conversation with a random friend we met on our way to someplace, leaving you for long waiting for her while he/sh chats irrelevant shyt.
This one gets my hair on its toe, you are walking with your babe and at every metre of the short trip she keeps throwing herself without respecting your presense at every of her male friends that we ran into, making you look silly before them.

Rick Ross?

The problem I have with many Nigerians like angrynaija and powerdude is that most of the times you premise your very childish criticisms on petty and useless whinnings and nothing of substance.
No country in the world does not have its own share of societal ills, and it becomes worse when there is no good leadership. A lot of Nigerians are into scamming, identity theft, corruption etc., we don't deny that but don't make it sound like that is all there is to Nigeria. A lot of Nigerians are making efforts to distinguish themselves in a positive light in many spheres that are hardly gej mentioned, but when it comes whinning and complaining, you see some very ill-informed citizens come in packs to air their ignorance and misplaced anger.
I always tell Nigerians that whine all the time that it will take more than just whinning and ill-informed arm-chair criticisms to make Nigeria what you want, they will have to start first by being patriotic to the pursuit of a better Nigeria. And that is where Ghana beats us hands down. You will never hear a Ghanaian make very dumb statements about the societal ills of Ghana like a lot of Nigerians do all the time or you lots think they don't have their own share of scammers and co? Yet they choose to highlight the positive side of Ghana which is what every outsider hears or knows about Ghana first hand.
How many times do you lot hear of Bernad L Madoff's financial scam which till date is the biggest financial scam world over, add all Nigerian scammers put together the enormity of Madoff's scam will still topple them over. Yet we don't see Americans using that as an excuse to show indepence of opinions or as they always put it, "being liberally minded".
Ghana is a great country in its own right and even Nigerians recognize that as is seen in the way we patronize their economy, thank God for them because a successful Ghana will be a bolster to every western African country. My problem most of the times with them is the way they yield to the temptation of putting Ghana up to make Nigeria look stupid or sth. Whether any African country likes it or not Nigeria still plays the biggest role in African politics and development, that is where the phrase "Giant of Africa" came from and not entirely because of her population. I always tell my African brothers that if you have committed so much to the peace and stability of the African continent like Nigeria has done, it will be so hard not to brag about it. Mohammed Ali once said if you have got his height, strength, knowledge, fame and reach, it will be so hard to be humble about yourself. Just as Nigeria has a lot of things to be ashamed of, likewise, there a million things to be proud of. If any Nigerian must criticize, it should be done constructively and from an informed standpoint, enough of all these childish temper tantrums, if Nigeria is a beast then you are a beast as well cos a beast begets a beast.

texazzpete:
@rhymz
it's better to see a biased article that uses logic appropriately than to have a thoroughly illogical article that claims to be 'unbiased'.

Very soon now a section of Nigeria go soon dey accuse the Igbo and Yoruba media of trying to pull Amos Adamu down

. . Well my friend there is no such thing as a logical or illogical bias, it is all a factor of the readers' own bias. Either way, bias is bias and that renders any arguement useless however the merits of such arguements cos any other counter or suporting arguement is going to be based on those same biases.
Moderators, I hope you guys are not going to be biased as well.

At the Moderators, I hope you guys will be fair enough to make sure this this thread makes it to the front page since lately, topics about Emeagwali's Lies and stuff ve been the darling of the homepage.
I remember my first comment when I read that article on Saharareporters, I thought the writer was too personal and dwelled too much on petty assumptions like he allowed people call him Dr or Prof. Until now, I did not know Wole Soyinka was not a Prof or even the first African to win the Nobel Laureat, yet nobody has flawed him on that. I mean, come on, let's be honest can we say with all sincerity that those accusations can hold water in any court of law? Or that the writers did write with so much bias that makes one want to abondon whatever fact they claim they have and focus on their motives? How come lately there has been an avalenche of Emeagwali and his alleged Lies and all of them have been Nigerians from the Yoruba tribe. Talk all you want about me equating the discussion to tribalism but that is what this matter has degenerated to. Go to anysite that discusses this topic, it has been the Yorubas on one side of the Divide and the Igbos on the other side. All the yorubas can't be wrong and all the Igbos can't be wrong either, it is a two-way thing and let's be honest both the author of this rejoinder and the authors of the other disparaging articles have all shown bias in their write up. This is a case of a kettle calling the pots black.

sbeezy8:
lol

the author is having a heart attack over Albert Cadmus (born to french immigrants) because Wole Soyinka is said to be the first African to win Nobel Prize for Literature.

this is Albert Cadmus
https://www.philosophyslam.org/images_new/camus_pic.jpg

lol

. . .Sjeezy turned Sbeezy you sound very naive all the time with your very dumb statements. So because he is born to immigrant french parents, he is not an African? It might interest you to know that Africa is not a country, ethnicity or even race , it is a continent and people born and bread from that continents are called Africans be you Negro, Caucausion or any of those racial classifications, so don't tell me Albert Cadmud is not African because he looks white, majority of the people from Northern Africa are not negros, Egypt that we always use as a point to show that Africans have had civilization way before we were colonized is predominantly Arab that does not make them any less African. I bet you are not more African than Zinadine Zidane of Algeria neither is that white gurl more American than your black a$s.

Rejoinder: How Philip Emeagwali
Lied His Way to Fame- by Professor
Toyin Falola (from
Saharareporters.com 18/10/2010)
First and foremost I am neither the
spokesman of Philip Emeagwali nor
do I intend to hold brief for him.
Rather I am only trying here to
look at the accusations levelled
against him by Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends, without bias.
According to Saharareporters, Mr.
Alan Karp the chief judge of the
panel of judges for the Gordon Bell
Prize recognized Emeagwali´s
unique intellectual ability when he
said: “Mr. Emeagwali didn`t win by
default. As a lone graduate student
he solved a harder problem that
could have taken a team to solve. ”
End of quote.
Aside from numerous awards and
recognitions both from the low and
high places, in 1998, Emeagwali
was also awarded the Distinguished
Scientist Award by the World Bank.
The writer of the article - Toyin
Falola - and his friends concluded
that unfortunately Emeagwali was
filled with a false sense of
entitlement and also described him
as a lazy student who only wanted
to earn a PhD without putting in
much work. At the same time,
however, they went further to
contradict themselves in many
areas. For example, they admitted
that Emeagwali was a fairly brilliant
student. Another example is that
they admitted that Emeagwali
holds two Masters of Science
degrees in Engineering from George
Washington University. And yet
another Master ’s degree in applied
Mathematics from the University of
Maryland in 1986. So, a pertinent
question here is, how can a lazy
student, who does not want to
work hard to earn a degree earn
three Master ’s degrees in such
difficult fields as science and
engineering? Does it mean that
because he could not manage to
get his acts together to also get the
“ almighty PhD” that he must be
seen as a failure and should be
discredited by any means
necessary? There are many known
inventors who did not have a PhD.
Anyway, if these writers were not
biased, why didn ’t they bother to
conduct an interview with
Emeagwali to hear his own account
of the whole problem he had with
the University of Michigan? I ask
this question because they
reported that Emeagwali took the
university to court because of the
PhD issue. I know about two African
students who had problems with
some white professors who
supervised their PhD work and the
lecturers failed the students. One of
these two students later went to
another university and received his
PhD. Today, he is a professor and
head of department in a university
in one of the universities in Ireland.
Students could get messed up
sometimes by professors
supervising their work.
The impression the writers of the
article laboriously created on
reader ’s mind was that Emeagwali
was not capable of gaining any
sound academic qualification, not to
talk of winning any award. They
even reduced the Gordon Bell Prize
he won in 1989 to the level of your
run-in-the-mills-awards.
Nevertheless, Mr. Alan Karp
informed the world that Emeagwali
did not win the prize by default.
This is contrary to what Mr. Falola
and his friends wanted the whole
world to believe. They claimed that
Emeagwali actually got a second
position and not a first position. But,
because the Mobil company team
got two first positions and as a
company team, they are allowed
to hold only one position, therefore,
Emeagwali had to be declared
winner since he was a lone
graduate student. This is cruel
seeing the extent Falola and his
Yoruba friends have gone to distort
official records, all in an attempt to
discredit and rubbish Emeagwali`s
reputation. The judge did fault
some of Emeagwal´s wife ’s claims.
This is not a surprise since it did not
come from Emeagwali but from his
wife. I have visited Emeagwali´s
internet website. I did not read
where he described himself as a
doctor or a professor. It is only his
wife that has the title of a doctor.
You will find this at Emeagwal´s
contact information at the top right
on his internet homepage,
www.emeagwali.com.
NO HUMMAN BEING IS PERFECT
As aforementioned, I am not trying
to exonerate Emeagwali from any
of his weaknesses. There is no
doubt that Emeagwali exaggerated
and “over-milked” his
achievements. For example, he
allows people to call him doctor or
professor and has done nothing to
correct that. And he had gone
haywire since his recognition as a
scientist, instead of embarking on
new research. But come to think of
it, there is no human being without
blemish. Hence the question, is
Emeagwali the only one in the
whole wide world that has a
bloated ego and has over
exaggerated and over milked his
achievements?
WHAT ABOUT WOLE SOYINKA AND
LATE GANI FAWEHINMI
I have enormous respect for Wole
Soyinka and there is no doubt that
he is a world-acclaimed scholar. But,
for the past 24 years, there are no
nooks and crannies that Soyinka
has not set his foot on. He once
boasted that he spent most of his
life flying and couldn ’t even
remember where he was a few
days before. He is always showing
off and wants his audience to know
which of the world VIPs he had
dinner or a chat with the previous
night. See http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jnHV0HG6vM4&feature=related
Today, a good proportion of the
world sees and addresses Soyinka
as a professor (which he is not,
since I fear he may not have a
PhD-see, http://
www.universityworldnews.com/
article.php?
story=20080327105613634
) - and as the first African to have
won a noble prize for literature.
Though he knows that this (even
the first) assumption or claim is
false, yet he has done absolutely
nothing to correct the falsehood.
During his life time, Emperor Haile
Selasie 1 of Ethiopia went to a radio
station in
In fact, contrary to Wole Soyinka´s
claim, Albert Camus from Algeria
who also held a French passport
was the first African to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature. That was
as far back as 1957 before Soyinka
in 1986 and Nadine Gordimer from
South Africa in 1991. But the way
Soyinka is running around the
world exploiting his oratorical
English speaking skill, implicitly
coercing his unsuspecting and his
admiring audience to see him as
the only African sage by wearing
his trade mark of blown-up white
hairs and beards leaves much to be
desired. Obviously, he has
succeeded in misleading so many
people to assume that the Nobel
Prize for literature is something no
other person can win except him.
Unlike him, numerous past winners
across the world, including his fellow
African scholars have maintained
philosophical calm and have
invested their time in more
research work to benefit present
and future generations. Soyinka
should learn some element of
humility from Chinua Achebe.
Chinua Achebe´s latest work is The
Education of a British Protected
Child (2009). He is currently working
on another project about the
Nigeria-Biafra war due for release
next year. Wole Soyinka has also
soiled his reputation by venturing
into the corrupt, dirty and mucky
waters of the Nigerian politics, by
forming many quack and corrupt
political parties in the past that
never saw the light of day. His
current Democratic Front for a
Peoples Federation (DFPF) political
party is well known by many
Nigerians to have links to the “Evil-
Genius” Babangida,- his old-time
friend, who gave him the post of
the director of the Road Safety
Corpse, during his evil rule. And at
that time Soyinka´s Nigeria Road
Safety Corpse overtook the Nigeria
police in bribing and corrupting
Nigeria, particularly road traffic
users. As a dramatist, he has never
stopped dramatizing his life. Even
the novel that won him the Nobel
Prize The Man Died he wrote in
1972 and which was influenced by
his prison experience and notes is
not seen as a masterpiece by the
majority of the people. The late
Afro-beat king, Fela Anikulakpo
Kuti heavily criticized the book.
Indeed, when it comes to literature
and other academic fields, we all
know that the Yoruba people have
many great and humble scholars.
Hardly anybody hears about them
except Soyinka. There are people
like Wande Abimbola, Femi
Osofisan, Niyi Osundare and
countless others whose names ring
bells.
This serves to show that no matter
how good or bad you are in
whatever you do, bold steps,
oratorical skills, and self-promotion
are important in our crazy world of
today. Maybe this is why people
like Soyinka and Emeagwali have
gone haywire in drawing attention
to themselves. This maybe also the
reason why people like our most
respected human rights crusader
and legal luminary in Nigeria, late
Gani Fawehinmi, was able to make
it in life. He was bold enough to
take on the Nigerian governments
of the day squarely. He also
vigorously promoted himself
through championing the cause of
the ordinary people, despite his
very weak academic qualification
from the United Kingdom.
According to the Yoruba-born Alex
Akinleye, erstwhile minister for
information of Nigeria, Gani
Fawehinmi only earned a third class
law degree. But, today, Gani
Fawehinmi is a household name in
Nigeria and beyond, and did win
many awards.
From time, superstitious beliefs,
myths, and assumptions, which
give rise to spurious claims, have
been part of human nature. The
world has been told that
Christopher Columbus discovered
American. But you and I know that
before he arrived in “the new
world,” as America was known at
that time, there were natives living
there. Also he is credited to have
discovered Jamaica, whereas there
were already Awrak-Indians and a
few people of African descent
inhabiting the land. And those
people swam to his ship and
offered him food and tobacco,
because he was too afraid to swim
ashore. See, http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=DHxw088qQms
There is no other place in the world
this deceit has become the order of
the day than in Nigeria and the
self-styled “God’s own country” -
America. In “God’s Own Country”,
dangerous lies are perfectly
covered. For example, when a
husband is caught in an extra
martial affair, because such
disclosure could cause both political
damage and undermining of the
country ´s authority at home and
abroad, the wife would go on the
mainstream media to cover up the
lies. No wonder, Dr. Donita Brown-
Emeagwali, the wife of Emeagwali
is doing her best to shield
Emeagwali from allegations
levelled against him by Toyin
Falola and his friends. What is
unique about America is that the
lies are promoted and nurtured to
earn liars millions and billions of
dollars. This is why Americans like
to live bombastic life and their
economy by and large a credit-
based economy, built on lies upon
lies. For example, while I respect
many of their Hollywood stars, yet
the fact remains that some of the
Indian-Bollywood, Nigerian-
Nollywood and even recently
Ghanaian-Gollywood stars are
better actors than them. But,
because they have the big media,
big plots, big budgets, big markets,
everything about America will
continue to dominate in the world.
In America, everything has to be
big, otherwise it will not be
perceived to be good enough. I
was amazed at the size of the
Georgia International Congress
Centre when I visited there in 2004.
I was also amazed at the size of a
non-denominational World
Changers Church International
(WCCI) in College Park Atlanta,
owned by African-American “Man
of God” - Creflo Dollar. One wonders
how America got this whole land, I
have heard many times that they
intimidated and stole lands from
Mexico.
The world loves our only living
boxing legend Cassius Marcellus
Clay, Jr. aka Muhammad Ali. But as
the American he is, the rest of the
territories he could not conquer
through boxing he did with his
humorous and oratorical skills, and
self-promotion, by making many
spurious claims upon claims. For
example, he claimed that he has
the type of knowledge that Jesus
Christ had or the type of
knowledge the biblical Moses and
Abraham had, and posited that as a
religious leader you must display
your wealth otherwise people
would not believe in you or
become members of your church.
Aside being a one-time boxing
heavy weighty champion of the
world, this other side of his life
made him to become one of the
“ most beautiful brides” that were
courted by the mainstream world
media. See http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jnYCTh_DSLM&feature=related.
Therefore, there is little wonder
that Philip Emeagwali imbibed this
typical American mentality and
bombastic lifestyle having lived
there for over three decades.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS AND
ACCUSATIONS
A pertinent question here is, was it
a happenstance or by design that
the writer of this most disparaging
article about Emeagwali on
Saharareporters.com and his friends
are all Yorubas? Once again, let us
take a look at their names:
Professor Toyin Falola, the author,
with contributions from his friends,
Dr. Ms. Okelola, Dr. Ola Kassim, and
Professor Mobolaji Aluko. They tried
to be smart by half by including a
Benin man - Professor Pablo
Idahosa, to make it have some
kind of national outlook. Even
though I do not have any problem
that some Benin guys force
themselves to appear Yoruba.
Bolaji Aluko, in his envy is, still with
the help of Saharareporters.com,
battling one Igbo lawyer in the USA
called Emeka Ugwuonye. Aluko,
whose family lived at Nsukka
before the Biafra War, has been an
Internet Tiger, writing all sorts of
nonsense about Igbos. He is so
filled with envy against Igbos and
their achievements. He has ganged
up against Igbo lecturers in
American universities and
elsewhere. Even the Emeagwali he
had vowed to destroy was the
same man about eight years ago,
who once came to his defence
against some Igbos whom Aluko
had wrongly offended. This is how
Aluko and his father pay back the
Igbos for harboring them during
the Nigeria-Biafra war, and ensured
their easy passage to Western
Nigerian. It is unfortunate that
because Aluko apparently has no
more readership in the
underground, he has now come out
with his anti-Igbo crusades. And
unfortunately the
saharareporters.com has stoop too
low by becoming a willing
accomplice. Otherwise, how come
that not only they have published
more than 5 sponsored disparaging
articles in less than one week on
the Emeagwali, but has wickedly
published a picture of Emeagwali
posing in handshake in an event in
New York with the discredited
Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel
Uduaghan, conspicuously the same
day he was sacked as the governor
of Delta State, by the Court of
Appeal in Benin City. Unlike the
good work they were doing when
they started, the
saharareporters.com has been
lately losing readers every day
because they have derailed by
engaging in “junk journalism”
every now and then.
Obviously this composition on the
Emeagwali write-up has made the
writers vulnerable to all kinds of
accusations. For example, they
have been accused by the majority
of Igbos of blackmailing of an Igbo
illustrious son who had achieved
world fame. While Falola and his
Yoruba friends might quickly scurry
to a cheap defence by accusing
those Igbos of being tribal jingoists.
But then, how about the majority
of Africans, and people of African
descent and patriotic Nigerians who
viewed their article as rubbishing
the reputation and outstanding
work of a fellow Nigerian and
African. Another accusation is that
since all of them are PhD holders,
did they not act out of jealousy,
considering the fact that Emeagwali
without a PhD has achieved world
fame in both academic and
scientific fields and collects
appearance fees and lecture fees
or speaker fees that is many times
the annual remuneration of a
senior university professor?
Perhaps, this could be one single
reason why one of them, Dr.
Kassim the head of a department
of one of the Canadian universities,
turned down his students ’ request
of inviting Emeagwali to come to
their university to deliver a lecture
and to interact with them. He
claims that Emeagwali´s asking fee
of $10.000 and a driver during his
stay in Canada was too much,
coupled with the fact that
Emeagwali did not have a PhD. But,
maybe, if Emeagwali were a
Caucasian academic or better still
one of his fellow Yoruba friends in
the academic field maybe Dr.
Kassim would not have denied
those poor Canadian university
students that rare opportunity to
come face to face with their role
model. Also, another one of Falola`s
female Yoruba friends Ms. Okelola
bragged about how she refused to
publish Emeagwali on her
Africanacafe website when
Emeagwali requested her to do so.
The gist of Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends ’ article about
Emeagwali centered on these key
points: Emeagwali does not have a
PhD, but claims to have one and
allows people to address him as a
“ doctor or professor.” Emeagawli
claims or allowed people to call him
“ father of the internet.” They
claimed that they wrote the article
to expose these lies and to inform
the world who the real Emeagwali
is. But the irony of it all is that it is
the same world that gave him
those accolades, titles and prefixes
that Falola and his friends are
complaining about. So what is
actually their problem? I have seen
the interview where Emeagwali
had clearly told a beautiful
Jamaican TV moderator that he is
not the father of the internet or the
inventor of the internet. Continuing,
he explained on the same TV
Programme to another male host
that many people contributed to
the development and invention of
the internet, and that it is not a
one-man thing. He also said that
the Gordon Bell Prize he won was
viewed at that time (1989) as a
Nobel Prize in computing. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=pMFy9sBLFQQ&feature=related.
And also
Judging from the above claims
allegedly made by Emeagwali, one
would like to know if they are
serious enough to warrant that
onslaught. Hence, real facts simply
put across without bias will be
understood by the whole world.
But, since this is not the case, many
people therefore believed that
Toyin Falola and his Yoruba friends
must have some kind of ulterior
motive behind this attack.
Otherwise, they would not have
spent such amount of time writing
pages upon pages of comments
demonizing and describing
Emeagwali in a most despicable
way. And, also, they would not
have been so bitter in their writing,
which manifested in the many
denigrating and unprintable names
they called him such as fraud star,
most sophisticated con man, 419
kingpin, biggest liar of all time, etc.
There are yet other people who
believe that Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends were unjust to the
world-acclaimed computer scientist
and Mathematician, a harmless
man, who never duped anybody
but just working hard to promote
himself, the African race and his
work to the benefit of the world.
And many people are wondering
and do want to see Toyin falola
and his Yoruba colleague ’s article
about the white American Bernard
L Madoff, who perpetrated the
world ’s biggest financial scam by
swindling his depositors of over $50
billion. They also want to see Toyin
Falola´s article about the biggest
financial scam of $6.7 billion in
France, perpetrated by debonair
white French man Jerome Kerviel,
an employee of Societe Generale
SA. The whole world is waiting to
see if Toyin Falola and his Yoruba
friends would use the same
despicable words and venom they
have poured on harmless
Emeagwali also on these two
world ’s biggest white swindlers. Up
till now, the world has assumed
that it is only Nigerians, people of
African descent and indeed people
from so-called third world countries
that are scammers.
CONCLUSION
Superstitions, self-promotion and
wild assumptions, which give rise to
claims upon claims, have always
been there from time immemorial.
Although, this mentality has been
part of human nature, but there is
no country where this mentality
has pervaded all facets of life than
in America, in which Emeagwali has
lived for three decades and
therefore has become assimilated.
Finally, majority of the people that
read Toyin Falola and his Yoruba
colleague ’s disparaging article on
Emeagwali viewed it as a
disingenuous act and, therefore,
concluded that it is a typical crass
case of (PhD) “Pull Him Down”
syndrome. And, since Toyin Falola
and Yoruba friends are Africans and
also Nigerians as Emeagwali, the
people had also viewed it as a
good example of the African adage
that says “it is only the frog’s kith
and kin that can mercilessly kick on
his delicate water filled-belly. ”
By Sakhos Silas Ejiofor, Wiesbaden-
Germany

Rejoinder: How Philip Emeagwali
Lied His Way to Fame- by Professor
Toyin Falola (from
Saharareporters.com 18/10/2010)
First and foremost I am neither the
spokesman of Philip Emeagwali nor
do I intend to hold brief for him.
Rather I am only trying here to
look at the accusations levelled
against him by Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends, without bias.
According to Saharareporters, Mr.
Alan Karp the chief judge of the
panel of judges for the Gordon Bell
Prize recognized Emeagwali´s
unique intellectual ability when he
said: “Mr. Emeagwali didn`t win by
default. As a lone graduate student
he solved a harder problem that
could have taken a team to solve. ”
End of quote.
Aside from numerous awards and
recognitions both from the low and
high places, in 1998, Emeagwali
was also awarded the Distinguished
Scientist Award by the World Bank.
The writer of the article - Toyin
Falola - and his friends concluded
that unfortunately Emeagwali was
filled with a false sense of
entitlement and also described him
as a lazy student who only wanted
to earn a PhD without putting in
much work. At the same time,
however, they went further to
contradict themselves in many
areas. For example, they admitted
that Emeagwali was a fairly brilliant
student. Another example is that
they admitted that Emeagwali
holds two Masters of Science
degrees in Engineering from George
Washington University. And yet
another Master ’s degree in applied
Mathematics from the University of
Maryland in 1986. So, a pertinent
question here is, how can a lazy
student, who does not want to
work hard to earn a degree earn
three Master ’s degrees in such
difficult fields as science and
engineering? Does it mean that
because he could not manage to
get his acts together to also get the
“ almighty PhD” that he must be
seen as a failure and should be
discredited by any means
necessary? There are many known
inventors who did not have a PhD.
Anyway, if these writers were not
biased, why didn ’t they bother to
conduct an interview with
Emeagwali to hear his own account
of the whole problem he had with
the University of Michigan? I ask
this question because they
reported that Emeagwali took the
university to court because of the
PhD issue. I know about two African
students who had problems with
some white professors who
supervised their PhD work and the
lecturers failed the students. One of
these two students later went to
another university and received his
PhD. Today, he is a professor and
head of department in a university
in one of the universities in Ireland.
Students could get messed up
sometimes by professors
supervising their work.
The impression the writers of the
article laboriously created on
reader ’s mind was that Emeagwali
was not capable of gaining any
sound academic qualification, not to
talk of winning any award. They
even reduced the Gordon Bell Prize
he won in 1989 to the level of your
run-in-the-mills-awards.
Nevertheless, Mr. Alan Karp
informed the world that Emeagwali
did not win the prize by default.
This is contrary to what Mr. Falola
and his friends wanted the whole
world to believe. They claimed that
Emeagwali actually got a second
position and not a first position. But,
because the Mobil company team
got two first positions and as a
company team, they are allowed
to hold only one position, therefore,
Emeagwali had to be declared
winner since he was a lone
graduate student. This is cruel
seeing the extent Falola and his
Yoruba friends have gone to distort
official records, all in an attempt to
discredit and rubbish Emeagwali`s
reputation. The judge did fault
some of Emeagwal´s wife ’s claims.
This is not a surprise since it did not
come from Emeagwali but from his
wife. I have visited Emeagwali´s
internet website. I did not read
where he described himself as a
doctor or a professor. It is only his
wife that has the title of a doctor.
You will find this at Emeagwal´s
contact information at the top right
on his internet homepage,
www.emeagwali.com.
NO HUMMAN BEING IS PERFECT
As aforementioned, I am not trying
to exonerate Emeagwali from any
of his weaknesses. There is no
doubt that Emeagwali exaggerated
and “over-milked” his
achievements. For example, he
allows people to call him doctor or
professor and has done nothing to
correct that. And he had gone
haywire since his recognition as a
scientist, instead of embarking on
new research. But come to think of
it, there is no human being without
blemish. Hence the question, is
Emeagwali the only one in the
whole wide world that has a
bloated ego and has over
exaggerated and over milked his
achievements?
WHAT ABOUT WOLE SOYINKA AND
LATE GANI FAWEHINMI
I have enormous respect for Wole
Soyinka and there is no doubt that
he is a world-acclaimed scholar. But,
for the past 24 years, there are no
nooks and crannies that Soyinka
has not set his foot on. He once
boasted that he spent most of his
life flying and couldn ’t even
remember where he was a few
days before. He is always showing
off and wants his audience to know
which of the world VIPs he had
dinner or a chat with the previous
night. See http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jnHV0HG6vM4&feature=related
Today, a good proportion of the
world sees and addresses Soyinka
as a professor (which he is not,
since I fear he may not have a
PhD-see, http://
www.universityworldnews.com/
article.php?
story=20080327105613634
) - and as the first African to have
won a noble prize for literature.
Though he knows that this (even
the first) assumption or claim is
false, yet he has done absolutely
nothing to correct the falsehood.
During his life time, Emperor Haile
Selasie 1 of Ethiopia went to a radio
station in
In fact, contrary to Wole Soyinka´s
claim, Albert Camus from Algeria
who also held a French passport
was the first African to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature. That was
as far back as 1957 before Soyinka
in 1986 and Nadine Gordimer from
South Africa in 1991. But the way
Soyinka is running around the
world exploiting his oratorical
English speaking skill, implicitly
coercing his unsuspecting and his
admiring audience to see him as
the only African sage by wearing
his trade mark of blown-up white
hairs and beards leaves much to be
desired. Obviously, he has
succeeded in misleading so many
people to assume that the Nobel
Prize for literature is something no
other person can win except him.
Unlike him, numerous past winners
across the world, including his fellow
African scholars have maintained
philosophical calm and have
invested their time in more
research work to benefit present
and future generations. Soyinka
should learn some element of
humility from Chinua Achebe.
Chinua Achebe´s latest work is The
Education of a British Protected
Child (2009). He is currently working
on another project about the
Nigeria-Biafra war due for release
next year. Wole Soyinka has also
soiled his reputation by venturing
into the corrupt, dirty and mucky
waters of the Nigerian politics, by
forming many quack and corrupt
political parties in the past that
never saw the light of day. His
current Democratic Front for a
Peoples Federation (DFPF) political
party is well known by many
Nigerians to have links to the “Evil-
Genius” Babangida,- his old-time
friend, who gave him the post of
the director of the Road Safety
Corpse, during his evil rule. And at
that time Soyinka´s Nigeria Road
Safety Corpse overtook the Nigeria
police in bribing and corrupting
Nigeria, particularly road traffic
users. As a dramatist, he has never
stopped dramatizing his life. Even
the novel that won him the Nobel
Prize The Man Died he wrote in
1972 and which was influenced by
his prison experience and notes is
not seen as a masterpiece by the
majority of the people. The late
Afro-beat king, Fela Anikulakpo
Kuti heavily criticized the book.
Indeed, when it comes to literature
and other academic fields, we all
know that the Yoruba people have
many great and humble scholars.
Hardly anybody hears about them
except Soyinka. There are people
like Wande Abimbola, Femi
Osofisan, Niyi Osundare and
countless others whose names ring
bells.
This serves to show that no matter
how good or bad you are in
whatever you do, bold steps,
oratorical skills, and self-promotion
are important in our crazy world of
today. Maybe this is why people
like Soyinka and Emeagwali have
gone haywire in drawing attention
to themselves. This maybe also the
reason why people like our most
respected human rights crusader
and legal luminary in Nigeria, late
Gani Fawehinmi, was able to make
it in life. He was bold enough to
take on the Nigerian governments
of the day squarely. He also
vigorously promoted himself
through championing the cause of
the ordinary people, despite his
very weak academic qualification
from the United Kingdom.
According to the Yoruba-born Alex
Akinleye, erstwhile minister for
information of Nigeria, Gani
Fawehinmi only earned a third class
law degree. But, today, Gani
Fawehinmi is a household name in
Nigeria and beyond, and did win
many awards.
From time, superstitious beliefs,
myths, and assumptions, which
give rise to spurious claims, have
been part of human nature. The
world has been told that
Christopher Columbus discovered
American. But you and I know that
before he arrived in “the new
world,” as America was known at
that time, there were natives living
there. Also he is credited to have
discovered Jamaica, whereas there
were already Awrak-Indians and a
few people of African descent
inhabiting the land. And those
people swam to his ship and
offered him food and tobacco,
because he was too afraid to swim
ashore. See, http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=DHxw088qQms
There is no other place in the world
this deceit has become the order of
the day than in Nigeria and the
self-styled “God’s own country” -
America. In “God’s Own Country”,
dangerous lies are perfectly
covered. For example, when a
husband is caught in an extra
martial affair, because such
disclosure could cause both political
damage and undermining of the
country ´s authority at home and
abroad, the wife would go on the
mainstream media to cover up the
lies. No wonder, Dr. Donita Brown-
Emeagwali, the wife of Emeagwali
is doing her best to shield
Emeagwali from allegations
levelled against him by Toyin
Falola and his friends. What is
unique about America is that the
lies are promoted and nurtured to
earn liars millions and billions of
dollars. This is why Americans like
to live bombastic life and their
economy by and large a credit-
based economy, built on lies upon
lies. For example, while I respect
many of their Hollywood stars, yet
the fact remains that some of the
Indian-Bollywood, Nigerian-
Nollywood and even recently
Ghanaian-Gollywood stars are
better actors than them. But,
because they have the big media,
big plots, big budgets, big markets,
everything about America will
continue to dominate in the world.
In America, everything has to be
big, otherwise it will not be
perceived to be good enough. I
was amazed at the size of the
Georgia International Congress
Centre when I visited there in 2004.
I was also amazed at the size of a
non-denominational World
Changers Church International
(WCCI) in College Park Atlanta,
owned by African-American “Man
of God” - Creflo Dollar. One wonders
how America got this whole land, I
have heard many times that they
intimidated and stole lands from
Mexico.
The world loves our only living
boxing legend Cassius Marcellus
Clay, Jr. aka Muhammad Ali. But as
the American he is, the rest of the
territories he could not conquer
through boxing he did with his
humorous and oratorical skills, and
self-promotion, by making many
spurious claims upon claims. For
example, he claimed that he has
the type of knowledge that Jesus
Christ had or the type of
knowledge the biblical Moses and
Abraham had, and posited that as a
religious leader you must display
your wealth otherwise people
would not believe in you or
become members of your church.
Aside being a one-time boxing
heavy weighty champion of the
world, this other side of his life
made him to become one of the
“ most beautiful brides” that were
courted by the mainstream world
media. See http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jnYCTh_DSLM&feature=related.
Therefore, there is little wonder
that Philip Emeagwali imbibed this
typical American mentality and
bombastic lifestyle having lived
there for over three decades.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS AND
ACCUSATIONS
A pertinent question here is, was it
a happenstance or by design that
the writer of this most disparaging
article about Emeagwali on
Saharareporters.com and his friends
are all Yorubas? Once again, let us
take a look at their names:
Professor Toyin Falola, the author,
with contributions from his friends,
Dr. Ms. Okelola, Dr. Ola Kassim, and
Professor Mobolaji Aluko. They tried
to be smart by half by including a
Benin man - Professor Pablo
Idahosa, to make it have some
kind of national outlook. Even
though I do not have any problem
that some Benin guys force
themselves to appear Yoruba.
Bolaji Aluko, in his envy is, still with
the help of Saharareporters.com,
battling one Igbo lawyer in the USA
called Emeka Ugwuonye. Aluko,
whose family lived at Nsukka
before the Biafra War, has been an
Internet Tiger, writing all sorts of
nonsense about Igbos. He is so
filled with envy against Igbos and
their achievements. He has ganged
up against Igbo lecturers in
American universities and
elsewhere. Even the Emeagwali he
had vowed to destroy was the
same man about eight years ago,
who once came to his defence
against some Igbos whom Aluko
had wrongly offended. This is how
Aluko and his father pay back the
Igbos for harboring them during
the Nigeria-Biafra war, and ensured
their easy passage to Western
Nigerian. It is unfortunate that
because Aluko apparently has no
more readership in the
underground, he has now come out
with his anti-Igbo crusades. And
unfortunately the
saharareporters.com has stoop too
low by becoming a willing
accomplice. Otherwise, how come
that not only they have published
more than 5 sponsored disparaging
articles in less than one week on
the Emeagwali, but has wickedly
published a picture of Emeagwali
posing in handshake in an event in
New York with the discredited
Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel
Uduaghan, conspicuously the same
day he was sacked as the governor
of Delta State, by the Court of
Appeal in Benin City. Unlike the
good work they were doing when
they started, the
saharareporters.com has been
lately losing readers every day
because they have derailed by
engaging in “junk journalism”
every now and then.
Obviously this composition on the
Emeagwali write-up has made the
writers vulnerable to all kinds of
accusations. For example, they
have been accused by the majority
of Igbos of blackmailing of an Igbo
illustrious son who had achieved
world fame. While Falola and his
Yoruba friends might quickly scurry
to a cheap defence by accusing
those Igbos of being tribal jingoists.
But then, how about the majority
of Africans, and people of African
descent and patriotic Nigerians who
viewed their article as rubbishing
the reputation and outstanding
work of a fellow Nigerian and
African. Another accusation is that
since all of them are PhD holders,
did they not act out of jealousy,
considering the fact that Emeagwali
without a PhD has achieved world
fame in both academic and
scientific fields and collects
appearance fees and lecture fees
or speaker fees that is many times
the annual remuneration of a
senior university professor?
Perhaps, this could be one single
reason why one of them, Dr.
Kassim the head of a department
of one of the Canadian universities,
turned down his students ’ request
of inviting Emeagwali to come to
their university to deliver a lecture
and to interact with them. He
claims that Emeagwali´s asking fee
of $10.000 and a driver during his
stay in Canada was too much,
coupled with the fact that
Emeagwali did not have a PhD. But,
maybe, if Emeagwali were a
Caucasian academic or better still
one of his fellow Yoruba friends in
the academic field maybe Dr.
Kassim would not have denied
those poor Canadian university
students that rare opportunity to
come face to face with their role
model. Also, another one of Falola`s
female Yoruba friends Ms. Okelola
bragged about how she refused to
publish Emeagwali on her
Africanacafe website when
Emeagwali requested her to do so.
The gist of Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends ’ article about
Emeagwali centered on these key
points: Emeagwali does not have a
PhD, but claims to have one and
allows people to address him as a
“ doctor or professor.” Emeagawli
claims or allowed people to call him
“ father of the internet.” They
claimed that they wrote the article
to expose these lies and to inform
the world who the real Emeagwali
is. But the irony of it all is that it is
the same world that gave him
those accolades, titles and prefixes
that Falola and his friends are
complaining about. So what is
actually their problem? I have seen
the interview where Emeagwali
had clearly told a beautiful
Jamaican TV moderator that he is
not the father of the internet or the
inventor of the internet. Continuing,
he explained on the same TV
Programme to another male host
that many people contributed to
the development and invention of
the internet, and that it is not a
one-man thing. He also said that
the Gordon Bell Prize he won was
viewed at that time (1989) as a
Nobel Prize in computing. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=pMFy9sBLFQQ&feature=related.
And also
Judging from the above claims
allegedly made by Emeagwali, one
would like to know if they are
serious enough to warrant that
onslaught. Hence, real facts simply
put across without bias will be
understood by the whole world.
But, since this is not the case, many
people therefore believed that
Toyin Falola and his Yoruba friends
must have some kind of ulterior
motive behind this attack.
Otherwise, they would not have
spent such amount of time writing
pages upon pages of comments
demonizing and describing
Emeagwali in a most despicable
way. And, also, they would not
have been so bitter in their writing,
which manifested in the many
denigrating and unprintable names
they called him such as fraud star,
most sophisticated con man, 419
kingpin, biggest liar of all time, etc.
There are yet other people who
believe that Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends were unjust to the
world-acclaimed computer scientist
and Mathematician, a harmless
man, who never duped anybody
but just working hard to promote
himself, the African race and his
work to the benefit of the world.
And many people are wondering
and do want to see Toyin falola
and his Yoruba colleague ’s article
about the white American Bernard
L Madoff, who perpetrated the
world ’s biggest financial scam by
swindling his depositors of over $50
billion. They also want to see Toyin
Falola´s article about the biggest
financial scam of $6.7 billion in
France, perpetrated by debonair
white French man Jerome Kerviel,
an employee of Societe Generale
SA. The whole world is waiting to
see if Toyin Falola and his Yoruba
friends would use the same
despicable words and venom they
have poured on harmless
Emeagwali also on these two
world ’s biggest white swindlers. Up
till now, the world has assumed
that it is only Nigerians, people of
African descent and indeed people
from so-called third world countries
that are scammers.
CONCLUSION
Superstitions, self-promotion and
wild assumptions, which give rise to
claims upon claims, have always
been there from time immemorial.
Although, this mentality has been
part of human nature, but there is
no country where this mentality
has pervaded all facets of life than
in America, in which Emeagwali has
lived for three decades and
therefore has become assimilated.
Finally, majority of the people that
read Toyin Falola and his Yoruba
colleague ’s disparaging article on
Emeagwali viewed it as a
disingenuous act and, therefore,
concluded that it is a typical crass
case of (PhD) “Pull Him Down”
syndrome. And, since Toyin Falola
and Yoruba friends are Africans and
also Nigerians as Emeagwali, the
people had also viewed it as a
good example of the African adage
that says “it is only the frog’s kith
and kin that can mercilessly kick on
his delicate water filled-belly. ”
By Sakhos Silas Ejiofor, Wiesbaden-
Germany

Rejoinder: How Philip Emeagwali
Lied His Way to Fame- by Professor
Toyin Falola (from
Saharareporters.com 18/10/2010)
First and foremost I am neither the
spokesman of Philip Emeagwali nor
do I intend to hold brief for him.
Rather I am only trying here to
look at the accusations levelled
against him by Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends, without bias.
According to Saharareporters, Mr.
Alan Karp the chief judge of the
panel of judges for the Gordon Bell
Prize recognized Emeagwali´s
unique intellectual ability when he
said: “Mr. Emeagwali didn`t win by
default. As a lone graduate student
he solved a harder problem that
could have taken a team to solve. ”
End of quote.
Aside from numerous awards and
recognitions both from the low and
high places, in 1998, Emeagwali
was also awarded the Distinguished
Scientist Award by the World Bank.
The writer of the article - Toyin
Falola - and his friends concluded
that unfortunately Emeagwali was
filled with a false sense of
entitlement and also described him
as a lazy student who only wanted
to earn a PhD without putting in
much work. At the same time,
however, they went further to
contradict themselves in many
areas. For example, they admitted
that Emeagwali was a fairly brilliant
student. Another example is that
they admitted that Emeagwali
holds two Masters of Science
degrees in Engineering from George
Washington University. And yet
another Master ’s degree in applied
Mathematics from the University of
Maryland in 1986. So, a pertinent
question here is, how can a lazy
student, who does not want to
work hard to earn a degree earn
three Master ’s degrees in such
difficult fields as science and
engineering? Does it mean that
because he could not manage to
get his acts together to also get the
“ almighty PhD” that he must be
seen as a failure and should be
discredited by any means
necessary? There are many known
inventors who did not have a PhD.
Anyway, if these writers were not
biased, why didn ’t they bother to
conduct an interview with
Emeagwali to hear his own account
of the whole problem he had with
the University of Michigan? I ask
this question because they
reported that Emeagwali took the
university to court because of the
PhD issue. I know about two African
students who had problems with
some white professors who
supervised their PhD work and the
lecturers failed the students. One of
these two students later went to
another university and received his
PhD. Today, he is a professor and
head of department in a university
in one of the universities in Ireland.
Students could get messed up
sometimes by professors
supervising their work.
The impression the writers of the
article laboriously created on
reader ’s mind was that Emeagwali
was not capable of gaining any
sound academic qualification, not to
talk of winning any award. They
even reduced the Gordon Bell Prize
he won in 1989 to the level of your
run-in-the-mills-awards.
Nevertheless, Mr. Alan Karp
informed the world that Emeagwali
did not win the prize by default.
This is contrary to what Mr. Falola
and his friends wanted the whole
world to believe. They claimed that
Emeagwali actually got a second
position and not a first position. But,
because the Mobil company team
got two first positions and as a
company team, they are allowed
to hold only one position, therefore,
Emeagwali had to be declared
winner since he was a lone
graduate student. This is cruel
seeing the extent Falola and his
Yoruba friends have gone to distort
official records, all in an attempt to
discredit and rubbish Emeagwali`s
reputation. The judge did fault
some of Emeagwal´s wife ’s claims.
This is not a surprise since it did not
come from Emeagwali but from his
wife. I have visited Emeagwali´s
internet website. I did not read
where he described himself as a
doctor or a professor. It is only his
wife that has the title of a doctor.
You will find this at Emeagwal´s
contact information at the top right
on his internet homepage,
www.emeagwali.com.
NO HUMMAN BEING IS PERFECT
As aforementioned, I am not trying
to exonerate Emeagwali from any
of his weaknesses. There is no
doubt that Emeagwali exaggerated
and “over-milked” his
achievements. For example, he
allows people to call him doctor or
professor and has done nothing to
correct that. And he had gone
haywire since his recognition as a
scientist, instead of embarking on
new research. But come to think of
it, there is no human being without
blemish. Hence the question, is
Emeagwali the only one in the
whole wide world that has a
bloated ego and has over
exaggerated and over milked his
achievements?
WHAT ABOUT WOLE SOYINKA AND
LATE GANI FAWEHINMI
I have enormous respect for Wole
Soyinka and there is no doubt that
he is a world-acclaimed scholar. But,
for the past 24 years, there are no
nooks and crannies that Soyinka
has not set his foot on. He once
boasted that he spent most of his
life flying and couldn ’t even
remember where he was a few
days before. He is always showing
off and wants his audience to know
which of the world VIPs he had
dinner or a chat with the previous
night. See http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jnHV0HG6vM4&feature=related
Today, a good proportion of the
world sees and addresses Soyinka
as a professor (which he is not,
since I fear he may not have a
PhD-see, http://
www.universityworldnews.com/
article.php?
story=20080327105613634
) - and as the first African to have
won a noble prize for literature.
Though he knows that this (even
the first) assumption or claim is
false, yet he has done absolutely
nothing to correct the falsehood.
During his life time, Emperor Haile
Selasie 1 of Ethiopia went to a radio
station in
In fact, contrary to Wole Soyinka´s
claim, Albert Camus from Algeria
who also held a French passport
was the first African to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature. That was
as far back as 1957 before Soyinka
in 1986 and Nadine Gordimer from
South Africa in 1991. But the way
Soyinka is running around the
world exploiting his oratorical
English speaking skill, implicitly
coercing his unsuspecting and his
admiring audience to see him as
the only African sage by wearing
his trade mark of blown-up white
hairs and beards leaves much to be
desired. Obviously, he has
succeeded in misleading so many
people to assume that the Nobel
Prize for literature is something no
other person can win except him.
Unlike him, numerous past winners
across the world, including his fellow
African scholars have maintained
philosophical calm and have
invested their time in more
research work to benefit present
and future generations. Soyinka
should learn some element of
humility from Chinua Achebe.
Chinua Achebe´s latest work is The
Education of a British Protected
Child (2009). He is currently working
on another project about the
Nigeria-Biafra war due for release
next year. Wole Soyinka has also
soiled his reputation by venturing
into the corrupt, dirty and mucky
waters of the Nigerian politics, by
forming many quack and corrupt
political parties in the past that
never saw the light of day. His
current Democratic Front for a
Peoples Federation (DFPF) political
party is well known by many
Nigerians to have links to the “Evil-
Genius” Babangida,- his old-time
friend, who gave him the post of
the director of the Road Safety
Corpse, during his evil rule. And at
that time Soyinka´s Nigeria Road
Safety Corpse overtook the Nigeria
police in bribing and corrupting
Nigeria, particularly road traffic
users. As a dramatist, he has never
stopped dramatizing his life. Even
the novel that won him the Nobel
Prize The Man Died he wrote in
1972 and which was influenced by
his prison experience and notes is
not seen as a masterpiece by the
majority of the people. The late
Afro-beat king, Fela Anikulakpo
Kuti heavily criticized the book.
Indeed, when it comes to literature
and other academic fields, we all
know that the Yoruba people have
many great and humble scholars.
Hardly anybody hears about them
except Soyinka. There are people
like Wande Abimbola, Femi
Osofisan, Niyi Osundare and
countless others whose names ring
bells.
This serves to show that no matter
how good or bad you are in
whatever you do, bold steps,
oratorical skills, and self-promotion
are important in our crazy world of
today. Maybe this is why people
like Soyinka and Emeagwali have
gone haywire in drawing attention
to themselves. This maybe also the
reason why people like our most
respected human rights crusader
and legal luminary in Nigeria, late
Gani Fawehinmi, was able to make
it in life. He was bold enough to
take on the Nigerian governments
of the day squarely. He also
vigorously promoted himself
through championing the cause of
the ordinary people, despite his
very weak academic qualification
from the United Kingdom.
According to the Yoruba-born Alex
Akinleye, erstwhile minister for
information of Nigeria, Gani
Fawehinmi only earned a third class
law degree. But, today, Gani
Fawehinmi is a household name in
Nigeria and beyond, and did win
many awards.
From time, superstitious beliefs,
myths, and assumptions, which
give rise to spurious claims, have
been part of human nature. The
world has been told that
Christopher Columbus discovered
American. But you and I know that
before he arrived in “the new
world,” as America was known at
that time, there were natives living
there. Also he is credited to have
discovered Jamaica, whereas there
were already Awrak-Indians and a
few people of African descent
inhabiting the land. And those
people swam to his ship and
offered him food and tobacco,
because he was too afraid to swim
ashore. See, http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=DHxw088qQms
There is no other place in the world
this deceit has become the order of
the day than in Nigeria and the
self-styled “God’s own country” -
America. In “God’s Own Country”,
dangerous lies are perfectly
covered. For example, when a
husband is caught in an extra
martial affair, because such
disclosure could cause both political
damage and undermining of the
country ´s authority at home and
abroad, the wife would go on the
mainstream media to cover up the
lies. No wonder, Dr. Donita Brown-
Emeagwali, the wife of Emeagwali
is doing her best to shield
Emeagwali from allegations
levelled against him by Toyin
Falola and his friends. What is
unique about America is that the
lies are promoted and nurtured to
earn liars millions and billions of
dollars. This is why Americans like
to live bombastic life and their
economy by and large a credit-
based economy, built on lies upon
lies. For example, while I respect
many of their Hollywood stars, yet
the fact remains that some of the
Indian-Bollywood, Nigerian-
Nollywood and even recently
Ghanaian-Gollywood stars are
better actors than them. But,
because they have the big media,
big plots, big budgets, big markets,
everything about America will
continue to dominate in the world.
In America, everything has to be
big, otherwise it will not be
perceived to be good enough. I
was amazed at the size of the
Georgia International Congress
Centre when I visited there in 2004.
I was also amazed at the size of a
non-denominational World
Changers Church International
(WCCI) in College Park Atlanta,
owned by African-American “Man
of God” - Creflo Dollar. One wonders
how America got this whole land, I
have heard many times that they
intimidated and stole lands from
Mexico.
The world loves our only living
boxing legend Cassius Marcellus
Clay, Jr. aka Muhammad Ali. But as
the American he is, the rest of the
territories he could not conquer
through boxing he did with his
humorous and oratorical skills, and
self-promotion, by making many
spurious claims upon claims. For
example, he claimed that he has
the type of knowledge that Jesus
Christ had or the type of
knowledge the biblical Moses and
Abraham had, and posited that as a
religious leader you must display
your wealth otherwise people
would not believe in you or
become members of your church.
Aside being a one-time boxing
heavy weighty champion of the
world, this other side of his life
made him to become one of the
“ most beautiful brides” that were
courted by the mainstream world
media. See http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jnYCTh_DSLM&feature=related.
Therefore, there is little wonder
that Philip Emeagwali imbibed this
typical American mentality and
bombastic lifestyle having lived
there for over three decades.
PERTINENT QUESTIONS AND
ACCUSATIONS
A pertinent question here is, was it
a happenstance or by design that
the writer of this most disparaging
article about Emeagwali on
Saharareporters.com and his friends
are all Yorubas? Once again, let us
take a look at their names:
Professor Toyin Falola, the author,
with contributions from his friends,
Dr. Ms. Okelola, Dr. Ola Kassim, and
Professor Mobolaji Aluko. They tried
to be smart by half by including a
Benin man - Professor Pablo
Idahosa, to make it have some
kind of national outlook. Even
though I do not have any problem
that some Benin guys force
themselves to appear Yoruba.
Bolaji Aluko, in his envy is, still with
the help of Saharareporters.com,
battling one Igbo lawyer in the USA
called Emeka Ugwuonye. Aluko,
whose family lived at Nsukka
before the Biafra War, has been an
Internet Tiger, writing all sorts of
nonsense about Igbos. He is so
filled with envy against Igbos and
their achievements. He has ganged
up against Igbo lecturers in
American universities and
elsewhere. Even the Emeagwali he
had vowed to destroy was the
same man about eight years ago,
who once came to his defence
against some Igbos whom Aluko
had wrongly offended. This is how
Aluko and his father pay back the
Igbos for harboring them during
the Nigeria-Biafra war, and ensured
their easy passage to Western
Nigerian. It is unfortunate that
because Aluko apparently has no
more readership in the
underground, he has now come out
with his anti-Igbo crusades. And
unfortunately the
saharareporters.com has stoop too
low by becoming a willing
accomplice. Otherwise, how come
that not only they have published
more than 5 sponsored disparaging
articles in less than one week on
the Emeagwali, but has wickedly
published a picture of Emeagwali
posing in handshake in an event in
New York with the discredited
Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel
Uduaghan, conspicuously the same
day he was sacked as the governor
of Delta State, by the Court of
Appeal in Benin City. Unlike the
good work they were doing when
they started, the
saharareporters.com has been
lately losing readers every day
because they have derailed by
engaging in “junk journalism”
every now and then.
Obviously this composition on the
Emeagwali write-up has made the
writers vulnerable to all kinds of
accusations. For example, they
have been accused by the majority
of Igbos of blackmailing of an Igbo
illustrious son who had achieved
world fame. While Falola and his
Yoruba friends might quickly scurry
to a cheap defence by accusing
those Igbos of being tribal jingoists.
But then, how about the majority
of Africans, and people of African
descent and patriotic Nigerians who
viewed their article as rubbishing
the reputation and outstanding
work of a fellow Nigerian and
African. Another accusation is that
since all of them are PhD holders,
did they not act out of jealousy,
considering the fact that Emeagwali
without a PhD has achieved world
fame in both academic and
scientific fields and collects
appearance fees and lecture fees
or speaker fees that is many times
the annual remuneration of a
senior university professor?
Perhaps, this could be one single
reason why one of them, Dr.
Kassim the head of a department
of one of the Canadian universities,
turned down his students ’ request
of inviting Emeagwali to come to
their university to deliver a lecture
and to interact with them. He
claims that Emeagwali´s asking fee
of $10.000 and a driver during his
stay in Canada was too much,
coupled with the fact that
Emeagwali did not have a PhD. But,
maybe, if Emeagwali were a
Caucasian academic or better still
one of his fellow Yoruba friends in
the academic field maybe Dr.
Kassim would not have denied
those poor Canadian university
students that rare opportunity to
come face to face with their role
model. Also, another one of Falola`s
female Yoruba friends Ms. Okelola
bragged about how she refused to
publish Emeagwali on her
Africanacafe website when
Emeagwali requested her to do so.
The gist of Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends ’ article about
Emeagwali centered on these key
points: Emeagwali does not have a
PhD, but claims to have one and
allows people to address him as a
“ doctor or professor.” Emeagawli
claims or allowed people to call him
“ father of the internet.” They
claimed that they wrote the article
to expose these lies and to inform
the world who the real Emeagwali
is. But the irony of it all is that it is
the same world that gave him
those accolades, titles and prefixes
that Falola and his friends are
complaining about. So what is
actually their problem? I have seen
the interview where Emeagwali
had clearly told a beautiful
Jamaican TV moderator that he is
not the father of the internet or the
inventor of the internet. Continuing,
he explained on the same TV
Programme to another male host
that many people contributed to
the development and invention of
the internet, and that it is not a
one-man thing. He also said that
the Gordon Bell Prize he won was
viewed at that time (1989) as a
Nobel Prize in computing. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=pMFy9sBLFQQ&feature=related.
And also
Judging from the above claims
allegedly made by Emeagwali, one
would like to know if they are
serious enough to warrant that
onslaught. Hence, real facts simply
put across without bias will be
understood by the whole world.
But, since this is not the case, many
people therefore believed that
Toyin Falola and his Yoruba friends
must have some kind of ulterior
motive behind this attack.
Otherwise, they would not have
spent such amount of time writing
pages upon pages of comments
demonizing and describing
Emeagwali in a most despicable
way. And, also, they would not
have been so bitter in their writing,
which manifested in the many
denigrating and unprintable names
they called him such as fraud star,
most sophisticated con man, 419
kingpin, biggest liar of all time, etc.
There are yet other people who
believe that Toyin Falola and his
Yoruba friends were unjust to the
world-acclaimed computer scientist
and Mathematician, a harmless
man, who never duped anybody
but just working hard to promote
himself, the African race and his
work to the benefit of the world.
And many people are wondering
and do want to see Toyin falola
and his Yoruba colleague ’s article
about the white American Bernard
L Madoff, who perpetrated the
world ’s biggest financial scam by
swindling his depositors of over $50
billion. They also want to see Toyin
Falola´s article about the biggest
financial scam of $6.7 billion in
France, perpetrated by debonair
white French man Jerome Kerviel,
an employee of Societe Generale
SA. The whole world is waiting to
see if Toyin Falola and his Yoruba
friends would use the same
despicable words and venom they
have poured on harmless
Emeagwali also on these two
world ’s biggest white swindlers. Up
till now, the world has assumed
that it is only Nigerians, people of
African descent and indeed people
from so-called third world countries
that are scammers.
CONCLUSION
Superstitions, self-promotion and
wild assumptions, which give rise to
claims upon claims, have always
been there from time immemorial.
Although, this mentality has been
part of human nature, but there is
no country where this mentality
has pervaded all facets of life than
in America, in which Emeagwali has
lived for three decades and
therefore has become assimilated.
Finally, majority of the people that
read Toyin Falola and his Yoruba
colleague ’s disparaging article on
Emeagwali viewed it as a
disingenuous act and, therefore,
concluded that it is a typical crass
case of (PhD) “Pull Him Down”
syndrome. And, since Toyin Falola
and Yoruba friends are Africans and
also Nigerians as Emeagwali, the
people had also viewed it as a
good example of the African adage
that says “it is only the frog’s kith
and kin that can mercilessly kick on
his delicate water filled-belly. ”
By Sakhos Silas Ejiofor, Wiesbaden-
Germany

Stupid obsession. The more reason I support him not giving any reply to fools. Let em write a book about it and make sure Obama gets a copy of it. . .scheew. . Buncha hating rif-raffs