₦airaland Forum

Mujtahida:
@Rossikki You said that there was no University in Nigeria before 1962. I pointed it out to you that University college a full degree awarding University was established in 1948. You changed base and said it was a half fledged University.

What is this one saying? A university college is a not a university. If it was, they would have CALLED it a university.

A full-fledged university is a university that awards its own degrees, not degrees from another institute.
University college Ibadan, was essentially a poorly external campus of the University of London. Is THAT what you are grateful for after 63 years of economic exploitation?

Would you be similarly grateful if PDP ruled for the next 60 years and built you only one college from now till then?
You would scream blue murder! Call them all sorts of unprintable names. Thieves. Animals. Barbaric looters!!

But the white man does it to you, and you turn to a humble puppy ever so grateful for the favour.

Your double standards are very apparent, and are at once comical, disgusting, and tragic.

You said without the strides we have made we could still have be uneducated hunters. I pointed out to you that my parents were educated before 1960. You changed base and said they were taught NOTHING.

Your parent were a TINY MINORITY. Just because YOUR parents were educated, Mr Selfish, does not mean a damn thing. The overwhelming majority of Nigerians were illiterate peasants at the end of colonialism. I said the colonialist schools taught NOTHING of substance, that can move a nation forward. No engineering schools. No teaching hospitals. They didn't even build power plants!!! So what are you talking about?

You always twist the discourse. It's futile engaging you. I know of the ills of colonialism but unlike you I am not blind to the fact that we gained something and 57years we have not been able to build on the little colonialism gave us.

If we hadn't built on it there would be no nairaland for you to type your garbage on because we'd all be illiterate, except perhaps for yourself.

Mujtahida:
Stop being crass. How can you say that the colonial generation learnt NOTHING? I will not even deign to respond to you on this point.You are not ready for intellectual debate if you can so virulently make such a blanket baseless assertion.

But what did they learn apart from Queen's English? Tell me. And state where they learnt it. Name the universities and technical institutes they attended.

I bet my Dad doesn't know any NIGERIAN trained Engineer because 57years we have been sitting ducks but I bet he'd know Engineers from his era cos way before his era there were already Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers etc even if not many before Independence. (Shapara Williams was the first Nigerian Lawyer called to the English bar in 1897 almost 63 years before Independence)

Use your brain. You cannot have an educated class of engineers or any other professonals if you do not have higher educational institutions in your county. All these lawyers and doctors you claim were there, where were they educated? CERTAINLY NOT IN NIGERIA, unless the whites built some secret university in your village we don't know about.

Gerrard59:
I have done that long ago. What did I discover? Lee's ingenuity.

If you call suffering and smiling and not accepting responsibilities for your actions "intellect and analytical skills", then carry on!

Learn how Japan invested heavily in Singapore - both capital and technology - to help it on its way to rapid development:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iiQuDHmTLk4C&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=singapore+allies+investment+of+capital+ww2&source=bl&ots=0gXuppqFnC&sig=kHLbbXtxptNGJ4LZod0eey-oncY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCwrmfy5PVAhUBKsAKHe6lA_4Q6AEITzAG#v=onepage&q=singapore%20allies%20investment%20of%20capital%20ww2&f=false

Singapore was basically a satellite state of Japan.

Which African country do you know that has received this kind of heavy partnership from a developed nation?

NONE. Yet you are demanding we should be like Singapore within a few short decades of independence, all by ourselves!

Is that not madness?

Mujtahida:
I don't know about you but my parents were schooled even before 1960. Standard 7 the quality of which today's graduates cannot match.

BULLCRAP. Standard 7, What did they learn before 1960? The colonial generation learnt NOTHING except how to speak Queen's English better than anybody, including the whites themselves. And then they used that to look down on their countrymen while scraping for colonial clerk jobs in long knickers.

Colomentality. Fela sang about them. How many Nigerian trained engineers did your father know in his era? ZERO. The whites brought no real education here.They came to loot, but you are too full of admiration for them to think straight.

Mujtahida:
You are misreading colonialism as development. Correct your premise and everything will be clear to you. Colonialism was meant to plunder and not to develop us.

Oh I know that. It's just that most of our countrymen don't seem to know it, which is why some call for them to return and rule more.

We've had the time, resources and opportunities to develop for 57years. And we have not done better than the colonial plunderers.

If we haven't done better, you'd be an illiterate hunter.

Mujtahida:
University of Ibadan was established in 1948 as University college Ibadan. Nomenclature does not take away the fact that it was a University from whence people like Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, Christopher Okigbo, Achebe and many others graduated before 1962.

It wasn't a full fledged university. It was a college of the University of London. What an insult that in 63 years of milking your resources, all they gave you was that.

Imagine if they'd try to be a bit more...decent. And built like three proper universities as early as the 1920s. And expanded education as opposed to reserving it for a tiny few. Think how many more Soyinkas and Achebes we'd have had. Plus a generation of engineers, industrialists, and other professionals. These are not favours we are seeking. They were exporting our resources. They could have reinvested even 20% back into the economy, and we would have been a reasonably developed nation at independence.

shervydman:
the truth of the matter is that nobody will help u to develop ur country, no country under colonial rule was developed before independence.

the colonial masters will only develop what is useful for their act in a country.like the case of Nigeria where they built railway from Lagos to the north just to transport goods from the north down to Lagos and take the goods away. i'm not even sure if they built any other worthy infrastructure in the country.

fast forward 50years later, Nigeria supposed to have developed far beyond where we are now, it seems we're always blessed with leaders that are not visionaries. how can a country(largest economy on the continent) not produce electricity for its citizen? at least we constructed the kainji in the 60s,shortly after independence. why should the price of PMS in an oil producing country be expensive? why is our agricultural sector, airline and co. be in shamble now?

none of our chaotic state should be blamed on the British but our leaders, 50years is too much for us to have developed far beyond this state.
we're developing; no doubt, but at a very slow pace.

Actually, it is not true that "no colonised country was developed before independence". South Africa was developed as early as the 1940s. Hong Kong was highly developed long before its independence from Britain. India was developed by the British colonialists far more than they did in their African territories apart from SA. They also built a lot of infrastructure in Egypt in their time there. It was really just the black African colonies that the whites robbed so viciously and totally. That needs to be stated.

Gerrard59:
My stance on development is by holding our leaders and ourselves accountable. This is opposed to OP's view that outside forces are impeding our development.

Moreover, it's not mandatory to divulge trade secrets or technological advantage to other nations. If you need it so much, develop yours. There's no free lunch anywhere.

Comparing education levels does not make sense. Generally, most people never went to school then across many nations including Singapore. Yes, people are going to schools today. But of what quality are these schools compared to nations we started on same footing? For instance, The Nanyang Technological University was founded in 1991, UI in 1948. However, NTU is currently among the top 50 universities globally according to the QS Rankings while UI is around 800-850.

Is the West responsible for that? Should Singaporean leaders not be praised for the incremental development? Had they blamed or continue to blame the British (yes, the Brits did not do enough for her. But there's no law to stipulate such in the first place), Singapore will not be where she is today.

It's funny the OP believes the Chinese will give Nigeria or Africa access to her technology. Why should she? When she was stealing others' technology secrets and developing hers, where were you? We're currently amassing debts owed to the Chinese (low interest OP will argue, but no difference). Same Chinese are buying huge swathes of lands in Ethiopia, Kenya, getting precious metals from DRC etc. The onus lies on Africans to move on. We were and are not the first people to be colonised or invaded. Japan did same to the Koreans and Chinese. Where are they today? Blaming Japan for their 'present undevelopment'?

You are a deceiver and a liar. You've come in here, and superimposed your own false interpretation of what this thread is about, and then sought to attack the false image you've invented.

This thread says to you white worshippers - If they are the superior beings you make them out to be, then why was Nigeria an undeveloped bush after 63 years of uninterrupted white rule? And if their record is woeful, which it is, then why do you worship them? With some even calling for them to return and rule more. That is the thrust of the thread. Don't try and twist it. We are APPLAUDING our progress vis a vis what the colonialists did.

We are not "blaming" anyone for our problems. We are stating that we are happy to be independent of colonial rule because it was a disaster for us. We are saying that those who ask why we are not like Singapore should use their brains and study the history of Singapore which led them to this point, rather than being superficial and thinking development occurs in a vacuum. When we try to educate you on how geopolitics plays a hand in all of it, you say "you're blaming whites!" If your analytical faculties are not developed enough to process the information you're receiving like an intelligent, educated person, why not move on to another thread that is more to your level?

Warship:
Which kind yeye talk be this one



So if a Biafran goes to Togo and set up a car manufacturing plant, are you saying that Togolese won't buy the cars.?


Which country on earth including wretched Nigeria, will reject a Biafran industrialist.?


Pls tell me one nation that will reject them

Togo? The GDP per capita of Togo is $590 per annum. Nigeria's is $2,700. This is average earning per person. Togo has a population of 7.5 million. Nigeria 200 million. It makes far better economic sense for a Biafran industrialist to establish his car plant in NIGERIA and export to Togo, if they'll accept his cars, rather than sinking funds in Togo with little room for expansion, low patronage, and low profits.

And all this is assuming that France allows Togo to allow you become competition for their Peugeot and other cars already there. You'll be shocked at the power a single phone call from Paris or London can have on some of these small African states.

Finally, even if the above were inapplicable, and it all went smoothly for the Biafran industrialist, who really benefits from his investment in Togo? HIM. And maybe some Togolese employees. The returns certainly won't go to Biafra. Dangote is building refineries and factories in places like Tanzania and Senegal. Is the money he's making reaching you?

Warship:
"........As for Biafra. If you secede from Nigeria you will be assuring your own demise, as you will lose access to Africa's largest market of 200 million, and be forced to compete with Japan, China, and the west for access to foreign markets. That is the last thing you need, as nations set up protectionist tariffs, while preferring trusted technology from familiar partners......." Rossikki


What are the populations of South Korea, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, France, Germany, Switzerland, etc.?

Are they bigger than 100million in each country.?

Do you know how many Biafrans exist on Earth.?



If Biafrans take Technological Education and Award seriously, they will become a nation of industrialists which will give them access to every nation of the world including wretched Nigeria.

The world market is over 7billion.

Use your wretched brain for once in your life. If Biafra secedes, who will you sell those Innoson cars to? Those things you make in Onitsha and Aba, who will buy them? Germans? South Koreans? China? Congo? South Africa? Why? Who are you? Why will they buy your stuff, which could never be as cheap, abundant, and high quality as other nations with greater experience and larger economies of scale honed in by decades of mass production and capital investment? You simply will not be able to compete. It has nothing to do with your level of ingenuity or otherwise. The world is simply not as simple as you think it is. It is this same thoughtlessness and lack of geopolitical awareness that made Igbos try to secede in the 1960s with no army, navy, or airforce, or even strategic allies, to back their intent. It is the same thoughtlessness that will lead to you seceding, and suddenly discovering there is no one to buy your wares, leading to the stagnation of your industries.

Gerrard59:
I do not know how long you have known Nairaland, but if I'm judge by your year of registration, then permit to say you are a newbie to OP's way of life. OP blames the white man for everything in Nigeria even not constructing portable roads in every nook and cranny of a place and supplying water to her residents.

Well, everyone is interested in what s/he can gain from the next person (humans are naturally greedy), but that is not an excuse for Nigeria's inability to provide uninterrupted power supply to her citizens after nearly 57 years. Something Faraday performed as an experiment in 1831.

Mr bodyguard for white men, you mistake my identifying white theft and brigandage for "blaming whites for our problems". The trouble with your mindset is that it allows imperialism to thrive, by turning a blind eye to it and pretending it doesn't exist. This further ensnares you in the trap of imperialists, as you welcome their exploitation with open arms. Rather than insisting they invest in technology within your territory, you let them get away with merely establishing extractive industries that take and put nothing back. Because you have a "don't blame them for anything" mentality, they come here and people like you treat them like gods, even as they take and take and put nothing back. Stand up. Be a man, and insist on your rights, not just from your own countrymen and leaders, but from all external partners.

Warship:
What is wrong with you.?

Why do you keep blaming the whites for our stupidity.?

Pls what stops Botswanan from empowering their people with Technological Education which is a basic prerequisite for indigenous industrialization.


What stops Botswanan from challenging their people to develop Modern Technologies and reward them with huge money to start up their own industries.


This is one of the reason I believe Biafra will do well if they insist that every citizen of her undergo compulsory 3 years Technological Education so as to transform them into potential industrialists

You are naive in the extreme and lack understanding of how the world operates. The FACT is that the western nations today are the repositories of capital and technological know how. The GDP of France is higher than that of all Africa. They have cornered the wealth of the earth. They run the major financial institutions and contribute the highest amounts to them. If you wish to advance rapidly as a developing nation, you need access to western or eastern capital and technological investment. Strictly speaking, it is not THEIR wealth. It is the WORLD's wealth, which they cornered. You have a right to seek access to it. The alternative is to go it alone, which is essentially what we are doing, even though we are getting some good partnership with China these days in the area of infrastructural development, thankfully.

You seem to have this idea that all a poor nation has to do in today's world is "roll up their sleeves" and work assiduously, and voila! They will become the new South Korea in under a decade! This betrays a tragic lack of knowledge of how this world operates. It just doesn't work like that. Or else Cambodia would be like Singapore. Or are you saying Cambodia is underdeveloped because they don't work hard enough?

As for Biafra. If you secede from Nigeria you will be assuring your own demise, as you will lose access to Africa's largest market of 200 million, and be forced to compete with Japan, China, and the west for access to foreign markets. That is the last thing you need, as nations set up protectionist tariffs, while preferring trusted technology from familiar trading partners.

Warship:
The problem is not being landlocked but the absence of Technological Education which is a prerequisite for indigenous industrialization.


Africans don't take Technological Education serious that is why we aren't seeing massive proliferation of indigenous industrialization on the continent

Stop placing "Africans" in a single box. Each country has its own policies. Have you been to Botswana, or studied their economy or educational system? How do you know technology is not highly valued in their educational system?

tensazangetsu20:
Well to start with am a marine engineer and in the maritime sector in Africa the Ghanaian, Egyptian and south African licenses are well respected. The first job I got straight out of school was with my Ghanaian certificate and to think that the company was located in Texas. I am also working on another company now and once I told them where I graduated from they were very excited to have me join them but in Nigeria the reverse is the case our licenses are not even respected in Nigerian waters talk less of outside the country. Someone who has never even sailed before in Nigeria can forge a captains license. Nigerians ruined the maritime industry and the Nigerian license. The other federal universities like KNUST and university of Ghana are well respected all over. They have exchange programs with top universities in Europe and the USA, very quality lecturers. Their universities are well funded. Neat campuses, nice classrooms and well maintained hostels.

And Ghana has far better infastructure than Nigeria. Though they have smaller single carriage roads, roads are well maintained. They have constant electricity and their citizens live far better lives than Nigerians.

What a load of garbage. Ghana's GDP per capita is lower than Nigeria's, meaning their citizens on average, earn less than Nigerians. They have just two or three places you can legitimately call cities, their rural areas are often very deprived and backward with no electricity. Don't come in here telling us about Ghana as if you think people here don't visit Ghana.

mikolo80:
please expatiate
explanation or link



but did you have said professions is what I asked
where did the training start, here or Cambridge
stop deceiving yourself

Where did what start? Medicine? It started in Africa, thousands of years before the white man crawled out of the caves of the Caucasus mountains.

were talking Nigeria not black moors.
and secondly why did black moors disappear if they were so superior.

They were around for nearly a thousand years. Nothing in life is permanent. The whites you worship today haven't even been dominant for up to 500 years. Their turn to disappear from the scene will come too. It happens to everyone.

you that you're not ignorant what is your contribution.?
all this chest beating cannot help you. there is a reason
they enslaved and colonised us .better get it out of yours system otherwise you will continue looking for their visa and not the other way round.

I'm done debating a child. You wish to remain a slave with inferiority complex, that's your cup of tea. The whites have similarly been enslaved and colonised by blacks and Arabs in the past. There are not superior beings unless to the ignorant who haven't read human history. And no, I don't need a visa to anywhere.

Gerrard59:
Still blaming. No, I'm not. You are, by apportioning everything on them. Thereby making them feel so-superhuman.

Yes, Botswana has been Africa's best run place. However, not close to Lee's Singapore (Lee did wonders).

Explain. What "wonders" did he perform to attract such massive western investment? Tell us the magic he performed. And don't patronise us with that nonsense about "blaming". We are simply stating the FACTS.

Talking about investments and transfer of technology, well, there exist no law that stipulates technology must to be transferred to anyone. If you need it so badly, develop yours (Japan) or copy (China, albeit, she is developing hers).

But that is exactly what we are all doing in Africa, including here in Nigeria. We are going it alone. We DO manufacture stuff in case it escaped you. But because we do not have the dramatic levels of western investment of capital and technology, it will TAKE LONGER than it took the Asian Tigers, who benefited from such high levels of western investment for western geopolitical reasons.

Which is why when people like you shout "Singapore!", "South Korea!", people like us will remind you that their development was externally and artificially driven by outsiders for geopolitical reasons, so you can stop comparing our rate of industrialisation and development to theirs.

tensazangetsu20:
Botswana is landlocked. You can't compare both countries.

What's that got to do with anything? They are not surrounded by hostile nations, and the cost of transporting manufactured goods to the nearest ports can be easily offset by the relatively low wages that would be paid, which would STILL lead to massive development and industrialisation. And other similar countries like Ghana and Kenya are not landlocked, so that's no excuse.

Gerrard59:
I have read the gibberish. Unless you want to say the West are "gods" that can do and undo, that is your business. But to utter that a country cannot get developed in 50 years is wrong and smacks of incompetence. Same Singapore that had a lower GDP per Capita than Nigeria in the '60s. Same Singapore Lee instituted anti-corruption laws? Same Singapore Lee travelled calling for investments? Same Singapore Lee made friends with around the world? Same Singapore Lee that appointed the best and brightest? Same Lee who introduced laws at harmonising different races as in the current HDB? And lots more.

If you do not want to take responsibility for your actions, your prerogative. The problem of Nigeria is Nigerians especially apportion-blame-Nigerians like you. The rulers leaders are not imported.


Learn to take responsibility for your actions. And stop calling shopping malls development when the average household does not have access to clean and affordable water from public works.

You call the Asian Tiger/western links gibberish because you prefer to ascribe superhuman abilities to non Africans. Tell me. Have you heard of Botswana? It has been Africa's best governed nation for over 40 years. Good infrastructure, good education, a progressive govt, great resource base including diamonds, near zero corruption.

Now, Botswana has been doing even more than what Lee Kuan Yew did, in terms of setting up the enabling environment for industrialisation, and working to attract foreign investment. For the last two decades, her officials have gone cap in hand to western capitals, begging for investment, capital, technology transfer etc, of the type granted Lee Kuan Yew and other Tiger leaders. The result? ZERO. The only serious western investors entering Botswana are interested in the extractive industry. Mining, cash crops etc. Nothing more. Appeals by Botswana for them to invest in manufacturing has fallen on deaf ears, despite Botswana meeting even more of the criteria than the Asian Tigers ever did, prior to their 'selection'.

In fact many African countries have done better than Lee Kuan Yew to build up themselves for investment - Ghana, Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya etc. So where are the investors? Nowhere to be seen.

Until you understand that western policy to Africa has not changed from the day they sat around at the Berlin Conference carving out areas of influence for raw material access, you will never understand them, and keep being their dummy and play thing. We are in a geopolitical game. You need to understand where you stand in that game, because for now, you are blind as a bat.

Warship:
What year was that book written and what year are we now.?



The Caucasian people of those days aren't the same in mindset with this present generation of Caucasian people



Stop blaming the whites

You think the Caucasian ruling class has had a change of heart, and now wants Africa to develop? So where will they get raw materials for their industries? Do you have any clue why they killed Ghadaffi? Do you know Ghadaffi was leading an effort to give Africa a unified currency, to break its dependence on foreign exchange and international financial agencies, among other dramatic policies such as African political unification? Do you know how much the west fear such developments? Instead of standing there as a bodyguard to "whites", why not get your head out of their asss and stand up for your own interests?

Gerrard59:
For the OP to say 50 years is too small to be a developed nation is extremely ridiculous. It is mentality like this that make me cringe. The OP and his ilks have never taken responsibility for their actions, always blaming people. I implore OP to Google "Lee Kuan Yew".

We have dealt with the Asian Tiger phenomenon. If you are as bright as you make out, you would have read the thread prior to contributing.

mikolo80:
really, did not know that. but what were we using before then. also without them you would probably still be farming with hoe and cutlass. no doctors no lawyers

Without us THEY would have no lawyers and doctors. It was their looting of Africa, India, and the Americas that allowed them to develop their professions, including doctors and lawyers. Before Europe started their looting spree, they were the most backward region of the entire earth. So without us, they would be nothing. In fact, it was black African moors who guided them out of the barbarity of their Dark Ages into their so called Renaissance. Before that, the black African ancient Egyptians allowed the Greeks to learn the rudiments of philosophy, engineering, architecture, writing, medicine, mathematics and astronomy. I don't expect you to know any of this because you are a victim of colonial whitewashing of history designed to keep you ignorant of your huge African contribution to modern civilisation, and subservient to them.

mikolo80:
which doctors I hope it's not witch doctors you're referring too. abi the ones that were killing twins. please argue not just for the sake of argument. how many lawyers or engineers did you have before colonisation

The fact that you've reduced pre-colonial African medicine to "witch doctors" shows how tragically miseducated, ignorant, and brainwashed you are, courtesy of colonialism. One of the most tragic consequences of colonialism was that while the whites were looting your land, they made sure to imbibe in you a sense of worthlessness and racial inferiority, by belittling your culture and practices, to prevent you from challenging their theft. You need to shed your slave mentality, conduct some proper research into your heritage, and quit being a doormat and yes man for racists and neo nazis.

maisauki:
D reason is simple:they didn't come to develop this place rather, they were here to get raw materials for their industries

Very succinctly and simply put.

blueseacats:
they are still in South Africa. In fact they control the economy their and South Africa is way way way better than us.

South Africa is ''way way better than us'' because unlike in Nigeria, the white colonialists reinvested into the local economy the monies from export profits right from the first day they took over that country in the early 1820s.

Because they was a very large white settler population there. Attracted to the country by its temperate weather I guess. They saw the country as their own. So they built the first university there in 1829. The University of Cape Town.

University of the Witwatersrand was established in 1896.

Stellenbosch University 1903.

University of Pretoria 1908.

The same British at the very same time in Nigeria, were busy on a very different trajectory based on total extraction of natural resources and very minimal input back into the Nigerian economy. This was how they functioned till the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, and Peter Enahoro among others said, ENOUGH.

And thankfully so.

It was only after they left that Nigeria began trying to develop. Establishing our first university in 1962.

Our first power station 1964. Kainji Dam.

South Africa's first power station? Try the 1880s!!

I mean, how the hell do you expect Nigeria and South Africa to be on the same technological or even socio-political level?

It's like comparing a man to a child. They started long before we were even on the map. They've been producing highly trained engineers, scientists, urban planners, doctors, architects, jurists, politicians, pilots, technicians, and bankers in their thousands for at least a century before we started in Nigeria. Once you study the history of both nations, you see it makes no sense comparing ourselves with them.

What we need to do is just respect ourselves and move forward as smoothly as possible. But don't expect us to function as efficiently as South Africa anytime soon, because the truth is, we're still learning how to build a modern nation, compared to them.

Dedetwo:
This is typical problem with most Nigerians by jumping onto google and fly off with dictionary meaning of a phrase without checking how such phrases are applied internationally.

Well, ''internationally'', nobody distinguishes between ''assembly'' and ''manufacturing''. It is only in Nigeria that this is ever done. In fact, across the world, car manufacturing plants are universally described as 'car assembly plants'. Don't believe me? Google it.

By the way, if you get to the point where you start arguing with a dictionary over the meaning of a word, then you know you have issues.

Nobody can say goods are Made in A Country when the raw material did not follow the process of harvesting or extracting from the soil to the finish product.

And where did you get this brilliant piece of nonsensical garbage?

mikolo80:
who built kainji or the coal plants before that. abeg stop embarrassing yourself

Construction of Kainji Dam began in 1964, on the orders of Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and was completed in 1968

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kainji_Dam


What ''coal plants'' are you referring to?

Have a name?

Warship:
God bless you for these words below


"..............The prosperity of Asian economic powers drive Western economies and they stand to profit from the success of as many successful nations as possible................"



One thing people like Rossikki don't understand is that the present generation of Caucasian people have realized that as long as other nations progress, they will also progress

For example


If more Africans become rich, nations like Germany will sell more cars, Japan more electronics, etc


African poverty is beginning to irritate the rest of the world especially the Caucasian people.


Unknown to people like Rossikki, this is one of the reasons why some of the Caucasian people are supporting Nnamdi Kanu


This is why they support the Reestablishment of Biafra

Talk about being delusional. Go and read ''How Europe Underdeveloped Africa'' by Walter Rodney. You will understand why you are deluded.

mikolo80:
so you believe in producing graduates with nowhere to work abi. no wonder Nigeria is the way it' is with ppl like you in charge. with your fake half education

If you are a graduate and have nowhere to work, CREATE your own work. That is why you went to university. To develop analytical thinking.

Would you rather be an illiterate?

Look my friend, if you can read and write, and type on nairaland, you can create a job for yourself in today's world.

Obi1kenobi:
Artificial creation? Jesus Christ! You honestly make these Western countries look like gods and superhumans. What is funny is you don't see how you diminish your own people when you ascribe such omnipotent, omniscient power to them.

What are you talking about dude? Wealthy states wield geo-political power. Billions are allocated to think tanks and strategy institutes that devise all sorts of long term geo-political objectives. The funding of a select group of Asian nations, and granting them unrestricted access to western markets and capital is not even an especially inventive or creative policy. It was really something borne out of desperation to prevent the Soviets and communist China from overrunning Asia with their ideology. And yes, North Korea is a communist China satellite state that would collapse tomorrow if Beijing pulled the plug.

That many Mongolians may prefer to inhabit the mountains as nomads and live primitively is different from a Korean republic or China driven by enterprise and open market global competitiveness.

You conveniently omitted Cambodia, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other Asian 'hellholes' like Burma, whose backwardness is only matched by the brutality of its military dictatorship. How do you explain THEIR backwardness that is many cases worse than conditions in many African countries? Yet they sit side by side with Singapore and South Korea!!

HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?

Look at their histories. South Korea is backed by US forces who have nearly 50,000 troops stationed there. Why? Because they regard the Asian Tigers, which they created, as THEIR ASSETS. Singapore? Similar stuff. Western backed, militarily and otherwise. The British have been all over the place since time immemorial, setting it up as some sort of commercial trading outpost for east-west commerce - another western-backed asset. Hong Kong, another Tiger, same thing, western-backed, western asset in everything but name.

Burma, Nepal, Bhutan and co, who are of the same race as Singaporeans and South Koreans, are backward and ignored because they were of no strategic geo-political value to the west after WW2. All the west needed was just 4 or 5 countries to act as a capitalist bulwark against rampaging communism. They didn't need to do all of Asia.

Dedetwo:
There are sea of differences between Produced in..., Assembled in.... and Made in..... I bet my last cent Nigeria is definitely not in the category of Made in....

Assembly means the exact same thing as manufacturing and producing.


Manufacturing definition

make (something) on a large scale using machinery.
"firms who manufacture ball bearings"

synonyms: make, produce, mass produce, build, construct, assemble, put together, create, fabricate, prefabricate, turn out, process, form, fashion, model, mould, shape, forge, engineer.

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THE NIGERIAN INVENTOR BUILDING A FLYING JET CAR

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GREAT NIGERIAN INVENTORS OF THE 21ST CENTURY



This list comprises 16 Nigerian inventors who have contributed to global science and technology in various fields worldwide.


1. Saheed Adepoju

He is the inventor of the INYE-1 & 2, tablet computers designed for the African market.

Bio: Saheed is the Co-founder of Encipher Limited, a Nigerian-based technology company that introduced the first android-powered tablet into Nigeria. The INYE-1, which was unveiled in April 2010 is a 7-inch resistive screen tablet. It runs android 2.1 and allows users to connect to the internet using its inbuilt WIFI card and to use an external 3G modem from GSM networks. It offers about 3 hours of battery life and allows HDMI output to HDMI capable devices.
INYE-2, which was unveiled in May 2011, is an 8-inch capacitive screen tablet. It runs Android 2.2 and allows users to connect to the internet using its inbuilt Wi-Fi card as well as its inbuilt SIM. It offers about 8 hours of battery life and allow users to connect to other USB devices.

2. Seyi Oyesola

He is credited with the co-invention of CompactOR or the “Hospital in a Box”, a solar-powered life-saving operating room which can be transported to remote areas of Africa and set up within minutes.

Bio: Seyi is a Nigerian trained doctor and inventor. He received his basic science and medical education at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, with specialist training in Anaesthesia and Critical Care in the United Kingdom and United States. In order to help bring surgical care to every region of the continent, Seyi co-developed CompactOR, or the “Hospital in a Box”: a portable medical system that contains anesthetic and surgical equipment. One major advantage of this invention is that the operating suite is light enough to be dropped into inaccessible zones by helicopter and it can be powered by solar panels.

3. Jelani Aliyu

He is credited with designing General Motors’ leading auto brand, Chevrolet Volt.

Bio: Jelani was born in Kaduna State, Nigeria in 1966. He originates from Sokoto State, Nigeria and earned an associate degree in Architecture from Birnin Kebbi Polytechnic in 1988. Upon graduation from the Polytechnic, Jelani worked at the Ministry of Works, Sokoto before pursuing additional education in the United states. He graduated in 1994 with a degree in Automobile Design from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan and was hired by General Motors.

4. Ndubuisi Ekekwe

He is credited with the development of microchips used in minimally invasive surgical robots

Bio: Ndubuisi is the founder of First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Ltd. He holds a U.S. Patent on a microchip used in minimally invasive surgical robots, and was part of the team that created XL sensor inside the iPhone and iPad.

5. Col. Oviemo Ovadje (Rtd)

Oviemo is a Nigerian medical Doctor who is credited with the invention of the Emergency Auto Transfusion System (EAT-SET), which is an effective, low-cost and affordable blood auto-transfusion mechanism that saves patients in developing countries. He has patented the invention in nine (9) countries.

Bio: Oviemo was born in Nigeria and hails from Delta State. He began working on the invention in 1989 with $120 dollars. In 1995, he was declared best African scientist and founded EATSET Industries, in April 2001. The United Nation Development Program (UNDP) and the government of Nigeria funded the EAT-SET Project, with the World Health Organization (WHO) acting as the executing agency and providing assistance in the coordination of the project.
He has received many international awards including:
*.OAU-WIPO Best African Scientist Gold Medal, Geneva Switzerland (1995);
*.Winner Promex Medal Geneva, Switzerland (1998);
*.First African Winner World Health Organisation Sasakawa Gold Medal, Geneva, Switzerland, (2000);
*.Winner ARCO Gold Medal, The Dorchester, UK, (2001);
*.Winner Army Council Medal, Nigeria Army, Army Head Quarters, Abuja, Nigeria.

6. Cyprian Emeka Uzoh

Credits: He holds more than 126 United States issued patents and over 160 patents worldwide in semiconductor technology including U.S. Patent No. 6709562,“method of making electroplated interconnection structures on integrated circuit chips”, which earned him the inventor of the year award in 2006 from the New York Intellectual Property Association.

7. Kunle Olukotun

He is well known for leading the Stanford Hydra research project which developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS).

Bio: Kunle is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan. He is the founder of Afara Websystems (later acquired by Sun Microsystems), a company that builds servers surrounding a custom high-throughput CPU architecture and develops IP traffic management systems for high-throughput, low power server systems with chip multiprocessor technology.

8. Sebastine Chinonye Omeh

He is best known for his research into the use of wind-propelled turbines to generate electricity.

Bio: Sebastine is the Managing Director of Hybrid Micro Machine Products Limited. He is from Ogrute town in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. He is a graduate of engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Challenged by the energy crisis in Nigeria, and the need to develop indigenous technology he conducted research into the use of wind-propelled turbines to generate electricity, thereby pioneering wind energy technology in Nigeria.

9. Shehu Saleh Balami

He is credited with designing a solid-fuel rocket.

Bio: Since year 2000, Shehu Balami, a Nigerian Engineer has been involved in designing rockets. He is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger State. He has produced two solid fuel rockets which were launched along the new Kaduna Millennium City Road in Kaduna State. In 2008, with the support of his friends and family members, he was able to build his first rocket which he later modified in 2011. The solid-fuel rocket was produced under the auspices of the Movement for the Propagation of Science and Technology in Nigeria.

10. Yemi Adesokan

He was selected by expert judges of the Technology Review of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States of America for his discovery work on drug-resistant infections. He was honored by the MIT in 2011 because of his innovative work.

Bio: Yemi is a Nigerian born and United States-based founder of Pathogenica Inc. Medical experts are of the view that his innovation may bring an end to the problem of drug resistance in the world particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. His discovery work was carried out by a biotechnology start-up that he founded with Professor George Churchof Harvard Medical School DNA technology.

11. Ume Ifeanyi Charles

He is credited with five (5) inventions all of which were patented at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). These are:
*.Method and Apparatus for Measuring Thermally Induced Warpage in Printed Wiring Boards Using Shadow Moir, United States Patent No. 5601364, Feb. 11,1997;
*.Method and Apparatus for Measuring Thermal Warpage Using Projection Moir, United States Patent No. 6564166 B1, May 13, 2003;
*.Object Inspection Method and System, United States Patent No. 6747268, June 8, 2004;
*.Inspection System and Methods, United States Patent No. 7492449,February 17, 2009; and
*.Ultrasound Systems and Method for Measuring Weld Penetration Depth in Real Time and Off Line, United States Patent No. 7762136, July 27, 2010.

Bio: Ifeanyi is a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He is a recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Education Award in recognition of his contributions towards education of mechatronics throughout the world. In 2010, he was also awarded the Electronics and Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD) Excellence in Mechanics Award.

12. Aloysius Anaebonam

He holds about 12 U.S. Patents including the following:
*. Extended release acetaminophen,Patent number: 6254891, July 3, 2001;
*. Extended release acetaminophen particles,Patent number: 6126967, October 3, 2000;
*. Pleasant-tasting aqueous liquid composition of a bitter-tasting drug,Patent number: 5962461, October 5, 1999;
*. Pleasant-tasting aqueous liquid composition of a bitter-tasting drug,Patent number: 5763449, June 9, 1998;
*. Composition and process for prevention and treatment of cutaneous immediate hypersensitivity reactions,Patent number: 5684037, November 4, 1997;
*. Composition and process for prevention and treatment of cutaneous immediate hypersensitivity reactions,Patent number: 5684038, November 4, 1997;
*. Terfenadine oral granules,Patent number: 5626879, May 6, 1997;
*. Process for treating uremic pruritus,Patent number: 5576346, November 19, 1996;
*. Process for treating hemangioma, Patent number: 5552436
*. Composition and process for prevention and treatment of cutaneous immediate hypersensitivity reactions,Patent number: 5532270, July 2, 1996; and
*.
Terfenadine oral powder,Patent number: 5455049, October 3, 1995.
Bio: Aloysius holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston Massachusetts. He is the Founder & Chief Scientist of BREEJ Technologies, Inc., a developer and marketer of advanced treatment cosmetics products for problem skin.

13.Mohammed Bah Abbah

Although he holds no patent on this invention, he is credited with taking on the challenge of making accessible the “pot-in-pot refrigerator” or “zeer”, a refrigerating device that does not use electricity, to people in rural areas. He is a recipient of the Rolex Award for Enterprise, an award that provided $75,000 which Mohammed used to produce and distribute his invention in 11 northern states in Nigeria.

Bio: Mohammed developed his pot-in-pot refrigerator by combining the knowledge he had gained from his grandmother’s craft of traditional pottery with simple laws of physics. He followed up on the idea by placing food in a small pot, which is then placed in a larger pot. The space between the two is filled with moist sand and a wet cloth cover is used to cover the whole set up. As the water in the moist sand evaporates through the larger pot, it carries heat away from the inner core of the whole set up.
Mohammed holds no patent on this invention because the pot making business is not new. What is novel is the fact that he set up a local production facilities to provide the pot-in-pot for the cost of $2 (N320) for the smaller pot-in-pot refrigerator and $4 (N640) for the bigger versions. The invention allows perishable food to extend their spoilage rate. For example, meat can be stored in it for up to two weeks instead of a few hours.

14. Olu Atanda

He is credited with the co-invention of a self-lubricating layer for a data-storage device and disk and holds the following patents at the USPTO.
*. Self-lubricating layer for data storage devices, United States Patent No. 6,677,105, January 13, 2004.
*. Self-lubricating layer for a data storage disk, United States Patent No. 6,430,114, August 6, 2002.

15. Brino Gilbert

He is credited with the invention of the Counter Collision Gadget (CCG), a device that has the capacity to prevent accidents on the road, air, sea and rail. The invention earned him many awards including a bronze medal in the Aerospace/Aeronautics category at the May 2003 edition of the Invention and New Product Exposition (INPEX) in the United States. He also received a silver medal in the manufacturing category and a trophy for being the best invention from Africa in the continental category

Bio: Gilbert is a Nigerian physicist from Edo State. He spent 10 years seeking government attention for his research and approached several groups and individuals for sponsorship. His vision is to make CCG exportable to many countries of the world.

16. Emeka Nchekwube

He is credited with the co-invention of the following:
*.Hypoestoxides, derivatives and agonists thereof for use as stent-coating agents, U.S. Patent no. 7229979
*.Hypoestoxides, derivatives and agonists thereof for use of antiparasitic agents Patent no. 6242484
*.Terfenadine oral powder, U.S. Patent no. 5455049
*.Solutions of pentamidine, U.S. Patent no. 4,853,416
Bio: Emeka Nchewube is a Nigerian-born Neurosurgeon who currently lives and practices in the United States. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria and earned his Bachelors degree in chemistry from Central Michigan University. He attended Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit where he also finished his Neurosurgery residency. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He is also a member of the San Jose Surgical Society, the American Medical Association, and the California Association of Neurological Surgeons.


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