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ayoncox:
Basically Nigeria does not have any world class based invention in the area of technology but in medicine and biochemistry we have tried.

Phillip Emeagwali inventing the world's fastest computer sounds pretty world class technological to me.

But our government fustrate them, dont forget Abalaka. We have Nigerians as inventors but I have rarely found any that did such for Nigeria instead it is China, USA or Uk often

Tell me something. When an American invents something, do you hear of the US govt getting involved?

They don't. It is the private sector that takes it up. Groups like the Ford Foundation, Trustees of Columbia University, Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, etc that pick up the tabs and move the project forward. The Nigerian govt does not build factories. Nor does it have the expertise to evaluate and promote viable innovations.

What we need in Nigeria is for the likes of Dangote, Iwuanyanwu, Arthur Nzeribe, Otedola, and other zillionaires to form venture capitalist foundations that actively seek out, capitalize upon, and vigorously develop and promote Nigerian inventions.

Believe you me, if they do that, Nigeria will be recognized globally as a nation of inventors, within 5 years or less.

Top 10 Inventions by Nigerians You Didn’t Know About

Generally, when we talk about an invention, we refer to a novel creation, a new process of doing something. Positive and novel inventions are always welcome because they produce great breakthrough and make life easier one way or the other.

Everything man-made was and still is a result of an invention. So it’s safe to say that inventions make the man-made world go round. Over the years, great inventors have been recognized in history for coming up with astounding inventions which have revolutionized our world. Some of these inventions were achieved by Nigerians and we bet you are not aware of some, if not most, of them.

Here are 10 inventions by Nigerians you might not know about:


1. Emergency Blood Auto Transfusion System


Think about this great invention and how many lives that have and could still be saved using this inventive system. The Emergency Blood Auto Transfusion System is a low-cost blood transfusion system which has the ability to recover blood from a patient’s internal bleeding organs and then re-infuses the blood back into the patient’s blood system, thereby preventing blood loss.

This system has been designed to transfuse blood in a safe and non-infectious manner. It also works without electricity. We could go on and on about this system but let’s go ahead and introduce the inventor; he is none other than Dr. Otu Oviemo Ovadje (Rtd.). Worthy of mention is the fact that the inventor is a Brigadier General in the Nigerian army.


2. Counter Collision Gadget (CCG)

This invention is another unique and novel one. The Counter Collision Gadget is a device that has the capability of preventing a collision in locomotive vehicles, either on land, air or at sea. Developing a device that has been designed to prevent air, land, rail and sea accidents brought great accolades for the inventor, a Nigerian physicist from Edo state named Brino Gilbert.

So if you see a car that can stop on its own accord to prevent an accident - that could be the work of a Nigerian.

3. INYE-1 & 2 Tablet Computer

The next time you see a tablet with the name “INYE”; bear in mind that it was invented by a Nigerian. The Inye tablet was designed to run on the android operating system. The Inye 1 & 2 tablet computers were among the first tablet computers to be launched in the African market especially here in Nigeria.

The tablet was invented by Saheed Adepoju in 2010. His tablet is a 7-inch resistive touch tablet which has Wi-Fi and an inbuilt SIM.

4. First Solid Fuel Rocket


A Nigerian came up with the idea of creating a rocket which could run on solid fuel. At such a young age (26), Shehu Saleh Balami invented and launched a solid-fuel rocket at the new Kaduna Millennium City Road in Kaduna State in 2008. He is a graduate of Mechanical engineering at the Federal University of technology Minna, Niger State.

5. Method of making electroplated interconnection structures on integrated circuit chips

Like we said earlier, an invention does not necessarily have to be a new machine or device. A new and improved method of solving a problem also passes as an invention, that is exactly what Mr. Cyprian Emeka Uzoh came up with. He developed a novel method of making electroplated interconnection structures on integrated circuit chips.

Mr. Uzoh is a celebrated Computer scientist with over 160 inventions patented under his name. IBM uses his galvanoplasty technology as the main method of cabling devices using electric fields and metal mods to polish metals with low pressures.

6. Microchip used in minimally invasive surgical robots

In this invention, the microchip was designed and embedded in robots which were used in performing minimally invasive surgeries. The microchip had the ability to store information and it is also able to control the surgical robot.

This microchip was invented by Engr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe. That invention has given the Nigerian engineer many accolades, awards, and international recognition.


7. Method for tackling drug-resistant infections


As medical science continues to evolve, one of the major challenges that faces researchers is, coming up with a means of treating infection/diseases which are resistant to drugs. Yemi Adesokan made an innovative research into the subject; the result was him coming up with an invention on a method by which drug-resistant infections can be treated.

His invention has already been put to use, especially in Africa were numerous infections and diseases are poorly managed. It is believed that Adesokan’s invention is capable of putting an end to the problem of drug-resistant infections in the world if properly employed.

8. Pleasant-tasting aqueous liquid composition of a bitter-tasting drug

So as not to bore you with the chemical mumbo-jumbo, what was done in this invention was to find a way of making bitter-tasting drugs into liquid and pleasant-tasting drugs. A lot of people find difficulty in swallowing solid drugs (tablets), while others complain of the overly bitter taste of some drugs.

Aloysius Anaebonam, a Nigerian, was able to come up with an aqueous liquid composition which comprises a pharmaceutically effective amount of a bitter-tasting drug that is dissolved or dispersed in an aqueous medium that is free of ethanol. This aqueous liquid has a pleasant taste when orally administered, although it has the same effect of the bitter-tasting drug.

9. First microchip processors to support TLS

In another groundbreaking invention, a Nigerian was able to create the first microchip processors which support thread-level speculation. His invention was acquired by Sun Microsystem and is actively being used today in Sun Microsystem’s throughput computing technology.

10. World's Fastest Computer


Ever heard of the world’s fastest and most efficient computer? It was actually invented by a Nigerian, by name, Dr. Philip Emeagwali. Dr. Emeagwali carefully studied the efficient ways in which bees communicate and build honeycombs and decided to create a computer that could work that way.

The result was that he successfully combined 65,000 processors to invent the world’s fastest computer, which performs computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second. Today, Dr. Philip Emeagwali’s invention is applied in weather forecasting supercomputers as well as computers which can predict global warming.

If you are as dazed as we are at these accomplishments by Nigerians, then I bet you are thinking of the next big invention to show the world. Hang in there until your invention sees the light of day; the world can hardly wait!

https://idonsabi.com/2016/09/15/top-10-inventions-by-nigerians-you-didnt-know-about/

Goahead:
Okay, after going through the deluge of threads showcasing the petty achievements of the Igbos and Yorubas, I was prompted to ask myself this question, What have Nigeria as a nation ever invented?

Even, just few hours ago I was surfing through the list of AK47 operators. And I saw we are actually producing the gun right here in Nigeria... It dawned on me that we just might be producing other cool stuffs of native inventory.

I am employing hardcore patriots and historians like Rossikki, Sarrki and Naptu2 to shed more light on our inventories.

Lalasticlala, please, do the needful.

Fantastic question. Fact is our universities and technological institutes have churned out literally hundreds of inventions over the years. And before you blame the 'Nigerian government' for not ''encouraging'' those innovators, bear in mind that it is not the government's job to ''encourage'' any inventor. It is the private sector that should take advantage of these talents. The problem is that our inventors are just not very good at marketing their work and attracting investment from venture capitalists. This is where they always fall short. So their inventions sit in universities and institutes.

I remember a few years back when some guy invented a yam pounder or something. Next thing you know some Korean factories started manufacturing it. Again that is not the fault of the Nigerian government, but of the Nigerian private sector (assuming they were approached), for not capitalizing on the invention. But believe you me, there are no shortage of inventions in Nigeria.

jiangchu:
have you not heard of the story of SINGAPORE or is your brain paining you

Already addressed. Read the thread before posting. And worry about your brain not mine.

WHY DON'T YOU PEOPLE GROW UP? STOP BEING NARCISSISTIC. IT MAKES YOU LOOK HORRIBLE AND DISGUSTING. SHOW HUMILITY AND OTHERS WILL RESPECT YOU. THE IGBO CULTURE IS NOT ONE THAT IS BOASTFUL OR ARROGANT. STOP IT.

Obi1kenobi:
Yes......we're all zombies with no personal agency while the Western gods dictate everything that happens and we carry out the instructions like zombies. It's a weird, ironic thing, the mental slavery that many so-called "Afrocentrists" demonstrate. People who cannot look inward for the source of their problems are doomed to remain the lowest of humanity while they keep pointing fingers upward at their "masters" and taking no responsibilty.

Actually, when you are a poor, developing state, you are extremely vulnerable to external interference, be it via the threat of economic sanctions, or victimisation through international agencies like the World Bank and IMF, or the threat of military interference via the support of rebel groups in your territory etc. Powerful nations have many tools in their armoury to manipulate and control weaker nations, and this goes beyond African nations. Many states across the world are manipulated by imperialists. Pretending the world is an equal system where no one is bound to the whims of the other betrays a profound lack of insight into the current global economic structure. The Ghadaffi example, in which the assertive, progressive leader of an African state was eliminated, by the west sponsoring rebels in his own territory to overthrow and kill him, is highly instructive. Other examples include our own dear General Murtala Muhammed, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso among others.

Obi1kenobi:
Stop kidding yourself, Mr. The entrepreneurial drive, resourcefulness, hard work and strong, visionary leadership made those Asian countries what they are today. Stop always looking to blame the failures of our intellectually lazy, corrupt black asses on "the West". Countries invest where they can profit and they accordingly assess the risk of investment. They're not running charities. The success of Japanese or South Korean or Hong Kong or Taiwanese or Singaporean or Malaysian people or whoever belongs to them. Even an isolated, hungry, miserable country like North Korea under the most severe international sanctions ever imposed on a nation for decades demonstrate far greater ingenuity and technological innovation than we do. If they had unbridled access to international markets, they'd be just like their Southern brothers. It's a cultural thing.

The 4 or 5 Asian tigers are artificial creations of the west. This is easy to see when you consider that their neighbours and brothers of the same race, who were not 'chosen', like Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, the Philippines, Bhutan, Mongolia, still live in relatively backward conditions. If it was a 'cultural thing' or a racial thing-which is what you really mean to say, then those nations would be similarly industrialised like South Korea and Hong Kong. Why the MASSIVE difference? Answer: Artificial western intervention. As for North Korea, they are just a satellite state of China, and it is Chinese technology transfer and economic assistance that keeps them militarily active as a foil to western adventurism in the region. If China abandons them, they will fall into mass starvation.

holocron:
OP has valid points. The British were better rulers - True, and there rule was mainly to their own advantage and impoverished the masses.

There was regular electricity, public water works, good road network; but only in narrow enclaves centered around centers of colonial commerce and government. Millions were deprived of this goodies without any plan to provide them.

Not to be forgotten, colonial administration was military dictatorship. It was a military government. That was why it was not so strange for the military to re-take power in 1966, just 6 years from independence.

Whatever be the case, there's no point harping on the past. Colonialism is over and its never coming back. The whites of these days are not even as tough and disciplined as their forefathers and cannot run an empire, what with their decadency and demographic crisis. They are mainly living from the excellent foundations and industrial society built by their forefathers. The chinese and other Asians are taking over. The African is free and a master of his destiny. Lets tàke our future in our own hands.

Good points. But I don't agree they were "better rulers" at all. How can you be a better ruler because you provide everything perfectly for 0.1% of the population, leaving 99.9% in penury and deprivation? You are a better ruler if you provide inefficiently for even 20% of the population.

GuntersChain:
point of correction, the colonial master never left they only install there stooge into power since 1960 till date they decide on who they want at the helm of affair.

Good point. And we have not investigated this possibility fully as is our responsibility as Nigerians, i.e. What degree of influence is still held over our leadership by those foreigners?

Warship:
Go and study more about Singapore success.


They were also colonized by the British

The British invested in developing Singapore. They did the opposite in Nigeria. Additionally, the 4 or 5 Asian tiger nations were given by the west, unprecedented technology transfer, capital and western market access after WW2, which turned them into economic powerhouses. The west did this after WW2 to create capitalist strongholds in the Asia-Pacific as a way of checkmating the spread of Soviet communism in the region. The Soviets had just defeated the nazis and were looking to expand their global reach to Asia and beyond. That was when the west decided to create the so called Asian tiger economies we know today.

oladeebo:
[b]@op,
The 63years white ruling is far, far better than the native politicians 53 years ruling!
In 63 years white handed over a giant great black nation to our 5% literates

Can you name me one power plant they built in this giant great black nation? The school you attended...Who built it?

Warship:
With massive unemployment and infrastructural decay

Those are things that can be turned around, and in many cases are. Today we have places like Abakiliki and Awka with flyovers, shopping malls etc. Uyo, Asaba etc all getting built up with good infrastructure. What were those places like under colonial rule? They were lucky to have even cleared footpaths.

Honestly, the audacity of this woman to steal this kind of amount really baffles me. No fear of God at all in her. I wonder how she was raised.

clarocuzioo:
That's a good one by the EFCC, corruption should be fought to a standstill, but am also wondering when Burutai's house in Dubai will be ceased, when tinibu, fashola, amechi, babachir lawal etc will also be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted, Just wondering

Bros, those guys are learners compared to this woman. Dem thief reach billion dollar?

igbodefender:
The colonialists would have developed us if they wanted but they saw us as subhuman. So they used our money to develop London.

It was only when our heroes past like Herbert Macaulay, Zik, the Zikist Movement and other agitators for independence started agitating that the colonialists said, 'Wait o. So these people are human beings!? And they handed over power. Soon Zik built UNN and things started happening.

Finally, somebody with sense. I was starting to think that your type were extinct in our country.

EmeeNaka:
You're saying Nonsense. The question should have been, what level of Education was the area called Nigeria before the British came and how they were by the time British left? British colonial masters brought Civil education to Nigeria and not just Civil education but Quality education not this fake education today.

How many people benefited from the so called white quality education? Were your grandparents educated? Mine weren't, and I'm sure I speak for 95% of folks here. How many engineering or technical schools did they establish? Zero? Fact is only a very tiny handful of people - just enough to keep the colonial administration running - were educated. And that was to secondary level since they built no universities. You call THAT better than the current situation? You are clearly suffering from deepest colonial mentality.

Warship:
50years after independence, Nigeria is still a failed state

A failed state that is Africa's largest economy, manufactures vehicles, computers, and mobile phones, that has the world's third largest film industry, nearly 200 universities, growing infrastructure, including a $25 billion ultra modern high speed national rail network under construction? And projected by experts to be by 2050 the 3rd most populous nation on earth after China and India, and among the top 10 economies on earth ? Failed? I don't think so. Go and learn the meaning of 'developing country', because you clearly skipped classes on that one.

juman:
One nigeria failed us.

Obviously one nigeria make no sense, because those "leaders" deliberately failed to make use of the vast material and human resources available as a very big country.

The way forward is let the country be divided.

50 years is a ridiculously short time to expect Nigeria to be an advanced country.

EmeeNaka:
British colonial masters are better leaders than Nigeria animalistic politicians.
Op, stop whining.

Considering their record of 5% literacy rate after 63 years in power, chances are that had they still been in power today, YOU would be an illiterate village peasant with hoe and matchet in hand, and not that smartphone you learnt how to type on courtesy of the education that black Nigerian governments gave you. The same education the whites denied your grandparents, which is why they were stark illiterates stuck in the village.

By now, everyone with even a basic questioning mind should know there are serious questions surrounding the official story of 9/11.

pelumi111:
Hmmmm you will find out soon enough that's if you don't know it yet

Pardon?

The British ruled Nigeria from 1897 to 1960.

Many folks on this site worship white people. So this question is for them.

If whites are these superhuman angels, why was Nigeria an underdeveloped bush at independence, without a single major power plant, expressway, university, stadium, hospital, or industry in existence? Why was illiteracy rate over 90%? (Compared to just 25% today, courtesy of African rule).

Why was there malnutrition, with children running around nake.d, and adults barefoot?


How come you inherited nothing from your grandparents?

Or great-grandparents?

They should have been bankers, lawyers, doctors, industrialists. Instead, they were village illiterates, despite the fact that the whites exported our resources - cocoa, groundnuts, tin, rubber, palm oil, timber, iron ore, coal, in large quantities yearly between 1897 and 1960. These commodities were the 'crude oil' of their day, drawing huge profits.

By all measurements, Nigeria should have been a reasonably developed nation at independence. Not an undeveloped bush with near zero infrastructure. Not even a power grid. Not even a single full fledged university.

By contrast, Goodluck Jonathan built 12 universities in just 5 years, and we still insult him!! (while loving the whites, who built....zero).

We have power cuts today? What about NO POWER AT ALL as was the case during colonialism, for over 95% of the population? Since no serious power plants were constructed?

AGAIN, IF THE WHITES ARE AS FANTASTIC AS YOU PEOPLE CLAIM, WHY DID WE NEED TO START FROM SCRATCH BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SCHOOLS AFTER THEY LEFT?

HADN'T THE SUPER WHITE ANGELS RULED FOR 63 YEARS NON-STOP? MAKING MONEY OFF OUR RESOURCES?

SO WHY DID THEY NOT DEVELOP NIGERIA?

WHAT DID THEY DO WITH ALL THE MONEY?

Fact is corruption REDUCED DRASTICALLY after independence.

I repeat:

Corruption REDUCED DRASTICALLY after independence.

That is why we have the country we have today, with some reasonable infrastructure here and there.

Prior to independence, corruption was STRATOSPHERIC.

90% or more of our export earnings went straight to London. When Nigerians took over, that fell to maybe 30%, which was why we were able to start building things like roads, bridges, flyovers, hospitals, universities, power plants, and all the other things we enjoy today.

SO WE MAY NOT BE PERFECT, BUT WE ARE MUCH BETTER OFF UNDER BLACK RULE THAN WE EVER WERE UNDER WHITE RULE.

And for those suggesting that whites should return and rule us, may thunder fire your collective nyashes. Maybe the illiteracy of your forbears was not enough for you. You want your children to revert to that level.

THANKS BUT NO THANKS!!!

Sagay212:
Bro Europeans have left Africa and back in their countries. Is the white man stopping us from having steady power supply? Are they stopping us from constructing good roads and doing simple things as filling up pot holes? Are they stopping us from.using our brain to stay and spend money in our country instead of always travelling to their country to.buy houses and to shop for clothes? A lot of Nigerians wear very expensive designer clothes and any of them buy these clothes abroad. Even when you bring these luxury stores to open in Nigeria, majority of our senseless and low self esteemed people will still prefer to travel to dubai, UK or US to.buy just to show class and show off. We should stop putting blames on white people. They have really tried for us. The white man is not our president, governors, commissioners, LG chairmen who are stealing our money. No white man is under developing nigeria. Many of us are just greedy and stupi.d black monkeys.

First of all, you clearly have a racial inferiority complex to call yourself and your family ''black monkeys''. That is something that only a therapist can cure you of. But to say the whites have ''really tried for us'' is to misrepresent history. And I will not let you do that.

The whites came to Africa to LOOT the continent. That was why you inherited nothing from your grandparents. Or great-grandparents. They were village illiterates, despite the fact that the whites exported our resources - cocoa, groundnuts, tin, rubber, palm oil, iron ore, coal, in large quantities yearly between 1897 and 1960. By all measurements, Nigeria should have been a reasonably developed nation at independence. Not an undeveloped bush with near zero infrastructure. Not even a power grid.

You can complain about the inefficiency of our post colonial govts, and how some of the roads have pot holes etc, but how many roads at all were built by the whites? Name one expressway they built.

We have power cuts today? What about NO POWER AT ALL as was the case during colonialism, for over 95% of the population?

IN FACT, IF THE WHITES WERE AS FANTASTIC AS YOU CLAIM, WHY DID WE EVEN NEED TO START FROM SCRATCH BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SCHOOLS AFTER THEY LEFT? HADN'T THE SUPER WHITE ANGELS RULED FOR 63 YEARS NON STOP? MAKING MONEY OFF OUR RESOURCES?

WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT? WHY DID THEY NOT DEVELOP THE COUNTRY?

WHY WAS NIGERIA NOT AN EL DORADO AT INDEPENDENCE?

Fact is corruption REDUCED DRASTICALLY after independence. That is why we have the country we have today, with some reasonable infrastructure here and there. Prior to independence 90% or more of our export earnings were sent straight to London. When Nigerians took over, that fell to maybe 30%, which was why we were able to start building things like roads, bridges, flyovers, hospitals, universities, power plants, and all the other things we have today.

SO WE MAY NOT BE PERFECT, BUT WE ARE MUCH BETTER OFF UNDER BLACK RULE THAN WE EVER WERE UNDER WHITE RULE.

THANKS.

Darksider131:
The biggest mistake ever did in this country is having our indepedence early.
Look at south africa, if they had their independence in 1960 or earlier than that their country would be a sh*t hole
they got lucky white people stay long enough to develop it for them

Mandela should be thanking this white people cause if without them South Africa would be worst than Nigeria..

Nigeria wasn't that lucky, think of it if we had our independence in 1990 or 2000 trust me Nigeria will still be the giant of Africa
Good road,good electricity,cheap internet connection,good houses
Here will be a dream for other countries

Africans are not meant to lead by themselves

You are totally deluded. In fact your thinking is TOTALLY UPSIDE DOWN.

Just look at you. You are literate, well fed, and exposed. You even know how to type!!

Did your grandparents or great grandparents have all that?

Were they not illiterate peasants?

OF COURSE THEY WERE.

How do I now?

Because they grew up under colonial rule, when illiteracy was at 95%. At independence. After 63 years of uninterrupted white rule.

Today that figure is down to 25% after just 50 years of black rule, following massive investment in public education by the Nigerian government.

In other words, had the British still been in charge, YOU would have most likely been an illiterate, barefoot palm wine tapper, or a hunter, or a farmer, in the village. At most a tailor, or shoe shiner.

Many of you ignorant, white worshipping slaves don't realise that the whites came here to loot, and nothing else.

COLONIALISM WAS ABOUT LOOTING OUR RESOURCES. THAT IS WHY THE WEST ARE RICH TODAY AND WE ARE JUST STARTING OFF.

Ask yourself, What happened to all out export proceeds from cocoa, palm oil, groundnuts, tin, rubber, iron ore, coal, etc between 1897 and 1960?

These commodities commanded premium prices on the international market.

Why were we an underdeveloped bush at independence without a single full fledged university, after 63 years of white rule? With no roads, and near zero infrastructure.

Name me one power plant the whites built.

Do you know that they used to import industrial generators to power their GRAs, then occupied by whites, leaving the rest of Nigeria in darkness?

Name one major hospital they built.

Or even one stadium.

FACT IS THEY DID NOTHING IN 63 YEARS IN POWER.

COUNT YOURSELF LUCKY that you were born after independence, and have the lifestyle your forbears under colonialism could not even dream about.

NONSENSE.

giftft:
Peter Okoye, one of the PSquare brothers has criticised the Federal Government’s plan to stop the shooting of music videos, movies outside the country.

Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed on Saturday said the government is working towards putting an end to the trend.

While responding, Peter said Nigerian artistes have been the ones covering the “shame” politicians
“bring upon the country”.“Another nationality loading,” he added.


Source: BiafraSay Forum
http://biafrasay.com/p/327874/i-am-ashamed-to-be-called-a-nigerian-peter-okoye-says-hints

ANOTHER NATIONALITY LOADING ABI? USELESS FOOL.

WITHOUT NIGERIA YOU'D BE NOTHING.

THE ABROAD YOU GO NOW, COULD YOU AFFORD IT BEFORE NIGERIANS MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE?

IF OTHER SINGERS ARE COMING UP AND ALL THEY SEE IS YOU AND OTHERS GOING OVERSEAS TO SHOOT VIDEOS AND MIX WITH LIGHT SKINNED WOMEN WHOM YOU LOVE SO MUCH, WHAT SORT OF ENCOURAGEMENT/MESSAGE DOES THAT GIVE THEM?

EWU. ABROAD LOVER.

Feds want to seize Nigerian playboy’s yacht, penthouse

New York Post

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Looks like the party’s over for Kola Aluko.

Nigerian playboy Aluko — who has courted Naomi Campbell and celebrated a birthday with Leonardo DiCaprio — is targeted in a federal lawsuit aiming to seize his $80 million yacht and his $50.9 million One57 penthouse.

But the feds will have to get in line.

The 6,240-square-foot condo on the 79th floor of 157 W. 57th St. is in foreclosure. Aluko hasn’t paid the mortgage, and the bank that lent him $35.3 million to buy the pad is forcing a sale, the city’s biggest foreclosure ever.

The four-bedroom, four-bath condo also has liens on it of more than $20,000, and owes $61,000 in taxes to the city as of July 1.
The apartment is due to go to auction Wednesday.

Nigerian authorities in February tried to freeze Aluko’s assets, including the apartment and the yacht, as part of the money-laundering probe.

The 48-year-old energy tycoon, whose full name is Kolawole Akanni Aluko, is accused of financing his high-flying lifestyle with money generated from a $1.76 billion scheme to defraud the Nigerian government of oil sale profits.

Kola Aluko hanging with Supermodel Naomi Campbell
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The scam allegedly involved millions of dollars in bribes to former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, who oversaw the state-owned oil company.

The federal lawsuit — a civil forfeiture action filed in Houston — claims that Aluko and another Nigerian oilman named Olajide Omokore conspired with others to pay bribes to Alison-Madueke.

In return, the minister steered contracts from a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp to shell companies owned by Aluko and Omokore.

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Despite being unqualified and in some instances performing no services at all, the companies received more than $1.5 billion through the sale of crude oil, the lawsuit said.

The Justice Department’s suit said Aluko and Omokore laundered their illicit revenue by buying $144 million in assets, including the One57 condo and the yacht.

Alison-Madueke was charged with money laundering in Nigeria, the country’s financial crimes agency said in April. She has denied wrongdoing. Aluko also previously denied the accusations.

Aluko was last seen in public offshore of the ill-fated Fyre Festival in the Bahamas in April. Since then, he’s been on the lam, and may be hiding out on the 213-foot yacht.

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The boat, registered in the Cayman Islands, was last tracked in the Caribbean in early May. It’s now listed as “out of range,” by a worldwide ship locator.

The Luxembourg-based Banque Havilland, which issued the mortgage on the One57 condo, seeks to collect what it’s owed plus interest, court papers say. It is unclear how the feds and the bank might divvy up the auction proceeds.
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http://nypost.com/2017/07/16/feds-want-to-seize-nigerian-playboys-yacht-penthouse/

olayinks007:
When Nigeria is still a country, nw Nigeria is a dead country.

It is you who is dead. Nigeria is very much alive. Today, Nigerians are manufacturing cars, buses, SUVs, computers, and mobile phones. Nigerian-built satellites hover in outer space right now as we speak. Name one industry under the colonial era.

YelloweWest:
My dad was a foriegn officer. Diplomat for 35years. He served his Nigeria in different countries.

My father said there was a time when power shortages was not in existence.
I've spoken to many elders and the one thing they agree on is that Nigeria was much better back in the day than now.

No power shortages? So where did the power come from? All our power plants were built after independence. Mostly in the 1970s and 80s. The 'elders' you spoke to are nostalgic for the silence, idleness and peace wrought by mass poverty and rural illiteracy which characterised the colonial period.

Mcreloaded:
Can the wordings (OBS OF BRNIN) on the train be explained as it seems it has tayed the Oba of Benin is the greatest to even have his name on a train. Great ;Benin kingdom I salute.

Oh great. After attacking and burning down the great city of Benin in 1897, and carting away its treasures, the British wrote their king's name on their train, and you are so proud... Shouldn't you be demanding restitution and an apology instead?

YelloweWest:
My dad is 76. He says THE EXACT SAME THING! Wow. He grew up in lagos and was a foriegn servant. He said most Europeans did not want to leave Nigeria.
When he tells us these stories about how good the country was, we find it hard to believe

What in God's name happened?

How could the country be "good" when there was no national power grid in existence? Even if people wanted generators they couldn't afford them, and their homes were not wired. Your dad served the whites who had their own section well lit. No wonder he loves them. He ate the crumbs from their table.