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ejilife:
July 1, 2016
Press Statement:


ANOTHER BUNGLED ATTEMPT BY MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND HIS DSS TO CRIMINALIZE BIAFRANS AND BRAND IPOB A TERRORSIT ORGANIZATION



Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari and his Department of State Services (DSS) have once again failed woefully in their spurious attempt at criminalizing Biafrans and branding the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist organization.


In an incoherent and error-filled statement sent to the media, the DSS stated that “sequel to increasing threat posed to public peace by the activities of the Independent [sic] People of Biafra (IPOB), this Service arrested one Chidiebere Onwudiwe, a graduate of mechanical and chemical Engineering and known member of IPOB, on 22nd June, 2016.” The stark illiterate-filled DSS in their statement further noted that “Onwudiwe and his associates within and outside the country, were planning to carry out coordinated attacks against religious bodies/edifices, police check points and the Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos State, with Improvised Explosive devices (IEDS)” and that “The suspect was apprehended while making logistics supplies for their nefarious plan.”


First of all, let us just point out only two out of the several errors in this pack of lies from the DSS’ statement; (1) We are Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and NOT “Independent People of Biafra”. Even in the records of all the court cases concerning the illegal kidnapping and unconstitutional prosecution of our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to which the DSS have been part of, there was no place where the word “INDEPENDENT” was used and (2) At which University in Nigeria can someone graduate in both Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at the same time? Even in the more advanced countries it is very difficult to achieve such a feat not to talk of the Buhari’s run-down universities in Nigeria.


It is laughable that the DSS is accusing IPOB of posing increasing threat to public peace while they have not made a single official statement concerning the mayhem and havoc being exhibited everyday by Boko Haram and the so-called Fulani herdsmen. Up till today, the DSS has maintained stoic silence on the killings at Agatu and Nimbo.

Perhaps those killings do not pose threats to public peace because the people killed were “infidels” that deserve to die as they are not of the Hausa-Fulani Islamic blood. It is very interesting to know from the DSS that IPOB can now manufacture IEDS and Chidiebere was probably manufacturing them in his sleep when DSS hooligans broke into his house and kidnapped him at about 2am on June 22nd, 2016. We want to tell the DSS that we know their objectives and every discerning mind knows them too.


The DSS is trying as much as possible to tag IPOB a violent group. The questions we want to ask the DSS are: Do we cover our faces when we march on the streets around the world? We are registered at the UN, if we are a violent group won't the UN know? Kidnapping people in the middle of the night, denying them access to food and water, legal and medical help in the hope of getting IPOB members to testify against the leader of IPOB will not work.


The fact that this bumbling and idiotic DSS even contemplated insinuating that Computer Village, mostly owned by Biafrans of Igbo extraction, is a target for such an attack exposes the idiocy of those that run Buhari's Secret Police. If Buhari and his Northern Killer Squads like, let them kidnap, kill, torture and threaten as many Biafrans as they like but one thing they can never succeed in doing is to weaken our resolve to leave the Satanic Lugardian contraption called Nigeria.


We are prepared for imprisonment, torture and death at the hands of the dictatorial and extremist regime of Buhari but in the end Biafra shall come. There is nothing the Arewa-dominated DSS and Igbo traitors like Ikedife, Enwo-Igariwey, Joe-Judas Igbokwe, Monday Ubani, Peter Obi, Willie Obiano, Rochas Okorocha and Okezie Ikpeazu with a few other Lagos/Abuja based political jobbers can do about it.
Muhammadu Buhari and his DSS can continue to use Ikedife and the likes of Enwo-Igariwe within Ohanaeze as sources of information on how to arrest Biafrans and tag IPOB a violent group.


It is on record that no prominent Yoruba or Hausa-Fulani person has ever labelled IPOB violent but Ohaneze President (Enwo-Igariwey) and Dr. Dozie Ikedife in their slavish desire to please their Arewa masters have variously granted interviews where they explicitly implied that IPOB under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu is violent. They have been doing their master's bidding out of envy, greed and jealousy because the steadfastness of IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu has exposed the charade and sell-out that these men have become. Dr. Dozie Ikedife, working at the instructions of DSS, gave an interview to a Yoruba anti-Biafra newspaper where he shamefully called IPOB violent and a propagator of ethnic hatred.

This paved the way for DSS to come out yesterday to laughably label IPOB a terrorist group trying to bomb Biafran businesses in Ikeja-Lagos. The world must be placed on notice that should anything untoward happen in and around Ikeja area, the DSS should be held responsible.


Irrespective of the shenanigans of Buhari and his DSS and the subterfuge of the Igbo-slaves in the molds of Ikedife, Enwo-Igariwey and co, the nation of Biafra must be restored.
When we say the restoration of Biafra is irreversible, it is irreversible!!!

Signed
Barrister Emma Nmezu
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokespersons for IPOB

This rebuttal may be in order but pls note, Computer Village is not "mostly owned by biafrans of Igbo extraction"; it is only rented by many of them, just as other tribes have done.

Don't correct falsehood with falsehood.

Its not only wise, its required. We just don't follow standards in this country.

Your septic tank should also have a soakaway chamber; Channel it to the soak away. Its the section that takes liquid effluent from the septic tank.

Channelling directly to the water body can quickly pollute it (especially if a lot if people around same area do the same thing. Whereas the natural filtration process within the soil will be engaged if you channel to your soak away.

Some people however wrongly install a septic tank without the equally important soak away, necessitating such behaviour as you've suggested.

Bentheta:
@Rotate Your Tyres
Don't forget to check if your Tyre has ROTATION DIRECTION..
If it does have, then please don't waste your time doing this task else you will damage your tyres.

www.blackcircles.com/general/tyre-rotation

Very important.

Smh.

prettyslimme:
am inviting u to my wedding,13th of.aug.am yoruba and my boo is too.ull not be disappointed wt all uve heard.

Venue?

iaamxavier:
who Yoruba word epp na? I Dont use any buhh I survive in Lagos! infact I'm doing well! than the owners seff for fvck this words jaee' its for the mgbati mgbati people so let them use it

You've used one even in this your post. Surviving without it eh?

Okpueze1:
24. Sir Louis Ojukwu was the first West African black Millionaire.

25. Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu was the First military graduate in Nigeria. He was also the First African Undergraduate to own and drive a Rolls Royse as a student.

26. Major Gen. Ifeajuna was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal in high jump.

I think No 24 was deemed a myth by mayoroflagos and his crew. The thread went with the Nairaland hack.

siempere:
Just a wild thought....in that Cercei terrorist bombing wild fire scene...Margery martell actually saw the danger they were in....and even gave the high sparrow enuf reasons...and he obviously saw some sense in what she told him from his somewhat confused expression...he had een portrayed as a smart guy....how then did he end up so stupid and slow at that crucial time...thereby stopping everybody from trying to escape...PS...i know even if they ran d wild fire could've caught up with them but at least they would have tried nah....

I had a little problem with that scee too, why weren't people allowed to go out? Wasn't attendance of that session voluntary for a lot of people there? Unless it was cercei that owned the soldiers that prevented people from going out.

I mean, if you want to take a piss, will you stand there and do it?

Graviton2:
I wanted to argue about only humans being able to become white walkers but I remembered those zombie horses the Night King and his guys were riding! If one dragon turns into a white walker - Game over!

What will it be spitting out? Ice flame?

siempere:
1. He was lord commander of the nights watch which is not a small honor..Lord mormont had d same and he was a known man...He has Stark blood as d good lady Mormont later pointed out. He is a highly skilled swordfighter as Ramsey himself attested to it, from the words of both his friends and enemies, and he might not be such a good tactician his emotions failed him at d battle of the bastards and datz just it.

2.They all swore alliegance to house stark and still refused d call, she didnt honor makes them lesser men, before her till they redeem themselves, sense also cos her specific words to them about what d boltons did to them still they didnt rise up above them is enough to make dem meek.

3.Jon said it all and i quote " Freefolk, the Northerners and the knights of the vale fought bravely, fought together and we won...my father used to say we find our true friends at the battle field" what more do u want songs will be sung of that battle in years to come everybody knows they swung the winning sword.....the rest of the northerners dont need that knowledge rubbed on their faces.....

Good points. But you also have to admit that was the direction of the writters. Margery probably had a better plan than Jon but we'll never know...

The writer hinged Jon's win of the bastard battle on one thing, luck.

Nihilist:
Most definitely.

It makes absolutely no sense at all, that the fighting men of Bear island, and their captain should entrust their lives into the hands of a 10 year old who doesn't even know what battle is....regardless of any obligations to honour, creed etc.

Like I keep pointing out to people, her decision to back Jon snow was a disaster..and I don't believe it's a coincidence that it was a child who sent her men to their death while the older mature Lords wisely abstained.

The older Lords were all very specific about their motives: which was to preserve the lives of their men.

Whereas this child put some bullshit ideology over the lives of 62 men who had no say in the matter.

I think thar people are so happy to have Jon Snow in the driving seat for S7 that they failed to ask several questions.

1. What leverage does Jon Snow have? He's still a bastard(his true parentage has not been revealed to the North), he's known to be tactically inept in military battles, and more importantly....HE HAS PRACTICALLY NO MEN LEFT.

2. How is it that when that gobby child was going on and on about the king in the north, blah blah, nobody pointed out the points raised in Q1 to her?

3. More pertinently, how did no one point out that it was the Knights of the Vale who won the battle against the boltons, and thus them who should be at the heart of trophies new Nothern coalition ?

That scene made zero sense to me. I cannot pledge my fighting men to a general who has no rank, no men, and no tactical acumen...and this was why I expected at least one lord to rise up and educate that loudmouthed girl and her no-nothing oga.

We are used to GOT being so realistic in its art as in is attention to details that we sometimes forget its fiction written by a brilliant mind. And for which now has to be written by less brilliant minds. The artistry covers up for these detects re though.

For you guys questioning nihilist's prognosis; can any of you picture lady Mormon and battle of widlfire? Will she be with the imp motivating people ( and ultimately fighting), or with her mother, couched up under her, right before tywin opened the palace doors?

Would she even be allowed to go negotiations ala battle of bastereds ( she wasn't in the real fight).

What role would she have played had she been a queen in westeros during the battle of wildfire?

Also, consider the situation when tywin held a meeting of the small council in his office instead of the council chamber and didn't invite joffery the king; in spite of joffery's protestations and weyrey; he was still made to understand- in more eaye than one that he's also just the grandson, and probably a foolish one at that.

If Lady Mormont was in this situation, what would have happened differently?

Cc.blackjack21, gbola5

Gbola5:
Imagine this; Have you ever wondered why a piece of paper, has so much value, why people crave for it, when confidence in money falls, it loses its value. Justice, mercy, duty...power, people have got to believe them or what's the point. Its a trick, a shadow on the wall.

Great! But you see, in real life (as GOT tries to depict) power changes hands and the people who weild it change due to factors. Allegiance, justice, mercy, duty all come with power (pls note that power includes influence when discussed holistically).

And about you saying she'd be allowed to rule if she knows her stuff. Seriously? In kings landing? Who knows if she knows her stuff? She would have supporters but she'd def have as many questioning her every move. Hell, some don't even care if she knows her stuff, they just want to elevate themselves( high septon) or retain the throne(tywin) or simply selfishly accrue more power( baelish).

blackjack21:
Mi Disagreedo!
Power and maturity are two different things and most be left partified. that is why Vary said "the smallest man can cast the biggest shadow". small man here means unfits and less likely people.

The whole of the yarn is figurative.

Nihilist is arguing that lad marmont is immature to wield the power she has.
In your definition, what is maturity and how restricted is it to age?

I agree with you that maturity isn't restricted to age, even though you have to agree that this holds true only from some agreed age forward. What is that age? 10? 15? Open to debate.

But beyond this, wielding power and allegiance is depend end on so many other factors apart from age and maturity, and even more so when such age is on the low side ( see joffery and tommen); now like I said, its dependent on many factors hence an old man like Ned and the baratheons can fall while trying to weild same power. This I think is the essence of varys words- that you cannot actually determines who and what wields power at a particular point, its the end that justifies and gives legitimacy to the means.

Like cersei said after threatening someone ( can't remember who now) "power is power". Its regardless of who wields it or how.

Even dany without her dragons won't have lasted this long, and you bet she's more mature than the little lady.

blackjack21:
That's my favorite conversation in the whole series.
But Nihilist isn't discussion about power, she's arguing if the girl is mature.

Exactly. And in fact his quote only strengthens nihilist's argument. The girl may not hold the real power in westeros according varys. She might even become a victim of power, like tommen under the high sparrow and later his mom.

Gbola5:
If that was the same Wildfire Aerys planned on using, it should have blown up King's Landing whole.

I may be wrong but I don't think the sept of baelor is the only location for the wildfires. Besides some were used by tyrrion in the wildfire war.

Nihilist:
This exactly the point.

She made a decision that would turn out to be a poor one. She put her men under the leadership of an emotional and tactically indisciplined leader in Jon Snow.

If it wasn't for the Knights of the Vale, Jon wouldnt be alive today, and all the men would be dead! It's not leadership qualities that her poor men are following, they are obliged to maintain that master/servant relationship...and I just dont understand why.

She's not the only one too. Tommen, Joffrey, and that boy from the Vale are all Children who don't know what the time is. Yet you had people blindly and unquestionably following the orders of these kids who don't even know what life is about.

Joffery had tywin, tyrion and the small council to at least reduce the effects of his malady. There were occasions when tywin or tyrrion would argue (or slap) decision with him.

I agree with you on this little lady to an extent. Truth is, if she was ruling in westeros with all the varys and baelishes and all other power mongers; they probably would have given her a bib and toy- or even worse...

Na lie.

Its good they ate finding the sources. Getting the couriers isn't enough.

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LRNZH:
Eze, Boko Haram Victim....

Guys, think well before you post.
You may destroy Eze's chance with an unguarded comment.

OK.

The scene after rickon's death, when snow looked up pulling out his sword with the horses coming...epic. The sound track even made it better. It was like someone staring at his death, wondering if he should fight towards it or just give up to it.

freeze001:
This is what clear headed and sane Nigerians have been saying but mad zombies call them wailers. There should be systematic investigation of the entire PDP democratic reign since all we hear is 16 years of rot by the PDP and how Mr President is not expected to fix it all in one year.

Before anyone proposes a cure u need to understand the malady and trace its roots. Since they make it seem like Nigeria was El-dorado until 1999, it's only logical that u start from there to check things out while making sure other sectors are up and effectively running for development n benefit of the masses.

We no go die for only corruption fight because it's of no use if it does not manifest in improved standard of life for the common man.

But if corruption fight won't lead to improved standard of life why are you advocating for it to be spread to obasanjo era; especially when we are already neck deep in corruption cases from only Jonathan's government?

shaibu123:
Anambra state needs jobs,jobs,jobs and jobs. The unemployment rate is too high.Governor Obiano should be working to create jobs period.we can build Disneyland in anambra state to attract visitors and create jobs. Open up abandon factories like pal brewery in Oko Orumba North (pal beer),Bekkes biscuits etc.

Is it not people that will take the beer and biscuits? Same people who are unemployed? Won't the companies have competitors with lower prices?

Yes open up the dead companies but use a workable, sustainable process. Attract the people to come home first so there can be higher purchasing power due to increased population; then start working on other things.

Your governor is on the right track if the costs (and working environment) are attractive enough.

This guy is just super cool. And he's got the ego of a typical Nigerian. I had noticed him talked on a lot of space related programs and was usually fascinated by his enthusiasm and simple ways he describes complex stuffs. His name looked familiar so I looked it up. Found this interview amongst other write-ups about him ( I read them all, nerd stuff) very inspiring.
He talked about his upbringing and how it affected him growing up, how he took charge and even changed his name in the process of becoming someone who ownes several patent that spans computing to astrophysics. And yes, he changed his name to Oluseyi and he even knows the meaning. Must have had some Nigerian influencers around him...

Its quite long (sorry to the 'summary' generation).This is even abridged version.
So here goes:

Astrophysicist, educator, and humanitarian Hakeem Oluseyi trounced race and class to become an important contributor to computer technology and space research. Back on Earth, he’s doing all he can to give young and underfunded scientists a chance to reach for the stars.

Yours is an extraordinary story. You grew up impoverished — moving frequently from city to city across the South — and then became a successful astrophysicist and science educator and advocate. Are you tired of telling the story of your background?

Well, it is an important part of what I’m doing now. I mean, don’t get me wrong. Right now I have a research group of over 20 students and very few of them are from similar a background to myself — but I have a special place in my heart for people like me.

Childhood was just rough, difficult. I felt like I was running the gauntlet. I had a mother who worked all the time, always gone. And I just felt like there was always a predator at my heels. She’d leave two dollars for me to go buy myself dinner, and I’d walk to the corner store and buy a can of pork and beans.

My response to this was: I wanted to be bad. I wanted to outgangster the next gangster. KRS-One, the rapper, Boogie Down Productions? He has a song I love that goes, “Where I’m from, if you’re soft you’re lost, cuz to stay on course means to roll with force.” And that’s how I was. You’ve got to intimidate this next dude before he intimidates you. Otherwise you’re going to be the victim. So by the time I was a teenager I was carrying a gun, I was involved in all these crazy things. I carried protection because I lived in a violent world. But the other side of this story is that I was also really interested in physics — it’s what I did for fun. In my own communities, I was seen as some kind of weirdo nerd kind of guy. A cool nerd. A gangsta nerd.

As I became a young man, my mother saw the handwriting on the wall, and one of the things she did was she moved me out of the inner city. Because we’d lived in New Orleans, Houston, inner city areas. She finally moved me to rural Mississippi where my dad was from.

And there, at Tougaloo College, you had a breakthrough.

Yes.These three grad students from MIT and Harvard came to Tougaloo, where I was one of two physics students in 1986. They were all black physics students from the Cambridge area – and each of them thought they were the only one! They came to realize that kids from certain communities just have no idea that physics as a career exists. They decided they’d start the National Council of Black Physics Students, to help the most down-and-out kids in the country. So where did they go? Mississippi. They showed up on our campus.

Because of them, I ended up meeting recruiters from Stanford University that ended up accepting me to Stanford for grad school. In all of Stanford’s history, at that time, there were only two black professors in all of the six schools of natural sciences and mathematics. One was my PhD advisor, Art Walker, who was also the PhD advisor of Sally Ride. Just being in his presence showed me a different model of how I could be.

But when I first got there, I was still doing the same things. Right next door was East Palo Alto, which in that particular year was the murder capital of the country for per capita murders. I was involved in drugs and these sorts of things. And I was hanging out in the hood. It was all bad. I had this one particularly horrific night. I told Art what I had been up to, and Art looks at me and he goes, “Well, you’re not going to do these things anymore, are you?”

Why would you do that? You were at Stanford.

When I got to Stanford I quickly realized that class was more important than race in this particular environment. And I pretty much felt rejected and dejected. I did face some initial hostility. Not only that, I was faced with a type of failure that I had never seen before academically. My first reaction was: “Let me go home. Let me go to where it’s familiar to me.” The first thing you’re going to do is run to the ghetto. If you’re from the hood and you end up in a Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, you don’t want to be around those people.

Those are the “bad” guys, where you’re from. And they treat you like you’re the bad guy in their world. I remember, after my first week — I was married at the time — I came home and said to my wife: “You know, I really cannot see myself being around these people every day, but I can see myself being out on the corner every day. That’s a big problem.” How can I become what it is I want to become, when on the one hand the image that I have of myself is inappropriate, and on the other hand, the way that society is made up is something that scares me? Can I fit in? And it’s tough. I kind of struggle with it even to this day, but not to that extent, of course. And it never happens among international groups of people.

But in the end, Art’s support changed it for me. It was like two different lives. I ended up changing my name from James Edward Plummer to reflect how my life had changed so drastically. I wanted my middle name to reflect how I am. So my middle name is Muata and it means “He seeks the truth.” I wanted my first name to reflect what I want to become. My first name Hakeem means “wisdom.” And my last name is from the West African Yoruba people, and it means “God has done this.”

When did you finally realize you do, in fact, fit into your role in life?

I was in graduate school — the year was 1995 or 1996 — and a colleague and I had to go to NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, to calibrate the data that we had taken in a rocket flight. I’m such a scientist groupie nerd. When you get into a field and you’re becoming an expert, you’ve got to be current and you’ve got to read all the papers. You quickly begin to recognize who the big players are. My attitude in those days was: “OK, you’re a big player, Ron Moore, I’m going to get every paper Ron Moore ever wrote and I’m going to read them.” And that’s what I went about doing. So I got to NASA and whose names are on all the doors? All these people that I idolized. And I’m just like, “Wow, wow, wow!”

And so we’re hanging out in the hallway, and these three scientists walk up. And the local graduate student introduces us. We all start talking physics. And it just amazed me that, here I was, having a conversation at an equal level with these guys about physics, about the stuff we were doing. And I remember the other graduate students really couldn’t even participate because they hadn’t been putting in the work that I had. They’d always treated me like I was this intellectual welfare case, really being mean to me about it.

After the scientists left, they looked at me and said, “You’ve been reading, huh?” And it was at that moment that I realized, “Whoa, could it be true?” Soon I started publishing my research papers, and I realized I was able to solve problems that people all over the world had failed to solve. At this point I really opened up. After graduating from Stanford, I moved on to a position at a large company in Silicon Valley, and I realized that all of this was for me. I could be a physicist! I could do these things. And so I wanted to experience more. In my first year in Silicon Valley, I ended up getting eight patents.

What did you invent?

I worked on computer chip manufacture and creating a new generation of transistors. First, we had to come up with processes to construct transistors with new materials. he main problem was developing an “overetch” process that worked with the new materials. Imagine you have a table and on that table you have a sheet of granite and on that granite you have a sheet of butter. And now I want to carve out a shape in that butter without damaging the layer of granite underneath. That was the old process of etching polysilicon on top of silicon dioxide. It’s really easy to remove the butter from the granite. When we move to the low-resistivity metal, the metal was tungsten, one of the hardest substances that exists. And so imagine trying to remove a layer of granite on top of a layer of Jell-O without damaging the Jell-O. This process is known as the over-etch. In order for the process to be commercially viable, you have to remove the granite at a rate 100 times faster than you remove the Jello — whatever process you use. Everybody in the world was stuck at 30 to one. I started working on the problem and in a month’s time I had achieved infinity to one. That resulted in three or four patents.

And then another problem is that when silicon chips were being made, every time there’s a step in the processing where test wafers are tested at the end of every step, and are thrown away — a huge waste of money and resources. Same with testing chips. So the question was, How can we ensure that everything was done right without using test wafers and chips? My company had hired a man named Moshe Sarfaty who had the idea that if you monitor the light emitted from the plasmas that are used in many of the steps for making computer chips, you can probably tell what’s going on in the chip. They got nowhere after a couple of years of working with this idea, but then I came in with my background in spectroscopy. Very quickly, I solved all their problems. And that resulted in four or five more patents.

Based on these patents and the work I did in industry, chances are my technology is in your computer chips, wherever you are!

So why aren’t you a millionaire?

Well, at the time I had over a half-million dollars in stock options that were growing. And then the Silicon Valley crash happened in 2001. By that time, I had a bad taste in my mouth for industry. First of all it was all male, and then when the dotcom bubble burst, the way people turned on each other was very distasteful to me. And while I wanted to talk about the universe, everybody wanted to follow stocks all day and talk about silicon wafers.

So I felt very unfulfilled, and I missed the interaction with students. I walked away and took an $80,000-a-year pay cut to come back to academics. And I joined the Supernova Cosmology Project — the group that discovered dark energy. It was the very first research in physics that I did when I was between undergraduate and graduate school, and I worked in Saul Perlmutter’s group. I decided, “Okay, let me go back and work with these guys.” I wanted to do cosmology. So I went and actually worked on technology for a new satellite and new observatories. And now that technology is being deployed. I was not the inventor of the technology — I just helped to develop it at a critical time early on. Again, I made a good name for myself research-wise.

Is there anything else you want to do at all besides astrophysics?

I would very much like to do work in the media. I love to tell stories, entertain, educate and inspire. I definitely want to do that. I’d love to write books.

Will we someday see you on television as a presenter about astrophysics?

It doesn’t have to be astrophysics. It could be science of any sort. I know a lot of science stories no one else knows, for the most part. For example, I gave a talk at this Unitarian Universalist church on Sunday, on humanity’s evolving understanding of the universe. But the way I tell it is very different from “You had the Greeks — fast-forward 1,400 years and you get Copernicus.” I know I’m the kind of science storyteller that no one ever sees.

Life chose me for what wonderful things I’m doing. I never set out to be Mister Inspiring Speaker or Mister Science Communicator. But often, after giving talks and doing these sorts of things, people come up and say, “Oh, man. You’re so inspiring.” Or “I thought I was stupid until I met you.” In other words, I help people see you can be who you are, and just through love and hard work you can make it in the field. It doesn’t matter where you’ve come from. Impacting people’s lives in that way is something that gives me a lot of fulfillment. There really isn’t anyone like me who’s delivering this message.

http://blog.ted.com/rise-of-a-gangsta-nerd-fellows-friday-with-hakeem-oluseyi/

vivaciousvivi:
I attended a 1 month lecture few years ago in Surulere and it was when I heard that the prep guide would be changed (I paid over N20k for Rita's Exam prep) that I decided to write the exam. I passed at first attempt. Wrote the compuer-based exam along Oba Akran in Ikeja. This was in 2013. Kindly contact Mr Sam Ubieya on 09 026 8546 23. He was one of my lecturers, my PMP counsellor and he does all the payments etc for me. At the moment, I am renewing my membership (it expires every 3yrs) and he is still doing it for me. Its not 419. He is a christian. Call to even find out answers to your questions.
Good luck friend.

Did mine in 2010, passed first attempt too. Couldnt even afford to do it twice at naija's exchange rate then . Did CBT and also used Rita Mulchahi. Didn't use any other book. I think the oba akran test center is the only one in Lagos.

Do you have any idea how much it is now? My wife needs to do it.