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Most Nigerian bloggers are dumb. Hushpuppi never posted any receipt, it was the instagram handle owner that posted Mompha's receipt.

Even if you don't have data to check out the information why not use your head and ask yourself is hushpuppi stupid enough like you to post someone else's reciept.

noisy45:
Mark Zuckerberg is mad

And wealthy.

Better become mad.

Why would instagram do that though?

There’s a certain allure that accompanies being one of the best graduating students in any educational institution for that matter, not to mention one as prestigious as the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Boston, U.S.A.

Finishing at the top end of your class from such an institution, to a reasonable extent, would imply that you get to wear the “Hot Prospect” label and enjoy the rare privilege of having your pick of six-figure job offers from top firms who would be tripping over themselves to have you put pen to paper. And that’s just for starters.

Well, that was pretty much the case for Nigerian techie, Obinna Ukwuani, who may have left everyone in shock when he opted to toe an entirely different line.

By turning his back on the lure of a fat paycheck that could well build a comfortable life to pursue a deep-seated passion that could have just as easily proved a fiasco in the end, he exhibited quite the courage.

Obinna Ukwuani is on a path to building Africa’s first STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) campus in Nigeria – a project that was borne out of the need to level the playing field and bridge the learning gap between young African students and their counterparts in the developed world.

The seed for the project was sowed some years ago, when Obinna was only a boy. Having lived most of his life in Washington D.C. where his parents had relocated the family to when he could barely form words, his folks thought it important that he paid a visit to his home country, Nigeria, to get a feel of his roots.

That meant Obinna returned to Nigeria where he completed both 8th and 9th Grades. The experience was an eye-opener for him in many ways, but none more so than the realisation of the problems bedevilling the school system in his homeland.

“I met up with my peers, the friends and classmates I’d met during my time there and it was shocking to see how far behind me they were. It was a very real experience for me,” says Obinna.

Most kids would simply revel in the knowledge that they had the edge over their school mates, but Obinna knew better. It was clear to him studying in the United States had given him an advantage and just about anyone could be just as good if they had the opportunities he’s had.

Rather than taking pleasure in the satisfaction that besting everyone else should normally bring, he felt sick to his stomach. To him, it was an “injustice.”

He returned to the United States with a hole in his heart; one he knew would not be filled until someone did something about the disparity. At the time, it didn’t occur to him that that “someone’ might as well be himself.

Back in the States, Obinna Ukwuani blitzed his way through high school, and his stellar academic was to earn him a place at MIT back in 2008.

All that time, he worried about students like him back home who would be hampered from going anywhere near their full potential due to the flaws in the system, and it wasn’t until freshman year that he realized he could just as well be the one to effect change.


And that realisation eventually morphed into organized action. In October 2011, he launched Exposure Robotics Academy – one of Nigeria’s first high-profile STEM education programmes – in Lagos.

It was designed as a five-week residential program aimed at teaching creative problem solving, engineering principles, and programming to high school students during the summer.

Within three years, the academy coached up to 113 students from 17 states across Nigeria and Ghana on how to code and build robots, some of whom have since gained scholarships into American universities and are just as determined to further the teaching of STEM back home.

With Obinna overseeing the programme, and Shell Oil as its sponsor, a number of MIT students were also jetted off to Nigeria where they taught and mentored high school students.

Interestingly, the programme was also recognised at the Roxbury International Film Festival. Naija Beta; a documentary based on the program, took home the award for “Best Documentary Film.”

But the Nigerian techie seems to be far from done and is spoiling for more. After putting in some relentless work towards putting together a business plan and trying to sell it to potential investors for several months, it does look like he’s making some headway.

In January 2018, he partnered with the Bank of Kigali to launch Makers Robotics Academy Rwanda; the first-ever robotics Bootcamp in the country. The programme hosted 40 Rwandan high school students on an intensive three-week course facilitated by MIT students.


The Nigerian tech entrepreneur has also gone on to set up NESA by Makers; a brick-and-mortar new economy skills accelerator based in Lagos, Nigeria. It rolled out its first course; full-stack web development, in June 2017.



NESA by Makers aims to provide a learning environment that inspires trainers, as well as a rigorous curriculum that would transform students from novice coders to employable junior web developers within three months.

Through such initiatives, the Nigerian entrepreneur hopes to build capacity in young Africans which would bring about the unlocking of potential and the discovery of genius innovations that would put the continent on the technology map.

Obinna is determined to change the perception of Africa as a mere consumer of technology by helping to equip young creators with the tools with which they can develop novel technological solutions to some of society’s most-pressing problems.

https://weetracker.com/2019/03/03/nigerian-entrepreneur-obinna-ukwuani/?fbclid=IwAR1Vm-CCPSPETvlzWXRD2PfrBENU3ul4O-uEi9Vq7qIDhOKAIRAR_NKpaUM

delman88:
Are you aware the winner is not determined by number of votes... its by number of states won

The candidate with the most votes is declared the winner in the first round, as long as he gains at least 25% of the votes in two-thirds of Nigeria's 36 states.

I hope you have good comprehension skills though.

Goke7:
Politics is give and take bruv, if some people have been fair to you, it's only normal you reciprocate in good returns, did the yorubas complain of marginalisation under PMB like they did under GEJ. Did the igbos not not make GEJ their hero fro giving them all the 'juicy appointments' to use their own vocabulary

We try to be too leaglistic at times. Politics is a game and fair is fair.

Bro, let's be honest Buhari only loved his Northern brothers and this is reflected in his appointments. The only reason you feel he didn't marginalize the Yorubas is because he marginalized the igbos more than you guys. It's time people of the south stop using how bad someone else i's treated to justify how good they feel they have been treated. Even the so called Osibanjo was not treated right. If I was a Yoruba this would be a proud moment for me because I know my people vote out of intellect.

I honestly feel bad that some Yorubas even came here to support this man. I am Igbo and I think SW is the only region in Nigeria that votes out of conscience not religion, ethnicity or hatred and this man is talking trash yet some of the so called people he is abusing is supporting him. I think this is quite sad, you don't have to be cowards or force affilations with people that use you.

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baqina:
Oga,"he must have" is not a statement of assertion,it is a probability statement....I will overlook ur other statement.

D guy can predict anything he wants to but I will not rule out d fact that d title of a post can be amended......it is possible to have stated wat he wrote today and it is also possible to hv added to it also today.Try and have an open mind.

"He must have" is a strong word that shows you have a high level of certainty in place. All I am saying is that we should not discard things without proper evidence. Respectable nairalanders like AutoreportNG above have come to say they saw the post when he made it. Let us go by evidence and not what we want to believe.

jmoore:
There is enough evidence. Half truth is not the truth. The poster modified it to fool the gullible.

Stop throwing wild conjectures, there is enough evidence and half truth shows you are in contention with your own reasoning. So tell me how there is enough evidence and it is also half truth at the same time?

There is no evidence he modified the heading. Nigerians lack logical reasoning. Funny enough I do not believe all these prophesy stuffs but we need to call things as they are. Do you even know what an evidence is?

adekayo1234:
Try and go through my post again... If he truly said "6days after"
Why did the next poster ask for the new date again?? I doubt he's mentally retarded though

Probably because 6 days after is not a specific date?
6 days after could mean in 7 days, 8days, 9days etc

Moreover it is said the election date has not been released as at the time he made the post.

adekayo1234:
Mr Man I gave you facts, you simply chose to ignore it. Btw, these are d kind of false prophets that gives Christianity a bad name.

I'm a Christian and I don't need a prophet to tell me about tomorrow cos all what I need for tomorrow is embedded in God's words. Cheers

Do you have evidence that he edited it?

jmoore:
Stop waiting for seun. Edit an old topic you have, you will see results for yourself.
The poster even said Nigeria will defeat Croatia by 13:0. This post is a guess work, edited later to make it look more real.

That you can edit an old topic doesn't mean he edited it. Did he edit other peoples comments too?

I am not saying it cannot be fraud but we do not have enough evidence to say it is.

baqina:
D guy made a blank statement and came back to edit it to reflect current happening....He must hv put d 6 days to it today...

U can also try and edit ur post.

It is possible to edit the heading of posts but that doesn't mean he edited it. You need to have irrevocable facts before you say something like "He must have put 6 days" except you get orgasm from speculations and wild conjectures. "He could" and "he did" are not the same thing.

adekayo1234:
Pls tell gullible Nigerians o.... Now I know why people fall easily for 419 prophets

The fact you do not know if the OP edited it or not and you are faulting him says a lot about you. I even read the post where you said you are a Christian and I am an agnostic but I still do not want to accuse the OP of anything without facts.

Bro, stop getting high off what you want to believe stick to verifiable facts.

Please Seun can you verify if the post was edited or not, I believe you have the means to do that.

YoungLionken:
Mistake in a presidential election?

Do you know the number of elections they are conducting simultaneously? Presidential elections is just one of them. The materials missing were for senatorial elections.

mbaboy:
Inec not prepared for this election

My friend mistakes do happen.

6. Stay at your polling unit until the votes are counted.

7. Dress properly so you won't be mistaken as an agbero

flyca:
To me, it's not racism. It's the way we have misconducted ourselves (nationally and internationally) over the ages.

Did we misconduct ourselves before the years of slave trade? If No then why did the white men label black people three-fifth of a man to justify forcing them to work on platations for economic benefits?

Khd95:
some of the comments on the post were commending the Indonesian police for job weldone...thanks to our developers and yahoo boys

White men hated blacks even before the Internet was invented. Did you think slavery was a paid job or fun fare?

donifez:
Juju exists oh,if not that this is a public forum i would have told u people about my personal experience in ogun state precisely ijebu-ode,all you see in nollywood film happens ooh,i dnt want to go too detailed in it,maybe i may create a thread abt it in the future so that we will all learn,but for now i better be calm.

What happened bro?

akj26:
Juju is real!!! Whether U believe it or not it does exist.I once indulge in it & I'm in a good position 2 tell U dat it exist.But D problem is dat U wont have rest of mind(U can't have a sound sleep& eat what U want 2 eat) & U will B prevented 4rm doing a lot of things dat others can do but U wont B scared of anyone.JESUS preach 2 me himself, I may not have left.I'M NOW A MUMU 4 JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!!!

Care to explain more how you were involved with it?

His fight with David Tua has the record of most punches thrown in a sanctioned boxing fight.

Mods semid4lyfe honeric01

By Gavin Howie: Ike Ibeabuchi had all the tools to become one of the real great heavyweights, but he had one major flaw; and that was himself. Born in Nigeria on February 2nd 1973, Ibeabuchi originally intended on joining the Nigerian military, that was until he witnessed Buster Douglas KO Mike Tyson in 1990 and that inspired him to take up the sport of boxing.

Ike turned professional on October 13th 1994 by scoring a 2nd round knockout over Ismael Garcia. His first big test would come 3 years later on June 7th 1997 when he faced the undefeated David Tua. Tua had amassed a record of 27-0 with 23 knockouts, and was widely being touted as the next Mike Tyson. This fight now holds legendary status and was a war of sheer brutality, one that Ibeabuchi would come out on top of by way of a 12 round unanimous decision. The rise of Ibeaubuchi had begun… or had it?

Only a few months after the Tua fight, Ibeabuchi would find himself in trouble with the law. He was sentenced to 120 days and paid a $500,000 civil settlement after pleading guilty to a charge of false imprisonment. After 13 months out of the ring Ibeabuchi returned to ko Tim Ray in the first round. Ike was back, but his mental status was becoming a cause for concern. He would insist on being called ‘The President’, and had an alter ego where he believed he was the president of the world.

Chris Byrd, who would later go on to become the IBF world champion was up next for Ibeabuchi. The match was set for March 20th 1999. Byrd was a slick southpaw and was also undefeated with a record of 26-0. The fight would be over in just 5 rounds and Ike Ibeaubuchi was now a major contender in the heavyweight division. With a record of 20-0 with 15 knockouts and aged only 26 years of age, Ibeaubuchi looked like he would go on to become one of the most dominant heavyweights the world has ever seen. Sadly this was not the case, and this was the last time we would see Ibeabuchi in the ring again.

Following a string of varied offences, Ibeabuchi would serve his best years in prison and wouldn’t be released until he was 41 years of age. Ike planned to make a comeback upon his release, but was thwarted in this due to immigration issues. Ike Ibeabuchi had everything required to succeed in the ring, its just such a shame that his mental frailties got the better of him and eventually defeated him in his quest to become heavyweight champion of the world.

https://www.boxingnews24.com/2019/02/the-greatest-heavyweight-that-never-was/

bbee:
Get a 10+ years old USA clickbank account.
Also a 3 year old Nigerian Fiver account that has bought over $100 gigs.
If interested WhatsApp 0.8.0.2.9.4.0.2.6.9.2

How much for the fiver acct?

Castroii:
Lol, especially in southern Nigeria cos i doubt if the typical northern youth has time for BBnaija.

I'm sure nothern politicians are using a similar strategy but different method.

Hold them down with big brother while politicians eat out their brains.



Focus on the mission.