₦airaland Forum

Hausa and violence ehn... Very aggressive set of people

The same projects they showed us last week. You guys need to keep up with this lies or else, una go tire at the end

people pose for picture, you sey dem dey attend to. Iru awon eyan wo leleyi

She is truly Reuben's daughter. Brilliant. Just hope she won't be corrupt like her father

Thats good.

This is really not good. Young kids already carrying sharp objects. What is this world turning into

They will still give it to their people like the did with Traffic officers job.
Make una apply anyway

God will forgive this Country and bring peace at the end

The governor made the declaration while appearing on Your-View talk show on TV Continental, this morning. Although street hawking is illegal in the State, it is not really being enforced, but Gov. Ambode said the state is now ready to begin massive enforcement of the laws.

Under the laws, Lagos residents could be sent to jail for buying goods from street and traffic hawkers. Street buyers and sellers are now both liable to six months imprisonment or N90,000 fine…. bt if a gala is found in ur possession, ur fine will b N95k…



http://www.instablog9ja.com/uncategorized/patronize-lagos-traffic-hawkers-and-get-jailed-gov-ambode-warns-lagosians/

A Nigerian, Ifesinachi Nelson Ezeh, has won international acclaim for finishing his Master’s degree at Saint Petersburg Agrarian University in Russia with distinction and for his edge-cutting research in Agronomy. His feat earned him a Ph.D scholarship. HANNAH OJO writes on the exploits of the youngster whose aim is to tackle the food crisis in his fatherland.

Ifesinachi Nelson Ezeh, a 26-year-old Nigerian, has dazzled Russia with his brilliance. The Nsukka, Enugu State-born student finished his Master’s degree in Agronomy at Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University, graduating with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 5.0 – the highest Russia has ever recorded.

Ifesinachi’s feat was celebrated by Russians during the university’s graduation. Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture and the school leadership showered encomiums on him, praising his dedication to quality research and academic excellence.

His journey to success started from a newspaper in 2008, when he read about a scholarship scheme to study in Russia. Then, he had just enrolled at the Nigerian College of Aviation Studies in Zaria, Kaduna State. But, Ifesinachi forfeited the admission for the scholarship.

According to him, his father got the information about the scholarship and encouraged him to apply. The scholarship is a bilateral agreement between Nigeria and other countries, including Russia, Cuba, China and Libya.

He said: “I was among the top five students selected at the College of Aviation after the scholarship examination. This got my dad excited. I was waiting to resume at the college when I received a call from Abuja, inviting me to come for the scholarship interview. The urgency of the information gave me no room for preparation. But, I went for the interview and travelled to Russia for study.”

In November 2008, Ifesinachi arrived in Russia with 40 other students from Nigeria for his Bachelor’s degree. Since Russian language is a prerequisite for study in the country, he enrolled at Don State Technical University, where he learnt the language for one year. Afterwards, he was transferred to Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University to study Agronomy.

Ifesinachi’s brilliance was discovered in his sophomore year when he was assigned to Prof Lev Gennadievich Tyryshkin as his thesis supervisor. Also a researcher at the Russia Institute of Plant Industry, Prof Tyryshkin exposed Ifesinachi to academic and industrial research methodologies.

“That was when my journey in scientific research started,” Ifesinachi said, adding: “The professor is an atheist and for the time I spent with him in the laboratory, I literally became an atheist too, because my mind was preoccupied with research work.”

Ifesinachi’s research on species of Aegilops won him recognition from the Science Community in the Europe.

The research, he said, was to re-study six species of Aegilops (a wheat variety) and bread wheat that were said to have effective LR23 gene for resistance at juvenile stage. In the course of the study, Ifesinachi discovered inadequacies in the previous researches carried out by scholars in the field.

He said: “It was during the comparison of results of the DNA markers and phytopathological tests that I discovered there were possible errors in the previous studies. After that, we reset the conditions that were recommended nationally for phytopathological study. Our results were narrowed down to the large collection of specimens that have been approved for hybridisation with bread-wheat nationally from 15 specimens (six species of Aegilops) with effective LR23 gene for resistance at the juvenile stage.”

After his research, it was discovered that previous researchers falsified records and gave the Russian government wrong information about the Aegilops species. Ifesinachi’s results enabled the Russian government to update plant bank gene collections with effective genes.

The student said his closeness to Prof Tyryshkin contributed to his success, because he had access to Plant Bank Collection in Saint Petersburg, which he said houses several collections of genes and known species and varieties of plant.

It was not smoothsailing all the way. In 2012, his first research was rejected when it was published. Ifesinachi blamed it on his level of fluency in Russian language then. The rejection, he said, made him to develop more interest in research work.

He said: “In 2013, I got more results and I presented them to the university leadership. Two of us were selected to represent the university at a regional level. We presented our research results to the jury of the regional contest. We won and moved to the national level. My research was adjudged third best work at the national level and I am the only African student among the best student-researchers. I was recognised by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture. My university gave me an honorary degree in recognition of my feat.”

Ifesinachi’s feat improved the ratings of Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University and fetched him a scholarship for his Master’s degree. He completed his undergraduate degree with a CGPA of 4.92 and finished his Master’s degree with a CGPA of 5.0 – a distinction.

He got a scholarship for his doctoral degree during the university’s convocation.

While his academic feat was being celebrated by the Russians, he was unsung by his country

Ifesinachi said he did not get any commendation from the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow.

He said: “The only reward I got came from the Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University. I never got a call from the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow. I felt I should pass the information through the scholarship board, but it appeared nobody showed interest.”

On the challenges he faced while in Russia, Ifesinachi said the greatest was being alone in the midst of Russians speaking their language fluently. “I always felt lonely in their midst,” he said.

Ifesinachi suspended his doctoral programme and returned to Nigeria last month for the National Youth Service. Against the expectation of his supervisor, Ifesinachi said he decided to return home and serve Nigeria in field research before going back for his Ph.D.

“The Dean of my faculty was worried when I told him I would be in Nigeria for a year before resuming my Ph.D. I think it is justified to impart the knowledge I garnered in Russia to my countrymen. I was on scholarship for seven years. I also need to serve my country, which gave me the opportunity.”

Ifesinachi is also a budding writer. He has published a fiction work titled: Sister Kingdom. He said the motivation came from his family.

According to him, he wants to use his innovative research expertise to solve the country’s food crisis through plant breeding. This, he said, would enable him fulfil the purpose of his scholarship.

Written By Hannah Ojo



http://thenationonlineng.net/nigerias-boy-wonder/

So?

EFCC and Buhari are biten more than they can chew

she looks like... I don't know

Nigerians will suffer for it. NLC just dull

Will NLC pay the workers salary, will the Ranting FG pay part of the salary. when they were busy making dumb policies, they didnt know right.

NLC should know that when they cripple the sector, a lot of Nigerians will bear the brunt and nothing will happen afterwards

Lai Mohammed is an id**tic liar

really?

Watch many youths trend this kind of thing now...

hehehehehehehehe... That guy don hammer... Now all the ldies will be running after him.... dem no sey im no fit do

APC = PROMISE AND FAIL

Amechi is coming back to commission the mono light rail...

Well done Wike

Buhari will end up paying in 2 ways... Ex-militants and new militants.

e be like sey this guy won serious pass that guy we scam im people with light rail ooo. I no kuku mention name

this kin economics no be here ooo.

How blowing up of pipelines dey push global oil prices o ye mi oooo

Buhari needs to wake up and beg this guys. They ain't joking

Buhari keeps ranting, while this guys act...smh

Until dem no see oil sell again? suffer at its peak niyen ooooo

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has appealed to Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, to relax the ban on herdsmen and their grazing cattle.

Baba Ngelzerma, the secretary general of the association, said this when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television.

Ngelzerma asked the governor to show statesmanship, blaming most of the attacks on “criminals”.

He announced the readiness of the group to negotiate with Ekiti government.

“Our doors are open, we can still go to the governor, we can still discuss and find solutions to these problems,” he said.

“We had a meeting with our elites from different fields of human endeavours to find solutions to these problems. We are calling on the governor of Ekiti state to show a lot of statesmanship.

“These things are perpetrated by criminals. No doubt what happened is sad but before investigations are conducted, people jump to conclusions that things were done by herdsmen; it may be so, but at least as a governor he should wait and find out who the perpetrators are before apportioning blame.

“The whole of Ekiti state is his responsibility today including strangers that are in the state. Even the cows that are in Ekiti state today, the governor has a responsibility on them.

“You cannot blame an entire group for a crime committed by few. There was a situation in Ore where a watchman killed a herdsman, we did not take law into our hands, instead we reported to the police.

“We cannot say that the Yoruba people are responsible for that. If you stop the Fulanis from grazing, where should they go?”.

Stating actions that have been taken, Ngelzerma expressed the readiness of the association to put an end to the situation.

He said the association had been collaborating with security agencies to find a last solution to the problem.

“A lot have been going on regarding this issue and different factions of the government have been looking into it. We have been having meetings with the defence headquarters and the police, hands are on deck to resolve the issue.”

Meanwhile, Fayose has said he has nothing against the Fulani, explaining that he only decided to act in order to “check to the excesses of her‎dsmen”.

He said his decision to ban grazing was not political, but a standard practice which obtained in developed countries.

“The issue of incessant attacks on communities across the country by the herdsmen is a time bomb and it should not be allowed to get out of hand. The earlier will stop the menace the better for us as a nation,” he said at the funeral ceremony of Viola George, mother of Bode George, top chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“This has nothing to do with politics or where one comes from in the country. Who knows who the next victim could be? The attack is spreading across the country and I call on other state governors as well as political, religious and community leaders across the country to see the issue as a national one that we all must address.

“Like I have said earlier, the solution is that those rearing cows should have ranches to keep them. In advanced nations, they engage in animal husbandry too and they don’t allow their animals to just roam about.”


https://www.thecable.ng/go-outside-ekiti-say-herdsmen-beg-fayose

Fayose is not a coward... simple

raumdeuter:
You shouldnt have to wait for FGN to protect your state.
Several ACN govt in the past campaigned for State police which the govt at the center opposed.
This is a watered down version of state police, I think the security of a state should be in the hand of the governor

You didnt say this when Borno state governor was waiting to confirm Chibok girls kidnap...

raumdeuter:
I support him on this move. I am sure in election times these people would also be useful

If the FG had solved the problems, Fayose wouldn't have come up with this strategy

really? what is the impact on an average Nigerian yet.

Please add the sufferings... particularly, that 1.5 million Nigerians have lost their jobs in the 1st quyater of 2016... not forgetting all who lost their just last years since APCtook over.

https://www.thecable.ng/nbs-another-1-5m-

Oniranu

They still haven't told us how they got the money to campaign for Mr. President

Abi na ghost money?

This guy no well, but Ekiti people love Him.
If Fayemi had done well, the people wouldn't have brought back Fayose.

I bet he know what He is doing. Winning the voters to his side so as to vote who won't prosecute him.
Its called wisdom.