ZUBY77: Good news but then it happened in USA.

Here on nairaland alone, we have people who can do more than that if given the opportunities where Light is always on, internet always fast and free in some places. Clean environment, good labs etc...
We have people like dhtml, seun osewa, dual core, sam milla and many more people who are outstanding in whatever they do even while here in this hellhole called Nigeria
Like i said ealier, congrats to him but i know when to
over praise something.

His light so shone right here in this hellhole of Naija(as you put it) before he was seen(his works,brillance spoke for him) by US.

Don't know what or where you are driving at but the boy is good .QED

This is impressive!! Its good to hear something positive about Nigeria for once rather than fraud related news.

That said.. I think the topic is slightly misleading.. No ground breaking invention was created

well done bruh

This is the kind of news i love to hear. God bless nigerian and all nigerians.

BH and others who r destroying this country in d name of whatever is going on in their heads should rather strive to make nigerians' life better through some meaninful inventions like this young man. Instead of wasting innocent lifes for stupid reasons.

I also made nairaland and Nigeria proud.

I survived a scorpion bite


How it happened, I don't know
All I know was that I survived for 8hrs
No one slept in my house until the ambulance came.
Conggrats to d UNN bros

Very impressive and inspiring.

My own advice is dt "mr" u tk ur invention to wre it wil b most appreciated n u alredy knw wre...naija is a dead country..anytin u come up wit here wld b like a shot in d arm of a dead man...i serzly dnt tink any naijarian is so naive as to tink dt d power situation in d country is accidental n beyound rememdy..it dnt tk team of nasa scientist to come up wit strategy to fix power..it is a technogy dt has been in existence fr abt a century nw..d only reason our is problematic is bcus d corrupt system wnt it so..therefor for u trying to come up wit whatsoever remedy wld b like puttin ur arm in somones pucket n trust me thy dnt like it. so pls do ur sef n ur sponsors a favour..run wit ur ideas to somwre wre it is truely appreciated n safe fr u n leave us to our faith!

Well, he try. Bt am not sure how this can really
Solve anything. The term erratic power supply. Means
Unpredictable. When PHCN take your light (due to faults, no gas, etc,)
PHCN themselves don't knw when it will b restored
Not to be a pessimist but, this is not
Ground breaking at all. Its just another app. I am a
Scientist myself can anyone tell me which international
Journal has publish his findings. This is just cheap publicity.
MIT is not bean ooo. Bt please come with real inventions o.

D-Heir Apparent:
Well, he try. Bt am not sure how this can really
Solve anything. The term erratic power supply. Means
Unpredictable. When PHCN take your light (due to faults, no gas, etc,)
PHCN themselves don't knw when it will b restored
Not to be a pessimist but, this is not
Ground breaking at all. Its just another app. I am a
Scientist myself can anyone tell me which international
Journal has publish his findings. This is just cheap publicity.
MIT is not bean ooo. Bt please come with real inventions o.

Same thing I was saying.... Kudos to him regardless, he's definitely a hard worker and will be going places

Weldone,may God increase you mightily.Amen

ZUBY77: Good news but then it happened in USA.

Here on nairaland alone, we have people who can do more than that if given the opportunities where Light is always on, internet always fast and free in some places. Clean environment, good labs etc...
We have people like dhtml, seun osewa, dual core, sam milla and many more people who are outstanding in whatever they do even while here in this hellhole called Nigeria.

Like i said ealier, congrats to him but i know when to over praise something.

HATER

ichidodo: Hail Varsity of Nigeria,My Alma-Matter.

Hail her and rejoice for the giant awakes...Proud Lioness.

chiover: This is the best news on Nairaland. I hope Amerdonn can see us now for what we are and what we can achieve if given little opportunities.I am so happy. I need to buy this dude a bottle of something.

There are hundreds of Nigerian innovators in the United States, most dont like claiming their naijaness due to the country's image.Nigerians are known for two things in the United States, education and email scams.

pls what did he invent, smeone pls brief me, the story too lng.

He was known by the name Zuby ..back then in Agbebi complex..always knew this will happen for him. Good one buddie

ZUBY77: Good news but then it happened in USA.

Here on nairaland alone, we have people who can do more than that if given the opportunities where Light is always on, internet always fast and free in some places. Clean environment, good labs etc...
We have people like dhtml, seun osewa, dual core, sam milla and many more people who are outstanding in whatever they do even while here in this hellhole called Nigeria.

Like i said ealier, congrats to him but i know when to over praise something.

Seun Osewa did nothing spectacular, he did what every business man would do at that period of time internet forum wasn't popular in Nigeria. He is not an inventor but an entrepreneur in the naija spec.

i'll make news one day wen i'm dn with my invention. so help me God. Nyc achievement.

Please what is the groundbreaking invention in the article? I have read through and can't find it.

Very Inspiring! Goes to show that with determination you can reach any height.

He's on twitter too. I remember we used to exchange a couple messages.

https://twitter.com/cezeozue

Real-Mccoy:

Seun Osewa did nothing spectacular, he did what every business man would do at that period of time internet forum wasn't popular in Nigeria. He is not an inventor but an entrepreneur in the naija spec.

You are right.
Only that it requires a lot of hardwork, determination and concentration to succeed. I know a lot of people who also started forums at that time.
Remember this forum is no longer hosted on 100% smf codes

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Cut †нэ long story short and tell me dis yuong dudes innovation joor

A good initiative from Mr. Ezeozue. Kudos to him.

Congrats to him.

ZUBY77:

You are right.
Only that it requires a lot of hardwork, determination and concentration to succeed. I know a lot of people who also started forums at that time.
Remember this forum is no longer hosted on 100% smf codes

Nigerian banks and rich politicians could set up Angel Investment companies for start ups but greed and impatient wouldn't let them do it. Best brains have left Nigeria long time ago and the few one's left are just waiting for their US visa. Where does Nigeria stand on big data? Its all about zero emission and if US decides to stop importing Nigeria's oil, Nigeria will be as broke as Myanmar or Zimbabwe.

my class mate back in kings college,this is not coming as a surprise at all.the sky is your starting point

Two thumbs up and 5 stars.

Real-Mccoy:

There are hundreds of Nigerian innovators in the United States, most dont like claiming their naijaness due to the country's image.Nigerians are known for two things in the United States, education and email scams.

email scams I beg to disagree bro.email scam is a global factor and the whites does it more than we blacks. I hate stereotyping, little wrongs of we Africans(Nigerians) are always blown out of proportion.contract scams are reported in thousands in Turkey bot,nobody seems to tag them as bad nation. Truth be told.the whites wants us to remain under their bondage forever and it seems you so much belief in them bros?

chiover: email scams I beg to disagree bro.email scam is a global factor and the whites does it more than we blacks. I hate stereotyping, little wrongs of we Africans(Nigerians) are always blown out of proportion.contract scams are reported in thousands in Turkey bot,nobody seems to tag them as bad nation. Truth be told.the whites wants us to remain under their bondage forever and it seems you so much belief in them bros?

I don't speak from media perspective but from experience. Majority of white or non white folks I get in contact with, ask me about the email scam that originates from Nigeria, immediately I introduce myself as a Nigerian. At my office, fax messages comes from Nigeria steadily. Must we deny reality all the time? There was a ABC documentary on same thing, these guys even went to Lagos with hidden Camera. Every sensible and honest Nigerian will debunk your claim.

bigfrancis21: Like many Nigerians, MIT graduate student Chidube Ezeozue grew up frustrated by his nation’s erratic electrical grid.

“Electrical outages are a huge problem in Nigeria,” says Ezeozue, who is pursuing dual master’s degrees in MIT’s Technology and Policy Program and in electrical engineering and computer science. “The outages really interrupt everyday life.”

Nigeria’s supply of electricity is severely limited, resulting in rolling outages: Power is cut off every few hours and redirected to neighborhoods that were previously in the dark. While Nigerians know to expect these power cuts, they rarely know when the outages will happen, or how long they will last.
Since coming to MIT in 2011, Ezeozue — who received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nigeria in 2008, followed by three years of work at a software startup — has created an app, with his brother, that crowdsources information about Nigerian power outages. With the app, called NepaSituation, people living in Nigeria can report outages. This data, when merged into an algorithm developed by Ezeozue, can help Nigerians predict when power outages may strike their neighborhoods, and how long those outages might last.

“With over 100 million cell phones in Nigeria, we knew it was an important resource we could tap into,” Ezeozue says. “It took a while to come up with this algorithm, because the outages are pretty randomized, and the app is only as good as the number of people who enter outage data.”

But Ezeozue has delved into more than just tracking the problem: He is also working to address Nigeria’s chronic energy shortage.

“I started a company that is working to provide solar electricity to businesses and families at zero upfront cost,” Ezeozue says. The company, SolarKobo, was recently funded by a seed grant from MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, where Ezeozue is a fellow.

“Nigeria has plenty of solar energy available … for as low as $25 a month, we can make this resource available to those who are interested,” Ezeozue adds.

When he is not working toward the betterment of his homeland, Ezeozue researches machine learning and prediction algorithms in the research group of Una-May O’Reilly, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

“We are trying to use medical data, such as blood-pressure levels, to improve patient care,” Ezeozue says. “We observe states that patients’ [blood] pressure goes through and eventually we can predict what state they will go to. These predictions help doctors determine what to expect next.”

Ezeozue is also passionate about education. Along with other Nigerian students at MIT, Ezeozue has started two initiatives to encourage students in Nigeria to pursue higher education outside the country.

In one of these initiatives, which is aimed at high school students, Ezeozue and Chika Ugboh, an MIT chemical engineering student, bought preparatory materials and paid for a few students in one Nigerian school to take the SAT. While this pilot, which was launched in 2011, was not an unequivocal success, Ezeozue says, “We learned that simply providing the materials isn’t enough — it has to be accompanied by mentoring and training.” He and Ugboh are now working to assess how these Nigerian students learn best.

The second of these initiatives is aimed at Nigerian undergraduates: Working through their own networks in Nigeria, Ezeozue and other MIT graduate students are encouraging Nigerian undergraduates who might be interested in postgraduate study abroad.

“The goal is to build a generation of highly educated Nigerians who will hopefully go back to build a better Nigeria,” Ezeozue says. “I plan to eventually go back to Nigeria.”

For now, after graduating from MIT in June, Ezeozue will remain in Cambridge, working as a software engineer for Google.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/student-profile-chidube-ezeozue-0418.html


Its honorary to note that Chidubem once was an active member of this forum, from 2010 and 2011. His moniker is cezeozue and he was active on the 'Preparing for the GRE' thread.

[size=14pt]LOL. You want to predict nepa's Next move with an Algorithm? I laugh in Almighty formula method. Nepa would cramp your style.[/size]

lmao. i even forgot i was the one who typed this, this cracked me up so much, i looked at the moniker and it was me

first of all, I'd like to say he tried but I believe this could be done better .
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oh and this is not new, he probably got his idea from my post here
https://www.nairaland.com/930302/project-2012-summer-code-work

I didn't have the resources to pull it off then I posted it there hoping that developers here might help but they didn't. they started making a trivial budget system which they didn't create by the way.