It is not easy to have the youngest PHD HOLDERS in Africa,4 YORUBA GREAT MINDS,back to back..
Where do you see miracle centers people in this kind of set up?

Yeeboo kwenu! Miracle Centers amaka!!

InyinyaAgbaOku:

Are you new to Nairaland?
Best public primary and secondary school in Nigeria.
Then the Singapore and Croatia competition.
Best maths teacher award.
Use the search button on google

Yorubas are the greatest black mathematicians in the WORLD and much more...


http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madgreatest.html

EXCERPTS:
Who is [or was] the most important Black Mathematician?

I believe the answer is vaguely fathomable? Assuming "importance" refers to impact upon the community. Do we mean on mathematics, on the world community in general, or just in the African Diaspora community? In the first case, we discussed individuals in the masters above. In the last case the answer might be the first Black Math Ph.D., a mathematician influential with governement (as Percy A. Pierre), a great teacher (such as Etta Falconer or Clarence Stephens), a research mathematician, or some part or combination of the four (like Adegoke Olubummo or Raymond Johnson). You must decide; to learn more click on the underlined words.



Who are the young mathematicians whose careers exhibit extraordinary promise?

Mathematicians of the 21st Century

I had anticipated delaying this section until 2007 and young folks had begun to publish. However, as a winner of the AMU/ICMS 2003 Young African in Mathematics Medals, one individual has changed my mind.

Oguntuase: Currently in Italy, Nigerian born and soley Nigerian trained, James Adedayo Oguntuase earned his Ph.D. in 2001, but has published 18 papers in mathematics since 1998. This promises to be a stelar career.

DikeOha882:
Igbo nmanmanu o, o ga diri Igbo nma.


A time for sober reflection to our Enugu,Imo and Ebonyi governors to brace up and compete with Abia and Anambra for that position.

True.

But with 5 SE states in the top ten, I am so impressed.
Even our Ebonyi brothers are catching up fast and furious. I had always known that they are not intellectually challenged but were just unfortunate to have been exposed to western civilization much more later than the rest of us.

Right now, Ebonyi is breaking even, and would soon top that chat.

Also good to see Delta and Rivers up there, we have too many Igbo speaking groups there, and it's obviously showing in the high ranking of the state.

Alonu Alonu o! Tokpehunuo! Nma nma nuo! unu anwula o! Maazi nuo!

Kwezunuo!

Never will an eastern state go beyond tenth position. The truth is that easterners are good in whatever thing they do. Aregbe please, help our education in the Osun.

Ritchiee:
It is a well known FACT,so nobody recognizes the Igbos when you talk about education.HOME AND ABROAD...EDUCATION HAS BECOME THE BIRTHMARK OF THE YORUBAS.
MIRACLE CENTRES THING AND YOU ARE HAPPY.SMH...
Look at the real thing.

EVEN ABROAD..


The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, UP, says Romola Adeola is its youngest doctoral graduate. In a statement on its website, the centre said: “Romola Adeola, 26, has set a record in being the youngest person to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) in the 30-year history of the Centre for Human Rights.

Furthermore, she is only the 2nd youngest person to achieve this in the Faculty of Law, UP, since its establishment 107 years ago. She distinguished herself by completing the LLD in under 3 years. During her undergraduate years at Lagos State University (LASU), she was the Best Student in International Law.

Romola’s relationship with the Centre for Human Rights began from her participation in the 2008 African Human Rights Moot Court Competition. In 2012, she was selected as a DAAD scholar to study for the LLM/MPhil degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa.

She graduated cum laude, earning two awards: the Kéba M’Baye award for the overall Best Dissertation and the Victor Dankwa prize for the Best Performance in the module: Human Rights in Africa. Her excellent record earned her admission to the Centre’s doctoral programme in 2013.

In her PhD thesis, she analyzed the obligation in article 10 of the African Union Convention in relation to the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa. She has given interviews, presented papers at international conferences and been the voice of the Centre on issues of internally displaced persons, migrants and refugees. .

During her time here, she led the Disability Rights Clinic and served as Alumni Coordinator. In this latter capacity, she led a campaign calling for the release of prominent Swazi human rights activist – Thulani Maseko, and raised funding to support his family.

She attributes her success to her supportive parents, personal discipline, perseverance and prayer. In her words, ‘be faithful to God, be true to yourself and be of service to humanity.’ She also holds two diplomas from Åbo Akademi University.”
http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/02/26-year-old-lasu-alumnus-emerges.html

Lol! This is your comeback? Hahaha! Individual awards? Bwahaha!

Didn't an Igbo man just win a science Award at AU conference in Ethiopia?http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2016/01/photo-nigerian-scientist-prof.html?m=1

Lol! You want us to flood this thread with individual awards? Lol!


You are pathetic. We are talking of percentages here, group average performance and a supposedly educated person like you is using a few Yoruba high flyers who are easily cancelled out by Igbo high flyers to console yourself.
Ndo.

Ariani:


Lol! This is your comeback? Hahaha! Individual awards? Bwahaha!

Didn't an Igbo man just win a science Award at AU conference in Ethiopia?

Lol! You want us to flood this thread with individual awards? Lol!


You are pathetic. We are talking of percentages here, group average performance and a supposedly educated person like you is using a few Yoruba high flyers who are easily cancelled out by Igbo high flyers to console yourself.
Ndo.

You are the pathetic one here because you compare authentic widely educated people with your miracle centres peolple and say they are educated when everything genuine happenings home and abroad signifies that Yorubas are more educated than the Igbos.
And for your information,individuals beget a nation...
I WANT YOU TO BRING OUT YOURS AND WE WOULD ALWAYS DWARF WHATEVER YOU BRING AUTHENTICALLY.

LOOK AT THIS...EXCERPTS:



Mathematicians of the 1990s:

Seven mathematicians of the 1990s, Adebisi Agboola, Jonathan Farley, Wilfrid Gangbo, Abba Gumel, Trachette Jackson, Katherine Okikiolu, and Arlie Petters show extraordinary promise, "should be" (but are not necessarily) located at the very best institutions, and may be the Fields medal candidates of the future.













Petters: Belize born American citizen Arlie Petters, the most senior of the group is a member of Duke University's Bass Fellows. He is Full Professor of Mathematics and of Physics (their first tenured Black professor in the sciences - congratulations Duke). He is chiefly interested in the mathematical theory of gravitational lensing and related areas (differential geometry, singularity theory, general relativity, Astrophysics). Though Petters received his Ph.D. about ten years ago, he has published 30 papers and a book, chiefly in the area Gravitational Lensing. Petters's book on Gravitational Lensing is considered a tour de force in mathematical physics. In 1998, Petters was awarded the most prestigious award for "young" mathematicians, the three year Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2002, he was recipient of the first Blackwell-Tapia Prize.

K. Okikiolu: Born to Nigerian and British parents, but educated in the U.S., Katherine Okikiolu (was once on Princeton's faculty) received special distinction in 1997 when she was the first Black to win a Sloan Research Fellowship. Later in 1997, she won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for "Innovative research in geometric analysis, particularly the determinant of the Laplacian under smooth perturbations, and developing student workshops and mathematics curricula for inner-city children." This particular award is worth $500,000 and is only granted 60 scientists and engineers in the U.S. per year. Okikiolu's work on elliptical differential operators is considered a major contribution, going well beyond what experts had considered feasible, given the current state of knowledge. Her 2001 publication Critical metrics for the determinant of the Laplacian in odd dimensions in the Annals of Mathematics, is receiving high acclaim. She is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego.

Farley: Born in an extremely successful academic family of Rochester, New York, Jonathan Farley, graduated second in his class with an A.B. from Harvard University and obtained a mathematics Ph.D. from Oxford University where he was awarded the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson Prize for his research. During a two year visit to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute [MSRI] in 1996, Farley solved very important old problems in the Theory of Ordered Sets. He also works in Lattice Theory. He is currently publishing at an average of more than three papers a year, and in 2003 was a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University in England. Currently is Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Massachusettes Institute of Technology.

Gangbo: In just nine years from a Ph.D. to a Full Professor - this is incredible. Wilfrid Gangbo was born in Benin and in 1992 earned a Ph.D. from Swiss Federale Institute of Technology. Among his twelve papers is his 1996 The geometry of optimal transportation remains the single publication by a Black in the Mittag-Leffler Institute's Acta Mathematica, one of the world's strongest mathematics journals. In 2001 he was appointed Full Professor by Georgia Institute of Technology.

Agboola: In mathematics, one does not always know of young persons working in fields outside their own, and it is a great honor to the individual if the case is otherwise. Adebisi Agboola's work in Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry has been mentioned to me as very good by Kevin Corlette and two of my non-Black colleagues whose area of research is mutually exclusive with Agboola, Corlette, and each other. Agboola is Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara

Gumel: Born in Nigeria, Ph.D. in England. Abba Gumel is an extremely prolific in the areas Mathematical Biology, Non-linear Dynamical Systems, and Computational Mathematics. Currently he is a Full Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

Jackson: American Trachette Jackson was a mathematics major at Arizona State in Tempe. Four years later she earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Biology. Five years later she had ten articles under her belt and a Sloan Fellowship. Currently, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics University of Michigan

Johnson: British born Mathematical Physicist Clifford V. Johnson has over 60 publications since his 1992 Ph.D. Since that time he has immersed himself within String Theory (also see Sylvester James Gates) with papers and books. He is currently on leave at USC.


http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madgreatest.html

I have never commented on any post b4, but 4 u I will, I wonder where u get such hate from, it will do you no good hating other tribes....
And i'm sure you're not yoruba, "because the yoruba's first learns respect b4 any other thing at their mother's knee....
So DISAPPEAR! You foul creature.

Asiri1991:
Never will an eastern state go beyond tenth position. The truth is that easterners are good in whatever thing they do. Aregbe please, help our education in the Osun.

Miracle centre educated pip spotted

PentiumPro:


Bros! I know these people very well. Once I throw my comment, I ignore their tirades.
They are highly defensive and emotional. They will just be throwing insults and tantrums.

You tend to expose your ignorant by trolling online seeking attention. I am a product from the east. Am I sound? Yes...Did I cheat to be sound? No...A greater majority of us are sane enough not to be dragged into an ethnic war online just because you felt we didn't merit what we got. You're not the first and You will not be the last but then it doesn't stop us from still leading...If you feel like we are cheating to be there, why not try and outsmart us because I think it's only smart ones are intelligent enough to cheat. And we have registered far more records than a 26 year old with a PhD that's why we have names like Charles soludo, Dora Akunyili, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala...I just mentioned a few.

I am not blabbing but if you talk about education,home and abroad,Yoruba towers above the Igbos lalasticlalaly...lol

We have greatest numbers of:
DOCTORS.
LAWYERS.
PROFESSORS.
UNIVERSITIES.ETC
IN FACT WE EDUCATED YOU AND WE ARE PROUD OF THAT.


The Federal Ministry of Education on Wednesday in Abuja honoured Dr Victor Olalusi who scored [b]5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) [/b]in Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow (RNRMU) in 2013, arguably the first in the world.

Olalusi, who was the best graduating student in the whole Russian Federation in 2013, studied in RNRMU under the Russia-Nigeria Bilateral Education Agreement.

Speaking at the event, Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry said a lot of Nigerian students were brilliant but Olalusi was a genius.

He said Olalusi had become an ambassador not only to the ministry but to Nigeria and Russia.

“We have to search the Guinness Book of Records for anybody who has achieved 5.0 in a university. It is curious and strange that all those that evaluated his performance could not find reason to reduce a point from him.

“You should be the ambassador of the Federal Scholarship Board, Ministry of Education, Nigeria and the Russian Federation.

“I look forward to the day you will stand before the President to receive your honour. We have recommendations to that effect, ’’ Nwaobiala said.

He then urged Olalusi to continue to be a role model to young Nigerians and also called on him to explore opportunities in post graduate research.

In her speech, Mrs Ifeoma Agunwa, the Director, Federal Scholarship Board, said Olalusi made 5.0 GPA in all the courses he took in the seven years he studied Medicine in Russia.

She said “Olalusi never had a 4.99 GPA. Even in the Russian language class, he did not fall below 5.0.”

In her citation on Olalusi, Agunwa said he ranked as one of the best students in the faculty which handed him a place in RNRMU’s Hall of fame for academic excellence.

She said that Olalusi had registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and had the compulsory one-year housemanship training at State Specialist Hospital, Akure, Ondo State.

According to her, he is presently going through the compulsory National Youth Service scheme in Rivers.

Mr Artem Romanov, who represented the Russian Embassy, said that Olalusi’s feat was very significant for everybody in Russia.

Romanov said “Nigeria is blessed with abundant human potential which is officially acknowledged in Russia.

“It has been acknowledged in the Russian Ministry of Education that Nigerians have a lot of exceptional talents. Genetically, Nigerians grasp knowledge easily.

“Olalusi is a hardworking person. It is not easy to achieve such in Russia; it goes with talent and hard work.

“I urge you to engage your knowledge in the development of your father land.”

While showing his appreciation, Olalusi thanked God for his rare feat and also commended the Federal Government and the Scholarship Board for the opportunity given to young Nigerians to distinguish themselves.

Mr Olarewaju Olalusi, the father of Olalusi, said that his son’s achievement was as a result of hard work.

Olalusi said his son did not attend high class schools but normal public schools which spoke volumes of the standard of education in Nigeria.

He then urged parents to monitor their wards closely and make sure they were not distracted from their studies.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/07/29/nigerian-sets-record-scores-5-0-gpa-in-russia/

PentiumPro:

Stop your evil ways. Miracle examination center. Miracle baby center aka baby factory.

you're deviating from the topic.

Ritchiee:
Yorubas are the greatest black mathematicians in the WORLD and much more...


http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madgreatest.html

EXCERPTS:
Who is [or was] the most important Black Mathematician?

I believe the answer is vaguely fathomable? Assuming "importance" refers to impact upon the community. Do we mean on mathematics, on the world community in general, or just in the African Diaspora community? In the first case, we discussed individuals in the masters above. In the last case the answer might be the first Black Math Ph.D., a mathematician influential with governement (as Percy A. Pierre), a great teacher (such as Etta Falconer or Clarence Stephens), a research mathematician, or some part or combination of the four (like Adegoke Olubummo or Raymond Johnson). You must decide; to learn more click on the underlined words.



Who are the young mathematicians whose careers exhibit extraordinary promise?

Mathematicians of the 21st Century

I had anticipated delaying this section until 2007 and young folks had begun to publish. However, as a winner of the AMU/ICMS 2003 Young African in Mathematics Medals, one individual has changed my mind.

Oguntuase: Currently in Italy, Nigerian born and soley Nigerian trained, James Adedayo Oguntuase earned his Ph.D. in 2001, but has published 18 papers in mathematics since 1998. This promises to be a stelar career.

None is like chike obi in Nigeria.
Browse the trio of nigerian greatest mathematicians : 2 Igbos and one Yoruba. Anything that has to do with physics, maths at the international, nobody comes close to Igbos in Nigeria.

Ndyoo:


You tend to expose your ignorant by trolling online seeking attention. I am a product from the east. Am I sound? Yes...Did I cheat to be sound? No...A greater majority of us are sane enough not to be dragged into an ethnic war online just because you felt we didn't merit what we got. You're not the first and You will not be the last but then it doesn't stop us from still leading...If you feel like we are cheating to be there, why not try and outsmart us because I think it's only smart ones are intelligent enough to cheat. And we have registered far more records than a 26 year old with a PhD that's why we have names like Charles soludo, Dora Akunyili, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala...I just mentioned a few.

YOU ARE A REAL JOKER FOR NAMING ALL THOSE SMALL RATS WHEN WE HAVE PEOPLE LIKE:
ELIAS WHO WAS A PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD COURT COMPARED TO OKONJO IWEALA (AND DORA AKUNYILI) WHO ARE JUST BOMBOYS(WE HAVE 24 BOMBOYS LIKE THEM UNDER WORLD BANK...google is your gf)THEY ARE NOT EVEN UP TO THE SENIOR VPS UNDER WORLD BANK TALKLESS OF BEING AT PAR WITH THE PRESIDENT OF Afdb.. Dr Akinwumi Adesina.

2.PROF AJIBOLA WHO ONCE HEADED THE UNO..

AND WHAT ABOUT THE ENIGMATIC GREAT MAN WHO YOU LOVE TO HATE BUT SPITS IN YOUR FACES,
3.OBASANJO...LEADING THE PACK OF WORLD FORMER RULERS AS WE BLINK OUR EYES..lol.

and many more.

Ritchiee:
I am not blabbing but if you talk about education,home and abroad,Yoruba towers above the Igbos lalasticlalaly...lol

We have greatest numbers of:
DOCTORS.
LAWYERS.
PROFESSORS.
UNIVERSITIES.ETC
IN FACT WE EDUCATED YOU AND WE ARE PROUD OF THAT.


The Federal Ministry of Education on Wednesday in Abuja honoured Dr Victor Olalusi who scored [b]5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) [/b]in Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow (RNRMU) in 2013, arguably the first in the world.

Olalusi, who was the best graduating student in the whole Russian Federation in 2013, studied in RNRMU under the Russia-Nigeria Bilateral Education Agreement.

Speaking at the event, Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry said a lot of Nigerian students were brilliant but Olalusi was a genius.

He said Olalusi had become an ambassador not only to the ministry but to Nigeria and Russia.

“We have to search the Guinness Book of Records for anybody who has achieved 5.0 in a university. It is curious and strange that all those that evaluated his performance could not find reason to reduce a point from him.

“You should be the ambassador of the Federal Scholarship Board, Ministry of Education, Nigeria and the Russian Federation.

“I look forward to the day you will stand before the President to receive your honour. We have recommendations to that effect, ’’ Nwaobiala said.

He then urged Olalusi to continue to be a role model to young Nigerians and also called on him to explore opportunities in post graduate research.

In her speech, Mrs Ifeoma Agunwa, the Director, Federal Scholarship Board, said Olalusi made 5.0 GPA in all the courses he took in the seven years he studied Medicine in Russia.

She said “Olalusi never had a 4.99 GPA. Even in the Russian language class, he did not fall below 5.0.”

In her citation on Olalusi, Agunwa said he ranked as one of the best students in the faculty which handed him a place in RNRMU’s Hall of fame for academic excellence.

She said that Olalusi had registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and had the compulsory one-year housemanship training at State Specialist Hospital, Akure, Ondo State.

According to her, he is presently going through the compulsory National Youth Service scheme in Rivers.

Mr Artem Romanov, who represented the Russian Embassy, said that Olalusi’s feat was very significant for everybody in Russia.

Romanov said “Nigeria is blessed with abundant human potential which is officially acknowledged in Russia.

“It has been acknowledged in the Russian Ministry of Education that Nigerians have a lot of exceptional talents. Genetically, Nigerians grasp knowledge easily.

“Olalusi is a hardworking person. It is not easy to achieve such in Russia; it goes with talent and hard work.

“I urge you to engage your knowledge in the development of your father land.”

While showing his appreciation, Olalusi thanked God for his rare feat and also commended the Federal Government and the Scholarship Board for the opportunity given to young Nigerians to distinguish themselves.

Mr Olarewaju Olalusi, the father of Olalusi, said that his son’s achievement was as a result of hard work.

Olalusi said his son did not attend high class schools but normal public schools which spoke volumes of the standard of education in Nigeria.

He then urged parents to monitor their wards closely and make sure they were not distracted from their studies.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/07/29/nigerian-sets-record-scores-5-0-gpa-in-russia/

this news pain you ooo

lolzzzz:
this news pain you ooo

Yes pip,it pains when people lie and believe their lies.So you as a learned person breaks their lie with facts

Ritchiee:
Yes pip,it pains when people lie and believe their lies.So you as a learned person breaks their lie with facts

so waec lied? You wish you could change the figures.

lolzzzz:
this news pain you ooo

Just look at this.The best in the world...lol


The Federal Ministry of Education on Wednesday in Abuja honoured Dr Victor Olalusi who scored [b]5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) [/b]in Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow (RNRMU) in 2013, arguably[b] the first in the world.[/b]

Yorubas are not local champions only...

Ritchiee:

Just look at this.The best in the world...lol


The Federal Ministry of Education on Wednesday in Abuja honoured Dr Victor Olalusi who scored [b]5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) [/b]in Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow (RNRMU) in 2013, arguably the first in the world.

I like it when you are frustrated

Where did he take his waec? In Oyo state that fell flat to Borno in performance?

lolzzzz:
so waec lied? You wish you could change the figures.

No,WAEC did not lie but we all know that this was gotten through miracle centres because these people are dull in education compared to the Yorubas.Kudos..if that is what you want

Ritchiee:
No,WAEC did not lie but we all know that this was gotten through miracle centres because these people are dull in education compared to the Yorubas.Kudos..if that is what you want

atleast Niger and borno are more brilliant than all Yoruba states. That's OK for me

InyinyaAgbaOku:


None is like chike obi in Nigeria.
Browse the trio of nigerian greatest mathematicians : 2 Igbos and one Yoruba. Anything that has to do with physics, maths at the international, nobody comes close to Igbos in Nigeria.

That is what I said about you people.Comparing the greatest black mathematicians with Chike Obi.
Chike Obi is not even up to:


Ethelbert Nwakuche Chukwu who is an Igbo.

Born: November 22, 1940

place: Mbano, Imo, Nigeria

B.Sc. Mathematics (1965) at Brown University; M.Sc. Applied Mathematics at the University of Nigeria-Nsukka

Ph.D. Applied Matheatics (1972) Case Western Reserve University
thesis: Symmetries and Indentification Of Linear Control Systems; Advisor: Otomar Hájek

: Professor of Mathematics, North Carolina State University

URL: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~chukwu/
E-mail: chukwu@math.ncsu.edu

Ethelbert Nwakuche Chukwu earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics at Brown University (1965), a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Nigeria-Nsukka and earned his PhD. in Mathematics from Case Western Reserve University (1972). Thus began a remarkable career in Mathematics Resarch and Administration.

Dr. Chukwu's first position was at Cleveland State University where he was an Assistasnt Professor (1972) and Associate Professor in 1976. In 1977 until 1981 he was Dean of the School of Post-Graduate Studies at the University of Jos in Nigeria. He also served as Professor of Mathematics (1978-81) and Chair of the Mathematics department (1979-81). From 1981 until 1984, Dr. Chukwu was Vice Chancellor (President) of Federal University. From 1984 until 1989, he held several visiting positions at universities in the U.S. However, in 1989 E.N. Chukwu became Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University where he remains until today. He has worked on several research projects for NASA since his membership in the faculty of mathematics at NCSU. E-mail: chukwu@math.ncsu.edu Also see the web page: Who are the greatest Black Mathematicians?

Dr. Chukwu's hobbies are music and poetry.

Research

Dr. Ethelbert Nwakuche Chukwu was awarded the Griot Mathematics Award by The Academy for Pan African Research and Culture. He has over 75 papers and books on various topics from Classical Analysis to Operator Theory and Applied Mathematics- linear and non-linear differential equations, and Mathematical Economics. Below are the articles located through Math Reviews

Books

Chukwu, E. N. Optimal control of the growth of wealth of nations. Stability and Control: Theory, Methods and Applications, 17. Taylor & Francis, London, 2003. xxiv+384 pp. ISBN: 0-415-26966-0
Chukwu, E. N. Stability and time-optimal control of hereditary systems. With application to the economic dynamics of the U.S. Second edition. Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences, 60. World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge, NJ, 2001. xx+495 pp. ISBN: 981-02-4674-9
Chukwu, E. N. Differential models and neutral systems for controlling the wealth of nations. Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences, 54. World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge, NJ, 2001. xvi+513 pp. ISBN: 981-02-4381-2 91-02.
Chukwu, E. N. Stability and time-optimal control of hereditary systems . Mathematics in Science and Engineering, 188. Academic Press, Inc., Boston, MA, 1992. xii+508 pp. ISBN: 0-12-174560-0

Papers

Chukwu, Ethelbert Nwakuche Goodness through optimal dynamics of the wealth of nations. Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl. 4 (2003), no. 5, 653--666.
Chukwu, E. N. International economic models as surveillance for the optimal control of the growth of wealth of nations. Nonlinear Anal. Real World Appl. 3 (2002), no. 1, 75--84.
Chukwu, Ethelbert Nwakuche Volterra integrodifferential neutral dynamics for the growth of wealth of nations: a controllability theory, with Canada example. Differential equations and dynamical systems (Waterloo, ON, 1997). Dynam. Contin. Discrete Impuls. Systems 5 (1999), no. 1-4, 561--577.
54. Chukwu, Ethelbert Nwakuche Volterra integrodifferential neutral dynamics for the growth of wealth of nations: a controllability theory. Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 29 (1998), no. 7, 723--799.
53. Chukwu, Ethelbert N. On the controllability of nonlinear economic systems with delay: the Italian example. Appl. Math. Comput. 95 (1998), no. 2-3, 245--274.
52. Chukwu, E. N. Control of nonlinear delay differential economic systems in $W\sp {(1)}\sb 2$. Advances in nonlinear dynamics, 157--170, Stability Control Theory Methods Appl., 5, Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam, 1997.
51. Chukwu, E. N.; Simpson, H. C. The solution operator in $W\sp {(1)}\sb p$ for systems of neutral type . Nonlinear Anal. 29 (1997), no. 10, 1173--1195.
50. Chukwu, E. N. Control of nonlinear delay-differential equations in $W\sp {(1)}\sb 2$ with economic applications . Appl. Math. Comput. 85 (1997), no. 1, 17--59.
49. Chukwu, E. N. Universal laws for the control of global economic growth with nonlinear hereditary dynamics . Appl. Math. Comput. 78 (1996), no. 1, 19--81.
48. Chukwu, E. N. Control of interconnected nonlinear delay differential equations in $W\sp {(1)}\sb 2$ . Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Math. Sci. 105 (1995), no. 1, 73--98.
47. Chukwu, E. N. Control in $W\sp {(1)}\sb 2$ of nonlinear interconnected systems of neutral type . J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. B 36 (1995), no. 3, 286--312.
46. Chukwu, E. N.; Smoczynski, P. A weak invariance principle and asymptotic stability for evolution equations with bounded generators . Internat. J. Math. Math. Sci. 18 (1995), no. 2, 255--264.
45. Chukwu, E. N. Optimal control of the growth of income of nations . Appl. Math. Comput. 62 (1994), no. 2-3, 279--309.
44. Chukwu, Ethelbert N. Mathematical controllability theory of the growth of wealth of nations . Japan J. Indust. Appl. Math. 11 (1994), no. 1, 87--111.
43. Chukwu, E. N. Mathematical controllability theory of capital growth of nations . Appl. Math. Comput. 52 (1992), no. 2-3, 317--344.
41. Chukwu, E. N.; Underwood, Robert G.; Kovari, Louis D. Global constrained null-controllability of nonlinear neutral systems . Appl. Math. Comput. 49 (1992), no. 1, 95--110.
40. Chukwu, E. N. Nonlinear delay systems controllability . J. Math. Anal. Appl. 162 (1991), no. 2, 564--576.
39. Chukwu, E. N. Global behavior of linear retarded functional-differential equations . J. Math. Anal. Appl. 162 (1991), no. 1, 277--293.
38. Chukwu, E. N.; Lenhart, S. M. Controllability questions for nonlinear systems in abstract spaces . J. Optim. Theory Appl. 68 (1991), no. 3, 437--462.
37. Chukwu, E. N. The time optimal control theory of functional-differential equations applicable to mathematical ecology . Mathematical ecology (Trieste, 1986), 734--752, World Sci. Publishing, Teaneck, NJ, 1988.
36. Chukwu, E. N.; Simpson, H. C. Perturbations of nonlinear systems of neutral type . J. Differential Equations 82 (1989), no. 1, 28--59.
35. Chukwu, E. N. The time control theory of linear differential equations of neutral type . The mathematics of systems and computations (Atlanta, GA, 1986). Comput. Math. Appl. 16 (1988), no. 10-11, 851--866.
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32. Underwood, Robert G.; Chukwu, E. N. Null controllability of nonlinear neutral differential equations . J. Math. Anal. Appl. 129 (1988), no. 2, 326--345.
31. Chukwu, E. N. Global null controllability of nonlinear delay equations with controls in a compact set . J. Optim. Theory Appl. 53 (1987), no. 1, 43--57. 93B05 (34K35 49E15)
30. Chukwu, E. N. On the Euclidean controllability of a neutral system with nonlinear base . Nonlinear Anal. 11 (1987), no. 1, 115--123.
29. Chukwu, E. N. Function space null controllability of linear delay systems with limited power . J. Math. Anal. Appl. 124 (1987), no. 2, 293--304.
28. Chukwu, E. N. Evolution equations of Lurie-type in Hilbert spaces . Nonlinear Anal. 9 (1985), no. 9, 977--985.
27. Chukwu, E. N. Constrained global null controllability of nonlinear delay systems . Trends in theory and practice of nonlinear differential equations (Arlington, Tex., 1982), 121--128, Lecture Notes in Pure and Appl. Math., 90, Dekker, New York, 1984.
26. Chukwu, E. N. Null controllability in function space of nonlinear retarded systems with limited control . J. Math. Anal. Appl. 103 (1984), no. 1, 198--210.
25. Chukwu, E. N. Total controllability to affine manifolds of control systems . J. Optim. Theory Appl. 42 (1984), no. 2, 181--199.
24. Chukwu, E. N. An estimate for the solution of a certain functional-differential equation of neutral type . Nonlinear phenomena in mathematical sciences (Arlington, Tex., 1980), 255--268, Academic Press, New York-London, 1982.
23. Chukwu, Ethelbert N. The time optimal control problem of linear neutral functional systems . Journal Nigerian Mathematics Society 1 (1982), 39--55.
22. Chukwu, E. N.; Gronski, J. M.; Silliman, S. D. Spline solution to extremal problems via optimal control . Boll. Un. Mat. Ital. Suppl. 1980, no. 1, 21--29.
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20. Chukwu, Ethelbert N. On the null-controllability of nonlinear delay systems with restrained controls . J. Math. Anal. Appl. 76 (1980), no. 1, 283--296.
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lolzzzz:
atleast Niger and borno are more brilliant than all Yoruba states. That's OK for me

Yorubas do not make mouths in education because we know we tower high with proofs,home and abroad.You have been ranting but I have been giving you facts.
In education,Yorubas have been there from time immemorial...

THIS IS A NEW ONE.WHERE ARE THE MIRACLE CENTRES PEOPLE...lol

http://discovernaija.com/meet-africa-and-nigerias-first-female-professor-in-quantity-surveying/


This is few reasons why you still have a long way to go...
Yoruba people are the pacesetters in Nigeria, Africa and in some cases, the world at large. We are the head, never the tail. Here are a few of Yorubas who have comfortably enshrined their names in the record book. . Abimbola Awoliyi is Nigeria’s first female doctor -Kolapo Hamzat is the youngest professor of physiotherapy in Nigeria and Africa -Adegoke olubunmo is the first professor of Mathematics in Africa -Momodu Mosobalaje Olaloye is the first African professor of Geology -Dele Olojede is the first and only African to win a Pulitzer prize -Abimbola jayeola is Nigeria’s First Female Helicopter Pilot -William Akinola Dawodu was the first Nigerian car importer, he started importing cars into Nigeria in 1905 -Prof. Jade Akande was the first female professor of law in West Africa -Kofo Ademola is the first black woman to receive an undergraduate degree from Oxford University -Dr. Olaoluwa Hallowed Oluwadara is the youngest African PHD Holder in Mathematics -Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye is the first female physics professor in Africa and also the first black African to be named a fellow of the Geological society of London -Wole Soyinka is the first black and only African to win a Nobel prize for literature -Thomas Adesanya ige grillo is the first Nigerian professor of anatomy -Taslim Elias is the first African to be president of the International Court of Justice (World Court) -Folake Folarin-Coker the first African-based fashion designer to stage a show twice at the New York Fashion Week -Latunde Odeku is the first US-trained black neurosurgeon and the 1st professor of neuro- surgery in Nigeria. -Bode Thomas created the First indigenous Nigerian law firm -I.K dairo is the first Nigerian to be conferred title of Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE -Amzat Beyioku Adebowale is The first Nigerian to bring Sharp range of electronic products in Nigeria -Prof. Taiyewo Kolawole is the first Nigerian neuro- radiologist -Prof. Arinola Olasumbo Sanya is the first female Professor of Physiotherapy in Africa. -Dr. Olu Jaiyebo is The first Agronomist in Nigeria. Professor Micheal Adepoju Adeyemo is The first Nigerian Chartered Accountant -Latola Films was the 1st film production company in Nigeria -Prof. Ilesanmi Adesida, is the first black Vice- Chancellor in an american unversity -Mrs. Sade Thomas-Fahm is the First woman to own a boutique in Nigeria -Nojim Maiyegun is the first Nigerian to win an Olympic medal -Adenike Osofisan is the first African Female Professor of Computer Science. -Prof T.O Ogunlesi is the first professor of Medicine in Nigeria -Chief Akintola Williams is the First African to qualify as a chartered accountant -Ezekiel Adekunle Ifaturoti is the first mining engineer in Nigeria -Rotimi Adebari is the First black mayor of Ireland -Folake Solanke is the First Female Senior Advocate of Nigeria -Elizabeth Abimbola is the First Nigerian Female Doctor-1937 -Helen Folasade Adu is the First Nigerian-born artist to win a Grammy-1986 -Prof. Bolanle Awe: Nigeria's first female Professor of History -Professor Thomas Adeoye Lambo is Africa’s first professor of psychiatry. -Engineer Dr. (Mrs.) Olatokubo A Somolu: is Nigeria’s first Female to hold a PHD in Engineering -Mrs Adetowun Ogunsheye is The first female professor in Nigeria -Mrs bisoye esther tejuosho is Nigeria’s first female industrialist -Michael Onafowokan is Nigeria’s first Architect 1952 -Aderonke Kale is the first Female Nigerian Armed Forces (2 Star) Major General: -Chief (Dr.) Bola Kuforiji Olubi is The first Female Chartered Accountant in Nigeria -George Olatokunbo Okikiolu, has written more mathematics papers than any other Black mathematician in history -Katherline okikiolu is the first black person to win the most prestigious award for young mathematics researchers in the United States and the first black woman to publish an article in the Annals of Mathematics -Samuel Layinka Ayodeji invented the excision knife to treat tropical ulcers. he won the Robert Wilson Memorial Prize in Chemistry and the Welcome Prize in Medicine.Cheers

Ritchiee:
You are the pathetic one here because you compare authentic widely educated people with your miracle centres peolple and say they are educated when everything genuine happenings home and abroad signifies that Yorubas are more educated than the Igbos.
And for your information,individuals beget a nation...
I WANT YOU TO BRING OUT YOURS AND WE WOULD ALWAYS DWARF WHATEVER YOU BRING AUTHENTICALLY.

LOOK AT THIS...EXCERPTS:



Mathematicians of the 1990s:

Seven mathematicians of the 1990s, Adebisi Agboola, Jonathan Farley, Wilfrid Gangbo, Abba Gumel, Trachette Jackson, Katherine Okikiolu, and Arlie Petters show extraordinary promise, "should be" (but are not necessarily) located at the very best institutions, and may be the Fields medal candidates of the future.













Petters: Belize born American citizen Arlie Petters, the most senior of the group is a member of Duke University's Bass Fellows. He is Full Professor of Mathematics and of Physics (their first tenured Black professor in the sciences - congratulations Duke). He is chiefly interested in the mathematical theory of gravitational lensing and related areas (differential geometry, singularity theory, general relativity, Astrophysics). Though Petters received his Ph.D. about ten years ago, he has published 30 papers and a book, chiefly in the area Gravitational Lensing. Petters's book on Gravitational Lensing is considered a tour de force in mathematical physics. In 1998, Petters was awarded the most prestigious award for "young" mathematicians, the three year Sloan Research Fellowship. In 2002, he was recipient of the first Blackwell-Tapia Prize.

K. Okikiolu: Born to Nigerian and British parents, but educated in the U.S., Katherine Okikiolu (was once on Princeton's faculty) received special distinction in 1997 when she was the first Black to win a Sloan Research Fellowship. Later in 1997, she won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for "Innovative research in geometric analysis, particularly the determinant of the Laplacian under smooth perturbations, and developing student workshops and mathematics curricula for inner-city children." This particular award is worth $500,000 and is only granted 60 scientists and engineers in the U.S. per year. Okikiolu's work on elliptical differential operators is considered a major contribution, going well beyond what experts had considered feasible, given the current state of knowledge. Her 2001 publication Critical metrics for the determinant of the Laplacian in odd dimensions in the Annals of Mathematics, is receiving high acclaim. She is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego.

Farley: Born in an extremely successful academic family of Rochester, New York, Jonathan Farley, graduated second in his class with an A.B. from Harvard University and obtained a mathematics Ph.D. from Oxford University where he was awarded the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson Prize for his research. During a two year visit to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute [MSRI] in 1996, Farley solved very important old problems in the Theory of Ordered Sets. He also works in Lattice Theory. He is currently publishing at an average of more than three papers a year, and in 2003 was a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University in England. Currently is Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Massachusettes Institute of Technology.

Gangbo: In just nine years from a Ph.D. to a Full Professor - this is incredible. Wilfrid Gangbo was born in Benin and in 1992 earned a Ph.D. from Swiss Federale Institute of Technology. Among his twelve papers is his 1996 The geometry of optimal transportation remains the single publication by a Black in the Mittag-Leffler Institute's Acta Mathematica, one of the world's strongest mathematics journals. In 2001 he was appointed Full Professor by Georgia Institute of Technology.

Agboola: In mathematics, one does not always know of young persons working in fields outside their own, and it is a great honor to the individual if the case is otherwise. Adebisi Agboola's work in Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry has been mentioned to me as very good by Kevin Corlette and two of my non-Black colleagues whose area of research is mutually exclusive with Agboola, Corlette, and each other. Agboola is Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara

Gumel: Born in Nigeria, Ph.D. in England. Abba Gumel is an extremely prolific in the areas Mathematical Biology, Non-linear Dynamical Systems, and Computational Mathematics. Currently he is a Full Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

Jackson: American Trachette Jackson was a mathematics major at Arizona State in Tempe. Four years later she earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Biology. Five years later she had ten articles under her belt and a Sloan Fellowship. Currently, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics University of Michigan

Johnson: British born Mathematical Physicist Clifford V. Johnson has over 60 publications since his 1992 Ph.D. Since that time he has immersed himself within String Theory (also see Sylvester James Gates) with papers and books. He is currently on leave at USC.


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You are just being pathetic. That topic had already been exhausted here: https://www.nairaland.com/567700/nigerian-academia-diaspora


Yoruba high flyers are easily cancelled out by Igbo high flyers.


This topic isn't about the high flyers, it's about the average performance of the SEners which more than trumps that of SW.

Nigerian Breaks Academic Record At John Hopkins University

A 22-year-old Nigerian has emerged one of the top graduating students of John Hopkins University in the United States. He obtained a Grade Point Average of 3.98 out of a possible 4.0 to earn a degree in Neurosciences, SEGUN OLUGBILE writes.

A 22-year-old Nigerian, Emmanuel Ohuabunwa, has made history at John Hopkins University, United States of America. Ohuabunwa from Arochukwu, Abia State, has done the nation proud by becoming the first black man to make a Grade Point Average of 3.98 out of 4.0 to bag a degree in Neurosciences in the university. He was also adjudged as having the highest honours during the graduation that was held on May 24 this year.

For his efforts, he has won a scholarship to Yale University to pursue a degree in medicine. Besides, he has been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Society, a prestigious honour group that features membership of 17 US Presidents, 37 US Supreme Court Justices, and 136 Nobel Prize winners.

According to Wikipedia, The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic honour society. Its mission is to “celebrate and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences” and induct “the most outstanding students of arts and sciences at America’s leading colleges and universities.”

It was founded at The College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776, and thus it is the oldest honour society for the liberal arts and sciences and among the oldest undergraduate societies in the US.

In an online interview with our correspondent, Ohuabunwa, who was born in Okota, Lagos and attended Lilly Fields Primary School, Lagos, said he left Nigeria after his junior secondary school education at Air Force Comprehensive School, Ibadan, Oyo State.

“My parents moved the whole family when I was 13 years old. I was about to begin SS1 at Air Force, Ibadan. When I got to the US, I was enrolled with my age mates, which meant at 13, I was in middle school. I went to Fondren Middle School, which was in the middle of the ghetto. That was one of the darkest years for me because I encountered a lot of peer pressure. Some of the students, ignorant about Africa, bullied me and called me names such as ‘African booty scratcher’ because to them, Africans were dirty and scratched their butts all the time.

“Some asked me if I lived in mud huts and ate faeces for breakfast. I remember one day, when I was walking to the school bus, a boy came from behind and punched me in the face, called me an African and walked away. It took everything in me not to retaliate. I knew that God had put me in the U.S for a purpose and it did not involve fighting or selling drugs or doing the wrong things.

“My experience during that year gave me a thick skin. I learned to stand for what I thought was right even when the opposition seemed insurmountable. I also learned to look at the positive in all situations. Even though these kids were bullying me, I was still gaining an opportunity to school in America and nothing would stop me from making the best of this opportunity.

“The shocker was that the kid that punched me in the face was black. I would have expected the blacks to be nicer to me. Nevertheless, I don’t blame those kids because they were ignorant about Africa. All they knew about us was the stuff they had watched on TV or documentaries, showing primitive African tribes, living in the jungle and making noises like monkeys.

“In regards to the whites, there might have been some minor episodes but again I don’t blame them for it because it is a problem with stereotypes,” he said.

But in spite of this humiliation and racial prejudice against him, the first in a family of three was not discouraged. He faced his studies and was always coming top in his class. After he completed his middle school education, he passed the entrance examination to DeBakey High School for Health Professions. It was at this school that his interest in neurosciences and medicine started.

“By the second year o

https://www.nairaland.com/1958535/emmanuel-ohuabunwa-earned-3.98-gpa

It doesn't get bigger than John Hopkins, but that's exactly where an Igbo man went and broke records.

Nigerian scientist wins award for developing cancer-visualising glasses


By Chuka Odittah (Abuja) on June 24, 2015





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A NIGERIAN-born scientist, Dr. Samuel Achilefu, has won the prestigious St. Louis Award for 2014 for creating cancer-visualizing glasses.

Achilefu, a professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, and his team developed the imaging technology in cancer diagnosis into a wearable night vision-like goggles so surgeons could see the cancer cells while operating.

“They basically have to operate in the dark,” Bloomberg Businessweek quoted Achilefu, 52, as saying.

“I thought, what if we create something that let’s you see things that aren’t available to the ordinary human eye.”

Achilefu won a scholarship from the French government to study at the University of Nancy, according to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a regional newspaper in St. Louis, U.S., and is the 87th person to receive the annual award since it was established in 1931.

Meanwhile, a Nigerian woman based in the United Kingdom, Nina Ndubuisi has invented a lifestyle programme that has successfully cut back excess weight in women and children in Nigeria, Canada, and elsewhere, raising hopes of containment of obesity especially among the rich.

Ndubuisi, who is a paramedic, while speaking in Abuja at the inauguration of ‘Slim With Ease,’ a global forum for reaching out to those affected by excess weight, stressed that her unique formula in cutting unwanted weight thrives on healthy lifestyle and determination.

Addressing hundreds of women and children, mostly those affected by excess weight gain, Nina said her priority is to help Nigerian women, children and men curb excess weight gain, noting that her goal is to eradicate obesity from the childhood of African children as well as other races around the world. Her programme, which has impacted women in Canada, UK and a number of African countries, has huge following on social media.

“Slim With Ease is not a revolutionary weight loss program that is sweeping across not just Nigeria but the whole world right now. It was inspired by my weight loss of 60kg in two years. I use to be very fat. People used to call me names on the street. People mocked me and I was determined to find a solution to my weight problem.

Also, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has blamed childhood obesity, especially in developing countries, on the marketing of sugar-rich non-alcoholic beverages and ultra-processed, energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods.

Director-General Margaret Chan yesterday told the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity meeting in Hong Kong that “childhood obesity can erode the benefits that arrive with social and economic progress.’’

She said that childhood obesity must be accepted as a significant and urgent threat to health that was relevant in all countries.

Chan said that governments must take the lead and now was the time to safeguard the future of every child.

She commended the interim report on the work carried out thus far by the commission and commended the group.

Chan warned that voluntary initiatives were not likely to be sufficient. “To be successful, efforts aimed at reducing the marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages need support from regulatory and statutory approaches. Perhaps most importantly, you defined a moral responsibility and stated where it must lie.

“None of the factors that cause obesity are under the control of the child,” she said.

Chan said that the number of overweight or obese infants and young children increased from 32 million globally in 1990 to 42 million in 2013.

Chan said in Africa alone, the number of overweight or obese children increased from 4 to 9 million over the same period.

Married with two young children, Achilefu moved to St. Louis after he was hired by Mallinckrodt to start a new research department.

“Our efforts start with two words: ‘What if?’” Achilefu said during his accepta

https://www.nairaland.com/2535828/meet-nigerian-scientist-invented-cancer-visualizing

Thank you

Ariani:


You are just being pathetic. That topic had already been exhausted here: https://www.nairaland.com/567700/nigerian-academia-diaspora


Yoruba high flyers are easily cancelled out by Igbo high flyers.


This topic isn't about the high flyers, it's about the average performance of the SEners which more than trumps that of SW.

Francisca Okeke, UNN professor, wins UNESCO’s $100,000 prize

ON APRIL 1, 20139:58 PMIN NEWSCOMMENTS
By UDUMA KALU, WITH AGENCY REPORT

A Nigerian professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, Francisca Okeke has won the 2013 laureate award for her contributions “to the understanding of daily variations of the ion currents in the upper atmosphere which may further our understanding of climate change.”

A second Nigerian award recipient, Dr Eucharia Nwaichi, an environmental bio-chemist from the University of Port Harcourt, joined 15 other young scientists in the “International Fellows” category.

Okeke, who is the first female Head of Department, Education Management, UNN, bagged the prize of $100,000 as one of the winners of the 2013 L’Oréal-UNESCO awards in Physical Sciences.

In a statement, UNESCO said Okeke has made the study of the ionosphere her lifetime work. The ionosphere lies between 50km and 1000km above the earth surface.

“A very thick layer of charged particles, the ionosphere produces changes in the magnetic field on earth’s surface that affect the planet in a host of ways. Her research could lead to a better understanding of climate change and help pinpoint sources of dramatic phenomena like tsunamis and earthquakes”, a summary of her research published by UNESCO read.

The awards were announced last year October, but the award ceremony took place last weekend in Paris.

She was the only recipient in that category from Africa and the Arab nations and the third Nigerian Laureate since the UNESCO-L’Oreal partnership was established in 1998. Professor Okeke got a prize of $100,000.

Four others also got awards in the Laureate category with each representing Europe, Latin America, North America and the Asia Pacific regions.

UK Scientist Professor Pratibha Gai of York University won the 2013 European Laureate award. She was recognized for “ingeniously modifying her electron microscope so that she was able to observe chemical reactions occurring at surface atoms of catalysts which will help scientists in their development of new medicines or new energy sources.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/francisca-okeke-unn-professor-wins-unescos-100000-prize/

A 21-year-old Nigerian, Miss Jewel Olachi Nkwocha, has made her country proud by earning a First Class Honours (Summa Cum Laude) in Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, United States.
Miss Nkwocha, who hails from Imo State, also bagged a medal from the University’s Honours College as well as two awards from the School of Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering; all of which were presented to her during the university’s graduation held recently in Richmond.
During her four-year programme, Jewel won the Mark Sternheimer honours scholarship twice as a reward for academic excellence. In her third year, she was given a Tutor appointment which she described as “tasking but very rewarding intellectually”, while in her final year, she was among 12 undergraduates who won the University’s Dean’s research grant for specialised project with a doctoral candidate.
But it was not all about academics for Jewel. In her second year, she was elected a representative in the Students Union Association (SUA), while in her third year, she won a Senate seat in the SUA.
She combined these responsibilities with being a UNICEF volunteer and one of the leaders of the African Students Union.
Jewel and her parents, Dr Jossy and Lady Joy Nkwocha, were very happy and full of gratitude to God for such an academic feat in far-away US, especially for a girl who did her secondary school in Nigeria (Federal Government College, Owerri), and travelled to US only four years ago.
How does she feel making such a great result? “I just feel good, normal. I am happy that my result has elevated the image of my country Nigeria. I give thanks to my parents who gave me the opportunity of studying here in America. I also appreciate my guardians here in U.S., Mr and Mrs Sam Chijioke, who have done so much for me. I give all the glory to God Almighty who has made it all possible,” she said.
Her father, a former General Editor of Newswatch magazine, praised Jewel for making them proud, but also gave God the glory.




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I just giggle when I see continous comparison of these tribes on NL...don't U guys ever get tired? The moment e-tribal warlords recognize that there is no competition between these two tribes, the better. Both tribes have produced high flying personalities cutting across various fields each with their unique attibutes so the continuous comparison of both tribes is really baseless.