how exactly is this a case of ethnic jealousy?

@posters I think we are having it too emotionally for this Emegwali chap. if we can devote as much negative energies to the claims of intellectual by our existing governors and seatign president, I am sure they will stop making unrealistic claims to providing gainful employment for thousands of youth if only you re-elect them

The guy lied (constructlively) and got away with it for a long while, His singular act may smear our image but not any more than our reckless and scandalous leaders (Past and present) continue to do and they do not care about lying constructively, they lie to your face and rub it in your face with spit to make it stick

The guy left Nigeria a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooog time ago. He made ALL his academic achievements OUTSIDE NIGERIA using FOREIGN scholarship. I even believe the guy left as a BIAFRAN. He obviously started accepting Nigeria only recently (I think after Clinton's visit to Nigeria).

So, what baffles me is how a news source with any claims to legitimacy could claim that the Nigerian government can investigate Emeagwali for ANY of his conducts when the guy is NOT even a Nigerian. LUDICROUS.

If there is any iota of truth in this, his next move would (and should be ) to slap any Nigerian official who dares to contact him with a Nigerian passport.

^^the nigerian stamp nko?

Africa's way forward and return to world leadership is by introducing "Inspiration education" - Emeagwali

CNN calls him “a father of the internet“, Time called him the “unsung hero” behind the internet, the US president, Bill Clinton called him “the Bill Gates of Africa,” and BBC in March this year, 2010, interviewed him among others as a “digital giant. Indeed Professor Emeagwali, mentioned in this article as '[B]a beacon of hope for Africa[/B]', has given several lectures from his genius mind that won him a Nobel equivalent prize in supercomputing from the worlds #1 Computing and Engineering society, the IEEE on his mathematical calculations on how to restore Africa to world leadership. We should pay attention.

Watch from 26mins>

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[QUOTE="Emeagwali speech above in Jamaica"]

, no, not just black scientists are underrated, female scientists too are , my success and all genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration, I was studying this stuff for over 15 years, that's how i accomplished, most people do not believe in themselves and do not reach their full potential, the difference is that I believed in myself.

[I]Q> Let's talk bout the contirbutions of black people to civilization, black scientists have made that's not usually focused on in European history texts[/I]

Well I always say that science and technology is the gift of ancient blacks to the modern world. [B]We led the ancient world into the agricultural age. Africans of the Nile river valley, Europeans led the world into the information and industrial age. We led the world into the Agricultural age and laid the foundation on which the Europeans built.[/B]

One more example, of the 7 wonders of the world, the only remaining is the oldest and largest, the pyramid of Giza and that for 3700 years was the tallest structure on Earth! And that is an architectural feat that requires lots of knowledge of mathematics and many other fields of science and technology.

[I]Q> but why weren't we able to make the transition into the industrial age? the Europeans have been able to achieve marvels from the application of science and technology.[/I]


[B]Well what happened is we pioneered in it but there came the Greeks[/B](Greeks-the-thieves{my addition}) and others came to Africa, studied it and built on it-and-there-is-nothing-wrong-with-that(such an honorable man, I need learn from him).[B].and also the Arabs came and conquered North Africa and they too took the knowledge and spread it to Europe and helped Europe develop to where it is now[/B]. But the key lesson we have to learn from that is the wealth of Nations is built on the intellectual capital and the knowledge that the nations have and when we look around the world, we see a correlation between the wealth and intellect of nations and we have to develop on our [B]intellectual capital[/B] as that would help us bridge the gap (this man is always talking positive, he never slows down for negative or pessimistic opinions, what a prophet!) between the poor and affluent nations

[I]Q> to return to greatness and return to be leaders of the new civilization, what must we do, [/I]


[B]We focus on education and beyond the 3Rs,- reading, writing and arithmetic, we need that but there are other things besides the 3Rs- firstly you have inspiration and people get inspired by reading the history of their people[/B](OMG, great minds think alike, preach on master, yup, we need our hidden, stolen history revived, and as with the prophets, we need open up to inspiration) when they know the contributions of their ancestors, yeah the history is very important, you need to have a broad education and inspiration, go beyond the 3Rs, beyond literacy and numeracy, [/QUOTE]

The Nigerian ministries of education and Information must be encouraged to inculcate pure, African history into our education systems to restore our belief in ourselves. Indeed fables like mungo Park discovering our very own River Niger must be deleted from the curriculum. This is the only way we can move forward.

tpia@:

^^the nigerian stamp nko?

He NEVER ask you to put him in your ridiculous stamp. So please TAKE IT OFF.

How about investigating Babangida first?

Childish reaction by her.

Did she even read the article? What allegations against him? Seriously?

This mental retardation has no limits.
Like the US government wasting public funds investigating baseless rumors that Obama is Muslim or was not born in Hawaii.

Once again the Nigeria Government is looking for ways to waste public funds on worthless pursuits.


SaharaDeportees will only end up disgraced once again at the end of the infestigazeon.

They should read this article and not waste their time>

Emeagwali, a beacon of hope for Africa
http://www.newsrescue.com/2010/10/emeagwali-a-beacon-of-hope-for-africa/


I challenge anyone here who speaks against him to provide me 1 single evidence against him. I will pay that person 20,000N

Onlytruth:

He NEVER ask you to put him in your ridiculous stamp. So please TAKE IT OFF.

what concerns me abeg.

i wasnt there when they put him on and neither have i seen the stamp anywhere outside the internet.

so please dont direct your anger at me.

Let me guess, this is another Nigerian investigation? SMH

Anywaz, why must we seek outside help before we know our men are legitimate? For those awaiting CNN, BBC, etc 's own investigations?

You ppl sha, a man dey live him own life dey succeed, the real culprits in your country dey steal money like money dey grow on tree, why una no investigate corrupt politicians? Whose really doing the real harm?

tpia@:

what concerns me abeg.

i wasnt there when they put him on and neither have i seen the stamp anywhere outside the internet.

so please dont direct your anger at me.

How are you this afternoon, my princess?

Ileke-IdI:

Let me guess, this is another Nigerian investigation? SMH

Anywaz, why must we seek outside help before we know our men are legitimate? For those awaiting CNN, BBC, etc 's own investigations?

You ppl sha, a man dey live him own life dey succeed, the real culprits in your country dey steal money like money dey grow on tree, why una no investigate corrupt politicians? Whose really doing the real harm?

u haven't been following on the threads

this was posted in this thread:

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5639794-146/government_to_investigate_emeagwali__.csp

By Musikilu Mojeed
November 8, 2010 12:19AM

The Nigerian government will investigate allegations of fraudulent claims levelled against Nigerian United States-based scientist, Philip Emeagwali, the Minister of Information and Communication, Dora Akunyili, has said.

NEXT had in a report on Sunday quoted some leading American scientists as describing Mr. Emeagwali’s claim that he was a father of the Internet as misleading.

In a telephone interview yesterday, Mrs. Akunyili said the allegations against Mr Emeagwali were weighty and disturbing and would have to be thoroughly investigated.

Mr. Emeagwali is among Nigerians that Mrs. Akunyili showcased to the world in the government’s effort to improve the country’s image.

The Nigeria Postal Service, which is directly under the minister’s supervision, has also put the embattled scientist on the Nigerian stamp.

“The allegations are unbelievable, but we cannot jump to conclusion,” the minister said. “Our government is a responsible one and so, we cannot disregard what has been published. We will pierce information together and if necessary, we will invite him to say his own side of the story. He is our son. When they tell you your child is a thief, you can’t just jump up and start celebrating. You will have to find out and establish the truth.”

Mrs. Akunyili said the government cannot afford to make mistakes on such a sensitive issue and would therefore take its time to do a thorough investigation.

She said once the investigation is completed, the government will issue a final statement, and then decide whether to remove him from the Nigerian stamp.

She did not say how long the investigation would last, saying it was not a decision she could unilaterally take.

Erroneous celebration

Meanwhile, a graduate student of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Adekunle Yusuf, on Sunday apologized for erroneously celebrating Mr. Emeagwali at an event in his university four days ago.

In a telephone interview with NEXT, Mr. Yusuf said at a “Taste of Nigeria” event, organized by the university to celebrate the culture and people of Nigeria, Nigerian students showcased Mr. Emeagwali alongside the likes of Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe as their country’s great human exports dazzling the world.

He said he became sad after reading the report of Mr. Emeagwali’s fraudulent claims in NEXT.

“We didn’t know he was just deceiving the world. I’m really depressed that he was among those we celebrated,” said Mr. Yusuf, a Senior Writer with TELL and Ford Foundation scholar at Wisconsin.

In 1989, Mr. Emeagwali won the $1,000 Gordon Bell Prize, which is awarded each year to recognise outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

His award was for an application of the CM-2 massively parallel computer for oil reservoir modelling. Following the feat, Mr. Emeagwali proceeded to claim, for several years, that he was a father of the Internet; that he improved upon Isaac Newton’s laws of motion; that he owned the world’s first personal website; that American computer giant, Apple, uses the microprocessor technology he pioneered in its Power Mac G4 model, among many other claims.

But leading American and Nigerian scientists have faulted the claim, saying Mr. Emeagwali made no contribution to the evolution of the Internet as he had over the years made the world to believe.

To see how RIDICULOUS this so called "investigation" is, Mr Phillip Emeagwali left Nigeria with a foreign scholarship in 1974 at the age of 17

He obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977
from a scholarship he won in 1974.

He obtained two Masters Degrees from George Washington University and the University of Maryland respectively, studying mathematics and environmental engineering.

HE OWES NOTHING TO NIGERIA. END OF STORY.

To save Government the time and money, I have opened this challenge: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-547571.0.html#msg7103807

Anyone who can substantiate the allegations and rumors propagated by a few Nigerian elements against the person of Prof. Emeagwali can participate and win the N20,000 reward!

Emeagwali is a man i love with passion.pls let the so-called FG leave him alone,

Emeagwali will not be the first or the last person to stretch the truth, particularly in Nigeria.

Judging by the state of our roads, schools and hospitals you would say that telling lies is a national past time and may even stand him in good stead for political office one day.

It is also fair to say that there are far more deserving candidates for investigation than poor Phillip.

The question to ask is why the government didn't investigate him before making him a national hero by putting him on the stamp and doing 419 on the unsuspecting masses.

Can somebody please call Farida.

this is just sad.

leave emeagwali alone!!!!!!!!!what about ibb and atiku?



misplaced priorities

Onlytruth:

To see how RIDICULOUS this so called "investigation" is, Mr Phillip Emeagwali left Nigeria with a foreign scholarship in 1974 at the age of 17

He obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977
from a scholarship he won in 1974.

He obtained two Masters Degrees from George Washington University and the University of Maryland respectively, studying mathematics and environmental engineering.

HE OWES NOTHING TO NIGERIA. END OF STORY.

i agree, why should nigeria investigate someone that is not a nigerian with passport

they should leave emeguali alone

jason12345:

this is just sad.

leave emeagwali alone!!!!!!!!!what about ibb and atiku?



misplaced priorities

gbam, why not investigate ibb, tinubu and co

why emeguali

He is a fraud, yes. So remove him from the stamp and don't use his name in Nigeria. But that is all that needs to be done there. His fraudulent behavior mostly happened outside of Nigeria, so it really shouldn't be the governments concern.

Now, on the other hand if he is making money in Nigeria using his fraudulent claims and lies, then yes he definitely needs to be punished. But somehow I doubt that is the case (aside from the stamp issue.)

Superego:

Africa's way forward and return to world leadership is by introducing "Inspiration education" - Emeagwali

CNN calls him “a father of the internet“, Time called him the “unsung hero” behind the internet, the US president, Bill Clinton called him “the Bill Gates of Africa,” and BBC in March this year, 2010, interviewed him among others as a “digital giant. Indeed Professor Emeagwali, mentioned in this article as '[B]a beacon of hope for Africa[/B]', has given several lectures from his genius mind that won him a Nobel equivalent prize in supercomputing from the worlds #1 Computing and Engineering society, the IEEE on his mathematical calculations on how to restore Africa to world leadership. We should pay attention.

Watch from 26mins>

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMFy9sBLFQQ?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash]

The Nigerian ministries of education and Information must be encouraged to inculcate pure, African history into our education systems to restore our belief in ourselves. Indeed fables like mungo Park discovering our very own River Niger must be deleted from the curriculum. This is the only way we can move forward.

This a towering profile. No wonder this Yorubas are after Professor Emeagwali. All the Yorubas put together both home and abroad cannot match the profile of this singular Igboman from Onitsha Anambra state. This a mere envy from ofe mmanu people,

It was CNN that called him father of internet. We are not better investigator than CNN. Am sure that CNN properly checked him out and confirmed that Emeagwali is really and truely the father of internet before they make that pronoucement. A US president called the Bill Gate of Africa, such a personality is not dumb nigerian politician. So we should get this right and honor whom honor is due to.

CNN calls him “a father of the internet“, Time called him the “unsung hero” behind the internet, the US president, Bill Clinton called him “the Bill Gates of Africa,” and BBC in March this year, 2010, interviewed him among others as a “digital giant. Indeed Professor Emeagwali, mentioned in this article as 'a beacon of hope for Africa', has given several lectures from his genius mind that won him a Nobel equivalent prize in supercomputing from the worlds #1 Computing and Engineering society, the IEEE on his mathematical calculations on how to restore Africa to world leadership.

http://www.newsrescue.com/2010/10/emeagwali-a-beacon-of-hope-for-africa/

Read on ;


Emeagwali, a beacon of hope for Africa
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NewsRescue- In times when the African continent as a whole hardly has its praises sang. In times when negatives about Africa are more commonly depicted than positives, a few men have stood out more than any other to restore dignity to a disenfranchised continent and turn hopes and dreams into feasible, mathematical realities. We are talking of the likes of Nelson Mandela, denied, imprisoned, chastised, but later recognized, instated and celebrated. No doubt, Nelson Mandela, labeled a terrorist at a time, who spent over two decades of his life years in jail and then was released and elected president of South Africa, will forever be celebrated as one of the greatest men that ever lived.

But today we talk about another great beacon of Africa’s problems, potentials and promise. Mr Emeagwali, Professor Emeagwali, aka “a father of the internet”, aka “digital giant”.

Some may not know this great African who hails from Nigeria, others know him by many great accolades, and some others know him by great controversy.

CNN calls him “a father of the internet“, Time called him the “unsung hero” behind the internet, the US president, Bill Clinton called him “the Bill Gates of Africa,” and BBC in March this year, 2010, interviewed him among others as a “digital giant“.



Gordon Bell Presents Prize to Emeagwali

So who is this simple, yet complicated fellow. Phillip Emeagwali was born in the Eastern part of Nigeria, Africa’s largest Nation of over 100 million citizens. He was brought up during trying times of civil war in Nigeria and according to him was strengthened by the trials associated: “The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. It is called learning from the school of hard knocks. It made me street smart. It equipped me with a greater sense of determination and vision.”

A dropout and outcast

A serial school dropout, Emeagwali learned non conformance and independence from formal establishments. His personal interests speared him and in his early life, he studied books of Galileo, Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein. A desire to be an astronaut and mathematician brought him to the United States and into college to pursue his dreams.

Father of the internet

In the 1970s, Emeagwali theorized that 65,000 computers around the Earth could forecast the weather. That theoretical supercomputer, with 65,000 nodes, is today’s Internet. For the audacity of his theorized Internet, the book “History of the Internet” and CNN called him one of the fathers of the Internet.

For this early hypothesis, books on the origins of the internet have described Emeagwali as one of the fathers of the internet as have various media publications and academic institutes. In his speech at the University of Michigan, he described himself as not the father of the internet, but of course, one of many successive and contributory minds that in the collective inspired what we know as the internet today. In his words- “the internet inspiration has not only fathers, but aunts, brothers, sisters, etc, and the answer to the rather simple question, who is its father, is extremely complex”. Other main contestants for a great role in fathering the internet are the New York teachers association and the United States defense services.

Emeagwali the Supercomputer man

In 1989 Philip Emeagwali programmed the Connection Machine to compute a world record 3.1 billion calculations per second using 65,536 processors to simulate oil reservoirs. For this feat, he was awarded the Gordon bell software prize by the IEEE, the worlds largest professional association for the advancement of technology, a body of over 85,000 scientists. Most other winners of these awards were teams, like the Mobil team that won an award the same year. Emeagwali won as an individual an accolade deserving of an entire team of 100s.


At the time of his winning this great feat, Emeagwali was not having the best academic time once again in his life. Indeed the story of professor Emeagwali is very common among geniuses. Albert Einstein, was known to have had a very unsuccessful school life and often cut classes and used the time to study physics on his own or to play his violin. He passed his examinations and graduated in 1900 by studying the notes of a classmate. His professors did not think highly of him and refused to recommend him for a university position. He first got his diploma from a polytechnic. The renowned Stephen Hawkings too was also known to have been awarded a second class at graduation from college. In college, Hawking was passing, but his unimpressive study habits resulted in him having a final examination score on the borderline between first and second class honors, making an “oral examination” necessary.

Emeagwali was having his doctoral dissertations rejected by predominantly White boards at this time, in a MLK and Rosa Parks America, and he ended up not receiving this degree even upon taking the establishment to court several times. But his genius and role forever in the history of science had been established. Emeagwali from his personal endeavors and the strength he had learned as a child where he was forced to have truncated schooling and had to learn and make his way on his own, had done so again in his adult life and still continues to do so, against all odds, not just for himself but for the entire Black race who all face similar disappointments in a world not perfect. In his words, “living in America, I was an outcast in the scientific world, that I yet conquered”. Much can be read of his achievements on his site- www.Emeagwali.com

With his success, academic journals that formerly rejected his work turn to praise:

“The amount of money at stake is staggering. For example, you can typically expect to recover 10 percent of a field’s oil. If you can improve your production schedule to get just 1 percent more oil, you will increase your yield by $400 million,” wrote the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize Committee in the academic journal Software (May 1990).

In the bimonthly news journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, mathematician Alan Karp wrote: “I have checked with several reservoir engineers who feel that his calculation is of real importance and very fast. His explicit method not only generates lots of megaflops, but solves problems faster than implicit methods. Emeagwali is the first to have applied a pseudo-time approach in reservoir modeling.” (SIAM News, May 1990)

His words on configuring the supercomputer:

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected. The processing nodes are configured as a cube in a 12-dimensional universe, although we only use it to solve problems arising from our three-dimensional universe. To perform the world’s fastest computation, I divided and evenly distributed the calculations among the 65,536 processors and then squeezed the most performance from the each processor. It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. The gory details will be of interest to only mathematicians and super computer nerds. However, for your amusement, they include equations such as:






Emeagwali’s greatest new challenges

Emeagwali- The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS. What he calls, the greatest “war” of our times.


Indeed Emeagwali is a Martin Luther King from Africa. He has used 100% of his well earned respect and power in the technological society and world at large to be a tireless positive and motivational speaker for the Black race. Today, no other black man compares to Emeagwali when it comes to speeches for the hope, resurrection and restoration of the African continent and Africans all over the diaspora to their esteemed heights. From Trinidad and Tobago to his home country, Nigeria. Emeagwali has given speeches upon speeches, stressing the challenges ahead and why and what Africa needs do to prevent further problems and situate itself well to compete in an internet world, with the internet being the “eight continent” as he puts it.

In March this year, while being interviewed by the BBC, in their “digital giant” series, Emeagwali suggested and predicted that Nigeria and Africa will be the highest internet connected Nation in the world, superseding the United States and that we must prepare for this time. He also suggested the use of digital technology to solve one of Africa’s greatest issues,- corruption especially at the electoral level. Indeed knowing Emeagwali’s predictions for their scary accuracy, there should be real hope for Nigeria as the technological future promises to return Nigeria to a front position among Nations.



Nat. Geographic: Black Pharaohs

A Black Pharaoh


Like the pharaohs, who the world for years denied of being black, but not until recently, about two years to be precise after many pro-African scientists had relentlessly published limitless evidence about the true color and ethnicity of the pharaohs, did the western system acknowledge the Black pharaohs, and as we see in this edition on of the National Geographic magazine, full coverage on the Black Pharaohs. So also is Emeagwali denied in many circles, especially at home.

Indeed the proverb that “A prophet is denied in his own home”, has never been more presented than in the case of Emeagwali. Nigerians continue to question the truth of his accomplishments for one reason,- they do not see a western conferred degree on his name.

Nigerians and the love of titles

In Nigeria, if there is no title to your name, you are nobody. Greetings in Nigeria go thus- I am Dr, Chief, Professor, Alhaji, General so-and-so. If you do not complete an education in Nigeria you are never recognized. Not surprising, Bill Clinton respectfully compared Emeagwali to Bill Gates, another man known to have dropped out of college, yet made his mark, but Nigerians are not so embracing, hence form the first to date, Nigerians keep struggling to discredit Emeagwali because his dissertation was not accepted, possibly because as with the case of many geniuses, his superiors could not appreciate his higher intelligence and possibly out of racism. An outcast of the system, he says of himself.

Where are his publications? Why does he accept being called “a father of the internet”?, Why does he praise himself? These are some of the rather embarrassing questions Nigerians ask of Emeagwali. Most of these type of questions however do not deserve address because the merit of his achievements are clearly available in authentic online and global media archives and by world governments and these speak louder than any type of distortion, either borne out of jealousy or self hate as the case may unfortunately be.

Controversy, SaharaReporters attacks Emeagwali’s wife and more

Recently for instance a Nigerian online editorial known for its dog-like attacks of Nigerian public figures, published an all out attack at the dignified Emeagwali. But upon reading the article it was simply another case where the usual shameful method of dirty mud-slinging used by similar media houses for lack of better tools was obvious. Almost the entire article poorly challenged statements purportedly made by Emeagwali’s wife and not himself. We believe this was very unfortunate, but this was not a surprise to many readers who associate this magazine with similar disingenuous publications about people, like the late Nigerian president, Yaradua’s little son having fun, or other officials families, sitting innocently. Family attack is used by Nigerian media who unlike the United States and other developed media where certain standards must be upheld, act lawlessly and disgracefully.

Bill Clinton says there are thousands of Philip Emeagwalis. Please stand up!

Indeed the then president of the United States was not just reading a speech, he was reading a well thought out, and prepared lecture for Nigerians in particular and Africans in general. There are many Emeagwali’s in Africa, but they are lost under the pressure of a hostile system. They are smashed as Nelson Mandela got smashed and they loose their will and desire to stay alive till their time again comes and they are to lead the nation they love. Unlike Emeagwali they drop out of school, just once and quit, and never become known by their families, talk-less the entire world for their true worth. Emeagwali dropped out of school in his childhood, not once, not twice, not thrice but more than four times yet he trained himself and he did so so much that now, he is a Professor emeritus, a trainer of not just himself but of computers and men alike, teaching others everyday to be strong, to be determined and most importantly, to be unconventional, seeing behind at what other don’t see and not giving up where others fail.

Unlike many Africans’ Emeagwali continues to see a hope for Africa. This hope requires a lot of effort, but all the same Emeagwali one of the worlds greatest mathematicians calculates a sure and certain great future for Africa with the result of the leveling of world scenes with technological advancements. To be great in a technological world, no degree is required, no travel is required no prior experience is required, just having the knack of it, and your fingers on the keyboard make you known from your little, solar panel powered shack in Enugu to the farthermost corner of China.

The 1000’s of Emeagwalis in Nigeria, please stand up and follow the torch that Emeagwali, the non-conformant supercomputer, digital giant has lit and with which he calls upon you to be the greatest!

Listen to and watch the speech of Professor Emeagwali on the October 1st 50th year anniversary of Nigeria in 2010





Sankofa Mythic bird


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Sankofa Mythic bird mentioned by Emeagwali in Golden Jubilee speech

Fabled Sankofa Bird. The Sankofas’ head is always turned backwards, thus “facing the past.” The Sankofa represents the old African adage “Always remember the past for therein lies the future, if forgotten…” We are destined to repeat it.

Mungo Park came to Eastern Nigeria where people have been living along the banks of a river for generations unknown, promptly called the river 'Niger' and the white men claimed he discovered the river     

Philip Emeagwali went to the US where people had been working on the models for the internet, cobbled up a couple of the computer machines for his project work and the white man again called him a father of the internet.     

Let the investigation begin sha, we dey.

Dora wants to do government magic; she will give him a clean bill.

This is very sad.

cecegorz:

Mungo Park came to Eastern Nigeria where people have been living along the banks of a river for generations unknown, promptly called the river 'Niger' and the white men claimed he discovered the river     

Philip Emeagwali went to the US where people had been working on the models for the internet, cobbled up a couple of the computer machines for his project work and the white man again called him a father of the internet.     

Let the investigation begin sha, we dey.

My broda, that's what I posted earlier


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This is a right step. Goodness, we were deluded into believing that he was the father of the internet. If this is not done, then our children will be imparted with wrongful information that this man founded the internet. This lies would compete alongside that of Mungo Park 'discovering' River Niger or Christopher Columbus 'discovering' America.

Ndipe:

My broda, that's what I posted earlier


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This is a right step. Goodness, we were deluded into believing that he was the father of the internet. If this is not done, then our children will be imparted with wrongful information that this man founded the internet. This lies would compete alongside that of Mungo Park 'discovering' River Niger or Christopher Columbus 'discovering' America.

So did the govts of Mungo park's and Christopher Columbus' countries investigate them?

Environer:

So did the govts of Mungo park's and Christopher Columbus' countries investigate them?

I dont know about the govt of Mungo Park or Christopher Columbus, but his 'discovery' of America is very much celebrated till today in America. Are you suggesting that we do the same to Emegwali?

Ndipe:

I dont know about the govt of Mungo Park or Christopher Columbus, but his 'discovery' of America is very much celebrated till today in America. Are you suggesting that we do the same to Emegwali?

You need not celebrate him if you are not interested. We his admirers will do that and we are in the millions.

Nigerians and tribal backstabbing and mudslinging.

What stops the accusers of Emeagwali from building a connection to the CM2 and doing a task at half his speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second or at most beat his record and win the Gordon Bell price or a Nobel prize rather than laze around the PC and use the internet to critisize another mans hard work.
If the 20 pound policy and starvation policy used during the war with other scorched earth policy did stop emeagwali then this propaganda will not stop emeagwali but will rather produce a thousand emeagwalis like bill clinton prophesied.


Come to think of it why has the Gordon bell prize not been given to any nigerian or african since then.

Probably nigerians and africans did not honor or appreciate him much to spur others to go for the prize.

They should investigate all our corrupt politicians first! His head is on a stamp. But don't we have a university named after IBB?

rhymz:

It is very obvious that some ppl want to see Emeagwali's downfall even if it meant reprinting their junks in hundred newspapers and site. . .na wa O. . .
This obviously is being done in bad taste, simple. Even the !diot  that calls himself yusuf is making inflamatory statements against the man based on the same capaign of calumies by some disgruntled Nigerian underachieved prof in the name of exposing sb without waiting to hear from the man or even making any attempt at all to hear the other part of the story, what a Mørøn. . . .Anyway, I like the fact that Dora and her ministry did not jump into hasty conclusions like the rest of the morons are doing and writing epistles in the name exposing him. Until the result of the investigation comes to light, those over produced rubbish articles in sahara and replicated in Next remain ridiculous attempt to drag sb down based on Nigerians' crab mentality syndrom.

I quite agree with u on that.His side must be heard.