SpeedGod:

I have B.Eng.(Computer Engineering). then worked as insurance marketer(agent) for may be three years (No IT work Exp yet, no IT certification yet). Now in uk(London) doing MSc in IT(University of wales institute cardiff). i want to come back (Nig) after graduation, if i don't get IT job here. Can't get post study work visa by the time i graduate. Now, because i want to be able to get an IT job in Nig if i comeback, i am considering doing MBA or phd immediately i finish MSc IT. i am 30 this year. please, advise me, don't blame me.

In as much as having work experience is good, you cannot rule out the benefits and need for having degrees whether in the Nigerian labour market or abroad. I have seen people with many years of experience without much degrees but still get good jobs but  the fact is that there is a limit/bar in which they cannot exceed but this depends on the industry. I have seen people with NO experience at all but  then they also  get high profile jobs based on their degrees.

If you really want to go for a Phd in computer engineering or IT, personally i would say that it makes no sense if you would return back to Nigeria. But certainly there are many jobs abroad in engineering field in which you cannot even dream of getting if you dont have a Phd. Many years of experience would amount to nothing.

A good example ( no sense of pride at all)  I have had the privilege of working in Bell Labs , the R& arm of Alcatel Lucent in Germany, honestly speaking
without a Phd in Computer Science, or Signal Processing, Communication Engineering etc you cant dream of working there, 20 yrs experience in MTN or Glo or having 20 IT certifications is absolutely of no use there. Infact many of the guys i met there don't even know about all these IT certifications, they are all interested in research, filling of patents, etc  these are guys in there late 20 and early 30s . These PhD guys do core research work and they are in high demand all over Germany, and guess what; even with all the racism, guys with immigrant background having  Phd from German Universities do get jobs at least to some extent.

So follow your passion, seeking advice is good but in the end, you absolutely know what you want more than anyone else.   Spending  money doing a Phd in engineering with the hope of going  back to settle in Nigeria is not worth it as far as I am concerned, except you would like to be a lecturer.

bisiaet:

This is absolutely absurd and so insulting. Can you hear yourself you have just spend 5 year in USA and so damn what So for that reason you are so clean and too hygiene that the people you were kissing anyhow just five years ago are now filthy to you bros please say something else sensible ok.

This is too embarrassing I cant understand why so many who came from face me and face you home when getting a slight opportunity in life they look at other people has a filthy rags.

Well brosie that US you are talking about I was there before and always am there infact is my second home so I cant understand what a hell you are talking about bros, you may go back to that USA to get kiss ok, dont take it personal ok

I think moderator should delete this nasty thread right away is just too insensitive, annoying, childish and embarrassing.

No offense

Supported !!!
This is how they come to this forum to insult people who have never had the opportunity to travel abroad. Absolute rubbish .

@ Ola Olabiy,

I'm very interested in PRINCE2, Please I would greatly appreciate it, if you could send me the manual/exams sample questions & answers .

val_4all@yahoo.com. Perhaps anyone who has received such materials from Ola Olabiy could as well do same.


Really looking forward to your mail.

Thanks a million.

Dangote is on Forbes list and so what? we are here ranting for no just cause and responding to a demented fool like  fstranger3.

Yes, i celebrate Dangotes ingenuity, yes, i know he is the highest employer of labour in Nigeria, but again certainly the likes of dangote ,adenuga otedola and co are the ones equally drawing us back in Nigeria. Otedola would never allow our refineries or PHCN to work in order to rake in billions and when his name appears on forbes list fstranger3 and co would celebrate him.

The question is this, even with all their wealth what have they done for their people? Bill Gates is on forbes list but he has committed millions of dollars to eradicate polio from the entire northern region, kano state inclusive (where Dangote hails from) . Same Bill gates is currently supporting research in the eradication of malaria in Africa.

Also from Anambra

James Nwoye Adichie: Nigeria's first professor of statistics

James Nwoye Adichie was born on March 1, 1932 in Abba, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. After passing the Advanced Level General Certificate of Education ('A' level GCE) examinations in Pure mathematics, Applied mathematics, English and Latin, he was admitted into the University College Ibadan (UCI) now the University of Ibadan (UI) in 1957 to read mathematics. In those days when the UCI was a college of the University of London and was the only university institution in Nigeria, it was a remarkable achievement for a student to be admitted into the College. He graduated B.A. Mathematics of the University of London in 1960 among the top three students in a class of 13. At that time a student was awarded the B.A. degree if his/her A-Level subject combination included arts subjects in addition to the mathematics subject; and the B.Sc degree if his/her subjects combination consisted of mathematics and science subjects.

Soon after graduating, he went on to lecture first at the Nigerian College of Science and Technology, Enugu, and later at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) until September 1963, when he proceeded to the prestigious University of California at Berkeley, USA. This is one of the greatest centres of statistical excellence in the USA if not in the world. In a record time of three years he earned a Ph.D. degree in statistics in 1966, the first Nigerian to do so. He promptly returned to the UNN and 10 years later, in October 1976, he was promoted a Professor of Statistics, the first of his kind in Nigeria.

Adichie's main area of research is Non-Parametric Methods of Statistical Analysis. These methods seek to develop new methods of analysis that are valid under realistic assumptions. He was such a renowned scholar in this field that he was invited by some leading British universities to deliver a series of lectures on his work. The universities are Cambridge, London (Imperial College), Aberystwyth, Birmingham, Sheffield, and Glasgow. At different points in his brilliant academic career, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Sheffield, England and a visiting professor at the San Diego State University, California, U.S.A.

Apart from delivering many brilliant academic papers at several workshops, conferences and seminars locally and abroad, Adichie has published numerous scholarly papers in reputable learned journals and has served as a reviewer for some of them including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Annals of Mathematical Statistics, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, etc. He is a member of many learned societies including the International Statistical Institute (ISI) of which he was the first Nigerian to be elected a full ordinary member in 1978; the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Mathematical Association of Nigeria of which he was once the general secretary, to mention a few. Incidentally, the ISI with headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, is the world apex statistical organization. He was the first editor of the Journal of the Statistical Association of Nigeria and at one time an associate editor of the ABACUS - Journal of the Mathematical Association of Nigeria.

At the UNN where he was a distinguished teacher of statistics for 33 years, he was the supervisor of the first post-graduate student to obtain a master's degree of the UNN in 1971 and in 1973; helped in the establishment of the department of statistics, one of the first two such departments in Nigeria, the other one being that of the UI. As the first head of that department, Adichie spent the next six years nurturing it to enviable heights. He was again made the head of the department from 1985-1988. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Nsukka Campus of the university.

As an elected member of Council of the University, he made tremendous contributions to the progress of the university through his activities in the various committees of the Council and some other non-Council Committees. His activities are not limited to the UNN. He served as external examiner in mathematics and statistics at various Nigerian universities. Apart from his contribution to the development of statistics in the Nigerian university system, he played a key role in the development of the National Mathematics Centre (NMC). He, with three others, prepared for the Federal Government in 1987/88 a proposal for setting up the NMC. He later served as member of a Representative Group of Mathematical Scientists that met the Technical Expert Committee Visitation Panel for the upgrading of the NMC to the status of an International Centre for Excellence. He served the Centre in various capacities. He was a member of its academic board, a member of two of its strategic committees, and professor and coordinator of its statistics programme, He organised the Centre's first Foundation Post-Graduate Course on mathematical statistics and the first Foundation Post-Graduate Course on Exact and Asymptotic Statistical Inference.

Adichie took to the international fora his passion for giving statistical education a pride of place in the curricula of Nigerian and indeed of African countries. On several occasions, he delivered papers relating to Statistical education and training not only in Nigeria but also in the whole of Africa. .In the administration of statistics in the Nigerian public service, Adichie's name will also feature prominently. He was a member of the National Advisory Council on Statistics and served as the Chairman of the Committee for the Reorganisation of the Federal Office of Statistics (FOS) which is now called the National Bureau of Statistics.

It is interesting to note that Adichie is not the only one in his family to have scored a first in his chosen career. Ifeoma, his wife of 46 years was the first female registrar of the UNN while his fifth child, Chimamanda, is the first young female Nigerian literary voice to be world-acclaimed. She has received many international awards and nominations for her literary works. Having demonstrated the main reason for writing about Adichie - that of giving honour to whom honour is due, I have two other reasons which, though, may appear personal, do speak volumes about the personality and integrity of the man. .As already mentioned, Adichie and I first met and became friends at the UCI. In fact, one of our lecturers, Chike Obi, who became famous for being the first Nigerian holder of a doctorate degree in mathematics, used to call us brothers because he thought that we looked so much alike,

Since graduation, we have crossed each other's path at the professional level on various occasions. I will mention only two of them. Adichie was one of the sponsors of my nomination in 1980 for election as a member of the ISI. With my election, I became the second Nigerian to be so honoured, he having been elected in 1978.

When I was the Chief Statistical Training Adviser at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa, he requested some information needed for the preparation of a paper to be presented at an international conference on the teaching of statistics. I gladly obliged. Lo and behold, he included my name as a co-author of the paper. What a mark of intellectual integrity? My last, but by no means the least important reason is that every now and then I get embarrassed when I am introduced in public as the first Nigerian Professor of Statistics. Let Nigerians now be informed - James Nwoye Adichie is the first Nigerian Professor of Statistics! He is now retired and lives in Nsukka.

Afonja, the second Nigerian professor of statistics, lives in Abeokuta, Ogun State

Eziachi:

I take it, you haven't visited towns like Awka Etiti, Ojoto, Uruagu Nnewi, Amichi etc and see the kind of edifice this guys build and lives in?

Exactly, you just spoke my mind. I was wondering what he meant by Anambra has nothing to show. Well, I can rightly say that Anambra villages/towns are the most developed in Nigeria no state even comes close none at all.

otokx:

^ ^ yeah rite; impressive on paper with nothing to show for it on ground.

what exactly do you mean?

Also from Anambra

Chief Eleazar Chukwuemeka (Emeka) Anyaoku was born in Obosi, Anambra State. He became the third Secretary-General of the Commonwealth in 1990, a post he held until 2000. He is a Nigerian national, educated at University College, Ibadan, where he studied classics, graduating with a London University honours degree. Before becoming Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Anyaoku worked with the Commonwealth Development Corporation from 1959 to 1962, in the Nigerian Diplomatic Service from 1962 to 1966 including three years as a member of Nigeria's Permanent delegation to the United Nations in New York, and from 1966 to 1989 in the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, where he had been elected Deputy Secretary-general in 1978. In 1983 he served briefly as Nigeria’s Foreign Minister before the military coup d'etat in the country at the end of that year.

Emeka Anyaoku's career spans 30 years of Commonwealth initiatives and negotiations. He has been actively involved in such thorny issues as the Gibraltar referendum of 1967, the Nigerian civil war of 1967-70, the St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla constitutional crisis of 1969-70, the problems following Commonwealth Games boycotts during the 1980s and the process leading to peace and democracy in Zimbabwe, Namibia and, in particular, South Africa. He was also closely involved in the establishment in New York of a joint office for small Commonwealth countries who are thus enabled to be represented at the United Nations. In early 1997, he organised the first African Commonwealth Heads of Government Roundtable to promote democracy and good governance on the continent.

Chief Anyaoku has been dubbed “a diplomat’s diplomat” for his long involvement in diplomatic and international service, including some 35 years of Commonwealth initiatives and negotiations across the 54-nation wide body. In 1998 he received the freedom of the city of London, the highest honour the ancient capital of Britain can bestow. The former secretary general had a $1.8 million chair in Commonwealth studies named after him at the University of London. He was decorated by Queen Elizabeth as an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCBVO).

Aside from his international career, Chief Anyaoku continues to fulfill the duties of his office as Ichie Adazie of Obosi, a traditional Ndichie chieftainship. In 1990, the heads of all 19 communities of the Idemili Clan in his home state of Anambra accorded Anyaoku a unique honour by investing him with the title of Ugwumba Idemili. His wife, Bunmi, is also a chieftess - Ugoma Obosi and Idemili - in her own right, with a long involvement in welfare work in Nigeria and throughout the Commonwealth.

The Ichie Anyaoku has been married to Princess Bunmi Anyaoku since 1962. Mrs. Anyaoku is an Omoba of Abeokuta, Nigeria. Of their marriage, it was written in the Nigerian Sunday Times, then the widest circulating newspaper in the country, that "it was a wedding of one of Nigeria's most eligible bachelors and a beautiful young Princess educated in an English boarding school and Pitman College, London."
They have four children, Adiba; their daughter, and three sons; Oluyemisi, Obiechina, and Emenike. Emeka has two grandchildren, born to Adiba and her husband; Irenne Ighodaro and Osita Ighodaro.

Also from anambra

His Majesty Eze Professor Chukwuemeka Ike "Ikelionwu XI" of Ndikelionwu in Anambra State was was born on 28 April 1935 at Ndikelionwu in present day Orumba North Local Governments Area of Anambra State of Nigeria. He received primary education at Aro Settlement School, Nnewi (1944). He received secondary education at Governments College, Umuahia in present day Abia State (1945 1950), and his undergraduate education at University College, Ibadan (1951 1955), from where he obtained the BA (London) degree. He obtained the MA degree from Stanford University, USA, in January 1967.

Beginning as Administrative Assistant and rising rapidly to Assistant Registrar in charge of student welfare at University of College, Ibadan (1957 1960). In October 1960, he joined the pioneer staff of University Nigeria, Nsukka, as Deputy Registrar. In March 1963, he became the first Nigeria Registrar of the University, a post he held until 1971.At the end of the Nigeria/Biafra War in January 1970, the Administrator of East Central State appointed him Chairman of the Planning & Management Committee which reopened the war battered university and managed its affairs until the appointment of a regular Governing Council in November 1970. In that capacity, he served as Interim Chief Executive of the University, combining the functions of Chairman of the Governing Council and Vice-Chancellor at a most critical period of reintegration into Nigeria by the University in particular and Ndigbo in general. He pioneered the introduction of GES program in UNN which other Universities copied. This again was something unheard of. In his words "You went to the university to study physics or chemistry but you are made to have background in social sciences. We tried to explain that these are the things you require in common with other students to be able to survive in the Nigerian society. What helped us was that about the end of three year period , the Nigerian government introduced a public service examination for entry into the public service. Our students that went for the examination came top. In Britain they just say first class. But in Nsukka, it is spelt out. The truth is that there are a number of things that Nsukka started that are still there"


Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, was the first Nigerian Registrar of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), which he joined in the '70s while in WAEC, he broke a record as the first Registrar of WAEC to sign the WAEC certificates. Before him, it was the chairman of the Council that was signing the certificates. It was during his tenure (1971 1979) that WAEC cut its umbilical cord with the Universities of Cambridge and London, the Royal Society of Arts, and City & Guilds of London Institute, becoming a truly independent Council whose certificates received national and international recognition and whose services and counsel were sought by examining councils in the developing Commonwealth.

Professor Ike, at various times, served as Chairman, Commonwealth Planning committee on public Examinations, Accra, Ghana (1973), Chairman, 4th International Conference on Educational Assessment, Baden, Austria (1978), Chairman, Culture Sector, and Member, Nigerian Delegation and Chief Spokesmen for Culture, General Conference of UNESCO, Paris, France (1989 and 1991), Chairman, National Anti-Piracy Committee (1991 1994), Member, Nigerian Copyright Council now Commission (1989 1994), Chairman, Seminar on Book Development & Reading in the ECOWAS Sub-Region, Ibadan ( January 1990), Member, Anambra State Elders Forum/Advisory Council since January 2008.Professor Ike has served as Director, Daily Time of Nigeria Plc (1971 1987), Short-term Consultant to the Bostswana, Lesotho and Swaziland Schools Examinations Council, Under the auspices of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (October 1974), Director, University Press Plc (1978 2002). Other public service appointments held by Professor Ike include Pro-Chancellor & Chairman of Governing Council, University of Benin (1990 1991), and Pioneer Pro-Chancellor & Chairman of Council, Anambra State University (2001 2005). He served on the Visitation Panel to the one-time Anambra State University of Technology (1988).


PROFESSOR IKE’S PUBLICATIONS (limited to books only)

Fiction
1. Toads for Supper, London, The Harvill Press Ltd./Fontana, 1965
2. The Naked Gods, London, The Harvill Press Ltd./Fontana, 1970
3. (a) The Potter’s Wheel, London, The Harvill Press Ltd./Fontana, 1973
(b) The Potter’s Wheel, abridged by Lewis Jones, London, Collins English Library Series, 1986
4. Sunset at Dawn, London, Collins & Harvill Press Ltd./ Fontana, 1976
5. The Chicken Chasers, London, Fontana, 1980
6. Expo’77, London, Fontana, 1980
7. The bottled Leopard, Ibadan, University Press Plc, 1985
8. Our Children Are Coming!, Ibadan, Spectrum Books Ltd., 1990
9. The Search, Ibadan, Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) Plc, 1991
10. To My Husband, From lowa, (fictional travelogue), Lagos, Malthouse Press Ltd, 1996
11. Anu Ebu Nwa (IGBO), Ibadan, University Press Plc, 1999
12. Conspiracy of Silence, Ikeja/Lagos, Longman Nigeria Plc, 2001
13. Toads for Ever, Ikeja/Lagos, Longman Nigeria Plc, 2007
14. Accra Riviera, (short stories), Lagos, Oyster St. Iyke (Ltd), 2001


Non-Fiction
1. University Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience, Ibadan, Oxford University Press, 1976
2. Whither, O Splendid Ship? (monograph), University of Jos Postgraduate Open Lecture Series, 1984
3. Hoe To Become A Published Writer, Ibadan, Heinemann Educational Books Plc, 1991
4. Not In Our Stars(monograph), The West African Examination Council, 1998 (3rd Annual Endowment Lecture)
Non-Fiction Books Edited by Professor Chukwuemeka Ike

1. University of Nigeria 1960 1985: An Experiment in Higher Education, Nsukka, University of Nigeria Press Ltd, 1986, (jointly edited with Emmanuel Obiechina and JA Umeh)
2. Creating a Conducive Environment for Book Publishing (editor), Awka, Nigerian Book Foundation, 1996
3. Meeting the Book Needs of the Rural Family (editor), Awka, Nigerian Book Foundation, 1997
4. Directory of Nigerian Book Development (editor), Awka, Nigerian Book Foundation and Fourth Dimension Publishing Co. Ltd., 1998
5. Ndikelionwu and the Spread of Christianity (editor), Ndikelionwu, St Margaret’s Church Ndikelionwu, 2000
6. The Book in 21st Century Nigeria and Universal Basic Education (editor), Awka, Nigerian Book Foundation, 2000
7. Creating and Sustaining a Reading Culture (editor), Awka, Nigerian Book Foundation, 2000
8. Centenary Edition: Ndikelionwu and the Spread of Christianity (editor), Ndikelionwu, St Margaret’s Church Ndikelionwu, 2008

Professor Ike married Professor (Mrs.) Adebimpe Olurisola Ike (nee Abimbolu) on 13 December 1959 at the Chapel of Resurrection, University College, Ibadan. They have a son, Prince Ositadinma Adeolu Nnanyelugo Olusanya IKE, grand son, Chukwuemeka Ike (II), and a grand daughter, Adaeze Adebimpe Ike.

Also from Anambra

Alexander Obiefoka Enukora Animalu, he was born on August 28, 1938 in Oba , Anambra State of Nigeria. Professor Emeritus of Physics at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He holds a B.Sc. (London), M.A. (Cantab.) and Ph.D. (Ibadan), FAS, NNOM, IOM .
The only African scientist to be nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of a generalization of superconductivity called “Animalu’s Isosuperconductivity” (which requires a new mathematics of the Isotopic type), and a pioneer of solar energy in Nigeria, is a physicist of international repute, member of the highest advisory body on Science and Technology to the Nigerian government, Honorary Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology (2001–2003) and former Director National Mathematical Centre, Abuja.

The only African member till date of the Advisory Board of the Euro-Journal Physica(B)[2] and the only African member of the Editorial Board of the USA-based international Hadronic Journal and Hadronic Journal Supplement, he is also the founding editor of the Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy and one of the pioneering editors of the Bulletin of the Nigerian Institute of Physics. Foundation President of the Solar Energy Society of Nigeria, foundation editor, Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy, foundation member, United States Energy Research and Development Administration and Foundation member and former President of the Nigerian Academy of Science, Professor Animalu is author of 28 books in both the sciences and the humanities.


He won a College Scholarship that saw him through the University of Cambridge in the UK between October, 1962 and December, 1965 when he obtained the M.A. (Cantab) and Ph.D. (Maths) in Theoretical Solid State Physics. The high quality of his Ph.D. thesis was attested to, when the main results were published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1965 and included in W.A. Harrison's book entitled "Pseudopotentials in the Theory of Metals".[3] The book contained the model potential tables which were in such high demand by researchers in the field of metal physics and semiconductor electronics that the Ph.D. thesis work as published in Philosophical Magazine became by 1983, a citation classic, having been cited more than 729 times between 1965 and 2001.[4] He is the only African in Physics to have earned such a record of citations, his paper being the best among the best twelve cited papers from the University of Cambridge in fifty years (1930–1980). It is of interest to note that four of these twelve most cited works from Cambridge have subsequently won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Between January, 1966 and December, 1967, Prof. Animalu was Research Associate in Division of Applied Physics, Stanford University and between January, 1968 and August, 1968, he was a visiting scientist at the Department of Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In September, 1968, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri, Rolla. His research work was in solid state and elementary particle physics. In 1970, he moved to Drexel University in Pennsylvania, as Associate Professor of Physics. A major breakthrough in his career came in April 1972 when he was appointed a research physicist, at the Lincoln Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) working under H.J. Zeiger and J.B. Goodenough on research projects related to development of computer core memory and primarily on the development of the transition-metal model potential, thus extending his Ph.D. thesis area to now include all elements of the periodic table. It was within this period that he completed his principal book, Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids published by Prentice-Hall in 1977. It became a world-wide classic with an Indian Edition published by Prentice-Hall of India in 1978. It was also translated into Russian by the Russian Academy of Science in 1981, reprinted in USA in 1994 and is currently on the world-wide web.

fstranger3:

Very good question

It has always baffled me. I know, on average, they have the better schools than any other state in the SW

What has always baffled me is that, with the success of SW states in business, education etc top CEOs in banks, industries, governmental positions and the likes why is that, the villages in these SW states are nothing to write home about? These accomplished guys in SW basically stay in VI,Ikoyi, VGC or perharps UK, but their villages are just like pre colonial era. No atom of development whether by state, local government or even individuals.

In this aspect again ! I think Anambra state defeats every state in Nigeria

Jarus:

Now the debate is getting ridiculous and I may have to quit.

How can anyone say Emeka Offor is richer than Mike Adenuga?

Just few pages away I posted an article by Times in 1965 discussing Nigeria's richest men at the time. Yes, Ojukwu's name featured but 2 Ogun men were equally there(Adeola Odutola and Bayo Braithwaite). These men were mentioned in the same report with your Ojukwu and someone is still saying no Yoruba men can be mentioned in the same breathe with Ojukwu. How can someone discount Abiola's wealth? How can someone mention Emeka Offor and Mike Adenuga in the same sentence? Bring any rating of Top 10 richest Nigerian, local or international, and let's see whether Offor makes it and let's see if Adenuga doesn't make Top 3.

I get irritated with ridiculous assertions like this.

Pls forget about emeka offor, he is a crook just like otedola

Jarus:

There are hundreds of Anambra military officers that started with Obasanjo, Diya and are no where near where Obj and Diya reached in their chosen profession, so don't downplay their achievements pls.

Cosmas Maduka and Adenuga in the same sentence? The only businessmen that should be mentioned in Adenuga's class are Dangote, Otedola, and maybe Jim Ovia.
Even Oba Otudeko(another Ogun son) is ahead of Coscharis and Innoson in entrepreneurship and wealth. Not to forget the Subomi Baloguns(FCMB owner, and father of merchant banking in Nigeria), another Ogun great who may not even enter Top 5 Ogun entrepreneurs.

That aside, you had to go back to Ojukwu Snr of the 40s to 60s to find a match for Adenuga in Anambra, guess what? At that time, Ogun had two representatives in the list of Nigeria's richest/most successful businessmen.



So in Ojukwu's generation, Ogun had two reps, in Adenuga's generation, bring a representative. Pls don't tell me Adenuga and Cosmas Maduka are in teh same class. Even Oba Otudeko(Honeywell group and highest shareholder in First Bank, and rated one of teh Top 10 richest Nigerians floors Maduka and Innoson, not to talk of The Bull himself.)

When you mention other men who have made it in business there are certain names in the west that i respect. The likes of Oba Otudeko, Suboumi Balogun, Elizade motors, Doyin Industries, Harry Akande etc . These are men that i respect, men that are upright in business .

Yes, adenuga is wealthy have you forgotten IBB stake in Globacom,
Otedola , the sole importer of diesel ( this is a guy who would never want to vbe alive to see our refineries function)
Dangote ( Who uses his influence to make sure that he controls the cement industry, he used his influence and OBJ shut down Ibeto Cement& Petro Chemicals for no just cause, thanks to yar adua who re opened it)
Arisekola Alao ( the abacha's man, the guy who supplied gari to ecomog troops in Liberia and Sierra Leone)

Why do you think Otedola, Dangote, Adenuga all give 250million each to any PDP fund raising.

afam4eva:

Pls don't go this route cos you'll regret it.

This one na another dimension oh, i can rightly say that one stands a higher chance of been used by rituals in Ogun state than any other state in Nigeria so biko let us not go there abeg.

The main idea of this thread is to respect and admire the great men produced by  different states of the country, after reading their achievements, it surely motivates someone.  But one state that has really not lived up to expectation is Oyo, I dont know why , despite its close proximity to Lagos,Ogun and even the lagoon through which the white man enter the country.

Jarus:

I am still not convinced. I believe Ogun comes first. I ahve asked the Anambra people to bring their First 11 or Top 10 and let's compare with Ogun's.

A state that has produced Three Presidents(obj military, obj civilian, Shonekan), one VP(Diya), one elected but denied president(Abiola), Awolowo(Top 5 most powerful political leader in Nigeria's history).

Nigeria's only Nobel Laurette(Soyinka), Mike Adenuga(Top 3 living businessman, entrepreneur, richest Nigerian). And somebody is comparing some Nollywood stars or some ordinary ministers.

You dont have to be convinced, the facts speaks for its self. I respect Ogun state and the great people the state has produced really. But all these Gen. Diya or Gen. Ogundipe , they dont measure up at all. We are not talking about military appointment.  It its all about Military appointment then Kano or Kaduna perharps benue would take the lead. By the name its on record the Ojukwu you guys mock today was the first University graduate to be enlisted in the Nigeria, a graduate of Oxford for that matter. You talk of Mike Adenuga( i respect him no doubt) Ojukwu's father , Sir Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, KBE, (1909-1966) was an extreamly successful Nigerian businessman from Nnewi. Ojukwu was the first and founding President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange as well as President of The African Continental Bank. He was also on the board of directors of some of Nigeria's most powerful and most prestigious companies such as Shell Oil Nigeria Limited. He was Africans first millionaire, infact the first Nigerian to buy a property in Ikoyi after the white men left, that house is still there till today. His wealth as at that time is far more than Adenuga, Otedola,Dangote (combined), lol.

So Amanbra first, Ogun second etc, but Ogun have produced people oh really

Also from Anambra state

The "Okigbo trio" brothers

Professor Bede N. Okigbo
is the renowned agronomist and retired Director of  the World Agricultural Institute in Japan, former Director of the United Nations Institute for Agricultural Research in Africa, Accra, Ghana, and the former Deputy Director-General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan, Nigeria. He is widely regarded as Africa’s leading Agricultural scientist. Professor Okigbo was born on September 26, 1929, in Ojoto, Anambra State, into one of Nigeria’s extraordinarily gifted families. He was educated at Government College Umuahia, Washington State University (B.A.) and Cornell University, where he obtained an M. A. and a PhD in 1956 and 1959, respectively

Dr. Pius Nwabufo Okigbo
was an eminent Nigerian economist from Ojoto, Anambra State, he was the first Nigerian Economic Adviser to the Eastern Nigerian Government, the first Economic Adviser to the Federal Government of Nigeria and the first Nigerian Ambassador to the European Economic Community. He was educated in various schools in Nigeria and at the University of London, Oxford University, both in the United Kingdom and at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, earning degrees in Law, History and Economics. He was also an academic, he gained academic acclaim in Nigeria when he published a book on the national accounting standard of Nigeria and he wrote landmark books such as Nigerian Public Finance (1965) and Essays in Public Philosophy of Development(1986).Dr. Okigbo was chairman of the panel on the reform of the CBN in 1994. His findings revealed some of the most mysterious ways by which our leaders rape this country. He put his fingers right on the button of the mismanagement that characterised the eight-year regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, According to Okigbo, the handling of the special projects accounts by the Babangida regime was a “gross abuse of public trust.”Babangida pooh-poohed the report. He was endowed with intellectual energy and articulate mind. Which he used effectively to outshine his peers. He was member, Board of Trustees, Nigerian International Biographical Centre since 1997, member, Committee for Technical Cooperation for Africa South of the Sahara (1960-65), Chairman, United Nations Committee of Fiscal Commission 1962, Member, United Nations Panel of Experts on the possibility of an African Development Bank in 1961.
He was a member Kenya Fiscal Commission in 1962 and the United Nations Committee of Experts on Development Planning, Projection and Policies between 1963-66. The late Okigbo was also a member of United Nations Panel of Experts on the Institute of Economic Development for Africa in 1962, Member, External Advisory Board, OECD Development Centre, Paris (1963-66) and Chairman, Committee on Commodities, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development 1964-66, and a member, South Commission (1987-90). Okigbo was also chairman, United Nations Panel of Experts on Reform of the Tax System in the Third World in 1989, Member Advisory Board, South Centre, Geneva, since 1995 and Vice Chairman, governing Council, Africa Institute for Policy Analysis, Cape town, South Africa.

Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo

great friend of Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, was a product of what has come to be known as The Magical Years at Ibadan . He is today widely acknowledged as the outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.With the secession of Biafra, Okigbo immediately joined the new state's military as a volunteer, field-commissioned major. An accomplished soldier, he was killed in action during a major push by Nigerian troops against Nsukka, the university town where he found his voice as a poet, and which he vowed to defend with his life.Several of his unpublished papers are, however, known to have survived the war. Inherited by his daughter, Obiageli, who established the Christopher Okigbo Foundation in 2005 to perpetuate his legacy, the papers were catalogued in January 2006 by Chukwuma Azuonye, Professor of African Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, who assisted the foundation in nominating them for the UNESCO Memory of the World Register

Andre Uweh:

Pete is from either Anambra or Enugu state.

Pete Edocie is from Nteje in Anambra State

Also from Anambra

Professor Samuel Ejikeme Okoye, one of Africa’s top astrophysicists hails from Amawbia in Anambra State, was born on July 26, 1939.

Professor Okoye earned a B.Sc (First Class) in Physics from the University of London and a PhD in Astrophysics at Cambridge University. He was the first black African to obtain a doctorate in Radio Astronomy.


Professor Okoye was a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science as well as the Royal Astronomical Society of the United Kingdom. For five years, he served on the governing council of the Pugwash International Conferences on Science and World Affairs. In addition, he was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, International Network of Engineers, Scientists for Global Responsibility, and the International Astronomical Union.

Professor Okoye was a consultant to the United Nations on the development of space science and technology in developing countries (1979-1986).

For many years, Professor Okoye lectured in physics and astronomy at the University of lbadan and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he achieved the rank of full professor in 1976. At UNN, he also served at various times as Director of the Division of General Studies; Head of Department of Physics and Astronomy; Associate Dean and later Dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences, and Dean of the School of Post Graduate Studies. In 1978, Professor acted as Vice Chancellor of UNN.

Professor Okoye’s numerous scientific papers and publications span the ionosphere physics, solar physics, and the theory of extragalactic radio sources and cosmology. He also authored a monograph, Viable and Affordable Policy Objectives for a Nigerian Space Programme. He co-edited two books, Basic Science Development in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects, and The World at the Crossroads: Towards a Sustainable, Equitable and Livable World.

Apart from Nigeria, Professor Okoye also lectured in the Netherlands, the US, and the UK. From 1990 to 1993, he served as a visiting professor/senior research fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, and Fellow Commoner at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.

He was a member of Nigeria’s official delegation to the United Nations Conference on Peaceful Uses of Space in Vienna, 1981 as well as a member of a panel charged in 1984 with producing an integrated energy policy for Nigeria. From 1986-1988, he was the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Awka campus of the Anambra University of Science and technology (ASUTECH).

My experience is that ladies who have nothing to offer apart from selfishness, arrogance & ota piapia have the longest wish list.

People are talking of intelligence. How do you assess intelligence?  Is it based on his occupation as a lawyer, medic, accountant or what?
Is  a  rich Lagos banker more intelligent than a skilled but poor herbalist in Oshogbo who could have become a fantastic surgeon if he had the opportunity?

How many ladies here can listen to a man for two hours talking about two great men in antiquity like Mark Anthony & Julius Caesar?
How many would have the patience and interest to listen to a guy discuss the merits of christian eschatology (in non-holy ghost fire and alleluia format)?

I have only seen it among white ladies (middle class I might add).
Our ladies don't verse that much irrespective of their level of education. The number/type of degrees you have is irrelevant

Knowing who's intelligent requires a high level of intelligence too.


This is best comment i have read in recent times.

Many of these girls talking about intelligence, they cant even engage in any meaningful or intelligent debate with a guy.

@ Gulag

From my experiences, people with Msc from UK are mostly admitted to Msc( research based) in Canada even though they original applied for PhD, the reason is very clear. most masters degrees from UK are taught( course based). I have so many friends who experienced this.
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@ Tosin,Congrats bro, i came across your posts and i know you can be of great help to me,  I graduate in the UK with a first class honours in august 2011 and am thinking of doing my masters at the uni of ottawa( masters in E-business technologies). I read technologies and E-commerce here in uk.

bro, am only concerned about the funding and ties  cos these are the things i do not really have, my emails is cleakoms@yahoo.com

please i will be most please if i can get info on the documents i need to show, the amount of funding required and some other things,
I live in oxford for now but got a house in London as well, i hope u're still around in the uk.

Thanks in anticipation

@ cleakoms

Since you are in the UK, simply follow the requirements given on the Canadian embassy website in UK. The requirements for student visa differs for different countries. I applied for my Canadian visa in Germany and it took just 2weeks, and another Nigerian that I know of , his took just 1 week. So just submit only the documents required  by the embassy in UK, that is if you are applying from UK.

Also , since you said you would be graduating with a first class, It is highly likely you would get funding if your intended masters program is thesis based. So make sure you find out. If it is course based certainly there is no funding.  University of Ottawa offers both course based and thesis based for the E-business technologies program.
Goodluck in your application

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@ blazinbeauties2002

My very good friend, a Nigerian who did his Msc in Germany, got a PhD offer in Canada, added to this, was a letter of funding.
He did not include any proof of finance i.e bank account etc. he applied for his visa in Berlin and it took just 2 days.

But since you are applying from UK, the case might be different, so to be on a safer side its better to have some amount of money in your account even though the university has offered you full funding.

@ Gulag

From my experiences, people with Msc from UK are mostly admitted to Msc( research based) in Canada even though they original applied for PhD, the reason is very clear. most masters degrees from UK are taught( course based). I have so many friends who experienced this.

is anyone beginning studies in Uni ottawa this sept?

@ frankkky
I strongly support you, almost every Norwegian speaks English

@Opcomm,

Please i would like to know which school in Alberta are you studying. I recently got an admission to study in Uni Ottawa, Memorial and Calgary for Sept 2010.
Actually i have settled for Calgary which is in Alberta, reason is simply because Alberta is basically an engineering province and my masters program of interest has close collaboration with industries. My background is electrical/electronics engineering.
Whats has been your experiences so far in Alberta and in your Uni? Hoping to hear from you

I strongly believe that everyone has his or her own reason in choosing anywhere he or she wants to leave.
Come to think of it, the level or ethnicity,tribalism and nepotism in Nigeria is even worst than racism experienced in Europe
An amanbra man or woman can never be made a principal in an enugu state school. This thing is obvious and glaring for all to see
and yet we talk about racism all the time.

@ Ajanlekoko and salihu_ali,
I would like to say a very big thank you to all the comments you guys have made in this telecomms zone