Knowledge9000:

To all SS and SE. This individual has no life. He is riddled with self hate and jealousy of the Igbos. He is a yoruba man not a woman. In some other posts, he uses different accounts, disguises as a SS to instill discord between SE and SS. Very evil minded, selfish and devilish being. Characteristics many yorubas exhibit on here.

Wow! You described your Mother perfectly.

Prof...

DRealGeesam1: My confession and apology

Dear nairalanders and everyone who have heard of the ebola Prevention "News", My name is Adesewa, I am coming out clean because what started has a joke has escalated into the unprecedented.
How it started
Yesterday i was with friend in her hostel, we were talking about this Ebola out break, when one of my friends, Funke (she introduced me to nairaland) brought the idea of Us playing a prank on our friends. The first suggestion was to tell people that aloe very could cure Ebola, but we thought it would sound too ridiculous so we forgot about it.

Later that even an idea came to me (i now regret that i did it).
I decided to send a BBM broadcast message to my friends, telling them that the Ministry of Health has asked everyone to bathe with salt and warm water and drink some of it.
I sent the message 7:08pm yesterday

Later this midnight i started getting calls and messages that i should drink salt water and bath with it.

All efforts to tell people that i was the one who started the joke failed. Only my friends who i mentioned earlier believed me. Even my mum could me this morning, i did not know what to tell her.

I am using this medium to beg you all to warn and tell everyone, before they drink salt and damage their health.

Please dont be hash on me. I know this has gone out of hand. I never knew it will be this serious. Some have even added to the original message i sent.

You and the boneheads that believed you, should be executed. You're dragging down the average African IQ.

Iceskidd: That nairalander that claimed to have started the rumor should be lynched smh

This.

They should be executed.

We have to execute the low intelligence Africans that are dragging the continent backwards.

Foolish.

kennygee: All the way to Calvary

He went for me 3x.

All the way to Calvary He went for me.

He died to set me free.

It's "wept".

I'm an Atheist btw.

Cultures evolve...

But I can't help but feel that certain people need to return back to their villages in the East.

FKO1: Sexy Nollywood actress once told me that people,
men and
women, always stop to stare when she walks by
because she
is blessed with a captivating figure.
No doubt Angel, also a model and scriptwriter
knows her
onions when it comes to making people stare. She
had a
photo shoot recently and sent some to me.

http://www.waffihub.com/2014/08/my-big-ukwu-causes-go-slow-anytime-i.html?m=1

Her face can stop the Big Ben, but that @ss is on point.

Ladystewie: And you're happy?

Yeah boo!!

Ladystewie: You got banned again? SMH

Yep!!!

kabba7:
THIS PARTY HAS SERIOUSLY.RUBBISHED THE IGBO RACE AS CHEAP PROSTITUTES.

What is an APGA?!

Is that a meal eaten in Iboland?!

manny4life:

Which Nigerian owns Gatwick?

When lies are are continuously told, sooner or later, it becomes the truth.

There's the ownership structure on Gatwick's website, please tell us which of the entity is Nigerian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Ogunlesi

He's not the Owner(my mistake). He's the Chairman of Global Infrastructure Partners, who own the majority of Gatwick.

Don't do drugs kids.

Sunofgod: To me that handshake indicates 'GEJ' wants to fvuck (he is giving her the signal) . . . . and so does the 'Oyibo' - She dey acknowledge (offer and acceptance - so therefore a valid contract is in place)

[img]http://1.bp..com/-2eQ0Sj79n48/U-C5mmkN0tI/AAAAAAABFLw/O7wGnaVCdnQ/s1600/Jonathan+1.jpg[/img]

'GEJ - 'Strap Up' Well Well' - these 'Oyibo' dey carry plenty of 'STD's' - and don't worry about any legal case that may arise' - Just worry about 'Patience' if the 'S. .e. .x Tape' is leaked . . . . . .and the 'APC'.

Cocaine is one hell of a drug.

danot1030: Some people are still asking what makes US a leading country on earth, some even exhibits their ignorance by matching US with China or Russia.

This!!!

quid:
Your personal belief system cannot justify your claim.
Sorry . . .try again.

Okay.

quid:
Keep wallowing in retrogressive Igbophobia.

Okay.

Emeagwali is still a fraud, though.

quid:
LoL.
You are the envious fraud here.

Nah brah.
I'm calling a fraud what he is.


Dabiri from Caltech, now that's a genius.

The Nigerian that owns Gatwick, that's a genius. Cyprian Ekwensi, that's a genius.

tonychristopher:

punk

Awwww. That hurt my fweelings.

quid: Digital Giants
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/digital_giants/8561413.stm


The Nigerian-born supercomputer scientist speaks about how high speed data cables can connect Africa.
Philip Emeagwali has spoken to the BBC for the Digital Giants series, in which the digital world's top thinkers share their visions of the future. They tell us what they believe will be the next big thing online and how it will change our lives.
Digital Giants is part of SuperPower , a season of programmes on V, radio and online exploring the extraordinary power of the internet

Emeagwali may be intelligent, but he's not as big as he claims. What he won was NOT the Nobel prize of the computer world, he won by default. His PhD was rejected twice!!! He's a fraud.

tonychristopher:

don't respond to him ..education is a wasted venture on him

What's your deal?!

Still butthurt.

quid:
Tell us a better fairy tale

Emeagwali is a founding father of the Internet.

eph12:
We know its just harmless bantering but its beginning to sound very silly.

I see.

It's just online Banter. I have nothing against any tribe in real life.


Grow up People.

SantaMafia:
Ghana: Mahama, a truly African President
http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/24435.html

This Day (Nigeria), by Farooq Kperogi* / Monday, 04 November 2013

On September 30 this year, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama was a guest at Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta where I teach. He came here to deliver a public lecture to crown the "Year of Ghana" country program, a year-long exploration of the history, culture, and peoples of Ghana through lectures, exhibitions, visits, etc. at KSU.

When I got an invitation to attend the public lecture (which also featured a Question and Answer session), I was reluctant to go. I'd frankly grown tired of listening to witless buffoons from Africa coming to make a fool of themselves and their countries before Western audiences in the name of delivering public lectures. I didn't know what to expect of the Ghanaian president because I had no familiarity with his pedigree, so I chose to err on the side of cynicism.

But a friend dragged me to the event at the last minute. I'm glad I attended it. President Mahama turned out to be one of the most inspiring and knowledgeable presidents one can ever wish to meet. He was a superb orator who was also thoughtful, incisive, insightful and supremely self-assured.

His speech was about the "role of democratic governance in sustainable economic development in Ghana," but he veered off on high-minded intellectual excursions, on the discourses of Afro-pessimism; on the perniciousness of alterity; on the role of dominant historical narratives in the construction and reconstruction of the consciousness and image of a people, etc. The speech was certainly conscious of its audience because it read like a paper at an academic conference. Its profundity and high-flown, intellectually fashionable phraseology impressed students and professors alike.

Well, you might say he didn't deserve much credit for the speech because it was written for him by his speech writers, but one couldn't help but admire the smoothness, naturalness, and rhetorical dexterity of his delivery. He was earnest, eloquent, and confident. But his true brilliance came out even more boldly during the question and answer session. He answered questions from professors and students with ease, grace, panache, depth, conviction, and creative humour.

Everyone in the hall was bowled over by his brilliance, humility, and intellectual agility. This was evident from the rapturous applauses and good-hearted guffaws that greeted his responses to questions. I came away from the lecture proud of and overawed by the alertness and fecundity of the Ghanaian president's mind. All of us Africans in the lecture hall raised our heads high.

While basking in the euphoric afterglow of the Ghanaian president's brilliant performance, I couldn't help recalling Nigeria's then Acting President Goodluck Jonathan's first official visit to America, which I wrote about in an April 17, 2010 article titled: "Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, that was Embarrassing."

Among other things, I observed that in his speech and during the question and answer session at the Council on Foreign Relations, President Jonathan "couldn't articulate a coherent thought, hardly made a complete sentence, went off on inconsequential and puerile tangents, murdered basic grammar with reckless abandon, repeated trifles ad nauseam, was embarrassingly stilted, and generally looked and talked like a timid high school student struggling to remember his memorised lines in a school debate." I concluded that Jonathan "came across as unfathomably clueless."

I certainly would never have attended the public lecture at my school-or anywhere else for that matter- if President Jonathan was the guest. I would never be able to survive the embarrassment of listening to a barely literate president who can't even read a speech much less answer unscripted questions from students and professors.

President Mahama of Ghana has only a bachelor's degree while Nigeria's president claims to have a Ph.D. Nigerians like to describe ignorant people with grandiose paper qualifications as "educated illiterates." I've heard that phrase used several times to describe President Jonathan. Well, I think it is more appropriate to call him a highly credentialed ignoramus-if he indeed has a Ph.D.-than to call him an "educated illiterate; it is unfair to mention "educated" in the same sentence with "President Goodluck Jonathan." I know this sounds harsh, but it's true.

I'm aware that the usual line of counter-attack from defenders of mediocrity in Nigeria would be that I am hung up on appearance at the expense of substance. Beautiful, confident verbal delivery is not a good measure of leaders' effectiveness. That is certainly true, except that President Jonathan, apart from being an inconceivably uninspiring and colorless president, is also notoriously ineffective.

I would have been one of the staunchest defenders of his seeming illiteracy and depthlessness if he had a clue what governance entails. Alas, he does not; he has not the vaguest idea what it means to truly govern-much, to be fair to him, like many of his predecessors. So we have the tragedy of being burdened with a leader who neither inspires confidence nor knows what it means to lead.

For inexplicable reasons, while Nigeria's elites have a habit of choosing the worst in their ranks to lead the country, Ghanaian elites are infinitely more discriminatory in their choice of leaders. I know of no Ghanaian leader in recent memory who isn't intelligent, inspiring, confident, and well-spoken. That's why Ghana has always been a far more progressive society than Nigeria.

However much we might wish it weren't true; the reality is that there is a link between inspirational leadership and national growth. When will modern Nigeria produce an inspirational president, a president we all can be proud of anywhere?

*Kperogi is an assistant professor of Journalism and Citizen Media, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta Georgia, United States.

Wonderful Article. I couldn't agree more.

quid:
Give falsehood a chance??

"The case of Philip Emeagwali is a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of self-delusion, laziness, and a sense of entitlement. Mr. Emeagwali enrolled in a doctoral program in Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1987. His coursework over, he took the comprehensive examination that qualifies one for candidacy. He failed the exam twice and did not take it a third time. In the meantime, he conducted the research that would later win him the Gordon Bell Prize, a research he began as a class project for one of his graduate courses. In 1991, two years after winning the Gordon Bell by default, he petitioned the Dean of the School of Engineering to be allowed to submit a dissertation (despite not having passed his candidacy exam and therefore not being a doctoral candidate) in a different department — the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His request was curiously granted in what was clearly a sidestepping of standard procedure. Emeagwali submitted the dissertation, basically a rework of his entry for the Gordon Bell competition, on July 24, 1992. A team of internal and external evaluators examined it and found it unworthy of a doctorate and turned it down."

quid:
Saharareporters are as useless and dry as the Sahara desert.
Stop believing tribal propaganda

Give it a Chance. I was also a big fan of Phillip.