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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 11:34am On Nov 21, 2015 |
Qelvin: Loool. There are tons of Igbos in the UK and loads of Igbos have moved from Europe cos of the EU to the UK. No excuse. Even in Germany and Spain - Yorubas dominate. It should've been 40, but I excluded, Dele Alli, Solanke, Odubade, and Ola Aina from the list. So don't add Ibe, Alex Iwobi, and Chuba Akpom to ya list. You can add Aramide Oteh though. 3 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Qelvin(m): 11:36am On Nov 21, 2015 |
Shymm3x:more than half of this players are relatively unknown though, save for Delle Alli, Solanke,and Odubajo...I barely know the rest even exist 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 11:43am On Nov 21, 2015 |
Qelvin: Well, they're mostly 16/17 and still very young. You should start hearing about them in the next few years. Even a lot of the Igbo younsters have Yoruba mothers. - Jordon Femi Ibe. - Aramide Oteh. - Chuks Ademola Aneke. 4 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Musiwa419: 12:00pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Shymm3x:what is the meaning of this ? Why dont you just ignore him 4 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 12:02pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Musiwa419: Lool. Sorry, Sir. I just wanted to troll him and smack reality in his head at the same time, to shut him up. Now that I've shut him up. It's over with. 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by anonimi: 12:03pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
modath: When trouble sleep, yanga go wake am Wetin e dey find Palava e dey find Palava e go get o Thanks to Abami Eda. #SereneSaturday |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Shymm3x: 12:31pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
1bkay3: Ha! What missionary work? Don't tell me you're either a nun or an European missionary of Naij descent. If you're, then I'm a Pope meet monk then. How much are you willing to pay for my groom price? Gash by the hour - now that's ish that can make man turn anorexic within three months. That was my tune back in the day. And "free yard" by Aggro. Boya is crazy though - played footie with him a few times at Luton Uni. Most of them went to Luton Uni (Bedfordshire) with my cousin and almost all of them are Nigerians, including Boya and SAS Killa. They're from South as well (Plumstead/Woolwich/Thamesmead axis). Boya is now a contributor on Guardian UK. Don't parr Channel U like that - it created all the UK artists winning right now cos MTV Base never wanted to let anyone through and they saturated everywhere with US artists. Without Channel U, there won't be Dizzy Rascal, Wiley, Skepta, JME, Jammer, Tiny Tempah, Tinchy Stryder, Jammer, Crazy Titch, Lethal Bizzle, N-Dubz et al. Channel U was the shiznit. Anyway, it seems everything has gone to the internet now - Grimedaily, LinkupTV, SBTV et al. Grime is alive! |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 12:35pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Spambot again? Darn! You can't post without spambot harassing you. Synonymous with what Nas said about smoking weed without cops harassing you. Allow me, Mr. Spambot. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 12:35pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
1bkay3: Ha! What missionary work? Don't tell me you're either a nun or an European missionary of Naij descent. If you're, then I'm a Pope meet monk then. How much are you willing to pay for my groom price? Gash by the hour - now that's the ish that can make man turn anorexic within three months. That was my tune back in the day. And "free yard" by Aggro. Boya is crazy though - played footie with him a few times at Luton Uni. Most of them went to Luton Uni with my cousin and almost all of them are Nigerians, including Boya and SAS Killa. . Boya is now a contributor on Guardian UK. Don't parr Channel U like that - it created all the UK artists winning right now cos MTV Base never wanted to let anyone through and they saturated everywhere with US artists. Channel U was the shiznit. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 12:39pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
“Mathematical” Enoch Opeyemi and the
Making of Another Nigerian Intellectual
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By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
The moment I read about Dr. Enoch Opeyemi's claim to
have solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis in
the Vanguard of November 15, 2015, I didn't need to
read a second opinion to know it was suspect at best
and fraudulent at worst.
You don’t need to think too deeply to realize that Dr.
Opeyemi is one heck of a hilariously delusional
intellectual scammer in the mold of Philip Emeagwali
and Gabriel Oyibo. The second to the last paragraph in
the Vanguard story that announced Opeyemi’s
“mathematical genius” was what did it for me. “Dr
Enoch had previously… discovered a scientific
technique for detecting and tracking someone on an
evil mission,” the report said. Seriously? How do you
scientifically detect and track someone on an “evil
mission”? What is an “evil mission,” and what has
science got to do with that? No one with this kind of
prescientific, atavistic mindset can be trusted to have
the cognitive capacity to solve an age-old
mathematical puzzle like the Riemann Hypothesis.
Now, Opeyemi’s only evidence for claiming to have
solved the Riemann Hypothesis was that he presented a
paper on the puzzle at the International Conference on
Mathematics and Computer Science in Vienna, Austria.
Well, it has turned out that the conference itself may be
a borderline scam operation. An August 20, 2011 blog
post titled “Fake Paper Accepted by Nina Ringo's
Vienna Conference” revealed that a scientist by the
name of Mohammad Homayoun who was suspicious of
the genuineness of the International Conference on
Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC) decided to
test his suspicion by submitting a fake, worthless,
nonsensical paper to the conference to see if it would
be accepted or rejected.
The researcher’s hunch was accurate: the ICMC in
Vienna appears to be an elaborate, money-making
scholarly scam. His paper was accepted even though it
was intentionally nonsensical. “The conference claims
that submissions/papers are reviewed/refereed BUT
they are not,” the researcher wrote. “A fake paper was
submitted for evaluation to intercomp2011@
gmail.com on Sun, Jan 2, 2011. The notification of
acceptance was received on Sun, Jan 9, 2011.” That’s
just one week of “peer review.”
But even if the conference were genuine, and it could
very well be, you can't prove something as momentous
as a 156-year-old mathematical problem with a mere
conference presentation. In the rituals
of knowledge production in academe, for any claim to
be taken seriously, it has to be published in a well-
regarded, peer-reviewed outlet, such as a journal. This
is elementary knowledge.
In fact, a spokesperson for the US-based Clay
Mathematics Institute (CMI), which offers a $1 million
reward for anyone who can solve the Reimann
Hypothesis, told CNN that any claim to have proved
the hypothesis “would need to be published in a
journal ‘of worldwide repute’ and accepted for two
years within the mathematics community before it
would be considered.”
Opeyemi merely orally presented what he claims is his
proof of the hypothesis at a conference on November
11. As of the time of writing this column, there is no
written record of the paper Opeyemi presented at the
conference, much less its publication in a journal. He
told CNN’s Thomas Page that his proof of the
hypothesis is “due for publication by a journal
attached to the Vienna conference on December 1.” So
why claim to have solved a problem when you haven’t
even gone through the basic protocols of scientific
verification? Even if Opeyemi has indeed proved the
hypothesis, it would take two years to earn the
recognition and the reward. Why is he jumping the
gun?
But, most importantly, Opeyemi actually stands no
chance of even being able to prove the hypothesis
because none of the journals published by the
International Conference on Mathematics and
Computer Science is of “worldwide repute.” The
conference’s flagship journal, called the International
Scientific Journal, isn’t even listed, much less ranked,
in Scientific Journal Rankings (SJR), the most
prestigious database that measures the scientific impact
and prestige of journals in the hard sciences.
My sense is that Dr. Opeyemi genuinely fancies
himself as having solved this mathematical puzzle, and
his self-construal of his intellectual machismo got a
boost when his paper got accepted for presentation at a
conference in Vienna, Austria. In the now rampant
xenophilic academic culture in Nigeria that
uncritically valorizes the foreign, for one's paper to be
accepted at an "international" (read: white) academic
conference is seen as an endorsement of one's peerless
scholarly prowess. Never mind that many of these
“international” conferences and journals are actually
fraudulent.
When naive xenophilia seamlessly commingles with
the kind of mortifyingly cringe-worthy credulity that
pervades the Nigerian media landscape AND the
progressive dearth and death of basic fact-checking in
even international media outlets like the BBC, you end
up with embarrassing stories like this.
This is not the first time this has happened. In July
2011, another Nigerian academic by the name of
Michael Atovigba claimed to have solved
the same Riemann Hypothesis. The ever so gullible
Nigerian media believed and celebrated him. The
reason Atovigba convinced himself that he had solved
the mathematical puzzle that Opeyemi now also claims
to have solved was that his paper (which has only
seven references, four of which are from Wikipedia!)
was found “worthy” of publication in an
"international" journal, which turned out to be a
notoriously worthless, predatory, bait-and-switch
Pakistan-based journal that masquerades as a UK
journal.
I wrote a widely circulated article on August 13, 2011
titled “Bait-and-Switch Publishing: New Face of
Academic Fraud” that exposed this fraud. Among other
things, I wrote: "Mr. Atovigba’s claims to unparalleled
mathematical genius might very well be true, but we
have no way of knowing this for certain because he
chose to publish his 'record-breaking' findings in the
'Research Journal of Mathematics and Statistics' owned
by a bait-and-switch publishing company called
Maxwell Scientific Organization."
Atovigba told the (Nigerian) Guardian that he would
get his $1 million reward from the Clay Mathematics
Institute now that he had published his “proof” in a
“reputable international journal.” Four years after,
another deluded Nigerian “scientist” claims to have
proved the same hypothesis for which Atovigba is still
expecting his $1 million, and the media’s legendary
amnesia ensures that these clowns continue to expose
Nigeria and Nigerians to international ridicule.
Incredible!
What is even more incredible is that a Nigerian BBC
correspondent’s story on Opeyemi, inspired by
Vanguard’s initial reporting (which was itself
instigated by Opeyemi himself), has caused the British
media to perpetrate Opeyemi’s misrepresentation. Now,
the British media’s uncritical echoing of Opeyemi’s
initial lie is invoked as evidence to lend credibility to
his claims to a non-existent feat. It has become one
labyrinthine network of tortuous, self-reinforcing
falsehoods. Only Philip Emeagwali’s carefully
packaged fraud outrivals this. So sad! 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 12:51pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Aareonakakanfo Is this Yorubaland? - absolutely beautiful. Just look at the green and how beautiful the landscape is - we're blessed!! |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 12:56pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Aareonakakanfo I think we should create a day where Yoruba folks from Kogi and Kwara will take charge of the thread and talk about their respective states and their plights, while we ask them questions. What do you think? With that, they'll be able to educate those of us who don't know much about them and their states. I'll see if I can find the thread where I saw loads of Yorubas from Kogi repping Yoruba, and copy all the handles - so we can tag them. Then the likes of: mandarin, yemaldo, PrincessJaneDoe, and tevinsolt. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 1:01pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
ProfShymex: Co-signed. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by shizzy7(f): 1:12pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
ProfShymex:I don't understand the connection between kogi, kwara and south west because some of them have Yoruba names. I don't know Why they are zoned with the North... |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 1:33pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Brilliant Idea Shymm3x.Brilliant!I love it! Some of them commented on EU.R.OBOMBER's thread Speaking of Oke Ado mountain,that place is absolutely gorgeous and Its not even the best we have And Mr Qelvin,why do you keep coming back here tho? Were you not the same character yarnin ch!t last week? Can you do us a favor by stop commenting on this thread? Thank you |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 2:01pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Na wa ooo spambot again after I posted names of posters from kwara/kogi Mr Mackey continue doing what you know how to do best.Monkey boy |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by tevinsolt: 2:34pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
laudate: I agree with you a bit, but when we have guys jumping on their threads to instigate, it is immature and it brings us down to their level. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by tevinsolt: 2:35pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
CabbieAC: feel free to quote me, the Yoruba on Nairaland need to get a grip. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by tevinsolt: 2:38pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
ProfShymex: good idea, there are too many misconceptions about Kwara state that needs to be cleared up. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by forgiveness: 2:52pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Qelvin: Bros, I was expecting you to give me some names of athletes from your own database that you supposed will sweep the laurel for Igbos both home and abroad but as usual, you failed to back it up. What you just wrote now is an unproven hypothesis. Present your submission with tested and proven facts and I will forever remain silent. But please kindly do that on another thread. Shalom 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by forgiveness: 3:01pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
ProfShymex: OK. I see. I just wanted to know because the rate at which the thread went from 100 - 200 within that 6 days I didn't follow the thread got me wondering, if it made the front page and the conversation I heard about moving back the thread to political section. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Katsumoto: 3:02pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
ProfShymex: Is the Commonwealth defined by the borders of the 6 SW states or is it inclusive of all Yorubas? If it is inclusive, then you don't need a day for them. They should be able contribute on all matters at all times. Besides, how do coordinate a day when they all turn up? Anyone connected to Yoruba should be able to comment at any time. Perhaps the rules were set at the start and I haven't read from page 1. Just my humble opinion. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Katsumoto: 3:05pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
MayorofLagos: Hahahaha Too close bruv |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by forgiveness: 3:05pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
ProfShymex: I see. Why now? It seems something is amiss......make no talk. Anyway, I will gladly wait to see it. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ritchiee: 3:12pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
anonimi:Wow!!!My bruv,you are so much too imbedded in politics and I really have fears for your Yorubaness... 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by anonimi: 3:14pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Ritchiee: Why? 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ritchiee: 3:18pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
anonimi:This is a good one,brev... 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ritchiee: 3:41pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
anonimi:Everybody knew that GEJ sidestepped Yorubas and only he knows the reason why he did that.He was a man to my heart initially for a couple of years and then he slipped down there...he is still a nice man.I wish him good luck.. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by anonimi: 3:52pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Ritchiee: HOW do you mean that Jonathan "sidestepped Yorubas"? If you respond with specifics, then I can reply appropriately. Cheers. 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Firefire(m): 4:00pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Ritchiee: Emi na fe mo bi Jona se sidestep Yoruba ooo? Waiting for your response also. Cheers! 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by anonimi: 4:18pm On Nov 21, 2015 |
Firefire: Far too many people have not yet redeemed themselves from the onslaught of propaganda by our JagbaJantis Asiwaju to ensure he delivered on the contract to repackage a Buhari that he himself described as "expired" only four years ago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMHk9Y9uRtE Sad!! Pathetic!!! 2 Likes 1 Share |
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