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Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by Pwayne2016(m): 6:45pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian
inventor and scientist. He has been
living in the United States for many
years. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell
Prize ($1000) for price-performance
in high-performance computing
applications, in an oil reservoir
modeling calculation using a novel
mathematical formulation and
implementation. [1][2]
Biography
Emeagwali was born in Akure , Nigeria
on 23 August 1954. [3] His early
schooling was suspended in 1967 as
a result of the Nigerian Civil War. At
14 years, he served in the Biafran
army. After the war he completed
high-school equivalence through self-
study.
He is married to Dale Brown
Emeagwali , a noted African-American
microbiologist. [4][5]
Education
He traveled to the United States to
study under a scholarship following
completion of a correspondence
course at the University of London.
He received a bachelor's degree in
mathematics from Oregon State
University in 1977. He later moved to
Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a
master's degree from George
Washington University in ocean and
marine engineering, and a second
master's in applied mathematics
from the University of Maryland. Next
magazine claims that Emeagwali
claimed to have further degrees. [6]
[5] During this time, he worked as a
civil engineer at the Bureau of Land
Reclamation in Wyoming.
Court case and the denial of degree
Emeagwali studied for a Ph.D. degree
from the University of Michigan from
1987 through 1991. His thesis was
not accepted by a committee of
internal and external examiners and
thus he was not awarded the degree.
Emeagwali filed a court challenge,
stating that the decision was a
violation of his civil rights and that
the university had discriminated
against him in several ways because
of his race. The court challenge was
dismissed, as was an appeal to the
Michigan state Court of Appeals. [7]
Super computing
Emeagwali received the 1989 Gordon
Bell Prize for an application of the
CM-2 massively-parallel computer.
The application used computational
fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir
modelling. He won in the "price/
performance" category, with a
performance figure of about 400
Mflops /$1M. The winner in the
"performance" category, Mobil
Research and Thinking Machines,
used the CM-2 for seismic data
processing and achieved the higher
ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M. The judges
decided on one award per entry. [2]
[1] His method involved each
microprocessor communicating with
six neighbours. [5]
Emeagwali's simulation was the first
program to apply a pseudo-time
approach to reservoir modeling. [1]
Accolades
Price/performance – 1989
Gordon Bell Prize , IEEE ($1,000
prize) [2]
Emeagwali was voted the "35th-
greatest African (and greatest African
scientist) of all time" in a survey by
New African magazine. [8] [ citation
needed ]
His achievements were quoted in a
speech by Bill Clinton as an example
of what Nigerians could achieve
when given the opportunity. [9] 1 Like
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Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by Pwayne2016(m): 6:48pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
Pwayne2016:what Nigerians could gain when Igbos are given the opporturnity to rules dis hell called Nigeria |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by arresa: 6:59pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
[s] 8xtr0r:[/s] The same ignorant and unintelligent rubbish.. Let me tell you something since you are too hollow and clueless for your own good. Until your elders, traditional rulers, political leaders and the people you voted for and elected to lead you and manage your affairs carry placards or starts agitating for separation, whatever useless desire to breakaway from Nigeria remains a sad and pathetic preoccupation with uneducated roadside jokers and ignorant people like. Jokers like you are nothing but internet trolls and nuisance littering the internet with dumb and idiotic nonsense.. |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by 8xtr0r: 7:04pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
[s] arresa:[/s] See a deluded, moronic minion trying in vain to dictate for the Igbos on how to go about self-determination when his slavish people are still being hunted for sports for decades now without respite... A frustrated Neanderthal savage of dirt, squalor, slavery, anger, hate and propaganda cannot dictate to Igbos on how to live when in reality his Yoruba people are barely existing. Go find yourselves an idea you can live and die for! Leave Igbos out of your miseries! IGBOS SIMPLY DESIRE A SEPARATE EXISTENCE FROM WICKED, PARASITIC MURDERERS CUM TREASURY LOOTERS! Here's a message from a Nigerdeltan for you: WombRaiders: ": Yoruba wants one Nijeriya because they are afraid of having us in the better south ( ND and SE) Leave them alone with ab0ki. It is not just a matter of financial exigency but a matter of survival. For all the hatred they show towards the Ibos, the Yoruba needs the Ibo to thwart any jihad from the north. So to my Ibo brothers and sisters, what I can conclude from this yoruba madness and obsession towards Biafr@ movement is actually shrouded in deep fear of being left alone with their northern masters. Adeboye will be converted to Islam. Tunde Bakare will return back to Islam. The Yoruba is actually throwing tantrums over Biafr@ because they need YOU IBOS to remain to protect them just as they need us in the ND to keep feeding them. The Yoruba is an ingrate c0ward! " 3 Likes |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by arresa: 7:15pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
Pwayne2016: lmao... 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by arresa: 7:24pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
Pwayne2016: What have you gained from your ibo governors ruling you in your SE? What have they accomplished to stop you from running away from your towns and villages for survival in other states? Have ibo people turned ibo states into Dubai? How many Nigerians from other states are running to ibo states to enjoy your wonderful leadership? You empty and shallow chest beaters really need to stop fooling and deluding yourselves with your fake dreams.. 4 Likes |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by 8xtr0r: 7:34pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
arresa: Loud-mouthed, chest pounder whose tribe rarely stand for anything this truth remains: Indeed Igbos fare better than most tribes who have great federal government investments and the great loots from their elites. The Igbos have the highest concentration of middle-class citizens. Even with the dwindling crude oil earnings Igbo States are the least affected largely due to the fact that their economy is not crude oil dependent. Igbos are doing fairly well individually and community-wise. The main problem is the anti-Igbo policies being implemented for the past 45 years, targeting of Igbo economy and businesses, insitutionalised discrimination, Igbo careers in federal institutions, lopsided citing of federal infrastructures and investments, killings of Igbos in non-Igbo States and destruction of Igbo means of livelihoods. Money is criminally collected from SE/SS people via institutions collectively built with the commonwealth and it is selectively used to give free education to certain parasitic regions. If you lots are honest and sincere Yorubas and their partners in crime who have criminally benefitted and still benefitting from this contraption wouldn't be quick to threaten war and resort to violence and extra-judicial killings as a means to quelling a genuine agitation as against opting for a simple referendum. In Lagos under 'One Nigeria' there exist a silent economic war of destruction of livelihood, burning of markets in the middle of the night, extortion and harassment of genuine businesses by official area boys and street urchins, illegal/multiple taxing of business owners, in markets where Igbos operate e.g. Tejuoso, Alaba International and Ladipo. And now Oshodi electrical & electronic market. Many of these attracious deeds are conducted at odd times when the traders won't be available to resist the dastardly acts. Over the decades in the South-West, the Yorubas have systematically burnt Igbo shops as a guise to hijacking the markets from Igbos. They hide under the guise of city development at the expense of the people's welfare and claim they had given the traders ample time to relocate and yet the demolition is carried out at odd times. Shops are demolished without compensation and someone will still say the traders were given sufficient notice of vacation as if the alternative is affordable. The proposed alternative shops are oftentimes so exorbitant and out of reach by the common man. Igbos are made to develop barren locations and thereafter chased away to an undeveloped area or a complex beyond the reach of the common man. Many a time the destruction of shops are selectively done exempting where Yorubas sell agbo, weed and fake medicine just like in Oshodi where Electronic shops belonging to Igbos were demolished. It takes a callous government to destroy livelihoods just to justify beautification of a city at the expense of people's economic empowerment. https://www.nairaland.com/2618835/hoodlums-shut-down-alaba-international https://www.nairaland.com/2846885/tears-lagos-demolishes-oshodi-market https://www.nairaland.com/2847030/crime-lagos-state-demolishing-oshodi#41720484 https://www.nairaland.com/2847088/photos-oshodi-electronic-market-demolished https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbtKvPhzTOs A legitimate agitation by a people for a simple referendum is no way a crime. Formulating baseless theories of failure on a people's quest for nationhood reeks of hypocrisy and it's only meant to divert attention from the crust of the matter to the subterranean. Reeling out old time war tales with video clips and pictures to attempt to quench the call for self-determination is an effort in futility. The exclusive hyping on the performance or non-performance of selected politicians at this critical moment, as the antidote to the quest of a people for a separate existence, is simply diversionary and mischievous to state the least. Yorubas can continue their numerous media propaganda against Igbos and Easterners to promote their evil merchandise. A person who says it is impossible should not disturb the person doing it. It's not possible to brainwash anybody about the need to be free. No one has got the moral right to impose on another his/her self-centred way of reasoning. There's nothing like unity in Nigeria. Nairaland is a good enough mirror and a standard gauge of what your Nigeria actually is. The Business Venture of Lord Lugard being supervised by the Islamic Fulani-led fiefdom, maintained by Hausa born-to-rule hegemony and oiled by Yoruba propaganda and lies is moribund already. Strange bedfellows, with irreconcilable value systems that are at best suitable for the individual selves, are not meant to be together! The 102 years of existence attest to that verdict! Freedom seekers seek freedom until it's achieved. They don't allow others define them to suit their interest and narratives, or permit the oppressors and abusers of human rights to teach them, the oppressed what human rights are. Once beaten twice shy, they say. 2 Likes |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 7:43pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
On my way out of Lagos to a function somewhere in Ogun state, I've counted more than 30 luxurious escape buses ferrying Ibo immigrants into the SW from their enclave, who invited them? 4 Likes |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by Pwayne2016(m): 7:45pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
Yorubas you people need to appreciate Igbos for turning tins around for u guys development Innovation Made in Nigeria Quality cheap commodities 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by albany231: 8:18pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
PentiumPro: SW is like eldorado to them, deport them and they will come back. Lolzz |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 8:25pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
8xtr0r: You should ponder! With all your closet and explicit displayed hatred for the people of the SW, why is the insane attraction to live among them in their region. 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 8:29pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
albany231: Just like Fashola realized, deporting these loud mouths is a waste of time as they would board the same bus back to SW to continue constituting nuisance. Yoruba people have just realized, albeit very late, that Ibos they welcomed with open arms after the war harbors unbridled hatred towards them. They still pin their woeful loss of the war on the Yorubas. 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 8:39pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
8xtr0r: Xtrory, you and other rabid pro Biafrans Igbos have a problem. You were so eager to claim those that were killed in the crisis in Mile 12 and some other places were Yorubas, but because calling them Yorubas will not suit your narrative above, you reluctantly realized now they are Nigerians and not just Yorubas. If you like, deceive yourself from now till Jesus comes in saying Lagos is not a Yorubaland, that Biafrans too are Lagosians, it your damn headache. Meanwhile, when you are mentioning me, save yourself the headache, don't bother including video or any link, you are merely wasting your time. |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by arresa: 8:40pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
PentiumPro: Are you minding the empty and shallow chest beating losers. They run away from the hell hole and inproductive iboland they and their useless leaders can not manage, but they want to rule a whole country.. Funny losers.. 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 8:46pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
arresa: These immigrants are just stressing Lagos with this uncontrollable influx from the East. Imagine nothing less than 100 luxurious buses pack these people daily into Lagos and other parts of the SW. There would have been an explosion if other tribes are loading 100 buses into lagos and other part of SW daily. Something need to stop these crazy influx. 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by arresa: 9:07pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
PentiumPro: This is why we should just let them have their Biafra hell hole and just build a wall and fence them off like Donald trump wall.. |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by reuben79: 9:12pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
Pwayne2016:where ar waiting 4 them |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 9:12pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
8xtr0r: Xtrose, I love conciseness and brevity, you lack those two attributes in your comments. You bore me! Are you trying to finish your exams sheets while writing nonsense ? 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by 8xtr0r: 9:13pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
arresa: It's now you're beginning to make some sense. You would have saved us the stress of repeatedly drumming it that IGBOS SIMPLY DESIRE A SEPARATE EXISTENCE! You can check out this your brother who had towed your current line some hours ago: https://www.nairaland.com/2999059/pro-biafran-embarrassed-okorocha-handcuffed-arrested#43917215 dejavubobo1: 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by 8xtr0r: 9:17pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
PentiumPro: PentiumPro, sometime you just have to write and write something meaningful for those lecturers who apportion more marks based on that. Just learn not to bore me with your whinings on Biaf... matter! 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by mightyhaze: 9:19pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
So far,all I see in dis thread is xtrorse and a few of his men swiping and brutally cutting down on a bunch of very belligerent but unco ordinated civilians. Let me just put ma feet up,uncork a bottle of cold guiness and enjoy dis 3 Likes |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by 8xtr3r: 9:44pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
PentiumPro: You think by colluding with your myndless kinsman to delete my comment and ban my moniker while allowing your comment will reduce your misery? Not at all! PentiumPro, you and your lunatic Odudwarf should leave Igbos out of your miseries! Last time your Fulani masters kidnapped Olu Falae you miserable bigots put the blame on Igbos even when Falae had revealed that Fulani herdsmen kidnapped him. And to add insult to the festering injury an Almajiri like Kwankwaso came all the way from Kano, assembled cowardly Yoruba leaders in Ibadan and only to tell them to "Shut up"! Stop disturbing Igbos with your senseless and endless whining, weeping and wailing on every available media page at the mere mention of Biaf...as if your whole essence in life is being taken away from you! It's pathetic already! The problem with you bigots is that you rarely travel out or learn to acquire knowledge before grandstanding in the public. The links and video clips are for your learning. The earlier you learn to learn, unlearn and relearn the better for your survival. https://www.nairaland.com/2967468/yorubas-now-disgrace-awolowos-education https://www.nairaland.com/2749994/invasion-nigeria-benin-rep-1914 https://www.nairaland.com/2748728/benin-republic-invades-kwara-nigeria https://www.nairaland.com/2752651/invasion-nigerian-communities-soldiers-storm |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 9:58pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
8xtr3r: storm[ So Mynd44, the spambot or OAM4J saw one of your comment breaking rules and hid it, banned you appropriately but you now have to start using an alternate moniker to keep spewing such trash and lies thus breaking rule 19. Why are your Biafrans so addicted to NL, that you don't know when you are no longer welcome with your product. |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by 8xtr3r: 10:02pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
PentiumPro: See a pathetic Odudwarf ranting carelessly and senselessly about breaking rule 19... Miserable IPOO bigot, if you like cry me a lagoon I won't fail to give you a befitting response to shape your life. 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 10:05pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
8xtr3r: Mynd44 and OAM4J please handle this guy, he is going down the bend again, 1 Like |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by 8xtr3r: 10:08pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
PentiumPro: You can continue your foolery.... |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by PentiumPro(f): 10:09pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
8xtr3r: The ban is coming. |
Re: Only Igbos Can Save Nigeria by 8xtr3r: 10:13pm On Mar 19, 2016 |
PentiumPro: Do you think I have any iota of Yoruba blood in me? At least you shall learn 1 or 2 things on who you display your slyness to... I shan't fail to whip you into sanity since you don't know how to behave in the public when making your senseless and careless comments. 1 Like |
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