Chief Chukwuma Henry Okolo
Chukwuma Henry Okolo is the vice Chairman & CEO – Dorman Long Engineering Limited and Chairman – Nigerian Content Consultative Forum, Fabrication Group.

He has had his career predominantly in the industry. He led the turnaround of UTC Nigeria plc as Group Managing Director & CEO between 2001 and 2004. He served as Group Executive Director, Inlaks Group. He is still serving on the Boards of several companies including First Alumimium Nigeria plc, C & I Leasing (Vice Chairman), Inlaks Computers, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) etc.

He is a member of the Presidental Committee on Deep seaports for the Oil and Gas Industry. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a fellow of the British and Nigerian Institutes. He graduated from University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1978 and has subsequently attended advanced management programs at North Western University Kellogg School of Management.

Chukwuma Henry Okolo is a regular speaker at various Oil & Gas Forums on the subject of Nigerian content Development.

MD//CEO tranquil mews-boutique hotel abuja, Ifeanyi Isienyi.
Tranquil Mews is a value for money boutique hotel in Abuja offering bedrooms with a touch of comfort and handmade wooden furniture prepared according to our specification. Born in the UK owners, we strive for nothing less than exceptional customer service ensuring your stay is comfortable and enjoyable. The hotel is a secure oasis of peace and tranquillity, a comfortable place to stay, efficiently backed by staff trained to the highest standards. The modern day haven is conveniently located in the exclusive neighbourhood of Utako and 5minutes drive to Wuse II and the Central Business District. The best hotel in Abuja, we'll let you be the judge! book with us in advance to avoid disappointment. We look forward to welcoming you. THE RESTAURANT AND BAR The restaurant serves a range of traditional Nigerian and International dishes. A wide range of quality wines, beers and spirits will be available from the bar. We also do freshly prepared 100% fruit cocktails. CHECK IN You can check in from 3pm or earlier subject to your room being available. CHECK OUT Check out is 12pm, Late check out will incur a charge. CANCELLATION Should you need to cancel, 48 hours notice is required for all bookings. EXTRA BEDS Baby cots are available in many of the rooms and should be requested at the time of booking. ACCEPTED CREDIT AND DEBIT CARDS MasterCard and Visa. (Nigerian cards only)

raker300:
Wigwe: access bank

Wigwe began his career at Coopers & Lybrand, Lagos as a management consultant, later qualifying as a chartered accountant. After a stint at Capital Bank, he joined GTBank where he spent over a decade working in corporate and institutional banking, rising to become the executive director in charge of institutional banking.

In 2002, Wigwe and his business partner, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, saw a unique opportunity and grasped it, acquiring what was then a small commercial bank, Access Bank – at the time, the 65th largest of the 89 banks in the country.[3]

Access Bank is now one of the top five banks in Nigeria and ranked among the top 500 global banks according to a 2015 report by The Banker magazine and is aiming to be Africa's top bank. It currently serves over 6.5 million account-holders, through 350 branches and with more than 1,500 ATMs in major centres across Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa and the UK[4].

As one of Nigeria's foremost corporate bankers, he has helped develop some of Africa's biggest companies in the construction, telecommunications, energy and oil and gas sectors through a unique model, which involves understanding and providing financial support and expertise. His career in financial services spans more than 25 years including over a decade as Deputy Managing Director.

Wigwe also served as the Chairman of Access Bank Ghana Limited,[5] Access Investment & Securities Limited, Central Securities and Clearing System (CSCS) and is the current Chairman of Access Bank (UK) Limited. He is a board member of Nigerian Mortgage Refinance Company and a member of the advisory Board for Friends Africa. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN – FCA), a Fellow of The Institute of Credit Administration, and an Honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.

Since January 2014, he has been CEO and Group Managing Director of Access Bank.

He has had speaking engagements across the world including most recently at Silicon Valley[6] and Financial Times summit in Mozambique[7][8].
Awards and achievements

Under Wigwe, Access Bank has amassed quite a number of awards. In 2016, it won Bank of the Year and CEO of the Year[9] at the BusinessDay Banking awards in Lagos. It also clinched three prestigious awards at the annual Africa Banking Awards for the “Outstanding Business Sustainability” in the 2016 Karlsruhe Sustainable Finance Awards in Germany, the first ever for an African financial institution. Access Bank Plc repeated the performance at the 2017 Karlsruhe Sustainable Finance Awards in Germany by receiving the “Outstanding Business Sustainability Achievement Award".

Wigwe himself was named 2016 Banker of The Year separately by The Sun[10] and Vanguard [11]newspapers, two of Nigeria's biggest newspapers.
The Boys’ Brigade Nigeria

In recognition of his exemplary role in the society and contributions to youth development, the Boys’ Brigade (BB), inaugurated Herbert Wigwe, as State Patron for Lagos State Council in 2016[12][13].
The Access Conference
Herbert Wigwe speaking at the 2015 Access Conference in Lagos

His commitment to social advancement birthed the ‘Thought-Leadership Series’ known as The Access Conference[14]. The biennial event is Access Bank’s response to a global call for corporate involvement in resolving the major challenges facing humanity. Since its inauguration in 2013, the Access Conference has consistently engaged global leaders with provoking debates on issues of threats and opportunities to the world. In the 2013 edition themed ‘Sustainable Leadership’, Wigwe spoke alongside George W. Bush, Nicolas Sarkozy and John Kufuor[15], reaffirming the importance of leadership to national and corporate successes.

At the 2015 edition, Wigwe hosted distinguished global leaders such as Steve Wozniak, N. R. Narayana Murthy and José María Figueres, Muhammad Yunus and Ted Souder (Head, Industry (Retail) at Google[16][17]for discussion of the theme ‘Leading in a Transformational World – The Imperative of Innovation’. Through the conference, Access Bank has reassured the international community of Nigeria’s readiness to contribute to solving major global challenges and making the world a better place for humanity.
Philanthropy

Wigwe, Access Bank and UNICEF have a collaboration in place to offer support to vulnerable children, orphans and internationally displaced persons in the northern part of Nigeria. To raise awareness for this purpose, the bank organizes the annual high-profile Access Bank/UNICEF Charity Shield Polo tournament[18].

In February 2017, he was named co-chair of Nigerian Business Coalition against AIDS (NiBUCCA)[19], a private sector initiative to help eradicate HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and support people living with the condition.
Personal life

In January 2015, Nigerian newspaper The Punch described him as "one of Nigeria's stylish top executives". He is married to Chizoba Wigwe[20] (née Nwuba) and has 4 children: Chizi, Tochi, Hannah and David.[21] He lives and works in Lagos. He has 3 sisters and 1 brother: Joyce, Peggy, Stella and Emeka as well as 2 nieces: Aleruchi and Zara including 4 nephews: Ruchi, Oj, Chinweike and Obumneke.

His nephew, Ruchi Wigwe, is a musician and has released his first single 'Fire' on May 5th.

raker300:
Mr. Arinze Onyedikachi Okoye: logicmate

We are grateful to you for your patronage and partnership all these time. Over the years, our partnership has grown into a business chemistry that was driven by result-oriented solutions and cost effective approach in resolving business challenges. Together, we have straightened efficiency, friendship and prosperity for all.

In line with our mission statement which is “to give our client, an I.T solution that will enhance efficiency in business and sustainable growth using high ethical standards and professionalism, adopting integrity as a guild”. We have repositioned our company to give our client much better services in pursuance of our vision and dream which is “to be a grade one I.T infrastructure solution provider”. For us to achieve this, we have widened our reach in Nigeria and have established offices in Lagos, Abuja and Enugu.

We have developed our human resource by training and retraining of staff. To capture these strategic repositioning, we are delighted to change our brand from Gavindia Nigeria Limited to Logicmate Systems Limited. The Alpha in our new brand is to consistently remind us of our vision of being a grade one I.T infrastructure solution provider in Nigeria.

Logicmate Systems Limited hopes to work with you even much better than before. Thank you for your support and partnership.



About Us

Logicmate Systems Limited is an indigenous Nigerian company which until 2015 known as Gavindia Nigeria Limited. A service oriented established in 2004 and was incorporated in 2008 to provide professional Information Technology (IT) services in Nigeria. We have for the past 10 years been providing IT services to a wide range of high-value clientele in Government, Industry and Commerce, especially in the financial, telecommunications, Gas and Oil sectors of the economy. Logicmate Systems Limited main operational base is Lagos, Abuja and Enugu.

Logicmate Systems Limited employs over 7 professional staffs and has major investment in consultancy service and support infrastructure in all its offices.

The Company operates on these key areas in I.C.T namely (1) Consultancy and Training (2) Structured Cabling and Cisco Networking (3) Sales of I.T Hardware and Accessories (4) I.C.T Based Security system (5) Web Designing.

Vision Statement

To be a grade one I.T infrastructure solution provider

Mission Statement

Our mission is to give our client, an I.T solution that will enhance efficiency in business and sustainable growth using high ethical standards and professionalism, adopting integrity as a guild.

raker300:
Mr. C.C. Chigbundu: coscharis mobility

About Us

Coscharis Mobility Limited, SIXT franchise in Nigeria delivers excellent service to its customers, we pride in giving them the highest value for their money.
We believe in imparting value to the Logistics industry in Nigeria, through outstanding services which conforms to international standards thereby creating an enabling environment for our staff and customers.

Our goal is to build a company that will stand the test of time in the logistics industry”

Our Vision

To continue to make positive changes in the business of logistics in Nigeria.

Quick Facts

• In 1912 SIXT was established as a Car rental and Fleet management company in Germany.
• SIXT is currently represented in over 150 countries in Europe and the Middle East and starts expansion in Asia Pacific, the Americas, Australia and Africa.
• SIXT Nigeria is the franchise of Coscharis Mobility Limited, a company under the Coscharis Group.
• Coscharis Group has substantial and visible investment in numerous sectors of the Nigerian economy.
• Coscharis Group offers world class automobile brands such as BMW, Ford, MINI, JAGUAR, LANDROVER, RANGER ROVER, MINI, JOYLONG, MG vehicles, Toyota amongst other top brands.
• Our services includes: Airport pick up and drop off, Car rental ( short and long term), School bus and staff bus scheme, Light trucks, Vehicle lease, Fleet management, Armoured vehicles ,Escort services and Protocol services.
• SIXT started its operations officially in Nigeria on 3rd March, 2013
• SIXT has 9 locations presently nationwide and still counting, there are: ( Lagos ( V/I , CG Eko, Oriental Hotel, FourPoint Hotel, Airport stand arrival wing E, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Calabar and Kano state
• Our contacts are: reservations@sixtnigeria.com, customerservice@sixtnigeria.com, Web: sixt.com.ng, Blog: www.sixtblog.com, Facebook: Sixtrent a car Nigeria, Twitter: Coscharismob@twitter.com
• Our Numbers are: 0700SIXTCARS (070074982277) 0700SIXTABJ( 07007498225), 0700SIXTPHC (07007498742), and landline is 012954349, 012952832, 07088606711.

Our Objective

• To help our clients concentrate on their core business while we handle all their mobility issues.
• To help customers get value for money spent through proper and efficient vehicle utilization.
• To help our clients reduce cost.

Our Assurance

• Efficient Service.
• Quick response to issues.
• Partnering in growing your business.
• Flexibility in Service Delivery.
• Assured Security.

Our Strengths

• Our over 36 years experience in the Auto Industry.
• Our Branch networks.
• Our Financial Strength.
• Our Experienced Staff.
• Our International Standard workshops.
• Our Experience in diverse brands of vehicles.
• Our Safety standards.

Our Safety Assurance
• Safety is our watch word at SIXT Nigeria. Our vehicles are tracked for safety purposes which monitors the driver’s speed limit.
• Our Vehicles/Maintenance: our vehicles are new and are maintained as at when due, we have over 250 vehicles as at December, 2014.

raker300:
Agili: royal exchange insurance

In 1918, Royal Exchange commenced operations in Nigeria represented by Barclays Bank DCO and in 1921 converted to a full branch of its then parent company, Royal Exchange Assurance, London.

Royal Exchange Assurance, London was originally founded in 1720 and was one of the first two insurance companies in Britain to receive legal status via Royal Charter. Originally established for marine business, it expanded within a year to include fire and life assurance, thereby becoming Britain's first composite insurer. The establishment of its branch in Nigeria was the result of an overseas expansion drive in the early 20th century.

Pursuant to Section 396(2) of the then Companies Act of 1968, Royal Exchange was in December 1969, reconstituted and incorporated as a Private Limited Liability Company. The company went public on 18 July 1989, and was duly listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on 3 December 1990.

In 2007, Royal Exchange entered into a merger with African Prudential Insurance Company Limited and Phoenix of Nigeria Assurance Company Plc. The merger brought about a significantly stronger Royal Exchange, better positioned to serve the needs of its clientele in the financial services sector.

Royal Exchange, previously registered in compliance with the provisions of the Insurance Act 2003, as a composite insurer of life, general and special risks, substantially re-organized itself into a group holding company in 2007 , to properly position itself as a broad based, financial services provider.

Consequently, the general and special risks insurance business was demerged into a wholly owned subsidiary, Royal Exchange General Insurance Company Limited, whilst the life assurance business was transferred to another wholly owned subsidiary, Royal Exchange Prudential Life Plc. Two additional, wholly owned subsidiaries, Royal Exchange Finance & Investment Limited and Royal Exchange Healthcare Limited were also established as part of the overall diversification strategy. More recently, Royal Exchange Asset Management was established to offer a broad range of asset and wealth management services to both our individual and corporate clients.

The Royal Exchange brand is one that we are justifiably proud of and we will ensure our relevance in the environment in which we operate by continuously focusing on customer service and product enhancement, our technology platforms and our human capital.

We are tried and tested. We build enduring relationships. We are …

ROYAL EXCHANGE PLC

hilroy:


He is from Agbor. Believe me, Agbor historically are not Igbos. All this attachee by force will be settled by the time everyone goes their separate ways

Check the word Aboriginals and ask who are the aboriginals of Agbor.

these guys keep insulting themselves thinking they are know how to ban people. why?

Develpeast:
Chinedu Echeruo is the founder and creator of Hopstop. Hopstop is a city transit guide launched in 2001. It provides door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City. One can also search for places to restaurants, bars and hotels. Other popular features include sending directions by e-mail or text messaging to a cell phone directly from the website and planning a trip with multiple destinations using the itinerary. Users can get directions or the locations of nearby subway and bus stops remotely on their cell phone or PDA with the HopStop Mobile service.

Today, the site serves about a million customers each month and generates annual revenues in excess of $3 million.

Chinedu holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Syracuse University.

Echeruo grew up in South-East Nigeria and attended Kings College Lagos, Nigeria before proceeding to Syracuse University where he obtained a B.S in Finance and Accounting (Honors). He also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

In 2005, Echeruo set up HopStop.com which provides door-to-door directions to city residents and tourists via public transportation systems. The Company’s services are delivered through its website, SMS and voice interface and a downloadable mobile application; allowing users to access the HopStop service anywhere and anytime.

HopStop was purchased by Apple, Inc. in July 2013 for a whopping $1bn.

Circa 2007, Echeruo founded Tripology.com, a lead generation company for the global travel industry. Tripology.com connects consumers to specialized travel professionals and provides travel professionals with high-quality leads. The company was acquired by Rand McNally in 2010 and is now owned by USA Today.

Echeruo is a CEO and Founder of Gigameet.com a global cause-driven platform that promotes global human connections by making it easy to request and schedule 1-hour in-person or video conference meetings with people for business, social or entertainment purposes for a fee. A portion of the fee goes to support a chosen charity.

He is also a Partner – Private Equity at Constant Capital Partners.

Before his entrepreneurial career, Echeruo was with AM Investment Partners, a $500 million volatility-driven convertible bond arbitrage hedge fund. Prior to completing his M.B.A. in 2000, he spent several years (1995 – 1998) in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, financing and private equity transactions.

He was also named Black Enterprise Magazine‘s Small Business Innovator of the Year and listed in the magazine’s Top 40 under 40.

realhumanity:


You need to do justice to Phillip Emeagwali's profile




WILLINGBORO -- Philip Emeagwali, a man of immeasurably high intelligence, spurns the description people most often attach to him: genius.

"I don't like that term. People think it only means genius in the mathematical sense or that it refers to a select group of people," Emeagwali, 44, told about 50 parents last night at a public forum on schools. "But I think every one of us has the power to be a genuis. I was not born a genius; it was nurtured in me by my father."

When he was 10, growing up in western Nigeria, Emeagwali was drilled daily by his father to solve 100 math problems in one hour. There was no time to write solutions on paper -- he had 36 seconds per problem. So Emeagwali did them in his head.

Philip Emeagwali and Robert Matthews (20890 bytes)
Award-winning scientist Philip Emealgwali (left) finaliy met face to face with sixth grader Robert Matthews at the Garfield Park School in Willingboro.

"People later called me a mathematical genuis, but you would be a genuis, too, if you had to do 100 math problems in an hour," he said.

In the last two days, the man who has been called "one of the greatest intellectual giants Africa has produced" has been taking his message -- the importance of homework, cultivating encouragement at home, and surmounting obstacles -- to a school district that has been mired in problems.

Standardized test scores here sank to such lows in recent years that the state placed the district in a special monitoring program. And even as the roofs of the town's school buildings crumbled, taxes soared.

Not that Emeagwali didn't have his own trials to overcome.

When he was 12, Emeagwali lived underneath ceilings that crumbled from rocket shells. From 1967 to 1970, Nigeria fell into civil war, forcing schools to close. Emeagwali had finished only seventh grade.

"We ate only once a day. Some days we had nothing to eat. We were among the poorest families in the world," Emeagwali told students at a high school assembly earlier in the day. "Growing up poor and overcoming several obstacles made me a stronger person. I became more determined to succeed in life."

Studying on his own from 6 a.m. to midnight, Emeagwali passed entrance examinations to the University of London with top grades. In 1974, he immigrated to the United States, obtaining degrees in several subjects. His parents and eight younger brothers and sisters followed him to America.

Since then, Emeagwali, whose IQ is too high to be measured on conventional tests, has put together a resume that extends like the decimals of pi. He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America. He has won numerous awards, including the Gordon Bell Prize -- computer science's Nobel Prize. He devised ways of making oil fields more productive, saving the United States hundreds of millions of dollars a year. His inventions include the world's fastest computer, which in 1989 computed 3.1 billion calculations in one second.

He is now setting up a consulting firm in Baltimore, whose services are wanted by everybody from the United Nations to telecommunications firms.

While this was only his third speaking engagement in schools, students in Willingboro gave an enthusiastic response to his message, mobbing him with questions and requests for autographs after his speech. He is scheduled to speak at Willingboro's Bookbinder and Pennypacker Park Elementary Schools today.

Emeagwali came to Willingboro after Robert Matthews Jr., a sixth grader at Garfield East Elementary School, asked him, via e-mail, to speak at his school. Matthews had been assigned to do a report on an African American scientist for Black History Month.

School administrators then asked Emeagwali to speak to parents at a public forum, which was scheduled for last night. Draped in a sky-blue North African robe and cap, Emeagwali stood out in an otherwise formally suited crowd.

"Genius is not beyond the reach of these students," he told the parents. "You just need to show them how to tap into the genius that lies within them."

Dr. Philip Emeagwali, who has been called the "Bill Gates of Africa," was born in Nigeria in 1954. Like many African schoolchildren, he dropped out of school at age 14 because his father could not continue paying Emeagwali's school fees. However, his father continued teaching him at home, and everyday Emeagwali performed mental exercises such as solving 100 math problems in one hour. His father taught him until Philip "knew more than he did."

Growing up in a country torn by civil war, Emeagwali lived in a building crumbled by rocket shells. He believed his intellect was a way out of the line of fire. So he studied hard and eventually received a scholarship to Oregon State University when he was 17 where he obtained a BS in mathematics. He also earned three other degrees – a Ph.D. in Scientific computing from the University of Michigan and two Masters degrees from George Washington University.

The noted black inventor received acclaim based, at least in part, on his study of nature, specifically bees. Emeagwali saw an inherent efficiency in the way bees construct and work with honeycomb and determined computers that emulate this process could be the most efficient and powerful. In 1989, emulating the bees' honeycomb construction, Emeagwali used 65,000 processors to invent the world's fastest computer, which performs computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Dr. Philip Emeagwali's resume is loaded with many other such feats, including ways of making oil fields more productive – which has resulted in the United States saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year. As one of the most famous African-American inventors of the 20th century, Dr. Emeagwali also has won the Gordon Bell Prize – the Nobel Prize for computation. His computers are currently being used to forecast the weather and to predict the likelihood and effects of future global warming.

Develpeast:
Philip Emeagwali is a computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer – a machine featuring over 65,000 parallel processors – to help analyze petroleum fields.

Philip received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977. He received a master's degree in environmental engineering from George Washington University in 1981, and another master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1986. He also received a post-master's degree in ocean, coastal and marine engineering from George Washington University in that year.

In 1989 Emeagwali received the Gordon Bell Prize, based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer for oil-reservoir modeling. Over the past years, he has received numerous further awards and recognitions based on his Bell Prize win, ranging from one from the World Bank-IMF Africa Club to being voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist) of all time" in a survey by New African magazine.

His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity.

You need to do justice to Phillip Emeagwali's profile




WILLINGBORO -- Philip Emeagwali, a man of immeasurably high intelligence, spurns the description people most often attach to him: genius.

"I don't like that term. People think it only means genius in the mathematical sense or that it refers to a select group of people," Emeagwali, 44, told about 50 parents last night at a public forum on schools. "But I think every one of us has the power to be a genuis. I was not born a genius; it was nurtured in me by my father."

When he was 10, growing up in western Nigeria, Emeagwali was drilled daily by his father to solve 100 math problems in one hour. There was no time to write solutions on paper -- he had 36 seconds per problem. So Emeagwali did them in his head.

Philip Emeagwali and Robert Matthews (20890 bytes)
Award-winning scientist Philip Emealgwali (left) finaliy met face to face with sixth grader Robert Matthews at the Garfield Park School in Willingboro.

"People later called me a mathematical genuis, but you would be a genuis, too, if you had to do 100 math problems in an hour," he said.

In the last two days, the man who has been called "one of the greatest intellectual giants Africa has produced" has been taking his message -- the importance of homework, cultivating encouragement at home, and surmounting obstacles -- to a school district that has been mired in problems.

Standardized test scores here sank to such lows in recent years that the state placed the district in a special monitoring program. And even as the roofs of the town's school buildings crumbled, taxes soared.

Not that Emeagwali didn't have his own trials to overcome.

When he was 12, Emeagwali lived underneath ceilings that crumbled from rocket shells. From 1967 to 1970, Nigeria fell into civil war, forcing schools to close. Emeagwali had finished only seventh grade.

"We ate only once a day. Some days we had nothing to eat. We were among the poorest families in the world," Emeagwali told students at a high school assembly earlier in the day. "Growing up poor and overcoming several obstacles made me a stronger person. I became more determined to succeed in life."

Studying on his own from 6 a.m. to midnight, Emeagwali passed entrance examinations to the University of London with top grades. In 1974, he immigrated to the United States, obtaining degrees in several subjects. His parents and eight younger brothers and sisters followed him to America.

Since then, Emeagwali, whose IQ is too high to be measured on conventional tests, has put together a resume that extends like the decimals of pi. He is listed in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America. He has won numerous awards, including the Gordon Bell Prize -- computer science's Nobel Prize. He devised ways of making oil fields more productive, saving the United States hundreds of millions of dollars a year. His inventions include the world's fastest computer, which in 1989 computed 3.1 billion calculations in one second.

He is now setting up a consulting firm in Baltimore, whose services are wanted by everybody from the United Nations to telecommunications firms.

While this was only his third speaking engagement in schools, students in Willingboro gave an enthusiastic response to his message, mobbing him with questions and requests for autographs after his speech. He is scheduled to speak at Willingboro's Bookbinder and Pennypacker Park Elementary Schools today.

Emeagwali came to Willingboro after Robert Matthews Jr., a sixth grader at Garfield East Elementary School, asked him, via e-mail, to speak at his school. Matthews had been assigned to do a report on an African American scientist for Black History Month.

School administrators then asked Emeagwali to speak to parents at a public forum, which was scheduled for last night. Draped in a sky-blue North African robe and cap, Emeagwali stood out in an otherwise formally suited crowd.

"Genius is not beyond the reach of these students," he told the parents. "You just need to show them how to tap into the genius that lies within them."

Please post pictures so that we can get a complete feel of the industries we are talking about. FKO, you are doing exceptionally great, keep it up. Natualman,whenever you are posting, please attach some information about the owner and company, so that we can get a general overview of what the company is about.

Vikky014:
saw katsina in your post. serving there.

I once stayed in katsina when my project too me to katsina , charanchi, jibia and daura. I have since left the place.

Vikky014:
Are you in katsina

No. Why did you ask?

CaptainGOOD:


Really?.. and nobody was arrested?.
U see why igbos need to stay on their own.
If u ask them why they did that..
What would be their responds?.

It always appears like an accident, that is what the police will paint it as. That is the problem. I want them to leave too but we need to be smart if we will pull them back to the east.

woodcook:


I don't mean to annoy you, my apologies.

No problem nwanne. Its good we have divergent views a times so that we can get a clearer picture of issues we are tackling.

No offense taken.

woodcook:

Sabo if the truth annoys you then do the right thing.

Kk

woodcook:

Nobody is abandoning them sabo. Stop trying to sound as if you care about then. You are nothing but a sabo.

Guy, stop annoying me please. I beg u.

nedu666:
oga is it a must they build in the village. land is available in onitsha, awka, enugu etc so that reason does not hold. secondly many were born in the north means they hve parents. how come their parents never took them to see home. does it mean their parents did not witness d civil war. while will an igbo man forget where he came from. can a yoruba or hausa man do that. he forgot to the extent he failed to build a house in the east. my brother lets tell d truth even if kanu and ipob did not arise does it mean igbos must remain foolish there are certain things that should not b and building fine houses and factories in the north is one of such.

If we sit here and complain about why they did not relocate to the village ten years ago, we will still not be talking about the solution. The only thing is, if we can solve the problem of absorbing them in the east, then we have no problem at all.

nedu666:
my broda i hve been to kano and i know that. but dat is my exact annoyance with our people why do build factories and fine houses in kano. did they not learn from history. if u must build why not a small bungalow in the north and a bigger one in the east. haba how can igbos be this stupid. now they hve set a trap for themselves and expect pity. i hve no pity for them for they are foolish. my uncle stayed in miaduguru borno for almost 20yrs. built 3 houses in the east. but lived in a small unpainted bungalow with absetos roof on half plot. when boko got out of hand he moved down east and has not looked back. that is how a wise igbo man lives. you learn from the northerners living in lagos, onitsha they dont build fine houses despite how peaceful the east is. why should igbos go to an hostile enviroment and build fine houses. are they not stupid

Seriously, you are right. But we cannot abandon them now when they are in trouble. A practical solution should be chosen to help them out of this dire situation. We have not been doing our work as a people.

woodcook:


Sabo take your preaching elsewhere. Like the North has not been killing them like forever. You think that if IPOB stop calling for referendum that it will automatically stop the North from killing Igbos there.

You are a sabo.

Sabo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whether you shout Sabo or yaba, the truth is the truth. I am not going to go into insulting with a brother. Just let it pass.

nedu666:
oga no vex what do u mean by house them. are u trying to say they had no home b4 moving up north. are u trying to say they built houses up north but forgot to build any in the east. imagine u in that position would u build a house first in the north b4 the east. pity i dont hve for igbos. let them return and build the east. necessity is the mother of all inventions

I am not supposed to say this in a public forum but the truth is, how many of them have a welcoming extended family in the east. Many of them complain about their family problems that's why don't like coming home. You might want to rubbish it but some of them have land disputes which make them stop coming totally.

Another thing you need to know is that, many if them were born in the north and have only known the north since they were kids.

backtosender:
u mean the whole zoo will become humanitarian zones......the ones that came back during boko haram crisis are now doing well in the south

I assure you, there are still a lot of Igbo's in the Maiduguri and environs. Kano, Kaduna, sokoto and Niger house of the highest population of Igbo's. We need to look from their own perspective too.

nedu666:
oga lets tell ourselves the truth, igbos up north are there for one primary reason money. money has beclouded their sense of reason. secondly if i face danger everyday what are u still doing there. what concern village people with igbos up north. dont village people hve lives and enough prob of their own. you talk of job losses what jobs. are their igbos working for hausa man in the north. aside trading which is d main occupation what else.

We have engineers, bankers, doctors, lecturers, real estate investors here. Igbo's are doing virtually everything in the north. Igbo ppl own hotels even more than northerners in kano. They are not just here trading, many have factories especially plastic factories. You don't know. Igbo have millionaire city in kano where they built one of the finest houses.

The truth is, many of you talk because you have not seen very successful Igbo ppl here. They are quite much.

Marcelo290:
realhumanity, I perfectly understand your post cos I've lived and still have my people staying in the North, Even though I'm presently in the South East. I've also tried time without number to explain this to them, buh the mentality of those of them here who haven't moved out of the confines of the zone leaves me worried.

Majority of them don't care what happens to those in the North, they keep chanting "come back home" like it's that easy leaving a place you have settled and your source of livelihood to come back and live in poverty and penury. Ask them how many they can house, or if East can contain everyone that comes back and watch how they dodge the questions and tongue lash you with insults, it's so unfair, we are meant to be our brothers keepers and reason like one, an attack on one igbo is an attack on all the igbo nation, we must learn to uphold the legacy we are known for.

Lastly, this is not an avenue for skull miners and other igbo haters to vent their hatred, rather, look for for sustainable means of solving your own many problems. This also doesn't change our ideology about Biafra.

The call for Biafra still stays but we need to be smarter than the people around us. It is not about achieving Biafra, we should achieve a Biafra where everyone will start happy not picking crumbs on the ground.

The number of vices will increase if we don't checkmate these things before it goes wrong.

greatermax77:
Most of our brothers living in the north do not see far, I was there in Kaduna in in 1998 to year 2000 when the sharia riot took place two times.
Despite that I was making money on my uncles hotel, but I said to myself, this is not a place to stay & invest. I came back to east.
Bleep one Nigeria!
@OP, come back now, & u are still there writting nonsense
Why investing in a region their do not invest in yours?

I am no longer in the north but that doesn't mean I should not care for the people staying there. You just can't pull millions of ppl home. Even Europe had to share the population between themselves when it came to Syria refugees. We need to see beyond our nose.

Ikology:


What is the solution?

The solution is we first create schools for their children in the east. Let them start staying in the east. When their kids are no longer with them, they see no reason building houses or more investment here because their minds will always be where their children are.

With the increase of children to the east, business men who are into kids and adolescent products will see a booming market in the east and go back too.

I have more plans but they cannot be written here. I just showed you how to push the first set of traders home.

CaptainGOOD:


U are sound like tgise people dont have where they came from in the east.
Dude this is not in the olden days...
Wen people ar still in d dark
When they distroyed igbos properties and it ended like that.
Bliv me that cant happen again..
The wolrd has gone vast so is the igbo nation.
If they tried such agin.. they would be sued.
It seems u think ipob is only abt those ones in d village.. u think ipob is "FILLED WITH ILLITERATE" like our enemies always say..( lol thats funny ).
U will be suprised to know there are igbo lawyers and doctors in diaspora who are supporting kanu
And whose videos i have seen.

It seems u dnt watch kanu interviews.
Becox already bliv he is wrong and bad..
What the media painted him and what they want u to bliv about him.

IGBO PROPERTIES OUTSIDE IGBOLAND ARE 100% SAFE I GUARANTEE U.

Have you read where the news carried it that yankura or sabon gari market got burnt? Google it, you will see them in the news. these almajiris sleep in these markets and are capable of causing damage. You guys keep talking like u are dealing with learned ppl.

Ojiofor:


So if Emeka in Onitsha said something bad against Hausa/Fulani then Hausa/Fulani inThe North should kill every Emeka and Uche living amongst them and you are here to justify it?
Stay in the north and enjoy your cheap accommodation,cheap suya and cheap Sabon gari ashawos at the expense of your life.

You have a problem with understanding my comment. Emeka is learned and understands the beauty of life but Sule is uneducated, wasn't cared for and under the care of a radical northerner. We need to study the philosophy of other people before we engage them.

Igbo's have more to lose if we fight with these people. Stop acting like you won't care when you start seeing riots in the north.