I believe that two possibilities-presumption and despair are evident in the commentaries on Amalaha’s “research”. A part of me tells me that the young “scientist” should be accorded the respect that scientific research demands for researchers everywhere and every time. Prove the researcher wrong with contradictory evidence based results and conclusion. I say presumption because the painful thought is of the falsehood and uselessness of the man’s work if indeed it is one. Have you seen the published photo of the man in his laboratory? Does Amalaha not have a right to a fair but -critical trial? I also say despair because few right thinking persons, Nigerians or not, could have imagined at this time, that as low as standards have fallen in Nigeria, even a report as silly as this one was possible.

More seriously, how low is low enough? In my case, it does not matter that this report is more likely a forgery. It matters that Nigeria is associated with this base of a report. Nigeria’s leaders have cost Nigeria dear. Rescue for Nigeria is beseeching and urgent. Does anyone know of competent able and willing first responders who might help?

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of olakassimmd@aol.com
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 2:02 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian Student Chibuihem Amalaha 'Uses Science To Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong'

While the Huffington Post story might not be true, it really doesn't surprise me. VC Aluko may not know it, but I urge him to try in his spare time (if there's ever one for a founding VC) to find out what really goes on in some of the "science laboratories" in Nigeria's universities. How can one have a PhD in Chemistry and then claim ON TV that carbon-dating is a "false science" because it challenges the bible's claim that the world was created in six (6) days some six (6) thousand years ago? The late Prof. Thurston Shaw is certainly burning in hell with the devil for daring to claim that Igbo civilization (in his Igbo-Ukwu excavations) is over 10,000 years old, and so older than the Jewish one of about 5,000 years! How does one become a "professor of medicine" and still be the cheerleader of the murderous campaign that polio vaccine is a Western/Christian plot to wipe out Muslim children? How does one have a PhD in Political Science and become a media favorite in "national security" while also claiming that the only solution to Nigeria's problems is "spiritual security" (yes, you heard Babalawo)? How can you be a medical director of a Federal Medical Center and still claim that diabetic ulcer is incurable with "Western medicine" because "they send am from village"? How can you be a freshly-minted PhD and claim that the only way to ensure quality doctorate degrees is to mandate that every postgraduate student write a book review of "major theories" in the field? Don't they do a literature review as part of the thesis/dissertation, you ask?--Okey Iheduru

Hi Okey:

You have just recited some of the most frustrating contradictions in the psyche of
the average Nigerian, regardless of his/her level of educational attainment or socio-economic
status.

It would seem that Nigerians are by and large always trying to have both ways!
Science professors, Imams and Christian religious officials still consult
the local Babalawo when the going gets tough and all the prayers invoking the imported
religions have failed!

That any newspaper in Nigeria would consider the article about Nigeria's latest
fake scientist speaks volumes about the state of journalistic standards in Nigeria.
why would an editor approve such an article for publication--only to be picked
up by online blogs like the Huffington Post to the eternal shame of what it is
to be a Nigerians.

Some commentators on the online blogs are already asking whether or not
the endorsement of the 'gay science' research by UNILAG is a true reflection
of the standard of science taught in Nigerian institutions.

Here are some salient questions that need answers:

a) is Mr Chibuihem Amalaha really a postgrad student at UNILAG faculty of Science?

b) if so who serves as his research supervisor or mentor in the faculty?

c) where did he obtain his first degree--e.g. BSc that would have been a prerequisite
for admission into a postgrad Science program at UNILAG?

d) is it true that one of his Professors suggested that he is on track for a Nobel Prize?

if any of the abobe questions are answered in the affirmative the NUC should immediately
send a team of on inspectors to reevaluate the accreditation status of the Faculty of Science
in UNILAG?

My hunch is that all of the above are fabricated--in which case UNILAG gets to keep
its hard earned honors as an institution that is still worthy of its illustrious name--UNILAG--the
same institution that rejected a change of name to MKO Abiola University!

Bye,

Ola

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From: okey iheduru <okeyiheduru@gmail.com>
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 16, 2013 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian Student Chibuihem Amalaha 'Uses Science To Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong'

While the Huffington Post story might not be true, it really doesn't surprise me. VC Aluko may not know it, but I urge him to try in his spare time (if there's ever one for a founding VC) to find out what really goes on in some of the "science laboratories" in Nigeria's universities. How can one have a PhD in Chemistry and then claim ON TV that carbon-dating is a "false science" because it challenges the bible's claim that the world was created in six (6) days some six (6) thousand years ago? The late Prof. Thurston Shaw is certainly burning in hell with the devil for daring to claim that Igbo civilization (in his Igbo-Ukwu excavations) is over 10,000 years old, and so older than the Jewish one of about 5,000 years! How does one become a "professor of medicine" and still be the cheerleader of the murderous campaign that polio vaccine is a Western/Christian plot to wipe out Muslim children? How does one have a PhD in Political Science and become a media favorite in "national security" while also claiming that the only solution to Nigeria's problems is "spiritual security" (yes, you heard Babalawo)? How can you be a medical director of a Federal Medical Center and still claim that diabetic ulcer is incurable with "Western medicine" because "they send am from village"? How can you be a freshly-minted PhD and claim that the only way to ensure quality doctorate degrees is to mandate that every postgraduate student write a book review of "major theories" in the field? Don't they do a literature review as part of the thesis/dissertation, you ask?

As I have stated in this forum before, many Nigerians are highly credentialed but not educated at all. Too many so-called scholars are asking questions that other people have asked and answered years ago and call it "research." An educational system that does not encourage students and teachers to ask new questions--and have the patience to find and TOLERATE new answers--is not worth the name. That's why someone who fabricates a machine that can fry cassava is touted by his/her "University of Science and Technology" as a future Nobel laureate. Oga Aluko, please watch NUC's 30-minute program "Discovery..." every Saturday, as long as you won't be eating corn and coconut while watching the "ground-breaking" accomplishments of your country men and women.

Have a great week, folks.

Okey Iheduru

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:

I dey laugh o! Another Philip Emeagwali or Gabriel Oyibo (Gagut) in the making. A post graduate student in chemical engineering who is clearly a certifiable nutcase is the one purportedly being positioned as a Nobel Prize candidate? And when Ikhide rants about Nigerian universities and/or the entire education sector going to the dogs he is told to stop peddling hyperbole and hysteria.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:56 AM, <olakassimmd@aol.com> wrote:

He concludes this “means that man cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not attract a woman because they are the same. That is how I used physics to prove gay marriage wrong".
Amalaha's "research" has been commended by the University of Lagos, where he is a postgraduate student, and has been told by lecturers he will "win a Nobel prize one day". The interview with the student was published on Nigerian website This Day Live, where his findings appear to be presented as fact.
"A University of Lagos post graduate student, Chibuihem Amalaha, from Imo State has used science to prove that gay marriage is improper among other breakthroughs, writes Charles Ajunwa," the article states. "He talked about his researches and scientific breakthroughs with the confidence of an achiever..

Bolaji et al:

Please tell me I am having a bad dream or that this story is a hoax.

It is quite embarrassing that the name of UNILAG, a once exalted Nigerian university
has been attached to this charade!

How hath the mighty fallen so low and so fast!

Nigeria's homophobes now have a pseudo-scientific backing for their rampant hatred
for gays and lesbians.

Any nation in the world that celebrates the discovery that opposites attract
and likes repel in a magnetic field by a university student--a fact he should have learnt at
during Nature Study classes in primary school, not to mention in his first science class
in high school is one with a standard of education has gone to the dogs!

My bet--this story is likely a hoax--either in whole or in part. The more galling aspect is
the assertion that UNILAG is backing this pseudo-science.

Nobel prize ko; Nobel Prize ni!

This latest Nigerian scientific breakthrough is probably worthy a Nobel from Onitsha, Dugbe or Ita Faji market

Bye,

Ola

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigerian Student Chibuihem Amalaha 'Uses Science To Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong'

My People:

I sincerely hope that this charade is not true....and that UniLag is not party to this...

Bolaji Aluko

Shaking his head

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/13/nigerian-student-science-prove-gay-marriage-wrong_n_3920879.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Nigerian Student Chibuihem Amalaha 'Uses Science To Prove Gay Marriage Is Wrong'

The Huffington Post UK | By Lucy Sherriff Posted: 14/09/2013 08:47 BST | Updated: 14/09/2013 08:47 BST

A student in Nigeria is claiming he can prove gay marriage is wrong through science - and his scientific "breakthrough" is backed by his university.

Chibuihem Amalaha, who has won awards in his country for reporting on energy science and featured on various national television stations, says he used a magnet experiment to prove homosexuality is "improper".

Amalaha says his "groundbreaking" experiments show the north and south poles of two magnets are attracted to each other while same poles repel each other.

He concludes this “means that man cannot attract another man because they are the same, and a woman should not attract a woman because they are the same. That is how I used physics to prove gay marriage wrong".

Amalaha's "research" has been commended by the University of Lagos, where he is a postgraduate student, and has been told by lecturers he will "win a Nobel prize one day". The interview with the student was published on Nigerian website This Day Live, where his findings appear to be presented as fact.

"A University of Lagos post graduate student, Chibuihem Amalaha, from Imo State has used science to prove that gay marriage is improper among other breakthroughs, writes Charles Ajunwa," the article states. "He talked about his researches and scientific breakthroughs with the confidence of an achiever..

"..And now his works have earned him the respect in the world of science."

South African gay lifestyle website Mambaonline.com slammed the interview, saying it was "absurd".

"It’s debatable as to whether the embarrassing article is more damming of the standard of education at the University of Lagos or of the standard of journalism at This Day," criticises writer Luiz DeBarros. "The uncritical and uninformed article is likely to add to the ignorance and prejudice surrounding homosexuality in Nigeria."

Nigeria's laws on homosexual acts are notoriously harsh; current legislation punishes homosexual acts with up to 14 years in jail, or, in some northern regions of the country, death by stoning.

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