Nigerian geniuses you should know

 Phillip Emeagwali
Born in Onitsha, Nigeria and a roommate to Chike Obi,
the first Nigerian to receive a Phd in
Mathematics. When he was 17, Emeagwali scored in
the 99 percentile on the American SAT exam. This won
him a scholarship to Oregon State University in
Corvallis, OR, where he majored in math. Today, much
of the academic and computer world is amazed by
some of the discoveries of this young “Nigerian
genius.” In February of 1989, he the prestigious
Gordon Bell Prize for programming supercomputers
to work faster than ever before and for helping to
solve one of the nation’s toughest oil recovery
problems.

  Ufot Ekong
Ufot Ekong is the Nigerian
student who solved a
thirty year old equation
and graduated with the
best grades in a Japanese
University in 50 years. Mr
Ekong also speaks English,
French, Japanese and
Yoruba and won a
Japanese language award
for foreigners. He is
currently working for
Nissan and already has
two patents for electronic
car design to his name.
Peter and Paula Imafidon
Twins from Edo Nigeria, who live in London. They
astounded veteran experts of academia when they
became the youngest to ever pass the University of
Cambridge’s advanced mathematics exam. That’s on
top of the fact they have set world records when they
passed the A/AS-level math papers. They have
consistently passed the A/AS-level mathematics more
than any other person.
Victor Olalusi
Dr Victor Olalusi graduated from a Russian University
with a CGPA of 5.0, the best in the entire Russian
Federation. A citation on Olalusi also said he was the
best graduating student at Aquinas College, Akure,
Ondo State where he obtained distinctions in all the
subjects he offered in the 2004 West African School
Certificate Examination. He enrolled in a pre-degree
programme of the Federal University of Technology,
Akure, Ondo State later in 2004 where he also came
out as the best pre-degree student with a score of 80
per cent. The citation said further that in June 2006, he
took the Universities Matriculation Examination (UME)
to study Medicine and Surgery, scoring 321 points out
of 400 points to emerge the best Science student in
Nigeria. In his post UME examination, he scored 326
points out of 400 points, the highest in the
Department of Medicine of Obafemi Awolowo
University (OAU), Ile-Ife, in 2006.
Saheela Ibraheem
Saheela Ibraheem
got into the Ivy
League Harvard at
the age of 15, where
she is currently
studying
neurobiology — a
branch of science
that studies the
brain — and has
been listed among
the “World’s 50
Smartest
Teenagers.” She
was also accepted
for admission by 13
other top colleges
in the United States, including the MIT, Princeton,
Columbia, and six Ivy League institutions, choosing
Harvard, she became one of the youngest students to
ever attend the university. She will be graduating in
May this year. She made history when she was hosted
in the White House by President Obama.