NewStats: 3,261,700 , 8,174,827 topics. Date: Friday, 30 May 2025 at 08:06 AM 46sh

THE United States President-elect, Joe Biden’s appointment of three young Nigerians into his cabinet is replete with lessons, not just for Nigeria, but for the entire African continent. Biden first appointed 39-year-old Adewale Adeyemo, who was the first President of the Obama Foundation, as United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

Next, Biden appointed 26-year-old Miss Osaremen Okolo, who hails from Ewohimi in Esan South East Local Council of Edo State, as his COVID-19 Policy Advisor. Miss Okolo is a graduate of Harvard University and a former Senior Health Policy Advisor in the US House of Representatives.

The latest Nigerian young talent Biden has found worthy of appointment is Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo whom he appointed White House Counsel. Badejo, a lawyer and an alumnus of Berkeley Law College in the US, has served as a counsel for policy to the Assistant Attorney-General in the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice, Ethics Counsel at the White House Counsel’s Office. She was also Attorney Advisor at the istrative Conference of the United States during the Obama-Biden istration.

These appointments are restatements of Nigerian youths’ ingenuity and brilliance which have long been established by their forerunners in various fields of human endeavour. Many brilliant minds whom Nigeria lost, mostly to the United States through the well-known brain drain syndrome, include Saheed Adepoju, inventor of the INYE-1&2 tablet computers designed for the African market; Seyi Oyesola, co-inventor of CompactOR, a solar powered life-saving operating room nicknamed “Hospital in a box”; Jelani Aliyu, designer of Chevrolet Volt for General Motors, a leading auto brand.

There is also Ndubuisi Ekekwe, developer of microchips used in minimally invasive surgical robots; Cyprain Emeka Uzoh, who holds more than 126 United States-issued patents and over 160 patents worldwide in semiconductor technology; Kunle Olukotun, who led the Stanford University Hydra research project that developed one of the first chip multiprocessors with for thread-level speculations; Sebastine Chinonye Omeh, who conducted the research into the use of wind-propelled turbines to generate electricity; and Shehu Saleh Balami, designer of a solid-fuel rocket.

There are also Yemi Adesokan, who made a discovery on drug-resistant infections; Umeh Ifeanyi Charles, who has five inventions patented at the United States Patent & Trademark Office; Aloysius Anaebonam, who has 12 United States patents; Emeka Nchekwube, a US-based neurosurgeon and co-inventor of two brands of hypoestoxides, terfenadine oral powder and solutions of pentamidine and many others.

The United States and other countries saw the talents in these Nigerians and gave them citizenships and everything they needed to do their works for the benefit of their countries. As the opportunities were given to these Nigerians in the field of science and technology, so it was also in political arenas and other areas of human endeavour, without discriminations, even though we accuse the US of racism.

Perhaps the saddest story in Nigeria is how the Federal Government allowed majority of the brains that birthed the promise of the first technologically advanced Black nation to waste while the rest migrated abroad where their ingenuities were harvested for the benefit of the host country. Nigeria, at the moment, cannot refine the crude oil multinational companies drill out of its soil.

The good news for Nigeria, however, is that it is never too late to start. Fortunately, genius brains still abound in the country. With the right environment in of policies and infrastructure, Nigeria can start and find her footings. But it requires a will and honesty of purpose, and not self-deceit evident among our politicians and leaders.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/01/lessons-in-bidens-appointments-of-nigerians/

Yoruba all the way
we are blessed

Toh

The main lesson I learned from this is that tribalists are stupid. You can see different Nigerian tribes ably represented here (although many are missing too). Our only enemies are the political class from all the tribes, not one another. But some of us, instead, choose to defend them and think that we are doing ourselves some good.

Without these wicked old cargoes, Nigeria would be far better than South Korea with our extraordinarily rich human and natural endowments. It is why I wrote this article the other day: How A 30-something-year-old Nigerian Could Become The President In 2023 (click here to read it).

We need young progressive detribalized Nigerians to run the affairs of this country if we don't want to end up very badly. We can even promote Seun or any other Nairalander to run for President in 2023. Read my article and you will see reasons with me. Let's stop getting ourselves enslaved to the corrupt old cargoes who are totally out of tune with modern realities. This is not about tribe. It's about the future of our generations yet unborn.

ENDSARS should have revealed to us the power we can wield as Nigerian youths IF WE ARE UNITED under a political structure. Please please please.

Meanwhile, check my profile if you are unemployed and you'd like an opportunity to earn with Whatsapp and your local bank .

helinues:
Toh

stop shouting toh
it's annoying

Nonsense!!!!!
All Biden's appointments will not hold because joe biden can never be president of America

President Donald trump will complete his second term.
If you think otherwise and you are man enough then quote me and let us make a bet of any amount.

by the order of Ishawuru.

Nigerians won't even appointment someone from a different state into government talk more of from a different country

There's no lesson to be learnt by us and there's nothing to be gained by us from this. Nigeria needs to be completely emptied and repopulated by a new set of people if it's going to ever be better than it is now.

Stop calling them Nigerians, those guys are Americans. Nothing Nigerian about them aside been their ancestral root,nothing more.

Who dem hepp

Afonja people are always making us proud, not our own drug trafficking, baby factorilism and RITUALISM, human trafficking, international robbery even with military uniform, 1966, Jan 15, and lot more

Things will get better the day, the Yorubas stop betraying other tribes. Like the way Tinubu installed Buhari for his selfish 2023 ambition.

How can we explain having some one as slow, low, lifeless, brainless, motionless, backward, incapable, old, stagnant, sick, tribalistic, nepotic and er if terrorists become a president in this country in this 21 century How

The reason why Tinibu should never and can never win election again in Nigeria.

He sold us all to the devil for his own sake.

Great, in as much as their appointment, won't have any direct effect on Nigeria and Nigerians, we wish them well and success.

Shooo.....
And you call that brain drain?
No na, let's find another word for that!

So apart from these guys who were given opportunities and a good working condition to harness their potentials, what happen to the millions of same Nigerians who have same abilities with no opportunities wasting here in Nigeria?

How I wish the US government and other European countries will just throw their Gates Open for all Nigerian youths then we would have known that every youth of this country is potential genius!

All our government knows is to LOOT, LOOT AND LOOT!

MAKE GOD PUNISH THEM!

it is a false hope to keep calling these appointees Nigerians. Let us be sincere to ourselves, both Biden and his Nigerian acclaimed appointees would give no damn to Nigeria or Africa. Stop the low self esteem on Nigeria already

NL na cruise jare!

They were not appointed based on tribe

U guys are claiming glory from where u did not sow.

They can’t even recall if Nigeria exist,

Nepotism is corruption and vice versa.

One thing is certain. If those nominated by Biden didn't escape this dungeon, they wouldn't have been nominated.
Nigeria is a dream killer. The leaders are not serious with government, lastly, it hurts being a Nigerian and not seeing any hope of escaping.

Ok

Who is deceiving who?
We all know who the Democrats are, their evil motives in buying Nigerians over so they can bid us with their satanic laws.
They once tried it with Jonathan's government and they'll still fail this time.
The appointment of Nigerians into Biden's government is a Greek gift and it will soon backlash on us soon.
Democrats are evil.

I see my sister up there. Esan Oye

I see youths in Nigeria not being elected into political positions for a long time. I see that Nigerians love suffering and prefer older theives to keep robbing them than having young people filled with ambitions on how to move the country forward. I see Nigeria no getting better anytime soon. This I have seen.

Unlike the racist...

to whom it may concern because this lesson is not for Nigerian politicians or the nigerians that cast the tribalistic votes.

Ok

True

I know NCAN will rush into this thread to celebrate the region these Nigerians are from,lol.

but what is our problem in this country? we have a set of the most brilliant and industrious people on earth but yet we are lacking behind in so many areas.
Our leaders should be ashamed, letting our productivity and intellect rot while we depend on other countries for even common tooth paste.
I can't wait to be done with medical school and by God's grace leave this country.

LoyalHustler1:
Nonsense!!!!!
All Biden's appointments will not hold because joe biden can never be president of America

President Donald trump will complete his second term.
If you think otherwise and you are man enough then quote me and let us make a bet of any amount.

by the order of Ishawuru.

I got $50k to bet on that , are you game ?