Wikipídiya iglwiki https://igl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogb%C3%A1_ogbolo MediaWiki 1.47.0-wmf.2 first-letter Áméwn igò Egwéyí Úkọ̀lá Énéagwu Úkọ̀lá énéagwu Wikipídiya Úkọ̀lá Wikipídiya Fáílú Úkọ̀lá fáílú MediaWiki Úkọ̀lá MediaWiki Éwn malábó Úkọ̀lá éwn malábó Abune Úkọ̀lá abune Gbúgbe Úkọ̀lá gbúgbe TimedText TimedText talk Module Module talk Event Event talk 0 1504 41134 33620 2026-05-15T19:43:57Z Der-Wir-Ing 1294 -linkspam 41134 wikitext text/x-wiki {{databox}}'''Ma bi Susovan Sonu Roy ọchu ẹkẹbi nọlu mi ọjọ mẹ’gwẹla ọdọ born 1994, ẹfẹwọ Howrah, West Bengal. Ya chi filmu kpai model ọjanẹ Indian. Ma chẹ du nwa ọji tv ọji filmu series Mohor ọdọ 2020, Kora Pakhi (2020), kpai Khelaghor (2021).'''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shukla |first=Dr Anil |date=2022-12-04 |title=जन्मदिन: 28 साल के हुए बंगाली अभिनेता सुसोवन सोनू रॉय, तय किया डांसर से अभिनेता तक का सफर |url=https://www.ibc24.in/entertainment/birthday-bengali-actor-susovan-sonu-roy-turns-28-decides-his-journey-from-dancer-to-actor-uij-1006370.html |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=IBC24 News |language=hi}}</ref> Ẹfẹwo ki gba chi ẹfẹwọ Guwahati kpsu Kolkata.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://meghalayamonitor.com/roy-starts-career-as-dancer-becomes-popular-face-of-bengali-tv-series|title=Roy starts career as dancer, becomes popular face of Bengali TV series|date=November 8, 2022|publisher=Meghalaya Monitor|language=en|access-date=November 26, 2024}}</ref> Unyi ụkọchẹ ki lẹ chi West Bengal, University, India == Ayyuka == Ekọ ki chi unyi utọgba kpa ọdọ 2016 ekọ lẹ i chanẹ career nwu efi idọ eta.<ref>{{Cite web |last=NavbharatLive |date=2022-03-05 |title=वेस्टर्न डांसर के रूप में करियर की शुरुआत, सपना पूरा करने किए दो साल बर्बाद |url=https://navbharatlive.com/entertainment/susovan-sonu-roy-who-started-his-career-as-a-western-dancer-wasted-two-years-to-fulfill-his-dream-514504.html |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=[[Nava Bharat]] |language=hi}}</ref> A matsayinsa na ɗan wasan kwaikwayo, ya fara fitowa a cikin jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin a Yammacin Bengal daga 2019. Farkon bayyanarsa ya kasance a cikin jerin tatsuniyoyi ''Anandamoyee Maa'', jerin tashar Aakash Aath, wanda Debidas Bhattacharya ya jagoranta inda ya taka rawar Vaisnav Bhakta.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://epaper.dailypunjabtimes.com/ArticlePage/APpage.php?edn=English&articleid=PUNJABT_ENG_20220416_2_4&artwidth=155px|title=Bengali Actor Susovan Sonu Roy's first TV serial was Aakash Aath channel 'Aandamoyee Maa'|date=April 16, 2022|publisher=Punjab Times|volume=10|issue=211|page=2|language=en|access-date=December 13, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-25 |title=Bengali Actor Susovan Sonu Roy plays vital roles in Anandamoyee Maa, Korapakhi |url=https://kashmirconvener.com/2022/04/25/bengali-actor-susovan-sonu-roy-plays-vital-roles-in-anandamoyee-maa-korapakhi/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Kashmir Convener |language=en-US}}</ref> Ya biyo baya ya kasance a cikin jerin fina-finai na ''Mohor'', inda ya taka rawar kafofin watsa labarai, wanda aka watsa a kan Star Jalsha daga 2019 da Disney + Hotstar . A cikin wasan kwaikwayo na sabulu ''Kora Pakhi'', wanda aka watsa a kan Star Jalsha daga 2020 da Disney + Hotstar, ya taka rawar mai ba da rahoto a cikin abubuwan 90. Ya taka leda a matsayin mai adawa a cikin wannan jerin.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bengali |first=K. J. |title=স্বপ্ন যখন সত্যি হয়! নিজের জীবন কাহিনি নিয়ে অকপট "কোড়া পাখি" খ্যাত অভিনেতা সুশোভন |url=https://bengali.krishijagran.com/entertainment/when-dreams-come-true-famous-bengali-actor-susovan-with-his-life-story/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=Krishi Jagran |language=bn}}</ref> Daga nan sai ya fito a ''Jamuna Dhaki'', jerin wasan kwaikwayo na soyayya da aka watsa tsakanin 2020 da 2022, wanda aka fara nunawa a Zee Bangla, sannan daga baya a ZEE5. A nan, ya taka rawar maƙwabci.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jamuna Dhaki: Season 1 1x118 Episode 118 |url=https://trakt.tv/shows/jamuna-dhaki/seasons/1/episodes/118/credits |access-date=December 14, 2024 |website=Trakt.TV}}</ref> Ya kuma fito a wani jerin tashar Jalsha, ''Titli'' . A cikin 2021, ya fito a cikin ''Khelaghor'' . <ref>{{Cite web |title=Khelagor • Season 1, Episode 45 |url=https://ru.kinorium.com/8117212/episodes/s1e45/cast/ |access-date=December 14, 2024 |website=Кинориум |language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mayapuri |title=अभिनेता सुसोवन सोनू रॉय जिन्होंने अपने सपनों को पूरा करने के लिए अपने जीवन के 2 साल बर्बाद कर दिए |url=https://mayapuri.com/hi/entertainment-news/actor-susovan-sonu-roy-who-wasted-2-years-of-his-life-to-fulfill-his-dreams |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=[[Mayapuri (magazine)|Mayapuri]] |language=hi}}</ref> Susovan ta bi samfurin ban da yin wasan kwaikwayo, kuma ta yi samfurin ga nau'ikan yanki da na ƙasa daban-daban kamar Holiday Inn Hotel, Dabur, Titan Eye+, Velocity Eyewear, Amazon, Spencer's, Campus Shoes, Big Bazaar, Biotique da ''Fiama Di Wills''. <ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-31 |title=सिल्वर स्क्रीन से मॉडलिंग: मॉडल के तौर पर सुशोभन सोनू राय की नई शुरुआत |url=https://hindi.pardaphash.com/modeling-from-silver-screen-sushobhan-sonu-rais-new-beginning-as-a-model/ |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=पर्दाफाश |language=hi}}</ref> == Finafinai (zaɓaɓɓu) == * 2019: Anandamoyee Maa * 2020: Jamuna Dhaki * 2020: Titli * 2020: Mohor * 2020: Kora Pakhi * 2021: Khelaghor == Bayanan da aka ambata == {{Reflist|30em}} === Bayani === [[Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane]] [[Rukuni:Haihuwan 1994]] cpd5pgdjfb7hked6o6v95u1vrdriv3d 0 2080 41108 41102 2026-05-15T14:39:48Z Austinea3 116 /* Career as mathematician */ 41108 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ In 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé..." Obi claimed to be the third person to solve [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] after [[Andrew Wiles]] and [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] in 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> He also claimed to have found an elementary proof to [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. This work was carried out at his Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies in [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] and published in Algebras, Groups and Geometries.<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> However, a review of this proof published in [[Mathematical Reviews]] indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} ats89v519bbultv059dl53yn7tvvv9f 41109 41108 2026-05-15T14:44:19Z Austinea3 116 41109 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî after [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî and [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ in 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> He also claimed to have found an elementary proof to [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. This work was carried out at his Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies in [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] and published in Algebras, Groups and Geometries.<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> However, a review of this proof published in [[Mathematical Reviews]] indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} ms76cu56c9235rrg9g3nt523d6b5hyd 41110 41109 2026-05-15T14:49:13Z Austinea3 116 41110 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ..." also claimed to have found an elementary proof to [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. This work was carried out at his Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies in [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] and published in Algebras, Groups and Geometries.<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> However, a review of this proof published in [[Mathematical Reviews]] indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} h1dvwwqz2rc1bpeeat40ur3yi85ehv9 41111 41110 2026-05-15T14:53:37Z Austinea3 116 41111 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies í mu ucheóló lé che kpa."This work was carried out at his Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies in [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] and published in Algebras, Groups and Geometries.<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> However, a review of this proof published in [[Mathematical Reviews]] indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} m8e8pkcdaraykevragshmghrne8ung0 41112 41111 2026-05-15T14:57:18Z Austinea3 116 41112 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies í mu ucheóló lé che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] and published in Algebras, Groups and Geometries.<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> However, a review of this proof published in [[Mathematical Reviews]] indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} rzyhmsohkbosw7cgsomtc8pfsbnkl7s 41113 41112 2026-05-15T15:12:01Z Austinea3 116 /* Career as mathematician */ 41113 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lé che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] and published in Algebras, Groups and Geometries.<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> However, a review of this proof published in [[Mathematical Reviews]] indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} nacd33e069sprgtj3cab9ytjez1gx9c 41114 41113 2026-05-15T15:24:39Z Austinea3 116 /* Career as mathematician */ 41114 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lé che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> However, a review of this proof published in [[Mathematical Reviews]] indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 0shgb047g0f9z4i0vjcbge6ntl1d6tm 41115 41114 2026-05-15T15:27:33Z Austinea3 116 /* Career in politics and activism */ 41115 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lé che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí..However, a review of this proof published in [[Mathematical Reviews]] indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 0dl9hxcq13jq147wa2ip8tq4xoc3can 41116 41115 2026-05-15T15:32:51Z Austinea3 116 /* Career as mathematician */ 41116 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé, indicates that it was a false proof.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} prxinxbesi7bom013u5zzymqso38gbj 41117 41116 2026-05-15T15:33:48Z Austinea3 116 /* Career in politics and activism */ 41117 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 6m0iny55qb8mt9sf6hdr750tgn91d0t 41118 41117 2026-05-15T15:41:22Z Austinea3 116 /* Awards */ 41118 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé In Ibadan, Obi began to give lectures about his political philosophy, Kemalism and how best he felt the country should be managed. He helped form the Dynamic Party of Nigeria, of which he served as its first secretary-general. Through the party, he stood in as a candidate in a parliamentary election in Ibadan in 1951 but lost.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 15jmjmsgq7zcqtqgw2xkba3ylc9bb72 41119 41118 2026-05-15T15:43:36Z Austinea3 116 /* References */ 41119 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 0z7pgmmzus4k3ncxk03vx27isez8zmb 41120 41119 2026-05-15T15:57:37Z Austinea3 116 /* Personal life */ 41120 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo” The party later entered into alliances with the larger [[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 6kvwpg564kcssypeki6e6ivp44x8mzk 41121 41120 2026-05-15T16:01:08Z Austinea3 116 /* References */ 41121 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Nigeria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958.” and also the Action Group. Obi was elected as part of the Nigerian delegation that negotiated the country’s path to self-rule at two London conferences in 1957 and 1958. After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 4kfrr63hap1iqleqpzqnf3h1fdagaz3 41122 41121 2026-05-15T16:05:09Z Austinea3 116 /* Career in politics and activism */ 41122 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî After Nigeria's [[independence]] from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1960, Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} bq3scjiht6w1g9hkrb32bi0v4bm2z0x 41123 41122 2026-05-15T16:06:54Z Austinea3 116 41123 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo from [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu in 1960, má achî kî mu dî Obi was elected a [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} c18qv5dbotp86nf7z9d6n0q4d2udkak 41124 41123 2026-05-15T16:08:16Z Austinea3 116 41124 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]] in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 4jgujkgtv5vvo3cyweyrx7o55ivlwii 41125 41124 2026-05-15T16:12:41Z Austinea3 116 /* Abakwané ilé-nwu */ 41125 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo. in the Eastern House of Assembly in 1960, he refused to vacate his seat in the national legislature in Lagos, the Speaker of the regional house ordered that Obi be physically removed by security agents. This order was obeyed and Obi decided to commit himself to regional affairs.<ref name="MacTutor" /> In 1962, Obi was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 8w4xfs3jr8aksnbj0l5fm129sen93qn 41126 41125 2026-05-15T16:16:52Z Austinea3 116 41126 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo.<ref name="MacTutor" /> Efu ọdọ In 1962, ma fu Obi mù kpaî mafudu bunwu manyu was arrested and charged with [[treason]] in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} akftursiejmflc649dtoyp0aae2mabx 41127 41126 2026-05-15T16:22:29Z Austinea3 116 41127 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo.<ref name="MacTutor" /> Efu ọdọ 1962, ma fu Obi mù kpaî mafudu bunwu manyu [[treason]] L’efu ọjọ uchegbe ku ma che l’ẹkpẹta, k’ugbẹ ad’ọwọ nọ ujẹnẹ ku ma dọ gọvụmẹtị amị ene wẹwẹ ẹgba lẹ che, ene ku ma d’ọla k’i kpai amị ene ẹla, k’ad’ọwọ nọ ẹgbe ku ma ad’ọwọ che kpai ma ẹgba lẹ gba pẹkpẹ.in a closed trial organized by the then national civilian government, who accused him and others, including the main opposition leader at the time, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} hm3fvgs53xozn5yf0kok320yidb5tov 41128 41127 2026-05-15T16:27:04Z Austinea3 116 /* Career in politics and activism */ 41128 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo.<ref name="MacTutor" /> Efu ọdọ 1962, ma fu Obi mù kpaî mafudu bunwu manyu [[treason]] L’efu ọjọ uchegbe ku ma che l’ẹkpẹta, k’ugbẹ ad’ọwọ nọ ujẹnẹ ku ma dọ gọvụmẹtị amị ene wẹwẹ ẹgba lẹ che, ene ku ma d’ọla k’i kpai amị ene ẹla, k’ad’ọwọ nọ ẹgbe ku ma ad’ọwọ che kpai ma ẹgba lẹ gba pẹkpẹ, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ du gọvụmẹtị kwi t’ataba. Ma d’ọwọ k’i t’ọna nọ ku ma jẹ jẹ nra r’ọla uchegbe k’i che lẹ mọ. of plotting to overthrow the government. He was later released for "want of evidence." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 4f5hhqcma4dvxqyjdr2t229to5btio4 41129 41128 2026-05-15T16:29:58Z Austinea3 116 /* Career in politics and activism */ 41129 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo.<ref name="MacTutor" /> Efu ọdọ 1962, ma fu Obi mù kpaî mafudu bunwu manyu [[treason]] L’efu ọjọ uchegbe ku ma che l’ẹkpẹta, k’ugbẹ ad’ọwọ nọ ujẹnẹ ku ma dọ gọvụmẹtị amị ene wẹwẹ ẹgba lẹ che, ene ku ma d’ọla k’i kpai amị ene ẹla, k’ad’ọwọ nọ ẹgbe ku ma ad’ọwọ che kpai ma ẹgba lẹ gba pẹkpẹ, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ du gọvụmẹtị kwi t’ataba. Ma d’ọwọ k’i t’ọna nọ ku ma jẹ jẹ nra r’ọla uchegbe k’i che lẹ mọ." When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] broke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} k6byoi3v0jibn6a1rs4hx79eyxi8saa 41130 41129 2026-05-15T16:35:36Z Austinea3 116 /* Career in politics and activism */ 41130 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo.<ref name="MacTutor" /> Efu ọdọ 1962, ma fu Obi mù kpaî mafudu bunwu manyu [[treason]] L’efu ọjọ uchegbe ku ma che l’ẹkpẹta, k’ugbẹ ad’ọwọ nọ ujẹnẹ ku ma dọ gọvụmẹtị amị ene wẹwẹ ẹgba lẹ che, ene ku ma d’ọla k’i kpai amị ene ẹla, k’ad’ọwọ nọ ẹgbe ku ma ad’ọwọ che kpai ma ẹgba lẹ gba pẹkpẹ, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ du gọvụmẹtị kwi t’ataba. Ma d’ọwọ k’i t’ọna nọ ku ma jẹ jẹ nra r’ọla uchegbe k’i che lẹ mọ." Êgba yî When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] i bẹ rẹ l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1967, Obi d’ọwọ mọ kpaibroke out in 1967, Obi sided with [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} pwvd59i8otfpemq03xkgvny7rkvanw3 41131 41130 2026-05-15T16:36:27Z Austinea3 116 /* Career in politics and activism */ 41131 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo.<ref name="MacTutor" /> Efu ọdọ 1962, ma fu Obi mù kpaî mafudu bunwu manyu [[treason]] L’efu ọjọ uchegbe ku ma che l’ẹkpẹta, k’ugbẹ ad’ọwọ nọ ujẹnẹ ku ma dọ gọvụmẹtị amị ene wẹwẹ ẹgba lẹ che, ene ku ma d’ọla k’i kpai amị ene ẹla, k’ad’ọwọ nọ ẹgbe ku ma ad’ọwọ che kpai ma ẹgba lẹ gba pẹkpẹ, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ du gọvụmẹtị kwi t’ataba. Ma d’ọwọ k’i t’ọna nọ ku ma jẹ jẹ nra r’ọla uchegbe k’i che lẹ mọ." Êgba yî When the [[Nigerian Civil War]] i bẹ rẹ l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1967, Obi d’ọwọ mọ kpai [[Biafra]], working for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 2ebk9l7dpxw50yts3mu1lhy07s2vugb 41132 41131 2026-05-15T16:45:38Z Austinea3 116 41132 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo.<ref name="MacTutor" /> Efu ọdọ 1962, ma fu Obi mù kpaî mafudu bunwu manyu [[treason]] L’efu ọjọ uchegbe ku ma che l’ẹkpẹta, k’ugbẹ ad’ọwọ nọ ujẹnẹ ku ma dọ gọvụmẹtị amị ene wẹwẹ ẹgba lẹ che, ene ku ma d’ọla k’i kpai amị ene ẹla, k’ad’ọwọ nọ ẹgbe ku ma ad’ọwọ che kpai ma ẹgba lẹ gba pẹkpẹ, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ du gọvụmẹtị kwi t’ataba. Ma d’ọwọ k’i t’ọna nọ ku ma jẹ jẹ nra r’ọla uchegbe k’i che lẹ mọ." Êgba yî [[Nigerian Civil War]] i bẹ rẹ l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1967, Obi d’ọwọ mọ kpai [[Biafra]],a d’ukọlọ nw’ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị asọtẹworking for the rebel leader [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]]. For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} mh5dwxqowie5js8c28y9q95qbfq8sfm 41133 41132 2026-05-15T16:50:32Z Austinea3 116 41133 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian politician and mathematician}}{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->|name=Chike Obi|image=|caption=|birth_date=April 17, 1921|birth_place=[[Anambra State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date={{death-date and age|March 13, 2008|April 17, 1921}}|occupation=[[Mathematician]]|citizenship=Nigerian|notableworks=|awards=Sigvard Eklund Prize|influenced=|spouse=Belinda (w. 2009)|children=4}} '''Chike Obi''' {{IPAc-en||audio=Ig-Chike_ObI.ogg}} (ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kẹ́lè nolu mẹ́gwèbîa éfu ọdọ , 1921 tî ádîkọ ó'chu ẹ́kẹ́ta nolu mẹ́gwètá éfu ọdọ– 2008) î chî ẹ́nè Nàìjíríà [[politician]], [[mathematician]] kpaî professor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Chike Obi|url=http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|website=www.thenewblackmagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806073946/http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=1568|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chike Obi nigo igbele ene mgbane d'ọda ukọchị iye odudu kpai amị Naijîrîa k'ajọ rọ kpa odi mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Guardian Editorial Tribute to the Memory of Chike Obi (1921-2008)|url=http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127131338/http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_guardian.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ukọchị odudu Chike Obi gba nira kpa d'ọwọ mọ nyanu ọwọ abọnẹ k'ami equation matịmatịkị ku ma dọ nọ-linia gba f'ọwọ jọ kpai ujẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kpa gbe.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> î d'ọwọ nyanu ọwọ ku ma dọ pạtubẹshọn gbe jẹnẹ nnyọ, kpai amị akanya ukọchị k'i kọ d'ọwọ du t'ọna nyọ che nnyọ k'ẹ jẹ k'amị ẹla odi gba d'ọwọ mọ ẹchẹnẹ ku ma nyọ che kọ lẹ wewe rẹwẹ d'ọgbẹgbelẹ d'unyi ilẹ gba, i ya k'amị akanya ku ma kọ lẹ d'ọwọ mudị k'ẹbọ k'amị ene gba a d'ọwọ jọ d'ije mọ <ref>{{Cite web|last=Folaranmi Ajayi|date=2023-08-08|title=Meet Chike Obi, first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics|url=https://edugist.org/meet-chike-obi-first-nigerian-to-hold-a-doctorate-in-mathematics/|access-date=2024-06-12|website=EduGist}}</ref>Obi che ene k'abọ amị utakpa kpai amị iye akanya ọfẹ odi wewe.[[mathematics]] kpaî ẹ́nẹ̀ kîa achî îjabé Naijiria.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Memorial Tribute for Professor Chike Obi by Edwin Madunagu|url=http://waado.org/nigerdelta/memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|website=waado.org|access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2019-03-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> == Abakwané ilé-nwu == Obi ka kẹ́kọ́ nyí kpai kpai ni adu che iche. [[Nigeria]] tákî î gbó'takîdá [[mathematics]] abọ ẹgbọnẹ ku ma kọchị kw'ọwọ unyegbe as an external student of the [[University of London]].<ref name="MacTutor">{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi – Biography|url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Obi/|access-date=2021-02-03|website=Maths History|language=en}}</ref> Gba kpaí kpaí kí chí unyí ukoche kpa, i nwo rí ofě kí unyí ukoche nla mu du nwu kō kpaí amé amoně kpaí ukoche upfíě." [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],î nwo téné mu du kpaí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí ígbélě chí doctoral studies kpî [https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref>[https://www.independent.ng/cowbellpedia-mathematics-challenge-hots-up-as-aspiring-chike-obis-reach-semi-finals/ in] [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], Unají unyí ukoche nla kí dǒ United States, efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan (1950), í mu rí ofě kí chí amọnẹ ejodudu efí Naîjîrîa kí gba unyí ukoche upfíě nla kí chí PhD efí ukoche eka kí chí mathematics..<ref>{{Cite news|title=Igbo, Yoruba fight over maths|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/igbo-yoruba-fight-maths/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|date=2018-04-21|newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}</ref> == Career as mathematician == Obi nwo kpadu kwá kí lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla ejodudu efí Naijiria kí chí University yẹ ki dî [[University of Ibadan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> "Eñwu kí chí amé ucheóló kí chí politics mu ọwọ gba kwó efí ẹchẹ lé kpaí kpaí. Alu kí ogwu kpa, í nwo kpadu kwá lo téné kọ amọnẹ unyí ukoche nla efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lémégwǎ (1970) unají. He was soon diverted from this by political activities. After the war, he returned to lecture in 1970 at the [[University of Lagos]] unají í mu gba ubi efí ẹchẹ ukoche nla kpaí kpaí kí mu rí ofě kí chí Professor Í kwî [[Lagos]] î lá mu dabî wî éttè ugbo kî kwó ẹ́fî-ewo [[Onitsha]], "kí nwo k’ọwọ unyí ukoche nla kí chí Nanna Institute for Scientific Studies jé. Obi gbí edu yé í [[Sigvard Eklund]] Ofě kí í mu rí gba úbámí eñwu ukọchẹ ejodudu nwu efí ẹchẹ ukoche eka dídídí kí chí differential equation kwá efí unyí [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICTP Prize Winner 1985|url=https://www.ictp.it/home/ictp-prize-winner-1985|access-date=2024-03-19|publisher=[[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]]}}</ref> í Chî énè kîa akoné énwu Unyi Úkọchẹ Îsakulu [[university]] gbî-ẹ́ba kî ché kpa [[Emeritus]] [[Professor]] efu ọdọ in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBI, Prof Chike(Late)|url=https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/obi-professor-chike/|last=Udo|first=Mary|date=2018-02-25|website=Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-28}}</ref> Éfu ọdọ 1997, "Obi kámá mu rí ogbégbélě kí chí amọnẹ mẹta nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi éñwú lé [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]] ubî [[Andrew Wiles]] kpaî [[Richard Taylor (mathematician)|Richard Taylor]] éfu ọdọ 1994.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/413784.stm|title=World: Africa – Africa Media Watch|date=6 August 1999|work=[[BBC News Online]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=30 August 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref> "I nwo kámá nẹ kí mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna kí ẹbá jẹ kpaí kí daju gbangba kí dọ [[Fermat’s Last Theorem]]. "Efí unyí ukoche nla nwu kí chí Nanna Institute yẹ î Úkọchẹ Scientific í mu ucheóló lité che kpa [[Onitsha]], [[Eastern Nigeria]] kpaí í mu ucheóló lé kọ kpu efí unyí ikọtakpa kí chí Algebras, ujoò kpaî Geometries .<ref>C. Obi, "Fermat's Last Theorem", Algebras, Groups and Geometries, Vol. 15, Special issue No. 3, 1998, p.289-298</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat.html|title=Chike Obi and Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>[http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html Professor Chike Obi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329032559/http://waado.org/NigerDelta/Memorials/chike_obi_madunagu.html|date=2019-03-29}} The Guardian, March 27, 2008</ref> "Eñwu mọ, alu kí amọnẹ kọ unyí ẹchẹ lé gba kpaí kí ma nwo kọ ubi tọ efí. [[Mathematical Reviews]] í mu rí ọna kí n'ọwọ gba kí chí ukọchẹ lé kpu ọna gba n'ọgbẹgbelẹ kí jé,.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi-chike-fermat-review.html|title=review of Obi's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/obi_chike.html|title=Chike Edozien Umuezei Obi, Mathematician of the African Diaspora|website=www.math.buffalo.edu|access-date=2017-10-20}}</ref> == Career in politics and activism == {{Context||details=|date=July 2020}} "Efí unyí ugbẹgba kí chí Ibadan, Obi mu ọwọ kọ ucheóló ẹkọ gba kpaí amọnẹ kí daju gbangba kpaí ucheóló amé ẹñwú úgèjè kí chí Kemalism kpaí ọna kí í nwo nọwọ gba kí dọ kí ya mu ọwọ kọ ubi ọna ku ma mu efí ugbẹgba Naijiria jé tọtọ. Í mu ọwọ tọ unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló kọ jé kí chí Dynamic Party of Nigeria, unají kí í mu rí ofě kí chí secretary-general ejodudu nwu. Efí unyí úgèjè ẹchẹ amé ucheóló lé, í nwo téné kí mu ọwọ gba ubi ukoche unyí ẹgba efí Ibadan efí ódó unyí ẹgba mégwǎ nyọfọọgwan lẹmẹgwǎ nyo kã (1951) ẹñwu mọ í mu kpu ubi jé ǹ.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=September 1965|title=In Search of Power|magazine=Spear magazine (Lagos)}}</ref> Ẹgbe lẹ d’ọwọ mọ kpai amị ẹgbe ẹla k’ukpahiu ma nyọmọ gbe l’ọmọgijo”[[National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons|National Council of Nigerian and Cameroon]] kpai ẹgbe ku ma dọ Action Group gba. Ma d’ọwọ kọ Chike Obi mudị ọkanẹ gba kw’ọwọ Naijiria k’a d’ọwọ jọ d’ije mọ t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ nwọ jẹ unyi ama u d’ọmọgijo, amị unyi ukomu meji ku ma che l’efu ugbẹ London l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1957 kpai 1958. Anubī kî Nàìjíríà nî [[independence]] kwo [[United Kingdom|Britain]] efu ọdọ 1960, má achî obi kî mu dî [[legislator]]<nowiki/>L’efu unyi ukomu ẹgbe ku ma dọ Eastern House of Assembly l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1960, i jẹ jẹ k’uwọ t’ataba i l’efu unyi ukomu Nigeria l’ugbẹ Lagos. Ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ unyi ukomu ẹgbe lẹ d’ọla nwọ k’amị olọpa gba Chike Obi kw’ọmọ f’ọwọ ugbaju. Ma d’ọwọ jẹ k’ọla lẹ, Obi k’a d’ọwọ d’ukpahiu nwọ nwọ kọchị t’ọna ọwọ amị ẹla k’ugbẹ lẹ gbo.<ref name="MacTutor" /> Efu ọdọ 1962, ma fu Obi mù kpaî mafudu bunwu manyu [[treason]] L’efu ọjọ uchegbe ku ma che l’ẹkpẹta, k’ugbẹ ad’ọwọ nọ ujẹnẹ ku ma dọ gọvụmẹtị amị ene wẹwẹ ẹgba lẹ che, ene ku ma d’ọla k’i kpai amị ene ẹla, k’ad’ọwọ nọ ẹgbe ku ma ad’ọwọ che kpai ma ẹgba lẹ gba pẹkpẹ, [[Obafemi Awolowo]], t’ọna ku ma a d’ọwọ du gọvụmẹtị kwi t’ataba. Ma d’ọwọ k’i t’ọna nọ ku ma jẹ jẹ nra r’ọla uchegbe k’i che lẹ mọ." Êgba yî [[Nigerian Civil War]] i bẹ rẹ l’ẹfọ d’ọdunụ 1967, Obi d’ọwọ mọ kpai [[Biafra]],a d’ukọlọ nw’ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị asọtẹ [[Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu]].Kpai ẹgba uchegbe k’ukpẹẹ efu amị ọdunụ ku ma dọ 1970, ẹgba k’i d’ukọlọ l’efu unyi ukomu ku ma dọ National Revenue Mobilization Commission For a brief period in the 1970s when he served in the National Revenue Mobilization Commission. Obi derided [[religion]] and [[ethnic]] [[extremism]], and the culture of [[Political corruption|corruption]] pervading the Nigerian political class. He was a national newspaper columnist in the 1980s, writing under the title, "I speak For the People." == Awards == A visiting professor to the [[University of Rhode Island]], USA, the [[University of Jos]], Nigeria, and the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], Obi was a recipient of the national honour of Commander of the [[Order of the Niger]] (CON) and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science. == Personal life == When Obi died in 2008, he was survived by his wife until 2010. Obi's wife Belinda died in early 2010 a nurse and they are survived by their four children. == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Africa-today/%20AllAfricanDoctorates.html Africa Doctorates in Mathematics] {{Authority control}} 48kb25451u357rcbnk9ybx201fn52ze 0 2081 41135 2026-05-15T19:53:22Z Austinea3 116 Created page with "{{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Mu..." 41135 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith was born on April 17, 1946. He completed secondary education at Ansarud-deen College, [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] and attended the [[University of Lagos]], where he obtained a B.Sc. in sociology in 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == In 1972 Smith joined the police force in [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] as an assistant police superintendent. He later served as an instructor in the Police College [[Ikeja]], and a divisional police officer in [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. From 1980 to 1982, he was in charge of the X-Squad at CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. He then moved to [[Ilorin]], where he served in various capacities, finally becoming [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} eznwsqmr5q0zvia0qdrwfe0sy0leo40 41136 41135 2026-05-15T19:58:20Z Austinea3 116 41136 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ was born on April 17, 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî He completed secondary education at Ansarud-deen College, [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] and attended the [[University of Lagos]], where he obtained a B.Sc. in sociology in 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == In 1972 Smith joined the police force in [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] as an assistant police superintendent. He later served as an instructor in the Police College [[Ikeja]], and a divisional police officer in [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. From 1980 to 1982, he was in charge of the X-Squad at CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. He then moved to [[Ilorin]], where he served in various capacities, finally becoming [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} fdver7x03ytgfnhbtl8pw2ptji7irh2 41137 41136 2026-05-15T20:00:56Z Austinea3 116 41137 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî Ansarud-deen , [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] kpaí îló tî îsakulu yí and attended the [[University of Lagos]], ùgbo kî ni otakîfa yẹ where he obtained a B.Sc. in sociology in 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == In 1972 Smith joined the police force in [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] as an assistant police superintendent. He later served as an instructor in the Police College [[Ikeja]], and a divisional police officer in [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. From 1980 to 1982, he was in charge of the X-Squad at CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. He then moved to [[Ilorin]], where he served in various capacities, finally becoming [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} 7l7206q5kfagvt794qwj974a7k7x9xl 41138 41137 2026-05-15T20:02:10Z Austinea3 116 41138 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî Ansarud-deen , [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] kpaí îló tî îsakulu yí [[University of Lagos]], ùgbo kî ni otakîfa yẹ B.Sc. efî in sociology éfu ọdọ in 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == In 1972 Smith joined the police force in [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] as an assistant police superintendent. He later served as an instructor in the Police College [[Ikeja]], and a divisional police officer in [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. From 1980 to 1982, he was in charge of the X-Squad at CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. He then moved to [[Ilorin]], where he served in various capacities, finally becoming [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} 5gywswyrhipnp0c0p8qbd0084at74w4 41139 41138 2026-05-15T20:09:54Z Austinea3 116 /* Early life */ 41139 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî Ansarud-deen , [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] kpaí îló tî îsakulu yí [[University of Lagos]], ùgbo kî ni otakîfa yẹ B.Sc. efî sociology éfu ọdọ 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == efu ọdọ In 1972 Smith î defî amî îdóka efu joined the police force in [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] “mudị ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị îdóka k’ukpẹẹ. I d’ọmọgijo mudị ene k’akọchị l’efu unyi ukomu kọchị amị îdókà ku ma dọ Police College.” as an assistant police superintendent. He later served as an instructor in the Police College [[Ikeja]], and a divisional police officer in [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. From 1980 to 1982, he was in charge of the X-Squad at CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. He then moved to [[Ilorin]], where he served in various capacities, finally becoming [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} gb82xvetu068h4vkfi0mz0wifyjbids 41140 41139 2026-05-15T20:15:24Z Austinea3 116 41140 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî Ansarud-deen , [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] kpaí îló tî îsakulu yí [[University of Lagos]], ùgbo kî ni otakîfa yẹ B.Sc. efî sociology éfu ọdọ 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == efu ọdọ In 1972 Smith î defî amî îdóka efu [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] “mudị ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị îdóka k’ukpẹẹ. I d’ọmọgijo mudị ene k’akọchị l’efu unyi ukomu kọchị amị îdókà ku ma dọ Police College. [[Ikeja]], kpai ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị olọpa l’efu ugbẹ gbo efu,” and a divisional police officer in [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. From 1980 to 1982, he was in charge of the X-Squad at CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. He then moved to [[Ilorin]], where he served in various capacities, finally becoming [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} ibpzpo6vz8xde99jpqrhs6fh0xho5ul 41141 41140 2026-05-15T20:27:50Z Austinea3 116 /* Career */ 41141 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî Ansarud-deen , [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] kpaí îló tî îsakulu yí [[University of Lagos]], ùgbo kî ni otakîfa yẹ B.Sc. efî sociology éfu ọdọ 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == efu ọdọ In 1972 Smith î defî amî îdóka efu [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] “mudị ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị îdóka k’ukpẹẹ. I d’ọmọgijo mudị ene k’akọchị l’efu unyi ukomu kọchị amị îdókà ku ma dọ Police College. [[Ikeja]], kpai ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị olọpa l’efu ugbẹ gbo efu [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. Kwî ẹ́gbà ọdọ From 1980 lò tî efî ọdọ to 1982,ónwu chî énè kî nî ódáà yi he was in charge of the X-Squad kî dí at CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. Takî î ñõ chî ẹ́rè ló éfî-ewo He then moved to [[Ilorin]], where he served in various capacities, finally becoming [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} d0mwd9zgzenizukbspc92vpvqtuaqbi 41142 41141 2026-05-15T20:31:56Z Austinea3 116 41142 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî Ansarud-deen , [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] kpaí îló tî îsakulu yí [[University of Lagos]], ùgbo kî ni otakîfa yẹ B.Sc. efî sociology éfu ọdọ 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == efu ọdọ In 1972 Smith î defî amî îdóka efu [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] “mudị ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị îdóka k’ukpẹẹ. I d’ọmọgijo mudị ene k’akọchị l’efu unyi ukomu kọchị amị îdókà ku ma dọ Police College. [[Ikeja]], kpai ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị olọpa l’efu ugbẹ gbo efu [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. Kwî ẹ́gbà ọdọ From 1980 lò tî efî ọdọ to 1982,ónwu chî énè kî nî ódáà yi he was in charge of the X-Squad kî dí at CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. Takî î ñõ chî ẹ́rè ló éfî-ewo He then moved to [[Ilorin]], ugbẹ k’i chî’ukọlọ l’efu amị ọna wẹwẹ gba, tanyọ k’i mudị l’ọmọgijo where he served in various capacities, finally becoming [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} prrpsnw1neejrlevdgwvpuhzp0amww6 41143 41142 2026-05-15T20:33:24Z Austinea3 116 41143 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî Ansarud-deen , [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] kpaí îló tî îsakulu yí [[University of Lagos]], ùgbo kî ni otakîfa yẹ B.Sc. efî sociology éfu ọdọ 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == efu ọdọ In 1972 Smith î defî amî îdóka efu [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] “mudị ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị îdóka k’ukpẹẹ. I d’ọmọgijo mudị ene k’akọchị l’efu unyi ukomu kọchị amị îdókà ku ma dọ Police College. [[Ikeja]], kpai ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị olọpa l’efu ugbẹ gbo efu [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. Kwî ẹ́gbà ọdọ From 1980 lò tî efî ọdọ to 1982,ónwu chî énè kî nî ódáà yi X-Squad kî dí CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. Takî î ñõ chî ẹ́rè ló éfî-ewo [[Ilorin]], ugbẹ k’i chî’ukọlọ l’efu amị ọna wẹwẹ gba, tanyọ k’i mudị l’ọmọgijo [[Kwara State]] Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} s863p4t42hil8kc6t2cuj1zqpz1vv9j 41144 41143 2026-05-15T20:37:34Z Austinea3 116 41144 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police officer (born 1946)}}{{Infobox officeholder|name=Musiliu Smith|image=|image_size=|order=10th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start=May 29, 1999|term_end=March 2002|predecessor=[[Ibrahim Coomassie]]|successor=[[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]]|birth_date=April 17, 1946|birth_place=[[Olowogbowo]], [[Lagos State]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]]|occupation=[[Police Officer]]|signature=}} Alhaji '''Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith''', is a former [[Nigeria Police Force#Inspector General of the Nigerian Police|Inspector General of Police]] of [[Nigeria]] appointed in May 1999, who retired in March 2002 following a police strike.<ref name="dawodu">{{cite web|url=http://www.dawodu.com/aluko109.htm|title=IGP Sunday Ehindero and My 7-Task Challenge|author=Mobolaji E. Aluko, PhD|date=January 31, 2005|publisher=DAWODU|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> == Early life == Smith Ma chî bî ẹ́gba kî'ochu ẹ́kèlé nolu mẹ́gwèbîa efu ọdọ 1946. Î cha chî Úkọchẹ Îsakulu édomégwẹ́gî ǹwu kpa kwî cóllégè yî Ansarud-deen , [[Isolo]], [[Lagos]] kpaí îló tî îsakulu yí [[University of Lagos]], ùgbo kî ni otakîfa yẹ B.Sc. efî sociology éfu ọdọ 1970.<ref name="habibiyyah">{{cite web|url=http://www.al-habibiyyah.org/2008_citation.htm|title=Musiliu Adeola Kunbi Smith|publisher=AL-HABIBIYYAH ORGANIZATION|accessdate=2009-11-01}}{{dead link|date=February 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> == Career == efu ọdọ In 1972 Smith î defî amî îdóka efu [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] “mudị ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị îdóka k’ukpẹẹ. I d’ọmọgijo mudị ene k’akọchị l’efu unyi ukomu kọchị amị îdókà ku ma dọ Police College. [[Ikeja]], kpai ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ amị olọpa l’efu ugbẹ gbo efu [[Mubi (town)|Mubi]], [[Adamawa State]]. Kwî ẹ́gbà ọdọ From 1980 lò tî efî ọdọ to 1982,ónwu chî énè kî nî ódáà yi X-Squad kî dí CID Alagbon Close, [[Ikoyi]]. Takî î ñõ chî ẹ́rè ló éfî-ewo [[Ilorin]], ugbẹ k’i chî’ukọlọ l’efu amị ọna wẹwẹ gba, tanyọ k’i mudị l’ọmọgijo [[Kwara State]] ene k’ad’ọwọ nọ ukọlọ akọta l’efu unyi ukomu amị olọpa gbo. Ma d’ọwọ du t’ugbẹ. Police Command administrative officer. He was posted to [[Rivers State]] efu ọdọ in 1987, taking charge of the Police College. In 1988, he was promoted to commissioner of police and moved to Lagos, where he took over control of the Criminal Intelligence Divisional Force. He returned to Kwara State and later [[Plateau State]] as commissioner of police. In 1996, Musiliu Smith was promoted to assistant inspector general of police, placed in charge of Zonal Headquarters, [[Kano (city)|Kano]]. He completed a master's degree programme in strategic studies at the University of Ibadan in 1997. He was appointed a member of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1998.<ref name="habibiyyah" /> Smith was appointed the inspector general of police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.<ref name="afdev">{{cite web|url=http://www.afdevinfo.com/htmlreports/peo/peo_21395.html|title=Musiliu Smith|publisher=AfDevInfo|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> He succeeded [[Ibrahim Coomassie]], who had held the post since 1993.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/life_style/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=110409&ptitle=Politics%20Of%20Who%20Succeeds%20Okiro|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Politics Of Who Succeeds Okiro|author=Godwin Ijediogor and Samson Ezea|date=April 11, 2009|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Guardian (Nigeria)|The Guardian]]}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Smith followed instructions from President [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in refusing to follow up on charges of certificate forgery laid against [[Lagos State]] Governor, [[Asiwaju Bola Tinubu]], saying the court could not compel the police to do the investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/adeleke-otunuga/021806.html|title=THE CRIMINALITY AND IDIOCY OF OBJ-TINUBU FACE-OFF|date=February 18, 2006|publisher=NigeriaWorld|author=Adeleke Otunuga, CM|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> On 1 February 2002, the Nigerian Union of Policemen called a partially successful strike.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewsng.com/opinion/the-psychology-of-sloppy-police-work-in-nigeria-%E2%80%94kunle-ajibade/2009/08|title=The Psychology Of Sloppy Police Work In Nigeria|author=Kunle Ajibade|date=August 10, 2009|publisher=The News|accessdate=2009-11-01}}</ref> Smith was asked to retire by Olusegun Obasanjo in March 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=An editor as EFCC chairman|author=Duro Onabule|date=January 4, 2008|accessdate=2009-11-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106181832/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/today-04-jan-2008.htm|archivedate=January 6, 2010|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> He was replaced by [[Mustafa Adebayo Balogun]].<ref name="dawodu" /> As of 2006, Musiliu Smith was chairman of the Skye Bank board of directors.<ref name="afdev" /> In 2007, [[Lagos State]] Governor [[Babatunde Fashola]] appointed Smith head of the Lagos State Security council, a body charged with taking a holistic look at the anatomy of crime in the state.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2007/aug/01/editorial-1-8-2007-001.htm|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Fighting armed robbery in Lagos|date=August 1, 2007|accessdate=2009-11-01|newspaper=[[The Sun (Nigeria)|The Sun]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} p3tuscnbt7we0xu51axikfh8naqvyim 0 2082 41145 2026-05-16T08:44:35Z Charipearl 51 Created page with "{{Short description|Nigerian polilce officer}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Kam Salem | image = | image_size = 185px | order = 2nd [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]] | term_start = 1966 | term_end = 1975 | predecessor = [[Louis Edet]] | successor = [[Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu]] | birth_date = | birth_place = | alma_mater = | occupation = [[Police Officer]] | signature = }} '''Kam Salem''' is a Nigeria..." 41145 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian polilce officer}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Kam Salem | image = | image_size = 185px | order = 2nd [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]] | term_start = 1966 | term_end = 1975 | predecessor = [[Louis Edet]] | successor = [[Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu]] | birth_date = | birth_place = | alma_mater = | occupation = [[Police Officer]] | signature = }} '''Kam Salem''' is a Nigerian former police officer and the second [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General]] of [[Nigerian Police Force|Nigerian Police]], a post he held from 1966 to 1975 during the military rule of General [[Yakubu Gowon]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui43.htm |title=Military Rebellion of July 29, 1975: The coup against Gowon - Part 6 |author=Nowa Omoigui |publisher=Dawodu |accessdate=2009-11-25}}</ref> At the time of the January 1966 coup led by Major [[Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu]], Dikko Yusufu was acting Inspector General since the I.G. [[Louis Edet]] was on leave at the time, and he had to deal with the crisis when the Prime Minister [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]] and others were found murdered.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2004/mar/20/0003.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918120730/http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2004/mar/20/0003.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 18, 2010 |date=March 20, 2004 |publisher=Weekly Trust |title=I could have save Tafawa Balewa's life - Babankowa |author=Musa Umar Kazaure |accessdate=2009-11-25}}</ref> By the 1970s, press criticism of corruption in the Gowon regime was mounting. Selem spoke against a press "campaign against the federal government, putting pressure on it to institute an inquiry into the conduct of certain public functionaries." He said, "The government will not allow itself to be stampeded into taking actions in any matter of public interest."<ref>{{cite book |page=82 |title=Romancing the gun: the press as promoter of military rule |author=Ndaeyo Uko |publisher=Africa World Press |year=2004 |ISBN=1-59221-189-5}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Selem, Kam}} [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Nigerian police officers]] [[Category:Inspectors general]] [[Category:Nigerian Shuwa Arabs]] {{Nigeria-law-bio-stub}} {{Law-enforcement-bio-stub}} ojtbvssbtsn01q81q1pedb51ng24bhm 41146 41145 2026-05-16T08:58:52Z Charipearl 51 41146 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian polilce officer}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Kam Salem | image = | image_size = 185px | order = 2nd [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]] | term_start = 1966 | term_end = 1975 | predecessor = [[Louis Edet]] | successor = [[Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu]] | birth_date = | birth_place = | alma_mater = | occupation = [[Police Officer]] | signature = }} '''Kam Salem''' chẹnẹ Nigeria ki che police officer kw'ubi kpai [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General]] ẹkeji eyi [[Nigerian Police Force|Nigerian Police]], uña ki dẹ kw'efu ọdọ 1966 t'efu ọdọ 1975 ẹgba ki General [[Yakubu Gowon]] d'oji ede.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui43.htm |title=Military Rebellion of July 29, 1975: The coup against Gowon - Part 6 |author=Nowa Omoigui |publisher=Dawodu |accessdate=2009-11-25}}</ref> Ochu ejodudu ọdọ 1966 ẹgba ku ma che coup ki Major [[Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu]] chẹnẹ utọgba ñwu, Dikko Yusufu chẹnẹ ki che Inspector General todu ki I.G. [[Louis Edet]] dẹ umi ñw iko lẹ, manyi i d'ọmọ añọ akanya ki che kpai Prime Minister [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]] che manyi ma fu abo ki bọ kpa.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2004/mar/20/0003.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918120730/http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2004/mar/20/0003.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 18, 2010 |date=March 20, 2004 |publisher=Weekly Trust |title=I could have save Tafawa Balewa's life - Babankowa |author=Musa Umar Kazaure |accessdate=2009-11-25}}</ref> Ẹgba 1970, ki akpabiẹ ede Gowon ch'anẹ dufu. Selem kọlọ gw'unyi akoya federal government, e du ukpahiu tọ todu ku ma che ẹñwu du ejuka alu ki ọgbọ amonẹ ache" I ka kini , "Gọmẹti a jẹ ku ma d'ẹrẹ do ki chẹñwu t'eju alu k'amonẹ ka-n."<ref>{{cite book |page=82 |title=Romancing the gun: the press as promoter of military rule |author=Ndaeyo Uko |publisher=Africa World Press |year=2004 |ISBN=1-59221-189-5}}</ref> ==Ẹtẹ ñwu== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Selem, Kam}} [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Nigerian police officers]] [[Category:Inspectors general]] [[Category:Nigerian Shuwa Arabs]] {{Nigeria-law-bio-stub}} {{Law-enforcement-bio-stub}} lk34kdu81v9cj7duy33wt8mds271n5g 0 2083 41147 2026-05-16T09:00:37Z Charipearl 51 Created page with "{{Short description|Nigerian policeman and Inspector General}}{{refimprove|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox Officeholder|name=Adamu Suleiman|image=|image_size=|caption=|office1=4th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start1=1979|term_end1=1981|office2=|term_start2=|term_end2=|office3=|term_start3=|term_end3=|predecessor3=[[Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu]]|successor3=[[Sunday Adewusi]]|birth_date={{birth date|df=y|1929|05|14}}|birth_place=Jim..." 41147 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian policeman and Inspector General}}{{refimprove|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox Officeholder|name=Adamu Suleiman|image=|image_size=|caption=|office1=4th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start1=1979|term_end1=1981|office2=|term_start2=|term_end2=|office3=|term_start3=|term_end3=|predecessor3=[[Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu]]|successor3=[[Sunday Adewusi]]|birth_date={{birth date|df=y|1929|05|14}}|birth_place=Jimeta, [[Adamawa State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date=<!-- 23 May 2005 -->|death_place=<!-- Jimeta, Adamawa State, Nigeria -->|party=}} '''Adamu Suleiman''' (born 14 May 1929) was a Nigerian policeman who served as [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General]]. He was appointed in 1979 to succeed [[Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu]] and was succeeded by [[Sunday Adewusi]] in 1981. Suleiman attended Jimeta Elementary School between 1940 and 1944, followed by Yola Middle School until 1947. He then became a student at [[Barewa College]] in [[Zaria]] from 1947 to 1950, and the [[Nigerian College of Aviation Technology|College of Technology]] in Zaria between 1954 and 1956. He then attended the [[University of Ibadan]], from where he graduated with honours in Modern History in 1960. Suleiman was seconded into the [[Nigeria Police Force]] on 1 May 1966 as a deputy commissioner of police. Adamu Suleman was promoted to the rank of Inspector General of Police in October 1979 and served under President [[Shehu Shagari]]'s second Republic until his retirement from the police force in April 1981.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Akinsanya|first1=Adeoye A.|last2=Ayoade|first2=John A. A.|year=2005|title=Readings in Nigerian Government and Politics|publisher=Gratia Associates International|page=244|isbn=9789783799219}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://thenationonlineng.net/arase-idris-police-chief/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Arase out, Idris in as Police chief|newspaper=[[The Nation (Nigeria)|The Nation]]|date=22 June 2016}}</ref> Suleiman is deceased.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past IGPs|url=https://npf.gov.ng/xn/index.php/about-us/past-igps|website=Nigeria Police Force|access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}}{{Nigeria-law-bio-stub}} {{Law-enforcement-bio-stub}} 74wuft0kr6kyatjihhg2vlmbpboipm6 41148 41147 2026-05-16T09:12:42Z Charipearl 51 41148 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian policeman and Inspector General}}{{refimprove|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox Officeholder|name=Adamu Suleiman|image=|image_size=|caption=|office1=4th [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]|term_start1=1979|term_end1=1981|office2=|term_start2=|term_end2=|office3=|term_start3=|term_end3=|predecessor3=[[Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu]]|successor3=[[Sunday Adewusi]]|birth_date={{birth date|df=y|1929|05|14}}|birth_place=Jimeta, [[Adamawa State]], [[Nigeria]]|death_date=<!-- 23 May 2005 -->|death_place=<!-- Jimeta, Adamawa State, Nigeria -->|party=}} '''Adamu Suleiman''' (ma bi ọjọ ẹkẹgwẹlẹ efu ochu ẹlu ọdọ 14 1929) chẹnẹ Nigeria ki chi police ki ch'ukọlọ uña [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General]]. Ma du dago efu ọdọ 1979 ki k'oji [[Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu]] taki [[Sunday Adewusi]] wa k'oji ñw efu ọdọ 1981. I lo t'unyi ukọchẹ ku ma dọ Jimeta Elementary School elimeji 1940 kpai1944, ta ki lo ti Yola Middle School gbogbo t'efu ọdọ 1947. Ubi lẹ u ch'ukọchẹ yi[[Barewa College]] efu [[Zaria]] kw'efu ọdọ 1947 t'efu ọdọ 1950, manyi [[Nigerian College of Aviation Technology|College of Technology]] efu Zaria elimaji ọdọ 1954 kpai ọdọ 1956. I ñọ lo ti [[University of Ibadan]], ugbo ki n'ọtakada ojima efu Modern History efu ọdọ 1960. Ma du Suleiman t'efu [[Nigeria Police Force]] ọjọ ejodudu efu ochu ẹlu ọdọ 1966 uña arọne commissioner of police. Ma du uña Adamu Suleman ny'ọgba ti Inspector General of Police efu ochu ẹgwa efu ọdọ 1979 i ch'ukọlọ ẹtẹ agboji [[Shehu Shagari]] efu Republicẹkeji ñw gbogbo ta ki tanẹ kw'efy police force efu ochu ẹlẹ efu ọdọ 1981.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Akinsanya|first1=Adeoye A.|last2=Ayoade|first2=John A. A.|year=2005|title=Readings in Nigerian Government and Politics|publisher=Gratia Associates International|page=244|isbn=9789783799219}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://thenationonlineng.net/arase-idris-police-chief/|location=Lagos, Nigeria|title=Arase out, Idris in as Police chief|newspaper=[[The Nation (Nigeria)|The Nation]]|date=22 June 2016}}</ref> Suleiman lekwu mẹ.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past IGPs|url=https://npf.gov.ng/xn/index.php/about-us/past-igps|website=Nigeria Police Force|access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref> == Ẹtẹ ñwu == {{Reflist}}{{Nigeria-law-bio-stub}} {{Law-enforcement-bio-stub}} 2gakdfp6zqic8nrfi83e4mw2457wqh4 0 2084 41149 2026-05-16T09:14:22Z Charipearl 51 Created page with "{{Short description|Nigerian police chief}}{{BLP sources|date=November 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder|name=Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar|image=MD-Abubakar.jpg|image_size=185px|term_start=2012|term_end=2014|predecessor=[[Hafiz Ringim]]|successor=[[Suleiman Abba]]|birth_date=5 May 1960|birth_place=[[Gusau]], [[Zamfara State]], [[Nigeria]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]], [[National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies|NIPSS]]|occupat..." 41149 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police chief}}{{BLP sources|date=November 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder|name=Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar|image=MD-Abubakar.jpg|image_size=185px|term_start=2012|term_end=2014|predecessor=[[Hafiz Ringim]]|successor=[[Suleiman Abba]]|birth_date=5 May 1960|birth_place=[[Gusau]], [[Zamfara State]], [[Nigeria]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]], [[National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies|NIPSS]]|occupation=[[Police officer]]|signature=|spouse=Zarah Bunu Abubakar|office=|children=[[Jamil Mohammed Abubakar]] [[Abdulrasheed Md Abubakar]] [[Nafisat Md Abubakar]] [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|16th Inspector General of Police]]|nickname=MD|awards=[[Order of the Federal Republic|Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFR)]], NPM, mni|term_start2=2000|term_end2=2008|office2=Commissioner of Police|office1=Assistant Inspector General of Police|term_start1=2008|term_end1=2012|office3=Deputy Commissioner of Police|term_start3=1995|term_end3=2000|office4=Assistant Commissioner of Police|term_start4=1993|term_end4=1995|education=Gusau township Primary School}} '''Mohammed Dikko Abubakar,''' [[Order of the Federal Republic|CFR]], NPM, mni (Rtd) is a Nigerian Policeman and former [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]]. He was appointed in 2012<ref>{{cite web|title=New IGP succeeds Ringim|url=http://www.pilotafrica.com/2012/01/26/meet-new-acting-igp-mohammed-abubakar-hit-or-miss/|accessdate=6 May 2015}}</ref> to succeed [[Hafiz Ringim]] and was succeeded by [[Suleiman Abba]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/04/abba-police-go-police-come/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427012936/http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/04/abba-police-go-police-come/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=27 April 2015|title=Abba Police go Police come|work=dailyindependentnig.com|accessdate=6 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-nigeria.com/2014/05/list-of-inspector-general-of-police-in.html?m=1|title=List of Inspector General of Police in Nigeria|work=the-nigeria.com|accessdate=6 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730234635/http://www.the-nigeria.com/2014/05/list-of-inspector-general-of-police-in.html?m=1|archive-date=30 July 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is currently the Pro Chancellor and Chairman of council Al-Hikma University, [[Ilorin]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alhikmah.edu.ng/administration/board-of-trustees/|title=MEMBERS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES – Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin}}</ref> and also the President of Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI).<ref>https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/aani-president-calls-for-precaution-against-covid-19/</ref> == Early life == Abubakar was born in [[Gusau]], a city of then [[Sokoto (city)|Sokoto]] State, which is also the capital of today [[Zamfara State]]. The firstborn of a family of many, his father is an Islamic scholar and farmer.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ex-IGP Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar (5 May 1960)|url=https://project6060.org/ex-igp-mohammed-dahiru-abubakar-5-may-1960/|access-date=2022-06-22|website=Nation Builders at 60|language=en-US}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}}{{law-enforcement-bio-stub}} {{Nigeria-law-bio-stub}} 82wtw46u9cclgl5br5ho7iiohv2feqy 41150 41149 2026-05-16T10:04:24Z Charipearl 51 41150 wikitext text/x-wiki {{Short description|Nigerian police chief}}{{BLP sources|date=November 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder|name=Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar|image=MD-Abubakar.jpg|image_size=185px|term_start=2012|term_end=2014|predecessor=[[Hafiz Ringim]]|successor=[[Suleiman Abba]]|birth_date=5 May 1960|birth_place=[[Gusau]], [[Zamfara State]], [[Nigeria]]|alma_mater=[[University of Lagos]], [[National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies|NIPSS]]|occupation=[[Police officer]]|signature=|spouse=Zarah Bunu Abubakar|office=|children=[[Jamil Mohammed Abubakar]] [[Abdulrasheed Md Abubakar]] [[Nafisat Md Abubakar]] [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|16th Inspector General of Police]]|nickname=MD|awards=[[Order of the Federal Republic|Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFR)]], NPM, mni|term_start2=2000|term_end2=2008|office2=Commissioner of Police|office1=Assistant Inspector General of Police|term_start1=2008|term_end1=2012|office3=Deputy Commissioner of Police|term_start3=1995|term_end3=2000|office4=Assistant Commissioner of Police|term_start4=1993|term_end4=1995|education=Gusau township Primary School}} '''Mohammed Dikko Abubakar,''' [[Order of the Federal Republic|CFR]], NPM, mni (Rtd) chẹnẹ Nigeria ki chi Police kpai [[Inspector General of Police (Nigeria)|Inspector General of Police]] Kw'ubi. Ma du dago efu ọdọ 2012<ref>{{cite web|title=New IGP succeeds Ringim|url=http://www.pilotafrica.com/2012/01/26/meet-new-acting-igp-mohammed-abubakar-hit-or-miss/|accessdate=6 May 2015}}</ref> ki k'oji [[Hafiz Ringim]] ta ki [[Suleiman Abba]] koji ñw efu ọdọ 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/04/abba-police-go-police-come/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427012936/http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/04/abba-police-go-police-come/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=27 April 2015|title=Abba Police go Police come|work=dailyindependentnig.com|accessdate=6 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-nigeria.com/2014/05/list-of-inspector-general-of-police-in.html?m=1|title=List of Inspector General of Police in Nigeria|work=the-nigeria.com|accessdate=6 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730234635/http://www.the-nigeria.com/2014/05/list-of-inspector-general-of-police-in.html?m=1|archive-date=30 July 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Oñwu chi Pro Chancellor manyi Chairman am'anyojuju yi Al-Hikma University, [[Ilorin]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alhikmah.edu.ng/administration/board-of-trustees/|title=MEMBERS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES – Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin}}</ref> manyi oñwu ch'agboji Alumni Association of the National Institute (AANI).<ref>https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/aani-president-calls-for-precaution-against-covid-19/</ref> == Abakwanẹ ọlayi ñw == Ma bi Abubakar efu [[Gusau]], efewo [[Sokoto (city)|Sokoto]] State kw'ubi, ki ch'ugwẹta [[Zamfara State]] abajọ-i. Oñwu ch'ọma ejududu efu akw'ọra unyi wewe, Attah ñw chi Islamic scholar manyi aluchẹ oko.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ex-IGP Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar (5 May 1960)|url=https://project6060.org/ex-igp-mohammed-dahiru-abubakar-5-may-1960/|access-date=2022-06-22|website=Nation Builders at 60|language=en-US}}</ref> == Ẹtẹ ñwu == {{Reflist}}{{law-enforcement-bio-stub}} {{Nigeria-law-bio-stub}} 1ovsjcsy0wmhpym0ursqtffq4d7xxcd