YOU BELONG TO NOBODY: OVERCOMING THE ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, during his recent inauguration made a rather audacious statement in his now popular "I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody" speech. Many political and social analysts have interpreted this phrase in so many ways to suit whatever idea they were trying to communicate to their audience. But the truth remains, only President Buhari himself can categorically explain what he truly meant.

Many have concluded that he made the statement to allay the fears of many Nigerians who believe the President would be working to the benefit of the political gladiators who were partially responsible for his victory at the polls. This opinion was strengthened on the premise that these political leaders wielded enough clout to influence the President. Personally, I think Muhammadu Buhari will always have a mind of his own.

MUFUTAU AKURUYEJO BECOMES THE FIRST AFRICAN TO RECEIVE CERN ICT TRAINING

Mufutau Akuruyejo, a 5th year Computer Engineering student of the University of Lagos student and MTN Foundation (MTNF) Scholar, has become the first African to participate in the coveted CERN Openlab summer programme.

CERN Openlab is a unique publi-private partnership between The European Organization for Nuclear Research and leading ICT companies like Oracle. The nine week programme will be held in Geneva, Switzerland.

The objective of the programme is to accelerate the development of cutting edge solutions to be used by the Worldwide LHC (Large Hardon Collider) community.

According to Alberto Di Meglio, Head of CERN Openlab, over 1500 applications were received from all over the world and students of the highest calibre were selected with Mufutau being the only African on the list.

Mufutau Akuruyejo is also a member of Shell Eco-Marathon team designing and building energy-efficient cars and an IEEE project to construct Intelligent Traffic Control Systems. He interned at Chevron Nigeria where he designed remote visualization screens and as well worked at various production facilities. His interests include Big-Data and Analytics, Machine-Learning, Modelling/Simulation and Embedded-Systems.

At CERN, he is on a Continuous Integration Project developing frameworks that enable the scheduling and automatizing of tests on databases before they go into production system using tools including Oracle Real Application Testing.

We wish all the best as he continues to make Nigeria proud.

APPLE ACQUIRES NIGERIAN CHINEDU ECHERUO'S HOPSTOP.COM FOR $1 BILLION

In its continuous attempts to match up to Google’s mapping abilities, Apple has bought Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com for $1 billion. This development is seen as Apple’s move to bolster its mapping services offering especially given Google’s recent acquisition of Waze for $1 billion.

Chinedu Echeruo is a highly successful, serial entrepreneur grew up in Eastern Nigeria and attended Kings College, Lagos before proceeding to Syracuse University and the Harvard Business School in the United States. He worked for several years in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Leveraged Finance groups of J.P Morgan Chase where he was involved in a broad range of M&A, Financing and Private Equity transactions.

40 NIGERIANS SELECTED FOR MANDELA FELLOWSHIP FOR YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS

The U.S. Embassy has selected 40 Nigerians to participate in the Mandela Washington Fellowship Program for Young African Leaders in 20 top U.S. universities, for a period of six weeks.

Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador James Entwistle, congratulated the beneficiaries on their selection. Entwistle explained that the 40 Nigerian fellows were selected amongst 7,000 Nigerian applicants and tens of thousands of others throughout Africa.

NIGERIAN STUDENT BREAKS A 50-YEAR RECORD IN JAPAN

Nigerian Student Ufot Ekong has broken a 50-yr record in Japan after graduating with 1st class degree and best overall student from Tokai University in Tokyo Japan.

This is the first time a Nigerian could achieve this feat since 1965.In addition to the award,he has developed a car to his name.He also won Japanese language award for foreigners and solved a mathematical equation that could not be solved 30-yrs ago in his first semester

Ufot who currently works at Nissan, has two patented products, and for his project, he made an electric am electric car that goes as fast as 128 kilometres per hour. He speaks English, Yoruba, French, Japanese.

GOD REMAINS THE LAST JUDGE

No matter how nice you try to be, you often find yourself in situations where you hurt the people you care about the most. Sometimes they try to get back at us by attempting to hurt us back as much or even more. They can go all the way to hatch plans that they intend will bring some kind of closure to their broken hearts. Some would rather leave their revenge to the imaginary 'god of Karma' to inflict enough anguish on you and even your generations to come.

What they oftentimes forget is that they too have also hurt someone in the past. Sometimes you hurt people knowingly and other times you do not have the faintest idea of the agony that someone is going through because of what you have said or done. And it can be for what you did not say or did not do. Life can be that complicated.

MEET THE FOUR NIGERIANS WHO WON SEATS IN THE UK PARLIAMENT

Four Nigerians have won parliamentary seats at the just concluded general elections in Britain making it the first time such feat would be recorded. They are – Helen Grant won the seat for Member of Parliament representing Maidstone and The Weald, Chuka Umunna won the elections to represent Streatham, Kate Osamor won the seat for Edmonton in North London while Chi Onwurah won the seat for Newcastle upon Tyne Central.

Their win puts Nigeria on a positive light in the international community. Commentators have said that this is a positive step in the right direction as these victories are coming at about the same time Nigeria is about to have a change in leadership later this month.