A different prespective to Life

I believed that I got married late, despite being married at an age that some people would regard as being the ideal age for a man. Looking at my children as most of us do, I always wished that they were a bit bigger and I had married earlier. As a medical doctor, although non-practising, I am called often to give my opinion on various health issues, and one gives my own views based on medical facts. Somethings it may seem that one comes across as being out of touch or not politically correct. Until occasionally, someone in authority or who has the necessary perceived expertise and experience validates one’s statements.  Professor Geeta Nargund is such a person. She is a consultant gynaecologist at St George's Hospital in London a fertility specialist, so it seems she has an idea of what she’s talking about. She advised that women who are thinking of having children should start taking steps before 30. "As women get older, they experience more complex fertility pr...

I was thrilled to learn that one Nigerian Professor, Professor Enoch Opeyemi of Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, has solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis. To put it in simple terms, this Hypothesis has to do with the distribution of prime numbers. Now for a more detailed explanation ( http://www.jstor.org/stable/2323497?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ).  However, at the International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science in Vienna, Austria, this Professor declared he had solved it.  The BBC and CNN took up the news, and as Nigerians, a warm glow was in our hearts. We were happy for one of our own and wanted to dance and jump for joy with him. Not only was there the prestige of being the first person to solve the problem that baffled the mathematical world for 156 years but there was also a massive financial award to go with it, a cool million US dollars. He said he had proved it to many of us when we remember our secondary school or A-level days. When ...