Google Digital Training: An Avenue to diversify the Nigerian Economy.

“Diversifying the Nigerian economy: enabling youth through digital skills training” was flagged off today. Thanks to the present administration and google Inc.
Yemi Osinbajo the Nigerian Vice President expressed optimisms   that Nigeria can overtake India in the market for technology and innovation talent. During flag-off ceremony of Google Digital Training for Youth Empowerment at the State House, Abuja, the Vice President who was seen taking selfies with the potential digital CEOs made some heart felt revelation of the possibility for the Nigerian youths.
According to him, the administration will continue to explore creative ways at empowering Nigerian youth.
He said: “We intend to create a reservoir of human capacity in technology that can be exported internationally.
Nigeria can lead India as a market for technology and innovation talent.
“This year, we are establishing technology hubs across the country, two super hubs in Lagos and Abuja and six regional hubs in the six geo-political zones. In partnership with several major technology companies, the hubs will be fully resourced with infrastructure and capacity building tools.
“Each hub will be designed to produce relevant innovative technology, solutions to a wide range of business, commercial and government problems. For example, alternative energy solutions, creative technology, public services delivery in health, education and government processes, import substitution etc.
“Several major technology companies are partnering with us in the provision of infrastructure and opportunity in the hubs. Also starting this year, we have budgeted for the training of 65,000 young Nigeria s in hardware and software services and more sophisticated software hardware such as animation.
“This would mean that we would be building more local capacity to build, assemble hardware and to write innovative programmes. We will also be focusing on technology for media and entertainment,” he added.
While the empowerment initiative flagged off on Today  is targeting 400,000 Nigerian youth at a start, Osinbajo said that the government is determined to give every opportunity to younger generation to ensure they excel with the use of modern technology.
He said that a special initiative on innovative technology and start ups and presentation of prospective participants have already been done in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.
“This Friday, 30 of the best start up ideas will be exhibiting their inovations at the Presidential villa at the first Annual Aso Villa Demo Day.
“The 30 winners will be arriving here in Abuja today and they will participate in an innovation growth camp for the next two day.
“And this is why what Google has offered to do in collaboration with the Federal Government, the Google training for youth employment, the training of 400,000 young people is a monumental contribution to the national plan and in particular to economic development.
“Everyone of the 400,000 young men and women to be trained is a potential creator of facebook, Uber, Jobberman, Iroko Tv or something that we haven’t even imagined yet. The exciting prospect of this training is that it unleashes the creativity and innovation and the boundless imaginative of the most productive segment of our society, the youth.
“For any student today I think that we must appreciate that this is the age of multi-tasking.
You cannot just be an economist, an accountant, a lawyer or a graduate of international relations, or mass communication or performing arts and just remain that way.
Multi skilling is crucial today, multi-tasking is the order of the day.
“You can’t just be one thing. You must learn to be a man of affairs, a versatile operator not a mono skill graduate,” he added.
The Vice President showed off, his internet Conversance when he said that there are many opportunities as practically anything can be learned online today.
“All of these business reviews and business journals, many of them are free online.
Everyone has a right to be rich. age is not a barrier to great wealth as we have seen from all these example of great men and women who have done so many incredible things.
He said that there are also important opportunities for those in the performing and film arts, which goes beyond actual performing to effective management of talents, their programmes and projects.
“Today every good concept needs well trained managers who understand how the industry works and how to leverage the entertainment value chain.
“Isn’t it time for `uberification’ of Nollywood, to make actors and actresses especially new talents more visible to film makers?” he queried
“The exciting thing is that anyone, including the microbiologist can be the next innovator in the entertainment industry. Such is the versatility of multi-tasking. a new market for the performing arts but also for any other taker is animation skills for movies, education, entertainment and advertising.
“It is a new growth area and it is attracting talents from every discipline including the fine arts, architecture, software writing, screen play writing and others in film production generally.
“One thing that I want to assure you today is that we are all together determined to make sure that we give every opportunity that is possible to the youth in technology and innovation. I can assure you that the next few years are going to be great indeed,” he said.
The Senior Special Assistant to President on Sustainable Development Goals, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefilure said that the program is part of government’s sustainable development goals’ commitment which would be replicated in every state to lift the Nigeria youths from poverty.
Ministers of Communication, Adebayo Shittu; Sports, Solomon Dalung and Labour, Chris Ngige harped on the importance of the training to youth development.
They promised to key into the move for positive development of the youths.
Shittu said that his ministry will work with the Ministry of Education towards including the digital training into the educational curriculum at all levels.

Single and Struggling Ladies.

It's over the place, how men are terrible and same. I almost sympathized with women, for their inability to keep a man. Until it came to me. Are men that bad? Is the women folk always the victim of out of love affair? I guess not.
Dear ladies, Firstly, if you are still struggling to find a husband at an old age it's simply because you are looking for a perfect man. Something might be wrong with you. you say to yourself that 'All men are liars, cheats and useless, but let’s be honest here, which is more likely? Is it that there’s something wrong with about 70 million African men OR there is something wrong with one African Woman? You Ladies certainly will not get into a blissful matrimony if you are always hanging out with your so call girlfriends every night at a beer palour or bar waiting for a guy to buy you a drink & take you home afterwards. Drinking yourself to stupor every Friday & Saturday night does not exactly make you look like marriage material. You want a man?...invest in a good wardrobe & dress responsibly not like a mad person.
When a man comes to you, smile & be polite, even if he does not fit your mental image of your kind of man. Ladies, stop coming to relationship with a chip on your shoulder. If you believe all men are bad & all men are Dogs, then it will become a self fulfilling prophesy. No man is perfect! You say you can't marry a blue collar guy like a mechanic or carpenter, Now if a carpenter was good enough to marry Mary mother of the Jesus Christ, why isn't he good enough for you? Do not focus on where a man is now, but look and see where he has the potentials to be. What’s the point of being beaten to a pulp every night by some rich, good looking and non caring man? Do you want a future where you will sit in a traffic in your BMW X6, GUCCI sunglasses covering your swollen eyes and u look out of d window and see a happy couple in a keke napep holding hands and laughing like newly wedded couple even after 12 years of marriage. Please don’t fake pregnancy or get pregnant to trap him, e no deywork again joor! Your perfect man is out there, believe, work ƞ pray and you will get him...!
Best of luck !!!

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Is Abia cursed?

Fool me ones shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
The Drama of Pre and post electoral court appeals may well have given everyone involved a time out,to recuperate and fight on.
A State already saddled with bad governance, now sluggered with the burden of an inattentive governor. As Teachers are owed, environmental conditions a menace, and public figures unresponsive to situations. The case of Abia is liken to the rich man, who gave out his farm to a caretaker. He expressed his desires to the farmer to take care of the entire farm, and in return be rewarded with a personal  farms and crops to farm on. Months went by and the rich man visited his farm. His farm has rather been abandoned and unkept. He waited out the season and vowed never to have any dealings with the caretaker. By next season, the caretaker came to him, in humility and recommended his apprentice to take care of the farm. Listening to the caretaker, he released his farm to the young apprentice, even when renowned farmers were willing to work on his farm for nothing in return.
Half into the season, he went round and discovered that his farm was the most unkept and unyielding farm in the entire village.
Abia and Abians are architects of their own castle. And as it is said as a man makes his bed, so he must lay on it.
The case of the past regimen left a soar taste in the mouths of Abians, but it didn't stop them from feasting from same dish of soar grapes.
I believe a man must never be fooled twice before he can learn.