IBM Launches "Digital - Nation Africa" with $70 Million

IBM Launches "Digital - Nation Africa": Invests $70 Million to Bring Digital Skills to Africa with Free, Watson-Powered Skills Platform for 25 Million People 
- "IBM Digital - Nation Africa" Education and Skills Initiative Expands IBM's Global Emphasis on "New Collar Jobs"

- Program designed to reach up to 25 million people across Africa, supports development of skills required for career success in a knowledge-based economy
   
JOHANNESBURG and ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) is investing $70 million (approximately ZAR 945 million) in building much-needed digital, cloud, and cognitive IT skills to help support a 21st century workforce in Africa. The initiative, "IBM Digital - Nation Africa," provides a cloud-based learning platform designed to provide free skills development programs for up to 25 million African youths over five years, enabling digital competence and nurturing innovation in Africa.

Students use the Watson-powered portal to develop skills for their diverse career paths.

This is part of IBM's global push to build the next generation of skills needed for "New Collar" careers.  "New Collar" is a term used by IBM to describe new kinds of careers that do not always require a four-year college degree but rather sought-after skills in cybersecurity, data science, artificial intelligence, cloud, and much more.

They Say President Buhari's Economy is Bad, But 2face is Opening Night Clubs

They Say President Buhari's Economy is Bad, But 2face is Opening Night Clubs

The detractors of President Muhammadu Buhari cry and whine that his economy is bad, but 2Face Idibia opened another branch of his chain of night clubs on upper class Victoria Island of the megacity of Lagos state, Africa's fifth biggest economy.

The most mindboggling of this development which cost him millions of naira is the fact that he opened the night club whilst he was calling for a nationwide political protest march against the administration of President Buhari by condemning the economic situation in Nigeria with a long list of goods sold at exorbitant prices and how Nigerians are suffering from the economic recession.But whilst thousands of his fans were being mobilized for the nationwide protests, 2Face was busy putting finishing touches on his new upscale night club on Victoria Island in addition to the other branches in Festac Town and Ikeja on the mainland of Lagos.

Nigerian Protesters March Against Maladministration in Lagos and Abuja

Nigerians from different locations Monday morning marched on the streets of the megacity of Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria and others marched to the gates of the Aso Villa State House of President Muhammadu Buhari in the capital,  Abuja. They carried placards with messages on the different cases of economic hardship affecting the poor masses and other Nigerians.

No! 2Face is Not A Coward!

No! 2Face is Not A Coward!

Popular Nigerian singer, Innocent Idibia, alias "2Face" is not a coward for cancelling the protest march against bad governance he wanted to lead on Monday, February 6, 2017, in Lagos.
He just realized that Nigerian masses are not worth the sacrifice.
Because, if anything happens to him on Monday, life goes on.

He saw Nigerians from the south-south jubilating to welcome James Ibori, a convicted felon and wanted by the EFCC.
The same Ibori that former President Goodluck Jonathan hounded by all means until Ibori escaped overseas.

He saw Ekiti people hailing Governor Fayose as he was cruising his posh convertible car on the street.

He just saw that the Nigerian masses are hypocrites not worth sacrificing for.

They are easily fooled by corrupt politicians and fraudusters.

They waste millions of naira daily on useless calls and chats.
They waste millions of naira gambling on "Baba Ijebu", Nairabet and other bets.
They wasted billions of naira on MMM.
Then they blame President Muhammadu Buhari and his only 18 months old adminstration for all their failures and frustrations of the past 16 years.

2baba has seen the gullibility and stupidity of majority of Nigerian poor masses.

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for February 4: Rosa Parks

U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for February 4: Rosa Parks
   
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

ROSA PARKS

Profile America — Saturday, February 4th. Adding poignancy to Black History Month, today marks the birthday in 1913 of Rosa Parks, a community activist who became a symbol of the fight for civil equality. Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white man. This sparked a boycott of the bus system by black people, which greatly energized the ultimately successful civil rights movement. During her life, Rosa Parks championed the cause of increased opportunities for youth. When she was arrested in 1955, black children on average had attended about seven years of school. Now, about 85 percent of African-American adults have at least a high school diploma, and almost 3.4 million are enrolled in college as graduate or undergraduate students. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.

Sources:
Rosa Parks/accessed 11/30/2016: http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715
Black education in 1950s: Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970, p. 380
High school diplomas/American Community Survey: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_1YR/S0201//popgroup~004
College enrollment: American Community Survey:
https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_1YR/B14007B

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).





SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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122 Million Nigerians Are Not With 2face Idibia and His Noisemakers

122 Million Nigerians Are Not With 2face Idibia and His Noisemakers

Popular Nigerian singer, Mr. Innocent Idibia, alias "2Face" or "2baba" has suddenly realized that Nigerians are suffering?
Which Nigerians are suffering?
A minority of poor urban dwellers who have refused to explore the numerous opportunities offered to them in the over 84 million hectares of fertile land of Nigeria where agriculture accounts for about two-thirds of Nigeria's employment (120 million people), contributing at least 22% to the country's economic growth.

These 120 million Nigerians are feeding Nigeria day and night.

Techstars Atlanta is Coming To Lagos!

Techstars Atlanta is Coming To Lagos!

Techstars Atlanta, in partnership with Cox Enterprises, is proud to announce that it is now accepting applications for its second class.

We are eager to meet companies around the world that are interested in applying to our program. If you think your company might be a fit, please join us at Cranium One for a evening of networking, presentations, and opportunities for Q & A.

Additionally, office hours (20-minute slots) with Tyler Scriven, Managing Director of Techstars Atlanta will be held throughout the week, and will be extended to companies after they have completed the office hour requests form.

More Info About The Program:

The accelerator will run in Atlanta, GA, at the Techstars Atlanta office in Ponce City Market, and will kick off in mid-July 2017. During the 3-month intensive program, participants will receive mentoring and guidance from entrepreneurs (active & exited), F500 executives, subject matter experts, Cox employees, and Techstars’ global network of more than 7,000 founders, mentors, investors, and corporate partners. Each company participating in the program receives an investment of $120K.

Helpful Links:
Learn more about our program here.
Watch the Techstars Atlanta 2016 Demo Day here.
Apply to our second class here.
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017, at Cranium One!

Haters of President Buhari, MMM and the Confused Nigerians

Haters of President Buhari, MMM and the Confused Nigerians

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, national leader of the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC) visited President Muhammadu Buhari in London, UK.

Popular Nigerian singer, 2Face Idibia, one of the confused Nigerians being misled by corrupt political detractors of President Buhari to lead a street protest against the Federal Government.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in the UK for medical reasons. And some mischievous political detractors started spreading fake news of rumours of his demise until his photos were shown looking fit and watching TV. Then some prophets of doom predicted that he would not recover. Other clerics called for prayers for his survival. But there are more Nigerians who need prayers than President Buhari and they are the following people.

1. Victims of MMM Nigeria scam, including many bankers. Even I was told that Access Bank of Nigeria also invested the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM), the most popular ponzi scheme in the country run by Sergey Panteleevich Mavrodi, a Russian criminal and a former deputy of the State Duma. He is the founder of the МММ series of pyramid schemes. In 2007 Sergei Mavrodi was found guilty in a Russian court of defrauding 10,000 investors out of 110 million rubles ($4.3 million). A Nigerian victim committed suicide last week.

2. Ignorant intellectually retarded Nigerian youths who are being misled by political opportunists to organize a protest march, but the children of the organisers will be far away in their mansions watching cable TV and playing games.

3. Ungrateful Nigerian youths who have collected their N- Power money and still whining like cry babies asking for more instead of making the best use of the job opportunities of the Federal Government.

4. Nigerian manufacturers that are complaining while South African investors in Nigeria are building more shopping malls and employing more Nigerians.

5. Old fashioned and intellectually retarded taxi drivers who were clueless about innovative ideas and as they were complaining of hardship, UBER arrived Nigeria without even a sedan and now has the largest fleet of taxi cars in Africa's largest megacity of Lagos, creating jobs for many Nigerian car owners and drivers.

6. Clueless administrators of colleges, polytechnics and universities whining about lack of regular power and water supplies when their engineering departments should have built and installed solar panels for solar power generation for light and solar powered boreholes for water supply that can be commercialized to produce bottled water to sell on campuses. 

7. Nigerian young women who are full time or partime prostitutes and "runs" bases and still poor when their peers are making millions of naira monthly as webcam models online without having physical contact with their clients.

~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of @247Nigeria and author of "The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream. https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.

Happy Birthday Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of @247Nigeria

Today is the birthday of Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Publisher/Editor of @247Nigeria, Nigerians Report Online, Talk of The Town By Orikinla and other blogs. He started his career at 18 as a scriptwriter for the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Channel 10 in Lagos; became a project artist for the Johns Hopkins University's Population Communication Services (JHU/PCS) at 21; Art/Features Editor for the Kiddies World magazine at 24; Program Consultant for UNICEF Nigeria at 25; ; Production Manager of "Money Wise" for Media Network on DBN TV in Lagos from 1998-2000; and started his King of Kings International publishing company in 2000; Founder/Executive Director of the United Artists for Human Development (UAHD) Project in 2002; Founder/CEO of International Digital Post Network Limited( IDPNL) in 2009 and Screen Outdoor Open Air Cinema (SOOAC) in 2013.He is a prize winning writer since when he won the first prize in the Pop magazine national essay competition at 13 and he is the author of Children of Heaven, Sleepless Night, Scarlet Tears of London, In the House of Dogs, Diary of the Memory Keeper, The Prophet Lied, The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream and other books; coauthor of Naked Beauty, Publisher/Editor of The Language of True Love, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series; Founder and first Festival Director of the Eko International Film Festival, Founder/Executive Director of Screen Naija One Village, One Cinema Project and Founder/Executive Director of Girls United Together for Success (GUTS) Project. He has registered a new international film festival, Zenith International Film Festival; developing his iPost Nigeria mobile video sharing and eCommerce channel and started his Screen Naija YouTube Channel.
He recently produced and directed his "LAGOS in MOTION: A Photo Album of Africa's Largest Megacity" documentary series and published the LAGOS in MOTION: A Photo Album of Africa's Largest Megacity (Volume 1)
https://www.amazon.com/LAGOS-MOTION-Africas-Largest-Megacity/dp/1536934925.
He is widely known for promoting and supporting the education, protection and welfare of underprivileged girls in Nigeria and other countries. He cosponsored and co- hosted the Nigerian premiere of the CNN groundbreaking documentary film, "Girl Rising" in 2013 and "HE NAMED ME MALALA" documentary film of Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl education activist and youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner.
 https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima

Illegal Immigrants Are Criminals and Should Be Treated As Criminals

Illegal immigrants are criminals, because violation of immigration laws is a crime.
There is no need to argue with this fact and no need for any political correctness, circomluction or any academic thesis on foreign policy on this matter.
All illegal immigrants should be arrested, arraigned, convicted and deported without delay.

The trespassing and rampaging Fulani herdsmen attacking and killing hundreds of Nigerian citizens are illegal immigrants from the neighbouring countries of Mali, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
The Nigerian government failed to arrest them and they trespassed on the farmlands of Nigerians, destroyed their crops and attacked those who challenged them.
Without any proof of citizenship, they register as voters and have been voting in Nigerian elections.

Failure to arrest and prosecute illegal immigrants caused the massacre of Nigerian Christians in southern Kaduna, because the state government allowed them to trespass on the lands of the citizens with impunity.