Elsie-Femi Pearse Street and Adeola Odeku Road Junction on Victoria Island during the Wednesday morning rush hour of yesterday.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Video: Lagos Morning Rush Hour on Victoria Island
Elsie-Femi Pearse Street and Adeola Odeku Road Junction on Victoria Island during the Wednesday morning rush hour of yesterday.
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JOBS: nuTonomy is Recruiting!
Current openings
nuTonomy is focused on research and development for state-of-the-art self-driving cars. We aim to be the first company in the world to launch an autonomous taxi system, and we are building up an awesome team to make this goal a reality.
Please send all applications to jobs@nutonomy.com. Include a CV, examples of your past work (e.g., papers, code), and your preferred office - Cambridge, MA or Singapore. If applying to our US office, please indicate your eligibility to work in the country.
nuTonomy offers competitive salary and benefits, great colleagues, and a fun work environment.
Currently we have openings for:
Embedded Software Engineer – Automotive R&D / ADAS Experience
Motion Planning / Controls – Research Scientist or Engineer
Research Scientist – Computer Vision – Machine Learning
Software Engineer – Computer Vision – C++
Mapping & Localization Engineer
Software Engineer – Mapping and Annotation Tools
Software Engineer – Master C++ Programmer
Software Test Engineer
Machine Learning Specialist
Control Systems Engineer
Radar Engineer
UX / UI / Industrial Designer
Drivers – Data Collection
Drivers – Self-driving Vehicle Operator (Safety Driver)
Business Intern
Recent Graduates
Go to http://www.nutonomy.com/jobs.html.
Singapore Launches the First Self-Driving Taxi in the World
Singapore Launches the First Self-Driving Taxi in the World
World's first self-driving taxi service launches
Aug 25 2016, 08:28 ET | By: Clark Schultz, SA News Editor
- Singapore became the first country in the world to offer a self-driving taxi service with the targeted launch of nuTonomy. A full roll-out of an autonomous taxi service across the nation is expected as early as 2018.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
US$217.7 Billion Illegally Transferred Out of Nigeria
US$217.7 Billion Illegally Transferred Out of Nigeria
Africa: Cleaning Up
~ By William Gumede
What is the extent of corruption in Africa? The recent Global Corruption Barometer shows that 12 of the 13 countries with the worst record of bribery are in Africa. The African Union estimates that 25% of the GDP of African states, or some $148 billion, is lost to corruption every year on the continent.
- The African Development Bank (AfDB) estimates corruption costs Africa up to 50% in lost tax revenues and over $30 billion in aid, annually. As a comparison, Africa receives around $22.5 billion in development aid from industrial countries (pre-2007/2008 global financial crisis figures), according to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Click here to read the full report.
- In many African countries local and foreign private donors fund governing parties in return for favourable policies, subverting regulations and the drive toward efficient privatisation. This stymies development. Developed countries also contribute to the situation by harbouring the proceeds of corruption in Africa in secret bank accounts.
- Africa is losing $50 billion every year in illicit financial outflows because of fraudulent schemes to avoid or evade taxes by governments and companies, according to the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). According to the report, the continent lost $850 billion between 1978 and 2008. Some $217.7 billion was illegally transferred out of Nigeria, $105.2 billion out of Egypt and $81.8 billion out of South Africa.
- Separate data provided by Global Financial Integrity has shown that South Africa loses annually about $12.2 billion in illicit outflows. That loss could easily plug South Africa's fiscal deficit. Former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who chairs UNECA said: "The information available to us has convinced our panel that large commercial corporations are by far the biggest culprits of illicit outflows, followed by organised crime".
Source AllAfrica
Don't Blame President Muhammadu Buhari for Economic Hardship in Nigeria
Don't Blame President Muhammadu Buhari for Economic Hardship in Nigeria
Many ignorant and poorly educated Nigerians have been calling President Muhammadu Buhari all sorts of derogatory names, cursing and swearing as they blame him for the current economic hardship majority of people are suffering in Nigeria. But unknown to them, the current recession is a global development that is affecting all the continents and in fact Nigerians should be thanking God, because the hardship would have been worse.
Nigeria is not even among the worst economic performers and not among the top ten most affected countries in the world and they include mighty Japan, Italy, Taiwan and Ireland without even mentioning the weeping baby of Europe, Greece.
US Secretary of State, John Kerry currently visiting Nigeria knows that America is also facing economic challenges and will discuss the global recession with President Buhari.
According Bloomberg:
Oil-rich Venezuela will contract by 3.3 percent this year, the worst forecast of any of the 93 countries in our analysis, followed by junk-rated Brazil, debt-laden Greece and commodities-ravaged Russia.
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The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream: My Testimony on the 2015 Presidential Election is an important chronicle of the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria and the principal actors in the emergence of the first Nigerian presidential candidate to defeat an incumbent President in the political history of Nigeria.
Monday, August 22, 2016
Nigeria: With Thousands in Urgent Need, UN Health Agency Scales Up Emergency Response
Nigeria: With thousands in urgent need, UN health agency scales up emergency response
NEW YORK, 22 August 2016 / PRN Africa / -- The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) is ramping up its response in north-eastern Nigeria, where initial assessments have revealed urgent health problems among populations in areas formerly held by Boko Haram insurgents.
Watch Full Movie:AFRICA SPEAKS, The Strangest Romance Of Colonial Africa
Published on Aug 21, 2016
Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.
Director:
Walter Futter
Writer:
Walter Futter
Stars:
Harald Austin, Paul L. Hoefler, Lowell Thomas |
Presented By Screen Naija, the entertainment channel of Nigerians for the world.
Facebook Partners With She Leads Africa in Support of Female African Entrepreneurs
Facebook Partnered With She Leads Africa in Support of Female African Entrepreneurs
- Initiative to encourage women across the continent to start their own businesses and help drive prosperity for their countries
- SheHive will also be moving on to Johannesburg and Lagos 2016
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Screen Naija Presents "AFRICA SPEAKS: The Strangest Romance of Colonial Africa"
Screen Naija Presents "AFRICA SPEAKS: The Strangest Romance of Colonial Africa"
Africa Speaks
by Walter Futter
Published 1930
adventure, documentary
Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.
Director:
Walter Futter
Writer:
Walter Futter
Stars:
Harald Austin, Paul L. Hoefler, Lowell Thomas |
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