Michael R. Bloomberg to Convene Heads of State and CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum

Michael R. Bloomberg to Convene Heads of State and CEOs at Inaugural Global Business Forum
President Clinton, Bill Gates, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Christine Lagarde, Jim Kim and many others to join government and business leaders during UN General Assembly

Forum will address today's most pressing challenges to economic growth and prosperity

NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomberg today announced a selection of featured speakers for the first-ever Global Business Forum, which will bring heads of state together with global CEOs to discuss opportunities for advancing trade and economic growth, and the related societal challenges – from climate change to workplace automation to terrorism – facing both groups. The daylong Forum will be an unprecedented convening of major business and government leaders from all regions of the world. It will take place on Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 in New York City, during the week of the United Nations General Assembly.

The Forum was inspired by the Bloomberg U.S.-Africa Business Forum, which in 2014 and 2016 brought business leaders together with heads of state from every African nation, and the Clinton Global Initiative, which held its Annual Meeting during U.N. General Assembly week and established a new model to bring together global leaders from all sectors to create and implement tangible solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. The Global Business Forum seeks to build on their success by convening leaders who are best positioned to expand trade, drive economic growth, and tackle our most pressing common challenges. World leaders from over 30 countries along with more than 100 global CEOs have confirmed attendance.

"Global trade and investment are the most powerful forces we have for reducing poverty and spreading opportunity – but too often, business and government leaders don't realize how they can help each other," said Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and 108th Mayor of New York City. "The Africa Summit we hosted demonstrated how much can be gained by bringing the two groups together, and the annual meetings held by the Clinton Global Initiative showed the incredible opportunity the U.N General Assembly week presents for forging new partnerships. The Forum will be a great opportunity for heads of state and CEOs to speak directly with one another about ways they can work more closely together."

Bloomberg is sponsoring the forum in partnership with the Alibaba Group; Dangote Industries Limited; EXOR, the holding company controlled by the Agnelli family; the Mahindra Group; and MiSK, the philanthropic foundation of His Royal Highness Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.

The featured speakers and participants at the Global Business Forum will include:

• The Honorable William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
• Bill Gates, Co-Founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations
• Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group
• Lloyd Blankfein, CEO and Chairman, Goldman Sachs
• Laurence Fink, CEO and Chairman, BlackRock
• Jim Kim, President, World Bank Group
• Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
• Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever
• Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo
• David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group
• Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group Corp
• Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management
• Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Chair, E.L. Rothschild
• Aliko Dangote, President and CEO, Dangote Industries Limited
• John Elkann, Chairman and CEO, EXOR
• Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group
• Ajay Banga, President and CEO, Mastercard
• Arif Naqvi, Founder and Group Chief Executive, The Abraaj Group
• Euisun Chung, Vice Chairman, Hyundai Motor Company
• Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah, Chairwoman, Henkel
• Eileen Murray, Co-CEO, Bridgewater Associates
• Isabelle Kocher, Chief Executive Officer, ENGIE

More than 30 world leaders representing all regions including G20 countries are confirmed to attend, including: Antigua and Barbuda; Bhutan; Republic of Botswana; Burkina Faso; Colombia; Côte d'Ivoire; Croatia; Georgia; Hungary; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Mali; Malta; Mexico; Mongolia; Italy; Pakistan; Republic of Palau; Peru; Singapore; Turkey; Republic of Seychelles; Zambia; and the EU. Many others, including additional featured speakers, will be announced prior to the forum.

"Global trade has lifted hundreds of millions of people around the world out of poverty, but there's more that we can do. Alibaba is proud to help make globalization more inclusive, enabling young people, small businesses, and developing countries around the world to share in its benefits," said Jack Ma, Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group.

The Global Business Forum will comprise a series of keynotes and conversations with global experts and leaders to further inspire and support plans for business and government collaboration for economic growth. Country and business announcements resulting from the Global Business Forum programming and smaller, private meetings are also expected.

The 2017 Global Business Forum program will feature topics such as:

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UNFPA Regional Ambassador Stephanie Linus Visits Ghana

UNFPA Regional Ambassador Stephanie Linus Visits Ghana

Stephanie Linus, the UNFPA Regional Ambassador for Maternal Health in West and Central Africa has taken her advocacy message to Ghana.

The award winning actress and movie director who is still in the West African country is attending a series of events on the invitation of UNFPA Ghana under the leadership of Mr. Niyi Ojuolape; UNFPA Ghana Representative, to advocate for quality maternal health care for women and young girls, resource mobilization for quality healthcare service delivery and encourage policies that protect the rights and dignity of the girl child.

So far, she has held a press conference, visited Radio & TV Stations and paid a courtesy call to the Minister of Gender, Child and Social Protection Hon. Otiko Afisah Djaba. Today, she will be meeting with a coalition of youth organization to discuss some of these advocacy issues and will also attend the Glitz Style Awards later tonight.

Mrs Linus continues to use her platform to speak out against harmful cultural practices, tackle prejudice and push the world to do more to empower women and girls with the freedom, education and equal rights they deserve.

Progenitor of Igbos Came from the Sky Before the Deluge - Igbo Professors

Progenitor of Igbos Came from the Sky Before the Deluge - Igbo Professors

Did you know that two Igbo Professors, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo (22 November 1937 – 9 March 2009) and Catherine Obianuju Acholonu (26 October 1951 – 18 March 2014) said Igbos originated from Nephilims, offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" before the Deluge, according to Genesis 6:4 of the Holy Bible. That they landed on south eastern Nigeria from the sky even before the birth of Abraham.  They were descendants from the Fallen Angels. Therefore, these two Igbo scholars dismissed the myth of Igbos  being Jews.  In fact, the hypothesis of Professors Afigbo and Acholonu is in accordance with the myth of Ọ̀ràézè Ǹrì or Kingdom of Nri that Nri's royal founder, Eri, is said to be a 'sky being' that came down to earth and then established their civilization.

The origin of Benin people is also traced to the Igodomigodo Kingdom of Ogiso sky-kings whose descendant, Prince Ekaladerhan later became Izoduwa or Oduduwa, the first Oni in uhe (Ilé-Ifẹ̀). No wonder they said: "Oduduwa was an emissary from the community of Oke-Ora (Ora mountain), the easternmost part of the Ife cultural area towards the Northeastern Ijesa people. He descended from the Hills on a chain, earning the oriki 'atewonro' meaning 'one who descends on a chain."
These Nephilims landed in the same location of Igboland and Igodomigodo. Now you know who built the Eredo, the largest man made structure on earth reported to be 160 kilometres long and in places tower seven storeys high, complete with guardhouses, moats and garrison barracks. They enclose an area the size of Greater London, or 30 times bigger than Manhattan. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16322035-100-the-african-queen/

Genesis 6:4: The Nephilim were in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim and we were in our sight as grasshoppers and so we were in their sight.’

Read about the shocking discovery of "Mysterious GIANT Coffins Discovered in Egypt Near Pyramid of Giza May Prove Existence of The Biblical Nephilim" on https://christiantruther.com/fallen/nephilim/giant-coffins-egypt-biblical-nephilim/.

The video of the recent discovery of giant skeletons shocked the world.
The discoveries confirm the scriptures of the Holy Bible.

~ By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima, author of " The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream", "The Prophet Lied", "Scarlet Tears of London", "In the House of Dogs", "Diary of the Memory Keeper" and other books. https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.

The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream: My Testimony on the 2015 Presidential Election
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The ignorance or stupidity of one person can cause the destruction of millions of innocent people.
~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima

Sadiq, Nura and Mohammed and Memories of A Biafran Child

Sadiq, Nura and Mohammed from Katsina State in northern Nigeria.

After seeing this photograph, Sadiq embraced me in a way I could only understand as his innocent expression of friendship. He is the youngest, but I see the composure of a leader in him. I can understand this, because at about his age I was among hundreds of #Igbo children in a refugee camp for IDPs in 1968 in the defunct Republic of #Biafra, and I left to find my way back to our village. What no other child did and I walked into an abandoned village after the Nigerian soldiers had defeated the #Biafran soldiers. The details are in my memoir, "Biafran Child" coming out soon.

We are all innocent children of God. None of us asked to be born poor or rich; black or white; Christian or Muslim and so no one should judge us by our class, race or religion.
We all "Children of God", which is the title of my first published book in 1988.


~ By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima, author of " The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream", "The Prophet Lied", "Scarlet Tears of London", "In the House of Dogs", "Diary of the Memory Keeper" and other books. https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima.

The Victory of Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Dream: My Testimony on the 2015 Presidential Election
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The ignorance or stupidity of one person can cause the destruction of millions of innocent people.
~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima