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16—Vanguard, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020 WORKSHOP: From left— Product Manager, Canva (Australia), Robyn King; SIP Fellow and Founder/CEO, RenewDrive Solutions, Babajide Oluwase; Head, Strategic Brand Management, Union Bank, Ngozi Akinyele and Manager, Programmes, LEAP Africa, Olusegun Alimi at LEAP Africa's 2020 Social Innovators Programme Workshop in partnership with Union Bank in Lagos. Tension in Edo community over alleged installation of monarch By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY—THERE is tension in Okpella community in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State over the purported installation of Mr Mika Sado as the new Okuokpellagbe of Okpella almost one year after the demise of Alhaji Yesufu Dirisu. Addressing a press conference at the residence of Chief Acheku Ogene who is the most senior chief of Oteku kindred which had elders, women, young people including all the village heads of Iddo- Okpella community, Jibril said there are pending legal issues that needed to be sorted out before a new king would be installed in the community and that by the action of Sado, he has disqualified himself from being a contender in the vacant stool having gone against laid down rules and procedures. He said: “The entire village of Iddo seize this opportunity to state unequivocally that the aforementioned installation was bogus, unrepresentative and downright illegal. “For the benefit of those who may not know, there are two primary issues both pending court’s determination to be sorted out before the choice of successor to the kingship of Okpella. First, it is yet to be agreed which of the two communities of Iddo and Ukhomunyio is to be granted the right to provide the next successor. Second, it remains BredHub seeks introduction of artificial intelligence skill in school curriculum By Gabriel Olawale LAGOS—BLISS Team Educational Services, BredHub has called on federal government to introduce artificial intelligence skill in school curriculum as part of measure towards preparing this generation for the future. Speaking ahead of Train- The-Trainer program slated for 13th - 18th of March in Lagos, General Manager, Bliss Team Educational Services, Christian Chime said that government need to champion initiative that introduce children and youths to the world of innovation unsettled which of the two varied traditional institutions is rightly vested with the responsibility of constituting kingmakers” He said actions taken outside these legal issues cannot stand and seen as “taunting the peaceful co-existence of our community to which we expect that government take immediate stand against these criminal elements for rousing tensions.” As at the time of this report, Sado’s line is switched off and he is yet to respond to a text message sent to him. Food, other commodities' shortage hit Edo IDP camp BENIN CITY— SHORTAGE of food and other essential commodities have hit the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Ohogua, Ovia North East Local Government Area which is housing about 4,000 inmates mostly people displaced by Boko Haram and other displaced persons. Coordinator of the Centre, International Christian Centre for Missions, ICCM, Pastor Folorunsho Solomon stated this when he received the Presiding Bishop of Jesus Breeds Ministries Worldwide, Bishop Omoruyi Okundaye who visited the internally displaced persons to mark his 80th birthday. Folorunsho disclosed that every morning and evening they have been praying that God should send people that would bring food for them and appealed to other individuals, corporate organisations, government and others to come to their aid. He said: "we thank you for coming today. We have been praying day and night for God to send people that will bring food for us. Sir, the situation you met on ground is very critical. They have not eating meat for a long time. That is why when they saw the cow and food stuffs, the children were singing and dancing. They were saying 'rice and stew,' they wanted to fly. "When you walk in, we know that God sent you to answer our prayers. We thank you and we are very grateful. Despite your busy through the teaching of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Coding and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Chime hinted that, in the nearest future, the world is expecting the AI/Robotics to be a way of life and will play great roles in human existence on earth. “Whoever leads in artificial intelligence in 2030 will rule the world until 2100. “We want this skill to be part of school curriculum, we want every student to be able to build and program robotic. Irrespective of what a child want to become, he or she need to understand how to use technology because it is taking over every industry, it make process faster in whatever industry schedule you count it worthy to see us. Is a great sacrifice you have made. Sir, we want you to also be their voice outside this place. Please be their voice in every circle," he appealed. EIGS old students meet Saturday THE annual national general meeting of Esie/Iludun Grammar School Old Students Association comes up on Saturday, February 29, 2020. According to Dr Amos Biala, the meeting will take place at Treden Hotels, Tanke Road, Ilorin, Kwara State. The time is 10am. they are going to find themselves. “BredHub in partnership with UBTECH is organizing an interactive Artificial Intelligence and Robotics training for teachers and educators so that they can educate their students." BredHub Coordinator, Chimezie Ikeme said that Artificial Intelligence/Robotics has come to stay and it will soon disrupt the work space because the evolutionary trend is ongoing, “let me tell you, in the next five to ten years the work space will be different and some business will naturally go into extinction." On his part, Ekundaye said he felt his birth day celebration would not be complete without identifying and celebrating with the IDP victims. Passage HE death has occured Tof Princess Martha Arinade Odubekun, mother of a former frontline newscaster with the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Funmi Odubekun. She was 90 years old. A funeral service and Requiem Mass will be held in her honour at the Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church, Esure in Ijebu Esure, Ogun State on Friday, February 28, at 11am to be followed immediately by interment. Reception holds at Bisi Rodipe Hall, GRA, off Igbepo Road, Ijebu Ode on the same day. She is survi ved by four children, Tosin, Funmilayo, Francis and Tokunbo Odubekun among other relations. Late Princess Martha Odubekun. Dangote Cement's export affected by border closure DANGOTE cement said on Wednesday its export volumes in 2019 had been affected by border closure in its home country of Nigeria, which is trying to combat smuggling. Nigeria closed its land border in August to curb smuggling of rice and arms, which it says threatens efforts to boost local production and security and to generate state revenues through import duties, the customs service has said. Moody's cuts 2020 global auto sales outlook on coronavirus hit CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s Investor Service on Wednesday cut its 2020 outlook for global auto sales, with China taking the biggest hit as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. The agency said here it expects global auto sales to fall 2.5 percent in 2020, more than its previous estimate of about 0.9 percent drop. Moody’s retained a “negative” outlook on the sector and said it expects global sales to rebound only modestly in 2021 with growth of 1.5 percent. The agency now expects auto sales in China, the world’s largest market, to fall 2.9 percent in 2020 from previous estimates of 1 percent growth. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) on Wednesday warned it expects significant declines in China’s automotive production and sales levels in February due to the coronavirus outbreak. European shares tumble to fourmonth low as virus risks grow EUROPEAN shares fell to a near four-month low on Wednesday, as the fast-spreading coronavirus deepened fears about its impact on global growth with marquee companies sounding the alarm on earnings. The main European equity benchmark STOXX 600 tumbled 2.6 percent, marking its first five-day losing streak since July. Travel stocks, financial services, chemical and technology stocks were among the worst hit, falling between 3 percent and 4 percent. The losses followed a grim session for Asia and Wall Street overnight after U.S. health officials warned Americans should prepare for possible community spread of the virus that has now hit Spain and dozens of countries from South Korea to Italy. The STOXX 600 is trading 9.4 percent below the record highs hit just last week, while the past four trading sessions has wiped out about $3 trillion in value of world Banks struggle to shift •1.8bn of Iliad loans BANKS are struggling to shift €1.8bn of loans for French telecom and fibre network operator group Iliad, banking sources said. The loans were launched to back founder and majority shareholder Xavier Niel’s share buyback, in which he increased his stake in the company to just over 72%. The loans are being raised at a holding company level, so as not to affect leverage at Iliad’s operating company, where leverage is at around 2.0 times, the sources said. BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Natixis and Societe Generale are leading the corporate leveraged financing, which should have closed for syndication around two weeks ago, sources said. “The financing is trundling along slowly in the background like a slow train to nowhere. It will get there in the end,” a senior banker said. South Africa: Economic growth revised downward to 0.9% SOUTH Africa's economy is expected to grow by 0.9% in 2020, National Treasury said on Wednesday. This is a downward revision from the 1.7% projection made in the February 2019 budget. In its budget review just over a year ago, Treasury had projected real economic growth of 1.5% in 2019 and 1.7% in 2020. "We now expect real growth of only 0.3 per cent in 2019 and 0.9 per cent in 2020. In 2019, consolidated government spending reached a historic high of 36% of GDP [Gross Domestic Product]," said Treasury in the current budget review. Some strories from Reuters
Bayelsa, APC and the limits of mendacity LET me state from the outset that I am not a member of any political party. I used to have sympathy for the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, until its leaders destroyed it for whatever reason prior to the 2019 elections. I spoke out against the injustice of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, particularly under the dictatorship of President Olusegun Obasanjo, who, though democratically elected, wanted to transmute into a maximum ruler and life president. In the 2015 elections, I rooted for Muhammadu Buhari not only because of the lack-lustre leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan but also because the PDP had become arrogant, dictatorial and complacent. In spite of my preference for Buhari, I wasn’t a fan of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the vehicle in which he was chauffeured to power. And my reason for not being beholden to the party even then was simple: I could hardly stand its hypocrisy. But I must confess that even in my wildest imagination, I could never have believed that the party will travel this far on the concourse of mendacity, particularly since Adams Oshiomhole, former governor of Edo State, became its national chairman. The ruling party has become the standard bearer in charlatanism and it is horrifying. When it was first mooted that the APC may approach the Supreme Court to review its judgement which sacked its governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, David Lyon, and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, I doubted the possibility. Here was a political party whose leaders should apologise to the good people of Bayelsa State and cover their faces in shame for trying to legitimise fraud. There was no doubt that the then Deputy Governor-elect of Bayelsa, Degi-Eremienyo, who sadly is a senator of the Federal Republic, even as I write, has questions to answer. Born on January 1, 1960, as Degi Biobaragha, he became known as Adegi Biobakumo in 1984. By 1990, he mutated to Degi Biobarakuma, and 12 years later, in 2002, he took up another identity as Degi Biobarakuma Wangagha. These different names were unashamedly and brazenly reflected in the different certificates - primary school leaving certificate, General Certificate of Education, GCE, first degree, NYSC discharge certificate and Master’s degree certificate - On what basis did the APC seek a reversal of the judgement? submitted to INEC. But the Supreme Court said all the certificates were products of forgery, which violated Section 182 of the Constitution and, therefore, having established a case of forgery and perjury, ruled that his presence on the ticket was a toxic infection on the validity of the APC ticket. Simply put, his inclusion vitiated the ticket. My quarrel with that judgement was that the Supreme Court did not go the whole hog to commit Degi-Eremienyo to jail for the incontrovertible crimes of forgery and perjury in order to deter others from treading that route. Gradually, certificate forgery by the Nigerian political elite is becoming a pandemic and annulling the fraudulent mandate without committing the cheat to jail as it is done elsewhere, though a clear rebuke against political recklessness and rascality, is a slap on the wrist. I also took umbrage here last week at the shenanigans of Oshiomhole when I wrote that: “It is nauseating, to say the least, watching Oshiomhole rather than bowing his head in shame, double down on his infantile theatrics by dancing naked in the political arena.” But it was because the Supreme Court didn’t complete the job that Oshiomhole had the guts to pontificate that the verdict “lacks the fruits of justice” and that “where justice and the party looked the other way when Degi-Eremienyo was being railroaded into government house, the APC wouldn’t have had the temerity to go back to the apex court to seek a review of the judgement. In any other country that is not as integrity deficient as ours, the leadership of the APC would have immediately distanced itself from the man who brought so much shame on the party. What is even more surprising is that two of Nigeria’s finest senior lawyers, revered Afe Babalola and Wole Olanipekun, both Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, represented the sacked Degi-Eremienyo and APC in such a ridiculous legal pursuit. I am not a lawyer, but did Degi-Eremienyo convince Babalola that he did not get justice? In which case he must have presented him the genuine certificates. Or am I simply being naïve asking questions that are never raised between a lawyer and his client? So, on what basis did the APC seek a reversal of the judgement? Or could it be as some people have insinuated that the APC deliberately went to court knowing that their request will be thrown out ignominiously but with the sole purpose of preempting the learned justices of the Supreme Court on the Imo governorship verdict which is also before them for a review? Gross abuse of the judicial process democracy thrive on the altar of technicalities, it constitutes danger to our democracy.” Had Degi-Eremienyo been committed to jail for the crimes he committed and all those who aided and abetted the commission of the crime, including Oshiomhole, who as the national chairman of Knowing how mischievous and disingenuous Nigerian politicians are, that may not be far from the truth. Already, there is celebration in certain quarters that with the pronouncement of Justice Amina Augie who read the judgement on Wednesday, the Emeka Ihedioha application against the Supreme Court elected governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, will suffer the same fate. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel headed by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, dismissed the two different applications that sought to set aside the judgement it delivered against David Lyon and his deputy on February 13. In the lead verdict that was delivered by Justice Augie, the court described the fresh applications that were filed by Lyon and his deputy as well as by the APC, as “highly vexatious, frivolous and gross abuse of the judicial process”. Justice Augie, who said the application lacked merit, contended that the decisions of the Supreme Court are final for all ages and no court on earth can review them."There must be an end to litigation; even if we review this judgement, every disaffected litigant will bring similar applications and the finality of Supreme Court judgements will be lost.” But the Justice also said something important and very instructive, which is, the applicants failed to point out errors in the judgement they were seeking to reverse. Awarding, justifiably, a N60 million cost against Lyon, Degi-Eremieoyo and APC to be paid in favour of Governor Douye Diri; his Deputy, Lawrence Ewhruojakpo; and the PDP; the Supreme Court, which frowned that the applications were aimed at “desecrating the sanctity of the court”, ordered that the cost should be paid by respective counsel to the applicants for bringing such frivolous applications on behalf of their clients. That is instructive. I wonder why Babalola would allow his name to be dragged into the APC mess. For those dancing that it is also all over in Imo State, we will wait to see what happens on March 2. But they fail to acknowledge that unlike the Bayelsa ruling, there are a thousand and one errors in the Imo verdict, which the Supreme Court Justices are already mindful of. Besides, it also bears restating that Ihedioha is not being accused of forgery and perjury. Instead, it is those awarded victory on the altar of fabrication and deceit that should be wary. Vanguard, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020 — 17 FOR THE RECORD Letter to young Nigerians: Facing the new decade (2) The first part of this convocation lecture presented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was published in Vanguard, yesterday By PROF YEMI OSINBAJO MANY times they do not have access to cutting-edge innovations and inventions in farm inputs and farming techniques. Those who can add value to the farmers’ harvest become wealthier than the farmer. So the growers of the raw materials are the weakest in the value chain and the poorest. For example, the man who makes chocolates from cocoa is bound to be richer than the cocoa farmer. He has added value to the raw cocoa by processing and designing and packing the chocolates in appealing wrappers. By adding value, he will create more jobs and more wealth. So, while we will always need the traditional professionals, doctors, lawyers, accountants and bankers, those adding value to their services will make more money than they can. So those developing Artificial Intelligence for giving legal advice or medical diagnoses, or accounting or banking will be more successful than the professionals themselves. So, the future of banking and financial services doesn’t belong to banks or bankers as we know them today, it may well belong to the FinTechs and other technology-enabled solutions. For example, today we have KiaKia, which uses Artificial Intelligence and algorithms, to process loan requests in minutes and grant credit without the hassles of regular banks. Besides, there is Kuda Bank, for example, a bank without a single physical branch with all its features built into a mobile application. There is also Eyowo, another example of a payment services company which is designed for identifying, enumerating and paying to and collecting repayments from 2.2 million TraderMoni and MarketMoni beneficiaries. They have revolutionised financial inclusion, making and receiving payments from the farthest parts of Nigeria. There is also another company called Paystack, whose founders are just over (the age of) 30. They have developed applications that make it easier to make payments across the world. There is also InvestBamboo, for example, which was The future of banking and financial services doesn’t belong to banks or bankers as we know them today, it may well belong to the FinTechs and other technologyenabled solutions started by two 26-year-olds, and offers new ways for you to save money and invest in stocks, all from a single application. Others have developed technologies that make it possible for you to invest in a farm without ever seeing the farm. Two Nigerian companies again, ThriveAgric and Farmcrowdy, set up by young Nigerians under the age of 35, are great examples of the service providers that help small-scale farmers scaleup and access valuable training; and all of these done through crowdfunding. In the world of medicine and healthcare, there is LifeBank, owned by a young Nigerian lady. This is a health tech startup, which also uses drone technology to facilitate blood delivery to various health centres. We could highlight another called 54 gene, a firm that is harnessing genomic data from African DNA to revolutionise the drug industry, and change the future of medicine. Even in the usually conservative legal profession, which I am the chairman, entrepreneurs are disrupting old trends. There is a digital legal research company called Law Pavilion, the company’s digital tools help lawyers to do legal research quickly and efficiently and even answer legal questions. Judges and lawyers subscribe to it and the usage is a very lucrative value addition to legal practice. Yet the founder and CEO of the company is not even a lawyer. So today there are opportunities for entrepreneurs to build their businesses around •Vice President Yemi Osinbajo traditional professions without being professionals themselves. The most widely read online publications are neither owned nor run by trained journalists. Some of us are familiar with the news aggregation platform called Nairaland which was started by two Obafemi Awolowo University students while still in school. Today it is one of the most successful online platforms we have. Even many of the most successful online advertising or PR companies have no formal training in these disciplines, most are self-thought. My nephew, who is a lawyer, is establishing an organic farm and poultry after taking lessons online. His only knowledge is derived from taking a few classes from somebody in Kano State offering online training for people interested in poultry farming. But let me direct your minds to the new areas for job opportunities being created today. Data Science is one big area. Currently, we leave vast amounts of personal data online and in the near future, companies will need data scientists to go through it all and generate answers to business questions and make recommendations based on their findings. Many businesses already spend time and money going through people’s data so that they can sell their products. This is a new area of opportunities for jobs. A big area today is Content Production - 3D/ 2D animation, Virtual Effects and Special Effects, as well as Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. The use of animation in education, entertainment and media is growing in leaps and bounds. Those who can create content with animation are being and will be much sought after in the years to come. Recent survey According to a recent survey by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, multimedia artists and animators are among the highest-paid within the US workforce. This has translated to more jobs for animators in emerging economies such as India, Vietnam and now Nigeria. The average pay of a 3D animator in Nigeria who has just started out after learning his trade could be in the region of N300,000 - N500,000 monthly. In our training of N-Power beneficiaries, we set aside a fair amount of money to train animators. We have carried out two sets of training; one in the North and one in the South of Nigeria. In total, we have trained over 25,000 young men and women in animation. Also, remember that content is becoming more in demand with the streaming wars that have engulfed Netflix, Apple, Disney Plus, HBO and only recently, Airtel, the telecommunications provider, launched its own streaming service in Nigeria. Then we have the whole range of Cybersecurity, another big area of opportunity. Today, there are new opportunities for cybersecurity specialists. How is that? With each technological advance comes the implied addition of more security risks just to store and keep the information secure. Therefore, cybersecurity will continue to be a growing sector. In this sense, each country will have its own specific regulations just as we have and many other international regulations, which will ensure that professionals with an advanced technological background capable of nullifying new threats posed to both technology and people, will be in demand all the time. Continues online C M Y K
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