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Preserve our Lives
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Due to poverty rate in our country, Nigeria, many of our brothers and sisters who get sick with terminal illnesses or close, have no access to medical treatment. With family members struggling to save the lives of their loved ones, the family is further impoverished. Only a matter of time before something else destroys such family. Many are forced to look to the public to help save the lives of their loved ones, many too young to die, many just starting out.Terminal illnesses are sad, painful, every second of it very long to sufferers. As people, as Nigerians, we MUST care. It may be anyone tomorrow. Let us put an end to this.
We know for a FACT: our country is wealthy. If we really wanted, we can build mansions on oceans for every citizen and not get broke.
We know for a FACT: Billions of dollars are looted every time of the year, denying citizen basic amenities, a chance to live a fulfilled life for their less than 100 years of living (even shorter in recent times)
We know for a FACT: Nigerians are one of the most, if not the most religious people in the world. If we really love and respect God, it's time we started to show empathy by being actively responsible, to show respect for human lives and treat life as sacred, to fight for the life of our brothers and sisters, and to the dying, make it as painless as possible by providing them with adequate health care.
We hereby call on the Nigerian government, with immediate and urgent attention to create, establish a separate account, with full disclosure and transparency to fund its citizens with terminal sickness or close (this would be clearly spelled out by professional medical experts) so adequate health care will be made directly accessible to sufferers.This would be a short term arrangement until first class medical clinics/hospitals are built all over the federation, properly equipped and staffed, so that every citizen with life-threatening diseases may have access to medical treatment and yes, Nigerians, with every hardship they go through daily, with life they believe there's hope. Let's try to preserve that at least.Private sectors may contribute but they will not if they do not feel obliged. It is the responsibility of the government to protect and preserve the lives of its citizens. Underdevelopment, further aggravated by government shortcomings, have led many into a state where treatable diseases have become death sentence. This, at least, should stop. It is somebody's son today, it might be your own daughter tomorrow. Please, Nigerians; people and government, rich or poor, let us give quality to life, let's fight for the lives of our own and treat the dying with the utmost respect.
Be kind enough to share this with all your friends, family, neighbours, colleagues. Even your enemy, we all have one thing in common. LIFE.

Share and sign your name.
Sincerely, Aminat Yusuff.
Signed; The Entire Midas Banter Team
Signed: Busari Hafiz
Signed Oni Olamide

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n Saturday 14 July 2012, the 15th Annual Professor Wole Soyinka Lecture series took place at the London South Bank University. Three distinguished speakers, Dr Ibibia Worika (Legal Counsel, Commonwealth Secretariat, London), Dr Grimot Nane (Economist, London Southbank University) and Barr. Uche Anyawu (Convener, Citizens Initiative for Responsible Leadership, Abuja) addressed the audience gathered at the venue on the theme of the day a “clarion call” , by the Nobel Laureate, for a “new generation of freedom and anti-corruption fighters.”
The lecture was followed by a very vibrant interactive session by the audience and the following resolution emerged from the discussion.

1. That we should retrace our roots and allow our cultural and moral values that we have long since abandoned to be allowed back to the fore.

2. Violent revolution “Rawlings Style” was discarded as an option on the basis that history taught us that in the early 1960s in Nigeria some young military officers had the same notion to cleanse the system of corruption. However, the revolution that initially claimed the lives of some leaders was deemed a lop-sided one, that eventually led to civil war, failed to achieve its aim and only resulted into an orgy of violence and blood letting.

3. The discussants and contributors to the event were adamant that their voices should be heard by the powers that be, stressing that it is not the case for individual freedom and anti-corruption fighters but a question of forming organisations and strengthening of institutions such as the judiciary to combat corruption.

4. That individuals should be encouraged to participate in the fight against corruption by changing themselves through refusing to accept or offer bribe, join together with like minds to achieve this aim.

5. Moreover, proliferation of organisations all fighting corruption should be discouraged and that there should be an amalgamation of organisations under the same umbrella. These organisations should organise “Ali-must-go” style of nation-wide demonstrations to ensure that the government listens to the people.

6. One of the themes that persisted during the course of the event was that we must change our mindset as a starting point and join the political system to contest in elections. When good people abandon the political scene for the bad eggs there will be no change. The rot will continue within the system.

7. There was the need for (morally) “strong” men and women to stand up and be counted and participate in the political system, as it is not possible to “sweep a dirty room from the outside

8. The press must itself bee seen not to be corrupt and reliant on hand-outs from corrupt politicians to sustain itself whereby acting as image sanitising conduits. Rather, a vibrant press that plays a vital role in exposing and combating corruption.

9. Education of the masses on the evil of corruption should commence in earnest. Civic studies as to what it involves to be good citizens devoid of corruption should be introduced to the school curriculum as a new method of grooming youngsters, as it was noted that corruption has now pervaded the fabric of society.

10. Finally, the discussants identified the power of Social media and Internet as an essential tool to be deplored in order to sensitise the masses, expose corruption wherever it may be in order to fight it, to organise civil protest, to promote good governance and ensure that the voices of the masses are heard by the government.

North does not have a good candidate.

Only the dumb ones that would believe such a gullible message. No apologies

May their souls rest in perfect peace.

(CNN) -- The lifetime ban imposed by global
governing body FIFA on the former head of Asian
football has been annulled.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld
Mohamed bin Hammam's appeal against the
punishment handed to him after being found
guilty of bribery by FIFA's ethics committee in July
2011.
The Qatari was accused of issuing bribes to
members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU),
including former North American soccer head Jack
Warner, in exchanges for votes during his ill-fated
FIFA presidential campaign against current chief
Sepp Blatter.
The CAS decision to lift the sanction imposed on
Bin Hammam was based on a lack of evidence,
though the body stressed the 63-year-old had not
been found innocent.
"This conclusion should not be taken to diminish
the significance of its finding that it is more likely
than not that Mr. Bin Hammam was the source of
the monies that were brought into Trinidad and
Tobago and eventually distributed at the
meeting by Mr Warner," said the CAS
statement.
"His conduct, in collaboration with and
most likely induced by Mr Warner, may
not have complied with the highest ethical
standards that should govern the world of
football and other sports.
"The panel is doing no more than
concluding that the evidence is
insufficient in that it does not permit the
majority of the panel to reach the
standard of comfortable satisfaction in

relation to the matters on which the
Appellant was charged.
"It is a situation of 'case not proven',
coupled with concern on the part of the
panel that the FIFA investigation was not
complete or comprehensive enough to fill
the gaps in the record."
The CAS verdict was greeted with unease
by FIFA.
"FIFA has noted with concern the decision
announced today by CAS in the Mohamed
Bin Hammam case," read a statement from the
Zurich-based body, which recently appointed two
crimefighters as part of ongoing reforms aimed at
improving the organization's governance.
Former United States attorney Michael J Garcia
and German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert have
been put in place to tackle the allegations of
wrongdoing which have plagued FIFA in recent
years.
"The CAS panel notes that 'FIFA was in the
process of reforming its ethics committee and
that, in the event new evidence relating to the
present case was discovered, it would be possible
to re-open the case, in order to complete the
factual background properly and to establish if Mr
Bin Hammam has committed any violation of the
FIFA Code of Ethics,'" added FIFA's statement.
Earlier this week, Bin Hammam was provisionally
suspended by the Asian Football Confederation,
the organization of which he was president
between 2002 and 2011, following an audit of the
body's accounts.
The suspension related to payments in and out of
AFC bank accounts during Bin Hammam's tenure
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I've been married for a number of years now with four children and I was a very faithful wife until a few months ago when I discovered that my husband was having an affair with a close family friend. He had cheated on me many times in the past but this particular affair was the last straw. I decided to pay him back. It was supposed to be just that one time, but the affair has been going on for a few months now. My husband has started noticing my constant absence from our home and my distance from the marriage. I've also become very good at lying about my whereabouts. The issue right now is that despite the fact that I love my husband, I feel no guilt whatsoever. I've never even made any move to stop the affair. Does this make me a bad person? Is there any woman out there who can help me make sense of this? I didn't even know I was a woman capable of this. Why don't I feel guilty or care that I'm betraying my husband?

Culled from Linda Ikeji's blog

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – THE KEY TO NIGERIA’S TRANSFORMATION
Speech by
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, CFR
Coordinating Minister for the Economy
&
Honourable Minister of Finance
At the 2nd Prof. Bart Nnaji Biennial Lecture Series
Enugu State University of Science & Technology (ESUT), Agbani, Enugu
Saturday July 7, 2012

All Protocol Observed
· I will like to extend my gratitude to my colleague and friend, Prof. Bart Nnaji, the Honourable Minister of Power for inviting me to deliver the keynote speech at the second of his biennial lecture series at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. I must say that as Chair of the Board of the African University of Science and Technology in Abuja, I’m a big believer in science and technology. This is why I’m always honoured and delighted to speak in the midst of distinguished scientists, academicians, and scholars, as we have present here today.


Okonjo Iweala

Challenging Global Economy
· Let me open my talk today by saying that these are challenging times. The outlook on the world’s economy is rather grim in the aftermath of the 2008/09 global financial crisis. The Eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis continues to weigh down economic activity in Europe and beyond, leaving in its wake political instability – as we’ve seen in Italy and Greece. Advanced countries, which had been growing at an average 3 percent annually since the early 1990s are now forecast to grow at about 1.4 percent this year. The IMF recently revised its 2012 and 2013 growth projections for the USA down to 2 percent and 2.25 percent respectively (from April’s projection of 2.1% and 2.4% respectively), as fiscal conditions worsen. Japan’s better-than-expected growth of 4.7 percent in the first 3 months of this year is set for fall sharply as exports decline. The UK government just announced that the double dip recession is worse than previously thought, with GDP falling by 0.3 percent in Q1 2012. The euro area’s economy is set to contract by 0.3 percent this year, and already we see economies like those of Italy and Portugal shrinking by 1.4 percent and 2.2 percent respectively in the first quarter of this year.

· Growth in emerging markets, which accounted for about half of total global growth in the last decade, is now slowing down on the back of weakening exports demand from the Eurozone and the USA. India’s economy grew by 5.3 percent in the first quarter of this year – its lowest growth rate in 9 years, down from around 8 percent. The Chinese government also reduced its official growth target for 2012 to 7.5 percent from 8 percent, after growing by 8.1 percent in Q1 2012 – the lowest growth rate in 3 years.

· This grim economic outlook aside, an equally worrying development is the rising unemployment around the globe, especially among the youth. Newly-released data shows that the Eurozone’s unemployment has reached a new high of 11.1 percent, with youth unemployment now at 22.6 percent. The situation is bleakest in Spain and Greece – with nearly a quarter of Spain’s workforce unemployed, and 52.1 percent of youth are out of work – about the same in Greece. We see similar unemployment numbers in several other countries, including South Africa, and Nigeria. The last survey of employment in Nigeria shows that nearly one in four workers is unemployed, with youth unemployment at nearly 40 percent.


Impact on Nigeria

· Nigeria is already feeling the effects of the global uncertainty. The weak global demand is putting downward pressure on the price of oil, and consequently, on our growth numbers. At the beginning of this year (January 2), the price of bonny light was $109.58 per barrel, rising to a peak of $128.47 per barrel by mid-March. However by June, the price had dropped below $90 – the lowest price since December 2010. Our economy is expected to slow down to a growth rate of about 6.5 percent this year, below average annual growth of about 7 percent over the last 5 years. Already we recorded a growth of 6.17 percent in the first quarter of this year, down from the 7.13 percent growth recorded in the corresponding quarter of 2011.

· Even though our growth figures remain healthy relative to several other countries, it is imperative that we insulate our economy from the negative impact of global shocks by building both short-term buffers – in the form of higher foreign reserves and excess crude account balances, and the sovereign wealth fund we are implementing; and longer-term buffers – in the form of diversifying our economy away from oil dependency by prioritizing investment into key sectors like agriculture, power, housing and construction, solid minerals, education, health, ICT, and others that can drive growth and job creation, in accordance with President Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda. This is why the 2012 budget of fiscal consolidation, was based on a prudent oil price of $72, which should enable us build-up the short-term buffers, while focusing expenditure on the priority areas, for longer-term stability.


· Against the backdrop of this heightened global uncertainty, let me emphasize that we, in Nigeria, have to be more self-reliant. We need to develop innovative ways to diversify our economy, and grow sustainably. It is often said that innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. In the words of the famous American novelist, Bill Bryson – “if you think of a single problem confronting the world today – diseases, poverty, global warming, and so on. If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree or a woman with a science degree”. I, for one, believe it will be a woman.

· Therefore with these opening words, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, permit me to talk to you today on what I’ve titled “Science and Technology – the key to Nigeria’s Transformation”. I will commence by drawing on global experience and empirical evidence, to highlight the role that science and technology can play in development, within the context of President Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda. Next, I will touch on the state of science and technology in Nigeria, before moving on to discuss some ideas on the way forward for the sector in Nigeria.

The Role of Science and Technology in Development
· S&T has a very unique side to it – it is intrinsically linked to most, if not all, sectors of an economy so naturally, economic development should be the result of advancing S&T. Perhaps nothing sums up the importance of science and technology better than this quote by British Physicist, Stephen Hawking – “The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological – technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science…”

· Recent analysis shows that economic growth over the period 1950 to 2010 is indebted to the innovations, incentives, and productivity gains arising from technological advancements. It is estimated that about 35 percent of the world’s GDP growth from 2000 to 2008 can be explained by productivity derived from technological capability and its enhancement through information technology, human capital development, and so on.

· Advances in S&T can help to diversify the economy, by improving productivity in sectors like agriculture, while defining new ones. Productivity in Nigeria’s agriculture sector – which contributes about 40 percent of our GDP, and employs more than half our workforce – remains low. Yield per hectare is 20 to 50 percent of what is obtained in similar developing countries. In fact Nigeria is food insecure, giving that we spend more than $10 billion annually on food imports. The Nomura Food Vulnerability Index ranks Nigeria as the 4th most vulnerable country to global food price shocks, out of 80 countries. We lack the right plant varieties and storage systems to be efficient. Yet global experience shows that with the right investment in S&T for agricultural processes, output can rise quickly. Malaysia, for example, laid emphasis on R& to develop higher yielding oil palm varieties. Today, they control 40 percent of world oil palm products trade valued at $18 billion. Thailand leveraged agriculture to backward-integrate into value-adding manufacturing processes, and achieved one of the world’s lowest unemployment rates at 1.2 percent in 2010. With aggressive investment in agriculture, Vietnam and China took 40 percent of their population out of poverty in 10 years. These achievements can be replicated here in Nigeria.

· Look also at the relatively recent development of the hybrid engines that harness solar power and batteries (for cars, and more-recently for ocean liners and ships) – one of S&T’s responses to the challenges of carbon emission and exclusive reliance on fossil fuels like diesel and petrol. Imagine the impact of adopting such technology on our country Nigeria? Our fuel subsidy bill, which cost N2.19 trillion (or about 5 percent of GDP) last year, would be substantially lower given lower PMS consumption, creating the fiscal space to invest in other sectors and diversify our economy. We could also see a drop in air pollution levels in this country (which is becoming an issue) since the transport sector, together with the power sector, account for about 10 percent of total carbon emissions in Nigeria. The World Bank estimates that with the right technology, Nigeria can generate up to 10,000 MW over the medium to long-term, through Concentrated Solar Power. We currently generate about 4,000 MW from all sources.

· Take the impact of technological advances in the ICT sector. A recent World Bank study shows that the invention and usage of mobile phones and broadband internet is strongly associated with economic growth: a 10 percent increase in mobile phone coverage and high-speed internet connections will increase GDP by 0.8 percent and 1.3 percent on average, respectively. In Nigeria, for instance, our telecommunications sector has been growing at over 30 percent annually (32.83 percent in Q1 2012) – outperforming growth in any other sector by far, on the back of rising mobile phone and internet subscriptions. Today’s electronics sector, which is driven by an incessant wave of branching innovations that are generating a constantly proliferating range of products, can also aid economic growth and diversification. Look at the development of various Apple products like the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod – products which have promoted new sectors like digital entertainment, e-libraries, and so on.

· S&T also plays a key role in improving the quality of life. For instance, research in healthcare has proven vital to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of various killer diseases. The American Heart Association recently announced that deaths due to coronary heart disease fell by nearly 40 percent in the USA over the last decade due largely to new treatment inventions. The same applies to HIV/AIDS – one of the top three killers of African youth. In 1996, a 20-year old person in the US with AIDS expected to live for about 3 to 5 years, but now expects to live to be 69 years. Only about a few weeks ago was it announced that – Truvada – an HIV fighting pill, can also be used to prevent the disease, after a three-year study. In Nigeria, preventable or treatable infectious diseases such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and HIV/AIDS still account for more than 70 per cent of the estimated one million under-five deaths in Nigeria. Several of these deaths occur as a result of misdiagnosis, due to the poor state of technology in many hospitals. This is why many Nigerians are going abroad, to countries like Egypt, and India, for medical services (including diagnosis) spending between $600 million and $1 billion annually, according to our health ministry’s estimates.

· In the education sector, particularly higher education, there is an emerging paradigm shift in the world today. The recent onset of powerful technologies, including cloud computing and precise online assessment regimes enabled the launch of a number of top-tier university entrants into what is being called the Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) marketplace. World class universities ranging from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, are now providing free, high-quality, rigorously assessed and highly accessible online university level education to the masses. While this may not result in the award of a university degree, it can provide a level of certification that can develop industry-standard skills, for example in the ICT industry, and actually provide a way out for 80 percent of the 1 million Nigerian youth who do not get into universities each year, due to limited supply of college/university places.

· In a nutshell, developing countries cannot hope to prosper in an increasingly competitive global economy and open trading system if they do not build the appropriate science and technology capacity to produce more value-added goods and services. In fact, I can confidently say that S&T is the dividing line between developed nations and those less developed.

· With this in mind let me move on to the next part of my speech:


The State of Science and Technology in Nigeria
· Nigeria is making some contributions to the development of S&T, but we are underperforming, relative to our abundant human capital. According to NEPAD’s African Innovation Outlook (2010), South Africa produced over 86,000 scientific papers – about 37 percent of the total research output of 19 African countries surveyed between 1990 and 2009; Egypt produced nearly 60,000 – about 27 percent of output. Nigeria produced 27,743 papers (or 12 percent of the total output) – about one-third of South Africa’s output. But a worrying finding is that the productivity growth of Nigeria’s scientific research is the second-lowest of the 19 countries. Even though, our scientists doubled their productivity in the period 2005 to 2009 relative to output between 1990 and 1994, other African countries like Algeria and Uganda saw their productivity increase by a factor of 6.3 and 5.4 respectively. To put things in perspective, countries like Brazil and Malaysia saw productivity rise by a factor of above 100.

· Similarly, South Africa was able to secure more than 1,000 patents in 2010 alone, according to data obtained from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); whereas, Nigeria secured only 18 patents in the last 8 years. This is unbelievably low. Egypt and Kenya got 604 and 49 patents, respectively, over the same period. I know that Nigerian scientists are making progress, sending our own satellite into orbit. I am also aware of developments in medical science, such as drugs used in combating sickle cell and other diseases; but a majority of these remain at the formative stages and do not become mainstream.

· There are a number of reasons for the poor state of our S&T sector. Firstly, we need a better and more coherent national strategy, as the sector remains highly fragmented, lacking effective coordination. Even the existence of our Science and Technology Ministry was intermittent, until the end of the 1990s.The Steven Oronsaye Committee for the Restructuring and Rationalization of Federal Government Parastatals and Agencies reports that there are about 106 core research and quasi-research institutes spread across the Ministries, with each one conducting its research without synergy and harmonization. Some of these institutions have been in existence for more than 30 years, yet there is little to show for their work as Nigeria still relies on research done internationally. If public sector research institutes in other countries can develop major technological advances like the internet and the human genome project, what is wrong with our own?

· Secondly, our scientists complain about lack of funding. I agree that fast growing economies must invest in S&T. China has been growing its R& expenditure by 20 percent annually, since 1999. China now accounts for 12 percent of global R& expenditure, spending nearly 5 percent of its budget (or 1.76 percent of GDP) in 2010, on the sector. Let’s compare this to Nigeria. Over the past decade, government’s S&T expenditure has been less than 2 percent of the yearly budget (less than 0.3 percent of GDP per year) - a grossly inadequate figure. But the question I have is “for what we have put in so far, what do we have to show for it? Let me ask our scientists this: “why should the government increase your funding, in view of the limited contributions to S&T in Nigeria? South Africa spends 8.5 times more on R& than Nigeria but produces over 70 percent of the drugs manufactured in Africa. What do we produce? Clearly, there is inefficient resource allocation in our S&T sector. For example, about N97.1 billion was allocated to all our research institutes in the 2011 fiscal year. Of this, only N10.4 billion or a mere 11 percent was meant for core research activities, according to the Steve Oronsaye Committee Report. Personnel and overhead costs accounted for about N52.7 billion or 53 percent of the total. Surely, there is need for greater efficiency and reallocation here.

· The quality of our education system is also a problem. Our education system has deteriorated to a point where students cannot acquire the necessary skills they need to become employable or innovative in an ever-changing world, upon graduation. Higher institutions are plagued with inadequate S&T facilities and materials for practical skills development. Many laboratories lack the basic equipment for thorough scientific research. How, for example, can a computer science graduate not understand the basics of writing software codes? Nigeria is churning out thousands of S&T graduates each year, but several of them are under-employed, going into banking and other non-scientific sectors. This is why I am proud that Mr. President is already taking strong steps to improve the quality of our scientists by recently instituting the Presidential Special Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID) to sponsor outstanding students in S&T, Economics, and Medicine for postgraduate studies in the top 25 universities in the world.


So what’s the Way Forward?
· Policy makers at all levels in Nigeria need to be keenly aware that few countries can achieve development goals of economic diversification, food security, improving health systems, cleaner energy, generating wealth and jobs, and reducing absolute poverty, without the scientific, engineering, and technical capacity to handle these challenges. There are no sustainable solutions if countries do not build the capacity to find and develop appropriate technologies, and modify them for local use.

· In the first instance, there is a need for an overarching national strategy for S&T and innovation: a strategy that will restructure our S&T sector for greater coordination, communication, and policy harmonisation. I am happy that the Steve Oronsaye Committee, having looked into this, came up with the idea that the government should establish a single point of research funding to promote synergy and create an efficient and effective platform for managing research.

· Secondly, given the government’s limited resources, the chances of increasing allocation to the S&T sector are rather slim in the short to medium term. This is why we need to focus our research efforts and expenditure on the few areas where we have comparative advantage – areas like agriculture, petrochemicals, renewable energy, and mining, to mention a few. The good news is that Nigeria does not need to climb technology ladders from the bottom. We can leapfrog on new technologies, even though we may need to modify for our use.

· Thirdly, more effective partnerships between the public and private sector should be established. In developed countries, R& is mainly driven by the private sector. Close to half of the world’s R& expenditure is accounted for by only 700 private firms, according to the OECD. Private companies contribute 76 percent of the gross expenditure on R& in Japan; in the USA, they contribute 70 percent. In South Africa, they contribute 42.7 percent, whereas the government contributes only 36.4 percent. So leveraging the private sector is crucial; any existing barriers to this kind of partnership should be removed.

· Fourthly and finally, mechanisms must be put in place to improve the quality of equipment and facilities available for teaching at all levels, as well as for research at the tertiary level. These measures are not limited to simply increasing funds available; collaboration between higher institutions (national and international), a more limited focus in research programs offered, and an improvement in the culture of maintenance are all measures that will help deliver this end. In the case of university research, funding should be competition-based, to provide incentives to enhance efficiency and strengthen collaboration with industry.

Let me close on the note that, for sustainable growth in Nigeria, we really have no choice but to develop our S&T sector. In the words of American writer Stephen Brand, “once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, then you’re part of the road”. Thank you for listening.

FREETOWN (Reuters) - At least 30 people are feared
drowned after a boat capsized off the coast of Sierra
Leone in bad weather over the weekend, Sierra
Leonean and Guinean authorities said on Wednesday.
The boat was carrying passengers and tonnes of
merchandise between the neighbouring capitals of
Conakry in Guinea and Freetown in Sierra Leone.
Guinean government spokesman Durus Yale Dore said
he had reports of 30 deaths.
Ibrahim Wurie, the head of Sierra Leone's maritime
administration, told journalists about 50 people had
died, though authorities had recovered only two
corpses.
Authorities from both countries said they were not
clear whether the accident happened on Saturday or
Sunday and only heard about it on Wednesday.
Accidents on over-crowded and poorly maintained
boats are relatively common in the region. More than
80 people were killed in Sierra Leone in 2009 when a
boat carrying mostly school children returning from
holiday capsized.

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