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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:07am On Nov 01, 2015 |
[size=14pt]Booming Lagos, Smart City - MIT Technology Review [/size] An African mega-city bets on technology and its native entrepreneurs to meet the many challenges of its population boom. For Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s biggest city, any push to become a smart city will have to adapt to constant—and often unplanned—growth. Its challenges are epic. The United Nations predicts that Lagos’s population—which the U.N. estimates at 12.6 million today, though other estimates are as high as 22 million—will almost double between now and 2030, greatly adding to demands on already strained services. Can this city, where the poorest live in fetid floating slums, absorb another 12 million souls? “Keeping up with the state’s growing appetite for services and resources is a Herculean and continuous process,” acknowledges Lagos state governor Babatunde Raji Fashola. “The need to deploy innovative approaches that address civic challenges in Lagos state has never been greater, and technology is the key to the future.” As Lagos lays out its vision for becoming a smarter city, international IT companies are vying for its business, betting that technology and data will be the keys to its evolution. Mobile phones, extraordinarily popular on the African continent, are expected to lead the way. Its challenges are epic. Can this city, where the poorest live in fetid floating slums, absorb another 12 million souls? Uyi Stewart, chief scientist of IBM’s Africa Research Lab, calls the city “one of Africa’s economic and demographic powerhouses” but argues that it won’t successfully manage its growth without IT, including mobile and cloud technology, social media, and business analytics. IBM launched a new innovation center in Lagos earlier this year, part of a broader investment in Africa. Last year a six-person IBM team spent a month working with government agencies to analyze the city’s transportation systems. Lagos traffic jams are epic. The drive to the airport from Victoria Island, home to the city’s embassies, top hotels, and biggest businesses, takes only 45 minutes at night, but someone with an 11 a.m. flight will need to leave before 6 a.m. when the traffic locks. One area of IBM’s focus was the expansion of transportation services using the city’s myriad waterways, which already carry more than 170,000 commuters a day but could carry many more if transport systems were optimized on the basis of cloud computing, analytics, and mobile data. Analytics technology applied to data stored in the cloud could predict water traffic, streamlining traffic flow. That would then feed into cell-phone updates for commuters about the best times to travel and how long their trip is likely to take. The project was part of IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge initiative, a three-year, 100-city, $50 million competitive grant. One private-sector initiative is IBM’s work with Virtual Streets, a Nigerian startup, using cognitive computing systems to provide location-based services to people in Nigerian cities. Using data from geographic information systems, traffic cameras, and phones from subscribers, Virtual Streets gives subscribers real-time traffic data paid for by location-based ads for local businesses. “There is already ample data available in Lagos,” says IBM’s Stewart. “Cell phones, social media, traffic cameras, global positioning systems, banks, and retail stores are all producing terabytes of big data loaded with potential insight about how the city works and how its citizens move around within it.” The challenge is figuring out how to actually use all that information. The Eko Atlantic project is key to the city’s regeneration. It is a planned district being constructed on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean. Upon completion, the new island will house 250,000 residents and a daily flow of 100,000 commuters. Sand reclamation and the building of a seawall, sometimes referred to as the Great Wall of Lagos, are set to be completed by 2018. All infrastructure work is to be done by 2020, according to David Frame, managing director of South Energyx Nigeria Limited, the developers and city planners of Eko Atlantic. Lagos has a strong technology startup scene that should help the city as it evolves. Its CcHUB, where technologists, social entrepreneurs, and investors gather to create solutions to Nigeria’s social problems, compares well with similar spaces in other parts of Africa and in Europe. Still, basic challenges remain. Electricity is not delivered consistently, and for every paying customer, there are countless others who illegally piggyback on utilities. Vandalism and theft of critical network infrastructure are endemic. Moreover, while mobile-phone penetration in Lagos is high, smartphones have been slow to take hold. Hitendra Naik, director of innovation for Intel Sub-Saharan and South Africa, says one promising development is local initiatives that have helped companies lay down new fiber-optic lines in return for connecting or subsidizing rates to local schools. Another popular initiative uses data capture and analysis to let people submit applications for a vehicle license electronically, then walk into a bank to print it off—a quicker and simpler alternative to chaotic queues at government offices with a waiting time of weeks or even months. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532481/booming-lagos-smart-city/ 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by MayorofLagos(m): 4:08am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Ilekeh, I like these banners, very inspiring. I saved copy.... |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:10am On Nov 01, 2015 |
MayorofLagos: Thanks, planning on making more ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:15am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Oke Ado mountain, Oyo state ![]() 6 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:17am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Ondo State......... I love the greens ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 6 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:23am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Ekiti State www.nairaland.com/attachments/778770_afe20babalola20uni20ekiti1_jpgff1e561add8a8474cfe26ca4a0f62056 www.nairaland.com/attachments/778769_afe20babalola20uni2_jpgd99bdfb14312da2f6150e2a0334871e7 ![]() ![]() 4 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:25am On Nov 01, 2015 |
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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:26am On Nov 01, 2015 |
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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:27am On Nov 01, 2015 |
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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:30am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Ekiti [img]http://bezalelforce.files./2012/05/tjm-1-of-82.jpg?w=890[/img] [img]http://bezalelforce.files./2012/05/tjm-2-of-82.jpg?w=593[/img] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:32am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Ekiti. In previous pages I mentioned that roads now stretch from my village to other cities in Ekiti. Here are some examples www.nairaland.com/attachments/779655_Ekiti_jpg1bf8b7e73cba50702b2e27134747e61b www.nairaland.com/attachments/779656_ekitii_jpg1bbd026fd671c0c0b8b497e6a1fd892c www.nairaland.com/attachments/779657_ek_jpg055e232d6a564833da79afbf87f95d23 3 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Ilekeh(f): 4:35am On Nov 01, 2015 |
May her soul RIP www.nairaland.com/attachments/840231_426292_467081379991846_536631046_n_jpg6d2f3cc3dfac033042155dc95b821b7b www.nairaland.com/attachments/840232_534238_464901910209793_1557484637_n_jpgb43f5212eac1ac98f7dea89ddae9fca5 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by MayorofLagos(m): 6:39am On Nov 01, 2015 |
CONTEXT In a 1957 report, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Premier of Western Nigeria, outlined the developing role of film within the region. ‘We have carried enlightenment and entertainment to remote areas through the Government Free Cinema Scheme’ he began. ‘Last year, there were 40 cinema vans and six cinema barges. We now have our own Film Production Unit, and one of its outstanding achievements is the 85-minute film in colour, which covers all aspects of our self-government celebrations and visit of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal’ (Lagos Guardian, 29 August 2001). The annual report of the Western Region Government, in discussing the widespread celebrations and the tour of Princess Royal, also noted in 1957 that ‘a colour film of the occasion was made by the Department of Information Services’ (Western Region, 1957, 27). The Information Services of Western Nigeria film production unit only came into operation in 1957. Born out of the Nigerian Film Unit – which itself had emerged from the Colonial Film Unit – its primary objective was to produce documentary films ‘for the purpose of publicising the activities of the region’. In addition, it sought to keep people ‘inside and outside the region fully informed of the developmental activities being carried on’ (Government of Western Nigeria, 1961, 14). By 1960, the unit had produced ‘67 newsreels of 10 to 20 minutes duration [and] at least one dozen documentary films’. A government report listed amongst these documentaries ‘Self Government Celebrations in Western Nigeria’ – seemingly an alternative title to this film – and ‘The Last Step to Independence’ (Government of Western Nigeria, 1961, 14). A Federal Report, in noting the work of the Federal Film Unit in 1957, explained that amongst the 13 documentaries released during the year was Tour of H.R.H., the Princess Royal, Another Step Forward (the Constitutional Conference) and Nigeria Hails Her Prime Minister (Colonial Office, 1957, 144). Indeed, while the Units produced a number of health films and others on social welfare and development, there was a noticeable emphasis on ceremonial and political events within their output. Western and Eastern Nigeria were both awarded self-government in 1957, while the Northern region would follow in 1959. The communal, racial and political rivalries, most clearly manifested in the Kano riots of 1953, had led to increased decentralisation and in 1954 Nigeria received its third constitution in seven years (Brendon, 2007, 534). The British looked to exploit this splintering, most notably between prominent nationalists such as Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik) and Obafemi Awolowo. Awolowo, who had founded the Action Group to promote Yoruba interests, was a vocal opponent of colonial rule, arguing that British administration had been ‘carried out by incompetent, inferior officials’, and that the British never had ‘the true interests of the country at heart’. In 1955, referring to the government of the Western region, he stated that ‘in fourteen months under the present government, we have done more for Nigeria than the British did in 120 years’ (Gunther, 1955, 775). from colonialfilm.org. 3 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 7:03am On Nov 01, 2015 |
IlekeHD: O da egbon mi. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 7:07am On Nov 01, 2015 |
MayorofLagos: E nfi mi rerin ni. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by MayorofLagos(m): 7:22am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Ileke, Great pics! Was that the deceased deputy Gov? |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by scholes0(m): 7:57am On Nov 01, 2015 |
IlekeHD: Akure would have been much more Important than Ibadan if it was even half as Big, In my Opinion. Ibadan is just Huge. |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by AshiwajuFoward: 8:04am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Omo Forest Reserve, Ogun state. 1 Like
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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by AshiwajuFoward: 8:05am On Nov 01, 2015 |
More Omo Forest Reserve, Ogun 1 Like
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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by AshiwajuFoward: 8:06am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Omo Forest Reserve, Ogun contd. 2 Likes
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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by AshiwajuFoward: 8:07am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Omo forest reserve. 2 Likes
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Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Rilwayne001: 8:12am On Nov 01, 2015 |
100 page in view. 5 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by tupacshakur(m): 8:24am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Wow! ...never knew this thread exists. Nice initiative, OP! ...so cool it's a general Yoruba thread and not a divisive state-based thread as our distant cousins from the east of Niger are known for, if you know what I mean. ![]() ![]() 4 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Musiwa419: 8:35am On Nov 01, 2015 |
tupacshakur:0merta, where have you been ? You are needed here often. 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ba7man(m): 8:53am On Nov 01, 2015 |
himkers:You must have a mustard seed sized brain for not realizing the massive opportunities in the Advertising business. Do you think it's 2 by 4 shops that's the indicator of a business?? Now carry your fungi infected brain off this thread and go get some knowledge. 9 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by tupacshakur(m): 9:04am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Musiwa419: Ta lo mo mi as 0merta? ![]() Bro, wetin be your other moniker wey I fit take recognise you? This your "Musiwa" moniker funny die. The real Musiwa na one hell of a funny dude. No wahala, I go dey show here often. 6 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 9:15am On Nov 01, 2015 |
ba7man: MUMU! Shame no even catch you to talk this nonsense above?? sophisticated set of eediots |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ba7man(m): 9:18am On Nov 01, 2015 |
himkers:You have made no point...... My post indicates the potentials of advertising Yours........... nothing...... empty head like you. Now scram you fungi infected maggot. 7 Likes |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 9:37am On Nov 01, 2015 |
ba7man: now read what you wrote there slowly - over and over again; and understand what I call you a fool |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by ba7man(m): 9:40am On Nov 01, 2015 |
himkers:It still doesn't stop you from being a maggot to me. ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by Nobody: 9:43am On Nov 01, 2015 |
ba7man: yes I know |
Re: Yoruba Commonwealth and Politics by superduperjay: 10:15am On Nov 01, 2015 |
This our people sef are very somehow. OMO FOREST RESERVE dosent even have a website or a call contact for information. What is the job of the commissioner of tourism? Because things like this are too small for the governor to be called upon. Yorubaland is quite peaceful and promoting tourism shouldn't be a poblem for us. 5 Likes |
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