Nigeria's social Enterprise [url]Babymigo.com[/url] was recently listed by TIME Magazine as one of the 2018 Genius Companies: 50 Companies That Are Inventing the Future.

Founded by Queen Elizabeth II Young Leader Alumni, Adeloye Olanrewaju in 2017. Babymigo is a trusted platform for expecting and young parents to ask, chat, connect with a community of experts & Childcare services via SMS, mobile app and web portal

Other companies that made the list are SpaceX, Singaporean Airline, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Nike, Dominos, Paytm, slack, Pinterest


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Facebook's Internet.org has announced the winners of the Innovation Challenge in Africa awards in the categories of education and economic empowerment. The six winners all present solutions that will help create a more connected world to bring more people in Africa online.

[url]Internet.org[/url] will be presenting $150,000 Innovation Challenge award prizes to two solutions that best meets the needs of the designated population categories – Education and Economic Empowerment. There will be four additional $50,000 Impact awards within each category.

The challenge was judged by Ike Eze of eTranzact, Ime Archibong of Facebook, Rob LeBlanc of The Amethu Project and Terryanne Chebet of Keyara Organics.

Meet the winners:

Education

Innovation Challenge Award Winner
Esoko – http://www.esoko.com started in Ghana to make it easier for businesses, governments, NGOs and others to connect with farmers. Through its web and mobile apps, Esoko enables two-way data flows that allow smallholder farmers to access vital agricultural information and markets, and businesses to gain better visibility into their supply chains.

Impact Award Winner
mPedigree Goldkeys – http://www.mpedigree.net is also from Ghana. Their solution is an anti-counterfeiting, tracking and tracing tool that uses consumers’ mobile phones as a verification tool. In Uganda and Kenya, this service is being used to help farmers determine whether they are buying original counterfeit seeds.

Impact Award Winner
SaferMom – Nigeria’s https://www.safermom.com provides pregnant and new mothers with simple tools to help make informed health decisions via sms, voice services and its mobile app. SaferMom uses a chain of community health partners and mobile technology to track the health of pregnant moms and newborn babies, immunization schedules for babies, nutrition and behavioral routines based on their fetal development stages and antenatal care. This service is available in the English, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Pidgin languages.

Economic Empowerment

Innovation Challenge Award Winner
Hyperion Development – Founded in South Africa, http://hyperiondev.com is a social enterprise that has built the first online course platform for computer science education supported by the largest online community of software developers in Africa. Hyperion Development allows anyone to take online courses in coding with a personal computer or mobile phone; even without a broadband connection.

Impact Award Winner
Mutti – Launched in Ghana, Mutti by https://www.mPharma.co is a drug affordability service that enables patients to access high quality medicine at lower prices with flexible payment terms through micro-payments. Mutti means medicine in Bemba, a Zambian language.

Impact Award Winner
Tuteria – Nigeria’s https://www.Tuteria.com connects people seeking to learn with people around them who can teach. Tuteria provides an online platform which allows users to find, evaluate, book and pay for lessons with competent local tutors, coaches, instructors and mentors.

https://techpoint.ng/2016/10/03/6-african-startups-win-internet-org-innovation-challenge/


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Can award recipients kindly tell us about their projects that earned them the presidential award so that upcoming corpers will learn from their experiences

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I've compiled some 20 facts most people don't know....ENJOY

1. Your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. Wear nice shoes.

2. If you sit for more than 11 hours a day, there's a 50% chance you'll die within the next 3 years

3. There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime.

4. Sleeping without a pillow reduces back pain and keeps your spine stronger.

5. A person’s height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.

6. If a part of your body "falls asleep",
you can almost always "wake it up" by shaking your head.

7. There are three things the human brain cannot resist noticing - Food, attractive people and danger

8. Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side

9. Putting dry tea bags in gym bags or smelly shoes will absorb the unpleasant odour.

10. According to Albert Einstein, if honey bees were to disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years.

11. There are so many kind of apples, that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.

12. You can survive without eating for weeks, but you will only live 11 days without sleeping.

13. People who laugh a lot are healthier than those who don’t.

14. Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.

15. A human brain has a capacity to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedia

16. Our brain uses same amount power as 10-watt light bulb!!

17. Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 litres of water!!

18. The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the sperm is the smallest cell !!

19. Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!

20. SMILE. It is the ultimate antidepressant.

Don't be shy to add yours too...Let's keep learning...

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A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.
"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me."

"Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him."

"There's something you should know the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us."

"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."

"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us."

"Son," said the father, "you don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live on his own."

At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn't know, their son had only one arm and one leg.

The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don't like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren't as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are. Thankfully, there's someone who won't treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are.



Today, before the night tuck, say a little prayer that God will give you the strength you need to accept people as they are, and to help us all be more understanding of those who are different from us!!!

There's a miracle called Friendship That dwells in the heart You don't know how it happens Or when it gets started But you know the special lift It always brings And you realize that Friendship Is God's most precious gift!

Friends are a very rare jewel, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed They lend an ear, they share a word of praise, and they always want to open their hearts to us.

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Please,Kindly consider this inspiring write up

I found this quite interesting. Sharing it cos of the Arithmetic.I just hope it makes the front page so that young ones will understand the mystery behind successful and unsuccessful men...... Enjoy!

A small truth to make our Life 100% successful
If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Is equal to;
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Then
H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K ;
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98%

K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E ;
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96%

L+O+V+E;
12+15+22+5 = 54%
S+E+X. 19+5+24=48%.
L+U+C+K ;
12+21+3+11 =
47%
None of them makes 100%.
Then what makes 100%
Is it Money?
NO !!!
Leadership?
NO !!!
Every problem has a solution,
only if we perhaps change our "ATTITUDE".

A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E ;
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
It is therefore OUR ATTITUDE towards Life and Work that makes
OUR Life 100% Successful..

Amazing mathematics
I Love this I hope you love it to.

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Who will help me out--------!?Sadness of
being dumb.
It seems to me that things rarely go the
way I would like them to. Or even the way
I thought they would. If I recall correctly, I
had planned at various times to be the
greatest advocate for education, to be a
crackerjack lawyer, to be a very successful
medical doctor, to be an ever-reliable
engineer, and to be the voice of every
streets and households in my darling
country, Nigeria.
Instead, I stay idle and thoughtful, alone in
my world. How did that happen?
Something like this, I suppose...
...As a young child from a rich and
resourceful background dreams were as
bright as the sunshine and hopes as high as mountain. I am the only fruit of the union of my father and mother despite coming from a polygamous family.
My father is a very rich, elegant, intelligent,
but cunning man. As against the law of
nature, my father gets more agile as he
gets older. At 53, I guess that explains why
he has as many wives as the number of
women ever seen with him.
Mother, they say, is the first true friend of
a child. That is not an exemption in my
case. My mother is a lovely, resourceful,
and virtuous woman. That would be
perfect, but, alas, she is stubborn and a bit
selfish too. She would go a long way to tell
the extent of my stay on this sick bed.
Having known each other for many years,
my parents still seem to lack concrete
understanding of each other. This speaks
volume of why a little misapprehension
between them is often given a great
shadow. Peaceful agreement is always
called upon in times like this but my
cunning and stubborn couple would not
entertain it. I could delight you with
several examples, but believe me, none of
them says anything different, or anything
more revealing than my present situation.
Ever since I was born, I have always been
on this little sick bed fighting for my life
from the grasp of the deadly drepanocytic
anaemia disease. It has been a one way
battle right from the start and it seems my
chances of survival gets slimmer with every
breathe I take.
The disease is not only sickening, but also
dream threatening. It is forcing me to
accept defeat in the pursuit of my goals. I
mean, how can I be a successful medical
doctor when i cannot even treat myself
first? Being a crackerjack lawyer requires
agile mind and numbed body, but it is
painful I possess none As much as I could feel your pity, it is sad that my parents would never make me feel the same. They would rather irritatingly argue all day on what to do regarding my
urgent situation. Hypothetically, a
proactive reaction from appropriate
quarters, my parent in this case, would
have definitely given me an outright
chance of surviving my health issues.
However, my distress deepens whenever I
attempt to show my discomfort and my
voice fails me. I do have the image in my
mind, and the expression right in my body,
but my voice will always deprive me the
perfection.
The sadness of being dumb definitely kills
me more than any other thing. A chance to
make my voice heard is what I desire
most.
"If only I could talk" I do think. If only I
could whisper into the ears of my parent of how deeply hurt I am, by their non-
challant and selfish attitude towards me. If
only I could dialogue with them, in quest
for a resolution to their old feud. How I
wish I could tell them I am already dying.
However, I will not let my limitation
dictate my designation for long. Before my
father (Nigeria Government) and my mother (ASUU) make my life more
miserable, I have decided to make my
voice. This, I believe, is a brave way of
showing my discontent with their careless
attitude towards me. I hope for a positive
change, but I understand that will be
possible if this letter could make its way to
their hands.
Despite being dumb, I have discovered the
power in pen and paper. I will forever be
an advocate of it; because flowing from it
is a river ofnjopportunities. Ranging from
an unrestricted exploitation of my
dexterity to the chance to speak well of my
race anywhere in the world.
Education is my legacy, and it has enfranchised me to rightfully fight for what
belongs to me even at this crucial
moment. I am Nigerian students and my
dream lives. I may be dumb for now, but i
wont be forever.

chambers of commerce @Mr fatai.... how is that possible?. Throw more light please

1. Discover yourself(until you know your gift you cannot be a gift to people).

2. Use your gifts to solve problems (be a destiny helper).

3. Get ideas on how to turn values into money making .

4. You must have known the definition of LOVE (Agape Love).

5. Read at least 30 books (He who does not read is not better than he who cannot read).

6.Learn to be a goal getter .

7. Be known for specific thing.

8. Have a mentor.

9. Learn how to say NO without regret.

10. Conquer Procrastination (Procrastination is the lazy man apology).

11. Free to use your mind.

12. Have a bank account.

13. Have an investment.

14. Develop stability of character (be self controlled).

15. Choose your friends.

16. Learn professional dinning etiquette.

17. Define your vision statement.

18. Know how to drive a car.

19. Must have financial ability to feed someone else.

20. And most importantly, you must be Born-again (know how to love God).

kunlesehan:

quite interesting but please edit no. 14. include "do not"

So sorry, it was a typographical error.... Corrected!

1. Play a sport.
It will teach you how to win honorably, lose gracefully, respect authority, work with others,manage your time and stay out of trouble. And maybe even throw or
catch.

2. It is better to be kind than to be right.

3. Save money when you're young because you're going to need it someday.

4. Your talent with the right attitude will take you anywhere

5. Pray and be a spiritual leader.

6. Don't ever be a bully and don't ever start a fight, but if some idiot clocks you, please defend yourself.

7. There's nothing like making hay while the sun shines. Do what you have to do at the right time!

8. Your knowledge and education is
something that nobody can take away from you.

9. Treat your partner kindly .Forever is a long time to live alone and it's even longer to live with somebody who hates your guts.

10. Take pride in your appearance.

11. Be strong and tender at the same time.

12. Mutual respect is the key to a good relationship.

13. "Yes ma'am" and "yes sir" still go a long way to us.

14. The reason that they're called "private parts" is because they're "private". Please do not show them in public.

15. Peer pressure is a scary thing. Be a good leader and others will follow.

16. You still have a lot to learn from life,so never treat everyone same

17. You will set the tone for the sexual relationship, so don't take something away from her that you can't give back.

18. A sense of humor goes a long way in the healing process.

19. Please choose your spouse wisely. My daughter-in-law will be the gatekeeper for me spending time with you and my grandchildren.

20. Remember to call your mother and father because I might be missing you.

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That's CAN president, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor's wife coming out of her white customized limousine......i hope that rings a bell!....i hope all this extravagant life of our leaders will end someday

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Seriously I didn't really believed the story until I read the true story here.........I was shocked!

Congratulation to her,i'm happy for her

Lanreclassic: Yoruba actors/actresses seem not be left out in the new Naija celebrity Car Fashion trend with the hard working actress popular known as OSAS(Omoge Benin) getting a new Car. The actress who recently got back from London came back home and met a surprise gift waiting for her. We learnt her husband got her a FX50 jeep as a gift.
Mercy has since customised her jeep as MERCII.

This kind gift no bad oh, especially from your husband ..... Or what do you tink?

Miss fabulous: Never knew she was married!...has anyone got her hubby's Number...i think her husband and i can start sometime from there.i'm sure both of us will be a perfect match....just show me the money...NO BE MY FAULT...lol

Abeg...y wont you allow her to enjoy her marriage?

Onyiclassic: RUBBISH

You don vex ooo

Abi,which kind life be this self?...Na by force dem they born pinkin?

Hmm, this baby was found this morning at Agege road side…..**I’m Shivering**…The incident was reported to have generated a lot of on lookers and sympathizers.
But why would a mother ever think of dumping her baby she laboured to give birth to in a drainage?. The true owner of the baby is yet to be identified as at the time of filing this report. It is also believed that the case must have been reported to the nearest divisional police office.
What a world!

More story from Source:http://www.lanreclassic.com/2012/10/wait-minutewhy-would-mother-ever-thing.html#more

ULSHERLAN:
I don't hate like I said am just curious. A lot of celebs pose in rides that are not theirs and when people around see them init they assume its theirs

Bro, at least a good number of them buy most of these things, u need to know how much this fucking NGOs pay them just to advertise for them or be their ambassador,most of them are in cool cash.

Abi make we form our own group from here, Shap shap.....Cetel fit sign us oooo0000!

ULSHERLAN: Did you see his name on the receipt just curious

You sound like you hate this man like shit!
Has he not paid the money he burrowed from you last week?
#TeamLetUsKnow

May God save us

On Saturday, September 29 2012, Lagbaja’s Omole Estate, Lagos home was visited by men of the underworld and valuables worth millions of naira was carted away in the process.

Although the masked singer was away in Atlanta, USA when the incident happened, his family members had to bear the shock of that unfortunate and unwelcome visit.



The case has already been reported to the police station located at Grammar School bus stop, Ojodu, Lagos

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Very happy for him!!!

The rapper and CEO of Trybe Records,elDEE flaunts his new Cadillac Escalade limousine to be used by his artists on his record label
Congrats to Gbogbo Big boyes!!!

More story from Source:http://www.lanreclassic.com/2012/10/eldee-flaunts-his-new-cadillac-escalade.html

I think the rules here is common sense,stick by it and be saved.As anybody so far been banned for keeping silent or writing useful post?

dayokanu:

It was the same sources that told us of Yar Aduas ill health even when Retardeen Jonathan told us he spoke to Yar Adua

These are norms,have u ever wondered how A* info of the british govt gets leaks to wikileaks.
Infact,why should they lie to us that the first lady was not ill in the first place.I think there is room for freedom of expression.
What would have been the need of leaking any information in the first place if the FG was truthful to his citizenry about the health of our first lady?