₦airaland Forum

Obi1kenobi:
My arguments were repeated again and again. But to be honest, I don't care what your state does. Governance is Abia has been pretty useless for a long time. If you start the boycott in your state, it's fine by me. A lot of inconsequential clowns will boycott Anambra elections, but we'll still elect a governor. Life will go on. The world will keep spinning. Your boycott will remain utterly useless.

ofai:
shut up for Christ sake...I knew where his grouse with IPOB started. you know nothing about this so shut up.

cstr1000:
A second civil war will generate a very different result. That much is certain.

Yyeske:
China has Tibet and Taiwan wahala.

Russia still angry after the fall of USSR and still trying to reclaim some of those republics they lost eg Crimea from Ukraine.
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Their only solace is sending a delegation to heaven.
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Pakistan isn't strong enough.

Even France can't help out now inorder not to anger Cameroon, remember the English speaking part of Cameroon wants their own country so France supporting Biafra is like supporting the other separatist group.

Germany, having seen and heard all the hate speeches from IPOB won't lift a finger. They still remember how hate speeches caused the WW2.

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Spain of course is out of the question because of the Catalonia question.
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Who else to cry for help if not heaven?

ofai:
we have long debunked your "educated and informed" stance. this revisionist syndrome in your head is strong o.

keep masturbating over a fraudulent Nigeria. keep seeing your chains as bracelets.

ofai:
you were stupid enough to think IPOB would recant their stance on Election boycott without giving them a superior argument against it.

you are just one vote. you are inconsequential.

Obi1kenobi:
No point wasting your time, OP. You won't get reasoned debate from Cownu's devotees. They'll just insult you and that's all. For some of them, secession agitations is just some charade to massage their fragile egos. They actually know the SE desperately needs allies and that's why they're desperate to include the Niger-Delta and even states like Benue in their agitations. For others, they're driven by infantile emotion and have never really sat down to look at the metrics and think the whole process through of the consequences of what they're agitating for. They can't wrap their heads around how a bunch of landlocked South East states with total landmass the size of Oyo, with less industrial output than Agbara alone, with the least agricultural output in the country, with IGR only less than the troubled North East and the 2nd least contributions to the Federation account, with the biggest infrastructural deficit in the country, with citizens who abandon the region to prosper and develop other regions and with state governments who are totally dependent on Federal allocation would survive. They can't think. All emotion and no brains. Several times in Lagos, I've met Keke, Danfo and Okada riders with Biafran flags. In Lagos. Ask the mugus why they can't go back to develop their Biafran paradise and they'll be talking utter horseshit.

So don't expect any reasoned debate. Leave them to continue posting rubbish about the zoo that they eat from. It makes them feel better about themselves and boosts their self-esteem.

TundeHashim:
knowing bolaji Abdullah's precedents, I'm certain the book will be more critical than being dispassionately objective!

NaeChris:
It is already your portion. I don't live in the zoo. Am not an animal. I am Biafra.

MaziOmenuko:
Lol...you guys are very funny. My heart felt advance condolence to any Igbo person that will go and waste his life on this madness. Let the Messiah Kanu come and die for the igbos and not the other way round.

As for the signal msg your leader is sending, let me break it down for you:

US: they have hurricane irwan to deal with and the Korean president is dropping bombs like toy.

EU: you are not in their union. Your colonial masters even exited the union.

AU: Nigeria is the chief financiers of African Union.

Germany, France: they are not your colonial masters.

Israel: they are busy ensuring the DP Korean threat does not wipe them out of the surface of the earth.

You need to send more msgs to China, Russia and even Pakistan.

cstr1000:
You can't guarantee that. You really can't.
We are talking about a people that went to civil war not too long ago and the sentiments are still fresh.
Your president is playing with circumstances he can't foresee the outcome.

NaeChris:
This one na small one. The next one will make sure the zoo cease to exist.

NgHealth:
So glad that despite her misfortune and d scar that came with, she was able to find fame and a place in the world.

It shows that real beauty is inside after all.

edoboy33:
useless ex beauty olosho
if the plane had crashed in Nigeria would u have recognised her
because she is on a show and well celebrated now you are forming familiarity

ugly beauty queens

Gerrard59:
C'mon!! She spent 22 good years at ExxonMobil. What is looted funds about her looks?

Iranoladun:
Which aging with grace? If you know tha amount of money she spent on pills, nutrition and different beauty procedures you won't say that. It is rather a case of money well spend and result of passion and dedication�

Narldon:
MO Abudu

Same Woman Shared equally and equitably by

Rotimi Amaechi and Femi Fani Kayode

THUNDAR:
Na so, everyone looks for an excuse when they fall!

ofai:
see this loser talking

Baawaa:
When an inrelevant person want to be relevant,FFK,for now you are not relevant

Cyynthia:
Only iddiotss will criticize the messenger and leave the message.

Fineman87:
Igbos are the most successful people in Nigeria today, both tech and business, even before and after the civil war, Igbos has been advanced more than other tribes, that’s why the other tribe in Nigeria can’t do without them.”

Realizing the importance of on time medical attention, Dr. Afonja laid the groundwork for Dokita247 while Richard Cobbinah a technology savant, respectively, shared the vision to transform the healthcare industry’ and deliver affordable health services to the remotest places.

The two men are highly regarded in their respective fields, a combination that is truly “bridging the gap” between medicine and technology. Being one of the earliest companies to provide telehealth services on a global scale, Dokita247 leverages mobile application services and hosts web-based application services on cloud environment with enhanced security. _{https://www.cioapplications.com/vendor/dokita247-delivering-borderless-patient-care-cid-621-mid-43.html}

Dokita247 provides instant and affordable services to numerous treatable conditions. From allergies to tonsillitis and cramps to migraine, the company helps patients to connect to a network of physicians instantly and seek advice. It creates a platform empowering physicians to work flexibly, expand their reach, and generate revenue without additional overhead costs.

The application also gives an opportunity for those physicians residing and practicing abroad to extend their expertise and serve fellow native men leveraging Dokita247 app. Physicians with multiple licenses can reap more benefits by serving beyond boundaries right from their comfort zone. _{https://www.cioapplications.com/vendor/dokita247-delivering-borderless-patient-care-cid-621-mid-43.html}

Asehinde Oladipo and his partner Benjamin, met at one of Nigeria’s emerging technology development services companies in Abuja. In the hard-charging startup world that the two men entered, there was little time to remember the minutiae of everyday life — like paying bills on time. “In the midst of our busy schedules we would try to find time to dash down to the electricity company to get electricity for the house,” Benjamin said. Sometimes they wouldn’t make it in time.

“If they are closed you have to stay in darkness till Monday when they open,” said Benjamin. “You have circumstances where people are traveling and they have to come to the utility company and there are long queues.”

Some weekends, the founders said they would see dozens of people milling around outside, waiting for the chance to get to the power company to pay their bills. “It was that frustration that convinced us to do something about it.” The men rallied utilities in Abuja, to start working on the problem. Over the course of 2015, they pitched BuyPower, saying they would handle the cost of rolling out a payment service, all the utilities company had to do was integrate with their software.

That proved to be a challenge in itself. “They had a very antiquated technology,” said the founders. So together, they set about upgrading the back end of the utility company's payments system. “We started doing the cleanup and that was the first layer of the challenge. It took us about half of the year.” By April of 2016, the co-founders had a product. They did a small email blast to their followers and rolled up their first 50 customers by the end of the day. _{https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/16/buypower-aims-to-ease-the-pain-of-utility-payments-in-nigeria/?ncid=rss}

What unique features differentiates your MedEnhanz from other players in the space? "I will say that we are unique, and what we do - no other startup does it, in Nigeria. Currently today, most people access CPD through the traditional means, where they have to leave their practices to travel for conferences to do all that, but with our platform, they can easily have that.

We are the only organisation that is recognised by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), to provide Online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes. Doctors can improve themselves, brush up their medical education and get credit for it. I tell you today, we have clients from different states in Nigeria, that come to our platform to access CPD materials irrespective of where they are, some as far as Borno state.

Also, we have a mobile platform where people can get on and ask questions, and the questions will be responded to, by one of our doctors within a couple of minutes, but that has not been well adopted yet." _{http://digitalhealth.com.ng/2017/06/13/founder-interview-medenhanz/}

It is said that the health tech ecosystem in Nigeria is non-existent. Do you believe that this is true? What are your thoughts on this? "I will say 'Yes,' and I will say 'No.' 'No' in the sense that startups like us, are becoming common place in Nigeria, because everybody is trying to put their hands in the space, but we have not been able to recall the level of success that others have been able to recall.

If you look at it from that perspective, you will not see any measurable success, and you can say the ecosystem is non-existent. But look at your platform, the digital health network coming to help boost the ecosystem, if there is nothing in place you won’t be talking to us and our other peers. That means we already have an ecosystem but is the ecosystem at an advanced stage or a mature face then-No. But at an infantry phase then yes we do have an ecosystem, is it thriving yet - 'No.' I must commend digital health because I think your organisation is one of the ones doing an underappreciated job of helping everybody see this ecosystem." http://digitalhealth.com.ng/2017/06/13/founder-interview-medenhanz/

millhouse:
Back then, academics were not known to be wealthy, so how did he acquire the resort’s expansive land?

“In 1980, I won election to be the Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and the university had trouble with their vice chancellor, [Professor Babatunde] Adadevoh, who was removed; the deputy vice-chancellor was removed, the Registrar was removed by government and six other professors were removed. According to the statute of the University of Lagos, in the absence of the vice chancellor or the deputy vice chancellor, the provost of the College of Medicine is next to govern the university.

“So I was to have three positions; acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos; Provost, College of Medicine and Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Now, that would be three jobs for one pay so I told my wife one night, 'iku ti de, death has come' .We must have a retreat or else we will die on these three jobs. In January 1981, I started looking for land. I decided to work very hard from Mondays to Fridays; Saturdays and Sundays were free days to look for the retreat because I made up my mind that I would not die on the three jobs. That was how this place started. We are very happy; what gives us fulfilment is that we can make Nigerians happy. Many people don’t realise that the very essence of governance is to make the people happy.”

Funding the billion naira project, expectedly, was not a piece of cake as he reveals: “We sold our houses in Lagos in order to build this place; we sold our houses and land in Agbara in order to concentrate on this place. I told my wife, there’s no point having too many houses in Lagos or Agbara. Let’s put everything in one place so that we can supervise it. We used to live at Agbara but we sold the house for N24 million because I told her going back to Agbara at night is risky.

I said let’s sell the house, put the money into this place. That’s what we did to survive and of course we had some stocks which we also used to finance this place, but even then the finance was not enough.” _{http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/people-called-crazy-i-started-whispering-palms-prof-pearse/}

“When you don’t have too much money, you can’t have a masterplan. Government can have masterplan but here everything depends on what is in your pocket,” he says still laughing. “Master plan can be developed when you have big capital or maybe you have stolen big government money and you want to do something huge. But when you are doing something for pleasure, it’s a day-by-day event. We thank God that our ideas have come out as if we had a big master plan. We had no master plan; all we wanted was something for the family and ourselves.

Later, we changed and decided to open it up to the people because it was getting more expensive to maintain even that time. But we have no regrets in the sense that we’ve opened it up to people to enjoy themselves. To keep Nigerians happy is our mission and we are happy we have fulfilled that mission.” _{http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/people-called-crazy-i-started-whispering-palms-prof-pearse/}

Co-founder Tomi Ayorinde, who told Disrupt Africa that Mobile Forms had innovated a new way of collecting data, said the startup would also soon allow for the analysis of data using dashboard reports on the platform.

The aim of the technology is to collect data better including pictures, GPS locations, sketches, audio and video, with the platform working both online and offline.

Mobile Forms initially launched a prototype app in September of last year, and is now live with 200 users, 25 per cent of which converted to the paid model last month. Ayorinde said the startup also has in its pipeline an organisation with 3,600 users, which it hopes to on-board by this year. _{http://disrupt-africa.com/2016/05/nigerias-mobile-forms-is-taking-data-collection-mobile/}

When it comes to healthcare, Nigeria is faced with a number of challenges.These include everything from lack of adequate internal technology infrastructure and high operational costs to the manual submission and processing of health claims.

Simply put, Health Insurers and Providers don’t have the capacity to manage all of these non-core functions, while still giving their patients the proper care they need.

To address these, we have developed a shared outsourcing infrastructure, to help manage non-core functions such as record keeping, claims processes, administration services and much more. This means that health insurers and care providers, are no longer burdened with these time-consuming tasks, and can focus on keeping their patients healthy instead.

Switch to Smarthealth

Smarthealth is an automated service platform that outsources day-to-day operations and administration easily and efficiently. This intuitive technology also offers biometric identification at hospitals, online submission and processing of claims, capitation payments and other payments such as salaries, vendors, suppliers, taxes and pensions. https://www.interswitchgroup.com/ng/solutions/industry-solution/health-solution

okway2:
laudate and deomelo,

We need profiles on these Yoruba startups:

BuyPower
Metro Africa Xpress - MAX
Smart Systems Nigeria
Mobile Forms
UniSmart
Paystack

“For us, the question is – what’s the biggest challenge that online merchants are facing in Africa and what is the most effective way to address it?”

MAX is adopting an interesting model, backed by a powerful technology platform while also leveraging ideas that have worked in other parts of the world – both developing and developed – and combining these with deep local understanding.

The new company on the block is eliminating the bottlenecks in logistics, such as sorting centres, hubs and weights in a bid to bring in efficiency while also accelerating the entire delivery process. Online merchants can now focus on marketing and inventory management while the likes of MAX can handle fulfilment on their behalf. “For MAX, it’s an African vision. We are telling a new African story and building a world-class African company, led by Africans.” says Adetayo. https://techpoint.ng/2015/09/15/max-mission-transform-urban-logistics-across-africa/

Last December Disrupt Africa reported that MAX came in second place at the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield event in London, while it also won a “Top 12 Global Inclusive Growth Idea” from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Harvard Center for International Development. It was also the first African team to gain admission into the Techstars startup accelerator programme in New York. http://disrupt-africa.com/2016/09/nigerias-max-acquires-food-delivery-startup-easyappetite/

okway:
Laudate, I don find you wife[ves] o

Fineman87:
Come and do what na. Everything you postex here, none can match this

totit:
Oga laudate, abeg let's leave the small boy abeg. He's got nothing to offer. Make he no pollute this great thread for us further..

I Ayaff laughed tired this evening,what a great comedy