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I sometimes think we are disrespected by other African countries. Nigerians have loads of tales of abuse in the hands of gendarmes in Cameroon.

Which is the best?

Mr Emmanuel Gabriel, a 41-year-old Nigerian Information Communication Technology (ICT) expert, has developed a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform, known as 'OBTranslate', for over 2,000 African language translation.
Gabriel, based in Germany, told Newsmen in an email on Wednesday in Abuja that the invention, being the first globally, was intended to create massive jobs for Africans.

According to him, OBTranslate is an online Common Admission Tool (CAT) for machine learning, AI platforms and neural network systems for over 2,000 African languages.

He explained that the drive to expand the Nigerian, African ICT market, create jobs and help improve the lives of people motivated him to come up with the innovation.

"After the launch of OBTranslate, I hope it will break communication barriers in Africa and create job opportunities for people.

"Farmers will be able to trade their goods and services without language communication barriers.

"OBTranslate machine language, AI algorithms have curated over nine billion accurate tasks, to be translated in over 2,000 African languages which are available in our neural network connections.

"Our goal is to break language communication barriers in rural and urban areas in Africa and it will enable self-driving cars, smartphones, linear robots and wireless technology to communicate and interact with Africans in their dialects," he said.

The scientist added that the job translate technology was built on machine learning, AI and big data analysis which identified language patterns and tasks.

Gabriel pointed out that the tasks of deep machine learning include voice recognition and accent, messaging protocol, African-based programming languages, natural language processing, education materials and television subtitles and music lyrics, among others.

He noted that there were over 2,000 languages in 54 countries of Africa, whereby 63 per cent of the total sub-Saharan population live in rural areas and speaking diverse dialects.

According to him, there are more than 854 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa in rural areas without access to global markets, while 37 per cent lives in urban areas.

He said, "there are over 52 native languages in Africa, which have undergone language death, they have no native speakers and no spoken descendants".

The expert also said that the invention had the capacity to create jobs for 100 million Africans who had the capacity to teach their machine Pidgin English or their native languages.

"Our machine language, AI algorithms with neural network connections have curated billions of task waiting for Africans who can teach our machine their local dialect.

"The first phase of the project comes with nine billion tasks, and the second phase comes with 12 billion tasks.
"It is projected to hire about 100 million Africans, with a projection of 3.6 billion USD passive income for Africans with the capacity," said Gabriel.

He called on African countries to ensure job creation and the implementation of the structural adjustment policies recommended by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

According to him, most people who migrate to other countries are pushed by war, poverty and other security concerns in their countries.
Journalists also report that the Ishan born scientist from Edo state studied ICT and Robotics in India and began computing at the age of 18 when he built his first software to analyse petroleum crude oil seismic data.

Gabriel was the founder of OpenBinacle, a Europe-Africa based technology company, while OBTranslate was a registered trademark and patent of its parent company OpenBinacle.

https://nigeriaworld.com/news/source/2019/may/2/302.html

mazizitonene:
From the headlines....if true....You see this one of the reasons I tell my Igbo brothers that Biafra is not the solution to their problem. The amount of hate, rancour and rivalry within us the Igbos even within family members can be mind boggling.

You got that right. They will be the ones crying tribalism if a non-ibo waged a campaign of calumny against them.

Story story.

Congratulations. Well done.

MLK Jnr

Michael Jackson

Their choice.

Humans are heartless.

People are wicked. Thank God they have been caught.

They have been sentenced to seven years of imprisonment, the same number of years that his father, Sekou Toure, sentenced Marie Lorofi, Camara Laye's girlfriend in The African Child who later on became his real life wife.

https://nypost.com/2019/04/23/suburban-couple-sentenced-for-forcing-girl-to-work-as-slave-for-16-years/

https://www.campboiro.org/victimes/camara_marie_lorofi.html

Was he a cultist? May his soul rest in peace.

Na wao!

2 million naira for a wedding? That's under 10 thousand dollars which wont get you a decent wedding in the US. And I am sure it must have been a lavish occasion. That's good.

haryorbarmie83:
Thousands of their age doing more than this. Make we contribute money for them again?

Is he begging you for money?

Inspite of this massive revenue allocation, unemployment is rife in Akwa Ibom State.

Tragic.

This is crazy.

Great food at Jevenik when I visited.

22 years? that's a very very long time.

lacapine:
I have a 17 years old maid who would be 18 in June. She came when she was 12 and she is like family now. She is in SS1. My problem is her issues with boys. Always keeping boyfriends of which I discourage her big time. Had to ask her why she keeps them, she said because her classmates/ friends have boyfriends.

I have screamed and threatened but she will still keep. What am I doing wrong? Should I allow her just keep them? I teach her sex education though but she says she isn't sexually active. Today, I saw the picture she and the guy posted on facebook holding each other. I lost it today. I flogged and punished her. I'm I being too hard? How do I help her? We wanted to help her till university days but with these, we are scared and reconsidering sending her back after ss3.

How best do I handle this situation.

Send her back to her parents. You have done your best but she doesnt see it that way. What if she gets pregnant under your care, what will you do? You dont want to be raising another responsibility down the road. Better to send her home ASAP. A stitch in time saves nine.

A round of applause to them.

Does it really matter? Mine is to facilitate meaningful and engaging conversations.

God is Good.

How much is usually the gate fee?

Texas is way cheaper than California.

There is a Nigerian restaurant called Miliki in Oakland.

All because of money, at times you wonder if money is thicker than blood.

WotzupNG:
Below is a throwback picture of when Richard Mofe-Damijo and his late wife May Ellen-Ezekiel attended Dele Momodu's wedding which held in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun state.

Sharing the picture, Dele Momodu wrote:



Richard Mofe-Damijo‘s first love and official wife was May Ellen-Ezekiel. She worked as a journalist and publisher in Nigeria. Soon after she passed away in 1996, Richard Mofe-Damijo married the young and beautiful Jumobi Adegbesan. She was a very popular TV personality but later left TV to enter the commercial business world. Richard Mofe-Damijo is now a happy father of 5 children. He has one child from his previous marriage and 4 more children with his current wife.

https://www.wotzup.ng/2018/07/richard-mofe-damijo-late-wife-dele-momodu-wedding/

Richard Mofe Damijo didnt have a child from the late May Ellen Ezekiel.

It seems as if Nigerians are adventurous. I have heard that there isnt a single country in this world that doesnt have a Nigerian. Do they have Nigerians in Palestine?

Smart move.

Yes, Jesus Christ is the only way to God.