We live in a time when we have simply forgotten how to do nothing. This is reinforced by smartphones, through which we are available and busy around the clock. Once social media and the current news situation have been “read to the end”, we are immediately bored. While free time used to be precious, today it almost drives many people to despair. What to do? We have put together a few ideas for you that will hopefully help you to enjoy your free time again or use it wisely. Many people consider playing games or gambling online as a great…
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Forty (40) youth fish farmers from Afowo Community in Badagry have been empowered by Lagos State Government with 40 cages of 1,000 juvenile catfish per cage under the Cage Culture Project, an economical use of open water to develop aquaculture and improve nutrition. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal who disclosed this today at an inspection tour of the facility explained that the Cage Culture System of Fish Farming is one of the ways being championed by the State Government to maximize the benefits of the abundance of water resources in the State which accounts for about 22…
Lagos Agripreneurship Programme (L.A.P.) has been introduced by the Lagos State Government under its Agriculture-based Youth Empowerment Scheme (Agric-Yes) in furtherance of the State Government’s objective of training 15,000 youths and women in the various agricultural value chains by year 2023. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal noted that the programme which is starting with the one-month training of no fewer than 200 participants is aimed at improving capacity, creating wealth and employment in the agricultural value chains such as poultry, piggery, aquaculture and vegetables. “The current reality and exigencies of job creation for the teeming youth population…
In this world of upgraded technology and the need to learn it, soft skills are also considered a factor for hiring. Companies mostly consider technical skills but without a sound communication and unable to present your words, having excellent technical expertise is not enough. Thus, from the start of student life, soft skills need to be an essential part of the career. If not included in the syllabus, then additional should be provided to ensure the soft skills from the early start of the profession. Companies should also focus on providing training to their workforce to enhance their abilities. After…
Nigerian power sector sure has a new superhero in the Honourable Minister of State (Power), Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba, OFR, whose intervention, again, mitigated what would have been a national embarrassment, as the country was plunged into total blackout last Wednesday. Although, the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) have since suspended the strike it embarked upon, thanks largely to the intervention of the Honourable Minister of State, Power. The “Peace Meeting”, which lasted till the early hours of Thursday morning, had the Honourable Minister of State for Power, Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba, OFR as chair and a representative of the Minister…
The Internet has long been “uncharted territory ” and digitization is no longer a really new phenomenon. Although certain topics, such as the digitization of education, are experiencing an economic boom, our world and our lives are already more digital and technological than one could have imagined a few years ago. The world as we know it today is based on old and new technologies that are fundamental to our (together) life. In the past few decades, the Internet and all of the technologies connected to it, for example the smartphone, have changed pretty much every area of life and…
The United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, faces an uphill battle to recover more than three and a half years of lost business investment and confidence, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations. The warning from Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere Group, comes after Mr Johnson’s Conservative party secured an emphatic win with a pledge to ‘get Brexit done’ in the UK’s general election. Investors welcomed the news. The markets jumped and the pound experienced its biggest rally in almost three years. Mr Green says: “With a clear majority in the…
New technologies are getting discovered all the time. This enables manufacturers to either create new products or to update the already existing ones. Although this is already true as a general rule, the last couple of years have been increasingly more oriented towards the discovery and adoption of new technologies. New technologies have an overall positive impact on the development of countries and their economies as it enables businesses to prosper. However, they also have other positive implications in our day-to-day lives, constantly making them better. We are going to cover a few of these positive implications in this article.…
Being an excerpts from the book “Fellow Country Men – the story of Coup D’etats in Nigeria” by Richard Akinnola, (June 2000), the following exclusive piece reflects on the Genesis of Nigeria’s Problems: I was in the first cabinet that was overthrown by the military in this country. I entered parliament in December 12, 1959. And I remained in parliament until January 15, 1966 when the government was overthrown. I was the Federal Minister of Education in that cabinet. I woke up one morning in my official house in Ikoyi to discover that my telephone was not working. I had…
The Commissioner for Agriculture in Lagos State, Prince Gbolahan Lawal has expressed the readiness and determination of the State Government to complete all abandoned projects in the Agricultural sector particularly the Songhai Model of the Agricultural Youth Empowerment Scheme (Agric Yes) located in Avia-Igborosun in the Badagry Local Government area of the State. The Commissioner who disclosed this in Lagos over the weekend when he led a delegation of the State Government officials that included the Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya to inspect the facility noted that the Songhai Model of the Youth Empowerment Scheme…