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Technology Conferences in Nigeria – Too Hard To Be Found

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After the just concluded ICT4Africa where many Africans interacted and enjoyed the power of coming together to learn, share and advance, one was expecting that another opportunity will come very soon.

Not so. In the conference alerts on the web, there seems not to be major conferences in Nigeria in coming months for the ICT world.

Maiden FAAMLS Scientific Conference is a good one, but that is clinical and for other species of experts and not what we do here. Too bad!

People, Nigeria needs to be having more conferences. That is how we can learn and develop as a network.

2015 Election: Nairaland – 2nd most African Website and Nigerian Campaigns Town Halls

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Obama has declared his re-election bid as the leader of the free world.

And a day after the declaration of this bid, he is back to the place that got him to White House.  Internet. This time, he is going to the heart of it, Facebook, to hold Town Hall meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. You can submit questions on economy and innovations and other issues.

That is an American thing and what Obama does must not necessarily concern a man in Opopo. My interest is when the big politicians in our nation will do such. Visit iconic institutions and tap the energy of the networks and people. I am seeing Nairaland right now. Nigeria’s Internet giant, Nairaland has a date with destiny. We need to grow it so that it will afford our presidential candidates the opportunities to declare right in its Lagos headquarters. Of course our current President has done well with his Internet savvy.  But he will be out then.

From the visionary Seun Osewa, the Founder of Nairaland, his business is the second most African website. Pretty commendable! And who knows what the next four years will bring to him.

At Ibadan, Cook Your Food With Slaughterhouse Cow Waste

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Imagine this. We hate to see the cow waste. Yes, those slaughterhouse wastes smell bad.  But our Dr. Joseph Adelegan has won many awards over trying to get energy from these wastes. He called it  Cows to Kilowatts.  The Cows to Kilowatts initiative started as a solution to the pressing issue of slaughterhouse water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. He does many interesting engineering by employing powerful anaerobic reactor to process animal waste and blood into quality biogas. He designed the stuff in Ibadan. The captured methane biogas can be used as cooking gas, fuel for household gas generators, and as biofuel for transportation. Any remaining sludge is used as fertilizer. What a bright man!

Imagine if Doc visits the slaughterhouse in your town or city and gives you fuel from that. The slaughterhouse waste problem is common in many Nigerian cities and we could be lucky if this reactor is affordable.

I do not know the commercial viability because it looks very huge. Yet, with government support, he could improve it.

But there is a major progress. The Cows to Kilowatts partnership built its first plant in Ibadan to treat slaughterhouse waste with a $500,000 grant from the U.N. Development Program. The company then raised an additional $200,000 from a World Bank competition and used it to build a bioreactor to generate electricity from cassava waste in the Nigerian city of Ilorin.

The Ibadan plant, which generates around 1,800 cubic meters of biogas per day, already provides affordable cooking gas to 5,400 homes. The initiative is also reducing pollution inside the homes of poor families because the cooking gas it sells is cleaner than commonly used fuels.

Hope someone called Vision 2020. We have got our own refinery. And it is refining, not crude oil, but cow wastes.

 

Internet Power for Presidential Task Force on Power. Good Website for Great Power in Nigeria

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We know that the news is good – the FG is close to securing World Bank’s guarantee for power investors.  Yes, the Federal Government is close to securing a World Bank Partial Risk Guarantee for the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc, which will assure investors in power generating plants that they will always be paid for power supplied to the distribution companies.

We checked on the site after this news and met a very clean and neatly designed site. Congratulations Presidential Task Force on Power. Your website rocks. That is impressive.

Also we noted they have a Facebook website! What a functioning system on the web. We are confident that this will translate to more Watts for businesses and families. Awesome!

These are the focus from the website:

 

Distribution

 

Distribution can be described as the “downstream” sector of the electric power industry.  It involves delivering power directly to homes and industries. Lines and transformers of much lower capacity (ranging from 33KV/415V to 11 KV/415 V) are used in the distribution sector. The distribution aspect of electricity also directly involves dealing with the consumer and overseeing such functions as meter installation, billing for power consumed and revenue collection.

 

Nigeria’s Power Reform

 

Nigerians are among the people most deprived of grid-based electricity in the world with a per capita consumption that is far lower than many other African countries’.  A South African is provided 97 per cent more electricity than a Nigerian while a Brazilian enjoys 93 per cent more. With a population of 150 million, Nigeria’s generation capacity is around 3,600 Megawatts.

 

 

Google Translator Could Have Made Gaddafi a Better English Writer

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The message is out. The tough man of Libya sent a “love” letter to U.S. President Obama, asking for all the bombings to stop. He has had enough and just wanted the American to stop the bombings. Yes, Obama could tell NATO to stop and they will.

But I have a problem with the letter.  I am not interested in the content; just focusing on spellings and grammar. The letter is horrible. I write the same way most times, but for a President, this is too bad. He has no English translator indeed – I cannot afford one, but Libya can. Maybe a high school student might have volunteered in the bunker to get the letter out. The son the British gave PhD must have missed that one.

Read this from Associated Press:

“Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu oumama, your intervention is the name of the U.S.A. is a must, so that Nato (NATO) would withdraw finally from the Libyan affair,” Gadhafi wrote. “Libya should be left to Libyans within the African union frame.”

Even the name of the Union he championed – he cannot spell right. This man will surely fail WAEC. Period!

Of course, Gaddafi did not remember to use Google translator. He would have gotten a better value than what the high school student did. Just put the Arabic or whatever language he used and he would get a better deal.

Mr. Gaddafi, next time, you must write a better letter, and stop embarrassing Africa. That letter was not presidential – if you still insist you are one, I mean a President. Hire an English teacher to review this and stop this madness.