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Time for Bigger Generators As Nigeria Police Want Citizens To Install CCTVs at Homes

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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The Nigerian Police want to address the escalating security paralysis in the nation by asking the National Assembly to enact a law that would force private citizens, government agencies and companies to install CCTV cameras and security sensors on their properties.

The Police made the call during a retreat in Akwa Ibom which was attended by  the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, and about 148 other senior police officers, notes Premium Times.

According to a statement on Friday from the deputy spokesperson of the Force, Muyiwa Adejobi, the retreat “emphasised on intelligence as the brainbox of policing and proposed a legislation that will place an obligation on government agencies, corporate bodies, estate developers and private individuals to install CCTV cameras and security sensors on their facilities as a standard practice amongst others”.

People, time to buy bigger generators and more fuel? I hope people know that CCTV cameras do not use air and water. Imagine every home in Nigeria running generators 24/7 so that Police will have “data” to arrest criminals! #NextDistraction please. 

Why? If you have no comprehensive citizen database, CCTV will not do any magic. Yes, even if you see them, what would you do? Those attacking banks do not wear hoodies because they believe that even if you see them, your options are limited with no great intelligence and ground work to come after them.

As part of the measures to check the rising insecurity across the nation, the Nigerian police are calling for a legislation that would compel private citizens, including government agencies and corporate organisations, to install CCTV cameras and security sensors on their facilities.

The police made the call on Wednesday at the end of their two-day retreat and conference in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

The retreat was attended by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, and about 148 other senior police officers from the rank of commissioner of police and above from all over the country.

According to a statement on Friday from the deputy spokesperson of the Force, Muyiwa Adejobi, the retreat “emphasised on intelligence as the brainbox of policing and proposed a legislation that will place an obligation on government agencies, corporate bodies, estate developers and private individuals to install CCTV cameras and security sensors on their facilities as a standard practice amongst others”

Mr Adejobi, a chief superintendent of police, said a communique which captured the proposal, had been sent to relevant authorities, including President Muhammadu Buhari’s office, the national security adviser, the National Assembly, Ministry Of Police Affairs, and the office of the Chief of Defence Staff.

Meanwhile, many terrorists are repenting and surrendering in the nation: “Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has again updated President Muhammadu Buhari on latest security development in the state. After the closed door meeting with the president, on Thursday in Abuja, Mr Zulum told journalists that over 30, 000 Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists have so far surrendered.”

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Comment 1: Security cameras generally serve two purposes.
1) A deterrent. A criminal is less likely to invade a home or facility where there are cameras.
2) An investigative tool. After a crime has occured, a CCTv camera assist investigators understand how a crime was committed and possibly identify suspects.

Unfortunately,, the Nigeria Police does not have facial recognition capability nor a database against which a search could be made to identify criminals whose faces were captured.
If a Nigerian can afford to install cameras, they should. Nothing wrong with it. But the police should have no business enforcing it.
The infrastructure to support it is not just there. And frankly, you can’t force people to provide cameras for their homes and facilities if they choose not to.

Comment 2: A friend of mine once witnessed a robbery in front of the house at 3:30 am and those heading out to work, transporters as well got robbed and shot at. Now, a stone’s throw away is the police station. Guess what?! Nothing happened. They didn’t come. The Hausa boys whom we call aboki, came through instead. They fought them with their fist, sustained gunshots, and bullets but didn’t die. Imagine women, young female children who would have been raped. Imagine men and boys who would have been killed. Imagine the old left injured and mourning. We need people to do their jobs faithfully. After all, police of old never had technology or DNA and they solved cases. It is well.

My Response to #2: Indeed – they cannot even manage the crimes inside police stations effectively. Sending them millions of images from CCTVs will add no value. Which database are there going to use to solve the crimes? This is not a good idea!

Tekedia Institute Congratulates Bayo Adekanmbi As He Moves to Airtel Africa

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Airtel Africa brings one of the nation’s finest business leaders into its fold. Yes, Bayo (Olubayo) Adekanmbi is going to Airtel, to lead business strategy, partnership and sustainability roadmap: he “will be responsible for leading strategic business-wide initiatives, including innovation, strategic investment, operational efficiencies, and partnerships. In addition to this, he is also responsible for delivering Airtel Africa’s Group Sustainability. He is part of our Executive Committee and reports directly to Segun Ogunsanya, CEO,” Airtel said.

I just dropped a WhatsApp to Bayo, wishing him more wins, as he transitions from MTN to Airtel. I have called him the high priest of data sciences in Nigeria for his generation-shaping work in Data Science Nigeria where through sheer vision and hardwork, he is preparing a generation of young people for a future in data sciences, AI and autonomous systems.

This is another call: to impact not just Nigeria but a continent. Bayo, we wish you more markets, more wins in “The Smartphone Network”.

Olubayo (Bayo) Adekanmbi is beginning a new adventure with Airtel. The award-winning business and digital innovation executive, has joined Airtel Africa, to lead its strategy, partnership and sustainability roadmap.

Airtel Africa outlined the key roles he will play, including leading innovation among others.

Olubayo Adekanmbi “will be responsible for leading strategic business-wide initiatives, including innovation, strategic investment, operational efficiencies, and partnerships. In addition to this, he is also responsible for delivering Airtel Africa’s Group Sustainability. He is part of our Executive Committee and reports directly to Segun Ogunsanya, CEO,” Airtel said on its website.

Prior to his appointment by Airtel Africa headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Adekanmbi previously worked for MTN in South Africa and Nigeria as Chief Transformation and Strategy Officer, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, General Manager, Business Intelligence and Head of Strategy and Analytics.

Olubayo Adekanmbi Joins Airtel Africa to Lead Strategic Business

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Samuel Nwite
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Olubayo (Bayo) Adekanmbi is beginning a new adventure with Airtel. The award-winning business and digital innovation executive, has joined Airtel Africa, to lead its strategy, partnership and sustainability roadmap.

Airtel Africa outlined the key roles he will play, including leading innovation among others.

Olubayo Adekanmbi “will be responsible for leading strategic business-wide initiatives, including innovation, strategic investment, operational efficiencies, and partnerships. In addition to this, he is also responsible for delivering Airtel Africa’s Group Sustainability. He is part of our Executive Committee and reports directly to Segun Ogunsanya, CEO,” Airtel said on its website.

Prior to his appointment by Airtel Africa headquartered in London, United Kingdom, Adekanmbi previously worked for MTN in South Africa and Nigeria as Chief Transformation and Strategy Officer, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, General Manager, Business Intelligence and Head of Strategy and Analytics.

Bayo has over two decades cognate industry experience. He also has made innovative contribution to strategic innovation and analytics practice in telecommunication.

His work on the use of machine learning algorithm in customer value and risk management earned him global recognition by the U.S. based Corinium Intelligence as one of the Top 100 global innovators in data and analytics.

This solution also earned him a Yello Star award in 2013 for enabling billions of naira in revenue growth.

Bayo is an innovation leader who has driven impactful strategic projects and innovations. He was the Nigeria lead for the MTN Group-led efficiency transformation programme IGNITE, a future-shaping intervention by MTN to accelerate the company’s business and financial performance.

As a strategist, Adekanmbi led many short and long-term strategic initiatives, like e-SIM, 5G trial, data monetization, spectrum acquisition, agile transformation, national roaming pilot, data center, 5G strategy, etc.

He also works at the nexus of the use of artificial intelligence and data science for the attainment of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of his works was the evidence-based, national COVID-19 intervention, conducted with the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, using anonymized telecoms mobility data and other multiple points of interest data for social good. In partnership with the GSM Association (GSMA), Cambridge University Press recently published this work.

Olubayo Adekanmbi is the founder of the award-winning non-profit Data Science Nigeria (DSN, now Data Scientists Network), which has evolved into Africa’s number one artificial intelligence learning, research, start-up incubation, social product development network.

Two DSN’s products were recently recognized and listed in the Global Top 100 of artificial intelligence products by the International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for their outstanding contribution to the U.N.’s SDGs in the areas of health and education in low-resourced countries.

Olubayo Adekanmbi graduated with Distinction from the University of Reading postgraduate school, United Kingdom, and has also completed both full-time and executive education in many other leading institutions, including Columbia Business School, New York; The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; INSEAD Business School, France; Telecoms Training Institute, London; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; and Gatton College of Business at the University of Kentucky, Kentucky.

Asked if his position in Airtel will affect the functions off DSN, Bayo said it will not “because DSN has full dedicated staff who are running all the programmes on full time basis.”

The World Must See In That Mirror Through Your Work

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Obama family arrives at US Capitol prior to inauguration swear-in

Find a clear niche and differentiate at the early phase of your business. In a digital economy dominated  by demand, not supply, you have a better chance to find early adopters who can help you find a positioning in the market, if you are unique. Doing something NEW excites people and every startup needs that at the early stage. Do not conform to the stable state because it is boring.

The same applies to building a personal professional brand – your webinality. Be known for something. When people check your LinkedIn and Facebook feeds, do they see shoes, laptops, business articles, gossip posts, food recipes, etc to the extent that they cannot understand what you stand for. Yes, your hobby even when none is paying for it!

“Define an area of interest and build around it. A five-minute online search should reveal what you represent. You need to differentiate yourself, and showcase your core skills and unique capabilities, to potential hiring managers.” #Glow.

We want to see you in that mirror through your work. Learn how here

How To Improve Your Webinality

The following are some suggestions on how to build a professional online persona. It is establishing your web personality (webinality) to explain that person you are.

Presence: Open at least one social media or blog account.

Specialize:  Define an area of interest and build around it. A five-minute online search should reveal what you represent. You need to differentiate yourself and showcase your core skills and unique capabilities to potential hiring managers.

Accuracy: Always remember that once that post goes online, you may not control who sees it. If you lie on your accomplishments, your classmate or co-worker is just an IP address away from challenging it. Make it accurate – always, otherwise, you will destroy your persona.

Comprehensive: While blog should be short, once in a while, develop comprehensive articles in your field and post them online. It could mean expanding a class project you worked on, adding more contents, and fully proving your expertise. Half-baked contents will not take you too far.

Judgment: What you post or share online defines who you are. Your profile defines you – values, interests and reliability. For employers, they want reliable team leaders and you must not offer less in your web personality.

Vertical Integration: Seek to connect with people ahead of you professionally while building a horizontally network.

Generosity: Share and exchange good ideas. Invite people to your network and be generous to promote good ideas from others. Write professional reviews on books, journals and articles. In no distant time, people will reward you.

Policy Matters: If you are working, ensure you adhere to policies on using the company’s name online. There is a threat that you could be a source of data leakage that can hurt competitiveness. Your profile must not be another portrait of your employer – you must be wise to separate both, where necessary.

Continuity:  Professional online branding is a continuous work-in-progress that requires constant tune-ups of networks, contents and profiles. It must be constantly nurtured.

Nigerian Senators, Others And The Fate Of Their Constituencies

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Fred Nwaozor
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The last time I checked, each state across the Nigerian federation comprised three senatorial zones. It suffices to say that these states could at the moment boast of three senators in the Red Chamber of the country’s National Assembly (NASS).

For posterity’s sake, I wish to via this platform, candidly remind these revered senators, and of course other federal legislators, that a lot is really expected of them when it calls for societal development in their respective constituencies.

Towards ensuring the people receive what they truly deserve from the Federal Government (FG), these men of repute who were graciously elected by their various electorates are required to be at the forefront.

Development of a certain state does not lie solely in the prowess of the sitting governor. Yes, the governor is meant to ensure that all the areas within his jurisdiction are aptly taken care of. But, it’s worth noting that there’s what is called federal presence in any existing state across the country.

These legislators are expected to lead the cause targeted towards attracting various federal presences to their various states, particularly their respective constituencies.

As representatives or mouthpieces of various constituencies, when they move any motion on the floor of the House or Senate, as the case may be, they ought to primarily consider the implications of such motion to their jurisdictions.

In other words, motions that are of good benefit to their constituencies should only be tendered. It’s even mind-boggling to realize that some of them shy away from moving motion during plenary sittings.

Similarly, a bill should not be sponsored by any of them without painstakingly considering its consequences to their people if eventually passed as well as signed into law.

For instance, when an Appropriation Bill is submitted by the Presidency, they ought to in their individual capacities evaluate each of the clauses in the bill toward ascertaining whether their states or constituencies are carried along. Needless to state that they shouldn’t just leave the work of evaluation for the House’s/Senate’s Committee on Appropriation.

It is solely their statutory duty to cross check these things, not that of the governors of their states. The governor would not be at the State’s Government House and at the same time, equally be at the NASS. This implies that the federal legislators are not unlike the eye of their states’ governors.

In Economics as a subject, the issue of Division of Labour is thoroughly and categorically explained to the comprehension of even a dummy in the classroom. Hence, we are required to, at all times, hide under such holistic teaching.

And when a bill, such as that of budgetary, is finally passed by the legislators and duly signed by the Executive Arm, it thereof becomes a law. It is also the duty of these federal lawmakers to henceforth properly monitor the day-to-day implementation of such law, in order to ensure that their respective constituencies aren’t kept in abeyance.

They must, therefore, ensure that what is due for their state is wholly granted to it as the journey progresses. This is legally regarded as part of the oversight functions of a legislator.

It is baffling to realize that some of Nigerian federal legislators, rather than doing the needful, would prefer to consider only their individual interests, thereby relegating that of their constituencies to the background.

Instead of ensuring that every project allocated to their constituencies is adequately implemented, they would prefer to siphon the funds to their private pockets even amidst the ongoing apparent anti-graft war.

I want them to take cognizance of the fact that the socio-political system of Nigeria in general, has conspicuously changed for good. Most electorates are now politically wise and not unaware of every trend, thus they must wake up from slumber where need be.

Each time I acknowledge that Constituency Briefing is now apparently a thing of the past, I am invariably left with no other option than to weep profoundly. Constituency briefing, a tool initiated to help in bringing senators and their counterparts closer to their constituents, is currently abused profusely or taken for granted.

Such lackadaisical attitude of these so-called legislators is indeed a slap in the face of their teeming constituents, thus the electorate are as well expected to wake from sleep.

Worse still, most of these lawmakers, including those at the state level, cannot presently boast of a constituency office at their respective constituencies let alone a befitting one. These ugly trend needs to be critically addressed in earnest before it gets out of hand. We must not continue to overlook issues that concern the people’s collective future.

It’s time the electorate started exercising the power given to them by the 1999 Nigerian Constitution, as amended. They ought to understand the language of ‘Vote of No-Confidence’ that has the tendency of recalling any erring legislator, be it state or federal.

If well considered, they would comprehend that the electors are more powerful than the elected. This is because they possess the power to elect as well as recall when necessary.

Toward averting some inconsequential and frivolous embarrassments that might arise in the future, I urge these respected senators and their counterparts in the Federal House of Representatives to henceforth start to acknowledge that the development of any state cannot only be actualized by the sitting governor; hence, all hands are expected to, individually or collectively, be on deck.

In view of the above assertion, the governors on their parts ought to equally endeavour to form a coalition with their federal legislators irrespective of party affiliations, solely for the sake of their states.

All in all, the people must comprehend when, how and where to air their views as the journey progresses. They can’t continue to die in silence.

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