Yesterday, I accepted the invitation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) team to attend a special “Launch event” in New York at the UN Secretariat on Sept 22. If you are in New York, and there is something big happening, email my team and we can explore to connect.
My Harvard Business Review editor just approved a piece. It is a really nice article on industrialization, single currency, China – and yes AfCFTA (the African trade agreement). Depending on your HBR subscription, it will be up next week. For my Vanguard Newspapers-anchored workshop, we will be looking at the thesis of this particular piece from the nexus of digital in Africa. Vanguard will begin promoting the event on print and online in the coming days. One of our Directors, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, Mr. Gbenga Bamiji, will drive the program with me. Continue to email to my team so that we will inform you once the registration goes live.
Something big is coming. I want you to hold that training budget intact [do not spend it yet] because I will run a workshop in coming weeks under a partnership with Vanguard Newspapers. I promise you that it would be SUPERB. The location is Lagos – the centre of excellence. I will co-learn and co-share with the participants on the mechanics of business as we walk through innovation, growth, and digital.
Nigeria is a great country that is full of milk and honey. The giant of Africa, no doubt.
But the political system is really worrying. They said politics begin at home. Yes, I believe this. We are all politicians. We practice it at home, work and even church. Let’s take a look at this, a father who favours one child over another already portrays an act of politics.
According to history – Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century.
Despite election has been around for decades, our registration and voting system still has numerous problems. During this year’s election, some voters experienced many difficulties. Some polling centers ran out of ballot paper. Some of the voting machines did not work. The registration database contained errors which prevented some from voting. Millions of disabled voters were not able to vote. In some cases, voters stood in line for hours. Other problems occurred at some polling centers including altercations.
I was opportune to work as a Presiding Officer during my NYSC Program in Kano this year, 2019. Many corp members see it as an avenue for making money. Everyone was asked to sleep at the RAC center in order to collect all the materials. I couldn’t sleep overnight because of unexpected violence that can occur at any time.
As usual, many lives were lost. The annoying part was, INEC promised to pay 30,000 for the two elections that were conducted but failed to redeem it. Instead, they paid based on random selection. What about the people that lost their lives during the course of the election? Nobody remembers them except their family and friends. If INEC couldn’t pay the living, I doubt that if they would remember the victims.
One more thing, I realize that many people are scared to come out during election time. They don’t want to endanger their lives. In a situation like this, we need an online voting system.
There are many advantages which could be made possible with Internet voting. There would be an increase in the number of voters as they would enjoy convenience just like they have in many aspects of lives – banking, healthcare, education, entertainment, and e-commerce. Our overseas citizens can also vote from anywhere in the world without having to rely on the outdated paper ballot and postal system.
Going for online voting will surely reduce the high rate of violence during election time, reduce election manipulation and also increase the number of voters.
I don’t know if it’s possible to implement online election, but I think we should give it a try. We are Nigerian. The giant of Africa.
God bless Nigeria!
Massive registration since we launched Medcera fully. Thank you all for the support.
Medcera is a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) system with patient and healthcare professional modules, supporting patients, doctors, labs, imaging centers, pharmacies, health insurers and other healthcare institutions.
Our solution is free unless we have to do customization and training for the partner. Medcera meets HIPAA compliance on security and privacy. With Medcera your health record will be in one location irrespective of where you live and travel to. We also have a messaging system to work with doctors, and other health practitioners.
Medcera CareAI is coming – it will offer families the capabilities to have “digital doctors” which can help them on minor health issues. Put your symptoms via our simple questionnaire, our CareAI will analyse and relying on your health records will make recommendations on treatment. It will prescribe drugs on basic health issues if our model passes a certain confidence interval. The prescription will be sent to the default Pharmacy in your patient Medcera dashboard. If below the interval, it will call our on-call doctor who can then help the patient. For all that, we will ask for a very small annual plan.
I will be happy if you can create an account on login.medcera.com and sign-up. We are growing. Recommend Medcera to your doctor, lab, imaging, pharmacy and more.
According to the SDG Action Campaign, Our world and our future are under threat from persistent poverty, growing inequality, and the climate crisis. We’ve made some progress but nowhere near enough to deliver on the promises made by all nations in 2015 to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and create a future of peace and prosperity on a thriving planet, with no-one left behind. We have to accelerate and rejuvenate efforts if we are to achieve these Goals.
The Global Week to Act for SDGs is an annual call to action for individuals and organisations across the world to accelerate action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs – also known as Global Goals).
The Global Week to Act for SDGs rallies public support for the Sustainable Development Goals throughout the world while world leaders are meeting at the UN Headquarters for five milestone UN Summits: the Climate Action Summit, the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, the first-ever SDG Summit after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development and the SAMOA Path-way Midterm Review.
The Global Week to #Act4SDGs will connect activations taking place in thousands of cities and communities across the globe with world-leaders gathered in New York, calling for acceleration on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
A pharmacist by training, Adaku who has a strong passion for Campaign /Advocacy, was appointed ONE Youth Ambassador for UK in 2019. ONE is a global movement campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030, so that everyone everywhere can lead a life of dignity and opportunity. ONE’s proudest accomplishment includes – Helping secure at least $37.5 billion in funding for historic health initiatives, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Her role as ONE Youth Ambassador sees her campaigning for world leaders to replenish the global fund and help fight extreme poverty and preventable diseases like AID’s, Malaria and TB especially in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Focusing on goal 3- (Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages), Adaku advocates for Universal Health Coverage and better healthcare systems, calling Governments to action towards health promotion.
Through her health promotion initiative-Ask Your Pharmacist with Adaku (AYPWA), she would be providing public health education and support to the community, encouraging people to engage in healthy lifestyles and self-care during the Global ACT4SDGs week (September 20th-30th).
Adaku is a self-care champion for the UK Self-Care forum; she is also a guest/regular contributor to many international tabloids -Thisday News Nigeria, Vanguard News, Author at Tekedia, Author at business Africa News online; her articles are centered on good health and well-being, health promotion, disease prevention and good governance