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Towards Nigeria’s “National Cybersecurity and Cyberwarfare Command”, NGCYBERCOM

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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In this piece, I had written a whitepaper for Nigeria’s “National Cybersecurity and Cyberwarfare Command, NGCYBERCOM”. Yes, you imagine a future and you just write even when no one is paying attention. Provided it is written you have your peace back. Here is the video but the whitepaper is a tome of academic scholarship.

The world has nuclear non- proliferation treaty, but none exists for cyberwar despite the potential economic dangers the latter poses to world commerce. Accordingly, many nations have started to deploy strategic commands to protect, defend and necessarily retaliate when their systems are attacked through cyber-means. The United States Pentagon has the Cyber Command inside the National Security Agency, the British has a similar unit inside the GCHQ. China, Iran, Russia, Israel, and many other nations have developed cyber-army to protect their economies.

For the complete Whitepaper, contact tekedia@fasmicro.com if you a paid subscriber to Tekedia with your subscription email.

Buhari’s Planned Second Term – The Agriculture Progress Thesis

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Many have commented after I noted that farmers are doing (paywall) well under Buhari. Sure, the disagreements are welcome provided they are not personal.  I have problems with the government but on agriculture, it has made progress. These are some of the comments:

  1. “His first 3 years have made many farmers richer [I know this because I work with them]”…Now, this is a very interesting irony – Rich Farmers in a Country where people can barely feed. Hmm! However, I know a Network Engineer, who put all his savings into starting a farm. He is financially challenged today and has had to abandon his farm because of herdsmen! Not just him alone, I know at least one other farmer that has now abandoned his farm for fear of terror. These guys did plan but in Nigeria, planning is challenged. Seriously, I am at a loss as to where this system is leading to. Please note, not Buhari as a person, but the system we have all conspired too put in place! I said this in 2015, even with so much optimism about the Buhari administration: “That the failure of the PMB administration would not be the blame of man Mohammadu Buhari, but the failure of the Nigerian state. This is because a people deserve the leader it gets. At 75 years old, do we all as Nigerians think PMB in this mould and stock is the kind of leader we need in the year 2019.
  2. If agriculture is the sole yardstick, has the President done better than Dr. Akinwumi – the agric minister in the last government? Besides who should do well? Farmers or the citizenry? It’s even contradictory to talk of doing well in agric when farmers across the land are being disturbed by herdsmen more than ever before. Or is agric all about animal husbandry where herdsmen are riding rough shod on other farmers’ shoulders? Please, even in educational systems globally, brilliance in just one subject is not enough for you to progress academically and in real life. So, for a holistic picture, assess him on the entire economy and security.
  3. Quite frankly, Buhari’s administration has been good for business in agriculture and also in terms of economic recovery. However, the only reason why we should settle for a discussion that assumes he will secure a second term is if we all conclude that there can be no better alternatives in the 2019 elections. In essence, if Nigerians are generally dreadful of another 4 years of the current administration, then it might be worthwhile to widen the scope to include other scenarios of business-oriented potentials under the leadership of other candidates that have emerged. My 2kobo opinion.

Some have noted how they started farming and have to fold because they could not make money. This is the point: I am not saying that a software engineer that wakes up and starts farming might have done well. Yes, there were teachers that started investing in stocks that lost money but that does not mean stock pickers have not made money [UBA has moved from N2.73 to N11 within 2 years].

If you are a farmer, and in a cooperative, government is providing support. The supports are coming from new seeds, fertilizers, mapping etc. But you must belong to a COOPERATIVE because government has to use scale to provide these supports. If you are a banker in Lagos running a farm by the side, and not in a cooperative, you may not get this help.

Also, the briefcase farmers [those invisible farms] are gone because government requires a FARM SURVEY from farmers before they provide funds. Suddenly, the big farmer cannot give a location of his farm. When government gives you money now, it knows the exact spot on earth that farm is located. And it tracks progress through technology.

Because the funds are tied to BVN, there is no hiding place for a crook.

The software engineer that runs a farm but is not part of a cooperative is like running a bank and not in the banker’s committee. Government cannot meet all farmers. It works through cooperatives. This is one way of bringing scale and professionalizing agriculture.

I am big on this. I do talk to people in the southern part of Nigeria to ask their governors to tap into the CBN agro fund. But most do not. But in the North, the governors commit to these funds. Most in the south do not bother [agriculture has never been a priority to most southern leaders]. You do not blame the President; you blame your governors. That is why in your village in Cross River, Abia, Oyo, etc, you see none of these programs. Your governors have shown no interest to agriculture.

Finally, the greatest favor Buhari did to farmers was restricting importation of many food items. That has helped many farmers to get loans since the demand is there. That is the basis of my point as I noted in the video where I noted that Buhari has done well to farmers. But that does not mean that he has been stellar in many other areas. Sure, being a president requires a broad vision. That is valid but on agriculture, they have a plan unlike other areas where I have not seen any clear execution strategy as I noted in the video.

I’m Hiring a Chief Medical Officer for My Health-tech Startup, Medcera

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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My health-tech startup, Medcera, is getting out of beta and would be launched to the whole public in coming weeks. We are looking for a Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of this company. Medcera is American venture-backed but is totally Nigerian.  I received funding from executives of JP Morgan Chase, KPMG USA, Boeing and other leading U.S. companies.

Our goal is simple: improve African healthcare delivery by simplifying the processes with technology. Medcera is absolutely free (unless you want minor brand customization) to doctors, clinics, labs, imaging centers, pharmacies, etc. We engineered a top-grade electronic healthcare record system with capabilities to connect to other healthcare nexus. Every patient has a portal to manage appointments, pay bills, chat his/her doctor, and more.

We make money through population-level AI driven health analytics which runs at the highest level of industry privacy and security. For example, Medcera can tell you how many people were treated for malaria yesterday in Nigeria for people in our network. That can help government plan. The era of guesswork in health policy-making is over.  We can detect an outbreak in real-time.

The CMO will report to me (Chairman, Fasmicro Group) and would lead business development and partnership interfaces with the healthcare sector. Because Medcera supports labs, pharmacies, imaging centers and indeed all elements of the healthcare sector, we are looking for someone who has taken that Hippocratic Oath, Board-certified and yet humble to connect with others (potentially lower) in the healthcare chain.

The job will either be in Aba or Owerri (we are also looking at Lagos though). But since this is a cloud-based solution, we are recruiting partners/networks across the country for physical validations of any practitioner in our network.

If interested, please email job@fasmicrogroup.com with your CV. Please help me share with people in your network.

About Medcera

To learn more about Medcera, please click here for our products, features and more.

The Job Description

Medcera is an Africa-focused cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform for doctors, partners and patients, with a mission of connecting doctors, partners, patients and data to drive better health and save lives. The mission of the firm is to redesign healthcare in Africa through process innovations. Our platform streamlines person-centered care/case and disease management and drives appropriate resource utilization through interdisciplinary collaborative workflows, broad spectrum interoperability, patient engagement, and configurable analytics and reporting. Medcera empowers healthcare organizations to achieve enhanced outcomes while maximizing efficiency, improving transparency, and lowering costs. For more information, please visit Medcera.com (still on beta).

The Position

  • Provide guidance with regard to matters pertaining to clinical data, medical interaction, and health regulations as they relate to the company’s products and services.
    • Provide operational support and serve as clinical advisor and educator to teams including sales and marketing regarding clinical and nonclinical events, clinical protocol development and design and evaluation of post market studies.
    • Envision the application of new and existing technologies in novel ways to solve complex medical problems.
    • Furnish advice regarding the specifications, usability, workflows, and procedures built into the company’s products and services.
    • Identifies opportunities for leveraging technologies for improving patient access, quality metrics and manages outcomes through evidence-based metrics.
    • Serve as a subject matter expert with regard to the usage, effectiveness, and suitability of the company’s products and services in various clinical settings.
    • Participate in high-level meetings and discussions with representatives from health plans, provider systems, integrated delivery networks, physician associations, hospitals, employer groups, health agencies, international health organizations or any other healthcare organization.
    • Engage with and support the company’s sales, business development, marketing and public relations effort.
    • Collaborate effectively with other company executives and add value with respect to strategic discussions, product refinements, and key business decisions
    • Keep ahead of emerging models in health care delivery.
    • Identify and design new innovative strategies to achieve business goals and objectives.
    • Develop and implement strategic goals related to quality improvement, management compliance programs and accreditation standards.
    • Assist with analytics and development of quality measures for new payment models including value based/ risk based structures.

The Candidate

  • Established reputation with combination of medical and administrative/management experience in a clinical setting
    • MD
    • Current unrestricted license to practice medicine, and Board certified
  • 3+ years clinical experience.
    • Extensive contacts within the industry covering a broad range of healthcare organizations.
    • Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills coupled with a demonstrated ability to effectively express complex technical and scientific concepts.
    • Comfort with the basics of IT and a high-level understanding of health information technology, including care management and population health management
    • Publication and public speaking experience.
    • Good understanding of quality metrics requirements and how technology can be used to monitor and improve metrics.
    • Demonstrated success in establishing clinical best practices and care models to achieve value based care standards.
    • Prior practice management, quality, data analytics and managed care experience.
    • Excellence in scientific rigor and clinical development skills.

The Compensation

  • Competitive salary
  • Opportunity to provide company-funded accommodation
  • Rapidly growing technology company with upside potential

If interested, please email job@fasmicrogroup.com with your CV.

 

 

Business-Oriented Perspectives of Potential Buhari Second Term [Video]

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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This video explains our perspectives on how a potential President Buhari second term presidency would look like for companies. His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that he would make himself available, again, for the office of the Presidency, Federal Republic of Nigeria. After that announcement, we have received many notes asking me to offer insights […]

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Business and Economic Analyses of Buhari’s Potential Second Term as Nigeria’s President [Updated]

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe
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Note: We have posted the video on a new post.

Dear Tekedia Subscriber,

His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that he would make himself available, again, for the office of the Presidency, Federal Republic of Nigeria. After that announcement, we have received many notes asking me to offer insights and perspectives on the business and economic implications of his declaration and (potentially) a second term of Mr. Buhari. By tomorrow, I will examine the implication of this announcement especially on the economy (and business) in the short term. Also, I will model the long term impact of Buhari second presidency on Nigeria.

Disclosure: I work for both PDP and APC governments, and support all candidates. Simply, I am apolitical. My service to Nigeria is sequestered from any political ideology.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019 for the highest office in Nigeria, the Presidency, Premium Times reports.

President Buhari made the declaration at a closed-door meeting of the National Executive Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The President said he was responding to the clamour by Nigerians to re-contest in 2019, adding that he wanted to give NEC the honour of notifying them first.

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