President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019 for the highest office in Nigeria, the Nigerian 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.
Shortly before making the declaration, the President presented a speech on the report submitted by the APC National Executive Technical Committee.
This has been expected – Buhari will go for second term: ‘Similarly, Ahmed Makarfi, former National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the People Democratic Party (PDP), said in a text message that: “It’s no news that he is contesting, it would have been news if he had announced the opposite.”’
Zenvus Boundary maps property boundaries and superimposes them on Google Earth, providing stunning visualizations of properly locations and perimeters. The resulting maps or surveys can be printed from Zenvus web portal. Property owners (land, farm, and house) can do this without any external help. This video explains all. We have franchising opportunities across Africa for those interested in helping farmers, landlords, etc to digitize their property perimeters and locations.
It does not require internet access to map the farm but requires one later for data transfer to Zenvus portal. You can map many farms before transfer in areas with no internet access.
NB: This solution has been used to support Zenvus farm sensors (focusing on governments and cooperatives at the moment) as we need farm boundaries to provide granular insights to farmers using Zenvus AI systems. Farmers with Zenvus hardware do not need the app, just put the sensor in boundary mode and walk round your farm; the map will be done.
This coming week, we will take one product we have used with governments and cooperatives around Africa to the retail consumer market. Zenvus Boundary maps farm, land or house perimeter boundaries, calculates the areas and populates the data onto Google Earth. And from Zenvus portal, the surveys can be downloaded or printed. It supports cooperatives, governments and individual farmers enabling these entities to have survey data at a fraction of the typical cost of surveys. Any person that uses smartphone or tablet can easily use this app to map a farm, land or house perimeter in any location.
It does not require internet access to map the farm but requires one later for data transfer to Zenvus portal. You can map many farms before transfer in areas with no internet access.
We have set the price of using this solution to map a farm, land, or house perimeter with the survey printed on Zenvus portal at $20 (N7,000 Nigerian naira) per property to maximum of 5 acres [for example, 6 acres would be captured as two farms, for $40]. You would have the opportunity to include your name, LGA, National Identity Number, etc.
We also have franchising/agent opportunities. It requires a one-time license fee [email for details] and offers 80% royalty on sales [You charge the farmer $20 but you send 20% to us while keeping 80%].You would have an enterprise account which will make it possible to map thousands of farms. If you are interested, contact zenvus@fasmicro.com. Note: our team has demo logins you can request via email to see how the system works and how you could build a business with Zenvus Boundary.
You can download the app here on Google Play.
Sample Report with Zenvus Boundary for Enterprise customers. (Farm and Farmer are Property and Property Owner respectively in updated version)
Note: This technology was originally developed to map and survey perimeters of farms and farmlands for farmers. Though it can be used for perimeter of houses, lands, farms etc, we do not claim that it can be used in your jurisdiction for other purposes. People that want to see the boundaries of their properties (farm, land, home) have found the solution useful as we overlay that survey on Google Earth visualizing the whole experience. You may need to contact your government before you plan to use it for other purposes.
Every farm that has been mapped with Zenvus technology is automatically optimized for deployment of our sensors. We use the perimeters of the farms to know where the AI / analytic should focus as they communicate with farmers. We do not want to waste time analyzing the farmland of your neighbor; we only need yours and this mapping makes that possible.
Sure, there is no harm having the perimeter of that empty land, your home, etc all superimposed on Google Earth. There is nothing in a Surveyor General report that is not in this work except that no one is my office has a paid membership of the association. Yes, we do not have the stamp. So, do not ask.
Building a new business requires preparation. In this video, I present the phases. A key phase is the accumulation of capability phase. If you do not have it, you cannot monetize it.
If you are also interested to learn more about accumulation of capability, watch this video below. I have used Dangote to illustrate all the elements at enterprise level.
Everyone will steal your idea. All the big industry players will hijack the vision. And that is why you have not started that business. Possibly, you may never start. And the world will continue to move on.
You fear your typist. You fear the graduate. You fear everyone. Then, you fear yourself.
Get a life, there is nothing new in this world. Pythagoras, Faraday, etc invented everything long ago. We are just combining them more efficiently using legal systems to make money. If Euclid had patented geometry and al-Khwarizmi Algebra, in perpetuity, we would not have computers and cellphones. That the world allowed us to monetize their ideas and inventions primarily to unlock capital should not make you feel most things are new.
Yes, innovation = invention + commercialization.
The men that pioneered most things died poor. Most of their families could not even afford graves for them. They were inventors and they invented. Yes, inventing things or coming up with ideas do not make you rich. It is innovating on things that do.
There was a time when the world was full of ideas but no products and services. They fixed that by making it possible for those with money to bring them to commercialize things [they gave the capital to those with ideas, making it possible that ideas became products and services]. Simply, the world invented the patent system to make it possible that capital can flow to commercialize ideas. The U.S. awarded the first patent to Samuel Hopkins on July 31, 1790.
With capital secured via patent, the inventions move to innovations. And the world economy grew. With that growth, human welfare improved.
Technology penetration or diffusion has been a catalyst to this global economic redesign. Technology anchors innovation which typically drives productivity gain. Before 1500 AD, the world was largely an inventive society with so many ideas but little products and services for people to buy. Of course, during that period, the world experienced great scientific discoveries, demonstrating that mere expansion of scientific output does not necessarily give rise to improvement in the welfare of citizens.
Abu al-Khwarizmi, the Father of Algebra, had lived centuries before (780 to 850 AD), pioneering modern Algebra. Yet, in Baghdad, the land was poor.
Gross World Product (notice the bump after the patent system began)
Critically, nothing is really new. That you put Euclid equations on Python or C++ does not make it any better. That we allow you to patent that modification does not mean the world is stupid. Simply, that is the only way to get men with money to release it, to innovate on that idea, so that market needs are met. If not, no commercialization and we would have a society of ideas but no product [hello Nigeria].
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The deal is not just the idea. The deal is executing that idea. Everyone knows that Nigeria needs electricity, good roads, nice bridges, faster Internet, etc. That you know that does not make you special. The question is really ‘Who can make them happen?”
Now, get out of that fear. Go out and begin. Connect with right people, you would be fine. And where you feel there are reasons to protect the ideas, visit the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and get the necessary protections via patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc. We have them in the nation.
