Microsoft 4Afrika has announced a new collaboration challenge with AfriLabs to increase knowledge sharing across the hub network in Africa and spur innovation thereby increase support for tech-entrepreneurs. AfriLabs is a pan-African work of technology and innovation hubs promoting the growth and development of the African technology sector. The labs serve as an accessible platform for bringing together technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers within the community. Each lab shares a focus on young entrepreneurs, web and mobile-phone programmers and designers. AfriLabs also connects tech hubs with investors and entrepreneurs.
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Nigerian equities are set to close the third quarter of 2014 on a bearish note. Stocks fell near a four-month closing low of 40,819.72 points on Friday, as a weaker naira hurt by falling global oil prices dampened appetite for equities. The NSE All Sahre index is down 1.33 percent year-to-date as heavyweight banking and cement stocks have failed to rally.
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ondo State Chapter has set up a nine-man committee to liaise with the national leadership of the party on the movement of the state Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to the party. A chieftain of the PDP and the Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, disclosed this to journalists in Ikare-Akoko during a chat on the outcome of the meeting of the Ondo North senatorial district of the party.
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The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday disowned Mr. Adejumo Agbaje, who filed a suit challenging the eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 presidential election. In a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani and obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the PDP said Agbaje was not a consequential member or leader of the party in the state.
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About 600 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislators in the 36 state Houses of Assembly in the country have backed party’s decision to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 presidential election. The legislators, who met on the platform of PDP State Legislators’ Forum at the weekend in Abuja, passed a vote of confidence on the party’s leadership at all levels. In a communique issued at the end of the meeting, the lawmakers said they have all resolved to endorse the president as the sole candidate of PDP in 2015 based on the success rate of his transformation agenda.
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More reactions yesterday trailed the attack on a sitting judge in Ekiti State by suspected supporters of the state Governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, with the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) expressing anger over the incident. The CNPP called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and Chairman of the National Judicial Council (NJC), Justice Aloma Mukhtar, to relocate the two courts to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, for speedy dispensation of justice.
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Every successful entrepreneur had to conquer many self-limiting beliefs before they could grow their business. These beliefs may be buried deep in your mind, or maybe you’ve verbalized them, but these self-limiting beliefs will keep your business from realizing it’s full potential. There will always be areas of your business where you can learn and improve. A wise entrepreneur said, “An expert is a student first.” However, there’s a difference between always striving for improvement and staying stuck with self-limiting beliefs.
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While there are hundreds of Google how-to guides online, written both by savvy bloggers and Google itself, the advertising giant has a few skeletons in its closet that are rarely talked about. After all, Google AdWords is the ever popular advertising platform - or is it? 1. Google AdWords is no longer working as it did.Marketers from all over the world have been noticing that conversion tracking on AdWords is becoming increasingly more difficult. The fact that it is a global phenomenon is as unique and significant as the reason why. During the last couple of months, social media has finally interrupted the decision making process and significantly impacted the trackable AdWords conversion rate.
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Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training was both the best and worst time of my life. It was awful in the sense of pain and suffering, but also a blast (pun intended) because of that pain and suffering. What made the six-month selection course tolerable was having a sense of humor. Let’s be candid, SEALs tend to have a sick sense of humor. I remember telling and hearing jokes in the middle of gunfights because, as a SEAL, you just don’t pass up the opportunity to tell a good joke (and if you can do it at your buddy’s expense, even better).
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After working for so many years in a particular area, you may want to experience life elsewhere as you enter into another phase of your life. It may also be a way of starting over and reinventing yourself. Better still, you could be saving a lot of money that will enable you enjoy luxury you would not have been able to afford if you stayed back in the city where you worked. With relocating abroad now easier than it has been in recent times, due to developments in travel and technology, more people are choosing to do so as they reach retirement age. Global property portal Lamudi has therefore put together a list of the top locations to retire to around the world.
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