The National Conference monday called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency in the power sector as part of strategies to arrest the deteriorating state of electricity supply in the country. While voting on recommendations of the Committee on Energy chaired by former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Rasheed Ladoja, the delegates directed owners of the privatised power compaines to work hard to improve power supply within the next two years.
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In Start Your Own Information Marketing Business, the staff at Entrepreneur Bookstore and writer Robert Skrob explain how to start and run a successful information marketing business. In this edited excerpt, the authors reveal five of the best ways you can create teleseminars that really connect with your audience. Presentation skills are critical to producing an engaging and interesting teleseminar that gets people to show up and to want more. Here's how you can make your teleseminars entertaining to your attendees:
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Since I wrote a book titled The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, I’ve been searching for a presenter -- at Apple or any other company -- who comes close to sharing Jobs’ presence on stage. It hasn’t been easy. Jobs was charismatic, inspiring, humorous, dramatic, engaging and polished, and his slides were beautifully designed. Apple is giving one vice president more time on stage and he’s the most compelling business presenter I’ve seen in a long time. His name is Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering.
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MTN has been rated among the top 500 global companies on corporate sustainability and environmental impact in the 2014 Newsweek Green Rankings. The rankings are one of the world’s most recognised assessments of corporate environmental performance. Newsweek partnered with Corporate Knights Capital and leading sustainability minds from non-governmental organisations and the academic and accounting communities, to complete the rankings.
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Despite the current low productivity in Africa’s agricultural sector, the World Bank believes the sector, which already employs about 70 percent of the continent’s people, has great future prospects. The global financial institution recently said agribusiness in Africa could be valued at $1 trillion in the next 16 years. The sector’s ability to empower the economies of many countries on the continent, advance food security and create jobs is palpable.
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Kenya is keen on reviving its leather and textiles sub-sector and has committing Sh3 billion ($34.1 million) toward growing capacity within the industry, Treasury Secretary, Henry Rotich has revealed. Rotich, who proposed the sum, stated that there exists a huge demand of about 28 million leather units in Kenya, but regretted that local production is incapable of meeting this gap, which had hitherto been reliant on imported supplies.
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A Middle East-based group of hackers has issued a threat warning of cyber attacks against oil, gas and energy companies in the Middle East, security firm Symantec has revealed. The threat, made by Anonymous, a politically motivated group of hacktivists, states that they are planning to attack before, during, and after June 20, 2014. This is due to Anonymous disagreeing with the US dollar being used as the currency to buy and sell oil, Symantec said.
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Travel Time: Under 4 hours from Atlanta Distance: 311 miles from Atlanta Type: Road Trip, Family, Adventure, Romantic
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Apple Inc reached an out-of-court settlement with U.S. states and other complainants in an e-book price-fixing class action lawsuit on Monday, effectively avoiding a trial in which the iPad maker faced more than $800 million in claims. U.S. District Judge in Manhattan Denise Cote ordered the parties to submit a filing to seek approval of their settlement within 30 days.
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Halidu-Giwa and Hussaina Saidu Mohammed, daughter of Ambassador Saidu Mohammed, was unique and classy in all ramifications. It was a beautiful climax of a friendship that started barely two years ago.
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