Driverless cars became a reality in 2017 and hardly anyone noticed

 Driverless cars  became a reality in 2017 and hardly anyone noticed 

On November 7, Waymo announced it would begin regularly testing fully driverless cars—without a safety driver—on public roads. It was a momentous announcement. A technology that had seemed like science fiction a decade earlier became a reality. And the announcement was greeted with a yawn by much of the media and the public—if they noticed at all.

A little more than a year ago, Alphabet announced that the Google self-driving car project was being re-organized as its own independent company called Waymo. Since then, we've seen a steady stream of significant announcements from the company. Days after the re-branding was announced, Waymo unveiled the Chrysler Pacifica minivans that would be the backbone of the company's testing efforts in 2017.

In April, Waymo launched its early rider program, an opportunity for ordinary families in the Phoenix metropolitan area to ride in Waymo vehicles. In June, Waymo signed a deal with Avis Car Rental to help manage Waymo's fleets of driverless cars.

October saw Waymo launch a PR campaign focused on the Phoenix area touting the potential benefits of driverless cars. The same month, Waymo submitted a report to the federal government explaining the various precautions Waymo has taken to ensure its vehicles are safe.

Until November, Waymo's cars always had a safety driver behind the wheel when they were on public roads in Arizona. On November 7, Waymo announced that it was going to start testing cars without a safety driver. There would still be a "pull over" button, but if the software malfunctioned in a serious way, there likely wouldn't be anyone able to grab the wheel quickly enough to prevent a crash.

National Archives: Thatcher and Major clashed over economy

Margaret Thatcher clashed with John Major over his handling of the economy, just weeks after she resigned as prime minister, government files reveal.

The National Archives' document shows the pair had a heated discussion in January 1991.

Mrs Thatcher warned her successor as PM that he was on the verge of making an "historic error" about interest rates.

She was also angry about his plans to abandon one of her signature policies, the poll tax.

Mrs Thatcher, who was Conservative prime minister between 1979 and 1990, had previously made clear Mr Major, who went on to serve as prime minister until 1997, was her chosen successor.

However, as time went on, and Mr Major spoke of his desire for "compassionate" Conservatism, she became suspicious that he intended to pursue his own course.

Mr Major wrote to Mrs Thatcher on Boxing Day 1990 and invited her to a meeting where they might air - and resolve - their differences.

During the meeting, which took place in Mr Major's room in the House of Commons on 3 January 1991, Mrs Thatcher warned that "excessively high" interest rates risked pushing the UK's economy into recession.

She compared the position to Winston Churchill's decision as chancellor in 1925 to fix the parity of the pound at a high level. This led to deflation, mass unemployment and the General Strike.

Thatcher's poll tax miscalculationBirmingham Six prison letter revealedThatcher refused to share flight with panda

"Mrs Thatcher said conditions on the economy were very tough indeed," the official minute of the meeting said. "She believed that there was a danger of repeating Winston Churchill's historic error."

Mr Major retorted that the situation in 1991 "was not remotely comparable".

But in September 1992, his government unsuccessfully prevented a devaluation of the pound and the currency was forced out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism (ERM) - a system for tying the pound and other currencies' values to that of the German mark.

It was a day that famously became known as Black Wednesday and was one of the low points of the premiership of Mr Major, who had been re-elected the previous April.

In the 1991 meeting, Mrs Thatcher made her views clear on Mr Major's decision to scrap the poll tax (officially known as the community charge), a policy that had triggered civil disobedience and riots, as well as a rebellion in the Conservative Party.

"Local authorities would draw the conclusion that it was such a bad tax they could put it up as much as they liked and blame the government," she said.

The National Archives in Kew, London, holds more than 11 million official documents, which are often opened as public records after 30 years. The government is reducing this timeframe to 20 years.

Other documents released by the National Archives reveal that:

Margaret Thatcher once refused to share a flight to Washington with London Zoo's male pandaShe was warned against inviting former US president Richard Nixon to Downing Street in 1980 - six years after Mr Nixon's resignation over the Watergate scandalJohn Major rushed out news that the Queen had agreed to pay income tax, in an attempt to deflect media criticism during her "annus horribilis" in 1992European officials considered plans to write off billions of dollars of Soviet debt in return for nuclear disarmamentOne of six men wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings branded the British legal system as unable "to spell the word justice"

Fuel Scarcity: Depot And Marketers Association Exposes NNPC's Lies

The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) has claimed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) lied to Nigerians on the ongoing nationwide shortage of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol.  The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association (DAPPMA) has claimed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) lied to Nigerians on the ongoing nationwide shortage of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol.                            

DAPPMA made the claim in a statement issued on Monday. Signed by its Executive Secretary, Mr. Olufemi Adewole, the statement rejected accusations of product hoarding leveled against DAPPMA members.                  

While DAPPMA explained that it can neither confirm nor dispute NNPC's claim of having sufficient product stock, the association said it can confirm that the products are not in the tanks of its members.                                

According to DAPPMA, there are always hitches in product distribution any time the NNPC assumes the role of sole importer of products. DAPPMA added that 80 percent of the country's functional product receptive facilities are owned by its members and such do not currently hold products.                          

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"The NNPC imports and distributes products through DAPPMA, Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) and Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN). Our members pay NNPC/PPMC (Petroleum Products Marketing Corporation) in advance for petroleum products and fully paid up PMS orders that have neither been programmed nor loaded are in excess of 500,000 metric tonnes (about 800,000 liters) as at today and enough to meet the nation's needs at a daily estimated consumption of 35,000 liters.

Our members' depots are presently empty. However, if the NNPC /PPMC provides us with PMS, we are ready to do 24 hours loading/truck out to alleviate the suffering of Nigerians until the fuel queues are eliminated," said DAPPMA. The association maintained that the NNPC has been the sole importer of the product since October for various reasons.

Among these, DAPPMA said, is the fact that the country currently runs a fixed price regime without any recourse to subsidy claims. It noted, however, that the international price of crude oil is beyond its control. DAPPMA stated that the current price of PMS is about N170 per liter, with the NNPC, importer of last resort, absorbing the attendant subsidy on behalf of the Federal Government.                      

"We understand that NNPC meets this demand largely through its DSDP platform framework. However, due to price challenges on the DSDP platform, some participants in the scheme failed to meet their supply quota of refined petroleum products, especially PMS, to NNPC. This is the main reason for this scarcity," explained DAPPMA.                        

It added that the current exchange rate of naira to the dollar is N306 for PMS importation, stating that banks also charge interest at a rate above 25 percent.

It further stated that this situation puts the landing cost of PMS at N145 per liter, which requires any of its members that imports would have to resort to subsidy claims, a policy already abolished by the Federal Government.

I Thought I Was 74 But Was Told I'm 75, Says Buhari

I thought I was 74 but was told I’m 75, says Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday stirred up a fresh controversy over his real age when he said he thought he was 74 but was told he was 75. Buhari spoke when the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Muhammed Bello, led a delegation to pay him Christmas homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The President, joined by state governors and other top government officials, celebrated his 75th birthday penultimate Sunday. He was said to have been born on December 17, 1942, in Daura, present day Katsina State. While thanking his guests for the visit, Buhari recalled the health challenge that kept him away from the country for months earlier in the year and admitted that 2017 had been a tumultuous year for him.

The President said he had recovered well from the sickness because he obeyed his doctors who instructed him to be eating and sleeping well. “But I have explained it to the public that as a General, I used to give orders. But now, I take orders. The doctors told me to feed my stomach and sleep for longer hours. That is why I am looking much better.”

Dollar Drops Below N400/$ For First Time In 7 Months

For the first time in seven months, the dollar fell below the psychological N400 barrier, when the greenback traded at N399 to the dollar in Lagos and exchanged at N395 in Abuja, lower than N410 at which it traded on Tuesday.With the gains made by the local currency in the last five weeks, the naira inched closer to one of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) key foreign exchange policy objectives of an exchange rate convergence.
The naira trades for N375 to the greenback for invisibles and at N307 to the dollar on the FX interbank market, the official window for manufacturers and importers of raw materials eligible to buy FX from this segment of the market.
The last time the naira traded at between N395 and N400 to the dollar on the parallel market was in August 2016.
The significant gains made by the naira on the parallel market, according to market analysts, was a reflection of the improved confidence in the FX market, following the sustained dollar interventions by the CBN since last month.
One analyst also attributed the gains made by naira to the Bureau de Change (BDC) operators that are awash with dollars and with little or no customers to patronise them.
He said several retail customers who used to resort to the BDCs (which realistically fund the parallel market) to fund invisible transactions now get to buy dollars at a lower rate from the banks.
“The BDCs are awash with cash. Remember that the central bank sold about $200,000 to each BDC at some point and they had also bought dollars at high rates which they hoarded, thinking that the naira would remain in a free fall. But with the CBN’s intervention, they are stuck with loads of dollars and little or no customers, so they have stopped buying dollars and are looking for avenues to offload what they bought at ridiculously high rates. Essentially, the speculative attacks on the naira has come back to haunt them and they’ve got their fingers burnt,” he said.
In all, the central bank has auctioned a total of $1.895 billion through forward sales, as well as targeted intervention for invisibles.
This amount does not include its daily intervention of $1.5 million on the interbank market.
The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday expressed optimism about the convergence of the FX rates on the official and parallel markets, stating that the gains made by the naira against the greenback in the last five weeks was not a fluke.
Emefiele said he was happy that the central bank’s intervention was yielding positive results.
“I am happy, indeed very gratified, that the interventions have been positive, we have seen the rates now converging and we are strongly optimistic that the rates will converge further. In terms of sustainability, I think it’s important for us to say that the foreign reserves at this time are still trending upwards to almost $31 billion as I speak with you. And the fact that we have done this consistently for close to five weeks, should tell everybody or those who doubt the strength of the central bank to sustain this policy,” he had said after the meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

Nasarawa Increases Retirees’ Pension To N5, 000

The Director-General of Nasarawa State Pension Bureau, Mr. Abdullahi Sani-Oseze, said on Saturday the state government has increased the minimum pension of retirees to N5, 000.
Sani-Oseze, who disclosed this in Lafia, said government made the adjustment in order to make life more meaningful for pensioners in the state.
He said some workers, who retired from active service before the implementation of minimum wage in the state, were receiving as low as N1, 000 as their monthly pension.
Sani- Oseze said: “So we consider the plight of this category of pensioners and reported to Governor Umaru Al-Makura, who directed that there should be an upward review of their pensions.
“No pensioner today in the state receives less than N5, 000 as his monthly pension.”
He said the Bureau had taken measures to address issues of some pensioners, who had not benefited from any payment since the inception of Al-Makura’s administration in 2011.
He said the agency had, through the media, directed that any pensioner, who had not received any payment since A-Makura came on board, should come to the Bureau’s office with necessary documents.
“We have given them one week to come forward with their documents and the response has been impressive.
“Those who were unable to come as at December 22 can still bring their documents after Christmas; we will still attend to them,” the pension bureau chief said.

Philippines tropical storm: More than 130 dead after flooding

Mudslides and flooding triggered by a tropical storm in the Philippines have killed 133 people, officials have said.

Dozens more are said to be missing.

The deaths were reported in various places including Tubod, El Salvador and Munai towns in Lanao del Norte province on the southern island of Mindanao.

"We're are still trying to confirm reports of a farming village buried by a mudslide due to heavy rains brought by the typhoon," said local official Ryan Cabus.

Power and communication lines have been cut, complicating rescue efforts.

The storm gathered strength over the Sulu Sea, bringing winds of up to 50mph, forecasters said.

It was heading west and would be out over the sea later on Saturday, they added.

Emergency workers, soldiers, police and volunteers were being mobilised to search for survivors, clear debris, and restore power and communications.

The Philippines is hit by around 20 major storms each year on average, many of them deadly.

Nobody has come forward for ‘Baby Harry’ who was abandoned in a park

He was wrapped in a white blanket and was taken to an east London hospital.

He is now being cared for by the local authority but police want to make sure that his mother is okay.

He was wrapped in a white blanket and was taken to an east London hospital.

He is now being cared for by the local authority but police want to make sure that his mother is okay.

New footage and pictures have been released showing an abandoned baby who was left in a park when he was newborn earlier this year.In a renewed appeal, officers have released new photos and footage of Harry, taken when he was about one month old.

Detective Inspector Debbie McCormack said: ‘It has now been three months since Harry was found. In that time we have been in constant contact with hospitals throughout London to see if Harry’s mother has sought medical attention but we have yet to identify her. We are growing increasingly concerned for her welfare.

I would reiterate our appeal to Harry’s mum – please come forward and let us know you are safe and if you need care and support, we can help you access this.

‘As you can see from the images, little Harry is doing well but we would urge anyone else with information, or who saw anything out of the ordinary in the Balaam Street area on that morning, to please come forward.’

Trump Signs Into Law U.S. Government Ban On Kaspersky Lab Software

Trump signs into law U.S. government ban on Kaspersky Lab software*

President Donald Trump signed into law on Tuesday legislation that bans the use of Kaspersky Lab within the U.S. government, capping a months-long effort to purge the Moscow-based antivirus firm from federal agencies amid concerns it was vulnerable to Kremlin influence.

The ban, included as part of a broader defense policy spending bill that Trump signed, reinforces a directive issued by the Trump administration in September that civilian agencies remove Kaspersky Lab software within 90 days.

In an attempt to address suspicions, the company said in October it would submit the source code of its software and future updates for inspection by independent parties.

It added that the company was assessing its options and would continue to "protect its customers from cyber threats (while) collaborating globally with the IT security community to fight cybercrime."

On Tuesday, Christopher Krebs, a senior cyber security official at the Department of Homeland Security, told reporters that nearly all government agencies had fully removed Kaspersky products from their networks in compliance with the September order.

Ugandan Lesbians to Be Deported from Denmark

Three Ugandan lesbians are set to be deported from Denmark after Danish authorities rejected their asylum requests citing serious contradictions in their stories, according to RT News.

However, the LGBT community and gay rights activists have criticized their deportation saying they automatically qualified for asylum since they were escaping persecution based on their sexuality.

“Homosexuals risk persecution from other civilians, their families and clan members as well as blackmail and assault. Homosexuals cannot expect police protection if they are attacked, threatened or killed,” said the spokesperson of LGBT Asylum, Hanne Gyberg.

Gyberg told Ritzau News Agency that it is the first time that LGBT Asylum, an international organization fighting for asylum for homosexuals, has faced a deportation of this nature.

Their sexuality was not considered in the rejections and we believe the Danish authorities should look at the cases again,” Gyberg added.

A lawyer representing one of the Ugandan lesbians has requested the Danish Refugee Appeals Board to appeal the decision on her client’s behalf saying she is an active and a known member of the LGBT community, which makes it dangerous for her to go back to Uganda.

On its part, Denmark’s ruling party, Venstre, has condemned, in general, the deportation of people escaping persecution based on their sexuality.

When people are considered to be persecuted in their home countries because of religion, sexuality or something else, we have a special obligation to protect them, Venstre’s spokesman Jacob Jensen said.

The three Ugandan lesbians moved to Denmark seeking refuge following an upsurge in homophobic attacks in Uganda after the country passed an anti-gay law in 2014.

Although it was later ruled as invalid by the constitutional court of Uganda, the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 criminalized any relationships between persons of the same sex.

The act condemned homosexuality saying it was a threat to “legal, religious and traditional family values of the people of Uganda.” It also recommended life imprisonment for gay people.

The aftermath of this law was an unprecedented rise in attacks on members of the LGBT community in Uganda, forcing many of them to flee the country.

Armed Robbers Seize UBA Bullion Van In Delta, Cart Away Millions Of Naira

There was pandemonium and panic Friday in Asaba, Delta State capital when daredevil armed robbers numbering over five attacked a bullion van around Koka junction along the Asaba-Benin Expressway and carted away a yet to be disclosed amount of cash, running into as much as several millions of naira.pandemonium and panic Friday in Asaba, Delta State capital when daredevil armed robbers numbering over five attacked a bullion van around Koka junction along the Asaba-Benin Expressway and carted away a yet to be disclosed amount of cash, running into as much as several millions of naira.

According to an eyewitness account, the heavily armed hoodlums, who came in a grey Sienna car, were seen shooting sporadically before overpowering the security personnel serving as escort to the bullion van said to belong to United Bank for Africa, (UBA), and thereafter took possession of the van and emptied its vault and zoomed off to an unknown destination.


A middle-aged man who narrowly escaped the armed robbers' bullets that left his car severely damaged, told our correspondent that "I want to thank God for saving my life. I witnessed how the armed robbery incident started. The whole incident started around 12noon at Koka junction along the Asaba-Benin expressway. The mobile policemen that were escorting the bullion van were overpowered and the driver of the bullion van quickly escaped."

"At this junction, the robbers quickly seized the van and emptied it before leaving. The sporadic shooting by the robbers made people running for dear lives. The incident also caused a serious hold up along the ever busy expressway. Before the police could arrive the scene the robbers have zoomed off with their Sienna car with serious gunshots into the air. I would have been a dead man by now if that bullet had touched me," the eyewitness said.

Our correspondent, gathered that, shortly after the successful operation, some policemen believed to have come from the Delta State Police Command drove the bullion van to the A Division Police Station, Asaba where it was parked for further investigation.

A police source who confided in our correspondent disclosed that the successful armed robbery operation was carried out with insiders connivance.

Several calls put across to the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Andrew Aniamaka, were rebuffed but when contacted as at the time of filing in this report, the state commissioner of police, Zanna Ibrahim said he has not been properly briefed and pleased for more time.

Edo street sweepers protest unpaid eight-months salary arrears

Edo street sweepers protest unpaid eight-month salary arrears

Street sweepers engaged by the Edo State Waste Management Board, under a public-private partnership arrangement, have staged another protest over the non-payment of their outstanding salaries. The protesters, who abandoned their morning duties, lamented that the state government had failed to pay their entitlements spanning seven months.

Armed with placards, the aggrieved workers marched through Kings Square, Akpakpava Road, and made a stopover at the press centre of the Nigerian Union of Journalists before heading for the Government House in Benin. The street sweepers had on November 2 taken to the streets to protest against the non-payment of their seven-month salary arrears.

One of them, Aigbe Jerry, alleged that the affected workers had been disengaged on the excuse that the job had been given to State Employment and Expenditure for Results (SEEFOR), an initiative for empowerment.

Actress' estranged husband says a bad wife kills faster than poverty

Mercy Aigbe's estranged husband's latest remarks on social media makes us wonder if they are ever going to come back.

Mercy Aigbe.  (Press)

Mercy Aigbe's estranged husband, Lanre Gentry might have just thrown some jabs at his wife as their separation trouble deepens.

The hotelier responded to a message posted by Yoruba Nollywood actor, Afeez Owo who asked a question on his Instagram page.

"Which one kills a man faster...poverty or Bad wife? be sincere with your answer, especially ladies," he wrote.

Well, it didn't take long before he started getting responses from a lot of people including Lanre Gentry who responded by saying "Bad wife."

This looks like the crisis rocking the marriage between Lanre Gentry and Mercy Aigbe might not be ending anytime soon.

The feud between these guys can be traced back to earlier in the year when Mercy Aigbe moved out of her matrimonial home with her two children and moved into an apartment in Magodo after alleged domestic violence in their matrimonial home.

It would be recalled that blogger Linda Ikeji had reported of the longtime domestic violence been experienced by Mercy Aigbe and how it had only gotten worse. She also reported that her nasty fight had gotten to the point where the actress had to be admitted to an undisclosed hospital.

The actress after the incident, took to her Instagram page where she put up a photo of a battered woman writing, "Say no to domestic violence. Only a Coward hits a woman! REAL MEN don't HIT!".

Her husband also went on the defensive with a post "say No to the promiscuous and irresponsible women."

We can cast our minds back as this wasn't the first time domestic violence allegations have trailed Mercy Aigbe's marriage. In 2013, it was reported that Mercy Aigbe was beaten up by her husband at a public event.

The estranged husband of Mercy Aigbe had on June, 2017 come out publicly to say he was tired of the back and forth relationship between him and his wife as he would love to make peace with her.According to him, he still loves her and would love for them to end their public spat for the sake of their children.

Security clampdown at The Hague amid fears of further suicides

Investigators at the UN’s war crimes court in The Hague are scrambling to seal security breaches amid fears other inmates will “do a Praljak”, copying the Bosnian Croat warlord who dramatically killed himself with cyanide last week.

Slobodan Praljak’s suicide, carried out in the dock and televised around the world, threatens to make a mockery of the court’s vaunted security procedures.

With Dutch police opening their own investigation, the tribunal has appointed Gambia’s chief justice Hassan Jallow to find out how Praljak, 72, obtained the bottle of potassium cyanide that Netherlands prosecutors said killed him.

The investigation is likely to start with the most glaring breach – the lack of any guard placed close enough to Praljak to snatch the cyanide from his grasp.

Most Hague trials have a blue-uniformed guard in the dock beside defendants: two were deployed to flank the famously irascible Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladić last month when judges convicted him of genocide for orchestrating the Srebrenica massacre.

Yet no guard was beside Praljak, who was sentenced to 20 years for a litany of crimes against Muslims during the Bosnian war, when he appeared in the dock along with four fellow Bosnian Croat defendants to hear appeals against hefty sentences rejected.

Just two security staff bookended the line of defendants in what was billed as the final act of the court before it closes its doors at the end of this month, and neither noticed the bottle Praljak held in front of him in his meaty hands.

After hearing his 20-year sentence confirmed by appeal judges, the bearded warlord declared “Slobodan Praljak is not a war criminal, I reject your judgment with contempt,” and thrust the contents of the bottle into his mouth.

Only when Praljak, tottering, his eyes glazed, slumped to his seat and announced “I have taken poison” did the judges react.

“There were normally two guards behind the accused … not this time,” said a Croatian official, who would not be named because they are not authorised to talk to the media. “The Croatian press says that perhaps the last day of the Tribunal contributed to the relaxing of rules.”

Investigators will want to know also how Praljak got the poison into the dock despite rules mandating strip searches and X-rays for defendants entering and leaving the court complex. Given the lethality of even small doses of cyanide, officials may count themselves lucky he used it only on himself.

Of concern to investigators is whether other convicts still awaiting appeals verdicts, by a successor court due to start work next month, may be tempted to take similar drastic action.

Suicide has long stalked the Hague tribunal, a byproduct of hefty sentences handed down for horrific crimes in the wars of Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.

Two Hague inmates, both Serbs, have hanged themselves in the cells of the court’s Scheveningen prison on the Dutch coast. Slobodan Milošević, Serbia’s former president and the Hague’s most high-profile defendant, was apparently able to smuggle an antibiotic into his jail cell to exacerbate a heart condition that killed him near the end of his three-year trial in 2006.

Visitors to the Hague’s fortress-like court building are subjected to X-ray searches, and liquids are supposedly banned, but judges have not introduced more intrusive body-cavity searches, fearing a public backlash.

“It’s like the airport security, it’s not all that intense,” says Dr Eric Gordy, of University College of London’s school of Slavonic and eastern European studies. “If the searches were more intense everybody would complain.”

Some fear the suicide will tarnish the successes of a court that has jailed dozens of war criminals and achieved a string of precedents in international justice, convicting those responsible for atrocities including ethnic cleansing, mass rape and the siege of Sarajevo.

Praljak, a theatre director who became a key leader of Bosnian Croat forces in the early 1990s, was convicted for crimes including the bombardment of the ancient town of Mostar and prisoner abuses. Yet the verdict has been declared a “deep moral injustice” by Croatian prime minister Andrej Plenković, believed to be the first declaration by the head of an EU government in support of a convicted war criminal. “This [suicide] will just cement what was already public opinion about the tribunal,” says Mina Vidaković of Sense news agency which is archiving Hague trial material. “In Serbia and Croatia the establishment and the media are more concerned about the accused than the victims.”

Others think the court’s legacy will survive. “I don’t think this strange and bizarre event will distract from the bigger story of the accomplishments of the tribunal,” said Balkans expert Tim Judah. “Its successes outweigh its failures.”

To Fix Nigeria We must Restructure Our Minds

: *To fix Nigeria, we must restructure our minds –Fela Durotoye*

In this interview with JESUSEGUN ALAGBE, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the GEMSTONE Leadership Centre, Fela Durotoye, says by 2025, Nigeria will become the most desirable country to live in

*_At what point in your life did you decide to become a life coach?_*

First, let me say that what I do today is the work of a nation-builder. A nation-builder is someone who has four characteristics in the form of ABCD. By A, it means someone who accepts responsibility for the well-being of their nation, not just their well-being and that of their family. No matter how well they are doing, if their nation is not doing well, they believe they are not also doing well.