Saturday, May 23, 2009

When the Nigerian government loves you- you get head lice

Do you know what a headlice is, gosh that thing can take the sun out of a beautiful saturday. They keep gnawing and gnawing at your scalp until you give up or kill them.That's the new threat that Okada(motorbike) users like myself face today. The Government has mandated that both the driver and the passenger of the motorbike must wear an helmet a good thing. But wearing a public helmet is like using a public toilet that isnt well maintained. Well, the Nigerian Government has declared that we should all wear helmets now, such awesome love or Could we all be leaving in a conundrum of beautiful lies. The Government who doesnt care that armed robbers would not allow us enjoy our night rest with the other eye closed suddenly loves us so much that they ensure we wear helmets. Don't want to be cynical but it seems someone has replaced the s in sense with a d.Helmets?No teach the Aboki( Motorcycle driver) how not to drive an Okada, those guys are not from around here, they are cats, cause I think they can beat death to it's game nine times.anyway please someone, anyone help us tell the Dovernment to start issuing Cyclers license maybe that will save us.

the 3D vision

Hi All,earlier this year after Acumenfund refused to make me a fellow( now I realised how badly I wanted that). I decided that I was going to take some time off the development path and try to get rich.I figured that if I could have my own millions to throw around, I wouldnt need to throw proposals around trying to get funds to power my ideas.Well despite all that I am back working on another model that seeks to solve the problem of development using technology. Here's the Idea:

The 3D: The developer, development and the developing world.The developer is anyone that can articulate a solution to a well defined problem, while development in this case will be the solutions that are developed as a result of the ideas of the developer.

THE SITUATION NOW
The general approach in attempting to solve Africa’s problem had always been to transfer an already successful solution from another part of the world to Nigeria. However this approach has suffered a lot of setbacks because it doesn’t put into consideration the local reality of the target population.
WHAT WE PROPOSE?
3D’s vision is to approach this problem from the local reality in essence you discuss what the problem is and we can together create a TECHNOLOGY based solution for it. This approach will definitely solve the dead aid quagmire in which Nigeria and the continent has always found itself.
KINDLY LET US REASON TOGETHER
A computer programmer is a developer who can use the computer to create solutions to problems based on the problem definition they had received.
Who prepares the problem definition?
The person who understands the problem most and can articulate its solution best.
What are we saying?
We are saying that even more important that the Computer programmer is the person who understands the problem to be solved. This is exactly what 3D is championing. 3D sees a future where everyone can see themselves as a developer no matter their discipline or educational achievement. 3D wants to help beat the fear of the non-techie folks and encourage them to come forward with their developmental ideas so that a perfect team can be form to deliever the best solutions and develop our country there by.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

we too get mouth

I had wondered about the Man Barack Obama many times like over a billion people across the world, and I would like to conclude that one of his strongest attributes is his Charisma. The man has swagger, if he was a rapper he'd end the Career of Jay-z in eight bars( that's half of a verse approximately 25seconds) . I really like to think that so many people across the world are smart enough to be America's president but swagger which is a street word for confidence, rapport and that thing that makes you like someone the moment you met them is a natural gift for many black men.Maybe in some infinite time if the world had one president and we had an inter-galatical meeting of universe leaders the black people would be inevitably the best candidate.

Ofcourse i cannot verfiy this claim, and establish that black people are the most swaggermatic people on earth,but then I got to reinforce my hypothesis last month when Olamide John akinrope, a 15 year old Nigerian Immigrant was voted young mayor in North Tyneside, Britian(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7965038.stm). He won 51 young people between the age of 11 - 17years in that race and he had barely spent two years in North Tyneside. whao could I be right afterall - I wish ,but then it all points to the fact that there is something after this black people that is yet to be discovered, uncovered and recovered but when this is done, it would change reality as we know it. I can't for the renaissance to begin.