Africa In Focus

Africa In Focus: "The mainstream thinking now is that Africa is different and we could get it right if we want. The choice is fully ours, and it is now time for us to define what we want."

African Development Bank (AFDB) President, Dr. Donald Kaberuka.

Monday 17 June 2013

Motorola Solutions Expands Business In Nigeria



As part of its growth plan on the continent, American data communications and 
As part of its growth plan on the continent, American data communications and telecommunications equipment provider, Motorola Solutions, has introduced new Enterprise Mobility products into the Nigerian local market.

Known for its mission-critical communication solutions and services that are tailored for enterprise and government customers, Motorola Solutions will offer in Nigeria its full portfolio of next generation enterprise mobility solutions including: rugged mobile computers and enterprise class smart-phones; advanced mobile scanning and imaging solutions and a robust line of barcode scanners and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers.

The solution provider will also present its Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) solution for businesses.

The company credited its $200 million acquisition of Psion as a strong factor that helped it flesh out the mobile computing portfolio and gain deep expertise in the manufacturing, industrial and supply chain sectors where Psion has traditionally been very strong.

While making the announcement last week, General Manager for Motorola Solutions Enterprise in Africa, Carlos Ferraz, assured that the expanded lines of solutions would support the needs of Nigeria's developing business sector.

"Motorola Solutions is positioned to serve as a strategic partner of the growing Nigerian business sector, supplying the widest lines of products, including new Psion devices, Wi-Fi systems and many others innovative products", Ferraz said.

The company has contracted Westcon Africa and other partners to market the products.



Friday 14 June 2013

Entrepreneurial Nugget From A Botswana Writer



Having been a struggling entrepreneur and writer, the best advice I can give to anyone is, don’t wait for anyone to give you a big break, and don’t think anyone will give you an oppourtunity. I wasted so many years going around submitting proposals, doing presentations. And what did I get in return, a stack of rejection letters, and many empty promises. It is only when I stopped looking to anyone, and realised that I needed to create my own big breaks, when I decided that I did not need anyone to give me opportunities, that I would create them for myself, and that I would finance my own dreams that I began to see some progress.

The other thing is learning to start small, and growing organically, even if you have to start with a tuck shop, start with that, the big dreams and idea will follow.

-          Barolong Mouwane; Author of “The Good Dictator.”

Astrium Shares Breakthrough Technology With African NGO Partners and Entrepreneurs



Astrium’s “ALM with Africa” initiative, launched in partnership with the NGO Songhai, aims to encourage the uptake of sustainable additive layer manufacturing (ALM) technology in Africa

Songhai is an NGO created in 1985 to encourage economic development in Africa based on sustainable socio-economic entrepreneurship and capacity building.  Songhai is a centre for training, production, and research.
The “ALM with Africa” first pilot phase is launched this week in Porto Novo, Benin, with a comprehensive workshop to identify industrial and training needs with partners

Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM, aka 3D printing) builds a solid, three-dimensional object from a series of layers of material (powder, polymer or metal). Astrium is developing and qualifying ALM for space applications

ALM is used to manufacture parts for a variety of applications: automobile, tooling, drills, pumps, medical devices… This technique uses fewer raw materials, saves energy and generates less waste

Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, took its commitment to the “ALM with Africa” initiative a step further this week. The program’s first pilot phase is launched in Porto Novo, Benin, with a comprehensive workshop to open the dialogue between participating parties and identify industrial and training needs. Sustainable development NGO based in Benin Songhai, is the key partner in this project. The aim of the “ALM with Africa” initiative is to encourage the uptake of affordable, autonomous, and sustainable additive layer manufacturing (ALM) technology by SMEs, NGOs and universities in Africa.
Discussions in Porto Novo will focus on learning when, and how, ALM is most suited for parts manufacturing and identifying the training and technology transfer requirements to build capability and capacity within the African entrepreneur community.

Christian Désagulier, “ALM with Africa” Project leader at Astrium said: “We are always looking at bringing new players into space - and thanks to “ALM with Africa”, we will see new technologies being used and new suppliers emerging ready to meet the needs of the industry. Much more than simple corporate citizenship, the “ALM with Africa” initiative is also in line with European Union green manufacturing directives and European Space Agency (ESA)’s Clean Space sustainability objectives. We look forward to working more closely with our African partners.”

Rev. Godfrey Nzamujo, Director of Songhai, added, “Songhai’s ambition is to promote economic development in Africa with a focus on sustainable socio-economic entrepreneurship.  We believe that poverty will only be eradicated when we embark on broad-based, inclusive development initiatives. Our partnership with Astrium will help build capability and capacity, including the appropriate leadership and management skills to boost the creation of wealth in Africa.”

There is significant need for manufacturing and repairing mechanical parts used in a variety of applications: engines, tooling, drills and pumps for water management, compressors for energy use, prosthesis for the health sector. Individual parts can be designed and produced quickly and affordably; easily replicated as required.

Parts for the space sector, in particular launchers, could also be ordered after a clear assessment of skills, quality and cost criteria compliant with Astrium’s specifications and quality assurance requirements.

Additive Layer Manufacturing is particularly appropriate for developing economies and as an eco-efficient manufacturing process. This technology meets the UN’s Millennium Development Goals to ensure environmental sustainability and develop global partnerships for development.

Astrium will pursue this initiative and work on raising funds to implement the upcoming phases: education and training, building capacity, and industrialization. The company aims to support its African partners in providing training, materials, and the appropriate ALM machines.


 Press Release

Ahead Of MDG 2015: Africa Still Lag Behind In Eradicating Poverty



Even though Africa will most likely not meet all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the continent has shown remarkable progress. But Africa still lags when it comes to targets like eradicating poverty.


Fifteen African countries are among the top 20 nations which have made the greatest progress toward reaching the MDGs. Overall, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Namibia have done exceptionally well according to a report published by the African Union (AU), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the African Development Bank. Most of the African countries are expected to meet four of the eight targets: They will have achieved universal primary education, made strides toward gender equality and pushed forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases.

"If you just look at the progress achieved so far, one has to say that Africa has worked its way up to the leading pack," said Lena Giesbert of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA).

That doesn't mean, however, that all goals are going to be met by 2015. On a global scale, the continent was in a rather weak state when the MDGs were agreed on. That's why recent progress is "surprising in a positive way," Giesbert said.
Rwanda has done especially well, according to Ayodele Odusola, a policy advisor at the UNDP's Regional Bureau for Africa who was involved in preparing the report. The country has pushed hard to empower women and introduced a 30-percent quota for female members of parliament in 2003.
"Look at the number of women in national parliament - Rwanda has the largest in the world," said Odusola, adding that around 56 percent of the members of parliament are now women.

More kids in primary school
Some of the goals go hand in hand - for instance, empowering women can also be achieved by educating girls. Providing primary education to all children is another target Africa is expected to achieve. According to the report, enrolment rates have increased to over 90 percent in most African countries. Niger managed to boost its enrolment rates by 100 percent since 1990, Odusola said.

It's important to make sure kids start school at the right age, that they attend classes regularly and that they actually graduate, said Susan Karuti, regional education advisor for the MDG center at the Columbia Global Centers in Nairobi.

"We have structures like the community education workers, who go from door to door or hold community forums," Karuti said. "The idea is to have community members who understand these families, who know about the special needs in each of the communities."

School meal programs that provide children with a warm meal and reducing the distances to schools have helped convince parents to send their kids.
It's also crucial to keep girls in school; they tend to stop attending classes for various reasons, sometimes because they get married at a young age or they begin menstruating but lack the necessary sanitary products.

"We've been intervening as well as far as that is concerned to provide that particular gadget that they need to keep them in school," Karuti said.

Now, that enrolment rates are up, the focus needs to shift toward providing better quality of education, Karuti said. "Our next focus will be looking at 'How do we improve both numeracy and literacy skills?'"

Another remarkable success has been achieved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, the report found. Bed nets with insecticides have helped prevent malaria; better access to antiretroviral drugs has helped suppress the HI virus. Much has been done to prevent mother-to-child-transmission, said Maureen Adudans, regional HIV/AIDS advisor for the MDG center.
But challenges remain.

"We still have to remember and acknowledge the fact that much of the epidemic - or a number of the people who are affected by this epidemic - still remain within Africa," Adudans pointed out.

Prevalence rates still remain higher among women, she said, adding that women still account for 60 percent of new infections within the continent.
Usually it is men who decide matters of contraception and protection against sexually-transmitted diseases in a relationship, Adudans said, adding: "We are still not quite where we would want to be in terms of women empowerment and what women can do in terms of stepping up and access health care services."

Many targets are not going to be met
Despite the fast pace in racing toward achieving the MDGs, Africa as a whole won't succeed in reducing extreme poverty and hunger by half. In 2010, 48.5 percent of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa were living below the extreme poverty line - that means getting by with less than $1.25 (0.95 euros) a day. In 1990, extreme poverty stood at 56.5 percent.
GIGA's Giesbert said that it's crucial to differentiate between the individual African nations.

"Countries such as Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have experienced growth that has not been fed by the resource sector alone. Other countries have been left behind in terms of poverty reduction," she said. "Little growth and little poverty reduction can be observed in Sahel countries such as Niger, Chad, Mali or Burkina Faso, but also other countries in West and Central Africa due to economic and political instability."

But Africa has made significant progress even when it comes to those targets that are likely not going to be met by 2015 - like improving maternal mortality rates. According to the UN's Odusola, rates were reduced by 42 percent - well short of the 75 percent by which they were supposed to drop.

He points to the Safe Motherhood Program in the Nigerian state of Ondo as a success story. It provides pregnant women with mobile phones to reach nurses and doctors 24/7 and allows them to request house calls. Mozambique has taken another route, providing mothers-to-be with "waiting homes," where they have access to free drugs, free treatment and free maternal care, Odusola said.

In terms of post-2015 development goals, Odusola says Africa needs to continue to tackle different forms of inequality: Income inequality, gender inequality, inequality between rural and urban centers.

That view is echoed by GIGA's Giesbert who says Africa certainly is on the right track. "One shouldn't look at MDGs as an ultimate goal for 2015 but rather as a milestone."



Source: dw.de

Ahead Of MDG 2015: Africa Still Lag Behind In Eradicating Poverty



Even though Africa will most likely not meet all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the continent has shown remarkable progress. But Africa still lags when it comes to targets like eradicating poverty.


Fifteen African countries are among the top 20 nations which have made the greatest progress toward reaching the MDGs. Overall, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Namibia have done exceptionally well according to a report published by the African Union (AU), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the African Development Bank. Most of the African countries are expected to meet four of the eight targets: They will have achieved universal primary education, made strides toward gender equality and pushed forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases.

"If you just look at the progress achieved so far, one has to say that Africa has worked its way up to the leading pack," said Lena Giesbert of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA).

That doesn't mean, however, that all goals are going to be met by 2015. On a global scale, the continent was in a rather weak state when the MDGs were agreed on. That's why recent progress is "surprising in a positive way," Giesbert said.
Rwanda has done especially well, according to Ayodele Odusola, a policy advisor at the UNDP's Regional Bureau for Africa who was involved in preparing the report. The country has pushed hard to empower women and introduced a 30-percent quota for female members of parliament in 2003.
"Look at the number of women in national parliament - Rwanda has the largest in the world," said Odusola, adding that around 56 percent of the members of parliament are now women.

More kids in primary school
Some of the goals go hand in hand - for instance, empowering women can also be achieved by educating girls. Providing primary education to all children is another target Africa is expected to achieve. According to the report, enrolment rates have increased to over 90 percent in most African countries. Niger managed to boost its enrolment rates by 100 percent since 1990, Odusola said.

It's important to make sure kids start school at the right age, that they attend classes regularly and that they actually graduate, said Susan Karuti, regional education advisor for the MDG center at the Columbia Global Centers in Nairobi.

"We have structures like the community education workers, who go from door to door or hold community forums," Karuti said. "The idea is to have community members who understand these families, who know about the special needs in each of the communities."

School meal programs that provide children with a warm meal and reducing the distances to schools have helped convince parents to send their kids.
It's also crucial to keep girls in school; they tend to stop attending classes for various reasons, sometimes because they get married at a young age or they begin menstruating but lack the necessary sanitary products.

"We've been intervening as well as far as that is concerned to provide that particular gadget that they need to keep them in school," Karuti said.

Now, that enrolment rates are up, the focus needs to shift toward providing better quality of education, Karuti said. "Our next focus will be looking at 'How do we improve both numeracy and literacy skills?'"

Another remarkable success has been achieved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, the report found. Bed nets with insecticides have helped prevent malaria; better access to antiretroviral drugs has helped suppress the HI virus. Much has been done to prevent mother-to-child-transmission, said Maureen Adudans, regional HIV/AIDS advisor for the MDG center.
But challenges remain.

"We still have to remember and acknowledge the fact that much of the epidemic - or a number of the people who are affected by this epidemic - still remain within Africa," Adudans pointed out.

Prevalence rates still remain higher among women, she said, adding that women still account for 60 percent of new infections within the continent.
Usually it is men who decide matters of contraception and protection against sexually-transmitted diseases in a relationship, Adudans said, adding: "We are still not quite where we would want to be in terms of women empowerment and what women can do in terms of stepping up and access health care services."

Many targets are not going to be met
Despite the fast pace in racing toward achieving the MDGs, Africa as a whole won't succeed in reducing extreme poverty and hunger by half. In 2010, 48.5 percent of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa were living below the extreme poverty line - that means getting by with less than $1.25 (0.95 euros) a day. In 1990, extreme poverty stood at 56.5 percent.
GIGA's Giesbert said that it's crucial to differentiate between the individual African nations.

"Countries such as Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have experienced growth that has not been fed by the resource sector alone. Other countries have been left behind in terms of poverty reduction," she said. "Little growth and little poverty reduction can be observed in Sahel countries such as Niger, Chad, Mali or Burkina Faso, but also other countries in West and Central Africa due to economic and political instability."

But Africa has made significant progress even when it comes to those targets that are likely not going to be met by 2015 - like improving maternal mortality rates. According to the UN's Odusola, rates were reduced by 42 percent - well short of the 75 percent by which they were supposed to drop.

He points to the Safe Motherhood Program in the Nigerian state of Ondo as a success story. It provides pregnant women with mobile phones to reach nurses and doctors 24/7 and allows them to request house calls. Mozambique has taken another route, providing mothers-to-be with "waiting homes," where they have access to free drugs, free treatment and free maternal care, Odusola said.

In terms of post-2015 development goals, Odusola says Africa needs to continue to tackle different forms of inequality: Income inequality, gender inequality, inequality between rural and urban centers.

That view is echoed by GIGA's Giesbert who says Africa certainly is on the right track. "One shouldn't look at MDGs as an ultimate goal for 2015 but rather as a milestone."



Source: dw.de

Thursday 6 June 2013

Bakers Hughes To Unveil New Cost-Cutting Technologies For Oil Field Service Contracts



Top-tier oil field service company, Bakers Hughes Nigeria, has launched series of technological solutions  that will reduce costs of oil field service contracts and ensure shorter scheduling time for oil and gas production into the Nigerian market.

According to the company’s Manager in charge of National Content, Government Relations and Business Development, Charlotte Essiet –Oduah, the company’s series of technologies, which would be showcased later this month in Lagos, would also provide oil industry operators with accuracy of reservoir, logging and data acquisition results.

This, she said is to integrate the company’s service to ensure that the company was responsible for every operation from reservoir to production in order to help clients reduce costs and scheduling time for oil and gas production. To this end, the company would be able to offer a one-stop integrated service to the oil and gas industry.

“When you have various contractors, who are doing all these for you, it becomes very expensive and that is the truth. But if you have one contractor, who is doing all of these for you, one of the major advantages that you will get from these integrated services that we are proposing is discount. I cannot categorically tell you how much discount we will offer you but the operators who are currently speaking to us for integrated services understand what I am talking about – companies like Sheba Petroleum, Seplat and Midwestern Oil,” she explained.

She identified cost/time reduction and accuracy of results as the major advantages of the technologies.

“We have real time information; you will have shorter scheduling time for your production, which is very important. Every time you spend in the oil field is money. So, we have reduced that time for you. For me, those are the major advantages – time and cost reduction and accuracy of results, including reservoir results, logging results and data acquisition results,” she said.
 


Nigeria Wants To Revive Mining To Diversify From Oil





Nigeria, Africa's leading oil producer, is seeking to revive its once-thriving mining sector as part of a push to diversify away from crude, which has dominated the continent's second-largest economy since the 1970s.

Mines Minister Musa Mohammed Sada said Nigeria aimed to increase mining's contribution to the economy to 5 percent by 2015. That is up from roughly 1 percent or below - depending on estimates - as it turns to coal as a source of power, bets on industrial minerals, and taps iron ore and even gold.

"We are hoping it will be even better than 5 percent. Most of the companies (active in Nigeria) are just exploring, so our expectation is they will start production around then - and 
that is when we will see the impact," Sada told Reuters.

Mining, Nigeria hopes, will help a government push to diversify the economy but could also help resolve structural issues, including a critical power shortage. Sada said electricity from coal-fuelled power plants could make up 30 percent of the country's total supply by 2020.

Currently, Nigeria relies largely on the world's ninth biggest gas reserves and hydroelectric plants for power.

Yet like many other emerging producers seeking to boost mining income as the cycle turns, Nigeria is coming up against drastic spending cuts across industry. Risk-averse investors in major miners are pushing for fewer mines built from scratch, while smaller development firms are facing a funding crunch.

To counter this, Sada said, Nigeria had brought in investor-friendly rules, allowing for duty free imports of equipment and tax holidays for new investors, along with other concessions.

It has also collected data with an airborne geophysical survey which it hopes will help encourage exploration.

"What we tried to do is take it to a level where investors can see the real potential, and have the clarity to make an investment decision," Sada said.

It remains, though, an uphill struggle.

Nigeria's untapped mine wealth has attracted far fewer investors than regional rivals, not 
least because of what analysts say is a tough operating environment with tensions in the country's north and sometimes difficult state authorities.

"Nigeria's geology, being where it is, should be interesting, but the difficulties of operating on the ground - that is the real problem," said Tara O'Connor, managing director of Africa Risk Consulting. "While you have a fantastic mining code, exploration area still has to be negotiated with the state governors... and obviously some deposits will be in the north."


INDUSTRIAL FOCUS

Sada said Nigeria had seen "quite a lot" of interest from foreign firms, though small development firms, many of them Australian, still lead the way. They include Australia's Kogi Iron working in iron ore and Australian Mines and Savannah Gold in gold, all betting Nigeria could be host to deposits similar to its West African neighbours.

Rather than focus on gold and iron ore, though, Sada said Nigeria, advised by the World Bank, was betting on industrial minerals. Limestone and clays, he said, could be processed in Nigeria into construction materials, ceramic tiles and consumed - regardless of external demand - by a domestic population of roughly 167 million, Africa's largest.

Iron ore and bauxite can also feed Nigeria's domestic steel and aluminium industry, serving local demand, he said.

Yet in revisiting a mining industry long dwarfed by crude, Nigeria is also keen not to repeat mistakes made during an oil boom that critics say has failed to benefit many.

"We try to learn a lot from the oil industry issues - community, environment issues," Sada said, adding community consent was a key step towards obtaining a mining licence and investors also had to lay out comprehensive mine closure plans.

Reuters

Monday 3 June 2013

Interview With Nigeria’s First Online University Founder, Gossy Ukanwoke



Gossy Ukanwoke

Ever asked yourself what social enterprise or who social entrepreneurs are? According to Ashoka, the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. Ambitious and persistent, they tackle major social issues and offer new ideas for wide-scale change. Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business,social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better. They come up with new solutions to social problems and then implement them on a large scale.

Recently, the media was agog with news of the launch of Nigeria’s first online university –Beni American University (BAU), which seeks to absorb a great number of students, thus reducing the rate and number of students who are without proper higher education. According to its website, BAU is West Africa’s only low cost international academic institution dedicated to the advancement and access of higher education to everyone. The high-quality low-cost global educational model embraces the worldwide presence of the Internet and dropping technology costs to bring university-level studies within reach of millions of Nigerians.

The university, founded by Gossy Ukanwoke, a 24-year old Nigerian Management Information Systems graduate from the Girne American University, was created to fill up the valley in the Nigerian educational system which is primarily due to infrastructure challenges. As a sister to his first startup, Student Circle network, an academic social network that brings over 10,000 free academic notes, essay and journals from over 200 universities globally, Ukanwoke’s BAU “is a proper university with a proper learning structure.” This also means that at the end of the Degree or Certificate programs, students receive a certificate and their transcripts. According to Ukanwoke “Beni American will continue to set examples in the African continent.”

Gossy Ukanwoke, who has been described as Nigeria’s Mark Zuckerberg, to get insights to his social enterprise and what it aims to achieve in the society.

You recently launched Beni American University, an online university. What was inspired this?
GOSSY: There is an obvious gap in the Nigerian educational sector that is primarily due to infrastructure challenges. An online university can allow us to accommodate as many students as possible with very little burden on infrastructure.

Why the name Beni American University, if it is targeted at Africans? Brand-wise, why not a name that sounds more African?
GOSSY: Having a name that sounds more African is a myth and actually makes no difference. Beni American University does not sound non-African because we have American within the name. The American is a descriptive. It says that kind of model the university is running. The same way you have Universities of Science and Technology, Universities of Agriculture, Open Universities etc.

What is the goal of the Beni American University and what are the opportunities presented by the institution?
GOSSY: To provide world class education and training for our students when they are with us and to provide opportunities beyond their study after they graduate. We believe that there is a high level of unemployment to continue pushing out thousands of graduates with no entrepreneurial or hands on skills that can allow them become productive without seeking for regular employment.

What is Beni American University’s business model?
GOSSY: The university is a social enterprise. We provide world class learning at the barest fraction obtainable when compared to universities with similar qualities outside Nigeria. The university is a privately funded entity.

Before you established the Beni American University, you had the Student Circle Network (SCN); what is the synergy between the two businesses?
GOSSY: Students Circle Network has continued to exist as a Free Resource Repository for students globally. It is an entity that its goals do not overlap with the goals of Beni American University. Students from BAU can continue to use SCN like the hundreds of thousands of students who use it daily. However students who use SCN who feel that they need to take the step upwards towards gaining a certificate for the learning they do online, they can sign up with BAU and take our courses.

You once said that you created Beni American University out of the concern and challenge to do something about Nigeria’s failing educational system, what has been the acceptance level so far especially in Africa?
GOSSY: The reception has been exceptional and encouraging. We have students apply daily from all parts of Africa and Nigeria. People are excited at what we are doing and they looking forward to when we can start to accomplish the goals that we have set out.

So far, how many users have subscribed to Beni American University?
GOSSY: In the case of Students Admitted, we have 115 students across Africa.

What are your aspirations concerning the institution?
GOSSY: We are hoping to take Beni American University physical as well. In this scenario, we will have our online university and a concurrent physical university. In line with this, we have announced our acquisition of expandable development land and our visionary plan to develop a multi-million dollar 10,000 student capacity campus in Adija, Benue State.

What is the organisation structure like and the staff strength at the moment?
GOSSY: BAU has a standard organisation structure that every university has. We have staff strength of 32.

You are quite young; have you ever worked under anyone before?
GOSSY: Yes I have taken internship jobs before I got into the university.

What business/ management stuff are you reading at the moment and which have you read that has inspired you much so far?
GOSSY: Currently not reading any. However , Talent is Never Enough by John C. Maxwell has been a book close my heart.

Recent/past partnerships and how has these partnerships help the business?

GOSSY: Our Partners have been wonderful. Our sector is a sector that can only make progress through synergy and partnerships. We have some amazing partners who continue to support our university academically, technically and culturally. Here is a list of our partners - BAU Partners


What extra ingredient do you think youngsters need to succeed in the outside world?
GOSSY: Vision, Perseverance and Discipline.

What is the future of online University presence in Nigeria or Africa?
GOSSY: It has come to stay. I see a lot more online universities being kicked off in the region in a very short time.

Any advise to other social entrepreneurs?
GOSSY: Know why you are a social entrepreneur. Have a vision and a goal and pursue it without paying attention to any negativities.

first published on Ventures Africa