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6 Questions for Jane Thomason of Kasei Holdings
We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and we throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes! This week, our 6 Questions go to Jane Thomason, an entrepreneur and thought leader in technological innovation, fintech and blockchain for social impact. She is also the founder of Supernova Data, co-founder of the British Blockchain and Frontier Technologies Association, and chairperson of Kasei Holdings, an investment company specializing in the digital asset ecosystem. I have always believed we can change the world! For most of my life, I tried that in an analog way. In 2016, I discovered blockchain, and I realized it was a game-changing technology for social impact. I needed to be part of making that happen, so I left my da...
R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Bia, 22Gz, Lucky Daye & More
Shordie Shordie feat. Blxst, “Specific” On “Specific,” East meets West. Baltimore rapper Shordie Shordie tapped LA’s finest Blxst for the first ballad off of his upcoming album Captain Hook 2. The video finds the two back in high school crushing on the same girl. Nashir, “Just Try” “It can’t hurt to try,” and Nashir asserts that beautifully on his mellow new single, “Just Try.” The New Jersey artist is one of a handful of promising young artists under Crxssroads Music/Management. For the video, he keeps it simple with a classic picnic and carnival date. Reggie feat. Smino, “Avalanche” Houston artist Reggie and Smino complement each other exceptionally well on the former’s new single, “Avalanche.” With a delivery and tone sim...
Belinda Bencic vs Ludmilla Samsonova Live Streaming Preview & Prediction
Top seed Belinda Bencic will take on Russia’s Ludmilla Samsonova in the quarterfinal of the Luxembourg Open on Friday. Read on to get all the latest news on the match and find out how to live stream & get free bet at bet365. Watch and bet on Bencic vs Samsonova live at 17:00 BST at bet365>livestreaming>tennis Belinda Bencic vs Ludmilla Samsonova Preview Belinda Bencic claimed her first gold medal at the recent Olympics in August, defeating the Czech Republic player Marketa Vondrousova 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 in the final. She continued her momentum in Cincinnati, making it to the quarterfinals of the competition where she eventually lost to her fellow countryman Jill Teichmann. She looked like a strong candidate for the US Open, with the 24-year-old winning her four ...
Daniil Medvedev vs Felix Auger-Aliassime live streaming: Watch US Open 2021 semi-final live online
Canadian star Felix Auger-Aliassime faces world number two Daniil Medvedev for a place in the US Open semi-finals on Friday night and tennis fans can watch and bet on the match live online. Register an account at bet365 to watch and bet on US Open live streaming. Daniil Medvedev vs Felix Auger-Aliassime is live online from 21:00 on Friday September 10. Second seed Daniil Medvedev will square off with Felix Auger-Aliassime on Friday in the semifinals of the 2021 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, New York. The Russian saw off Botic van de Zandschulp in a tough quarterfinal, losing a set but ultimately prevailing 6-3, 6-0, 4-6, 7-5. He is expected to face a stiff challenge in Auger-Aliassime who scrapped out victories over Frances Tiafoe & Roberto Bautista Agut ...
Beware Of Hand Sanitizers With Wood Alcohol – NAFDAC Warns
Beware Of Hand Sanitizers With Wood Alcohol – NAFDAC Warns The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has again cautioned Nigerians against the use of hand sanitizers especially Nutricional S, de R, L De C.V containing methanol. The warning is contained in a public alert with No: 20/2021 tagged “Recall of Hand Sanitizers by DiBAR Nutricional due to the presence of Methanol (Wood alcohol). The alert was signed by the Director General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday. She said that the agency had received information from US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) about the presence of methanol in hand sanitizers. She added that information from FDA noted that Nutritional S,de R,L De C.V (Dibar)...
Begging Nigerians Not To Renounce Their Citizenship Is A Sheer Waste Of Time
By Ladesope Ladelokun When former President Olusegun Obasanjo said in 2004 that any Nigerian that was not prepared to die for Nigeria did not deserve to be called a Nigerian citizen, he probably did not envisage that a time would come that the clamour for secession by frustrated Nigerians would reach a disturbing decibel. Only recently, the Owu chief hugged the headlines when he lamented that rather than flowing with milk and honey, Nigeria has become a land flowing with bitterness and sadness. “The task before us now is to think of what to contribute to make Nigeria what God created it to be, a land flowing with milk and honey. Right now, it is a land flowing with bitterness and sadness. That is not what God meant for this country”, he averred. It is no fairy tale that between 2004 and no...
Myanmar junta leader says Aung San Suu Kyi will soon appear
Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was healthy at home and would appear in court in a few days, in his first interview since overthrowing her in a Feb. 1 coup. The coup has plunged the Southeast Asian country into chaos and one of several ethnic armed groups opposed to the ruling junta advanced to attack a military post in a northwestern jade mining town on Saturday, local media said. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her long struggle against previous military rulers, is among more than 4,000 people detained since the coup. She faces charges that range from illegally possessing walkie-talkie radios to violating a state secrets law. “Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health. She is at her home and healthy. She is going to face trial at the cou...
The Platform And One Discussion We Are All Avoiding
THE PLATFORM AND ONE DISCUSSION WE ARE ALL AVOIDING Every May Day, the Pastor Poju Oyemade-led Covenant Christian Centre, Lagos invites speakers of all shades of opinions to speak at a discussion programme, THE PLATFORM with the view to preferring solutions to Nigeria’s multifaceted problems. At every edition, speakers give brilliant speeches on how best to make the nation work. Speakers like Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Rev. Fr. Matthew Kukah, Governor Peter Obi, and persons of such ilk have spoken at THE PLATFORM on several topical issues from the economy, governance, etc. It’s difficult to see an edition of the programme without a controversial position or character on any selected national discourse or topic. Any curious observer will not fail to notice that most of the discussants sp...
How To Tackle Corruption
*IF YOU WANT TO REMOVE CORRUPTION IN ANY SYSTEM, MAKE THE PROCESS ELECTRONIC AND REDUCE LEVELS OF HUMAN INTERFERENCE- SIR MELIE ONYEJEPU* Sir Melie Onyejepu hails from Nnewi, Anambra state. He is currently the General Manager, Bureau for Public Procurement and Special Adviser, budget implementation and performance to the Executive Governor of Anambra State. As special adviser on budget implementation and performance, his office ensures that the state budget is properly monitored and that monies released to ministries are properly retired in line with the reason the budget was drawn. As Anambra procurement boss, his office also ensures that the law passed on procurement by the State House of Assembly are properly followed to the letter and that the state gets best price for the contract it ...
Nigeria’s Trade Policy & Restrictive Trade
17th March 2021 Mr Godwin Emefiele Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Plot 33, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Way Central Business District, Cadastral Zone Abuja. Dear Mr Emefiele, RE: NIGERIA’S TRADE POLICY AND RESTRICTIVE TRADE While congratulating our Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her recent appointment as 7th Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), we very much welcome your fair trade comments for a strong policy to protect our local industries against unfavourable trade practices and to create jobs for Nigerians. In the discussions with Dr Okonjo-Iweala, you referred to trade protection remedies to support local industry. This is brilliant! We also note that the CBN 5-year policy plan also supports growing our local industry by discouraging dumping and smuggling of foreign go...
Most Disappointments Are Blessing In Disguise
We just moved to another house, at first I was going back to our former place cause of my friends until they surprised me and ganged up against me, they wanted to fight me but I just left them alone. So I started hanging out with the young boys in the new community we just moved to. Their names are Abdulrahman, Mubarak, Abba and Abubakar. Abba and Abubakar are brothers and their father is the imam of our mosque, we were hanging out and doing stuffs together like gathering money up-to a specific amount buying grilled meat and soft drinks. At times mostly on the weekends we play football together with their younger siblings, I don’t have a younger brother or sister, I am the last born in our family and my name is Habib Abubakar. I never imagined they have been talking about me behind my back...
Anambra 2021: The Issues We Are Not Discussing
ANAMBRA 2021: THE ISSUES WE ARE NOT DISCUSSING By Dr Godwin Maduka I am onye Anambra, and today, I write not as a person with partisan interest, but as a concerned citizen, or what our people call “nwa afo”. I write as a citizen with civic consciousness who understands that more often than not, especially in the Nigerian political space, electioneering activities tend to obscure the real issues affecting the society. Those issues get glossed over without critical appraisal and are lost in the din of campaign activities. And so elections come and go, but those issues still remain because like Newton’s first law of motion states, an object will remain at rest or move in a constant velocity until it is acted upon by an external force. It is another election season in my dear State, and we sho...
