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Ore ke lewa temi nikan,
Apon be'po ree;

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Tani okan mii fe ?
Tayo tayo nii maa tagiri
Wii fun wipe Iwo nii;

Oju oloju, koma joju eni,
Ee fin nii wa, ko se fii bo rara,
Bi mo wo'tun, bi mo wo'sii,
A'folorunsho mii nii ma ba lo;

Asure tete kin koja ile,
Abere ona kin shi naa,
Bii eda bati nii oluwa,
O da'jupe o tii nii owun gbogbo;

Eyi nii orin ife mii sii o,
Eyi nii ede ife mii sii o,
Bi ti'oluwa tin je ase,
Bo bati wun oluwa laje,

Ore'ke lewa temi nikan,
Atomi sara bi omo tuntun,
Ore'ke lewa temi nikan,
Eyin loju Olodumare.
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All in one mail for no justified reason that i have knowledge of in 2years...Epoyun Afolashade Aduke, a name that belts up to standard with rudeness in shady manner. I was held spell bound when i saw the mail. No flash or text, why the assault ? God knows better....am thinking...ok, next move.]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:12:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/336791 Digital Divide Nigeria ! http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/318403 Developed in collaboration with:
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]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:43:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/312761 Nigerian Masqurades http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295991 ]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:35:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295991 Igbo Masqurade... http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295989 ]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:29:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295989 Teach Nigeria... http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295943
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...change a generation. World AIDS Day is around the corner. Its happening in Benin.]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:43:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295943 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295941


26 November 2007







*NEW YORK**, NY** *- HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest challenges facing
the
world today â€" and young people remain at the center of the
epidemic in
terms of infection rates and potential for change. This World AIDS
Day, December
1st, 2007, members of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) are
organizing 104 events in 34 countries to highlight the pressing need to
build youth leadership and to listen to the voices of young leaders
fighting
HIV and AIDS in their communities.



GYCA events, organized in partnership with the World AIDS Campaign's
"Take

the Lead" World AIDS Day initiative, include concerts, workshops,
rallies
and more. In Ghana, Moses Kanduri will coordinate a series of soccer
matches
under the theme "Kick HIV out!" and distribute information on HIV
prevention
to onlookers and players. In Venezuela, Jhon Esteban will hold a
workshop
for teenagers to get their input and involvement in the local
government's
planned project to fight HIV. In Macedonia, iodraga Stefanovska and a
group
of young peer leaders and their parents will decorate public
Christmas
trees with messages about HIV prevention and the importance of open

communication around sexuality and health.



According to GYCA National Focal Point Yahya Poli of Tanzania, World
AIDS
Day events are key opportunities to increase public awareness. "Youth
and
the community at large need a space where they can freely share
information,
knowledge and experiences about HIV," he said. GYCA National Focal
Point
Esther Eshiet of Nigeria, a peer educator who teaches other girls
about
sexuality, health and HIV, added, "Youth leadership is what we need to
make
actual progress! Since we are the worst hit, we have to take the lead
to
stamp out the virus."


Young people are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS about
40% of
the 2.5 million new infections each year occur in people aged 15 to
24.1
Kolawole Oreoluwa
Regional Focal Point West Africa
Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS
www.youthaidscoalition.org
kolawole@youthaidscoalition.org
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]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:56:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295929 The Soul Beat Issue 94: HIV/AIDS Communication http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295927 November 28 2007


From SOUL BEAT AFRICA - where communication and media are central to AFRICA's social and economic development


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As December 1 marks World AIDS Day this issue of The Soul Beat focuses on communication as a tool to raise awareness, increase knowledge and reduce stigma related to HIV and AIDS. It provides summaries of programme experiences, strategic thinking documents and materials that focus on HIV and AIDS in relation to children/youth, media involvement, the facilitation of discussions and living with HIV.


If you would like your organisation's communication work or research and resource documents to be featured on the Soul Beat Africa website and in The Soul Beat newsletters, please contact the Editor - Anja Venth aventh@comminit.com


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CHILDREN AND YOUTH


1. PATH's Project on Married Adolescent Girls
Initiated by Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), in collaboration with Population Council, this project works in rural areas of Rachuonyo District in Nyanza, Kenya to raise awareness about the risks associated with early marriage, promote voluntary counseling and testing for couples, and empower girls. PATH uses a variety of approaches including radio, theatre, transportation subsidies for voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) clients and mentoring programmes through married girls clubs. The project also includes radio spots encouraging young girls to look for a marriage partner who is their age and to go for VCT with their partner before becoming intimate.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/135375/38
Contact Irene Chami ichami@path.org


2. Infant Feeding Research Project (IFRP) - Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland
Launched in 2003 with research in primary care settings in South Africa, Namibia, and Swaziland, the Infant Feeding Research Project (IFRP) is a 3-phased research-led process designed to reduce the number of children dying through mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV by focusing on the positive potential of the woman and counsellor relationship to promote safe infant feeding practices. According to IFRAP, the relationship between a woman and a counsellor is an intensive form of one-on-one communication which can shape attitudes and behaviour with regard to both children's health and women's identities.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/265230/38
Contact Alan Jaffe jaffa@telkomsa.net


3. Our Future: Sexuality and Life Skills Education for Young People
This book, the first in a series of three, forms part of the Government of Zambia’s strategy for sexual and reproductive health and HIV education for young people in and out of school. The book, designed for children in grades 4-5, aims to provide information about puberty, friendship, gender, sexuality, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and drug use. It contains learning activities and illustrations which aim to engage young people and promote an understanding of themselves and their world.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/189666


4. TackleAfrica - Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda
TackleAfrica is a United Kingdom (UK) based charity organisation that aims to increase the understanding of HIV/AIDS among young Africans through football. The organisation carries out a number of sports-based HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives with the help of local partners. Tackle Africa believes that sport has the potential to bring people together and provide a platform that can be used to as a tool for communicating messages, mobilising communities to join the fight against HIV, enabling people to protect themselves properly and challenging stigma and misconceptions that surround the disease.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/134930
Contact TackleAfrica info@tackleafrica.org


5. Ungefanyaje (What would you do?) Online Game
Launched by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), this online game, aims to empower young people to make good life choices and prevent HIV. Available in both Swahili and English, the game takes the player through a series of relationship-based scenarios that emphasise the importance of HIV prevention and testing.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/264289


6. Wegen AIDS Talkline - Ethiopia
Launched in 2004 the Wegen AIDS Talkline service is a nationally available Ethiopian toll free telephone line that aims to provide access to free and anonymous HIV/AIDS information, counseling and referrals to callers to help prevent and cope with HIV/AIDS. Designed for reaching youth, people living with HIV, their families, and the public at large, the talkline provides services in six languages.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/135355
Contact Ato Negatu Mereke hiv.aids@telecom.net.et


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Looking for information and materials for World AIDS Day?
Visit http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?cimo=1r=http://www.worldaidscampaign.info/


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HIV AND AIDS IN THE MEDIA


7. It Begins with You - Africa
Launched by the 41 member companies of the African Broadcast Media Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (ABMP), It Begins With You, is a pan-African HIV-public education campaign. Under the theme of “Imagine the Possibility of an HIV-Free Generation,” the multi-year campaign uses public service advertisements (PSAs) and other complementary programming to encourage all Africans to consider what they can do as individuals, families, communities and nations to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. PSAs for television and radio form the core of the campaign; they are refreshed every six months and are planned for broadcast over three to five years. In addition, participating companies integrate the themes and messages of the campaign across programming genres, including news, public affairs and entertainment.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/134350/38
Contact ABMP contactus@broadcasthivafrica.org OR info@itbeginswithyou.org


8. Reporting AIDS: An Analysis of Media Environments in Southern Africa
This report shares the findings of five studies of media coverage of HIV/AIDS, carried out in Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe by the Panos London AIDS Programme, with the support of Johns Hopkins University. The studies aim to explore some of the issues and tensions involved in the relationship between the media and HIV/AIDS. In particular, they aimed to identify how the media could better fulfill its potential role in responding to the epidemic, for example by 'moving beyond awareness raising' and acting as a channel to encourage individual and social change, providing a forum for debate and holding decision-makers to account.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/186986/38


9. Speak Africa - Africa
This UNICEF Ethiopia project aims to be a platform for African youth to speak to each other and engage with decision makers to affect change. The project aims to offer African youth opportunities to articulate and share their views on issues such as identity, HIV/AIDS, unemployment and economic poverty. Through dialogue facilitated by youth activist artists (musicians, visual artists, poets), entrepreneurs and cultural icons, youth in urban and rural locations across Africa, exchange opinions, experiences and challenges about their daily lives. Through partnerships with the mass media, private partnerships and civil society endorsement, the Speak Africa initiative also aims to create networks and platforms for expression.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/134570
Contact info@speakafrica.org


10. HIV/AIDS Communication in Selected African Countries
This 80-page report, commissioned by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), is intended to guide potential future support interventions in the area of HIV prevention communication in eastern and southern Africa. The preliminary sections of the report provide a theoretical overview of issues concerning HIV/AIDS communication and the relevance of making inter-country comparisons of prevention communication. The study involves reviews of national-level prevention activities in the following countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/223540


LIVING WITH HIV

11. Living on the Outside: Key Findings and Recommendations on the Nature and Impact of HIV/AIDS-related Stigma
This joint publication of Health Development Networks (HDN) and the AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign emerges from the contributions of over 2000 people to the Stigma-AIDS eForum, which was first established in 2001 as part of a larger project on stigma and HIV/AIDS. The purpose of the eForum, which was managed and moderated by HDN, was to provide a space for interested people and communities to share their views and experiences, collectively moving towards a better and shared understanding of HIV/AIDS-related stigma, as well as learning about practical approaches to reduce it. The eForum focused initially on Southern and Eastern Africa and then expanded in 2003 to a global reach. This document provides a brief overview of the series of structured discussions.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/221056/38


12. Cost of Love: Older People in the Fight Against AIDS in Tanzania
This report presents the key issues facing older women and men affected by HIV/AIDS in Tanzania, including their role in providing care and support to their sons and daughters living with HIV/AIDS and to their grandchildren. It draws on participatory research with older people, community leaders, government officials and young people in five regions of Tanzania. According to the report 90% of care for people living with AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is provided at home.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/219796/38


13. Taste for Life
Published in South Africa, this booklet is intended to look at ways in which people who are living with HIV can change the quality of their lives by changing their nutrition. Its content includes the relationship between HIV and nutrition, antiretrovirals, supplements, traditional medicines, and substance use. Its purpose is to explore practical and accessible strategies for nutrition as a co-therapy for those on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and a therapy alternative for those not eligible for ART.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/189358


14. Treatment Literacy: Empowering Communities to Access AIDS Treatment
This 9-page paper from Healthlink Worldwide suggests that as access to anti-retroviral therapies (ARTs) improves in developing countries, information and communication about treatment becomes more important. It proposes that with effective communication, communities are better informed about drugs, improve their understanding about what ARTs are, why they are needed and what they can and cannot do.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/221494


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CARE WORK CAMPAIGN

Home based care is being seen as a key strategy to care for people living HIV and AIDS. This often means that women and girls take on additional responsibilities. Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network is carrying out a campaign in seven southern African countries to raise awareness about how unpaid care work impacts on care givers and to campaign and lobby for the development of policies that will result in state support for care workers. The campaign includes working with media and collecting personal stories of those involved in care work.
For more information visit the GEMSA website http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?cimo=1r=http://www.gemsa.org.za/page.php?p_id=274 or contact Kubi Rama ceo@gemsa.org.za


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FACILITATING DISCUSSION


15. Evaluation of Stepping Stones: A Gender Transformative HIV Prevention Intervention
Published in March 2007 by the South Africa Medical Research Council, this four-page research brief offers an evaluation of a Stepping Stones intervention in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Stepping Stones is an HIV prevention behaviour change communication (BCC) programme that aims to improve sexual health by building stronger, more gender-equitable relationships with better communication between partners.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/72188


16. Time to talk: A guide to family life in the age of AIDS
This handbook, Time to Talk, is the third book in the Called to Care toolkit. Called to Care is an initiative of the Strategies for Hope Trust, which produces books and videos that promote effective, community-based strategies of HIV and AIDS care, support and prevention in the developing world, especially in sub- Saharan Africa. The toolkit consists of practical, action-oriented booklets and mini-manuals on issues related to HIV/AIDS, designed for use by church leaders in sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/264287


17. The Hope Kit is a package of resources designed to facilitate discussion about HIV prevention issues among community groups in Malawi. Assembled by the BRIDGE Project, the Hope Kit is a collaborative effort that includes materials produced by many organisations. It consists of locally developed posters, information cards, booklets, and sample materials to support community facilitators in their HIV/ AIDS prevention work.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/189258


EVENTS
http://www.comminit.com/africa/events.html

18. 2nd Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine Indigenous Knowledge (March 10-14 2008) - Accra, Ghana
This summit is being mounted by Africa First, in association with and support of the Ghana Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS Ghana Office, Ghana AIDS Commission and Esperanza Medicines. The aim of the event is to identify traditional medicines and practices used in the prevention and management of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, sickle cell, anaemia, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, stroke and mental disorders, for further evaluation of safety, efficacy and quality standards.
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/265276



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To view HIV and AIDS related previous issues of The Soul Beat newsletter see:

The Soul Beat 75 - Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
http://www.comminit.com/africa/soul-beat-75.html

The Soul Beat 62 - MDG # 6 - Combatting HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
http://www.comminit.com/africa/soul-beat-62.html

The Soul Beat 20 - Women HIV/AIDS
http://www.comminit.com/africa/soul-beat-20.html

To view archived editions of The Soul Beat Newsletter go to http://www.comminit.com/africa/soul-beat-archives.html


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Soul City and its partners - The Royal Netherlands Embassy, Development Cooperation Ireland, European Union, DFID, and BP
and
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]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:44:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295927 Global AIDS Alliance http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295925 November 15, 2007 - December 1, 2007

GAA's Bi-Monthly Action Update

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign sponsored by the Center for Women's Global Leadership and endorsed by the Global AIDS Alliance, Americans for Informed Democracy, and the Student Global AIDS Campaign. The campaign begins each year on November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and ends on December 10, International Human Rights Day, to highlight the fact that violence against women is a fundamental violation of human rights. World AIDS Day, December 1, falls during the campaign, providing activists an ideal opportunity to highlight the links between violence and HIV/AIDS. Click here for our 16 Days toolkit and instructions on how to start your own 16 Days book club.

Stop the Violence! Violence against women is a human rights violation that includes rape, domestic violence, acid burning, dowry deaths, so-called honor killings, female genital cutting and other harmful traditional practices, and human trafficking. It is also a leading risk factor for HIV infection. Sadly, violence against women and girls is at epidemic proportions. Contact your Senators today about co-sponsoring the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). I-VAWA will provide essential resources to support programs that have proven effective in reducing and responding to violence against women and girls. Click here for more information on I-VAWA and how to contact your Senators.

Strengthen African Health Care Systems. Strong infrastructure is essential to expanding access to health care and meeting global targets in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases. In particular, the critical lack of health care workers is one of the main obstacles to getting more people on HIV/AIDS treatment. The African Health Capacity Investment Act presents a tremendous opportunity to expand US leadership and commitment to global health. Contact your Senators and Representatives today and urge them to co-sponsor this bill!

Write a Letter to the Editor. Last week the United Nations released an updated estimate of the number of people affected by HIV/AIDS worldwide. The new UN figures revised the estimated number of people living with HIV to 33.2 million, roughly 16% less than was previously thought. While it is terrific news that there are fewer people infected with HIV, at least 5,700 people still die of AIDS each day. And though lower than previously estimated, this number is still unacceptable. Millions of people in the world's poorest countries still lack access to lifesaving treatment and care! Click here to join the chorus of people writing to their local papers encouraging our leaders to honor their commitments to ending AIDS.

]]> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:30:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/295925 Friends http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/293457
Forget the rude remarks and be proud of ur whole self no matter what........ don't be depressed,always remember that there are friends who still care and who will always be there.............. ]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:14:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/293457 YOU... http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/293447

one day U feel like crying... call me. I don't promise that I will make U laugh, but I can cry with U. If one day U want to run away -- don't be afraid to call me. I don't promise to ask U to stop.... but I can run with U. If one day U don't want to listen to anyone..... call me. I promise to be there for U but I also promise to remain quiet. But one day if U call me....... and there's no answer........ come fast to see me.

Perhaps I need you.

]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/293447 Trial for loitering: American ‘wrongly deported’ to Nigeria knows fate, Wednesday http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/284787 Written by JAMES EZEMA
Sunday, 18 November 2007

A Lagos Magistrate Court, Ebute-Metta, Lagos has fixed Wednesday for ruling in the case brought against a black American Mr. Grayson Ernest Eugene who was serving a jail term in the United States before his alleged deportation to Nigeria in error by the American government on December 12, 2006. Eugene, 44, is standing trial before Magistrate R.O. Davis on a one-count charge of “an act not warranted by law” which “causes inconvenience or damage to the public by loitering around American Embassy premises.”

Counsel to the accused person from Sola Adabonyan Co, Mrs Cordelia Chigozie Anyanwu, told the court at the resumed hearing Friday that the accused person, being an American citizen on wrongful deportation to Nigeria, a country where he has no relative and has never visited all his life, had no where else to go than the American Embassy, having found himself in Nigeria for no fault of his. She argued that the American Embassy, or any other embassy for that matter, being the property of citizens of that country, was the only place her client, like any other sensible person, should have gone to in the circumstance.

She submitted that the accused person was not criminally liable as he is a victim of circumstances, stressing that it is shocking and pathetic for her client to be uprooted from the only home he knows just because of the colour of his skin, which he has no control over and that the accused person was acting on the belief that he had every right to be at the American Embassy as an American citizen in accordance with the American Constitution, 14th Amendment Section 1.

The counsel told the court that her client had given his social security number, asking what stopped the American Embassy, with all their sophistication, from cross-checking the information provided by her client, adding that the injustices of her client’s deportation to a country he has never lived was compounded by the refusal of the American Embassy to take his finger prints and do a DNA test as the accused person had requested.

Anyanwu urged the court to discharge and acquit her client as there was nothing in the charge to suggest he visited the American Embassy with intent to commit any crime nor did the charge suggest her client was a threat, telling the court that the embassy officials told his client to produce a third party confirmation where he did not know anybody.

She reminded the court that the complainant in the case, the American Embassy, had never been to court and therefore have shown no interest in the case. The accused person had, while giving evidence last Wednesday, told the court that he was born on September 3, 1963 in Greenville, South Carolina to Mr Grayson and Ms Sylvia Atkins, adding that he is not a Nigerian and had only heard of Nigeria in current affairs where he lived at Brooklyn, New York City, which he described as a community of African blacks.]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:05:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/284787 Nigeria in AFRICA ! http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/284687
View Larger Map]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:38:00 EST http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/284687 NEGST - Achieving the 2020 Vision Through It http://pscornerstone.tigblog.org/post/284685
NEWS
12 November 2007
Posted to the web 12 November 2007

By Zakariyya Adaramola
Lagos

Nigeria, more than ever before, is determined to boost its economy and make it one of the 20 best comes the year 2020 by ensuring good governance through public sector reforms. In many fora and debates, it was held as one of the pathways to fast track the realization of our aspirations as a global eNation.

In 2001, the United Nations in its e-readiness report was unequivocal on the benefits derivable from authenticating and articulating the various platforms that will ensure the growth and sustenance of eNations as the knowledge economy increasingly swayes the world to new heights.

In the country's march towards a formidable but sustainable eNation in line with global trends, various policies were formulated by government among which was the need to set up a wholly indigenous front-end interoperability and content management agency that will be fully committed to this cause.

And so in year 2003, the government of Nigeria moved to establish The National eGovernment Strategies Limited - NeGSt., with Dr. Olu Agunloye; a product of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT in the USA, as the effective and substantive chief executive and head of operations. He was chief operating officer for seven years, at the Federal Road Safety Corps.

With the mandate to implement the Nigerian eGovernment programme, the new agency set out on its task to build, implement and sustain the various platforms it had crafted, drawing from the experiences of countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, the United States and even South Africa. It wasted no time to analyze the various design blueprints at its disposal.

For its operations, the agency drew from the three levels of funding made available from shareholders that include banks such as UBA, EcoBank, Wema, Afribank, GTB and Skyebank. There are pioneer or blind investors as well as those that can be described as intellectual property owners. The lot includes technical solution providers and consultants who contributed to various aspects of the national e-government project that was taking root.

Funds also came from specific projects such as the Teachers' Registration Project nurtured by Skyebank and the e-immigration by a consortium of four banks.There is also the 10% shareholding by the government of Nigeria that is held in trust by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology through NITDA, charged with the promotion of standards and regulations in all IT issues.

In the Quick Win Technique at promoting and fast tracking e-government coupled with an unending creative energy that abound in the agency, there are citizen, commerce, finance and government 2 government platforms, which accentuate faith in projects that can be delivered on a sustained basis. With a backbone for e-Government effectively in place since 2005, NeGSt has initiated and executed capacity building for at least 174 government agencies in Nigeria the last three years.

Partners in Commerce, Industry, Finance, Oil and Gas sectors of the economy as well as Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government have all looked to the benefits and are plugging in to share in the harvest of bounties listed in various NeGSt initiatives. For the discerning, the e-portal www.enigeria. com.ng lends more. It is the e-Government platform for interoperable solutions that is uniquely Nigerian and will not be found anywhere else.

NeGSt is also set to bountifully reap from the various e-projects it has initiated in the 42 months that it had existed. Key among these is the eNYCS, developed for the National Youth Service Corp and financed by Afribank to enhance data on youth service placements and operations in Nigeria.

The ePassport programme developed for the Nigerian Immigration Department and financed by Skye Bank as it eliminates multiple acquisition, identity theft and forgery seen in the system will provide timely immigration data bank in the country. The ECOWAS platform for e-vehicle licensing developed by the agency has only recently been demonstrated. While it has been commended for robust character and content, it stands recommended for adoption by member states as a way of fostering better trade relations, vehicular movement and registration. All of these fall in the e-projects that we can point to in recent times.

Other eSuites developed by NeGSt include those that will ensure the efficiency and functionality of the different layers of the country's economy as well as citizen-centric schemes. The pensions automation scheme, spun to eliminate the lopsided method in use presently lends credence to efforts being made at developing and entrenching a viable scheme.

In the words of the executive vice chairman, NeGSt - Dr. Olu Agunloye "Our efforts must turn into Naira" The statement lends itself to all engaged in the onerous task laid at the feet of the agency to get charged up. In what looks like a clarion call (to action) at the just concluded eNigeria 2007 in Abuja, Professor Cleopas Angaye, Chairman NITDA, agrees, "We have a lot of work to do to promote standards and regulation". All hands must then be on deck in the realization of our lofty ideals.


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