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"We are…super focused on Africa right now, building out propriety platforms powered by data and artificial intelligence to help Telco’s, SMEs, FMCGs and financial institutions …increase their customer base and drive more transaction volumes."

"Most of the problems we seek to solve for our clients in Africa also exist in places like South East Asia and Latin America."

"It is time for us to have a divorce law. I do not understand the resistance to divorce other than the Catholic Church does not wish it to be passed."

"Separated from the faithful and having no longer to travel constantly from one church to another, the Apostle was able to embrace in one sweeping glance all the Christians scattered throughout the world. While he resided in the center of the immense Roman Empire which, in its unity, comprised the world, it was the one universal Church of Christ, the fulfilment of the mysterious decrees revealed to him, the Church in which it had been his privilege to bring together Jews and pagans, that presented itself to him for contemplation."

"At the express wish of the pope, he became cardinal bishop of Palestrina, to the government of which he applied himself with untiring energy."

"The Nigeria situation is such that the current electricity provision is short of the electricity demand in the country. The present average electricity generation is about 3 500MWh as against an average electricity demand as projected by the Commission of more than 10 000MWh."

"The funding provided to add new and improve the existing generation capacity has been grossly inadequate, and the funding pattern has not been consistent. Growing or sustaining the available capacity has been very difficult."

"Low gas pressure and poor gas quality with condensate sometimes results in plant shutdown. The embargo on [public sector] employment has created a huge gap in the skills required in the industry."

"In the energy industry globally there is a growing demand for technical personnel in operations and maintenance, supervisors with appropriate levels of technical and safety experience, and front-line management skills. A significant number of current employees are near retirement age and will soon leave the workforce. This is exacerbating the skills shortage."

"In Africa, the skills shortage is more acute due to deficiencies in energy and energy-related data, limited skilled professionals, unavailability of suitable analytical tools, lack of coordinated energy planning infrastructure, and weak linkages between the different institutions in the energy sector."

"Q::The World Bank has recently revealed plans to expand its support for energy access in Nigeria through more funding. What outcomes have emerged from its initial $350,000 support for implementing the NEP?"

"A:The Nigeria Electrification Project is one intervention that has enabled us to accelerate the impact of renewable energy technologies such as solar hybrid mini-grids and solar home systems, while equally expanding private sector participation in the nation’s off-grid space."

"Q:: What efforts is the REA making to address power poverty?"

"A: Nigeria has long struggled with energy poverty, and with a growing population and expanding industries, electricity demand keeps increasing. The government alone cannot bridge this energy gap, so programmes have been created to encourage private sector participation alongside public agencies."

"Jobberman was borne out of a desire to add value to lives. The biggest problem for every graduating student and a lot of graduates out there was and is still getting a job."

"Jobs is a very powerful tool to make lives better. Its impact is generational – parents, children, relatives of people who get better jobs, and the communities they live, all benefit."

"I would love to see more use of technology in helping government manage the ecosystem called Nigeria."

"If we didn’t do it, it was going to be a problem we would have to face when we graduate. So, we decided to solve it for others, providing a platform that makes it easy to find and apply for jobs in Nigeria."

"Yes, we have had our fair share of scammers trying to leverage on our platform to take advantage of the desperation of unsuspecting Nigerians. We have constantly continued to develop strategies on how to ensure that scammers do not get a chance to either access the platform or use it. We verify companies, blacklist offenders, and also provide tools for jobseekers to report bad/fake companies. Companies with suspicious email addresses are automatically flagged."

"I am hoping to use the Jobberman platform to help grow other initiatives and movements with the similar goal of making lives better."

"It seems to me like we have just scratched the surface. Are there things that we would like to do that we have not done? Yes, a whole lot. I am clear about my calling, which is helping people have a better and meaningful life. It keeps me awake, keeps me motivated, and keeps me going. Jobs is a very powerful tool to make lives better. Its impact is generational – parents, children, relatives of people who get better jobs, and the communities they live, all benefit."

"If I could change something in the past, it would be to never always retire to the background and work unnoticed. While I might have been focused on building Jobberman, I have also actively worked towards erasing my name and what I do off my mind of everyone around me."

"I have always believed that it is best to do your stuff without any fanfare and the world would come looking for you. I was partly right. The other bit is that you remain unknown."

"So here my is my advise to my 20 year old self — “Always show up”. Show up at events, respond to meetups, grant interviews and make sure you are out there. Ofcourse some people take it to the extreme and you discover that all you have is fluff, yet I would say, there is nothing like too much exposure."

"If you meander towards the seemingly inconsequential, yet positive influences of your life, you will be positioning yourself to ride the wave towards defining yourself as the person you would be proud of introducing to other people."

"A potential threat to innovation happens when the innovators get pulled into fields that pay well, but do not require innovation."

"We create and improve every day, something all entrepreneurs have to master if they will make a difference."

"Shayna Fox as the voice of Amy"

"Frank Welker as the gorilla vocal effects"

"Gary A. Hecker & Peter Elliott provide the gorilla vocalization"

"There is a tiny pause, right at the start of the film that caught at my heart, but I didn't think anyone else would notice it. It took me back to the work I did on my biography of Virginia Woolf. There were two documents in her archives that I found particularly distressing. One was the little soft-covered notebook she used for her diary for 1941. I knew there wouldn't be any entries after , but I couldn't help turning the blank pages that followed, unable to believe that the voice I had been living with for the past five years had stopped speaking. The other was her suicide note. (One of the suicide notes, in fact. She wrote three — two versions for her husband, , and one for her sister — unable to stop revising her work until the end.)"

"Of the many metaphors for biography, two make useful starting points. One — a disturbing image — is the autopsy, the forensic examination of the dead body which takes place when the is unusual, suspicious, or ambiguous. ... There is something gruesome about this metaphor. It is used when commentators on biography want to emphasize its ghoulish or predatory aspects. ... A contrasting metaphor for biography is the portrait. Whereas autopsy suggests clinical investigation and, even, violation, portrait suggests empathy, bringing to life, capturing the character. The portraitist simulates warmth, energy, idiosyncrasy, and personality through attention to detail and skill in representation."

"When I was very young, I think I was aware that I was reading different kinds of books, which slightly took my teachers aback. I can remember boastfully telling my teacher, when I was about 10, that I was reading '. She clearly thought this was a bad idea. But I was a slightly odd, inward child. At home – we didn’t have television – I was reading, reading all the time."

"Emotions about our lost houses and gardens have to do with growing old and acquiring guilt: we are always leaving our first home and lamentingly looking back to it. The whole point of the Garden of Eden is that we are going to leave it, and then spend the rest of our time wishing we could return to it."

"Talking with a younger generation of readers, I see how Shelley has become increasingly a European figure, a Dante among English poets, and an image of Faustian daring, whose writing and travels still inspire that primary spirit of adventure into a wider world of ideal possibilities. Nothing is so moving to the as finding an old copy of his book in a stranger's hands, battered and wine-stained from its voyages, its margins scrawled, its poetry underlined, its pages bent with maps and postcards, its cover bleached with sun and sea."

"The had promulgated an essentially private, elitist, specialist form of knowledge. Its ' was Latin, and its common currency mathematics. Its audience was a small (if international) circle of s and savants. Romantic science, on the other hand, had a new commitment to explain, to educate, to communicate to a general public. This became the first great age of the public scientific lecture, the laboratory demonstration and the introductory textbook, often written by women. It was the age when science began to be taught to children, and the ‘experimental method' became the basis of a new, secular , in which the infinite (whether divine or not) were increasingly valued for their own sake."

"At eighteen, just out of and desperate for freedom, I set off alone wandering around France for several months. My mother sent me her old copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ', as a kind of good-luck charm. A little red with a tiny map in the front. I still have it. Suddenly I thought, Here is the map and this is the journey I must make. So I went down through the , following Stevenson’s track, on foot with a , sleeping rough—but no donkey. It only lasted a couple of weeks, but for me, it was tough, very lonely, a kind of initiation. The is like a French version of the , wild and remote. I saw no one for days, but I somehow believed I saw Stevenson and met him. I slept à la belle toile and bathed in the mountain streams. I had a for fifty s in my shoe. I started keeping a notebook about Stevenson’s trip, and that’s how it all began."

"It is a brilliant vignette, prompting a meditation on the role of memory in biographical writing, and an exploration of the things that get forgotten in the writing of lives. Throughout This Long Pursuit, Holmes moves between reflections on the subjects of his career as a and sketches of himself at work. We see him lecturing on Coleridge at the , scribbling at a table in the , scurrying from the with a glossy catalogue under his arm and newly discovered stories brimming in his mind. The result is a glorious series of essays on the art of life writing and a worthy successor to his earlier volumes on the craft, and ’."

"Holmes is not offering a history of either or its technologies. The and are barely mentioned (perhaps because they feature in The Age of Wonder). What we have instead is a "cluster of balloon stories" drawn from life and fiction, and more from life than from fiction. Some of the footnotes are anecdotal, but the book itself is more than that; Holmes is a distinguished with a fine sense of how individual lives reflect and redirect the larger forces that flow through and around them."

"Virtue and Love are two ogres: one must eat the other."

"I have seen more than one woman drown her honor in the clear water of diamonds."

"The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart, and are impregnable."

"Constraint is the mother of desires."

"A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport."

"“The essence of the sport of beach volleyball is toughness combined with beauty, and I think our tournament lives by that code.""

"Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders."

"The middle class is always a firm champion of equality, when it concerns humbling a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it."

"There is no country in Europe, in which the condition of the labouring classes seems to us so hopeless as in that of England. This is not owing to the fact, that the aristocracy is less enlightened, more powerful, or more oppressive in England than elsewhere. The English labourer does not find his worst enemy in the nobility, but in the middling class. [...] Manfully have the British Commoners struggled against the old feudal aristocracy, and so successfully that they now constitute the dominant power in the state. To their struggles against the throne and the nobility is the English nation indebted for the liberty it so loudly boasts, and which, during the lasl half of the last century, so enraptured the friends of Humanity throughout Europe. But this class has done nothing for the labouring population, the real proletarii."

"If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty. The tendency of modern society is in the opposite direction. England and the United States, the most modern of all nations, and the best exponents the world has of the tendencies of modern civilization, treat poverty as a crime, and hold honest labor should be endured by none who can escape it."

"There is no question that education has been more generally diffused than it was in the middle ages, but it is doubtful if the number of thinkers has been increased, or real mental culture extended. Education loses in thoroughness and depth what it gains in surface."