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"We started in May, we’ve had over 135 transactions and we are happy about that. We have clients in Lagos and also in Abuja using the platform. We have online and offline categories of work."

"We currently do not receive money through the platform for offline work but we’re working on a new model for that. As for the digital jobs, everything happens on Findworka. Payments are made to our escrow account and money is later transferred to the service provider after completion of work. It is that simple."

"“The driver of all growth is collaboration, if we get it right in one place, we can replicate it everywhere.”his #YabaManifesto article on building a stronger tech ecosystem through teamwork and shared effort."

"The most appropriate technology to bring down energy losses, sustain a rigorous safety regime and invest in strengthening the network to improve the quality and reliability of supply."

"The company was pleased with the good operational performance during the year highlighted by further reductions in distribution losses and above-target revenue collections."

"My Dear Ladies of Substance, I welcome you all from the voting exercise and thank you for participating in big numbers."

"Indeed this level of participation has been unprecedented."

"That speaks of your interest in TCNOGA and strong desire to move it to greater heights."

"I thank God and the Holy Trinity for bringing us this far."

"For His unquestionable love for TCN & TCNOGA, and pray His grace continues to go before us."

"I thank you ladies for electing me as your next TCNOGA Pesident."

"A position I humbly accept."

"Thank you for believing in me, for accepting the dream i have for TCNOGA."

"Thanks for giving me another chance to serve, this time as your PRESIDENT."

"In a special way allow me to thank my family, my husband and children, who encouraged me from the time i conceived the idea for presidency."

"I thank my campaign team led by cohort 93 to 98!! Ladies."

"You rock the other cohort leaders who rallied behind me."

"I want to thank Theresa Nabyonga a young lady at Campus who rallied all the young girls."

"The IT team, all your efforts shall still be needed as we begin the real work now."

"We shall work with you all, listen to you and engage you in our quest to move TCNOGA further."

"I thank the outgoing President Mrs Immaculate Lwanga and her committee under whose leadership I have flourished."

"Our Founders all past leaders, for on your shoulders we stand."

"The project is about giving back to the community and ensuring a strong foundation for the next generation of women leaders."

"We have already laid the foundation stone for the junior school."

"The progress so far is a testament to the alumi commitment."

"patterns were used to map dispersal routes of from 18 sites in the . The sites varied, both as sources and recipients of larvae, by an order of magnitude. It is likely that sites supplied copiously from “upstream” reef areas will be more resilient to recruitment overfishing, less susceptible to species loss, and less reliant on local management than places with little upstream reef. The mapping of connectivity patterns will enable the identification of beneficial management partnerships among nations and the design of networks of interdependent reserves."

"More than two centuries have passed since 's discovery. passed from American to French, then to hands, but it was never colonized, perhaps because it was too remote even by Pacific standards. It was briefly a U.S. Naval air command base in World War II and the debris of conflict still liter the islands and lagoons. But underwater, it remains much as Fanning described it. Palmyra is one of the last places on this planet where shallow water marine life is still as varied, rich, and abundant as it was in the eighteenth century. A diver stepping into the seas around this today is able to take a trip back in time to an age when fishing had not yet touched life in the sea."

"I knew the moment that I put my head underwater in a coral reef in that there was no other career possibility for me."

"... when you take into account that third dimension of depth, then 97% of the volume of living space on Earth is made up by ocean."

"Obviously, terrestrial mining does have very serious and significant impacts. But, largely speaking, they are much more controllable in a terrestrial setting. They are much more visible — so that third parties can verify them and make sure that mining companies are adhering to . Whereas, they would be far harder to see and verify and attribute to individual mines in the deep sea."

"There are few better guides to the glories of s than Callum Roberts. Reef Life is a vibrant memoir of the joys, as well as the grind, of a research career beginning in the 1980s that has spanned a golden age of coral reef science. It is also a fine introduction to the ecology of reefs and the existential threats they now face. Roberts is well equipped for the task. He is chief scientific adviser to ', and has given us two of the best books in the last 15 years about the ecology of the sea and its fate in human hands: An Unnatural History of the Sea and Ocean of Life. Roberts revels in the details of life on a coral reef."

"Roberts is a and an occasional columnist for the '. His command of research is prodigious, and his generosity with example is prodigal. He is good on the big picture, but he understands even better how to burnish an argument with gleaming detail. ... Roberts has a way of bringing marine disaster closer to home. The long summer vacation of British parliamentarians is not a reward for their legislative labours but a consequence of the , in which a choked with sewage and refuse became so vile that parliament's windows were hung with sheets soaked with bleach. ... He is good on the horrors of oil spills but he points out that the Gulf of Mexico's fishing fleets kill more marine life in a day than 's notorious ' disaster did in months. Oil companies are easy to demonise but the biggest source of oil pollution is either run off from land or directly injected by the two stroke engine of the recreational boat: the floating fuel and oils concentrate on the surface, poisoning the eggs and hungry larvae of hundreds of species."

"90 per cent of people who detect their health challenges on time do not need rigorous expenses for treatment. Preventive and early detection help to avoid spending all your resources on management of the sickness."

"I envision equitable healthcare for all Nigerian women, and I involve myself in projects that empower women. The reason is simple, I am a woman, and women in developing countries face so many barriers to living productive and fulfilled lives, poor access to health is just one barrier."

"“Choice Communication Programme is aimed at assisting women to change their attitude towards seeking healthcare because by being accountable for their health, they will be able to help their family and contribute to the development of a larger society.""

"I guess our way of life has become more sedentary and unhealthy with desk jobs and fast food. Simple daily decisions can help to prolong life and reduce the risk for cancer"

"I believe everyone has the right to seek career development and pursue happiness, but I also know leaving the country won’t solve the problems in the healthcare system. I’m not too worried, though; those who have left will build capacity and many will return in later years to contribute positively to the Nigerian health system."

"Rapidly changing information led to a complex cycle of responses but at the center of this conversation is the recognition that the intersection between public health leadership and political leadership holds the key to getting ahead of the disease."

"The small change that made a big impact in my life is being curious. I use the phrase “Intellectual Curiosity” a lot which means being very aware and alert of what is going on around you. This is important because, for anyone working in technology, it is super difficult to predict the future or know what the next big thing is going to be. Five years ago when I was in Medical School, there was no way I could have predicted that I would be investing or will be interested in blockchain or crypto and so it’s very difficult to predict the future."

"So my simple advice is to stay curious, spend time researching and talking to people who are doing interesting things around you because that’s where inspiration and good ideas will come from."

"The advice I’ll give to someone starting a company is to have a sense of realism. Starting a company is one of the hardest things that you’ll do and so you need to make sure its something you are genuinely passionate about and something that you can see yourself working on for a very long time."

"A lot of people have watched movies like “The Social Network” where it seems like starting a startup is so easy, you go from 0–100 quickly, there is money chasing you and everything is going well but most times that’s not the case. You need to make sure you are really passionate about the problem you are trying to solve and the market you are going after, so you can weather through the storms and difficulties of starting a business."

"The last advice I’ll give is that if you are going to start a company and aim to raise venture capital for it then you have to understand what venture capital is really about. Most businesses that seek funding are not venture-backable and this is the biggest reason why most companies never raise venture capital."

"Something I have learned and I lean on daily is the importance of focus because you can spend your week being busy but when you look at your calendar or to-do list at the end of the week, you’ll realize that you have not been productive."

"It’s super important to segment your day and filter what’s important and what’s not. Everyone who works with me knows how I am with emails wherein I don’t rush to reply emails because emails are basically what other people want you to do whereas your own to-do list is what you want to do and your calendar is how you actually spend your time."

"The impact of how you spend your time on a day to day basis compounds over time, so I plan my day and focus on what is really important. At the beginning of every day, I spend 15–20 minutes where I think about what I want to get done that day and make sure I get it done."

"It’s never too late to get into tech but I wish I got into it a lot earlier. I am currently 28 years old and I have been in tech for about five years but sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I was aware of startups, programming and the impact technology entrepreneurship can have on Africa at a much earlier age. Right now I’m really interested in raising the awareness level of technology and startups amongst students in Secondary School as I believe that’s one of the best times to get started."

"Nigerians are creative, with an entrepreneurial spirit but it doesn’t mean that because we are resilient, we should continue to be knocked."

"My parents told me that at the age of five when we came across a road crash scene and I watched the first aid being administered, immediately, I decided then that I wanted to be a doctor. Here I am today, a medical doctor as well as a development practitioner."

"“The health problems for women in Nigeria include high maternal mortality, breast and cervical cancer as well as issues related to harmful traditional practices like female genital mutilation."