Thursday, May 31, 2018

What's your next move? To Japan maybe?


The government hopes to attract more than 500,000 foreign labourers to nursing, shipbuilding, lodging as well as construction and agricultural industries by around 2025, the newspaper said. 

Prospective foreign workers in those sectors can acquire work permits for up to five years by passing occupational and Japanese language tests starting next April, in which they will be required to demonstrate they are capable of understanding slow conversations and conducting basic tasks, the paper said. 

A strengthening economy since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in 2012, rebuilding after the 2011 tsunami, a construction boom ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and a shrinking and ageing population have aggravated Japan's labour shortage. 

SOURCE: Economic Times (India)  


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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

What's your next move? "Back to the village" and the businesses / technologies that support it

A world where workers will be empowered to dictate their own hours, their own wages, and most importantly, their own freedom to explore their passions. 
A massive shift that opens up the opportunity for numerous peer-to-peer services and networks.
Driven by a post-scarcity economic model whereby you can live very frugally if you choose to, some workers (mostly college-educated and urban) are opting out of the now traditional work structure and choosing their own path.

People are really doing this.  
Source: VentureBeat, please read.  

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Finding sanity in an insane time


It's easy to blame ourselves for not feeling 100% in our minds, but some of the causes of mental unwellness have to do with large systemic problems in our societies.
- The School of Life: How the Modern World Makes Us Mentally Ill

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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Air travel is connecting Africa

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) is a Trade Organisation open to membership of airlines of African States.  
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the global trade association of airlines. 

RELATED: Former African Airlines Association (AFRAA) Managing Director, Dr Chingosho is optimistic about the future of African aviation which he says is promising given the growing African economies, a growing population, increasing urbanization, a growing middle-class, and young, technology savvy workers. Read more here




RELATED: Last year Ethiopian Airways, Kenya Airways and South African Airways, three top airlines on the continent, sold two-thirds of the estimated 9.2 million seats purchased for travel within sub-Saharan Africa. The remaining one-third was spread among more than a dozen smaller carriers such as Nigeria-based Arik Air, Air Mauritius, and RwandAir...
Yet while more flights are linking big cities than they did are decade ago, most airlines based in sub-Saharan Africa are losing money due to stiff competition from Gulf, Turkish and European carriers on transcontinental routes...
To make the air travel industry profitable, African countries need to liberalise air traffic, according to IATA and the African Union. As far back as 1999, 44 countries agreed in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire (the Yamoussoukro Decision) to deregulate air services and promote the opening of regional air markets to transnational competition. Read more here.

RELATED, January 2018: The African Union (AU) has launched the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) as it hopes to capitalise on the benefits brought by air transport. It is hoped that a single aviation market, launched yesterday at the AU Summit, will help promote trade, cross-border investments and create an additional 300,000 direct and 2m indirect jobs.  Read more here


RELATED: More airlines from African countries are expected to begin frequent flights into Nigeria in the coming months following the inauguration of the Single African Air Transport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
Industry sources stated that the restrictions on frequency of flights, capacity, route and ports of entry, and the 5th Freedom Traffic Right had been lifted... 
"Nigeria is simply not ready to handle the level of unfair competition that the full implementation of SAATM will bring upon the country...
Industry sources, however, stated that there would be no going back on the open skies agreement. Read more here.


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Friday, May 11, 2018

Calling women and youth

African Democratic Congress

The latest headline in the politics of the Nigeria project is that the new (January 2018) Congress for National Movement (CNM) founded by former president Obasanjo has now been fused into a political party called the African Democratic Congress (ADC)

Details here, please read

We can not give up, because we all know that:

Nigeria can do much better.  
Africa can do better.  
Black Lives matter.  

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