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Video: Nigeria’s Dosunmu-Ogunbi becomes 1st-black female to bag PhD in Robotics at University of Michigan

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In this video, an inspiring Oluwami Dosunmu-Ogunbi, who is of Nigerian descent, speaks at the university’s College of Engineering convocation as she becomes the First Black Woman to bag a PhD in Robotics at the University of Michigan in the United States

Dosumu-Ogunbi, who is a daughter of Nigerian immigrants, expressed her desire to be recognized as the inaugural African American female recipient of a Robotics PhD from the University of Michigan. Furthermore, she aspires to leverage her technical expertise to enhance the well-being of people.

“I do not stand here on my own two feet alone. None of us got here by our merit alone, whether it be teacher, friends, family, mentors, or role models, we each have one or multiple people to whom we are grateful for making this moment possible,” She said.

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Video: Kenya’s Ruto targets inflation rate below 3%

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In this video, Kenyan President, William Ruto, stressed the economic goals of his government and charged the public to believe in the economic reforms of his administration.

 

Ruto also emphasized that the international community and multilateral bodies had applauded his policy direction, and urged Kenyans to join the train.

 

“You do have my commitment that we will be disciplined as a public sector… it my target that by next year inflation will be sub 3%”, Ruto said.

 

Earlier in the month, the Central Bank of Kenya slashed the benchmark rate to 12.0%, 75.0 bps down. The Central Bank’s prescribed target band for headline inflation is 2.5% – 7.5%, 5.0% being the mid-point · The last time Kenya registered <3.0% headline inflation was May 2007

 

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Video: Amid unpopular reforms, W’Bank chief insists Nigeria must ‘stay in course’ for 15 years

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In this video, Indermit Gill, the Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank who also serves as the Pension Finance Administrator of the World Bank Group, at an event in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, commended the recent fiscal and monetary reform policies of the government.

He noted that implementing such reforms was impossible without strong resolve from the political class. He also commended the central bank’s decision to raise interest rate.

The central bank has had to hike its policy rate by a huge 850 points in the last 9 months to boost confidence in the Naira and anchor inflationary expectations.

“But this is only the beginning, Nigeria will need to stay the course for at least another 10 to 15 years to transform its economy,” the World Bank chief stressed.

Gill’s remark brings to mind the age-long argument on the actual interest of multilateral bodies in their engagements with developing countries, largely African states, whether through loans or policy framework. Some have argued that the institutions are only bent on impoverishing the continent through policy positions like the removal of subsidy and the devaluation of currencies, both of which Nigeria under the current administration has done under two years— leading to unprecedented inflation rate and soaring cost of living.

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