You’ve heard of multilateral organizations like the UN and WHO that serve the global community. You may also have heard of the G8 (Group of 8) and G20 (Group of 20), clubs of nations with common interests. But have you heard of the BRIC and the Next-11? They are groupings of countries that economists have made to help them predict the global needs of the future.
Quoting a recent study, the President of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, Godswill Okara, said Nigeria constituted over 20 per cent of foreign patients seeking medical treatment in India. Okara also noted that the 2011 Mo Ibrahim African Governance Index ranked Nigeria’s health care system 51st out of 53 countries in Africa. This, though hardly surprising, is unfortunate.
A few months ago I received a Google Alert about the West Africa E-Leaning Conference and Exhibition (WAeLCE) to be held at the University of Lagos on March 27-28. Yesterday, I received another alert about the conference, this time an article from the Guardian Nigeria. In Addressing Challenges of Nigeria’s e-Learning Initiatives, Adeyeni Adepetuni discussed the role information communication technology (ICT) and eLearning plays in Nigeria.
