 Africa is considered the last frontier of global development, in the sense that other regions of India, for example, and other continents have been much better in terms of structural change and human development. But this same century has also been described as the African century, and this may mean different things to different people. The one clear notion that is captured in that description is that while Africa may all be in the continent with the greatest material challenges, it is undoubtedly the continent with the greatest opportunities and protections. Actually, I think that this comes to be earlier today than I was speaking and I did that, and I'm going to call a few and explain a few of what has said about it. Because again, the general question of African immigration. This population, for example, by 2035, Africa will have about 1.2 billion people. Nigeria, its most populous country, will become the fourth most populous nation in the world. Over 50% of that number will be young residents, some say 60 under the age of 25. Today, 60% of unemployment in Africa are young people. And so they get petitioned for social and human neglect. Aside from that, climate change also causes special concerns, especially desertification and the dry ground of, for example, the lecture, and its implication for lives and livelihoods, especially for those who depend on that link. And many know, of course, that that link used to be about 35,000 square kilometers. Today, it's under 1,500 square kilometers. And of course, there are huge implications for the life around us, for those who farm and produce fish, and all of those whose life was dependent. And then the challenges of healthcare delivery and dedication for a large population have led in Africa in particular to some of the worst human development indices in the world. But these challenges, all of these challenges, whether they be of population, whether they be of human development indices, that are so-called, all of these challenges, in my own opinion, have peaked at a very auspicious time. A time such as where the time of technology and innovation have begun to disrupt older and slower ways of achieving results. And for Africa in time when its young innovators, digital scientists and creatives, have emerged with incredible creativity and resourcefulness, there's no question that the key to our best dreams for Africa of tomorrow is innovation. It's technological innovation. Innovation and technology. Africa was a state of leapfrog over many phases of development, and all the continents of that go through. Let's take what I mean with some very quick examples. We're familiar, of course, with the success of mobile phones in Africa. And I think we all understand that given the innovation around mobile phones, there's no other path for Africa to go. We simply live from the fixed lines to mobile phones. There's no way of convincing what has been done between 90 and 98 in all the other nations. So that's a quick for us, a very quick one. Why does that result in the lack of mobile phones? We have seen some of the most incredible developments, especially in digital financial transactions, payments, electronic wallets, and all of those other innovative steps that would require perhaps an old banking infrastructure. So today mobile telephony has opened up businesses in rural areas in Kenya, Zimbabwe, in Nigeria, and has led to greater financial inclusion and world creation. We've had a problem, for example, in some of our micro-credits schemes in Zimbabwe, with nearly so far about 2.4 billion micro-credits in almost several different categories of Nigerians, especially in the bottom of the pyramid, and all of it has been on the back of some kind of mobile payment system of the other. And the worth of some of the very exceptional feature companies are also being on the back of mobile telephony. But that's just one aspect. How about healthcare? In many other countries, especially in the more developed economies and countries, the desired ratio of patients, they say, is about 1 to 5 million or more, to which that ratio would require 400,000 physicians in all in Nigeria. But the only way we'll be able to deliver quality healthcare to Nigeria is through a system where still people are augmented with intelligent innovation and technology, including intelligent artificial intelligence, et cetera. But we've already seen today groundbreaking innovations all over Africa. Today, we have traditional companies in the world, for example, and everyone that's started in Nigeria, delivering a lot of costumes in remote locations using drones. But there are even more remarkable innovations. There's a 28-year-old Cameroonian outside who was recently at the NCM for inventing a touch screen house monitoring tablet called the Kageopad. And that Kageopad has a tendency, I believe, to revolutionize medicine, especially in remote areas. The Kageopad provides access to healthcare for heart patients in remote areas who don't need to take long journeys from the cities where the heart specialist are located. So the tablet itself is equipped with four electrodes that can be untouched to the patient's chest to determine whether their heart is functioning normally or not. The detail is then wirelessly transmitted to the Kageopad and to the Kageopads, and then sent to the kageologists who can interpret it, and then make the message in the spectrum. Another Nigerian, this time in the Nigerian region, was also seated on the same platform. He created devices that can detect cancer cells and even explore cells. The system manages synthetic neurobiology with traditional semiconductor technology. This system, despite able, quickly and with remarkable accuracy, determine whether cells and body are cancerous or not. It can also, as I said, detect explosives. Of course, for the ruling threats to security global, this particular information group, Revolutionary, the first to fuse light and micro-neurons from high-stecks into a cylinder of chip. Often perhaps the most remarkable integration in healthcare is the work that's being done at our intervention column in Biola in NMOSB. It's both a robust humanitarian company. Just last week, a group of interns designed and printed and assembled A3. A3 indeed printed because there's this link for an assistant superintendent of the U.S. who lost his arm while on active duty. Those interns, by sharing ours, have been Adam and Gabriel and their colleagues who are trained in Biola and work with a number of volunteer humanitarian techniques. The equipment and materials that are required for the process, all in Biola, all the work that's done in Biola, and they're able to repeat this, they're able to do this time and time again. Food security is again, food security is also an area of need. Africa were told that 60% of the world's medical life, but we still report over 80% of our food. We can only feed our huge population in food productivity from our tens of millions of farmers in Africa. But this will require access to impacts. One of the steps to actually information about what to plant, what to plant, how to cultivate, so that your spatial and satellite data and access of recognition are not as needed based on your information. Also, new ways of increasing your productivity will be important. For example, in Nigeria, we'll meet her again, Angela Delaghe. Again, she was recently featured on BBC in the World House. She runs a farm called, a farm at Fresh Territory, Fresh Territory. The farm uses static containers with a focus on supplying premium organic radio technologies using high performance medical farming technology. Angela is solving the problems of traditional farming using technology and bringing solutions right through your steps. This is not for farming for African citizens. But how about private sector funding for the country? The technology through our funding options are really taking over. There is a flyback grid, for example, this is an innovative and brilliant technology sector which is supported by a very distinct venture company called Venture Startup. The flyback grid was founded by two young men, Okra, EJ, and Aiyo. One of them is a farmer. The other is a software engineer. The company leverages technology to aggregate finances for small-scale farmers. They also provide inputs and farm-executive services so they're able to include farmers and they've been able to do so for four years. For thousands of ordinary farmers across the country. So there is, so already, a flyback grid, there's another called FarmGravity. These are new innovative ways of bringing private capital to the world of investors. Of course, never have you ever get to see the farms or be grateful for what's in their dividends. How about power? Is there that power problem that's also been largely solved by the multiples of disruptive innovations that we're seeing today? The days of the traditional model, one national agreement said by large power stations are numbered. The smarter and more scalable options are using renewable energy sources, solar, wind, biomass, and waste power, and the possibilities are limitless. Recently, the Nigeria Climate Innovation Centre that is located at the Lagos business scene is jointly owned by the federal government at the Lagos business team and some other of one or two other investors. They certainly concluded their climate launch plan and came up with some very innovative ideas. One of them is a company called NewTegens, a process of generating power from water. The product uses water and conforms on ourselves to generate energy for electricity and cooling. It works by connecting water automatically from any piping channel in the house. It breaks down the water and pipe, which is used to let it cook in front batteries of any guy. Another company called Power School Budget founded by three of Nigeria's O'Keele authorities and Europe that produce a low cost machine smokeless bookstore. Past November 19th, the first clean bookstore to be fitted with a self-powered internet of the ladies' houses to monitor in real time is simply of cooking the amount of CO2 and biomass and the same black carbon that is invented and the total electricity that is generated. All of this can be accepted. I think that is making the way in a number of different innovations, different ways of thinking, as innovators figure, especially those passing how to use power in the city, new storage decoratives. These are of course also means that so power will be compatible. Of Nigeria's 180 million people, we know of course that over 20 million people also have no power. But as part of efforts to diversify power sources in order to do power sources, we started a program of providing solar power with private sectors. 20,000 people in rural villages are not anymore supplied in the first phase of the 20,000. We started in the village just outside of Utea called Muna. Muna is an agrarian community. It is not of the national need and there is no other power source. To charge their phones, there is a small entrepreneur with a small generator and he wants his service. So if you want to charge your phone, you take it to the shop once a day, you pay a small fee and he charges you. Life in Muna used to shut down about 7 p.m. until daylight. But working with a PPP model, as I have explained, one of the government-owned MPHC would partner with Azure Technology in private solar power to provide a domestic solar station. Azure provided that same end-to-end service in East Africa, in solar-owned system, including in village system. The solar equipment is in some costs under 2,000 p.m. And that includes the cost of power for the five people for about an eight-hour day. Everyone has one mounted on their roof. And for the first time in this existence, the village now has running water so the school also has power. The school now, of course, is currently committed to the need of things, also has power. Each room has four points of light and most children can still live at night just like that. The women can process their payments and pay out at night. New jobs, of course, have been created so that the scholars, maintenance personnel and the money management of the payment system itself. As I said earlier today, only one guy has lost his business. Only one guy has lost a job in the world. That's the phone channel. Every house can have a channel for their phones. But the only one guy to escape were facilitated private solar panels of light and markets across nature using new extra power with new sensors. In some of the other markets, they come to the market and they go to the market. In the black market, you see how markets are new and several other markets. All of these are private sector children using solar power. And time and time again we see these innovations of this solar innovation all over just in Nigeria but all over Africa and it's becoming clearer about Nigeria, there could be examples of Nigeria, GIL and all of that. And it's becoming quite evident with innovation to increase innovation especially around solar power it becomes cheaper more affordable and of course more accessible than light and markets. Perhaps this is the most profound challenge and the best opportunity for innovation. In our country today we're going to be just about 18 these things are over 100 million 100 million young people who are about 18 or older and they need to get educated and of course in higher quality that we're delivering today we also need to be ready for the new opportunities we've created by technology and technology. So, the world of technology is like self and innovation challenge and we're currently working with MIT, Cisco and a few other technology companies in developing a digitally compliant protocol for program secondary innovation. The only way to do the passing numbers of young people is through technological innovation that can deliver not just the best horizon but also the best teachers to the highest number of people and to the highest number of pupils and students. We expect them to be reaching large numbers of persons with teaching ideas and structural materials in our empire. The program has engaged 500,000 graduates some as teachers some as extension workers each of the first 200,000 is a group with a tablet to change the structural material and every one of them has access to an open water and has training materials and topics for entrepreneurship code writing and program. All of these half a million beneficiaries are engaged online training and leading everyone electronically. We're now set to adapt these games to an online teacher training training for the new jobs in technology and innovation also. All of these of course can now be done electronically and this is gaining momentum. The Federal Government for example is investing in expanding the work of training developers data scientists and artificial intelligence experts for quality jobs in local areas pretty much. This was found here by Abder a company co-founded by Nigeria the Empology a technical innovation firm from here the BOI and recently announced that a CDF that has committed to all the training firm will focus on funding some of these training initiatives. It is very clear that there is so much that is being done of course there's so much opportunity to do it for much more and I say it for good or for ill because any for either scenario it's possible given the checkerty of Africa development it's not always the case that we follow the never-ending optical path to progress and development if Africa fails the global empire will be especially because of course if Africa succeeds that impact will be the that impact will be something that we will be talking about for generations to come but I am completely confident especially because the future belongs to the young for the youth of today that Africa will for certain succeed and we are ready beginning the science today. Congratulations Mr. Pascal for the year 30 unfortunately you cannot rest just yet for two reasons the first is that your experience and influence and wisdom is needed now more than ever but if you are not persuaded by that then the second reason is the scriptural at 90 God gave Abraham a new mandate and must now get ready to begin his work and power from the scriptural so in your case you are only 18 and you have 10 more happy early years before you get to ever have the age of 19 so you have no excuse whatsoever I pray that you will see many more years in peace and joy as your daily social social wisdom and social freedom of God have a good day sir