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This week’s online UK-Nigeria meeting was brief and to the point with Fantsuam Foundation busy getting ready to host a Community Volunteers meeting later in the day at the Fishfarm. During our 45 minute skype typed meeting John Dada informed us that: He had heard from Fola and he had safely received the second payment to buy an inverter for the new Dadamac outpost at Ago-Are (as seen above). Bala was in Abuja to get a Kenyan visa to enable him attend next week’s Internet Governance Forum, IGF. Emma was also in Abuja for a training on Human Rights for...

Bala was not at the latest UK-Nigeria online meeting - but he had an excellent excuse! For rather than joining this week’s online sesson, he was busy setting up the new antenna which will allow Fantsuam Foundation’s Academy to receive free bandwidth for the next five years. Followers of this blog may recall that FF’s Community Communication Centre (CCC) was funded by the Nigerian Government and it was part of their commitment at that time to also provide this free bandwidth. The UK team were delighted to learn that they are now ready to fulfil that promise. John Dada explained:...

Below is John Dada's response to the informative, inspirational (and brave) article written by Prince Charles Dickson for Sahara Reporters - which can be viewed here . "Dear Charles, I read a lot of hope in your article, and you have also identified someone of like mind: Aliyu Tilde. It will only take a few folks to start a reversal of this season of madness in Plateau. Truth and Reconciliation is what the majority are yearning for, but a vocal minority is drowning their voices. If those we call leaders have let us down, let us rise to the ocassion...

Dadamac UK have received the following information from John Dada . "We at Fantsuam Foundation have been making enquiries about how we can leverage the coming broadband revolution for Nigeria's last mile connectivity: our pilot in Kafanchan aims to reach 1 Million under-served and un-served rural communities of Nigeria with affordable and accessible connectivity. The Nigerian Broadband Consortium which is providing firbre connectivity to tertiary institutions is able to offer 1kbps @ $1.00 The lowest VSAT offer we can get at the moment is 310% more expensive. If Broadband is to be accessible and affordable at the bottom of the...

Oritamefa Baptist Model School, Ibadan is one of the biggest school in Ibadan metropolis. Fola (who has only had his laptop for two weeks) visited the school to help teachers with the configuring of their system He was also the first to let us know about the flooding in Oyo State and sent us some photos. Dadamac has helped Fola obtain his laptop with the help of an loan through Fantsuam Foundation's microfinance bank. Once the interest free loan has been repaid by Fola the intention is that the money will be lent out again. During our weekly UK-Nigeria meeting...