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The Man Making Rwanda Into a Hub for Physics

March 11, 2020 Sector.Africa AdministratorAfrica, Computing, Government of Rwanda, Kigali, Ojo, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan genocide0 comment

Omololu Akin-Ojo was constantly reluctant to go to the United States. “I felt I might do a lot of things in Africa,” he informed me in his workplace at the new East African Institute for Essential Research (EAIFR) in Kigali, Rwanda. “Unfortunately, I was incorrect.” As a university trainee in his home country of Nigeria in the late 1990s, Akin-Ojo discovered to write computer system code by hand, without ever having the opportunity to put the code into a computer. Knowledgeable about these constraints, his father, a physicist, encouraged him…

Kagame fires education minister for taking Shs1.9million bribe, another for telling lies

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 Sector.Africa AdministratorÉdouard Ngirente, Government of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwanda Defence Force, Rwandan genocide

A Rwandan minister was recently fired for accepting a bribe to change a school’s ranking, President Paul Kagame has revealed. Dr Isaac Munyakazi, the former Minister of State for Education in charge of Primary and Secondary Education was, according to Kagame caught red handed taking a bribe to ‘interfere in the school rankings after he was approached by a certain school which had performed badly in national exams and bribed him for a better rank.’ The school had performed badly, ranking above 100, among the last but they approached him…