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The Presidential Villa plans to spend N14.8bn on Internet access, stationery and telephone charges, among others, under the Federal Government's planned expenditure captured in the 2023 budget. In the budget, N67.1m was budgeted for Internet access to the Villa, while stationery and computer consumables would be N79m. A further breakdown of the budget also showed that N35.9m was allocated for electricity charges, telephone charges and water rates each got N306.2m, N6m and N40.6m respectively. President Muhammadu Buhari presented to a joint session of the National Assembly a budget proposal of N20.51tn for the 2023 fiscal year. The budget is about N750bn higher than the N19.76tn earlier proposed in the 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper.

President Muhammadu Buhari will present the proposed N19.76 trillion budget for the 2023 fiscal year to the National Assembly. Presidential aide Femi Adesina says it was virtually one item in the Federal Executive Council meeting. The budget proposal for 2023 was presented and discussed at length.He explained that the budget proposal would be taken to the National Assembly on Friday morning by the President. Adesina, says the hybrid FEC sessions (in-person and online participants), was in line with the country's COVID-19 guidelines.

The Senate rejected the 2023-2025 medium-term expenditure framework and fiscal strategy paper which proposed A N6 trillion tax and import duties waivers proposed for in the N19.76 trillion 2023 budget which also contained A deficit of N12.4 trillion. The chairman of the senate panel, senator Solomon Adeola says that both the projected N12.43 trillion budget deficit and the n6trillion tax and import duty waivers should be critically reviewed downward before sending the proposals to the national assembly for consideration and approval. He also told the minister to look into the list of beneficiaries of the waivers for the required downward review to N3 trillion in order to give room for the reduction of the N12.43 trillion deficit figure.

The Federal Government reiterated petrol subsidy will remain in place until mid-2023. Ahead of the 2023 budget presentation, The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed says the government is proposing to spend only N3.36 trillion on petrol subsidy in 2023. The minister added that the Federal Government is proposing an aggregate expenditure of N19.76 trillion for the 2023 financial year, with a projected deficit of N11.30 trillion. She says the Federal Government is projecting total revenue of N8.46 trillion, out of which N1.9 trillion is expected to come from oil-related sources while the remaining is to come from non-oil sources.

The Federal Government's total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances rose from N17.46tn in December 2021 to N19.91tn in June 2022. Data from the CBN says this shows that the Federal Government borrowed N2.45tn from the apex bank within six months. The N19.91tn owed the apex bank by the Federal Government is not part of the country's total public debt stock, which stood at N41.60tn as of March 2022, according to the Debt Management Office. The CBN however says that the Federal Government's borrowing from it through the Ways and Means Advances could have adverse effects on the bank's monetary policy to the detriment of domestic prices and exchange rates.

This week we are joined by Sebastian Ruder. He is a research scientist at DeepMind, London. He has also worked at a variety of institutions such as AYLIEN, Microsoft, IBM's Extreme Blue, Google Summer of Code, and SAP. These experiences were completed in tangent with his studies which included studying Computational Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and at Trinity College, Dublin before undertaking a PhD in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning at the Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics.This week we discuss language independence and diversity in natural language processing whilst also taking a look at the attempts to identify material properties from images.As discussed in the podcast if you would like to donate to the current campaign of "CREATE DONATE EDUCATE" which supports Stop Hate UK then please find the link below:https://www.shorturl.at/glmszPlease also find additional links to help support black colleagues in the area of research;Black in AI twitter account: https://twitter.com/black_in_aiMentoring and proofreading sign-up to support our Black colleagues in research: https://twitter.com/le_roux_nicolas/status/1267896907621433344?s=20Underrated ML Twitter: https://twitter.com/underrated_mlSebastian Ruder Twitter: https://twitter.com/seb_ruderPlease let us know who you thought presented the most underrated paper in the form below: https://forms.gle/97MgHvTkXgdB41TC8Links to the papers:“On Achieving and Evaluating Language-Independence in NLP” - https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/elanguage/lilt/article/view/2624.html"The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World” - https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09095"Recognizing Material Properties from Images" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03127.pdfAdditional Links:Student perspectives on applying to NLP PhD programs: https://blog.nelsonliu.me/2019/10/24/student-perspectives-on-applying-to-nlp-phd-programs/Tim Dettmer's post on how to pick your grad school: https://timdettmers.com/2020/03/10/how-to-pick-your-grad-school/Rachel Thomas' blog post on why you should blog: https://medium.com/@racheltho/why-you-yes-you-should-blog-7d2544ac1045Emily Bender's The Gradient article: https://thegradient.pub/the-benderrule-on-naming-the-languages-we-study-and-why-it-matters/Paper on order-sensitive vs order-free methods: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1253.pdf"Exploring the Origins and Prevalence of Texture Bias in Convolutional Neural Networks": https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09071Sebastian's website where you can find all his blog posts: https://ruder.io/

The latest figures released by the Debt Management Office shows that the federal Bonds make up N13.963 trillion or 72.56 per cent of the aggregate N19.243 trillion domestic debt obligations standing against the federal government. The total public debt stock of the federal government, Federal Capital Territory and states stood at N39.566 trillion. The federal government accounted for N33.228 trillion of the total debt loads, with domestic and external components amounting to N19.243 trillion and N13.885 trillion, respectively.

On this episode of the Dailies, the following stories were brought to you from the major newspapers to keep you abreast of the latest happening across the nation, and some of these these stories incisively treated by our seasoned analyst: · INEC awaits president's action on electoral acts · APC Governors meet on direct primaries · ACF chieftain urges Buhari to sign bill. · Malami, DSS: El-Zakzaky's passport not in our custody · Nigerians stranded abroad over expired passport. · N19.3bn saga: Kogi alleges EFCC doing hatchet job, issues 48-hour ultimatum · IPOB: Carry out your normal activities, Ohanaeze tells transporters, others · Lagos approves 135 private hospitals for COVID-19 vaccination, okays N6,000 fee · Oyo predicts influx of investors, readies IPP December 2022 · OAU student: Family demands participation as autopsy holds today These and more stories…

The Kogi State Government dared the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to come out with the report of its investigations on the purported N20 billion bailout funds over which a Lagos High Court reportedly froze the state's account in August.The state in a statement insisted that the alleged sum of N19,333,333,333.36, which Sterling Bank had undertaken to the EFCC to transfer to the Central Bank of Nigeria did not belong to the Kogi State Government and that the state did not enter into any agreement, either with Sterling Bank or the EFCC, to return any bailout funds to the CBN as being portrayed.The government however kicked against the withdrawal by the EFCC, challenging the anti-graft body to make public its investigation of the alleged bailout funds.

The Kogi State Government dared the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to come out with the report of its investigations on the purported N20 billion bailout funds over which a Lagos High Court reportedly froze the state's account in August.The state in a statement insisted that the alleged sum of N19,333,333,333.36, which Sterling Bank had undertaken to the EFCC to transfer to the Central Bank of Nigeria did not belong to the Kogi State Government and that the state did not enter into any agreement, either with Sterling Bank or the EFCC, to return any bailout funds to the CBN as being portrayed.The government however kicked against the withdrawal by the EFCC, challenging the anti-graft body to make public its investigation of the alleged bailout funds.

The Kogi State Government dared the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to come out with the report of its investigations on the purported N20 billion bailout funds over which a Lagos High Court reportedly froze the state's account in August.The state in a statement insisted that the alleged sum of N19,333,333,333.36, which Sterling Bank had undertaken to the EFCC to transfer to the Central Bank of Nigeria did not belong to the Kogi State Government and that the state did not enter into any agreement, either with Sterling Bank or the EFCC, to return any bailout funds to the CBN as being portrayed.The government however kicked against the withdrawal by the EFCC, challenging the anti-graft body to make public its investigation of the alleged bailout funds.

Depression is a bummer. I am lucky to have the support of a wife and a best friend to get me through that. This week, after a needed break, Isa, Michael McKeown and I decided to record an episode of us hanging out and eating a delicious Chinese takeaway and review it (as well as catching up). Hope you enjoy. Food from Lee Garden, N19. Highlights include: Food Film Recommendations Opening up the fly and as always I Don't Want To Listen Alone and Book Corner.

Nigeria's Economy showed resilience in the fourth quarter of 2020, beating the expectations of several economic analysts, including projections by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund by posting a historical 9.7 percent quarter on quarter growth in its gross domestic product in 8 years to N19.55 trillion in real terms.The argument still holds but it could now be that the credit interventions of the CentralBank of Nigeria, state development banks, and other financial institutions are starting to have an impact on the economy and consequently placing Nigeria's GDP growth as the best in the world at this time, besting China at 2.6 percent; Japan at 3 percent; United Stated at 4 percent; and Columbia at 6 percent.From the latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria, thethe largest economy in Africa exited from recession by the end of 2020 as its output growthreturned to positive territory in the fourth quarter of 2020, with a modest growth of 0.11percent in the quarter, compared to the -3.62 percent contraction of the previous quarter.

Having survived the Juggernaut, the wary adventurers find their way to a curious arrangement of pentagonal rooms set upon gears, surrounded by monster-infested waters.  Can they work together to navigate the Gears of Hate?

More traps and riddles await the wary heroes as they delve deeper into the tomb of the nine gods.  For whom does the Juggernaught roll?

Even in the depths of a massive tomb that lies in the heart of a ruined city overtaken by an impenetrable jungle, Kapernicus gets crabs!

Moin Nadeem is a masters student at MIT, where he studies natural language generation. His research interests broadly include natural language processing, information retrieval, and software systems for machine learning. Learn more about Moin: https://moinnadeem.com/ (https://moinnadeem.com/) https://twitter.com/moinnadeem (https://twitter.com/moinnadeem) Want to level-up your skills in machine learning and software engineering? Join the ML Engineered Newsletter: http://bit.ly/mle-newsletter (http://bit.ly/mle-newsletter) Comments? Questions? Submit them here: http://bit.ly/mle-survey (http://bit.ly/mle-survey) Follow Charlie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI (https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI) Take the Giving What We Can Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/ (https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/) Subscribe to ML Engineered: https://mlengineered.com/listen (https://mlengineered.com/listen) Timestamps: 01:35 Follow Charlie on Twitter (https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI (https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI)) 03:10 How Moin got started in computer science 05:50 Using ML to identify depression on Twitter in high school 11:00 Building a system to track phone locations on MIT's campus 14:35 Specializing in NLP 17:20 Building an end-to-end fact-checking system (https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-4014/ (https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-4014/)) 25:15 Predicting statement stance with neural multi-task learning (https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-6603/ (https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-6603/)) 27:20 Is feature engineering in NLP dead? 29:40 Reconciling language models with existing knowledge graphs 35:20 How advances in AI hardware will affect NLP research (crazy!) 47:25 Moin's research into sampling algorithms for natural language generation (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07243 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07243)) 57:10 Under-rated areas of ML research 01:00:10 How research works at MIT CSAIL 01:04:35 How Moin keeps up in such a fast-moving field 01:11:30 Starting the MIT Machine Intelligence Community 01:16:30 Rapid Fire Questions Links: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-4014/ (FAKTA: An Automatic End-to-End Fact Checking System) https://stereoset.mit.edu/ (StereoSet: Measuring stereotypical bias in pretrained language models) https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D19-6603/ (Neural Multi-Task Learning for Stance Prediction) http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html (Rich Sutton - The Bitter Lesson) https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07243 (A Systematic Characterization of Sampling Algorithms for Open-ended Language Generation) https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12265 (Strategies for Pre-training Graph Neural Networks) https://openreview.net/pdf?id=YicbFdNTTy (Transformers For Image Recognition at Scale) https://www.cerebras.net/product/ (Cerebras CS-1) https://www.tryklarity.com/ (Klarity: AI for Law Contract Review) https://www.mit.edu/~jda/ (Jacob Andreas) https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/ (Jure Leskovec) https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shoe-Dog/Phil-Knight/9781501135927 (Shoe Dog) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_(book) (Hamilton) https://becomingmichelleobama.com/ (Becoming) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44330/mindset-by-carol-s-dweck-phd/ (Mindset) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators_(book) (The Innovators)

The town of Salem is under a dark cloud, and strange occurrences have the townsfolk on edge.  At the heart of things, a grimoire connects two influential and feuding families, inspiring evil deeds and betrayal at every turn.  

The town of Salem is under a dark cloud, and strange occurrences have the townsfolk on edge.  At the heart of things, a grimoire connects two influential and feuding families, inspiring evil deeds and betrayal at every turn. 

As the heroes of the Three Seas navigate the tomb, Gunther finds in Omu's history a kindred spirit.

Puzzle after puzzle presents itself as the team explores the deeper reaches of the tomb, costing them in coin and in blood.

Here we go! Another episode made possible in these trying times.  With KWay present, we resume our encounter!

We were there, he was not. Here is 20 minutes or so of an evening wthout an expected Kway!  A little bit BTS, a little bit of Kway bashing, and some dick jokes!

The team returns after a long break, picking up right where we left off. Upon disturbing the Crown's resting place, the party must fend off its otherworldly defenders.

This week we are joined by Sebastian Ruder. He is a research scientist at DeepMind, London. He has also worked at a variety of institutions such as AYLIEN, Microsoft, IBM's Extreme Blue, Google Summer of Code, and SAP. These experiences were completed in tangent with his studies which included studying Computational Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and at Trinity College, Dublin before undertaking a PhD in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning at the Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics. This week we discuss language independence and diversity in natural language processing whilst also taking a look at the attempts to identify material properties from images.As discussed in the podcast if you would like to donate to the current campaign of "CREATE DONATE EDUCATE" which supports Stop Hate UK then please find the link below: https://www.shorturl.at/glmszPlease also find additional links to help support black colleagues in the area of research;Black in AI twitter account: https://twitter.com/black_in_aiMentoring and proofreading sign-up to support our Black colleagues in research: https://twitter.com/le_roux_nicolas/status/1267896907621433344?s=20Underrated ML Twitter: https://twitter.com/underrated_mlSebastian Ruder Twitter: https://twitter.com/seb_ruderPlease let us know who you thought presented the most underrated paper in the form below: https://forms.gle/97MgHvTkXgdB41TC8Links to the papers:“On Achieving and Evaluating Language-Independence in NLP” - https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/elanguage/lilt/article/view/2624.html"The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World” - https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09095"Recognizing Material Properties from Images" - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03127.pdfAdditional Links:Student perspectives on applying to NLP PhD programs: https://blog.nelsonliu.me/2019/10/24/student-perspectives-on-applying-to-nlp-phd-programs/Tim Dettmer's post on how to pick your grad school: https://timdettmers.com/2020/03/10/how-to-pick-your-grad-school/Rachel Thomas' blog post on why you should blog: https://medium.com/@racheltho/why-you-yes-you-should-blog-7d2544ac1045Emily Bender's The Gradient article: https://thegradient.pub/the-benderrule-on-naming-the-languages-we-study-and-why-it-matters/Paper on order-sensitive vs order-free methods: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1253.pdf"Exploring the Origins and Prevalence of Texture Bias in Convolutional Neural Networks": https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09071Sebastian's website where you can find all his blog posts: https://ruder.io/

A remote session by Jonathan, Charlie, Christy Lee, and Swain of the Natty19 Podcast. Join us for this discussion about the happenings of Natty19 during Covid-19, in our BTS 19.

Natty19's fantastic conclusion to the Supernatural Files!  Join us for some great, fun performances and discover how act II plays out for this particularly odd and amusing cast.

We had so much fun with our first Fiasco game, we decided to play again!  This time we explore the Supernatural Files, a playset written by Bug McBride in the spirit of the X-Files and Supernatural.

A promise to an old companion forces Xavril into making a life or death decision.

Welcome to episode 102 of the Natty19 Podcast where time waits for no one...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC)  on Wednesday in Abuja approved N29.2 billion for the construction of two roads linking two Northern states to the border of Niger Republic. The federal government has also licensed two gold refineries in Nigeria. This is coming as President Muhammadu Buhari last night in Abuja approved the composition of a monitoring committee for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in line with the provisions of Part V1, Section 21 of the NDDC Establishment Act. Briefing journalists after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in the State House, the Minister of Works, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said the approval was the fallout of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) he presented to the council for the construction of a 46-kilometre road from Balle in Sokoto State to Niger Republic border at the cost of N9.5 billion. He said the contract would be executed within a period of 24 months. The minister also said the council approved another N19.7 billion for the construction of phase II of the project, which he described as a 50-kilometre road project from Kunia in Jigawa State to the Niger Republic border. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/newscast-africa/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Xavril emerges from the maze to find himself alone and surrounded by certain doom. Can he hold out long enough for the rest of the party to escape the maze?

Gunther and Xavril scour the maze for the missing key. Meanwhile, Irimae and Kapernicus fight for their lives!

Join us for Behind the Screen 18 where the whole gang discusses the events of Episodes 95 through 99 of the Natty19 Podcast!

Welcome to Episode 99 of the Natty19 Podcast. Things are happening!

Welcome back, we are pleased to bring you the first ever Natty19 Podcast episode of 2020! In this ninety-eighth episode we have a lot of laughs but things get real with a quickness when Xavril breaks a magic mirror...

Natty19 presents Act II of our first Fiasco adventure!  Listen now to the conclusion of Little Town, Dark Woods.

The party descends further into the depths of the Tomb of the Nine Gods, while Kapernicus attracts yet another cumbersome companion who delights in leading them to their doom.

A quick primer to provide some game-play context for our many to come Fiasco episodes!

For the first time in Natty19 history we not only deviate from D&D 5e, but it is also our first time playing Fiasco!  Join us for this Twin Peaks-esque drama in small town America.

Back on track to continue exploring the remainder of floor three, the team finds themselves in the resting place of Kubuzan. With one room left to see, curiosity takes them down a horrific path.

Recovering from the gruesome battle with the beholder, the party takes a moment to reflect on their grim situation. Strong decisions are made which ultimately lead to a daring rescue.

It's been a while since our last BTS! The content here immediately follows Episode 94 of the Natty19 Podcast so if you're not caught up, now is the time to do so!

Upon the shattered floor of the Vault of Reflection, scorch marks and blood splatters paint the scene... and when the fog clears, what remains will be seen.

In her dire straits, Svitlangi recalls a vision from the past. The team must act fast and precise in order to save her life, but the longer this battle persists, the more harrowing their victory will be. If they can claim victory at all... muhahah!

The investigation of the abandoned camp comes to a haunting, but profitable conclusion, as Lady Fate sets her hand to sculpting great destinies of the most modest clay...

The adventurous crew face off with the smoke mephit, and the death count rises as the mysteries of the camp begin to unfold.

The odd collection of crew members explore the abandoned camp while waiting for their ship to be repaired. The echoes of tragedy still sound, however, as their curiosity places them in harm's way!

Welcome to Natty19's first episode of a four part miniseries. Our own James (Kappy) takes up the DM chair in this short mystery adventure published by Remley Farr and custom tailored to exist as a prelude to the Natty19 Podcast's Tomb of Annihilation main adventure.

Nothing could have prepared the party for the Vault of Reflection. To make matters worse, the influence of the trickster gods is taking hold more than ever before. What will become?