{"id":1656,"date":"2008-07-02T23:34:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2008-07-02T23:34:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:34:43","slug":"nigeria-pulls-the-plug-on-its-olpc-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/nigeria-pulls-the-plug-on-its-olpc-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria pulls the plug on its OLPC order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=9226\">Vanguard<\/a><\/i>:<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr Aja Nwachukwu, the Education Minister, told newsmen  in Abuja that the scheme was discovered to be a \u201cwhite elephant\u201d project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discovered that the scheme is a conduit pipe to siphon public fund,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nNwachukwu said the ministry was working on other options to promote the deployment of ICT at all levels of education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olpcnews.com\/countries\/nigeria\/olpc_nigeria_one_year_later.html\">OLPC News<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanguard: Dr Aja Nwachukwu, the Education Minister, told newsmen in Abuja that the scheme was discovered to be a \u201cwhite elephant\u201d project. \u201cWe discovered that the scheme is a conduit pipe to siphon public fund,\u201d he said. Nwachukwu said the ministry was working on other options to promote the deployment of ICT at all levels of education. [via OLPC News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-100-laptop","category-africa","category-olpc","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-qI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}