The White House AI accord
The recent White House meeting between President Donald Trump and leaders of America’s most powerful artificial-intelligence companies was convened against astonishing advances in frontier AI, reports of systems behaving unexpectedly, fears of cyberattacks and misuse, and an unresolved question: who should police a technology whose consequences may reach every society? Trump initiated the encounter as […]
Audit of looted funds should be total
IT is coming late in the four-year life of this regime, but the setting up of the Audit Committee on the Recovery and Management of Stolen Assets, ACRMSA, by President Muhammadu Buhari is a welcome development.
Managing Zimbabwe’s post-Mugabe era
THE reluctant resignation by former President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday, November 21, 2017, opened a new and anxious chapter in the history of Zimbabwe, which lived for 37 years under the iron thumb of the wily and stubborn 93-year-old sit-tight ruler.
That UN damning report on PINE corruption
AS if further justifying the sack of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr David Babachir Lawal, over the scale of alleged corruption in catering for the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the North East, a fresh damning report demands urgent action to bring the alleged profiteers in human misery t
States and unclaimed UBEC funds
IT is a major symptom of the rot in the quality of leadership in the country that many states have failed to provide the counterpart funds required to collect their shares of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds.
Brighter chances for 2018 budget
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, while presenting the 2018 Budget to the joint session of the National Assembly, NASS, made a crucial confession couched as a promise. He promised to raise the implementation of the 2017 Budget to “about 50 per cent” by the end of December this year.
