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 […]
Towards credible elections in 2015
Professor Attahiru Jega’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has continued to chalk up questionable competence in every election its has conducted in the country in its over three years of existence.
Against the Foreign Accounts Bill
ON Wednesday, November 20, 2013, the House of Representatives passed the second reading of a bunch of bills which, if they eventually become law, may see corruption in Nigeria go right through the roof and drain the nation’s treasury into foreign bank vaults.
Oyo’s sack of YES-O cadets
One of the steps that Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State took to reduce youth unemployment and recruit fresh, young hands to participate in the provision of governmental services was the creation of the Youth Employment Scheme of Oyo State (YES-O).
Squabbling over 2014 budget
ONCE again, the National Assembly and the executive arm of government are at loggerheads over budget projections and overall management of revenues accruing from the sale of the country’s oil and gas.
Tackling poverty in Nigeria
Once again, the Federal Government came out hotly in self-defence over charges of worsening poverty rate in Nigeria.
