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 […]
Insecurity: The worst far from over
On Monday, September 5, 2022, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, told a joint media briefing in Abuja that the worst of our insecurity woes were over. He made the declaration in the presence of other senior Federal Government functionaries, such as the Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi; Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola; Minister […]
Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of England (1926-2022): Bitter-sweet memories
Within 10 days, the world has lost two iconic architects of the 20th Century. Former leader of the defunct the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, the man who brought down the Iron Curtain and ended the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, died on August 30, 2022. On Thursday, September 8, 2022, the Queen of England, […]
Will the Ukraine-Russia food deal hold up?
WARRING neighbours, Russia and Ukraine, signed a pact to allow stockpiled grains to be exported through the blockaded Black Sea ports over penultimate weekend. The pact was brokered by Turkey under the watchful eyes of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres. Under the pact, Ukraine is allowed to export grain through its […]
Our 56,000 abandoned projects
At independence in 1960, Nigeria was classified as a developing new nation. But 61 years later, we are among the most underdeveloped and backward countries in the world. All our economic, social, political and human development indices are among the worst while the deficits are among the highest. The revelation that there are 56,000 abandoned […]
Jonathan on how to end ASUU strike
THE rising profile of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan certainly went up another notch, at least on a high moral ground, when he boldly dropped hints on how the Muhammadu Buhari administration can solve the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, protracted strike. At the 70th birthday anniversary of one of the voices of conscience […]
