Digital security command centres – for fancy?
Across Nigeria, governors have unveiled security command and control centres with fanfare. Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Oyo, Gombe and Edo have invested, or announced investments, in facilities built around CCTV surveillance, drones, communications links, control rooms, data analysis and response coordination. Enugu’s centre is linked to AI-enabled cameras and long-range drones with day-and-night vision; Edo’s […]
FCC unmoved as nepotism festers
THE Federal Character Commission was established through Act No. 34 of 1996 “to promote, monitor and enforce compliance with the principles of the proportional sharing of all the bureaucratic, economic, media and political posts at all levels of government”.
RUGA by another name
ANOTHER round of tension is brewing in the polity following the announcement by the Federal Government that it is remodelling “grazing areas” throughout the country into ranches.
Protecting the CIFI from scammers
THE setting up of the Creative Industry Financing Initiative, CIFI, by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee to improve access to long-term low-cost financing to entrepreneurs and investors in the Nigerian Creative and Information Technology sub-sector, is both timely and a step in the right direction.
Need to control medicine peddlers
UNSUBSTANTIATED claims of potency of some medicines, both orthodox and traditional, to snare gullible buyers, have been proliferating in our society. The regulatory authorities, since the exit of the late Prof. Dora Akunyili, appear to have gone to sleep in their duties regarding this danger.
HIV/AIDS is still a serious danger
THIS year’s World AIDS Day was marked on Sunday, December 1, 2019 with the theme: “Communities Make The Difference”.
