McEva Temofe In 2015 when African Economic Merit Awards (AEMA) was established, we set-up an economic team to look into the problems facing African economy to drive an entrepreneurial chain in establishing individuals to becoming job creators in different sector. The fact is, Africa has the longest and oldest economic history and
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The role of domestic violence in terrorism
Nikita Malik Last year, I began to research terrorists with a background of domestic violence. Sadly, violence is common in family court cases to do with children being made wards of court due to fear of radicalisation. Many fathers in these cases have been abusive, either to their wives or to their
Has Boko Haram Become A Money Spinner For The Army Brass?
Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú Is it possible that the Army brass has turned the Boko Haram insurgency into a full-time money making occupation, wasting the lives of soldiers on the field, while generals make money both in Abuja and the theatre of operations, by not providing the necessary tools and intelligence capacity required
Ojukwu’s Big Shoes: History will honour Gov. Obiano if Bianca is fielded—Intersociety
Emeka Umeagbalasi and Chinwe Umeche Fielding Barr Mrs. Bianca Olivia Odinaka-Onoh Odumegwu-Ojukwu as the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) for Anambra South Senatorial District and her possible popular emergence as Senator-Elect for the District in the 2019 National Assembly Election in Nigeria will go down in history as the
Beyond killer robots: how artificial intelligence can improve resilience in cyber space
By Michael Sulmeyer and kathryn Dura Recently, one of us spent a week in China discussing the future of war with a group of American and Chinese academics. Everyone speculated about the role of artificial intelligence (AI), but, surprisingly, many Chinese participants equated AI almost exclusively with armies of killer robots. Popular imagination and
Word Detectives: Science may help finger opinion columnist
Darlene Superville Language detectives say the key clues to who wrote the anonymous New York Times opinion piece slamming President Donald Trump may not be the odd and glimmering “lodestar,” but the itty-bitty words that people usually read right over: “I,” “of” and “but.” And lodestar? That could be a red herring
Amid threats to national security there remains a national interest in the rule of law
2019: Nigeria away from the precipe
Jaja Jasper The 27th of August 2018, marked an ignoble anniversary – 33 years since a brutal military cabal ruling Nigeria with an iron fist was ousted from power by its brothers-in-arms. The failures of leadership the coupists highlighted then, as contained in the speech read by Brigadier Joshua Nimyel Dogonyaro,
Islamic clerics can shift Boko Haram’s ideological narrative
Clerics can tackle the propaganda that drives extremism, and its role in recruiting supporters. By Akinola Olojo Boko Haram factional leader Abubakar Shekau’s jihad in Nigeria has had a devastating impact on the nation. ‘Fight the infidels … and take their souls in order to purify the land,’ Shekau declared in his latest video in July. The
