Remi Ladigbolu
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When the end distorts the means (opens the original)
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A legislator who secures a classroom block, road, borehole, health centre or community hall for constituents has something tangible to show for his time in office. Legislative work, oversight and policy intervention are harder to see and harder to attribute to one politician. This helps explain the attraction of constituency projects and the pressure on legislators to secure them. The difficulty begins when the demand for visible projects starts shaping how the federal budget is planned and how
Can Africa finance itself? (opens the original)
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Aliko Dangote has built Africa’s biggest refinery. He now wants millions of Africans to buy into it. Dangote is seeking to raise about $1.6bn through the initial public offering of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals. The offer, which values the business at about $49bn, is expected to become Africa’s biggest initial public offering. It opens on September 14 and closes on October 13. About 4.1 billion shares are being offered at N525 each, with a minimum subscription of 10 shares. By ta
Odama and growing misuse of cybercrime law (opens the original)
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Denis Odama is free. But perhaps he should never have been in jail. Odama, a Cross River businessman and social commentator, was arrested in Lagos on August 9 and taken to Calabar after a police petition accused him and others of cyberbullying, defamation and incitement against the Cross River State Government. The petition was submitted on August 5 by lawyers acting for the Governor’s Special Adviser on General Duties, Ekpenyong Akiba, and Commissioner for Works, Pius Ankpo. It cited Sections 5
The coming age of artificial general intelligence (opens the original)
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John Thornhill’s recent article in the Financial Times, ‘Humans cannot remain passengers in the back of the AGI car’, has stayed with me because of what it suggests about where artificial intelligence may be taking the world and what countries such as Nigeria might find waiting for them when the technology becomes much more powerful. Thornhill is looking beyond the arrival of another generation of better software. He is troubled by the growing belief that artificial general intelligence is inevi
What can Tinubu do differently? (opens the original)
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There was one question in Zacch Adedeji’s Channels Television interview on Sunday, August 9, that deserves to survive the noise around the interview. “Anybody who says he is coming,” the executive chairman of the Nigerian Revenue Service said, “just ask them, ‘What will you do differently?’ It is not just saying buffer. Buffer as what?” It was an arresting question. Perhaps, it is more useful to turn it towards the government itself. What can the Tinubu administration do differently now? Some of
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