Key figures in artificial intelligence want training of powerful AI systems to be suspended amid fears of a threat to humanity. They have signed an open letter warning of potential risks, and say the race to develop AI systems is…
This Lagos can drive somebody mad o – Lucia Edafioka
Just when I think I have run out of things to write about Lagos, the city points and laughs at me. This city is – one week, one madness. As a child, I had relatives in Lagos who when they…
Obasanjo is a 90 year old liar – Garba Shehu
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity has described former peresident Olusegun Obasanjo as a “90 year old liar.” He made the charge in a state house statement ostensibly in reply to the sixteen-page letter the…
Letter from Africa: Nigeria – a young country for old men (BBC)
In our series of letters from African journalists, editor-in-chief of Nigeria’s Daily Trust newspaper Mannir Dan Ali looks at why a country where more than half the population is under 35 looks set to get another septuagenarian president after next…
Time to end NYSC (Punch)
The statement by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State that the National Youth Service Corps scheme keeps alive the dreams of Nigeria’s founding fathers is false because no such dreams really ever existed and worse still, the NYSC has become…
