For President Bola Ahmed Tinubu it is so easy to stretch our minds back to January 2022 when word went round about his desire to become Nigeria’s next chief helmsman and the vitriol that followed from certain quarters. Indeed while refusing to acknowledge his wonderful and productive eight year reign as governor of Lagos State, some of them totally vilified Ashiwaju at that time and pronounced him as ill, unhealthy and incapable of cohesive thinking and elocution. Even while he tended to his knee challenges and other mild natural health issues he was written off as totally inebriated. At some point some announced that he was dead.
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On March 15 2023, Nigerian voters trooped out en masse to offer a verdict for their future by comprehensively trusting Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lead the country through and out of its current limitations around security and the economy, into a future in which people will live secure lives and pursue livelihoods in a united Nigeria whose resources will be protected by leaders.
We join the Nigerian Government, the Authority of Heads of State of ECOWAS and the peoples of West Africa in condemning the coup of 26th July in the Republic of Niger that detained and sought to overthrow the Constitutional order in the Republic of Niger and illegally detained the legitimate Head of State, His Excellency President Mohamed Bazoum as well as members of his family and government;
Roughly three years ago, I penned my thoughts on the impending coup culture in Africa in the pages of this Daily Trust column, dated August 23, 2020, with the title, ‘A Warning Shot from Bamako’. In those lines, I underlined the implications of the coup that had just unfolded in Mali, casting a discerning gaze towards the far-reaching consequences for democracies delicately woven across the continent. “Africa must prepare for the shockwave of the coup,” I wrote, and that it “transmits signals capable of disrupting the continent’s fragile democracy.”
Large language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that are trained on massive datasets of text and code. They can be used to perform a variety of tasks, including generating text, translating languages, and answering questions. LLMs are still under development, but they have the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with computers. The most powerful LLMs in the world currently is ChatGPT developed by OpenAI with over 175 billion parameters. PaLM developed by Google has over 540 billion parameters. It can be used to perform a variety of tasks, including generating text, translating languages, and answering questions. Turing NLG developed by Microsoft is designed to be used in customer service chatbots and other conversational AI applications. LaMDA still under development by Google is designed to be used in a variety of applications, including question answering, summarization, and creative writing.
In 2022, the African region accounted for the highest level of hunger as described by Global Hunger Index. According to the World Health Organization, over 340 million Africans were undernourished and severely food insecure between 2014 and 2020.
Nothing can be more paradoxical than the unfolding drama surrounding the Confirmation.of Mallam Nasir El Rufai as Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The task before us is substantial yet pivotal. Our fiscal policies could benefit from better crafting grounded in data and evidence, ensuring coherence and consistency. We need enhanced alignment with the modern economy and better coordination with monetary and other policies.
How many times have I restrained my fingers from writing on this topic? It first came to mind when I heard His Excellency, Malam Nasiru El-Rufai, hinting that he will not be part of the Tinubu administration. I watched the clip and laughed. I said does not Malam know that he is now a Plc and no longer an individual enterprise? Can Dangote one day dream of returning to his quiet personal status of 50 years ago?
Recently, the media was awash with various commentaries about DSS’s disobedience of court orders. These accusations, as wrong as they are, have peaked in the Godwin Emefiele saga. It may interest the public and indeed the avowed critics of the service to note the following incidents and timelines to show that it has religiously obeyed court orders in respect of the case and even others.