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Bullish Markets How Technology Can Revolutionize Nigeria’s Livestock Industry

Oluwole HammondMay 3, 2023

Technology can play an important role in transforming Nigeria's livestock industry by improving productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. By leveraging innovative solutions, the technical, socioeconomic, and security problems prevalent in the livestock sector in Nigeria can be addressed, boosting the overall productivity and competitiveness of the sector.

April/May 2023Nigeria

NAFDAC-Approved Nigeria Has Approved Oxford University’s Malaria Vaccine for Use

Hillary EssienApril 18, 2023

MC Oluomo, who rose from being a bus conductor to one of the most feared political henchmen in southwest Nigeria represents a crude brand of state-backed political instruments. As the leader of the NURTW, he has over the years allegedly been at the centre of political subjugation, playing an important, albeit terrible role in shaping the politics of Lagos State.

February/March 2023Nigeria

Roll Back Ghana Has Approved Oxford University’s Malaria Vaccine for Use

Hillary EssienApril 16, 2023

While Ghana makes up only two per cent of malaria-related deaths, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania and Niger account for just over half of all malaria deaths worldwide.

April/May 2023NewsNigeria

A New Image of Africa’s Future How African Futurism Can Help African Policymakers Solve Africa’s Toughest Challenges

Charles EbikemeApril 3, 2023

Across Africa and its diaspora, there is a rich database of culture already at play, by novelists, poets, musicians, filmmakers, with diversely imagined futures. These imaginings are now no longer restricted to the cultural space but are finding their way into the world of science, research and policymaking.

April/May 2023Nigeriavol7-no2

Computational Conscience Problematizing Freedoms in Artificial Intelligence

Aarshin KarandeMarch 30, 2023

Interests in controlling the hopes and fears about intelligent machines have shaped imagined possibilities and vice versa. Mutually co-constitutive hopes and fears have defined the imagining of AI; hopes for a longer life, free of work, and power over others is inseparable from fears like losing identity, becoming redundant, and that AI will turn against ‘us.’ These hopes reflect deep-rooted narratives of human aspirations meeting technological possibilities.

February/March 2023Nigeria

A New Outbreak Tanzania Has Recorded an Outbreak of the Marburg Virus

Hillary EssienMarch 26, 2023

Marburg virus disease begins with a high fever, severe headache and severe malaise. There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat it. However, treatments like rehydration with oral or intravenous fluids and treatment of specific symptoms improve survival rates.

February/March 2023NewsTanzania

Is Nigeria Sleepwalking? The Geopolitics of Nigeria's Energy Potential

Otobong IniekeMarch 8, 2023

Nigeria is positioned to reap great benefits from available resources in terms of sustained development and economic standing, with the developing trend of African countries trying to move up the production value chain. The question still lies in whether Nigerian leadership will seize such opportunities that may be fleeting.

February/March 2023Nigeria

Bridging the Gap Building Africa’s Well-being Infrastructure through Local Research and Development

Ebele MọgọFebruary 22, 2023

African nations are often at the mercy of the international community to receive essential global health resources in times of crisis. To change this, we must expand how we imagine health security and develop locally owned research and development capacity.

AfricaFebruary/March 2023