₦airaland Forum

Imhereagain:
Insulting indigenous people and hoping they will be friendly with you . Having a lot of your people involved in criminal activities as aliens ( this will attract more attention than to you than the indigenous criminals, they might be many ,but ( human beings) yours is worse ). I could go on

You're wrong. Truth is, there is unlawful behaviour and then the rest i.e you believe they talk too loudly, Swagger, abuse women, drink and disturb neighbors, cook smelly African foods etc, are merely personal opinions. Insulting natives isn't unlawful unless it is Unlawful.

Loads of people of a particular nationality involved in criminality is speculative unless documented. If documentted, records should be available to declare as evidence when required.

Imhereagain:
Yes,and take into account that most African migrants in South Africa are illegals, and very difficult to capture after they commit any serious crime. Yes,South African immigration and policing incompetence at play...

Bold is not a good defence or argument because it rests on speculations...


Btw

the kidnapers may be Nigerians but until they are apprehended and verifiable information recorded, I'm speculating

Imhereagain:
LMFAO, Nigerians behaving properly ? which country can attest to this?

What to you is improper behaviour in the context of human beings?

Imhereagain:
And are all these people murdered in South Africa murdered by the South Africans?

Let's first see bràke down figures for murders carried out in South Africa, by race, gender, nationality, ethnicity etc

Golan007:
Well we can pretend we act properly but everyone from Angola to India to South Africa can't be wrong.

Yes they are wrong. Angolans, regularly murdered in South Africa mind, are jumping on the bandwagon of racist Indians and South Africans in a bid to belong.

Golan007:
Perhaps we don't behave properly when we get there.

When in Rome...

Or maybe we do behave "properly" when we get there and that's the bone of contention.

You didn't consider that when in Rome acting like a Roman when you're black is thire problem.

Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks and Now Twitter all run by CEOs born and raised in India....

Despite Africa’s tech-savvy population, financial exclusion is still a problem on the continent. But with the launch of fintech startups came the challenge of regulatory influence and industry acclimatisation.

In 2018, a financial expert and tech investor considered it stressful for fintech startups to integrate with banks — a necessary partnership for the former to enter the banking market successfully. On the other hand, banks need to collaborate with fintechs to increase their revenue and maintain market dominance.

Undeterred by the hassles, Nigerian fintechs have multiplied, with the market growing exponentially, as seen in the increase in investments and frequency of new entrants into the space. Adedeji Olowe saw all this and decided to do something about the challenges in the industry.

“Imagine if that pain is taken away entirely and you can easily integrate with any bank,” Olowe said, snapping his fingers to indicate speed, “like what takes years or months can be done in a day. When this happens, fintechs will spend more time delivering their services instead of trying to connect to a bank.”

Unable to resist bringing up open banking as we chatted in his Lekki Phase 1 home, he referred to it as his most daunting challenge in what can aptly be called a flourishing career.

The father of three has helped many people build companies. He was an early advisor to Wallets Africa, was an early member of the TeamApt board and now an independent member of the Paystack board. He is also a board member of Nigerian digital bank, Sparkle. Olowe leads Trium, a venture capital firm, and is seen globally as the leader of open banking in Africa.

Despite Africa being slow to enact open banking regulations like other developing regions, he believes now is the time to catch up with Europe and Asia.

Spurred on by his belief, Olowe has taken it upon himself to seek structures that not only help banks and fintechs collaborate seamlessly but also make the process attractive for new entrants.

Despite how much Adedeji has pushed for open banking regulations in the past four years, he maintains that he does not plan to profit from it. He chose not to patent it, preferring to be called a trustee.

Satisfaction for Olowe would be found in the knowledge that his solution positively impacted people for years to come.

Perhaps, the importance of this move isn’t evident yet, but the height of its success would be every bank having the same application programming interface (API) such that it would be easy for any fintech company to integrate. Don’t worry; we’ll simplify everything later.

Adedeji had achieved a lot before setting his sights on open banking and tech investment. Before we dive in, let’s look at where he is coming from.

A background that paid off

Raised by an academic mom in Southwestern Nigeria, Adedeji bagged his first degree in electrical engineering in 2001. And in the middle of a thriving banking career ten years later, he got a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Kings College, London.

“I’ve spent all my life in financial services; I’ve never worked as an engineer,” he stated.

Still, he didn’t forget to add how he owes his current exploits to his academic and exemplary upbringing.

Adedeji’s career trajectory has been steady in its upward and forward climb. So far in his journey, he has taken somewhat uncalculated risks.

“I’ve always been a curious kid, and my curiosity has always gotten me into trouble. And I’ve always loved to write,” he confessed as he remembered simpler days when he considered his writing as “letters to abuse people,” for which he was spanked many times.

Adedeji’s blog has many articles explaining topical issues in banking and financial inclusion and tech adoption.

Some of his write-ups contain fintech predictions for the year, which he began in 2017. He has an uncanny knack for accurate fintech predictions but is yet to record 100% accuracy. Olowe delivers his predictions matter-of-factly and calls them “educated guesses, at best.”

Career track marked with passion and excellence

In two decades, Adedeji has risen from an entry-level position in a commercial bank to executive roles in the sector and now heads a venture capitalist firm. After his first two moves, companies sought him for the value he could bring to the table.

Adedeji regularly took the initiative. For instance, in his first stint at Standard Trust Bank as an entry-level member on the e-banking team, he built an intranet — an internal website — to fill a gap without being asked to.

Two years later, at Access Bank, his team built a data analytics system that guarantees easy information access within a bank.

For some reason, Adedeji often felt the need to prove his worth and take risks. He recalled his best career move yet while at United Bank of Africa (UBA), where he worked for over six years, the longest of all the seven financial institutions he worked with.

“I first worked in finance, and from there, I went back to digital banking. That was when I was in charge of all the card products in UBA across 19 countries. And at that time, I did not know anything about cards, but I always loved to challenge myself. And in about seven months, I became an expert, one of the best. That was a difficult period for me not only because of the demand, but it forced me to grow.”

He attributes this success to his consistency and obsession with learning, which stood him in good stead for a stint outside Africa before finally focusing on fintech and tech investment.

Apart from admitting to a constant need to make an impact by seeking new challenges, Adedeji was deliberate about his career strategy, which was responsible for his steady climb.

“First, I was good,” he said quite frankly, “then, secondly, I moved around.”

This explains why he had an impact record in many Nigerian banks.

“When you move, you get the next thing. When you stay, you’re waiting for the next promotion, which takes longer.”

Pausing to add a disclaimer, he said, “There are risks to it as well. Because if you’re in a good place and you’re greedy and jump to a bad place, you might actually be screwed over.”

Putting it in perspective, like Adedeji’s career shows, being exceptional ultimately does the trick because you would often be called upon for a higher challenge once you have outstanding potential.

“I was solving problems around me instead of joining people to complain about a problem. That’s how I grew.”

He was emphatic in declaring that this strategy, coupled with work excellence, helped him rise to a senior managerial position in banking in under seven years, something that would ordinarily take twice as long if he remained at one bank.

Embodying open banking

Adedeji’s journey got even more interesting after 2017 when he decided he was done working in banks. Again, his curiosity and desire to apply himself led him to a more significant challenge with the potential to influence Africa’s financial industry immensely for many years to come.

He realised, rather disturbingly, the need for all banks to speak the same language after working at SystemSpecs, one of Nigeria’s earliest fintech companies, as an executive director.

“The first problem I found out was most banks don’t have APIs. The second problem, even when they have APIs doing the same thing, two banks don’t solve a problem the same way. The third? There’s no standardised way for everyone to have access to the APIs.”

Once all banks can have the same APIs and easy guidelines to access them, a new fintech would only need to understand the API standard, and any code that it writes would work seamlessly with any bank.

Enter open banking

A new fintech looking to integrate with five different banks with entirely different standards would have to go through a highly time-consuming and intensive process. This is where open banking comes in to take the stress away and save the day.

Adedeji clarifies that open banking is not a technology but a standard.

Simplifying it, he compares open banking to a standard where every bank is required to have an electrical socket type of a particular shape, say, circular holes, and every fintech has plugs with circular points that fit perfectly.

This means any fintech coming into the market can connect easily without getting a multipurpose adapter or connecting wires directly to outlets.

But this is easier said than done.

“One, all the banks have to like the idea. And CBN has to create a rule,” Olowe explained why he almost grew cold feet at the beginning.

He decided to take the first step on June 1, 2017, just before midnight. He sent an email with a call to action, “Let there be open banking!” to all his friends.

Although he received acceptance from friends and other persons of interest, including the CBN, in the following months, there have been many rejections.

Adedeji is pleased that the biggest hurdle is out of the way already — getting CBN on board — which means the work is 80% completed. Fortunately, a CBN directive to that effect was released in February, called the “Regulatory Framework on Open Banking in Nigeria.” What is ongoing is creating a standard.

But he still refers to championing open banking as his highest achievement, “because that is me driving something that I’m not going to benefit from, but it will benefit a lot of people.”

Although he’s not expecting any monetary gains from this, it would positively impact the investment sector where he now plays. So, win-win.

Not stopping here

Adedeji has grand plans to solve more than one problem for Nigerians. He dreams of building a school for intensive training in vocational studies and creative and tech skills in rural areas in Nigerian cities where indigents can study on a scholarship. This is on the premise that not everyone is fit for the walls of a tertiary institution, and everyone deserves a better life.

If he isn’t thinking of tinkering and building stuff, he is curious about human genetic make-up (DNA), metacognition, and the sense of being aware. Adedeji’s hobby is travelling, and having visited thirty countries, he’s thinking of getting a helicopter to fly around Lagos State.

Islamist my yash, these people are facilitated by foreign powers bent on bringing down Nigeria, possibly utilising the Congo blueprint. Don't doubt, it's not as if Africa history wouldn't inform you by researching. And of course, bringing down an Africa state like Nigeria isn't possible if local problems - that every human community contends with - didn't exist for these foreign powers to exploit as well as hide beneath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSCvsW-z2LE

senteugene:
Nigerian lecturers always believing they are the owner of destiny.. Rubbish

And ordinary Nigerians always believing that they have no personal responsibility - the lecturers, police, soldiers, politicians, companies, road safety officials, teachers, nursers, doctors etc are always wrong and know-nothings but ordinary Nigerians know it all and are never wrong even when they are trying to make yams turn back into children next to the dead body of the wizard they just killed.

Experts say quantum computing is on the verge of maturation.


Over the past few years, the capabilities of quantum computers have reached the stage where they can be used to pursue research with widespread technological impact. Through their research, the Q4Q team at the University of Southern California, University of North Texas, and Central Michigan University, explores how software and algorithms designed for the latest quantum computing technologies can be adapted to suit the needs of applied sciences. In a collaborative project, the Q4Q team sets out a roadmap for bringing accessible, user-friendly quantum computing into fields ranging from materials science, to pharmaceutical drug development.

Quantum computing

Since it first emerged in the 1980s, the field of quantum computing has promised totransform the ways in which we process information. The technology is centered on the fact that quantum particles – such as electrons – exist in ‘superpositions’ of states. Quantum mechanics also dictates that particles will only collapse into one single measurable state when observed by a user. By harnessing these unique properties, physicists discovered that batches of quantum particles can act as more advanced counterparts to conventional binary bits – which only exist in one of two possible states (on or off) at a given time.

On classical computers, we write and process information in a binary form. Namely, the basic unit of information is a bit, which takes on the logical binary values 0 or 1. Similarly, quantum bits (also known as ‘qubits’) are the native information carriers on quantum computers. Much like bits, we read binary outcomes of qubits, that is 0 or 1 for each qubit.

However, in a stark contrast to bits, we can encode information on a qubit in the form of a superposition of logical values of 0 and 1. This means that we can encode much more information in a qubit than in a bit. In addition, when we have a collection of qubits, the principle of superposition leads to computational states that can encode correlations among the qubits, which are stronger than any type of correlations achieved within a collection of bits. Superposition and strong quantum correlations are, arguably, the foundations on which quantum computers rely on to provide faster processing speeds than their classical counterparts.

To realize computations, qubit states can be used in quantum logic gates, which perform operations on qubits, thus transforming the input state according to a programmed algorithm. This is a paradigm for quantum computation, analogous to conventional computers. In 1998, both qubits and quantum logic gates were realized experimentally for the first time – bringing the previously-theoretical concept of quantum computing into the real world.

Stalling advances

From this basis, researchers then began to develop new software and algorithms, specially designed for operations using qubits. At the time, however, the widespread adoption of these techniques in everyday applications still seemed a long way off. The heart of the issue lay in the errors that are inevitably introduced to quantum systems by their surrounding environments. If uncorrected, these errors can cause qubits to lose their quantum information, rendering computations completely useless. Many studies at the time aimed to develop ways to correct these errors, but the processes they came up with were invariably costly and time-consuming.

Unfortunately, the risk of introducing errors to quantum computations increases drastically as more qubits are added to a system. For over a decade after the initial experimental realization of qubits and quantum logic gates, this meant that quantum computers showed little promise in rivalling the capabilities of their conventional counterparts.

In addition, quantum computing was largely limited to specialized research labs, meaning that many research groups that could have benefited from the technology were unable to access it.

Improving accessibility

While error correction remains a hurdle, the technology has since moved beyond specialized research labs, becoming accessible to more users. This occurred for the first time in 2011, when the first quantum annealer was commercialized. With this event, feasible routes emerged towards reliable quantum processors containing thousands of qubits capable of useful computations.

Quantum annealing is an advanced technique for obtaining optimal solutions to complex mathematical problems. It is a quantum computation paradigm alternative to operating on qubits with quantum logic gates.

The availability of commercial quantum annealers spurned a new surge in interest for quantum computing, with consequent technological progress, especially fueled by industrial capitals. In 2016, this culminated in the development of a new cloud system based on quantum logic gates, which enabled owners and users of quantum computers around the world to pool their resources together, expanding the use of the devices outside of specialized research labs. Before long, the widespread use of quantum software and algorithms for specific research scenarios began to look increasingly realistic.

At the time, however, the technology still required high levels of expertise to operate. Without specific knowledge of the quantum processes involved, researchers in fields such as biology, chemistry, materials science, and drug development could not make full use of them. Further progress would be needed before the advantages of quantum computing could be widely applied outside the field of quantum mechanics itself.

Useful quantum simulations

Now, the Q4Q team aims to build on these previous advances – using user-friendly quantum algorithms and software packages to realize quantum simulations of physical systems. Where the deeply complex properties of these systems are incredibly difficult to recreate within conventional computers, there is now hope that this could be achieved using large systems of qubits.

To recreate the technologies that could realistically become widely available in the near future, the team’s experiments will incorporate ‘noisy intermediate-scale quantum’ (NISQ) devices – which contain relatively large numbers of qubits, and by themselves are prone to environmental errors.

In their projects, the Q4Q team identifies three particular aspects of molecules and solid materials that could be better explored through the techniques they aim to develop. The first of these concerns the ‘band structures’ of solids – which describe the range of energy levels that electrons can occupy within a solid, as well as the energies they are forbidden from possessing.

Secondly, they aim to describe the vibrations and electronic properties of individual molecules – each of which can heavily influence their physical properties. Finally, the researchers will explore how certain aspects of quantum annealing can be exploited to realize machine-learning algorithms – which automatically improve through their experience of processing data.

Molecules and solids

As they apply these techniques, the Q4Q team predicts that their findings will lead to a better knowledge of the quantum properties of both molecules and solid materials. In particular, they hope to provide better descriptions of periodic solids, whose constituent atoms are arranged in reliably repeating patterns.

Previously, researchers struggled to reproduce the ‘wavefunctions’ of interacting quantum particles within these materials, which relate to the probability of finding the particles in particular positions when observed by a user. Through their techniques, the Q4Q team aims to reduce the number of qubits required to capture these wavefunctions, leading to more realistic quantum simulations of the solid materials.

Elsewhere, the Q4Q team will account for the often deeply complex quantum properties of individual molecules made up of large groups of atoms. During chemical reactions, any changes taking place within these molecules will be strongly driven by quantum processes, which are still poorly understood. By developing plugins to existing quantum software, the team hopes to accurately recreate this quantum chemistry in simulated reactions.

If they are successful in reaching these goals, the results of their work could open up many new avenues of research within a diverse array of fields – especially where the effects of quantum mechanics have not yet been widely considered. In particular, they will also contribute to identifying bottlenecks of current quantum processing units, which will aid the design of better quantum computers.

Expanding into new fields

Perhaps most generally, the Q4Q team hopes that their techniques will enable researchers to better understand how matter responds to external perturbations, such as lasers and other light sources.

Elsewhere, widely accessible quantum software could become immensely useful in the design of new pharmaceutical drugs, as well as new fertilizers. By ascertaining how reactions between organic and biological molecules unfold within simulations, researchers could engineer molecular structures that are specifically tailored to treating certain medical conditions.

The ability to simulate these reactions could also lead to new advances in the field of biology as a whole, where processes involving large, deeply complex molecules including proteins and nucleic acids are critical to the function of every living organism.

Finally, a better knowledge of the vibrational and electronic properties of periodic solids could transform the field of materials physics. By precisely engineering structures to display certain physical properties on macroscopic scales, researchers could tailor new materials with a vast array of desirable characteristics: including durability, advanced interaction with light, and environmental sustainability.

Training a new generation

If the impacts of the team’s proposed research goals are as transformative as they hope, researchers in many different fields of the technological endeavor could soon be working with quantum technologies.

Such a clear shift away from traditional research practices could in turn create many new jobs – with required skillsets including the use of cutting-edge quantum software and algorithms. Therefore, a key element of the team’s activity is to develop new strategies for training future generations of researchers. Members of the Q4Q team believe that this will present some of the clearest routes yet towards the widespread application of quantum computing in our everyday lives.

meetdonald:
Ok...
After now some he-goats will say One Nigeria!!!

Fixing the drainage problem is easier than the politics of dividing Nigeria, working out borders, then resources; then border wars ; then the politics of settlement, then rebuilding and recovering from the devastation of war; negotiating financial AID then the various emergent nations still having to deal with armed nomadic headers, Banditry, kidnapping, oil pollution, Warlords of resource territory; COVID; Sahellian Terrorism, creating international relations afresh i.e your ambassadors, home offices, airlines, flag designs, national anthems; education systems, university certificates, getting your medical doctors internationally recognized and none of this straightforward or cheap and if small wars don't arise due to local political bigwig infighting. Time-scale, 60 years conservatively pitching.

Just fix the drainage system, much easier. Listen to dem goats, they're smarter than you.

If what she has been quoted as saying is informed by what i think, then it is possible she chose the wrong word. HATE may be too strong or chosen out of calculation.

The advise is, 'Never Generalize' and while a good advice overall, you would be wise in life, if you're fortunate enough to be in authority, to place people in positions best suited to their abilities, temperament etc including gender, fate and cultural values. I wouldn't employ a Muslim bodyguard does not mean i hate Muslims. So in this case, while he,Fani-Kayode, may have regrets for having employed a Nigerian of Igbo extraction as a House Help, given the rumored Igbo aversions to sycophancy, he may employ him at the Trade Department. The uncomplimentary words due to the Helps unsuitability being limited to the relevant period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB0KQIXgNew

TalkTalkTwins:
Gbas gbos


Naija na land for everyone.
No bans, no restrictions.

I wish we'll begin blacklisting countries the way they do us

What you're conveying would rank high on my list of things Nigeria needs to tackle in order to become one of the better middle income nations she could easily become.

Nigerians just don't seem to take nationhood building seriously. We're like the guy with the Bugatti La Voiture Noire who lives down the road next door to the guy with Toyota Corolla. The guy with the Bugatti let's anyone in the neighborhood who wants to test drive his car drive in it as fast as they like. The guy with the Toyota Corolla washes and polishes his car at every opportunity and shouts at anyone that touches or strays too near. Eventually people in the neighborhood begin to see value in the Toyota Corolla, they're not allowed to touch, while taking the Bugatti, they're even allowed to go for joy-rides in, for granted, disdainfully.

In fact, the Nigerian Bugatti owner would join the Neighborhood in appreciation of the Toyota Corolla and begin even to rubbish his own Bugatti in order to further reinforce the greatness of the Toyota Corolla and to mitigate the insult he may get from the neighborhood for daring to support the value of his Bugatti. The very Bugatti he let everyone drive, they all enjoyed but now no longer want to show thire appreciation for.

Nigeria needs a dose of National snobbery.

See as them carry protruding mouth like tilapias gulping fetid waters. An ugly face is never far from an ugly mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-6kHjF1U1E

Any Nigerian parent that allow their under 18 year olds to visit Nairaland is committing child abuse. Nairaland may as well be a platform for Nazi white supremacists hellbent on reversing Nigerians' general self confident attitudes.

I am even possibly understating the extent; since, actually, i have in the past due to research joined many White supremacists sites. Let me inform any reasonable Nigerian reading this that the vitriol, shear hatred and terrible, terrible negative aspersions cast at the black race with the intention of diminishing, demoralizing and ruining the minds of black people so that they may never again raise their heads or feel that they are capable of achieving personal success or collective parity with the rest of humanity does not match in damage anything on Niraland visited upon Nigerians here daily. What a terrible place for young Nigerian minds Niraland is.

Big, big shame on the black world for this!

backbencher:
Nigeria is not going to split for the following reasons (my opinion)

1.The minority tribes don't want Nigeria to split. Sure, most minority tribes are not enjoying Nigeria, but splitting Nigeria leaves them exposed to the rapacious bigger tribes. No thanks.

2.The elite don't want Nigeria to split...especially those with business interests across the country

3.The political class don't want Nigeria to split. No chances to loot.

4.International community too doesn't want Nigeria to split...because 1) higher oil prices 2) refugees swarming their countries....

5.Even most secessionists on this site don't want Nigeria to split. They back secessionists because they want to scare the North out of power, not because they want to leave Nigeria.(Wait till election starts, and 90% of the Biafranists and OOduaists will be backing PDP. E get why.)

6.As one recent article on banditry reveals, the bandits themselves are not one unified group, fight among themselves, and create more problems for themselves than the country.

7.Did I mention that most secessionists don't want Nigeria to split, and that most of them are more interested in their side winning the power game, than secession? Secession to them is a last card to play when all hope is lost.

8. Splitting Nigeria now, is not as clear cut as it was in 1966-7. Old Biafra is split into two, and the South SOuth wants resource control, rather than splitting up

9.As much as Ibos and Yorubas scream loud and clear about 'WE CAN SURVIVE ON OUR OWN' the fact is, in the event of a split, and in the event of the South South refusing to join either side...the fact is, (and you can abuse me all day long, but facts is facts)...Iboland and Yoruba land cannot survive without oil money...and are just dependent on oil money as the Hausas, and the Middle Belt.

Or where do you think Ibo and Yoruba states get most of their revenue for budget from (apart from Lagos)? OIL MONEY.(Or why do you think no Southern governor stood up to contradict El Rufai when he made the comment about subsidy needing to go or governors won't have money for their budgets next year? If Southern states were standing on their own financially, they would have said that he is on his own. Their silence shows they agree with him).

10. Most of Nigeria does not rely on export of industrial products to survive. Thus in the event of a split, all the new countries, apart from the South South, would end up relying on agriculture...and even if the SOuth south goes with Biafra...oil. All these commodites have one thing in common...the price of all of them is set elsewhere.

And that means, that at the end of the day, Oodua and Biafra are going to be as debt ridden as many African countries. You think I am lying? Most African countries that 'rely on agriculture' are in debt, some even higher than Nigeria's own.

And even if Biafra gets 'the oil' with the SOuth south...the same thing applies. At the end...Biafra would be debt ridden.

We haven't talked about the North. Sure the North has 'mineral and agricultural resources...but at the end of the day, who is setting the international prices for all these resources? They don't live in Kaduna, and Sokoto, that's what I know.

11. Let's even talk about agriculture. Less than 10% of our agric is mechanized. If we want to compete on the international market....we would have a real battle on our hands. We won't get the right international price of our agric goods. Western farms, with their tech, better soils , better soil management, better farming practice, would run us into the ground.

Remember that most African countries who 'rely on agriculture' are debt ridden. (Ghana has a debt of 26 billion dollars, Burkina 4 billion dollars,Kenya 35.9 billion dollars)

12. In the event of a split...there would be war. And anyone who tells me otherwise should go and rest. There is going to be a fight over resources , and it would be neverending.

13. Of course, any new nation arising from Nigeria, in ten years is going to be broke and poor, is what I am trying to say.


Nigeria is a contraption, but the alternatives are far far worse.

Lol, your point no 11 was even on the optimistic side. Majority of Nigerians may not know that even as OPEC is labelled an Oil Cartel, there is in fact an actual Agriculture Cartel and it is controlled by the West. This Agriculture Cartel locks African nations out of fair trade. The Cartel dictate terms by which African nations may farm and participate in the international market. African farmers can't creat market for produce they may decide upon due to freewill or dictate of thire climate or soil. Africans have to grow what the West dictates and never naturally at a better quality than the West since quality control is one of the underlying tools used by the West as part of the Cartel's controls. It enables the West to force African nations to farm same types of crops. This then creates a glut that drives down the price of the produce in the international market. In a stark way, Cash Crop Agriculture becomes for Africa nations, an instrument of enslavement to the West.

There's not yet such a thing as free and fair elections in any part of the world among the loosing constituent. Free and fair elections is a replacement phrase for 'you won the election'.

Some 'experts' abroad believe Blockchain technology may help humanity achieve genuine Free and Fair elections even if the objective satisfied does nothing to change the human sentiments above.

YorubaPrince:
Looking at her legs, she must be Igbo. I wonder how their females appeal to their men?

I wonder if you appeal to anyone....

Scientists who created the first living robots have revealed that the organisms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce, according to their study.

Created using stem cells from the African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis), xenobots are less than one millimetre wide and can move, work together as a group and even self-heal.

But now, the scientists who developed them have found they can reproduce in an entirely new way – completely different from the biological reproduction of any living plant or animal.

“I was astounded by it,” professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, Michael Levin said, as reported by CNN.

This new form of reproduction sees the xenobots effectively harvest loose stem cells, gathering them together into piles which can then mature into xenobots.

Frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use,” Levin said. “But when you ... liberate [the cells] from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce.”

However, they soon discovered that replication happened rarely with the original, spherical-shaped xenobots. And only under specific circumstances. The bots used a process known as kinetic replication – known to occur at a molecular level but never seen on this scale, using entire cells or organisms.

After realising the xenobots shape was hindering them, researchers used AI to test a variety of new body shapes to maximise the stem cell harvesting process. The AI settled on a C-shape which resembles iconic gaming character, Pac-Man.

“The AI didn't program these machines in the way we usually think about writing code. It shaped and sculpted and came up with this Pac-Man shape,” lead author of the study, Josh Bongard said – a computer science professor and robotics expert at the University of Vermont. “The shape is, in essence, the program. The shape influences how the xenobots behave to amplify this incredibly surprising process

Stem cells are often used in medicine to replace damaged cells or to fight certain forms of cancer and blood-related diseases. However, their use as biological robots involved merely harvesting the cells from frog embryos and leaving them to incubate.

“Most people think of robots as made of metals and ceramics,” Bongard said. “But it's not so much what a robot is made from but what it does, which is act on its own on behalf of people.”

“In that way it's a robot,” he added. “But it's also clearly an organism made from genetically unmodified frog cell.”

Although the thought of self-replicating machines is reminiscent of the likes of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the researchers are assured that these robots are contained in a lab and are both biodegradable and are easily extinguished.

But the discovery of self-replicating robots opens up a whole new world of possibilities. A bit more useful than Elon Musk's proposed humanoid robots.

“There are many things that are possible if we take advantage of this kind of plasticity and ability of cells to solve problems,” Bongard said.

The study was originally published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PNAS on November 20, 2021.

Main image credit: Douglas Blackiston & Sam Kriegman in the research article.

And even if you believe someone has the ability to reconfigure molecules, the first thing you do is to kill him? Not even worship him or take him for scientific research so we can use him and similar others to make Nigeria the greatest power on earth?

The news is very likely fake in whatever relevant permutation this may take but responses by many on here is why I tend to air on the side of Nigeria authorities than with complaining masses (see, it's because I can't trust the peoples judgement!!) Responses inform me that many Nigerians on here (people affluent and educated enough to use mobile phones, PCs and navigate Crypto and Social Media) actually believe that humans have the magical ability to reconfigure the molecular structure and DNA of one thing into another through charms and potions. It would be even more tragic but unsurprising If the old man was indeed killed and killed because others thought he turned children into yarms.

These are the so called poor masses that we are to sympathies with over the government. We are supposed to break up Nigeria because someone from Abroad can gain the support of masses of people like these, people without mental maturity

Akata culture!

Haven't watched the vid but I've heard enough to doubt that it is enough to declare the killers of the policemen one thing or another based on the language people spoke,someones nose, and apparent cannibalism when we all know the history of YouTube video fakery . Haven't we heard that some Cameroonian Ambazonian rebels can speak Igbo? France would dearly love Nigeria to replicate Rwanda etc. In any case, speculations and toting up all kinds of permutations in the comfort of the home and in the fevered imagination can be easy,which is why we need hard evidence. Many Nigerians from all tribes have straight noses, how is straight nose suddenly proof that someone is Fulani?

Nigerians need to wait for hard evidence and not rely on hearsay. When evidence is collected it then exits for all to challenge at some point. The "waiting" for evidence is in itself useful in every way. It calms nerves, cools the heated environment, allows individuals to reason better, and helps people cultivate the useful habit of delaying gratification.

Nigerians, meaning those that live in what is now Nigeria, need to work with clear an unambiguous evidence before declaring guilt or innocence, your survival depends on it. When emotions run high, some may not want to hear of Evidence while others may be too impatient to continence waiting for Evidence. But in the end, the value of becoming an evidence seeking people works to the advantage of everyone.

But this Nigeria many of you complain daily of being inept, useless, good at nothing, incompetent, worst than Rwanda, the worst and most useless place in the world and on and on, how were same Nigeria authorities able to so efficiently clear away all the bodies overnight leaving nothing behind? So efficiently in fact no clear and unambiguous Mobil phone footage of dead protesters can be found in the possession of the hundreds of Nigerians present that day? We are talking of Nigerians, Nigerians that love to take Mobil phone pics and video of anything that moves, died or crawls in Nigeria. No video footage, roving over the area showing, 1, 2, 3,4 ,5 bodies lying on the ground dead? No sneak vid of military carting off bodies....

Were authorities so smart that they knew even before the protest started that killings were going to be internationally viral so they made plans to clear away bodies of the dead supper quickly if any occurred?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygMSDVsfYAU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53TkRB17v0c

Maj196:
For how long will this COVID keep mutating into different forms

As long as it is useful for social engineering.

sammyj:
Which yeye future. Do you know how useless this technology is worth with mentainance compared to Gas-powered plant

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