24 articles
Kalu Osinakachi Akuma
Conscious observation of Nigeria'scurrent society ravaged by the effects of terrorism creates curiosity about what continues to motivate the terrorists and those who support terrorism. For Igor Primoratz, terrorism is the deliberate use of horrific violence against innocent people who, on any credible understanding, are not responsible for the real injustice or suffering of the terrorist fight. Thereby intimidating them into a course of action they otherwise would not take. Perhaps as Primortaz thinks, there could be a moral justification for terrorism as we shall seek to find out. The investigation'smain thrust is to explain the concept of terrorism (in Primortaz ’smindset) and discover its effects on society and individuals. The Boko Haram insurgence and local (Fulani) herders' attack already provide a worthy case study for this investigation. How terrorism and terrorists have succeeded in advancing a "fear culture" in Nigerian society is a question to be addressed.
Chioma Chigozie-Okwum
The global COVID 19 pandemic outbreak spread fear and uncertainties around the globe, but it, however, provided a near-perfect condition for cybercrime, and cybercriminals exploited this vulnerability. Hence, the research became imperative with the increasing cases of cybercrime attacks on digital citizens. The research adopted a cross-sectional survey research approach, where a descriptive study was embarked upon to identify the state of cyber security in Nigeria during the COVID 19 pandemic lockdowns. The study investigated using structured questionnaires administered online via the Google forms platform, the prevalence and patterns of cyber insecurities, and strategies to be adopted in curbing these insecurities. One hundred fifty respondents were sampled, and the study results were analysed using descriptive statistics. The study revealed prevalent nefarious activities by cybercriminals during the study, and these cyber-attacks occurred often. The study further showed that Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were the most used platform for these attacks. Ponzi schemes, Phishing attacks, click frauds and hacking of accounts were the most prevalent attacks regimens observed by the study. The cyber-attacks exploited the poor awareness of citizens on basic cyber hygiene best practices, poor dissemination of information by the government and donor agencies, and poor investigation of crimes. The attacks mostly mimicked aid programs by the government, civil societies and donor agencies. The study suggests an increase in user education and awareness and proper investigation and prosecution of cybercrimes as ways of mitigating against these menaces.
Izuchukwu I. M. Emeam
Pandemics impact the entire ecosystem and challenge human ingenuity to provide technological innovations; to assist humans in overcoming them. This paper aims to resolve the following questions that bring out the impacts of Corona Virus pandemics on Nigerian society. The study specifically focuses on providing answers to these questions: What are the impacts of COVID 19 on the technological environment of Nigeria? Specifically, how did COVID 19 impact health technology? What are the impacts of COVID 19 on the Nigerian environment? This paper adopts the philosophical method of research. Accordingly, facts are presented, analysed, critically examined, justified and commended. The thrust of this paper hinges on the backlash of doctored underdevelopment in the face of global pandemic challenges. The researcher believes that the negative impacts of COVID 19 on technology and the environment in Nigeria can be a saving grace for the nation'sredemption from technological underdevelopment and total environmental disaster.
Nakijoba Rosemary, Mugabi Ddungu Racheal & Awobamise Ayodeji O.
This qualitative study examines the factors influencing access to online learning for disabled students enrolled in secondary school by school closure amid Coronavirus (COVID -19 wave 1& 2) lockdown in rural Uganda. Students with various disabilities were interviewed and their parents and caretakers to find their experience with online learning in the rural Kalungu district. The findings reveal that online learning cannot produce desired results in underdeveloped countries like Uganda, wher emost disabled students are unable to access the internet and data due to monetary and technical issues. Negative attitudes on disability and lack of support by parents and caretakers co ntinue to pause challenges — the voices of disabled children matter. T he study recommends online learning for disabled children and urges the government and its stakeholders to organize refresher courses for teachers in both government and private schools to enable them to cope with the 21st century of ICT.
Aghanya T. Nonye
Quality healthcare requires practitioners who possess the technical competence and communication skills for not only gathering and transferring information to patients but also for developing trust with patients in the process of clinical consultation. The study used discourse analysis to identify how poor communication skills significantly contribute to the mistrust experienced between patients and healthcare providers/clinicians. The study identified various professional practice gaps in existence such as clinicians/healthcare providers who are unaware of different scenarios that warrant the application of specific styles of soft skills of communication while interacting with patients who present with different attitudes/characteristics/personal attributes. Education is needed to provide a better understanding of the several factors that contribute to these presenting attitudes capable of building a wedge and creating mistrust between patients and healthcare providers/clinicians.
Chigozie-Okwum Chioma Chinyere & Ajah Ifeyinwa Angela
The research sought to investigate the effects of altering values of three selected hyperparameters (Epoch, Learning rate and Drop out), on the accuracy level of a deep belief network algorithm based web phishing detection system. The accuracy level of the system changed as these optimiser values were altered. The experimental results showed that there was a positive linear relationship between Epoch and learning rate values with regards to the accuracy of the system. The study identified a negative linear relationship between dropout values and accuracy of the web phishing detection system. The study hence recommended that keeping Epoch values high around or a little above 25 cycles, maintaining a lowdrop out value (0.1), while increasing the value of learning rate (>=0.7) would ensure arrival at a high accuracy level of the deep belief network algorithm based web phishing detection system (0.987).
Charles Holsopple & Jason Holsopple
It has never been more apparent to more people, individually, institutionally, and as a global society, that we face many urgent existential threats to our current way of life and indeed to our survival. COVID-19 is drawing keen attention to the connections between us all. Basic needs, especially, food, water and shelter, are being rationed in both rural areas and large cities across the globe. Nonprofits, governments and industry are challenged to respond. As part of a coordinated response, it is critical to be careful to use reliable information in ways that are not harmful. Actions taken must also contribute to the sustainable common good while positively impacting future generations. All considerations must be made systemically and include all disciplines of knowledge when determining plans and implementing actions. This discourse explored the role of SUKHI 222 Human Rights Campaign in the era of COVID-19.
Doris Ngozi Morah, Chukwudi Justus Anyianuka, Chinwe Elizabeth Uzochukwu & Rowland Uyamadu
Global innovations in mobile communication have given birth to smart journalism, a trend that is intensive though deemed incipient in sub-Saharan Africa. The smartphone is the enhancing device between phone and laptop, which allows a journalist to research and report at almost any opportunity. The growth of smartphones in Nigerian has remained unprecedented as research shows a threefold increase in mobile connectivity, especially among youths. The study sought to discover trends in usage and challenges inherent in the effective use of smartphones in journalism practice in Nigeria. To achieve that, the researchers employed the mixed methods of research design with media richness as the theoretical framing. The findings helped addressed the posers: Do Nigerian journalists understand the potentialities of smartpho ne technology? Can smartphones be used to redefine journalism practices in Nigeria? What will the Nigerian journalist gain if they effectively utilise mobile media devices?
Catherine Demetriades
The objective of this research is to investigate the precise sequence in which the entity causes the biophysical effect of immune system breakdown, causing inevitable death to those who are not able to withstand its wrath. Within the influential matrix, one must determine the hidden traumas and influential experiences within the subconscious to bring them to the conscious to deal with them mentally, physically and emotionally, allowing the person to uncover the inner mental and emotional enemy that is sorted out. Since the complexity of the human matrix is vast, it is necessary to understand the base of all mysteries of human behaviour. A virus is an entity which takes on its intelligence causing disruptive patterns, and its progression has a specific sequence that causes both a mental and physical surrender to its plan.
R. Michael Fisher
One cannot ignore the juxtaposition of sustaining an African future with sustaining a Western civilization future. It has to be troubled from the start, that any assertion that Africa or any other nation in development ought to necessarily follow the way of the so-called First World nations (Western civilization). Under pressures globally of a loss of future(s) on many fronts, exacerbated by careless and unjust development policies in the West, one has to question if anything like sustainability is even possible. What does that term mean anymore? It is a term that invokes a future; but what is this future coming? What can one in any nation, but particularly in Africa, do to re-vice the imperatives of Western civilization and the Western knowledge pursuit, especially since 17th century European Enlightenment? The study critically sought to provide an insight on how to sustainably develop Africa in the Covid -19 periods through fear management.
Kristen Conklin
The study sought to analyse the history and effect of the neuroscience and survivors of human experimentations. The existence of telepathic communications is generally questioned. Sometimes, the civilian requests to report paranormal experiences are declassified. The study demonstrated that human experimentation is harmful and a breach of human rights. Findings show that such experimentation causes significant damages to the body and organs like hair loss, vision, teeth; increases depression, homicide and suicide. The study recommends the general signing of a petition started to promote the Human Brain Project’seffort to end the use of neuroweapon assaults and experimentation on civilians.
Augustus U. Chukwu
Nigeria and indeed Nigerians have found themselves at unique cross roads in the most fast-paced evolving periods in human history. A period faced with two giant strands of disruptions: Political dystopia and technological disruption. The first political sit uation has left the people severely estranged in acute disillusion ment and utter desperation. Secondly, there is this raging wave of technological disruption closing in on jobs and disrupting the usual way of life, cultures and belief systems. With these two disruptive waves, Nigerians are caged in a precarious situation where there is a need for urgent remedy. Using a qualitative methodological research approach this paper offers two solutions for the two problems. One is a new form of education imbued in the type of education promoted through CRIS Academy (An academy in proposition). An education that prepares the student for the kind of future technology promises humanity. And for the second problem (political dystopia) the paper proposes a new model of development known as individually Propelled Growth (IPG). This pape rrecommends the setting up of special private schools in a controlled environment to be run by private institutions where this form of education can be test run. It also recommends that the IPG model of development be carved into the national curriculum of studies starting from primary education to tertiary.
B. Maria Kumar
Corruption is one of the maladies plaguing the human society. The reasons for corruption are many, ranging from ignorance to greed; wrong policies to moral degradation and fr om voluminous bureaucracy to contagion from other countries. Irrespective of the multiplicity of causative factors and subsequent interv ention measures, there seems to be no headway in the near future in containing the problem despite resolute good-natured intentions on the part of national governments. It has since long been the subject of searching for the truth as to whether the convent ional thinking on causation and proliferation of corruption monster as well as the remedial steps will yield the desired outcome or any divergent rumination is required to deal with the problem anew. As part of the cerebral exercise under the latter propos ition, an attempt has been made in this paper to associate the origination of corruption with the feelings of uncertaint yand insecurity which in turn are linked to fear. Uncertainty acts as a catalyst for irrational curiosity that tends to trigger action resulting in corrupt practices in the absence of goodness check. This paper also analyses the means and mechanisms by wh ich uncertainty and miscalculated curiosity are resolved through the fearological approach.
Stephen Afam Kenechukwu
Temitayo O. Olaniyan & Samuel O. Ekundayo
This study revisited the effects of government bonds for the growth of the Nigerian capital market. Utilising time-series data obtained from the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) annual reports for the period 2010 to 2017, this study through the Generalised Met hod of Moments (GMM) regression estimator found that the value and the number of lis ted government bonds' positively and significantly affect capital market growth in Nigeria. The low capitalisation of government bonds was found to negatively affe ct the growth of the market. The null hypothe sis of the Hansen J statistics wa saccepted; im plying that the IVs used in the GMM model is valid. We concluded that government bonds have positive and significant effects on the growth of the Nigerian capital market. T hus, government bonds have made the NSE All-Share Index grow over the period under investigation. The study thus, recommends among other things, that there should be more issuance of government bonds to the public and further to enhance the efficiency of the capital markets, both primary and secondary. The funds raised from the capital market through government issuance should also be channelled towards Nigeria'sproductive sectors to promote an all-inclusive growth in the Nigerian economy.
Doris Ngozi Morah, Ogochukwu C. Ekwenchi & Alexander Ifeanyichukwu Chiaha
The advent of social media technology initiated new approaches to economic develo pment where stakeholders across business terrains are engaged in con sensus building and implementation processes to survive in a highly competitive business environment. Today, everything has gone digital, and the traditional business approach is no longer enough to take the local product/services to a global level. The di ffusion of social web globally has raised questions about whether these new technologies could be used more proactively to improve the economy of society for sustainability. Hinged on the Technological Acceptance Model and Technological Determinism, the st udy investigates how social media technology has impacted on the Nigerian business terrain for sustainable economic development and its militating factors. Personal in-depth interviews wer econducted on some key business executives in Okota, Lagos and Emene, Enugu metropolis to investigate their perceptions of the extent, potentials and prospects of social media deployment for sustainable business develop ment. Findings reveal that social me dia is making impact sin Nigerian businesses, though at a minimum ra te due to issues of media literacy, phobia and access. The study recommends that private business owners and their employees be trained on the use of social media adoption for economic sus tainability.
R. Michael Fisher
A rationale is given for a General Fear Theory (GFT) which the author believes has not been given enough attention in his work and/or in the philosophies and theories of fearists and fearologists in general. He ha swritten this paper for technically sophis ticated readers and writers on fear, not for a general audience. He points to several directions, including Integral (Wilber), Consciousness (Freire) and Conflict (Collins) as foundations for "orienting generalisa tions" and means of building a GFT. A brief history of the good-side and bad-side of generalising theories (e.g. Theories of Everything) in contemporary academic work were discussed. He offers a small number of base pre mises as examples of what a GFT would look like. There is no point in merely fea ring generalisations and grand meta-theories and narratives, as so many do today, especially in a postmodern, postcolonial climate of analysis. There is a good-side worth pursuing, and GFT is one (not the only) ex ample possible to resolve the Fear Problem. The author suggests that TFDs project of Kalu which is recently a form of Fear Talks, validates the importance of generalisation and transdisciplinarity in the pursuit of knowing the truth and reality in general and in relation to fear itself.
Michael Bassey Eneyo
This article explores how fearism, an emerging philosophy can be used to address different fear challenges that have engulfed societies in contemporary times. The discourse focuses on three broad areas of human existential engagement where fear has severely distorted good human relationships and suggested fearological methodologies towards managing them. The focus areas include transculturalism, transdisciplinarity and Transhumani sm. Research on these areas shows that fear has almost created double walls and boundaries among people of different cultural backgrounds and ideologies. This new world of binary oppositions is, therefore, a threat, not only to contemporary society, but to envisioned postmodern communities where technology is assumed to have overtaken most social roles. The article argues that transculturalism studies can help in rebuilding the proper hu man relationship broken by the negative misconception of people about other people'scultures, occasioned by lack of knowledge. The research also recommends fearological education and the study of the integral parts of different fear constructs as well as proper use of fear management method(s) in addressing the fear-based challenges in the contemporary. Such knowledge will impede fear challenges in posthuman societies-usually characterized by increased scientific invention and production of dangerous technologies, chemical sand other deadly substances in the name of development.
Hadayat Rashidi
In this article, the author expressed views on general discussions related to symbol, symbolism, and general excursion of symbol in human thought and its effect in life. The discussion bases on viewpoints, and theories offered by scientists in the field of symbolism and contain new discussions related to the point of the resemblance of symbols and evolutionary outlook on the science of symbolism. The author carried out this research with views based on pure wisdom on evolutionary of outlook related to symbolism. The study argues that the significant effects of symbols include expressing the facts and directing the listener unconsciously toward reality.
Ikaonaworio Eferebo
The existence of man is synonymous with history and culture. As a result, man has a significant link with history and culture because man creates both. While history is a product of culture, the latter serves as the vehicle through which the former is pres erved, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria is a country endowed with varieties of cultural heritages derived from its trans-cultural ethnic communities. This study investigates a unique aspect of the multicultural history of Nigeria with a focus on Otipi Royal Initiation Ceremony among the Yache peopl eof Cross River State, Nigeria. Since culture reflects the environment that produ ces it, the primary concern of thi spaper, therefore, was to explore the traditional indigenous practices of a mainly re mote people, utilizing the historical, descriptive approach to spotlight them as cultural heritage. This methodological approach hinges on primary and secondary sources of data collection. The findings revealed that while effort at preserving these heritag es face daunting challenges, human actions such as trafficking and exportation through traditional arts thefts, vandalism, Christianity have continued to undermine the culture of the Yache people. Cultural disparity underscores the need for the preservatio nof people'sculture for the sake of generations yet unborn.