An open letter was recently signed by hundreds of tech leaders and developers asking that govts halt the development of AI systems with human-competitive intelligence (e.g., large language models such as GPT-4) for a period of at least six months.

Economically failing areas are communities that the government has no significant investment and empowerment plans for at least the next ten years.

A proposed document containing a bill has stirred up conversations within the public space. The bill proposed a shift in the current Federal Presidential Republic which Nigeria currently practices to a Federal Parliamentary Republic which will now see the creation of regions in which each region will now have a significant level of autonomy over their own internal affairs, resources management, and development. In this new proposal, the Federal Government will have less say in the affairs of the respective regions and will mostly handle national issues that affects the nation at large e.g National security, currency regulation/control, and foreign representation.

Investor-state arbitration allows investors or businesses to bring a case directly against the government of the country that they are operating in. In the 1970s, states began signing treaties that allowed for investor-state arbitration. Moving to an investor-state arbitration system led to a significant increase in the number of cases brought and won against developing countries by foreign investors. Some countries have attempted to replace investor-state arbitration with state-state arbitration. In a state-state arbitration system, the investor or business has to lobby the government of their home country to bring a dispute against the country they are operating in.