My mission is to ensure the survival of small businesses - Karakata Promoter

My mission is to ensure the survival of small businesses - Karakata Promoter

AT Oderinu
By: Ola Pat
Here was a family surviving on a business of less than #3,000 (Three thousand Naira) stocks.

Most race in life is not only a race against time, it is a race to impact your community and leave behind a worthy legacy. Even an armed robber strives to leave a good paying financial legacy for his/her family and in some cases for his/her religious and country people. The social media is a vast galaxy that means different things to different people, to some, it is a shelter from reality, yet to some it a mask to perpetuate and spread hate. And to some other, it is the leverage needed to impact the lives of others. Our guest is one of the few that have saddled themselves with a mission slimily impossible. Adedayo T. Oderinu, an independent radio producer with Rave 91.7 FM in Osogbo runs Karakata Non-refundable SME Grant, which gives financial support to micro-businesses leveraging the social media coupled with crowdfunding. His mission is to ensure the survival of small businesses. At Commune Magazine, we are crazy about community people that work for the progress of the community. We asked AT Oderinu the about his vision, mission, challenges and other sundry issues. Everything is possible, if only you put your mind at it. Commune Magazine motto come handle here; when community people come together there is no limit to what can be achieved.

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Amasa firdausi, Nigerian law school and the wearing of hijab

Amasa firdausi, Nigerian law school and the wearing of hijab

By: Honourable Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin

 I waited until today to give my opinion on the dust raised by the refusal of the Nigerian Law School to allow Miss Amasa Firdausi attend her Call Bar because she wore Hijab to the ceremony. I was waiting for resumption of the House today to talk about it which I did when the Speaker the Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara graciously allowed debate on the matter following a motion by Hon. Dan Buram Abubakar Nuhu representing Kano Municipal Federal constituency of Kano state.

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Nigerian Banks, Billionaires, & Your Sorry Ordinary Ass

Nigerian Banks, Billionaires, & Your Sorry Ordinary Ass

By Pius Adesanmi

Some of my friends have said that we moved too quickly within the same week from Hijab-Gate (religion) to Innoson-Gate (ethnicity). I told my worried friends that I do not share their despondency.

On the contrary, I am saying Allah be praised for I have learned to give thanks and praise to God for little mercies concerning Nigeria. At least two days separate our cursing and hating each other on account of religion from our cursing and hating each other on account of ethnicity this week.

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Special Focus: SARS is created to hit robbers

Special Focus: SARS is created to hit robbers

By: Ola Pat

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About 2 weeks ago, the social media was aflame with the outcry of injustices against the operative Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. The cry for justices started from the social media and like a wide fire spread to other media as more victims recounted their ordeal in the hands of the operatives at different times and places. Though, the Police authority later grudgingly takes some steps to appease those calling for the heads of SARS by fishing out about 31 members as sacrificial lambs, the police initial reaction through the Police Public Relation office was to try to blackmail those calling for the end #endsars of the outfit tagging them robbers. But instead more people including celebrities add more by sharing their experience too. With the online campaign and street protests in some cities in Nigeria, it was obvious that the Police Tactical Squad called SARS has been corrupt absolutely by the absolute powers it corned from the failure of the Police to curb crime.

The result of these outcries and description of the exploitation of the public by SARS has yielded a partial victory as the police authority has provided communication channels to report the atrocity committed by the squad members. Though, time has blurred out the purpose and origin of the Squad. Commune Magazine takes you on a memory lane. SARS was conceived as a police tactical squad trained to combat Armed Robbers at lease that was the initial concept of setting up the squad in Lagos, until recently that the squad start hunting for fraudsters, 419ers and anything and everything that will surrender illegitimate cash to the squad team members.

SARS was created by Mr. Mike Okiro in 1991 in response to the incessant robbery and constant assault on policemen at roadblocks in and around Lagos. As at that time, there is a notorious armed robber that scares the daylight out of every police officer in Lagos by the name of Shina Rambo. His modus operandi was to snatch exotic cars and according to reports move them in a long convey into Benin republic. But the most daring part of this daredevil operation is a shoot at sight of anything in police uniform. Thus, the situation at that is to develop a strategy that will not only conceal the police response team but that can also guaranty an element of surprise.   This is the genesis of SARS.

According to Mr. Okiro in a recent interview in Daily Trust “The idea was that they would be in mufti, and armed, simply for the very important element of surprise. They would take cover, and communicating with walkie-talkies, hit the armed robbers. They did that two or three times, and the robbery attacks went down, drastically, and at a point stopped altogether." The effective containment of the activities of armed robbers then prompted other police divisions across the country to fashion out a similar squad with the same name leading to the gradual erosion of the goals and purpose of the squad.

The success of the squad operation relies heavily on blending in with the populace by being in or wearing mufti in other to invade detection by the robbers until it is too late to react appropriately. As earlier pointed out, the nightmare of the car owners, Shina Rambo abhorred the sight of police uniform, so by wearing mufti SARS unit are able to jump on him and his gang before they are noticed. In the said interview Mr. Okiro insisted that SARS duty as constitute “is not to investigate, but to hit, it’s a Special Anti-Robbery Squad, not an investigative one”.

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A lot of people have welcomed the idea of magnetic therapy - Dr. Mrs. Nkechi Moloa

A lot of people have welcomed the idea of magnetic therapy - Dr. Mrs. Nkechi Moloa

By: Ola Pat
This time of the year, some people are making a transitory plan for 2018 while most are planning big; others simply look forward to the New Year. If your New Year plan includes a healthy living then we share your concern. In 2018, Commune Magazine will provide health information that will not only keep you young and healthy but it will also ensure fantastic health later in life. We will be following the paths of those who believe that prevention is better than cure.

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Artificial Intelligent to identify suicidal on Facebook

Artificial Intelligent to identify suicidal on Facebook

By: Ola Pat

The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday, 27 November 2017 the upgrade of facebook Artificial Intelligent, AI to identify suicidal hints and notes on walls and timeline. This, he said will enable Facebook to get the personal support and attention. This follows the outbreak of suicide of young people around the world including Nigeria. One of the common factors among this rising case of suicide is the suicide note or hints are often left on Facebook walls.

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Artificial Intelligence, summoning the demons

Artificial Intelligence, summoning the demons

Ola Pat Robotic
On Wednesday, 29th of November, 2017, the Facebook team did the unthinkable by putting into operation an Artificial Intelligence, A to patrol Facebook walls in search of anyone that is “expressing thoughts about suicide on Facebook” so that such person can receive necessary support before he/she commit suicidal. That was supposed to be a bright idea and a blessing for humanity. However, the fear of AI is the beginning of wisdom because a lot can go wrong with this technology. The most important being the extinction of humanity or enslavement of humanity by robots with intelligent. AI also known as machine intelligence in computer science according to Wikipedia is any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goals. In other words, AIs cannot only mimic humans and their way of life, they can also learn by interaction. Humans have been known to be a threat to even the eco-system that sustain his existence, consequently if your AI car perceives that you are a threat to its existence or you are trying to pull the plug on your AI device. God forbids your AI device feel threaten, then you will understand this part of the definition “takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goals” in this case its survival. The CEO of Tesla, makers of AI cars, Elon Musk refers to the use of this technology, AI as summoning the demon. A demon, he believed we might not be able to control.

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