Organ trafficking on the rise… I’m tired of complaining about Tinubu-induced hardship, when there are plenty of business ideas. So, I’m off to the Middle East, since EFCC won't allow me to do “yahoo, yahoo@ - in peace. I heard it’s booming down there! Nobody around me knows that I’ve traveled. The pilot just announced that we’ll soon land. In fact, we just flew past one bus stop, where I saw “Aka Road, Uyo” on the signpost. The air hostess explained that it was very close to the Middle East. Where, exactly, she didn't say. Okay, let me confess. I actually had no transport fare, so took N1,300 from Madam’s bag. I will refund when I sell my kidney for $262,000. The heart is not that expensive, though. Only $119,000. Liver, I heard, is $157, 000, only. I guess that’s why Nigerians value liver above heart. If you are easily emotional, you “no get heart (mind).” But if you take hard decisions like Tinubu, “you get liver”! Selling your organs isn't the solution to economic ...
The developed world is always quick to make it look like it knows everything. Sadly, some of us easily surrender to them, as if Africans have no attributes and capabilities that can survive circumstances.
Recently, with the emergence of AI, some Nigerians are beginning to buy the idea that they won’t have to do anything, soon. They expect technology to sweep their homes, cook their meals, clean their bums and bath their kids. Really?! In fact, some believe they won’t even need to think or breathe,anymore. How naive and simplistic!
Well, I can’t really blame them. We often like the easy way out of everything, abi? That’s why the word “breakthrough” sells faster than groundnut and “white paper”, in any religious campaign. But, things don’t always look the way they seem.
Since foreign religion became our intoxicating drug, gullibility has become our culture. We hardly look at the flip side. So, now, who will help teach Nigerians that AI may portend good but won’t do everything for us?
Well, AI has its advantages, plenty of them. It can help in production efficiency, data analysis, digital assistance, etc. But it lacks reasoning ability and can’t predict the outcome of any (communal) fight- not even the Anthony Joshua/ Francis Ngannou bout!
Yes, it’s already helping students to cheat in assignments and writers to plagiarise. In a way, it has taken over our thinking. But, AI can’t stop Tuface and Davido from mass-producing babies. AI can’t predict the next terrorist strike; the fluctuating naira or even our fuel price.
Besides, it can never turn our mushroom religious centres into factories. And, it can never change the endemic political hatred or stop corruption in our system.
I swear, we have certain things that no artificial intelligence can change. Hence, it will only take us to change us. Morality is still an issue with technology. Our orientation, determination to positive change must be right. AI can only help what is within us. Expecting AI to change our negative sides is like an ugly woman applying heavy makeup. The result? “Wooor-woooish!
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