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Yes, everyone knows the name, but how many actually have any real ideas of its true identity? What about its roots, travel path and duration. We have all borne witness to the ebbs and flows of this pandemic, lockdowns and the ease of these not to mention the sporadic spikes impacting upon travel bans, reopening and re closing borders, mixed-messages of easing lockdown, conflicts over the management of infected persons – hydroxychloroquine being one of the most contentious in this regard.
My key concern is not quite about what scientists have published thus far, but more about the glut in social sciences publications on the little known globally unwelcome visitor. It is a stark reminder of an article I wrote about the demarketing of higher education where I pointed out the failings in the scramble by many British universities to launch sports courses in the aftermath of London having won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
Many of those course launches hardly ever got off the ground and it seems like no real lessons seemed to have been learnt. Perhaps academia needs to embrace caution in churning out Covid19-related articles until the Jury is back in. For now, the Jury is still out!
It probably makes sense for demarketing Covid19 social science research.
Microsoft and TitTok’s owner have paused the negotiation for Microsoft to acquire the short video app sensation. Microsoft is an enterprise king with one of the most critical platforms in modern commerce – the Windows. But Microsoft, despite owning LinkedIn, is yet to hold one of those precious mobile age properties. Apple runs the iOS world. Google keeps the inhabitants of Android happy. Facebook has the dual universe of WhatsApp and Instagram. Microsoft hopes TikTok would be it. But President Trump is not buying it: he has noted that he would use executive order to ban TikTok in the United States.
Microsoft Corp. has paused negotiations to buy the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app TikTok after President Trump said late Friday he opposed the deal, according to people familiar with the matter.
The president’s statements spurred TikTok to make additional concessions, including agreeing to add as many as 10,000 jobs in the U.S. over the next three years, but it isn’t clear if those will alter Mr. Trump’s stance, one of the people said.
This is a very complicated matter which may rewire global commerce if indeed Trump goes ahead to ban TikTok. With that precedence in American democracy, expect some countries to have the boldness to enter a season of apps bans. Indeed, nothing would stop Cameroon, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, etc from banning WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, and they would justify it with whatever reasons Trump has used to ban TikTok. This is not to say that the U.S. does not need to return digital fire to China. But if the U.S. does it, expect the world to ride on that action and change the ordinance.
Banning TiKTok will hurt the U.S. and its companies around the world. The best thing for Trump is to demand that ByteDance, TikTok owner, divests the app in the U.S. market. It makes no sense to ban the app when the company has indicated interest to sell the U.S. subsidiary.
President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act soon to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States.
Trump did not specify whether he will act through an executive order, or another method such as a designation, according to NBC News.
Trump’s comments come as it was reported Friday that Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance.
Largely, if Trump bans TikTok when the company has clarified that U.S. users data are stored in the U.S. and that it is ready to sell to Microsoft, it would open American companies to political attacks in many countries. The ideal of America is freedom of speech, and though TikTok is coming from China, this company has offered a truce by agreeing to divest to Microsoft. There is no need to kill the brand especially in the age when everyone is accusing Facebook of complete dominance. TikTok is really the only hope to create a competitive environment for Facebook in U.S.. U.S. does not need to score an own goal.
In association football, an own goal occurs when a player causes the ball to go into their own team’s goal, resulting in a goal being scored for the opposition. … The defending player who scored the own goal is personally “credited” with the goal as part of the statistical abstract of the game.
Professor Ayobami Ojebode has ceased to be the Head of Department of Communication and Language Arts at the University of Ibadan after 9 years of serving as acting and full-time manager of the Department. Our checks reveal that during this period, Professor Ojebode’s leadership recorded a number of achievements.
Check reveals that during his tenure the Department produced 41 PhD graduates and 13 first class undergraduate degrees. These are the highest in the history of the Department. The Department researches and trains students on varied aspects of communications, media, journalism and language arts.
Exhibit 1: First Class from 1975-2019
Source: University of Ibadan’s Convocation Book, 1975-2019; Infoprations Analysis, 2020
This achievement was as a result of collaborative efforts of academic and non-academic staff of the Department and the University authority, our checks reveal. For instance, a number of present and past students note that during his headship, he was able to connect the Department with professionals in the industries, which enhanced understanding of internal theoretical and practical knowledge. In collaboration with the supervisors of PhD students, a number of issues preventing the students from finishing their research thesis were resolved. In addition to this, PhD students were mentored and trained through partnership with professionals in the industries.
Information has it that Professor Ojebode is the longest service Head of Department in the Faculty of Arts, the oldest Faculty in the University of Ibadan. As at the time of writing this insight, his post on Facebook, announcing his exit from the leadership seat of the Department, has attracted 138 comments and 214 likes including 2 shares.
Exhibit 2: Trends of Funds attracted to the Department during his tenure per select year
Source: Professor Ojebode’s Handover Notes, 2020Professor Ayobami Ojebode’s Back, leaving HOD’s Office for the New HOD, Professor Olusola Oyewo
Reacting to his humorous post on Facebook regarding his exit as the Head of the Department, the new HOD, Professor Olusola Oyewo says “Where does my HOD think he is “escaping” to? Nowhere! We are in this together…”
A number of students and well-wishers have also expressed their feelings on his exit. “So, you have taken your bag and moved on after a very successful tenure as HOD? Congratulations. We wish Prof Oyewo a successful tenure of office too. This picture speaks a volume (Clement Olusegun Olaniran Kolawole).”
“Congratulations for a successful tenure, exemplary leadership and high standard you set for our department sir. May the Lord continue to make you outstanding. Hearty cheers and welcome to our new H.O.D Professor Oyewo (Kauna Lisa Wudiri Aganah).”
Congratulations to Prof Ojebode, a communications giant. Your leadership style is exemplary. To Professor Oyewo, another easy going giant in the field of communication. I wish you the very best, sir, though not a new terrain (Ogunlade Steve).”
The stock of Kodak, a film photography pioneer, rose so fast that it tripped 20 circuit breakers in a single day. The U.S. government has announced the company will be transformed into a pharmaceutical producer under the Defense Production Act. Just like that, the stock went from $2.41 to close to $50. Now, why do we not have the same trajectory in Nigeria? Largely, the Nigerian Stock Exchange is not moved by news that spontaneously. GTBank declares record profits, the next day, the stock goes down! Dangote was mistakenly appointed by APC as part of a presidential campaign team, the stocks did not move (trading hours), despite the obvious risk. What is going on in NSE? The latency between events and when stocks begin to correlate in NSE surprises me.
Kodak begins a new era, moving into pharmaceuticals with massive government loans. Yes, go into generic drugs and leave cameras for Samsung, Apple and others.
Thanks to a $765 million government loan under the Defense Production Act, Kodak is moving into drug production. The former film leader is going to make a bunch of generic drugs, such as the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, to reduce the U.S.’s dependence on countries such as China and India. President Trump: “It’s a breakthrough in bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States.” Fujifilm made a similar pivot, and health care and material solutions now makes up 43% of that company’s total revenues (Fortune)
