This Research Paper purposed to evaluate Collective Investment Scheme in the Nigerian Capital Market, its impact performance of the Capital Market. The study focused on the Weekly performance of 48 Collective Investment Funds operating in Nigerian Capital Market and Secondary data was collected using the data available on Security and Exchange…[Read more]

The study portrayed the impact of Agricultural credit Guarantee scheme fund (ACGSF) on Agricultural Sector Development in Nigeria. Specific objectives were to ascertain the relationship between the ACGSF and the output of the crop sector in Nigeria, to examine the relationship between ACGSF and the output of the livestock sector in Nigeria, and to…[Read more]

The broad objective of this study is to critically examine inflation rate in Nigeria with the view of
ascertaining its effect on the deposit mobilization in Banks. The study which is ex-post facto, relied
mostly on secondary data which were collected through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
statistical bulletin, Nigeria interest research…[Read more]

‘Net Cafe’ series, and early Internet cafes

Douglas Engelbart, and ‘Boy’s Club’ / Pepe meme origins

Feminist Frequency, and CIA tech contractors …

Comedy of technology : Silicon Valley and Million Dollar Extreme

[opening paragraph:] In darkness, Nashe tells us in The Terrors of the Night (1594), mortals are more vulnerable to the machinations of the devil than they ever are by daylight.[1] Dreams and night visions weave Satan’s most cunning ‘nets of temptation’ (Nashe 1972: 210), and after sunset one’s eyes turn into magnifying glasses, so that ‘each m…[Read more]

[opening paragraph:] Robert Burton’s Latin play Philosophaster, performed in the hall at Christ Church, Oxford, on 16 February 1618,[1] has received more attention than most of the other surviving examples of university drama.[2] Since the mid-nineteenth century, Philosophaster has been published four times, once in Latin, twice with facing-page E…[Read more]

[opening paragraph:] Early in 1621, King James was obliged to recall parliament for the first time in seven years. He took this action in response to the outbreak of war in Bohemia the year previously, a crisis that had already spread to neighbouring states in central Europe.[1] These events had been precipitated by the less than politic actions…[Read more]

[opening paragraph:] It is a complicating factor in the discussion of the renaissance if the historiography of a particular kingdom denies persistently that it ever existed there at all. When we began work on this article, Professor Chris Gane, a senior colleague at the University of Aberdeen, reminded us that the standard school histories of…[Read more]

[Opening paragraph:] The history of the history of Renaissance art is and will remain a messy affair. Diverse narratives compete for audiences and authority. Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of Famous Artists, published in 1550 and re-issued in an expanded edition in 1568, provided a methodological model that prevailed for centuries. His accounts weave b…[Read more]

[Opening paragraph] Herder’s claim already more than two hundred years ago that the history of the Baroque was ‘obscure’ (the German reads: ‘im Dunkeln’, in the dark) is just as appropriate in our early twenty-first century as it was in his day, this in spite of the enormous amount of attention devoted by literary, art historical, and art theor…[Read more]