Isa Ali Ibrahim

Federal University of Technology Owerri | FUTO · Cybersecurity Department

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), or Industry 4.0, is transforming the world through rapid technological advancements, integrating cutting-edge digital technologies into daily life. This revolution builds upon previous industrial stages, driving significant engineering, business, manufacturing, and technological innovations. While Industry 4....

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has revolutionised global interactions through the Internet of Things (IoT), connecting over 40 billion devices by 2030, raising significant security, protection, and privacy concerns. Blockchain technology offers a decentralised, secure, and transparent solution for data sharing and storage, leveraging its co...

Bidirectional people counting, a key feature of smart cities, tracks individuals entering and exiting doorways while monitoring their direction of movement. In the Technological Singularity era, emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital binary systems optimize efficiency, conserving time and energy. This study examines the...

Effective heart rate monitoring is crucial for critically ill patients experiencing organ system failure. Traditional methods include pulse checks or digital heartbeat sensors. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has introduced innovative solutions for constant patient monitoring. Cardiac monitoring, particularly auscultation using electronic st...

Pipelines are the most popular and extensively utilised means of transporting gases and liquids today. Regular inspection is crucial for their proper functioning and sustainability. However, human inspection poses significant safety risks, necessitating alternative solutions. The fourth industrial revolution, 4.0 invented pipeline inspection rob...

Abstract High fever illness claims numerous lives annually, prompting this essay’s exploring of innovative solutions. The fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) offers technological advancements, including digital inventions, to address this challenge. Non-contact temperature detection systems utilise infrared radiation to measure object temperatures...

Flooding, which happens when the water level rises, is one of the worst natural disasters that can happen. Not only will the flood create greater damage, but it will also take a long time to recover. Regularly monitoring the water level is the only method to minimize the harm and preserve human life. Water levels in systems like reservoirs and d...

Using solar panels is one of the best methods for absorbing solar energy. PV panels, like any other electrical equipment, require regular maintenance to stay in working order. Over time, the effectiveness of the modules is decreased by the accumulation of dust layers on their surfaces. Water is not necessary for dry or automated cleaning of sola...

This study designs and develops a user-friendly Smart Blind Stick for visually impaired individuals, enhancing mobility and independence in the digital era. The objectives of this study are to improve obstacle detection accuracy, enhance user experience through intuitive alerts, and increase accessibility and safety. Our innovative system integrate...

Farmers require timely access to information on emerging varieties, climate trends, optimal production methods, and advanced agronomic practices to enhance productivity. Digital technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), drones, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), bridge geographical gaps, connecting African farmers to global best practice...

Multimodal generative artificial intelligence is revolutionizing critical domains, including education, healthcare, business, and entertainment. This article presents a comprehensive umbrella review of prominent surveys, reviews, and SLRs on advances in generative AI in teaching and learning, synthesizing its applications, benefits, challenges, and...

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), have transformed from military technology to civilian applications, transforming industries and daily life, with growing popularity among hobbyists, photographers, and professionals. UAVs support diverse uses, such as in digital agriculture and landmine detection. This paper x-rays and provides a compre...

This Study explores the crucial role of energy-efficient power management and monitoring systems in reducing energy costs using the internet of things (IoT). These systems provide real-time feedback on operating procedures, optimise energy usage, and detect excessive consumption due to equipment failures or poor maintenance. This is essential as...

Multimodal generative artificial intelligence is revolutionizing critical domains, including education, healthcare, business, and entertainment. This article presents a comprehensive umbrella review of prominent surveys, reviews, and SLRs on advances in generative AI in teaching and learning, synthesizing its applications, benefits, challenges, and...

The study explores the impact of Cabot's robotic systems on modern industrial operations, highlighting their precision and user-friendliness. Electronic technology has advanced with recent technological advancements, and the ultimate goal of these technological advancements is to create robotic systems that are as human-like as feasible. Thanks...

Direct current (DC) motors are commonly used because they are inexpensive, highly reliable, and available in a variety of sizes and shapes, making them easy to use and adaptable. Robot manipulators, household appliances, and industrial applications all need speed and position control. PID controllers have grown in importance for the process indu...

Managing and gathering waste in an inventive way is called smart waste management. Smart trash management, which is based on Internet of Things technology, offers information on waste generating patterns and behaviors. This enables waste collectors, towns, and municipalities to streamline their waste operations, increase their sustainability, an...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming agriculture through digital agriculture or smart farming, enhancing productivity and efficiency. Integrating AI with agricultural practices, we can increase crop yields and address global food challenges. This systematic review synthesizes the latest trends in AI research for smart farming, highlighti...

In this research, how to build wearable health devices is covered. Wearable sensors that monitor vital signs can potentially be used to evaluate the health of patients. Thus, they can be of great use to both patients and medical professionals in the process of diagnosing illnesses, especially when it comes to taking a patient's body temperature...

An automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system can be used for a variety of tasks, such as automated parking enforcement, tracking the movement of vehicles, and identifying individual cars. As machine learning and deep learning become more common, the use of ANPR systems is growing in popularity because to the rapid advancement of technolo...

In a broad sense, artificial intelligence (AI) is any behavior shown by a computer or other system that is comparable to human behavior. Thanks to a type of artificial intelligence called "machine learning," computers can learn from data without explicit human programming. One of the most significant contemporary developments in international he...

An automobile that can function with little to no human input is referred to as an autonomous car (AC), driverless car (DC), robotic car, or self-driving car. Self-driving cars take care of every part of driving, including looking around, keeping an eye on important systems, and controlling the automobile, including going from one location to an...

The convergence of multiple technologies, including machine learning, embedded systems, and commodity sensors, has substantially changed the term "IoT.". The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of interconnected devices that have been assigned unique identifiers (UIDS) in order to enable device control and data transfer. It made direct human i...

Eyes, organs of vision, are an important part of human physiology, as they have the ability to receive and process visual detail to the brain. In addition, they play a vital role in the lives of humans, since 83% of environmental information is obtained through the eyes. There are various benefits to a smart blind stick with sensor integration....

Localization of motor unit (MU) innervation zones (IZs) is an important step in several clinical and non-clinical applications, such as 1) acquisition of surface electromyogram (sEMG) signal for accurate estimation of its amplitude and other parameters by avoiding placing electrodes on IZs, 2) accurate estimation of the EMG-Force relationship, 3) e...

A fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) is part of speech (PoS) tagging. PoS tagging is crucial to many NLP applications, including question answering, machine translation, syntactic parsing, speech recognition, and semantic parsing. PoS tagging is a task for labeling sequences in which a tagger/system tags each word with its approp...

Existing fully-supervised semantic segmentation methods have achieved good performance. However, they all rely on high-quality pixel-level labels. To minimize the annotation costs, weakly-supervised methods or semi-supervised methods are proposed. When such methods are applied to the infrared ship image segmentation, inaccurate object localization...

The article speaks on Cybersecurity landscape in Nigeria and the effort being made to curtail it, among many others.

The SCADA systems in the Smart Grid Network (SGN) are increasingly facing cyber threats and divers attacks due to their known proprietary vulnerabilities, most often leading to power instability and cascading failures in the Grid. This paper associates the SGN’s instability with cyberattacks and models intrusions into SCADA systems using the Decent...

The security concerns on the authentication protocol design have been a major challenge in the history of transactions since its' design is not adequately done for other researchers to identify a specific authentication design to adopt in the research context. Hence, this is as a result of the researcher's ignorance of the functionalities of each a...

The SMS-based authentication medium for financial transaction poses vulnerability challenges on its transmission medium due to weak authentication medium. These security challenges are not limited to various attack mechanisms such as Man in the middle (MITM), replay among others on the transit. Also, the transmission channel of Short Message Servic...

To determine the prevalence of various teeth in the Riyadh population, as well as the angulation, level, and position of mandibular third molar teeth impaction. This retrospective cross-sectional study was carried out on subjects who received dental treatment at the University Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A total of 10,583 orthopantomography (...

The total number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria first became significant after the Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970. It is now estimated at 3.2 million and continues to rise. The current wave of IDPs is driven by terrorism, effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, natural or human-made disasters within a give...

National Security in Nigeria: Emerging Technology and Prospects for Enhanced Military Operations” in Strategic Lenses: Fourth Industrial Revolution and National Development in Nigeria

Communications Satellite Assets: A tool for National Development and Socio-Economic Growth

Nigeria Satellite Augmentation System: Embracing SBAS Technology and Services

GRADUATION LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE TITLED - DIGITAL ECONOMY FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA

A CONVOCATION LECTURE DELIVERED BY DR ISA ALI IBRAHIM TITLED: DATAFICATION OF SOCIETY: ECONOMIC AND SECURITY ISSUES IN PRODUCING AND USING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DATA IN NIGERIA PRESENTED AT THE 2020 CONVOCATION CEREMONY OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY MINNA - NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

A CONVOCATION LECTURE DELIVERED BY DR ISA ALI IBRAHIM TITLED: ICT AS A CATALYST FOR NIGERIA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21 ST CENTURY

We apply machine-learning techniques to construct linear, non-linear and ensemble machine learning algorithms. The linear comprises of logistic regression(LR), linear discriminant analysis(LDA) and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) while non-linear comprises of support vector machine(SVM), neural network(NN) and decision tree...

The concept of a smart city is becoming the leading paradigm worldwide. Consequently, a creative mix of emerging technologies and open innovation is gradually becoming the defining element of smart city evolution, changing the ways in which city administrators are organizing their services and development globally. Thus, the smart city concept is b...

Article provides a quick glance at the core principles of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019

Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim FBCS, Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), discusses the exploitation of regulatory instruments to unlock blockchain’s potential in Nigeria.

Improved youth literacy juxtaposed with high unemployment rate plus fundamental historical and religious distrust makes a perfect recipe for cyber-terrorism to thrive. Cyber-terrorism has become the newest and biggest potential expression of terrorism globally. While 9/11 opened a new vista in international terrorism, the Stuxnet cyber-attack on Ir...

Isa Ali Ibrahim FBCS, Director-General/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), reports on the ethical challenges Nigeria faces as it embraces the digital age.

Open Government Data (OGD), an extension of e-Government, so claimed, has become a major factor in the United Nations e-Government Development Index (EGDI) and to achieving the global sustainable development goals (SDGs). This is based on the argument that opening up government data has tremendous social, political and economic benefits. However, i...

Adoption of Internet of things (IoT) has been accepted across all areas of human endeavors. With the world population predicted to reach 9.2 billion by 2050 and the world suggestions on climate change, there is urgent need for the agriculture ecosystem to help the world prepare for these unavoidable realities through application of new and sustaina...

Internet of Things (IoT) is currently changing the world, In addition, its applications cut across all human endeavors. The challenges are: how can IoT become a successful and sustainable technology in the nearest future just like its mother the "internet" and any other successful technologies? How can IoT successfully be an integral part of our da...

The study demonstrates e-Commerce adoption in Businesses. The main objective of the study is to provide a potential study that shows the capabilities and competitiveness of e-Commerce in businesses, to stimulate interest of businesses on e-Commerce as it gives customers more market power and companies unlimited access to customers across the globe,...

Identity management systems have existed for 8 years now in Nigeria, being a useful component of national development in all economic systems. The implementation of identity management system with respect to multilateral security is the change that is obtainable within the last 8 years. Despite several debates on the implementation of Identity Mana...

Accessing the internet by many users in organizations creates threat to many companies due to the frequent flow of unwanted messages. These problems also affect centers that provide internet access in a confine environment such as cyber cafe. The need to be able to monitor client who logs into the network becomes very essential. The purpose of the...

With fraud perpetrators becoming more sophisticated both in their techniques and the tools they use, fraud is an increasing problem. Telecommunications service providers are currently second only to banks in losing money through fraud. Investments in an integrated fraud management system pay off quickly even for operators of small networks. However...

The study aims at designing an information system to enhance the registration of products with ease and effectiveness for NAFDAC(National Agency for food and drugs Administration and control) as a case study. This study emergesas a result of the shortcomings discovered in the registration of product in NAFDAC such as typographical error, time consu...

This study critically evaluates managerial attitude as a significant barrier to state-of-the-art upstream information systems adoption by Nigerian indigenous oil companies. Prior literature indicates lack of research on Information and Telecommunication Technology (ICT) infrastructure with respect to Nigerian indigenous oil and gas industry. Howeve...

A digital respiratory, called predire, was designed in this study to the problem of reservation accessibility and documentation of project reports at School of Management Technology (SMT). System analysis and design methodology is used and the system is implemented using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and Ajax.