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    Teaching Business Skills to Architecture Students; A Case for Curriculum Change
    (Journal of the Association of Architectural Educators in Nigeria, 2007-09) Lawal, Lateef Ademola; Abdulrahman, Mukaila E.
    The 21st century is characterised by advancement in technology, communication and globalisation. Critical and imperative to this advancement is opportunity for people to compete. This paper takes a look at teaching of business skills to architecture students. It examines entrepreneurship approach as an avenue for the architecture students to create and develop their own businesses as a way of addressing unemployment after graduation. The paper recognises that technological changes have had their impact on the practice of architecture hence the need for students to be imbued with IT architecture skills to enable them perform various tasks. The paper further identifies the decline in the number of architectural design competitions in schools of architecture. These competitions are vehicles for promotion and exposure of budding talents, so the paper advocates for their organization and resuscitation in schools of architecture in Nigeria.
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    Use of Computers as Alternative to Drawing Boards for the Training of Architecture Students in Nigeria
    (Journal of the Association of Architectural Educators in Nigeria, 2007-06) Abdulrahman, Mukaila E.; Lawal, Lateef Ademola
    The direct influence of computers is now universal. Computers are used in applications as diverse as running a farm, diagnosing a disease, designing and other life endeavours. Architecture is a course that cannot be left out in this global struggle to attain greater efficiency and scientific precision in its outputs. Various computer software have been developed for architectural designs just as there are various types of computer hardware suitable for different purposes. The paper examines the use of computer for architectural design at all levels as alternative to use of drawing boards. The paper sees the tool as efficient for the training of architecture students and calls for replacement of drawing boards with computers. By so doing architectural designs could be presented and assessed with computers as the trend in this scientific dispensation.
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    A Hybrid Web Caching Design Model for Internet-Content Delivery
    (Covenant Journal, 2016) Alfa, A. A., Ogwueleka, F. N., Dogo, E. M., & Sanjay, M.
    The need for online contents (or resources) to be shared and distributed in a large and sophisticated networks of users, geographical dispersed location of servers and their clients, time taken to fulfil clients requests pose major challenge. Therefore the choice of suitable architecture for Internet-based content delivery (ICD) technologies readily comes to mind. To achieve this, Akamai and Gnutella Web technologies are extensively reviewed to identify their strengths and weakness because of their popularity across the world for delivering contents. This new design for Internet-based content distribution is called AkaGnu because of the extra layer (Gnutella network) inserted into Akamai architecture, which provides greater Internet edge over each technology deployed independently. The paper presents a new ICD technology that performs better than Akamaisystem as a result of new features and behaviours introduced that reduce network traffic, more clients Internet connectivity, increase file sharing, improved speed of contents deliveries, and enhanced network security.