This paper evaluates the relationship between non-smart phone users among socially disadvantaged youths such as the ones found in IDPs and Almajiris in northern Nigeria and the chance of being radicalized into violent extremist groups. Employing cognitive and rational choice theory as the overarching frameworks, we sought to inquire the extent of radicalization among socially disadvantage youths, the process involved in the recruitment process, as well as the motivation behind the influx of youth into violent extremist groups. We highlight the implication of radicalized youth to the society and propose a de-radicalization framework that can be adopted to mitigate violent extremism.

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The war on terror and its mitigating initiatives have taken several dimensions in the North-Eastern Nigeria. Efforts are usually directed towards countering insurgency and further mitigates the loss of lives and property that has become a common place in the region. The predominant measure taken so far by the Nigerian government has been the overstated potency of hard power (use of security forces), attempted dialogue with the terrorist and integration of deradicalized terrorist into the society, and currently the establishment of the north-eastern commission to create jobs and development in the region. These strategies though provided some semblance of sanity has not yielded expected outcomes which is to bring insurgency to a halt. This work attempts to initiate a research direction by initiating a mobile-technology-based soft measure that attempts to tackle the challenges of insurgency from a different perspective using what we now refer to as "cyber-wazi". We coined the word "Cyber-wazi" from as a combination of an English and Hausa word where the Hausa word "Wazi" means religious preaching. Attempts to re-orientate in time past through physical presence of mediators and preachers of peace have been met by resistance and violence; in some cases, resulting in death and destruction. We present a preliminary research agenda to address the identified problems.

Child Mortality in Africa has been attributed to the lack of access to major vaccinations as and at when due. Leveraging on existing cheap platform such as RFID Technology provides the overall availability of these vaccines to rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa can be improved. The goal is to create a practical system for improving vaccine uptake in pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa, with Nigeria as a case study, and in all reducing child mortality. We employ mixed method such as action research and design science in this study with a view to involving the target population in the design of acceptable solution for the problem of vaccination uptake and administration.