Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth contributes from London, England.

Of Liveable Africa: Waiting for Bill Gates?

Africans in Diaspora sent home about 40 billion Dollars last year. What do Africans do with all this money? How much of this money...

After India comes Nigeria?

There are strange developments between Nigeria and India. India has a population of 1.36 Billion and the Nigerian Leader being the head of the...

Of Dele Momodu and the Future of the Black Race

I do not know how Dele Momodu arrived at the name “Pendulum” for his column in the THISDAY newspaper. You can use a Pendulum...

Going Digital: Heeding Elders’ Advice

About 20 years ago my Aunt had enjoined me to eat cold eba with hot stew but I never really attached significance to it...

Of Black Churches, Black Scientists and the Nobel Prize for Medicine

According to a report in the Michigan Chronicle, a United States Newspaper, well over $430 billion had been donated to Black Churches as of...

Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe and Nigeria’s arrested Development

Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe, Philosopher, Statesman and Physician in his Autobiography titled, FOOTPRINTS AND FOOTNOTES, revealed he visited the then President Olusegun Obasanjo forty times...

Of Einstein, April and Nigeria: Morrison, Soyinka, Obasanjo and Adichie

The Theoretical Physicist, Albert Einstein, described as the greatest Scientist of the 20th century, passed away on April 18, 1955. 63 years ago. Certain...

Outer Space, Peace and Fulani Herdsmen

Nigeria has spent millions of Dollars acquiring Satellites under the aegis of the National Space Research and  Development Agency (NASDRA) but how have these...

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