Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth contributes from London, England.

Uncanny Coincidences: Of U.S. Presidents and Nigerian Politicians

Can political events happening in the United States be used to explain events in Nigeria? There are some interesting developments between the United States...

Of Einstein, Soyinka, the Six Chikes, Germany and Theoretical Physics

On March 1 1983, 35 years ago, at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, the Germans, through the Goethe Institute, also known...

Some Notes on Germany and Nigeria

I am out to enhance relations between Nigeria and Germany. Would you like to be personally involved? I am open to friendship and projects....

Of Brain Surgery and the Love of Money: Professor Temidayo Shokunbi and the rest of us

Professor Temidayo Shokunbi was believably flown into the glittering city of Abuja from his humble base at the University Collge Hospital, Ibadan, to attend...

On the Epidemic of Greed in Nigeria

Like the British Psychologist, Oliver James put it in his book, Affluenza, I could conjecture that there is a correlation between the increasing access...

Nigeria and the General Theory of Relativity

Stormy petrel of Ibadan Politics, Adegoke Adelabu, in his political Manifesto, Africa in Ebulition, stated that he wanted to do for Politics what Albert...

 Of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Ibrahim Babangida

There are some interesting coincidences between Spain and Nigeria in respect of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB). Ignatius of Loyola was...

Africa in Space: Fela Bright and the rest of us

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