Technology & Science

100 Men With Technology Can Secure Nigeria — Not 100,000 Soldiers

Nigeria’s security crisis is no longer a debate about manpower. It is a debate about intelligence, technology, and the willingness of leaders to modernize...

Ned Nwoko’s Gag Bill: A Digital Death Sentence For Free Speech And Innovation

Senator Ned Nwoko has thrown a legislative grenade into Nigeria’s digital space with his so-called Nigeria Data Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2024, a bill wrapped...

The Poet Fires Last Warning At MTN

I get more phone calls and text messages than all the mobile telephone networks in Nigeria put together. Yes, I am that large. I am sick...

The Geometric Power Breakthrough In Aba

The official commissioning of the Aba Integrated Power Project on February 26, 2024 is a watershed deserving of uncommon commendation. Professor Bart Nnaji (CON,...

Anambra Broadband Drive And The Soludo Megacity Goal

Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has never hidden his initiative to turn Anambra State into one megacity. The broadband installation is the grand way to...

The Anambra Broadband Initiative

Anambra State scored a remarkable feat on March 30 by becoming the first state in Nigeria to bring together eminent stakeholders in a conference...

African Science: The Science of Africans, by Africans and for Africans

Any discourse on African development, whether from the economic, political, religious, scientific or philosophical perspective would always provide an exciting challenge and, in fact,...

Engineering and Innovation: A Call for partnership towards publishing for a prosperous Nigeria and Africa

Without Engineers we are told, we would all be living in caves  and Nigerians are, metaphorically, cave dwellers,, Kelvin Doe,  John Magiro and William Kankwamba   three  Africans...

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...

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...

Bill Gates, AI and returned Nigerian Loot

Last month, March, a self-driving SUV knocked down and killed a pedestrian trying to cross the street in downtown Arizona, USA. That incident came...

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The Aches and Pains of Explaining Nigeria

One of the burdens of being a longtime commentator...

War Is Not The Answer

I hear militants in both the North and the South on television and radio blustering and bragging about how they intend to subdue their enemies. Gunshots are rattling in far-away forests, bombs are booming in busy cities, and there is confusion pervading the landscape...

Taming the Wise, Rich and Powerful of this World

The rich can often be brash and insensitive but God would want that to be toned down by the display of a sense of justice and fairness. And for the powerful and mighty, modulate that power of influence with a sense of righteousness...

High-Priced Mediocrities

A Nigeria run by its least visionary and enlightened elements – men and women whose imagination is fixed on the size of their bank accounts – is in no shape to achieve the Millennium Development Goals...

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Leadership 101: Bullies Are Not Leaders

Leadership is an important element in a democratic institution, where change is the norm. In fact, the power of a leader in a democratic system being derived from the people can only be sustained if the people’s support is cultivated...

Fight the Politicians Not Emdee Tiamiyu

In the past week, discourse in the public space...

Dear Bishop Oyedepo…

The main purpose of this write-up is to analyse the aim of the purported visit to ailing President Yar’adua by Bishop Oyedepo and some other clerics...

Biafra, the Ostrich Mentality and Nigeria’s Tragedy

There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I must do so again—that Nigeria’s refusal to confront and address the sore of the Biafran War is the chief reason no nation has been able to materialize out of the space called Nigeria...

Nigeria People' Parliament Courtesy Of Nigeria Democratic Liberty Forum

Nigeria really should lack nothing, what with 150 million citizens at home and abroad. It is time for us to put our distractions aside and get to work for Nigeria...