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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Ode To Emeka – Poet, Songster And Husband

Emeka dead? Emeka? What happened? Why? How? God, Why? These were the initial questions that made my heard swim around and around... This could not be. This na the guy wey im voice I hear only yesterday!!! 

Oyenusi, Anini and Obasanjo: What’s the Difference?

As things stand today, there is not much difference between the dealings of Aso Rock and the dealings of street urchins who use force or the threat of force to get things done. What difference is there between what Oyenusi and Anini did and what the presidency has been doing?

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Obi Cubana is not just a patron of the...

The Unbearable Cost of Political Foolishness

I have written before about the profound pain that...

Poets Storm Idoto in Honour of Christopher Okigbo

By Odili Ujubuoñu African poets will stir the quiet and...

The Facts And Fiction Of The January 15 1966 Coup

Awoyokun asserts that if it were not for the ‘Igbo’ coup of January 15 the massacres of the Igbo in Northern Nigeria six months later would not have occurred. This thesis arises from his criticism of Achebe’s location of the massacres in resentment and blame of the Igbo for any problem in Nigeria...

Why Oyo State Is Not Working And Cannot Work

Nigeria’s political and moral situations as a whole has always been that of bringing out the pessimism and negativity in most of her people, such that we find it very difficult to celebrate achievement and excellence in all spheres of human activities in our country...

The Nigerian Catholic Priest Challenging Stereotypes of African Medicine

Adodo Anselm Gbenga is a Nigerian scholar who is...

Money Politics: Nigeria’s Delicate Delicacy

I have written a few weeks back about the...

Of Michael Faraday, Obafemi Awolowo and Michael Faborode

Michael Faraday and  Michael Faborode were born on September...