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...

Africa in Space: Fela Bright and the rest of us

The world space week is officially defined as an International Celebration of Science and Technology and its contribution to the betterment of the human...

Of Physics, Economic Growth and National Development

I recall that in his Inaugural Lecture in 1973, 44 years ago, Professor Muyiwa Awe, first President of West African Association of Science and...

Hacking: A Dangerous Military Intelligence Operation

The technological phenomenal scientific innovations and societal development happen in many fields. The internet, television and other gadgets have improved man’s life on Earth. ...

How Social Is the Social Media?

An interactive platform has taken the world by storm, and if you are yet to embrace this new media wherever you are, nor make...

How Nigerian Youths are Driving Technology and Innovation in a Challenging Environment

The world is innovating so fast, impacting the way we live, work or play. The gap between the developed countries and developing countries have...

The Mark Zuckerberg Effect In Nigeria

(Handwriting on the wall) The visit of Mark Zuckerberg to Nigeria is a glad tiding memory, and a welcome development. Mark is simple outwards but...

Mark Zuckerberg in Nigeria: Impact and the Need to Put Innovation at the Centre of Sustainable Development

As Nigeria's economy goes into recession, it is so evident that the business of government and politicking has never helped the country move forward;...

Chuma Nwokolo’s Great Game Against Corruption

If you’re an enlightened Nigerian but don’t know who Chuma Nwokolo is, you should be sorry. He’s one of the most engaging people I...

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Salute to Emir Sanusi

The question that readily comes to mind is whether Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the rambunctious banker and corporate giant, and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano, will be idem sonnas. In other words can this new Emir of Kano remain the same iconoclastic and defiant Mallam Sanusi we all know?

The Guardian Newspaper: Ungrateful and Insensitive

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In Nigeria’s public discourse, there is a recurring assumption...

Gani Fawehinmi: The Town Crier

Gani is unequipped to govern Nigeria. Why he cannot concentrate his endeavours in the Courts of Law is beyond me...

We’ve Had Enough of These Excuses

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Open Letter To Senator Eme Ufot Ekaette

We are living in the 21st century, and in this day and age, it is reprehensible that you would try to dictate what women should wear in a society that is supposed to be democratic and free...

The Existential Threat of Britain’s Exit of the European Union

The shockwaves, the existential threat and exhaustion of the...

The Fall of the Naira: Our Come-to-Jesus and Come-to-Allah Moment!

All of a sudden, Nigerians are clamoring for made-in-Nigeria...

Vice President Atiku Is Illogical!

This man Atiku, is clearly lacking in good logic, good sense and sound judgment. How else does anyone explain his incredulous suggestion to the effect that President Obasanjo resigns? It just does not make any sense. President Obasanjo is the head of Atiku's ticket!

European Financial Seismic Wave

In the last ten years, there has been Euro-American national expenditure on wars, armament production, nuclear research, in pursuit of the democratization of ancient regimes around the globe...