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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An Air of Error: Prevention, Response Deterrence

Air crashes in Nigeria are like coming of age ceremonies, where the attendees air their closets, stride their wares, get immolated and conclude the lessons of the day by wrapping up and behaving like it never happened. After the Dana disaster that has claimed the lives of tens of our fellow citizens, if history were to repeat itself we can guarantee nothing will come of it...

Gaza: As Israel Hammers Hamas

Surrounded, border-wise, by hostile neighbouring countries whose extremist wings ceaselessly denounce 'Zionism' Israel is proudly exercising her natural rights of existence...

The Withering Of Civilisation?

Since my limitations on the subject are obvious, I am going to restrict my comments to how contemporary world leaders insist on using force as an instrument of national policy and in the process, waste scarce national and human resources...

Niger Deltans must control the NNPC

For years since independence, the North has always insisted on controlling the police, the army, the petroleum that they do not produce and even produce the president. Where this whole bravado came from I cannot tell...

The 2016 Rio Olympics and the Perpetual Failure of a Nation

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When A King Knows When To Leave The Stage…

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The Hypocrisy of Raising Money for the Haiti Disaster

It is, unfortunately, that time in the world again. A disaster happened and the rich people of the UK and America are trying to outdo each other in being proclaimed heroes and philanthropists. Only it is all self-serving hypocrisy and vain...