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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Niger/Delta Militancy or Criminality a Genuine Cause for Agitation?

When the word militancy is mentioned in the Nigerian context, the South-South zone readily comes to mind. It has become an ineluctable attribute associated with the oil rich region and has continued unabated...

Wasting Nigeria’s Graduates and School-Leavers!

Nearing 50 years after independence, Nigeria has not reached far in the intellectual world of books. How much can we truly claim to be our own and not a pale imitation of the left-over of the Anglo-American world?

The Yeye Council of Elders vs. MEND

It was quite an interesting read to see the brief exchange of words between the discredited Yoruba Council of Elders and our militant brothers of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta over the recent operation that saw to the bombing of Atlas Cove...

OBJ: How does it feel to be considered a failure?

How does it feel to be the president of Nigeria? How does it feel to be the man most Nigerians hold responsible for their lot in life? How does it feel to be the object of scorn and invectives? How does it feel to be spiritually punched in the face and in the tummy?

In The Name Of The Son

The Igbos have a saying that a woman’s place in her husband’s house is only cemented after the birth of a baby boy. You wonder sometimes the sense in the saying, or belief and the psychological scar it leaves in the hearts of Igbo women...

Nigeria: long, long overdue for an overhaul

Is the president elect responsible for Borno State and most states in the North having the worst Human Development Index, HDI, in the whole of West Africa?

The West Is The Giver And Taker Of Literary Life – Chinedu Ogoke, Nigerian Writer

In 2002, Chinedu Ogoke, a Nigerian writer resident in Germany published his first novel, Under Fire. His second novel is being awaited. In this interview with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Mr. Ogoke speaks on his work and the state of African Literature in relation to the still thorny issue of audience definition...

Okonjo-Iweala For President

Any leader can only do but so much and let go, because building a nation is never a one man job, and is never finished. I don't care if you are a Goliath in mufti or uniform. Hand over the damn thing to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

It’s Bob Marley All Over The World 43 Years After

May 11 is globally known as “The Bob Marley...

The World of Spies and Counterintelligence

It would be nice to know the types and number of foreigners who spy for Nigeria, and whether the Nigerian intelligence organization is also actively spying on other countries around the world...