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...

Humans + Technology

As a kid growing up in Africa in the 70s, I was lucky to be among the fortunate kids in my community to have...

Electricity: Cessation of Compulsory Bill Payment after Disconnection

The news about the directive or rather order by the senate on the 11th of this month to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)...

An Indigenous Arms Industry in Nigeria: Matters Arising

President Muhammadu Buhari’s call to Nigeria’s Defence Ministry to outline a plan for the development of an arms industry for the country is thought-provoking....

The Potency of Social Media in Nation Building

Now, majority of Nigerians through social media are no more apathetic to politics in Nigeria. It is a big sigh of relief and a...

Electricity: Can Buhari Break The Jinx?

If former President Goodluck Jonathan had succeeded in solving the ever-worsening electricity crisis in Nigeria, he would have left office last May as one...

Unwarranted & Unsolicited Calls & Text Messages: Open Letter To The Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission

Sir, UNSOLICITED AND UNWARRANTED CALLS AND TEXT MESSAGES TO OUR PHONES. I want to use this medium to bring to your notice the varieties of unsolicited...

Power, Uninterrupted

No, the title of this column has nothing to do with electric power. It refers, instead, to raw, rampant political power. There’s a surfeit of that other kind of power in Nigeria...

Perpetuation of Roguish and Erratic Electricity Services in Nigeria

Immediately the fixed meter charge was introduced into the prepaid meters, electricity supply relapsed to its usual, notorious epileptic nature. Thus, Nigerians are still forced by official fiat to pay for electricity not consumed...

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I have completed my assignments here in the Islamic People’s republic of Bangladesh and I am ready to start coming home in matter of days. I wanted to speak with you before I arrive but because of the huge time difference between Bangladesh and Nigeria, I do not want to wake you up...

Prosperity, Eternity (13): Old Testament Saints had Bosoms

We cannot entertain angels if we are living in sealed houses. We cannot if only those we harbor in our homes are our ‘loved ones’ and our close friends. Learn to harbor missionaries, the persecuted believers, the physically-challenged, orphans and the others who are in need...

Dora, Go Girl, Rebrand!

If only we could be wise, patient and discern what the end would be for Dora? How could we doubt the possibility that one woman, a witch for efficiency, superwoman Dora, could rebrand the destiny of 140 million Nigerians?

Nigerian Ex-Dictators Parry Prosecution, Ambush Democracy

The Youths of Nigeria have never really known and may never know true democracy...

Buhari’s Death: Celebration or Mourning?

It is no longer news that Nigeria’s former military...

Uniting Nigerian children to fight climate change

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has shown a well deserved approbation: He was vigilant in seeing the importance of children beyond their believed exclusive assignments of classroom and domestic chores...

Osun 2026: Crossroads and Consequences (2)

For those who care to know, the July 16,...

Fear of God and Manifestation of the Sons of God

The fear of God or the want of it is what separates the few on the narrow way from the multitudes in the world and multitudes in the Church on the broad-way. The fear of God is what ‘begets’ those eternal sons of God...

Obaseki ‘Interests’ truncating Edo Procurement Laws

Very recently during a town hall meeting, we listened...

Let’s Go To A Party

Fellow countrymen and women, let’s take a trip to...