Technology & Science

Forwarded. Screenshot. Jailed

At a distinguished public lecture at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), legal luminary and Visiting Professor of Legal Practice, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, warned...

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...

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...

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...

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Mail from Jail

It seems to me that the majority of Nigerians are prisoners. From the inmates of kiri-kiri, through the millions who have had their rights denied them in one way or the other, we are all prisoners in our motherland...

Hurrah As Obama's White House Summons Young African Leaders

One thing that President Obama, singer Whitney Houston and late Rt. Honorable Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe have in common is the appreciation and admiration of youths...

IBB’s Book Launch: The Fundamentals

Recently, Nigeria’s former military dictator Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida publicly...

The Senator Who Came To Marry My Sister

If the hunted animal runs in an unexpected manner, an Igbo proverb goes, the hunter should shoot it in an equally unexpected manner. The problem here, however, was that the manner in which this animal had bolted was not only unexpected but unimaginable...

Africa's Day In Calgary (3)

Poor kid, probably thinking Africa is on another planet and you guys must have travelled in a space ship to get here…in my days as a child, all we knew about Africa were the animals…

The Nigerian Press and Creative Headline Writing

I have often wondered why Nigerian newspapers have not caught up with their counterparts in the west, in serving their readers appetising and imaginative headlines...

Dictatorship of the Progressives

There was a time in in this country when...

Nigeria’s disunity: Buhari’s detribalization!

Struggling for Nigeria unity, it is necessary to combat firmly the fabricators and abettors of division. It is dishonest towards the integrity of Nigeria ethics for anyone to claim  injustice out of prejudice on differed dialect, culture and background...

Abia deserves a ‘Disaster Area’ as Criminals take over

What Abia State has become under Gov. T.A. Orji is sad and qualifies to be declared a Disaster Area, as hoodlums have taken over the whole of the state...

The Power Against People's Rights: What If Nigerians Are For Sale?

We no longer fully have what our ancestors, who framed and ratified our Constitution, thought of as freedom - a careful division of power that prevents power from becoming concentrated and unlimited...