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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Iyabo Obasanjo Is Not Guilty, We Are

It is common these days to find a politician or civil servant who goes to church or the mosque everyday to pray to God or Allah, yet when they get to the office on Monday morning, all that is in their heads is how to misappropriate or embezzle money...

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Nigeria: What We Should Ponder On

We all complain about Nigeria but the truth of the matter is that you and I make up the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Our lackadaisical individual lives have affected our collective goals as a nation...

How Decisive Monetary Policy Is Powering Nigeria’s Economic Resilience and Growth

In an era marked by global economic volatility, few...

Agbani’s Sickening Folly: Responding to Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

What is it, what was it about a “bare breast” that so infuriated the author that he couldn’t help but call Agbani all sorts of names? I’d rather ogle and admire Agbani’s bare breasts than engage in hypocrisy and the level of intolerance and bitterness exhibited by Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye...

Home…A trip to memory lane

Why do I live in the house of my dreams, with a family of my own? Why is the need to reminisce often strong when I am alone? Why do I feel this void inside my soul? If I wanted some answers, I had to go back! Back to that place where the child once played hide and seek under the moonlight…

A Call To Duty

In a democratic system, we should not keep mum when wrong steps are taken by government. We should start fighting against unpopular government policies...

Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport or a Siddon Look Matter

Any true democracy and constitutionalism is maintained through active involvement, engagement and participation by the electorate and the citizenry...

Supreme Court May Determine Case Of AGs Of Kaduna, Kogi And Zamfara On Merit

I am old enough to know that the case...