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...

Social Media; Global Family, and the Proliferation and Misuse of Short Forms

What I am concerned with is the fact that the reduction of the world to a global family has quite naturally led to a proliferation in the use of short forms. I mean short grammatical forms and of course acronyms...

Internet, Netizens and Nascent Cupidity

We've got post-modern crimes and criminals and post-modern fraud and fraudsters; post-modern poverty and post-modern opulence. There are post-modern athletes and post-modern entertainers, post-modern thinkers and post-modern writers. There are out there post-modern builders and post-modern wreckers as well, post-modern homosexuals and post-modern heterosexuals...

To Click or Not to Click: That is the Question

While everyone may be getting a Smartphone, not everyone is getting smarter. We have convinced ourselves that we have to listen to music all the time. Other people are content with downloading limitless number of applications that they probably won’t use. But since there is enough memory space, it’s okay to download all sorts of junk. We have simply reached a stage where we just keep bouncing endless chat and text messages back and forth with our digital applications...

A President and his Almajiris

The intervention of President Jonathan in an educational matter that falls within the purview of local government and the states seem like populist intervention. Given also that billions of Naira earmarked to fight the syndrome have ended up in private pockets in the North for over a decade...

Amaechi and power Supply

The provision of stable power supply is very important in any given environment no matter the angle we may look at it. Electricity supply helps in designing a people and their city with creative initiatives for entrepreneurial development...

Help! A Facebook Stalker Threatens To Eat Me Like Ndomie

To salvage my ebbing ego, I became a reluctant conscript into the platoon of online glory seekers called Facebookers. To many starry-eyed and bewitched fame seekers, Facebook is a hot platform. To me it is over-rated, over-bearing, intrusive, gossipy, divisive, controlling, thought numbing, marketing-oriented, immoral, crowded and addictive...

Atomic Energy for Electricity in Nigeria: Pres. Jonathan stirs Controversy

Nuclear energy is becoming a less viable energy source due to excessive production costs, safety concerns, and problems associated with final disposal of dangerous radioactive waste...

I thank God for fuel subsidy removal!

I have read a lot of the rubbish flying around as arguments in favour of the fuel subsidy removal. The most puerile of them is that with the removal, government will have more money to tackle problems of our collective infrastructure...

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When Life Was Tender…

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Why I Will Not Write About Saraki’s Trial

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There Is Something Rotten Going On In Bayelsa State

This is corruption. This is theft. This is gross irresponsibility on the part of the state! Does the state not have competent legal officers to pursue the rogues who perpetrated this fraud?

On Countering Terrorism in Nigeria

It is no longer news that the Nigerian State...

Of Obafemi Awolowo and Yemi Osinbajo

Obafemi Awolowo and Yemi Osinbajo were  both  born in...

Toward a Teacher Evaluation in an American School District

A performance evaluation does not necessarily guarantee effective evaluation or the competence of a teacher. Other multiple evaluative data sources such as student evaluation, peer evaluation, independent evaluation, are also needed to show competence...

Deji Of Akure: A Post Mortem of The Winners and Losers

I honestly believe that one of the observations that separate or distinguish the developed countries and the Free World from the developing ones and those still in mental chains, is lack of documentation. If you don't know where you are coming from, you are not too likely to know where you are going!

Nigeria: Towards a Perfect Union

Those of us living today, not those living in the 1900s, have to decide which kind of union we wish to live in. We are responsible for the kind of future we leave for our children...

Politics, Policies and Governance in Nigeria

Of a truth, Nigeria’s major predicament is that those...

History Lesson 101: “Lugard And Colonial Nigeria – Towards An Identity?”

I am again merely reproducing this fine piece that throws more light on the feud and rivalry between our colonial administrators and which seem to have been passed down to us, and is the causative of most of the ethnic distrust and problems that still exist in Nigeria today…