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...

Can you beat Edison the great inventor-entrepreneur?

As soon as he could talk, he began to ask his parents and everyone else all interminable whats, whys, whens, and wheres. His strangely inquisitive, inattentive, and rebellious character also meant growing up and doing things his own way...

NCC, SIM Registration and misinformation

There has been a litany of complaints of double registration, defective data-capturing approach and needless SIM deactivation cases after due registration by telecom service subscribers...

Coal-fired electricity in Nigeria: Methods, Modalities and Imperatives!

Electricity is vital to Nigeria's day to day prosperity. Living standard is unimaginable without electricity. It lights houses, buildings, streets, provides domestic and industrial heat, and powers most equipment...

Using the social media responsibly

The various social media networking sites undoubtedly, constitute a significant feature of the fastest growing area of the global information and communication technologies in modern times...

Effective control of Cyberspace

Cyberspace can be controlled by the government giving space to private owners and governing the space with rules and regulations...

The psychopathology of facebooking

I am not saying everybody one comes across on the internet is bad. In fact I have met so many wonderful persons on the internet, and we are friends till date. Just as facebooking and internet have merit and demerits...

A Century of Notorious Scam Mails and Fraudsters

Internet scams are various and rife. They are also ingenious and dangerous. Scam is scandalous, a ruin to the nation and humanity. In order to combat the internet fraud and threat, security companies have been pushing to develop new protection models...

The Nigerian Energy Conundrum (2)

The future of Nigeria like that of other developing nations ultimately rests on the supply of adequate and reliable sources of energy necessary for sustainable growth and development...

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The Story of Sex in the Nigerian Community

Women in Nigeria are beginning to find their place and their voice in a society that was for so long dismissive of their feelings and concerns and their sexual needs. In a society where men thought it was their birthright, a sort of entitlement to have 2 or 4 or as many sexual partners as possible now find that women are now demanding...

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...

Dear Bishop Oyedepo…

The main purpose of this write-up is to analyse the aim of the purported visit to ailing President Yar’adua by Bishop Oyedepo and some other clerics...

President YarAdua Is 30 Days AWOL From Presidential Duties

President Yar'Adua's absence from work, and particularly, his departure without following laid down constitutional procedure, has thrown up questions. What is the best way to resolve President Yar'Adua's  non-compliance with constitutional  stipulations?

“It is not easy to carry first!” – The delusion of the Jonathan dream

The Nigerian presidential election has now been concluded and a winner declared. The much awaited celebration is yet to manifest, except maybe, amongst the coterie of hanger-ons and professional politicians as shown on the Nigerian national television the other night...

Nigerian Men…The Good, The Bad, The Ugly!

Bold, brash, infuriating, funny, crafty, big-hearted, double-dealing... Nigerian men are as different as they come but there are some characteristics that stand out...

Will the Dollar Rebound and Appreciate?

The bearish development of the Dollar, the world's primary and dominant reserve currency is something of concern...

A Rejoinder to Goodluck Jonathan: The Suspicion, The Resentment And The Consequences II

The Niger Delta is quite flux, and it is difficult to know from afar who is indeed a Freedom Fighter and who is not...

Doyin Okupe: A Nigerian Original

With the death on Monday, March 7, of Dr...

Bukola Saraki’s Palace in London: One Sacred Cow Too Many!

Dr. Bukola Saraki was elected the Executive Governor of Kwara State in 2003. He replaced his father's former political godson, Mohammed Lawal. The later had fallen out with Bukola's father, and therefore, had to be shown the door...