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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NVS: Getting H-o-o-k-e-d

As an established writer with large and diverse audience taking on issues many consider "taboo", I recognise that I'm not infallible. Infallibility is wholly divine but one only aspires to be better and perfect in the art of writing...

Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and the African Union

Asking the AU to do anything about Mugabe would be like asking a band of thieves to repent, forsake their ways and become saints. It is not going to happen in my life time...

The Trouble with Nigeria Is A House

Chinua Achebe has stolen my thunder by stating that...

Why your Government treats you like Crap

The government today dominates every sector of the economy, and prevents the rise of free enterprise to enable the Nigerian, getting in the way of innovation and prosperity: all in the name of revenue sourcing and control...

Nigeria, A Darkening Time

Visiting Nigeria in mid-November, I became aware that the...

Political Killings – So, Who Is Next?

How did we descend to this abyss, where our politicians are intolerant of each other and would not allow a superior argument or candidate to win?

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...

A Case for Renewable Energy

The now commonplace rhetoric about sustainability and climate change re-emphasizes the need to be more responsible about the future and generations to come...

Boko Haram on Nigeria: Error On Terror!

Anyone who knows Nigeria very well has every reason to be surprised and worried about the recent bomb-blast at the Louis Edet building which housed the Nigerian police force headquarters at Abuja FCT....

Conquerors of the poor

A base philosophy of life is an important driver. What we have now is that which says, ‘steal before others get to it, cheat before you get cheated and that money buys you everything including the death of those you do not agree with’. We need structural change in Nigeria, something a revolution may not even deliver...