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...

The Nigerian Energy Conundrum (1)

With $16bn spent on Power Generation, one would expect that Nigeria’s power problems should have all but disappeared. With all due respect to Obasanjo and his PDP regime – you have failed Nigerians. This is what I will have done with $16bn...

ICT Development in Nigeria: 2010 in Review, 2011 in View

As the report for an emerging Information and Communication Technology industry in Nigeria is being studied by the government, it becomes interesting to follow the imminent convergence of the Communications Technologies and the Information Technology industry...

Living Dangerously In The WikiLeaks World!

This writer is both for and against the WikiLeaks adventure. I am in support because I am for the truth, the full disclosure against the power game of rogue states. But I am against because millions of American military lives are placed in immediate danger by these dangerous exposures...

Nigeria Venturing Into Nuclear Age: Precautionary Measures Are Necessary

Nuclear technology with its entire prospect has its challenges that must be appreciated and be given the requisite attention in order to avoid any catastrophe. Nigeria must do thorough feasibility study, and comprehend the convoluted technology...

Downstream Petroleum Deregulation: Options and Constraints

Nigeria is facing a major fuel crisis following the deregulation plan of this government. The energy industry and our refineries lag well behind other sectors such as agriculture, eatery houses, oil-ware supply, ports and motorways in undertaking an open policy...

NAFDAC and Its Numbers

On a daily basis, Nigerians are faced with the unnecessary task of deciding which one is authentic among the ever growing, yet inexhaustible list of drugs for different ailments...

Avoiding the pitfalls of relying on renewable energy

One thing that Nigerians have always wished for and never got in the past decade is steady power supply. Governments before and after now grappled with the problem but nobody has come up with the panacea to that seemingly intractable problem...

Lighting Up Nigeria Requires Lighting Up our Minds!

Provision of energy - like building dams, commissioning a power station and putting juice into the grid is one of those truly epochal engineering feats that define the strength of the soul of a nation...

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The intransigence of Helen Ukpabio seems to have no bounds and I feel compelled to make this submission to further expose the hypocrisy of this woman of little mind...

Zimbabwe: A Common Sense Compromise At Last

Now that President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai have crossed the Rubicon they must not look back. It is now time for progressive action and co-operation in nation building...

Nigerian Universities: The Houses Have Not Fallen Yet

I think the Vice Chancellors of some of our universities are doing very well and the students too. I wouldn’t worry too much about Nigerian universities not making the global rankings, there is a genuine effort at improving standards and quality...

Nigerian Christian Arts: Creative, Spiritual And Intellectual?

Christians first thought RAP music was from the pit of hell only to reckon later that it is pure poetry and spoken word on the fast lane. Now we struggle to rap like late-bloomers...

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The year 2011 closed with the gruesome issue of same-sex marriage. Obama and the West were poised to horn down Africa for not going insane with them...

Chaos Made Sovereign

It is our bestiality that matters to the civilised world, not our determination to overcome. Who is to blame?

Challenges of Higher Education in Nigeria

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Please Help Me God…

It is worrisome that in a country of many suffering masses, churches amass so much wealth and yet fail to pass that on to the masses...