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 Energy Crisis in Nigeria: Can we stay Afloat or be Drowned by it?

The origin of the Nigerian energy crisis can be linked directly to corruption in the country. It is not that the lack of infrastructure or lack of maintenance that is the key problem here. Nigeria has the resources to make the power outage a thing of the past...

Two Can Play the Game; Scamming the Scammers

Like most criminals, scammers leave behind footprints in their trail. Some of these are easily discernable while others are more difficult to point out. One of the easiest ways to tell a scam is from the email address of the sender...

Digital Cameras and Mobile Phones with Camera

I will suggest that Nigerians buy digital cameras and mobile phones with camera as part of our preparation for the 2011 general election. The whole idea will be for people to record every event that happens around each polling booth...

Unilag Monkey Village, “Waiting To Extinct”

Like their human cousins, the monkeys that live on the University of Lagos semi-Amazon forest exhibit traits of an egalitarian society which may not survive the onslaught of human and physical development...

FaceBook; The Many Faces of a Social Book

Sadly, one of the many demerits of using Facebook is that it can often be time consuming. Many people have become addicted to using it and often spend hours chatting and interacting with other users which in my opinion is rather unhealthy for productivity...

Towards Sustainable Energy: Windy Whims, Epiphany, or Probability

Energy is the fuel that will lead the way for the future of Nigeria. It is the biggest melee facing the manufacturing industry and many more sectors in Nigeria..

God Is On Facebook

Facebook is fast becoming a medium for self-promotion, for grandiose statements, for keeping and for settling scores, for venting their frustrations, and for shamelessly espousing their religiosity...

Are You on Twitter?

I am by no means claiming to be an expert on the twitter community. But I do know enough from my experience to say that it is almost like a 24/7 flea market full of vendors, shoppers, and browsers...

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I start with our marginalized under-class.  They are those who did not have the benefit of enlightenment in their youth...

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The federal government of the United States is currently negotiating modalities for unraveling the tax evasion crimes allegedly committed by some 52,000 American citizens through offshore banking...

Swearing in public servants by Juju

Our country still suffers a lot of poverty in the midst of plenty and it seems to me that only something as radical as the total annihilation of corrupt people can save us...

Of Chicago and Ibadan: People and Places

There are interesting coincidences between Chicago in the U.S. and...

Nigerian Government Must Tackle Unemployment

In as much as Nigerians cannot wait for government to solve all their problems, government must at least carry out its responsibilities by creating jobs for the teeming population of jobless youths...

Violence Against the Girl-Child!

Trafficking is the worst example of how Nigerians overseas are mistreated and how no government has ever done anything to safeguard the simple human dignity of Nigerians outside the country...

Abia: Can Orji Dethrone Orji?

Without equivocation I hold that Orji Uzor Kalu, the former Governor of Abia State and the ex-BOT Chairman of the defunct PPA party, has been demystified politically...