Technology & Science

Forwarded. Screenshot. Jailed

At a distinguished public lecture at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), legal luminary and Visiting Professor of Legal Practice, Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN, warned...

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...

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...

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...

Mobile Phones Efficacy: Do Nigerians Comply?

The mobile phone has become a part of a lot of Nigerian people’s lives, though it might still be a source of irritation, especially if you have to sit beside a continuously jabbering person on the bus for 30 minutes...

Combating the Energy Crisis in Nigeria: The Way Forward

Energy plays an important role in the Nigerian economy especially due to its crude oil dependence. For this reason, setbacks in its production has had immense national impact...

Sustainability and Unsustainability: Critically Rethinking the Status Quo

"The so-called ‘Unsustainability’ of the world is a dangerous lie! Nature is unimportant; only environment is important.” The environment improves and human life becomes better through technology, people and consumption..."

An Encounter with Mr. Sustainability

My first impression of Mr Sustainability was akin to Clint Eastwood in the 1967 movie, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, with a brimmed cowboy hat and outfit. Professor Wubbo Ockels in not a Hollywood hunk but he has the popularity of a movie star...

Rescuing the Insatiable Custodian from Self-Destruction

Sustainable development ensures that the use of resources and the environment today does not restrict their use by future generations. Man has a responsibility to handover his planet to generations unborn in a manner in which they can also meet their needs...

Essay: Sustainable Energy

The Stone Age, Sheikh Zaki Yamani once said, came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones. The former Saudi Oil Minister was referring to the now ubiquitous notion that the Oil Age will soon come to an end and it will not be due to a lack of oil...

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Of Pseudo Religion and Crass Politics

The contents of this piece are bound to elicit plethora of harsh reactions from some holier-than-though ones among us; the highly religious, but less spiritual, fanatical adherents of the several religious bodies in Nigeria, most especially some know-it-all arrowheads of the two major religions - Christianity and Islam – and their largely ignorant disciples...

Nigeria Freedom of Information Act: How about the Immunity Clause And The EFCC Act?

In 2008, the late President Umaru Yar'Adua asked the National Assembly to use the opportunity of the impending constitution review exercise to expunge the Immunity Clause from the Nigerian Constitution...

The Roar of A Lame Lion (1)

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It flourishes because all the survival indices have been submerged in the cesspool of rapacious government fiefdom, and lofty but shoddily implemented policies...

Now that Obama Has Spoken…

This September, the United Nations General Assembly will meet. It is time to return the UN to the path of strict application of international legal rules in the conduct of international affairs...

APGA: Karma Has Finally Caught-up With Victor Umeh?

Umeh reminds me of how people in our country talk about religion so much, but hurl the word Karma around nonchalantly, as if it belongs to the Traditional Believers they regard as fetish...

The Criminal Tendencies of Some Nigerian Banks

There is no hiding place for Nigerians as they...

Emeka Offor: Whose Front is He?

If he were American or European, he would be on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the world. He estimates his net worth at $3 billion, although a recent report puts his net worth at about $6 billion.  This former "Julius Berger truck driver" claims to have been a former petty contractor until fortune smiled at him...

The President, The Colonel, And The Columnist

Can anyone think of Nigeria, in the last thirty years or so, without Olusegun Obasanjo? He is the custodian of political-goodies; he is the man with both raw and refined power and unbridled influence...

Promise: I Want To Change My Name

Promise is a common English word that denotes a...

Dealing with Corrupt and Oppressive Governments

A corrupt government is one that extends unlawful jurisdiction over the people it is supposed to protect. A corrupt government is one that legislates beyond its rightful power by erecting laws that do injury to liberty, justice, and individual rights. A corrupt government believes that might make right, and that its mission is to curtail freedom and information to the public and claiming it is acting in their best interest...