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...

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...

Danger of Food Insecurity In Nigeria

Can we give serious-minded rice and cassava farmers the encouragement they need? For many countries of the world today that import only a tiny percentage of their food, that was the initial step they took to ensure food security for their peoples...

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Fixing Murtala Mohammed “Air-Nightmare”

Nothing best exemplifies the state of Nigeria’s leadership than the dilapidating state of the gateway to the nation, the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja. An airport that sits strategically as not only a possible gateway to Nigeria, but West Africa as well as the rest of the World...

Saturday’s Governorship Elections In Nigeria And The Credibility Of The Electoral Commission

As the November 11, 2023, governorship elections in Imo,...

ACF Hijacked, Unnecessarily Rattled!

What is Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) up to? Why allow itself to be hijacked, and lately so? Is this to give Atiku Abubarkar some relevance after his atrocious and loutish outing and brutal defeat? Or, is it something beyond that?

The Ruler-for-Life Syndrome in the Third World and the Danger of a Protracted Conflict in Libya (3)

The purpose of this write up is to briefly explore the ruler-for-life syndrome among leaders of Third World countries and the issue of whether NATO’s military intervention in the Libyan civil war is contributing to the elongation of the conflict rather than shortening it...

Africa’s Brave New Ancestor Called Ngugi

Africa has just welcomed the path-finding Ngugi wa Thiong'o...

Republican Party Infighting Deepens

Tea Party fringes of the Republican Party have now won elections in Alaska, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, etc. The ultra right conservatives in the Republican Party are pressuring and pushing the party into a corner!

Nigeria’s democracy, Boko Haram and public orderliness!

Nigeria's well-being depends on a lot of things, among which economy and security play a prominent role. If these things are not taken care of, government's claims of a pro-people regime are inconsequential...

It Does Not Matter What They Think About Us

It will always be safe to assume that whenever Nigeria or Africa pops up on any media screen, nine out of ten times it is for one bad news or the other. In fact, my country has mastered the act of snatching bad news from the mouths of good news...

Motivating Yourself To Superlative Performance (2)

What separates the super achievers from the underachievers, the successes from the failures, the happy from the unhappy, the fulfilled from the unfulfilled, the peak performers from the nonpeak performers?

Of Oritsejafor, Hypocrisy and Politics in the Church

When the pulpit becomes a podium for condescension and condemnation of other ministries, and political playmakers sit in church pews placing fat offerings while consulting spiritualists and perpetrating corruption, can such be qualified as unity of purpose?