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  • Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe and Nigeria’s arrested Development

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth October 15, 2018
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe, Philosopher, Statesman and Physician in his Autobiography titled, FOOTPRINTS AND FOOTNOTES, revealed he visited the then President Olusegun Obasanjo forty times in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Akinkugbe …

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  • Of Einstein, April and Nigeria: Morrison, Soyinka, Obasanjo and Adichie

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth July 13, 2018
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    The Theoretical Physicist, Albert Einstein, described as the greatest Scientist of the 20th century, passed away on April 18, 1955. 63 years ago. Certain events and persons in Nigeria remind …

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  • Outer Space, Peace and Fulani Herdsmen

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth July 9, 2018
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    Nigeria has spent millions of Dollars acquiring Satellites under the aegis of the National Space Research and  Development Agency (NASDRA) but how have these satellites been deployed bearing in mind …

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  • Uncanny Coincidences: Of U.S. Presidents and Nigerian Politicians

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth June 11, 2018
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    Can political events happening in the United States be used to explain events in Nigeria? There are some interesting developments between the United States and Nigeria in respect of U.S. …

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  • Of Einstein, Soyinka, the Six Chikes, Germany and Theoretical Physics

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth June 5, 2018
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    On March 1 1983, 35 years ago, at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, the Germans, through the Goethe Institute, also known as the German Cultural Centre, gave …

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  • Some Notes on Germany and Nigeria

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth January 19, 2018
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    I am out to enhance relations between Nigeria and Germany. Would you like to be personally involved? I am open to friendship and projects. Germany and Nigeria have the largest …

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  • Of Brain Surgery and the Love of Money: Professor Temidayo Shokunbi and the rest of us

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth January 10, 2018
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    Professor Temidayo Shokunbi was believably flown into the glittering city of Abuja from his humble base at the University Collge Hospital, Ibadan, to attend to the power-biking son of the …

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  • On the Epidemic of Greed in Nigeria

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth September 19, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    Like the British Psychologist, Oliver James put it in his book, Affluenza, I could conjecture that there is a correlation between the increasing access to satellite television and the epidemic …

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  • Nigeria and the General Theory of Relativity

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth August 9, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    Stormy petrel of Ibadan Politics, Adegoke Adelabu, in his political Manifesto, Africa in Ebulition, stated that he wanted to do for Politics what Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity did …

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  •  Of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Ibrahim Babangida

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth July 6, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    There are some interesting coincidences between Spain and Nigeria in respect of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB). Ignatius of Loyola was born in Northern Spain in …

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  • Africa in Space: Fela Bright and the rest of us

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth June 29, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    The world space week is officially defined as an International Celebration of Science and Technology and its contribution to the betterment of the human condition. The Space Age started on …

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  • Sister Cities: Of Chicago and Ibadan: Music, Architecture, Disney et al

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth June 24, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    There are interesting coincidences between Chicago in the U.S. and Ibadan city in Nigeria. In Chicago is the Chicago Tribune, the largest Newspaper outfit in Chicago, whereas in Ibadan is …

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  • Galileo Galilei, Bolanle Ambode and Italy

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth June 17, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    There are some interesting developments between Nigeria and Italy. Firstly, the Italian Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa on February 15, 1564 and 400 years later, February 15, 1964, there …

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  • Of Physics, Economic Growth and National Development

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth May 2, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    I recall that in his Inaugural Lecture in 1973, 44 years ago, Professor Muyiwa Awe, first President of West African Association of Science and first African Professor of Physics on …

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  • Of Nigerian Youths, Science and Creativity

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth April 29, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    Nigeria needs perhaps a massive youth project to fight a war against poverty and disease. But the youths must also have plans for the elders they are supposed to succeed. …

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  • Of Obafemi Awolowo and Yemi Osinbajo

    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth February 25, 2017
    by Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth

    Obafemi Awolowo and Yemi Osinbajo were  both  born in the month of March. Awolowo on March 6 1909 and  Osinbajo, March 8 1957 respectively. Awolowo and Osinbajo both Lawyers, earned …

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