Aug 16, 2022Nigeria’s prospects in the hydrogen economyAs countries undergo a transition to clean, low carbon sources of energy at a record rate and scale, new technologies are required to replace fossil fuels in an effort to shift in the direction of a carbon neutral economy at the earliest. Being ahead of this transition is a matter…Energy5 min readEnergy5 min read
Apr 20, 2021Pantami and the charge of extremismI read some of the recent commentaries in the social media that describes Nigeria’s Communications and Digital Economy minister, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, as an extremist who is in support of terrorism, judging from his past utterances as an Islamic cleric and preacher of several decades. In truth, Muslims around…Nigeria5 min readNigeria5 min read
Apr 19, 2021On neocolonialism and the victim-perpetrator narrativeIt seems that we now live in a world where some fledgling scholars of African studies mostly domiciled in the West may well dismiss the works of individuals like Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Touré, Amilcar Cabral, Walter Rodney, etc., as nothing but the victim narrative. The…Colonialism5 min readColonialism5 min read
Feb 1, 2021Mitigating climate change via effective communicationSome of the most memorable climate change events of 2018 include the biennial Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT) conference held in Melbourne, Australia; and the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP 24) held in Katowice, Poland. In a world where we are constantly faced with powerful natural disasters ranging from…Climate Change4 min readClimate Change4 min read
Jan 29, 2021Between the cause and effect of university crisis in NigeriaIn the past couple of days, there have been several back-and-forth arguments about the university crisis in Nigeria. Nigerian academics at home and the diaspora have been making their points as to where the blames should lie. One of the claims made from some Nigerians at home were that academics…Nigeria6 min readNigeria6 min read
Jan 18, 2021Of Toyin Falola, African scholars and the Western academyProfessor Toyin Falola noted in his recent essay entitled “Is the diaspora now about rubbishing those at home?” that universities in the cultural West would not grant faculty positions to people holding Nigerian university doctorates unless they demonstrate exceptional talents. To support his point, I know a few people from…Education7 min readEducation7 min read
Sep 12, 2020Incentivising investments for Research and Development in NigeriaTo propel development in Nigeria, we must look toward incentivising investments for Research and Development (R&D) in the country. We must not only utilize findings from research conducted elsewhere, but we must provide prospects to inspire and nurture homegrown research that would address peculiar problems especially in the health sector…Education5 min readEducation5 min read
Dec 18, 2019On conflicting interestsMany times, it seems that in Nigeria we do not care too much about conflicting interests. So many examples of conflicting interests abound in our societies and many people have been raised into it to not even see those conflicts, how much more perceive them as unethical. For example, it…Nigeria4 min readNigeria4 min read
Dec 4, 2019The up-the-ante argumentsEveryday Nigerians who love their leaders to the extent that they cannot critique the actions of such leaders now argue in the negative in a manner that the Britons would describe as up the ante arguments. …Academia4 min readAcademia4 min read
Nov 26, 2019On the least decisionsA friend narrated a story of a young man he recently met in a village near Gashua (Yobe State) who wants to become a dermatologist because he comes from a family suffering from some skin problems. My friend made excuses for the young man not being able to know how…Nigeria5 min readNigeria5 min read
