“Government is not a trade which any man or body of men have right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in the right of those by whom that trust is delegated and by it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.” -Thomas Paine. The decision by the current central g overnment to keep releasing hundreds of Boko Haram terrorists arrested and...
The Tomahawk Bar and Grill is practically hanging on the precarious edge of a cliff south of the Devil’s Canyon. No one knows what’s holding it up from dropping thirty-thousand feet into the blue pacific. The Devil, stupid! The Devil is the one working overtime, holding up this dingy behemoth of steel and Mexican bricks from reaching its watery grave. This is a notorious hangout for one hundred-dollar hired guns, grafters, prostitutes and highway-bound drifters...
There cannot be silence anywhere dog is made to feast on leopard’s tail. There was a civil war in Nigeria during which Chinua Achebe wrote ‘How the Leopard got its claws.’ It is a story of dog usurping the kingship of leopard because dog is blessed with teeth and claws while leopard lacked both. It is also a story of setbacks and comebacks; of leopard recreating himself – teeth, claws and more – and reclaiming...
By way of definition, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is an extension of the internet and other connection protocols to devices or “things” while affording them a higher degree of computing and analytical capabilities. The Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and big data will make people more aware of their world. As a direct consequence, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will begin to see widespread adoption in the services sectors of the Oil...
The average African woman is born into the world and tattooed with that mark of Resilience This Page is NOT your typical woman’s column. It is NOT a fashion and cosmetic exhibition – and definitely NOT against those concepts or lifestyle either. It is an opinion commentary without any atom of sentimentality or emotionalism. It is erroneously believed that only women are endowed with emotional expressions and sentimentality. This is a dead concept because men have...
That disease runs in families because of the bad eating habits in such families. It is not just enough for a family to have a good quantity of food (just any food!) to ensure satiety of the appetite of family members. It is more important for a family to eat the correct type of food and food products to ensure the availability in their body systems of essential nutrients. Today, I shall commence enlightenment on...
The coalition of Northern Youths group under the auspices of the Arewa Youth Assembly recently urged their kinsmen to be “magnanimous enough” and give the southern part of the country, especially the South-South geopolitical zone, the chance to produce the President of Nigeria in 2023. The group spoke through its leader, Mohammed Danlami at a press conference held at the Arewa House, Kaduna. He remarked that in addition to shifting the 2023 presidency to the...
The blood pressure (BP), is the pressure of your blood on the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps it around your body. Quite often, you hear people say, though ignorantly, that “I don’t have a blood pressure.” This is far from the truth. Naturally and physiological, every human being or animal, whether the higher or lower animals, has a blood pressure. The blood pressure is a vital part of how your heart and...
The incidence of heart attack in Nigeria is put at about 1.5million cases per year. This is quite alarming. If the condition is short term, usually will resolve within days to weeks, but if critical, may require emergency concerted care. But the treatment would often depend on the severity of the condition ranging from a well-coordinated lifestyle changes in individuals prone to obesity and cardiac rehabilitation, medications and bypass surgery. Dr. C. Ugo Ulasi, West...
We know Nigeria is not working for the vast majority of Nigerians. We have too many of our youths unemployed and unemployable; too many of our children out of schools and roaming the streets, too many of our elderly eking out a living in the rural areas. All the indices of human development are pointing South. Yet, our population growth rate outpaces our GDP growth rate earning us the unenviable crown of poverty capital of...
