UNILAG Engineering Faculty Receives Donation of Classrooms and Offices From Its Alumni

“The commissioning being done today would bring to 12 the total number of lecturers’ offices that the Association would hand over within the past few years of its existence, with the 1985 set having delivered four offices earlier. We are pleased to report that 4No 116-seater classrooms are also under construction. Other projects in the […]

Humour Gallery

Today’s Humour . Solid Humour IMG_2321 . In my FATHERLAND WOMEN are ALWAYS NICE What about in yours? . . . Hold your ribs to accommodate BETTER English . . That Africa must survive 😆 . . BREAKING interview in BROKEN language . . C-H-A-N-G-E Four years ago, I posted this video clip as CHRISTMAS […]

FALL of a CELEBRATED CRIME BURSTER

The latest strong crime buster of repute to fall not to assasins bullet nor organised auto-accident but for committing the very crime he spent his professional life fighting is Fu Zhenghua, China’s former Minister of Justice. Last Thursday Fu was handed a suspended death sentence that will be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, with no […]

ASUU…..STRIKE…..FG

My perspective on this imbroglio, in spite of my concurrence with ASUU on the core issues in the matter, is that an old generation invented STRIKE, we should invent something new to replace it. And I dare say this for general application. STRIKE. let’s face it, is no longer a civilized option. Prof Jide Oshuntokun […]

THE LONDON SHOW OF SHAME

PRESS RELEASE THE LONDON SHOW OF SHAME The Nigerian Academy of International Affairs is a body of eminent and retired professionals and scholars in diplomacy and International Affairs. The Academy is scandalised by the clownish gathering of some members of our political elite in London recently following similar meetings in Paris and Dubai. It is […]

Hadassah OJO Takes Her Craft to the MARKET

Winnipeg based Hadassah OJO takes her craft to the market. I proudly watched my grand daughter, (11), for two years building her craft skills in crochet. Now, she is the proud owner of LulubyHadassah, a store that sells customized crochet products and ships worldwide. You can find her products on ETSY ( https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/LuluByHadassah ) and […]

DUSTSTORM

. . “The aphelion phenomenon will cause extreme cold weather on Earth till August 22, 2022”. A post circulated on social media platforms claiming that “the aphelion phenomenon” — the point at which the Earth is furthest away from the sun — would cause weather changes and make people sick. The post specifically said “From tomorrow till […]

AGEING and its ISSUES

OPINION NOCTURIA means that URINATION AT NIGHT Is a SYMPTOM of HEART FAILURE, NOT Of THE BLADDER Dr. Bansal, the famous Doctor of Shivpuri, says: “ . .Nocturia is actually a symptom of blockage in the blood flow to the heart and brain. Adults and elderly people suffer the most because they have to get […]

Prof A F Ogunye’s Grand Entry into the 8th Floor

“Professor of Professors”, “Mentor of Mentors”, “Baba Awon Engineers”, “Waterloo Mafian”, “Imperial Master”, “The Proud Molusian”, are some of the sobriquets you would hear friends and mentees call Prof Ayodele Francis Ogunye, each one for very good reasons or stories. . . It is today July 31, 2022 he actually attains 80 years on earth. […]

UNILAG ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COMMENCES NEW EXTENSIONS to ENGINEERING FACULTY

The Unilag Faculty of Engineering Alumni Association, UNILAGFEAA, went into another phase of infrastructural development in the faculty by handing over a section of the complex to a building contractor last Monday. Sobak Nigeria Ltd has been contracted to provide vertical extensions to the mechanical and civil engineering departments. This particular phase of the project […]

VICTORY for NIGERIAN YOUTHS

The ECOWAS Court delivered judgement two days ago on the #TwitterBan case and declared the suspension by the Nigerian government unlawful. The Court also ruled the action inconsistent with the African Charter and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This is victory for the organisations and individuals who filed this lawsuit, and for Nigerian […]

Welcome to The B&B GUEST HOUSE, IJEBU-ODE

. . We are A PLACE TO BE AT YOUR OWN TIME. . Latest Post: IJEBU SONS & DAUGHTERS of DISTINCTION . 1. Fatai Isola OSIKOYA (1927 – 2021) 2. Augustine Olabiyi DUROJAIYE (1933 – 2021) 3. Christopher Oladipo OGUNBANJO (Born December 14, 1923) . . SITE MAP . . WELCOME GLEE (MUSICAL) THE B&B GUEST […]

Welcome to our SEASON of CELEBRATIONS

16062022 – 15072022 (Ft. from SUNRISE to SUNSET) . . . The B&B Guest House Ijebu-Ode. 0818 344 3129 . . The WHITEPOTS . . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Japan, the ATYPICAL

In 1977 when almost all electronics was analog, 24 participants of an international training program in telecommunications voted overwhelmingly to describe Japan as THE ATYPICAL. That was after we reviewed several indices of network specifications and performance among the WORLD’S BEST 10. All the 18 FACTS raised in the accompanying video clip only emerged several […]

Olawale Adeniji IGE (1938 – 2022)

The Smiling Doyen Bows Into Glory Telecommunications engineer, and Doyen of Nigerian Communication industry spanning several decades, Engr Olawale Adeniji Ige, died on May 9, 2022 and is being buried today May 20, 2022 in his hometown, Ogbomosho. He was born on October 13, 1938 in Ogbomosho, educated at Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta, studied […]

XC – Celebrating Omorodion Solomon UWAIFO, engineer, novelist, poet, playwright, anthophile at 90

A CITATION by Engr. Daudu Abdul-Aziz A big congratulations to Engr S O Uwaifo on reaching his ninetieth birthday! It is, indeed, a privilege and a gift from God to come so far on this difficult and perilous life’s journey to be counted among the class of nonagenarians. . . A lot has been said […]

Objectives of UNILAG ALUMNI LUNCHEON explained

Chairman and executive committee members of the Unilag Faculty of Engineering Alumni Association were on television this weekend to discuss the objective of their next Thursday’s luncheon at the Radisson Blu hotel, Ikeja. . . Chairman Dideolu Falobi explained that the Association’s N500,000 million fund raising project is to support the Association’s committment to radically […]

Eko Atlantic City to host USA’s largest Consulate

FOR THE RECORD The groundbreaking ceremony to officially mark the beginning of construction of a new, modern U.S. Consulate General in Lagos took place on March 31, 2022. It is located at Eko Atlantic City on Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The new Consulate construction project will directly benefit the Nigerian people.  Over the course of […]

JOE MAKOJU : THE SAINT GOES HOME

A TRIBUTE by Adeyemi Adefulu, MFR When the news broke on Monday 11th April, 2022 that Joe Oyeyani Makoju has passed on, the media was taken by storm and the nation shook. But the tributes started to pour in with such unanimity- he was a good man, a man of integrity, humility, passion, commitment , […]

LAIWOWE

. https://fb.watch/cjwgcGN2rB/ . LAIWOWE, well done all round, well said, well articulated (regardless that some of the claims are untrue, some inaccurate, some exagerated). And my best wishes. . . . Just that, were I to be in your position today, considering the times and the circumstances, I would have OPTED OUT of running. Good […]

Summit University Gets New VC

Abiodun Musa Aibinu, a Professor of Mechatronics at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria has been appointed the Vice-Chancellor of Summit University, Offa . Prof Aibinu is very well known for his exemplary works in the fields of Information and Communication Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Mechatronics Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering and Industrial Automation. Professor Aibinu, […]

FG-NIGERIA-ASUU : Let’s listen to a FOURTH voice

FG-NIGERIA-ASUU Let’s listen to a FOURTH voice (Solomon Dalung is a former Minister of Youth & Sports, 2015 – 2019). . . Is it the TRUTH? . And another in the National Assembly . . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

World Engineering body elects Engr Mustafa Balarabe Shehu as President

A Past President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Engr. Mustafa Balarabe Shehu has been returned as the President-elect of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO). He emerged the President-elect in an election conducted at the on going General Assembly of the World Engineering Summit in San Jose, Costa Rica. Balarabe Shehu polled […]

Simplification of RESTRUCTURING

First, let’s describe HYPOCRISY because it is the malady that makes everybody appear incapable of knowing what RESTRUCTURING means and yet everybody has his/her own definition for RESTRUCTURING. Perhaps the most sincere of all descriptions of restructuring for the Nigerian case is the one given by Chief Olu Falae. He says: “You know I am […]

OBITUARY : Prof Babatunde Ayodeji Ogunnaike

. OBITUARY One will normally feel delightful in discussing Prof Babatunde Ogunnaike. It however becomes a burden to discuss him in past tenses. Let’s make him discuss himself. . https://youtu.be/WbN_ds-L93g . This was in 2018. Please share this pain with us and pray along with his family and friends for the repose of his soul. […]

Pantami’s ‘professorship’ sets FUTO Organs at War

. FOR THE RECORD Pantami’s ‘professorship’ sets FUTO Organs at War The Alumni Association of Federal University of Technology Owerri FUTO which rose very early to express concern in what was considered to be a questionable professorship award to Minister Isa Pantami has finally advised Management of the University to step down the award. The […]

NAE Elects 10 NEW FELLOWS

Council of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, NAE, has announced election of ten distinguished engineers into Fellowship of the Institution for the year 2022. They are: 1. ALONGE Akindele Folarin, Engr Prof 2. AMAO Adenike Ibilola, Engr Dr. 3. EMODI Nebolisa Olisaeloka, Engr 4. OKOYE Christopher Okechukwu, Engr 5. OLABISI Olagoke, Engr Prof 6. OLORUNFEMI […]

BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO OUR ADORABLE DAUGHTER

. BIRTHDAY MESSAGE TO OUR ADORABLE DAUGHTER AT FORTY Darling Olufunmilayo, Every minute of the past 40 years, you and your brother have been a bundle of joy to our family. Watching you grow up has been such fun, and we knew all along that you would grow to be the great, caring woman that […]

ALUMNI INTIATIVES get further BOOST at UNILAG

Green constructions which provide extension to existing physical structures at the University of Lagos Faculty of Engineering, initiated by alumni of the faculty, received a boost last Friday. The event was a formal hand over of a part of the mechanical engineering block to Engr Wole Ogunsanya, an alumnus whose company offered to provide funding and engineering support for the project. The extensions […]

UNILAG Immortalises Three Past VICE-CHANCELLORS

Three past Vice-Chancellors of the University of Lagos were immortalized today at a special ceremony to climax the 52nd Convocation of the University. They earned the awards as acknowledgement and appreciation of their outstanding commitments, worthy services, and sterling achievements while in office. They are Late Emeritus Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, the 8th Vice-Chancellor of the […]

About Messiahs and Borrowed Garbs

“In tyranny he went after the judiciary. In tyranny he went after legislators for opposing him. In tyranny he has built a perfect legislature of yes beggars. In tyranny men that speak against his romance with incompetence and terrorism are invited into the chambers for questioning. We must learn not to use borrowed robes going […]

Let’s DO IT AGAIN

> We spent past years DOING OUR BIT, Breaking RECORDS, Enjoying OURSELVES, our FRIENDS, our CHILDREN, our GRANDCHILDREN, our HANDWORK, our PRODUCTS, ….AND VIBES THAT STOOD OUT : . Say AMEN . OZANA > > LETTER TO GOD > > I AM YOUR ENDLESS LOVE > > https://titiomoettu.com.ng/blog/dance-africana/ > > Let’s go ahead and DO […]

NIGERIA & ACCESS: STEPPING UP the GAME in 2022

Equinix, Mainone, and a PRICE that is RIGHT Happy NEW YEAR. I am known for my stubborn argument that the Nigerian CommTech industry is a creation and development of those who play in it. Pre-OBJ’s ‘second time first term’, we had an industry only by law and by name. OBJ’s government, in fairness to the […]

of ROT, STENCH and CORRUPTION in the SYSTEM.

Mr Remi Babalolas letter of resignation from Chairmanship of FBN Holdings Plc reads as follows: “I accepted the appointment as a non-executive director and chairman of the board of FBN Holdings PLC on April 30th 2021 as a national call to service, an opportunity to deploy my endowments to illuminate humanity. “Since then, it has […]

All things FINE and BEAUTIFUL

The LORD GOD makes them ALL. . . . Nature is truly and amazingly beautiful. Isn’t it? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/titio_isnt-nature-beautiful-are-you-growing-activity-6877046990295842816-5cl6 . . . . . . . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

SEASON’S GREETINGS AT CHRISTMAS

Feliz Navidad José Feliciano A ^ Feliz navidad Feliz navidad Feliz navidad Prospero año y felicidad B ^ Feliz navidad Feliz navidad Feliz navidad Prospero año y felicidad C ^ Feliz navidad Feliz navidad Feliz navidad Prospero año y felicidad D I wanna wish you a merry Christmas I wanna wish you a merry Christmas […]

The Extraordinary Woman

The World stands up for the Extraordinary Woman . 👏👏👏 . . . . Wikipedia.org writes: Merkel was born in Hamburg in then-West Germany, moving to East Germany as an infant when her father, a Lutheran clergyman, received a pastorate in Perleberg. She obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989. Merkel entered politics in the wake of […]

UCHECHI LINKS

Okeosisi* (translated lyrics) https://youtu.be/om4k9GQXnIM Okeosisi** (video) https://fb.watch/7vZvCLYFtX/ Akamdinelu https://fb.watch/7uI9XX9OIE/ Obinasom https://fb.watch/7uXKm3V5BO/ All that matters https://fb.watch/7o_IjsU3Us/ I know i can https://fb.watch/7DVWbH6srm/ Idinma https://fb.watch/7NogRU8xbf/ ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

ASUU Branches Disagree over PANTAMI’S ‘PROFESSORSHIP’

ABTU ASUU dissociates with Pantami’s ‘professorship’ FUTO ASUU Hails IT The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, ATBU, Bauchi branch, has dissociated itself from the congratulatory message on the controversial promotion of Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami to the position of a professor by the Federal […]

AMAZING GOALS that shook the WORLD

. . JJ Okocha goals https://youtu.be/aGVoZbz2crY Christiano Ronaldo goals https://youtu.be/jPOnTvs155Q Diego Maradona goals https://youtu.be/5gkuMxryBlo Lionel Messi goals https://youtu.be/IPIcvd3YAcc World’s Highest goal scorers https://youtu.be/agyG8ys1UxQ . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Nigeria Population by City

Nigeria’s population today is 213, 116, 212 (Two Hundred and Thirteen Million, One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Twelve). Details of 400 towns and cities listed are given below. What are your observations? 1. Lagos 9,000,000 2. Kano 3,626,068 3. Ibadan 3,565,108 4. Kaduna 1,582,102 5. Port Harcourt 1,148,665 6. Benin City 1,125,058 […]

SORO S’OKE: That’s the AI call

It has been a steady talk of revolution when advancements in solid state electronics hopped to computers, then to the internet. And now artificial intelligence, AI. A few days ago, Will Douglas Heaven, in MIT Technical Review said “AI, is reinventing what computers are” and scientists who should know are now saying “AI has become […]

About the PAADC

The Professor Ayodele Awojobi Design Competition was established in 2017 by the University of Lagos Engineering Society (ULES) to promote, encourage and celebrate ingenuity, creativity, and indigenous solutions by undergraduates to problems plaguing Nigeria. EVENT SCHEDULE With technology and innovation at the forefront of effective adaptation to the new normal, PAADC in it’s fifth edition […]

PARADOXICAL INEQUALITIES & INIQUITIES of OUR TIME

01. Look around and you see many humans, but not enough humanity; 02. Look around and you find that the rich who has more rooms than children lives side by side with the poor who has more children than rooms. 03. These are times when Smart Phones bring us closer to those who are far, […]

Rise & Rise of Innovation Competition in Remembrance of Prof Ayodele Awojobi

The Professor Ayodele Awojobi Design Competition, PAADC, an initiative of University of Lagos Engineering Students Association now in its 5th edition has consistently improved on the delivery of its vision to create an enabling environment for the development of practical, innovative, and sustainable solutions to local problems. . . This was contained in an update […]

ART of s’enia s’eranko (Therianthropy)

THERIANTHROPY today An interesting art in which the artist has ability to metamorphose into other animals by means of shapeshifting and colour manipulation. Watch 👇 . . I liken it to what, in Yoruba language, is described as s’enia s’eranko. An illusion if you ask me. Yet another work 👇 https://youtu.be/6d6cJu9dagg . Discover a PLACE […]

Tribute to Senator OLABIYI DUROJAIYE by Prof Ayo Ogunye

IJEBU SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF DISTINCTION . . . TRIBUTE to Senator OLABIYI DUROJAIYE by Prof Ayo Ogunye (Olabiyi Durojaiye : Molusiani Octavus No 54 Ayo Ogunye : Molusiani Octavus No 467) Senator Biyi Durojaiye was admitted into Molusi College in 1949 with the 1st set and was given the College number 54. Molusi College […]

ADIEU BABA

as Senator Augustine Olabiyi Durojaiye (1933 – 2021) finally goes home today after a funeral, interment, and thanksgiving service in Ijebu-Igbo. An account of my substantial encounters with the late Sage in the three years (2018 – 2021) that we related is mentioned in a discussion with TechTVng below 👇 . Baba, sunre. . . […]

NAE mourns but rejoices with the glorious lifes of its departed Fellows and Friend.

In quick succession, the Nigerian Academy of Engineering announced the passing on of two of its Fellows during the week. About two weeks earlier, a very strong Friend of the Academy had passed. The youngest of the three, Prof Tunji Samuel Ibiyemi, 67, an engineer, erudite scholar, inventor (Two of his inventions were adjudged by […]

The Olu of Warri Lifts Curse on the Land

FOR THE RECORD His Royal Majesty Utieyinoritsetsola Emiko, who was crowned the 21st Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III last Saturday included the reversal of a curse which his ancestor Olu Erejuwa II placed on Nigeria. As part of his speech immediately after his coronation, The Olu of Wari said: “A release of forgiveness, healing […]

Ernest Ndukwe commiserates with Ahmed Joda’s Family

A short EULOGY to AHMED JODA, OFR, CON Friday afternoon around 2pm, a distinguished patriot, departed this mortal world to the great beyond at the age of 91years. Ahmed Joda or Baba, as we all fondly called him, was a great, fair minded, energetic, detribalised, disciplined, humane, urbane and intellectually astute Nigerian. It was a […]

COLLAPSE of the AFGHAN GOVERNMENT 1

. OPINION “It is ONEUP for China against the USA. The USA is loosing status and the global power that we used to know. A new world order is inevitable”. – Prof Bolaji Akinyemi. See https://fb.watch/7sTRqZy6Rx/ For the full interview. . Discover a PLACE to be at YOUR OWN TIME . ￩ ￫ x × […]

Unfolding developments in Afghanistan

OPINION on Unfolding developments in Afghanistan by . Bisi Olawunmi . The humiliation of the United States in Afghanistan in its failed effort to impose western style liberal democracy on that country has shown the limitation of a military Super Power. The ” messy” American exit has also vindicated former U.S.President Donald Trump’s position that […]

Biden Defends Decision to Pull Out of Afghanistan

FOR THE RECORD Biden Defends Decision to Pull Out of Afghanistan Video https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/2950097311913906/ Text https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/16/us/politics-news#biden-taliban-afghanistan-speech Monday August 16, 2021. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Who is listening to Jeffery Sachs?

Or better still, to whom is the reknown professor talking as he makes the case for G-21 to include African Union? . Jeffrey D Sachs’ Voice . . “This year, the G-20 is in the highly capable hands of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Italy can use its presidency to leave a lasting legacy. By […]

Call to Glory, Engr. Dr. TEMILOLA KEHINDE

TRIBUTE by UNILAG ENGINEERING CLASS 1969-1972 SET (ULEC@69.72) to ENGR. DR. TEMILOLA (TM) KEHINDE BSc, MSc, PHD, MBA, LLB. Our friendship with Engr. Dr Temilola Kehinde dates back to September 1969 when as young secondary school graduates we were admitted to University of Lagos to study engineering. After 3 years (1969-1972) of rigorous studies, we […]

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

2018 13m passengers £1b 228,000Tons 1,188ft 18 Decks 6 Engines 128,600HP 20,700 Tropical Plants 2,200 Crew Members 40,000 Meals per day etc, etc, etc…. aren’t just NUMBERS, They are EXCLUSIVE INFORMATION On a FEAT achieved. SYMPHONY of the SEAS Available at 👇 . . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Two WAR SONGS

THE OLD and THE NEW War songs are seasonal opinions of a talkative group of citizens, usually expressed as mandatory cautions or as unsolicited advices, when governance is flying in turbulent weather. Two such songs jammed the cyberwaves recently. They are . The New . . The Old . . ￩ ￫ x × Previous […]

IJEBU SONS & DAUGHTERS of DISTINCTION: OTUNBA Fatai Isola OSIKOYA (1927 – 2021)

OTUNBA Fatai Isola OSIKOYA (1927 – 2021) Raji Sanni Osikoya (a.k.a R S Manager), Giwa (President) of the Obafowora Age Group of Ijebu-Ode, was dashing, rich, and popular in Ijebu in the first quarter of nineteenth century. But he died rather young, and suddenly, at 33 years of age leaving behind a 6 year old […]

Perspective INTERVIEWS in Nigerian Telecommunication Development

🖕Olawale Ige, Vincent Maduka, Titi Omo-Ettu, Olusola Teniola, and Emmanuel Ekuwem. . “The story of the growth of Nigeria’s ICT sector is the story of people. People who saw the potential, people who invested and many more who worked tirelessly for years to see the growth and success. These leaders inspired morale, accepted responsibility and […]

SANWOOLU gives a NOD to UNILAGFEAA’s WISH LIST

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu told the University of Lagos Faculty of Engineering Alumni Association, UNILAGFEAA, yesterday that it should count on his support for its programs which seek to upgrade quality of teaching, learning and research at the Faculty. Chairman of the association, Engr Dideolu Falobi who led a delegation of six to […]

Delight & Menace of SOCIAL MEDIA

On SOCIAL MEDIA, it is The GOOD, the BAD, the UGLY ‘Cause, up there, like in CharlieBoysShow, EVERYTHING is POSSIBLE Massing up COSTLY problems alright! The SOLUTION is in understanding them And learning the APPROPRIATE lessons Not in AVOIDING them ‘Cause IGNORANCE is even COSTLIER. As in .. .. 👇 . . . . . […]

KABIYESI, THE AWUJALE OF IJEBULAND : A PROFILE

The Awujale of Ijebuland was the Special Guest of Honour at the Nigerian Academy of Engineering Annual Lecture, Life Achievement Awards, and Induction of Fellows on Wednesday, June 24, 2021. . . The Academy presented Kabiyesi’s profile as follows: A CITATION OF THE SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOUR ALAIYELUWA, OBA (DR.) SIKIRU KAYODE ADETONA CFR, J.P. […]

ANNUAL EVENTS of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering

. . The ANNUAL EVENTS of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering is a chain of events that include: ✅ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ✅TECHNOLOGY DINNER ✅ANNUAL LECTURE ✅LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS and ✅INDUCTION of NEW FELLOWS Ahead of them was a WEBINAR LECTURE. . . Below is the link to a Video recording of the Webinar Lecture titled “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/MACHINE LEARNING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES” […]

Indeed, A REAL RISK to our DEMOCRACY

“Of poetic irony is the fact that one issue over which the Buhari Administration has repeatedly waxed lyrical is that of hate speech; so much that the National Assembly, controlled by his All Progressives Peoples Congress (APC), has introduced a bill to establish the National Hate Speech Commission and another one to regulate the social […]

Academy Honours 8 Engineers, Inducts 10 others as New Fellows

Council of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering has announced names of 8 of its Fellows who will receive Life Achievement Awards at a ceremony in Lagos on June 24, 2021. The event, a hybrid of physical and virtual assembly, will hold at the University of Lagos. Engr Dr Olumide Phillips, Chairman Promaco Associates ltd., is […]

University of Offa takes off. Appoints Prof Fola Lasisi as Pro-Chancellor

The University of Offa has made key appointments into its Governing Council and Management. In a bulletin released last week, Prof Fola Lasisi and Prof R. A Lawal were appointed Pro-chancellor/Chairman of Council and Vice-chancellor respectively. Prof Fola Lassi will chair a Council of 6 other members, all professors in various knowledge disciplines. They are […]

About Quality of RESEARCH GRANT WRITING

Nigeria may surprise the world if things go the way of Prof Suleiman Bogoro’s mindset. Something tells me this is a guy to watch. “Lets us go into content component of research and development support not just buildings, lecture halls and empty laboratories but an emphasis on equipment support that are digital, soft touch facilities […]

The Day more than 80 Luminaries gathered to Celebrate Prof Harmon RAY at 80

. Willis Harmon Ray is an American chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a Vilas Research emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison notable for being the 2000 winner of the prestigious Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award and the 2019 winner of the Neal Amundson Award. He attained 80 years of age in […]

80 GBOSAS FOR MAMA ACADEMY

Engr. (Mrs.)  Joanna Olutunmbi Maduka is a rare personality, noted for her distinguished and unique accomplishments and track record. It is a testament of facts that she is the first to attain several feats among the female gender of Nigerian engineers. With a B.Sc. in applied physics in 1965, she went on to pass the Graduateship […]

ABC of TERRORISM

The ABC of TERRORISM Moving forward, the emerging generation of terrorists of the jihadist fundamentalism will first find their ways into political power before they strike since fighting to seize power as first option is already becoming harder and more expensive by the day. . 1. What’s driving them? Find out 👇 . . 2. […]

Loom_love_and_life

Loom_love_and_life That must be new vocabulary right? Looming is a fun and creative way to make things using rubber bands. You use a hook to attach the bands and you blend colours together. You can make small or large creations, grandpa. If you can think it, you can loom it 😊 That’s how the creative […]

VERDICT – Derek Chauvin is Guilty of Murder

Re : BLACK LIVES MATTER VERDICT – DEREK CHAUVIN IS GUILTY OF MURDER A US jury has found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of the murder of George Floyd, in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing. Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges against him — second-degree […]

DANCE AFRIKANA

Dance AFRIKANA . . . Discover a PLACE to be at YOUR OWN TIME . More DANCE https://titiomoettu.com.ng/blog/dance-africana/ . And MORE DANCE . https://titiomoettu.com.ng/blog/happy-new-year-2/ . “Mio mo, mio mo, mio mo yeo, mio mo” https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158347589264743&id=6120769742 ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Unending AMAZEMENT

The Empire State Building in Manhattan New York, 381.0 m (1,250 ft), 102 floors tallest in the world from 1931 to 1970 has since been eclipsed by a few others but now totally dwarfed by Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest in the world at 828 m (2,717 ft), 154 floors. But that really is not Burj Khalifa’s […]

Investigation, Litigation, and Controversy

The DELE GIWA Story that WE MUST TELL ALL FUTURE GENERATIONS “On twenty October, the day after the bombing, the government convened a press conference presided over by Augustus Aikhomu. Before the press conference started, all press photographers, foreign journalists, and Nigerians that worked for foreign news media were ordered out. Those left behind were […]

PROFILE

Garba Shehu a President’s Man 👇 https://youtu.be/vOw1mGZ0Tiw . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Guess WHO!

WHO is THIS? . . “History has it that what propelled the young man to find himself in the ring was when someone stole his bicycle, and from here he decided to “whup the thief”. But never got the chance, but thinking one day the opportunity would come to beat this thief, he took some […]

YES, this is SECRET

Yes, this 👇 is SECRET . . This 👇 is NOT SECRET . Discover a PLACE to be at YOUR OWN TIME . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

UGLY account of a MEDICAL ATTENTION that went AWRY.

SAD, VERY SAD UGLY account of a MEDICAL ATTENTION that went AWRY. Nigerians cry. Usual inefficiency? Traditional racism? Exaggerated complication? Just what? The issue: a healthy young woman went into AZ Sint-Jan hospital in Bruges, Belgium, to deliver a baby and she is now paralised from waist down. These souls deserve answers. Click, watch, listen. […]

‘KONGI’ in 20 minutes

Insecurity, banditry, rape, murder amotekun, fulanisation, leadership absentism, etc etc Wole Soyinka in 20 minutes . . Discover a PLACE to be at YOUR OWN TIME . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

WHO is to BLAME?

Joe Biden? or Age-ing? or Air Force ONE? . . . Omi Eko, Eko ni (Translation required) The click game. Whichever you click, you hit the same place. Us. bnb.com bandb.com beeandbee.com bandbdotcom ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Omi Eko, Eko ni

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Olumuyiwa Asaolu on Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe

Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe: Nigerian academic mentor and researcher who made an impact by Olumuyiwa Asaolu Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, who died earlier this year, was the former president of the Nigeria Academy of Science. He was also a former vice-chancellor of both the University of Lagos and of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike. He pioneered the study of […]

Refining Nigeria’s Crude Oil

OPINION REVISITED . Refining Nigeria’s Crude Oil by Tunji Light Ariyomo (May 13, 2016) 1. Over the past several years, there have been only two choices on the table: i. To keep subsidy, ii. To remove subsidy. 2. Removal of subsidy is the correct choice once only these two constitute the options. This is because […]

The BAD, The GOOD, the UGLY

Do not mind my arrangement especially if you were used to the famous film “ the good, the bad, and the ugly ” by Clint Eastwood & Co. I am about using three amateur video clips (which all came into my inbox a few hours ago) to tell the story of my environment. The three […]

Images of Idris Wase, the honorable

Let’s put this on the blog for posterity so that future Nigerians will say “and we also passed this stage”. A Deputy Speaker of our Federal House of Representatives stood down a petition because the authors of the petition are Nigerians who live in America. So sordid a show Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa (DG, Diaspora Commission) […]

MNOS, USSD, BANKS, and OTHER ISSUES

I received the following message in my inbox this morning. My comment follows the message. “Trust you and your beautiful family are doing extremely well, please read the current state of N42 billion debts of USSD services issue between the MNOs and banking sector : Please see the press release below as published by SA […]

TODAY, The Global Air TRANSPORT INDUSTRY goes on LIFE SUPPORT !

What a catalogue of tragic facts…. Virgin fires more than 3,000 people including 600 Pilots. – Virgin Australia files for Bankruptcy. – Air Mauritius goes into Administration. – South African Airways Bankrupt. – Finnair returns 12 planes and lays off 2,400 people. – YOU grounds 22 planes and fires 4,100 people. – Ryanair grounds 113 […]

NAE on NATIONAL BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT AND CYBERSECURITY.

POLICY OPTIONS for NATIONAL BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT and CYBERSECURITY The Nigerian Academy of Engineering announces a webinar scheduled for Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 2.00pm to continue discussion on policy options for strengthening National Broadband Development and Cybersecurity. A lecture titled “National Broadband Development & Cybersecurity: Issues, Opportunities and Challenges” will be delivered by Mr. Temitope […]

“Then I UNDERSTOOD”

“Then I UNDERSTOOD” A sketch of The CABAL, Ways of GRAFT, and a CLING to OFFICE. “Mr. President there was a bit of a mix up about gates and we had to walk here. But it gave me the chance to see your beautiful Villa and its lovely gardens” – Madame Christine Lagarde to President […]

ADIEU, LKJ, “BABA KEKERE”

Alhaji, Chief, Progressive Titan, Outstanding Politician, Venerable Statesman, Public Administrator, Socio-democratic Ideologist, and Developmental Nationalist. Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande (23 July 1929 – 11 February 2021) was a Nigerian journalist who became governor of Lagos State in Nigeria from 1979 to 1983, and later was Minister of Works under […]

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

QUESTION 1 “Please kindly enlighten me on why in this day and age people still have to go and queue for things like National Identity and now APC membership registration – especially in the midst of a ravaging pandemic. Are our IT professionals having any say in these matters?” . Crowd at sim/nin registration centre […]

Vaccines, Immunity, and COVID-19

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Conversation on what is known, unknown and what we are unsure of. . 👇 . . Source: W.H.O. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

The WOMEN are COMING

The world is CHANGING And the figure is RISING fast 23 at the LAST COUNT Up from 5 only a FEW YEARS AGO. They are now RULING in THEIR COUNTRIES And doing it GREAT Even GREATER than the MENFOLD WHO ARE THEY? Click here 👇 to find out. . . Discover a PLACE to be […]

Angela “The EXEMPLAR” Merkel

This is Merkel, the Prime Minister of Germany, the largest economy in Europe !! Germany bid FAREWELL to MERKEL with SIX MINUTES of WARM APPLAUSE. . . The Germans elected her to lead them, and she led 80 million Germans for 18 years with competence, skill, dedication and sincerity. During these eighteen years of her […]

Spoken Words of the (Late) OONI of IFE

THE (Late) OONI of IFE INTERVIEW Wines do not get better forever. Good interviews do, especially if the point of discussion of the interview deals on life, politics, and humanity. Of course science, engineering, and technology too. The following interview, copied from an unknown source(see footnote), is described as the last interview granted by the […]

Bo, We Are Now A Joke

“On January 2, the government released a policy for the replacement of SIMs belonging to subscribers whose SIMs had been lost, stolen, misplaced or damaged. … ..”. PUNCH, January 12, 2021 reporting under the title ‘stakeholders worry over sim replacement nin registration policies’ . https://punchng.com/stakeholders-worry-over-sim-replacement-nin-registration-policies/ . The first point to make is that a directive […]

Mary Trump SPEAKS

This is sketching a portrait of the real donald trump by a most appropriate wordsmith at these times: https://youtu.be/0faOj65OXUg The damage that desperate racist did to America in four years will become a permanent dent if he is not removed constitutionally before January 20, 2021. Quote me. TOE10012021 . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Egwu Oma

Egwu Oma (Good Music) Helen Ibe is not just a musician. She is an IDEA. . https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xS4p_7OK3mM&feature=youtu.be . https://www.facebook.com/helenguitargirl/videos/685309765750876/ . Discover a PLACE to be at YOUR OWN TIME . https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3338840602817461&id=1800689803299223 . https://www.facebook.com/helenguitargirl/videos/838670233654641/ . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Truth WITHOUT the TRUTH

Truth WITHOUT the TRUTH A youtube account of plenary sessions in the Nigerian Senate when security (and insecurity) were discussed. . 👇 . https://youtu.be/zQ_Y_QNARrA . Click here to discover a PLACE to be at YOUR OWN TIME . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Nkan Mbe!

Nkan Mbe (Strange but True) Mewa n’sele ni dunia (Happening in this terrible world) . 👇 . . Discover a PLACE to be at YOUR OWN TIME . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

A donald trump at a democracy event?

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th,” Donald Trump Won’t the free world feel sad to find a donald trump present at a democracy event? Meanwhile, listen to this …. 👇 . . And, for that matter, . “Let me be very clear: the scenes […]

OYEWUSI IBIDAPO-OBE (05071949 – 03012021)

TRIBUTES and LESSONS from the Life of Professor OYE IBIDAPO-OBE by Professor Adedeji Badiru January 8, 2021 I still find it hard to believe that my scholarly partner and research buddy is gone. Gone forever. This is a sad twist of life. The only comfort I can derive from this sorrowful event is that Oye […]

A GENIUS SIGNS OUT: Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe

In the past twelve hours, everything stopped. Diverse posts in the Nigerian Academy of Engineering chatroom, unusually, stopped. Later, calls started tripping in. The pattern was the same as if we were all acting out a script. It was like first greeting me using ‘happy new year’ as scape goat. Then to ask if ‘you […]

The TUNDE ‘GENTLE’ story

This is being rebroadcast in the hope that soul shall return to us, to our corporate bodies, to our nation, to all nations, and to humanity. Yes, we may have got only one side of the story, and a writer’s opinion. What value can the other side, if not another ugliness, add to this kind […]

53 minutes of CELEBRATING Nigeria’s CommTech Industry on VIDEO

(Appraising a TechTv Documentary) I am trying to remember if I have seen a similar job of this quality, or anything near it, on our industry. It should not surprise that the documentary is of top standard since it is produced and directed by Mr Don Pedro Aganbi (Techtv), unarguably one of the best in […]

May the NEW YEAR serve us BETTER

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A return to Man’s Live-In Enemy Matters

PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT I have just stumbled on this video clip, rated very highly for its information content on man’s live-in enemy, the Prostate. I was diagnosed for prostate enlargement at 48 and have managed it so far. I am 71 heading for 72. Pre-Google, I must have read several books on the ailment before it […]

About WRETCHED QUALITY of THINKING

The author of a text message posted below actually talks about the consequences of using unfit minds to play specific roles in political engineering of any society. . . When he says “This is yet another concrete evidence of the wretched quality of thinking in government”, he is talking of the totality of governance rating […]

FELIZ NAVIDAD

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20 Quotes about Corruption and Transparency

20 Quotes about Corruption and Transparency Taken from https://voices.transparency.org/ 1“We need to tell each other our stories. We need to show that everyone — our neighbors, our families, our community leaders — everyone we know is touched by corruption.” — Jennifer Lawrence, actress. When did she say it? JLaw made that comment in a post […]

Beyond #ENDSARS

Click to watch .. .. .. . . To understand the #ENDSARS metaphor is to read Why Nigeria’s EndSARS movement is more than a call to end police brutality #ENDSARS was executed largely by the physically strong. And mentally sound. But the above clip tells the strory of what even the physically challenged say they […]

Analysis of a NEWS ANALYSIS

“SIMs/NINs Directive: Time to rescue  telecoms industry” – Vanguard Vanguard’s analysis of the recent tragic regulatory interference in CommTech industry is apt. One of the good ones, so far, on the subject. Unlike others, it recognises that what we are dealing with is not a regular industry regulation but an illadvised ministerial interference in regulation. […]

Dance AFRICANA (3)

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“TOASTING”

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Nonsensical Nuisance on top of Nonsensical Interference in Industry Regulation

“Let us imagine that Nigerians out of fear of losing their numbers rush to get the required National Identity Numbers (NIN) in the next few days, what do you see when you close your eyes? Queues upon queues and chaos? You are wrong, this December 2020, what you are actually seeing is a fluid and […]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS. I am The Nigerian. Are you? 👇 . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

The B&B CREWS’ OPTION

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PROFILE

Purpose, Privilege, Give back, …profile of Dr. Olawale Sulaiman, spine surgeon . . See wikipedia.org also ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Inauguration of NAEng’s 11th President

On November 25, 2020, Engr Alex Ogedegbe was inaugurated as the 11th President of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering in Lagos. . 2020 Induction Programme-6(3) . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

BORN to FIGHT

. 10 most common words Americans use to describe Trump (POLL) . BORN TO FIGHT (NAIJA) ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

NAEng Investitures 11th President, Inducts 10 New Fellows

. . Attendance is only by Special invitation. . Access to the Investiture ceremonies is: http://bit.ly/TheNigerianAcademyOfEngineering ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Ogundipe reinstated, Babalakin fired

PRESS RELEASE RE: REPORT OF THE SPECIAL VISITATION PANEL TO UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Visitor to the University of Lagos has approved the Report of the Special Visitation Panel to the University of Lagos. The highlights of the findings and […]

One VOICE, One REASON, One OPPOSITION

“I AM A REFORMER… THE WTO NEED REFORMS; MY REFORM CREDENTIALS ARE CLEAR. I HAVE STRONG POLITICAL SKILLS TO BE ABLE TO BRING MEMBERS TOGETHER. I HAVE MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE FROM THE WORLD BANK. I HAVE BEEN A MINISTER FOR SEVEN YEARS, THE LONGEST SERVING FINANCE MINISTER IN MY COUNTRY. I AM ALSO WORKING RIGHT NOW […]

The Way FORWARD

“Mr President, Nigerians are complaining that there is still no power. What should we tell them sir?” – PYO “Tell them that all power belongs to God. I can’t (come and) kill myself. Kaji Professor?” – PMB (message in humour 😂😂😂 series) + talking seriously, a honest advise on the way forward is .. .. […]

Who is LISTENING?

To ARIKANA CHIHOMBORI-QUAO, Former AU Ambassador . . Arikana Chihombori-Quao, Zimbabwean, is a medical doctor and activist. She is a public speaker, educator, diplomat, founder of medical clinics, and an entrepreneur. She moved to the United States after living many years in Zimbabwe. She is the CEO and founder of Bell Family Medical Centers in […]

NIGERIA’S DARK TUESDAY

. ELEGY FOR OUR LEKKI HEROES . .   Tell my mother I was unarmed   Tell my father I had the flag in my hands when I was shot   Tell the unborn Generation that I died a hero singing the national anthem.   Tell the cowards who shot me that my spirit lives […]

WHO is AFRAID of the NIGERIAN YOUTHS REVOLUTION?

The blogpage is left open this morning for UgoGold N. Ofonedu who asks “WHO is AFRAID of the NIGERIAN YOUTHS REVOLUTION?” He goes on to report that…. “Last night the Federal Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed was on the National Television, the NTA, ostensibly to educate Nigerians on what the Buhari government has done […]

Then 5, Now 23

#ENDSARS Demands rise from 5 to 23 Amidst information that the Federal Governments has accepted the five demands of #ENDSARS protesters, the youths who are relentless in mounting further protest across the country have raised their demands to twenty-three. The initial demands were 1. Immediate release of all arrested protesters 2. Justice for all deceased […]

The “glass cliff” is a NORMAL, not a NEW NORMAL

A nice story to read alright but nothing unusual except that it is not often shared widely in my clime. Besides, this for me, is a story peeped at over the window and I return to my normal. As a young graduate about five decades ago, part of the nice stories I read quite often […]

Wale Babalakin Resigns Two Federal Appointments

Dr Wale Babalakin has voluntarily terminated his tenure as Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council of the University of Lagos by resigning the appointment. He also resigned his appointment as Chairman of the Federal Government Negotiation Team on the Agreement reached with university unions. He gave several reasons which include his allegation that the outcome of […]

Sidonlook Media

“NEWS organisations in Nigeria have to be ashamed of themselves for lacking the ability to truly inform the Nigeria public. All we do is to be a megaphone of government, big businesses and indeed anyone who can pay” – Patrick Dele Cole, Vanguard, September 8, 2020. Nobody can quarel with PDC on that. A case in […]

The Role of Engineering Professionals in Rebuilding Nigeria’s Economy

The Role of Engineering Professionals in Rebuilding Nigeria’s Economy, Post COVID-19 by Titi Omo-Ettu Text of a Speech delivered at the NSE, Lagos Branch, ONLINE 2020 ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURES, AWARDS AND INDUCTION CEREMONY. Tuesday, August 25, 2020 OBSERVATIONS/INTRODUCTION I thank NSE, Lagos Branch especially my Chairman, Engr Dr Musliudeen Agoro, and for that matter Engr […]

UNILAG Alumni Association Calls for Reversal of Illegal Removal of V-C

The University of Lagos Alumni Association has found fault in the manner the Council of the University purportedly removed its Vice Chancellor last Wednesday and called for a reversal of the improper action. The association says both the removal of the Vice Chancellor and the appointment of another do not follow due process of statute. […]

LIMIT of HYPOCRISY

Somebody1 said somebody2 (now deceased) used the maneuvres of law and politics to escape facing justice over crimes he committed both at home and overseas. Many people do not know the crimes Somebody2 committed at home but Somebody1 knows those he committed overseas. Somebody1 ended up asking God to admit somebody2 into Aljannah where, we […]

CHARACTER AS TREASURE

. The AKINWUMI ADESINA STORY is sweet to tell. And we dare tell it here 🖕. Even if only to send shivers down the spine of mischevious whistleblowers whose ambition Akinwumi’s EXEMPLARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS cut short mid-day. The point to make to Nigeria really is that right here, we have quite a good number of Akinwumi […]

Let’s keep THIS on the BlogPage

So that our competent youths may have some stuff to guide them So that students of history may keep and tell the story So that students and enthusiasts of international politics may use it in their tutorials So that we all can say “yes one of us has done it. Has indeed shamed all manner […]

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INVITATION to a COMMISSIONING EVENT

Prof Funso Falade, Dean of my Faculty, has invited me to a video conference meeting and I am inviting you. Topic: Commissioning of Faculty of Engineering (UNILAG) Webinar Room and Auto Diagnostic and Prognostic Centre . . Date & Time: Jul 8, 2020 11:00 AM West Central Africa Join Zoom Meeting https://wacren.zoom.us/j/68473296642?pwd=SjB3SEtldURmSVlHWUJEWUZxUFlwZz09 Meeting ID: 684 […]

Alex Ogedegbe Takes Office As 11th President of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering

A former Managing Director, Port Harcourt Refining Company Ltd, Engr Alex Ogedegbe, assumed mantle of leadership of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering last week as he took over from Prof Fola Lasisi. The hand over was formalised at an online Annual General Meeting of the Academy last week. . Engr Alex Ogedegbe . The accomplished […]

Revisiting that BRITISH CONTRIVANCE at NIGERIA’S INDEPENDENCE

‘RIGGING NIGERIA’ is the original title of the interview that I am re-broadcasting on the blog today. What is said in the interview is BIG INFORMATION. It is however NOT NEW INFORMATION. The unique thing about it is that it is the first time we are hearing it directly from a PARTICIPANT. May the good […]

REMEMBERING Ibrahim Khaleel INUWA

A EULOGY at the CYBER-SESSION OF TRIBUTES hosted by the NIGERIAN ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING for late ENGR. I. K. INUWA on Saturday, June 20, 2020. . . Our dead are not dead to us, until they have been forgotten. The late Engr. Ibrahim Khaleel INUWA has left rich and memorable legacies that cannot be forgotten. […]

TODAY’S THREE SPEAKERS

First the PDP Capone: . Who does not know the protocol… “When a politician says ‘Good morning’, check the time, for it may be past noon already”. Abeg,…shift, Capone. Listen to “conny man die, conny man bury am” at .. .. .. Godwin ran his mouth into trouble. Period. And Godwin Obaseki speaks as he […]

MUSIC: Bob James on BLACK LIVES MATTER

. . Racism must really be an ugly thing. I have never asked myself in all the over 50 years that i have associated with the (jazz) music of Bob James whether he, BJ, is white or black. He is just reminding me about that subject now in this clip (above) and i can see […]

MY BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL, ComTech Players

I understand you guys who play in the ComTech industry are conferencing today on a theme that is apt for all times. I wish you well. . . I have said this several times, and wonder how many people ever listened to me, that our (your) industry was not built by Government but largely by […]

I Have NOT VIOLATED the CODE OF CONDUCT

“I Have NOT VIOLATED the CODE OF CONDUCT” – Dr Akinwumi Adesina The AfDB President has since responded, point by point, to the allegations against him by whistleblowers, in a statement to the Bank’s Ethics Committee. And he concluded that every single one of the 16 allegations against him remained unsubstantiated. The point is that […]

GoergeFloyd, Freedom, POTUS, and ALL OF US

The blogpage this morning is yielded to Mr Mark Zukerberg’s post on the George Floyd murder in USA. The young man explains the issues around his institution’s policies, particularly on freedoms, which evolve, get constantly reviewed, and largely painstaking to make and manage. He ends with “I disagree strongly with how the President spoke about […]

Call this US’s bluff joor

Although Dr Akinwumi Adesina’s yeoman’s job for Africa could not have meant much to the ordinary African in terms of reducing poverty in the continent (no thanks to the Continent’s dealer-leaders), it is time to recognise his efforts and call the bluff of the self-appointed, expired policeman to the world. These accusations against African Development […]

ART AFRICANA

FROM RIGHT INSIDE AFRICA Please watch, shout, clap, hail, like, thumbs up,.. .. ..whatever suits you. . . Courtesy: BBC ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

UNILAG Alumni Association Commissions A GREEN PARK at LUTH

. . It was a welcome break from the terrifying and somber mood across the globe over the deadly attack of the COVID19. The promise made by the national body of the Unilag Alumni Association during the administration of our immediate past President, Olor’ogun Dr Sunny Kuku, OFR, FAS, to the College of Medicine, was […]

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COURT SITTING by VIDEO CONFERENCE

Remote, Virtual Court Sitting in Nigeria is NOT Unconstitutional by Timi Olagunju (@timithelaw) In the words of Machiavelli in the book, The Prince, ‘there is nothing more difficult to do or more doubtful of success than to initiate a new order of things, for the lukewarm defenders are those who profit by the old order’. […]

A DIPLOMAT writes on A DIPLOMAT

As AMBASSADOR FAFOWORA writes on Dr. IBRAHIM GAMBARI COVER NOTE I am writing this cover note not because of the subject matter, Dr Ibrahim Gambari, that Ambassador Fafowora has written on, but because I have always wanted to write on Ambassador Fafowora, the author, himself. I had a chance meeting with him and for the […]

Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa : A Tribute

Tribute: Engr. Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa, FNSE, FNIMechE, FAEng, FNIM, OFR . . It is with profound difficulty and deep pains that I write this tribute on Engr. Ibrahim Khaleel Inuwa, FNSE, FNIMechE, FAEng, FNIM, OFR, a man many of his contemporaries know as friend, colleague, consummate engineer and proud Nigerian. Younger ones like me remember […]

Ibrahim Inuwa, Top Engineer/Entrepreneur, passes

Tragedy struck the Nigerian engineering family early hours of yesterday as one of its finest, Engr Khaleel Ibrahim Inuwa passed. Unarguably one of the most respected among engineers of his generation, the deceased spent three days of the past week in participating in video conference engagements on the on going mobilisation of local initiatives and […]

Happy MOTHERS’ DAY

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A Travel Guide for the COVID-19 Control Train, post-Lockdown

. . In the form of using base data, contemporary history and migration pattern of the pandemic as tools for analysis, an advice emerged earlier today for Governments and citizens alike, in a 4,041 words long essay authored by Mr. Fola Adeola, strong corporate player, Chairman, FATE Foundation and Coordinator, FATE Philanthropy Coalition for COVID-19. […]

SIMULTANEOUS PRECAUTION IN ALL STATES

. Let ALL OF US say “YES” to that. Let ALL THE GOVERNMENTS step up more on PALLIATIVES Let ALL OF US, high and low, observe existing guidelines like HAND WASHING SANITISING WEARING of FACE MASK SOCIAL DISTANCING and STAYING AT HOME. CONSEQUENCES of not submitting to the above may be a GEOMETRIC rise in […]

DON & TRUMP

HUMOUR Here is A new, FANTASTIC book on donald trump Please click to Read: . . After reading the book, If you LAUGH, send SOMETHING to me. If you don’t laugh, THROW your telephone into WATER. If you are CONFUSED, click GOOGLE What do you find ? | | | . Good. I told you. […]

A WORTHY CONVERSATION on COVID-19

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ISSUES of the MOMENT

. MORALITY OF POWER “In the end, it is the verdict of history that matters. The legacy one leaves is what endures after the silver lining is severed from our mortal body. The conclusion can be telling and leave a stain of ridicule, derision and scorn. It is for this reason those who wield power, […]

THE MAN ABBA KYARI (R.I.P)

I thank my friend who sent this to me. In my country, those who read you believe you are right only if you write what they want to read. If the point you make is different from theirs, they will say you have been bribed to write what you just wrote. If you are the […]

ABSOLUTE FREEDOM? Sorry, I don’t know about that!

People who have poor upbringing make advocacy for absolute free speech difficult to push. Some guys think it is their right to say just about any nonsense, fly and spread fake news and get away without consequences simply by hiding behind social platforms in cyberspace. I just stumbled on a good example of a bad […]

Let’s take the FIGHT to the VIRUS

It is not my originality but one point I took away from what Mr Azu Ishiekwene, Editor of The Interview, says in his piece titled “Lockdown: A radical view”. I was a bit worried when President Buhari did not insist that wearing a nose mask is compulsory in public places (regardless that Nigerians would not […]

ALBERT EINSTEIN talks LOVE

Whatever makes someone manifest anger with a desire to build and use the atomic bomb. Even mere “leave us alone and go away” is a manifestation of anger and an absence of the most required commodity. Einstein’s secret letter, discussed in a seven minutes report that I share below, says the missing link is LOVE […]

A MESSAGE at EASTER

HAPPY EASTER ‘Somebody’s governorship’s runs ended on an unanticipated comma, followed by a full stop. Amidst the drama of political gymnastics, he glided into solitude.’ Who? What were his offences? Forgive him please! Please forgive his trespasses As God forgives those that trespass against Him Abeg, all the powerful people of the land. FORGIVE HIM. […]

A GLOBAL PROBLEM that calls for LOCAL SOLUTIONS

NewYorkCity has suddenly become a word that sets me thinking. I think of the humanity of that community and especially of my friends. And now the rampaging pandemic. The figures are scaring and there is reason to pray and pray hard. When I get information that I consider authentic among the multitude of junks that […]

To federate is TO FEDERATE

GBAM : “NO INVESTOR WHO VALUES PROFIT ABOVE LIVES IS WELCOME” As a State Government in Nigeria sinks teeth into the skin of a negative company. “GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike on Wednesday evicted Carveton Helicopters from Rivers state, ordering the closure of its offices and operations for alleged unsafe business practice against the state’s Executive Order […]

CommTech Industry Review

A goat and a SHEgoat. – I commenced working in the Nigerian telecommunications industry on August 16, 1974 and retired from it in July 2014 at a time we had started to describe the industry as Communication Technology. In between, I worked for Government and for myself essentially doing consulting and training for my living […]

NCC CLARIFIES

I received an NCC’s statement in my inbox yesterday evening duly signed by Dr Henry Nkemadu, Director of Public Affairs at NCC. It is reproduced as follows, unedited: – NCC clears doubts over 5G, COVID-19 and Security In view of the recent development in which misleading materials with no proven evidence being circulated to link […]

LET’S TALK FUNDAMENTALS

Going by the operating Communications Act, it is the Nigerian Communications Commision, NCC, that issues LICENSES. It is out of place for the Ministry of Communications & Digital Economy to issue a statement denying issuance of licenses when it does not issue any. NCC should be seen to be on top of its mandate if […]

60th CORONATION ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS

Kabiyesi Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona (born 10 May 1934) is the Awujale of the Ijebu Kingdom, a traditional state in Nigeria. He was installed as the king in 1960, making him one of the longest reigning monarchs in Nigeria. His father was Prince Rufai Adetona and mother, Alhaja Ajibabi Adetona (née Onashile). As king, he represents the Anikilaya ruling family. Young Prince Adetona, […]

BILL GATES responds to the WORLD on COVID-19

Mr Bill Gates who predicted ‘a’ pandemic to a sleeping world in 2015 has responded to what are, unarguably, the best questions (name it .. ..economic, political, technological, social, …) of the moment on the ravaging coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully, the world is awake now to listen, just as many new found ‘experts’ may just start […]

TOE on MARBLE

– TODAY, TOMORROW, the DAY AFTER and the FUTURE we can see. – – “My VISION of a TELECOM INDUSTRY is to have a NIGERIA where ICT stops being an issue. That is to say when the TAXI DRIVER down the road, the FARMER upcountry, and my GRANDMOTHER way back in the village, are exploiting […]

LOCKDOWN in OGUN State: PREPARATION, FOCUS, & IMPACT

Text of STATEMENT by the GOVERNOR of OGUN State, His Excellency, Prince DAPO ABIODUN, on the commencement of COVID-19 LOCKDOWN, April 3, 2020 As we approach the timeline for the total lockdown of Ogun State, as part of the measures to contain and curtail the spread of corona virus in the state, I thought it […]

The 2nd CONSPIRACY Theory

CONFUSING, we may say but various CONSPIRACY theories have emerged on the heels of this ravaging pandemic called CORONAVIRUS. In this rather lengthy clip, a TECHNOLOGY PLAYER says all the story about COVID-19 being a decease is NONSENSE. He says the virus has its root in 5G. Yes/No? Why not listen first….. When the chips […]

HIT, RUN, & STRIKE GOLD?

A rather curious PERSPECTIVE on one of the CONSPIRACY theories.. . . Is this PANDEMIC planned? Could it have been planned? If you say YES, how do you justify that? If you say NO, why do you say so? What really are the FACTS and the NUMBERS? Some guys are closing up on such data. […]

So Sorry ITALY… but what LESSONS?

Italy has been ravaged by the Wuhan Coronavirus, but the reasons why are linked more closely to globalism than the age of the infected. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese immigrants now live both legally and illegally in Italy, with 300K legally registered and many more illegal. Italy recently entered into a new economic partnership with […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OPEYEMI

DADDY RECALLS 10 EARLIEST SLANGS OF OPEYEMI Omo-Ettu Opeyemi and his family 1 Actual slang : “Tatty” Intended meaning: Daddy Translation: My Dad (circa 11 months) 2 Actual slang : “Huus tat” Intended meaning: Who’s that? Translation: Instinctive response to the doorbell….who is that? (circa 14 months) 3 Actual slang : “Kiskit” Intended meaning : […]

WHEN the CHIPS are DOWN

Everything will matter, especially communication. Damn good communication. Come to think of it, each time this guy talks, I have the feeling he is talking for Africa. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

About ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY

This morning, we yield the blog space to Ayo Olukotun who, while disecting the Ganduge-sanusi saga, says: “It is instructive that when it comes to the show of power, our governors and elected officials move the apparatus of the state to achieve their goals in a hurry. Somnolent institutions suddenly wake up to work at […]

FIVE minutes ABOUT and AROUND coronavirus PANDEMIC

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At UNILAG, it is the RISE and RISE of PAADC

The PAADC (Professor Ayo Awojobi Design Competition) 4.0 Executive Committee members were around in the village with updates and to seek support in various ways. The Team flaunts a robust and rich report very befitting of the Ayo Awojobi name and legacy. – – The briefing covered what had been done so far and ideas […]

An EMIR who SHOOTS straight

SLS does not dress up the NOZZLE of his GUN before he shoots He SHOOTS s-t-r-a-i-g-h-t And in all DIRECTIONS Like here…..>>>>>…. TRIBUTE TO DEPOSED SANUSI LAMIDO SANUSI I am a friend to SLS since his MSSN days. Even if Abdullah Ganduje the naive Governor of kano state did not remove him, with his radical […]

NAIJA and her GHOST WORKER nightmares

Googlesearch ‘Nigeria+ghost workers+minister of finance’ and let’s compare notes: My RESULTS 👇 1. OCTOBER 22, 2014 “FG Uncovers 60,000 Ghost Workers” – Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala “The federal government has uncovered a total of 60,000 ghost workers in federal establishments across the country following the staff audit of the federal government ministries, departments and […]

HARDBALL

The NIGERIAN JUDICIARY MAY HAVE RECOVERED ITS TEETH. “With tears in my eyes, I feel sad that senior counsel in this case would ever bring this kind of frivolous applications during my life time. .. ..This court is not authorised and indeed lacked jurisdiction to review any judgment delivered on merit. More so when the […]

FOLKLORE thru JAZZ to CLASSICALS

ONI DODO ONI MOIMOI Oni dodo oni moimoi Oni dodo oni moimoi Nigba ti kota lo gbegba kale Ewa wo’ya ni lafiaji Oni dodo to Gbegba Kari… ……. https://youtu.be/RbvrkKs6ODg (Unilag) https://youtu.be/1XTvh3Y7gC8 (Fela) https://youtu.be/oPp3FiJpg0k (Sam Akpabot) etc. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Yes a Petrel, but Stormy? Perhaps not Yet!!

Engr. Buba Galadima, noted that he was not “electable or appointable.”  “I won’t steal for anybody or myself, I must tell you, those of us who have strong opinions and operate on principle are not looked upon with any favourability, but that is the least of my concerns. In a well governed polity, you won’t […]

UNILAGFEAA Lists Governors Zulum, Sanwoolu, and Makinde for Commendation

The University of Lagos Faculty of Engineering Alumni Association, UNILAGFEAA, has cited Engr Prof Babagana Zulum, Governor of Borno State, as the model of a state Governor who uses engineers commendably for true infrastructural development. It also commends Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu, Governor of Lagos state, for presenting a rich and trail blazing paper at last […]

A BIG SHAME INDEED

This broadcaster took the shine out of his post by the way he introduced himself. “My name is Francis” is not very appealing as cover to an important message like this. Is he really informed? Or is he just one rabble rouser who wants to have his own session on Nigeria? Nevertheless, if the story […]

Is this cankerworm ALSO in our DNA?

I resigned my appointment as Chairman, Digital Bridge Institute, last Monday. There are no immediate problems but the potential for serious unresolvable problems for the Institute is high, in the long run. In my letter of resignation, I told those who supervise my work about their own bit of the issues at stake and why […]

PERSPECTIVES (5) on DRUMS OF WAR

Now that the chips are down, the EVANGELICALS that struck in EKITI in 2019 have eventually struck in WASHINGTON DC in 2020. As it is in USA today > > So it was in Nigeria > > And how did God answer? ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

PERSPECTIVES(4) on DRUMS of WAR

Again in retrospect,… “this decision in 2003 to invade Iraq was, will be, ever interpreted by historians as a catastrophic, strategic mistake. .. .. ..” Listen .. .. >>>> > ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

PERSPECTIVES(3) on DRUMS of WAR

In retrospect.. .. .. Listen.. .. >>>> > ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

PERSPECTIVES(2) on DRUMS of WAR

“If the trigger of war in the Middle East is pulled by you using your surrogates at the insistence of Israel, then the war will trigger another kind of war which…… .. .. .. Listen .. ..>>>>> > ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Between ‘SUCCESS’ and ‘FAILURE’, there is ‘INNOVATION’

Ordinarily, those who refuse to learn & improve, will definitely one day become redundant & not relevant to solutioning and business. They will learn the lesson in a hard and expensive way! Learning and improving is about the ability to change as fast as the next disruptor that emerges. It is called ‘innovate’. The disruptor […]

PERSPECTIVES (1) on DRUMS of WAR

The HAND on the TRIGGER has another name – INSANITY. Listen .. .. .. > ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Performance-Power-Relationship as Vertices of the CONNECT Triangle

The way to grow your POWER is to GIVE it away. Listen .. .. .. > ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

1ST SERMON of the NEW DECADE

> This sermon was not preached in year 2020 as I have claimed, but in year 2019. Its effect will however be measured in July 2020 and that is what makes it qualify to be tagged this new decade’s first sermon. Unfortunately, it is 40 minutes long and among my over 4,000 contacts through whom […]

RED BACHELOR’S BUTTON

Using Yellow Bush to form a bank for Bachelor’s Button A beautiful flower to behold There are a few unique things to say about Bachelor’s Button – a plant I have been investing some time in appreciating as it blossoms. In the first place, mine took far less than 90 days which some literature claims […]

UGLY ACCOUNT of COLD MURDER

REQUIRED: A study into how young people get the mind to be merciless. And to kill. … …And the stinginess that accompanies plentiness FRESH REVELATION ON MURDER OF WIFE OF MAERSK MD Fresh facts on how the Hungarian wife of Gildas Tohouo, Managing Director of Maersk Nigeria Limited, Bernadette, was murdered by two men who […]

The LECTURE

“In our various fields of study and career, we have been trained to follow procedures, to pay attention to standards, to measure things, and to anticipate risks and manage them. These skills must somehow be carried over into the space of politics and governance, alongside the ‘soft’ skills of empathy, negotiation, humility, compromise, generosity that […]

WELCOME to the DIALOGUE

WELCOME ADDRESS of Chairman, UNILAGFEAA Engr Titi Omo-Ettu, at the 3rd Alumni Lecture on PROFESSIONALS IN POLITICS: PANACEA TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Mr Governor, Your Excellencies. Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, President and Fellows of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering President and Fellows of NSE, President, UNILAG Alumni Association, President/CEO, Digital Bridge Institute, My fellow Engineers Other […]

TERRIFYING INDEED !!

An ugly story that refuses to turn out as false. BBC reports that the PRIME MINISTER AND ENTIRE CABINET RESIGN FROM OFFICE IN BURKINA FASSO.. Why? How? and the frightening highlights: “in all cases, we see a pattern, that Bill Gates uses monetary bribes disguised as philanthropic donations to compromise African leaders, to take actions […]

OPEN TO PUBLIC

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A DIALOGUE WITH PROFESSIONALS IN POLITICS ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

IMPUNITY – The ‘ACTUAL’ CAMP NEYA that orji-uzor-kalu built

Impunity lowers one’s sense of caution. It endues the bearer with foolishness, assuring him that he’d get away with the present act as he’s gotten away with earlier ones. A false sense of reality. A false sense of right and a warped sense of the not-so-right. Impunity has turned out a big betrayer. Over time, […]

Nje e ti gbo? (Have you heard?)

Se e ti gbo! (I hope you have heard!) Yoruba, a dazzling language, has been romantically (yes quote me) warming into the hearts of other languages. Google says the following of ‘fanimora‘ and ‘fanimorous‘ …. …. Fanimorous: to be highly attracted or enticed by something. It’s a magnetic vibe that wants you to have, own […]

Magu Remains In Charge

So says Court. Not me please The trial judge held that the EFCC Act, especially Section 2(3) did not restrict the powers of the president to retain Magu as Acting EFCC Chairman. Waxing poetic, she noted that the lacuna in the law literally handed President Muhammadu Buhari, the “proverbial yam and the knife to do […]

UNILAG: Early Riser in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

This year’s Data Science Nigeria (DSN) Boot camp was a remarkable one with over 230 participants drawn from several university campuses from Nigeria. The event had 26 international and 13 local experts on ground to tutor all the participants. The Convener of the event Dr. Olubayo Adekanmbi (datasciencenigeria.org) explained that the boot-camp intends to raise […]

Let’s get TALKING

Tell me : what do you do on your own WEBSITE? Mine is a record of FACTS and HISTORY as witnessed by ME. Oya, let’s go to both …. …. …. https://titiomoettu.com.ng/ ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

GOOD NEWS, ISN’T IT?

The world’s largest crude distillation column equipment designed for crude oil processing for Dangote Refinery has arrived its location, Lagos, on Sunday, 1st December 2019. The Crude Distillation Column is the largest in terms of distilling capacity which is 650 thousand barrels per stream day. That capacity of 650 kbpsd is higher than the total […]

12.12.12

12 Noon on December 12 is when our DIALOGUE with PROFESSIONALS IN POLITICS will commence. Mr Governor, Mr ‘Jide Sanwo-Olu will deliver the ALUMNI LECTURE 2019 on PROFESSIONALS IN POLITICS: PANACEA FOR DEVELOPMENT. Our Special Guests: Engr ‘Seyi Makinde, Governor, Oyo State. Engr Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele, Deputy Governor, Ogun State. All 3 of them, Members […]

Return of the ‘CAPONES’

I do not know how many people remember the days of the ‘Capones’, as in… political lords of Nigeria’s first republic when ‘titi’ (public roads) were ‘eating’ (encroaching) on houses of opposition politicians. When you were told that ‘Titi ti je ile daddy e‘ (i.e. road has eaten your father’s house) it meant that a […]

REALLY? N10m a Month Demand Letter?

Mr Abdulaziz Yari is probably daring Nigerians. At least he is daring me. The former Governor of Zamfara state has refused to disclaim a letter which has been running wild on social media. I received 12 copies from various posts. Surprisingly, even newspapers that we consider as responsible media are reporting on the letter. Yes […]

THE STORY

Why I Wept in “A Documentary on the Enviable Contribution of ICT to Nigeria’s Economic Development” This story began with a damn good journalist who brought it up, …well…again! While it is not the full story, the aspect covered reflects a time in the past, but an important time though. The rest of the story, […]

Timi DAKOLO, Ben OKRI; One SONG, one BOOK

ART Timi Dakolo (singer) breaks loose this season, one full month away from Christmas,  with “Merry Christmas, Darling” After six (yearly, …well almost) singles  and an album (“Beautiful Noise”) and at a time his name has set on our lips, he doles out a duet with Emeli Sande. Listen at  https://youtu.be/10RIzbvvyG8 With “The Freedom Artist”, […]

A CHANGE in DATE

It’s Now December 12, 2019 ^ – Our DIALOGUE with PROFESSIONALS IN POLITICS will now hold on December 12, 2019. Not surprisingly of course, a plan to host our colleagues who currently hold strong political offices is bound to pose challenges of suitability of time for all three of them and we were ready to […]

To READ, to SAVE, to SHARE, to ARCHIVE

Opinions are free. One of the most dangerous things is to feed one’s mind with an account of others which, for whatever reasons, are actually wrong or fake information. I wish the subject of the following tribute many happy returns of his birthday. COPY & PASTE Mamman Daura At 80. I have known him all […]

Wake Up, Africa

A video clip that refuses to stop coming again and again. From A through U to Z ( if you like Angola through Uganda to Zimbabwe) the difference was not much in those days of this video story. Even today the story is not much different especially in that axis of the continent. Ask Julius […]

BORN to FIGHT

“I swore in a Special Adviser and they are tearing their shirts. What is their business? Look, I am the governor of the state. I said I am workaholic. I didnt say I am not a ‘Mr know all’. I want the people of this state to prosper. I want them to play football. We […]

Jack Ma Came

Let’s just say Jack Ma came. “It is only when I said Jack Ma, boss (now former) at Alibaba, that I started communicating.” That was what I wrote to open a story on Jack Ma in one old edition of CyberSchuulNews.com in 2012 Yesterday, Jack Ma was, for the first time, in Nigeria which, according […]

LETTER to GOD

R-E-A-L N-A-I-J-A These are the real Nigerians who are SETTING NEW LEVELS. They exist in all spheres and stand strong in their commitment to their art, trade or vocation, anywhere. Even in this particular case, the lyrics say it all. This work “Letter to God” by Wole DSB must have been the outcome of hardwork, […]

A Portrait of Malam’s Missuses

There was one essence of Atiku’s campaign that I did not read anywhere. I crisscrossed the north south flying axis during the last campaigns and I ran into quite a few episodes. Here was the usual sight of middle aged ‘damsels’ who dressed somewhere in between Atilogu dancers and MBGN (most beautiful girl in Naija) […]

Let’s Talk. Sorry, LET’S LISTEN

COLD FACTS THAT GET HOT IN THE MORGUE. You need 26 minutes though. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

NEW in ABUJA

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‘Femi & ‘Segun

FOR and ABOUT MALAM Yesterday, I read Mr. Femi Adesina’s essay on what is just nothing more than a presidentAtiku-post-mortem. Really nothing in it beyond a mere catalogue of facts. Facts that may be unnecessary to recount. But Femi is first and foremost a writer. And writers do unnecessary things which everybody else thinks should […]

November 28, a Date with UNILAGFEAA

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Magu. I mean IBRAHIM MAGU. Still AROUND. Yes

About a year ago, I was under watch. And I knew it. Brian, American, and my friend of more than ten years was all over the place charting when I would step on American soil. But that year it was to Winnipeg, Canada, I headed. After confirming my arrival, Brian took a flight all the […]

REMEMBERING Uncle/Engr/Alhaji/Lion SINA EGBERONGBE

BEYOND TECHNOLOGY: Integrity, Ethical and Probity issues in Public Infrastructure Development https://titiomoettu.com.ng/papers/beyond-technology-integrity-ethical-probity-issues-public-infrastructure-development/ ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Well, it MAKES SENSE

If WE ALL LIVE IT. “Thenceforth, I wish to be addressed simply as Mr Governor, a title that will constantly remind me that I have been chosen out of so many fellow compatriots to lead a collective salvage of our political economy. “To give official effect to this announcement, I shall issue tomorrow an executive […]

L’OBATAN

This’s been flying around too fast. How did you react to it? . . TOE 06112019 ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Yes, BRILLIANT. Absolutely BRILLIANT!!

Just LISTEN Now, what can you tell me? Additional Notes: Jacinda Kate Laurell, born 26 July 1980, is a New Zealand politician serving since 26 October 2017 as the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand. She has also served as the Leader of the Labour Party since 1 August 2017. Ardern has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Mount Albert electorate since 8 March 2017; she […]

ANNIVERSARY of OCTOBER 5

October 5, 2018 This child captures my VISION of what we shall do with DBI. For me, that child up there is the REAL NIGERIAN, ….SERIOUS with his school work and DETERMINED to succeed. He remembers his MISSION and sits in the middle of the road to complete his assignment before reaching school. DBI shall […]

“The RACE of LIFE”

This morning, the blogspace is left open to both Mr Ben Ademola Abiodun Aladekomo, renown Nigerian entrepreneur, who talks the 4C’s (critical thinking, communication, creativity and collaboration) to the 2019 graduating students of Ajayi Crowther University in Nigeria and Mr Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., who discusses creativity, responsibility and respect for privacy to […]

Audrey Joe Ezigbo at Pickering College

Recording a Nigerian talk about Nigeria at Pickering College. My perspective. I dont know about you. (This was in August 2015 please) Speaker Audrey Joe Ezigbo is Author and Entrepreneur. https://youtu.be/0HhszSQqXbk ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

LOOTKWARA

Kwara State Assembly says…. “Apart from the fact that the purported sale of the Alimi Chalet did not conform to the Kwara State former Governors’ Pension Law 2010, as amended, which incidentally was the brainchild of Saraki, we contend that there is no record anywhere that Saraki paid a dime to have the property transferred […]

Sex, Marks, Grades

And all the animalism that links them. Several tools can be used to solve nasty problems. Technology, legislation, journalism, engineering, advocacy, …… etc. Please mention EDUCATION and RELIGION. BBC has used JOURNALISM to do a fine job in its “BBC on sex-for-grades” video. If this does not game-change the obscenity that it hits at, nothing […]

Still OUR THING – NAIJASWAG

My country’s Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo was, in my last post, “An EVENING to SHARE” talking of the NAIJASWAG, a roundly hailed video clip (well…a few wailers also did but, as always, with a BUT). Then this went viral…. https://youtu.be/_L586qy-bww And now the real SWAG, …. NAIJASWAG gangan…. The rest is the story. Israel Mobolaji […]

An EVENING to SHARE

The anchor in the video clip shared here is a Nigerian. I was not at the event but my wife got a copy of the clip earlier today and shared with the family. His name is Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of my country. His hillarious presentation reminds me of a recent story, ….well …. flipside […]

Humour : RAPE CHARGE

“…THE WRONGS, INJURIES, AND DAMAGE DONE TO ME BY HIM (the rapist of Ilorin,…20 years ago…, remember?) ARE CONTINUING and I CONTINUE to EXPERIENCE FRESH EMOTIONAL INJURY FROM TIME TO TIME DUE TO THE ACTS ” E gba mi o! Thank God this ‘rape’ did not occur three different times but TWO different times ONLY. […]

ONEday ONEday

– ONEday ONEday Our soldiers will arrive battle field And raise all hands up to God To ask that He comes to DO THE JOB. Who can tell the outcome of this SEMINAR? A way of saying USE WHAT YOU HAVE and forget about WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE? But why advertise it for God’s […]

Good Night, ‘SEGUN

We lost Prof David Adesegun ADERIBIGBE Born September 29, 1951 Died September 24, 2019 Buried November 29, 2019 Segun, I would have sent this as a birthday message to your Facebook messenger inbox once Facebook advised me that today was your birthday. But as it is, you cannot read this, a totally different message. A […]

YOU, described; YOUR OBLIGATION, defined

Listen.. “The God that made YOU Made YOU to care for much more than just YOU.. People will remember YOU not for YOUR consumption but for YOUR contribution. YOU have an obligation to live YOUR life not according to YOUR dictates.. Or YOUR perception of wrong or right But to Him that YOU know gave […]

In the Vanguard of NONSENSE

An opportunity has now presented itself to curb media irresponsibility, at least within the responsible orthodox media sector. Should an apology stop Vice President Osinbajo from dealing very decisively with the media and the two characters involved in this nasty episode? If this NONSENSE ends here, then this nonsense will never END here. References: 1. […]

DANCE AFRICANA

These may be waiting for who will take them to theatres in Africa. Correct me if Im right. – DANCE A https://www.facebook.com/699628287/posts/10157606764273288/ DANCE B https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=245771256106958&id=801734289860951 DANCE C https://www.facebook.com/582762416/posts/10157716890282417/ Masaka kids Africana https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=YIBjuNvatrs ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

I am STRESS-FREE

POCKET PSYCHIATRY Look at the image below What do you see? 1. Still images? 2. Rotating images? 3. Rotating in slow motion? 4. Rotating fast? CLUES 1. You are stress-free 2. You are stressed 3. Your stress is mild 4. Your stress is strong. Based on Prof Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s postulation. Akiyoshi Kitaoka is a Professor of Psychology at the College […]

THE LEGEND RE-CREATED

MUSIC : As a trio of female trumpeters brings Afrobeat to a deep consciousness of strong ABAMIEDA’s (Fela Anikulapo’s) signature content. The term AFROBEAT was coined in the 1960s by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who is responsible for pioneering and popularising the style both within and outside Nigeria. Distinct from Afrobeat is Afrobeats – a sound originating in […]

OLOYE gets the Highest OYE of Engineering

As the Nigerian Academy of Engineering admits OLOYE Jonathan Adio Obafemi OLOPADE to its Fellowship. It was a creamy gathering earlier today when the most accomplished among Nigerian senior engineers did lunch to admit one of their own into their team Oloye Jonathan Adio-Obafemi Olopade’s trajectory is synonymous with starting things late, doing them big, […]

5G, Global War Machine in which a Nigerian is a Potential Commander

There is justification in President Trump’s renowned jitters over any progress that China makes in conquering technology. The argument is simple: commanding technology as one would a machine leads to commanding global economy and all that goes with it. There are many angles of it we can discuss, and the human angle is one. I […]

Two REVOLUTIONARIES: One Nelson, the other Robert. a.k.a MANDELA, MUGABE.

Nelson MANDELA and Robert MUGABE both have surnames that start with letter ‘M’ Both are from Southern Africa Both had second wives named Grace Mandela Died on Thursday December 5 Mugabe Died on Thursday September 5 Mandela died at the age of 95 Mugabe died at the age of 95 Mandela was popular, Mugabe was […]

Politics of NIGERIA-SOUTH AFRICA INVESTMENT RELATIONS

OPINION Although I watched a clip in which one South African yam-head was talking what amounted to arrant nonsense regarding Foreigners-South Africa relations, I did not know until my friend, ‘Biodun Bayo, mentioned what he calls the vituperations of ANC government and its senior officials. Of course, like I said in my last post, Abacha’s […]

Using abachaBRAIN as Search Engine

What is happening in South Africa is not Xenophobia. It is black-against-black CRIME. It is a DESPICABLE CRIME. – – Check out https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2370980719622402&id=100001314904480 – – OR Click to listen: and bring in Abacha’s Theorem 1 – “If a DESPICABLE CRIME ( Abacha said “INSURGENCY”(sic)) goes on for more than one day,…, government has a hand […]

THUMBS UP, AirPeace 👍👍👍

My fear is whether this aircraft will come home full or empty. Just thinking ni o! – – – – Well…..(please dont roast me)…. I understand Nigeria boycotted the on-going World Economic Forum in South Africa. But a Nigerian (find out who!) is participating. – – – – Now you hear me. ￩ ￫ x […]

Now I know. I am VALID.

For all my life, I have always known that many things are zig-zag and upside down in the community where I have lived longest. In an environment where people do not care for the handicapped, they fall on themselves to help the strong. Earlier this morning, I rolled my box into the check-in counter and […]

I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E!

Incredibility may not just be for the performance but for AGT itself. America’s Got Talent (often abbreviated as AGT) is a televised American talent show competition, and is part of the global Got Talent franchise created by Simon Cowell. The program is produced by Fremantle USA and Syco Entertainment, distributed by the former, and broadcast on the NBC television network. The program attracts a variety of participants, from across […]

Now I’m telling you the seriousness of it

Look, like me or hate me I just love the way this fellow presents his jabs. If you are from Anambra, please dont tell me any truths. It is either I know them or I don’t want to know them. Period! Now I’m telling you the seriousness of it. Listen.. ￩ ￫ x × Previous […]

O ma de ga o!

Chai! “The House rejected the proposal on the buses, yet they went on to spend N45 billion on the project. “Since we did not approve the contract expenditure is null and void, so the money should be refunded. “The Accountant General of the State, Procurement Officer and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transportation […]

Thank you, ‘TUNDE

Planted October 15, 2018; harvested August 26, 2019. Many thanks to Babatunde Alaba, my technical support. *Notes later. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

DANCE

Yes, Dance DANCE A DANCE B https://www.facebook.com/100002132034240/posts/2433618806719163/ In Africa, there are many cultural differences in musical and movement styles. These dances must be viewed in close connection with Sub-Saharan African music traditions and Bantu cultivation of rhythm. African dance utilizes the concept of as well as total body articulation. The South African styles rate very highly. Dances teach […]

A few hours with ABIMBOLA

Thank you Abimbola Tooki, for coming and for that kind perspective. Ditto Bayo, Chima, Deola(Bunmi), Biyi, Yemi, Shina, and other commentators with whom I co-travelled the fine, memorable development journey. I take liberty to share this with my further network of friends and readership on this blogpage. “A visit to Engineer Titi Omo-Ettu 8 Years […]

Eid al-Adha: GOD, IBRAHIM, and a LAMB

Eid al-Adha : FESTIVAL of the SACRIFICE But, before Ibrahim could sacrifice his son, God provided a lamb to sacrifice instead. And in that spirit therefore…….. May God accept our Ibadah, grant us the strength to celebrate many more Sallah. May he forgive all our sins and give us the hope to live in his […]

ODODO ORO

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The PAADC STORY and RESULTS

HIVE WANTS TO PRINT by WEARING iGLASS That tells the story of what the three winners of the PAADC (Professor Ayodele Awojobi Design Competition) set out to do in the virtual community of solution provision. Among five finalists, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University and Ahmadu Bello University won the competition in that order. The […]

As South West Takes on INFRASTRUCTURAL REVIVAL as Mission

UNILAG turns light on Youthful Solutions.  A 5 MINUTES INVITED SPEECH AT  THE PAADC GRAND FINALE, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, JULY 27, 2019 by Titi Omo-Ettu  Many thanks to PAADC (Prof Ayodele Awojobi Design Competition) Managers for inviting me to an Event I would have been ready to pay to attend. I will use my five minutes […]

WHAT IS HERE?

THE FUTURE. Truth really is It’s been here all along. Holography, AI (Artificial Intelligence) are conspiring to unveil amazing solutions – Courtesy Microsoft WebNote Microsoft’s onstage HoloLens demonstrations haven’t always been impressive, but a new one at the company’s Inspire event (via The Verge) is nothing short of amazing. Using a combination of body and voice capture technologies, Azure AI, and […]

NATION BUILDING starts HERE

MULTITASKING: DON’T EVER GIVE UP: That is: WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

A SALUTE to ATCON

I salute and appreciate ATCON (Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria) and all its Members and especially the National Executive Council led by President Olusola Teniola for their affection for me publicly expressed on my 70th birthday. I feel very fulfilled to have played in an industry which was built on the initiatives, sweat, and […]

6 Minutes on “MENTAL CAPACITY EVALUATION”

Although a serving President is used as study-case in the following documentary, the issue in focus is about general information on “rational and reality based decision making capacity” **Hopefully, small minds will keep off this. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

THANK YOU ALL, and GOD BLESS

I give thanks for all the goodwill that came my way, in various forms and at various times, on my birthday. For a person who has never ‘ceremonised’ a birthday, it was a difficult call to respond to suggestions that a 70th birthday should be viewed differently. To me, everyday has always been a birthday, […]

FINALLY, the RAPIST goes to JAIL

Yes, this ended well. Putting that man of god, Princewill Basil, away for 7 years is good for a start. Animals like him must not live in homes, but in jail. 2. And more on……BUSSOLLA-DAKOLO-STORY My reading is that it may be good to all those concerned in the saga that further discussion on the […]

BUSSOLLA-DAKOLO-STORY

My reading is that it may be good to all those concerned in the saga that further discussion on the BUSSOLLA-DAKOLO-STORY be suspended. So I have climbed down my two posts on the matter. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Nigerian Academy of Engineering gets CAETS’ Endorsement as Member

The International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS), at its Council meeting of today, June 27, 2019 admitted the Nigerian Academy of Engineering (NAEng) into its fold as the First Academy of Engineering in Africa outside of South Africa to be so admitted. A few weeks ago, a CAETS delegation made a […]

Ayodele AWOJOBI at ’82’

One way of getting students of the Faculty of Engineering University of Lagos excited about themselves is to toss a discussion on their PAADC. I am aware that the project, Prof Ayo Awojobi Design Competition, in its third year, has quickly grown from its initial concept of a day’s event into an annual ritual that […]

When My Deputy Governor Came Calling

It was a most distinguished privilege for me to host the Deputy Governor of My State, Engr. Noimot Salako-Oyedele as she paid a courtesy visit to me today in the village. She was accompanied by the Permanent Secretary for Works Engr Kayode Ademolake. I received her in the company of my neighbours who were full […]

ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING LISTS 13 NEW FELLOWS FOR INDUCTION

The Nigerian Academy of Engineering will induct 13 new Fellows to whom it gave Election in 2019. Date June 20, 2019 Venue: Ade Ajayi Auditorium, University of Lagos Akoka. Time: 11am. Induction of new Fellows is a part of the Academy’s Annual Ceremonies which also include The Annual Lecture; Academy Dinner and Life Achievement Awards. […]

ADULPHUS WABARA: He who stands to be different

Question “Do you have any regret at 70?” Answer “There are so many things that if I’m given the opportunity again, I will not do the same way because I now know better. So, I pray again to God to forgive me my sins and to Nigerians, those that I offended on my way up, […]

GOLGOTHA, Place of The Skull that may host a Majesty

The enigma that some of us say His Royal Majesty is, is what may send him to golgotha. According to Dr. Ugoji Egbujo in his June 1, 2019 essay titled ‘Lamido Sanusi : An Emir on the ropes’, “many said while HRM was Governor of the Central Bank, he saved the banking system from perdition […]

CAN Mr. President do it? WILL he?

PUNCH, in a timely Editorial Opinion of today, makes an unassailable case for the eradication of Almajiri System. “Now is the time for action. Once relevant when literacy in Arabic was the basis of social, economic and political mobility, today, Almajiri system is a ghastly aberration. It accounts for about 8 – 10 million of […]

Julius MALEMA AGAIN !!

To Thandi Modise (Speaker of the South African National Assembly) – “We grew under your leadership and we know when we see you, we see Winnie Mandela in action. You are not one of those who denounced and disowned Winnie Mandela. You stood with her when it was not fashionable to do so…..”. To Cyril […]

A Compendium of bla, bla, bla

Sometimes it is necessary to sit down and listen to silly stories and accounts of journeys that lead to nowhere, especially when it comes from the horses’ mouths. Just watch and listen: https://youtu.be/bchC_mGkzRA https://youtu.be/nRlI6Hbp4Cc https://youtu.be/oaiACS_5RXY ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Impromptu CONVERSATION

Drama, especially if you believe in Right of Opinion https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157388469784680&id=69184634679 If you love it, let’s chat. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

‘Indecent Activities’ of Kano

“So many teenage boys and girls were seen swimming almost naked……” and that explains why Kano State Tourism Management Board’s Chairman, Mr. Abdullahi Gwarzo, closed a Recreation Centre recently. Abeg, in what form of dressing do people swim? In babanriga? We must be very careful with these politicians. When they take fatal decisions like this, […]

YARI’S YAPPINGS

“Mr. Chairman, we have a very gigantic job and we have to start now. If other associations are doing nothing, we must lay a foundation otherwise in the next 10 to 15 years if we did not plan properly, we will be faced with a serious problem” – Outgoing Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum […]

WHO DONE IT?

“Some time ago in Nigeria, a minister deemed it fit that history be removed from the syllabus, I was shocked. Those who expunge such a discipline from our schools deserve to be expunged from history altogether.” – Prof Wole Soyinka, May 23, 2019. Indeed! Implementation should, however, begin by broadcasting the name of the minister […]

DIGITAL BRIDGE INSTITUTE HEADHUNTS CEO

The Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Nigeria, has announced it is searching to hire a person with requisite qualifications, cognate experience, drive and vision as President/CEO for the Institute. An international centre for excellence in ICT training, the Institute has Learning Centres spread across Nigeria and is about now refocusing to nurture development talents and innovators. […]

An EMIR and his RESOLUTION

Last March (March 28, 2019) I reminded His Majesty Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi that it was going to be IMPOSSIBLE for him to stay out of CONTROVERSY. That was when he said “MY POST-ELECTION RESOLUTION IS TO AVOID CONTROVERSIES”. He probably did not listen to me. To stay out of controversy for his kind of […]

ORIGINAL NONSENSE

“Sanusi persecuted me as he thought I wanted his job at CBN” – Cecilia Ibru. Nigerian newspapers are known for scripting COMEDY and giving it the garb of INTERVIEW. With a whole lot of 4,826 words, a person who was prosecuted, plea-bargained, convicted, and made to spend a chunk of her term on hospital beds […]

UnTOLD, UnHEARD, The ATROCITIES of Belgium’s King Leopold II on Africa’s CONGO

My gaad!! How come those history books (which in any case told their, not our, history) didn’t say this much? I don’t know about you, but I’m hearing this for the first time. Gaash!!!! A BBC account of the Holocaust that Belgium’s King Leopold II unleashed on Congo. Reason for the untold story also suggested. […]

EMPOWERMENT: A Guide to JobSeekers

Mr Ayo Odusolu, a social entrepreneur and capacity builder, said in a recent post that he has built a program to guide school-leaver jobseekers whose smartness must be upgraded to make them employable. According to him…… “I am encouraged to put together the above program to equip and empower qualified but frustrated job seekers with […]

ALL in ONE SONG

Four credits: Lyrics, cinematography, refinement, dance. SONG 1 SONG 2 ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Again, Knowledge, Skills & Development

Knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print. Sure, it’s great to have oil, gas and diamonds. They can buy jobs. But they weaken societies in the long run unless […]

AS THOU SAYEST

‘…”Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara is the most useless governor in the history of Nigeria, you can quote me on it’. – Kadaria Ahmed April 6, 2019 Haba, madam…what of….?…’ I have since not posted the above shorttake which has remained in my draft folder since April 6. Now another writer has written “As the North […]

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY, CATASTROPHIC FAULT….Still analysing Boeng 737 Max crashes

Gregory Travis is a writer, a software executive, a pilot, and an aircraft owner. In 1977, at the age of 13, he wrote Note, one of the first social media platforms, and he has logged more than 2,000 hours of flying time, ranging from gliders to a Boeing 757 (as a full-motion simulator). The recent […]

Between SUNSET and EVENING HOURS

These are natural weaknesses for which man has no control. Like the tendency is for us to think, as we approach the first stage of old age, that we have survived all odds especially for one who considers he has done his bit. It’s like one dares death and looks straight into its eyes. That […]

YOUTHS Slam 60% Appointments Demand on Federal Government

Nigerian youths under the aegis of Committee of Youth on Mobilization and Sensitization, CYMS, have cried out to the Federal Government of Nigeria to yield 60% of federal appointments to them. While they complained that they received no kobo in form of support funding from government, they still went out to focus their election campaign […]

Call to AGM: UNILAGFEAA also Congratulates ‘Seyi Makinde, ‘Jide Sanwo-olu and Noimot Salako-Oyedele

The University of Lagos Faculty of Engineering Alumni Association (UNILAGFEAA) has announced it would hold an Annual General Meeting of its members on April 25, 2019 at the Julius Berger Auditorium, Unilag. Publicity Secretary, Engr ‘Biodun Oyedepo, said the announcement was also to felicitate with three of the Association’s Members who won gubernatorial elections recently. […]

WATERLOO

The 8th National Assembly might have survived this though. Hope keeps rising by the day. Olu Lipede says: Not a new thing at all. It’s what civil/public servants go through in the hands of legislators. Refuse and the blackmail starts. Remember the Aruma Oteh episode? National Assembly is not part of Nigeria; it’s a different […]

LEADERS & LEADERS

LEADERS & LEADERS Please tell me campaigns are over. Me: Sorry, this one na just humour o. Nothing serious. See everybody laughing nah! ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

DBI LAUNCHES YOUTH EMPOWERMENT TRAININGS

A digital skills development program designed to develop the ICT and Telecommunications competencies of participants, boost entrepreneurship and innovation, and empower disadvantaged youth will soon commence from the stables of the Digital Bridge Institute. The program has been advertised in newspapers as the Technology Apprenticeship Program (TAP). On Monday, April 1, 2019, PUNCH published a […]

Now THE MAN HAS DIED. Very SAD.

News about him flashed a few years back with two important messages; that one: he was a person, a civilian academic, who planned, unsuccessfully, to overthrow Abacha, and two, that he is the brother of the unsung hero, late Victor Banjo, who Ojukwu had wasted at the outbreak of Nigeria’s internal war of the late […]

Which JACKSON?

MICHAEL of course! But only half of the truth that was ever shared. Michael wanted to live for 150 years He appointed 12 doctors at home Who would daily examine him from hair to toenails. His food was always tested in laboratory before serving. Another 15 people were appointed To look after his daily exercise […]

PIUS

Pius,2019from1972, you wrote your heart out. You wrote every word in every post as though it was to be the last. And the last came when you danced out of the stage just as the ovation reached its loudest. I envy you, cause I don’t know how I’ll go. But I know, I’ll go. We’ll […]

COREN gets MORE POWER to regulate ENGINEERING

A new amendment to the COREN Law that strengthens the powers of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) with far-reaching authority to prosecute infractions, to regulate industrial training of Engineering personnel, and to guide capacity development of local content in the Nigerian engineering industry has been signed into law by a […]

PHOTOSHOOT of the Religious bigot

When politicians loose out in any aspect of their game, they go about lieing to Nigerians making scapegoat of religion, tribe and even dialect as it suits. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

BORN TO LOOT

With the return to office of PMB for a second term, Ngozi’s hope of walking free is dashed. Although Cecilia’s record is yet to be broken, a third star has emerged from our women folk on unbelievable taste for graft as EFCC freezes 30 accounts of Ngozi Olojeme. A few days ago, the Supreme Court […]

TRAGEDY: Boeing 737 MAX 8 of Ethiopian Airline Flight ET 302

Flight ET 302, heading to Nairobi from Addis Ababa, crashed about 50km outside the Ethiopian capital six minutes after taking off last Sunday. What really happened What could have happened? Click to watch and listen to an analysis using previous experience and information ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

LOW MAN’S LAND

HUMOUR See my cousin whose first cousin told JK and pdp people he would help them ‘capture’ Lagos >>>>> ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

I Have Sincere Sympathy for JKA.

What next? Where next? May the Almighty tell. But what is all this trash he has been saying were the reasons he lost the contest the third time? Was he really and sincerely thinking he would win in Lagos, ….flying PDP? Haba! Abeg, move. Anybody who is dreaming that pdp will govern Lagos at this […]

QUOTE ME (2)

SANWOOLU ni o ! “QUOTE ME” was the title of my blog post of September 11, 2018. Kindly click to read that piece and return here to continue. It is easy for us to forget that, but for those imposed on Lagos by the military, and the times when there was a rupture within the […]

NIGERIA is now HIGHEST PRODUCER of RICE in AFRICA

Dr Harold Roy-Macauley, Director-General, Africa Rice Center, Benin Republic, has said that at 4 million tonnes a year, Nigeria is now the largest rice producer in Africa. I thought it was a gimmick, or at least a joke, when two years ago the ‘maigad’ of my property in the village told me he was returning […]

A SEASON of JOKES

Yes, that is what these moments are. No harm in having jokes except that these ones all center around the former Vice-President’s march to the Court. At my last count I had received seven episodes. The most straightforward is the one by ‘Nigerian lawyers’ who are complaining that those who prod Atiku not to go […]

GOOOGLEFORECASTing

SUNSET SARAKI Imagine.. for a moment.. that former Vice President Atiku had won that election and Saraki had lost as woefully, both in popularity and in relevance, as he did in Kwara. Tell me what would have happened. I bet you, Saraki would have been the defacto No 2 man in the country and Mr […]

COURT IS AN OPTION IN DEMOCRACY

My take is that those who urge former Vice President Atiku not to go to Court are not genuine democrats. Going to court is part of democracy. Why all this prodding not to exercise his right? Malam, please go to Court. Oya, Taefi mana!. Nigerians have spoken. The Courts, too, must speak. Wait a minute…if […]

“They are JUST JAILING PEOPLE, They are NOT FIGHTING CORRUPTION”

Yesterday, a retired Air Vice Marshal, Tony Omenyi, was jailed seven years by an Abuja High Court for receiving N162m in bribe when he was in government service in 2014. I called a neighbour to drop the news, and he said it is probably because the fallen officer is not a friend of the current […]

DEALERS OF OUR TIME

In 2015, they went with Jonathan, claiming to be talking for Yorubas. In 2019, they went with Atiku, claiming to be talking for Yorubas. Each time, Yorubas, using their votes, rejected them and their claims. They say they are one afenifeNONESENSE As from now, if we hear ‘peem’ We shall talk back at them. They […]

Atiku: “I already told Abdulsalami Abubakar… This Is Worst Election In Nigeria’s History”

Atiku: “I already told Abdulsalami Abubakar… This Is Worst Election In Nigeria’s History” NO, THAT IS NOT TRUE, malam. What is true is that every person who lost a Presidential election in Nigeria has made that same claim. Even President Goodluck Jonathan who made the ‘heroic phone call’ eventually insinuated this same sing-song in “My […]

LIMIT & LIMITATION OF PLAYING GOD (A video story of ‘Enough Is Enough’)

I am told Mr. Bukola Saraki, former medical doctor, and incumbent Senate President of my country, did not win any of his two elections: his bid to return to Senate, and his assignment to assert a Presidential aspirant at his home base. True/False? I have just reconnected to Internet since I stepped out of home […]

THIS MY CANDIDATE SEF

I have waited long enough to see if the campaigns would force a change of my mind. Not so far. Mr. Omoyele Sowore comes strong on my score-card but PMB beats him. Let those who think Atiku is not a Kleptocrat hold on to their belief. I consider PMB, with all my disappointment in his […]

FACE TO FACE with the latest GENIUS from the heart of Africa.

It is a special privilege to warehouse this on my blog. The three-year-old, today’s ‘Dr Kwame Nkrumah’. I shared two in the past. See ‘NOW the REAL Whiz Kid’ http://titiomoettu.com.ng/blog/now-the-real-whizzkid/ I also posted four editions of ‘TALENT UNTITLED’, 1, 2, 3, 4 so far. I am using the word ‘Genius’ to describe my latest find. […]

DUE PROCESS

FACE to FACE with a TYPICAL ACCOUNT of a COURT PROCEEDING involving LOOTING of PUBLIC TREASURY “I Couldn’t Take Diezani’s N450m Because It Was Too Huge For My Jeep” – Dele Belgore “The heap of cash that I saw in the bank’s loading bay was at least three to four feet high. So, I told […]

DON’T SELL YOUR VOTE

Latest Empowerment song preaches “DON’T SELL YOUR VOTE” The European Union which has spent more than a hundred million euros since 1999 to support democracy through credible elections in Nigeria has, again, provided support funding for the latest campaign again vote buying. A 4-minute musical clip which advises Nigerian youths not to sell their votes […]

The LAST MAN’s Prayer

May your country not give itself back to its enemies is the concluding statement of Aayiz Baasam’s dissertation in which he postulates that he knows Nigeria more than I do. That is not to say that we were on any specific argument. Just his own manner of ranting. Aayiz is my Malaysian friend who loves […]

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: A Telecom Laboratory emerges in DBI

“A clear path to changing the poor narrative of our economy in terms of job creation is the recognition of the importance of skills as a means of easing the unemployment situation in the country and creating a pool of entrepreneurs to drive growth in the new innovation economy.” KEYNOTE SPEECH BY ENGR. TITI OMO-ETTU, […]

INSIDE Tony Ojobo’s TechX Innovation Hub

“TechX is Social Responsibility + Social Enterprise” – Tony Ojobo In Enugu, South East Nigeria, the former Director of Public Affairs at the Nigerian Communications Commission says his new endeavour will provide gaming, mapping, training, coding, web development, solutions etc It’s all available at https://youtu.be/_Q3bmYFbCQM ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Who is afraid of Buhari?

NEWS: “CUPP Asks Court To Declare Buhari Medically Unfit As President” What a request? That means CUPP has concluded that Nigerians will choose Buhari if he goes into a free and fair election. Or how do you translate a request as this on the eve of elections? It seems these fellows know that Nigerians know […]

The POWER in pdp

Parable of the TESTED OPPOSITION (A video story) Using text, can you capture the story? ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

DESIRABLE CRITICAL ACTIONS

DESIRABLE CRITICAL ACTIONS (Of a Manager) Every manager, be it in the public service or private business, must DOCUMENT, REPORT, CALCULATE, PRESENT, REPRESENT (as in Imaging), and COMMUNICATE (as in Voice, Email, and various other applications). I call them Desirable Critical Actions of a Manager. In all of these actions, ICT has provided the means to do them 100 times better, 100 times faster and […]

Banned 2004, unBanned 2019

News Overseas Nigeria’s rich politician Banned via USA Presidential Proclamation 7750 in 2004, unbanned via $1.1m professional lobby deal in 2019…. https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/nigerian-politician-banned-us-spent-thursday-night-trumps-dc-hotel-paying-1-1-million-gop-lobbying-firm/ And what does a $1.1 million lobbying contract buy in Trump’s Washington? https://popular.info/p/what-does-a-11-million-lobbying-contract ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

MORE….. and beyond GENEVIEVE

Since I posted ‘Lets Celebrate GENEVIEVE‘ which was a call to commendation of indigenous Nigerian attainments, an Assistant of mine has furnished an illuminating list of recent exciting attainments of Nigerians at home and abroad. One stands out. It is Dr Dayo Olukoshi whose high points I mentioned in a blogpost mid-2018. Dr Olukoshi is […]

Let’s Celebrate GENEVIEVE

Let’s Celebrate GENEVIEVE NNAJI as she says “Thank you everyone for accepting ‘Lionheart’ into your homes and hearts worldwide. This is how we change the narrative. Together let us continue to bridge the gap.” And while she is in the top bracket, Genevieve is not alone in the class of Nigerian youths that are adding […]

TECHNOLOGY: Drinkable WATER extracted from AIR

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Growing KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION is Our trump Card

“This is the 21st century. It is not just the knowledge century, it is the innovation century. Such innovation must be deliberately articulated as a national policy to get the youths and the infants digitally savvy from early school. Nigeria, I must note, is very lucky because we have fertile minds ready to out-innovate the […]

A HAPPY NEW YEAR MESSAGE

HAPPY NEW YEAR THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE NIGERIAN CHILD TO WHOM YOU AND I HAVE A MANDATE TO GIVE OUR BEST. THAT (S)HE MAY EXCEL. ^ I see in the toddler in that photo the Nigerian child. The will to succeed, the drive, and determination to accomplish are all round him. Where he […]

NJE E TI GBO?

HAVE YOU HEARD? Just as I was expecting campaign to start in January, I stumbled on a post on facebook and traced it to the wall of the author. It is titled “TRUE CONFESSION ABOUT PMB” by Gozicon Chigozirim Emeakayi who says “I AM DAMN TIRED AND THEREFORE QUITING. 1. We accused him of so […]

DESPERATION defined…, explained…, dealt with (3).

“I am not a political prostitute that changes political platform for whatsoever reasons” – Mr Tolu Adebiyi, former Chief of Staff to Ogun State Governor. Of course for a man who has a good name to protect, Tolu cannot afford to be stupidly loyal. NEWS 2019 election: Why I ignored Gov. Amosun’s instruction to dump […]

DESPERATION defined.., explained.., dealtwith (2).

Aggrieved Amosun leads opposition party chairman to meeting with Buhari https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/302710-aggrieved-amosun-leads-opposition-party-chairman-to-meeting-with-buhari.html ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

NOW THE ISSUES ! The GAME is CHANGING !!

And its starting from LAGOS. Its no longer about “power to the people“; “one nation, one people“; “you are muslim, I’m christian, he is animist“; It is now driving towarfs What do you bring to the table? I see CHANGE, I dont know about YOU. Those old folks, of yore, had virtually nothing to offer. […]

AWESOME: 22.08 minutes of the RIGHT WORD.

That title is entirely mine. It captures my impression immediately after listening, all through, the audiobook (that’s what the author calls it). I call it a Book, read professionally, with passion. However, it is truly one chapter of a book written by a colleague, friend, and professional acolyte of mine. I probably would not have […]

YES, I BUY THAT

“Selling of voter cards is a symptom of moral depravity, economic underdevelopment, and poverty of the body and mind” It is all in an interview which Prof Akin Oyebode granted to Punch recently. It was in there he also shot at Jonathan after a long while: “I would say Jonathan is a tragic hero because […]

ALLOCUTUS of Michael COHEN, Donald TRUMP’s former acolyte

“Recently, the President Tweeted a statement calling me weak, and he was correct, but for a much different reason than he was implying. It was because time and time again I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds rather than to listen to my own inner voice and my moral compass. […]

Image of IDIOT is TRUMP? Really?

Sundar Pichai, the fellow who sits atop Google LLC today went on a journey of technological sermonising that ended really nowhere when the US House Committee on Judiciary asked him to explain how an image googlesearch for the word ‘Idiot’ ends in ‘Trump’. An attempt by me to argue that it may not specifically refer […]

ABOUT a TITAN

Foluseke Somolu: Engineer: (1946 – 2015) Apart from his wife and children, the person I consider closest to and with a deep personal knowledge of late Engr Foluseke Abidemi Sunday Somolu is Prof Frank Okafor. And that Professor has said enough in various documentations that I just wonder what else anyone can add. Yes, he was […]

FAS FOUNDATION, A Legacy for Engr Foluseke Somolu, for Launch at UNILAG

Family, friends and colleagues of late Engr Foluseke Abidemi Somolu, renown power engineer and Past President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers will launch a Foundation in his name tomorrow at the University of Lagos. The late power engineering colossus died on August 24, 2015. The Foluseke Abidemi Somolu Foundation is meant to advance his […]

YES. TRACK RECORD. PEDIGREE.

NEWS “Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa was cleared for appointment as Director General and Executive Chairman of the Diaspora Commission by the Senate Screening Committee. She was the originator of the concept and the bill that gave birth to the Commission. It was passed in the sixth and seventh assembly but was not given assent. She was […]

What exists EVERYWHERE?

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PROFILE: Edet James AMANA : Engineer : 80

It was a Yoruba Poet who, in describing the late Moshood Kashimawo Ologundudu Abiola in the superlatives, said when rich men choose to play the ‘game of handshaking’ only a few among them would draw out their hands to shake the subject matter’s hand. That was complete communication as any listener knew what the stuff […]

DIEZANI is my FRIEND

For those people, like me, who do not know that we have any relationship, let it be announced that Diezani is my friend. ^ Indeed between Diezani and myself there are twenty other mutual friends who facebook ‘people’ have made of and for us. What does that translate to? It means we all should be […]

DESPERATION defined, explained, dealtwith.

^ “Those who think our political future is tied to them are poor students of their own political history. Some of these people who talk as if they are invincible have forgotten that they have run elections in the past and lost until they abandoned their parties and joined the winning card. So if they […]

Another ULTIMATE

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No end to POSSIBILITIES

Yes or No? Now watch Again, I ask Any end to POSSIBILITIES? ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

BAD NEWS: Measles are back

BAD NEWS: Measles are back – So says WHO Report (What should parents do?) Today, sciencealert.com published a World Health Organisation (WHO)’s report that measles is coming back to the world. Very sad and chilling facts which make us all look so cheap and some developing countries actually presenting as languishing. And what are the […]

Kini SO? SO suor !!

WHOS WATCHING? Or better still, Who should be watching? Or should we be asking Who is enjoying the joke? ^ To be sure, what is in display is the Oyo State APC gubernatorial candidate, Mr Bayo Adelabu who reportedly caused a lockdown in Ibadan with his campaign parade cars. One person claimed he counted about […]

THE CHRISTMAS STARTS HERE

Seasons’ Greetings and Messages Presented in songs, dances, and drama Convey deeper meanings Than what only words can deliver Their universality is unbeatable Especially when they also open minds wider Welcome to A DANCE SHOW And A DANCE DRAMA ^ ALL AT CHRISTMAS. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

PROFILE of a DEPUTY-GOVERNOR TO BE

I have just stumbled on a tweet of Mr DAPO ABIODUN APC’s gubernatorial candidate in Ogun State wherein he announced his choice of a Running Mate in ENGR MRS NOIMOT SALAKO-OYEDELE. For his choice, I, Engr Titi Omo-Ettu, hereby dedicate my personal resources to the campaign effort of Prince Dr DAPO ABIODUN and indeed of […]

MaraPhone: Africa’s first MADE-IN-AFRICA phones

It feels good to hear this. Isn’t it? Mara Corporation, an African technology business came to the recently concluded Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa to re-announced the coming of its new product, the Maraphone. In the world of smartphones, China has Huawei, Korea has Samsung, while the United States of America has Apple. […]

CAN YOU PAINT?

Ok, paint the picture of a FAILED state. – – – – – – Then CLICK to view – – – – – – Now COMPARE ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

GAME CHANGER

“My brief is that as the first level Innovation training (i.e. the DBI’s National Innovation Diploma, NID) is marketed, especially to State Governments, the need to emphasise that this is one area where gender re-balancing for real and developmental opportunities should count, is usually stressed. The Kano State State Governor in his own response sponsored […]

MENTALMORPHOSIS

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TITHE goes up to 12%?

Wait a minute…. Is it true tithe has been increased to 12% globally? Someone phoned in to tell me that just now. She blamed the increase on global inflation and global warming. True/false? .. .. .. .. .. . . . . Please, please, please na joke I deh joke o. No go talk say […]

DBI’s FOCUS ON INNOVATION

“……People may ask you further question about your Alma Mater and how it is transforming itself. Please tell them that your Alma Mater which was originally preparing skills for the Nigerian economy has transformed into an Institution for mainstreaming skills into the global ICT market place” ADDRESS BY ENGR. TITI OMO-ETTU, CHAIRMAN, GOVERNING BOARD OF […]

TECHNOLOGY, YOU, & DEATH OF DISTANCE

It was a year ago we first shared this link to RADIO GARDEN on this blog. With recorded improvements and more stations brought in world wide, lets share it again. Do the link http://radio.garden/live Just point your finger in any of these green dots in the globe … You can hear the FM radio of […]

DIGITAL TURBANS

Digital Turbans: Advance party of prosperity purdahs. Never mind, technology will take us there. Click to play and put on your dancing shoes. You aren’t seen nothin’ The days are near when ‘elehas’ will ride lambrorhgini on Naija roads. Wanna take a bet? ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Chief Obafemi Awolowo on Party Stalwarts, Party Stewards, Ordinary Bastards, etc etc

Something runs through all the books written by Chief Obafemi Awolowo especially those in the series of ADVENTURES IN POWER. Being accounts of political developments, a lot of the stories involved political activists who, were the books to be written by a person like me, would be described as thugs. Chief Awolowo found convenient words […]

Tegbe.Ajimobi.Adelabu: The BERMUDA TRIANGLE OF O.Y.O. politics

 “And so what? Is there someone who cannot betray you? I’m almost 69 joor. If he betrays us, it is his government” “Mb’omo wa ni, ej’oo se e” kind of conclusion. We are talking of the level at which doing-in, cash (in big figures), intrigues, are the things that count and not public interest. Truth […]

Odogwu N’agha

It is not just the Melody Nor just the lyrics But also the LIVE of it all That’s talking Lilian Nneji Odogwu N’agha (Official Video) ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

OBITUARY

An illustrious son of PDP and Uzenema-Arue, Uromi, Anthony Akhakon “Tony” Anenih, born August 4 1933 died in the early hours of today. He will be remembered for playing significant defining roles in Nigeria’s democracy. He was easily connected with many of Nigerias most popular concerns and controversies. In October 2009, a Senate Committee issued a […]

Junior TORTOISE, jewelled CROWNS, Aso ROCK and Other stories

Let’s allow SUN to tell the story regardless that the real story is not what has been said. It is in what has not been said. A search for tortoise on this blog will reveal all about tortoise. But that is the Senior Tortoise. We talk of the junior this time around. Now read to […]

STRENGTH of CULTURE

“When you know where you belong; Its does not matter where you are in the world; When you know where you are from, and where your roots are; When you know what you stand for, know what your culture is; You are ENOUGH” – Adeyemi Michael. Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies. Culture is considered a […]

Let’s ADD a few TOOLS

Between now and end of year, a few tools will add to my website ( www.titiomoettu.com.ng ) to achieve various objectives. What goes up now is a SEARCH TOOL which helps navigation of not only the blog content but also the entire website. It is installed on the Home Page. A search tool had always […]

SKILLS from WITHIN

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Celebrating Engr OLAWALE IGE at 80

‘OGA IGE’ TOOK US TO THE PROMISED LAND “The fellows who conceived the idea that time was up that a PAPER to argue to Government that LIBERALISATION of Nigeria’s TELECOM INDUSTRY (of that time) was the panacea to poor phone services also said the iron should be bent while it was red hot. Two things […]

Metaphor of ‘THE NIGERIAN BOY’

In 2010, I gave my NIEEE(Nigerian Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Inaugural, The DEEEAL (Distinguished Electrical and Electronic Engineer Annual Lecture), and my subject was “Pathway to connecting THE LAST MAN”. Yes the journey, though challenged, is actively on. A new metaphor has emerged with the DBI (Digital Bridge Institute) assignment. Look at that […]

AKINWUNMI AMBODE: A FLASHBACK to March 8, 2018

Something happened when on March 8, 2018, I posted “AMBODE’S COMMISSIONERS SAY 400% INCREASE IS NOT OUTRAGEOUS” on my blog page. One of the first persons to read the story within five minutes of the post wrote me to say he didn’t think I should be so blunt as to say that it was “naive, […]

6 years of AfICTA

The pioneering efforts of Dr Jimson Olufuye and a few other African InfoTech professionals at establishing AfICTA in 2012 received standing ovation when he handed chairmanship of the Association to Engr. Hossam Elgamal of the Arab Republic of Egypt early this week in Nairobi. Jimson Olufuye and Hossam Elgamal AfICTA, Africa Information & Communication Technologies […]

Engineering Products and Solutions MADE IN NIGERIA

The videos you are about to watch are products of BOSKEL Thermal Process Engineering and Environmental Management Company, Km 17 PortHarcourt-Aba Expressway, Port Harcourt. They are products of Engr DR Bosah Keluo CHUKWUOGO PhD MFR. Dr Chukwuogo won the first NSE Engineering award many years ago. Late Prof OLADAPO and myself were Chairman and Secretary […]

Confronting the DIGITAL CHALLENGE

“Now let me ask, do you think there are no Mark Zukerbergs or Larry Pages or Sergey Brins in this country today? If you do not believe, I believe that there are budding young men and women who could be the next technopreneurs and innovators that can change the destiny of this country! Search for […]

TALENT Untitled 4

A Talent is the skill that someone naturally has to do something that is hard. It is an ability that someone is born with. People talk of Natural Talent to mean that they are born with a talent. Natural talent is an innate or inborn gift for a specific activity, either allowing one to demonstrate some immediate skill without practice, or to gain […]

Recurring Stories of Nigerians in Bondage Overseas

Video, Audio, and Text Report of a HUMAN TRAFFICKING that MUST STOP Not a new story really, but scaring and even more scaring than in the past with the age of prostituted Nigerian girls now getting younger by the day. It is not as if these are never-to-do-well girls but an account of those who, […]

JIMI SORUNKE: A Nigerian basketball Promise to watch out for in USA

Olujimi Abayomi Sorunke is a Nigerian youth doing great with his basketball skills in the US presently. Having transferred to the US in 2017 to further his education, and his basketball interests, he was enrolled at Rockville High School within the Maryland school system, and was immediately drafted into their basketball programme! At Rockville In […]

Freedom OF speech & Freedom AFTER Speech

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SKYE Bank/POLARIS Bank: A ‘PENTASCOPE’ Abracadabra

When things are technical, there is a limit to the kind and quality of questions one is capable of asking. The day I saw Mr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, announced on television that Skye Bank had (technically) transformed to Polaris Bank something told me a lot must have been wrong somewhere. […]

TALENT Utitled 3

A Talent is the skill that someone naturally has to do something that is hard. It is an ability that someone is born with. People talk of Natural Talent to mean that they are born with a talent. Natural talent is an innate or inborn gift for a specific activity, either allowing one to demonstrate some immediate skill without practice, or to gain […]

CAPITAL INVESTMENT: The PrivateMoney, PublicMoney CONUNDRUM

Extremist scenarios alright, the conclusion at the extreme end is simple to understand. ‘Economic growth comes from entrepreneurs risking their money not from politicians risking our money’ But who is to learn from it? Entrepreneurs? Politicians? You & I? or Computers? Listen…. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

The BLIND and The LIMP : ONE Perspective.

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‘Flight to PENTASCOPE’ Crashlands

“I understand that Mr Hadi SIRIKA (One of the persons he hired to package that video clip called him ‘siraka’. Yes, in that same clip) is a pilot. Thus indicating he trained to fly people to places they might not have known in their life. If he had handled the packaging of that airshow more […]

FLIP Side of GODFATHERISM

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LESSONS IN GODFATHERISM

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BUY AFRICA

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Nwude.harliburton.ibori story told in unusual detail

Nwude.harliburton.ibori a story told in unusual detail. By nuhu ribadu himself Pioneer Chairman of Nigeria’s antigraft agency, the EFCC, Mr Nuhu Ribadu, shared gripping details of the fight against graft under his watch. The story was told to an audience in Berling long before James Ibori completed his jail term in the UK. The convict […]

KEMI ADEOSUN & I

I wish the former Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, had given me my right to celebrate her had her resignation come early in the day. Unfortunately, she made it look like she meely succumbed to pressure and she had to resign. C’mon, two months of hanging on is not good enough. Doing what for God’s […]

An AFRICAN STATESMAN RETURNS TO SOIL

An AFRICAN STATESMAN, KOFI ANNAN, RETURNS TO SOIL Tribute to KofI Annan: “Inspirational Leadership and service to humanity begets lifetime Legacy. And the man lives in our 💕 hearts for ever. RIP Africa mentor”. Chris Uwaje ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

6.28 minutes of VISION, FOCUS, PATRIOTISM and SERIOUSNESS of mind.

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TALENT Untitled 2

A Talent is the skill that someone naturally has to do something that is hard. It is an ability that someone is born with. People talk of Natural Talent to mean that they are born with a talent. Natural talent is an innate or inborn gift for a specific activity, either allowing one to demonstrate some immediate skill without practice, […]

TALENT Untitled 1

A Talent is the skill that someone naturally has to do something that is hard. It is an ability that someone is born with. People talk of Natural Talent to mean that they are born with a talent. Natural talent is an innate or inborn gift for a specific activity, either allowing one to demonstrate some immediate skill without practice, […]

QUOTE ME

Did i hear that one of the contestants for Lagos Governorship seat under APC is Mr Jide Sanwoolu, ex Unilag, ex FCMB, ex London Business School, ex Lagos Business School? Incumbent Managing Director, LSDPC? If the answer is Yes, the least one can say is that Lagos State is not called Centre of Excellence for […]

WHAT HAS CHANGED?

See how things have CHANGED!!! 1. These days, you put your child in your pocket and hold your phone in your hand. What has changed? Time?, Values?, humanity? mentality? Just what? 2. You go to church and you hear the Preacher say, while praying, “Everyone speaking rubbish and spreading lies about you and I just […]

NOW the REAL Whiz Kid

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Professional POLITICIANS and Professionals in POLITICS

Five of us got talking and we drifted to distinguishing between professional politicians and professionals in politics. We asked that we all wrote two names each, in not more than two minutes, of notable Nigerians who are professionals in politics, limited in the first instance to Senators. I wrote only one name and I was […]

GOD Bless My READERS

The message of my post “Another PORTRAIT OF BUHARI” is hidden not in the lengthy and fine story that Ambassador Ignatius Olisemeka told but in my cover story where I said the story ‘….was not written today’. Matter-of-factly that story was written in February 2015 and published in a few newspapers. God bless all those […]

Another PORTRAIT OF BUHARI

The author’s name gives ready credibility, thus an invitation to read. It is one of those names those of us who were passing through university education in the late sixties would easily associate with. Names you hear and you think of the Federal Civil Service of those days. And, in this man’s case, of Foreign […]

BEST (prescription) for your HEALTH

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OBSEQUIES for Prof Alaba AKINSETE

The family, friends and associates of Late Prof Vincent Alaba AKINSETE have announced funeral rites for the late professor of mechanical engineering. All tributes are advised to be inserted in the Memorial Website http://profvincentalabaakinsete.last-memories.com/#.W3tifYS-2Fk The deadline for insertion is Tuesday, September 12, 2018. 1. EVENING OF TRIBUTES: Thursday, September 20, 2018 at the Chapel of […]

ATIKU FIRES BACK AT OSINBAJO

“I have been in the forefront of the discourse on restructuring since the 1995 Abacha Constitutional Conference and to the best of my knowledge, there has not been any term like ‘geographic restructuring’. It is a strange concept, not only because it is not what the restructuring debate is all about, but also because the […]

Yemi OSINBAJO Writes

“Alhaji Atiku’s concept of restructuring is understandably vague, because he seeks to cover every aspect of human existence in that definition. He says it means a “cultural revolution”. Of course, he does not bother to unravel this concept. He says we need a structure that gives everyone an opportunity to work, a private sector driven […]

WAYS of WEED!!!

If this is not the ways if WEED What else can it be? But let that guy loose an ELECTION In which he is the MOST LOVED By his people And see how he will be As DEAD as DODO Now watch …….. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Omobola Johnson, former ComTech Minister, joins Board of World Wide Web Foundation

Dr Omobola Johnson has been appointed as the newest member of the World Wide Web Foundation Board of Directors. Her expert knowledge of technology policy and commitment to enabling connectivity for all will provide invaluable guidance for the Web Foundation as we fight to ensure everyone can access the web and use it to improve […]

PARTY NOMINATION FEE: IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

It tastes bitter to swallow the idea that the All Progressives Party whose Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, had to be helped to pay N25million Nomination fee in 2014 is now toying with the idea of prescribing very exorbitant and unfair fees for aspirants to all elective offices. The party had during the week proposed […]

ABOUT PACT

ABOUT PACT (Presidential Aspirants Coming Together) Mr Tope Fasua is one of the early and young Nigerians who made the strong case that young persons need to throw themselves into active partisan politics to safe the country. Many of those ‘young’ persons who eventually gave indication of their desire to seek the highest office in […]

Do you know PMB?

Do you know PMB? No? Ok, Do you know Lai Mohammed? No? At least you must know somebody now Send this to them….. (Viewer’s discretion advised) That was pre-2015. Lai should tell us what the story is now. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Top End of THE LIMIT in calisthenic parade

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A good pact from PACT

Look, I do not know about you. The Nigerian youth is now beginning to impress me. I am told the Presidential Aspirants (have now) Come Together (PACT) and signed a pact. I had predicted, falsely, that those thirteen or so young men and women who are Presidential aspirants would go to sleep when they eventually […]

INNOVATION: ‘MY LOCATOR’, Schoolgirl Tomisin’s APP.

A recent BBCs report says Lagos based Tomisin Ogunnubi, 15, is a teenager with a passion for programming. Three years ago she created My Locator, an app which helps children who are lost. The mobile app, which is available on the Google Play Store, has already been downloaded more than 1,000 times since its debut […]

VC4A LAUNCHING NIGERIA STARTUP ECOSYSTEM REPORT: A STARTUP ECOSYSTEM ON THE MOVE

“Nigeria could be said to have entered the tech startup scene fairly late, definitely behind the likes of South Africa, Kenya and Egypt. Yet this changed when the mobile phone revolution happened in the first decade of the new millennium and it became clear that digital services are a supplier of many direct and indirect […]

John McCain: COURAGE, UNCOMMON PATRIOTISM (by Omoniyi Ibietan), and I add CIVILITY

I started doing a draft tribute on US Senator John McCain two weeks before he took his last breath. The excercise was suspended when I wondered to myself who told me Senator John McCain would die before me. Just about then I caught a fever, landed in hospital, and trust the manner treatments for fever […]

3 STORIES in 1: “… ‘Aiyefele’, ‘Constituted Authority’ and ‘The Day After’…”

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ARAKUNRINS AND OMOKUNRINS

” ……The road to TVC in Lagos was built by him. So, you can help us tell your Oga that this road is not too long for him to do in Ondo State. Or am I lying? No. It is not too long for him to construct. It would not even take weeks to complete […]

‘Best Before’, ‘Use Before’, ‘Expiry Date’ and the differences in their meaning

Mr Babatunde Irukera is one guy whose trajectory I had followed since the day he suddenly changed his mind from contesting Governorship of his State. Kogi, I think. He eventually settled for an ‘omo nwase orise’ (abeg, hire a yoruba linguist to translate that to English language for you) assignment at the Consumer Protection Council […]

WANNA TAKE A BET?

Small time now we go hear say Ibori don defect to APC. Who takes a bet? https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/2019-apc-oshiomhole-target-3-s-south-states-pile-more-pressure-on-uduaghan/ ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

DANCE VIDEO : Power-packed, electrifying, ingenious, original, turbo-charged, world-class ….

OLAMIDE’S “SCIENCE STUDENT” Dance Video : Power-packed, electrifying, ingenious, original, turbo-charged, world-class ….name it, score and rate. Point is… I spent most of my adult life preparing the youth for leadership. I have scored reasonable points but i am yet to claim anywhere close to success. I can tell you for free that the odds […]

A SOUND MIND PASSES: Prof ALABA AKINSETE

The family of Vincent Alaba Akinsete, a Professor of Mechanical Engineeting and Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering has announnced his passing. A memorial website has been set up for condolences, tributes and memories at profvincentalabaakinsete.last-memories.com/#.W3tifYS-2Fk. gmail.com The website will serve as one source of tributes to be published and made available during the […]

The Long-last, Latest, and Last MAN OF PEACE

“It was his character and mettle, his old-world charisma, unrufflability and monastic mien, that made him an exceptional figure, particularly now in an age of populism and bullhorn rhetoric. In his first term as secretary-general, from 1997-2002, his patience earned him the sobriquet the “secular pope”, although he insisted in private that his self-control was […]

12 Things you must know about Paul Usoro, newly elected President, NBA

PROFILE : A dozen things you must know about Mr Paul Usoro, SAN, Newly elected President, Nigerian Bar Association 1. Mr Paul Usoro was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982. He holds a Bachelors of Law Degree from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife in 1981. 2. Paul started his practice in Kaduna. He […]

NIGERIAN MEN, EHN?

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THE ULTIMATE

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PILLAR to POST, BACK to PILLAR

Truth be told, I give it to Dr Bukola Saraki that he is the star intriguer of contemporary Nigerian politics. Some of us boasted to whoever cared to listen in 2015 that that fellow would not last long on the seat he infamously snatched from his teamates. It is now going to four years and […]

Coca-Cola bans cocacola

Criticism of Coca-Cola has arisen from various groups, concerning a variety of issues, including health effects, environmental issues, and business practices. The drink’s coca flavoring, and the nickname “Coke”, remain a common theme of criticism due to the relationship with the illegal drug cocaine. In 1911, the US government seized 40 barrels and 20 kegs of Coca-Cola syrup in Chattanooga, […]

SPORTS : INCREDIBLE as UNDERSTATEMENT

The MERCEDES BENZ STADIUM, ATLANTA If you’ve heard of it, you’ve not seen it. If you’ve seen it, you’ve not been told it costs $1.5billion to build. Coming as the world’s No 1 Stadium and most eco-friendly with 4,000 solar panels, it is more than incredible. Listen and watch here ￩ ￫ x × Previous […]

SHARON, THUMBS UP!

Bydway, I have one huge respect for this woman ever since I stumbled on the fact that she superintends PITAD. Her tweet flashed by a while ago, giving an account on one of her mandates You know I went through that process and for the first time, I saw a system that is packaged to […]

ORDEAL of CIVILISATION

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BACK TO ICTs

Courtesy of the Nigerian Institute of Management, I will be leading a discussion on “Dynamics of Requisite ICT Knowledge for Today’s Manager” at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, in two days time. We shall be looking at a few desirable critical actions of the manager, the focused issues of information -systems, -management, -technology and ICT. […]

TIME has its time too

JayBee… And all that too came to one day When those hands, legs, mouth,… All stopped. Amazing isn’t it! And then came the legendary Fela That added yabis as jara to jazz And then came the Jackson 5 And much later lone-star Michael Those hands, legs, mouth .. All stopped. Amazing isnt it! And now […]

A TIMELY INTERVENTION

I yield the blogpage to an astute engineer, Daudu Abdul-Aziz, who, in the following 1,966 words, reviews the book of a living legend, Engr Solomon Omorodion Uwaifo, FAEng., in which the entire cycle of inaction, rot, abuse, untapped opportunities, hope and possibility of redemption is clinically diagnosed and presented in 750 pages. The book, CONVERSATIONS […]

BY AIR TO PENTASCOPE

The fellow who sent the accompanying video clip to me pressed for my comment one hour after I received it and fifty seven minutes after I had deleted it from my phone gallery. She asked why I deleted it so quickly and I explained that after viewing two to three minutes of it I knew […]

ORJI KALU MATCHMAKES BUHARI AND SOUTH-EAST

Mr Orji Uzor Kalu, has said that his new found crush, President Muhammadu Buhari would win over 75 per cent of votes in the South-East in 2019 general elections, as a reward for the landmark projects he had executed in the zone. PremiumTimes says Mr Orji made the pronouncement at his home base in Igbere, […]

FOLLOW ME

Follow me to hear about Africans’ Nos 1 and 2 enemies. You might have your own list of men and women, infact of families, that stole Africa blind thus bringing the Continent to her knees in the comity of Continents. Tell me, is this fellow on your list? ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

NIGERIA & AIR

I thought it was not an issue until my friend, Timi Olagunju, a cyberspace/AI lawyer, says “Opportunistic registration of Nigeria Air domains was not a crime”. So I yield the blog to him this morning: “There has been a lot of controversy as to whether the individuals who registered the NigeriaAir.com, Nigeria-Air.ng, NigeriaAir.ng and NigeriaAir.com.ng […]

Nna, ‘milk’ is milk

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EKITI KETE !

“Those who want this charade to go away from Ekiti land, say ‘YES’” “The ‘YES’ have it”. Watch >>>>> This page was posted again on my blog on October 17, 2018 as “EKITI KETE AGAIN! a SEASON, a CHARADE; an END” Broda Peter de nuisance ti check out from one ‘hotel’ to another ‘hotel’ Today’s […]

What Do You See?

What do you see? Answer ONLY the question you are asked. The question is NOT ‘who do you see?’ Now answer the question. Correct answer will show here later. Please visit again. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

What EKITI ELECTIONS say about the CONTESTANTS

I have just read Tope Fasua’s 2,640-words account of what actually his lamentations are about last Saturday’s Ekiti elections, an essay he titles “WHAT EKITI ELECTIONS SAY ABOUT NIGERIA”. Tope is one of the young men who have chosen to dare the system and present themselves for the 2019 elections. He must be from Ekiti […]

INTELLECT: The PRIVILEGE to KNOW and the RIGHT to CHOOSE

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PROFILE: NIGERIANS OF NOTE

He was educated at King’s College, Lagos, Oxford University in England and Harvard Business School. He has been described in a citation as an Oxford optimist, remarkable risk taker, one who balanced hope with realism, merging brilliance and hard work to achieve results and inspire others. Hear all about Adebayo Ogunlesi (also of Oluyinka Olutoye) […]

“AISHA, YOUR HUSBAND MUST BE A B-I-G MAN”

On a day like this, the search for what to do usually leads one to remember the past and to tell a story on text. Today’s story is about another story which Prof. Raifu Salawu told in a lecture he gave us those days when we were brainstorming on the way out of the disaster […]

‘KINGKONG OSHOKOMALE’

Demystification of ‘KINGKONG OSHOKOMALE’ A new movie of the AWADA KERIKERI genre packaged specially for the launch of R-APC. Showing July 14, 2018 (8am; 12 Noon; and 3pm) at SECRETARIATS OF ALL POLITICAL PARTIES IN ADO-EKITI. Admission is FREE. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT: I Have Listened to Babatunde Fashola. Have You, Too?

For the third time in three years, I am inclined to say, again, that Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN, is yet to give his best. Yes, I have a problem with his communication though. Here is one huge mind who talks hugely about issues at most times using huge volumes of text, communicating little, hardly understood […]

A stroll back to Ayodele Awojobi in UNILAG

Prof. Awojobi showed what young Nigerian talent can achieve if properly applied – Abdulhameed Obileye http://www.myengineers.com.ng/2018/07/04/prof-awojobi-showed-what-young-nigerian-talent-can-achieve-if-his-talent-is-properly-applied-abdulhameed-obileye/ ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

WS on OBJ

OBJ, THREE PROFESSORS, SAME DAY WS on OBJ “…I know that deep inside, there is a soakaway pond of personal insecurity struggling to be drained. Beneath every bully, there is a scared product of insecurity and troubled conscience. Now, fight your own demons as best as you can, and feel free to flagellate Buhari (President […]

HAPPENING SOMEWHERE in AFRICA, as we speak

“Africa does not need to be a dumping ground for second hand cars or second hand anything…” – Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame at the Launch of VolksWagen car manufacturing factory in Rwanda some months ago. “Why we chose Rwanda. …..political stability, zero tolerance for corruption, dynamic economic growth, young and tech-savy population, Rwanda is leader […]

COUNT YOUR FRUSTRATIONS; Name Them One by One.

The only explanation for the following kind of things is that corruption has grounded effectiveness of public institutions. You cannot drive 5 minutes in Lagos before road safety officials spot you out and inpose a fine. But infractions as magnificent as the following happen unspotted by the same system. And then the regular consequences of […]

MR PRESIDENT, IS THIS THE NIGERIA OF YOUR DREAM?

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A LAND GRAZED WITH HUMAN LIFES?

A LAND GRAZED WITH HUMAN LIFES? A Nobel Laureate asks a dozen other questions “Certain unconscionable events have taken place, and cannot be ignored. Entire communities have been erased from the national landscape. Thousands of family units are in mourning, survivors scarred and traumatised beyond measure. Famine looms in many areas, even in those lodged […]

WHAT IS NOT TAUGHT AT HARVARD

NEWS – “The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told the Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday that former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, returned N650million she allegedly received ahead of the 2015 election” – June 26, 2018. Though not unprecedented, returning looted money to safe one’s skin is big news. […]

THURSDAY TRAGEDY IN LAGOS

Amateur video account of a petrol tanker that lost control, fell, and caught fire on the Otedola Estate bridge near Berger interchange in Lagos. The result was monumental tragedy as many vehicles were burnt and lives were lost. May the Almighty condole bereaved families. June 28, 2018. Moments before the tragedy, an amateur capture of […]

COWS, COWS, COWS, EVERYWHERE

 “I am not aware that that Myetti demagogue, the upside-down historian of first settlers and the antiquated logic of conquest, that illiterate mouther so filled with his sense of power and confidence of impunity – I am not aware that he has ever been called for questioning.” https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2018/06/27/on-demand-a-language-of-non-capitulation-non-appeasement-by-wole-soyinka/ ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

We must hold our President responsible for this

The accompanying video interview is one of the perspective analyses of the trending masacre in the land. The issues in contention have made ‘half of a story’ to be inadequate to use as ‘the story’. The full stretch of that interview is needed to make good sense of it for intelligent interogation before conclusion. Those […]

See what I Mean?: “Fasanmi to Afenifere: Ignore Obasanjo”

FASANMI TO AFENIFERE: IGNORE OBASANJO COPY & PASTE from TheNationOnLine Afenifere chieftain, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, yesterday urged leaders of the socio-political organisation to avoid former President Olusegunn Obasanjo. He noted that the former President’s agenda was at variance with the objectives of the Pan-Yoruba group. The elder statesman said Obasanjo was seeking relevance, having outlived […]

A Definition for INCREDIBLE

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Dialysis of obj-afenifere ‘COALITION’

Quite understandably, a large number of quality responses to my last post on “OBJ NETWORKS AFENIFERE” made very useful analyses, references and conclusions on all sides of today’s political divides. One, in particular, insisted that i should share with him my personal opinion on my report of political journeys that obj has been making in […]

POLITICKING: OBJ NETWORKS AFENIFERE

Information is all over town that President Olusegun Obasanjo is on breezy networking trips the latest of which was a closed-door meeting with Chief Ayo Adebanjo in Lagos, Saturday June 23. From partial media coverage of the event, what can be put together from broadcast pronouncements of principal actors on all sides include : That […]

PROFILE REVIEW: A RED CHAMBER THAT STINKS

There is hardly a better way of putting it than Prof Akin Oyebode has captured in this clip. The Senate President’s track record is of such sordid content that electing such a character to head the Senate paints an ugly (peharps correct) profile of what we are. Run a list of the 8th Senate whose […]

THE JUNE 12 FILE: Profile of Two ‘Geniuses’ Known for Their Comparable Measure of Courage, Mischief, and War Chest.

PROFILE of TWO ‘GENIUSES’ KNOWN for THEIR COMPARABLE MEASURE of COURAGE, MISCHIEF, and WAR CHEST. GENIUS 1 He was born on 17 August 1941, in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. From 1957 to 1962 he was educated at the Government College, Bida, Niger state, Nigeria He joined the Nigerian Army on 10 December 1962, and rose […]

10 Key Questions Generated by an Award and a Declaration that Make Sense to Some and No Sense To Some.

For President Muhammadu Buhari to make any political gain from his unprecedented sagacity in bequeathing a posthumous award to late Chief M.K O Abiola and declaring June 12 as Democracy Day, there are ten guiding questions he needs to attend to, taken from the perspective of June 12 warriors. 1. RESPECT PEOPLES’ FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS Voiced […]

TREASURY LOOTERS: Two Go Down in The Red Chamber.

In spite of all the shenanigans of evil forces that make Nigeria go zig-zag, the arms of the law are still very long. After Senator Nyame, a jolly jolly reverend whose first name is also Jolly, Senator Joshua Dariye, the guy who jumped bail in the UK several years ago and who, in spite of […]

TORTOISE IS BACK

Now, may it be so advised That Tortoise is back to the land If you recall, tortoise said It would not return to base Until it was fully DISGRACED Now that it has been thouroughly DISGRACED It (Tortoise) is finally back to base While it was away, Tortoise mobilised forces of evil Including of all […]

SUPER EAGLES ! GO !! GO FOR GOLD !!!

SUPER EAGLES, GO, GO FOR GOLD !!! (Taken from web – Complete Sports) SUPER EAGLES, GO!, GO FOR GOLD !!!! ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

SOCCER : LEGENDRY PELE SURROUNDED BY THE WORLD’S BESTS

There is a TIME for EVERYTHING A TIME to score GOALS A TIME to be on the WHEELCHAIR Soccer Legend, PELE, who scored 1283 goals, 3 WORLD CUPS, surrounded by the WORLD’S BEST FOOTBALLERS OF SEVERAL GENERATIONS Being kissed by MARADONA As he arrives RUSSIA On a WHEELCHAIR SUPER EAGLES (Taken from web – Complete […]

SELECTED SHAKARA SPEECHES

“Now that things have gone wrong in the area of security and economy and OBJ is speaking out, they are now chasing the champion of new Nigeria. We will mobilise the whole of Nigeria to take over Aso Rock Villa if the government steps out of line.” – Okey Nwosu, Chairman ADC, June 2018. “Any […]

OSHOKO is ART; EKITI is PROJECT

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Alabawun (Tortoise); The Complaint; The Response

For the record, since it is part of the mandate of this blog. History told as it is made. THE COMPLAINT ‘Impeccable security sources have alleged Chief Obasanjo’s name is on their Watch List and that the security of his life cannot be guaranteed. According to these informants, many of who are in the top […]

TO HELL WITH TORTOISE

TO HELL WITH TORTOISE (A Democracy Day Anthem) Tortoise has no BACK But Tortoise carries a HUNCHBACK Tortoise has a NUISANCE value But not a RANSOME value Tortoise is due to return home Now that the OLD FOX has been DISGRACED But who will KIDNAP tortoise? NONE, I say No One As Tortoise has no […]

Let’s Xray the art of “‘dabaru-ing’ the whole place”

‘A.Y’ (a.k.a. ayo akinnibosun) may not really be a brilliant chap in the manner kingpin armed robbers are known to be. With an NCE and a B.Ed both of which might have been earned via Omo Baba Oloye’s phone call to appropriate persons within the education system, it will not matter if we say the […]

AREMU, Aremu, aremu, how many times did I call you?

AREMU, Aremu, aremu (Chairman Badbelle Int Ltd of Africa), How many times did i call you? Abeg get to work kiakia All of una, footsoldiers, get up, getup, I say gerrup Dabaru the whole place if you cant do anything else Ask Omo Baba Oloye, or IGP, or even Abdulfatah For permission to reach ‘A.Y’ […]

TECHNOLOGY: Purchases That Amaze

A few days ago there was this announcement that Microsoft was buying up Github. For how much? Let’s keep that until we’ve discussed the real issues. My take is that the craze of buying up things only to destroy them is making technology ‘highheads’ look like the objective is to destroy this present world and […]

OFFA KILLINGS REVELATIONS

“We mobilise and we are the ones that do political arrangements for him. For example where we can’t win we dabaru elections there. We scatter elections if we dont win.” Very revealing, if you ask me. Listen >>>>> ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

HIGHLIFE REVISITED: Mo ti gb’ro kan, nwon nleri …..

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MEN, SHRINK YOUR PROSTATE. IT IS DOABLE

I found from personal experience that one of the resolutions to prostate enlargement is to shrink it. And it is shrinkable by all of medical, herbal and natural means. I am 69. I was diagnosed with prostatic hypertrophy (prostatic enlargement) at the age of 48, one of the youngest patients known to many practitioners. In […]

NAEng Gets New President, Elects 12 New Fellows

The Nigerian Academy of Engineering has announced it would inaugurate its 10th President and induct 12 new Fellows on June 21 at the University of Lagos. The new President, Engr Prof Fola Lasisi is a professor of structural engineering and two times pioneer Vice-Chancellor at both University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, and Crescent University, […]

A Night of Three Good Reads

I am nocturnal. That is to say I work in the night. By work I mean reading and writing. Over the years it moved from serious work to jolly jolly work of these days. This night, I read three nice scripts. One is the post of a lady who sent a Children’s Day Greetings to […]

EKITI, OSHOKO & MATTERS ARISING

I did a satire, mid-2017, which was titled “The D.A.F BOYS”. Somehow the essay did not make the list of those that were reproduced when my blog transformed into its current form. Now I have just reposted it at http://titiomoettu.com.ng/blog/the-d-a-f-boys/ Therein, I talked about three boys all of who still loom large and we are […]

“The D.A.F BOYS”

It is a reflection of our collective guilt of social exclusivity that we carry on as if nothing is amiss. Tell me if you know of any indigenous Nigerian community that cares so less as not to rally the whole village to find cure if any child of the land somehow goes completely deranged. Three […]

NPF and ITS MANAGEMENT OF CRIME

In the absence of competent justification, one feels slightly worried whenever the Police parades criminals before TV cameras. What really is the motive? To exhibit hardwork (why should?); to publicly disgrace the suspects (No, it doesn’t); to teach humanity the unlimited possibilities of criminals’ designs (unuseful); or just to entertain (uncivilised entertainment!)? A video clip […]

What if you suddenly hear that SOMEBODY forgot SOMETHING in Aso Rock?

What will you do if you suddenly hear that somebody forgot something in Aso Rock? 1. Ask him to go back there and pick his things? 2. Mock him for being so forgetful? 3. Laugh as you did during the third term 4. Fight against his going back as you did the other time? 5. […]

BoobleSearch presents unlimited hits for the word “Nigeria” (or “Naija”). Click to view.

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Maps, Search, Find, all rise a notch higher as GPS climbs to VPS

TECHNOLOGY : Maps, search, find, all rise a notch higher as GPS climbs to VPS. Watch ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

PERSONALITY PROFILE: Jelani Aliyu, Nigerian, Car Designer

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EGBA MI O !! Even animals observe traffic lights in some climes

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When you are proved RIGHT

When you are proved RIGHT Everything you say becomes RIGHT Jack Ma (aka Alibaba) will SPEAK If you CLICK to PLAY. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela Mandela: Vivacious even at quarter to the grave

Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela Mandela ON MY MIND Vivacious (some say animated, bubbling…vivid, zestful…addd yours) even at quarter to the grave. A life of being loved, married(‘to a struggle’)…haunted, tortured(emotionally)…hounded, convicted(not jailed)…add yours When Winnie Mandela made her 80th birthday speech. It was like Wow !! Watch >>>>> https://youtu.be/2IE58EIK5Lc She died at 81 ￩ ￫ x […]

WINNIE: RECALIBRATING THE VALUE OF AFRICAN WOMEN By Kunle Awobodu The Builder

GUEST WRITERS’ PAGE WINNIE: RECALIBRATING THE VALUE OF AFRICAN WOMEN By Kunle Awobodu The Builder The death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a ripe age of 81 proves that a human being could survive the vicissitudes of a positive social change struggle enshrouded in danger. Longevity, thereby displacing premature death that was usually associated with the […]

EXCERPTS from Julius Malema’s speech at Winnie Mandela’s funeral.

April 14, 2018, At the Orlando Stadium where a funeral was held for late Winnie Mandela, Julius Malema, Leader of Economic Freedom Fighters(EFF) of South Africa said “I am here not so much to bury Mama‚ because Queen Mothers do not die‚ they multiply into a million red flowers of love and freedom. I am […]

QUICK MATCH TOWARDS A FAILED DEMOCRACY

I have not read the PRESS RELEASE issued by the Nigeria Police Force on Senate’s decisions of yesterday, and I do not intend to ever read it. It is however posted as footnote for record purposes. What is happening is the desecration of a supposedly young and developing but battered democracy, and this has to […]

HARVEST OF A PMB LEGACY

One takeaway from the PMB presidency is the realisation in many of us that we too can do the job. A good number of quality minds (well, arguably) have emerged shopping for votes and even for parties on which to run in 2019 Elections. Some guys have done a count and published sketch profiles of […]

A trash for the Trashcan on TRASH DAY

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Alfa “SeatBelt”

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LONDON BRANCH OF NIGERIAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS INAUGURATED

London, where the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) birthed its activism in 1958 has become the latest Branch of the Association. By its structure, the NSE makes itself relevant to society through its branches while it develops its members via programs of its Divisions and Institutions. President, Engr. Adekunle Mokuolu, who inaugurated the new Branch […]

“YOU TOO HAVE A LEGACY” – Natalie Wambui

“YOU TOO HAVE A LEGACY” – Natalie Wambui, an African Writer and Poet who shares thirteen (13) reasons she writes. She also talks about IDEAS, TRUE power, and AUTHENTIC power. If you must listen please invest ten (10) quality minutes. Click to view and listen. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

The ULTIMATE among RANKING GYMNASTS

The Ultimate among Ranking Gymnasts. Just a Click . 1 . . 2 . 3 . . Whats your ranking ? 1, 2 and 3? . ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

MANACLES OF OUR TIMES: signed, sealed, delivered in Nigeria

If truly the primary purpose of government is the well being of the citizens, there is a lot of sense in drawing attention continuously to this. A six minutes video clip produced by BBC. Please click to view. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

FACTS that HIT like STONE

The amazing place of Israel in world politics. Listen ….. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

OPEN (SECRET) MAIL TO PMB THROUGH FEMI ADESINA VIA GARBA SHEHU

No, I didn’t write the mail. Simon Kolawole did at https://www.thecable.ng/shall-tell-president-2. He wrote: “Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, I hope this meets you well. I don’t know if you remember me. My name is Simon. Simon Kolawole. Never mind. We will come to that later. Let us briefly journey into history for proper context into why […]

A PLUS FOR HUMANITY! Listen……

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SLS bursts again as VP, MINISTERS EXPORT INDISCIPLINE TO EARN FDI

The LIST reads like we are talking of the ONLY 8 Ministers who, at home, we regard to be doing anything at all. The remaining 29 (sports o, communications o, agf o, etc etc etc) might just be sleeping their heads off elsewhere. Oga go London, omo ise go Washington. “CHANGE nooni”. Hear SLS … […]

AKWA IBOM CHARTS THE SMART PATH TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – Emmanuel Ekuwem

I accompanied President of ATCON, Olusola Teniola, on a courtesy visit to SSG Akwa Ibom State, Emma Ekuwem, a former President of ATCON. Mr Olusola Teniola Today’s NEC Courtesy visit to you is unique in that it is to one of us who has been part and parcel of supporting the creation of an enabling […]

‘Everybody’s Grandma’, Barbara Bush, passess at 92)

The woman popularly called ‘everybody’s grandmother’ passed on yesterday, two days after declining further medical treatment after a series of hospitalisations. She was 92. Barbara Bush was the second American to be both wife and mother of American Presidents having been wife to George H. W. Bush (41st) and mother of George W. Bush (43rd). […]

I understand you have seen this before. Where please?

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2019 CROSSFIRES AS SLEEPER/DREAMER CLASH ON TV CHAT

“You are a day-dreamer” – Communications Minister Adebayo Shittu “Yes I am a dreamer” – Saharareporters Publisher Omoyele Sowore. “You are inconsequential” – CMAS “I’m consequential because you came to power on my back” – SPOS I am listening. You too can……. just click ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

A REVIEW of “How to Think and Talk stupid” by DTrump & JMa

The REVIEW is a short video clip in which Jack Ma, Chinese business magnate, responds, some say brilliantly, to a stupid talk that repeats itself too often and rather frequently. Please click to listen ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

E GBA MI O !!! DANGER IS LURKING AROUND ALL OF US.

PUNCH Newspaper’s story of today that ‘Only 28 candidates registered for common entrance examination in Zamfara’ is a piece of story so dangerous to make all of us shiver and tremble. First I commend the Federal Ministry of Education for bringing attention to the piece of information and for calling major relevant stakeholders, especially Governors, […]

Poverty, Capability, The link between the two !!

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Digital NEPA, a.k.a. DISCO

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PLUSES & MINUSES FOR THE AMAZON: THE OTHER STORY OF WINNIE MANDELA

From “She spent 18 months in solitary confinement, naked, not allowed to wash, and not allowed out for exercises. She did not know what had become of her girls. When she would speak of this with me, her whole countenance would change. She was not allowed sanitary towels when she had periods, nor water or […]

Phones stolen from Europe on sale in Nigeria? THAT’S UNTRUE.

“The assertion that stolen phones from the UK are being sold in Nigerian markets is wrong. The report is unfounded and unacceptable to us,” Mr. Ahmed Ojikutu President of the Computer and Allied Product Dealers Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN), said in a report published by ITPulse an online news magazine. Mr Ojikutu said that the […]

Easter Message: BILL GATES’ PREDICTIONS, YOU AND I

As you probably know, some guys have put on video what they consider the six predictions which Mr. Bill Gates made that have all turned out dead correct. 1999 to now is not yet 20 years but in technology growth terms, it is quite some long time. And it was the year Bill made those […]

“LA in LA LLA..as in JAZZ”

“Louis Armstrong in Los Angeles Letting Loose Again. Long Long Ago” Click to Listen ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

Please hold your breath, I LOST MINE

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LAGOS STATE STILL RUMBLING ON LAND USE CHARGE LAW as lawyers call for a return to status quo

The wobbling, fumbling and rumbling that engulfed Lagos State on March 8, one which Governor Akinwunmi Ambode thought would ‘just come and go’ has now taken a life of its own. The Governor’s palace men must have overrated his popularity when they maneuvered his puppet legislature to craft a hurried Land Use Law which, after […]

ROUGH TACKLE OF THE BIG CHAPS

After a full week of ping-pong sacking of diplomatic officials on the two major sides, the U.K. government is known to be considering a request from Russia to visit Yulia Skripal, who is recovering in hospital after a nerve agent attack that the British hold Russia responsible for. That’s according to the BBC, which reported […]

“YES, WE ARE IN DANGEROUS TIMES”

“DID EL RUFAI EXPECT SOUTHERN KADUNA TO WAIT FOR HIM TO BURY THEM LIKE SHIITES?” An excerpt from the homily at the funeral of Bishop Joseph Danlami Bagobiri by Matthew Hassan Kukah “HIS Lordship Bishop Joseph Danlami Bagobiri, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese  of Kafanchan  was buried on Thursday, 15th March, 2018. He was one […]

“USA SENDS RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS PACKING IN RESPONSE TO ATTACK ON EX-SPY IN BRITAIN”

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Barely one week after the United Kingdom sent 23 Russian diplomats away following the nerve agent attack earlier this month, The United States earlier today also announced the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats and intelligence officers, as well as the closure of Russia’s Seattle consulate. This is in response to the poisoning of ex-Russian […]

UNILAG TO BUILD AN OIL REFINERY

A hint was dropped yesterday by Vice- Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, that the University would soon commence study work at building an oil refinery to enhance training and research in the subject. He was giving a Goodwill Address at the Alumni Lecture and First Annual General Meeting of the University […]

TEXT OF MR. BILL GATES’ SPEECH TO THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL, NEC ON MARCH 22, 2018

Going by his obviously painstaking order of protocol, the sheer use of clear, unambiguous data/statistics and the manner he put the 2,903 words which formed his 10-page speech to the Nigerian National Economic Council, it is clear Mr. Bill Gates waited for that day to come. He started with “Our Foundation’s biggest office in Africa […]

Did you hear Coach Gernot Rohr ?

This Team is a young team but also a team of leaders. If we stay humble and continue to work hard and improve our play, we have huge potentials, but beating 2 FIFA top 10 teams in friendlies doesn’t mean we are now World Cup favourites. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

“TRIAL OF A COURT JUDGEMENT” as Yusuf is now to spend six years in jail and also pay N23billion.

In 2013, an Abuja High Court judge stunned the whole world when he convicted a staff of Police Pension Office, Yakubu Yusuf, who was established to have stolen N24billion. The trial Judge imposed 2 years jail term or a fine of N250,000 in lieu of the jail term for each of the three counts. Several […]

WHAT ARE CUTOFF MARKS MEANT TO ACHIEVE IN NIGERIA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM?

NCEE 2017/2018 ENTRANCE EXAM CUTOFF MARKS PUBLISHED [For All 36 States] My attention has just been drawn to a publication by NCEE (National Common Entrance Examination) Board on Entrance Examination cut off marks for the 36 states in Nigeria. What, for Gods sake, do these cutoff marks for states mean? Could they be prescribing what […]

“KONGI DEFINED”

“WOLE SOYINKA – Okunrin ogun, EniOGUN, a citizen of the world whose native home is IjEgba (please do not Google). Prolific and profound in prose, poetry, drama, translation, and film. Always at ease with speaking truth to power. His Significance is both global and local, i.e. glocal…..” Listen: ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

“Digital BROOMS for Ambode BABES”

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“THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR. CONGRATULATIONS, MR VP”

I asked one of the guests at yesterday’s wedding of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s daughter and I heard what gladdens the heart. I was told everything was in moderation. The VP’s crowd was chosen from among his old friends, classmates and colleagues not new friends of power, money and vanity as we have been used […]

“SHEHU SANI AS A SUBJECT OF HOPE”

I had just completed a portrait of Distinguished Senator (Yes, mark my word) Shehu Sani when the post of one Wole Olaoye on the same man strayed into my inbox. His is better than mine so I have dumped mine to endorse his own. He writes under the title “THE GADFLY CALLED SHEHU SANI” Shehu […]

“EKO BAJE TI as AMBODE MAKES U-Turn”

In a swift response to public pressure, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode may have moderated his recent move to launch a harsh tax regime in Lagos State. The Governor made strenous effort to brag, lie and argue his ways through the unpopular move but met with stiff opposition essentialy from social media activists. One week after initiating […]

ODYSSEY OF A FLUSHED ACTION GOVERNOR

Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode is a gentleman. A fine one at that who also takes his job seriously and does it with passion. Queue the tape at the point where he signed his Land Use Act on March 8, 2018 and you see the wobbling trajectory of a confused technocrat turned political warhead. After two of […]

READ THIS, IF YOU DARE !!!

‘Jerryboy’, a former military administrator of defunct Bendel State (now Edo and Delta states), currently represents Plateau South Senatorial District in the 8th Senate. At 75 officially, he is one of the oldest serving lawmakers. Dont tell me you have never heard him speak on the Floor of the hollow chamber. Last week, Jeremiah Useni, […]

Ever watched anything AWESOME?

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“A NEST OF LOOTERS”

That is what the hollow chamber we created has either been or has become. Going by the report of PremiumTimes that finally, Nigerian Senate confirms members receive N13.5 million monthly, separate from salaries. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/261469-finally-nigerian-senate-confirms-members-receive-n13-5-million-monthly-separate-salaries-defends-payment.html The good thing in clamouring that professionals go into politics is that once they infiltrate that system it gets to a […]

“They took me to Brixton Prison and kept me with mad people. I was with mad people for 15 days!”

No, not me. Haba! How can? It is the connection to mad people that got me interested in the story. A friend who got sufficiently angry with Nigerian politicians in their manner of stealing said “Nigerian politician are mad people”. So when he read about the story, he thought the Nigerian Governor who made that […]

PATRICK GOES BACK HOME

At a time when the people he is talking to are busy making finishing touches to a grand plan to re-welcome one of their own who just returned from overseas jail-house, Patrick Okedinachi Utomi (popularly called Prof Pat Utomi) is using 1,665 words in written text to talk about despair, big crime, bad politics, and […]

HAVE YOU HEARD?

That the titiomoettu.com.ng website launched a multichannel text/image/video broadcast platform. Regular broadcast shared on Facebook (3,147); Twitter (1,564); LinkedIn (1,218) and WhatsApp (3,845) featuring Blog(Development); Papers(Technology); Shortakes(Politics); Headlines(of Others). You too can be part of the wide reach. You too can write n be published You too can advertise on the billboard. Stay hooked to […]

APPOINTMENT : DERE AWOSIKA AS CHAIRMAN, CHAMS PLC.

Dr Mrs Ajoritsedere Josephine Awosika has been elected to chair the Board of Chams Plc, a leading provider of identity management and intelligent business solutions for five years. She brings with her a wealth of experience at executive and board levels in administration, technology, health, power and banking sectors to bear positively on the business […]

AMBODE’S COMMISSIONERS SAY 400% INCREASE IS NOT OUTRAGEOUS

Two persons who were described by Lagos state goverment media (lagosstate.gov.ng) as commissioners in the state cabinet have told Lagosians that the new land use charges are nowhere near being outrageous. What is being described as outrageous, according to them, is the commulative arears of many years which the new law prescribes that land and […]

News: UK AWARDS CONTRACT TO BUILD PRISON IN LAGOS

There is this news that is silent but big. UK has given out contract to build a prison, whose quality is acceptable to United Nations, in Kirikiri, Lagos, Nigeria. Let’s discuss it. Should Nigeria accept it? (mark you it is Nigerians that will live in it) If it is accepted, where should it be located? […]

THE RIGHT TO RESPOND : Ambode’s New Land Charge

10 responses (all made within four hours of post on WhatsApp broadcast), representative of several opinions expressed as reaction to WOBBLE, FUMBLE, RUMBLE IN LAGOS are reproduced below: “As usual, you’ve hit the nail on the head! Gbagaun!!! Awon oni yeye gbaaa.” Yetunde “NBA Ikeja Chapter is to sue the so called action governor of […]

WOBBLE , FUMBLE, RUMBLE IN LAGOS

Intoxicated, suffocated, asphyxiated …which of the above may best describe our indefatigable, Action-Governor here in lagos? Listen ….. “According to the Punch, the Lagos government on Wednesday applauded property owners and occupiers in the state for trooping into designated banks in fulfilment of their civic duties. The turn-out followed the launching of the payment platform […]

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

The First General Meeting of Unilag Faculty of Engineering Alumni Association (UNILAGFEAA) will hold on Saturday, March 24, 2018. Venue: Julius Berger Lecture Theatre Time: 10am Two major items on the Agenda: 1. UNILAGFEAA Alumni Lecture 2. First General Meeting (to elect an Executive Committee) . To be eligible to vote and be voted for, […]

LEO OGOR AND HIS 30 BANK ACCOUNTS

“As part of the first stage of the investigations, EFCC detectives discovered that (Hon Leo) Ogor has 30 accounts, including six belonging to his companies, two dormant savings accounts and the rest personal. The said accounts belong to six companies traceable to Ogor because he is the sole signatory to the accounts.” – Puncn report […]

PERFORMING POETRY/SPOKEN WORD. Indeed the beautiful ones are born now

It’s awesome watching Titilayo Mabogunje ram her words in front of a packaged audience and via cyberspace to all of us. Transiting from writing poems to performing them is a new trade in this clime but it appears, is catching on fast. Titilayo won the maiden War of Words (Slam Poetry Competition) organised by Lagos-based […]

PROSTATE: MAN’S LIVE-IN ENEMY (2)

The following story has been told so many times I am reluctant to use it. But the truth is that it is a better naration than the way I have put a similar personal experience in my memoire which is still in the works. The title is mine but, as I already said, the naration […]

“ART BEYOND ART”

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“AWADA KERIKERI” (Unlimited Humour)

“UCHE NWOSU Will OUT PERFORM ME ” – Okorocha “If the only sin Uche Nwosu has committed is marrying my daughter then he has no sin. It will be painful to me if all I have laboured to achieve will be destroyed after I have left in 2019. I am therefore keen in who succeeds […]

Thumbs Up Olawunmi Bayode for Longest Marathon Reading Aloud

1 am told Treasure Olawunmi Bayode is currently doing something entirely new and record-breaking. He is doing the Longest Marathon Reading Aloud continously for 120 hours with only two hours break per day. He is doing it at the You Read Library, Herbert Macaulay St, Yaba, Lagos. If you can, I suggest you get there […]

THE ALLOCUTUS OF CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO – September 11, 1963.

STATEMENT BY CHIEF AWOLOWO WHILE BEFORE THE HIGH COURT BEFORE SENTENCING FOR TREASONABLE FELONY SEPTEMBER 11, 1963 I must say, and this may have to be taken up with a higher tribunal, that I do not agree with your Lordship’s verdict, and the premises on which it is based. For upwards of 30 years, I […]

NITDA, CPN, NCS: A BRAWL?

Somebody has insisted I must have a say on this. My argument that I am NOT CURRENT could not bail me out as he argued, quite correctly, that the matter is not about currency but about what development is and what it is not. Yes MY TAKES: CPN registers (licenses) those who PRACTICE IT and […]

Thumbs Up for Bashir Dodo, Award winning Nigerian Doctoral Student

Bashir Dodo’s major contribution to the scientific technique of separating the retina into seven individual layers, thus improving the accuracy and speed of diagnosis, and help save the sight of patients by identifying damage earlier has been widely reported and the news widely shared in his native Nigeria. Bashir, 29, is a doctoral student at […]

The BLOOM ENERGY story

The hard FACTS of The hard NEWS BLOOM ENERGY BLOOM BOXES 1st Customer – was Google To know, you’ve got to LISTEN….. ￩ ￫ x × Previous Next

NEWS: “FROM LESS THAN 30 to 115: SOKOTO BOOSTS ENROLLMENT OF GIRLS in FGGC, Tambuwal”

You hear strange stories like this perennially from Governor to Governor across the land and wonder what Governors who make the claims want us to learn from them. That we should line up all past Governors of Sokoto State and march them to jail, in this case? Just listen to the story: in spite of […]

My Friends, PLEASE LET’S TALK (2)

My Distinguished Friends, PLEASE LET’S TALK (2) In the coming years, computer chips will cost just about what the telephone ‘SIM’ costs today. That’s next to nothing, right? We can forecast the next breakthroughs will be via robotic technology and the human brain may eventually be retained and sustained long after the owner(?) has ‘gone’. […]

NIGERIA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM(s)

I’m just wondering if we are all paying attention to the manner our National Anthem is being rendered in various musical versions. I thought a Nation’s anthem, its style and lyrics, is an identity which is firm, fixed and incontestable. Please attend a few cream of society events and you would think our Anthem is […]

UK POLICE TAKES THE GAL IN AT LAST

“Agencies like EFCC in Nigeria sometimes have brave and gallant law enforcement officers. Unfortunately, as I observed, they’re often let down by their political bosses, and sometimes even by the courts. This can change if activism from the citizenry emerges to support their work.” – Strive Masiyiwa in a post October 7, 2017. I have […]

IN MEMORIAM

“The Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has received in his Office the report of the Committee on ICT University Implementation Committee with thanks, adding that  the report would be studied and that within three weeks, a MEMO would be raised for the approval of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) He added that as soon […]

Omo-Ettu tackles Odinkalu, Sani, other passion players on NGO bill

A former president of the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria has described as psycho-drama the agitation by prominent activists condemning the proposed NGO Regulatory Commission Bill currently on the floor of the House of Reps.   According to him, the fuss created by the anti-NGO Bill crusaders is a bandwagon effect of opinions some […]

TRIBUTE: Oga Engr OLU AWOYINFA

As Engr Emmanuel OLUwafemi AWOYINFA goes to soil today I bow my head and pay due tribute to one of the notable practioners who lived and died using their professions to serve humanity.   Oga Olu Awoyinfa had another unique credit to his own service record though. He preached and lived PEACE, he spread GOODWILL […]

OPINION: THE CONTROVERSIAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGO) REGULATORY BILL

I have read the draft NGO Bill.   I read it twice and did a third to study only the portions that are of interest to my initial interest. My initial interest arose from concerns that the operation and interests of a Professional Association to which  I belong and which we have ordinarily regarded as […]

The Last Exclusive Interview with His Imperial Majesty, Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Adele Sijuwade, the 50th Ooni Adimula of Ife, The Omo-Olokun Adimula of Ife

I don’t know about you, but I got new big bits of information from this The source is unknown though.   *The Last Exclusive Interview with His Imperial Majesty, Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Adele Sijuwade, the 50th Ooni Adimula of Ife.* The Omo-Olokun Adimula of Ife   *Journalist:* Tell us about your childhood, we understand you […]

Of Pilfering, Greed, Avarice …..

“Women generally have finer qualities than men and they are given to being less corrupt. When, however, a woman gets corrupt, SHE BEATS ALL RECORDS…” – Mahatma Ghandi.   You probably have heard of one CECILIA, whose case was determined, or of one DIEZANI whose case is not yet determined.   “….Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke herself […]

EID AL-ADHA

As we commemorate this FEAST of the SACRIFICE, May all mankind move towards PEACE. May the significance of EID IL KABIR Truly guide our thoughts and our deeds Just as we pray ALMIGHTY ALLAH To provide sucour for all those Who are in any form of DISTRESS BARKA DA SALLAH. From Titi Omo-Ettu www.titiomoettu.com September […]

Short Takes of the Week – August, 2017

1. AUGUST 21, 2017 My Dear Citizens, (…..443 words……) “Thank you and may God bless our dear Nation.” Chikena? No RESTRUCTURING? Not even of this CABINET? Haba! SaiBaba! 2. RESTRUCTURING: A MUST There is a BRILLIANT document (available on request; 1,304 words) circulating as ‘Text of Press Conference by Southern Leaders Forum on August 23, […]

Redressing Justice – Punch Editorial

“It is wrong and unjust for states to have an entitlement to a share of other people’s efforts rather than a reward for their own efforts. The reality of the present is that Lagos, as a former capital of the country and the economic livewire, deserves special treatment to continue to drive the economy. Many […]

THINKING ALOUD

Come to think of it, this year’s edition of the London wing of ‘ReturnOrResign’ brothers are much better than the 2015 Chattam House ffk recruits. These ones know the purpose of their protest except that the fellow who agreed to an interview, apparently jobless and uninformed, insisted that Yar’Adua handed over to Goodluck Jonathan those […]

PROSTATE: Man’s Live-In Enemy (1)

“As a retired physician, I can honestly say that unless you are in a serious accident, your best chance of living to a ripe old age is to avoid doctors and hospitals and learn about nutrition, herbal medicine and other forms of natural medicine unless you are fortunate enough to have a naturopathic physician available. […]

HAVE YOU HEARD?

The news in town is that top executives of Google lead by their CEO, Sundar Pichai, were in Lagos all through the week. Top on the takeaways are announcements on new products features for users in Nigeria, initiatives focused on digital skills training, education and economic opportunities, and support for African startups and developers. Example: […]

Femmo doing the bang, Bang, BANG !!!

From “There is nothing new under the sun……..” to “……There is recompense for evil, and there is also recompense for good.”, Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Buhari, in his 1,164 words’ essay ‘PMB AND THE DESCENDANTS OF SHIMEI’ July 21, 2017, shows that idleness is not the best friend […]

About LISTENING, EXPLAINING, TAKING, WRITING, SHARING …. ‘Tunde FASHOLA for you

“While I fully support privatisation, I believe what took place in 2013 in the heat of politics was a privatisation that was well intentioned since 2005 but delivered with some deception in 2013 with the expectation of political profit.” – Mr ‘Tunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, July 13, 2017. That is not […]

MY ASSEMBLY, YOUR SENATE

I don’t know about you. I have just enjoyed 30 minutes of television LIVE coverage of a session of the Lagos State House of Assembly. Going by the quality of minds, points of argument, use of language and parliamentary decorum (I once watched the Canadian Parliament in session for one full day) in that Parliament, […]

IN THE SHADOW OF PMB

(Notebook of an Independent Campaigner) Let me confess how the mind of this Class ‘A’ Buharist (you know me nah!) worked in those days. Like when the CHANGE mantra first hit the road in the good days of 2014/15 Presidential campaign. For a non-partisan, self-appointed campaigner, the word “CHANGE” presented as a super mantra that […]

DUE SEASON – To whom it may concern by Fola Soboyejo

A Review by Titi Omo-Ettu Protocols & Preambles. The book we are about to review looks like a novel but it is very far from being one. We are talking about a 197 page Compendium of the thoughts of an intellectual, engineer, manager and businessman whose passion, using this Collage of Essays as observatory, focuses […]

Where will two weeks of talk take US and the Internet to?

There is no human being who does not love the Internet. That is because the internet does not discriminate in the sense that it works for all except for communities or countries that do not invest in it.   But come to think of it, governments are not human beings. We know many governments that […]

Monsters that are called Loans

It is very difficult to contribute to discussions on the implications of the loans which the Federal Government said it has been sealing in recent times. This is because loans in themselves are not the evils that are waiting to happen but our experiences are full disappointments and outrage over the management of loans taken […]

Hurdles In-plant

A Bartholomew who planted mines in the field and walked himself into them Nigeria’s internetwork of corruption, poor public power system, unemployment and insecurity has manifestly overwhelmed present leadership and the recent disengagement of a federal Minister is a reminder that all will not be well until fundamental changes are made in the polity. That […]

Oja Village – metaphor for our CommTech Industry

Now you know it that I am one of those who believe that we now have an industry called CommTech (for Communication Technology), a nomenclature borrowed from those who authored the creation of that Ministry last year.  They went about it the other way round by creating a Minister who eventually told us what her […]

Harnessing the Potential of the Internet and Applications on Mobile Devices

An Opening Address by Engr. Titi Omo-Ettu President Association of Telecommunication Companies of Nigeria at the Mobile Web West Africa Conference, Lagos on February 2, 2011 Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, This is a unique gathering and one which I feel privileged to address.   It is a gathering assembled by a guy who, my investigations reveal, […]

The Challenge of Bharti

This is not a talk about Bharti. It is, as the reader will soon find out, a talk about Nigeria.   You may be forgiven if you thought, from the name Bharti Airtel that we are referring to an airline rather than a telecommunications company. If its meteoric rise among world-class mobile telecom service providers […]

‘F’ings Just gotta change

These were the famous words of a radical politician of the left who is, probably, now retired. Things changed alright, but in which direction? Perhaps not in one that might have impressed the speaker. It would be rather interesting to hear his thoughts on the events of the past two years. Indeed things are changing […]

Who is dominating who around here?

Although hardly discussed, one major source of consternation to many telecommunication regulators is the subject of market dominance. Seems harmless enough to start worrying about until a nasty dominant operator appears on the scene and starts to throw its commercial weight about. For a host of reasons, players are quick at perceiving a regulator as […]

Who is dominating who around here?

Although hardly discussed, one major source of consternation to many telecommunication regulators is the subject of market dominance. Seems harmless enough to start worrying about until a nasty dominant operator appears on the scene and starts to throw its commercial weight about. For a host of reasons, players are quick at perceiving a regulator as […]

2/11: Will The Senate Stick or Twist?

At a session in Abuja about four months ago, Nii Quaynor the renowned Ghanaian internet engineer and expert, referred to those who conduct terrorist activities on the internet as ‘cyber-miscreants’ – a term that  stuck in my mind and I guess that of many delegates judging by their reaction. Owing to issues of timing, I […]

Time to Listen!

(A review of Ernest Ndukwe’s recent lecture series) by titi omo-ettu One of the drawbacks of the public sector is a lack of continuity as there is never a succession plan. In our environment, sitting officials who plan their succession have done so even for selfish, sometime very callous, reasons. This lack of continuity and […]

Opportunity of a Tragedy

It is best to present it in the form of a movie script just to fuel the imagination. Very apt given that one of the main characters who, while making the third leg of an unscheduled tripartite meeting at Heathrow, had come to the conclusion that all Nigerians are actors. He claims his  outlandish conclusion […]

Home may be where the problem is Aftermath of 2.3 GHz court verdict

One of the engaging issues in the early days of deregulation in emerging telecom markets was serial litigation from operators, which had the potential to slow down growth, stifle competition and impede tariff reduction. It was Telecom Answers Associates, while presenting an industry study report to the new NCC management of the very early days […]

The Business Opportunities of Mobile Services

I presented a paper on “The Business Opportunities of Mobile Services” yesterday at the Annual Assembly of IT Professionals in Abuja. It was hosted by the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, CPN. The presentation is attached.   The main points I made were that the metamorphoses of technology has made us improved our living […]

Of House of Reps, NCC & SIM Card Registration

It was a coincidence, but one I found quite interesting. There is at least some irony in the fact that the day after I had, at a Press Conference, called on Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to effectively make the case of the merits of SIM card registration to Nigerian phone users via better communication which […]

3G NETWORK SYSTEMS: THE CHOICE & CHALLENGE THAT AWAIT NIGERIA

1st things first, let’s discuss why we are where we are. We shall then recall some historical perspectives and also mention a few personal experiences. In 1995 the NCC commissioned a study under the title of ‘Study into Cellular Mobile Telecommunications Market in Nigeria’. The report of that study led to various motion-without-movement experiences between […]

Big tree, small axe by titi omo-ettu

With the warped entertainment content of the CBN’s act of last week, there is an overwhelming temptation to get carried away such that we forget to import whatever lessons it offers our industry. The week’s sacking of five CEOs for ‘winning’ banks produced a drought of news in the telecommunications sector. It suggested that ceteris […]

2.3 GHz verdict: It was Them not Us

The image that President Barrack Obama may not be a happy man after all is etched in my consciousness. Something keeps telling me that the fellow would have wished that Nigeria lives up to reputation as the world’s most populous black country and worthy of the title, ‘centre of the world’ for all black people. […]