Tony Ogunlowo
Bezos Vs Branson: The Race To Be The First Billionaire In Space!
Bezos Vs Branson: The Race To Be The First Billionaire In Space! Article By Tony Ogunlowo The race is on for the coveted title of the First Billionaire in Space! In the right-hand corner is Jeff Bezos who hopes to fly into space aboard his Blue Origin’s New Shephard rocket on July 20 with his brother and two others. Richard Branson, always one to pull a fast one, hopes to get into space first on July 11 aboard his Virgin Galactic spaceship, VSS Unity. The announcements have been made and both teams are good to go.It’s the in-thing now: if you’re a tech billionaire you have to have your own little pet space program. Elon Musk, in addition to the two aforementioned wannabe astronauts, also has his own space company called SpaceX. While Musk’s SpaceX company has gone on to enjoy spectacu...
If You Pay Kidnappers Ransom, You Will Go To Jail!
If You Pay Kidnappers Ransom, You Will Go To Jail! An Article By Tony Ogunlowo Nigeria is a funny and strange country to live in and the lawmakers are even stranger making you think whether they’ve lost touch with reality all together: recently the Senate is trying to push a Bill, the Terrorism Prevention(Amendment) Bill 2021, through that threatens to imprison anybody, for up to 15 years, if they pay a kidnappers ransom!. Morally, paying a kidnappers ransom is wrong: it sends out the wrong signals as it not only encourages the kidnappers to abduct more people but encourages more people to become kidnappers because its lucrative. But in a country where there is a breakdown in law and order and there are no specialized police units to rescue abductees, the victims next-of-kin often have no ...
Towards Effective Policing In Nigeria
Towards Effective Policing In Nigeria The Nigerian Police Force is an outdated, inefficient and corruption-ridden institution that lacks the ability to fight crime in the 21st century.The lawlessness of the Fulani herdsmen has yet again brought into focus the heightened insecurity of living in Nigeria. This has led to a number of Southern states to consider expelling them from their lands. This is a very tricky situation: the constitution of Nigeria stipulates that anyone has the right to live and work where ever they want to. A breach of this might lead to ugly tit-for-tat situations: you expel them from the South and they respond by expelling your people from the North and before long we’ll be witnessing bloody inter-tribal clashes as last seen in 1966 that lead to the Nigerian- Biafran ...
Why A Revolution Will Never Happen In Nigeria
Why a revolution will never happen in Nigeria an article by Tony Ogunlowo We saw how the revolution led by the late Jerry Rawlings in the early eighties cleaned up Ghana and made it the promising nation it is today; we all saw how the Arab Spring Revolution of 2010 brought sweeping changes to the Middle Eastern countries and people are wondering when there will be a revolution in Nigeria to change things for the better. The stark – and sad – truth is that there will never be a revolution in Nigeria. The reason ? the lack of unity in the face of adversity or a lack of a uniformed voice. For a revolution to work everybody – the Northerners, the Southerners, the Rich and Poor, the young and old – all have to come together as ONE to demand change. This can’t happen in Nigeria: ...
‘Bad Boy’ Nigeria @ 60
‘Bad Boy’ Nigeria @ 60 An Article by Tony Ogunlowo Independence Day! It’s Birthday Time as Nigeria turns 60. The President will light the candles on the nations cake and cut it (- probably imported from Harrods in London) and there will be a big bash at Aso Rock with past presidents, important dignitaries and foreign ambassadors invited. They will drink, make merry and pose for countless photo sessions. But is there really anything to celebrate? No! The country is in a worse state than it was 60 years ago when the Union Jack came down and Nigeria’s green and white flag went up: a Man doesn’t know where his next loaf of bread is going to come from or whether he’ll even live to see the next day; mass unemployment has created a gene...
