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The question may sound awkward but I really mean it. Many of us are aware of the viral ChannelsTV interview with the NSCDC guy who made the phrase "oga at the top" so common in our mouths.  Well, that same man at would have had iPhone, tablet, laptop and probably a desktop - all with internet connectivity. Yet, the result we got in scene for reasons best known to him. Click here to watch the interview. In one of the offices I worked, some colleagues would come to office, login to a workstation (desktop) and do their work with no difficulty using any of the applications installed for the job. But, whenever they want to do any computer basic stuff - like copying a file from the computer to an external memory (flash drive or external hard disk), they run to me for help. Sometimes to copy a file from a media CD to a flash drive or on the computer's hard disk, or to edit a simple document. At first, I was full of surprises about how they could use the complicated appli...

I met a sister and  close ally of mine last week in Abuja and our discussion got us into how bad neighbouring have become - or how bad we have made it to be today. She told me of her plans to begin a "know the neighbours' day" with her co-tenant. Simply knock on your neighbour's door and introduce yourself as a neighbour, what you do, just identify yourself. Whatever the response is, you are known as a neighbour and a new good relationship will be born. I found the idea fabulous as it is something I have made a culture over time, at least since I got married. Whenever we move into a new home, we go round from house to house - at least our immediate neighbours - to introduce ourselves as neighbours stating which house we occupy, what we do for living and the likes. Even though the reaction you may get from some people will not appeal to you, but the importance of knowing your neighbours supersede your whatever reaction you get. Ultimately, you will be useful to each ...

It is no longer news for Nigerians that elections will hold in February 2015 to determine our fate for another four years. Indeed the past four years can best be described by series of killings in the northern part of the country. Very unfortunate! This does not mean the incumbent Government have not done anything good, no. Nigeria has the youth as the majority of its populace, among which we have literates and illiterate (by our Nigerian definition of literacy anyway). I mean educationally informed, if I may describe them as such. My previous observation following elections from 2003 through 2011, most of those that may make the desired choice do not bother to come out to vote. Perhaps they are afraid of being lynched by thugs at the polling units, they cannot endure the long wait queuing just to stain a finger to make a print on a paper, or are busy with their intellectual engagements. Such youth as described in the previous paragraph, in my view, are the agents of change and bes...