Daniel's Pit

What a year it has been, what a month it has been, what a week it has been, personally what a couple of days it has been for me emotionally, 2020 has given us a lot to think about, and I must tell you, it has been a hell of a ride. The saga was initiated by the pandemic that hit the world, followed closely by a rather eventful and controversial show, “Big Brother Naija (BBN)”, drifting into the historic, once in a blue moon, nationwide protest. Interesting thing about these events is the ripple effect they had on one another. The pandemic, as with most countries, forced the Nigerian government to impose a lockdown on its citizenry, with no economic activities going on, Nigerians were stuck with the internet and media, bearing to the end of the lock down, the BBN show started, schools were not in session, most organizations and workers now loved working from home, so they did. The youths had time to watch BBN lock down, and with their lockdown companion -social media, the show had a wel...

The eleventh hour of May, 2018, was pegged by the passage of the “not too young to run” bill by our president as his democracy day present for us youths, or his way of appealing to the then furious god of “lazy Nigeria youths”, youths makeup half, if not more of, the country’s population and with the election just few months away then, it was imperative he gets us on his side to triumph. But this bill was a flatter to deceive bill because two years after it was passed it has not bore and may never bear its intended fruits, if the “Too Old to Run” bill is not passed alongside. The passed bill was purported to give youths the chance to run for posts and ultimately rule in the country, I think the reverse of the passed bill is the way to achieve such, which is the “Too Old to Run” bill, this bill attacks the original problem which is taking our country from grasp of grandpas and grannies who are supposed to be retired. Nigeria’s ship has been captained by fifteen rulers since independence...

Winter is coming believe it or not, technology rides with its army of generals -robotics, auditory analytics, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR)-- and infantries in an unstoppable march and they are coming for us all. Since its inception, technology was created to be used to do things, but now it intends to do things itself thanks to Artificial Intelligent (AI). Technology will soon dominate almost every domain and industry, all in the name of better productivity and making life better, exciting times ahead when you imagine of the mind blowing things the tech industry can achieve with technology (what a time to be an innovative business owner) in the same vein worrisome times ahead when you imagine how these improvements will lead to it replacing human being, that it was meant to make their lives better. In Nigeria, over the last 40 years there has been two shifts in employment outlook with each shift spanning circa 20 years, the first shift happened at the time of our father...

Over time I have argued with many who believed that good education is the key to progress, prosperity and the moving forward of Nigeria and Africa as a whole, I do not believe this, but we all agreed on one thing which was “a change in mindset” has to happen for us to progress. Education is good, necessary even and every one should have it, but education helps to maintain prosperity and progress not bring change, what can bring about prosperity and progress in Nigeria are events that would force a change in mindset, events that will leave us all as one with no choice, volition is something that when giving to human rarely brings about unified purpose and the need for good education will not bring about that. Some would argue that the level of poverty in Nigeria should be enough to forced our hands to progress but not all of us are affected by the poverty and sadly those that are not affected are those in charge of our progress, so the need for progress caused by poverty is not strong e...