Smartest people, mediocre nation, By Obadiah Mailafia

British Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin once noted that the University of Lagos was one of the world centres of expertise in her specialist field of chemical crystallography. Ahmadu Bello University Zaria had the first world class computer centre in Africa. The University of Ife had a notable pool of expertise in nuclear physics. Our premier […]

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Smartest People, Mediocre Nation – The Irony Of Nigeria, By Femi Orebe (Essay sent by Prof Olaniyan, Richard Adeboye)

If you have not been able to put your hands on the problem with Nigeria, it must be because you have never really put your mind to it because it is so easy to know. It is simply that a blessed country, home to some of the  best and brightest on the surface of the […]

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