Held to Ransom: Colonial Pipeline and the Vulnerabilities of Critical Infrastructure

It should be making officials in the White House tremble.  Critical infrastructure supplying 45% of the East Coast’s diesel, gasoline and jet fuel, left at the mercy of a ransomware operation executed on May 6.  In the process, 100 GB of data of Colonial Pipeline was seized and encrypted on computers and servers.  The next […]

OYO: PRIORITIZING THE PEOPLE INFRASTRUCTURE

In just about a week, after the media trended the rising traffic of Ibadan for us, as we speak, there is a most recent demolition of MRS filling station at Challenge roundabout. The roundabout structure itself is gone too, now a plane ground, awaiting new development. The MRS station had been a popular landmark at […]

Borrowing to fund infrastructure, justifiable- Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration has done no wrong by borrowing to finance infrastructure, saying that the loans taken by his government was in the interest of the country- to solve the dire shortfall in infrastructure. The president has come under heavy attack from various quarters for its borrowings of late especially from the […]

Self-Help: Albatross of the Nigerian State

Everywhere around the world, governance is a pretty serious business. In civilized and developed climes, governance has walked past provision of social amenities.  This is because, in advanced parts of the world like the United States of America and the United Kingdom where the democratic experiment is over hundred years, while maintaining public institutions is […]

Maritime experts blame Nigeria’s economic woes on infrastructure

Key actors in the field of the maritime economy on Monday expressed delight and satisfaction with the high degree of determination so far exhibited by President Muhammadu Buhari to move the country forward. They also commended the Federal Government for the priority it attaches to the economic recovery of the country. At a one day […]

The Development of a Society is not for Charlatans

For a society to develop (in all aspects and areas of human endeavour – technology, agriculture, governance, industrial, infrastructure, communication, transportation, sports, youth development, labour and employment, human and natural resources utilisation, etc.), there must be elements of complete sincerity, altruism, commitment, willingness and will-power, cooperation, diversification, tolerance, unalloyed patriotism and love for each of […]

Government should build infrastructures in the villages  

The other day I went to the village of my birth, Ilado-Oja in Okitipupa Local government area of Ondo State. The village is situated close to the border between Ondo and Ogun State. This village is not on the map of Nigeria and I know this is the first time people are reading about it […]

UNDP: We’re committed to rebuilding infrastructure in BH-affected states of Adamawa, Yobe, Borno

·         Minister commends Programme   The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said it was committed to the rebuilding of the three most-affected Boko Haram (BH) States of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, just as the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, commended the programme’s commitment in that regard. UNDP’s Resident […]