Only last month, Western scientists successfully landed
a robot on a comet. This feat was accomplished after 25 years of careful
planning. The robot travelled 6.4 billion kilometers and took 10 years to reach
the comet, which itself was moving at a speed of 56,000 km/hr (or 18km/s).
This is coming at a time when Nigerians are exporting
religion and superstitions to the rest of the world; when our so called
"men of God" assert that the cures for diseases are to be found in
prayer houses rather than laboratories; when our universities have become the
birthing places of pastors and imams; when we have become accustomed to pastors
making extraordinary claims such as driving cars on empty tanks and
resurrecting the dead; when the medieval belief in witchcraft and the practice
of witch-hunting are ever so pervasive; when jihadists are engaged in a
campaign of terror to spread sharia. I can go on and on.
