Isqil Najim
Isqil Najim: 10 Reasons You Should Not Pursue an Engineering Career
Engineering career is said to be for the best and brightest and rightly so. But for every article celebrating the profession, there is a missing conversation: the honest one...
Isqil Najim
Why Does Nigeria Celebrate High JAMB Scorers but Sideline Them as Professionals?
Nigeria has an annual ritual of celebrating JAMB's highest scorers. But behind this open celebration is an uncomfortable...
Education and Career
ViewPoint: Why Lowering Teachers’ Entry Standards Cannot Save Nigerian Education — and What Can
By Isqil NajimThe Federal Ministry of Education recently announced that candidates seeking admission into Colleges of Education will...
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ViewPoint: Engineering Registration Between Those Who Build and Those Who Teach
By Isqil Najim
Engineering is practice: from the roads on which our mobility of goods and people from one...
Isqil Najim
Re- The Graveyard of Donated Equipment: The Problem Is Engineering, Not Economics
By Isqil NajimDr. Isaac Akinsika’s recent piece in The Health Ledger is awelcome dissection of a problem that...
Viewpoint: Do Not Isolate Them!
By Isqil NajimWe all left the class together as engineering graduates, each bubbling with the excitement of a greater future ahead in engineering practice....
The Nigerian Silent Water Crisis: A Mirror of Iran or a Warning for the Future?
The ongoing protests in Iran revealed many things, but of particular interest to me is the water crisis. It made me think deeply about...
Beyond AA Rano Nigeria’s Bold Leap into Unmanned Station and the Future of Labour
By Isqil NajimIn an era where technology is rewriting the rules of global commerce, Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sector has reached a historic turning point....
Three Decades Later: Pa Akintunde’s Call for Technological Self-Reliance Still Challenges Nigeria’s Political Will
In his 1994 October Lecture, “Mileposts, Offsets and Benchmarks,” Pa Ifedayo Akintunde , FNSE, the frst African to win WFEO Medical of Engineering Excellence...
A trip to NSE Conference in Ibadan; A Reflection on Nigeria’s Railway Journey and the Missing Link
By Isqil NajimThe first time I stepped onto a train was when I was a kid. Other than that, I barely had a need...
Protected: Reclaiming the Proactive Legacy of Nigerian Engineering Practictioners as Social Crusaders (2)
By Isqiil NajimThis is the concluding part of the article, Reclaiming the Proactive Legacy of Nigerian Engineering Practictioners as Social Crusaders, , where I...