Education

Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School at 70!  (2)

According to Michael Afolayan, a US-based Professor of Education and Linguistics, what is happening in IJGS “is a systemic problem - the aphorism of...

Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School at 70! (1)

Paying tribute to a respected institution as it marks three scores and ten of sustained success and brand excellence shouldn't feel routine or simply...

School Na Scam?” No—Ignorance Is The Real Fraud!

The boy at the bus stop had a smartphone more expensive than the tuition of an average Nigerian university. He was not on his...

Agents of Change

Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose singular action in a commercial bus became a very important symbol of the civil rights...

Rejoinder: Obafemi Awolowo University, between Wumi Raji and Adediwura Alawode

It is no longer news that Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria is in crisis, as reported by various platforms. Wumi Raji, an Associate Professor...

Dinner with Professors

Our Universities in Nigeria do not seem to have  the relationship with Students  that they could fall back on in future.  I mean in...

Beyond Free School Meals: A Case for Toys, Libraries and Playgrounds

I have read several write ups about Free Schools meals in Osun State and a similar scheme being proposed by The Federal Government of...

Education Ain’t Cheap!

The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the...

Subsidy Removal: Buhari Must Not Put the Cart Before the Horse!

The current fuel crisis may be causing Muhammadu Buhari to rue his fourth and successful quest for the presidency of Nigeria and revisit the...

To Nigeria’s Greatest ‘Criticizers’

I used to teach the SATs. And one of the modules that gave my students the greatest problem is the one known as ‘critical...

Bring back our pencils, rulers and chalk

I have just read of a call by a very important politician in Southwestern Nigeria, asking the Federal government to declare a state of...

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Before fuel subsidy is terminated

Perhaps, aside from the harrowing experience of the unfortunate 30-month Civil War that raged between 1967 and 1970, which virtually tore apart the nation’s social fabric still dangerously holding the people together till this day, the parlous, testy state of affairs in Nigeria’s socio-economic and political systems in recent times definitely calls for an urgent remedy...

There Is Something Rotten Going On In Bayelsa State

This is corruption. This is theft. This is gross irresponsibility on the part of the state! Does the state not have competent legal officers to pursue the rogues who perpetrated this fraud?

Nigeria's Central Bank on lower interest rate

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Goodluck Jonathan and His Assets

So, President Goodluck Jonathan doesn’t want to declare his assets? And he doesn’t give a damn about it? So the one that went to school shoeless is so sensitive to declare what mother fortune and sleight of political hand has thrust on him?

Africa needs a new “Berlin Conference”

A cursory look at the map of Africa will reveal a continent broken up into weak nation-states that can barely sustain themselves. In reality, very few African countries are actually viable by themselves without a measure of foreign aid and consequently intervention...

Judiciocracy As A Cheap Alternative

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Why should Mr. Speaker Resign as Speaker?

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