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Need to tread with care
The glaring truth is that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) needs to look for a reasonable strategy to tackle the imbalances in the Nigerian educational system.Strike as a strategy is no longer the way as it causes more…
Why Africa may not deliver SDGs by 2030
This year marks the five-year anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 193 countries of the world. This agenda was set towards serving as the major blueprint to achieve a…
Should Nigerians celebrate independence?
NIGERIA recently celebrated its 60th Independence Day and going by the situation of things in the country, in terms of insecurity, increase in fuel and electricity prices, which will add to the economic burden of Nigeria, there is need to…
Celebrating technocracy in Osun democracy
Democracy, a political concept with an inherent doctrine of egalitarianism, equality and human rights, is a form of government in which people choose leaders by voting. Democracy as a system of government cannot drive itself. It’s driven by…
Mixed feelings as Nigeria clocks 60
Leadership in any polity is the machinery that drives the vision, mission and ideology of a nation. Leadership has to do with the power or ability to lead other people. The principal problem of Nigeria is leadership; other problems are its…
Selfish leadership, disunity in Nigeria’s diversity
Today, Nigeria celebrates her 60th golden jubilee. As usual, the annual activities to mark the independence celebration had earlier been outlined by the Federal Government. Even before today, political analysts, financial experts and public…
60 years after, our leaders still steal our meat
In a few hours, Nigerians will be celebrating 60 years of independence or dependent independence, depending on which side of the horoscope you are looking at it. And it’s no surprise that again the forces that be are again interested in…
Need to tread with care
Miscreants could be forgiven for not knowing that to create a Republic from an existing one requires two popular methods, especially where there are no Secession Clauses in the Constitution: Universal Referendum procedure, which may take…
Education, the path to people’s liberation
At about this time last year, the Nigerian People’s Liberation Front (NPLF) was featured in the ‘Letters to the Editor column of the Tribune newspapers.I had envisioned hundreds of patriots, freedom fighters, those who are sick and…
We need men of integrity
When we remember the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, we do not remember him in terms of the number of houses he built or a number of cars he drove but rather, we remember him in terms of his philosophy, touching the lives of the poor, free…