On the Lord’s Day

The increasing cases of rape and defiling of little children in Ekiti require urgent attention. The amendment being sought may include imprisonment and medical castration of offenders, among others not stipulated in the existing law —Erelu…

I am sorry” can be an admission of guilt or wrong-doing and an apology; it can, however, mean exasperation, surrender, and throwing in of the towel. Like that boxer who refused to come out of his corner for the next round of boxing,…

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. —Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th president of the United…

I found ex-Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola’s explanation to the media after last Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting very interesting. Answering questions on his ministry, Fashola made disclosures on how…

In the “xenophobic” response to the xenophobic attack on foreigners by black South Africans, useful lessons which ought to have been learnt, first to prevent a recurrence and, second, to avoid and or avert a tragedy of greater proportions…

I religiously read Gov. (Engr.) Seyi Makinde’s “100 Days: Restoring glory to Oyo State” published to mark his first 100 days in office, a rite that came with the introduction into Nigeria of the America-styled presidential system of…

ACCORDING to Google, “structural-functionalism or, simply, functionalism, is ‘a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability’...This approach looks at both…

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them without doing anything. – Albert EinsteinIn all who keep silent in the face of tyranny, the man dies – Prof. Wole Soyinka.If there…

Words and terms are often bastardised; which was why Karl Marx and Frederick Engels chose to call their seminal manifesto “The Communist Manifesto,” instead of “The Socialist Manifesto” because, in their own reckoning, various…

THOSE who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable –US President John F. Kennedy: Remarks on the Alliance for Progress, 13 March, 1962.Hereditary bondmen! Know ye not (that) who would be…