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Still on national policy on skill acquisition for youths
WITH more Nigerians now seeing skill acquisition as the way out, the stigmatisation of vocational training is lessening gradually. And now that it evidently positions youths for international opportunities, the scale is tilting in favour of…
What is left for coronavirus to conquer in Nigeria?
WHILE the rest of the world is receiving a deadly hiding at the hands of the coronavirus pandemic, we in Nigeria seem distant from this global anxiety. We are complacent, living in cloying bliss, expecting deliverance from an outsourced…
Alaafin repays Afe Babalola in his own coin
SOME of the hitherto unknown details of the celebrated 1988 Aare Ona Kakanfo case came to the fore in Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, last weekend. The setting was the commissioning of the 16 newly installed Dialysis machines, a…
Effects of coronavirus on global taxation
THE rapid outbreak of the coronavirus is alarming and the world is grappling with it. The virus has adverse effects on the health sector and its implications on commercial transactions are reshaping the global economy. The virus knows no…
Social media: Back to era of journalism without education?
WHEN I read the article with the tittle “social media and its many successes in Nigeria”, written by Femi Oguntayo and published on the Nigerian Tribune of January 25th, 2020, I could not help but agree with him that the emergence of the…
Seyi Makinde: An apology or a political grapple to save face
Following the recent apology, tendered by the Governor of Oyo State with regards to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally, which held on Wednesday 18th of March 2020, at the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), many have been…
Coronavirus, a warning message
THERE is no doubt that the possibility of the world coming to an end very soon is now very clear to everyone. The present world is critically ill and it’s now living in extraordinary and bizarre times. Strange and unimaginable things are…
China to Lagos, the frightening timeline of a deadly virus
FATALITY rate across the globe since the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Chinese town of Wuhan on December 31, 2019 has signalled that this is not the best of times for humanity. With about 8, 988 deaths and 220,877…
Of Ogun and compassion in governance
In any part of Africa, character and family virtues have been integrally linked for generations. Particularly among the Yoruba, when anyone is born in a good home, such a person has been configured to radiate good virtues from childhood to…
Africa in the global resurgence of nationalisms
Two issues inspired this essay. The first is the upcoming 2020 African Conference of the University of Texas at Austin which Professor Toyin Falola convenes annually, and that will address the theme ‘nationalism’ on the one hand. The other…