Kenya, democracy and Africa
The verdict of the six-man panel that declared the victory of Kenyan President Kenyatta null and void came when the…
Cleaner Lagos initiative: Tabling the facts
MOST capital cities in developed countries like London, Washington D.C, Oslo, Dublin, Paris and so on are very clean and…
ASUU, students and our educational quagmire
T HE current industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has entered its third week,…
Hate speech, criticism and restructuring
WHEN President Muhammadu Buhari returned from London and resumed work after 104 days on a medical attention, many believed that…
Another drawback in education
WHEN the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced that it would soon release its own cut-off marks for admission…
The architect of a new Ogun
How fortuitous did the decision to go for a bank draft turn out to be! I had not used the…
ICT university: Another perspective
E MINENT lawyer, former pro-chancellor of the University of Lagos and founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola,…
Some cheering news at TASCE, Ogun State
Dr Lukmon Adeola Kiadese is the second substantive Provost of Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE) after its relocation to…
Issues in government’s campaign against hate speech
THE President Muhammadu Buhari administration has been combating inflammatory statements in the last few weeks. Having spent more than two…
The cost of social media surveillance
ACCORDING to Wiki.com, social media refers to ‘ interaction among people in which they create, share and/or exchange information and…
Still on ASUU Strike
IT has been over two weeks since the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarkED on an indefinite strike and…
Suspensions in Ekiti House: The imperatives of discipline
IN recent weeks, a gale of investigations of some members has hit the Ekiti State House of Assembly, resulting in…
Cautious optimism as INEC prepares for Anambra polls
IT’S at least cheery news that prospective voters are willing to come out and be registered to vote in the…
Empathy: The missing culture in Nigeria
DANIEL Goldman, the foremost emotional intelligence protagonist, defined empathy as the condition of being attentive to emotional clues, and the…
Writing, social media and the millennial
I’M from a pace-setting generation, a generation that’s in with the new and out with the old. A generation that’s…
The history of the demand for restructuring in Nigeria
IT is unfortunate that whenever we in Africa talk about our apparent backwardness, side by side with the colonialists who…
Mambila power: Buhari’s big bang project set to take off
Wednesday, August 30’s approval by the Federal Executive Council, FEC for the award of the contract for the engineering, procurement…
Ogun State and lopsided revenue sharing formula
OGUN State has always been alive to the need for an enabling and investor-friendly environment that is able to attract…
Prison congestion: Community servicing as an alternative
PRISON congestion is a social phenomenon that occurs when the demand for space in prisons in a jurisdiction exceeds the…
Placing LAUTECH crisis in context
THE plethora of commentaries and armchair analysis on the unfortunate crisis at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) ,…
