Of Nigerian Youths, Science and Creativity
Nigeria needs perhaps a massive youth project to fight a war against poverty and disease. But the youths must also…
The Importance of Functional Education
The importance of functional education to national life cannot be over stated, education makes us think rationally amongst several other…
Of Fulbright, Full Truths and Being Brightly You
Fulbright is many, many things wrapped up in one. Like a Christmas hamper. But unlike a Christmas hamper, the package…
Agents of Change
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose singular action in a commercial bus became a very important symbol…
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…
Dinner with Professors
Our Universities in Nigeria do not seem to have the relationship with Students that they could fall back on 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…
Education Ain’t Cheap!
The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly…
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…
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…
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…
UNESCO: Unfounded figure of Nigerian Children out of School
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO can embarrass a nation it is serving with educational information when it goes out to do or permute funny numbers to…
The Mis-Education of the African People (1)
Due to conquest, subjugation and colonialism, black people throughout the world seem to suffer from racial and cultural identity problems emanating from educational systems that belittle their existence and self-worthiness. On the other hand, the Arabs of Africa are excluded from consideration here since they do not suffer identity problems as much as black people…
Nigeria's education sector and UNESCO's report
The Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, in Nigeria, Professor Hassana Alidou, at a recent launch of the Education For All, EFA, Global Monitoring Report, GMR, said that Nigeria has some of the worst education indicators in the world…
Infusing Character Education into Nigeria's school Curriculum
Apart from the immediate family setting, the school is the next most important agent of socialisaton. But with eroding family values as a result of ‘errant and absent’ parents, the school is fast becoming an indispensable character molder of children…
A Little, Humble Tribute to Late Chief Segun Okeowo
We fought running battles with the Mobile Police stationed outside the gates of the University. Throughout the over a week that we boycotted classes, throwing stones and taunting the “godo-godos”, as we called the ferocious mobile, anti-riot policemen, not once did they enter the University…