Education

Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School at 70!  (2)

According to Michael Afolayan, a US-based Professor of Education and Linguistics, what is happening in IJGS “is a systemic problem - the aphorism of...

Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School at 70! (1)

Paying tribute to a respected institution as it marks three scores and ten of sustained success and brand excellence shouldn't feel routine or simply...

School Na Scam?” No—Ignorance Is The Real Fraud!

The boy at the bus stop had a smartphone more expensive than the tuition of an average Nigerian university. He was not on his...

On the National Open University Misconception – A Rejoinder

It is certain that Nigerians value school more than education. We forgot that education brings the information or knowledge but school only places the certificate. So, which one is better?

How to Handle Imagery in a Poem or Passage

Imagery works by means of analogy. It is a broad term used in describing all the images, figures and pictures of the mind present in a poem or passage...

How Cole Porter Got My Student Interested In Poetry

Most of the students I've taught Literature-in-English in my school come in expressing an aversion to poetry or poems. So, to get them involved and interested, I try to convince them a poem is peculiar kind of language for very important people…

How To Pass Your Cambridge A Level…In 9 Months

If you successfully pass your A Level exams with three straight As, there should be no school anywhere in the world that should take you for granted...

Clinching a Scholarship via the SAT

I am writing this to shed light on the heavy shadow of ignorance among students who wish to obtain a scholarship to attend university in America and expect to do so via other exams apart from the SAT...

What It Means To Be Calm Before The SAT…

It is important that we clarify what we mean when we tell our candidates to be 'calm' before a near syllabus-less exam like the SAT or TOEFL...

How To Be A Journalist

No matter who you are as a journalist, you are very, very dispensable. And because of your dispensable status quo, you find that you may have to change jobs every now and then...

If I Have To Teach A Dyslexic

Dyslexic children are a little hard to come by in my part of the world and I guess this is why I've not run into one yet...

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Haiti, 2 Million Persons Still Homeless 10 Months After Earthquake!

Where are the loud and ostentatious pledges and promises of relief and reconstruction? Where is divine interventions from the heavens? How does anyone reassure 2 million Haitians who are homeless for almost a whole year now?

Eleven Years of Transition from Military to Civilian Rule: Why We Have Failed

It may at this point be categorically stated, that, the factors which orchestrated the cancelation of the June 12 elections, our immediate reaction and how the post-June challenges were taken over and exploited to achieve vested political interests by tinny groups of powerful cabals laid down the foundation of why democracy has failed in solving our perennial problems...

When A Man Gazes At A Woman

The genius of a man’s eyes works optimally upon alighting a woman’s 

body. With his eyes, a man can conveniently strip a well-clad woman to 

the bare...

Bhutto/Ghandi: Dynasties In Peril

The orgy of naked terrorism and the festival of bloodletting from Palestine to Iraq, Israel to Afghanistan, Pakistan to Sudan make the world a worse place to live in...

Coming to America (2)

Handling visiting relatives is as dangerous as handling a scorpion.  Yes, I understand that most don’t know how the system work and need a little guidance in getting around and doing things - but the ones that refuse to listen and claim to be I-Too-Know in all things American - those ones are just plain annoying...

Amaechi: Who Knows Tomorrow?

A judicial volcano erupted last Thursday in the Supreme Court in Abuja with Celestine Omehia, the impostor Governor of Rivers State and his gang-terrorised government swept aside

Matters Arising: Of Area Boys, Tinubu And Obasanjo

Apart from the corruption of our political leaders, if there is one of their characteristics that I abhor, it is their hypocrisy...

Called unto Holiness Church of our God!

There are too many diversionary things today in our midst. The flesh is taken over many a pulpit. Christianity is being made a financial concern, and the church a cash and carry ‘miracle’ rendezvous...

One Country, Two Presidents

Nigeria is about the only country I know in the world where things are done illegally and a majority of the citizens keep mum. Almost everyone accept illegality as a norm...

Where Are We Now?

It is easy for us to turn our face and keep quiet when injustice is being visited on other people. If someone is being kicked to death outside our doors it is easy to turn the volume of the TV up and pretend not to hear the victim’s cry...