Agents of Change
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose singular action in a commercial bus became a very important symbol of the civil rights movement. Education helped Rosa Parks to…
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 Raji, an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts…
Dinner with Professors
Our Universities in Nigeria do not seem to have the relationship with Students that they could fall back on in future. I mean in terms of translating good times the…
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 The Federal Government of Nigeria and I would therefore like…
Education Ain’t Cheap!
The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the different services and products that universities…
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 Nigeria and revisit the old maxim: be careful what you…
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 one known as ‘critical reading’. The students were getting those…
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 declare a state of emergency in the education sector. He…
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…