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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Between Orji the Godfather and Orji the Cultist Governor!

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How The Niger Delta People Can Get Their Freedom From a Terrorist Country Like Nigeria: A Simple but Effective Guide (3)

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Osun PDP/Accord and the structural stress

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In Defence Of Obasanjo

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An Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown

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Sexual Cannibalism

Assuming women were like the female praying mantis or the female black widow that feed on the male counterpart during or after sex, how many men would have loved or love to be loved by women?

Afenifere and the Progressive Camp (1)

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