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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The Adedibu Albatross Hanging on Alao-Akala’s Neck

Ibadan belongs to all of us. But too many of us have sat on our hands for too long while Baba Adedibu and his goons literally rode roughshod over parts of Ibadan, maiming people, destroying properties and holding the city hostage...

Understanding the Middle East Crisis

Today, no one seems to remember why “terrorism” began in the first place. No one seems to remember that for upward of six decades the Israelis, with the tacit approval of the United States, have refused to grant the Palestinians statehood...

Sanwo-Olu and the pursuit of a social market economy (3)

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Religious Intolerance: Lessons from Yoruba ‘Paganism’

Chances are, growing up, you partook – as audience or celebrant – in a very colourful tapestry of ancestral liturgies: Ogun festival, Sango festival, Imole festival, Egungun festival, and, of course, Oro festival, the fear of which is the beginning of wisdom for Yoruba women...

Restoring Sanity to our Armed Forces

A tsunami of disaster has swept through the rank...

Why the Chibok Girls May Never Return To Us

It has been over one hundred days since the abduction of the Chibok girls. Over one hundred days in which the girls have had to endure pure horror and pain in the hands of terrorists. Over one hundred days of waking up at the mercy of the mood swings of terrorists...

When A Nation Can Fund Everything Except Its Future

There is a peculiar tragedy that unfolds in Nigeria...

The Rise and Fall of Our Motherland

The problem with Nigeria is not only the complete ineptitude of our elected leaders, their wanton and wilful refusal to abide by the Rule of Law or the fact that we now operate a four tier system of government, the fourth being corruption...

Before The First Whistle in the 2010 South Africa World Cup

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa...