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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That I frequently hear Nigerians, educated and exposed, make illogical excuses for Nigeria is unexplainable. This weird idea of rebuffing anybody who dares to ask why Nigeria, in spite of her natural and human endowments, is not sitting up the ladder of developed countries is first of all sycophancy of the first degree...

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Every Nigerian is a critic.  We love to criticize others for every problem in the world.  We especially love to criticize leadership in every stratum...

Lessons from Anambra State Election

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Last Saturday was the day when gladiators of Abuja and Anambra politics outwitted and outsmarted one another in what seemed like a do-or-die affair...

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WS, Your sundry hoary strands Stand as beacons To navigators cruising from all...

Governor Obi, Obienyem: Merchants of Lies

One might as well state it as clearly and pointedly as possible: Governor Peter Obi of Anambra and Valentine Obienyem, the man who runs Mr. Obi’s sordid propaganda machine, are merchants of lies. In fact, Mr. Obienyem, the governor’s Man Friday, is a depraved manufacturer of falsehood...

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Not since the regaining of liberty by Nelson Mandela and the displacement and replacement of minority rule by majority rule in South Africa, have I felt this exhilarated by the occurrence and outcome of a political event...

A Treatise on Political Ebola

There were vicious strains of political Ebola that terminally strangulated credible elections and the continuum of good governance. Those strains where personified by spent forces who transmuted to political vampires and garrison commanders. They catalyzed the processes of electoral malpractice with the highest level of impunity and infected the image of the country...