Last Saturday (December 13, 2015), Nigeria hit the global headlines for the wrong reasons again on account of the bloodbath in Zaria. It was most unfortunate that emotions were allowed to dominate reason and a tragedy resulting in needless killings ...

On Thursday, January 23, 2015, which was barely three weeks to the date originally set for the 2015 presidential elections, the National Security Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), was in Chatham House, London, where he ...

In Physics, Newton’s third law of motion is generally stated as thus: “To every action, there is always opposed an equal reaction; or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary parts”. ...

The year 2015 fortunately is ending without a major implosion that could threaten the corporate existence of Nigeria. As a result of this, casting one’s mind back the past 12 months, one would be grateful to God that despite the ...

On November 11, 2015, the Students’ Union of the University of Ilorin organised a Leadership Training Programme on the theme, “Redefining Student Leadership in the 21st Century”. My presentation on the occasion was on “Aloha Unionism: Strategising for Effective Conflict ...

Last week, from November 22 to 26, Vice-Chancellors and other stakeholders from 11 countries, chiefly from West Africa, converged on the Nigerian Turkish Nile University, Abuja, for the third annual conference of the Association of West Africa Universities (AWAU). The ...

Between 1881 and 1914, virtually all parts of Africa were effectively under the control of the European gladiators who scrambled for the soul of the continent. The Berlin Conference of 1844 officially kick-started the process and in a short while, ...

If you ask me, dear reader, the tragedy of our today’s life essentially lies in the disaster that has befallen our education. It is a global disaster really but the consequences are more prevalent among us little ones in their ...