Busyness is bad business When you think about it, you realise that the ultimate goal of education is to make one be at peace with oneself and the world, nothing more. However, this goal will never be attained without appreciating ...
Your time is your life In our today’s world, time travels at a dizzying speed. The mantra on many lips is that “there is no time”. Hardly does a day begin before we realise it has ended. In fact, the ...
A right step in the right direction, the Conference on “Religious Harmony in Nigeria: Towards the 2019 General Elections” was held at Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, between October 11 and 14, 2018. Convened by the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council ...
For some years now, Nigerian graduates have always been accused of not being employable. For instance, while one Dr Bongo Ali, a World Bank consultant, asserted last year in Lagos at the conference of the Nigerian Institute of Management that ...
Given the centrality of effective funding to the attainment of educational objectives, the Federal Ministry of Education, in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Finance, organised a two-day stakeholders’ workshop on sustainable funding for education in Nigeria on November 27 ...
Nigeria at 58: Education at a crossroads When Nigeria attained political independence in October 1960, there were high hopes and great expectations that, shorn of the yoke of colonial domination, the infant country would soon achieve its full potential and ...
Like their other 1.5 billion counterparts all over the world, Muslims in Nigeria today celebrate the Eidel Adhah, the greater of the two major festivals in Islam. The traditional festival of sacrifice is celebrated with fun and fanfare worldwide, despite ...
In one of his classic fables, Aesop, the legendary “sage of Lydia” who lived between 620 and 560 BC, tells us of how two roosters once fought for supremacy in the farmland. The winner of the contest flew to the ...
In the fast-paced and supersonic lifestyle of today, it could sound preposterous to some people that prayer is very essential to success in life. Such people are wont to give examples of secular and atheist countries making progress and the ...
At the public presentation of a book, “Dynamics of Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences: Essays in Honour of Prof. Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede”, last Wednesday (February 22, 2018) in Abuja, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, made some salient ...
The story is told of a poor man who lived with his wife in a rustic town. One day, his wife, who had long hair, asked him to buy a comb for her so that her hair could be well ...
The latest PhD holder in town, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, may be an enigmatic personality whose politics and letter writing skills always divide public opinion. Nevertheless, there is an aspect of him about which all Nigerians, even his harshest critics, ...