Oloyede’s N5 billion revolution Barely a year ago, precisely on July 31, 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed some eminent Nigerians to take charge of the parastatals within the Ministry of Education. One of these appointments was that of the former ...
The First Class controversy The University of Lagos recently held its 49th convocation ceremony in which 231 First Class graduands emerged from a total of 5,472. As an icing on the cake of their First Class, two graduands recorded a ...
In a valedictory delivered on November 17, 1979 at the University of Ibadan after he had to succumb to the powers that stood against his statutory second term as Vice-Chancellor, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, the late ...
At the naming ceremony of the baby aliased Dhu Nuraen (bearer of two lights) on Friday, July 8, 2016 by the prodigiously talented Dean of Postgraduate School, Prof. Badmas Olanrewaju Yusuf, mainly due to the dual presence of the Vice-Chancellor ...
Despite the increasing religiosity of Nigerians, as manifest in the preponderance of places of religious worship and lousy religion-related ceremonies and activities, it is ironic that Nigerians are becoming increasingly Godless in the conduct of their affairs. As a matter ...
The 2016 Annual Lecture of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL) was held last Thursday (February 18, 2016) at Kwara State University, one of the fastest-growing state universities in Nigeria. The topic of this year’s lecture was “Utilising Religion for ...
A brilliant article, captioned “Unsung heroes of change”, appeared in the last Tuesday edition (September 29, 2015) of “Daily Trust” newspaper (page 48). Written by David A. Onmeje, the article appraised how President Muhammadu Buhari “wants men and women of ...