It is appropriate to confess from the start that I am emotionally attached to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso. Apart from cutting my academic teeth there in 2000 as a young don, LAUTECH left fond memories in me ...
Remember Rwanda! There is palpable tension in the land. Of late, ballistic verbal missiles of ethnocentric proportions have been flying across both sides of the Niger. Threats of war, eviction notices and other hubris that tend to undermine our national ...
From the earliest of times, not to talk of the slogan that brought former US President Barrack Obama and President Muhammadu Buhari to power, change has been a key and recurrent factor in human existence. The Greek Philosopher, Heraclitus, after ...
Nigerians’ corruption, Akintola’s intervention On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, all roads led to Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos, for the 58th Inaugural Lecture of the University, captivatingly entitled “Oh God! What Have We Done? An Eschatological Excursus”. The inaugural lecturer ...
Worried by the rising wave of hateful religious rhetoric among some clerics in recent times and the implications of such for peaceful co-existence in Nigeria, the Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) Abuja, under the leadership of Barr. ...
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 ...
Make hay while the sun shines One of the most emotional faces of a frustrated man that I remember happened about three years ago. I was accosted on a windy afternoon by a man who wanted to know his chances ...
Hakuna matata Courtesy of the Bee Media Solution, I addressed a group of students along with other speakers on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at the University of Ilorin under the “Impact Makers” programme tagged “Getting It Right”. Given the situation ...
The Gambia’s gamble After attending the week-long 26th Biennial Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Conference hosted by the University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, and being given what I referred to as the “Arik treatment” by the Air ...
In part of what was evidently his last contribution to knowledge and scholarship, the late former Minister of Education and well-acclaimed educationist, Prof. Babs Fafunwa, wrote “The Beginnings and Evolution of University Education in Nigeria” which was published in “Fifty ...
Easy speak There is an old saying that different languages are good for different occasions and for one to be understood properly, many languages are required. Therefore, when you are speaking to God, use Latin; to the military, German; to ...
Though the quote of Nelson Mandela that education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world is often touted among us, there is nothing to suggest that due regard is paid to that all-important bedrock of ...