There is no controversy about the goal of every human endeavour, it is to attain success. Everyone wants to be successful in school, in business, in politics, and ultimately in life. The overarching motivation behind our toils is to be ...
One of the quotations I often remember is that “worry doesn’t give you anything in return; it rather deprives you of other things.” So, if anyone has the right attitude to life, it would be realised that what makes others ...
On June 12, 2007, I found myself as a speaker at the pre-departure workshop organised by the Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy at Victoria Island, Lagos, for the 2007/2008 Exchange Grantees. Though my presentation was captioned “Between ...
The story of the spectacular success of the academic genius, Ayodele Dada, was almost buried in the rubble of the usual media chatter. The bread seller-turned-celebrity for doing nothing, Olajumoke Orisaguna, got all the attention while the real miracle of ...
Abduction is criminal Last week, it was the story of Ese Oruru that dominated the public space. The young girl from Bayelsa State was said to have been abducted by a teenager, Yunusa Dahiru (alias Yellow), in August last year ...
In our world and country, the mechanistic, technocratic approach to life has gained momentum in the past few years. Come to think of it, we operate more like machines these days than as humans. We are mainly motivated by profit, ...
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 ...
Our world today largely revolves around peoples’ opinions and judgements. Right from the early stage of education, there are remarks and judgements about academic ability and character. At the end of formal education as well, certain pronouncements are made in ...
While averring that “pain is pleasure” last week, I alluded to the pursuit of pleasure as a core focus or central affirmation of Hinduism, which basically is: “You can have all you want”. This does not suggest that Hinduism is ...
One of the memories I have of the pulse-pounding blockbuster of Dan Brown, “The Da Vinci Code” (2003), is the epigrammatic principle, “pain is pleasure”, and its counterforce, “pleasure is pain”. Though Dan Brown does not elaborate on the paradox ...
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of the University of Ilorin, Prof. (Mrs) Nike Yetunde Sidikat Ijaiya, is a woman of several firsts. It suffices to say here that she is the first female Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the acclaimed “better by far” ...
[dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]here is a craze among students these days that deserves our serious attention though many parents and teachers decide to look the other way. This is the campus couples syndrome, which entails the co-habitation of boys and girls in ...