“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breaths away.” – George Carlin The news of the death of the former Vice-Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, ...
In a sense, the root of the word “university” can be traced to the word “universe”. The universe is that vast repository of billions of galaxies in which our world, technically the earth, is not more than a very tiny ...
Internet addition, otherwise called online addiction or internet addiction disorder, is a potent problem that is increasing becoming part of our daily lives. Unlike what obtains in some parts of the developed world where such problems are given systematic support ...
For about 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide, this is the holy season of Ramadhan. The ninth month of the Islamic calendar is characterised by fasting and devotion. Ramadhan is the holiest month in the year and it is an opportunity to ...
This is not the best of times for the State of Osun. Recently, the state is always in the news for the wrong reasons. If people are not groaning loud because of unpaid salaries for several months now, with the ...
Like several millions of well-meaning Nigerians, home and abroad, I want to congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari on his assumption of office as Nigeria’s democratically-elected President. It was a long and tortuous journey for him and Nigerians since the ambition was ...
One thing that bothers me most about the calamity that has struck our education, not only here but also everywhere “modernization” is taking place, is the scant regard given to the role of parents. All of a sudden, we seem ...
By today (May 29, 2015), Nigerians who have been on a roller-coaster enduring the tragedies of death, deprivation and destruction foisted on their country over the past few years, will heave a sigh of relief, other things being equal. I ...
Newspapers reported last Friday (May 8, 2015) that many students of the premier University of Ibadan protested the death of their colleague, Mayowa Alaran. The former 200 level student of the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, who was ...
There is a lot of crisis in our society nowadays that the nagging question borders on the type of education that our youth receive. Why is there so much depravity among the youth, including students of higher institutions of learning? ...
When I learnt that Nigeria signed a nuclear deal about two weeks ago with Russia to build power plants to the tune of $80 billion, my heart dropped from the top to the bottom of my stomach with a thud. ...
My first real encounter with Prof. Tekena N. Tamuno was in 1998 through an article written by the highly cerebral Professor of Virology, Tam David West, for “This Day” newspaper. In the article, “On winning war and winning peace”, published ...