When it was announced two days ago (Wednesday September 11) that the former Minister of Education and Professor of Curriculum Studies, Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, had been relieved of her duties along with eight others, many people were stunned. The real ...
On Saturday, 24th August, 2013, Daniel Oikhena, whose age, according to various reports, ranges from 12 to 15 years, hid himself in the tyre compartment of the Arik flight W3 544 from Benin Airport. He thought he was on his ...
If you were in the aircraft and you gazed through the window as your plane descended upon Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the unmistakable sight of greenness below you would blow your mind. If you looked further as your plane continued its ...
A king was said to have a male servant, who in all circumstances always said to him, “My King, do not be discouraged because everything God does is perfect, no mistakes. One day, they went hunting and a wild animal ...
Due to deep conviction and personal experience, I do not ordinarily fancy strike actions and I have joined issues with some vociferous stakeholders in the past who tried to challenge my freedom of thought. I staunchly refused to see things ...
As the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, did two days ago while announcing the end of Ramadhan and “Eid-ul-fitr” celebrated yesterday, I congratulate over 78 million ...
A few weeks before he was assassinated in 1947, the esteemed advocate of non-violent opposition and resistance, Mahatma Gandhi, had a conversation with his grandson in which he provided him the “seven blunders” that accounted for the violence that ravaged ...
One of the most exciting and thought-provoking definitions of the media is the one offered by Littlejohn and Foss in their book, “Theories of Human Communication” (2005) in which they offer eight metaphors to deconstruct the concept. According to them, ...
Nothing gave me a hunch of the unsightly scenery that unfolded before me as I came out of the departure lounge of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, last Thursday, October 3rd 2013, for a transaction. Since the authorities of ...
Three days ago, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) drew our attention to the global scourge of unemployment that is one of the root causes of insecurity, violence and many an anti-social behaviour in our turbulent world. In the report, “Repairing ...
As if the hair-raising developments engendered by insecurity and corruption in many parts of the country are not enough, the past few days have witnessed another round of the theatre of the absurd unfolding without intermission in Nigeria. The pick ...