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Secure culture, insure future Given the rate at which the world is going amok with our cultural values, religious teachings and traditional safeguards being thrown overboard by the young and the old alike, p... Read More...

The shock, the Himalayas and the way out The Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ), a body of versatile and responsible students impassioned by self-development, organised its annual Press Week last week during ... Read More...

Enemies of progress: The lessons Some men are like sunshine, they illuminate the faces; some men are like the rain, they make people grow; some are like hurricane, they wreak havoc, and yet others are like t... Read More...

Enemies of progress: The letter If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed – Mark Twain Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, so says an old aph... Read More...

Enemies of progress:  The lies Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny – William Shakespeare Between March 14 and 16, 2017, a national newspaper newspaper regaled its audi... Read More...

Fresh students’ bumper harvest If anything untoward happens to the admission of any of the 10,886 students matriculated by the University of Ilorin on March 1, 2017, it will not be because of lacking good ad... Read More...

Former President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, like all great men, means many things to many people and institutions. To the University of Ilorin, his personality is etched in gold for many reasons out which space w... Read More...

Mansur Ismail: From zero to hero On January 24, 2017, the University of Lagos held its 49th convocation ceremony in which a total of 231 graduands bagged a First Class degree in various disciplines. This spe... Read More...

Thoughtful tips for this time In his book, The Spirituality of Being, David Hurr said something canonical: “All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidity is original”. This is what the Yoruba meant when they said... Read More...

The word of the year                                                                                   The editors of Oxford Dictionaries at the middle of this month (November, 2016) declared “post-truth” a... Read More...

In preparing a booklet I called Let’s Talk about Death published in 2003, one source I found useful is Khawalaja Muhammad Islam’s The Spectacle of Death, the adopted title of this column. A first reading of the... Read More...

Though the month of August 2016 will be remembered by millions of people as the month of the Rio Olympics, where the Nigerian athletes ran well like pregnant women and our poorly motivated football team managed... Read More...