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 that it is the wisdom of ...
The word of the year The editors of Oxford Dictionaries at the middle of this month (November, 2016) declared “post-truth” as the international word of the year. This word, which has witnessed about 2,000% increase in use this year, owes ...
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 book made me ...
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, in spite of all ...
At the naming ceremony of the baby aliased Dhu Nuraen (bearer of two lights) on Friday, July 8, 2016 by the prodigiously talented Dean of Postgraduate School, Prof. Badmas Olanrewaju Yusuf, mainly due to the dual presence of the Vice-Chancellor ...
On Friday June 10, 2016, I was aboard an Emirates flight to Chicago enroute to the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where it emerged that the University of Ilorin, based on its commitment to peace, is the only one in ...
The alumni of the US exchange programmes had a meeting with the visiting US Embassy cultural attaché, Mr Bob Kerr, and his team at a beautiful location in Ilorin last Wednesday (June 1, 2016). For Fulbright scholars and other exchange ...
When the University of Ilorin was to organise its epoch-making 40th anniversary last October, it chose the right man to lead the organising team, in person of that doyen of intellectualism, Prof. Yasir Anjola Quadri of the Department of Religions. ...
“Man becomes discourse after his demise/ Be a good discourse for him who observes” – Arab poet [dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hen the text message of the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ilorin Chapter, Dr Usman A. Raheem, hit ...
Last Thursday (February 18, 2016) will remain evergreen in the annals of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL) as it was the day it held its 2016 Annual Lecture, delivered by our mercurial former Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Is-haq O. Oloyede (OFR). ...
The month of January 2016 has come and gone but its memory will continue to linger because of the sour taste it left in our throats. At least, two tragedies befell us as a community. These were two obituaries which ...
[dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]oday (i.e. September 21), various governments, institutions, organisations and people across all countries will mark the International Day of Peace. In our world ravaged by war and enmeshed by conflict, at least devoting a day to promote and project ...