THERE is a paradox governments have  built around education — they are spending billions of Naira on education, yet the financial issues around education are not being resolved. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, strike is only one…

By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu

Many different thoughts came to my mind last week, when news of Festus Iyayi’s tragic death broke.

The pain was deep and the anger and confusion were overwhelming. In that tragic accident, Nigeria lost…

WE are once again gathered in this magnificent edifice for yet another Ojude Oba Festival. Ojude Oba Festival as you are all aware, is an important event in our community as a people, being the only festival of its type celebrated in South-West,…

By Olasunkanmi Akoni



All things being equal, the prevailing ordeal of motorists and other road users in the Mile Two and Marina  parts of Lagos should be over in 18 months if the assurance recently given to that effect by the  Managing…

By Ochereome Nanna

The decision by the Abia State Government to to recall the non-indigenes discharged from the state’s civil service and throw the doors open for an all-inclusive hiring of new staff comes as a big relief. It was certainly…

Some organisations, public and private, are hanging perilously in the air, waiting to drop dead, and die they will, except urgent steps are taken. The idea we have here will benefit from predictions:



There are some media outfits in…

By AMAKA ABAYOMI & LAJU ARENYEKA



Nigerian students planning to write qualifying examinations into colleges and universities in the United States have begun to make plans to travel outside the country to write the(TOEFL). …

By Dele Sobowale

“When about 50 higher institutions were approved to take off within six years, where were the faculties expected to come from? In 2004, when I was a PGD student of the School of Mass Communication of the Lagos State…