Nestling aboard an incoming Delta Airline flight from Atlanta, Georgia on May 10, 2024, the window-seat view of the landscape and skyscape of Ikeja cityscape was gloomy. The giant American …
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Children’s Day: For Bayelsa, education is a development strategy
Children’s Day has been celebrated on May 27, in Nigeria since 1963. The day is set aside to recognise the place of children in society, reexamine their challenges with a …
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Nigeria, like virtually every African country, is a colonial construct of western imperialism and the Berlin Conference of 1879. Its name is a colonial coinage imposed by Flora Shaw, who …
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Within the one year of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, he has taken bold and audacious decisions to put Nigeria on the path of economic growth, which others would be afraid …
Read More »Obafemi’s commitment to funding Nigeria’s public universities – Part 8
Another alternative mode of funding universities with cautionary observances of implications and consequences is the proposition by Olabisi, I. Aina (2002) in their paper, “Alternative Modes of Financing Higher Education …
Read More »Smearing religious leaders
When they want to smear religious leaders they abandon logic as they make presentations that have not been well thought through. They leave what others do, but castigate the religious …
Read More »Resolving MMA2 regional flight operations conundrum
In a clime where the dearth of public infrastructure, engendered by inconsistent government policies is endemic, it is preposterous for its economy to blossom. The post Resolving MMA2 regional flight …
Read More »Doctrine of fruit of the poisonous tree in criminal law
The fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine is a legal principle in criminal litigation that prohibits evidence obtained through illegal means or in contravention of law from being admissible in …
Read More »Not yet a sigh of relief
The nation was only a few steps away from potential chaos and confusion on Tuesday. We had a taste of the gloom that has been staring the nation in the …
Read More »Understanding United States’ support for Israel
Ignorance kills a people. If you don’t know salt is an accelerator of high blood pressure, you can indulge in sprinkling raw salt in all your meals. The post Understanding …
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