Discrimination is not alien to the academic setting. People have lost opportunities on account of discrimination against a segment of their identity. Today is the Zero Discrimination Day, according to the United Nations (UN) observance. It is aimed at promoting equality before…
There is no doubt we have different ways of learning. Some students prefer the solace of solitude, so they learn alone. However, there are some students who cannot learn on their own. They prefer to attend tutorials and learn in groups. I…
This article examines the relevance of postgraduate education to national development, irrespective of associated challenges with it. “Develop a passion for learning, If you do, you will never cease to grow”. – Anthony J. D’Angelo The quote above is a pointer that…
By Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose The inspiration for this short public essay was borne out of a statement made by a professor of English, Adeleke Lefak Fakoya, in a lecture he delivered in the University of Ibadan in 2014. The professor started his…
Professor Wole Soyinka is going back to Donald Trump’s America, less than a year after he tore his Green Card following the election of Donald Trump as the president. The Nobel Laureate will be delivering the Richard D. Cohen Lectures at Harvard…
Five scientists have emerged as joint winners of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) $100,000 Prize for Science. The Chairman of the Advisory Board for the NLNG Science Prize, Professor Akpoveta Susu, made the announcement at a press conference organised by the…
Not less than 25 staff of Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, are now under police investigation for alleged certificate racketeering, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Administrator of the polytechnic, Professor Shehu Dalhatu, disclosed to NAN on Thursday in Zaria that there…
The Dean, Faculty of Science at the Lagos State University, Professor Oluwole Ebenezer Omikorede, is dead. According to a press statement issued by the LASU Spokesman, Ademola Adekoya, Professor Omikorede was still at work on Wednesday, November 1st before he died later…
By Sanni Kay. Yusuf Nigeria, inhabited mostly by the downtrodden (people who eat from hand to mouth, feeding on a meal greatly lesser than $1; people who enjoy no balanced diets because what is available is what is eatable etc.) is tortuously…
In what may appear a show of might, a lecturer at the University of Lagos, Dr Babawale Taiwo along with his colleague, Dr Israel Abiala had on Wednesday evening allegedly stabbed a student of the university in the face with an unidentified…
