Tunde Solarin’s Eulogy to Sheila Mary Solarin, MBE , delivered on Thursday November 8, 2012  

WHEN Sheila and Tai Solarin carved out a small jungle clearing to build a classroom, over half a century ago, the name they had already chosen...

THE National Universities Commission Executive Secretary, Professor Julius Okojie recently noted that sixty per cent or more of our lecturers are without P.H.D degrees. What right to good quality of education does this give us the future leaders...

THE planned ban on commercial motorcycle operatives popularly known as Okada from operating in Warri, Uvwie Council and Asaba by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State is a misplaced priority. The deadline for this was slated for September...

Ekiti State

IN October 2011 Ekiti State  established a social pension targeted at any person over 65 and without a pension who has been resident in Ekiti for three years or more. In May 2012, 20,000 people started receiving this pension...

THE increasing rate of unemployment in an abundant filled nation is alarming. Nigeria universities churn out graduates every year with few job opportunities to position them. We are losing most of our youths and graduates to crime and social vices...

AMIDST music, dance and drama, Team Delta was on Sunday officially declared winner of the 18th National Sports Festival, tagged Eko 2012, which came to an end at the Teslim Balogun Stadium.

At the closing ceremony graced by some of Nigeria’s...

THE society is a reflection of the aggregate of values and priorities of its members. There are few things around us, both good and bad, that did not originate as a ‘thought’ in the mind of an individual or group of individuals. Consequently, if...

PUBLIC primary and secondary schools in Lagos State could not resume for the new academic session on Monday because of a teachers’ strike.

The state chapter of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Thursday declared  an indefinite strike...

DIFFERENT issues, propositions, perspectives, debates, however conflicting, partial or controversial have been heralded with the recent government move on the clearing of Makoko community of Lagos state.

Makoko characterised as a slum –...

A STUDY published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that calories from different types of food will determine how they are burned by the body.  Historically, it has been said that a calorie in equals a calorie out, and...

THE Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently reiterated on many occasions that she would not stay on for President Barack Obama’s second term. The declaration has unleashed waves of speculation about her plans. There is a conjecture...

IN pursuit of its mission to support countries in mobilizing resources for funding health programmes within the ECOWAS sub-region, the West African Health Organisation (WAHO) recently witnessed in Monrovia, Liberia the inauguration of the...