Everyone who mattered was there and the stage was near perfect for what was to unfold. It was the final of the 2013 CBN Junior Tennis tournament where 8-year old Mary love Edward from Lagos State was to take on 12 year-old Bose Are from Kwara State.

The Federal Government said on Thursday that it would reopen National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) farms in each state of the federation.

THE harvest of this deliberate policy of militarizing the campuses was bountiful. But the policy, it should be noted, predated Babangida; it took form with the military invasion of the University of Lagos in 1978 to put down a protest by the students of an arbitrary increase in school fees imposed by the regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo.

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Only a few years ago, life was simple. Intellectuals read the newspapers, and grumbled with their peers about the sad state of the world. Polished women read magazines and were sometimes privileged to meet celebrities at social events. The average man listened to the radio and watched television; screaming feedback onto a figure in one’s living room that was thousands of miles away. Life was simple when black berries were just fruits and ‘tweet’ referred only to the sound made by birds.