Why Nigeria is failing —Tosin Oke

Why Nigeria is failing —Tosin Oke

Nigeria failed to win a medal at the 2017 IAAF World Athletics Championships, which ended on Sunday, meaning Africa's most populous nation has come home empty-handed from eight of the last nine tournaments.
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Of industrial actions, ASUU and FG

Of industrial actions, ASUU and FG

As the late Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, once said, education is the most powerful weapon that one can use to change the world.

My personal physician, my friend

My personal physician, my friend

For a long time, I indulged in drinking of cold water, with ice floating on it and cold fried meat and chicken stored in the freezer. I call it “hardened meat.” But all that are in the past.

Kashim Shettima: An optimist in a lion’s den 

Kashim Shettima: An optimist in a lion’s den 

Like a farmer with precious seeds to sow in due season drawn back by a gloomy sky growling with fits and fury, and his steps viciously altered by a heartless quicksand drifting with darts and hailstones, famine is likely the harvest of such a terrain.

Venezuela oil crisis: Cold war reminiscences

Venezuela oil crisis: Cold war reminiscences

Many Third World nations joined political bloc alignments of post-world war II to survive; a syndrome that conveyed paternalistic relationships rather than equality of nations. The phenomenon was prompted by the 45-year cold war rivalry between the American capitalist west and the Soviet communist east.