By Aare Afe Babalola THE incoming 2023 general elections has again brought to the fore one of the most pressing questions in the modern-day socio-political era; that is: should women not play more active roles in politics? Perhaps this question has become more imperative considering the recent rejection of the Gender Equality Bill by the […]

BY Afe Babalola LAST week, I discussed the recent move by the Senate to create six additional law school campuses for the geopolitical zones which, as decipherable by a discerning mind, is nothing more than an intrusion into the functions of the Council of Legal Education and a superfluous venture into politicising the process. As […]

THE recent unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia is a classic example of the popular saying “that when the strong does what he likes, the weak suffers what he must”.

By Aare Afe Babalola THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, was founded in 1978 principally to demand the rights of academic staff in Federal and state universities in the country. In the exercise of this mandate, the Union had never shied away from embarking on warning and indefinite strike actions or even acting as […]

AS a vast majority of Nigerians celebrated Valentine’s Day on February 14, yet for the students of Federal and state-owned universities, the celebrations were tainted with the news of a one-month warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, who, after several weeks of inviting government and all stakeholders to honour the terms of the previous year’s agreement, resorted to embark on strike. 

By Aare Afe Babalola THE Lagos State Government recently assented a Bill for the creation of two new universities in the state: the Lagos State University of Education (being a merger and upgrade of the existing Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe to a University), and the […]

THE Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board, JUPEB, last week released results of the 2021 examinations in the wake of the public outcry of students, parents and guardians. While some attributed the delay to the alleged incompetence of the exam body, some alleged the existence of a grand scheme designed to create a panic among the concerned […]

THE Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board, JUPEB, last week released results of the 2021 examinations in the wake of the public outcry of students, parents and guardians. While some attributed the delay to the alleged incompetence of the exam body, some alleged the existence of a grand scheme designed to create a panic among the concerned students.

By AFe Babalola THE hallmark of democratic governance is the existence of functional legislative institutions. It is a widely acknowledged fact that an effective legislature is not only essential to democracy, but the sustenance of the rule of law. While the constitutional role of the legislature is essentially to make laws, the role of parliamentarians transcend […]

THE hallmark of democratic governance is the existence of functional legislative institutions. It is a widely acknowledged fact that an effective legislature is not only essential to democracy, but the sustenance of the rule of law.

BACK in 2014 when President Goodluck Jonathan convened the National Conference, one of the outstanding recommendations was the need to forge a constitution that will ensure equity, fairness and justice to all Nigerians.

By Afe Babalola  PRIOR to 1885, there existed no geographical entity now known as Nigeria unlike countries such as Germany, England, Japan, Russia, China, France, Portugal, Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon which had been in existence for over 1000 years. It is a geographical fact that the large area of land (93.765 kilometres) bigger than Germany and […]

PRIOR to 1885, there existed no geographical entity now known as Nigeria unlike countries such as Germany, England, Japan, Russia, China, France, Portugal, Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon which had been in existence for over 1000 years. It is a geographical fact that the large area of land (93.765 kilometres) bigger than Germany and Britain put together or France and Britain put together was carved out and granted to Britain at the infamous Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885.

THE usual hustle and bustle of the recently-concluded Yuletide season came with the harsh reality of the shortage of cash in Nigerian banks.

THE amalgamation of the hundreds of scattered ethno-political groups across the geographical plane now known as Nigeria has always come at a cost – the separation of the people across ethnic and religious divides.