By OWEI LAKEMFA EXACTLY a week ago, I was    privileged to be a moderator at the National Students Retreat held at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK). The occasion which included Student – Lecturer interaction, was organised  by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the   Amilcar Cabral Ideological School (ACIS) The occasion gave […]

BURKINA FASO, ‘the land of Honourable men’ and women, is again in political turmoil following the return of soldiers last week. The country’s soldiers, like many in Africa, graduate from the Infantry School of Treachery. They earn their pips in the admittedly, difficult low intensity wars of the radio station where coups and counter coups are announced.

ONE of the most traumatic days in my life was September 21, 2005. Exactly ten years today. A few weeks before, then President Olusegun Obasanjo had again decided to increase the price of petrol (PMS) In reaction, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) decided to hold mass rallies and street marches in selected parts of the country to demonstrate the people’s opposition, and as a warning that the citizenry would resist such increase.

BRITAIN has within a week, set three new records. Wayne Roonney by scoring his fiftieth international goal for England in the Euro 2016 qualification match against Switzerland, set the record as the country’s highest goal scorer.

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, titled his 1946-1965 memoirs, Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years. He explained that “The inventor and embodiment of this deliberate, populist corruption of ‘peculiar mess’ was, appropriately, a certain Ibadan shon of de shoil (son of the soil) by the name of Adelabu.”