The 1970s to the 1990s were some of the most pitiless seasons in Nigeria.  Except for a four-year interregnum, the military was in power and, it was brutal. In the mid-1970s, the seemingly genial General Yakubu Jack Gowon had radical activists like Edwin Madunagu and Tony Engurube detained without trial.  But the Murtala-Obasanjo regime that succeeded  Gowon […]

I have been following the recent promotional work announcing the completion of the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago. In the early days of the project, it was believed that President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were building a Presidential Library, which is a standard project for former Presidents in the United States. It turns out […]

In emerging societies such as Nigeria, universities and other tertiary institutions have generally done about the same thing in the last half a century.  Those interested in establishing such higher schools always began by looking out for huge hectares of land to erect imposing structures and facilities. It is indeed, part of the requirements for getting […]

“When he shall die/Take him and cut him out in little stars/And he will make the face of heaven so fine/That all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun” – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, in ROMEO AND JULIET How does anyone write the obituary and tributes of a […]

Brethren, to the glory of God we have just gone past the first half of the fifth month of the year. Many of us want to be enlarged.   Such enlargement may be in the size of the family, business, stature or even status. It simply means we want to be bigger than what we […]