Sometime ago, I wrote an essay in which I identified the fundamental source of religious violence in certain passages of The Holy Bible and The Holy Koran. Specifically, I argued that some of the doctrines, injunctions, and commandments in the two scriptures, if interpreted and followed strictly, would necessarily breed intolerance and violence. I supported my “unpopular” thesis with several quotations from the two “holy” books.

Where are the blueprints from the Ministers? Three months have gone already, when will Jonathan start working? He should read the mood of the Nigerian people more carefully, the ordinary people, I mean. They are impatient.” Now, in essay B, the ‘new’ Reuben, having followed Jonathan “everywhere” and eaten at the President’s sumptuous table (and developed a follow-follow mentality as a result) says that Mr. President “is doing his utmost best to transform Nigeria… President Jonathan is a clever, methodical and intelligent man, who is very adept at wrong footing all the persons who make an effort to second-guess or underestimate him.

Sometimes in science, when a researcher discovers a hitherto unknown phenomenon or invents a theory that sheds better light on a phenomenon known already, the phenomenon in question is named after him or her, essentially in recognition of such an accomplishment. Thus we have the Hall Effect, the Zeeman Effect, the Compton Effect and so on. Extrapolating from the practice in science, we can name a behavioural pattern or trait after an individual whose conduct epitomises it.

The expression “electronic socialisation” is used here as a category for all contemporary innovative electronic modules through which people in different parts of the globe communicate and interact with each other.

In simple terms, religious intolerance or fanaticism is the inability of an adherent of a particular religion to acknowledge, accommodate and accept the right of others to live by another faith different from his own.

The title of our discourse today reminds me of some lectures in mathematics which I had while in secondary school. I was in Form Three when my mathematics teacher explained to the class Pythagoras theorem concerning right-angled triangles.

Sometime ago, when Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, asserted that the National Assembly appropriates to itself 25 percent of the total overhead budget of federal government, our dishonourable legislators offered self-serving tendentious arguments to explain away their wicked brigandage of the national treasury.

Sometime ago, when Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, asserted that the National Assembly appropriates to itself 25 percent of the total overhead budget of federal government, our dishonourable legislators offered self-serving tendentious arguments to explain away their wicked brigandage of the national treasury.

The naïve belief in certain quarters that Nigeria’s developmental problems would be drastically ameliorated once democratic governance is established has turned into a red-herring because it tends to divert attention from the crisis of values among the ruling elites and cabals in the country.

Over two months ago when a colleague of mine, through a mobile phone text message, drew my attention to Femi Aribisala’s rejoinder to my two-part essay in Sunday Vanguard entitled “The Significance of Easter,” I wanted to reply the following week. But at the last minute I changed my mind because I am usually unenthusiastic to defend myself against criticism, especially from religionists who dogmatically believe that a single“holy”book contains all the important spiritual and moral truths in the world.

The caption of our discussion today is cloned from Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, but its major thrust is not the recurrent problem of underdevelopment in Nigeria.

On a cool Friday evening, a few days after President Goodluck Jonathan had unilaterally proposed a name-change for the University of Lagos, I went to the Senior Staff Club to relax a little after spending over six hours working on a research paper I was writing.

A lot have been said and written since President Goodluck Jonathan renamed my alma mater, the University of Lagos, as Moshood Abiola University on May 29, ostensibly to honour Chief M.K.O. Abiola. According to Jonathan, the federal government believes that the late businessman cum politician deserves “recognition for his martyrdom and public spiritedness and for being the man of history that he was.”

A lot have been said and written since President Goodluck Jonathan renamed my alma mater, the University of Lagos, as Moshood Abiola University on May 29, ostensibly to honour Chief M.K.O. Abiola. According to Jonathan, the federal government believes that the late businessman cum politician deserves “recognition for his martyrdom and public spiritedness and for being the man of history that he was.”

On a cool Saturday morning of May 12, as I was jogging along the Health Centre road, University of Lagos, Mr. Adebule, a senior administrative staff of the university parked by my side and beckoned me to come. When I got to him, he requested in a very solemn voice that I should enter his car. I asked him why, and he told me that my friend, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adetokumbo Sofoluwe, died around 12 midnight.