When adult petulance becomes a campaign strategy, by Rotimi Fasan
Considering the reaction of the main opposition parties’ leaders to the Independence Day speech of President Bola Tinubu, I think I’m beginning to see the lineaments of the campaign for the 2027 general election. The shape the campaigns would take is getting clear. This is why I’m returning once again to a theme I have […]
Eagle on iroko for Chinua Achebe
Akuko gagara akuko gagara to fori apata se ’bugbe… Can things ever fall apart in the home of the teacher Chinualumogu the vaulting eagle on the riverside iroko
The ICPC/NUC report and sexual harassment in Nigerian universities (2)
SEXUAL offence is therefore a fact of human life, perhaps more so now than in the past. In the particular instance of tertiary institutions, ‘sexual harassment’ is by no means the most serious of the problems confronting them. And this for reasons that there are regulations/laws within the university system, apart from the wider laws of society that can take care of this as that there are more pernicious factors that defeat the purpose for the existence of tertiary institutions than the advertised case of sexual harassment.
The ICPC/NUC report and sexual harassment in Nigerian universities(1)
ON Wednesday March 13, 2013, Rebekah Havrilla, a former sergeant and bomb disposal expert in the US Army appeared before the US Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel investigating sexual offences.
Benedict XVI: The Pope Emeritus
HAD he remained in office Joseph Aloisius Ratsinger would have clocked eight full years on the throne of St. Peter as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church in April.
PDP, power mongering and the APC (2)
ALL Progressive Congress, the political party that was cobbled together from at least four other major parties, is the opposition answer to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, behemoth in a Nigeria where the idea of independent candidacy is yet to gain sound footing however desirable.
