How many of our students need to be abducted or killed while trying to fulfill the one-year compulsory National Youth Services programme before the Federal Government that sends them on the journey of uncertainty scraps the service, or find ways of guaranteeing the safety of the youths while they are rendering the so-called national service?   […]

A moving speech delivered sometime ago by JB Pritzker, Governor of the state of Illinois, USA, at a graduation ceremony of Northwestern University, largely captures the core of Christmas and the revolutionary light Jesus, whose birth is being celebrated today, ignited in our dark souls in a violent world. Pritzker told the audience that the best way […]

Normally, the most prayerful countries on earth should be the most prosperous. Unfortunately, according to data released recently by the Pew Research Centre, a non-partisan American think-tank based in Washington D.C., that is not the case. In fact, the most prayerful countries in the world are among the poorest! Result of the Pew survey showing the most […]

In 2015, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, Member States agreed on a minimum educational funding benchmark of 4 to 6 per cent of the GDP, or 15 to 20 per cent of public expenditure. This is in recognition of the place of human capital development in the overall development of any nation. Unfortunately, […]

Too much money and other material resources are attached to political offices in Nigeria. This is the major reason contests to occupy the offices have become do-or-die battles, and political office holders in Nigeria prefer to die in office than resign like their counterparts in other countries, even after suffering damaging scandals or physical incapacitation.  It is […]