This is bad because Africa is behind in science and technology. South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia were there. In the past six years, Nigeria has been participating. Nigeria hosted the Pan African Mathematics Olympiad in 2006 and won gold.

Putting in place functional education and the provision of resources by governments to rebuild a quality public education system were identified by over 310 delegates from across the country as crucial to the task of nation building as well as the quest of Nigeria to occupy a respectable place in global competitiveness by year 2010.

It began as a rumour which was stridently denied by the principal actors in the alleged face-off, Governor Babatunde Fashola and his immediate predecessor and mentor, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Although the rumour mill has for some time given the impression that all was not well between the duo in spite of their pretension to the contrary, they had maintained that their father-son cordial relationship remained intact.

MOVING round some popular streets in Apapa Local Government Area, one will not fail to notice certain billboards conspicuosly mounted at strategic locations. On each of the billboards are the carefully displayed photographs of the Apapa Local Government Chairman, Hon. Ayodeji Joseph and a bad road placed side by side a newly constructed one with drainage system.

How do you present a Sunday Interview and the only thing you discuss all through is GARRI, the Nigerian staple? Or, how do you interview Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja, former governor of Oyo State, and you will be barred from asking questions that border on politics?