WEAKENED by delusion and battered by technology, the university world is going through a difficult period generally. At a deeper level, less obvious to the lay observer, disquiet is spreading among dons, together with a degree of dissatisfaction among students even more profound than their occasional speculators seem to indicate, in almost all universities across the world.

NOT quite infrequently you get to read of oxymora as news report from Nigerian dailies. Several news outlets are reporting on an ongoing but serious economic sabotage of the working class wherein the practice of Nigeria’s employment law is observed in its breach. The trending but incredulous revelation is that wages are being withheld on a widespread scale. The worrisome claim is that the very watchdog hired by the sovereigns, and empowered by the constitution, that is the executive, legislative and judicial arms of government are neck deep in an unholy practice of withholding wages of workers.

EMMA Ezeazu who was buried in Onitsha, southeast Nigeria, on July 4 was one of the staunchest activists of the radical student and civil society movements in Nigeria. His death came as a shock not just to me and many of his comrades, friends and colleagues but to people who knew him only by name […]

Warri Wolves shot to second place in the Nigeria league after they thrashed FC IfeanyiUbah 3-0 in a Week 21 game with Gbolahan Salami netting twice on return from suspension.

I am not a believer in coincidence; I am more inclined to believe that our lives’ steps are ordered by the Infinite Intelligence that we all call God, and so in my own case, my date with Destiny took place one afternoon according to my father when a customer in the person of Pa Enoch O. Dare walked into my father’s shop in Akure to buy books, and his first encounter with my father changed the course of my life.