By Abdulgafar Amoka I got admitted to study Physics at Ahmadu Bello University in 1993 and graduated in 1999. Within those six years, one year was lost to the ASUU strike and another to ABU internal crises that brought Gen Mamman Kontagora as Sole Administrator of the university. I enrolled for MSc in 2001 and […]
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By Sola Adeyegbe Mathematics is from the Greek word máthēma, (knowledge, study, learning) and it includes the study of such topics as quantity (number theory), structure (algebra), space (geometry), and change (mathematical analysis). It has no generally accepted definition. (Wikipedia). I have been terrified by this subject right from primary school! Initially I was okay […]
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By Banji Ayoola O Christmas! When the Heavens and the earth, indeed all spheres of Creation are awash with exultant singing, dancing and merrymaking, in the most unusual electrifying jubilation. And these stream downwards to flood and permeate the entire universe. And hover above and around, seeking to penetrate all human beings, all creatures, without […]
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A ‘thank you’ and birthday tale By Yinka Fabowale The irony here is that these so-called trendy music and popular songs literarily sprung from the roots and trunk of this particular authentic but ‘despised’ music, but have become corrupted and diseased, having branched off and denied themselves the sap and nutrients from the mother plant […]
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A ‘thank-you’ and birthday tale By Yinka Fabowale Yes, Love is a song! … Delightful, soothing, scintillating, exhilarating, moving. It’s a force that enlivens and lifts up the souls of men not only with the harmony of the melody but also the cadences of light it beams on the one who hearkens to and absorbs […]
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By Ayo Ogedengbe I have crossed 66 and I am heading to 70. What sort of change am I feeling in me? And this is it, I share with you all….. After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children, my friends, now I have started loving myself. I have just realised that I […]
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By Yinka Fabowale The mood at the traditional wedding/introduction ceremony just got upbeat as the bride after the usual motions of customary courtesies and bestowal of blessings by her family and the groom’s, smilingly took her seat beside me on the special nuptial chairs placed at a corner of the middle space partitioning the seated […]
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By Pius Adesanmi I was wet behind the ears. I was a Jambite. It was matriculation day at the University of Ilorin. After matriculation on the main campus of the University, I returned to the mini-campus in the company of new friends – fellow Jambites. At the entrance gate to campus, we ran to a […]
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By Maryanne Idokogi Life is such a mixed basket of experiences in which I find that the more I get to recognise and understand…the more I realise just how little I truly know…but of this little… I have discovered…that just when you no longer allow your personal will or desires take center stage in your […]
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By Michael Newman If our sense of protection is predicated on the possession of an extrinsic talisman, imagine how intensely vulnerable we’d feel when we are without it. The actual state of our soul is what acts as a bridge which can be a benediction or a dreadful curse. We cannot delude the perfect Laws […]
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