By Kolawole Adams The recent ranking of Adekunle Ajasin University as the best state university in webometrics attracted my attention to this subject. And I believe same news must have done the same for many elsewhere, causing people to wonder why a university in the obscure part of far Ondo State! But I believe excellence, […]
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By Williams Akolade Before the fifth Vice Chancellor of Ondo State owned Adekunle Ajasin University was announced in January 2015, not many had anticipated that the ball would be passed to Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, the former Rector of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, not even Ajibefun himself. At best, about the time, the professor had considered […]
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Ondo State Government’s current drive in the maintenance, upgrading and uplift of public environment through removal of structures from the roadsides appears to be generating some comments. The exercise is aimed at making Akure, the State capital beautiful and attractive to potential investors, visitors and tourists. As laudable as this is, the way it is […]
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By Reuben Abati President Muhammadu Buhari recently set up an Economic Advisory Council, to replace the country’s Economic Management Team. He also moved some departments and agencies of government to the new Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. I don’t see why this should become a source of agitation and frustration for […]
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Sometimes in our dealings with people, I notice that it is easy for us to forget or ignore the fact that in the past, we were without Christ. We were a nobody and without a name, ( no identity). We were strangers from the covenant of promise, we had no hope, we had no God […]
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When I was a teenager, I worked a lot with my mother, I was a home girl living in my home town, conversant with home chores and cool with domestic affairs. I loved my home town market and I was good at chanting those words (call them songs) as I sold my wares. As a […]
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The Nigeria Police recently said it would strengthen the Operation Puff Adder and Safer Highway in the South-West by partnering with the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC). The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, who said this in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, at the South-West geopolitical zone security summit said the police hoped the strengthened partnership would […]
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By Segun David There have been repeated and constant attacks on Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa. These attacks which first started in the late 90s were infrequent and occasional, but they have now become regular and seem systematic. Other nationals often targeted include the Somalis, Ethiopians, Malawians, Zimbabweans, Namibians, Zambians, Tanzanians, Pakistanis, […]
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Former Deputy President of the Senate of Nigeria, Senator Ike Ekweremadu recently experienced a dose of the peoples’ fury against what some self-appointed ‘ambassadors’ daubed ‘bad politics’ in faraway Nuremberg, Germany. The proscribed Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) claimed responsibility for the assault and vowed to attack more Nigerian officials who travel outside the country. […]
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By Bayo Fasunwon Science is a body of knowledge concerned with man and the understanding of his environment. It is the method of integrating vast knowledge into the creation of an object for man’s use. It is also described as the systematic method of arriving at knowledge through experimentation for the universal use of humankind […]
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