Are you normal? (Revolution notes 1)

By Yinka Fabowale That’s a popular witty line that usually cracks viewers up in any of Mr. Macaroni’s comic skits series. It often signals the denouement and comes from the lead character at a point of self-realization, disappointment, or anger at being outsmarted, by another party (Never mind that the experiences were often self-invited, self-inflicted […]

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Buhari commissions erosion control works in Ondo

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his administration’s commitment to enhancing and improving the health status and social-economic activities of the citizenry. He spoke yesterday during the commissioning and handing over of the Ondo Town Erosion Control Works. The project is four kilometre in length and it is expected to put an end to perennial flooding […]

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‘Why we confined our daughter for 5 years’

Challenges are inevitable in life, irrespective of one’s age, religion, belief or accomplishments. For Prophet Samson Olatoke, the founder of Ileri Ayo Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ikirun, arrested by the Osun State Police Command for confining his 20-year-old daughter in an unkempt house alone due to her physical challenge, he said his daughter’s predicament started […]

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Buhari okays Akeredolu’s resolve to flush criminals out of Ondo forests

By Banji Ayoola President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday gave his support and encouragement for Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu in his resolve to flush out criminals from forests in the state. A statement by the Information and Orientation Commissioner, Mr Donald Ojogo, said the governor, who is also the Chairman of the South West Governors […]

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Tribute to my ‘ill-equipped’ lecturers in Nigerian universities

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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On Mathematics

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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Buhari meets Akeredolu, Makinde over herdsmen crisis

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, met separately with Governors Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and Seyi Makinde of Ondo and Oyo States. Details of the meetings are yet to be known, but it was learnt that the worrisome security challenges in both states and herdsmen was the main agenda. Akeredolu had last week given a seven day ultimatum […]

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Sanwo-Olu appoints 17 permanent secretaries

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the appointment of 17 Permanent Secretaries in the state public service. A statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by the Head of Service, Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola, said that the appointments took effect immediately. He said that the appointments were made after a rigorous screening, which spanned over […]

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Police arrest 242 armed robbers, record 192 cultism cases in one year in Ikorodu

Lagos state commissioner of police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, on Wednesday, said the state Command arrested 242 armed robbers, and recorded 192 cultism cases, out of which 172 had been filed in various courts, within a year, in Ikorodu division. Odumosu, who disclosed this at a town hall meeting on security, held at the Ikorodu town […]

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