The Senate on Tuesday, November 28, confirmed the nomination of Professor Tunji Olaopa for appointment as the chairman of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC). The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration of the report Read More
A professor and retired federal permanent secretary, Tunji Olaopa, has been appointed chairman of the federal civil service commission. The Awe-born political scientist is credited with the establishment of the Ibadan School of Governance and Read More
My nostalgia for Okeho, the place of my birth (as distinct from Aawe, my hometown), was re-awakened recently due to a range of concerns. The most recent was the death of my Okeho-born teacher in Read More
In this piece, I ask a very simple, but which seems to me a fundamental, question that provides another insight into Nigeria’s protracted predicament since independence, sixty solid years ago. The question is: what Read More
The recent deposition of Emir Lamido Sanusi II has thrown up many issues both locally within the Kano metropolis and nationally and surely will be a topic for discussion for some time to come. However, Read More
It is said and believed that someone’s destiny can be deciphered from the onset of life. Whilst this may be termed a mere conjecture and not true of everyone, some people have their pathways Read More
When George Orwell wrote his dystopian novel, 1984,in June 1949, he would never have thought that the fundamental and troubling issues he raised in the terrifying novel would come to be an interesting feature of popular Read More
It is reasonable to predict that this question will appear a straightforward one with an equally straightforward answer. In a sense, this would be a fair assumption. But social scientific questions are rarely amenable to Read More
An Ibadan-based school of catering and hospitality management, producing professional chefs, personnel and entrepreneurs in the food industry, Royal Spices Academy, last Thursday unleashed their first set of alumni to the world. Beaming with smiles, Read More
Arguments for and against were rendered as academics of the University of Ibadan, on Tuesday, joined the 2019 political discourse on whether President Muhammadu Buhari should be reelected or voted out. Gathered at a round table Read More
