Marwa to commission drug rehabilitation centre in Ogbomoso
The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa will on Friday, March 19, 2021 commission a newly built multi-purpose Clinic and rehabilitation center in Ogbomoso, Oyo State. The 16-bed rehabilitation Center named The Behavioral Action Care Foundation Centre was built by a group of indigenes […]
A CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR KENNETH HARROW, PART 5 of 5
On Decolonization PART A By Toyin Falola (This concludes the interview series with Ken Harrow) What is your view on the decolonization in universities and the idea that African knowledge should be at the center? If you mean in African universities, it is long overdue. If you mean in universities outside […]
A CONVERSATION WITH DR. TOKUNBO AWOLOWO DOSUMU (Part 6)
Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo Dosumu on Nigerian Leadership and Citizenship By Toyin Falola (This is the third and final report on the interview conducted with Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo Dosumu on February 21, 2021) For its entire recording, see https://youtu.be/LOQ4lsdm_VY Leadership means direction. In virtually every area of human endeavor, either at home, corporate, religious, or […]
Tinubu, the North and unending sacrifices of the Yoruba race
By Segun Olulade The entity called Nigeria is grossly threatened by constant assault on unwavering trust the South is giving to the North. To exist as a nation, trust is definitely needed, and giving one in this respect is not an error on the path of the South. If not honoured and respected however […]
South Africa: Researchers reiterate need to regulate e-cigarettes
Two years after closure of comments on the Control of Tobacco and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill (2018), researchers have called for the passage into law of the bill. New findings have revealed that the e-cigarette industry, currently largely unregulated, has further taken hold in South Africa. The Executive director of the Africa Centre for Tobacco […]
The quest for knowledge leaves me insatiable – Prof Falola
Professor Toyin Falola is a world-renowned professor of History. He is a distinguished teacher and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Born in 1953, Falola earned his first degree (1976) and Ph.D. (1981) in History from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo […]
Chimamanda Loses Mother
Mrs. Grace Ifeoma Adichie (nee Odigwe), the mother of renowned writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is dead. She was 78. She died on Monday, March 1st, 2021 in Awka, Anambra State. A family spokesperson said, “It was very sudden and we are devastated.” Her husband, a renowned Professor of Statistics, James Adichie, had died in June […]
TOYIN FALOLA’S GOLDEN ERA
By Bridget A. Teboh February 2021 will forever be remembered in the annals of African history as the month that Africa awarded its first academic D. Litt., presented by the University of Ibadan, Nigeria’s premier university, to the most deserving African scholar of our era, the pre-eminent and peerless scholar, Professor Toyin Falola, rated as […]
A CONVERSATION WITH BISHOP MATTHEW HASSAN KUKAH, PART 2
“We Are All Slaves of Allah”: Bishop Kukah and the Transformation of Nigeria Toyin Falola (Part 2 of 3 of Pre-Interview Series) Bishop Kukah I لِتَعَارَفُوٓا۟ ۚوَقَبَآئِلَ شُعُوبًا وَجَعَلْنَٰكُمْ وَأُنثَىٰذَكَرٍ مِّن خَلَقْنَٰكُم إِنَّا ٱلنَّاسُ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا خَبِيرٌ عَلِيمٌ ٱل إِنَّ ۚأَتْقَىٰكُمْ ٱل عِندَ أَكْرَمَكُمْ إِنَّ O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of […]
Malami replies Sagay, says shut up
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has asked the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof Itse Sagay, to allow Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to discharge his duties in peace. Sagay The AGF said this in response to comments Sagay’s comment that the […]
