Education

Professor What!

January 6, 2023

By Toyin Falola Early last year, in distress, I called Dr. Samson Ijaola of Glorious University to ask him a question that was not allowing me to sleep: why are

JAMB only admits 100,000 out of million applying for medical courses – Data

January 2, 2023

Data obtained from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, the agency responsible for the regulation of admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria revealed that out of over 1,256,494

Newborn seized in Warri hospital over N383,500 bill

January 2, 2023

A private hospital, Unique Health Medical Centre, Warri, Delta State, Nigeria has been accused of seizing a newborn over a bill of N383,500. It was gathered that a woman,

Burna Boy, Fela named among Rolling Stone’s ‘200 greatest singers of all time’

January 2, 2023

Fela Kuti, the late Afrobeat legend, and Burna Boy, the Afrofusion singer, are named in Rolling Stone’s ‘200 greatest musicians of all time’ list. On Sunday, the music publication

TF at 70: A Meditation on Nothingness

January 1, 2023

By Toyin Falola On this day, I celebrate the day I came to this world This day, family, friends, and colleagues rejoice With me Do they not know a

A Harbinger: Honouring Ayo Olukotun

December 31, 2022

By Toyin Falola I want to enter the new year by celebrating a living legend who will continue to influence us in the years ahead. In my forthcoming long book,

Pele’s lying in state, burial set for Monday, Tuesday

December 30, 2022

The burial of the late football legend Pele has been set for Monday and Tuesday. The wake will be held on Monday and his body will be laid to rest

ESTABLISHING A STABLE POLITICAL CULTURE

December 30, 2022

By Dul Johnson Even before the political party primaries produced their candidates there was a lot of anxiety as to what awaited the nation as regards the 2023 general

Serve Me Breakfast! Part 2

December 30, 2022

By Toyin Falola Last night It was you and I and crackles and vodka And a sky full of stars It was two truths confessed I had cheated

NPC recruitment portal for ad-hoc staff closes Dec 28 – Commissioner

December 20, 2022

The National Population Commission (NPC) says that its e-recruitment portal for ad hoc staff for the 2023 Population and Housing Census would close on Dec. 28. Mr Chidi Ezeoke,

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