By Toyin Falola Some days ago, Tobi Amusan broke the world record for the female 100-meter hurdles sprint. Reading the news story, I was thrilled that someone had yet
African governments have been urged not to abandon their responsibilities in the public education sector to private investors. This was the crux of the agreement of Civil Society Groups across
Former Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, Professor Lateef Akanni Hussein, is dead. He died on Sunday at 75. A tweet on the official handle of the institution (@LASUOfficial)
Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success – African proverb (Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation, Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, Bloomsbury Academic, New York,
*Father of victim excited over court judgement Tanko Abdulmalik, and his accomplice, Hashimu Ishyaku, have been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of the five-year-old pupil Hanifa Abubakar.
On July 28, 2022, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), alongside the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition hosted a webinar with African water justice campaigners, in commemoration
The Federal Government has ordered the immediate closure of the Federal Government College, Kwali, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, over the threat of attack by bandits. The Minister
By Toyin Falola There is always a community of Afro-pessimistic scholars, occasionally joined by their in-house accomplices, who assert that the unity and togetherness that Africans try to muster
A Federal Capital Territory High Court has remanded a former Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, and two others in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Kuje. Justice Adeyemi
President Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu and his vice presidential candidate Kashim Shettima are about now in a closed-door meeting at
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