Opinion

“Serve me Breakfast!” Part 1

December 25, 2022

By Toyin Falola When my friend, Dr Yemi Ijaola, Cardiologist at UCH, Ibadan, visited me some weeks ago in November, I offered to “serve her breakfast” and asked what

FROM PRESIDENTS TO SOLDIERS TO NATIONS

December 19, 2022

Musikilu Mojeed, The Letterman (A Review, Part 2) BY TOYIN FALOLA The second part of the review of The Letterman focuses on the series of letters written by

The Ripple Effects of Underfunding in Nigeria’s Higher Education Sector

December 19, 2022

By Toyin Falola Today Monday, December 19, 2022, I am a guest of Osun State University, where I am delivering the Fourth Prince Tunde Ponnle Annual Lecture. The management of

Honouring Professor Akinjide Osuntokun

December 16, 2022

(A review of Africa and the Challenge of Underdevelopment: A Festschrift in Honour of Akinjide Osuntokun) By Toyin Falola On April 25, 2022, I confessed my desire for the personality

LAS LAS! (Part II)

December 9, 2022

By Toyin Falola According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), 14.4 per cent of Nigerians abuse drugs, as reported in a June 23, 2021, article

Deepening Intercultural Dialogue and Integration for Global Peace

December 7, 2022

By Toyin Falola The world is made up of differences and similarities in culture and convictions. Unfortunately, it seems that the former has been gaining the attention of the global

LAS LAS! (Part 1)

December 5, 2022

By Toyin Falola E don cast Last, last Na everybody go chop breakfast Have to say bye-bye, oh Burna Boy, “Last Last” Nigeria’s social decadence has been attributed

No Bobo! No Zobo! (Part 3)

November 28, 2022

By Toyin Falola Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving. ― James E. Faust Chinedu hurls himself

Now that the north has found oil

November 27, 2022

In October 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel over its occupation of the Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula, two Arab territories. With the now-defunct Soviet Union

Dillibe Onyeama: in memoriam

November 25, 2022

By OLayinka Oyegbile Though we tremble before uncertain futures / may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength / may we dance in the face of our fears –

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