New post on EntrepreNEWS APPLY: CORAF/WECARD Youth Empowerment for Agripreneurship in West Africa 2016 The West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD) in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank are inviting young agricultural entrepreneurs to submit applications for the empowering Youths for Agripreneurship in West Africa Project. WORTH Mentees will benefit...Read More

A former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has affirmed that Nigeria and and African countries might be sitting on a gunpowder. He said the hazards of the lingering and increasing youth unemployment is alarming. Olusegun Obasanjo made this remark while receiving the newly appointed President of ECOWAS Commission, Marcel Alain de Souza at his Abeokuta residence. He...Read More

It is apposite to posit that in order to properly build up a child and make a total man/woman out of him/her, there is an absolute need for the cooperation between the home and the school.  It is in appreciation of this dictum that theRead More

.In the last two months, I have been writing on the falling standard of education in Nigeria, its causes and effects. Specifically, I have looked at the role of parents and the place of curriculum in this regard. But as from this week, I will be writing on teachers and their employers and how they...Read More

I would like to start this write-up by commending President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for the well informed and highly commendable business tour of China in his avowed and continued determination to see that Nigeria plugs into the new wave of development that is currently blowing across the length...Read More

I would like to start this write-up by commending of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for the well informed and highly commendable business tour of China in his avowed and continued determination to see that Nigeria plugs into the new wave of development that is currently blowing across the length and...Read More

Last week I began a discussion of the debate about the propriety of Nigeria’s retention of the death penalty. I concluded last week’s piece with an examination of the argument that the death penalty deters criminals. My view as s stated last week is that it does not even if the number of persons so...Read More

REPORT ON THE 2-DAY WORKSHOP ON IMPROVED TEACHING METHODS IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES ORGANISED BY AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY (ABUAD), ADO-EKITI ON FRIDAY 6TH AND SATURDAY 7TH JANUARY, 2012. 1.0 INTRODUCTION In line with the founding philosophy of Afe Babalola University, to blaze the trail in the development and promotion of quality university education in Nigeria, the...Read More

“The delegates must resolve that the constitution they make shall not be varied nor panel-beaten by any other body whatsoever”. CONSTITUIONAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE. Last week, I suspended my 8 month old discussion of the problems afflicting education in Nigeria in order to reiterate some of the pitfalls in the 1999 Constitution and the...Read More

The 2015 Presidential elections have been keenly contested, won and lost. As noted by local and international observers, this is the first time that a change would occur in federal government in Nigeria from the ruling party to the opposition through the means of an election. World over, an event like this is seen as...Read More