TIME FOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO RE-ESTABLISH EDUCATION BANK – TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT AND BOOST EDUCATION AMONG YOUTHS (1) “I intend to highlight how the resuscitation of the bank would boost education and reduce unemployment amongst the youths of this country”. Inadequate funding of “education and youth unemployment” are two issues which continue to attract public...Read More

BY ABIODUN NEJO Farmer and university administrator, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has charged the Federal Government to initiate policies targeted at attracting youths and undergraduates to farming. Babalola, who is the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), expressed fear of widespread hunger and abject poverty with the warped impression by youths that farmers...Read More

The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) is the Federal Government agency with the mandate of developing indigenous human capacity and petroleum technology to meet the needs of the oil and gas industry. Course Level: Undergraduates & Postgraduates  program. The Fund hereby invites applications from qualified Nigerians to apply for the 2018/19 Undergraduate and Postgraduate scholarships for...Read More

LIE TELLING BY POLITICIANS (3) Over the last two weeks I have discussed the issue of lie telling and when it may or may not amount to a crime to tell lies. In conclusion I will now discuss the issue of the seeming penchant for politicians, particularly in Nigeria, to tell lies. The February 2019...Read More

Channels Television Updated October 20, 2018 Chairman/CEO of Channels Media Group, Mr John Momoh (OON), delivers a speech at the sixth Convocation Lecture of the Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti on October 20, 2018.   ‘DECONSTRUCTING THE NIGERIAN CONUNDRUM AS A PANACEA FOR NATIONAL COHESION AND TRANSFORMATION’ BEING A PAPER PRESENTED BY MR. JOHN...Read More

WHEN LIE TELLING MAY NOT BE CRIMINAL (2) Last week I introduced a discussion of how lie telling can be categorised and how given some circumstances, lie telling may or may not be criminal. This week I intend to relate the background already made to recent events in the world and particularly Nigeria’s political climate....Read More

Application for 2018/2019 Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) scholarship for undergraduate and postgraduate awards in Nigerian Federal Universities. Course Level: Undergraduate, Masters and PhD Eligible Countries: Nigeria To be taken at (country): Nigeria Eligibility Criteria: A). (LSS) Undergraduate: Applicants must be full time students in any of the Federal Universities Applicants must be in their...Read More

Kindly click on the link below to access further information on the Scholarship opportunity Guinness Nigeria Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme 2018/2019 for young NigeriansRead More

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) Applications are being accepted now through December 9, 2018 at 11:59 PM EST for the Fall 2018 competition of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) Accredited universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda can submit a project request online to host a scholar. Scholars born...Read More