Students’ loan ploy to starve public varsities – ASUU FUTA

Lecturers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Federal University of Technology, Akure chapter, has again rejected the proposed students’ loan scheme initiated by President Bola Tinubu. The lecturers described the scheme as a way to…

Federal Republic of Fiction @ 63 — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Nigeria is fiction.  The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new shelf in the library: the shelf containing fictional works.  The latter-day patriots of Nigeria can cry all they want against me, but in this instance I only choose…

Vote my tribe or I kill you  — Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

Democracy has been turned into coup at the polls – and the result is announced in the darkest wee hours when robbers are wont to strike!   The Nigerian elections of February 25 and March 18 were turned into deadly battles…

Tom Hanks rejects nepotism backlash against his family

Tom Hanks dismissed the current nepotism debate when recently talking to The Sun about his family of actors. Hanks is married to actor Rita Wilson, and they have two children: Rapper and actor Chet Hanks and Truman Hanks, who pops…

Atiku shares his thoughts on Battling Corruption & Ensuring Accountability (#Time2Atikulate series)

Atiku Abubakar has described corruption and lack of public sector accountability as a huge scourge in Nigeria. The PDP presidential front runner said “in our fight against corruption our target will be to beat Botswana which is rated as the…

Mayday! Mayday!! Mayday!!!

Mayday, uttered three times, is the distress call “used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners”. Long before its adoption for that function however, and more traditionally, there did exist Labour (or Workers’) Day, dedicated to the…

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