Photo credit: Nigeria Constitution Did you know that most countries do not require educational certificates to be elected for any political post? What most countries require are citizenship, having lived in the country for a certain number of years and a specific age. Nigeria’s requirement for educational certificates might be a fallout from our colonial…
Photo credit: National Pilot I’m the most respectful person. But then, there’s a catch to it, ‘All things being equal’. In any case, respect begets respect. Nobody is begging anyone to offer themselves to serve the people. They must have something to offer the people in terms of qualitative services. If they don’t have anything…
Photo credit: the Punch If I had not gone to the show, I definitely wouldn’t have met him. Last week, I had spoken with my former instructor. Among other things, I requested them to be informing me of happenings in town. I said this because without a person who knows the ins and outs of…
Photo credit: history.com There’s no doubt about the fact that if I wake up in the morning and the first person I see is Trump, I’ll go back to bed. That’s because Trump is an example of ‘eni aijiri’. That is a person that one must not meet first thing in the morning. Maybe those…
Photo credit: the Leadership Sometime in August, the National Examinations Council (NECO) invited examiners to mark the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination theory papers. The examinations were held in May/June. The examiners went to the marking centres from far and near. Most of them were not after monetary gains but they wanted to be more abreast…
Photo credit: LinkedIn This post’s inspiration is from an earlier one by the wordsmith, Odolaye Aremu. One other thing about the man is his graciousness in owning a free range asylum. I’m proud to belong to this asylum of thinking people! On March 15, 44 BCE, the popular emperor Julius Caesar was attacked by a…
Photo credit: Daily Guardian Canadian Prime Minister has survived another parliamentary confidence vote, the second in less than a week. Reuters reports that the opposition parties have vowed to keep his Liberal government alive. In the House of Commons, Lawmakers voted 207-121 to defeat the official opposition Conservative Party’s bid to topple Trudeau. After almost nine years in…
