Experts in education have made us know that people first think in their mother tongues. Is that not a way of saying, you may succeed in taking a man out of the bush but you just can’t succeed in taking the bush out of the man? Many of our kids, in Nigeria, go to schools…
Kindly pardon my use of words. I’m not unnecessarily using poetic license. However, when certain things keep making senseless recurs, I’m always at a loss on how to describe them. Some people have said that some anjonu bring those words, anjonu meaning spirits. Of course, not those that a former presidential aide says are permanent…
When I was younger, I was used to a person who was slow in running errands being described as, ‘baby kingsway’. At least, up to the early eighties there used to be some merchantile stores in the major city centres of Nigeria. Some of them were Kingsway, Leventis, Chellarams, Chanrai, etc. Most of them used…
History is in the syllabus of Nigerian schools. I can tell you that it’s there just for the sake of history! Hardly is it studied by pupils!Hardly are there teachers for it!!Hardly is it recommended as a course to study in tertiary institutions!!! Unfortunately for us, we might never succeed in charting our way forward…
Photo credit: CNN Let me ask the question again, are Africans alright? Two special events are taking place this week. Or, should take place this week. They are special because they involve the lives of people. One of them involves the life of everybody in the world. The first is the inauguration of Mr Trump…
I want to learn the relevance of Chatham House to the Nigerian situation. Does going there reduce the price of a kongo of gari? Does it supply electric power? Does it bring down the price of oyel? Does it give residential accomodation to the teeming masses? Does it provide jobs for the unemployed or underemployed?…
Like you must have seen in the resulting posts, I was in Lagos on Thursday to source for free books from donors. I don’t want to belabour you with the details. I believe they could be found in a previous post. All the three people that I met on that day did me a great…
