Photo credit: Premium Times Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, on Wednesday announced the cancellation of the teaching of Indigenous languages, otherwise known as mother tongue languages, as the medium of instruction in Nigerian primary schools. The minister, a medical doctor, announced the unprogressive move at the 2025 Language in Education International Conference organized by the…
That the Ogun State government has deemed it fit to officially recognize ADIRE, a traditional batik that has been made popular by the Egbas is great. However, I don’t see anything new in that. When Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was President, he hardly wore anything apart from ADIRE. Osoba and Amosun too tried to project the…
That our president, his excellency, Mr Goodluck Jonathan is making his intention known today is not news. It is not news because he has the right so to do. Politically, the conditions are also right. The two hundred girls who were seized by the dreaded boko haram have been married off to members of boko…
People do suffer! OK, I’ve been hearing a phrase, Gb’omu le lantern, the literal meaning is placing some breast on a lantern. Can you imagine how it will feel? Putting a woman’s succulent breasts on a lit lantern. Even a man will certainly not enjoy it. Actually, I don’t know the roots of the phrase….
Kaduna State teachers fail Primary 4 test. Photo credit: BBC I love law! Indeed, I love looking at legal angles to analyse sociopolitical problems. In most cases, the legal position may not respect morality. The ability to use logic is more apt. However, in a number of instances, legality tends to bow to morality. Hence,…
Photo credit: BBC What have we become? In the past people respected themselves and things went on in an orderly manner. Money had value then. How many young people know one Guinea? That is one pound one, that was the abbreviation for one pound one shilling in British currency. We usually heard it in bazaars…
A nation in darkness. Photo credit: Guardian Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. If we agree so, may I ask who/what the father is? A friend called me early this morning, and after the usual exchange of banter, I asked how he was doing. His reply was a hit below the belt, he…
