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This is not to show that the students were right in their agitations as agitation is not a new thing on campus but to show that the VC had all the opportunity of nibbling the situation in the bud before it got aggravated. I say this because if ui was to be Professor Olayinka's private establishment and the workers went on rampage, he would have addressed them so as not to record any financial loss. But in this situation, the VC acted like an employee that he is with the mentality that " oga ta oga o ta, owo alaru ape" translation: academic activities or not, their salaries would be completed. Even though I don't like protest during my 5yrs plus stay in ui, till I graduated, I never for once seen a protest that the management refused to address the student body or the protestants. And so, it is historical that the present management has no regard for students agitation and gathering . There can never be absolute good and bad. We both share that characteristics equall...

I want to start by saying that the primary reason for the existence of government is the welfare of the people in terms of education, security of lives, provision of basic amenities, shelter and clothing if possible to the core poor and every other thing is secondary. No government that tries making primary duty secondary and secondary duty primary, succeeds.  Of all the primary duties of the government, education is sacrosanct to the liberation of the people and mental empowerment. If it cant be made to be free, it should be made to be affordable as governments success is key to provision of services and not profit making. If the state cannot manage the public schools again, it should humbly give the schools back to their original owners. There are missionary schools among these public schools and during the time of baba awolowo that these people deceitfully claimed to be following, education up to secondary school was totally free and many among them benefitted even on scholars...

Fayose bans cattle grazing in Ekiti, says; “cattle farmers must own ranch” Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has banned grazing and rearing of cattle in the State, saying those interested in cattle farming should get their own private cattle ranch and that a bill to make movement of cattle from one location to another criminal in the State will soon be sent to the State House of Assembly. Governor Fayose, who made this known when he visited Oke-Ako in Ikole local government area of the State that was invaded last Friday by Fulani herdsmen that killed two residents of the town and injured others, warned that government will henceforth confiscate any cattle seen anywhere in the State apart from ranch created for them by their owners. He described the Fulani herdsmen that attacked Oke-Ako and other communities in the country as “agents of the devil that must be fished out and punished accordingly.” The governor said; “We will not leave our lands for ...

The hypocrisy of Nigerians is best described as hyper hypocrisy. The same people who would come to facebook and other media complaining about the cheat and inequality enshrined in the quota system are the same people coming to social media to defend the appalling communication disabilities of the allegedly rescued chibok mother who was to write the west African examination council some 2yrs ago. Most appalling and disgruntled in this northern quota system and sentiments of other region is the submissions such as: I have seen some girls in the north who can't even write their names in ss3. Should such a person be writing waec exam at all, to start with? What is the justification that one that cant write his/her own name in arabic or hausa merit writing a senior waec? Such statement as I have seen a student who couldnt write in English language but knows everything that has to do with the exams? Please do we write physics, chemistry, economics, geography, maths and other subjects i...

I believe and hold onto this fact that politics is the conscious and deliberate attempt to participate in the affairs of government either as an independent candidate or under a registered political party with the core aim of achieving a local, state and or national goal by grabbing the opportunity of political power through the vote, consolidation of political power through participatory and all encompassing government and the use of political power for the overall good of the state and the people by determination, commitment, hardwork and sacrificial service to the people and the state. I do not believe in the ideology that politics is all about permanent interest and no permanent enemy because these are political rhetorics and misguided sentiments to get the people deluded and confused. Politics is about bringing fort good governance, sacrificial service to the state and the people who must cast their vote without any form of influence and or especially,financial influence because t...

It is not because i went through the nation's appropriation bill and saw the amount budgeted for amnesty programme for militancy in the Niger delta or the NDDC ministry that I wrote this but because I know that there's no sense in blowing up pipelines and causing economic chaos for Nigeria. Why are you destroying oil installations? Why can't you blame your governors if it has to do with dividends of democracy? These are your main enemy not the federal government. At least, you have Niger delta ministry, you have amnesty programme, you have special federal allocation, your people that go to school and perform excellently are given special scholarship, there's federal government step to clean up your  environment, there's a court case instituted by pmb to get your people paid by the multinationals due to environmental degradation but now you are adding to the oil spill. How can the government win such case for your people? It is expedient that everyone of you Knows...