By Prof M.K. Othman As time ticks, our university system’s perilous situation is deepening, creating an unpleasant scenario. The current administration seems irresponsive to the happenings on our university campuses. Apart from the sweet-coated but unfulfilling statements, award of 25/35% salary increase, presidential amnesty to release four months withheld salaries of the striking workers, approval…
In 2001, during my postgraduate program in Montpellier, South France, one of the most observable features of banks in France was the sparse population in banking halls. You can hardly see ten people in the banking halls, comprising bank workers and customers. The only reason for a customer to be in the banking hall is…
Today, public university employees are Nigeria’s most disenchanted, discontented, and embittered workers. The segment of the academic staff housing the teachers is at the bottom of the ladder in this villainous classification. The university lecturers are the crème de la crème of the sane society and deserve special treatment to do their best for societal…
Right food Act: Nigerians Must Not go to Bed on an Empty Stomach Professor Gbolagade Ayoola is an obscure personality among the downtrodden Nigerians, the category of people he has doggedly fought for all his life. If Nigeria is a country that recognizes and celebrates heroes and fighters of human rights, Ayoola would have been…
Un petit pose—to use the French language for a break. Again, this week, I am fulfilling my promise of sharing some of my readers’ views on several issues discussed in this column to provide broader perspectives for clarity. While I sincerely appreciate my readers’ effort to comment on the issues I raised, I cannot…
It is time to pause and allow readers to air their views on the many issues featured in this Column. This week and next, I will share some of my readers’ views to give broader perspectives on the issues discussed in this Column. One of the critical issues was that of Borno State Governor Prof….
Precarious Food Security in Nigeria: Can President Tinubu Change the Narrative? II My last week’s piece closed with a poser: Are the two Ministers of Agriculture and Food Security, Senators Kyari and Abdullahi, capable of breaking the jinx of poverty and hunger associated with Nigerians? Answering this question requires an in-depth analysis of Tinubu’s policy…
As I am writing this piece today, Tuesday, December 12th, 2023, the Nigerian population is 226,179,203. This population estimate is based on Worldometer’s latest United Nations data elaboration. In the last fifty years, the Nigerian population has escalated at a geometric proportion. The population growth rate in Nigeria is “one birth in every four…
Agriculturally, Kano has been a lucky state. Four decades ago, a non-nonsense and visionary Governor, Police commissioner Audu Bako of blessed memory, built a multi-million Naira Tiga dam with a capacity of 1.9 billion cubic meters of water through direct labor. Then, it was the biggest dam in Nigeria. The dam was built to irrigate…
Something amusing played out as entertainment, but under harsh economic conditions in Nigeria, it was a comic relief while the event lasted. Two diametrically opposed political camps led by two prominent Nigerians from the same state sat side by side, seeing eye to eye to share their thoughts and experiences but representing different generations and…
