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FUOYE: A Coalition of Falsehood and Search for Truth (Part 2)

By Justina Nwankwo On April 24, 2025, a publication authored by one Ashiru Oladipo, titled “Demand for Immediate Removal of Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, Victor Ndoma Egba (SAN) and Suspension of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina of theFederal University Oye-Ekiti, Respectively,” began circulating widely across social mediaplatforms. Laden with falsehoods, this publication…

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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Ponzi Schemes as Shadows of Reality

By Adebayo Olugbenga Abegunrin One of the greatest ancient Greek philosophers, Plato, in his Allegory of the Cave, accurately depicts the mindset of the average Nigerian investing in Ponzi schemes. His philosophical narrative helps explain why such schemes continue to attract Nigerian investors despite repeated failures. In The Allegory of the Cave, Plato described prisoners…

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FUOYE: A coalition of falsehoods and the search for truth

By Justina Nwankwo Whatever the intentions of the SSANU leadership in FUOYE are is not clear. What is clear, however, is that the management of FUOYE under the Vice-Chancellorship of Mr Fasina runs the university as a shining model of sustainable growth, professionalism and academic excellence, which is the hallmark of the President Bola Tinubu…

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Dissecting Makinde’s Primary Healthcare Revolution

By Balqees Onadiran A thriving society is easily identifiable by its strong healthcare system, which ensures that citizens remain healthy, productive, and capable of contributing to national development. In Nigeria, however, the healthcare system is often inadequate, worsened by the increasing brain drain in the health sector. Therefore, in a country where healthcare infrastructure is…

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ALL HAIL THE NEW ALAAFIN OBA AKEEM ABIMBOLA OWOADE, OWOADE 1

Oríkì Sango!A bí lumo bí òwúỌkọ̀ mi asọ̀ǹbọ̀-sọnbọ idàEbiti káwọ́ sẹ́yìn soro bíi agbọ́nẸ̀bìtì ká ọwọ́ ìjà léríÈyí tí yó ṣẹ ní àá ń wòyeSango!Sangiri làgiriÒ làgiri kàkà fìgbà ẹdùn bọ̀A wọ̀lú tìlù tariwoṢàngó oooooo Ka-bi-ye-si Alase! Ekeji orisa! Iku baba yeye, Alaafin oro mo jo gbo ti gbogbo Oyo mbo. Oranmiyan, Alaafin, oruntolu. Iba!…

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Religious Hypocrisy: The fact, the vile and the virtuous| By Lanre Ogundipe

The Psalmist calls the attention of those who identify as believers to the fundamentals of true worship and acceptable service unto God. Psalm 24:3 enunciates the parameters of acceptable worship, of the almighty. “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands,…

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MISSING FIREARMS IN POLICE ARMOURY: NEED FOR ACCOUNTABILITY| By Lanre Ogundipe

The failure of the police command, to answer the audit query issued by the Nigerian Senate on missing firearms and its shady expenditure, against the backdrop of unabated security problems in the country, and the huge investment by the government to contain the menace, has left tongues wagging. Nigerians are beginning to question the commitment…

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El Rufai’s SDP Gambit a political “Harakiri”| By Prof Adeniyi Olowofela

El Rufai is a restless politician and courageous. However he ought to have learnt political patience from PBAT who continued to build political alternative to PDP when the political stalwart boasted that the will rule Nigeria for 64 years. Cleverly Tinubu abandoned AD to build another political alternative platform of Action Congress which metamorphosed into…

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204 Million Nigerians lack moral right to protest against Tinubu Administration|By Adeniyi Olowofela

President Tinubu has just spent one year few days out of four years given by voters which means he has spent less than 30% of his tenure. How can you honestly and justifiably assess a Government who has not spent 50% of it’s tenure? The results of Presidential election of year 2023 was fiercely contested…

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“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower

When your King is a child! The age long Ibadan cherished ascension to the throne of Olubadan of Ibadanland was last friday axed by Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, when he threw spanners into the works, to eventually scatter, and throw into abyss the enviable institution of the customs/ traditional hierarchical ascendancy to…

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