Kenya has this year lost two of its eminent intellectual powerhouses to the ancestral world. The death of Prof B.A. Ogot and Prof. Ngugi wa Thiongó, in January and May, respectively, presented the ...

By Toyin Falola One of the central issues in the lecture delivered by Professor Adelaja Odukoya, Dean of the University of ...

According to Onanuga, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already received agrément from the United Kingdom for the High Commissioner-designate, Ambassador Aminu Dalhatu. Similarly, France has sent ...

The subject of today’s column is Chief Tesigiweno Yahya John Pessu, a Justice of the Peace and the Ojomo of the very great and very great and greatly great Kingdom of Warri whose current king is the ...

In a move said to be aimed at enhancing fiscal transparency, President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order that suspended the collection of management and frontier exploration fees by the ...

We had been bending so long that our children thought that the human body was meant to have a curved back. We had whispered so long that silence became our inheritance, passed from grandmother to ...

State authorities should penalize parents and guardians who accuse or abuse their children or wards in the name of witchcraft. A recent incident in Bayelsa necessitated this appeal. In this case, a ...

I am delighted to congratulate Professor Julius Adekunle for receiving the 2026 Kwame Nkrumah Award for Service to Pan-Africanism from the University of Texas at Austin. The award goes to an African ...

Renowned Professor of History Toyin Falola has published a new book with the title Ifá Priestcraft: Ifáyemí Elébuìbon And Yorùbá Ancestral Knowledge Systems. The 420-page book was published by the ...

It is no longer news that Nigerian citizens in South Africa have, at different times, been subjected to Xenophobic attacks. Recent developments suggest that the situation has once again escalated to a ...

The Zik Old Students Association, Sapele (ZOSA), has called for the immediate and unconditional release of the abducted Chairman of Sapele Local Government Council in Delta State, Bright Abeke. In a ...

As in the case of critical thinking, I have grappled with the idea of fostering creative and innovative reasoning in schools, particularly in primary and secondary education. I believe that if Africa ...