Education Ain’t Cheap!

The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the different services and products that universities have to provide, have led to steady increases in student and parents outlays over the last two or three decades. There are no indications that costs will go down, neither are there signals that one day university education will be free – as called for by many segments of the society.

There is an Evil in our Land

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“There's an evil in our land, And a foe we must withstand, Let us be strong to fight the wrong………..”   Jennie Evelyn Hussey.

Nigeria has been given over to an evil debased mind and culture.  Evil now rules us and the wickedness that has been sown is reaping a whirlwind of horrifying judgment that is shocking and debilitating the nation.

Doing Things the Wrong Ways and Expecting Different Results

The Greater London Authority Elections – where Londoners will vote for a new Mayor of London and Members of the London Assembly – is on 5^th May 2016.

Yet, I, members of my family and many Londoners (including anybody who belongs to the British Commonwealth) voted today, 21^st April, 2016, about 2 weeks away.

In Our or Nigeria’s Interest or Their Best Interest?

The principle of autonomy and/or self-determination is viewed as foundational in any true democracy. It is however worrying when democracy becomes a millstone around the neck of those who are supposed to benefit from it. Such has been the case in Nigeria for close to seventeen years of supposed democratic rule. Democracy has been turned on its head and self-determination or autonomy do not exist, or at best, are infinitesimal.