By: Sonaike Peter Representation is essential for managing the demands and welfare of individuals in any society. In Nigeria, for example, citizens are represented by authorities ranging from local councilors to the President of the federation. Given the impracticality of direct participation by the large population, a representative system is […]
By: Toriola Adedayo [Contributor] “We learn from history that we do not learn from history” is a statement by Georg Hegel, a German philosopher, depicting the recompensation a nation gets for losing its touch with history. Or in the Nigerian case, to rattle in the darkness of its own past. […]
By: Ochi, Maduabuchi In the words of Ojo Aderemi, the President of the Students’ Union in 2017 to his successors, “due process and protests are the same”. “Protests are a process to get what’s due,” he noted. Seen through this meticulous lens, it seems like the recent steps of the […]
By: Ochi, Maduabuchi One political cycle has ended and we have come under the democratically elected rule of another for the next year. I would like to first of all start with a big congratulations to those executives who managed to pull ahead of their opponents in the polls, coming […]
(Contributor) By – Olu Remilekun Beyond reasonable doubt, the University of Ibadan plays host to the gene and history of great men who have served and won greatness with honest toil. One among those was Emeritus Professor Ayo Banjo. Condolences! Ayo Banjo lives still. In 1988, Professor Banjo in a […]
By – Nnamdi Maduabuchi The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines democracy as “government by the people” or more robustly “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections”. In the real […]
By – Emmanuel Utibe During the last electioneering cycle in Katanga republic, a little-known personality emerged, vying for the position of the Health commissioner. Mr. Salako Olajire, a then 200-level student of Medicine and Surgery, Dr. Park as he is popularly called eventually won the elections, riding on the […]
By: Yusuf Rahmon The presence of sports within the walls of the Great Independence Hall has traditionally been defined by the roar of goals during intense football matches at the Maracana pitch. Notably, the current Sports Commissioner, Odunukan Oluwagbemiga Collins, promised to change the status quo while vying for the […]
By: Babatimehin Asiwaju Peace (Contributor) It is profound truth that every society is alive in that it posseses ability to evolve—and grow adaptive features to better cater to the needs of its indigenes—or conversely, to collapse in on itself and ultimately die. This, partly a consequence of man’s dynamic nature […]
By: Utibe Emmanuel “Shall be the Chief Image Maker of the hall.” These are the opening words of Article VI, section III of the Indy Hall constitution which outlines the primary duties of the Public Relations Officer of the hall. Like a great commission, it charges whosoever finds himself occupying […]
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