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The Diocesan Bishop of Remo Diocese (Anglican Communion), The Most Rev’d Dr. Olusina Fape, delivered a sermon at the 37th Memorial and Patronal Service held in honor of Chief Obafemi Awolowo at the Obafemi Awolowo Memorial Anglican Church, Ikenne-Remo. In his sermon, he highlighted Chief Awolowo’s enduring legacy in Nigerian politics, noting that even after 37 years since his passing, Awolowo’s name continues to be synonymous with good governance and progressive ideals. The service was attended by several dignitaries, including former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel; former deputy Governor of Ogun State, Alhaji Adegbenga Sefiu Kaka; Senator Anthony Adefuye; and other notable personalities. The Bishop emphasized the importance of living a life of impact and legacy, citing Chief Awolowo as a prime example. He praised Awolowo’s commitment to humanity and his achievements in various spheres of life, including politics, industry, agriculture, housing, sports, education, media, ...

If Nigeria does not devolve more political power to the sub-national governments, economic initiatives to the Organised Private Sector and drastically review its industrialisation model so that industrial raw materials, if not also industrial machinery and spare parts, are sourced locally, Nigeria’s industrialisation will be a mirage. What international monopoly capital has done is to ensure that Nigeria, and other Third World economies, are not autonomous in manufacturing anything. And they achieve that with the stifling strategy called import-substitution that ensures that so-called Nigerian manufacturing firms are mere assembly lines. The import-substitution industrialisation strategy is a grand deception that coyly gave the impression of self-sufficiency to former colonies and client states of the former colonial masters. It was a neo-colonial plan to forever entrench Nigeria’s economic dependence on Western metropolitan economies. To borrow a phrase from Afrobeat musician, Femi Ku...

 “A journalist asks Cristiano Ronaldo: "Why does your mother still live with you? Why don't you build her a house?" Cristiano Ronaldo replies : "My mother raised me and she dedicated her life for me. She would go to sleep hungry, just to let me eat. We had no money at all. She worked 7 days a week & nights as a maid to buy my first shoes so I could be a player. All my success is dedicated to her and because of her and as long as she has a life, she will always be by my side, she has everything I can give. She is my refuge and my greatest gift."

"If one member suffers, all suffer together, if one member is honoured, all rejoice together.  (1 Corinthians 12: 26) In 1917, the famous Mahatma Gandhi established the Sabamarti Ashram. The goal was to step into the shoes of peasants and the downtrodden. He and his followers grew their own food, spun their own cloth, and cleaned out latrines - a job usually relegated to the untouchable (Dalit) caste. Gandhi's deep empathy roused millions of Indians, who supported him in the struggle for independence from the British. As journalist, Dr. Phillips Talbot recalled,  "Gandhi had an extraordinary capacity to talk to this massive crowd on a one-to-one basis; I think that everybody sitting there thought that Gandhi was talking to him." While I am not advocating that you abandon your comforts and start walking barefooted on the road, there is a sense in which independent India was birthed by one leader's strategic empathy. And today, we still see the trickle-down effect,...

(From Archives) Excerpts of lecture delivered by Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode, at the University of Lagos 2016/2017 convocation. THE positive role of the University of Lagos has played in Nigeria and Africa cannot be overstated. Through its halls have walked leaders and innovators in all academic disciplines; people who have devoted their knowledge and abilities to making our lives and this nation better. Drawing students from across Nigeria, UNILAG is an institution fertile with the type of social and educational interaction and inclusion vital to forging a robust and progressive country.  To declare that UNILAG is the best school in the land is not an empty boast nor is it a hopeful prediction to be left for future evaluation. It is a present fact. Thus, you, the graduating class of 2017, are but the latest inheritors of a linkage of academic and civic excellence.  In 1984, I attended a convocation much like today's. On that day, I sat where you now sit. I was an ea...

After  11 days in kidnappers' den, 18 years old Mary Olaniyan, a student of the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, has a lot  to be thankful for. According to her, if not for divine intervention,  she might  have become a human to be carved up as body parts for ritual killers. The  young lady narrated her miraculous escape from a forest she found herself after she became unconscious in a cab she boarded in front  of the school gate on September 1, 2017. The  year one student,  who lives outside the campus, said after finishing lectures on campus that day, she was heading home when she boarded the kidnappers' vehicle at about 6:30 pm outside the main gate of the college along Ondo-Ore highway.  According to her, four men were already seated in the vehicle painted in Ondo State taxi colours. Olaniyan said, "I boarded the taxi alongside a lady at the same location and two other men. The two men were going to Yaba in Ondo town. "As soon as I boa...