By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi There are many challenges confronting the Nigeria nation in every direction one may turn. Nigeria is like every individual fighting against spiritual forces in diverse and high places. The roads are bad, the energy sector is epileptic, the hospitals are few and poorly staffed or poorly equipped, the insecurity in the […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi Perhaps we have already over flogged the impasse between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) which has created one of the longest industrial actions yet besetting the education industry in Nigeria. However the strike is not yet over and therefore individuals and groups […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi Nigerians must get their politics right in order to meet the aspirations of her people and achieve sustainable development in this vulnerable world. Africa is generally very vulnerable to (a) disease epidemics because of her climate and level of scientific development, (b) food insecurity because her rate of population growth is […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The ongoing industrial action embarked upon by ASUU (Academic Staff Union of Universities) in Nigeria since July 1, 2013 has gone on for far too long. To the best of our understanding both the Federal Government of Nigeria FGN, who has so far failed to honour a […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The world has been shrinking and coming together through the social media and internet much faster than many African leaders would desire. An index of good governance in Africa has been the Mo Ibrahim Annual Award for good leadership in Africa but which has no winner since […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi. University of Ilorin, Nigeria The Academic Staff of Universities Union (ASUU) of Nigeria embarked on industrial strike in most government owned universities in Nigeria since July 1, 2013. ASUU did so because the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), and their employers, signed some working condition with them after a similar industrial […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria As school pupils on October 1, 1960, we were organised on lines and given a flag each to wave as some government officials took the salutes. It was memorable and joyful. My father was a local government councillor (1948 -1962) in Kabba Native Authority. I was on […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria In Nigeria today, women-owned businesses is only beginning to rise. We do not have a nationally approved data to give the correct informed state of things on the subject but an unpublished university thesis has it that women own only about 25% of all businesses in Nigeria. […]
By Prof R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The lecturers in most of the nation’s public universities commenced industrial action last July 1, 2013 to demand the implementation of the 2009 agreement they signed with Federal Government of Nigeria FGN. Most people would agree that universities are poorly funded but no one is coming up […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The ongoing political wrangling involving realignments of some groups, now calling themselves APC, or the decamping of others from the ruling PDP party and calling themselves New PDP, is just the beginning of a more serious undercurrent problems worse things to come and index of our political […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria In the war in Syria, is such that President Assad has on his side groups loyal to the Ayatollas of Iran, the Hezbollah, the Al-Qaeda and the other violent sectarian groups in the region. On the opposite side are the rest and their own violence is just […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi The ongoing Arab Spring, that has become most popular in Syria and Egypt, will eventually create a school of thoughts for all. The first thought is the way the Western powers are quick to protect and rescue Egypt whereas Russia, and other factors, keep the door of western intervention to a check and limited to […]
Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, Nigerians are inherently and by tradition farmers. They live on land resources right from birth as crop farmers, fishermen, herdsmen and other livestock, hunters or related activities that link their survival to the land on which they live. Their produce and all the results of their farming activities are consumed upfront without maintaining or keeping the records. […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi We are concerned here about the rising of the false prophets in Africa and elsewhere, especially as described in the Christian religion in the Bible, how to identify them and how to run away from them. For the first time in history Africa is leading in the Christian evangelism and televising it. Many African […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The ongoing socio-political upheaval in Egypt calls for international interventions in Egypt in order to avert an impending polarisation of Egypt society with catastrophic and disastrous endings. If Egypt is allowed to disintegrate to such a level that resulting into a civil war, intra or inter-religious […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria While Cairo is becoming more quiet since Thursday August 15, 2013, ousted President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood supporters vowed to continue to oppose the interim military regime. In fact they are calling out for supports and campaigning for new protests. The interim government is warning that it […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Getting to a crossroad when one is on a wilderness journey can be challenging and requiring a sound, correct and a quick decision. Choosing the wrong paths always ends disastrous whereas making the right choice will be profitable in time, pleasant experience in the journey and getting […]
Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Usually the young hurriedly think, in their vanity, that their strength will allow them to sail through any problem but they are often deceived by their own ignorance. They foolishly rush in where angels fear to tread. When they come to understand, say after years of experience, they […]
By: Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Recently some group of people passed some information around Nigeria media reminding us to insist together that our daughters should be sent to school and not to infant marriage homes. The originators of this piece of information had expected the Senate of Nigeria to support the […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria A recent survey carried out amongst several races in America society indicates that the back race remains more racist than either the whites or the Hispanics. The poll was carried out only amongst the Americans, but if it was extended to the blacks in the other part […]
