New technologies have taken over the workplace, which is why unemployment is rampart. To thrive and survive in the new millennium, you have to acquire new skills. Formal education is no longer enough to gain employment; you have to acquire new skills. I entered journalism as a proof reader on the Nigerian Tribune, Ibadan in…

Prices of food items have doubled in some parts of the country as traders capitalized on Nigeria's general elections which begins Saturday, February 16. These traders took advantage of the surge in buying to inflate the cost of food items and other essential commodities, while consumers lament. A visit by The Guardian to markets in…

A Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators have threatened to attack oil facilities belonging to northerners and asked those living in the region to get prepared to leave the region. Citing recent developments in the country, they stressed that northerners in the region should be prepared to leave the region, especially if the authorities rig the…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday departed Abuja for Ibadan, Oyo State, to resume his re-election campaign after a day break on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that before the break, the president and members of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were on Thursday in Anambra and Enugu…

A pregnant woman was yesterday morning crushed to death by a truck while trying to cross the road at Molete area of Ibadan, Oyo State capital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident happened beneath the Molete flyover linking Beere/Oje to Challenge roundabout. Confirming the incident, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC)…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alerted the United Nations (UN) and Abdulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee of the threat posed to the February general elections by President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged desperate self-succession bid.

Hoodlums suspected to be arsonists in the early hours of yesterday burnt down no fewer than 30 shops and houses located along the popular Beere-Molete road in Ibadan, Oyo State capital.

As many find their way into churches and religious centres for a special cross-over service to pray into the New Year, it was a cruel twist of fate for 30 passengers...

Koladaisi University, Ibadan, has shored up its bar of acceptance and international acclaim by hosting the institution’s first Research Fellow, Mr. Colin Bos, from the United States (U.S.). The historic research fellow who is a doctoral student of the Department of History at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, USA, has a…

The Senate Committee on Works has commenced investigation into the N23 billion failed Ibadan-Ilorin road project. The Chairman of the committee, Sen. Kabiru Gaya, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. Gaya said the committee got to know of the development during its oversight of…

‘Kindness has no church. Peace has no religion. Compassion has no temple, and love has no borders.” Sir: The recent scenes in the International School Ibadan, where parents campaigned for their wards to wear Hijab to school as a right is bemusing. It reminded me of the scenes in Osun State some years ago when…

Book: This Retirement Author: Kayode Adedire Publishers: Johnsprint Nig. Limited, Ibadan You will not be quite right to condemn journalist Kayode Adedire, the author of This Retirement, for the venom he spews out in this work. Anger, despair and bitterness leap at you from almost every page to dramatise his days in the valley of…