Arsenal have completed the signing of Alexis Sanchez from Barcelona for £35m, making him the second most expensive transfer in the club’s history. Sanchez becomes the second high profile player to arrive at the Gunners from Spain following the £42.5m record acquisition of Mesut Ozil last summer, and will arrive at the club at the […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The ongoing civil war in Syria has turned several pages of different stories recently. In the middle of a civil war there was an election that overwhelming re-elected a belligerent incumbent President Assad and giving him several additional years to continue what his opponents describe as authoritarian […]
By Prof R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria A resistant movement by definition consists of a group of people wishing to enforce a change in the society. It is usually an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government and to disrupt civil order and […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, Department of Statistics, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Mr Ayodele Peter Fayose of the People Democratic Party PDP has been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC of Nigeria as the Governor Elect of Ekiti State. This follows the results of the just concluded election in that State on Saturday June […]
Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria It is no longer news that so many female students were kidnapped on April 14, 2014 from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno State Nigeria. What is rather news are the different efforts of people locally, nationally and even internationally demonstrating that these girls should be brought […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria In Nigeria tensions have continued to rise high since after hundreds of school girls were kidnapped by Islamist militants in Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS, Chibok, somewhere in Borno State North East corner of Nigeria. There is a widespread global demand on it already under the caption […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The entire story of man consists of life competition and collaboration, agreements and disagreements, some mixture of hate and love, a few little praises but lots of big condemnations, a few successes and piles of failures, and series of ups and downs. When the hate or […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Our lovely world is undergoing series of happenings and many of us feel that if there was a creator of this wicked universe he must have been dead. We hear of killings, bombing and not only in Nyanya Abuja Nigeria, kidnappings every day, wars and rumours of […]
By Prof R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria An Empire consists of two or more countries governed by a single supreme authority. The World has witnessed several empires before. Unfortunately most of those empires remain just in a few history books and with only woe tales to tell. Empires were never centres of excellence or […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi Nigeria is a leading world exporter of petroleum and has been doing so almost since her independence from Britain in 1960. One school of thought has it that the then British Government did not realize the amount of fuel available in Nigeria soil or indeed the financial implication of fuel in […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria In the field of inter-party relations our goal is to bring about a peaceful competition and stability among political parties. Periodic conflicts among different political parties are inevitable. Ideally political parties should emerge from different ideological basis and therefore inter-party conflicts cannot be eliminated but minimized by […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria The simple random walk is characterised by a motion that moves either forward or backward with some constant probability at any given time. At each movement we try to determine the progression of the overall motion leading to our estimate of a final success or failure. […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin Nigeria politics since independence has been characterised by ethno-regional cum religious bickering rather than ideologically growing the process. This was witnessed from the First Republic which eventually led to inter-parties fighting and serial military take-overs. Generally Africans have refused to grow the politics differently from the Western democracies […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Politics globally requires constant research and continuing proactive discussions with the electorates on methods to improve and develop the respective societies. It is not supposed to be an individual approach. However for most Africans what they refer to as politicians are individuals with possession of high […]
By Prof R. A. Ipinyomi The birth of Jesus Christ, the reason for Christmas, is specially recorded in the scriptures for our study, instruction and understanding in the spiritual and secular world. Matthew reported that after Jesus’ mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy […]
By Prof. R.A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Always President Olusegun Obasanjo remains in my view one President Nigeria has had many times and Nigeria had been better for it. He fought in the Biafra War and successfully commended various units of the Nigerian Army and rose to be a full Nigerian Army General. At […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Death is never a thing of joy. Hence the icon of Africa and a world leader by all indicators, Nelson Mandela and former President of South Africa, though lived to be 95 years old before he passed to the beyond the news of his death is […]
By: Prof. Ipinyomi R. A., University of Ilorin The African society, in which Nigeria is a typical example, is generally regarded as having three pillars namely its indigenous African culture, Arabic culture and Western society. These cultures are treasured by different sections of the African society differently. Nevertheless, the Western society seems most dominant and […]
By Prof. Ipinyomi, R.A. University of Ilorin, Nigeria Every individual is a politician by nature, although this inherent instinct may expose itself in each of us at varied degrees. Nevertheless the fact remains that everyone is interested in how he or she is governed and making the individual a politician. Given the opportunity everyone wants […]
By Prof. R. A. Ipinyomi, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Prof. Festus Iyayi was said to have been born on September 29, 1947 in Ugbegun in Ishan, Edo State of Nigeria. He rose from the obscure and became a Professor of Business Administration and head of the Department of Business Administration, University of Benin in Nigeria. […]
