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I am shocked that Tribune has become a political trumpet that will allow its platform to be used to support politics that toys with the future of thousands of students and livelihood of thousands of Lautech staff who have been without salary for 11 months now. I called this the height of wickedness that no one in South Western Nigeria has seen before - not even the ASUU-Abacha 9 months' strike of 1996 degenerated to this level. Awolowo, who founded Tribune will be turning in his grave that his legacy could accommodate such a poorly written and baseless article that is on weak facts. Akeem Adebiyi, the author of this piece spent most of the time attacking a nameless politician and then concluded by blaming the past and present management of Lautech for not making the University solvent and self-sustaining. I think Akeem needs to advise the governors of Oyo and Osun on the issue of self-sustaining before asking the management of a state university that supposed to provide sub...

  Wisdom from Kagame’s Experience – A Model for Other Potential African Leaders I am not sure how many Nigerians know Paul Kagame - he is the president of Rwanda who just got re-elected with 99% of the vote cast for a third term. He was a former warlord that led the rebels to defeat the genocidal government in Rwanda in 1994. He was first a vice president from 1994 - 2000, and he has ruled Rwanda as president since 2000. He is praised by the international community for leading the effort to rebuild and reconcile Rwanda after the 1994 genocide that saw more than 1 million Rwandans, mostly of Tutsi tribe (Kagame's tribe) killed by their compatriots. Under Kagame, Rwanda is ranked as one of the fastest growing economies in the world - Rwanda does not have petroleum, he has diversified Rwanda's economy from just agriculture alone toward human capital base development, without neglecting agricultural production that is responsible for 44% of Rwanda’s GDP as of 2010. His gove...