Comrade Segun Osoba – remember him? He celebrated his 90th birthday last Thursday at his country home of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. Family, friends, comrades and students of the Marxist ideologue gathered to give Dr. Osoba 90 hearty cheers. Comrade, as we fondly called him, was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the then University of Ife (now …

The usual controversy that surrounds Jesus Christ during this period of the year is whether or not He was born on Christmas Day. There are religious sects and scholars who posit that Jesus could not have been born in December but somewhere in October or November. He was born all the same — and that is all that is important! …