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You don't need a green roof, a vertical garden or a green wall to live in a green building. Climate change will not destroy the Earth. The planet will go on for millions of years, long after human life has expired but climate change, however, can destroy the species of life on Earth that cannot adapt fast enough to new and changing conditions. This entire process of building design that reduces the harmful effects on our health and environment is known as green architecture or green design. Green architecture is a sustainable practice of green building design which is designed and constructed with keeping the environmental standards in mind. Today, we find ourselves at a crossroad on making choices about architectural standards, building materials and new construction, along with the opera...

On February 27, 2019, lawyer and activist, Mike Ozekhome SAN, wrote a piece under the headline, 'Buhari's skewed view of the Igbo race.' (more…)

The practice of architecture behaves like a language and builds itself. From the oldest times when it was first manifested, architecture has brought itself up as a tool for expressing itself and has constructed its own means of representation. During the last two decades, the history of modern architecture has been one of sorting out, developing and transforming possibilities implicit from the beginning. Modern Architecture means simplicity in form and design. Modern architecture is based on abstraction, which is created by clean lines, basic shapes, and forms. Thus, simple, plain, geometric forms, rectangular shapes, and linear elements make the characteristics of modern architecture. Samer Zod’s perspective has always been Clean, Simple, elegant is now the new sleek. Too fussy, busy and ...

Opinion piece as contributed By FEMI ADESINA I'd never had the head for figures. In fact, the enmity between me and mathematics was so bad that if you gave me a bottle, (more…)

By Adedayo Adepoju If homosexuality was so widely accepted in the ancient world, where did its condemnation come from? (more…)

By Garba Umar Just like every other seasonal activity, it is predictable that the 2019 election cycle will dawn. What was not predictable, (more…)

By Ifeanyi Izeze Without doubt, the argument by some political leaders of the PDP Southeast zone that the party’s presidential flag bearer, Atiku Abubakar (more…)

By William Bertrand Nigeria is poised to be one of the most important nations in the world. It has the resources, the population, the creative and entrepreneurial power (more…)

Right of Reply by Dr. (Mrs) Enape Victoria Ayishetu  My attention hasbeen drawn to the publication of 4th June, 2018 in an online medium, insidebusinessonline.com regarding (more…)

The kidnap of over two hundred girls from the government secondary school Chibok on April the fourteenth 2014, (more…)

By Segun Dipe Mark Lawrence may have had the accidental Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, in mind when in his award-winning book, Prince of Fools, (more…)

BY JOSIAH ADIO OLUPITAN Last week, the media was awash with a speech credited to the senator representing Ekiti South Senatorial District (more…)

By Philip Amiola  As a dewy-eyed boy growing up in the tranquil town of Ile-Ife, Osun state, I felt nothing but pity for the people who have (more…)

By Charles Ibekwe  “FLASH: @officialefcc is on the trail Dumebi Kachikwu, the younger brother of Minister of State for Petroleum. His account (s) frozen” (more…)

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BY ALABA ABDULRAZAK If you say education is expensive, try ignorance. This is one of the many didactic statements, the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo (more…)