It was an Inaugural Lecture with several differences. There was the fanfare which we can call the Baze University flavouring of the Inaugural Lecture tradition in academia. There was the roy... Read more
We are a group of concerned Nigerians, alarmed at increasing threats to the Nigerian Nation and desirous of sharing our concerns with fellow citizens. Our assessment of the state of the Nati... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The current edition of the Centre for World University Ranking (CWUR) named South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand (aka Wits) in Johannesburg as the number one univer... Read more
In one sentence, a scholar of peace is saying that Nigeria cannot experience peace if it continues with its attitude of sweeping things under the carpet rather than thorough scrutiny and jus... Read more
The Dakar based Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is in sackcloth over Prof Fantu Cheru, the multiply involved Ethiopian political economist who pas... Read more
Two Nigerian academics are each delivering an Inaugural Lecture within a week of each other in June 2026. Ordinarily, an Inaugural Lecture is a solemn but routine practice in that domain. Th... Read more
By Chris Kwaja, Ph.D., fspsp Introduction The sea has always been central to Nigeria’s economic prosperity and national security. With over 850 kilometres of coastline, vast offshore o... Read more
The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more
By Carlos Vargas The received story about global higher education goes like this: for most of the 20th century, knowledge flowed outwards from a small number of research-intensive universi... Read more
By Prof Chris Kwaja Indeed, God has been gracious to Abdoulaye Wade, former president of Senegal. He clocks 100 years. Beyond his role as President of Senegal, he was a staunch pan-Africanis... Read more
