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Seun Salako Dies @ 64

Posted By: adminon: January 09, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'University on the Wheels', UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Comrade Seun Salako, generally known as cool and calm Comrade is no more. He went to sleep on January 6th but did not wake up in the morning of 7th as expected. His death has left many disco... Read more

ABU, Zaria Probes Into Challenges of Quality Higher Education in Africa @ Its 60th Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, FGN, MacArthur Foundation, media, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Nearly everyone says university education in Nigeria is all about production and circulation of illiterates. The World Bank says so, the Nigerian Government is comfortable with that and most... Read more

Mama Beatrice Onyebuchi Chiemeke’s Grand Departure to the Great Beyond

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2024In: LifeworldTags: authentic Catholic, Barrister Chiemeke, Ubulu Uku, ‘Stuffing and starving’No CommentsViews:

Hers is one burial event an appreciative Nigeria, particularly activists of the 1980s ought to have attended en masse. Mama Beatrice Onyebuchi Chiemeke is not only an authentic Catholic, she... Read more

Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: LifeworldTags: CHINA, Concept of Medium Powers, Israel, NADECO, NIIA, NPSA, Realism, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USA, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the son of a priest and politician, is an academic colossus whose impacts on various aspects of Nigerian life cannot be captured in a... Read more

The Bull Plateau Killings Compel Nigeria to Take By the Horns

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Segun Osoba, Eastern Europe, Elite escapism, Emir of Katsina, Governor Muftwang, Industrialisation, Jassawa versus Jankassa, Land in itself, Lenin, Mercenaries, Middle – Belt, Regulatory agencies, Sabon-GariNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There is an angle to resolving the phenomenon characterised by violence on the Plateau that has, however, not featured in the discursive formation around the latest round of... Read more

Benue State Deputy-Governor Botches Resignation Plan, Recants

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Chief Solomon Lar, Deputy-Governor of Benue State, General T. Y. Danjuma, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Gowon, Institutionalism, Middle – Belt, NATO, NCDC, Plateau killings, Senator George Akume, Tiv- Idoma relationsNo CommentsViews:

There is an anti-climax to the planned resignation of the Deputy-Governor of Benue State, Dr. Sam Ode. Instead of resigning as planned during the week, Dr Ode turned up at what was called a... Read more

Skills Rather than Just Degrees?: Language, Literature at the Intersection of Digital Technology in the 21st Century (2)

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2024In: BookspaceTags: CALL, Cultural nationalism, Digital communication technology, Discourse analysis, Forensic linguistics, Isa Ali Pantami, Jean Francois Lyotard, Modern African Literature, NUC, Prof Emakoji Ayikoye, Prof Terry Eagleton, ‘The Postmodern Condition’No CommentsViews:

By Abubakar Aliyu Liman (PhD) The author, a Professor in the Department of English and Literary Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts @ the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria made this... Read more

Activists Set to Memorialise Salihu Bappa in Abuja

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, Cde Salihu Bappa, Development Communication, Dramatic ArtsNo CommentsViews:

Set aside January 11th, 2024 for Salihu Muhammad Bappa, the late Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic. Friends, colleagues and associates have democratically decoded to memorialise the in... Read more

Skills Rather than Just Degrees?: Language, Literature at the Intersection of Digital Technology in the 21st Century (1)

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2024In: BookspaceTags: American pragmatists, BMAS, British empiricists, CCMAS, Isa Ali Pantami, Jean Francois Lyotard, NITD, NUC, Prof Emakoji Ayikoye, Prof Terry Eagleton, Zombified humans, ‘Future Shock’, ‘The Postmodern Condition’No CommentsViews:

By Abubakar Aliyu Liman (PhD) The author, a Professor in the Department of English and Literary Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts @ the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria made this... Read more

How Rifkatu Manasseh Turaki Died in Kaduna on New Year Eve

Posted By: adminon: January 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Cde Manasseh Turaki, Dr. Rifkatu Manasseh Turaki, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Heaven, KASUNo CommentsViews:

According to Cde Manasseh Turaki, the husband, in a brief telephone chat with Intervention earlier today, the family woke up to it on Sunday, December 31st, 2023. The wife, Rifkatu Manasseh... Read more