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Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Islamisation, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Theatre for Development, UINo CommentsViews:

By Professor Oga Steve Abah* Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a humbling experience for me to stand here on this Memorial event to talk about a colleague I knew and worked with for decades. It is... Read more

Plagiarism is Not a Sin: Claudine Gay’s Failure was Intellectual, Not Moral

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Harvard, MIT, Neri Oxman, Plagiarism, Prof Claudine Gay, University of PennsylvaniaNo CommentsViews:

The orthodoxy in academia is capital NO to plagiarism. But, in the essay below, Kathleen Stock who is introduced as a columnist for UnHerd; author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for... Read more

Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Bala Mohammed, Bauchi humanism, Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Ibrahim Tahir, Islamisation, NEPU, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sa’adu Zungur, Theatre for Development, UI, Wole Soyinka, ‘radical tradition in Northern Nigeria’No CommentsViews:

The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more

The Coming UNILAG Convocation!

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Attahiru Jega, Decoloniality, First Class, Toyin Falola, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

The 54th Convocation of one of Nigeria’s first generation universities – the University of Lagos (UNILAG) – is at hand. There is a sense in which this Convocation seems not like... Read more

Unhooking NIPR from the Path of Jacobinism

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 'linguistic turn', Adekeye Adebajo, Barry Buzan, Bolaji Akinyemi, Jacobinism, NIPR, Officer, Patrick Dele Cole, Raufu Mustapha, Soldier, Stanley Macebuh, Wittgenstein, ‘Empire of signs’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) is circulating a memo to military chiefs and other security agencies to press its case against what it calls “the appointmen... Read more

Seun Salako Dies @ 64

Posted By: adminon: January 09, 2024In: People in ActionTags: '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: People in ActionTags: 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: People in ActionTags: 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