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Prof Okpeh Okpeh, History and a Nation’s Historians @ a Time of Political Cholera in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 07, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Historiography, History, Inter-group relations, IRs, Stalin, TINANo CommentsViews:

The first surprise on sighting this book on the bookshelf of Dr Fr Innocent Jooji of the Department of Political Science at Veritas University was in the idea of Prof Okpeh Okpeh coming of a... Read more

The Constitution?

Posted By: adminon: February 01, 2020In: BookspaceTags: CAPP, Chief Sunday Awoniyi, IBB University, President Muhammadu BuhariNo CommentsViews:

Establishing a journal in Nigeria in the year 2000 and calling it The Constitution must have seemed the most foolish step to take. Almost nobody was anticipating much constitutional creases... Read more

Is Nigerian English in Oxford Dictionary Blowback or Consolidation of Colonialism?

Posted By: adminon: January 30, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Blowback, Chinua Achebe, LAFA, OED, Oluada Equiano, William WilberforceNo CommentsViews:

It is no longer news that some 29 words essentially of Nigerian origin in usage have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, (OED), a powerful learning tool. But what might that mean? i... Read more

Meeting With Buhari Not Just Over IPPIS – ASUU

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 2019 FG-ASUU Memorandum of Action, ASUU, IPPIS, UTASNo CommentsViews:

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) says it did not meet with President Muhammadu Buhari last week just to discuss the stalemate between the Federal Government and the union ove... Read more

Imagining the Emancipatory Promise of Popular Geopolitics for Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 10, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 'A scar on the conscience of the world', 'Africa Rising', 'CNN Effect', AfCFTA, DONALD TRUMP, Global Governance, Gramsci, HegemonyNo CommentsViews:

Extracted from the website of the Global Governance Institute of the University College London where it was originally published, January 10th, 2020 (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-governance/... Read more

ASUU & IPPIS: The Truth of the Matter

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2019In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

With obviously the government allowing a very straightforward, technical issue as inclusion/non-inclusion of academics in IPPIS to degenerate into a matter of threats and counter threats bet... Read more

Nigeria’s Democratic Backsliding

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2019In: BookspaceTags: AfDB, Code of Conduct Tribunal, Nancy Bermeo, Rosa Luxemburg, Social Media Bill, Universal Declaration of Human RightsNo CommentsViews:

In this piece, the author argues a thesis of democratic backsliding. Even those who may not like the piece for whatever reasons will admire the writer: a Nigeria undergraduate today writing... Read more

When the Kilba People Tell Their Own Story on December 21st, 2019

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Foreign policy, IPCR, Jimeta - Yola, Kilba Development Association, Nation building, Nationalist lores, NIIA, NIPSSNo CommentsViews:

The point is that Nigeria and the world will only be a better place if every identity tells its own story because no one can tell any other person’s story without turning it into a tool for... Read more

The Nigerian Moment @ Oxford University

Posted By: adminon: December 06, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Race relations, Rhodes Chair, University of OxfordNo CommentsViews:

It is open to (mis) interpretation as a hegemonic game through knowledge but it is also open to (mis) interpretation as the day Nigeria is deploying a global intellectual fleet, with some of... Read more

Sharp, Short and Sagacious a Take on IPPIS

Posted By: adminon: December 02, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Association of African Universities, IPPIS, NUC, Vice-ChancellorsNo CommentsViews:

“Frankly speaking, my response to this question is not as JAMB Registrar, it is as a Professor from a university and as somebody who had managed the university and who has also been Presiden... Read more