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Maroon Square Debuts in Discourse Politics

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'China in Africa', 'China in Nigeria', CLO, Lagos State University - LASU, Maroon SquareNo CommentsViews:

The online platform, Maroon Square, is putting together a fiesta of ideas March 21st and 22nd, 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria. Its publicity to that effect shows that it would first be engaging “Nig... Read more

But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 17, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, NIIA, UI, UNESCO, UNILAG, UNN - NsukkaNo CommentsViews:

The first part of this special feature was devoted to demonstrating the contention that but for the developmental tragedy that has befallen Nigeria, her founding fathers planned the first, s... Read more

One More Tribute to Prof Pius Adesanmi, This Time By CODESRIA*

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2019In: BookspaceTags: African Doctoral Lounge, African Union Vision 2063, AU-ECOSSOCC, Canada, Canada Bureau of International Education Leadership Award, CODESRIA Bulletin, Penguin Prize for African Writing, University of British Columbia, University of Ibadan, University of IlorinNo CommentsViews:

CODESRIA has learned with extreme sadness and sorrow of the passing on of Prof. Pius Adesanmi in the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 that crashed upon take-off from Addis Ab... Read more

What Can Be Done About Nigeria’s Poorly Performing University System?

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'brain drain', 'brain exchange', Egypt, Malaysia, SciVal, SOUTH AFRICA, Times Higer Education, UNESCO dataNo CommentsViews:

The university system in Nigeria is in shambles, That appears to be the consensus, from academic staff to the government, to employers and to platforms of popular culture such as this online... Read more

Sidney Verba’s Death Brings to Mind an Entire Generation of Political Scientists

Posted By: adminon: March 09, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'Liberal International Order', 'Liberal Leviathan', 'Perestroika Movement', APSA, Contested Multilateralism, Political RealismNo CommentsViews:

Prof Sidney Verba’s death a day ago does not appear to have dominated global headlines. But that is a paradox because, along with others in his generation, they Americanised Political Scienc... Read more

Rain of Tributes for late Prof Tunde Oduleye

Posted By: adminon: March 09, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Advances in Biological Sciences, ASUU, NBA, Unilorin 49+ FoundationNo CommentsViews:

It would have been surprising if activists of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) did not politicize the death of one of its front rank theorists and practitioners, Professor Tu... Read more

But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Essential Mahmud, Ethnic Politics in Nigeria, Humanities Complex, LSE, NIPSS, State CapitalismNo CommentsViews:

It is an intriguing claim until the details behind it begin to be uploaded. That is the claim the above title captures as well as the added point that even the location of the earliest unive... Read more

Grand Narratives @ Risk: Class, Corruption and Culture in the February 23rd Poll in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 01, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', 'linguistic turn', APGA, False Consciousness, Igbo, MIMEC, Shehu Othman Dan FodioNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA The frightening rate at which the smaller parties completely disappeared in terms of self projection as well as the way presidential candidates and their communication strate... Read more

Book on Liman Ciroma for Public Presentation

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Aminu Dantata, Arewa House, Chief MKO Abiola, Dr Alex EkwuemeNo CommentsViews:

Testing the Grit of Public Service, the biography of Alhaji Adamu Liman Ciroma, is now to be publicly presented on January 26th, 2019. The late Adamu Liman Ciroma who died in May 2004 was th... Read more

Justice Onnoghen as a Teacher of Discourse, Context and Power

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'Bigman', HegemonNo CommentsViews:

Why might the Chief Justice of Nigeria be called a teacher? The Chief Justice might be called so because his planned trial has demonstrated again how truths emerge rather than what truth is.... Read more