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Prof Moses Ochonu, the NUC and the Trouble With the Nigerian University System

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2024In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Deconstruction, NUC, Stanley Hoffman, Western metaphysicsNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja This piece has two provocations. The main provocation is the Daily Trust headline ‘British Council, NUC Partner On Development Of Varsity Curriculum.’ It was the headline tha... Read more

CDD-WA Calls for Research Proposals on the Radical Movement in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 500 Euros, Archival research, Baba Omojola, Edwin & Bene Madunagu, IFRA, Ola Oni, Social sciences and humanities, Yusufu Bala UsmanNo CommentsViews:

There is now an opportunity for students/researchers of the radical movement (and moments too?) in Nigeria. Such students/researchers from the social sciences can submit a proposal which if... Read more

How Universities Killed the Academic

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Academic culture, Free speech, Philosophy, University, “technological conservatism”No CommentsViews:

Although this piece originally published in Unherd is more applicable to UK academic culture where the ‘wolf warrior” of a critic is basically endangered, it is entertaining as well as worth... Read more

NPSA Intensifies Conversation on “Towards a more Workable Democratic Order in Nigeria”

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Democratic order, Nigeria's democracy, NPSANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is inviting members of the public to its 2nd Seminar Series on Nigeria’s Democracy, the theme of which is “Towards a more Workable Dem... Read more

International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Critical turn', ABU Zaria, Barry Buzan, Hans Morgenthau, History, IAS-UI, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Neorealism, NUC, OAU Ile-Ife, Political Science, Richard Ashley, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA Introduction It cannot be out of place to worry about the quality and overarching direction of undergraduate and even graduate training in the discipline of International Rel... 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

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

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

2023 World Philosophy Day in Kano, Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2023In: BookspaceTags: African Union Mock Summit, Kano, Northern Nigeria, Philosophy, UNESCO, WTO Mock SummitNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Musa Philosophy is a discipline that enhances the ability of the brain to think and conceptualize ideas, it arms us with the ability to explain difficult phenomena and eliminate amb... Read more

Dr. Iyela Ajayi and the Challenges of Senior Secondary School Education in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2023In: BookspaceTags: CRF, NBTE, NCCE, NSSEC, NUC, Professor Benjamin Abakpa, TETFund, UBECNo CommentsViews:

By Saleh Bature It is an open secret that senior secondary education in Nigeria suffers neglect for rather too long. The rot in the sector is mind-boggling and unimaginable. The question on... Read more