Intervention Accademy
About two weeks ago, it was the Inaugural Lecture at the University of Ibadan that was in the news. The topic is “In Defence of Tradition”, delivered by Professor C B N Ogbogbo, an old war h... Read more
Cambridge University’s Christopher Andrew is at it again – academically unmasking intelligence as an apparatus of state power. Called the world’s best-informed interpreter or historian... Read more
It was a phenomenon in those days, both for the presumed audience who gulped it cover to cover as well as those who pondered on its literary status. The name ‘Onitsha Market Literature’ alre... Read more
Even with the crisis of “The Universe in the University”, the University of Ibadan, (UI), has managed to maintain the tradition of Inaugural Lecture. The university’s 442nd Inaugural Lecture... Read more
The Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, (UI) must have lost being the source of the last word in the discipline as it used to be on account of being the first of suc... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA* It is a classic opening of the proverbial can of worms, with particular reference to that phase of the Nigerian power politics which unravelled from December 1983 to 1999 an... Read more
A university is as good as what its academics publish. This is more so if it is a fairly new but an ambitious university such as Veritas University, Abuja which aspires to be an intellectual... Read more
It must be a mark of the academic sensitivity of the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, (IPSS) at the University of Ibadan for it to pay attention to the realm of communication and c... Read more
It is no longer the campus Chief Jim Nwobodo described as the most beautiful in the world in the early 1980s when the governor of the Old Anambra State visited. But it is still a magnificent... Read more
Heads of Departments of Mass Communications in Nigerian universities and polytechnics are converging on Bayero University, Kano, (BUK) in north western Nigeria later this week. While in BUK,... Read more
