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Socialism and Religion Are Not Antagonistic of Each Other – Major Adeyi, HoD, Political Science, University of Jos

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Chief Awolowo, Eneke the bird, Marxism, Obafemi, Ontological standpoint, Religion, UPNNo CommentsViews:

The original intention for putting a call through to him was to question his daily practice of dispatching religious texts through his WhatsApp. It is not that the religious text messages ar... Read more

Lecturers in Nigeria Earnestly Need ‘Doomsday Prepping’

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Atropheee, Contingency, Damnation, IPPISed pre-retirement salariesNo CommentsViews:

By Ibrahim Bello-Kano I just read about a retired Professor in a Nigerian university campus who was virtually evicted from the university quarters and a long list of people of the same cadre... Read more

On the Dangers of Office Hunting

Posted By: adminon: March 18, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Epicurus, Ex-VCs, Former governors, Ministers, VCsNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Ibrahim Bell-Kano Whenever I see people or colleagues hunting for office or other appointed positions, I am always reminded of a famous quip by the great Epicurus, namely that one sh... Read more

Birkbeck University of London Unfolds a Visiting Research Fellow on Hate Speech

Posted By: adminon: March 07, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Galatasaray University, Hate Speech, Marmara University, Media Pluralism Monitor Turkey ProjectNo CommentsViews:

Birkbeck, one of the about a dozen universities that forms the University of London, making it the most populous in the world, is announcing the arrival of Prof Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu who... Read more

Professor Ogoh Alubo’s Groundbreaking Biopolitical Lens on Health and Sickness

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2022In: BookspaceTags: APC, Biopolitcs, David Harvey, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, Giorgio Agamben, Global Governance, Governmentality, GWOT, Neoliberalism, Panopticism, PDP, Political economy, SurveillanceNo CommentsViews:

Neoliberalism as a technology of power rather than only a doctrine of what incisive British Marxist Geographer, David Harvey, calls “creative destruction” and “accumulation by dispossession”... Read more

Seven Reasons Why Your Institution Should Participate in the World University Rankings

Posted By: adminon: February 18, 2022In: BookspaceTags: EUA Survey, OECD Survey, THENo CommentsViews:

Why are university rankings so important? They help institutions build global brand visibility, forge strategic partnerships and recruit international talent Michael Lubacz The portal is ope... Read more

What Prof Ayo Banjo Said on the University Crisis in Nigeria 24 Years Ago

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Awolowo Foundation Dialogue, Longe Report, ScholarshipNo CommentsViews:

It is apt that, on the day that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) begins a month long industrial action across public universities in Nigeria, we remind ourselves of one of th... Read more

Not Yet the End of the Historic ASUU – FG Conflict in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, CAN, IPPIS, NIREC, NUC, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Is it possible that the outcome of the intervention in the age-old conflict between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria by the Nigeria Inte... Read more

A Vice-Chancellor for Oxford and Cambridge Universities

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Brexit, CHINA, COVID-19, Harvard University, UK, University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

With both Oxford and Cambridge seeking new vice-chancellors, Rosa Ellis examines the unique pressures of leading these prestigious universities and the qualities that successful candidates w... Read more

Why This Alli ‘Must Not Go’

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: IRs, Marxist theory, NDA, Neopositivism, NIIA, Poststructuralism, The English SchoolNo CommentsViews:

The popular turn of phrase in Nigeria in this respect is ‘Ali Must Go’. It is the idiom summing up the demand for the removal of Col. Ahmadu Ali, (rtd), the then Minister for Education under... Read more