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Professor Lucky Ovwasa, the Unique Teacher, Bows out of Service

Posted By: adminon: February 06, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Federal University - Lokoja, NDA, Prince Abubakar Audu University - Anyigba, Prof Ayo Dunmoye, UNILORINNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu I first met Lucky Ovwasa as a colleague in the Department of Political Science, University of Ilorin in 1998 after crossing over from my initial base at the Defence A... Read more

A Strategic Reading of Onaiyekan @ 80

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Christianity, Godswill Akpabio, Gowon, Ibrahim Tahir, Inter-culturation, Lugard, Mandela, Mount St Michael's Secondary School - Aliade, OBASANJO, Traditional religionNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The 80th birthday of Cardinal Emeritus John Onaiyekan has come and gone but the reflection on it has no deadline. The starting point here is that Nigeria is in search of lead... Read more

A Decade After the Death of the ABU, Zaria Irokos

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Chokoli', ABU Zaria, Irokos, Theatre Arts, Untruthful lieNo CommentsViews:

But for the current insecurity situation in the country, it is the kind of event that would make all roads to lead to Zaria as the Faculty stages a memorial of the three it calls the Irokos... Read more

Rites of Passage for Comrade Seun Salako Begins (2) : Tribute By Cde John Odah

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Ayofe, Barrister Festus Osayi, Comrade Oluseun Salako, Dapo, Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, JUSSA, Labour House, MAAS, Nkrumah’s Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, UNIJOS, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

In a chapter he contributed to a book of tributes to mark my 50th birthday, some 14 years ago, Seun gave a reverting account of our first encounter in October 1979 when we reported, as fresh... Read more

Rites of Passage for Comrade Seun Salako Begins (1) : A Tribute From the NLC

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Comrade Oluseun Salako, Labour House, NLCNo CommentsViews:

Comrade Seun Salako – A Comrade and Gentleman By Comrade Joe Ajaero, President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) for Congress At the Labour House in the Central Business District of Abuja, occu... Read more

Professor Osisioma B C Nwolise, The Crusader for Spirituality, is 74

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Billy Dudley, NPSA, Prof Ayo Dunmoye, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Prof Pam Dung Sha, Prof Saliu, Prof Sam Egwu, Prof Sule-Kano, Prof. Shuaib Ibrahim, Professors Asisi Asobie, UI, UNILORINNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu In furtherance to my submission on the categorization of scholars made last year (2023), I want to add that another group exists and has gained recognition to the exi... Read more

Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Islamisation, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Theatre for Development, UINo CommentsViews:

By Professor Oga Steve Abah* Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a humbling experience for me to stand here on this Memorial event to talk about a colleague I knew and worked with for decades. It is... Read more

Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Bala Mohammed, Bauchi humanism, Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Ibrahim Tahir, Islamisation, NEPU, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sa’adu Zungur, Theatre for Development, UI, Wole Soyinka, ‘radical tradition in Northern Nigeria’No CommentsViews:

The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more

Seun Salako Dies @ 64

Posted By: adminon: January 09, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'University on the Wheels', UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Comrade Seun Salako, generally known as cool and calm Comrade is no more. He went to sleep on January 6th but did not wake up in the morning of 7th as expected. His death has left many disco... Read more

Mama Beatrice Onyebuchi Chiemeke’s Grand Departure to the Great Beyond

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2024In: LifeworldTags: authentic Catholic, Barrister Chiemeke, Ubulu Uku, ‘Stuffing and starving’No CommentsViews:

Hers is one burial event an appreciative Nigeria, particularly activists of the 1980s ought to have attended en masse. Mama Beatrice Onyebuchi Chiemeke is not only an authentic Catholic, she... Read more