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Dying Ivory Towers: The Unspoken Crisis in Nigerian Universities

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Education, Nigerian universities, United Nations’ Sustainable Development GoalsNo CommentsViews:
Dying Ivory Towers: The Unspoken Crisis in Nigerian Universities

This article was not sent to Intervention. Rather, it was picked from the social media because it fits into the today’s theme for Intervention. It doesn’t look like the author pu... Read more

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Still on the Ivory Towers

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: ASUU, NANS, University governance, VCsNo CommentsViews:
Still on the Ivory Towers

This week began with a book on the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and how it crashed out of history. but the wisdom in certain circles is that the crash of NANS was... Read more

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How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'Historic Block', ABU Zaria, CDD, Imperialism, MacArthur, Marxism, Military rule, Philanthropy, UI, ‘Collective will’, ‘Omoluabi’No CommentsViews:
How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Rhizomatic moment is the inescapable grammar for capturing the discontinuously interconnected issues, situations, people, outcomes, models, symbols, memories and even facts that tie together... Read more

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Prof. Mathew Olarotimi Ajayi, the Gentleman Scholar, Adds Another Year!

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Comparative Politics, Covenant University, HoD, Landmark University, NDA, UNILORIN, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Prof. Mathew Olarotimi Ajayi, the Gentleman Scholar, Adds Another Year!

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu I first met Prof. Ajayi at the University of Ilorin when I joined it from the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, in 1998. He did not start his lecturing job there. Aft... Read more

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NIIA Intellectualises Diasporic Community As An Instrument of Nigerian Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: January 05, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Canada, Diasporic community, France, Israel, Nigerian foreign policy, NIIA, People's Republic of China, UKNo CommentsViews:
NIIA Intellectualises Diasporic Community As An Instrument of Nigerian Foreign Policy

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) is set to centralise intellectualising the idea of the diasporic community as an instrument of (Nigerian) foreign policy. Come January... Read more

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Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bill and ‘the Tyranny of Borrowed Paradigms’?

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 2027, Development strategy, NASENI, National Economic Council, NITDA, Point of consumption, TETFundNo CommentsViews:
Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bill and ‘the Tyranny of Borrowed Paradigms’?

By Adagbo Onoja President Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bill has moved from the law making and popular culture spheres to a subject of intellectual disquisition. Two academics, Abubakar Siddique Moham... Read more

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Enduring Traditions, Bumpy Roads: The Struggle to Reach Kaama for the 2024 Gani Festival

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Alhaji Muazu Shehu Omar, Gani, Ghana, Hadeija, Kaiama, Mali, Maulud, Qadiriyya, Salafism, Tijaniyya, WahhabismNo CommentsViews:
Enduring Traditions, Bumpy Roads: The Struggle to Reach Kaama for the 2024 Gani Festival

Hussaini Abdu (Ph.D) The distance from Kaama (Kaiama) to Abuja is just under 600 kilometres, a journey that typically takes no more than six hours by road. Over the years, I have driven this... Read more

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Nigeria @64: Taking Stock of Politics and Governance By NPSA

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 1960, Flag independence, Flawed democracy, Nigerian State, NPSA, PovertyNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria @64: Taking Stock of Politics and Governance By NPSA

Prof Hassan A. Saliu In 1960, when Nigeria gained what some have described as flag independence, reflective of the nature of its relationship with major western countries, there was jubilati... Read more

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NPSA Denounces Liberal Democracy, Blames Nigeria’s Woes On It

Posted By: adminon: September 17, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Liberal democracy, NIGERIA, NPSA, Political scientists, Poverty, Visionless elite1 CommentViews:
NPSA Denounces Liberal Democracy, Blames Nigeria’s Woes On It

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) says Nigeria is down because it is operating liberal democracy that is unsuitable due to its underlying economic philosophy which the countr... Read more

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Confronting the Achilles Heel of Healthcare Provisioning in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'brain drain', Africa, CMDs, MDs, NIGERIA, The Postgraduate Medical CollegeNo CommentsViews:
Confronting the Achilles Heel of Healthcare Provisioning in Nigeria

By Chris Kwaja, Ph.D. Framing the Discourse The Postgraduate Medical College Fellow’s Association is billed to host its 2024 annual conference in Port Harcourt, September 15th – 21st,... Read more

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