ASUU Archives - Intervention

A FGN Deal With UK’s University of Coventry?

Posted By: adminon: March 29, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Analytical Philosophy, ASUU, Continental Philosophy, FGN, Mauritius, NIGERIA, PRC, UK, University of Coventry, University of WarwickNo CommentsViews:

Is there no normative contradiction in the Federal Government of Nigeria entering a deal with a foreign university to open a campus in Nigeria? Does it not sound like passing a Vote of No Co... Read more

Situating Prof Omotoye Olorode’s ‘The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century’

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 21st century, Africa, ASUU, FG, International Relations, Marxism, NUC, Ontology, Scholarship, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Text: The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century Author: Prof Omotoye Olorode Pages: 78 Year: 2023 Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Like the banana tree which gets cut down... Read more

Prof Toye Olorode Pays Tribute to Comrade Prof Biodun Jeyifo

Posted By: adminon: March 04, 2026In: FlashbackTags: 'Ali Must Go', 'Great Ife mystique', ASUU, Dr. Mahmud Moddibo Tukur, Ife Dialogue Committee, NLC, NUNS, Segun Okeowo, University of IbadanNo CommentsViews:

Published below is Prof Omotoye Olorode’s tribute to Prof BJ. Written from the Odoje Biodiversity Centre. Ogbómọṣọ in Oyo State of Nigeria’ where he currently is, this is not just a tr... Read more

Dipo Fashina and Asisi Asobie As a Spectacle @ Cde Hassan Summonu’s Event

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, BUK, CAPP, LSE, NANS, NLC, NTA, OAU Ile-Ife, Philosophy, UNN, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The 85th birthday and book presentation in honour of pioneer president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Comrade Hassan Summonu has come and gone with its many sides. Al... Read more

Echoes of the Jos (Nigeria) Conversation on Fanon And the ‘African Condition’ at the Centenary of the Philosopher

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Africa’s knowledge production crisis, ASUU, CDD-West Africa, CITAD, CODESRIA, Fanon, Inter-generational conversation, Resurgent Pan-Africanism, The 'African condition'No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There were none of the overtly stormy sessions which define the 1983 ‘Marx and Africa’ Centenary with which the November 2025 Fanon Centenary compares in recent N... Read more

Scholars, Activists Take Another Look at ‘Fanon and the African Condition’ After a Hundred Years

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African universities, ASUU, CDD, CITAD, CODESRIA, Fanon, Inter-generational conversation, UNIJOS, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:

Some of Africa’s most established scholars are converging on Jos, the Plateau State capital, for the centenary of Frantz Fanon. The grand theme of the centenary is ‘Fanon and th... Read more

Yet, Another World University Ranking Without Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, Claude Ake, Egypt, First Class, MOROCCO, SAP, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

It has been another season of world University ranking but in none of which any Nigerian university made the first 500. The ranking industry is confronting considerable criticisms because it... Read more

CITAD On the Move

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2025In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, Conglomerate, Dukawuya United FC, IT, Kano, Nigerian university system, PhilosophyNo CommentsViews:

In the days when it made sense to talk about the core of any reality, it would have been said that the core of the Kano-based Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) is the... Read more

Suspense As ASUU Goes Into A Closed Session in Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: August 17, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Egypt, IMF/World Bank, NUC, Private universities, Public universities, SOUTH AFRICA, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria is lost in a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Sokoto, Sokoto State. There are no hints about what the outcome of the mee... Read more

President Bola Tinubu and the Low-Hanging Fruits in Implementing the FGN/ASUU Agreement in the 2026 Fiscal Year

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, EAA, FGN, NUC, Organised private sector, Prof Chris Piwuna, TETFund, TISSF, VUCANo CommentsViews:

By Comrade Sanusi A. S. Maikudi Introduction The 2009 Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was never meant to be a po... Read more