By Professor Idowu Awopetu* The first reported reaction of the Federal Government, through the Minister for Education, to the current ASUU strike was a declaration that the government “can’t... Read more
Dr. Mohammad Dahiru Aminu provides an insight into the just published PhD thesis of the late Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, late National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU)... Read more
Predictably, last minute maneuvers have kept off the labour strike planned to have started last night. It would have been unusual for a government seeking re-election not to find a way of do... Read more
Baring last minute trade off, Nigeria may experience a lock down tomorrow additional to several flash points across the country. The Federal Government and the leading central labour organis... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja It was a pleasantly shocking encounter to find someone who is not a formal academic with such a mastery and delivery on one of the most difficult aspects of the crisis of uni... Read more
Almost exactly as he would have wished, the Nasarawa State University, Keffi stood still for nearly three hours today at a valediction for Prof Ochinya Ojiji Friday on the way to his final r... Read more
There is something of a surprise that someone who guards his image as carefully as Prof Attahiru Jega would choose to set national leadership criterion that does out rightly favour the incum... Read more
Although the late Prof Abubakar Momoh was not the visceral, expressive type in terms of family matters, perhaps in tandem with personal and ideological discipline, he spoke fondly in few pri... Read more
Academia has a new entrant. Throughout this piece, the said entrant would be known and called Dr. Olu. No disrespect is intended in this naming system. It is for simplicity. It is avoidance... Read more
The university system in Nigeria is still not off the critical gaze of its assessors. But unlike the recent past when it was the Federal Government and university administrators throwing dar... Read more
