“All these clamours aim at redress. But a clamour made merely at rendering the people discontented with their situation, without an endeavour to give them a practical remedy, is indeed one o... Read more
For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more
While we await possible explosive judicial tackles between Peter Obi’s Labour Party and Asiwaju Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress, (APC), we get on with trying to read the president – elect... Read more
Richard Umaru, a member of the ideologues behind the Balarabe Musa Government in Kaduna State of Nigeria in the Second Republic says he is contented and proud of his contributions to the str... Read more
It is victory of tragedy when a Richard Umaru writes on his Facebook page on his 70th birthday that he has gathered no moss. It must be tragedy because the reference to moss in the single se... Read more
It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more
It must, indeed, be great that, in spite of the tribulations tormenting Nigerians, the rump of the Nigerian Left was still able to put together an Online Session to mark the 9th Anniversary... Read more
The late Dr. Stanley Macebuh’s tribute to the equally late Dr. Ibrahim Tahir which serves as the cover picture of this piece raises a question: what explains the perpetual conflict, most oft... Read more
Barely 24 hours after a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof A.D Yahaya died in Abuja, Nigeria is also receiving the news of the death... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The private universities remain a debate in Nigeria. For one, they are more in number than the public universities but their share of the total, annual admission figure is st... Read more
