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Who is Being Prepared to Thrive in a Multipolar University?

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Asia, Australia, Canada, EU, Global South, Iran, Japan, Manhattan Project, Middle East, MIT, Patrice Lumumba University, Russia, Singapore, The Humboldtian model, The Manhattan Project, UK, US, Western EuropeNo CommentsViews:

By Carlos Vargas The received story about global higher education goes like this: for most of the 20th century, knowledge flowed outwards from a small number of research-intensive universi... Read more

Reading Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, From Subaltern Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Canada, Hegemony, Medium powers, NIGERIA, Power, Radical contingency, Rules-based international order, Trump, Truth, USANo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, managed to get the world stirring with his speech to the 2026 Davos audience. It is no mean achievement for a medium power to seemingly... Read more

An Enjoyable Afternoon at Quay de Cologny in Geneva

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Quay de Cologny, Sail GP, Spain, the US, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura We had an enjoyable treat at Quay de Cologny in Geneva this afternoon (20/09/25). We were invited by an ex-UNRISD colleague, Angela, to watch the Sail GP (Grand Prix) or boa... Read more

NIIA Intellectualises Diasporic Community As An Instrument of Nigerian Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: January 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Canada, Diasporic community, France, Israel, Nigerian foreign policy, NIIA, People's Republic of China, UKNo CommentsViews:

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

NPSA, Marxist Conference Group Mourn Prof Nuhu Yaqub

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2025In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Canada, Ebira, Marxist Conference, NPSA, Okene, Political Science, Toyin Falola, UDUS, UKNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has announced the death of Prof Nuhu Yaqub. Yaqub was a former ASUU Branch Chairman, former Deputy-Vice Chancellor (DVC) at Usmanu Danfodiyo... Read more

Theodora Udounwa ,21 Year Old Nigerian Student, Breaks Record @ University of Toronto

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Abuja, Black Pharmacy Students Association, Canada, CAPSI, COVID-19, Toronto General HospitalNo CommentsViews:

Hers is a singularity that can be celebrated because the context of her exceptionalism leaves little room for any reservations. The University of Toronto is, like most of the top 50 front ra... Read more

France Tops the Global Destination for African Students, Followed by China – Carnegie Africa

Posted By: adminon: July 14, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Canada, Carnegie Africa Program, France, Malaysia, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USANo CommentsViews:

Carnegie Africa has released a shocking report on the hierarchy of global destinations in African students’ preferences. It is shocking in the sense that France, not the United Kingdom or th... Read more

For the Attention of Nigerian Foreign Policy Mandarins

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Academia, Achebe, Canada, Coloniality of modernity, Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Neorealism, SADF, SIIA, Summitry, The military, The Presidency, Things Fall Apart, Traditional diplomacy, UmofiaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja These two books have not been written for Nigerian foreign policy but it would be surprising if they do not form the training manuals for the assemblage associated with formu... Read more

When Will There Be the First Woman Secretary-General of the United Nations?

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Canada, International Day of Women in Diplomacy, Presidency of the General Assembly, SOUTH AFRICA, Sweden, UN Sec-Gen, United Nation General Assembly, USNo CommentsViews:

Intervention joins other platforms across the world in circulating this stimulating piece on gender equity as regards when there will be the first ever woman Secretary-General of the United... Read more

Celebrating, in the Critical Tradition, With Prof Gabriel Egbe

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Bala Usman, Billy Dudley, Canada, Claude Ake, Dele Awojobi, Eskor Toyo, Global Governance, International Relations, Private universitiesNo CommentsViews:

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