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Critically Celebrating Professor Okwudiba Nnoli, A Former President of the NPSA, at 86

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Catholicism, CODESRIA, Dares Salam, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, ethnicity, Footballer, Hans Morgenthau, IRs, Nigerian Civil War, Nwalimu Nyerere, PACREP, Poverty, Stanford University, UNN, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Established in 1955 by the former Eastern Regional Government, the University of Nigeria (UNN) started operation in 1960. Like every other university of its age, it has... Read more

The Pope’s Call for Gay Blessings Is Not What It Seems?

Posted By: adminon: February 23, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African cardinals, Catholicism, Christianity, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, DignityUSA, Faith and ReasonNo CommentsViews:

Something seems to be brewing in the Catholic Church which is not easy to grasp. This essay by Richard D. Mohr, a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Il... Read more

Mediating the ‘Mustard Seed’: Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah and Empowerment in Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Catholicism, Communalism, Dr Yima Sen, Ikulu, SubalternityNo CommentsViews:

Dear His Lordship, Happy New Year to you over there in Sokoto! This is actually not my project in its original sense. The duty of taking it over and reconceptualising it has only fallen on m... Read more

Ubuntu Palaver @ Veritas University, Abuja Seminar

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Catholicism, E-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Genesis, Rene Descartes, SCOPUS, UbuntuNo CommentsViews:

Although there were sufficiently probing questions thrown at the presenter, it still wasn’t exactly an explosive session as they come. Still, there was something about the seminar topic to w... Read more

Pondering on John Cardinal Onaiyekan

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Alternative Modernity, Catholicism, DialogueNo CommentsViews:

75 years on earth, 50 of that in priesthood without entrapment in any unproductive controversies, allegations, scandals or acts out rightly prejudicial to peaceful co-existence in a very tem... Read more

Onaiyekan Waves Red Card at Agents of War and Anarchy in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2019In: GovernanceTags: Catholicism, Christianity, Mother Mary, The ChurchNo CommentsViews:

The thick fog of war and disintegration of Nigeria came apart today from verbal missiles fired on its conscious and unconscious promoters by outspoken John Cardinal Onaiyekan, outgoing Catho... Read more

Shabayang, the African Imaginary and Reconciliation in Catholicism

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2018In: BookspaceTags: African-self, Catholicism, Cold WarNo CommentsViews:

A university is as good as what its academics publish. This is more so if it is a fairly new but an ambitious university such as Veritas University, Abuja which aspires to be an intellectual... Read more

Veritas University and the Peace-Development Nexus

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2017In: BookspaceTags: ABU - Zaria School of History, Britain, Catholicism, Centrpiece of Nigerias foreign policy, CHINA, Halford Mackinder, Ibadan School of History, Peace-Development Nexus, Realism, USANo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA A conference on Peace and Development in Nigeria by a centre backed by a university is bound to occupy a striking presence on the radar of those who, perforce, have to mainta... Read more