Interview By Marian Blasberg, Jens Glüsing & Britta Kollenbroich His sun shone brilliantly and Brazil emerged from the stereotype of a basket case. He was even taunting the IMF wi... Read more
If this were coming from any of the newer universities or from many other intellectual spaces in Nigeria, it would have been taken as conclusive enough evidence that, though there are proble... Read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) has completely rejected a rise in electricity tariff which the government agency responsible for electricity pricing has been denying. The NLC said in a st... Read more
The list of the dead from Covid-19 complications has grown by one more in Nigeria Sunday evening, January 3rd, 2021. He is Prof Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, a former Vice-Chancellor of the Universit... Read more
Ogoh Alubo, Professor of Sociology at the University of Jos in Nigeria, passes a verdict of a horrible year on 2020 in a detailed assessment of it just before Nigeria and the rest of the wor... Read more
What could be the outlook for democracy in Africa under condition of a global health emergency – Covid 19 – compounded by volatile populism, ethno-nationalism, ‘state capture’, narrowi... Read more
Sometimes, the social media, more quickly than any other media sites, have a way of graphically capturing a slice of reality. A good example would be this one about how there came to be vacc... Read more
The global ranking industry might have got its most significant attack in recent times. Professor Brian Schmidt, the Vice-Chancellor of the global front rank Australian National University,... Read more
The Time’s 100 Most Influential list and similar ratings continue to gain traction globally even as many also think mainly of such ratings as disciplinary narratives. That is, disciplinary i... Read more
A new argument can be heard insisting that universities should be ranked in terms of impact on society rather than any other criteria. This, it is posited, would resolve their perceived disc... Read more
