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ABU, Zaria Honours Past Deans of FASS, Hits Nostalgic Button

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, FASS, Historiography, Identity politics, MacArthur, Nation building, NUC, State buildingNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Honours Past Deans of FASS, Hits Nostalgic Button

The Nigerian university system came under a reflexive scrutiny today at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where deans of the old Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) were called to be... Read more

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On a Condolence Visit to Prof Okello Oculi’s Family, Nigerian Civil Society Gives Firm Guarantee of Preserving His Legacy

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Fanon, FASS, Marx, McCarthyism, Mock-OAU Summit, NTA, Pan-Africanism, SAPNo CommentsViews:
On a Condolence Visit to Prof Okello Oculi’s Family, Nigerian Civil Society Gives Firm Guarantee of Preserving His Legacy

There is now a firm guarantee that what most occupied the late former Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic, Prof Okello Oculi would be preserved. The guarantee is the highlight of a condo... Read more

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Okello Oculi (1942-2025): The Scholar Who Lived and Breathed Africa

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, Diallo Telli, Europe, FASS, Music, OAU Mock-Summits, Pan-Africanism, Sembene, ‘Banana Man’No CommentsViews:
Okello Oculi (1942-2025): The Scholar Who Lived and Breathed Africa

By Yusuf Bangura  I received the shocking news of the passing of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan scholar who lived 48 years of his life in Nigeria, while I was on the train to Ottawa from Kingston... Read more

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Dr. Yusuf Bangura Mourns Prof Sonni Tyoden

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, BMMC, Captain Ibrahim Traore, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), FASS, Gen Babangida, Military Vanguardism, NCIRs, Nigerian Political Science, Socialism, The Kaduna Mafia, The Nigerian power elite, UNIJOS, University of Abuja, YBU1 CommentViews:
Dr. Yusuf Bangura Mourns Prof Sonni Tyoden

Switzerland based, Sierra Leone born Dr Yusuf Bangura, a former Political Science lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria does not like to hold grudges but neither does he want to whitewa... Read more

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Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, CODESRIA, CPS – Yola, Dares Salam School, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, ECOMOG, Emman Udoka, FASS, Fellowship of Christians Students, Hajiya Najaatu Mohammed, Hon Rima Shawulu, Ibadan School of History, IGP Etim Inyang, Marxism, MPN, Ms Julie Sanda, NDA, PhD, Prof Paul Izah, Prof Peter Ekeh, Prof Sonni Tyoden, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:
Prof Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Tribute to a Scholar and Mentor

By Prof Gani Yoroms It has taken me a long time to write this tribute but it is still with a heavy heart that I do so. The moment I heard of the death of Professor Dunmoye, a friendly and be... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Stages Lecture on the Nigerian Conflict

Posted By: adminon: November 08, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Bala Usman, FASS, Grand thesis, Nigerian conflictNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Stages Lecture on the Nigerian Conflict

The fusion of the global and the local in the 21st century makes necessary to situate most developments in that context. That is exactly what Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria’s famous Fa... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Rolls Out 70th Anniversary Drums for Prof Steve Abah

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2023In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Development Communication, Drama Village, FASS, Storytelling genreNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Rolls Out 70th Anniversary Drums for Prof Steve Abah

Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria where he has taught for decades is rolling out the drums for Prof Steve Abah, one of their grandmasters this weekend and it would not be surprising if th... Read more

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Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the ‘ABU, Zaria School of History’

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Bala Usman, Dependency Theory, FASS, Ibadan School of History, Standpoint epistemology, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the 'ABU, Zaria School of History'

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

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Prominent Political Scientist, Prof A.D Yahaya Passes On

Posted By: adminon: October 03, 2021In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, ASCON, FASS, Kaduna Mafia, Muhammadu Abubakar RimiNo CommentsViews:
Prominent Political Scientist, Prof A.D Yahaya Passes On

Ex-Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria political Scientist, Prof. Ali D Yahaya is dead. Intervention learnt he died yesterday in Abuja. The cause of his death is unknown at the moment. He was at... Read more

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So, What is Terminally Ailing NIIA, NIPSS, IPCR and Other State Owned Think Tanks in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2021In: SpectacleTags: BBC, CDD, Chatham House, ECOWAS, FASS, IPCR, NIIA, NIPSS, NISERNo CommentsViews:
So, What is Terminally Ailing NIIA, NIPSS, IPCR and Other State Owned Think Tanks in Nigeria?

It has become a badge of some reference to be invited from Nigeria to utilize the Chatham House platform in London. Most politicians and intellectuals of statecraft who manage to get invited... Read more

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