It is no longer news that Lagos State University (LASU)’s Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine is to deliver the university’s 103rd Inaugural Lecture February 25th, 2025. The media – soc... Read more
It was another day of reflections on the life and times of Prof Abubakar Momoh, this time from the prism of perfecting elections in Nigeria through critical grooming of election personnel ah... Read more
By Prof. Hassan A. Saliu There are scholars and their areas of strength, weakness and ultimately, their trademarks. Some are policy oriented in their engagement and have therefore made their... Read more
Are you puzzled by anything about the relationship that exists or should exist between social science and sustainable development in the African context? Or, do you think there are things in... Read more
It is five years today that he died. He remains a subject of engagement by academic colleagues, activists and think tankers as in this Keynote Presentation at the 5th Memorial of Professor A... Read more
It is still ten full days to the D-Day but the clouds are gathering in Edo State where the children of Chief Godwin Odion Akhaine are leaving no stones unturned to give him what would count... Read more
By Tunde Akanni, PhD Zanzibar suddenly bounced to the headlines again with Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. So soon, I would say, after Tanzania’s first female president,... 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
By Tunde Akanni, PhD On Tuesday September 1, 2020, two days before the announcement of LASU as the nation’s second foremost university according to Times Higher Education (THE) Tertiary Educ... Read more
It is exactly 3 years today, May 29th, 2020 when Professor Abubakar Momoh died suddenly in 2017. He is still remembered across the many spaces he traversed as a scholar, activist and adminis... Read more
