University of Ibadan political scientist, Prof Adigun Agbaje was a year older recently. It is either that he doesn’t particularly fancy the culture of elaborate festivities for a birthday or... Read more
It was, indeed, a new phase when many stalwarts of the long, National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS) led struggle against military dictatorship started getting married around the l... Read more
Four months after his death, friends, former colleagues, ex-students and critics of the late Prof Bjorn Beckman are gathering to take another look at his scholarship and activism in relation... Read more
This is a very interesting book for the simple reason that it is about a ruling party in Nigeria, a party whose governance of Nigeria in the past four years is a subject of contested rating... Read more
It is so well put that it strikes a chord: “In a country where “those who are least deserving get the loudest accolades” while “some who are deserving get their recognition after their death... Read more
In a week in which five serving state governors, (Borno, Zamfara, Katsina, Edo and Akwa Ibom), raised the security alert to very scary levels by saying they themselves do not feel safe as in... Read more
Dr. Mohammad Dahiru Aminu provides an insight into the just published PhD thesis of the late Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, late National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU)... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA It would not be pragmatic to call one person the star of the moment at a gathering of Socialists who resist deifying anyone. Otherwise, that is what Mallam Ibrahim Muazzam wa... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja It was a pleasantly shocking encounter to find someone who is not a formal academic with such a mastery and delivery on one of the most difficult aspects of the crisis of uni... Read more
By the 1980s, Chief Sab Okwara Okoye was already too established in property terms to be a student activist himself but his son, Festus Okoye, was. The younger Okoye was literally abducted f... Read more
