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Why This Alli ‘Must Not Go’

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: IRs, Marxist theory, NDA, Neopositivism, NIIA, Poststructuralism, The English SchoolNo CommentsViews:
Why This Alli 'Must Not Go'

The popular turn of phrase in Nigeria in this respect is ‘Ali Must Go’. It is the idiom summing up the demand for the removal of Col. Ahmadu Ali, (rtd), the then Minister for Education under... Read more

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How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

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Blame Buhari, Audu Ogbeh for Escalating Herders-Farmers Conflict in Nigeria – Prof Jibrin Ibrahim (2)

Posted By: adminon: November 13, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Methodology, Neopositivism, Philosophy of Science, Robert KeohaneNo CommentsViews:
Blame Buhari, Audu Ogbeh for Escalating Herders-Farmers Conflict in Nigeria - Prof Jibrin Ibrahim (2)

The domain of methodology may look esoteric but it is what will be the defining feature of social life in the 21st century and thereafter. The question of who determines what is the truth an... Read more

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100 Publications in International Journals Alone Do Not Make You a Prof – Prof Ichoku

Posted By: adminon: February 23, 2021In: BookspaceTags: DRIL, Kant, Neopositivism, Philosophy of Science, ‘ProfessorshipNo CommentsViews:
100 Publications in International Journals Alone Do Not Make You a Prof - Prof Ichoku

Academics in Nigeria who think that high number of publications is all there is to it in terms of becoming a Professor had better rethink. This is because that has been ruled out as inadequa... Read more

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Dear Mallam Ibrahim Muazzam

Posted By: adminon: February 18, 2021In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, BUK, Neopositivism, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Philosophy of Social Sciences, School of Basic/Preliminary StudiesNo CommentsViews:
Dear Mallam Ibrahim Muazzam

The guy whose job at Intervention is to follow Facebook has reported that you are a day older today. And he was wondering if I had anything to write. He did not school under you in Bayero Un... Read more

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