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As Prof Ayo Dunmoye Takes His Final Bow

Posted By: adminon: August 20, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', ABU Zaria, ASUU, NUC, Political Science, Republic of China, Senate, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:
As Prof Ayo Dunmoye Takes His Final Bow

By Adagbo Onoja The dirges and mourning rites must be going on in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he rose to the position of Professor of Political Science, within the Nigerian Politica... Read more

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Nigeria Does Not Have an Elite – Prof Etanibi Alemika (1)

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2024In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, Chapter Two, Elite, First Republic, IMF, JAMB, NUC, Return to regional system, SAPNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Does Not Have an Elite  –  Prof Etanibi Alemika (1)

Prof Etannibi Alemika is easily one of the most sophisticated of their generation of Nigerian academics. He obtained his first and second degrees at the University of Ibadan under intellectu... Read more

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Prof Moses Ochonu, the NUC and the Trouble With the Nigerian University System

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2024In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Deconstruction, NUC, Stanley Hoffman, Western metaphysicsNo CommentsViews:
Prof Moses Ochonu, the NUC and the Trouble With the Nigerian University System

By Adagbo Onoja This piece has two provocations. The main provocation is the Daily Trust headline ‘British Council, NUC Partner On Development Of Varsity Curriculum.’ It was the headline tha... Read more

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International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Critical turn', ABU Zaria, Barry Buzan, Hans Morgenthau, History, IAS-UI, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Neorealism, NUC, OAU Ile-Ife, Political Science, Richard Ashley, TETFundNo CommentsViews:
International Relations in Nigeria Without the ‘Critical Turn’?

By Adagbo ONOJA Introduction It cannot be out of place to worry about the quality and overarching direction of undergraduate and even graduate training in the discipline of International Rel... Read more

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Skills Rather than Just Degrees?: Language, Literature at the Intersection of Digital Technology in the 21st Century (2)

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2024In: BookspaceTags: CALL, Cultural nationalism, Digital communication technology, Discourse analysis, Forensic linguistics, Isa Ali Pantami, Jean Francois Lyotard, Modern African Literature, NUC, Prof Emakoji Ayikoye, Prof Terry Eagleton, ‘The Postmodern Condition’No CommentsViews:
Skills Rather than Just Degrees?:  Language, Literature at the Intersection of Digital Technology in the 21st Century (2)

By Abubakar Aliyu Liman (PhD) The author, a Professor in the Department of English and Literary Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts @ the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria made this... Read more

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Skills Rather than Just Degrees?: Language, Literature at the Intersection of Digital Technology in the 21st Century (1)

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2024In: BookspaceTags: American pragmatists, BMAS, British empiricists, CCMAS, Isa Ali Pantami, Jean Francois Lyotard, NITD, NUC, Prof Emakoji Ayikoye, Prof Terry Eagleton, Zombified humans, ‘Future Shock’, ‘The Postmodern Condition’No CommentsViews:
Skills Rather than Just Degrees?:  Language, Literature at the Intersection of Digital Technology in the 21st Century (1)

By Abubakar Aliyu Liman (PhD) The author, a Professor in the Department of English and Literary Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts @ the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria made this... Read more

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Very Welcome News on IPPIS From the House of Representatives in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2023In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, DSS, Former President Muhammadu Buhari, HoR, IPPIS, Mallam Adamu Adamu, NUC, Police, President Bola Tinubu1 CommentViews:
Very Welcome News on IPPIS From the House of Representatives in Nigeria

It is, of course, great news that the House of Representatives (HoR) in Nigeria is set to pull the university system out of the notorious Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System... Read more

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Dr. Iyela Ajayi and the Challenges of Senior Secondary School Education in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2023In: BookspaceTags: CRF, NBTE, NCCE, NSSEC, NUC, Professor Benjamin Abakpa, TETFund, UBECNo CommentsViews:
Dr. Iyela Ajayi and the Challenges of Senior Secondary School Education in Nigeria

By Saleh Bature It is an open secret that senior secondary education in Nigeria suffers neglect for rather too long. The rot in the sector is mind-boggling and unimaginable.  The question on... Read more

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As M. M. Yusif Bows Out of Academia

Posted By: adminon: September 07, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: BUK, Department of Political Science, Ibrahim Muazzam, IGP Egbetokun, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, NUC, Prof Tahir MammanNo CommentsViews:
As M. M. Yusif Bows Out of Academia

The invitation to the event which somehow found its way to Intervention has it that it is a lunch and a Roundtable on M. M. Yusif’s Retirement at which the topic for discussion would be “Rem... Read more

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Needed: Another Prof Jubril Aminu @ the NUC

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2023In: GovernanceTags: G-20, IMF, NUC, NYSC, SOUTH AFRICA, World Bank1 CommentViews:
Needed: Another Prof Jubril Aminu @ the NUC

Nigerians are believed to have been shocked beyond shockability in their encounter with nation building. But even then the set of members of the NYSC somewhere in the country who didn’... Read more

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