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Against Turning Universities Into ‘Constituency Projects’ in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 15, 2022In: BookspaceTags: (rtd), ASUU, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Constituency projects, Federal Government, General Muhammadu Buhari, NUCNo CommentsViews:
Against Turning Universities Into 'Constituency Projects' in Nigeria

By Chijioke Uwasomba It is strange but not surprising that, even as the ideological war between the Federal Government of Nigeria along with its supporters across the country and the Academi... Read more

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American University of Nigeria, UNICEF Introduces MSc in Communication for Social and Behavior Change

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2022In: BookspaceTags: AUN, Data Science and Analytics, MoU, NUC, Software Engineering, UNICEFNo CommentsViews:
American University of Nigeria, UNICEF Introduces MSc in Communication for Social and Behavior Change

The American University of Nigeria (AUN) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are collaborating to offer a new Master of Science Degree in Communication for Social and Behav... Read more

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John Odah, the ‘Tonowi’, is a Year Older Today

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2022In: GovernanceTags: NANS Charter of Demands, Nigerian DNA, Nigerian power elite, Nigerianism, NUCNo CommentsViews:
John Odah, the 'Tonowi', is a Year Older Today

There would be absolutely no good reason why UK based Comrade Columbus Chilaka Anyanwu should not share the byline for this piece or even be given the credit for it. The title, for instance,... Read more

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Enough of the Self-Sacrificing Heroism of Academics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 15, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Almajiri, ASUU, Congregation, NUC, Senate, TETFundNo CommentsViews:
Enough of the Self-Sacrificing Heroism of Academics in Nigeria

By Ibrahim Bello-Kano I think it’s time for academics in Nigeria to begin to rethink their role in the so-called Nigerian University System. Here are a few reasons for that contention.... Read more

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ASUU As a Study in Articulatory Politics, Antagonism and Radical Democratic Change in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: 'Broadcasters, 'Empty signifier', Antagonism, ASUU, CAPP, Ernesto Laclau, NUCNo CommentsViews:
ASUU As a Study in Articulatory Politics, Antagonism and Radical Democratic Change in Nigeria

By Adagbo Onoja For an organisation that was told by a sitting president and Commander-in-Chief, (not President Buhari) that it would be drowned out into irrelevance as soon as he, (the C-in... Read more

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Not Yet the End of the Historic ASUU – FG Conflict in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2022In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, CAN, IPPIS, NIREC, NUC, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
Not Yet the End of the Historic ASUU – FG Conflict in Nigeria?

Is it possible that the outcome of the intervention in the age-old conflict between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) and the Federal Government of Nigeria by the Nigeria Inte... 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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ABU, Zaria Loses Another Radical Scholar-Activist, Prof Sule Bello

Posted By: adminon: October 03, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Bala Usman, NUC, PhDNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Loses Another Radical Scholar-Activist, Prof Sule Bello

Barely 24 hours after a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof A.D Yahaya died in Abuja, Nigeria is also receiving the news of the death... Read more

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The Strategic Salience of Prof Gabriel Egbe’s Language Game

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Ninglish', Antonio Gramsci, Englishes, Ferdinand de Saussure, Harvard, Jacques Derrida, John Austin, NUC, Prof Adigun Agbaje, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:
The Strategic Salience of Prof Gabriel Egbe’s Language Game

By Adagbo Onoja It is since 1962 that Oxford University’s John Austin delivered his “How to Do Things With Words” but, till today, the idea that it is language rather than reason or nature t... Read more

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Literary Giant, Vice-Chancellor in Two Nigerian Universities, Prof David Kerr, Dies

Posted By: adminon: August 27, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Bellagio, BENSU, NUC, VC, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Literary Giant, Vice-Chancellor in Two Nigerian Universities, Prof David Kerr, Dies

The literary establishment in Nigeria has been thrown into mourning with the death of Professor David Kerr, a literary scholar and former Vice-Chancellor of two different Nigerian universiti... Read more

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