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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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Give UNIOSUN VC-ship to Prof Rotimi Olatunji

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2021In: BookspaceTags: FUOYE, LASUSOC, NUC, UNIOSUNNo CommentsViews:
Give UNIOSUN VC-ship to Prof Rotimi Olatunji

Tunde Akanni, PhD Like similar relevant posts in the recent past, the advertisement for the Vice-Chancellorship position of UNIOSUN found its way to the exalted WhatsApp forum exclusive for... Read more

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The Nigerian Public University and the Falola Intervention

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2021In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, BENSU, ICSA, JAMB, NUC, PhD, TETFundNo CommentsViews:
The Nigerian Public University and the Falola Intervention

  By Prof. Zacharys Anger Gundu The blogosphere has recently been seized by a piece by the US based Nigerian academic, Prof Toyin Falola. Falola’s big name status as well as the nationa... Read more

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How Soon Would the Universities Come Alive Again in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, BOKO HARAM, CONUA, IMF/World Bank, NANS, NUCNo CommentsViews:
How Soon Would the Universities Come Alive Again in Nigeria?

This is the question very few people can answer as things are today in Nigeria. The universities have been under lock and key for the past nine months. It is not clear if this is not the lon... Read more

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Ngige, Nwajiuba and Others in What is at Stake in the Current ASUU Strike in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2020In: SpectacleTags: 'Imperfect Obligation', ASUU leadership, IPPIS, NUC, Prof Ben NwabuezeNo CommentsViews:
Ngige, Nwajiuba and Others in What is at Stake in the Current ASUU Strike in Nigeria

By Chijioke Uwasomba, Ph.D This is not a time to play coy or quibble as the government of Muhammadu Buhari unleashes its arsenal on the university system in Nigeria. We have gone through thi... Read more

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Implications of the Unbundling of Mass Communication Programme for Students of PR and Advertising

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2020In: BookspaceTags: APCON, NIPR, NUCNo CommentsViews:
Implications of the Unbundling of Mass Communication Programme for Students of PR and Advertising

 By Okoh Samuel Ejime The unbundling of Mass Communication programme into seven (7) different disciplines by National Universities Commission, (NUC) has created the opportunity for students... Read more

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What Leading Practitioners at USIP Roundtable Said on Whether the Media Can Help Peacebuilding in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 02, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: 'Critical distance’, Conundrum, IPCR, NUC, Peace Journalism, Philosophy of ScienceNo CommentsViews:
What Leading Practitioners at USIP Roundtable Said on Whether the Media Can Help Peacebuilding in Nigeria

“Policy Roundtable on Media and Peacebuilding in Nigeria” was the title and Kaduna was the advisedly chosen theatre for the Roundtable which saw media executives, peace practitioners, politi... Read more

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LASUSOC As LASU’S Parade Ground of Titans in Media Scholarship

Posted By: adminon: September 04, 2020In: BookspaceTags: ACSPN, LASU, LASUSOC, NUCNo CommentsViews:
LASUSOC As LASU’S Parade Ground of Titans in Media Scholarship

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

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My ASUU Colleagues and “Doomsday Prepping”

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2020In: BookspaceTags: "Cheapscapes", IPPIS, NUCNo CommentsViews:
My ASUU Colleagues and

By Prof Ibrahim Bello-Kano Not many people have heard of the term “doomsday prepping”. It’s a common mentality among people who suspect that some disaster, some doomsday, i... Read more

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