Two Nigerian academics are each delivering an Inaugural Lecture within a week of each other in June 2026. Ordinarily, an Inaugural Lecture is a solemn but routine practice in that domain. Th... Read more
First published on January 29th, 2026, this text is being republished solely to replace the cover picture of late Prof Billy Dudley with a different one as the previous one is said not to be... Read more
The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) might be plumbing into raising the stakes in think tanking the international. For its impending Lecture Series, it is not only aggregat... Read more
The big news in town this week would surely be Prof Biodun Jeyifo joining his ancestors. It is comparable to the fall of an Iroko in the forest. He was a particularly productive farmer in cr... Read more
Even as Nigeria turns more and more incomprehensible, an oasis is popping up somewhere in Lagos on January 5th, 2026. An oasis of ideas rather than the typical false events and celebration o... Read more
By Prof Hassan Saliu Introduction This tribute is a unique one, and it departs from my usual tributes. It is done in the context of a new book written on the celebrant, who has requested tha... Read more
By Prof Hassan Saliu Introduction This tribute is a unique one, and it departs from my usual tributes. It is done in the context of a new book written on the celebrant, who has requested tha... Read more
The D-Day is September 25th, 2025. That is the day a Festschrift of over 500 pages in honour of Professor Tunde Adeniran will be unveiled. Edited by Prof Gani Yoroms and Mr Femi Melefa, the... Read more
The machinery superintending the burial formalities for Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu is in place and cracking its way. Although concerned more with a major aspect of the rites of passage in Abuj... Read more
The Political Science establishment in Nigeria is stepping into an intense intellectual scrutiny of what the phenomenon of corruption might be doing to democratic recovery on the African con... Read more
