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Rome to Host 2027 World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA)

Posted By: adminon: July 19, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: IPSA, Italy, Kenya, Political Science, Rome, Seoul, The Republic of Korea, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
Rome to Host 2027 World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA)

The 28th World Congress of the International Political Science Association ended Wednesday, June 16th, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea with the announcement of the host of the 2027 version. It wi... Read more

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28th World Congress of the International Political Science Association Takes Off in Seoul, Korea

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Global South, IPSA, Kenya, NIGERIA, Political Science, The Republic of Korea, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
28th World Congress of the International Political Science Association Takes Off in Seoul, Korea

Political scientists from around the world have converged on Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea in Asia. They are there for the 28th World Congress of the International Political Sc... Read more

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Rescuing Political Science

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Ancient Greek, Constitutional democracy, Interpretivism, Liberal democracy, Plato’s Academy, Political Science, Positivism, Woodrow WilsonNo CommentsViews:
Rescuing Political Science

The last but one sentence of this piece from Voegelinview warrants posting it here even as it might not appeal to every reader! As an academic discipline, political science is relatively new... Read more

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Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Anthropology, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Development, leaders, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Nation building, Philosophy, Political Science, Social sciences, SociologyNo CommentsViews:
Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Ordinarily, Intervention does not publish what is not original to it. That is how this place was set up and the unwritten law is not about to be changed but to be followed even more rigidly.... Read more

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Professorial Appointment Is Not a Name Tag

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Bingham University, MSc, PhD, Political Science, Professorial exceptionalismNo CommentsViews:
Professorial Appointment Is Not a Name Tag

By Prof Gani Yoroms Let me join all well-wishers to congratulate those who have been recently appointed into the professorial cadre in the Department of Political Science at Bingham Universi... Read more

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Locating Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine’s Impending Inaugural Lecture

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Africa, DEMOCRACY, Disorder, Empiricism, Inaugural Lecture, LASU, NANS, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:
Locating Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine’s Impending Inaugural Lecture

It is no longer news that Lagos State University (LASU)’s Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine is to deliver the university’s 103rd Inaugural Lecture February 25th, 2025. The media – soc... Read more

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NPSA, Marxist Conference Group Mourn Prof Nuhu Yaqub

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2025In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Canada, Ebira, Marxist Conference, NPSA, Okene, Political Science, Toyin Falola, UDUS, UKNo CommentsViews:
NPSA, Marxist Conference Group Mourn Prof Nuhu Yaqub

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has announced the death of Prof Nuhu Yaqub. Yaqub was a former ASUU Branch Chairman, former Deputy-Vice Chancellor (DVC) at Usmanu Danfodiyo... Read more

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The Paradox of the Axe in Prof Hassan Saliu @ 62

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BUK, David Easton, Methodology, NPSA, OAU Ile-Ife, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:
The Paradox of the Axe in Prof Hassan Saliu @ 62

By Adagbo Onoja There’s a sense in which NPSA President, Prof Hassan Saliu’s 62nd birthday on December 22nd, 2024 shared so much with the remarkable paradox of the axe iterated i... Read more

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Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:
Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

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University of Pretoria Appoints Nigeria’s Prof Remi Aiyede Extraordinary Professor

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2024In: SpectacleTags: 'Japa', Political Science, SPMA, University of Ibadan, University of PretoriaNo CommentsViews:
University of Pretoria Appoints Nigeria's Prof Remi Aiyede Extraordinary Professor

Nigeria’s Prof Emmanuel Remi Aiyede is joining the University of Pretoria in South Africa as an Extraordinary professor. The University said in a statement that it is thrilled to have Prof.... Read more

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