TETFund Archives - Intervention

Suspense As ASUU Goes Into A Closed Session in Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: August 17, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Egypt, IMF/World Bank, NUC, Private universities, Public universities, SOUTH AFRICA, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria is lost in a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Sokoto, Sokoto State. There are no hints about what the outcome of the mee... Read more

President Bola Tinubu and the Low-Hanging Fruits in Implementing the FGN/ASUU Agreement in the 2026 Fiscal Year

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: ASUU, EAA, FGN, NUC, Organised private sector, Prof Chris Piwuna, TETFund, TISSF, VUCANo CommentsViews:

By Comrade Sanusi A. S. Maikudi Introduction The 2009 Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was never meant to be a po... Read more

ASUU Elects A New President

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2025In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, Nigerian university system, TETFund, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria’s foremost activist platform, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has a new president. He is Prof Chris Piwuna of the University of the University of Jos. He emerged pres... Read more

Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bill and ‘the Tyranny of Borrowed Paradigms’?

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 2027, Development strategy, NASENI, National Economic Council, NITDA, Point of consumption, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja President Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bill has moved from the law making and popular culture spheres to a subject of intellectual disquisition. Two academics, Abubakar Siddique Moham... Read more

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:

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

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:

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

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:

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

The Nigerian Public University and the Falola Intervention

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2021In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, BENSU, ICSA, JAMB, NUC, PhD, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

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

The Concept of ‘VC’s Boys’ in the Nigerian University System (1)

Posted By: adminon: August 13, 2020In: BookspaceTags: General Overseer, Godfatherism, NASU/ASUU/SSANU, TETFund, VCNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Chima Onuoha, (University of Portharcourt) In the political lexicon and life of this country, it is common to read or hear about the cabal in the Presidency, Kaduna Mafia, Langtang M... Read more

Question Now is Unlocking Nigeria Because, Long Before COVID-19, Nigeria Has Been On Lockdown Anyway

Posted By: adminon: April 15, 2020In: SpectacleTags: IPPIS, Tesla Company, TETFund, UTASNo CommentsViews:

Dr Murtala Muhammad, activist academic with the Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, argues that, long before COVID-19, Nigeria had been on a prolonged lockdown, offering his ow... Read more