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The Onoge Shock

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: ABU, African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Harvard, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Prof Abiola Irele, Prof Omafume Onoge, Prof Victor Adetula, UI, UNIBEN, UNIFE, UNIJOS, UNILAG, UNNNo CommentsViews:
The Onoge Shock

I have heard a huge share of the stuff he was made of, including his articulation of the Aiyetoro community as a socialist entity in a thesis to Harvard University, at a time positivism was... Read more

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Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: AD, Afe Babalola University, Africa betrayed, Angola, AU, BUK, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Colonialism, Ibrahim Babangida military administration, MAMSER, NPSA, PDP, Political Science, SDP, UI, Western powersNo CommentsViews:
Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

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

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Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: AD, Afe Babalola University, Africa betrayed, Angola, AU, BUK, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Colonialism, Ibrahim Babangida military administration, MAMSER, NPSA, PDP, Political Science, SDP, UI, Western powersNo CommentsViews:
Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

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

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Festschrift in Honour of Prof Tunde Adeniran for Unveiling Sept 25th, 2025 @ UI

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Ambassador, Festschrift, PDP, Political Science, UINo CommentsViews:
Festschrift in Honour of Prof Tunde Adeniran for Unveiling Sept 25th, 2025 @ UI

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

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Awaiting UNIJOS’s Prof Victor Adetula on Corruption and Democratic Recovery in Africa @ 2025 Billy Dudley Lecture August 25th

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Abuja, Addis Ababa, Billy Dudley, Cairo, International development circuit, Johannesburg, NPSA, Political Science, UI, UNNo CommentsViews:
Awaiting UNIJOS's Prof Victor Adetula on Corruption and Democratic Recovery in Africa @ 2025 Billy Dudley Lecture August 25th

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

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UI Set for Osaghae and Bradly’s Wedding Spectacle

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Chapel of Resurrection, NIIA, UI, Wedding spectacleNo CommentsViews:
UI Set for Osaghae and Bradly’s Wedding Spectacle

Wedding watchers in Nigeria are holding their breath for a wedding spectacle later this month. It will be between Osadebamwen Winifred Osaghae and Bradly Osarumwense, both United States base... Read more

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How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 'Historic Block', ABU Zaria, CDD, Imperialism, MacArthur, Marxism, Military rule, Philanthropy, UI, ‘Collective will’, ‘Omoluabi’No CommentsViews:
How Kole Shettima’s 65th Birthday Symposium Turned Into a Rhizomatic Moment

Rhizomatic moment is the inescapable grammar for capturing the discontinuously interconnected issues, situations, people, outcomes, models, symbols, memories and even facts that tie together... Read more

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Prof. Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi, the Pathfinder and Mentor, is 83 Years Old!

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Babangida, BRICS, Economic diplomacy, Libya, Murtala/Obasanjo, NADECO, NIIA, NSIA, Prof Victor Adetula, Prof W O Alli, SAP, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USANo CommentsViews:
Prof. Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi, the Pathfinder and Mentor, is 83 Years Old!

By Prof Hassan Saliu Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, a renowned political scientist, administrator, public intellectual, and international relations’ expert, added another year to his age on January... Read more

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Requiem for the Very Impeccable Prof Ochapa Onazi Ahead of Burial

Posted By: adminon: August 25, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BENSU, BUK, COCIN, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gindiri Compound, IDOMA, Igumale, Imperial College London, Justice Mustapha Akanbi Panel, Karl Kumm University, Kwararafa University, Marxism, Ten Commandments, UCL, UI, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
Requiem for the Very Impeccable Prof Ochapa Onazi Ahead of Burial

There is a way that writing about someone as Prof Ochapa Onazi (ahead of his burial on September 26/27, 2024) forces up the theory of the everyday which says that the socialisation of Idoma... Read more

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Prof Saint Gbileka is Dead

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2024In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, Government House - Makurdi, Theatre Arts, UI, University of AbujaNo CommentsViews:
Prof Saint Gbileka is Dead

Barely a day after the passage of a notable academic in the person of Prof Ayo Dunmoye, another titan is gone. He is Prof Saint Gbileka who died yesterday. A staff of the University of Abuja... Read more

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