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Can NPSA Be That Singularity for Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Ferdinand de Saussure, Gramsci, International Relations, Knowledge, Language game, NPSA, Postmodernism, Power, UINo CommentsViews:
Can NPSA Be That Singularity for Nigeria?

By Adagbo Onoja It is not bookishness to be excited about the leadership transition at the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA). As every new leadership necessarily seeks legitimati... Read more

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Leadership Transition in Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA)

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Consensus arrangement, NPSA, PAU, UINo CommentsViews:
Leadership Transition in Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA)

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has a new Executive Council. The Prof Hassan Saliu Exco has yielded ground to a Prof Remi Aiyede led-Exco. Aiyede is the immediate but one H... Read more

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The West Still Leads in the 2026 CWUR, With an Upset in Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, France, Japan, Makerere University, QS, SOUTH AFRICA, THE, Tsinghua University, UI, UK, University of the Witwatersrand, USNo CommentsViews:
The West Still Leads in the 2026 CWUR, With an Upset in Africa

The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more

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The Unextinguishable Flame: A Tribute to Prof Segun Osoba

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: History, OAU – Ife, Paradoxes of colonialism and the potentials of liberation, Rest in power, The Minority Report & Draft Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1976), UI, Voice for the voiceless and a bulwark for the marginalized, Yusuf Bala Usman, ‘Father-figure of radicalism’No CommentsViews:
The Unextinguishable Flame: A Tribute to Prof Segun Osoba

By Fabian Okoye Prof. Segun Osoba has taken a final bow, but his flame is still blazing, fierce, defiant and unquenchable. His departure is not only that of a scholar, but of a patriot whose... Read more

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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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