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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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Two Abuja Based Universities Experience Own Share of Turmoil

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Catholic Church, Prof Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, UI, UNILAG, University of Abuja, University of Warwick, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Two Abuja Based Universities Experience Own Share of Turmoil

Two of some of Abuja’s best-known universities are in turmoil. Activities at the University of Abuja is grounded due to a strike action declared by the local branch of the Academic Staff Uni... Read more

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Ahead of Prof Irene Pogoson’s Academic Moment in IRs

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Decentring, Feminism, Inter-cosmological IRs, International order, IRs, UINo CommentsViews:
Ahead of Prof Irene Pogoson’s Academic Moment in IRs

It is about time someone in Nigeria takes on the concept of power in the international system and, by implication, in Political Science. And who might do this better than Prof Irene Pogoson?... Read more

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Professor Osisioma B C Nwolise, The Crusader for Spirituality, is 74

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Billy Dudley, NPSA, Prof Ayo Dunmoye, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Prof Pam Dung Sha, Prof Saliu, Prof Sam Egwu, Prof Sule-Kano, Prof. Shuaib Ibrahim, Professors Asisi Asobie, UI, UNILORINNo CommentsViews:
Professor Osisioma B C Nwolise, The Crusader for Spirituality, is 74

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu In furtherance to my submission on the categorization of scholars made last year (2023), I want to add that another group exists and has gained recognition to the exi... Read more

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Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Islamisation, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Theatre for Development, UINo CommentsViews:
Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

By Professor Oga Steve Abah* Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a humbling experience for me to stand here on this Memorial event to talk about a colleague I knew and worked with for decades. It is... Read more

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Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Bala Mohammed, Bauchi humanism, Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Ibrahim Tahir, Islamisation, NEPU, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sa’adu Zungur, Theatre for Development, UI, Wole Soyinka, ‘radical tradition in Northern Nigeria’No CommentsViews:
Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more

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Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: People in ActionTags: CHINA, Concept of Medium Powers, Israel, NADECO, NIIA, NPSA, Realism, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USA, Western powersNo CommentsViews:
Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

By Hassan A. Saliu Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the son of a priest and politician, is an academic colossus whose impacts on various aspects of Nigerian life cannot be captured in a... Read more

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