By Prof. Hassan A. Saliu There are scholars and their areas of strength, weakness and ultimately, their trademarks. Some are policy oriented in their engagement and have therefore made their... Read more
Although academia is generally accepted to have been on a downward spiral across Nigeria, the discursive space is bustling with sharp, inviting topics being handled by well-established names... Read more
Foremost Nigerian political scientist, Prof Adigun Agbaje has been reported kidnapped. How it happened and where are still out of details but the news of the professor’s fall into the... Read more
The Times Higher Education, (THE), one of the six or so conducting its own world ranking of universities, is out with the 2023 exercise. There is nothing earth shaking in it as the United Ki... Read more
It is only when one runs into him as happened earlier today, (February 9th, 2022) on one’s way to the university’s weekly community mass that it hits one that he is very much around on the c... Read more
Professor David Ker took a complete and irreversible bow yesterday, (Monday, Sept 13th, 2021) to go and meet his Creator. It was an elaborate, many sided rites of passage that captured his m... Read more
A big academic fish seems to have re-entered the young but determined intellectual ocean called Veritas University, Abuja. There has been no official announcement to that effect yet but Inte... Read more
What could be the outlook for democracy in Africa under condition of a global health emergency – Covid 19 – compounded by volatile populism, ethno-nationalism, ‘state capture’, narrowi... Read more
It was a burial fit for someone not known enough for what he was – a humanist who took and solved other people’s problems and being so good at doing that as to cultivate such a wide network... Read more
The accounts are still very sketchy but it is confirmed that Mr. Uchenna Okpara, aka ‘General’ is dead. He died in Ibadan this afternoon but not of COVID-19. He was called ‘General’ even as... Read more
