With both Oxford and Cambridge seeking new vice-chancellors, Rosa Ellis examines the unique pressures of leading these prestigious universities and the qualities that successful candidates w... Read more
Hers is a UK based Nigerian family from which Nigeria is sure to hear somehow soon. Large by British standard but well educated all in some of the toughest British universities such as the L... Read more
Prof Abdulrazak Gournah, the Tanzanian academic who won the 2021 Nobel Prize on Literature was a lecturer in Bayero University, Kano throughout the eighties, Intervention has learnt. Some of... Read more
The world order might be changing but, as far as the knowledge-power nexus is concerned, the United States of America and the United Kingdom still have the largest number of the top scoring... Read more
By Mike Kebonkwu Esq In one of his majestic endorsement of the multivocal imperative, the late Chinua Achebe compared wisdom to a goatskin bag: everyone carries his or her own. This essay is... Read more
There is no knowing whether it is her internal bleeding or the criteria by which the QS ranking exercise is conducted that may explain why not a single university from Nigeria made it in the... Read more
In the week that University of Ibadan’s Prof Eghosa Osaghae resumes as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA), the temptation to infer history repeat... Read more
Below are four paragraphs below from the speech of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 2021 Sardauna Memorial Lecture Saturday, March 27th, 2021 at Arewa House in Kaduna where he was the Chairp... Read more
It is a constantly changing ranking order but this is how they stand today and the reasons for that as far as the 2021 Times Higher Education (THE)‘s ranking exercise is concerned. Majority... Read more
Those who think former colonial powers are no longer pressing direct buttons in the affairs of their ex-colonies would have to think twice. A former Deputy High Commissioner of Britain to Gh... Read more
