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
On December 12th, 1984 starting from 4 pm at the University of Lagos, Prof Anthony Asiwaju, then the Dean of the university’s Faculty of Arts, delivered an Inaugural Lecture crisply titled A... Read more
By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The University of Lagos (UNILAG) was one of the universities established in Nigeria in 1962. Its establishment cannot be divorced from the agitation for more indigeno... Read more
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
By Abdullah Dan’azumi Golkos The days keep rolling. Year after year, I could still feel the emptiness and the refusal of his memory to fade. It remains evergreen. Even though death has robbe... Read more
It was the burial of one of their own. For Cecelia Abashi was not a radical by association with the late husband, Chris Abashi. She was the personification of radicalism – stubborn in... Read more
In a chapter he contributed to a book of tributes to mark my 50th birthday, some 14 years ago, Seun gave a reverting account of our first encounter in October 1979 when we reported, as fresh... Read more
The 54th Convocation of one of Nigeria’s first generation universities – the University of Lagos (UNILAG) – is at hand. There is a sense in which this Convocation seems not like... Read more
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
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
