University of Abuja | Intervention

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Nigeria, Its Partners Social Action and We the People Kick-start European Commission Co-funded INCLUDE NAIJA project

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2025In: SpectacleTags: European Commission, Gender Studies, INCLUDE NAIJA Project, Nasarawa State University, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Nigeria, University of Abuja, Veritas UniversityNo CommentsViews:

Introduction In April 2025, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Nigeria, and its partners Social Action and We the People kick-started a 3-year project (2025-2027), titled INCLUDE NAIJA — Inclusive De... Read more

Dr. Yusuf Bangura Mourns Prof Sonni Tyoden

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, BMMC, Captain Ibrahim Traore, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), FASS, Gen Babangida, Military Vanguardism, NCIRs, Nigerian Political Science, Socialism, The Kaduna Mafia, The Nigerian power elite, UNIJOS, University of Abuja, YBU1 CommentViews:

Switzerland based, Sierra Leone born Dr Yusuf Bangura, a former Political Science lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria does not like to hold grudges but neither does he want to whitewa... Read more

Memorialising Prof Sonni Tyoden

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Captain Ibrahim Traore, Gen Babangida, Military Vanguardism, NCIRs, Nigerian Political Science, Socialism, The Kaduna Mafia, The Nigerian power elite, UNIJOS, University of AbujaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja If it were when Nigeria was intellectually booming, allowing nothing the luxury of passing without being problematised, the death of Prof Sonni Tyoden would have been a bigge... Read more

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:

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

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 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

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, UNIABUJA Takes On Women and Youth Participation in Politics Beyond Legality and Rhetoric

Posted By: adminon: October 06, 2020In: GovernanceTags: 'A more just world', Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, University of AbujaNo CommentsViews:

Taking women and youth participation in politics beyond legality and rhetoric has been receiving robust intervention of late in Nigeria. Built around a University of Abuja webinar on the top... Read more

Africa is Underdeveloped Not Because Africans are Stupid – Prof Nzongola-Ntalaja

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2017In: SpectacleTags: African and African-American Studies, Ali Mazrui, Dr John Garang, Dr Tajudeen Abdulraheem, IMF/World Bank, John Hopkins University, President Paul Kagame, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Peter Anyang Nyong'o, UNDP, University of Abuja, University of Maiduguri, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of WinsconsinNo CommentsViews:

The African continent is not underdeveloped because Africans are stupid. Africa is materially backward relative to other civilisations because it finds itself fighting for survival on two eq... Read more