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Stella Maris, Defiant Nigerian, Fights Removal as Rector of UK’s University of St Andrews

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2024In: SpectacleTags: American campuses, Anti-Semitism, Gaza, Israel, NIGERIA, Rector, Scotland, University of St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:

Her name must be somewhere at the top on the list of such people in Nigeria’s agentian geopolitics if such is a functional component of Nigeria’s diplomacy. She would be so considered not be... Read more

University of St Andrews Breaks Record Again, the 2nd in One Week

Posted By: adminon: September 15, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Stoxbridge', Daily Mail, Imperial College, Massification, NIGERIA, Oxbridge hegemony, Oxford, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024, UK universities, University College London, University of St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:

Last week, it broke the record of maintaining the Number One position for the second year running on The Guardian newspaper’s league table of UK universities. Not only did it do so, the rank... Read more

Is UK’s University of St Andrews Finally Breaking the Oxbridge Hegemony?

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Stoxbridge', Cambridge, Oxford, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, University of St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:

The University of St Andrews in the UK does not have the size or population to be part of the global top 20, the student population having been deliberately kept almost permanently around 10... Read more

University of St. Andrews, Here I come!

Posted By: adminon: April 18, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Bongos Ikwue, Explanation, Okro soup, PhD, Prof Attahiru Jega, UCL, Understanding, University of St Andrews, WarwickNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Though not a prayer warrior myself, I am so unsuccessful in resisting the temptation to conclude along with my former examiner that this is the fulfillment of God’s assurance... Read more

A Vice-Chancellor for Oxford and Cambridge Universities

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Brexit, CHINA, COVID-19, Harvard University, UK, University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

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

Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Sokoto Invites Nigerians to a Seminar on Banditry

Posted By: adminon: September 07, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Political violence, University of St Andrews, Usmanu Dan Fodio University - UDUNo CommentsViews:

It is about time such a seminar is held. And there might be no better place than one very close to, arguably, the heartland of banditry in contemporary Nigeria – Zamfara State. An Historian... Read more