The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more
By Carlos Vargas The received story about global higher education goes like this: for most of the 20th century, knowledge flowed outwards from a small number of research-intensive universi... Read more
Crisis can be provocative of new ideas, models and practices. Below is one such idea of restructuring the duration of the university degree duration that a UK university Vice-Chancellor is p... Read more
There has been nothing like it before: a US airstrike on Nigeria for whatever reason(s). Predictably, the airstrike is the subject of contestation between those in approval and those against... Read more
Deeply disturbed by its own unpacking of how Nigeria looks on the global stage today, the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is putting on the table a set of ideas by which Nigeri... Read more
Bureaucrats, technocrats, diplomats, other colleagues, friends and relations will gather in Abuja, Nigeria later today (April 12th, 2025) to mark the 60th birthday of Ambassador Nick Ella.... Read more
Donald Trump is disrupting the world we knew in many ways and almost in all spheres. How far he will go and whether there will be any successful bandwagoning against him (not necessarily aga... Read more
BBC Essentials List makes an issue of a habit that many might not have accord that seriousness By Grace Tyrrell The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbe... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura We’ve just watched the 100 metres Olympic women’s final. We have a new champion—Julien Alfred, from the tiny island of St. Lucia (with a population of 180,000). It was a spe... Read more
Some seven Nigerian scholar-activists have issued an open letter to President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly on the dangers of accepting the relocation of American and French military... Read more
