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Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan to Mrs. Ekaette Akpabio: I have concrete evidence of your husband’s sexual harassment, let him defend himself

Mrs. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Senator representing Kogi Central in the oth Senate, has told Mrs. Ekaette Unoma Akpabio, wife of Senate President Godswill Akpabio, that she possesses concrete evidence to defend the sexual harassments allegations she made against her husband, Senator Akpabio.
March 1, 2025

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA * 1948 – 2024 : History, crisis of funding, academic staff strikes, Government imbroglio, and consequences

By Emmanuel Gandu HIGHLIGHTS • Introduction • History • First generation universities • Second generation universities • Third generation • State and private universities • Proliferation of universities • NAUT • ASUU • NUC • JAMB • Agitation for better funding
March 1, 2025

NOTES FROM ATLANTA: Identity questions in IBB’s autobiography, by Farooq A. Kperogi

The autobiography of former self-styled “President” Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-serving mendacity, moral spinelessness, maddening insensitivity, self-glorification, and cowardly posthumous smears of dead colleagues. I won’t revisit those points here. As someone who has a scholarly interest
March 1, 2025