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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