I stumbled on a story in the Nigerian media which says that the National Assembly is planning to consider no fewer than 63 bills for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and monotechnics, and I wondered whether … Read the rest
Nigerians have blasted Adamu Adamu, Nigeria’s Minister of Education for visiting President Muhammadu Buhari in London in order to resolve the crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) while ASUU is on strike.
Students of Nigerian varsities have been idle … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
Nigeria is once again sloppily sleepwalking into yet another avoidably stultifying and potentially long-drawn-out ASUU strike that will snap the life out of what remains of our public universities, crush the hopes of hundreds of thousands of … Read the rest
Minister of Eduction, Adamu Adamu
Established in 1948 as a campus of the University College, London, somewhere around Eleiyele in Ibadan, the University of Ibadan as it later became known when it assumed an independent status in 1962, has the history of Nigeria, its greatness … Read the rest
Farooq Kperogi
A former minister called me a few days ago to say the focus of my columns on Muhammadu Buhari ignores my own 2018 disclosure that he is a captive of an irrecoverably degenerative mental decline that ensures that he doesn’t … Read the rest