Yesterday (September 21), the world marked the International Day of Peace, themed “Partnership for Peace – Dignity for All”, with various activities. At the University of Ilorin for example, the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies organised a special public ...
[dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]oday (i.e. September 21), various governments, institutions, organisations and people across all countries will mark the International Day of Peace. In our world ravaged by war and enmeshed by conflict, at least devoting a day to promote and project ...
On May 31, 2014, the US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was released by his captors in Afghanistan. He was captured on June 30, 2009 by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network under some controversial circumstances. Sgt. Bergdahl was said to have “got ...
The news hit the country like a thunderbolt. It was that the Chief Imam of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Sheikh Adam Idoko, was kidnapped in the early hours of last Thursday (September 10, 2015). To me, the news was ...
Since the assumption of office of President Muhammadu Buhari, those who wished him dead or, at least, wished that they had additional reasons to justify their portrayal of him as a “serial failure” have been busy muckraking. In their anti-Buhari ...
When the University of Ilorin was established in August 1975, one of the pioneer three Faculties of the new University was the Faculty of Arts. Forty years after, the University would become the flagship of the Nigerian university system, shattering ...
In my paper, “The role of the media in promoting hate speech before the 2015 general elections in Nigeria”, presented at the 9th International Conference and General Assembly of the Society for Peace Studies and Practice (SPSP) at the University ...
Despite the fact that the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has been around for several years, what appears of recent from the body took the whole nation by surprise. This is because for an organisation established in 1952, eight years ...