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The meat of the Education retreat

November 23, 2017

While addressing Nigerians at the 33rd Convocation Ceremonies of the University of Ilorin on October 21, 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari, made a promise. Represented by the Executive Secretary of the National ... Read More...

Imafidon’s cue, the genius in you

November 8, 2017

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His rich and resounding voice tore neatly into the velvet air of the jam-packed Auditorium. A tub-thumping orator with the skills of a talented raconteur, he wowed his audience for more than two hours dishing o... Read More...

Ambali’s success

September 14, 2017

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In his inaugural speech after he formally assumed office as the 9th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin on October 15, 2012, entitled “Another Dawn”, Prof. AbdulGaniyu aniyu Ambali noted among other thi... Read More...

The need to care for the environment we share

July 18, 2017

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As part of its mission to make the society a better place to live in, the Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies through its Association of Students of Peace and Strategic Studies (ASPASS), under the leadership... Read More...

Secure culture, insure future

June 30, 2017

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Secure culture, insure future Given the rate at which the world is going amok with our cultural values, religious teachings and traditional safeguards being thrown overboard by the young and the old alike, p... Read More...

The shock, the Himalayas and the way out

June 6, 2017

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The shock, the Himalayas and the way out The Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ), a body of versatile and responsible students impassioned by self-development, organised its annual Press Week last week during ... Read More...

Enemies of progress: The lessons

May 31, 2017

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Enemies of progress: The lessons Some men are like sunshine, they illuminate the faces; some men are like the rain, they make people grow; some are like hurricane, they wreak havoc, and yet others are like t... Read More...

Enemies of progress: The letter

April 29, 2017

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Enemies of progress: The letter If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed – Mark Twain Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, so says an old aph... Read More...

Enemies of progress: The lies

April 26, 2017

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Enemies of progress: The lies Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shall not escape calumny – William Shakespeare Between March 14 and 16, 2017, a national newspaper newspaper regaled its audi... Read More...

Fresh students’ bumper harvest

March 20, 2017

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Fresh students’ bumper harvest If anything untoward happens to the admission of any of the 10,886 students matriculated by the University of Ilorin on March 1, 2017, it will not be because of lacking good ad... Read More...

An encounter with Obasanjo

February 27, 2017

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Former President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo, like all great men, means many things to many people and institutions. To the University of Ilorin, his personality is etched in gold for many reasons out which space w... Read More...

Mansur Ismail: From zero to hero

January 31, 2017

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Mansur Ismail: From zero to hero On January 24, 2017, the University of Lagos held its 49th convocation ceremony in which a total of 231 graduands bagged a First Class degree in various disciplines. This spe... Read More...

Aptly described by the Independent newspaper as “a man of many parts”, Dr Mahfouz A. Adedimeji is a Fulbright scholar, interdisciplinary researcher, university don, public affairs analyst, language specialist, communication consultant, peace advocate, interfaith worker and public intellectual. He obtained his academic degrees from the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, where he is an Associate Professor of English (Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics). He started his academic career in 2000 at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, shortly after which he joined the services of his alma mater, the University of Ilorin.
A man of eclectic academic background, Dr Adedimeji was educated in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Markaz Shabaabil Islam, Iwo, Osun State and Markaz Ta’aleemil Araby, Agege, Lagos. He obtained advanced training in Education, Political Science, Communication and Media, Research and Peace Studies at the National Universities Commission’s (NUC) Virtual Institute for Higher Education Pedagogy (VIHEP); the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) Virtual Institute for Higher Education in Africa (VIHEAF); Governors State University, University Park, Illinois, USA; University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana; and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
Apart from serving as a cultural ambassador to the US under the auspices of the Institute of International Education (IIE), New York, Dr Adedimeji has won or co-won the research and conference awards/grants of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) of the National Research Council, Nigeria, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). He has written extensively for a wide range of newspapers and periodicals including “Unilorin Bulletin”, “Unilorin Watch”, “DeLight”, “National Pilot”, “Daily Independent”, “Newswatch Times” and “New Telegraph”, among others.
A versatile academic, Associate Professor Adedimeji has attended academic conferences and undertaken research in several universities across Nigeria as well as in Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Malaysia, Sierra Leone, Australia, France and United States of America, among others. His hundreds of academic, Islamic and general/opinion articles have been published across outlets in Nigeria and beyond. He has also facilitated and participated in seminars and workshops both nationally and internationally.
A former Deputy Director/ Head of the Directorate of Corporate Affairs of the University of Ilorin, Dr Adedimeji is the immediate past Director of the Centre for Centre for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin. Apart from serving as Rappouteur-General to the Presidential Committee that organised the 2017 Federal Executive Council’s Retreat on Education in Nigeria, he has consulted for the Nigeria Inter-religious Council (NIREC), the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence and Corps (NSCDC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). For years, he had been a Coordinator of the Executive Management Course of the Nigerian Army Education Corps (NAEC) and Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Peace, Security and Development”, University of Ilorin.
He is a recipient of several awards and honours including those of the American Biographical Institute, National Congress of Nigerian Students (NACONS), Union of Campus Journalists, University of Ilorin, the Nigerian Army Education Corps, Postgraduate Students Association, UNILORIN, Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN), UNILORIN, Students’ Union, UNILORIN, and National Association of Osun State Students (NAOSS), just to mention a few.
A Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Administration, Nigeria, and Member of the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), Dr Adedimeji is a Member of the Executive Councils of both the University of Ilorin Alumni Association and English Scholars Association of Nigeria (ESAN). He is also a Fellow of both the Society for Peace Studies and Practice and World Institute for Peace and he is a member of the Fulbright Alumni Association of Nigeria and the Association of Nigerian Authors, among others. He has written, co-written, edited and co-edited about a dozen books.

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The meat of the Education retreat

Imafidon’s cue, the genius in you

Ambali’s success

The need to care for the environment we share

Secure culture, insure future

The shock, the Himalayas and the way out

Enemies of progress: The lessons

Enemies of progress: The letter

Enemies of progress: The lies

Fresh students’ bumper harvest

An encounter with Obasanjo

Mansur Ismail: From zero to hero