Nigerian Academics: The job, the passion, the disappointment
By Abdelghaffar Amoka I travelled home in 2012 after my PhD and one of my older cousins asked when I would become a Professor. I laughed and told him it…
The Nigerian university professors and their sad reality
By Prof. Abdelghaffar Amoka A part of the activities of the university professors is serving as external examiners to universities other than theirs. The appointment of external examiners is a…
The “Boko Haramisation” of University Education in Nigeria
By Kabiru Danladi Lawanti, Ph.D. Since 2018, when Nigeria’s public universities started announcing hikes in school charges or what is popularly known as service charges, the survival of indigent students…
Public Universities: the FG’s new revenue generation goldmine
By Prof. Abdelghaffar Amoka The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been in a battle with the Federal Government of Nigeria over the funding of the public universities. The…
The other degree I have earned
By Sulaiman Maijama’a Seeing some photographs yesterday that we took in 2019 when we were leaving Sa’adu Zungur Hall of the Bayero University, Kano, as we finished level 200, I…
Does it matter the course you studied?
By Bello Hussein Adoto I am a microbiologist. A colleague asked recently in my set’s WhatsApp group if we are practising as a microbiologist, and another colleague replied: “Virtually everyone!”…
Farming: Alternative for Nigerian university students
By Abdulmumini Lawal The fate of university students in Nigeria undergoes various hiccups and calamities. Among these are the frequent industrial actions by different Academic Unions and Non-Academic Unions, the…
Bridging linguistic worlds
By Abdussamad Yahya Sufi My Literature teacher cautioned me in secondary school to avoid using Pidgin English during communication. Mr. Ibrahim Bello would always tell me that using pidgin in…
The graduate skills that you ignored
By Prof. Abdelghaffar Amoka When I was an undergraduate student, one of my lecturers during a physics class told us that physics makes you think better than others. We were…
My journey into student unionism
By Mubarak Shafiu I joined the train of the Students’ Union right from day one at the university. My painstaking journey to the world of student activism has also fed…