The lecture titled, “The Troubled Trinity: Elections, Democracy And Development in Nigeria,” will be delivered by Prof. Jeremiah Shola Omotola, a former Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and current Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) of the university.
Shola Omotola obtained his PhD in Comparative African Governance and Politics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a professor of Political Science at the University, where he was the Director of Research and Development and Head of the Department of Political Sciences.
He was a visiting professor at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany. He worked as a consultant in the Office of the Director-General and Head, Socio-Political Unit of the Department of Research and Training, National Institute for Legislative Studies, National Assembly, Abuja, (October 2015–October 2016); and was also a senior lecturer in political science at Redeemer’s University
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