Adekunle Ajasin University
24 Oct
Prof. Nahzeem Olufemi-Mimiko, former Vice Chancellor of Adekunle Ajasin University, has emphasised the importance of teaching in local languages for Nigeria’s growth and development. Olufemi-Mimiko, speaking at the 8th Convocation Lecture of Federal University Lokoja on Thursday, criticised the current educational system, which prioritised foreign languages over local ones. He opined that for Nigeria to…
21 Dec 2023
Former Vice Chancellor, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba (AAUA), Prof Femi Mimiko, has identified insecurity, shrinking economic opportunities and general governmental dysfunctionality across Africa as part of the reasons why youths..
17 Dec 2023
There is therefore no doubt that the ‘Universal City’ called the University needs internationalisation at this age of digital technologies when artificial intelligence (AI) is threatening to take over everybody’s job schedules in the world of work.
14 Dec 2023
To make the country’s education system globally competitive and attractive to international students, there is an urgent need for the government to adopt policies that would encourage ‘home-based’ scholars and draw foreign learners and researchers.
10 Dec 2023
As I had noted earlier to my friends and colleagues across platforms, the wind of convocation time blew me to the Sunshine state, Ondo on Thursday December 7, 2023 where I delivered the 12th Convocation Lecture of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Olugbenga E. Ige, led me into temptation of writing 11, 544-word lecture. The lecture titled, “Internationalisation of Universities for Global Relevance”, was quite remarkable for various contexts and contents. In some historical excursions, a correlation between federalism and internationalisation was established to the extent that both concepts aren’t new, after all. We lost federalism we are begging for now specifically in 1966 when the soldiers of fortune struck down democracy and federalism through Decree No.34 and institutionalised the federal republic of the Nigerian arm
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Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, Martins Oloja, yesterday, described Nigeria’s education system as a ticking time bomb due to poor policies, inadequate investment and lack of commitment on the part of policymakers.
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