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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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