Nigeria’s public universities
31 May 2024
When a new and future negotiation takes off, there are basic minimum funding benchmarks that must be tabled for discussion.
24 May 2024
Professor Olu Obafemi’s bright picture of what goes against the grain of funding public university education in Nigeria is as bright as ever.
3 May 2024
We ride on with pleasurable pleasure of enjoying Professor Olu Obafemi’s patriotic concern with the central government’s attitude to what we call Nigeria’s public universities. What I enjoin you to enjoy is the pleasurable bleakness of our great thinker’s elucidation of what he elucidates.
26 Apr 2024
We continue our serene trip in Professor Olu Obafemi’s Nigerian boat of public universities’ funding. The pudding we are being served is bewitching to tongues of all who are tasting it.
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