Olu Obafemi
27 Sep
In the past three weeks I generously yielded this column to the direct voice of Professor Omajuwa Igho Natufe – as I yielded it in the distant and not too distant past to several thinkers and scholars of our clime and time.
2 Aug 2024
Today I bring to you Professor G.G. Darah’s recollection/glowing tribute to Funsho Aiyejina, a great scholar and poet of our clime, who passed on in the Caribbean recently as I mentioned last Friday. Of course, Professor Olu Obafemi did his very touching tale about our scholar in the diaspora last week. Now GG Darah’s heart’s…
26 Jul 2024
Not long ago, Professor Titus Funsho Aiyejina, one of your country my country our country’s consummate scholar-poets and immaculately
7 Jun 2024
Another alternative mode of funding universities with cautionary observances of implications and consequences is the proposition by Olabisi, I. Aina (2002) in their paper, “Alternative Modes of Financing Higher Education in Nigeria ...
31 May 2024
When a new and future negotiation takes off, there are basic minimum funding benchmarks that must be tabled for discussion.
17 May 2024
There is an unending debate on sources of funding for the universities—especially public universities. First is the unyielding entitlement philosophy in which parents, students and the labour unions believe that the government
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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