Scholar
24 Mar 2022
One of Nigeria’s foremost progressive intellectuals, Professor Timothy Uzodinma Nwala clocked 80 years of age on March 20, 2022.
19 Sep 2021
He was Nigeria’s closest instance of the Renaissance Man: musician, sculptor, inventor, sportsman, architect, scholar, mythmaker, lay philosopher, folklorist, and culture ambassador/impresario.
20 Feb 2021
Emeritus Prof. John Akolisa Ibemesi has passed on. Ibemesi was born on November 25, 1942, in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. He was a native of Eziaja Village in Neni, Anaocha Local Council
10 Jan 2021
Meandered Path is the story of the exciting and dramatic life of Dr. Francis Folorunso Oghenero Abudu, a teacher, scholar, researcher, banker, investor, venture capitalist, and administrator.
21 May 2020
A year 10 pupil of Greensprings School, Zanita Akinkugbe, has been accepted as one of the scholars of this year’s Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) programme
15 Apr 2020
Some 20 years ago, Sunday Ododo and I embarked on an ambitious project of editing a festschrift in honour of Olu Obafemi at 50! How time flies. That encounter, which literarily became an acronym for Prof. Olu Obafemi
23 Mar 2018
An Islamic scholar, Ustadh Yunus Al-Imam has advised Muslims to shun seeking for hidden knowledge (bateen) and go in search of only knowledge that will be beneficial to them in their worship of Allah. Al-Imam, who is Director, Right Path Arabic Institute, Lagos gave the advice at the pre-event conference held last Sunday as prelude…