Tag: Ph.D

API’s Nigeria Social Cohesion Survey: A Scary Report Spiced with Hope By Omoniyi Ibietan, Ph.D., fnipr

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Earlier today (October 6, 2022) up till early evening, about two hundred Nigerians, listened raptly to Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, lawyer, ex-Central Banker, scholar, public intellectual and former presidential candidate in the 2019 Nigerian elections, as he delivered the keynote speech at the public presentation of the 2022 Nigeria Social Cohesion Survey Report conducted by Prof. Bell Ihua-managed Africa Polling Institute (API).   The lead paper presentation was followed by a panel discussion by Saudatu Mahdi, Secretary General, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA); Dr. Omoniyi Ibietan, Head Media Relations,…

JIFORM President, Minister Bag Ph D in Benin Republic

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President, Journalists International Forum For Migration (JIFORM), Ajibola Abayomi, and the Minister of Labour and Social Security, Sierra Leone, Alpha Timbo are to be conferred with the Doctorate Degree (Honoris Causa) in Public Administration on January 29,2022 at the Ecole Superieure des sciences, de commerce et administration des enterprise du Benin (ESCAE University) Benin Republic. A notification letter from the school signed by it’s Annex Director of Studies, Porto Novo, Dr Ajijola Issac reads thus: “The Governing Council of our University has ratified the conferment of Ph D (Honoris Causa)…

Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter:@farooqkperogi

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I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestication of Arabic names. There are scores of Yoruba names that are derived from Arabic but which are barely recognizable to Arabs or other African Muslims because they have taken on the structural features of the Yoruba language. This is not unique to Yoruba, of course. As scholars of onomastics or onomatology know only too well, when proper names leave their primordial shores to other climes they, in time, are often liable to local adaptation. (Onomastics or onomatology is the…

What Everyone is Missing About the “Hate Speech” Bill By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

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Both the proponents and opponents of the so-called Hate Speech Bill in the Nigerian Senate don’t seem to realize that the bill itself is fundamentally rooted in, and nurtured by, crass and deep-seated ignorance of the very meaning of “hate speech.” Hate speech doesn’t mean speech that hurts the sensibilities of government officials. Nor does it mean any speech that incites and insults individuals. It simply means speech that besmirches—and incites violence against— a community of vulnerable and marginalized people who are easy targets because of their invariable group attributes…

How to raise money for your degree by planting trees – Ibraheem Dooba, Ph.D.

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On Wednesday in Minna, during the Edufest of FOMWAN School, I was asked to talk to students about the benefits of tree planting. So I told the students three reasons why they should plant trees: 1. To protect the environment, each student should plant a tree for every birthday. So if you’re nine years old, you should plant nine trees as oxygen factories and for carbon sequestration. I got this idea from Dr. Abdul Hussain, PermSec Lands. 2. University fund – if a child in primary 3 plants a tree…

Why Bola Tinubu Can Never Be Nigeria’s President By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter:@farooqkperogi

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I admit that it’s always ill-advised to use the word “never” when you prognosticate the outcome of a future event. The vagaries of life can throw a wrench to the works of the most auspicious auguries. I know that. Nevertheless, I am prepared to go out on a limb and proclaim that in spite of his feverishly desperate, frenzied, backstabbing machinations, Bola Ahmed Tinubu can never be Nigeria’s president. Here’s why. Tinubu isn’t electable in any region of Nigeria outside the Southwest, his natal region. Even in the Southwest, his…