Your Choice of Research / Practice Method?
Your Choice of Research / Practice Method? There are four common ontologies / epistemologies by which we undertake research in the academy. If you must study anything in a reliable,…
2014
Fraternal Criminality as Charity
Fraternal Criminality as Charity One growing and disturbing phenomenon of Nigerian university campus grown fraternities (UCGFs) is their transformation into “charities”. It is a purely criminal phenomenon. Set up by…
To Be or Not To Be Political: It’s Mostly Corruption
In Nigeria, politics is where all the easy money is; parvenu opportunities, rent-seeking, corrupt practices, patronage benefits, prebendal incomes, ‘settlements’, blackmail etc. Many organisations that started originally swearing to be…
The Privileged Nigerian Intellectual?
The Privileged Nigerian Intellectual? Whether Nigerian intellectuals like it or not, Europe and its extensions were built with the ideas of intellectuals. I cannot imagine a Europe without its prodigious…
The Ontology of the African VI: Thieving Patriotism
‘Patriotism of the stomach’ is much more pitiable than it sounds. Patriotism, even in moderate forms, is a thoroughly virtuous state of being to adopt underpinned by loyalty, commitment, support…
RE: Collapse of Nigeria’s Power Privatisation
RE: Collapse of Nigeria’s Power Privatisation http://eyoekpo.com/post/101658521484/the-imminent-collapse-of-nigerias-power-privatisation I found Timi Soleye’s piece in the Financial Times interesting. The Financial Times and its editors would have a lot to lose by…