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Nigeria: Plagiarism – Dike’s Suit Against Two UNIPORT Professors For January 15

A Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Port Harcourt has fixed for January 15, 2013, hearing on the case of alleged of plagiarism instituted against Professors Steve O. Tamuno and Needorn Richard Sorle of the Department of Economics, University of … read more »

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Nigeria University shut down as students protest of slain colleagues

THE situation surrounding the killing of the four students of the University of Port Harcourt worsened on Tuesday evening, as students of the institution, led by the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), stormed Omuokiri-Aluu, burned houses and … read more »

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Nigerian-born US Professor, Victor Dike, Sues Two UNIPORT Professors for Plagiarism

With the dust raised by his suit against the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, whom he accused of grossly violating his intellectual property rights by extensively plagiarizing his work in two public lectures … read more »

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‘Boko Haram must not succeed in intimidating journalists’

A university don, Dr. Sunny Mbazie, has declared that if the Boko Haram suicide bombers succeed in intimidating media houses, the society is finished. He said journalism is not a profession for the lily-livered, who just want to make a … read more »

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Nigeria: Jonathan’s Critiques Could Benefit If They Looked Back

By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba An American black sports figure, I believe he was Satchel Page was quoted as saying that he does not look back because somebody or something might be “gaining” on him. He may be making the statement … read more »

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Goodluck Jonathan: Nigeria’s unpopular president

(CNN) — He is the son of a canoe-carver, a mild-mannered academic who wears a fedora but eschews the flowing robes and bombastic brashness that often characterize Africa’s “Big Man” leaders. When elected president in April 2011, he was described … read more »

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Jonathan and Dame Patience Goodluck-Jonathan: Mirror Images of the Nigerian Quandary”

Since society is attributively organic and inorganic in its nature, therefore, one can seek the understanding of what a society is, from the prism of people relative a society. Predicated on this premise, this article sets out to contend that … read more »

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