Tag: Tunde Akanni

Rooting For Hajj With Excellence In 2025, By Tunde Akanni, PhD

Tunde Akanni, PhD

Hajj administrators all over the world are often quick to assert that the preparations for the next hajj begins as soon as the just concluded one is over. Breathing life into this claim may however assume a different coloration depending on the faithfulness of the claim maker. For the current leadership at NAHCON there appears to be some commitment to some exciting vision. Beyond being heavily credentialed, the Prof Saleh Usman leadership keeps signaling strong re-engineering for a the commission that deserves the best NAHCON’s recent activities have underscored its…

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Osun Gov Returns To Ede Muslim Grammar School As Alma Mater Clocks 50

Rofeequr Adeola--Yusuf

“Adeleke is both an alumnus and a former national president of the alumni association of the school established in 1974” full statement by Chair, Anniversary Publicity Committee, Tunde Akanni, PhD The Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, will join the alumni of Ede Muslim Grammar School and others on Monday to kick off several activities lined up to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Ede Muslim Grammar School. A statement by Tunde Akanni, Chair, Fiftieth Anniversary of EMGS Ede Publicity Committee, showed that Governor Adeleke is both an alumnus and…

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Furore As European Author Claims She Named #EndSARS Struggle ‘Soro-Soke’

Abibat Babalola

The claim by Trish Lorenz, a journalist and the 2021/2022 US$100,000 Nine Dots Prize, has set Twitter on fire with tantrum-throwing Nigerian youths serving her the full length of their tongues What manner of intellectual immodesty? an associate Professor of Communication at Lagos State University, Tunde Akanni, asked rhetorically in a reaction to Lorenz claim European journalist and author Trish Lorenz has claimed that she christened young Nigerian protesters during the EndSARS struggle the “Soro-Soke,” generation. Platforms Africa reports that Sori-Soke, a phrase that gained popularity during the 2020 #EndSARS…

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Who’s afraid of UNIOSUN?, by Tunde AKANNI

Tunde AKANNI

Like similar relevant posts in the recent past, the advertisement for the position of the Vice Chancellor, University of Osun State found its way to the exalted WhatsApp forum exclusive for Nigerian Communications Professors. In no time, it found its way to a couple of others I share with some other intellectuals. And then, somebody hauled a “prayer” at me, asking if I won’t give that a shot. I smiled away the suggestion. My friend insisted, arguing that testing waters with a rising profile may not be a bad idea…

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Oyeweso, Distinguished Historian, Ascends the Sixth Floor, By Tunde Akanni

Tunde AKANNI

  Incontrovertibly one of the most intellectually engaging historians of our time, Professor Abdul Gafar Siyan Oyeweso, manifests by the day in several discourses on account of his selfless services. I had just been part of a radio programme on Friday, January 8, 2021 when one of the promoters of the online broadcaster, Spirit of Nigeria, Dotun Atilade, called me. In rounding off his appreciation to me he reminded me that most people from my birthplace of Ede, Osun State, are selfless.  Thus began quite a sweet recall of a…

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