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Print-on-demand book scams and Nigerian universities
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- Written by Farooq Kperogi
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The other day, a friend of mine on Facebook proudly announced that his master’s thesis had been published as a book by a German publishing company called Lambert Academic Publishing. Several people congratulated him. But I didn’t. I knew he had been scammed—and that he would in turn unwittingly scam the Nigerian university system where he works as a lecturer.
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Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
The other day, a friend of mine on Facebook proudly announced that his master’s thesis had been published as a book by a German publishing company called Lambert Academic Publishing. Several people congratulated him. But I didn’t. I knew he had been scammed—and that he would in turn unwittingly scam the Nigerian university system where he works as a lecturer.
Re: Somaliazation of Nigeria and imperative of privatized governance
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Last week’s article with the above title elicited more responses than I have space to publish them in weeks. Below is a representative sample of the responses. Next week I will respond to some of the issues raised here.
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Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
Last week’s article with the above title elicited more responses than I have space to publish them in weeks. Below is a representative sample of the responses. Next week I will respond to some of the issues raised here.
Nigeria’s failed bid at World Bank presidency
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I really wanted to avoid discussing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s bid for the presidency of the World Bank. But several of my readers wrote to say they wanted me to share my thoughts on the issue. They wanted to know, for instance, what I thought about the irony of America, the patron-saint of democracy, being averse to openness and inclusion in the selection of the World Bank president.
Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
I really wanted to avoid discussing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s bid for the presidency of the World Bank. But several of my readers wrote to say they wanted me to share my thoughts on the issue. They wanted to know, for instance, what I thought about the irony of America, the patron-saint of democracy, being averse to openness and inclusion in the selection of the World Bank president.
Somaliazation of Nigeria and imperative of privatized governance
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As I sit on my computer to write this, I am so devastatingly downhearted by the current happenings in Nigeria that I just feel like giving up writing this column for this week. What is the point of writing when the only country I can legitimately call mine is going up in flames without a fight; when life in Nigeria has become notoriously cheap, short, and brutish; when no one seems to be in control of the country; and when my core constituencies—the news media and universities—have joined the long list of targets for annihilation by an insanely primitive and murderous terrorist group?
Read more: Somaliazation of Nigeria and imperative of privatized governance
Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
As I sit on my computer to write this, I am so devastatingly downhearted by the current happenings in Nigeria that I just feel like giving up writing this column for this week. What is the point of writing when the only country I can legitimately call mine is going up in flames without a fight; when life in Nigeria has become notoriously cheap, short, and brutish; when no one seems to be in control of the country; and when my core constituencies—the news media and universities—have joined the long list of targets for annihilation by an insanely primitive and murderous terrorist group?
All terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that aren’t
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I came across this very insightful article with the above title recently and thought I should share it with my readers. It’s about the statistics of terrorist acts in the United States from 1980 to 2005 as compiled by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Read more: All terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that aren’t
Category: Notes from Atlanta Written by Farooq Kperogi
I came across this very insightful article with the above title recently and thought I should share it with my readers. It’s about the statistics of terrorist acts in the United States from 1980 to 2005 as compiled by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).