Author: Victor MarkusBook Title: Believers in the Workplace: Embracing God’s Calling Amidst Work and Daily LifePublisher: Impact Empire Limited, Kaduna.Year: 2023ISBN: 978-978-780-860-3Pages: 76Victor Markus’ Believers in the Workplace: Embracing God’s Calling Amidst Work and Daily Life is a book with many strengths and only one or two weaknesses. I will start with what I considerContinue reading “The Place of Believers and Faith in the World of Work”
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The Life and Times of Kuje Yum: Tiv Folklorist and Cultural Icon
Wilfred Terlumun UjiAuthor: Norbert HwakaaBook Title: The Untold Story of Kuje YumPublisher: Old Press, AbujaISBN: 978-978-59342-7-9Year: 2023Pages: 124IntroductionThe book is focused on a collection of folk songs composed by Kuje Yum, a Masev folk singer, who made indelible foot prints on the oral poetry of the Tiv nation.Kuje Yum like his contemporaries in Tiv SocietyContinue reading “The Life and Times of Kuje Yum: Tiv Folklorist and Cultural Icon”
In the Name of Victor: Confronting Errors with the Truth; The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Samuel Victor Malu
Author: Terver Malu and Okechukwu Oko Publisher: Author House, 2013 Pages:169 Rotimi Olajide Opeyeoluwa This book probes deeply into the life of a charismatic and intrepid soldier who rose to command the Nigerian Army as the 13th Chief of Army Staff. Lt. General Samuel Victor Malu was indeed prepared for the role he eventually playedContinue reading “In the Name of Victor: Confronting Errors with the Truth; The Autobiography of Lt. Gen. Samuel Victor Malu”
This Child Will Be Great
Author: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Publisher: Harper Collins E-Books, Australia, 2009 Pages: 353 Rotimi Olajide Opeyeoluwa This book of 353 pages put in perspectives, the varied interesting story of a great personality, her accomplishments, travails and dazzling heights and an obvious intersection with her country of birth, Liberia, earning her the distinction of being the firstContinue reading “This Child Will Be Great”
African Economic Development: An Encyclopaedic View
Sunday Moses Adebayo AlokoBook Title: The History of African Development: An Outline Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and TeachersEditors: Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Felix Meier zu SelhausenPublisher: African Economic History Network, 2023Pages: 296 pagesISBN: 978-94-6447-652-1The book comprised of 17 chapters edited by Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillborn, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani andContinue reading “African Economic Development: An Encyclopaedic View”
Ekundare and the Impact of Colonialism on the Nigerian Economy
Sunday Moses Adebayo AlokoBook Title: An Economic History of Nigeria, 1860-1960Author: R. Olufemi EkundarePublisher: Methuen & Co Ltd, London, 1973Pages: xxii + 458 pagesISBN: 416 75150 4R. Olufemi Ekundare’s book entitled, An Economic History of Nigeria, 1860-1960 was published by Methuen and Co Limited, London in the year 1973. The book, though plagued with soContinue reading “Ekundare and the Impact of Colonialism on the Nigerian Economy”
Going Beyond Oil and the Urgency of Economic Diversification in Nigeria
Sunday Moses Adebayo Aloko Book Title: Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy, Author: Zainab UsmanPublisher: ZED Book, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, 2022Pages: xiii+292 pagesISBN: 978-1-7869-9394-6 Zainab Usman’s book, Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy was published in 2022 by Zed Books Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ItContinue reading “Going Beyond Oil and the Urgency of Economic Diversification in Nigeria”
A.G. Hopkins’ Second Coming and the Development of African Economic History
Sunday Moses Adebayo Aloko Book Title: An Economic History of West AfricaAuthor: A.G. HopkinsPublisher: Routledge, Oxon, 2022Pages: xiii + 339ISBN: 978-0-367-00243-5 The first edition of A.G. Hopkins An Economic History of West Africa, was first published in 1973 by Addison Wesley Longman Limited. In 2014, it was published by Routledge, which has equally published itsContinue reading “A.G. Hopkins’ Second Coming and the Development of African Economic History”
Moses Orshio Adasu a Pioneer Priest, Politician and Governor
Book Title: Moses Orshio ADASU: Religion Politics and Development Author: Terhemba Wuam Publisher: Aboki Publishers Makurdi Pages: 98 ISBN:978-8098-50-9 Vivian Inyang Moses Orshio Adasu was a Catholic priest with no political antecedent before his assumption as the Governor of Benue state who was very conscious of the situation of Benue state. Adasu is remembered asContinue reading “Moses Orshio Adasu a Pioneer Priest, Politician and Governor”
NYSC and the Nigerian Experience
Terhemba Wuam The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is perhaps the most hallowed and respected of Nigeria’s institutions. Established in 1973it has come to represent a rite of passage of for all graduates under the age of 30. Service apart from the reluctance expressed by the very first batch of the NYSC, when it wasContinue reading “NYSC and the Nigerian Experience“
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