“Politics should be kept out of academia!” This is how many in Western academia respond to calls from fellow professors and students for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions over their complicity in the country’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory, oppression of Palestinian people, and the ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. They claim that universities…
MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC) MOTTO: DIALOGUE, NOT VIOLENCE 26th March, 2024 PRESS RELEASE: SOS TO IG, OSUN CP: STOP ILLEGAL CURFEW DECLARED BY ORO WORSHIPPERS IN ILE-IFE – MURI Oro worshippers declared a five-hour curfew in Ile-Ife yesterday, Monday 25th March, 2024 to take effect tomorrow, Wednesday, 27th March, 2024 from 2 pm to…
The recent response from Temitope Ajayi, the senior special assistant to the president on Media & Publicity, to Femi Falana’s concerns during the Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti memorial event is disconcerting. Instead of addressing the critical issues raised by the human rights lawyer, Ajayi resorted to name-calling and character assassination. This diversionary tactic does not negate…
