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This is a collection of Obafemi Awolowo University publications. They include annual reports, gazettes, convocation lectures, speeches, faculty lectures among others
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“Excellence over the Distance”
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2020)Excellence over the Distance” – A Summit of Distance Learning Centres in Nigeria An invitations-only 2-day meeting of university centres of distance learning in Nigeria. (on the occasion of the 5th Anniversary of the ... -
Towards Resolving the University Palava
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2020)Virtually all the federal universities have remained without activity from the beginning of January 2003. At the OAU, Ile-Ife, inactivity started from September, 2002. In both cases, the inactivity is predicated upon ... -
Strategic Planning of Research for teaching, services and development
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2020)For the University to plan strategically for research that will impact on teaching, services and development requires an assessment of needs and requirements for research by UG, PG, PD and Academics. These needs are divided ... -
Staff Advisory System in OAU
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2020-01)Staff advisory systems include: Staff to staff = Mentoring (to be covered later in this workshop by a University Governing Council member); Staff to Student Organization = Staff Advising; Staff to Student on academic issues ... -
Restoring Academic Ideals, Ethics and Transparency in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2019)The ideals of the academic profession were founded between 388 and 268 B.C. in the Greek philosophical institutions of the Academy, the Lyceum, the Stoa and the Garden of Epicurus. These institutions accommodated, and ... -
A Rebirth of the Development of Commercial Large Scale Agriculture in Nigeria
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2019)Agricultural rebirth for improved production requires continuous development of technologies, practices, processes, equipment, machinery, materials, supplies, stock and services for a wide range of agri-business activities ... -
Quality Assurance and maintenance through mentoring of Academics in Nigerian Universities
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Livestock Productivity and Human Development
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2017)Professor Anthony Afolabi Adegbola earned a doctorate degree in agronomy (a science that deals with the methods used by farmers to raise crops and care for the soil). He became a professor of animal science and defended ... -
Interventions in Family Poultry and their role in Household Food Security and Income
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2019)In many countries, people keep small numbers of poultry for home consumption, occasional sales and various socio-cultural uses. The term ‘family poultry’ (FP) was created by the FAO to describe the full variety of all the ... -
Implementing Anti-Open Grazing Laws through a National Ranch Development Plan
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2017)The claim of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) that “Anti-grazing laws are... to destroy our means of livelihood” should be viewed in the proper context. The reality is that the Fulani and the 14 other ... -
Innovative Approaches to Rural Finance Service Provision with Emphasis on Smallholder Producers: An Assessment of First Bank's Agricultural/Microfinancing products and Services Operations as an Approach TO Rural Finance Service Provision
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2019)The field study was an assessment of 2 groups of beneficiaries of the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme (ACGS) namely: 1) Non-commissioned officers of the Nigerian Army Civil Engineering Corp, Ede, Osun State, who are ... -
An Ode to small things
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2020-10-30)“Do not despise these small things…” Zechariah 4 verse 10 (New Living Translation, NLT). For beautiful and big things can come from something small. In short: “small things matter”. The rest of this lecture illustrates ... -
Guide on managing soil water in wetlands (FADAMAS)
(IAR&T, 2010)Farmers can use the common measuring tape to assess the water table of a wetland/akuro. For suitable crop production farmers must stay closer to the stream. Cultivation of akuro can safely commence when the water ... -
Guide on maize production
(IAR&T, 2010)Maize is widely cultivated in Nigeria. It has many varieties that are available in the country for planting. Wrong choice of varieties and inadequate knowledge of land and its preparation, appropriate time and method of ... -
The word and the world: Reflections on life as literature
(B.M Ibitokun, 2003-09-03)I shall begin this lecture by giving an experiential data. As head of Department of English for many years at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and also as user of the word, I have come to realise to my chagrin that ... -
Drug research and production unit 2011 report
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2011)The Drug Research and Production Unit, Faculty of pharmacy, focuses on Medicinal Plant Research and has nearly three decades of research and teaching experience. Prior to its establishment there were various departmental ... -
Memory,discursivity and the troubled academic space of Nigeria
(Institute of cultural studies,Obafemi Awolowo University, 2011)Permit me, respectable ladies and gentlemen, some reflections and indulgence on a memory of the past and a recounting of my experiences as an academician moving gradually towards the tail end of his career and taking ... -
The Librarian is dead: Long live the Librarian
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2007-04-27)dealings appearing mainly in monument inscriptions. They were made on the pith of papyrus reeds which were abundant in the Nile Valley. The writing was called hieroglyphics. Another important form of early writing was ... -
Literary prospectives on culture,human development,governance and the problematic of living in Africa
(Institute of cultural studies,Obafemi Awolowo University, 2010)At the Faculty of Arts car park was I standing by my 35-year old Peugeot car, fully engrossed in reading a decision extract of hot debates by the Academic Staff Union of the Universities, Obafemi Awolowo University ... -
99/2000 Graduating set ,Institute of education.(social studies)OAU
(Obafemi Awolowo University, 2000)