Tonight at 8 p.m., the much-publicized discourse on the state of Nigeria’s University system featuring renowned Yoruba language and culture expert, Prof Wande Abimbola, is expected to be a crowd puller, drawing a large assemblage of the academia to a brainstorming session.
The platform for this conversation is the popular monthly interview show, Boiling Point Arena, targeted at addressing the much talked-about decadence in Nigeria’s university system with a view to offer far reaching recommendations on how to unleash a new lease of life in the Ivory towers.
To be transmitted via Zoom at 8 p.m., the once-in-a-month global online show, now in its 35th edition, will be broadcast live on six radio stations across Lagos, Ogun and Delta states as well as on a cable television, NSTV on GoTV Channel 316.
Boiling Point Arena which commands an incredibly large online followership and wide listenership base, is hosted by a media professional and public relations strategist, Dr Ayo Arowojolu.
This particular episode since the current affairs programme began three years ago, has as its topic: “Nigerian Universities: Tower of Crises, Citadel of Missed Opportunities. Can the Lost Glory be Reclaimed?”
Expectedly, the bar of narratives will be raised on how to address the many years of systemic and infrastructural decadence in the Ivory towers in Nigeria with a view to charting a new path and reclaiming the lost glory of the nation’s apex education system.
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The Guest Speaker, Prof. Wande Abimbola, was a Vice-Chancellor of the then University of Ife which later got renamed as Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in the 80s, an era acclaimed for sterling leadership and phenomenal development.
Abimbola’s current pedigree as a teaching scholar in some universities in America where he presently resides at over age 92 would further deepen his capacity to offer enriching perspectives on how to rejig the universities in Nigeria.
Prominent traditional ruler, the Olowu of Owu Kingdom, Prof. Saka Matemilola is the Keynote Speaker and Chair to herald the discourse tonight.
A well publicized discourse, Boiling Point Arena will be broadcast live on WASH 94.9FM, Sweet 107.1FM, Roots 97.1FM, Erimbe 94.7FM, Women Radio 91.7FM and Kruzz 92.9FM as well as on NSTV on GoTV channel 316.
Boiling Point is a news and general interest group comprising of eminent personalities including over 300 professors, media professionals, technocrats, industry leaders, high court justices, traditional rulers, security top shots and several others.
