Margee Ensign Announces Resignation as President of Dickinson College - Margee Ensign announces her resignation as Dickinson president to return to AUN, and the Board of Trustees appoints Board Chair John E. Jones III to a two-year term as interim president.
John Jones III moves from being a federal judge to Dickinson College president: ‘I feel very blessed’
Updated May 14, 2021;
Posted May 14, 2021
U.S. Middle District Court Chief Judge John Jones III, who chairs Dickinson College s board of trustees, talks here with outgoing Dickinson College President Margee Ensign, who he will succeed on an interim basis.
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U.S. Middle District Court Chief Judge John Jones III had no plans on leaving the federal bench for four more years.
But then an opportunity arose that intrigued him enough to decide to trade his judicial robe for an academic one.
Says: Farmers/herders need one another
Farmers/pastoralists conflicts in Nigeria will not end unless••
CR government pioneers unique solution
By Ebele Orakpo
APART from unrelenting Boko Haram terrorists’ attacks, Nigeria and Nigerians have in recent years continued to witness unconscionable destruction of lives and property through frequent herdsmen and farmers clashes. Indeed, what initially began as intermittent but innocuous quarrels between farmers and herdsmen over land and grazing routes soon escalated into bloody clashes. The clashes first began in the Middle Belt states of Plateau and Benue before spreading to neighbouring states of Adamawa, Nasarawa and Taraba and later to the Southern part of the country.
Herdsmen/farmers crises: How desertification, climate change trigger bloody clashes
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Says: Farmers/herders need one another
Farmers/pastoralists conflicts in Nigeria will not end unless••
CR government pioneers unique solution
By Ebele Orakpo
APART from unrelenting Boko Haram terrorists’ attacks, Nigeria and Nigerians have in recent years continued to witness unconscionable destruction of lives and property through frequent herdsmen and farmers clashes. Indeed, what initially began as intermittent but innocuous quarrels between farmers and herdsmen over land and grazing routes soon escalated into bloody clashes. The clashes first began in the Middle Belt states of Plateau and Benue before spreading to neighbouring states of Adamawa, Nasarawa and Taraba and later to the Southern part of the country.
Pantami and the Charge of Extremism, By Mohammed Dahiru Aminu
It does not matter to cynics that there is evidence that Pantami no longer holds those views.
Minister of Communication, Dr Isa Ali Pantami
While it can be legitimate to hold Pantami for views expressed nearly two decades ago, it is only fair to also consider more recent views like his debate with the Boko Haram leader, Muhammad Yusuf, and other lectures in the past few years in which he condemned extremism to the extent that he became a prime target of Boko Haram, as declared by its present leader, Abubakar Shekau.