Political Science/Public Administration Obong University

14/03/2026

Shout out to our newest followers! Excited to have you onboard! Godswill Abasiekong, Kabiru Sani

26/03/2025

Kids know better than.... 🇳🇬💥

11/03/2023

13/01/2023

Recently, reactions have trailed the number of first-class graduates produced at the convocation ceremony of one of the prominent private universities in the country. This is not the first time. A number of stakeholders who are not conversant with the workings of private universities have tagged the...

12/07/2022

Meet the former Vice-president of NAPPAS who just concluded her one Year National Service to the Country...posed with her students as she bids them goodbye 👋

Congratulations on your POP. 👏

24/10/2021

Dr Harrison Ataide of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Obong University, appointed as the Legal Adviser, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACADEMICS & PRACTITIONERS (NAPAAP) of Nigeria.

Congratulations sir!.

From Fred Ezeh, Abuja Public administration practitioners and lecturers in the universities have pulled out from the political science association they were, and formed their own discipline association named Public Administration Theories and Practice Forum. The public administrators said they are t...

14/08/2021

Concept of an Ideal State:
Aristotle always strived to attain an ideal state. According to him, in every state there are three classes, viz., the very rich, the very poor and the middle class (the mean). Those who are rich excel in strength, beauty; birth or wealth and they grow arrogant, violent and criminal.
The poor, on the other hand, are ugly, weak and often become victims of jealousies, intriguing, rogues and petty rascals. While the former do not obey laws, the latter tend to break the laws. The government, therefore, by the former would be despotic and that formed by the latter would be despicable. In either situation, the state remains divided by conflicts, bitterness, jealousies and frictions.

The state can never be one as there is an eternal war with each other. So, Aristotle suggested that the best way is to follow the law of the golden mean. In other words, governments must be run by middle class citizens who favour neither class. They neither covet not plot but only command acceptance for their power is transformed into authority.

Therefore, Aristotle suggested that the legislators must always ensure the association of the middle class with the government. If it is numerically stronger than the other two classes, then it is definitely a source of stability. Aristotle opined that the continuous rule by either the rich or the poor is worst calamity, that can ever happen to a state and for this reason; he supported the rule of middle class, as the best rule—it is the golden mean.

Aristotle believed that middle class rule ensures not only stability but also liberty and equality. Liberty is not necessarily doing what one likes to do, but it is also to live by the rule of the constitution. Liberty also refers to the ability to rule as well as be ruled. This is justice. Thus, liberty, according to Aristotle, is based on justice, which is distributive, and rests on the basis of proportionate equality.

05/08/2021

OU Connect"..... At Nysc Orientation Camp Kubwa Abuja

28/05/2021

Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has elected Dr Murtala Muhammad of Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, as National Auditor. Dr Muhammad was unanimously elected at the 33rd Conference of the Association, held at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State on Thursday, 27th May. Solacebase reports that Dr Murtala Muhammad, presently an Associate Professor at the School of General Studies, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil and before now a part-time lecturer at the Political Science Department, Bayero University, Kano would hold the office for two years effective from 2021 to 2023....

Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has elected Dr Murtala Muhammad of Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, as National Auditor.

20/01/2021

NOTICE TO ALL STAFF AND STUDENTS.

In preparation for the second semester 2019/2020 Examinations, revision begins on Wednesday 20th January to Wednesday, 27th January 2021. Examinations begins on Thursday, 28th January and ends on the 4th of February 2021.

The 2020/2021 academic session begins on Monday, 8th January 2021. All students are advised to update their fee payment cards at the bursary as students who have not paid all their fees will not be allowed near the examination hall. No fee or registration issues will be entertained at the examination venue.

Students are to also come to the examination hall with their face masks securely put on and with a pocket sized hand sanitizer. Social distancing in all the examination venues will be strictly observed.

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