Retire or Re-tyre: An Encomium to a Paragon of Scholarly Excellence and Mentorship.- By Hassan Alhaji Ya'u, PhD
Whenever I come across the horrific and horrible idea; Retire, I regret not the idea but the practice. My regret is influenced by the critical question of whether the idea of retirement in its conceptual and real senses, is applicable to academics and specifically to Abdallah Uba Adamu who spent exactly 46 years advancing the course of intellectulism, scholarship and research at national, continental and global scale. This prompted my conclusion that in significant cases, there is an apparent etymological fallacy in the conceptualization and application of the idea of retirement, especially in the academic environment. Etymologically, the word retire in British grammatical structure refers to an intransitive VERB, which means to stop work on a full-time basis or is best known in the Nigerian context of labor relations and manpower management as Permanent and Pensionable system, fundamentally due to old age or illness. In American etymological analysis, however, R...