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The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 2nd Republic, Akwa Ibom, Bala Usman, Civil society, Claude Ake, Eskor Toyo, Left, Nigeria Police Force, NPN, Obong Victor Attah, Okonkwo, PRP, PSC, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Tennyson, UPNNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There would be nothing wrong in calling the week (April 27 – May 2nd, 2025) the Nigeria Police week in Akwa Ibom State, the week having started with a dinner night organised... Read more

Why Scrapping the BEA Foreign Scholarship is Regressive, Unjustified Betrayal of Nigeria’s National Vision and Global Future

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: GovernanceTags: BEA, Canada’s Vanier, Germany’s DAAD, Global competitiveness, India’s National Overseas Scholarships, UK’s Chevening, USA’s FulbrightNo CommentsViews:

By Sanusi A. S. Maikudi The Federal Government’s decision to cancel the Bilateral Education Agreement (BEA) scholarship scheme—announced by the Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa—... Read more

“Critique of the Gotha Programme” and the Nigerian Condition

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Class, Communist Manifesto, Free Market capitalism, Marx, ‘Restructuralists’No CommentsViews:

By Usman Sarki “General historical circumstances are stronger than the strongest individuals”, Georgi Plekhanov The Gotha (Unity) Congress met in Germany from May 22 to 27, 1875, to fashion... Read more

Would a Liberal Pope Split the Church?

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Catholic Church, Conservatives, Liberals, NUNS, Pope Francis, The VaticanNo CommentsViews:

By Dan Hitchens Electing a new Pope is the item number 1 on the agenda of power and faith in world politics today. Below is an opinion on which of the tendencies in the Catholic Church would... Read more

Communique of HUMINT, WRAPA, NAWOJ, PLAC and PAAC Sokoto Workshop

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: ANWE, DEMOCRACY, Gender, HUMINT, Journalism, MacArthur Foundation, NAWOJ, PAAC, PLAC, Sokoto, WRAPANo CommentsViews:

Reproduced below for the interest of researchers on gender and democratisation is the communique from a 2-day capacity building workshop for women journalists. It was organised by HUMINT in... Read more

Alhaji (Dr.) Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari CFR, the Emir of Ilorin, is 85!

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ACF, Chairman of Kwara State Traditional Council, Ilorin Emirate, Kwara StateNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu This occasion marks a significant development in the Ilorin Emirate and Kwara State. To properly understand this tribute, it is necessary to go historically by virtue of... Read more

The Sun Sets on Prof Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, Leading African Liberation Scholar

Posted By: adminon: April 22, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Counter- hegemonic philosophy, Decoloniality, DRC, Pope Francis, Representational practice of power, ‘Invention of Africa’No CommentsViews:

The sun has set conclusively on Prof V. I Mudimbe, one of the earliest strikers in counter-hegemonic Philosophy, with particular reference to the constructedness of Africa. He died April 22n... Read more

Sule Lamido and the Prize

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Alhaji Sule Lamido, APC, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Jigawa State, Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi, NEPU, Nigerian politics, Northern Nigeria, NPC, PDP, PRPNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There has been a major made-in-Jigawa political pronouncement but a pronouncement which goes farther than Jigawa State to the defining issue areas in African politics, with p... Read more

Happy Easter, Losers, Christianity is Not About Success!

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 'Alcoholics Anonymous', Archbishop of Canterbury, Christianity, Church of England, Evangelical/Catholic/Liberal Church, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jesus Christ, Organised goodness, Renewed humanity, ResurrectionNo CommentsViews:

Giles Fraser, a journalist, broadcaster and Vicar of St Anne’s, Kew lets us into a critical insight into Christianity in the piece below as reproduced from Unherd. The ridder says that succ... Read more

Witnessing Gabriel Ella and Cynthia Mmaduekwe Tie the Marital Knot in Abuja

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Anambra State, Benue State, Diversity, Ejembi C. EllaNo CommentsViews:

For both the society and the individual involved, the solemnisation of marital relationship is always a welcome event at all times. This was demonstrated April 19th, 2025 when Gabriel Ella a... Read more