It was to be expected that each stage of Prof Peter Obekpa’s rites of passage was bound to be emotionally involving. He has bonded across too many frontiers, from the inter-personal to... Read more
… Cold War ideologies are dead By Aris Roussinos It is an odd feature of America’s political system that the drawn-out handover of power from one ruler to his successor takes place ove... Read more
By Chris Antigha On August 6, 2024, one of the icons of the struggle for social justice passed away and was buried on December 28, 2024. The life and times of Comrade Amah Thomas Amah, in a... Read more
The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) is set to centralise intellectualising the idea of the diasporic community as an instrument of (Nigerian) foreign policy. Come January... Read more
Prof Hassan A. Saliu In October 1951, a baby was born in the hilly town of Okene, Kogi State. One week after, he was given a name that was to be significant in Nigeria. The baby was Prof. Nu... Read more
The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has announced the death of Prof Nuhu Yaqub. Yaqub was a former ASUU Branch Chairman, former Deputy-Vice Chancellor (DVC) at Usmanu Danfodiyo... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura I’ve been reflecting on three issues since we returned from a two-week trip to Nigeria three weeks ago. Before that visit, I had not been to Nigeria for 14 years. My last vi... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Although it won several battles, it lost the war. As the losing party in the grand struggle for which perspective should ground Nigeria, it is at the receiving end of the con... Read more
The spectre of violence haunting Benue State in central Nigeria since January 2016 is far from receding as eleven new persons have been reported killed in a new year onslaught. The site of v... Read more
In this piece, Dr Yusuf Bangura, a co-editor of a book on selected works of Prof Jibrin Ibrahim provides a foretaste of the broth. Those who have had the privilege of reading this text elsew... Read more
