Language and crisis go together. There is now the word ‘courtocracy’ in the Nigerian universe of usage. It was never there before. On April 17th, 2024, that will be one word whose operationa... Read more
Memorialisation can be such a slippery act, especially if it has got to do with the abduction of the Chibok school girls and messy handling of it. If they are not memorialized, it would amou... Read more
The democratic space in West Africa has not been a smooth one of recent. It has been defined by one coup after the other, most if not all of them emitting high voltage rhetoric against Franc... Read more
By Sylvester Odion Akhaine I am 60 today. I have decided to share my reflections on my journey so far and the lie of the Nigerian state. I could recall aspects of the Civil War years. The t... Read more
Just imagine the likeness. Someone from Akwa Ibom meets someone from Benue State and they are to become husband and wife. There is everything good in that: one of the best means of diffusing... Read more
There is now an opportunity for students/researchers of the radical movement (and moments too?) in Nigeria. Such students/researchers from the social sciences can submit a proposal which if... Read more
This piece by the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is published in full to give readers the benefit of a complete text Preamble Nigeria is in the throes of a governance crisis t... Read more
By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The University of Ife, now OAU, holds a lot of significance for the study of International Relations in Nigeria. It was from there that the discipline has spread to o... Read more
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria is providing the platform for a potentially explosive entry into national security analysis. On April 16th, Nigeria’s Prof Jibrin Ibrahim will be de... Read more
The late Chief Uloko Okoko may not have been one of the regular names we encountered in the newspapers but he ought to have been in the media regularly. It is for no other reason than that h... Read more
