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What Should We Tell the President? (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Advisory Committee, Council of Economic Advisors, Economic Management Team, FAAC, Foreign Portfolio and Direct Investment flows, The CFA/Naira rateNo CommentsViews:

By Dr. Muhammad Sagagi “The President must be told that these combative postures and potentially destructive actions of state actors will create more uncertainty in the business environment... Read more

NPSA Cracks Parliamentary or Presidential System of Government Question in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Civil society, Left, National Assembly, NPSA, Opposition. Substantive democracy, Parliamentary system, Presidential systemNo CommentsViews:

It is debating time again in Nigeria regarding the most appropriate system of government for the country. The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) in whose intellectual sphere of in... Read more

Nigeria’s Prof Olufemi Taiwo to ‘Knock’ Decolonisation @ Sussex Development Seminar March 13th

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Coloniality of power', Decoloniality, IDS, Imperialism, Prof Olufemi TaiwoNo CommentsViews:

The coloniality of power (the structure, mechanisms, processes, regimes and models of the world order) which serves as the condition of possibility for imperialism is a settled issue. What i... Read more

How Universities Killed the Academic

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Academic culture, Free speech, Philosophy, University, “technological conservatism”No CommentsViews:

Although this piece originally published in Unherd is more applicable to UK academic culture where the ‘wolf warrior” of a critic is basically endangered, it is entertaining as well as worth... Read more

When Former NANS Leaders Turned Cecelia Abashi’s Burial to a Trip Into History

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2024In: LifeworldTags: BUK, College of Education -Akwanga, June 4th, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, MAAS, NANS, Nasarawa Eggon, NLC, Olisa Agbakoba, UNILAG, University of Calabar, ‘Democratic centralismNo CommentsViews:

It was the burial of one of their own. For Cecelia Abashi was not a radical by association with the late husband, Chris Abashi. She was the personification of radicalism – stubborn in... Read more

As NLC Steps Into Hardship Protests in Nigeria, Exposing President Tinubu’s Paradoxes

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Adams Smith, Bono, CD, Civil society, DA, Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s subsidy regime, Empire, Gramsci, NANS, NLC, Oxfam, SCON, The Economist, ‘Who Elected Oxfam?’No CommentsViews:

Barring last minute cancellation or postponement or similar surprises, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) is rolling out its affiliates at last for a test of strength against the Tinubu admi... Read more

President Tinubu’s Populist Escape Route from Niger – Mali – B/Faso – Guinea Diplomatic Misadventure

Posted By: adminon: February 24, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Anti-imperialism, Burkina Faso, Culture, ECOWAS, Emotions, Foreign powers, History, Language, Mali, Memories, National interest, National security, Niger Republic, Power, Psychoanalysis, Russia, Songhai Empire, Sovereignty, WARNo CommentsViews:

The doctrine of ‘news following the flag’ compels the contribution of whoever is in a position to do so towards a sharp course-correction away from what has clearly been a major... Read more