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The Coming NPSA Intervention in Nigerian Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Concentric Circle', 4Ds, Nigerian foreign policy, NPSA, Semocracy promotionNo CommentsViews:

Come March, 2024, the Nigerian Political Science Association, (NPSA) is staging a conceptual intervention in Nigerian foreign policy. A statement to that effect from Prof Hassan Saliu, NPSA... Read more

Is Yakubu Aliyu Answering General Hassan Usman Katsina’s Question?

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'News from nowhere', Abdulmalik Addy, BBC, Dr. Stanley Macebuh, General Hassan Usman Katsina, NUK, Oxford University, ‘Democracy in Action’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA It is a phenomenon to be theorised: Mallam Yakubu Aliyu’s reclusivity. Of course, he is entitled to his privacy but it is debatable if that right can be granted someone... Read more

What Should We Tell the President? (1)

Posted By: adminon: February 18, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Debt Management Office, FX management policy, market-based reforms, National Planning Commission, Public policy coordination, Special Purpose Fund, State-owned EnterprisesNo CommentsViews:

By Dr. Muhammad Sagagi There is certainly a seeming lack of policy coordination in reform implementation (both vertically-between FG and other tiers, and horizontally- within the FG itself)-... Read more

BUKites Claim Nwabali and a Legacy of Exceptionalism

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Abdulrazak Gurnah, ABU Zaria, ASUU, Attahiru Jega, Bala Usman, BUKites, IBK, INEC, Stanley Nwabali, Tajudeen Abdulraheem, universitiesNo CommentsViews:

BUKites (graduates of Bayero University, Kano) are insistent that the exceptional (food) insecurity being experienced in Nigeria is not a good enough reason not to celebrate one of theirs wh... Read more

Thinking Hard As Nigeria Reads the ‘Riot Act’ to the President

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Dislocation, IBB, Palliatives, Prof Festus Iyayi, SAP, ‘Cuwa-cuwa’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA The past two weeks has seen intense plea to the Federal Government of Nigeria to do something about the cost of living in the country. One big time player after another (gove... Read more

Locals Block Enugu – Otukpo Road All Day Over Herder – Farmer War in Agatu

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Agatu/Adoka, Benue State, Strategic Studies, ‘IdomaLivesMatter’No CommentsViews:

Self-help assumed a total blocking of the Enugu – Otukpo highway at Gbokpo in Apa Local Government Council of Benue State for much of today (February 12th, 2024). A video sent to Interventio... Read more

NPSA Intensifies Conversation on “Towards a more Workable Democratic Order in Nigeria”

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Democratic order, Nigeria's democracy, NPSANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is inviting members of the public to its 2nd Seminar Series on Nigeria’s Democracy, the theme of which is “Towards a more Workable Dem... Read more

Two Days Rethinking Democracy in West Africa in the Face of Discontent and Coups

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Armed populism', Democracy and Development, ECOWAS, Electoral accountability, France, Grounded theory, INEC, Military Vanguardism, Niger – Mali – Burkina Faso, Robert Cox, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

It was a pleasant two-day house (hotel) arrest for the purpose of a collective peer review of a potentially explosive book project on electoral accountability in Nigeria on the one hand and... Read more

Prof. Cornelius Alaba Ogunsanwo, the Calmer Marxist, Marks His 82nd Birthday

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu I first met Professor Alaba Abiodun Adeboyejo Ogunsanwo initially through his publications on International Relations that cover various aspects of the field, especia... Read more

Stop the Constitutional Coup in Senegal – African Intellectuals, Activists Tell Senegalese President

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African intellectuals, AU, Civil society activists, ECOWAS, Electoral Hub, President Macky Sall, Senegalese people, UNNo CommentsViews:

There has been a blistering rebuke for President Macky Sall of Senegal for staging a constitutional coup by sacking opposition members of parliament in that country and embarking on unconsti... Read more