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Comrade Amah T Amah – A Salute to Gallantry and the Struggle for Social Justice

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Bassey Ekpo Bassey, Bene Madunagu, Chima Ubani, Ebony Okpa, Edwin Madunagu, Louis Edet, MPN, NANS, Prof Eskor Toyo, Prof Okon Uya, PYMN, UNICAL, UNNNo CommentsViews:

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

NIIA Intellectualises Diasporic Community As An Instrument of Nigerian Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: January 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Canada, Diasporic community, France, Israel, Nigerian foreign policy, NIIA, People's Republic of China, UKNo CommentsViews:

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

Professor Nuhu Omeiza Yaqub, the Marxist Scholar and Mentor, at 73

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ASUU, Marxist scholar, NIIA, NSIA, OFRNo CommentsViews:

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

NPSA, Marxist Conference Group Mourn Prof Nuhu Yaqub

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2025In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Canada, Ebira, Marxist Conference, NPSA, Okene, Political Science, Toyin Falola, UDUS, UKNo CommentsViews:

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

Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Afrobeat, Cashless economy, CBN, Fuji, Highlife, Idanre in Ondo State, POS, Poundo, Private industrialists, Smoked shrimps, The Wheat Trap, Village Market, Yar’Adua Conference CentreNo CommentsViews:

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

Imagining Dr. Segun Osoba’s 90th Birthday on January 9th, 2025

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Atiku Abubakar, Bala Usman, Bola Tinubu, Chapter Two, Constitution Drafting Committee, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, IBB, IMF Conditionalities, Minority Report, Muhammadu Buhari, Ruling class, Segun Osoba, Super Permanent Secretaries, ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:

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

11 Feared Dead in Herder-Farmer Clash @ Abande, Nigeria – Cameroon Border Town

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: 'Operation Whirl Stroke', Agatu, Banditry, Cameroons, Commander-in-Chief, Herder – Farmer violence, Katsina Ala, Kwande, National security establishment, NIGERIA, Rural areas, Strategies of containment, Zaki BiamNo CommentsViews:

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

Identity, Authoritarianism and Democracy: An Introduction to Jibrin Ibrahim’s Scholarly Works on Politics in Nigeria

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

Prof Cecil Blake @ 80 Symposium Promises a Counter-Hegemonic Articulation of Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 27, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Imaginative Geographies', African communication scholarship, Counter-hegemonic articulation of Africa, Deconstruction, Prof Cecil Blake, Prof Edward Said, Prof Umar Pate, TropesNo CommentsViews:

Rarely have African communication scholarship paid adequate attention to deconstruction of the tropes which constitute what Prof Edward Said calls ‘imaginative geographies’ and by which hege... Read more

Bingham University Set to Crack Instability Under Democratic Setting in Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Australia, Bingham University, Cultural pluralism, DEMOCRACY, Ghana, Instability, SOUTH AFRICA, The HagueNo CommentsViews:

Bingham University on the outskirt of Abuja in Nigeria has set aside March 5th to 8th, 2025 for an international conference on “political instability and the crisis of development in Africa.... Read more