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Can Science Speak to People’s Everyday Lives in Africa?

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Dr Elizabeth Rasekoala, Farrant, France, HIV/AIDS, Makunga, Mandela, Namibian, Pan-African, Professor Jill Farrant, Professor Nox Makunga, Simon Elwin, South African, Stellenbosch UniversityNo CommentsViews:

Published initially in The Conversation, (November 2, 2016) under the title “Science needs to start speaking to people’s everyday lives in Africa”, this piece By Marima Joubert When scientis... Read more

Intellectual Fury on Election Violence in Nigeria Part 1

Posted By: adminon: November 02, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: ASUU, CDS, Dr. Irene Pogoson, Engineer Nuru Yakubu, INEC, Kenya, Kofi Annan, NIPSS/UNDP, NPN, Professor Abubakar Momoh, Professor Adigun Agbaje, Professor Attahiru Jega, Professor Ikelegbe, Professor OBC Nwolise, Professor Okey Ibeanu, TEI, Tunji Adesina, VAWENo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja If we follow those who say that intellectuals sing our world into existence because value free science is nonsensical, then the bloom of ideas at Nigeria’s The Electoral Inst... Read more

An Agricultural Intervention:

Posted By: adminon: November 02, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), Agriculture, Aper Aku, Benue State, cargo airport, Gov Samuel OrtomNo CommentsViews:

“I read a report in The Guardian newspaper of 31st October that the Benue State Government is planning to construct a cargo airport at a staggering cost of N38billion. “And what is the cargo... Read more

History in Nigerian Schools, But What Manner of History?

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa, APC, Bala Usmans, Bola Tinubu, CHINA, CNN, Europe, George Kwanashie, Ibadan, Joseph Inikori, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, Mallam Adamu Adamu, Monday Mangvat, Muhammadu Buhari, Okibe Sam Eza, Sule Bellos, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria has just restored the teaching of History in schools, five years after it was taken off in favour of Civics. The decision was the outcome of pressures, pressure informed by a belief... Read more

Who Succeeds Margaret Chan as WHO Leader? Asks Lyndal Rowlands

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: AIDS/HIV, CHINA, Dr David Nabarro, Dr Flavia Bustreo, Dr Miklós Szócska, Dr Sania Nishtar, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ebola, Esperanza Martinez, Ethiopia, France, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Hungary, ICRC, IPS, Italy, Lyndal Rowlands, Margaret Chan, Norway, Pakistan, Professor Philippe Douste-Blazy, Sierra Leone, Susannah Sirkin, Syria, tuberculosis, UN, WHO, ZikaNo CommentsViews:

Written and published originally by Inter Press Service News Agency, (IPS) under the title “Who Should Lead the WHO Next?”, the author pries into the question of successor of Dr Margaret Cha... Read more

Wulu, Wulu & Idoma Iconography in Bongos Ikwue’s Music

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, African, Bongos Ikwue, British, Christians, Ella Kunaga, French, Greek, IDOMA, Michel Foucault, Middle – Belt, Muslims, NIGERIA, OtukpoNo CommentsViews:

Bongos Ikwue is about complexity, about fluidity and about the impossibility or uselessness of classification. You cannot be charged for calling him a musician because he makes music and mus... Read more

‘National Soul on Fire’

Posted By: adminon: October 29, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: Dr Maikanti Baru, FGN, Niger Delta, NIGERIA, NNPCNo CommentsViews:

“Over 7000kpd of crude oil has been lost due to vandalism this year. A bulk of the loss is from JV assets…This implies that 60 per cent of oil production lost is NNPC-FGN equity. At an estim... Read more

11th FRCN Annual Lecture: Obadiah Mailafia and the Long Shadows of the Sardauna of Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: October 29, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: AU, Bishop Gabriel Ganaka, Dr Aminu Yusuf Usman, Dr Obed Mailafia, Dr Yima Sen, Facebook, FRCN, Google, Kaduna State, Kannywood, Lai Mohammed, Mohammadu Buhari, Nollywood, Samson Shuaib, Sardauna, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sokoto State, UN, Yakubu LameNo CommentsViews:

It was a case of the Sardauna of Sokoto and only Premier of the defunct Northern Nigeria is dead but long live the Sardauna last Thursday at the 11th Annual Lecture of the Federal Rad... Read more

Parting Shot: Kwararafa Owns Nigeria – Jukun Leader Jibrin Amfani

Posted By: adminon: October 28, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Aku Uka, Borno State, Cameroun, Chad, Dr Shekarau Angyu Masa Ibi Kuvyon II, Gov Darius Ishaku, Kwararafa Empire, Niger, Sokoto State, Taraba State, UMBC, WukariNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Later today in Taraba State, someone who was not a state official at the point of death would receive a state burial. That would suggest a lot about his place in popular cons... Read more

Nuhu Ribadu, Obed Mailafiya, Others Fight Corruption at FRCN 11th Annual Lecture

Posted By: adminon: October 27, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Alhaji Nuhu Ribadu, Dr Mansur Liman, Dr Obed Mailafiya, DSS, EFCC, FRCN, General Abdulsalami, Lai Mohammed, Mohammed Buhari, Police, Samson ShuaibuNo CommentsViews:

Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has says corruption is all that is wrong with Nigeria. He compares corruption to the termite and... Read more