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Sun Sets on Veteran Surgeon, Prof Peter Obekpa

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Alime', Hon Abutu Obekpa, Joe Akatu, Otubi, Otukpa, Rev. Cornelius BelloNo CommentsViews:

The sun has set on Prof Peter Obekpa, veteran’s veteran in surgery and proprietor of May Day Specialist Hospital in Abuja. Intervention understands that Prof Obekpa died at 1. 30 am December... Read more

A Few Hours to the 70th Anniversary of ‘History As Iconoclast’, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Jibogram', 70th anniversary, Carl Schmitt, DEMOCRACY, Ibrahim Tahir, Left, Marxism, Modernism, ‘Polycrisis’No CommentsViews:

It is an event with all the potentials of exploding into a carnival and, in a totally unplanned manner, transform from politics into something political in the Carl Schmitt sense of the poli... Read more

On Sokoto State Governor’s Clampdown on His Critic, Hamdiyya Cidi Sherif

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Disease, Drug abuse, Governor Dan Alu, Ignorance, insecurity, Jasiri Channels on YouTube, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Sokoto StateNo CommentsViews:

By Saleh Bature Before the debut of the video in which she criticised Ahmed Ali Dan Alu, the governor of Sokoto State, the 18-year-old Hamdiya Cidi Sherif was an obscure local Tik Tok villag... Read more

Three Big Take-aways From An African Family Trip to Namibia, Botswana, Cape Town and Addis Ababa

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Black lives, Botswana Democratic Party, Christianity in Ethiopia, Decolonisation, Ethiopian sense of independence, Ethiopia’s imperial grandeur, High African entrepreneurship in Ethiopia, Namibia, Oromia, Rural Botswana, The Adwa Victory Memorial, Tswana ethnicityNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura A few days ago, we talked about the uniqueness of each of the four countries we visited and the amazing people that made our tour enjoyable. We want to conclude these refle... Read more

Remembering Dr. Bene Madunagu

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'linguistic turn', Biological Sciences, Dr Bene Madunagu, Dr. Eddie Madunagu, Ferdinand de Saussure, Socialist feminism, University of Calabar, WINNo CommentsViews:

That Dr. Bene Madunagu has breathed her last has been formally announced. Death brings a lot to a close for most human beings. It does for Dr. Bene but it will take generations before she fi... Read more

The NPSA Celebrates Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, the Scholar-Diplomat and Ilorin Prince at 80

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 1999-2005, Chief Simon Adebo, DG – NIIA, First UN Under-SG and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Savannah Centre, UN Anti-apartheid Committee, WambaiNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu On 24th of this month (November, 2024), Prof. Gambari turned 80 years, having been born in Ilorin in 1944. Like I said in my earlier tributes to our senior Professors, P... Read more