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Gaza and the Rest of Us

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Africans, Asians, Gaza, Israel, Joseph Conrad, Latin Americans, Palestine1 CommentViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki It is a forlorn hope and an unattainable dream to expect the West to conduct its affairs according to the impulse of humanity and principles of humanizing behaviour... Read more

Intervention Replies ‘Query’ on General TY Danjuma Story

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: ABU Zaria, Awoism, Black scorpion, General T. Y. Danjuma, Grid, Henry Kissinger, IBB, Northern intelligentsia, OBJ, Samuel Huntington, T Y Foundation, Zikism, ‘Jack’No CommentsViews:

Intervention thanks all those who have raised questions on the story titled Theophilus Danjuma Does It Again, But….. The TY story in question is one of the mysteries of the audience of... Read more

Henry Kissinger Dies @ 100

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2023In: LifeworldTags: 'Liberal World Order', Geopolitics, Harvard, Joseph Nye, President Xi Jinping, Princeton, US foreign policy, USSR, ‘Old friend’No CommentsViews:

The world has lost one of the most influential theorist and practitioner of foreign policy in the 20th and 21st century. He is Dr Henry Kissinger, a former American Secretary of State. Befor... Read more

Faces From Swearing-in of Nigeria’s 8 Newest Technocrats

Posted By: adminon: November 28, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: FEC, Permanent Secretary, Renewed Hope Mandate, Service deliveryNo CommentsViews:

They are eight in all: Ndakayo-Aishetu Gogo, Adeoye Adeleye Ayodeji, Rimi Nura Abba, Bako Deborah Odoh, Omachi Raymond Omenka, Ahmed Dunoma Umar, Watti Tinuke, and Ella Nicholas Agbo. ‘They’... Read more

Anglophone Escapes Africa’s Current Coup Wave As Sierra Leone Arrests Coup Leaders

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: British West Africa, ECOWAS, French West Africa, President Julius Maada Bio, Sierra Leone, USNo CommentsViews:

The authorities in Sierra Leone says it has arrested the leaders of a security breach that started early Sunday, November 26th, 2023 with troops attacking a major armoury obviously to captur... Read more

Amb Nicholas Ella, Nura Rimi As a Window on 8 New Perm Secs in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Africa, CHINA, Egypt, Gen Joe Garba, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, Henry Kissinger, India, London, Nigerian foreign service, Nigeria’s neighbours, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, US1 CommentViews:

Correction It has become necessary to correct two impressions created by this story, based on calls from readers. (1) This story did not imply that Ambassadors Nicholas Ella and Nura Rimi ar... Read more

Theophilus Danjuma Does It Again, But …

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Frame game, Noble generosity, T Y touch, UI, University, World classNo CommentsViews:

General T Y Danjuma, the multiple identity Nigerian billionaire, has done it again in noble generosity. He has doled out the hefty sum of nearly a million and half US dollars to the College... Read more

Dr. Iyela Ajayi and the Challenges of Senior Secondary School Education in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2023In: BookspaceTags: CRF, NBTE, NCCE, NSSEC, NUC, Professor Benjamin Abakpa, TETFund, UBECNo CommentsViews:

By Saleh Bature It is an open secret that senior secondary education in Nigeria suffers neglect for rather too long. The rot in the sector is mind-boggling and unimaginable. The question on... Read more

Let the truth be told?

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Colonialism, DONALD TRUMP, Dr Obed Mailafia, Ezeulu, Hegel, Hegemony, IDOMA, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Prof Stuart Hall, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja This is one of the commonest phrases we hear or read from those who write. It is not clear why it is so freely used even when no truth claim has been able to establish... Read more

From Non-linear Tracking of Empire With a Question

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Critic, Critical, Critique, Empire, Entanglement, International Relations, Non-linearity, Opposition, Quantum social theory, ‘Officially Permitted Madness’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It is incredible how International Relations (IRs) is busy breaking down all the ‘China Walls’ and expanding into diverse realms of knowledge production, from the ‘linguistic... Read more