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Few Defective Factory Products Or a Flood of Fake Rechargeable Fans into Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Asian Tigers, C. J. Electronics Superstores, CHINA, East Asia, Jikwoyi, LG outlet, Nigerian salesmen, RechargeableNo CommentsViews:

Is it a case of few factory defective products that came as part of a huge bulk from East Asia and which somehow found their way into the market or is it a case of large scale injection of f... Read more

The Asiwaju Imaginary and Daniel Bwala’s Dilemma

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Atiku Abubakar, Barrister Daniel Bwala, Brig-Gen Giwa Amu, NEPU-PRP, OBASANJO, Sirte, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Intervention started its reportorial attention on the incipient Tinubu Presidency by forewarning the coming of a constructivist into power. Some deformed structuralists took... Read more

Professor Osisioma B C Nwolise, The Crusader for Spirituality, is 74

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Billy Dudley, NPSA, Prof Ayo Dunmoye, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Prof Pam Dung Sha, Prof Saliu, Prof Sam Egwu, Prof Sule-Kano, Prof. Shuaib Ibrahim, Professors Asisi Asobie, UI, UNILORINNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu In furtherance to my submission on the categorization of scholars made last year (2023), I want to add that another group exists and has gained recognition to the exi... Read more

CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 'Rise of the Rest', Africa, APC, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Dr. Julius Nyerere, Fair system, Keke- NAPEP, Lee Kuan Yew, Party School, PDP, PPI/IPSNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The frightening powerlessness of all the centres of power in Nigeria in facing down equally frightening indicators of the catastrophic compels us to be interested in any and... Read more

Celebrating Nigeria’s Guardians of Freedom, Honouring Her Veterans and Fallen Heroes

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2024In: SpectacleTags: AFN, AFRDC, Internal Security Operations, Nigerian Civil War, World warsNo CommentsViews:

By Brigadier-General Sani Kukasheka Usman (rtd) mni, fnipr The celebration of the Armed Forces holds significant historical importance worldwide. Originally, the Armed Forces w... Read more

NPSA Releases 2024 Calendar, With Restructuring a Major Attraction

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2024In: SpectacleTags: After Hegemony, Institutionalists, NPSA, Restructuring, StructuralistsNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is out with a calendar of its commitments for the first half of the year 2024. A statement from the Secretariat and signed by Secretary, Dr... Read more

Indian Foreign Affairs Minister to Speak @ NIIA

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: GovernanceTags: CHINA, Global agenda, Global South, India, NIIA, westNo CommentsViews:

The global agenda is in a flux. The much talked about ‘liberal international order’ is unravelling. The world is experiencing what most scholars of world politics would call hegemonic succes... Read more

Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Islamisation, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Theatre for Development, UINo CommentsViews:

By Professor Oga Steve Abah* Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a humbling experience for me to stand here on this Memorial event to talk about a colleague I knew and worked with for decades. It is... Read more

Plagiarism is Not a Sin: Claudine Gay’s Failure was Intellectual, Not Moral

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Harvard, MIT, Neri Oxman, Plagiarism, Prof Claudine Gay, University of PennsylvaniaNo CommentsViews:

The orthodoxy in academia is capital NO to plagiarism. But, in the essay below, Kathleen Stock who is introduced as a columnist for UnHerd; author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for... Read more

Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Bala Mohammed, Bauchi humanism, Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Ibrahim Tahir, Islamisation, NEPU, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sa’adu Zungur, Theatre for Development, UI, Wole Soyinka, ‘radical tradition in Northern Nigeria’No CommentsViews:

The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more