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Can the Nigerian Military Reply Asari Dokubo?

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Asari Dokubo, Niger Delta, Nigerian Armed Forces, President Bola Tinubu, Sudan, ‘Egungun’No CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq The Presidential Villa, the Aso Rock has turned to a Mecca of a sort since the swearing in of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with groups and individuals getting in there t... Read more

Nigeria Insists On Urgent WHO Listing of Noma on Its NTD

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, Dakar, MSF, NIGERIA, Noma, NTD, Sokoto, Tropics, WHONo CommentsViews:

Nigeria is plugging into global health governance with the case for the declaration of Noma disease as one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Ni... Read more

Radicals Mobilising for Trouble With Tinubu Government in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Counter-language, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Energy price hike, HegemonyNo CommentsViews:

Might this be the calm before the storm in Nigeria? A major indication suggests that the activists might be warming up against the brand of capitalist direction President Bola Tinubu is pilo... Read more

An Inspector-General of Police @ a Time Like This!

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: #EndSARS, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Giwa, Paris School of Security Studies, Soyinka, Sunday Adewusi, ‘Disco criticism’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja President Bola Tinubu is still playing the appointments card by which Nigerians tend to judge the direction of an incoming president. So far, his score card is not reading ba... Read more

An Open Letter to President Bola Tinubu on the President As His Own Minister for Education

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2023In: BookspaceTags: ASUU, BOKO HARAM, Cadinal Onaiyekan, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dele Alake, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, General Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Ayo Olukotun, Prof Claude Ake, Senator George Akume, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

Dear Mister President, Permit me, Mister President, to cut off the congratulations from this epistle. Apart from Cardinal Onaiyekan’s moratorium on that, (about which Senator George Akume ha... Read more

Will Ojapiano, Kcee’s Amazing New Sound, Become a Music Genre or Sub-genre of Afrobeats?

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Afrobeats, Amapiano, Asake, Burna boy, Davido, Igbos’ Oja, Kcee, Limba, Ojapiano, SOUTH AFRICA, Tems, Yoruba DundunNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura In his new hit single Ojapiano, which is taking TikTok and the African music scene by storm, Kcee combines amapiano (currently South Africa’s most popular music genre) and t... Read more

Who Will Save Dr John Owoicho Adole?

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2023In: LifeworldTags: ABU Zaria, Benue State, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Historiography, UNIJOS, UNILAG, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:

It is not clear what is ailing Dr. John Owoicho Adole. Whatever it is, the former Permanent Secretary and an Associate Professor of History is in need of much more serious attention than the... Read more

The New Grammy Award For Best African Music Performance Still Fails to Recognise The Wide Variety of African Music Genres

By Yusuf Bangura The decision on 14 June 2023 by the Grammys to add an African category to their yearly awards is an improvement on the grouping of African music under the all-encompassing a... Read more

For the Attention of Nigerian Foreign Policy Mandarins

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Academia, Achebe, Canada, Coloniality of modernity, Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Neorealism, SADF, SIIA, Summitry, The military, The Presidency, Things Fall Apart, Traditional diplomacy, UmofiaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja These two books have not been written for Nigerian foreign policy but it would be surprising if they do not form the training manuals for the assemblage associated with formu... Read more

Official Sleaze and the Politics of Petroleum Subsidy

Posted By: adminon: June 10, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: America, Asian Tigers, Europe, Fuel subsidy, NNPC, President Bola Ahmed TinubuNo CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq Nigeria has four refineries. They are managed by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) which is a government subsidiary. All four refineries are moribund. Nobod... Read more