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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

The Coming UNILAG Convocation!

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Attahiru Jega, Decoloniality, First Class, Toyin Falola, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

The 54th Convocation of one of Nigeria’s first generation universities – the University of Lagos (UNILAG) – is at hand. There is a sense in which this Convocation seems not like... Read more

Unhooking NIPR from the Path of Jacobinism

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 'linguistic turn', Adekeye Adebajo, Barry Buzan, Bolaji Akinyemi, Jacobinism, NIPR, Officer, Patrick Dele Cole, Raufu Mustapha, Soldier, Stanley Macebuh, Wittgenstein, ‘Empire of signs’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) is circulating a memo to military chiefs and other security agencies to press its case against what it calls “the appointmen... Read more

Seun Salako Dies @ 64

Posted By: adminon: January 09, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'University on the Wheels', UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Comrade Seun Salako, generally known as cool and calm Comrade is no more. He went to sleep on January 6th but did not wake up in the morning of 7th as expected. His death has left many disco... Read more