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My Benin Republic ECOWAS Election Observation Mission (EOM) Experience, Lessons for Nigeria’s 2023 Elections

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Aminu Kano Centre for Democratic Studies, Bayero University - Kano, Benin Republic, Bimodal Voter Accreditation Systems, Commission Electorale Nationale Autonome, ECOWAS Election Observation Mission, Nigeria’s 2023 General Elections, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, ‘Cotonou’ or “Tokunbo” carsNo CommentsViews:

By Habu Mohammed The Context Until January 5th, 2023, all I knew about Cotonou was that it is the capital city of Benin Republic from where ‘Cotonou’ or “Tokunbo” cars and limousines are imp... Read more

Presidential Candidates in Nigeria’s February 2023 Election to Appear on NIIA Platform

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Chatham House, Critical International Relations, Domestic priorities, Foreign policy, NIIANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) is opening its own platform for presidential aspirants to upload the foreign policy lenses. It is not clear if the theme of “The world... Read more

What Has This Thoroughfare Got to Do With February 2023 in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, CHINA, Peter Obi, Radical development idiom, Zoning1 CommentViews:

The cover picture and subject matter of this piece comes from China. It was used by even a non-Nigerian newspaper to illustrate the coming emptiness of streets in China in the wake of its de... Read more

Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, 100 Years After

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Alternative modernities, Critical race theory, Derridean deconstruction, Eurocentrism, Foucaultian genealogy, Frankfurt School, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Postcolonial theoryNo CommentsViews:

It is 100 years of Frankfurt School which gave the world what is known in social theory today as ‘Critical Theory’ (different from critical theory which is much more plural). The world of sc... Read more

Could Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo Have Died of Heart Attack?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Benue State University, Emmanuel Secondary School – Ugbokolo, History, Och'Idoma of Idoma, Prof Robert Armstrong, University of Maiduguri, ‘Lamb Tales from Shakespeare’, ‘OdejoNo CommentsViews:

It is possible that Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo died of heart attack, Intervention has been told. Death did not oblige him much room for preparations. This is not a medical opinion but fits i... Read more

‘Reading’ One of PLA’s Newest Commanders in Town

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Beijing, Delhi, DRC, International Security, Islamabad, Moscow, PLA, Stanley Macebuh, The New York Times, Ukraine, Washington1 CommentViews:

The cover picture that hits our eyes here is that of General Huang Ming, the new commander of the People’s Liberation Army, (PLA)’s Central Theatre Command. That’s the guy in cha... Read more

Jacinda Ardern, the Fall of a Nice Girl and the Lesson in That

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Christchurch terrorist attack, Family, Free sex, Free speech, Hegemon, International Union of Socialist Youths, South Pacific1 CommentViews:

What lessons might be in the resignation of Jacinda Adern as Prime Minister of the South Pacific nation of New Zealand, especially for those who live far away from that part of the world? T... Read more

Memories of Chief Joe Oroye, One of Nigeria’s Photographer’s Photographers

Posted By: adminon: January 10, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Funmi Aderinto, Media Trust, Philosopher-photographers, Pius Ekpei, Umoru IbrahimNo CommentsViews:

Thanks to Funmi Aderinto who must be a daughter or goddaughter of the late Chief Joe Oroye, the ace photographer at Media Trust Ltd, publishers of Daily Trust and sister publications, all th... Read more

‘The Vision of the Eagle is Not Always a Guide to the Dove’

Posted By: adminon: January 10, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Agbor, Criminals, Delta State, General Obasanjo, Maiduguri, Sokoto1 CommentViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq It should be our individual and collective prayers not to give up on the country; Nigeria is still worth dying for in all its beauty and ugliness even with the rapacious... Read more

Would Mouktar Abashi Advance to be Recognised?

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Chris Abashi, Fine Arts, James Audu, Mohammed Suleiman, NANS, Poetry, Radio Kaduna, Thompson Adanbara, TY Danjuma FoundationNo CommentsViews:

There are three reasons why he should manifest himself or take manifesting himself seriously. One, as the son of a former president of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students,... Read more