Power Game
Although the idea that the modern states-system was born in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia has been shattered especially by Benno Teschke’s thesis at the LSE now published as The Myth of 16... Read more
Abuja based NGO, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC) is asking the Director-General of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) to investigate a siege on its premi... Read more
They are very weighty claims, including naming names. But that is nothing new to the former Senate President, the Idoma born Ameh Ebute, (CON). During the June 12 Debacle, he did get Nigeria... Read more
Somewhere in Abuja, Nigeria, later this morning, Lindsay Barret, the one man encyclopedia on Nigerian affairs will be reflecting on the scenario which has been so common place of late: Niger... Read more
It is a fairly known joke in Nigerian newsrooms that only the late Dr Stanley Macebuh was used to editing Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, contrary to Soyinka’s standing order against trifling... Read more
Is it the case that the social media has displaced the traditional, (print, radio and television) in terms of what people read and what then sets the agenda? This is what Mr. Isaac Umunna, t... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki The June 6th, 2018 edition of Daily Trust carried an Editorial piece titled “Time to overhaul land tenure system”. Presumably, the editors of the esteemed newspaper... Read more
It was vintage Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, aka Jibo. That is, Jibrin Ibrahim of old, not the now more ‘mature’ (or less radical) and more tolerant, fish connoisseur of a Jibrin Ibrahim. The Jibrin... Read more
Nigeria’s reflective centres of power – academia, researchers, the media, the conflict management community and the civil society – are converging on Abuja for a book presentation draw... Read more
The public sphere in Nigeria is becoming more and more contested a space, with differing entry points and points of departure. Here, a lawyer from Koyen-Hi Kebonkwu Chambers in Wuse 5, Abuj... Read more
