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Public Official As Public Intellectual

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Edward Said, MKO, NANS, O’dua People’s Congress, Paul Baran, Young Men Christian AssociationNo CommentsViews:

In December 2022, Mallam Salihu Lukman, a former president of the NANS that Nigerians know, turned 60. On July 25th, 2023, it was the turn of Bamidele Opeyemi, another former president of NA... Read more

The Ene Ede Moment?

Posted By: adminon: July 19, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Baobab Rights, First Lady, Maryam Babangida, Nigerian Women Hall of Fame, Toun OkewaleNo CommentsViews:

Is this the Ene Ede moment? No. Not yet her moment. Her moment is on its way. This is just the beginning but it is a significant beginning because it is not one of these false events typical... Read more

Bringing the Mediatisation of Africa Into Raymond Dokpeshi’s Death

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Achebe, African cosmologies, Aljazeera, Arise News, Brazil, Global citizenship, India, Mass Communications, Mazrui, Mbembe, Mudimbe, NIGERIA, Nigerianism, NUC, Popular culture, TrustNews, TVCNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There is a point about the late Raymond Dokpeshi warranting this tribute. Otherwise, his associates and all those who interacted with him closely have said all that ought to... Read more

OTUWA Condoles Guinean Labour Movement On Death of Foremost Woman Labour Leader, Comrade Rabiatou Serah Diallo

Posted By: adminon: July 04, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Ancestors, CNTG, Comrade Sekou Toure, Guinea, ITUC, OTUWA1 CommentViews:

The Organization of Trade Unions of West Africa (OTUWA) is mourning Comrade Rabiatou Serah Diallo, the Guinean labour leader it says has broken many glass ceilings in her country and interna... Read more

Witness to the Wedding of Ra’ida Abdulqadir, the Conqueror

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Borno State, Delta State, Islam or Christianity, Maiduguri, North, South, University of MaiduguriNo CommentsViews:

We never get to know a person until a certain thing happens. This is the story of this Kano-Borno-Delta girl but who is now an eaglet Madam. There was a time Maiduguri town became uniquely d... Read more

Countdown to Senator Franca Afegbua’s Homeward Journey

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2023In: LifeworldTags: ''Most Favoured Person' status, Afegbua family, Ahmadu Bello University Press, Edo State, First female senatorNo CommentsViews:

If she did not carry herself as a rarity when she was alive, that must have been a gesture of modesty rather than lack. Otherwise, she was and remained a rarity. She had physical beauty whic... 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

ESSU Old Students on the Legacy of Rev Fr Timothy Njoku Ahead of His Burial

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Bigard Memorial Seminary - Enugu, Congregation of Missions, Messrs Ekwueme, Rev Father Vincent O’Brien, St. Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary - Makurdi, Vincentian Family, YCS, ‘Altar Boy’No CommentsViews:

There is no debate about it that without the Catholic Church or the missionaries, broadly speaking, the story of education and elite production from areas such as Idomaland in the old Benue... Read more

Henry Kissinger, …—Still at Large at 100

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Bob Woodward, Cambodia, Carl Bernstein, Gulf wars, Kissinger Associates, Laos, Nixon, Seymour Hersh, Vietnam, WatergateNo CommentsViews:

Henry Kissinger has been so dominant a figure in foreign policy that the views on him can range from the most friendly to the most hostile. Unlike the one Intervention published recently, th... Read more

Alexander Joseph Amedu: An Eulogy to a Friend

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2023In: LifeworldTags: CBN, Distinction, Dr Shamshudeen Usman, First Class, Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi 11, Middle – Belt, Mount St Michaels Secondary School, NLC, Owukpa, Prof Charles SoludoNo CommentsViews:

By Comrade John Odah Thirteen years ago, Alexander Joseph Amedu contributed a chapter to a book of tributes on me when I turned 50. In Amedu’s piece on my turning 50, he recalled his coming... Read more