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NPSA, Marxist Conference Group Mourn Prof Nuhu Yaqub

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2025In: LifeworldTags: BUK, Canada, Ebira, Marxist Conference, NPSA, Okene, Political Science, Toyin Falola, UDUS, UKNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has announced the death of Prof Nuhu Yaqub. Yaqub was a former ASUU Branch Chairman, former Deputy-Vice Chancellor (DVC) at Usmanu Danfodiyo... Read more

Imagining Dr. Segun Osoba’s 90th Birthday on January 9th, 2025

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Atiku Abubakar, Bala Usman, Bola Tinubu, Chapter Two, Constitution Drafting Committee, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, IBB, IMF Conditionalities, Minority Report, Muhammadu Buhari, Ruling class, Segun Osoba, Super Permanent Secretaries, ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Although it won several battles, it lost the war. As the losing party in the grand struggle for which perspective should ground Nigeria, it is at the receiving end of the con... Read more

The Paradox of the Axe in Prof Hassan Saliu @ 62

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: LifeworldTags: BUK, David Easton, Methodology, NPSA, OAU Ile-Ife, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There’s a sense in which NPSA President, Prof Hassan Saliu’s 62nd birthday on December 22nd, 2024 shared so much with the remarkable paradox of the axe iterated i... Read more

Madam Julie Sanda, the Iron Lady, Celebrates Another Year

Posted By: adminon: December 16, 2024In: LifeworldTags: International Relations, National Defense College, NPSA, Prof A. T Gana, Prof Bjorn Beckman, Prof Istifanus Zabadi, Prof Jonah Elaigwu, Prof W O Alli, Prof. Rauf Mustapha, WINNo CommentsViews:

Prof Hassan Saliu Madam Julie Sanda, a distinguished member of our Executive Committee (EXCO) and a renowned scholar, marks another year of life. For years, we have acknowledged the under-re... Read more

Prof. Jibrin (Jibo) Ibrahim, the Scholar-Activist and a Marxist, Turns 70

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2024In: LifeworldTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Billy Dudley Annual Memorial Lecturer, CDD, CRD, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, Dr. Yusuf Bangura, General Mamman Kontagora, Marxism, Prof Bjorn Beckman, Prof Okey Ibeanu, University of Bordeaux1 CommentViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim marked his 70th birthday on December 2, 2024. He was born in 1954. I was indeed in Abuja that day, but my role as the President made it difficult... Read more

Sun Sets on Veteran Surgeon, Prof Peter Obekpa

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Alime', Hon Abutu Obekpa, Joe Akatu, Otubi, Otukpa, Rev. Cornelius BelloNo CommentsViews:

The sun has set on Prof Peter Obekpa, veteran’s veteran in surgery and proprietor of May Day Specialist Hospital in Abuja. Intervention understands that Prof Obekpa died at 1. 30 am December... Read more

A Few Hours to the 70th Anniversary of ‘History As Iconoclast’, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'Jibogram', 70th anniversary, Carl Schmitt, DEMOCRACY, Ibrahim Tahir, Left, Marxism, Modernism, ‘Polycrisis’No CommentsViews:

It is an event with all the potentials of exploding into a carnival and, in a totally unplanned manner, transform from politics into something political in the Carl Schmitt sense of the poli... Read more

Remembering Dr. Bene Madunagu

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 'linguistic turn', Biological Sciences, Dr Bene Madunagu, Dr. Eddie Madunagu, Ferdinand de Saussure, Socialist feminism, University of Calabar, WINNo CommentsViews:

That Dr. Bene Madunagu has breathed her last has been formally announced. Death brings a lot to a close for most human beings. It does for Dr. Bene but it will take generations before she fi... Read more

The NPSA Celebrates Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, the Scholar-Diplomat and Ilorin Prince at 80

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: LifeworldTags: 1999-2005, Chief Simon Adebo, DG – NIIA, First UN Under-SG and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Savannah Centre, UN Anti-apartheid Committee, WambaiNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu On 24th of this month (November, 2024), Prof. Gambari turned 80 years, having been born in Ilorin in 1944. Like I said in my earlier tributes to our senior Professors, P... Read more

Professor Sam Egite Oyovbaire, the Scholar-Politician, Double President, and Mentor, is 83

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: LifeworldTags: ABU Zaria, Amb Tunji Olagunju, Group Captain Salawudeen Olatinwo, IBB, NPSA, NSIA, Prof Adele Junaid, Prof Omo Omoruyi, UNIBENNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Hardly can one appreciate this tribute without bringing General Ibrahim Babangida administration into the centre of addressing its concerns. To start with, there are many... Read more