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Can the Labour Movement Rescue Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Aliko Dangote, ASUU, Ayuba Wabba, BOKO HARAM, Joe Ajaero, NLC, NUPENG, PENGASSAN, Socialists, TUCNo CommentsViews:

Can the Labour Movement Rescue Nigeria? By Andy Wynne Originally published under the title “Mass Strikes in Nigeria: Is Austerity Taking Its Toll?”, this piece provides an incisi... Read more

The Secret of the 1914 Amalgamation – Comrade Reuben Ziri

Posted By: adminon: January 25, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'Inevitability of Instability', 'Nupe About Turn', ABU, Alhaji Turi Mohammed, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre - CISLAC, Community Action for Popular Participation - CAPP, James O'Connel, New Nigerian, Northern establishment, Prof Jerry Gana, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:

The Secret of the 1914 Amalgamation – Comrade Reuben Ziri By Adagbo ONOJA There is a sense in which Reuben Ziri is a study in contradictions. When he entered the Department of History at Ahm... Read more

Cracking General Olusegun Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics, (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Atiku Abubakar, Charismatic leadership, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, General Gowon, General TY Danjuma, Goodluck Jonathan, OBJ Primacy in Nigerian politicsNo CommentsViews:

Cracking General Olusegun Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics, (Part 2) By Adagbo ONOJA In the face of widespread belief that former president Obasanjo is the architect of the fail... Read more

Herdsmen Raid Leaves One Dead and Transformer Razed in Opiddlo, Benue State

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Edumoga, Mrs Veronica Ogwuche, Ojapo, Okpale-Ogege, OpiddloNo CommentsViews:

Herdsmen Raid Leaves One Dead and Transformer Razed in Opiddlo, Benue State An early morning raid on Opiddlo Village in Edumoga District of Okpokwu Local Government Area in Benue State of Ni... Read more

Cracking General Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: January 23, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'Eye of Time', Awujale of Ijebuland, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Dr Ibrahim Tahir, Machiavelli, Prof Isawa Elaigwu, Prof Mvendaga Jibo, Prof Sam Oyovbaire, TY Danjuma, Wole Soyinka, Yakubu MohammedNo CommentsViews:

Cracking General Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics By Adagbo ONOJA At a time when the sources of the subjective requirements for rebuilding Nigeria are still indeterminable, the... Read more

Back to Presidential Health Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 1995 Political Conference, Abacha, Abubakar Rimi, ATIKU, Goodluck Jonathan, IBB, Northern consensus candidate, Rotation of power principle, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

Back to Presidential Health Politics in Nigeria Coming shortly after a Lagos lawyer’s recent claim that President Muhammadu Buhari is so sick as to have sublet his mandate to a cabal, the pr... Read more

The Rise of the Others in a Deeply Divided World

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'Rise of the Rest', Edumoga, Fareed Zakaria, Governmentality, OrwyNo CommentsViews:

The Rise of the Others in a Deeply Divided World In a deeply divided world and very unequal national societies, the rise of the Other of the powerful is always an event. When Brazil, Russia,... Read more

Is a Food Crisis Still Impending in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Army worms, Audu Ogbeh, Bandits, Egypt, Famine, Financial Times of London, Food crisis, Garba Shehu, International Strategic Studies Association, Kebbi, Lake Chad, Libya, Mali, Mercenaries, Migrants, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, Saddam Hussein, Sudan, Terrorists, The Guardian, Toby LanzerNo CommentsViews:

Is a Food Crisis Still Impending in Nigeria? Nigeria has been inundated with alerts and alarms over risk of famine since September 2016. Is it the case that the best possible arrangements to... Read more

Nigerian Army Changes Tactic on Suicide Bombers

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2017In: Policy & GovernanceTags: 'Strategic logic of suicide terrorism', Brigadier-General Sani Kukasheka Usman, Robert Pape, University of ChicagoNo CommentsViews:

Nigerian Army Changes Tactic on Suicide Bombers The Nigerian Army is widening its encirclement of residual Boko Haram operations with particular reference to suicide bombers. It is promising... Read more

Agatu and the De-escalation of Herdsmen Violence in Nigeria Even as the Nigerian Air Force is mounting aerial surveillance around Southern Kaduna where the Nigeria Police as well as the mili... Read more