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The Complexity of Selecting a Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria And How to Fix It

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2021In: SpectacleTags: NIGERIA, Transparency, Vice-ChancellorsNo CommentsViews:

Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju Appointment of vice-chancellors is problematic in some Nigerian universities. Some universities in Nigeria are in crisis over the selection of vice-chancellors. From I... Read more

The Gumi-Obasanjo Back Channel Text

Posted By: adminon: April 04, 2021In: SpectacleTags: No CommentsViews:

Full Text of Joint Statement of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Gumi at the Visit of the Latter to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Sunday, April 4, 2021 As part of... Read more

What a Week for Nigeria!

Posted By: adminon: April 02, 2021In: SpectacleTags: BOKO HARAM, NATO, Nigerian Air Force, Prof Segun OsobaNo CommentsViews:

The media should not give too much space to hopelessness but the media should also not join in creating a false sense of security. To do so is to be complicit in misleading a society. The we... Read more

The Africa Report’s Damning Scorecard for President Buhari’s Six Years in Power

Posted By: adminon: March 24, 2021In: SpectacleTags: CORRUPTION, Kidnapping, Lackluster, Vast spacesNo CommentsViews:

Scoring the typical African leader can be a slippery terrain. The framing game going on over the late President John Magufuli of Tanzania raises the matter to the highest level of complexity... Read more

Imagining Yusuf Bangura in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Gani Fawehinmi, Geneva, Imagination, Technology fix, westNo CommentsViews:

This may be regarded as another classic case of where the personal becomes the social. That Geneva based Sierra Leonean political economist, Dr. Yusuf Bangura, fell sick last Thursday (March... Read more

The Nigerian State is Currently Conquered and Occupied – Prof Attahiru Jega

Posted By: adminon: March 14, 2021In: SpectacleTags: AAIN, Independent EMBs, INEC, Liberal democracy, Rule of lawNo CommentsViews:

By Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, (OFR) Introduction In the philosophical and ideological traditions of the western liberal democracy, which Nigeria emulates, the primary responsibilities of the S... Read more

NIPSS Holds Farewell Session for Late D-G, Prof Habu Galadima

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Human security, Nigerian Exceptionalism, NIPSS, Political Science, Publius, UNDP, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

Over two dozens of intellectuals of statecraft around and about the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS) held a session today in honour of its departed Director-Gener... Read more

Workers and Management of ShopRite Chain in Nigeria in a Make Or Mar Negotiation

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2021In: SpectacleTags: CHINA, De-industrialisation, Labour laws, Shoprite chain, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

The stage is set for what might be the mother of all negotiations today between the workers and the management of high profile shopping chain – Shoprite in Nigeria. Things fell apart and the... Read more

Gunmen Assassinate Chief Terkura Suswan in Nigeria’s Benue State

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 'Gana', Agatu, LogoNo CommentsViews:

News of violence is seeping out of Benue State in central Nigeria again. This time, it is that of Chief Dr. Terkura Suswan, elder brother to Senator Gabriel Suswan, a former Governor of Benu... Read more

Might What Seems Another Round of ‘Shock Therapy’ Be Worse in Abuja Today?

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Abuja-Bwari, NNPC, Shock therapy’No CommentsViews:

The cover picture is how it was yesterday between 7 – 10 am at the Tipper Garage in Dutse on Abuja Bwari Road as caught by Intervention. The queue for fuel at the petrol station on the junct... Read more