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Omotoye Olorode: Theoretician, Intellectual and Revolutionary Extraordinaire

Posted By: adminon: April 28, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 1st Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Babangida, Marxism, Marxist Youth Movement, NLC, OSUA, Prof Olorode, The weapon of theoryNo CommentsViews:

Ahead of the event later today on, about and around Prof Toye Olorode of Nigeria, Omolade Adunbi, another Nigerian and a Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States ser... Read more

‘It is the Bale himself’

Posted By: adminon: April 27, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Bale, General, Oyo Empire, Peter EkehNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja This is an abridged version of a 2007 column. It has been edited to reflect current concerns. Although Nigeria has not experienced a transition anarchy in the magnitude of wh... Read more

Now, the Poser About Adamu Baikie And A. J. Adeka for Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 22, 2021In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, Nasarawa State University, Odu of Otukpo, Sabon Gari - Kano, University of Benin, University of LesothoNo CommentsViews:

In “Adamu Baikie As a Flashback to History”, Intervention read an old picture of two gentlemen who made it big in qualitative life in terms of the past. In this segment, their lives is turne... Read more

Worrisome Violence in Imo, Ebonyi and Benue States

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2021In: SpectacleTags: 'Never Again', Reuben ZiriNo CommentsViews:

It is not the level of violence that anybody can be indifferent to. Collectively, they send the most potent signal that all is not well with the polity and the consequences could go in any d... Read more

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