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The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 2nd Republic, Akwa Ibom, Bala Usman, Civil society, Claude Ake, Eskor Toyo, Left, Nigeria Police Force, NPN, Obong Victor Attah, Okonkwo, PRP, PSC, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Tennyson, UPNNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There would be nothing wrong in calling the week (April 27 – May 2nd, 2025) the Nigeria Police week in Akwa Ibom State, the week having started with a dinner night organised... Read more

Would a Liberal Pope Split the Church?

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Catholic Church, Conservatives, Liberals, NUNS, Pope Francis, The VaticanNo CommentsViews:

By Dan Hitchens Electing a new Pope is the item number 1 on the agenda of power and faith in world politics today. Below is an opinion on which of the tendencies in the Catholic Church would... Read more

Prof Linda Kwon-Ndung, the Amazon, Adds Another Year to Her Age

Posted By: adminon: March 24, 2025In: SpectacleTags: History Project Committee of NPSA, Nasarawa State University, Political economy, UNFPA, USAID/COMPASSNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Female members of the NPSA are very few. This stark reality confronted us recently when we were planning to organize a methodology workshop for our female members. In on... Read more

Justice James Ogebe (rtd) and Prof Okwudiba Nnoli as Questions

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 9/11, CORRUPTION, ethnicity, Fantasy, Knowledge/power, Okello Oculi, Supreme Court, Things Fall Apart, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Saturday March 21st, 2025 happened to be the 85th and 86th birthday anniversary of two Nigerians who are eminent in different ways. One is Justice James Ogebe, a retired Just... Read more

Marxism’s Ultimate Counter Offensive in ‘The Sage Handbook of Marxism’

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Africa, African universities, Antonio Gramsci, CIA, Critical theory, Deconstruction, Ernesto Laclau, Hegemony, Jacques Derrida, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Peronism, Poststructuralism, theoryNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The months of December 2024 and January 2025 can be ceded to the tribe of Marxists in Nigeria as their months. Prof Bene Madunagu was buried January 18th, 2025. She is a Marx... Read more

Why You Probably Aren’t Washing Your Towels Often Enough

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Cardiff University, Fungi, India, Japan, Salmonella, Shigella, Simmons University Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community in Boston, The Global Hygiene Council, The International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

BBC Essentials List makes an issue of a habit that many might not have accord that seriousness By Grace Tyrrell The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbe... Read more

Prince Abel Bolanle: When the Stranger Became a Native in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Benue Polytechnic – Ugbokolo, Breaking Nigeria, ESSU, Holy Rosary College - Adoka, Mt St Gabriel’s – Makurdi, Mt St Michael Secondary School – Aliade, Pa Ishaiah Falola, SBS – Ugbokolo, St Francis College - Otukpo, Ugbokolo, WASCNo CommentsViews:

The Ugbokolo community in Edemoga District of Okpokwu LGA in Benue State of Nigeria might be teaching Nigeria how to make strangers become natives. It is doing so by staging a special mourni... Read more