The only difference between this and the previous version is the headline. Readers have rejected the previous headline and it stands changed. All other things about this deeply interesting i... Read more
“All these clamours aim at redress. But a clamour made merely at rendering the people discontented with their situation, without an endeavour to give them a practical remedy, is indeed one o... Read more
My Facebook culture is still of a disordered nature and I could have missed Prof Moses Ochonu’s approving comments on the piece “The Araba Hip-hop of Idomaland As a Challenge for Okanga 1 of... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki “The due arrangement of men in the active part of the state, far from being foreign to the purposes of a wise Government, ought to be amongst its very first... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA The musical messaging under review here, in spite of its overt aim, is the powerful creativity locked in the production. So powerful it compels one to, instinctively, shuffle... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki “Every age has its own manners, and its politics dependent upon them”, Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 Contemporary manners in Nigeria are amorphous, brittle... Read more
October 1st, 1979 and May 29th, 2023 may, on the face of it, share nothing in common. But, in Nigeria’s struggle for democracy, they do. October 1st, 1979 was when the military first d... Read more
For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more
Intervention is still not out of trouble with the establishment of Nigeria’s People’s Redemption Party (PRP). Earlier today, Prof Attahiru Jega, a party mandarin, disagreed with the in... Read more
BY JOSÉ ERNESTO NOVAEZ Marxist researcher and the intellectual plenipotentiary, Vijay Prashad, can always be trusted to smartly stand with orthodoxy but creatively advocate tactics of strugg... Read more
