Words and World | Intervention

Presidential Candidates in Nigeria’s February 2023 Election to Appear on NIIA Platform

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Chatham House, Critical International Relations, Domestic priorities, Foreign policy, NIIANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) is opening its own platform for presidential aspirants to upload the foreign policy lenses. It is not clear if the theme of “The world... Read more

The Good News From the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN)

Posted By: adminon: December 22, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: 'CNN Effect', Abidjan, Addis Ababa, FRCN, Johannesburg, NAN, NIIA, NTA, VONNo CommentsViews:

It doesn’t appear to have enjoyed great hailing in Nigeria but it is a truly positive development in terms of nationalist enactment of Nigeria. The development under reference is the News Ag... Read more

‘A Thief and His Apprentice’ Combine Elements From Dickens, Iyayi, Shaw and even Achebe – Reviewer

Posted By: adminon: December 16, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Chief Gbonka, Englishes, IBB, Nigerianisms, Synagogue Temple, United Thieves Club, ‘Ochanja’ marketNo CommentsViews:

Book Review Title: A Thief and His Apprentice Author: Onyeisi Chiemeke Publishers: Maroon Square Year of Publication: 2022 Number of Pages: iv – 185 Reviewer: Chijioke Uwasomba The Nigerian... Read more

Between Higher Order Learning and Technical Skills

Posted By: adminon: December 06, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: 'Dichotomization', 'Hierarchisation', 'Zombified', ASUU, Eugenicism, FG, Humanities, Maldevelopment, Pan-Africanists, Posthumanism, Sciences, Underdevelopment of Africa1 CommentViews:

Those who thought that they have won the debate on pedestrianizing the university system in Nigeria have got another thing coming. Not if other academics join Prof Abu Ali in reinforcing the... Read more

My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Lewis Obi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Concord, New Nigerian, NIIA, Popular culture, The Guardian, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:

A crisis of deadline makes it absolutely impossible for me to do justice to the ‘order’ that I elaborate on Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s A Farewell to Policy which I have been accused of over-rati... Read more

Open Letter To Nigerian Youth

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, 'Japa', 'Sore Soke', Gen Ibrahim Babangida, Moshood Abiola, NCNC, Zikist MovementNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta You call yourselves the ‘Japa’ generation. And quite rightly! Nigeria at present is a mess politically, socially and economically and you want to migrate to Europe and North Am... Read more

Akinyemi, Nigeria and the ‘New’ World Order

Posted By: adminon: November 06, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NIIA, Popular culture, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The misery index for the average Nigerian has, irrespective of what official statistics might be saying, been so high in the past decade as to compel attention to the theory... Read more

Can Peter Obi Make It in Nigeria?: A View From Cameroon

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africans, Aso Rock, NIGERIA, Peter Gregory ObiNo CommentsViews:

Rev. Elangwe Namaya One literary scholar stated as he weighed and assessed the political trends in Nigeria regarding the forthcoming elections: “The quest for PVC (Permanent Voters Car... Read more

Prof Attahiru Jega’s Fireworks on the Civil Society

Posted By: adminon: July 19, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Associational life, Civil society, Nation-state, The market, the stateNo CommentsViews:

Prof Attahiru Jega, the last but one National Chairperson of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) and Bayero University, Kano political scientist would wish to sit down and... Read more

Civil Society as a Condition for Good Governance in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 19, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Civic humanism, National character, Nothingness, Politics1 CommentViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki The redeeming feature of civil society is its humanizing effect on both the citizens and the state, with the assurances of the provision of adequate recourse to jus... Read more