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
By Prof Farish A Noor Decolonisation argument continues to generate debates around it, with the author of this – a Historian at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Mal... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja Has February 25, 2023 got much to do with June 12, 1993 in Nigerian politics? This is the same as asking if History repeats itself or if the social world is a matter of the p... Read more
It is as if the intelligentsia in Nigeria found something in April 13th, 2023 to re-stage the 2023 General Elections all over again. That was the day the Nigerian Institute of International... Read more
The Nigerian Political Science Association is widening the scope of its intervention in the contest of discourses. Aside from its on-going Lecture Series on the 2023 General Elections which... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura Finland’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation yesterday, 4 April, will surely rankle Russia, given the 1,300 kilometres of land the two countries share. One... Read more
