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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:
Akinyemi, Nigeria and the ‘New’ World Order

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

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

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

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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’s Fireworks on the Civil Society

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

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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:
Civil Society as a Condition for Good Governance in Nigeria

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

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Towards Reconstructing Civil Society in Nigeria: An Apptitudinal Appraisal of Democracy, Freedom and Liberty

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Australia, Civil society, Civilisations, Europe, Nation building, New Zealand, NIGERIA, Shehu Usman Dan FodioNo CommentsViews:
Towards Reconstructing Civil Society in Nigeria: An Apptitudinal Appraisal of Democracy, Freedom and Liberty

By Ambassador Usman Sarki My thesis is that the state and government in Nigeria should primarily be concerned with protecting and supporting civil society in its entirety by first aligning t... Read more

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Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, APC, Asia, CHINA, Cuba, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Fourth Republic, Francis Fukuyama, Illiberalism, Iran, Latin America, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East, MKO Abiola, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more

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Civil Society, Democracy and the Contemporary Nigerian Condition

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Barbarism, Civil society, Civilisation, Institutions, Rule of lawNo CommentsViews:
Civil Society, Democracy and the Contemporary Nigerian Condition

By Ambassador Usman Sarki The ideas of civil society or civic humanism as earlier proposed by Niccolo Machiavelli, James Harrington, John Locke, Adam Ferguson, Baron de Montesquieu, David Hu... Read more

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‘The People’ Goes to the Capitol

Posted By: adminon: June 30, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Capitol, DEMOCRACY, DONALD TRUMP, Populism, The mobNo CommentsViews:
'The People' Goes to the Capitol

Prof Lasse Thomassen, one of Europe’s rising stars in political theory, particularly in Deconstruction, offers in the piece below an incisive clinic on democracy at a time democracy is emitt... Read more

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Emi Lokan: Between Elite Political Settlement and the Real Politik of Individual Ambition

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: BAT, June 12 annulment, MKO Abiola, Odua, UN, World War 111No CommentsViews:
Emi Lokan: Between Elite Political Settlement and the Real Politik of Individual Ambition

By E. Remi Aiyede  “I don’t think any person in Nigeria today of 200 million people, can say this is my turn. Now, it is never your turn. Even if you want to say it is the turn of the people... Read more

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Conceptualising Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Diplomacy, Monsieur Callieres, Russia, Ukraine, WARNo CommentsViews:
Conceptualising Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

By Ambassador Usman Sarki There is the need to define the parameters of the concepts of foreign policy and diplomacy as they relate to the practical conduct of inter-state relations. While p... Read more

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