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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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Why the PDP Vice-Presidential Cap Fits Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State – Atiku Abubakar

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: No CommentsViews:
Why the PDP Vice-Presidential Cap Fits Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State – Atiku Abubakar

“In arriving at the decision, I held wide consultations with various stakeholders in our party including our Governors, National Working Committee, Board of Trustees, and other leaders to se... Read more

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An Absence Of Developmental Politics

Posted By: adminon: June 14, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: "Yes we can", APC, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Claude Ake, Democracy and Development, PDPNo CommentsViews:
An Absence Of Developmental Politics

By Ike Okonta It was the late Claude Ake, one of Africa’s foremost political economists, who observed in his book ‘Democracy And Development in Africa’ that Africa remained underdeveloped be... Read more

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The Ill-fated Goat

Posted By: adminon: June 08, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Apiti’s Goat, CSP, Development, First Lady, Koko Local Government Council, PANo CommentsViews:
The Ill-fated Goat

Lagos lawyer and writer makes a literary intervention in the crisis of mission circumscribing elite leadership and politics in Nigeria, well, Africa if you like! By Chiemeke Onyeisi “Power h... Read more

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Building Universal Social Protection Systems for All: What Role for Targeting?

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: COVID-19, ILO, Targeting, USP2030No CommentsViews:
Building Universal Social Protection Systems for All: What Role for Targeting?

The piece below is considered a very comprehensive and well written review/critique of the recent World Bank’s report on targeting. The authors are Shahra Razavi, Christina Behrendt, Valeria... Read more

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Ashiwaju Tinubu As Buhari’s Unique Opportunity to Transcend Typicality

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: 1 CommentViews:
Ashiwaju Tinubu As Buhari’s Unique Opportunity to Transcend Typicality

It is good that President Buhari has not spoken in direct reply to Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu’s Abeokuta outpouring last Thursday. To that extent, the president has a unique opportunity to go beyo... Read more

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