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Happy Easter, Losers, Christianity is Not About Success!

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 'Alcoholics Anonymous', Archbishop of Canterbury, Christianity, Church of England, Evangelical/Catholic/Liberal Church, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jesus Christ, Organised goodness, Renewed humanity, ResurrectionNo CommentsViews:
Happy Easter, Losers, Christianity is Not About Success!

Giles Fraser, a journalist, broadcaster and Vicar of St Anne’s, Kew lets us into a critical insight into Christianity in the piece below as reproduced from Unherd.  The ridder says that succ... Read more

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Preface to a Bumper ‘Edition’

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2027, Change Makers, Hegemony, Inaugural Lecture, Justice James Ogebe, Prof NnoliNo CommentsViews:
Preface to a Bumper 'Edition'

Intervention is opening to post just a few materials strictly as a concession to two birthday celebrants. One is Justice James Ogebe at 85 while the second is Professor Okwudiba Nnoli. Each... Read more

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Pursuing Happiness is a Waste of Time

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Cambridge, Happiness, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Philosopher-at-large. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, University of SouthamptonNo CommentsViews:
Pursuing Happiness is a Waste of Time

UK based Prospects magazine from whence this was reproduced introduced Sasha Mudd as its philosopher-at-large. An assistant professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Mudd is... Read more

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Liberalism won’t survive 2025

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 21st century, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Stammer, Liberalism, Trump, UKUSNo CommentsViews:
Liberalism won’t survive 2025

… Cold War ideologies are dead By Aris Roussinos It is an odd feature of America’s political system that the drawn-out handover of power from one ruler to his successor takes place ove... Read more

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This Pregnancy is Mine

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Agbon, Akhigbemen, Cathedral, Distant skies, DNA, Ekata, Emacuta, Hosanna, Idialu Vs Okonofua, Marriage, Modernity, Uhuru Summit, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “advanced life”No CommentsViews:
This Pregnancy is Mine

By Sylvester Odion Akhaine As you approach the village of Emacuta, through a pathway barely wide enough to accommodate the passage of an automobile and flanked with wild bushes wearing a cro... Read more

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10th NASS’s Critical Constitutional Conversation in Kano

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 1999 Constitution, Chapter Two, Federalism, Gender equity, Kano, NASS, Rotation, State police, The economyNo CommentsViews:
10th NASS’s Critical Constitutional Conversation in Kano

By Adagbo Onoja The September 27th – 28th Retreat of the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution has come and gone. But it so fulfils the wisdom about a nation being an eve... Read more

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What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Afenifere, Arewa, Brazil, Britain, Cuba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Ijaw National Youths Congress, India, Japan, Middle Belt Forum, Nation building, NELSON MANDELA, Ohanaeze, Ruling class, Singapore, South-South Forum, USA, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

By Prof Festus Iyayi It is another independence anniversary and time to turn to Prof Festus Iyayi for an idea of what and where Nigeria should be by now and whose responsibility it is to tak... Read more

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IRIAD, The Electoral Hub Advocate Renewed Commitment to Democratic Principles in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 17, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 2024 International Day of Democracy, Civil liberties, Edo, INEC, IRIAD/The Electoral Hub, OndoNo CommentsViews:
IRIAD, The Electoral Hub Advocate Renewed Commitment to Democratic Principles in Nigeria

Ahead of off-cycle governorship elections in Nigeria’s Edo and Ondo states, the Abuja based Initiative for Research, Innovation and Advocacy in Development (IRIAD) and The Electoral Hub are... Read more

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Combating Eurocentrism, Reinscribing Imperialist Cartography in African Scholarship

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Eurocentrism, Hegemony, Postcolonialism, Posthumanism, PoststructuralismNo CommentsViews:
Combating Eurocentrism, Reinscribing Imperialist Cartography in African Scholarship

Reproduced from E-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS where it was originally published, this piece argues against the observable hostility to the ‘posts’ family among African scholars, pointing out the... Read more

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Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:
Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

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