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Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy, BOKO HARAM, Borno State, CORRUPTION, Neoliberal economic reforms, Post 9/11, Sovereignty, The Nigerian StateNo CommentsViews:
Pitfalls of ‘Governed’ and ‘Ungoverned’ Spaces in Analysing Security in Nigeria

By Hussaini Abdu (Ph.D) “Governance … has been turned into a mad rush to empty the treasury for private use. This means the core business of governance has disappeared for decades, and the o... Read more

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NALS Unpacks “The Changing Nature of Academic and Intellectual Freedom in Africa”

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Academic freedom, Africa, Dialogue series, NALSNo CommentsViews:
NALS Unpacks “The Changing Nature of Academic and Intellectual Freedom in Africa”

“The Changing Nature of Academic and Intellectual Freedom in Africa” is the subject matter the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NALS) is inviting all who care to bear witness to its unpacking Ma... Read more

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NPSA Offers A Package of Actions on Reasserting Nigeria in the World

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Democracy in Nigeria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NPSA, People's Republic of China, US, west, West Africa1 CommentViews:
NPSA Offers A Package of Actions on Reasserting Nigeria in the World

Deeply disturbed by its own unpacking of how Nigeria looks on the global stage today, the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is putting on the table a set of ideas by which Nigeri... Read more

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“Critique of the Gotha Programme” and the Nigerian Condition

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Class, Communist Manifesto, Free Market capitalism, Marx, ‘Restructuralists’No CommentsViews:

By Usman Sarki “General historical circumstances are stronger than the strongest individuals”, Georgi Plekhanov The Gotha (Unity) Congress met in Germany from May 22 to 27, 1875, to fashion... Read more

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Communique of HUMINT, WRAPA, NAWOJ, PLAC and PAAC Sokoto Workshop

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: ANWE, DEMOCRACY, Gender, HUMINT, Journalism, MacArthur Foundation, NAWOJ, PAAC, PLAC, Sokoto, WRAPANo CommentsViews:
Communique of HUMINT, WRAPA, NAWOJ, PLAC and PAAC Sokoto Workshop

Reproduced below for the interest of researchers on gender and democratisation is the communique from a 2-day capacity building workshop for women journalists. It was organised by HUMINT in... Read more

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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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