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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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With Professors Like Them

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Conflict reporting, Critical thinking, Department of English, Enlightenment fairy tales, International political theory, Journalism, Mass Communication, NUC, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
With Professors Like Them

By Adagbo Onoja It is not totally new. Aside from Abiodun Adeniyi at Baze University Abuja, there is Ladi Sandra Adamu, the feminist warrior at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof Sambe... Read more

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Italian Ambassador to Nigeria Goes to NIIA Forum August 20th, 2024

Posted By: adminon: August 16, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: African hegemon, Diplomatic, NATO, NIIANo CommentsViews:
Italian Ambassador to Nigeria Goes to NIIA Forum August 20th, 2024

What might a prosperous member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) offer a potentially great but struggling African hegemon? This is the question the Nigerian Institute of Inter... Read more

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