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Let the truth be told?

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Colonialism, DONALD TRUMP, Dr Obed Mailafia, Ezeulu, Hegel, Hegemony, IDOMA, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Marx, Prof Stuart Hall, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
Let the truth be told?

  By Adagbo Onoja This is one of the commonest phrases we hear or read from those who write. It is not clear why it is so freely used even when no truth claim has been able to establish... Read more

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Democracy in Danger – The Economist

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: American democracy, ANC, Asia, Britain, Conflict, Coups, DONALD TRUMP, India, KMT, Rwanda, Taiwan, Vladmir PutinNo CommentsViews:
Democracy in Danger – The Economist

Intervention thought and still thinks that, for a country such as Nigeria which has made a career of heckling every president and political leaders at all levels for rigging, nepotism, corru... Read more

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Our Position – NPSA

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: 'Roofoo', Alienation, Diarchy, Ibadan School of Political Science, NPSA, Prof Larry Diamond, Richard AshleyNo CommentsViews:
Our Position - NPSA

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The NPSA is a principled Association that guides jealously its guardian role in the society. Partly because of  not being accused of partisanship, we maintain a digni... Read more

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Why NPSA Should Not Tremble Before Its Powers

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: 'Roofoo', Alienation, Ibadan School of Political Science, NPSA, Richard AshleyNo CommentsViews:
Why NPSA Should Not Tremble Before Its Powers

By Adagbo Onoja In every crisis situation, there is a big role for critics. But there is an even bigger role for those who come up with plausible ways out of the crisis. Coming up with plaus... Read more

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The Tinubu Overflow of Afro-optimism

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Afro-optimism, Languaging, RhetoricNo CommentsViews:
The Tinubu Overflow of Afro-optimism

There is no debate about it that President Bola Tinubu has unleashed so much domestically and he is being fought on all sides. But in the statement quoted below, he has entered a different t... Read more

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Ladi Bala Best Fit for NAWOJ Presidency, Says Campaigners

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Beijing + 35, Ladi Bala, NAWOJ, Plot of land in Abuja, Presidential presence, Women and mediaNo CommentsViews:
Ladi Bala Best Fit for NAWOJ Presidency, Says  Campaigners

No image reader would deny that she has the most facial and overall presidential presence. But power anywhere in the world, more so in Nigeria, requires more than a great figure. Not the lea... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Stages Lecture on the Nigerian Conflict

Posted By: adminon: November 08, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Bala Usman, FASS, Grand thesis, Nigerian conflictNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Stages Lecture on the Nigerian Conflict

The fusion of the global and the local in the 21st century makes necessary to situate most developments in that context. That is exactly what Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria’s famous Fa... Read more

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Intervention is Back from a Weeklong Breakdown

Posted By: adminon: October 24, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: No CommentsViews:
Intervention is Back from a Weeklong Breakdown

Intervention is happy to announce it is back. It has been down since the evening of October 14th, 2023. The breakdown chose the week Mr. Ogunlade, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adepentane),  ... Read more

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When the Spokesperson of Arewa Consultative Forum is a Radical

Posted By: adminon: October 05, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: ACF, Afenifere, Articulatory politics, Hegemony, J. S Tarka, Mallam Aminu Kano, Middle Belt Forum, NIPR, Ohanaeze, Prof Tukur Baba, Sir Ahmadu Bello, The NorthNo CommentsViews:
When the Spokesperson of Arewa Consultative Forum is a Radical

By Adagbo Onoja Prof Tukur Baba’s emergence as spokesperson for the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) will make news on two key grounds. First ground is the how crisis communications is,... Read more

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The Left is Losing the Climate Class War

Posted By: adminon: September 25, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: 'The End of Affluence', 'The Population Bomb', British Petroleum, Free market environmentalism, Malthusianism, Neoliberalism and technocracyNo CommentsViews:
The Left is Losing the Climate Class War

The earth is in revenge that human beings have exhausted its carrying capacity. Ice is melting. Ocean level is rising. Floods, storms, desertification and what have you are overwhelming, for... Read more

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