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  • Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 
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  • Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Empowerment Push for Creative Writers in Abuja Schools
  • Isn’t Nigeria Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea in 2027?
  • Rethinking Nigeria’s Security Architecture Through the State Police Debate
  • Why an Abuja Symposium in Honour of Dr Segun Osoba?
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How Prof Okello Oculi Unsuccessfully Persuaded Dr. Walter Rodney From Returning to Guyana

Posted By: adminon: July 31, 2025In: FlashbackTags: AU headquarters, Bala Usman, Patrick Wilmot, Prof. Bayo Olukoshi, Strategic Studies, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:
How Prof Okello Oculi Unsuccessfully Persuaded Dr. Walter Rodney From Returning to Guyana

By Prof Gani Yoroms Sometimes in March 2024 or there about, Prof Okello Oculi found himself in Bingham University, Karu where he was asking how prepared the university was in terms of establ... Read more

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The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 2nd Republic, Akwa Ibom, Bala Usman, Civil society, Claude Ake, Eskor Toyo, Left, Nigeria Police Force, NPN, Obong Victor Attah, Okonkwo, PRP, PSC, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Tennyson, UPNNo CommentsViews:
The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

By Adagbo Onoja There would be nothing wrong in calling the week (April 27 – May 2nd, 2025) the Nigeria Police week in Akwa Ibom State, the week having started with a dinner night organised... Read more

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Imagining Dr. Segun Osoba’s 90th Birthday on January 9th, 2025

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Atiku Abubakar, Bala Usman, Bola Tinubu, Chapter Two, Constitution Drafting Committee, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, IBB, IMF Conditionalities, Minority Report, Muhammadu Buhari, Ruling class, Segun Osoba, Super Permanent Secretaries, ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:
Imagining Dr. Segun Osoba’s 90th Birthday on January 9th, 2025

By Adagbo Onoja Although it won several battles, it lost the war. As the losing party in the grand struggle for which perspective should ground Nigeria, it is at the receiving end of the con... Read more

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BUKites Claim Nwabali and a Legacy of Exceptionalism

Posted By: adminon: February 14, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Abdulrazak Gurnah, ABU Zaria, ASUU, Attahiru Jega, Bala Usman, BUKites, IBK, INEC, Stanley Nwabali, Tajudeen Abdulraheem, universitiesNo CommentsViews:
BUKites Claim Nwabali and a Legacy of Exceptionalism

BUKites (graduates of Bayero University, Kano) are insistent that the exceptional (food) insecurity being experienced in Nigeria is not a good enough reason not to celebrate one of theirs wh... Read more

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Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Bala Usman, Benue State, Herdsmen violence, Islamisation, Middle Belt elite, Okwudiba Nnoli, Plateau State, Politicisation of security, Security architecture, Southern Kaduna, State failure, State policeNo CommentsViews:
Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

Just as there is to be a sigh of relief about killings especially in Benue State, Plateau and Southern Kaduna, then came the news of the killing of about 80 persons in Bokkos and Barakin Lad... 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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Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Achebe, Bala Usman, Decoloniality, IPPSS, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Postcolonial theory, Richard Ashley, Stanley Hoffmann, ‘Dissident scholars’No CommentsViews:
Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

When Intervention opened this series upon discovering that the late Bala Usman has a street named after him in Abuja, the reason given for the significance for that is that Abuja stands as a... Read more

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Recalling Bala Usman and the Misrepresentation of Nigeria (Part 1)

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Alkassum Abba, America, Asia, Bala Usman, Europe, Latin America, ‘Contraption’No CommentsViews:
Recalling Bala Usman and the Misrepresentation of Nigeria (Part 1)

“All these clamours aim at redress. But a clamour made merely at rendering the people discontented with their situation, without an endeavour to give them a practical remedy, is indeed one o... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Bala Usman, Decoloniality, History, Ibadan School of History, IMF, Prof Eskor Toyo, Standpoint epistemology, World BankNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more

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But, What is the Tinubu Imaginaire? (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 04, 2023In: SpectacleTags: 'Information and Strategy', Awo, Bala Usman, BMMC, Ife Collective, Kaduna Mafia, Laos-Ibadan financial oligarchy, NNDC, Northern oligarchy, PraetorianismNo CommentsViews:
But, What is the Tinubu Imaginaire? (2)

While we await possible explosive judicial tackles between Peter Obi’s Labour Party and Asiwaju Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress, (APC), we get on with trying to read the president – elect... Read more

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A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday
A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday

A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday

August 03, 2026
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria's 2027 General Elections
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria's 2027 General Elections

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections

August 03, 2026
Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 
Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 

Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 

August 02, 2026
Strategically Reading Beijing's Mindset in China's Blue Book Series
Strategically Reading Beijing's Mindset in China's Blue Book Series

Strategically Reading Beijing’s Mindset in China’s Blue Book Series

August 02, 2026
Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80
Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80

Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80

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