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De-securitising Restructuring in Prof Alkasum Abba’s Nationalist Summoning

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: 'Historic Block', ABU School of History’, BOKO HARAM, GNU, IPOB, Yusuf Bala Usman1 CommentViews:
De-securitising Restructuring in Prof Alkasum Abba’s Nationalist Summoning

No voice can have been as shattering of narratives consciously and unconsciously embodying break-up of Nigeria as Alkasum Abba’s edict delivered last Sunday in Kano, (See Ignorance, Politica... Read more

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Nigeria Is a Failed State

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Biafra Seccessionist Movement, BOKO HARAM, Hegemon, Niger Delta, Transparency InternationalNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Is a Failed State

The debate on whether Nigeria is a failed state or not continues in the Western world. In a Foreign Affairs piece on May 5th, 2021, a Nigerian and a UK based scholar took the position that N... Read more

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Jiddari Ward Attack in Maiduguri Turns Fiasco for Boko Haram

Posted By: adminon: May 12, 2021In: SpectacleTags: BOKO HARAM, Maiduguri, Nigerian Civil WarNo CommentsViews:
Jiddari Ward Attack in Maiduguri Turns Fiasco for Boko Haram

An early evening attack on Jiddari Ward in Maiduguri town Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 turned a fiasco for Boko Haram combatants who were outsmarted by the military and killed in dozens. It is no... Read more

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Don’t Call Nigeria a Failed State

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Biafran War, BOKO HARAM, Identity problem, John Campbell, World Values SurveyNo CommentsViews:
Don’t Call Nigeria a Failed State

An article in Foreign Affairs, the Quarterly journal by the US based Council on Foreign Relations, (CFR), is going against the trajectory of predictions of Nigeria as a failed state. Rather,... Read more

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What a Week for Nigeria!

Posted By: adminon: April 02, 2021In: SpectacleTags: BOKO HARAM, NATO, Nigerian Air Force, Prof Segun OsobaNo CommentsViews:
What a Week for Nigeria!

The media should not give too much space to hopelessness but the media should also not join in creating a false sense of security. To do so is to be complicit in misleading a society. The we... Read more

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Concerned Nigerians Insist on Zabarmari Massacre As Red Line of Insecurity in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2020In: SpectacleTags: #EndSARS, 'Red Line', Anomie, BOKO HARAM, ZabarmariNo CommentsViews:
Concerned Nigerians Insist on Zabarmari Massacre As Red Line of Insecurity in Nigeria

A group of activist Nigerians that has still has no name beyond being called ‘Concerned Nigerians’ are saying that what they call ‘the most barbaric slaughter of innocent Nigerians at Zabarm... Read more

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How Soon Would the Universities Come Alive Again in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, BOKO HARAM, CONUA, IMF/World Bank, NANS, NUCNo CommentsViews:
How Soon Would the Universities Come Alive Again in Nigeria?

This is the question very few people can answer as things are today in Nigeria. The universities have been under lock and key for the past nine months. It is not clear if this is not the lon... Read more

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Revisiting the Webinar On Overcoming Boko Haram (2)

Posted By: adminon: August 26, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: BOKO HARAM, CIA, Gulf War, ISWAP, Palestinian issue, QWOTNo CommentsViews:
Revisiting the Webinar On Overcoming Boko Haram (2)

By Adagbo Onoja Dr. Fatima Akilu, the fourth reviewer at the August 19th, 2020 webinar on Raufu Mustapha and Kate Meagher’s edited work Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society and Islamic Radi... Read more

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Puzzling Survival of Nigeria’s Military Chiefs Again But How Long Can They Hold Out?

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2020In: GovernanceTags: BOKO HARAM, NSANo CommentsViews:
Puzzling Survival of Nigeria’s Military Chiefs Again But How Long Can They Hold Out?

By ordinary standard of reasoning, it is a big surprise that all the serving service chiefs in Nigeria have survived being sacked today. Earlier today, the Government itself or was it the me... Read more

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Boko Haram’s Eid El Fitr Celebration Video As Indication of Massive Decline of the Jihadists

Posted By: adminon: June 08, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: BOKO HARAM, ISIS, ISWAP, MNJTF, Sambisa Forest, Site International GroupNo CommentsViews:
Boko Haram's Eid El Fitr Celebration Video As Indication of Massive Decline of the Jihadists

By David Otto The recent modus operandi of the terrorist in Northern Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin indicates that ISIS and Al-Qaeda linked Boko Haram/JAS Abubakar Shekau led faction and Is... Read more

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