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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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Living Through Another Great Transformation…A Review

Posted By: adminon: July 30, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Britain, Eric Hobsbawn, Industrial Revolution, Labour, Land, Market economy, Marx, Poor Laws, Ricardo, Smith, ‘Fictitious commodities’No CommentsViews:
Living Through Another Great Transformation…A Review

By Branko Milanovic Polanyi’s Great Transformation is one of these famous books whose ideas have been so absorbed into social sciences that the books themselves are no longer read. This woul... 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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On Sierra Leone’s Election into the UN Security Council

Posted By: adminon: June 07, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Britain, France, Kurt Waldheim, Republic of China, Russia, Salim Ahmed Salim, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, UNSC, USNo CommentsViews:
On Sierra Leone's Election into the UN Security Council

By Yusuf Bangura Sierra Leone was elected into the UN Security Council June 6th, 2023. That is as a non-permanent member. The UN Security Council is composed of 15 members—five (US, Russia,... Read more

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Europe Begins Reparations to Africa @ Last as Germany Pays Namibia $1.3bn for Colonial Aggression

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Britain, CNN, France, Germany, Herero, Namibia, Portugal, RwandaNo CommentsViews:
Europe Begins Reparations to Africa @ Last as Germany Pays Namibia $1.3bn for Colonial Aggression

 Europe is turning on itself on its colonial baggage by paying for colonial crimes. Although this wave is beginning with Germany recognising and paying for genocidal annihilation of the Here... Read more

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Veritas University and the Peace-Development Nexus

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2017In: BookspaceTags: ABU - Zaria School of History, Britain, Catholicism, Centrpiece of Nigerias foreign policy, CHINA, Halford Mackinder, Ibadan School of History, Peace-Development Nexus, Realism, USANo CommentsViews:
Veritas University and the Peace-Development Nexus

By Adagbo ONOJA A conference on Peace and Development in Nigeria by a centre backed by a university is bound to occupy a striking presence on the radar of those who, perforce, have to mainta... Read more

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Britain’s New African Empire

Posted By: adminon: August 28, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, Britain, Dr Zuma, Mr Matt PascalNo CommentsViews:
Britain’s New African Empire

By Mark Curtis  This is a much travelled piece. Initially published in Huffington Post under the title, “Britain’s New African Empire” on July 26th, 2016, it was republished in Lusaka Times... Read more

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