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Yet, Another World University Ranking Without Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, Claude Ake, Egypt, First Class, MOROCCO, SAP, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:
Yet, Another World University Ranking Without Nigeria

It has been another season of world University ranking but in none of which any Nigerian university made the first 500. The ranking industry is confronting considerable criticisms because it... 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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Firework Expected at Presentation of Francis Agbiti, Naval Brass Hat’s Biography July 11th, 2024

Posted By: adminon: July 11, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'African Pride', Claude Ake, Max Weber, The militaryNo CommentsViews:
Firework Expected at Presentation of Francis Agbiti, Naval Brass Hat's Biography July 11th, 2024

Remember Francis Agbiti? The last time he was in the news was over the Naval Ship, ‘African Pride’ in 2005. He had, of course, been in the news as the Nigerian Defence Attache in India about... Read more

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The MetaTinubu Game and the Fuel Subsidy Decision

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Awoism, Claude Ake, Dangote, elite fragmentation, First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, Fuel subsidy, Simulation, Stalinism, UPNNo CommentsViews:
The MetaTinubu Game and the Fuel Subsidy Decision

By Adagbo Onoja There are Nigerians who must go beyond whether President Tinubu is a good or a bad phenomenon, Nigerians who must be more concerned with managing the phenomenon in such a way... Read more

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Richard Umaru Reacts to Intervention, Says He is Contented, Fulfilled

Posted By: adminon: January 06, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Bala Usman, Balarabe Musa, Claude Ake, Lawal Batagarawa, National Party of Nigeria, olusegun Obasanjo, People’s Redemption Party, Sunday AwoniyiNo CommentsViews:
Richard Umaru Reacts to Intervention, Says He is Contented, Fulfilled

Richard Umaru, a member of the ideologues behind the Balarabe Musa Government in Kaduna State of Nigeria in the Second Republic says he is contented and proud of his contributions to the str... Read more

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The Victory of Tragedy in Richard Umaru @ 70

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Bala Usman, Balarabe Musa, Claude Ake, Lawal Batagarawa, National Party of Nigeria, olusegun Obasanjo, People’s Redemption Party, Sunday Awoniyi1 CommentViews:
The Victory of Tragedy in Richard Umaru @ 70

It is victory of tragedy when a Richard Umaru writes on his Facebook page on his 70th birthday that he has gathered no moss. It must be tragedy because the reference to moss in the single se... Read more

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An Absence Of Developmental Politics

Posted By: adminon: June 14, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: "Yes we can", APC, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Claude Ake, Democracy and Development, PDPNo CommentsViews:
An Absence Of Developmental Politics

By Ike Okonta It was the late Claude Ake, one of Africa’s foremost political economists, who observed in his book ‘Democracy And Development in Africa’ that Africa remained underdeveloped be... Read more

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Bene Madunagu @ 74 and the Travails of Radical Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 21, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Claude Ake, HDI, NGOs, WIN, ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’No CommentsViews:
Bene Madunagu @ 74 and the Travails of Radical Politics in Nigeria

The socialist world outlook is the most elevated paradigm for peaceful co-existence any and everywhere in the world. Nowhere else testifies better to this than the Scandinavian countries whe... Read more

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A Scholar’s Oppositional Insight into President John Magufuli of Tanzania Who Died Yesterday

Posted By: adminon: March 18, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Claude Ake, Hilary Clinton, Jakaya Kikwete, Karl Marx, Old Testament, Socialism, The World BankNo CommentsViews:
A Scholar’s Oppositional Insight into President John Magufuli of Tanzania Who Died Yesterday

By Adagbo ONOJA There is a sense in which this interview violates the norm against talking bad about the dead but the interview was granted and published when the now late Tanzanian presiden... Read more

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Celebrating, in the Critical Tradition, With Prof Gabriel Egbe

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Bala Usman, Billy Dudley, Canada, Claude Ake, Dele Awojobi, Eskor Toyo, Global Governance, International Relations, Private universitiesNo CommentsViews:
Celebrating, in the Critical Tradition, With Prof Gabriel Egbe

By Adagbo Onoja The private universities remain a debate in Nigeria. For one, they are more in number than the public universities but their share of the total, annual admission figure is st... Read more

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