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Nelson Mandela’s Long Developmental Walk Through CDD-WA to Nigeria’s Shaddai Community

Posted By: adminon: July 17, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 2026 Mandela Day, CDD-WA, Development, Kuje Area Council, Shadadi Community, Shadadi LGEA Primary School, UNNo CommentsViews:

Though long dead, Nelson Mandela still exercises symbolic power on development across Africa. The latest material evidence for the claim came alive today (17/07/20260 when CDD-West Africa ma... Read more

Bingham University Holds International Conference on Climate Change and Insecurity April 2026

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Climate Change, Conflict, Crisis of Governance, Development, Diplomacy, insecurity, NAM, PEACE, Plural Studies, Political instability, South- South, TerrorismNo CommentsViews:

Bingham University in Karu, near Abuja, Nigeria is keeping its promise of being a debating space. Its Ambassador Bulus Lolo Centre for Diplomacy, Conflict, Peace and Plural Studies is up wit... Read more

Keeping Chris Kwaja’s Small Scale Philanthropy in View

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Acrimony, Annual Schools Essay competition, Boys, Development, Girls, Governor Caleb Mutfwang, Philanthropy, Plateau StateNo CommentsViews:

Philanthropy has a way of resonating because, without it, life would be too hard for those whom development has left behind across the world. It is on this count that any whiff of philanthro... Read more

Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Anthropology, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Development, leaders, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Nation building, Philosophy, Political Science, Social sciences, SociologyNo CommentsViews:

Ordinarily, Intervention does not publish what is not original to it. That is how this place was set up and the unwritten law is not about to be changed but to be followed even more rigidly.... Read more

Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

NPSA Cuts Into the Democracy Conundrum in Nigeria With Supercharged Sessions

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Coups, Development, Liberal democracy, NIGERIA, NPSANo CommentsViews:

The knowledge industry in Nigeria may be limping, just like other sectors but the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) appears determined to take the mandate of knowledge seriously.... Read more

Nigerian Peace Academics Storm Bauchi for 20th Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, Conflict, Development, PEACE, Security, SPSPNo CommentsViews:

Those who assume that scholars of Peace and Conflict Studies in Nigeria are not conscious that Nigeria has been one of the world’s richest site for the study of violent as well as structural... Read more

The Ill-fated Goat

Posted By: adminon: June 08, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Apiti’s Goat, CSP, Development, First Lady, Koko Local Government Council, PANo CommentsViews:

Lagos lawyer and writer makes a literary intervention in the crisis of mission circumscribing elite leadership and politics in Nigeria, well, Africa if you like! By Chiemeke Onyeisi “Power h... Read more

United Nation’s ECA Out With Own Tribute to Prof Thandika Mkandawire

Posted By: adminon: June 08, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CODESRIA, DEMOCRACY, Development, ECA, Prof Thandika MkandawireNo CommentsViews:

The Economic Commission for Africa, (ECA) is out with its own formal tribute to one of Africa’s sharpest voice in development matters: the late Prof Thandika Mkandawire who passed on March 2... Read more

Abubakar Momoh and the Paradox of Democratization

Posted By: adminon: May 29, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 'Big Man Rule', Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, CODESRIA, De-democratisation, Democratisation, Development, General Muhammadu Buhari, LASU, Thomas Sankara Movement, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:

It is five years today that he died. He remains a subject of engagement by academic colleagues, activists and think tankers as in this Keynote Presentation at the 5th Memorial of Professor A... Read more