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The UK election: new development priorities in Africa?

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Cimate change, DFID, Keir Starmer, Labour Party manifestoNo CommentsViews:
The UK election: new development priorities in Africa?

What could be in the  recent UK election for Africa is a contextually legitimate question to ask as I an Scoones of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex does in t... Read more

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State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Gambo Jimeta, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DFID, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, House of Reps, IBB, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, NASS, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

This attempt at an interim synthesis of the on-going conversation on policing Nigeria is reproduced from Daily Trust By Adagbo Onoja A nasty experience of generalised insecurity in Nigeria h... Read more

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Nigeria’s Institute for Conflict Resolution Gets New DG, Dr. Joseph Ochogwu

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2023In: SpectacleTags: DFID, IPCR, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NIIA, Prof Sunday OchocheNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's Institute for Conflict Resolution Gets New DG, Dr. Joseph Ochogwu

Nigeria’s foremost think tank on the healing of fissures in the society, the Federal Government owned Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) has a brand new Director-General. He... Read more

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US University’s Energy Centre Appoints Damilola Ogunbiyi Into Its Board

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2021In: People in ActionTags: DFID, Lagos State Electricity Board, Nigerian Rural Electrification Agency, SDG7, SEforALLNo CommentsViews:
US University’s Energy Centre Appoints Damilola Ogunbiyi Into Its Board

Although violently tearing at each other at home, Nigerians continue to excel on a global scale every now and then. One of such has just occurred with the appointment of Ms Damilola Ogubiyi... Read more

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Explosive Details of a British High Commissioner’s Exploits in Ghana’s Election in 2000

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2020In: FlashbackTags: DFID, EU, FCO, Indian Ink, Inter-Parliamentary Union, NDC, NPP, Photo ID, UK, US, Whitehall, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Explosive Details of a British High Commissioner’s Exploits in Ghana's Election in 2000

Those who think former colonial powers are no longer pressing direct buttons in the affairs of their ex-colonies would have to think twice. A former Deputy High Commissioner of Britain to Gh... Read more

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For Kole Shettima and Amina Saliu on Their Special Anniversaries

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2020In: People in ActionTags: C4C, CBAAC, CISLAC, CITAD, CLO, DFID, HEDA, LASUNo CommentsViews:
For Kole Shettima and Amina Saliu on Their Special Anniversaries

By Tunde Akanni, PhD For my former colleague at Concord Press, now a young grandma, Patience Akpan, every child or grandchild of hers is her favourite. The scintillatingly beauteous and fash... Read more

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Action Aid Nigeria Joins N-SIP Controversy, Lauds It

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2019In: GovernanceTags: Action Aid Nigeria, DFID, Ford Foundation, N-SIP, NSIO, PERLNo CommentsViews:
Action Aid Nigeria Joins N-SIP Controversy, Lauds It

The controversy over the achievement status of Nigeria’s flagship safety net intervention – the National Social Investment Programme, (N-SIP) – may be far from being laid to rest. Recent cri... Read more

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When Scholars Hit at Multiculturalism and Media Coverage of Conflict in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 17, 2018In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, CDA, DFID, LASU, NSRP, RMA, Third World Quarterly, UNN, Virtuous WarNo CommentsViews:
When Scholars Hit at Multiculturalism and Media Coverage of Conflict in Nigeria

Since Prof Absalom Mutere, the late veteran media trainer, made the startling disclosure about how so many African journalists have neither heard and could thus not have applied the concepts... Read more

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World Bank Seeks for Six-month Fellows from Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2017In: BookspaceTags: DFID, PhD, Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Pennyslavania, WBGNo CommentsViews:
World Bank Seeks for Six-month Fellows from Sub-Saharan Africa

Those for whom a stint with the World Bank wouldn’t be a bad idea have a golden opportunity to try their luck by applying for the 2018 World Bank Group Africa Fellowship Program. The p... Read more

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Another Opportunity for African Media Scholars and Activists

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2017In: BookspaceTags: AHRC, CHINA, DFID, IAMCR, Independent journalism, UK, USNo CommentsViews:
Another Opportunity for African Media Scholars and Activists

Media scholars and activists who are still up and doing even as academia is in disarray in much of Africa have another opportunity to beef themselves up. A major symposium on “The Relationsh... Read more

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Awaiting NIIA's Roundtable on Xenophobia in South Africa
Awaiting NIIA's Roundtable on Xenophobia in South Africa

Awaiting NIIA’s Roundtable on Xenophobia in South Africa

August 12, 2026
Bingham University’s Conversation on Apology and Restorative Justice for Victims of Violent Extremism in Africa
Bingham University’s Conversation on Apology and Restorative Justice for Victims of Violent Extremism in Africa

Bingham University’s Conversation on Apology and Restorative Justice for Victims of Violent Extremism in Africa

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The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues
The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues

The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues

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Hailing Chief John Agbaji Attah Ochoga, Life Bencher, at 73
Hailing Chief John Agbaji Attah Ochoga, Life Bencher, at 73

Hailing Chief John Agbaji Attah Ochoga, Life Bencher, at 73

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A Tribute to Prof Paul Izah at 76 

A Tribute to Prof Paul Izah at 76 

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