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Why Elon Musk – Donald Trump Falling-out Should Surprise, Worry You

Posted By: adminon: June 07, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Capitalists, Class, DONALD TRUMP, Elite, Elon Musk, Impeachment, Marx, Patronage, Sophistication, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
Why Elon Musk – Donald Trump Falling-out Should Surprise, Worry You

There is nothing abnormal in two friends, brothers, husband and wife and so on quarreling. Political psychologists say there is no relationship which is genuine but from which quarrelling wo... Read more

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Massive Civil Society Campaign Against Medical Tourism Underway in West Africa

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Elite, Medical tourism, OTUWA, Public Goods, Solidarity Centre, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
Massive Civil Society Campaign Against Medical Tourism Underway in West Africa

The spectre of political leaders spending huge chunk of public resources on their own healthcare abroad while leaving the ordinary people with Second World War equipment and dilapidated, dys... Read more

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Nigeria Does Not Have an Elite – Prof Etanibi Alemika (1)

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2024In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, Chapter Two, Elite, First Republic, IMF, JAMB, NUC, Return to regional system, SAPNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Does Not Have an Elite  –  Prof Etanibi Alemika (1)

Prof Etannibi Alemika is easily one of the most sophisticated of their generation of Nigerian academics. He obtained his first and second degrees at the University of Ibadan under intellectu... Read more

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What Threatens Democracy and Trigger Coups in Africa?

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Coup de’tat, DEMOCRACY, Elite, Military, Post-colonial, westNo CommentsViews:
What Threatens Democracy and Trigger Coups in Africa?

Coup and coup-making is back on the agenda in Africa. Scholars of coups must track the phenomena as Lagos State University’s Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine, a Professor of Political Science, h... Read more

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Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman and the ‘National Question’ in Nigeria: Reflections on Some Lingering Problems

Posted By: adminon: August 14, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Dr. Bala Usman, Elite, masses, National Question, National unity, RestructuringNo CommentsViews:
Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman and the ‘National Question’ in Nigeria: Reflections on Some Lingering Problems

Intervention is the happier for it. Beyond the rising readership is the joy with the clash of narratives of Nigeria. Two days ago, Mike Kebonkwu, a radical in his own right, fired the piece,... Read more

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There is, Indeed, No Place Like Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Bororo, Effik, Elite, Emir of Muri, Europe, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Igboho, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, North America, Oodua, UAE, Yoruba, ‘Yahoo yahoo’1 CommentViews:
There is, Indeed, No Place Like Nigeria

Nigeria continues to be a contested national project, with optimists and pessimists articulating their arguments every now and then on why each’s position is the correct one. This piece whic... Read more

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Is Nigeria Entering 2020 With the Toxic Baggage of 2019 Or Not?

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 2020, Elite, G-20No CommentsViews:
Is Nigeria Entering 2020 With the Toxic Baggage of 2019 Or Not?

The credit for the line of thinking behind this piece must go to the late Prof Akin Fadahunsi. Sometimes in 1995 at one of the methodology workshops on the book, Identity Transformation and... Read more

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Concluding Exploration of Implosion in Segun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play and Onyeisi Chiemeke’s June 12 Election: The CD and the Implosion of the Left

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2017In: BookspaceTags: Algeria, Asia, Elite, Europe, Latin America, Left, North America, Onyeisi Chiemeke, Right, Segun AdeniyiNo CommentsViews:
Concluding Exploration of Implosion in Segun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play and Onyeisi Chiemeke’s June 12 Election: The CD and the Implosion of the Left

This is the third and concluding part of this joint review of the two books in question. This part could not follow the first two parts because a death disrupted the normal flow of things. A... Read more

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Of BUK’s Mallam Ibrahim Muazzam, Philosophy and Pedagogy Until Recently in Nigeria
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