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Memories of the Rural Child Prodigy in Those Days

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2022In: SpectacleTags: 'Agigle', Boy-child, Bushmeat, Ene, Europe, Girl child, Idomaland, Motherhood, MothersNo CommentsViews:
Memories of the Rural Child Prodigy in Those Days

The graphic serving as cover picture for this piece could as well have been a computer simulated stuff in an age when the real and the unreal can no longer be distinguished. But it is still... Read more

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Towards Reconstructing Civil Society in Nigeria: An Apptitudinal Appraisal of Democracy, Freedom and Liberty

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Australia, Civil society, Civilisations, Europe, Nation building, New Zealand, NIGERIA, Shehu Usman Dan FodioNo CommentsViews:
Towards Reconstructing Civil Society in Nigeria: An Apptitudinal Appraisal of Democracy, Freedom and Liberty

By Ambassador Usman Sarki My thesis is that the state and government in Nigeria should primarily be concerned with protecting and supporting civil society in its entirety by first aligning t... Read more

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The “National Question” and Restructuring in Nigeria: Some Historical Perspectives to a Thorny, Contemporary Issue

Posted By: adminon: December 28, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', Europe, North, Restructuring, South1 CommentViews:
The “National Question” and Restructuring in Nigeria: Some Historical Perspectives to a Thorny, Contemporary Issue

Although the idea that the modern states-system was born in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia has been shattered especially by Benno Teschke’s thesis at the LSE now published as The Myth of 16... 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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Unpacking the Dynamism of Herders-Farmers Conflict in Nigeria’s Benue Valley

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Benue Valley, Europe, Non-State Actors, Zinariya ConsultsNo CommentsViews:
Unpacking the Dynamism of Herders-Farmers Conflict in Nigeria’s Benue Valley

Unlike Europe, for instance, whose experience of the nomadic thrust in history is well accounted for, the dynamism of that process remains, understandably, undocumented in much of Africa, mo... Read more

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What Might Nigeria Learn From Covid-19: The Securitisation of Institutions of Learning?

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2021In: FlashbackTags: America, Europe, Hybrid teaching, One-way system, Remote learning, Securitisation, Social distancing, Synchronous sessionNo CommentsViews:
What Might Nigeria Learn From Covid-19: The Securitisation of Institutions of Learning?

By Joyce Elemson The Nigerian Union of Teachers, (NUT) along with two other bodies, have drawn attention to the dangers of opening schools on January 18th, 2021 unless the rising cases of Co... Read more

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Amazon Now Greatest Beneficiary of Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted By: adminon: March 18, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Alibaba, BBC, Digital Capitalism, Europe, FAANGs, USNo CommentsViews:
Amazon Now Greatest Beneficiary of Coronavirus Pandemic

Amazon, the online global supermarket has, in a totally unplanned manner, emerged the biggest beneficiary of the Coronavirus pandemic. It is such that it is paying its employees £2 an hour e... Read more

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Nigeria, and Nearly Africa, Totally Out of 2020 Global University Ranking

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2019In: BookspaceTags: California, Europe, Global Top 10, London, North America, QS Ranking, UK, USNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria, and Nearly Africa, Totally Out of 2020 Global University Ranking

Unless someone else reads the list again and discovers otherwise, Nigeria is totally out of the global ranking of universities in the 2020 version. Unlike before when Covenant University and... Read more

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Kenya’s Binyavanga Wainaina, the Death of a Tragic African Hero

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2019In: People in ActionTags: 'How to Write About Africa', Africa, Europe, GayNo CommentsViews:
Kenya’s Binyavanga Wainaina, the Death of a Tragic African Hero

No paradox can be superior to the case of Kenyan writer, Binyavanga Wainaina who died yesterday. He has done so great for Africa with his writing but his sexual orientation is not the type t... Read more

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Ekweremadu Ruffles the Nigerian Military But …

Posted By: adminon: March 10, 2018In: GovernanceTags: BOKO HARAM, Chief of Army Staff, Europe, First World War, Norms, Second World WarNo CommentsViews:
Ekweremadu Ruffles the Nigerian Military But ...

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, spoke himself into the sensitivity radar of the Nigerian military during the week and got a reply: count the military out of any conspiracy against c... Read more

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