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How Nigeria Ended Up As the Country With the Highest Out of School Children in the World – Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

Posted By: adminon: December 03, 2024In: SpectacleTags: 'Emilokan' governmentality, Cardinal Emeritus John Onaiyekan, General Gowon, Khalifa Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:
How Nigeria Ended Up As the Country With the Highest Out of School Children in the World - Prof Jibrin Ibrahim

It was the usual magic of the paradoxical to sneak in and successfully steal a critical moment in most such occasions. This was no less the case at the five-hour long 70th birthday of Prof J... Read more

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Indeed, God’s Own Electoral Riddle for Nigerians: Choosing From Asiwaju, Atiku, Al Mustapha, Kola Abiola, Peter Obi & Kwankwaso

Posted By: adminon: June 10, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Asiwaju, Atiku Abubaka, General Gowon, Northern Christian, PRP, Wikespeak1 CommentViews:
Indeed, God’s Own Electoral Riddle for Nigerians: Choosing From Asiwaju, Atiku, Al Mustapha, Kola Abiola, Peter Obi & Kwankwaso

It should be easily understandable when even some atheists cannot resist the temptation to read the emergence of the above gentlemen as presidential candidates of small and big parties at th... Read more

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Time to Create One More State in Southeastern Nigeria – Engineer Mohammed Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2021In: GovernanceTags: 1999 Constitution, FCT, General Gowon, John Stuart Mill, LGAs, National Assembly, The NorthNo CommentsViews:
Time to Create One More State in Southeastern Nigeria - Engineer Mohammed Abba-Gana

Nowhere else might be a better proof of the diffuse nature of reality than Nigeria at the moment. It is coping with massive insecurity crisis, threatening war with itself but also reviewing... Read more

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T Y Danjuma @ 80 (1 & 2): Confronting an Enigma Beyond Hagiography and the Last Duty

Posted By: adminon: December 03, 2017In: People in ActionTags: CASS, General Gowon, Neoliberal reform, SAP, The Guardian, TINANo CommentsViews:
T Y Danjuma @ 80 (1 & 2): Confronting an Enigma Beyond Hagiography and the Last Duty

This page has been updated to embody part 1 and 2 of the two part piece on General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma unlike before when it was published in two separate parts and the second part was... Read more

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Middle Belt Plays the Game Changer in Nigeria’s Standstill

Posted By: adminon: June 23, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Abubakar Rimi, Balarabe Musa, Bola Ige, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Solomon Lar, General Gowon, J. S Tarka, Jim Nwobodo, Lateef Jakande, Middle – Belt, Mohammed GoniNo CommentsViews:
Middle Belt Plays the Game Changer in Nigeria’s Standstill

“We appeal to all separatist agitators to allow the restructuring initiatives to run its full course. We need to stay and work together to ensure that new leadership that can make Nigeria gr... Read more

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Cracking General Olusegun Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics, (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Atiku Abubakar, Charismatic leadership, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, General Gowon, General TY Danjuma, Goodluck Jonathan, OBJ Primacy in Nigerian politicsNo CommentsViews:
Cracking General Olusegun Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics, (Part 2)

Cracking General Olusegun Obasanjo’s Staying Power in Nigerian Politics, (Part 2) By Adagbo ONOJA In the face of widespread belief that former president Obasanjo is the architect of the fail... Read more

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Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abdulsalami, Cardinal Anthony Okogie, CBN, CHINA, Chinua Achebe, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, General Gowon, Goodluck Jonathan, Mohammadu Buhari, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NLC, OBASANJO, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Professor Ango Abdullahi, Professor Charles Soludo, Professor Wole Soyinka, T. Y Danjuma1 CommentViews:
Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

By Adagbo ONOJA Would President Buhari not benefit from exploring the similarities between his and Ezeulu’s situation as depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God? This is the question observ... Read more

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Joseph Tarka: Mvendaga Jibo’s explosives

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2016In: GovernanceTags: David Mark, General Gowon, Ibrahim Imam, Obasonjo, Okonjo Iwela, TarkaNo CommentsViews:
Joseph Tarka: Mvendaga Jibo's explosives

By The Staff It is a major conundrum in Nigerian politics that the key actors in politics in the First Republic are still the reference points in terms of substance, standards, bearing. Very... Read more

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