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In Critical Endorsement of Tinubu’s Birthday Dicta

Posted By: adminon: March 30, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Governmentality, History-making, Nietzsche, Sycophancy, Truth, Windfall mindednessNo CommentsViews:
In Critical Endorsement of Tinubu’s Birthday Dicta

By Adagbo ONOJA One would still have to comb the newspapers in particular, specifically March 28th, 29th and 30th, 2024 so as to be sure that potential advertisers abided by President Tinubu... Read more

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Professor Ogoh Alubo’s Groundbreaking Biopolitical Lens on Health and Sickness

Posted By: adminon: February 26, 2022In: BookspaceTags: APC, Biopolitcs, David Harvey, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, Giorgio Agamben, Global Governance, Governmentality, GWOT, Neoliberalism, Panopticism, PDP, Political economy, SurveillanceNo CommentsViews:
Professor Ogoh Alubo’s Groundbreaking Biopolitical Lens on Health and Sickness

Neoliberalism as a technology of power rather than only a doctrine of what incisive British Marxist Geographer, David Harvey, calls “creative destruction” and “accumulation by dispossession”... Read more

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Prof Attahiru Jega in a Slow Motion to Presidential Candidacy?

Posted By: adminon: December 11, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, APC, DSS, Governmentality, Marxist essentialism, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Prof Attahiru Jega in a Slow Motion to Presidential Candidacy?

Although the Toyin Falola Interview series preceded this moment, Prof Attahiru Jega’s impending appearance in that series December 12th, 2021 is bound to trigger or reinforce, as the case ma... Read more

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Situating Chris Kwaja and Aly Verjee’s Essay on Recent School Abductions in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 10, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Trust deficit', ASQ, GovernmentalityNo CommentsViews:
Situating Chris Kwaja and Aly Verjee’s Essay on Recent School Abductions in Nigeria

It is, indeed, an issue for any African scholar to publish in any peer reviewed journal in the metropolitan academic space because many of what passes for journals in much of contemporary Af... Read more

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CISLAC Slams Advocates of Sanctions on Nigeria Over #EndSARS Protest

Posted By: adminon: October 28, 2020In: SpectacleTags: CACOVID, Governmentality, Sanctions, SecuritisationNo CommentsViews:
CISLAC Slams Advocates of Sanctions on Nigeria Over #EndSARS Protest

As the public sphere witnesses contending narratives of the #EndSARS revolt and what it has triggered in Nigeria in the past three weeks, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLA... Read more

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Multivocal Convulsions as Intellectuals, IGP, INEC, Others Deconstruct Nigeria’s 2019 Elections @ UI Confab

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2019In: SpectacleTags: ANC, Biometrics, Biopolitics, Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Proportional RepresentationNo CommentsViews:
Multivocal Convulsions as Intellectuals, IGP, INEC, Others Deconstruct Nigeria’s 2019 Elections @ UI Confab

The ancient South-western Nigerian city of Ibadan woke up today to an explosive conversation as top flight intellectuals, the Inspector-General of Police, the Independent National Electoral... Read more

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Editorial: Matters Arising From Obasanjo’s Most Recent ‘State of the Nation’ Lecture

Posted By: adminon: May 22, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: CAN, Fulanisation, Governmentality, YorubalandNo CommentsViews:
Editorial: Matters Arising From Obasanjo’s Most Recent ‘State of the Nation’ Lecture

The totality of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s involvement in Nigerian politics is such that, sometimes, he is seen as the problem while at some other times, he is seen as the answer. Combining i... Read more

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Boss Mustapha on Trial

Posted By: adminon: February 25, 2018In: GovernanceTags: Governmentality, Murtala/Obasanjo regime, PSP, SGF, Social DemocracyNo CommentsViews:
Boss Mustapha on Trial

As the largest selection and recruitment of technocrats into government, next Tuesday’s induction of members and chairmen/women of Federal Government boards of entities is a verysignificant... Read more

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Language and Power @ Xmas in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Discourse, DPR, Governmentality, Human trafficking, Intervention, NNPC, PDP, PEF, PPRANo CommentsViews:
Language and Power @ Xmas in Nigeria

It is Xmas again and messages from leaders is a major part of it. So, what are the leaders in Nigeria saying and by how do we know what they actually mean? Of course, this has to start from... Read more

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Boss Mustapha: But, Can It Be Morning Yet on Creation Day?

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: CPC, Governmentality, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Boss Mustapha: But, Can It Be Morning Yet on Creation Day?

At a time it is cry for stronger institutions all over Africa, a ruling party in disarray as in Nigeria today is a national security risk. There is no debate about the APC being in disarray.... Read more

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