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Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: "Access Capitalism", doma, Federation of Aspirations, Federation of Memories, Fiscal Paternalism, Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw, Kanuri, National conversation, Southern Bauchi, Southern Borno. the Kwararafa family, Southern Kaduna, The Desertification of the Forest, the Middle Belt's Kwararafa-legacy struggle for distinct identity, the North's fear of educational and economic marginalisation, the South's fear of political domination, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

Keynote Speaker’s Lecture in Honour of Dr. Chido Onumah at 60 delivered by Yakubu Aboki Ochefu, Ph.D., FHSN, FNAL, Professor of Economic History and Development Studies, Fr. Moses Orshio Ada... Read more

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Questioning the Tribal As Against the Ethnic As  Freetown Flaunts Diversity at 230

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Australia, First Nations, Hausa, Prof Ibrahim Abdullah, Themneh, US, Western anthropologists, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Questioning the Tribal As Against the Ethnic As   Freetown Flaunts Diversity at 230

Freetown, one of Africa’s most symbolic capital cities, is 230 years old and it is not missing using the anniversary as an opportunity to flaunt its survival in history, with particula... Read more

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Memories of That Day 61 Years Ago

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2021In: FlashbackTags: 'Ruga', Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Minorities, VAT War, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Memories of That Day 61 Years Ago

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq I saw a sarcastic post on my wall, one of those mischievous posts, that ‘Nigeria is 61 years old and has reached the age of retirement’.  Even though I am not exactly a... 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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Conflict Experts Trace 2017 Bwari Violence to Cultism, Cultural Blinkers and the Government

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Bwari LGC, Esu Bwari, FCT, Gbagyi, Hausa, NAFDAC, NDLEA, NELSON MANDELA, Sarkin Bwari, Suleija Emirate Council, ToroNo CommentsViews:
Conflict Experts Trace 2017 Bwari Violence to Cultism, Cultural Blinkers and the Government

Even as common place as scorched earth inter-group violence across Nigeria since the 1990s, the violent eruption in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, Nigeria on December 24th and 25th, 2017 has l... Read more

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That True Federalism Fallacy

Posted By: adminon: December 12, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Geographical Expression', AU, Count Klemens von Metternich, ECOWAS, EU, Hausa, Igbo, Thomas Sankara, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
That True Federalism Fallacy

Barrister Manni Ochugboju, an Attorney at Ochugboju & Co, Abuja returns to the debate on ‘True Federalism’ in Nigeria in this piece. He is reachable via manni@ochugboju.com In Nigeria, p... Read more

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Will Elder Ahmed Joda’s Fascinating But Loaded Model of Restructuring Nigeria Fly?

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Hausa, Igbo, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Will Elder Ahmed Joda's Fascinating But Loaded Model of Restructuring Nigeria Fly?

Did elder statesman, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, catch Nigerians off guard with his suggestion of restructuring Nigeria into the existing 109 Senatorial Districts? It would seem so given the relative... Read more

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Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Otachikpokpo', Ada Ugah, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Ali Mazrui, AP Anybebe, Chinua Achebe, Einstein, Electrical Engineering, Hausa, Igbo, Kwararafa Empire, Marx, Michel Foucault, Okonkwo, Onyakeke, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

At 75 today, with a name, a voice, musical successors in the family, the health and the energy as well as an ambitious musical project ahead and, therefore, a totality that has lodged him in... Read more

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Poverty and the Geopolitics of Breaking Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Strange Cold War', 2013 Nigerian Economic Report, Ebirra, Fulani, Hate ideologies, Hausa, Henry Kissinger, Igala, John Litwack, Jukun, Kanuri, NEEDS, Nupe, Sultan of Sokoto, The World Bank Group, TivNo CommentsViews:
Poverty and the Geopolitics of Breaking Nigeria

From the Breton Woods institutions to the universities and similar actors in the global policy mill, it is a narrative of poverty as the definitive marker of contemporary Nigeria. Key to the... Read more

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Wahala in Buhari’s Kitchen Cabinet

Posted By: adminon: October 16, 2016In: De-Escalation, GovernanceTags: Aisha Buhari, BBC, Hausa, Muhammadu Buhari, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:
Wahala in Buhari’s Kitchen Cabinet

By Oyeronke Oyewumi Reproduced below is one of the numerous interventions circulating online on the controversies Aisha Buhari’s recent interview has generated. Written by a scholar in the D... Read more

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