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African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, Bala/Bangura Debate, Dar es Salam, Decolonial Historiography, Historiography, Ibadan, Identity politics, IMF/World Bank, MacArthur, Mock OAU/AU Summit, Nation building, Nigerian economic crisis, Northern Nigerian History Research Scheme, NUC, State building, Zaria School of History, ‘FASS model’No CommentsViews:
African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Published below is the full text of the Lecture at the maiden edition of a symposium to honour the former Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Read more

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Is Prof Amechi Akwanya Emerging a Literary Phase in (Nigerian) Literature?

Posted By: adminon: April 03, 2022In: BookspaceTags: African Continental Philosophy, Biodun Jeyifo, Derrida, Ibadan, Kwame Nkrumah, Legon, Makerere, Okike, Prof Ken Booth, UNNNo CommentsViews:
Is Prof Amechi Akwanya Emerging a Literary Phase in (Nigerian) Literature?

The (Nigerian) literary world might be entering a Prof Amechi Akwanya phase because Intervention understands that the Oxford University Press is coming out with an edited text on the priest... Read more

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The Treasure-House of Signs: The University-as-Pastiche

Posted By: adminon: November 26, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Communist Manifesto, Ibadan, Jean Baudrillard, Khartoum, Legon, SimulacrumNo CommentsViews:
The Treasure-House of Signs: The University-as-Pastiche

This is the second piece from Prof Ibrahim Bello-Kano of Bayero University, Kano to Intervention this week. The first came under the title The Relevance of the Conceptual Or Theoretical Fram... Read more

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Sultan Dasuki: The Forgotten Dimension

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, Bauchi, BORNO, DONALD TRUMP, Ibadan, Katsina, LAGOS, Oba of Benin, OBASANJO, Onitsha, Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, Sokoto, the Gbong Gwom Jos, TY Danjuma, Zaria1 CommentViews:
Sultan Dasuki: The Forgotten Dimension

The passage of Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, last Monday provides an occasion for reflections on a forgotten dimension of his life but which rings too much of a bell in n... Read more

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Posted By: adminon: November 07, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Ajaokuta, Aliko Dangote, CHINA, Egypt, Ethiopia, FGN, GSM, Ibadan, IBB, India, Kenya, LAGOS, Mambilla Plateau, Mozambique, Murtala Mohammed Airport, NATO, NIPSS, NITEL, OBASANJO, SAP, SOUTH AFRICA, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:
EDITORIAL

       The Dangote Insurgency Speaking at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS), Kuru in Jos on October 27th, 2016, Aliko Dangote, the Head of the Dangote conglome... Read more

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History in Nigerian Schools, But What Manner of History?

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa, APC, Bala Usmans, Bola Tinubu, CHINA, CNN, Europe, George Kwanashie, Ibadan, Joseph Inikori, Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, Mallam Adamu Adamu, Monday Mangvat, Muhammadu Buhari, Okibe Sam Eza, Sule Bellos, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
History in Nigerian Schools, But What Manner of History?

Nigeria has just restored the teaching of History in schools, five years after it was taken off in favour of Civics. The decision was the outcome of pressures, pressure informed by a belief... Read more

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Unpacking Nigeria’s More Conflict Management Training, More Conflicts Paradox, Part 2

Posted By: adminon: September 06, 2016In: GovernanceTags: ASCON, CEPACS, Christians, DFID, Dr Ojiji, Dr Tukur Baba, Dr Tunde Akanni, EU, Ibadan, IPCR, Jos, Kogi, LAGOS, Muslims, Nsukka, Sokoto, UN, ZariaNo CommentsViews:
Unpacking Nigeria’s More Conflict Management Training, More Conflicts Paradox, Part 2

By Adagbo ONOJA The first part of this Special Report titled “Nigeria: Why the More Conflict Management Training, the More Conflicts? Part 1” featured Professor Oshita Oshita, the Director G... Read more

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Nigeria: Why the More Conflict Management Training, the More Conflicts? Part 1

Posted By: adminon: September 05, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Benue, BOKO HARAM, CEPACS, Dr Ochinya Ojiji, Dr Tukur Baba, Dr Tunde Akanni, Ibadan, IPCR, Jos, Kogi, NIGERIA, Nsukka, Professor Oshita Oshita, Sokoto, universities, ZariaNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria: Why the More Conflict Management Training, the More Conflicts? Part 1

By Adagbo ONOJA After two insurgencies within a decade in addition to numerous scorched earth convulsions sparing none of its regions, Nigeria must be thinking of conflict management differe... Read more

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