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As Plateau Governor Appoints Prof Chris Kwaja ‘Special Envoy’ on Peace and Security

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Government House, Governor Muftwang, IBB, Peace and Security, Prof Bolaji AkinyemiNo CommentsViews:
As Plateau Governor Appoints Prof Chris Kwaja ‘Special Envoy’ on Peace and Security

The news in town or one of the few sunny news in town (there are too many bad stories all over the place nowadays) is that Plateau State governor, Barrister Caleb Muftwang has gone for Prof... Read more

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Adieu! Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu: Chief Promoter of the Option A4 Open Voting System

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Abacha, Abiola, ABN, buhari, IBB, June 12, NECNo CommentsViews:
Adieu! Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu: Chief Promoter of the Option A4 Open Voting System

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu Professor Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu, who died at 83 on October 20th, 2024, was a man who made several marks in the field of Political Science both at home and abroad. He w... Read more

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Imagining Dr. Segun Osoba’s 90th Birthday on January 9th, 2025

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Atiku Abubakar, Bala Usman, Bola Tinubu, Chapter Two, Constitution Drafting Committee, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, IBB, IMF Conditionalities, Minority Report, Muhammadu Buhari, Ruling class, Segun Osoba, Super Permanent Secretaries, ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:
Imagining Dr. Segun Osoba’s 90th Birthday on January 9th, 2025

By Adagbo Onoja Although it won several battles, it lost the war. As the losing party in the grand struggle for which perspective should ground Nigeria, it is at the receiving end of the con... Read more

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Professor Sam Egite Oyovbaire, the Scholar-Politician, Double President, and Mentor, is 83

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Amb Tunji Olagunju, Group Captain Salawudeen Olatinwo, IBB, NPSA, NSIA, Prof Adele Junaid, Prof Omo Omoruyi, UNIBENNo CommentsViews:
Professor Sam Egite Oyovbaire, the Scholar-Politician, Double President, and Mentor, is 83

By Hassan A. Saliu Hardly can one appreciate this tribute without bringing General Ibrahim Babangida administration into the centre of addressing its concerns. To start with, there are many... Read more

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From Mrs Christiana Abbah to Y Z Y’au, It Is All Birthdays Deferred!

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 2nd National Development Plan (1970 – 1975), 3 scores and 10, Delinking, Dependency, IBB, Junior Aminu Kanos, NANSNo CommentsViews:
From Mrs Christiana Abbah to Y Z Y’au, It Is All Birthdays Deferred!

A Case of 3 Scores and 10 Postponed On a continent where the average lifespan is 55 years, there is hardly any logic in denying a 70 – year old housewife, mother and grandmother a clicking o... Read more

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State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Gambo Jimeta, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DFID, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, House of Reps, IBB, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, NASS, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

This attempt at an interim synthesis of the on-going conversation on policing Nigeria is reproduced from Daily Trust By Adagbo Onoja A nasty experience of generalised insecurity in Nigeria h... Read more

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Thinking Hard As Nigeria Reads the ‘Riot Act’ to the President

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Dislocation, IBB, Palliatives, Prof Festus Iyayi, SAP, ‘Cuwa-cuwa’No CommentsViews:
Thinking Hard As Nigeria Reads the 'Riot Act' to the President

By Adagbo ONOJA The past two weeks has seen intense plea to the Federal Government of Nigeria to do something about the cost of living in the country. One big time player after another (gove... Read more

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Intervention Replies ‘Query’ on General TY Danjuma Story

Posted By: adminon: December 01, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: ABU Zaria, Awoism, Black scorpion, General T. Y. Danjuma, Grid, Henry Kissinger, IBB, Northern intelligentsia, OBJ, Samuel Huntington, T Y Foundation, Zikism, ‘Jack’No CommentsViews:
Intervention Replies ‘Query’ on General TY Danjuma Story

Intervention thanks all those who have raised questions on the story titled Theophilus Danjuma Does It Again, But….. The TY story in question is one of the mysteries of the audience of... Read more

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Can the Oshiomholes Shift the Ideological Centre of Gravity in the Tinubu Fraction?

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Adams Oshiomhole, Atiku Abubakar, Bamidele Opeyemi, Chief Olusegun Obasano, IBB, Kalifa Mohammadu Sanusi 11, Lee Kuan Yew, Northern establishment, Nuhu Ribadu, Peter Obi, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Senator George Akume, The Left/Civil Society, Washington ConsensusNo CommentsViews:
Can the Oshiomholes Shift the Ideological Centre of Gravity in the Tinubu Fraction?

One question that dominated at the presentation of Zainab Usman’s book on Diversification of the Nigerian Economy on May 14th, 2023, is why the Nigerian elite has not been able to transform... Read more

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Is the Impending Cabinet One That Can Take Nigeria from Third to First World?

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2023In: GovernanceTags: 1976 Purge, Abacha, Bade Onimode, Bourgeoisie, Dr Sunday Awoniyi, Dr. Sam Ikoku, Femi Falana, IBB, Left, Marxism, OBASANJO, Prof Jibrin Ibrahim, Prof Sam AlukoNo CommentsViews:
Is the Impending Cabinet One That Can Take Nigeria from Third to First World?

Nigeria is, in all probability, heading for a repeat of the errors of the 1976 Purge. One of the consequences of the Purge is the question the late Chief Sunday Awoniyi put to Chief Obasanjo... Read more

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