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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:

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

2023 is for Nigerian President of Igbo Identity And This is Why – Engineer Muhammadu Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: April 29, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Aguiyi Ironsi, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Tafawa Balewa, Yakubu Gowon, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

Former FCT Minister under the first term of the Obasanjo Presidency, Engineer Muhammadu Abba-Gana, is rolling up the sleeves for a Nigerian president of Igbo origin in 2023. Engineer Gana ar... Read more

You Are Looking 50 @ 85 Because of Your Godliness, Engr Abba-Gana Tells Gen Gowon

Posted By: adminon: October 22, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Biafra, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Igbo, Lord Lugard, Shehu ShagariNo CommentsViews:

One is nine years older than the other but there is a bond between them that seems so thick, belying the age difference, going by the wording of the letter. That is the letter below from an... Read more

Grand Narratives @ Risk: Class, Corruption and Culture in the February 23rd Poll in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 01, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', 'linguistic turn', APGA, False Consciousness, Igbo, MIMEC, Shehu Othman Dan FodioNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA The frightening rate at which the smaller parties completely disappeared in terms of self projection as well as the way presidential candidates and their communication strate... Read more

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:

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

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

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Hausa, Igbo, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

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

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:

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

Emir of Kano and the Echoes of a Future Foretold

Posted By: adminon: May 07, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Audu Ogbeh, Igbo, Kano, Mahmud Jega, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, T. Y Danjuma, University of WarwickNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja* This piece was first published in The Cable as well as in Newsdiaryonline on June 18th, 2014. It is being re-published without any addition or subtraction save the change of... Read more

The Igbos: Why Are They Still Biafrans?

Posted By: adminon: August 29, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Biafrans, Chido Onumah, East, Igbo, IMT, IPOB, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA In his latest book entitled, We Are All Biafrans, Chido Onumah offers a very powerful discourse of Nigeria by imposing on the observable claims of marginalisation by every ot... Read more