IMF/World Bank Archives

Suspense As ASUU Goes Into A Closed Session in Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: August 17, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Egypt, IMF/World Bank, NUC, Private universities, Public universities, SOUTH AFRICA, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria is lost in a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Sokoto, Sokoto State. There are no hints about what the outcome of the mee... Read more

The Role of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nation-Building in Nigeria: Looking Back, Looking Around, and Confronting the Future

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2025In: Policy & GovernanceTags: ASUU, Dr. Dipo Fashina, Dr. Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, IMF/World Bank, NAUT, Nigerian university system, NLC, Oil wealth, Popular struggles for nation-building, Prof Asisi Asobie, Prof Biodun Jeyifo, Prof Festus Iyayi, SAP, Udoji Award, “Agreement of Imperfect Obligation”No CommentsViews:

By Attahiru Muhammadu Jega (OFR) Outline of Presentation: Introduction 2 Looking Back… ... Read more

Prof Sam Oyovbaire and the Location of the Obasanjo Signifier

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: SpectacleTags: ABU Zaria, Alison Ayida, Asian Tigers, Dr Bene Madunagu, Gen. Murtala Mohammed, General Yakubu Gowon, IMF/World Bank, OBASANJO, Signifier, State collapse, State InterventionismNo CommentsViews:

It bears repeating that Intervention is still on a publishing holiday and will only make one concession or the other once a while till further notice. It is therefore still not receiving mat... Read more

Waiting for Obasanjo’s Apology

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2024In: FlashbackTags: #EndSARS, 'Ali Must Go', Apology, Bakalori, buhari, FESTAC, Healing, IMF/World Bank, NANS, NUNS, OBASANJO, Odi, Shagari, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Zaki BiamNo CommentsViews:

By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YUSUF The “Ali-Must-Go” protest, organised by the National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) and led by Segun Okeowo, is as important today as it was in 1978. But it... Read more

If Nigeria Has N500 for Palliatives, Can’t It Experiment With Something Better?

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Charly Boy, CISLAC, Fair Trade, IMF/World Bank, Kano State Government, Peter Obi, SERAP, State Farms, Tender-preneursNo CommentsViews:

It is still a sprinkle of endorsing and opposing standpoints to the Federal Government of Nigeria’s plan to spend over N500b on palliatives to cushion the crippling effects of the fuel subsi... Read more

JAF Insists on a New Social Order in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2022In: Policy & GovernanceTags: BUHARI REGIME, Goodluck Jonathan, IMF/World Bank, NLC, OBASANJO, System change, YaraduaNo CommentsViews:

Joint Action Front, (JAF), the tireless organiser of popular agitation in Nigeria is saying the goal is a new social order in Nigeria by changing the system rather than one-issue protests. I... Read more

Imagining and De-escalating the Buhari – Obasanjo Dogfight

Posted By: adminon: June 20, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Consensus, Fifth columnists, IMF/World Bank, The PresidencyNo CommentsViews:

If politics is about influence and the influential in every society, then there is something Nigeria of today cannot afford in the unfolding interaction between incumbent president, Muhammad... Read more

Manifesto of the People’s Redemption Party, (PRP), for Local Council Elections, 2021 – 2023

Posted By: adminon: May 03, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Bureacratic overlordship, IMF/World Bank, Imperialist domination, masses, National unity, Popular participation, Self-reliant national economyNo CommentsViews:

The rising volume of the radical and/or socialist voice in Nigeria at last makes the Manifesto of the People’s Redemption Party, (PRP), for Local Council Elections, 2021 – 2023 a document wo... Read more

It is January 20th and Time to Remember Amilcar Cabral Again

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2021In: LifeworldTags: Fidel Castro, IMF/World Bank, Kwame Nkrumah, PAIGC, UNESCONo CommentsViews:

It is January 20th again and time to remember Amilcar Cabral, the guerrilla intellectual superintending the struggle for independence for Guinea and Cape Verde. He was machined to death by a... Read more

How Soon Would the Universities Come Alive Again in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, BOKO HARAM, CONUA, IMF/World Bank, NANS, NUCNo CommentsViews:

This is the question very few people can answer as things are today in Nigeria. The universities have been under lock and key for the past nine months. It is not clear if this is not the lon... Read more