IMF/World Bank Archives

Chief Audu Ogbeh As When Nationalism Cannot Answer Its Father’s Name

Posted By: adminon: March 30, 2019In: NewsGameTags: ABU-Xaria, ASUU, IBB, IMF/World Bank, MD Yusuf, NairaNo CommentsViews:

Above and below too is a short clip of Chief Audu Ogbeh unfolding in a patriotic blitzkrieg. He is isolating and blaming predatory, buccaneering, speculative capitalism in Nigeria. That is g... Read more

31 Years After, Thomas Sankara Still Icon of the Radical Imagination in Africa

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2018In: LifeworldTags: African Union, IMF/World BankNo CommentsViews:

They were so feared that they had to be eliminated or incarcerated: Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, Samora Machel and so on. Physically dead and gone to their graves, these r... Read more

The Media, ‘Fulani Herdsmen’ and Genocide in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: 'CNN Effect', IMF/World Bank, NBC, RTLM, UN International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaNo CommentsViews:

Sitting through five anti-hate speech seminars, workshops and events between July 10th and July 18th in and around Abuja and taking note of the frequency of reference to genocide in Rwanda,... Read more

Can Bukola Saraki Swim to Safety?

Posted By: adminon: November 26, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: anti-corruption war, APC, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr Abubaka Sola Saraki, Gen Sani Abacha, Gen Shehu Yar'Adua, IMF/World Bank, Imperialism, NUC, PDP, President Buhari, Prof Sam Aluko, Senator George Akume, The Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

All things being equal, the 5th Memorial Lecture on the legacy of the late Dr Abubakar Sola Saraki holds tomorrow in Abuja. For many, it would be no more than one more manifestation of Niger... Read more

A Book and Its Kudos and the Knocks

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2017In: Nigeria 2019Tags: ARDP, CHINA, IMF/World Bank, Marx, NGOs, Preface, Second National Development Plan, STAND, WTONo CommentsViews:

Beginning right away in the Preface with an admission of northern specificity to the underdevelopment crisis in Nigeria, this interesting documentation steps in to how alarming the existenti... Read more

Academics and the Government Square Up in Nigeria Again, Endangers ASUU’s World Ranking Aspirational Claims

Posted By: adminon: August 15, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, IMF/World Bank, PSI, SAPNo CommentsViews:

Academics in Nigeria have gone on indefinite strike again, signposting breakdown of negotiation between its union and the Nigerian government over improved funding that could create what the... Read more

Africa is Underdeveloped Not Because Africans are Stupid – Prof Nzongola-Ntalaja

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2017In: Nigeria 2019Tags: African and African-American Studies, Ali Mazrui, Dr John Garang, Dr Tajudeen Abdulraheem, IMF/World Bank, John Hopkins University, President Paul Kagame, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Peter Anyang Nyong'o, UNDP, University of Abuja, University of Maiduguri, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of WinsconsinNo CommentsViews:

The African continent is not underdeveloped because Africans are stupid. Africa is materially backward relative to other civilisations because it finds itself fighting for survival on two eq... Read more

General T Y Danjuma Puts Resilience at the Heart of Nigeria’s National Security

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2017In: NewsGameTags: 'Happiness Studies', CITAD, General TY Danjuma, IMF/World Bank, PCNI, UK, UN, United States Institute of Peace, USNo CommentsViews:

Nigeria appears to have formally given a nod for utilization of resilience as backbone of personnel, local, regional and national shock therapy against uncertainties of the times. General Th... Read more