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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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Ethno-Religious, National and Other Barriers Crash @ Prof Okello Oculi’s Last Moments, Heightening the Question of Successors of Africa’s Mudimbes, Ngugis and Okello Oculis

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Deconstruction, Eurocentrism, IMF/World Bank, Jacques Derrida, Ka-Maat, Marxism, Pan-African ClubNo CommentsViews:
Ethno-Religious, National and Other Barriers Crash @ Prof Okello Oculi’s Last Moments, Heightening the Question of Successors of Africa’s Mudimbes, Ngugis and Okello Oculis

By the time this is published, Prof Okello Oculi would have been interned in Abuja Nigeria, far away from his village of birth in Uganda but in the capital city of the black world. It is deb... Read more

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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:
Suspense As ASUU Goes Into A Closed Session in Sokoto

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

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

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

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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:
Prof Sam Oyovbaire and the Location of the Obasanjo Signifier

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

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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:
Waiting for Obasanjo’s Apology

  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

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

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2023In: GovernanceTags: Charly Boy, CISLAC, Fair Trade, IMF/World Bank, Kano State Government, Peter Obi, SERAP, State Farms, Tender-preneursNo CommentsViews:
If Nigeria Has N500 for Palliatives, Can't It Experiment With Something Better?

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

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JAF Insists on a New Social Order in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2022In: GovernanceTags: BUHARI REGIME, Goodluck Jonathan, IMF/World Bank, NLC, OBASANJO, System change, YaraduaNo CommentsViews:
JAF Insists on a New Social Order in Nigeria

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

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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:
Imagining and De-escalating the Buhari – Obasanjo Dogfight

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

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

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

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