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CDD-West Africa Unfolds 2026 – 2030 Strategic Plan, Vows Cracking Democratic Deficits in the Region

Posted By: adminon: March 31, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Ajaokuta Steel Company, APRM, CDD-West Africa, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, ECOWAS, IMF/World Bank, NEEDS 1 and 11No CommentsViews:
CDD-West Africa Unfolds 2026 – 2030 Strategic Plan, Vows Cracking Democratic Deficits in the Region

Democracy and development, the two explosive variables behind the Centre for Democracy and Development, aka CDD-West Africa each got hopelessly tattered scorecard earlier today (March, 31st,... Read more

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Isn’t Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo a Performance Puzzle?

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Achebe, Agrarian transformation, Anambra State, Aper Aku, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, IMF/World Bank, Mallam Lawal Batagarawa, Peter Obi, Prof Sam Aluko, Prof Thandika MkandawireNo CommentsViews:
Isn't Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo a Performance Puzzle?

By Adagbo ONOJA This piece is about a puzzle rather than a campaign for, against or criticism of Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo who was sworn-in a week ago for his second term of four years as... Read more

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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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Nigeria's Gift of Popular Struggle: Omoyele Sowore and Quest for the Public Good
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