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Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Islamisation, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Theatre for Development, UINo CommentsViews:
Salihu Mohammed Bappa: A Bridge Across Many Divides

By Professor Oga Steve Abah* Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a humbling experience for me to stand here on this Memorial event to talk about a colleague I knew and worked with for decades. It is... Read more

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Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', Bala Mohammed, Bauchi humanism, Christianisation, Gindiri, Guerrilla theatre, Ibrahim Tahir, Islamisation, NEPU, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Sa’adu Zungur, Theatre for Development, UI, Wole Soyinka, ‘radical tradition in Northern Nigeria’No CommentsViews:
Emotions, Encomium and Revelations @ Memorial Lecture for Cde Salihu Bappa

The initial headline for this story has to be amended because of a deluge of protests from observant cartographers of contemporary nationhood in Nigeria who point out that Intervention has c... Read more

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Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Bala Usman, Benue State, Herdsmen violence, Islamisation, Middle Belt elite, Okwudiba Nnoli, Plateau State, Politicisation of security, Security architecture, Southern Kaduna, State failure, State policeNo CommentsViews:
Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

Just as there is to be a sigh of relief about killings especially in Benue State, Plateau and Southern Kaduna, then came the news of the killing of about 80 persons in Bokkos and Barakin Lad... Read more

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Senator George Akume Fights Nemesis But Can He Defeat Gov Samuel Ortom?

Posted By: adminon: September 01, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Abdulsalami/Kukah Peace Initiative, Anti-Open Grazing law, APC, EFCC, Fulanisation, Governor Samuel Ortom, Islamisation, PDP, Senator George AkumeNo CommentsViews:
Senator George Akume Fights Nemesis But Can He Defeat Gov Samuel Ortom?

Reading the text of Senator George Akume’s press conference containing critical allegations against Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State in Abuja on August 30th, 2021, one finds illustration... Read more

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Why Buhari is Implicated in Insecurity in Nigeria – Prof. Shadrack Best

Posted By: adminon: June 05, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Atiku Abubakar, Fulani, Herdsmen violence, Islamisation, Politicisation of security, Restructuring, Security architecture, State police, Sultan of SokotoNo CommentsViews:
Why Buhari is Implicated in Insecurity in Nigeria – Prof. Shadrack Best

By Adagbo ONOJA That Nigeria is in disarray is not in dispute. The crisis has actually become an all-consuming affair in several ways: terrorists are still contesting the stateness of the st... Read more

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Why Did They Keep Silent Until After Abba Kyari’s Death?

Posted By: adminon: April 25, 2020In: SpectacleTags: APC, Islamisation, MTN, PIDFNo CommentsViews:
Why Did They Keep Silent Until After Abba Kyari’s Death?

‘Tola Badejo, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Professor of Zoology joins in the ‘war of position’ that has developed in the aftermath of the demise of Mallam Abba Kyari, erstwhile Chief... Read more

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The Missing Voice of Radicals in the Contest of Meaning Over ‘Fulanisation’ in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'First African President', Cameronians, Fulanisation, Islamisation, Marxism, Nigeriens, Working classNo CommentsViews:
The Missing Voice of Radicals in the Contest of Meaning Over ‘Fulanisation’ in Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari went to Egypt recently where he announced a visa-on-arrival sort of policy for Africans. It has attracted opposition as well as endorsement from some Nigerians but... Read more

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Tiv Elite Insists on Formal Abrogation of RUGA

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: 'Ruga', Agatu, Fulanisation, IslamisationNo CommentsViews:
Tiv Elite Insists on Formal Abrogation of RUGA

The Federal Capital Territory detachment of elite of Tiv nationality are waiting for a formal abrogation of the RUGA policy response to the herdsmen crisis Nigeria is experiencing. They are... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Refutes Islamisation Story

Posted By: adminon: June 07, 2019In: GovernanceTags: Islamisation, Muslim Students SocietyNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Refutes Islamisation Story

Authorities of the Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU), Zaria has put it to “a technical issue on fees configuration” the demand on non-Muslim students to pay Muslim Students Society, (MSS) dues... Read more

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General Chom Bagu and the Middle Belt

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Aten, Emancipation, Fulanisation, Islamisation, J. D Gomwalk, Queen Amina of Zazzau, Radio KadunaNo CommentsViews:
General Chom Bagu and the Middle Belt

By Adagbo Onoja* General Chom Bagu is in the news again, this time, for one of his latest Facebook posts. For those who might not know him , that is the name of one of the intellectuals of a... Read more

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A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday
A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday

A Tribute to Prof Sam Egite Oyovbaire, an Honoree of the NSIA, at 85th Birthday

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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria's 2027 General Elections
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Partners University of Abuja Grounding the Youth for Nigeria's 2027 General Elections

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Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 
Nigerian Left Commences Writing the Struggle 

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Strategically Reading Beijing's Mindset in China's Blue Book Series

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Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80
Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80

Senator Jonah David Jang, an Extraordinary Statesman, is 80

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