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History As Battlefront As a Book on NANS Stirs Radical Reflexivity

Posted By: adminon: April 07, 2025In: BookspaceTags: Abuja, Domestic workers, History, Hit and run capitalism, LAGOS, NANS, Northwest, PYMN, Rosa Luxemburg FoundationNo CommentsViews:
History As Battlefront As a Book on NANS Stirs Radical Reflexivity

By Adagbo Onoja History can get more and more complicated, especially when it is the history of the now basically dead National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). What the history shou... Read more

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Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

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Nigeria Shut on Day One of People’s Power

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: #EndBadGovernance, Abuja, History-making, JAF, Kano, LAGOS, Oshogbo, President Bola Tinubu1 CommentViews:
Nigeria Shut on Day One of People's Power

Nigeria remained shut throughout on August 1st, 2024, the first of a 10-day popular action against bad governance. It marks the spilling over to the streets of deep fissures bordering on irr... Read more

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UN Compels Attention to Underdevelopment Crisis in Benue State of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Cassava economy, Child nutrition, Herders/farmers clashes, IDPs, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Kano, LAGOS, RiversNo CommentsViews:
UN Compels Attention to Underdevelopment Crisis in Benue State of Nigeria

Less than a week ago, Intervention raised the centrality of elite reunion as a key condition for confronting the degree of underdevelopment in the Benue State. The platform thought and still... Read more

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Homage to Alache Ode

Posted By: adminon: March 14, 2023In: LifeworldTags: 'Japa', Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Aminu Tambuwal, Asiwaju Tinubu, Juliette Ukabiala, Kano, LAGOS, Mohammed Abubakar Rimi, Sule Lamido, The Guardian, The Triumph Newspapers, ‘Distant witnessing’No CommentsViews:
Homage to Alache Ode

By Adagbo Onoja The Facebook is a torturer. It is so because it is not every user who has no better use of it than splash all details there to affirm a disturbed and an insecure self. It sti... Read more

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Why Theirs is Different

Posted By: adminon: April 15, 2021In: LifeworldTags: Holy Rosary College - Adoka, LAGOS, St. Annes College - OtukpoNo CommentsViews:
Why Theirs is Different

Both those who would be travelling from far and near to bear witness to this wedding at the St Mary’s Pro Cathedral Church, Otukpo, come April 17th, 2021 and those attending digitally... Read more

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The Performative ‘Silences’ in Buhari’s Sallah Interview on Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Clash of Civilisation, Constitution Drafting Committee, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Segun Osoba, Kano, LAGOS, Portharcourt, Southern KadunaNo CommentsViews:
The Performative ‘Silences’ in Buhari’s Sallah Interview on Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis

All students of security start from or acknowledge the premise that security is not an objective thing but a question of power, a question of who is seeing a threat, from where and how. So,... Read more

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Change of Command at 6 Division, Nigerian Army                                                  

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: AOR, COAS, GOC, LAGOS, Portharcourt, ‘Operation Delta Safe’No CommentsViews:
Change of Command at 6 Division, Nigerian Army                                                  

A call for cooperation and commitment has gone out to commanders and troops of the 6 Division Nigerian Army so as to enable the new GOC succeed in his new posting. Major General Johnson Iref... Read more

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Our Nation @ War Against a Very Dangerous, Unseen and Ubiquitous Enemy, Says FG As It Meets Catholic Bishops, NASS on COVID-19

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2020In: Policy & GovernanceTags: CBCN, LAGOS, NASS, PTFNo CommentsViews:
Our Nation @ War Against a Very Dangerous, Unseen and Ubiquitous Enemy, Says FG As It Meets Catholic Bishops, NASS on COVID-19

The Federal Government is speaking the language of war as it meets different fractions of the power elite on COVID-19 in Nigeria. The language of war always implies the offensive-defensive l... Read more

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What If COVID-19 Had Emerged Not in Wuhan, China But in Lagos or Dhaka?

Posted By: adminon: February 29, 2020In: FlashbackTags: CHINA, Dhaka, Dr. Li Wenliang, Iran, LAGOS, WHONo CommentsViews:
What If COVID-19 Had Emerged Not in Wuhan, China But in Lagos or Dhaka?

This article, extracted from Prospects, (Feb 28th, 2020) touches on two of the most complicated or delicate issues in global health governance. By its original title – “The Unpalatable... 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

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