Latin America | Intervention

In Nigeria, We Must Urgently Re-examine Our Politics – Eng Muhammed Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2022In: GovernanceTags: Capitalism, ICT culture, Latin America, Satan, Severe poverty, Sub-Saharan AfricaNo CommentsViews:

Engineer Muhammed Abba-Gana, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and a member of the Board of Trustees, (BOT) of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) is asserting the case for... Read more

Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, APC, Asia, CHINA, Cuba, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Fourth Republic, Francis Fukuyama, Illiberalism, Iran, Latin America, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East, MKO Abiola, PDPNo CommentsViews:

By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more

Dr. Emmanuel Okwara, the other Priest – Political Scientist’s Silver Jubilee

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 'Undue Radicalism', Catholics, Chaplain, Christianity, Jesus Christ, Kubwa, Latin America, Strategic StudiesNo CommentsViews:

If religion has not taken the character of checkmate politics between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria but rather taken the radical tone with which the Catholics wrestled military dictators... Read more

‘Why a Coup May Happen in America’

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, American Revolution, Asia, Capitol Hill, CIA, FBI, Frank Krifka, General Mark Milley, Latin America, Liberal democracy, MIC, Mr. Chuck Schumer, NSD, SNAP, Thomas Sankara, Wrights MillsNo CommentsViews:

In this long but interesting piece, the author, a former General Secretary of the Campaign for Democracy, (CD) in Nigeria in the 1990s and a Professor of Political Science at the Lagos State... Read more

The Timeless Wisdom of Prof James Petras?

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Che Guevara, Imperialism, Latin America, Organic intellectualsNo CommentsViews:

Time and tide would seem to have taken the sting out of this contention by US based radical Sociologist, Professor James Petras. The blast from the scholar – activist extraordinaire is... Read more

The World in 2021

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Asia, ILO, Latin America, Multilateralism, Pax Americana, UNNo CommentsViews:

An interesting piece from the Inter Press Service by an ex-staff of the International Labour Organisation, (ILO), this offers what can be called an honest broker’s intervention. Its closing... Read more

Isn’t Violence Soaking Northern Nigeria? (2)

Posted By: adminon: November 29, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Conflict Management, Latin America, Multi-Track Diplomacy, Rwanda, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:

How does Northern Nigeria extricate itself from the cycle of violence it has sunk? This is the same as asking about what approach to conflict management has the greatest potential of success... Read more

Concluding Exploration of Implosion in Segun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play and Onyeisi Chiemeke’s June 12 Election: The CD and the Implosion of the Left

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2017In: BookspaceTags: Algeria, Asia, Elite, Europe, Latin America, Left, North America, Onyeisi Chiemeke, Right, Segun AdeniyiNo CommentsViews:

This is the third and concluding part of this joint review of the two books in question. This part could not follow the first two parts because a death disrupted the normal flow of things. A... Read more

Murtala Mohammed and the Culture of the Big Question

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 41st Anniversary of Murtala Mohammed, Asia, Brazil, Coup, Industrialisation, Latin America, Muhammadu Buhari, olusegun Obasanjo, South KoreaNo CommentsViews:

Murtala Mohammed and the Culture of the Big Question Today is the 41st anniversary of the assassination of General Murtala Ramat Mohammed. As usual, it provides an opportunity for individual... Read more