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The Urgent Need for Restructuring in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 09, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Lee Kuan Yew, Malaysia, Nigerian federalism, Restructuring, Singapore, State police, Unitary GovernmentNo CommentsViews:
The Urgent Need for Restructuring in Nigeria

The case for restructuring of Nigeria is surely alive except that academics seem to have seized it from the career politicians since December 2023 when Prof Attahiru asserted the imperative... Read more

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CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 'Rise of the Rest', Africa, APC, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, Dr. Julius Nyerere, Fair system, Keke- NAPEP, Lee Kuan Yew, Party School, PDP, PPI/IPSNo CommentsViews:
CORRECTED: The Nyerere Imperative and Dr Ganduje’s APC Party School Gambit

By Adagbo Onoja The frightening powerlessness of all the centres of power in Nigeria in facing down equally frightening indicators of the catastrophic compels us to be interested in any and... Read more

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Can the Oshiomholes Shift the Ideological Centre of Gravity in the Tinubu Fraction?

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Adams Oshiomhole, Atiku Abubakar, Bamidele Opeyemi, Chief Olusegun Obasano, IBB, Kalifa Mohammadu Sanusi 11, Lee Kuan Yew, Northern establishment, Nuhu Ribadu, Peter Obi, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Senator George Akume, The Left/Civil Society, Washington ConsensusNo CommentsViews:
Can the Oshiomholes Shift the Ideological Centre of Gravity in the Tinubu Fraction?

One question that dominated at the presentation of Zainab Usman’s book on Diversification of the Nigerian Economy on May 14th, 2023, is why the Nigerian elite has not been able to transform... Read more

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The Fall of PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2023In: SpectacleTags: APC, ASUU, Atiku Abubakar, Chief Solomon Lar, Gov Nyesom Wike, Gov Samuel Ortom, Lee Kuan Yew, Middle Belter, PDP, Senator David Mark2 CommentsViews:
The Fall of PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu

The likely scenarios in Nigerian politics in the next six months to one year are beginning to unfold, beginning with the sudden departure from the stage of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as National Chair... Read more

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Public Sector Leadership in Times of Crises

Posted By: adminon: March 17, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: AIG-Imoukhuede Foundation, Blavatnik School of Government - University of Oxford, Leadership, Lee Kuan Yew, Public sectorNo CommentsViews:
Public Sector Leadership in Times of Crises

By Attahiru M. Jega, PhD Introduction I begin by expressing my sincere thanks and appreciation for the honour done to me with the invitation to deliver this Keynote address, at today’s AIG P... Read more

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Should President Buhari Fear History?

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2022In: People in ActionTags: APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Sunday Awoniyi, Dr Ibrahim Tahir, Ghana, GNU, India, Lee Kuan Yew, PDP, Peter Obi, Prof Ango Abdullahi, Prof Eskor Toyo, Prof Sam Aluko, Singapore, TanzaniaNo CommentsViews:
Should President Buhari Fear History?

By Adagbo Onoja The wisdom that if the eye is not fixed on the sky, it has nowhere else to makes any sitting president vulnerable to probing engagement. There is though the late Prof Eskor T... Read more

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Waiting for the Magical Presidential Candidate of Nigeria’s Ruling Party

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2022In: SpectacleTags: APC, DEMOCRACY, Lee Kuan Yew, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Waiting for the Magical Presidential Candidate of Nigeria’s Ruling Party

Like the sky, all eyes are on Nigeria’s ruling party – the All Progressives Congress, (APC). In the matter of its presidential candidate for the 2023 General Elections, the APC is, of course... Read more

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2022 World Happiness Report Wonders How the World Could Be Happy @ a Time of Pandemic and War

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Lee Kuan Yew, Maroko, Tony Blair, VenezuelaNo CommentsViews:
2022 World Happiness Report Wonders How the World Could Be Happy @ a Time of Pandemic and War

Nigeria has yielded ground to Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania in terms of the happiest people in the world in the current edition of the World Happiness Report. But it was Nigeria the story sta... Read more

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Buharite Fires at Dele Momodu, Calls Him Judas Iscariot

Posted By: adminon: January 10, 2018In: SpectacleTags: Bauchi State, BOKO HARAM, CNN money, Lee Kuan Yew, Mahathir Muhammed, Malaysia, Olam, PDP, UAE, WACOTNo CommentsViews:
Buharite Fires at Dele Momodu, Calls Him Judas Iscariot

An obvious supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari is up against columnist Dele Momodu for suggesting that the president has run out of gas and should step aside from struggling for power in... Read more

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Strong Leader or Strong Institutions? The Jega-Bande-Osaghae Consensus

Posted By: adminon: October 29, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Africa Review Today, Charismatic Authority, EFCC, ICPC, Lee Kuan Yew, PEFSNo CommentsViews:
Strong Leader or Strong Institutions? The Jega-Bande-Osaghae Consensus

“Gentlemen, the vote is 11 to 1 and 1 has it”. That is the iconic statement credited to Abraham Lincoln to his cabinet on a policy issue that is now used as the all time demonstration of the... Read more

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From Borno to Borgu: A New Frontier of Insurgency in Nigeria
From Borno to Borgu: A New Frontier of Insurgency in Nigeria

From Borno to Borgu: A New Frontier of Insurgency in Nigeria

August 24, 2026
Fear, Identity Securitisation and Power Politics in Nigeria
Fear, Identity Securitisation and Power Politics in Nigeria

Fear, Identity Securitisation and Power Politics in Nigeria

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On Agbenu Ochoga's 'Povertycracy: The Syndicate'
On Agbenu Ochoga's 'Povertycracy: The Syndicate'

On Agbenu Ochoga’s ‘Povertycracy: The Syndicate’

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

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

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ABU, Zaria Plans Huge Memorial for Prof Okello Oculi
ABU, Zaria Plans Huge Memorial for Prof Okello Oculi

ABU, Zaria Plans Huge Memorial for Prof Okello Oculi

August 23, 2026

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