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Remembering Dr. Bene Madunagu

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: 'linguistic turn', Biological Sciences, Dr Bene Madunagu, Dr. Eddie Madunagu, Ferdinand de Saussure, Socialist feminism, University of Calabar, WINNo CommentsViews:
Remembering Dr. Bene Madunagu

That Dr. Bene Madunagu has breathed her last has been formally announced. Death brings a lot to a close for most human beings. It does for Dr. Bene but it will take generations before she fi... Read more

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Unhooking NIPR from the Path of Jacobinism

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2024In: GovernanceTags: 'linguistic turn', Adekeye Adebajo, Barry Buzan, Bolaji Akinyemi, Jacobinism, NIPR, Officer, Patrick Dele Cole, Raufu Mustapha, Soldier, Stanley Macebuh, Wittgenstein, ‘Empire of signs’No CommentsViews:
Unhooking NIPR from the Path of Jacobinism

By Adagbo Onoja The Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) is circulating a memo to military chiefs and other security agencies to press its case against what it calls “the appointmen... Read more

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Anticipating Odia Ofeimum’s New Book on Nigerian Democracy

Posted By: adminon: May 02, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', Logocentrism, Nigerian Democracy, Political Science, The EconomistNo CommentsViews:
Anticipating Odia Ofeimum's New Book on Nigerian Democracy

Intervention has not read this book yet but Intervention has received the cover page. The assumption here is that a book on The Challenges and Prospects of Nigerian Democracy from Odia Ofeim... Read more

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BUK Launches Hausa Dictionary

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2022In: SpectacleTags: 'linguistic turn', Meaning, Reality, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
BUK Launches Hausa Dictionary

The world itself has no names for anything in the world or everything in the world would have the same name in every languages. We know that is not the case. Instead, it is human beings who... Read more

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Interrupting Prof Adigun Agbaje’s Birthday

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', CODESRIA, Deconstruction, First Class, Gramsci, Hegemony, NAFTA, NANS, NPSA, Things Fall Apart, Zapatista MovementNo CommentsViews:
Interrupting Prof Adigun Agbaje’s Birthday

University of Ibadan political scientist, Prof Adigun Agbaje was a year older recently. It is either that he doesn’t particularly fancy the culture of elaborate festivities for a birthday or... Read more

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Inaugural Lecture With a Difference @ Veritas University, Abuja

Posted By: adminon: October 11, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', Aboki Publishers, CEPAD, Kraftbooks, NESA, UNICALNo CommentsViews:
Inaugural Lecture With a Difference @ Veritas University, Abuja

It cannot but be an Inaugural Lecture with a difference if it is the first Inaugural Lecture in a relatively new, faith-based university in Nigeria which is, however, determined to, one day... Read more

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Grand Narratives @ Risk: Class, Corruption and Culture in the February 23rd Poll in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 01, 2019In: BookspaceTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', 'linguistic turn', APGA, False Consciousness, Igbo, MIMEC, Shehu Othman Dan FodioNo CommentsViews:
Grand Narratives @ Risk: Class, Corruption and Culture in the February 23rd Poll in Nigeria

By Adagbo ONOJA The frightening rate at which the smaller parties completely disappeared in terms of self projection as well as the way presidential candidates and their communication strate... Read more

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