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Dipo Fashina and Asisi Asobie As a Spectacle @ Cde Hassan Summonu’s Event

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, BUK, CAPP, LSE, NANS, NLC, NTA, OAU Ile-Ife, Philosophy, UNN, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Dipo Fashina and Asisi Asobie As a Spectacle @ Cde Hassan Summonu's Event

By Adagbo Onoja The 85th birthday and book presentation in honour of pioneer president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Comrade Hassan Summonu has come and gone with its many sides. Al... Read more

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Explaining the Decline of Oxford and Cambridge in the 2026 ‘Good University’ Guide

Posted By: adminon: September 24, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: British higher education scene, LSE, Oxbridge, STEM, University of Durham, University of St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:
Explaining the Decline of Oxford and Cambridge in the 2026 ‘Good University’ Guide

Those who habour the opinion that Oxford and Cambridge are overrated would be tempted to see the result of the latest ‘good university’ guide by The Times as their ultimate evidence. But why... Read more

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The Women Are, Indeed, Coming

Posted By: adminon: March 16, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Cambridge, Colombia, Harvard, LSE, Manchester, MIT, NYU, St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:
The Women Are, Indeed, Coming

Intervention is updating its watch on the phenomenal control of some of the most strategic universities in the world today by women. It is a paradoxical rise for women to provide the leaders... Read more

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Onyeka, UK Based Nigerian Singer, Follows up Her Debut, ‘Mornings’ With Her Second Single, ‘Dreams’

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 'Dreams', 'Mornings', LSE, UKNo CommentsViews:
Onyeka, UK Based Nigerian Singer, Follows up Her Debut, ‘Mornings’ With Her Second Single, ‘Dreams’

Hers is a UK based Nigerian family from which Nigeria is sure to hear somehow soon. Large by British standard but well educated all in some of the toughest British universities such as the L... Read more

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Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey Joins LSE As an Academic

Posted By: adminon: September 01, 2020In: People in ActionTags: LSE, SOAS, University of LondonNo CommentsViews:
Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey Joins LSE As an Academic

In the context of voice as a form of power, Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey joining the academic community at the London School of Economics today would be considered great news for global academia... Read more

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Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2020In: BookspaceTags: CODESRIA, Development, Kamuzu Banda, LSE, Mea culpas, Neoliberalism, Prof Charles Soludo, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)

As long as the framing of the African crisis is what will tie together the three other forms of power to be mobilised for continental emancipation, so long will the loss of any of the analyt... Read more

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Thandika Mkandawire: A Tribute By Eghosa Osaghae

Posted By: adminon: April 14, 2020In: People in ActionTags: 'Suya', CODESRIA, LSE, University of LondonNo CommentsViews:
Thandika Mkandawire: A Tribute By Eghosa Osaghae

As a one-time Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, (CODESRIA), the Malawi born Professor Thandika Mkandawire who passed on  March 27th... Read more

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Policy Brief on Viability of Dialogue With Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram Emerges

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Al-Shabaab, BOKO HARAM, Global Terrorism Index, Institute of Security Studies, ISWAP, LSE, NIGERIA, Sciences Po, Somalia, The 'African condition'No CommentsViews:
Policy Brief on Viability of Dialogue With Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram Emerges

A new policy brief that counter-insurgency operatives in East and West Africa in particular might want to look at has emerged. Published July 24th, 2019 by the Pretoria based Institute of Se... Read more

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So, Prof Alaba Ogunsanwo is Still on Active Service!

Posted By: adminon: April 04, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: 'Africa as the centrepiece of Nigerian foreign policy', LSE, UI, ‘Ibadan School of Peace Studies’No CommentsViews:
So, Prof Alaba Ogunsanwo is Still on Active Service!

Sighting a Prof Alaba Ogunsanwo on active duty in any country would be news. As a member of the second generation of political scientists who indegenised the discipline in Nigeria or explore... Read more

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But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Essential Mahmud, Ethnic Politics in Nigeria, Humanities Complex, LSE, NIPSS, State CapitalismNo CommentsViews:
But for Tragedy, Founding Fathers Planned Every Nigerian University to Be World Class

It is an intriguing claim until the details behind it begin to be uploaded. That is the claim the above title captures as well as the added point that even the location of the earliest unive... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!
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