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Dr. Kole Shettima’s Honorary DSc Moment @ Federal University, Kashere  

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2025In: FlashbackTags: (OON, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Alhaji (Dr.) Bashir Albishir Bukar Machinama, Civil society, DSc, L’ONN), MacArthur Foundation, Rashidi dattijo, University of Maiduguri, University of Toronto, Zanna Yuroma of Machina EmirateNo CommentsViews:
Dr. Kole Shettima’s Honorary DSc Moment @ Federal University, Kashere  

Philanthropic capitalism got another symbolic endorsement in Nigeria at the weekend when Dr Kole Shettima of MacArthur Foundation was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree by the Fede... Read more

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Communique of HUMINT, WRAPA, NAWOJ, PLAC and PAAC Sokoto Workshop

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: ANWE, DEMOCRACY, Gender, HUMINT, Journalism, MacArthur Foundation, NAWOJ, PAAC, PLAC, Sokoto, WRAPANo CommentsViews:
Communique of HUMINT, WRAPA, NAWOJ, PLAC and PAAC Sokoto Workshop

Reproduced below for the interest of researchers on gender and democratisation is the communique from a 2-day capacity building workshop for women journalists. It was organised by HUMINT in... Read more

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Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Raises the Stakes Again on Researching Conflict in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Bwari, CDD, CRD, MacArthur Foundation, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Methodology, Mixed method, NPSA, Positivism, Reason, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Raises the Stakes Again on Researching Conflict in Nigeria

Adagbo Onoja reporting It is no more only in heartland academia, if it ever was, where concern for secure knowledge is an article of faith. Other arenas of knowledge production are equally c... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Probes Into Challenges of Quality Higher Education in Africa @ Its 60th Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, FGN, MacArthur Foundation, media, World BankNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Probes Into Challenges of Quality Higher Education in Africa @ Its 60th Anniversary

Nearly everyone says university education in Nigeria is all about production and circulation of illiterates. The World Bank says so, the Nigerian Government is comfortable with that and most... Read more

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MacArthur Foundation and Nation Building in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Chief Usman Nga-Kupi, Corruption in Nigeria, MacArthur Foundation, Nation building, Prof. John Palfrey, ‘Hero of Justice’No CommentsViews:
MacArthur Foundation and Nation Building in Nigeria?

By Adagbo Onoja The language of ‘nation building’ is almost an exclusive language of great powers for whom nation building is a major foreign policy tool. That was the source of the initial... Read more

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Electoral Hub Taps Into INEC Ad-hoc Staff Experience

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2023In: GovernanceTags: 2023 International Democracy Day, Abuja, Electoral accountability, INEC, MacArthur Foundation, Madiba Foundation for Good Governance, The Electoral Hub, ‘Organizing for a New Nigeria’No CommentsViews:
Electoral Hub Taps Into INEC Ad-hoc Staff Experience

The Abuja based Electoral Hub wants to capture the insights of those who have experienced serving as electoral ad-hoc staff. It’s approach to that is a Roundtable to which it is inviti... Read more

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NPSA Communique of the Meeting on Reforming the Electoral Process in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: 2023 General Elections, Ad-hoc staff, CISLAC, First-Past-the-Post System, Foreign interests in Nigerian elections, INEC, MacArthur Foundation, Modified FPTP, National Commissioners, NPSA, Political parties, Resident Electoral Commissioners, Uwais CommitteeNo CommentsViews:
NPSA Communique of the Meeting on Reforming the Electoral Process in Nigeria

On-going electoral experience in Nigeria makes some of the recommendations here crucial inputs and the communique publishable in its entirety. Or so does Intervention think, even if only for... Read more

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Prof Adele Jinadu Has Killed a Conceptual Elephant

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2023In: BookspaceTags: 'Judicial Activism', 'Jurisprudence of the crippled oracle', Democratisation, India, Kenya, MacArthur Foundation, UK, USNo CommentsViews:
Prof Adele Jinadu Has Killed a Conceptual Elephant

The big question in the 53 page PDF text (at least the one Intervention got) is the tricky question of what judicial activism brings or takes away from democracy/democratisation as the case... Read more

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BUK’s Mambayya House Lights the Candle With Series on J S Tarka, Aminu Kano, Akunyili and Others

Posted By: adminon: May 24, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Aminu Kano, Awo, BUK, CDS, Dora Akunyili, Emancipatory Ethnicity, Joseph Tarka, MacArthur FoundationNo CommentsViews:
BUK's Mambayya House Lights the Candle With Series on J S Tarka, Aminu Kano, Akunyili and Others

It is what they call lighting the candle in one little corner, the candle being a performance of the illumination that light brings to darkness. Nigeria is a dark space of ethno-religious an... Read more

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In Jigawa State of Nigeria, Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad is Democracy’s Paradox

Posted By: adminon: February 28, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Alhaji Sule Lamido, APC, Commissioner for Health, Jigawa State, MacArthur Foundation, Maternal mortality, Media Adviser, PDPNo CommentsViews:
In Jigawa State of Nigeria, Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad is Democracy's Paradox

Intervention or, more appropriately, some people within it, ought to have known that Dr. Nurrudden Mohammed was contesting to be a Senator from Jigawa State of Nigeria. He did hint Intervent... Read more

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