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African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: ABU Zaria, Bala/Bangura Debate, Dar es Salam, Decolonial Historiography, Historiography, Ibadan, Identity politics, IMF/World Bank, MacArthur, Mock OAU/AU Summit, Nation building, Nigerian economic crisis, Northern Nigerian History Research Scheme, NUC, State building, Zaria School of History, ‘FASS model’No CommentsViews:
African Academic Excellence: Implications for Politics and Development in Africa

Published below is the full text of the Lecture at the maiden edition of a symposium to honour the former Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Read more

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ABU, Zaria Honours Past Deans of FASS, Hits Nostalgic Button

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, FASS, Historiography, Identity politics, MacArthur, Nation building, NUC, State buildingNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Honours Past Deans of FASS, Hits Nostalgic Button

The Nigerian university system came under a reflexive scrutiny today at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where deans of the old Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) were called to be... Read more

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Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Anthropology, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Development, leaders, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Nation building, Philosophy, Political Science, Social sciences, SociologyNo CommentsViews:
Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Ordinarily, Intervention does not publish what is not original to it. That is how this place was set up and the unwritten law is not about to be changed but to be followed even more rigidly.... Read more

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What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Afenifere, Arewa, Brazil, Britain, Cuba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Ijaw National Youths Congress, India, Japan, Middle Belt Forum, Nation building, NELSON MANDELA, Ohanaeze, Ruling class, Singapore, South-South Forum, USA, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

By Prof Festus Iyayi It is another independence anniversary and time to turn to Prof Festus Iyayi for an idea of what and where Nigeria should be by now and whose responsibility it is to tak... 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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Towards Reconstructing Civil Society in Nigeria: An Apptitudinal Appraisal of Democracy, Freedom and Liberty

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Australia, Civil society, Civilisations, Europe, Nation building, New Zealand, NIGERIA, Shehu Usman Dan FodioNo CommentsViews:
Towards Reconstructing Civil Society in Nigeria: An Apptitudinal Appraisal of Democracy, Freedom and Liberty

By Ambassador Usman Sarki My thesis is that the state and government in Nigeria should primarily be concerned with protecting and supporting civil society in its entirety by first aligning t... Read more

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Nigeria is Bleeding and It is Time to Heal It – Kola Abiola

Posted By: adminon: June 08, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Bashorun MKO Abiola, Genuine federalism, Nation building, PRPNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria is Bleeding and It is Time to Heal It – Kola Abiola

His election as presidential candidate of about the only political party with roots in any sustained struggle for popular democracy may not have hit the headlines across Nigeria only because... Read more

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Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Arewa House Testament

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2020In: SpectacleTags: 'Mutumin Kirki', Arewa House, ICSA, Nation buildingNo CommentsViews:
Governor Kayode Fayemi’s Arewa House Testament

It is a long and involving speech worth publishing for the record, for those that may want to read it leisurely and so that we can always refer to it in future. Ordinarily, a Fayemi standpoi... Read more

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When the Kilba People Tell Their Own Story on December 21st, 2019

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Foreign policy, IPCR, Jimeta - Yola, Kilba Development Association, Nation building, Nationalist lores, NIIA, NIPSSNo CommentsViews:
When the Kilba People Tell Their Own Story on December 21st, 2019

The point is that Nigeria and the world will only be a better place if every identity tells its own story because no one can tell any other person’s story without turning it into a tool for... Read more

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