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If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: 'Inevitability of Instability', 'Nupe About Turn', ABU, Alhaji Turi Mohammed, Community Action for Popular Participation - CAPP, James O'Connel, New Nigerian, Northern establishment, Prof Jerry Gana, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

American artist, Orson Scott Card, must be right to submit that “…there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world.” Alth... Read more

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Goodbye, Dan Agbese – Elder Simon Shango (MFR)

Posted By: adminon: November 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: and Ray Ekpu, Benue Province, Clement Ende, Clement Isaiah, David Attah, Dele Giwa, Kwimbles, New Nigerian, Razak Aremu, Yakubu, Yakubu Ali, Yakubu MohammedNo CommentsViews:
Goodbye, Dan Agbese  - Elder Simon Shango (MFR)

In this short but historically rich recollection, the author who was chief publicist of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in the Second Republic gives an insight into the late Chie... Read more

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My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Achebe, Discourse theory, Geopolitics, Halford Mackinder, Lewis Obi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Concord, New Nigerian, NIIA, Popular culture, The Guardian, ‘Centuries of humiliationNo CommentsViews:
My Reply On Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s ‘A Farewell to Policy’

A crisis of deadline makes it absolutely impossible for me to do justice to the ‘order’ that I elaborate on Prof Bolaji Akinyemi’s A Farewell to Policy which I have been accused of over-rati... Read more

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Nigerian Left Goes Into Mediated Representation of Yima Sen, Salihu Bappa & Balarabe Musa

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2021In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, African Analyst, African Studies, Baze University - Abuja, Daily Times, New Nigerian, NPNNo CommentsViews:
Nigerian Left Goes Into Mediated Representation of Yima Sen, Salihu Bappa & Balarabe Musa

Death can be constructed. Or, death is constructed. Death that is not mourned may be real but still of no meaning or significance. So, mourning is death constructivism – making sense of a pa... Read more

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Nigeria’s Current Trajectory Too Dangerous to Wait for 2023 – Dr Usman Bugaje

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: genocide, Mallam Mamman Daura, New Nigerian, ROAPE, Southern Kaduna, USIPNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Current Trajectory Too Dangerous to Wait for 2023 – Dr Usman Bugaje

There is no time to waste in creating change in Nigeria because the country is already on too dangerous a trajectory, peace and democracy activist, Dr Usman Bugaje has said. Dr. Bugaje was s... Read more

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Nigeria Police Seizing the Initiative At Last?

Posted By: adminon: April 12, 2020In: GovernanceTags: 'NN Parley', New Nigerian, Nigeria PoliceNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Police Seizing the Initiative At Last?

The now dead New Nigerian used to run a series of explosive interviews under what it called ‘The New Nigerian Parley’ or ‘NN Parley’ for short. In one of the series w... Read more

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Three Years of Intervention and Its Critics

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2019In: BookspaceTags: Clan, Emancipation, ethnicity, Global Energy, Kaduna Mafia, Nationalism, New Nigerian, Prof Mvendaga Jibo, race, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Three Years of Intervention and Its Critics

Started July 27th, 2016, Intervention is exactly three years old today. It was a very exciting moment at Intervention earlier this week when a 45 year old editorial by the defunct New Nigeri... Read more

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Buhari, Naomi Campbell, Kukah and Mantu’s Siezure of Easter

Posted By: adminon: April 01, 2018In: People in ActionTags: 'Convergence of Civilisation', Chibok girls, Clash of Civilisation, Leah, New NigerianNo CommentsViews:
Buhari, Naomi Campbell, Kukah and Mantu's Siezure of Easter

It is an odd combination in identity terms but they share a collective identity in doing something out of the rather routine, predictable, boring ways which has characterised every major fes... Read more

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Savannah Centre Throws Responsibility Jigsaw for ‘Violence Without Machete’ Back to the Nigerian Media

Posted By: adminon: May 20, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Authority stealing', 'Council of the Wise', 'Violence without machete', Amb Abdullahi Omaki, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais, Kano, New Nigerian, Nigerian media, Prof Teun Van Dijk, Radio Télévision des Mille Collines, Savannah Centre for DiplomacyNo CommentsViews:
Savannah Centre Throws Responsibility Jigsaw for ‘Violence Without Machete’ Back to the Nigerian Media

Left to the landmark judgment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in December 2003, the matter of responsibility for media content and, by implication, hate speech would be con... Read more

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The Secret of the 1914 Amalgamation – Comrade Reuben Ziri

Posted By: adminon: January 25, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Inevitability of Instability', 'Nupe About Turn', ABU, Alhaji Turi Mohammed, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre - CISLAC, Community Action for Popular Participation - CAPP, James O'Connel, New Nigerian, Northern establishment, Prof Jerry Gana, Prof Okwudiba Nnoli, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
The Secret of the 1914 Amalgamation – Comrade Reuben Ziri

The Secret of the 1914 Amalgamation – Comrade Reuben Ziri By Adagbo ONOJA There is a sense in which Reuben Ziri is a study in contradictions. When he entered the Department of History at Ahm... Read more

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