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Stella Maris, Defiant Nigerian, Fights Removal as Rector of UK’s University of St Andrews

Posted By: adminon: August 04, 2024In: SpectacleTags: American campuses, Anti-Semitism, Gaza, Israel, NIGERIA, Rector, Scotland, University of St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:

Her name must be somewhere at the top on the list of such people in Nigeria’s agentian geopolitics if such is a functional component of Nigeria’s diplomacy. She would be so considered not be... Read more

In Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria, Africa and the World Lost an Artist

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, Africa, Descartes, Fanon, Hegel, Individuality, Joyce, Marx, NIGERIA, Onyeka Onwenu, Shakespeare, The worldNo CommentsViews:

Artists and philosophers do not die. The world is still quoting Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Shakespeare, Joyce, Achebe, Fanon and so on because they have set the terms of the conversation throug... Read more

Student Loan and its Discontent

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2024In: GovernanceTags: BWIs, Finland, Germany, NIGERIA, Nigeria Education Loan Fund, Nigeria Student Loans Board, Norway, Student Loan Act, Sweden, The Confession of an Economic Hitman, USANo CommentsViews:

By Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine Mr. President, I focus on the Student Loan Act, which you signed into law enthusiastically on April 3, 2024. Many uncritical thinkers have applauded you over... Read more

Prof Jibrin Ibrahim to Set Benchmarks for Enhanced Security and National Unity April 16th, 2024

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: 'Everywhere War', ABU Zaria, Intelligence, Military, NIGERIA, ‘Predator Empire’No CommentsViews:

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Nigeria is providing the platform for a potentially explosive entry into national security analysis. On April 16th, Nigeria’s Prof Jibrin Ibrahim will be de... Read more

Achille Mbembe, Africa’s First Holberg Prize Laureate, Speaks on Award, Africa and on Planetary Consciousness

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Afropolitan space, Apartheid, Denationalisation, Global South, Holberg Prize, NIGERIA, Planetary consciousness, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Edwin Naidu Professor Achille Mbembe’s person, scholarship and administrative politics may not be what everyone accepts but very few would be surprised that the Johannesburg based Africa... Read more

Tinubu’s Language Game Against Labelling, Blanket Stereotyping of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: ECOWAS, EFCC, Foreign policy, Language game, Liliputianism, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

Is it too early to concede that President Bola Tinubu gets it right each time he steps out in representational practice of power? His language game is usually so well put that no platform t... Read more

Nigerian, Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu, Breaks Into Cambridge University Establishment, Elected 7th Wolfson College President

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Cambridge University, NIGERIA, Oxford, Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, UCL, University of Benin, University of Strathclyde, Wolfson CollegeNo CommentsViews:

Tense and unstable domestically from unproductive quarrelling over pittances left by the lords of neoliberal globalisation, Nigeria nevertheless never tires in exceptionalism on a global sca... Read more