NIGERIA Archives - Page 2 of 12

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

NPSA Cuts Into the Democracy Conundrum in Nigeria With Supercharged Sessions

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Coups, Development, Liberal democracy, NIGERIA, NPSANo CommentsViews:

The knowledge industry in Nigeria may be limping, just like other sectors but the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) appears determined to take the mandate of knowledge seriously.... Read more

Electoral Spasms in Liberia As EOM Calls for Calm?

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Capitalist democracy, ECOWAS, ELECTION, EOM, Liberia, NIGERIA, Oxfam, Socialism, The EconomistNo CommentsViews:

The ECOWAS Election Observation Mission in the presidential and legislative elections in Liberia is suing for calm. A statement titled “Preliminary Declaration – Liberia General Elections” p... Read more

Can Goodluck Jonathan’s WAEF & Attahiru Jega’s EOM Make an African Exception of the October 2023 Elections in Liberia?

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Capitalist democracy, ECOWAS, ELECTION, EOM, Liberia, NIGERIA, Oxfam, Socialism, The EconomistNo CommentsViews:

The stakes are high, not only because two signifying individuals in democratic practice in Africa are involved but also because democracy itself is in a stalemate. Democracy has been mobilis... Read more

Should Nigeria Pursue An Assertive Foreign Policy?

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2023In: GovernanceTags: BRICS, Coup de’tat, ECOWAS, G5, Niger Republic, NIGERIA, North Africa, Sahel, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Nigeria’s participation in the recently held BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, had rekindled the debate about the country’s leadership role in... Read more

Oxford University Heading for a Decade Long, Uninterrupted No. 1 in THE Global Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: GovernanceTags: California, Chicago, Egypt, Epistemological hegemony, Harvard, MIT, NIGERIA, Oxford, SOUTH AFRICA, Stanford, THE, UCLNo CommentsViews:

UK’s Oxford University is heading for a decade long, uninterrupted number One position on The Higher Education (THE) global ranking. It has been in that position for the eight year running w... Read more