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Akinterinwa, Jega, Osaghae to Discuss Nigeria @ a NIIA-University of London Forum

Posted By: adminon: February 01, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Crisis, NIGERIA, NIIA, OECD, University of LondonNo CommentsViews:

Three Nigerian scholars are set to offer a situated reading of crisis in Nigeria on an online event Tuesday, February 7th, 2023. The online event jointly by the School of Advanced Study of t... Read more

African Players to a Rescue That Sadly Didn’t Happen

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Black players, Didier Deschamps, French team, Japan, NIGERIA, Sierra LeoneNo CommentsViews:

The French coach Didier Deschamps did something amazing and historic in his substitutions against Argentina: He took out all the white players (apart from Lloris, the goalkeeper) and fielded... Read more

See How Older Men and Women Have Taken Over the World

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Angela Alvarez, Brazil, CHINA, Latin Grammy, Malaysia, NIGERIA, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

Officially, age is a protected characteristic, meaning that it is out of sync to go about asking people about their age as a requirement for this or that. But that is the official narrative.... Read more

Fake Cough Syrup Scandal in The Gambia Sends Fears Across West Africa, Especially Huge Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 09, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: BBC, Egypt, Garri, NDLEA, NIGERIA, Semovita, The GambiaNo CommentsViews:

The BBC is reporting what could become another public health crisis in West Africa given the similarity of attitudes, pharmaceutical network and institutional norms across the region. It is... Read more

Who Will Neutralise Ethnicity in Kenya and in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: August 16, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: 'Emancipatory ethnicity'; 'Clash of Civilisations', Kenya, Kikuyu, Left, Luo, NIGERIA, North-South dichotomy, Prof Ali Mazrui, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Prof Nzongola Ntalaja, Prof Samuel Huntington, SenegalNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It can now be said that the 2022 presidential election in Kenya has come and gone. A winner has been announced and is already being congratulated. The contest has not ended i... Read more

Urban Riots Across Sierra Leone Trigger Fears of a West African Spring (Or Is It Summer?)

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Arab Spring, Freetown, GWOT, NIGERIA, Sierra Leone, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:

Urban riots which kicked off peacefully last Monday have reached violent crescendo as for the government to clamp curfew on the country. Curfew is now running from 7 pm to 7 am unlike when i... Read more

Can Peter Obi Make It in Nigeria?: A View From Cameroon

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africans, Aso Rock, NIGERIA, Peter Gregory ObiNo CommentsViews:

Rev. Elangwe Namaya One literary scholar stated as he weighed and assessed the political trends in Nigeria regarding the forthcoming elections: “The quest for PVC (Permanent Voters Car... Read more

Nigeria’s Prof Olufemi Taiwo Mentioned in Prospect Magazine’s 50 Top Thinkers in the World

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Cornell University, Decolonisation, Knowledge – power nexus, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

Prof Olufemi Taiwo, the author of Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously is among the 50 individuals that UK’s ideas magazine – Prospect – considers as the... Read more

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:

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

Prof Olufemi Taiwo Interrupts Decolonisation Theory in a New Book

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Cornell University, Decolonisation, Knowledge – power nexus, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

It is a 2022 publication. But currency is not the only unique selling point of Professor Olufemi Taiwo’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. A book questioning the empow... Read more