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The Ideal of “Competence” in the Challenge of Leadership Recruitment in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: June 26, 2022In: GovernanceTags: Competenc, DEMOCRACY, E. D Morel, NIGERIA1 CommentViews:
The Ideal of “Competence” in the Challenge of Leadership Recruitment in Nigeria

By Amb Usman Sarki I have nothing against competence but I am only suggesting that we should look at it more critically in order to place it at its right level of importance in determining t... Read more

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Inflationary Impacts and Digital Connectivity

Posted By: adminon: May 03, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Equiano Sub-Sea Cable, Kenya, NIGERIA, Peace Cable, TogoNo CommentsViews:
Inflationary Impacts and Digital Connectivity

Although not a formal piece, this crisp portrait turns out an organised insight into what is happening to all of us, partly as a result of war in Ukraine and partly arising from the structur... Read more

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Farewell to Emmanuel Yawe

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 1983 Coup, ACF, Alhaji Abba Dabo, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, ALSCON, Bala Usman group of scholars, Journalism, Middle – Belt, New Nigerian Newspapers, NIGERIA, Northern Christians and Muslims, Northern Nigeria, OICNo CommentsViews:
Farewell to Emmanuel Yawe

By Adagbo ONOJA Each time Intervention decides to stop featuring news of deaths, such is always when someone close to it dies. This is the case of the late Emmanuel Yawe who reportedly died... Read more

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Ash Wednesday Extraordinaire

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Ash Wednesday, Lent, NIGERIA, Peace and Conflict StudiesNo CommentsViews:
Ash Wednesday Extraordinaire

It must be an extraordinary Ash Wednesday which catches in one place two senior fishers of men (and women) and a future but political fisher of men. And so, even though the event wasn’t quit... Read more

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New Book: Researching Land Reform in Zimbabwe

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Australia, CMAG, Masvingo Province, NIGERIA, Prof Ian Scoones, SOUTH AFRICA, Zimbabwe, ZimbabwelandNo CommentsViews:
New Book: Researching Land Reform in Zimbabwe

Between 2000 and 2003, Zimbabwe land reform conflict was one of the hottest issues in global politics, not as hot as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq only because Zimbabwe is not an oil produci... Read more

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A Memorial for the Pan-Africanist of the Everyday

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2022In: People in ActionTags: NIGERIA, NLC, Pan-AfricanismNo CommentsViews:
A Memorial for the Pan-Africanist of the Everyday

He was a spectacle at whichever head office of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) you met him, be it at Yaba in Lagos or at the Central Business District in Abuja. He wasn’t a sentry b... Read more

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Edmund Burke, the Paramountcy of Reason and the Future of Democracy in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2022In: GovernanceTags: DEMOCRACY, Edmund Burke, NIGERIA, RepresentationNo CommentsViews:
Edmund Burke, the Paramountcy of Reason and the Future of Democracy in Nigeria

By Amb Usman Sarki There might be no better time than today to remind ourselves of the wise words of the Philosopher, Edmund Burke when he wrote that, “Before men are put forward into the gr... Read more

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Nigeria As a Study in Strong Global Presence

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Ideas, NIGERIA, Power, Royal African SocietyNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria As a Study in Strong Global Presence

It was a November 2021 event but the symbolism of the picture still resonates. It speaks to Nigeria mysteriously materialising itself in a manner that it is never absent in the world. At any... Read more

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Buhari’s Blast From Nowhere

Posted By: adminon: June 27, 2021In: SpectacleTags: CORRUPTION, NIGERIA, PoliticsNo CommentsViews:
Buhari's Blast From Nowhere

Did President Buhari ever utter these words? It is circulating but none of those who posted it can say when and where the president might have said so. Yet, it is not beyond Buhari, especial... Read more

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The Complexity of Selecting a Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria And How to Fix It

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2021In: SpectacleTags: NIGERIA, Transparency, Vice-ChancellorsNo CommentsViews:
The Complexity of Selecting a Vice-Chancellor in Nigeria And How to Fix It

Prof. Ayodeji Olukoju Appointment of vice-chancellors is problematic in some Nigerian universities.  Some universities in Nigeria are in crisis over the selection of vice-chancellors. From I... Read more

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