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A Remarkably Prosperous 2026 Wish to All Intervention Readers

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: 2025, 2026, Intervention, North America, Ordeals, Publishing holidays, Survival, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
A Remarkably Prosperous 2026 Wish to All Intervention Readers

In a few hours hence, 2025 would have passed into history and been succeeded by 2026. There should be no greater joy than surviving 2025 although survival is so cheap a form or level of livi... Read more

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Africa Needs a Coordinated Approach to Internationalisation

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Agenda 2063, Ajayi Crowther University, Continental Education Strategy for Africa, DRC, Europe, Internationalisation, North America, Open universities, Tanzania, UNISA, University of Kigali, University of the WitwatersrandNo CommentsViews:
Africa Needs a Coordinated Approach to Internationalisation

With as much as about USD$17,000 visa deposit requirement by some African countries, the ‘mission impossible’ alarm was bound to be heard  sooner than later about internationalis... Read more

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Nigeria Compiles New Ambassadors, High Commissioners, Cs-G for Posting

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2023In: GovernanceTags: Australia, North America, Rising Asian powers, The Caribbeans, Western Europe African countries, ‘Hardship posts’No CommentsViews:
Nigeria Compiles New Ambassadors, High Commissioners, Cs-G for Posting

All is set for a new set of ambassadors, High Commissioners, Consuls-General and Chargé D’affaires (CDA) of Nigeria to over one hundred countries. The process is commencing with the re... Read more

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Walter Rodney in the Battle of Memory

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2022In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Frantz Fanon, Latin America, North AmericaNo CommentsViews:
Walter Rodney in the Battle of Memory

At the risk of looking back too much and continuing to stumble, this star studded reflection on Walter Rodney is what most would welcome. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, Rodney like Fanon... Read more

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There is, Indeed, No Place Like Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Bororo, Effik, Elite, Emir of Muri, Europe, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Igboho, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, North America, Oodua, UAE, Yoruba, ‘Yahoo yahoo’1 CommentViews:
There is, Indeed, No Place Like Nigeria

Nigeria continues to be a contested national project, with optimists and pessimists articulating their arguments every now and then on why each’s position is the correct one. This piece whic... Read more

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State By State Distribution of Ambassadorial Appointees Ahead of Presidential Fairness Pledge

Posted By: adminon: July 02, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Diplomatic Hubs, North America, Western EuropeNo CommentsViews:
State By State Distribution of Ambassadorial Appointees Ahead of Presidential Fairness Pledge

Nigeria is still widening recruitment into the ambassadorial circuit as the president renews the appointments of 12 non-career ambassadors, resting that on a performance evaluation necessita... Read more

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Nigeria, and Nearly Africa, Totally Out of 2020 Global University Ranking

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2019In: BookspaceTags: California, Europe, Global Top 10, London, North America, QS Ranking, UK, USNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria, and Nearly Africa, Totally Out of 2020 Global University Ranking

Unless someone else reads the list again and discovers otherwise, Nigeria is totally out of the global ranking of universities in the 2020 version. Unlike before when Covenant University and... Read more

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Concluding Exploration of Implosion in Segun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play and Onyeisi Chiemeke’s June 12 Election: The CD and the Implosion of the Left

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2017In: BookspaceTags: Algeria, Asia, Elite, Europe, Latin America, Left, North America, Onyeisi Chiemeke, Right, Segun AdeniyiNo CommentsViews:
Concluding Exploration of Implosion in Segun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play and Onyeisi Chiemeke’s June 12 Election: The CD and the Implosion of the Left

This is the third and concluding part of this joint review of the two books in question. This part could not follow the first two parts because a death disrupted the normal flow of things. A... Read more

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Nigeria: Making Sense of Obasanjo’s Offensive

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abacha, Akintola Williams, APC, APGA, buhari, Dogara, DSS, IBB, Mandela, Marshal Alex Badeh, North America, OBJ, PDP, Western EuropNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria: Making Sense of Obasanjo’s Offensive

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday returned to the instrument of a scorching discourse of the nation which, in spite of its concessions to the Buhari administration especially in t... Read more

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Is Nigeria Immune to Hate Speeches?

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, Ahmed Mohd Makarfi, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, APC, Chief Odigie-Oyegun, CITAD, Europe, Funke Egbemode, North America, PDP, Rwanda, Y Z Y'auNo CommentsViews:
Is Nigeria Immune to Hate Speeches?

There are instances of language use in Nigeria that would raise the alarm bell anywhere in much of Europe and North America. Is it then the case that Nigerians have internalized and neutrali... Read more

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