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Identity, Authoritarianism and Democracy: An Introduction to Jibrin Ibrahim’s Scholarly Works on Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Power shift', Authoritarianism, Dele Giwa, Hausa-Fulani, Identity politics, IPOB, Ken Saro-wiwa, North, Office of the First Lady, PDP, Sharia, Talakawa, The Pentecostal Republic, The rentier state, Third Term, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Identity, Authoritarianism and Democracy: An Introduction to Jibrin Ibrahim’s Scholarly Works on Politics in Nigeria

In this piece, Dr Yusuf Bangura, a co-editor of a book on selected works of Prof Jibrin Ibrahim provides a foretaste of the broth. Those who have had the privilege of reading this text elsew... Read more

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Maiden Lecture in Honour of Magaji Dambatta Holds August 27th, 2024 in Kano

Posted By: adminon: August 25, 2024In: FlashbackTags: Aminu Kano, NEPU, North, NPCNo CommentsViews:
Maiden Lecture in Honour of Magaji Dambatta Holds August 27th, 2024 in Kano

Come August 27th, 2024, the late Mallam Magaji Dambatta will resurface in Kano memories. The maiden edition of an annual lecture series in his memories will hold that day. Intervention recal... Read more

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Professor ‘Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Human Capacity Developer and Political Economist: My Reminiscences (1)

Posted By: adminon: August 24, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Baba Zaria, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, Marxism, North, Offa, UNILORIN1 CommentViews:
Professor 'Rauf Ayoade Dunmoye: Human Capacity Developer and Political Economist: My Reminiscences (1)

By Prof Hassan Saliu Since the news of his demise hit the airwaves, there has been an outpouring of grief from his family members, friends, students, colleagues and acquaintances. Reading th... Read more

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Can All the King’s Men and All the King’s Horses Still Rescue the Tinubu Imaginary from the Anti-Hunger Protests?

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: #EndSARS, 'Ali Must Go', Chief Bode George, IPPS, Mass protests, Muhammadu Buhari, North, ‘Ango Must Go’No CommentsViews:
Can All the King’s Men and All the King’s Horses Still Rescue the Tinubu Imaginary from the Anti-Hunger Protests?

By The Staff Barring unlikely last minute concessions, protesters are set to hit the streets against hunger and hardship linked to President Bola Tinubu’s avalanche of taxes and perceived po... Read more

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Re: Senator Ningi’s Hoopla: A Case of Honor among Thieves Principles?

Posted By: adminon: March 30, 2024In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Anthropologist Clifford Geertz, North, padding, Senator Abdul Ningi, Spiral science theoryNo CommentsViews:
Re: Senator Ningi's Hoopla: A Case of Honor among Thieves Principles?

Senator Abdul Ningi has recently been in the eye of the storm. It echoes in this short piece in which an academic replies a pundit. As is typical of Nigeria, nothing escapes the North-South... Read more

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Witness to the Wedding of Ra’ida Abdulqadir, the Conqueror

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2023In: LifeworldTags: Borno State, Delta State, Islam or Christianity, Maiduguri, North, South, University of MaiduguriNo CommentsViews:
Witness to the Wedding of Ra’ida Abdulqadir, the Conqueror

We never get to know a person until a certain thing happens. This is the story of this Kano-Borno-Delta girl but who is now an eaglet Madam. There was a time Maiduguri town became uniquely d... Read more

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Memories of the 1986 “Ango Must Go” Protest in ABU, Zaria

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Abdulrahman Black, ABU Demonstration Secondary School, ASUU-ABU, Farida Mustapha, Gayus Obed, NANS, North, Paulo Friere, Yau Musa Yar’adua, ‘Ango Must Go’No CommentsViews:
Memories of the 1986 “Ango Must Go” Protest in ABU, Zaria

By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu YUSUF Intervention is publishing the unedited version of this piece, having been written by someone who was an insider and who wrote a thesis on it. Read on! Thirty-sev... Read more

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Memories of Obasanjo @ Arewa House

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Citizenship, CORRUPTION, ethnicity, Imperialism, Leadership, North, South1 CommentViews:
Memories of Obasanjo @ Arewa House

A time of widespread discontent and temptations to violence as at today forces back to memory the portion of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s speech to the Arewa House ‘State of the Nation’ Confere... Read more

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Can Nigeria’s February 2023 Election Survive These Six Threats?

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: APC, Asiwaju, Brinkmanship, buhari, North, PDP, Zoning1 CommentViews:
Can Nigeria’s February 2023 Election Survive These Six Threats?

The turbulence that, historically, characterizes every presidential election in Nigeria is in full swing. It is frightening to even the most usually unperturbed elements in the polity about... Read more

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The Reductionist Interpretation of History and Politics and the “Middle Belt Question” in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 26, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', Middle – Belt, North, Southern BornoNo CommentsViews:
The Reductionist Interpretation of History and Politics and the “Middle Belt Question” in Nigeria

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Reductionism when uprooted from its fundamental basis in the natural sciences and transported to the analysis of historical and sociological phenomena, creates a co... Read more

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Making the Invisible Visible in International Development: A Memorial Performance of Ojongo’s Triumph
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