NPSA | Intervention

How Leading Nigerian Political Scientist, Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu, Died Within An Hour

Posted By: adminon: July 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Ghali Umar Na'Abbah, Mazrui, NPSA, Och'Idoma of Idoma, Prof Istifanus Zabadi, Prof Sunday Ochoche, UNIJOS2 CommentsViews:

Bits and pieces available to Intervention point at death giving Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu no signals or notice before striking. He died early Tuesday, July 22, 2025 within an hour or thereabo... Read more

NPSA Scores Democracy in Nigeria Below Pass mark

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: DEMOCRACY, Developmental politics, Elections, National independence, NPSA, Political parties, Public fundsNo CommentsViews:

The verdicts are turning in Ahead of the 26th anniversary of democracy in Nigeria since 1999. The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA), for instance, has withheld a pass mark for de... Read more

In Memoriam of Prof. Sonni Gwale Tyoden, Scholar-Politician and Mentor, 1951-2025

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Lancaster University, NCIRs, NIPSS, NPSA, Prof Jonah Elaigwu, The Kaduna Mafia, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The discourse surrounding the role of scholars in politics persists in Nigeria, precipitating a dichotomy between two distinct perspectives. The first posits that aca... Read more

NPSA Offers A Package of Actions on Reasserting Nigeria in the World

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Democracy in Nigeria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NPSA, People's Republic of China, US, west, West Africa1 CommentViews:

Deeply disturbed by its own unpacking of how Nigeria looks on the global stage today, the Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is putting on the table a set of ideas by which Nigeri... Read more

NPSA Kicks Against Management of the Security Situation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Benue, BORNO, Commander-in-Chief, Democratic structures, NPSA, PlateauNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is speaking up against what it calls ‘The alarming state of insecurity in Nigeria’. The statement signed by Prof Hassan Saliu, NPSA presiden... Read more

Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari in the Eyes of the People

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Abba Kyari, ABU Zaria, Afonja, External Affairs Minister, Ilorin Emirate, NPSA, OAU, President John Mahama of Ghana, Theory of Concentric CirclesNo CommentsViews:

Prof Hassan A. Saliu Introduction No doubt, many birthday celebrations have been held in honour of Prof. Ibrahim Gambari but none can compare with the 2024 edition in terms of number of act... Read more

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Raises the Stakes Again on Researching Conflict in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 15, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Bwari, CDD, CRD, MacArthur Foundation, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Methodology, Mixed method, NPSA, Positivism, Reason, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:

Adagbo Onoja reporting It is no more only in heartland academia, if it ever was, where concern for secure knowledge is an article of faith. Other arenas of knowledge production are equally c... Read more

NPSA, Marxist Conference Group Mourn Prof Nuhu Yaqub

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2025In: People in ActionTags: BUK, Canada, Ebira, Marxist Conference, NPSA, Okene, Political Science, Toyin Falola, UDUS, UKNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) has announced the death of Prof Nuhu Yaqub. Yaqub was a former ASUU Branch Chairman, former Deputy-Vice Chancellor (DVC) at Usmanu Danfodiyo... Read more

The Paradox of the Axe in Prof Hassan Saliu @ 62

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: People in ActionTags: BUK, David Easton, Methodology, NPSA, OAU Ile-Ife, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There’s a sense in which NPSA President, Prof Hassan Saliu’s 62nd birthday on December 22nd, 2024 shared so much with the remarkable paradox of the axe iterated i... Read more

Why Are We Not Hearing the Women Political Scientists in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: December 16, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Carol Coon, EProf Irene Pogoson, Feminist positionality, NPSA, Prof Marietu TenucheNo CommentsViews:

By writing on Julie Sanda, the second time a woman would be featured in his series, the first being Prof Marietu Tenuche, NPSA President, Hassan Saliu, has struck at the women question in Ni... Read more