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The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2025In: SpectacleTags: 2nd Republic, Akwa Ibom, Bala Usman, Civil society, Claude Ake, Eskor Toyo, Left, Nigeria Police Force, NPN, Obong Victor Attah, Okonkwo, PRP, PSC, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Tennyson, UPNNo CommentsViews:
The Police Week in Akwa Ibom and the Akpabio Paradox

By Adagbo Onoja There would be nothing wrong in calling the week (April 27 – May 2nd, 2025) the Nigeria Police week in Akwa Ibom State, the week having started with a dinner night organised... Read more

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Does History Repeat Itself and Is Feb 25, 2023 a Repeat of June 12 1993?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, Bayo Onanuga, Brig-Gen Dangiwa Umar (retd), Datti Ahmed, Dele Alake, Discourse theory, Dr Reuben Abati, Hajia Najatu Mohammed, IBB, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Obierika, Okonkwo, Peter Obi, Prof Humphrey NwosuNo CommentsViews:
Does History Repeat Itself and Is Feb 25, 2023 a Repeat of June 12 1993?

By Adagbo Onoja Has February 25, 2023 got much to do with June 12, 1993 in Nigerian politics? This is the same as asking if History repeats itself or if the social world is a matter of the p... Read more

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Bidding Chief Michael Ogboji Farewell

Posted By: adminon: December 22, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, Edemoga, Government College Makurdi, Obierika, Och'Idoma of Idoma, Okonkwo, Okpokwu LGC, Ondo-Ugboklo, Radio Nigeria - KadunaNo CommentsViews:
Bidding Chief Michael Ogboji Farewell

It is simply irresistible not to invoke the wisecrack of the Tiv soloist who defined Radio Kaduna in the immediate post-independence days with the song about if the dead could attend his or... Read more

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Echoes of a War Foretold as Ramaphosa Blasts Global North for Paternalism

Posted By: adminon: December 19, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Dependentista, Global North, Obierika, Okonkwo, President Cyril Ramaphosa, Things Fall ApartNo CommentsViews:
Echoes of a War Foretold as Ramaphosa Blasts Global North for Paternalism

It is more than a week since this edition of the Dakar Forum on Peace and security came and went but it is now that South African president’s explosive umbrage at the global North star... Read more

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How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong – Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Posted By: adminon: August 08, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: CHINA, Colin Powell, Colonialism, Deconstruction, Early Warning, Literature, Marx, Nollywood, Okonkwo, Racism, Space ExplorationNo CommentsViews:
How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong - Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Concluding the Prof Chimalum Nwankwo interview is this installment, the first installment of which ran under the header: “The More Unstable Nigeria is, the Better for the West – Prof Chimalu... Read more

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Dr Egar is Right on Achebe, Soyinka – Dr Tivlumum Nyitse

Posted By: adminon: December 05, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Achebe, JP Clark, Nnoka, Okonkwo, SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:
Dr Egar is Right on Achebe, Soyinka – Dr Tivlumum Nyitse

Intervention’s interview with Dr. Emmanuel Egar, Veritas University, Abuja literary critic and his main contention that Achebe messed up Africa in his Things Fall Apart has, predictably, con... Read more

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Understanding Nigeria through the Prism of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Posted By: adminon: October 31, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Ikemefuna, Obierika, Okonkwo, UmofiaNo CommentsViews:
Understanding Nigeria through the Prism of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

By Chijioke Uwasomba, Ph.D Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, arguably the foremost classic of African literature is sixty-two years already and has not lost its contemporary relevance in it... Read more

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Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Otachikpokpo', Ada Ugah, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Ali Mazrui, AP Anybebe, Chinua Achebe, Einstein, Electrical Engineering, Hausa, Igbo, Kwararafa Empire, Marx, Michel Foucault, Okonkwo, Onyakeke, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

At 75 today, with a name, a voice, musical successors in the family, the health and the energy as well as an ambitious musical project ahead and, therefore, a totality that has lodged him in... Read more

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