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Dipo Fashina and Asisi Asobie As a Spectacle @ Cde Hassan Summonu’s Event

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, BUK, CAPP, LSE, NANS, NLC, NTA, OAU Ile-Ife, Philosophy, UNN, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:
Dipo Fashina and Asisi Asobie As a Spectacle @ Cde Hassan Summonu's Event

By Adagbo Onoja The 85th birthday and book presentation in honour of pioneer president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Comrade Hassan Summonu has come and gone with its many sides. Al... Read more

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CITAD On the Move

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2025In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, Conglomerate, Dukawuya United FC, IT, Kano, Nigerian university system, PhilosophyNo CommentsViews:
CITAD On the Move

In the days when it made sense to talk about the core of any reality, it would have been said that the core of the Kano-based Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) is the... Read more

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Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Anthropology, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DEMOCRACY, Development, leaders, Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, Nation building, Philosophy, Political Science, Social sciences, SociologyNo CommentsViews:
Dismissing the Social Sciences: How Not to Talk as Education Minister!

Ordinarily, Intervention does not publish what is not original to it. That is how this place was set up and the unwritten law is not about to be changed but to be followed even more rigidly.... Read more

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What If SOAS Students Have a Point in the Case for Decolonising Philosophy?

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Decoloniality, Nishida Kitarō, Philosophy, SOAS, Takeshi Morisato, The Kyoto SchoolNo CommentsViews:
What If SOAS Students Have a Point in the Case for Decolonising Philosophy?

The United Kingdom, like much of the Western world BUT unlike much of Africa, is a key battleground involving troops of the decolonial epistemology, a battle well brought into view by the au... Read more

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Jesus At the End of History !

Posted By: adminon: March 30, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Christianity, Faith, God, Hegel, Jesus Christ, Philosophy, ReligionNo CommentsViews:
Jesus At the End of History !

Philosophy or philosophically framed discussion are not usually the easiest stuff to engage in the best of times. It is worse if it is an interpretation of Hegel’s work, Hegel being one of E... Read more

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How Universities Killed the Academic 

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Academic culture, Free speech, Philosophy, University, “technological conservatism”No CommentsViews:
How Universities Killed the Academic 

Although this piece originally published in Unherd is more applicable to UK academic culture where the ‘wolf warrior” of a critic is basically endangered, it is entertaining as well as worth... Read more

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2023 World Philosophy Day in Kano, Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2023In: BookspaceTags: African Union Mock Summit, Kano, Northern Nigeria, Philosophy, UNESCO, WTO Mock SummitNo CommentsViews:
2023 World Philosophy Day in Kano, Nigeria

By Yusuf Musa Philosophy is a discipline that enhances the ability of the brain to think and conceptualize ideas, it arms us with the ability to explain difficult phenomena and eliminate amb... Read more

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Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

Posted By: adminon: July 09, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anibal Quijano, ASUU, Biodun Jeyifo, Campaign for Democracy, Chapter Two of the Constitution, Coloniality of modernity, Emancipation, Femi Falana, Latin America, Marxism, Philosophy, Prof Claude Ake, Walter Mignolo1 CommentViews:
Now That Dipo Fashina is Not Missing

By Adagbo Onoja A well-known Nigerian Left activist not seen for hours is a matter for concern. In this case, it was for days. To that extent, the story about Dr Dipo Fashina missing in the... Read more

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Look @ This Interesting 2023 QS Ranking in Philosophy

Posted By: adminon: March 25, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Methodology, Philosophy, QSNo CommentsViews:
Look @ This Interesting 2023 QS Ranking in Philosophy

The 2023 QS Subject Ranking exercise has come and gone but not the ripples. There is a sense in which the comments below by Nous speaks very well to an aspect of the ripples even as the rank... Read more

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Kwame Appiah Named Next President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Identity, Philosophy, race1 CommentViews:
Kwame Appiah Named Next President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Letters has a new president. In this story lifted from Daily Nous, (with minor alteration to the title, paragraph arrangement and the reference to his publications),... Read more

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