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Nigeria’s ‘Resource Curse’ Under Academic Scrutiny @ 27th World Congress of Political Science

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Buenos Aires, Kenya, Mozambique, NIGERIA, Political Science, Resilience, Resource curse, Uganda, VulnerabilityNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's 'Resource Curse' Under Academic Scrutiny @ 27th World Congress of Political Science

The 27th World Congress of Political Science is underway in Buenos Aires, Brazil, with Africa set to dominate the panel on The Politics of New Resource Discoveries in the “Post-resourc... Read more

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Hasn’t AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: AAPS, Critical geopolitics, Epistemic exploitation, FAANG, History, Informationalised capitalism, International Relations, Literature, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:
Hasn't AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

The African Association of Political Science (AAPS) might have experienced an epistemic conversion of Pauline proportion. Those who see the title of this conference as a tectonic shift in kn... Read more

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Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Democracy in Africa, Department of Government, Ghana, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Okot p’Bitek, Political Science, Thomas Sankara, Zimbabwe, ‘Rhodes Must Fall’No CommentsViews:
Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

As is always the case and without being chauvinistic there, Nigeria tends to flash the signal or sound the alarm. On February 9th, 2018, it did so when an event on democracy turned into a cl... Read more

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When Dr. Agbor Ekangaki Got the Prize

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Bayero University - Kano, PhD, Political economy, Political Science, University of BueaNo CommentsViews:
When Dr. Agbor Ekangaki Got the Prize

He studied Political Science in Bayero University, Kano in the mid-1990s before returning home to the neighboring Republic of Cameroon. There, he has remained engaged with academia, includin... Read more

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Anticipating Odia Ofeimum’s New Book on Nigerian Democracy

Posted By: adminon: May 02, 2022In: BookspaceTags: 'linguistic turn', Logocentrism, Nigerian Democracy, Political Science, The EconomistNo CommentsViews:
Anticipating Odia Ofeimum's New Book on Nigerian Democracy

Intervention has not read this book yet but Intervention has received the cover page. The assumption here is that a book on The Challenges and Prospects of Nigerian Democracy from Odia Ofeim... Read more

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Death Snatches UI Academic, Prof Alex Gboyega

Posted By: adminon: January 13, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Political Science, Public Administration, University of Ghana, University of IbadanNo CommentsViews:
Death Snatches UI Academic, Prof Alex Gboyega

Academia in Nigeria has lost Prof Alex Gboyega, a leading scholar in Public Administration at the University of Ibadan before his retirement. He was 76 years old at death Wednesday morning,... Read more

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The Coming Fireworks on Hegemony @ Nigeria’s University of Benin

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Anti-SAP riots, Hegemony, Political Science, University of BeninNo CommentsViews:
The Coming Fireworks on Hegemony @ Nigeria's University of Benin

By Adagbo Onoja Because no concept today can claim centrality in Political Science as much as Hegemony, especially with its further radicalization by the post-Marxists, Nigeria might tempora... Read more

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NIPSS Holds Farewell Session for Late D-G, Prof Habu Galadima

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Human security, Nigerian Exceptionalism, NIPSS, Political Science, Publius, UNDP, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
NIPSS Holds Farewell Session for Late D-G, Prof Habu Galadima

Over two dozens of intellectuals of statecraft around and about the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS) held a session today in honour of its departed Director-Gener... Read more

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My Experience as a Muslim Student @ Veritas University – Aisha Ismail

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2020In: SpectacleTags: Bala Usman, Bjorn Beckman, Claude Ake, Diplomacy, Manipulation, Political Science, Sam Oyovbaire, Yusuf BanguraNo CommentsViews:
My Experience as a Muslim Student @ Veritas University - Aisha Ismail

It is one thing for the helmsmen of Veritas University, Abuja to proclaim the multi-religious nature of the university in spite of its Catholic ownership, it is another to demonstrate that.... Read more

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Electoral Think Tank, E-Hub, Debuts in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2020In: BookspaceTags: INEC, IRIAD, Political Science, Prof Maurice IwuNo CommentsViews:
Electoral Think Tank, E-Hub, Debuts in Nigeria

Prof Maurice Iwu who, as Chairman of INEC, conducted an election whose winner, the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, was also its harshest critic delivered a lecture at the Department of Political S... Read more

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