Poverty | Intervention

On Nigeria’s Election to the United Nations Human Rights Council

Posted By: adminon: October 14, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Banditry, Communal violence, Inequality, INSURGENCY, Kidnapping, Poverty, Principled regional leadership, Terrorism, UN, UNHRCNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Chris Kwaja Introduction On the international stage, elections to multilateral institutions are rarely merely procedural events. They are moments of diplomatic positioning, internati... Read more

Nigeria’s Gift of Popular Struggle: Omoyele Sowore and Quest for the Public Good

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2026In: GovernanceTags: #RevolutionNow, AAC, Activists, Campaigners, Champions of, Corruption Comrades, insecurity, Journalism, popular struggle, Poverty, Reformers, Sahara Reporters, UnemploymentNo CommentsViews:

By Sanusi A S. Maikudi FNIM The intervention of Omoyele Sowore in the case of Maryam Shehu and one other the two Bayero university students detained for over a month close to the time of the... Read more

The Sinister Side of Oluremi Tinubu’s ‘Entrepreneurial Citizenship’

Posted By: adminon: July 08, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Akara, Entrepreneurial philanthropy, IMF, Informal economy, Kulikuli, Large-scale industrialisation, Poverty, Precarious informality, Sinister vocabulary, Small-scale entrepreneurshipNo CommentsViews:

By Moses E. Ochonu The recent rhetoric of micro-entrepreneurship advanced by Nigeria’s first lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, harks back to longstanding assumptions about poverty in Africa whil... Read more

President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo Republic’s 95% Sea Slide After 42 Years in Power

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Oil-dependent Congo economy, Opposition, Paul Biya of Cameroon, Poverty, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in Equatorial GuineaNo CommentsViews:

Overwhelmed by their own internal problems, Nigerians have been unable to pay much attention to the renewal of tenure for one of Africa’s symbols of the phenomenon of prolonged hold on power... Read more

Critically Celebrating Professor Okwudiba Nnoli, A Former President of the NPSA, at 86

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Catholicism, CODESRIA, Dares Salam, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, ethnicity, Footballer, Hans Morgenthau, IRs, Nigerian Civil War, Nwalimu Nyerere, PACREP, Poverty, Stanford University, UNN, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Established in 1955 by the former Eastern Regional Government, the University of Nigeria (UNN) started operation in 1960. Like every other university of its age, it has... Read more

Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more