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Reading Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, From Subaltern Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Canada, Hegemony, Medium powers, NIGERIA, Power, Radical contingency, Rules-based international order, Trump, Truth, USANo CommentsViews:
Reading Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, From Subaltern Nigeria

By Adagbo Onoja Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, managed to get the world stirring with his speech to the 2026 Davos audience. It is no mean achievement for a medium power to seemingly... Read more

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When Power Goes About Unclothed

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: SpectacleTags: International Relations, Power, ‘City on the Hill’No CommentsViews:
When Power Goes About Unclothed

It is Happy New Year here at last. A New Year starts on January 1st, not 16th. There’s no debate about that but there’s no law that says everyone must celebrate it that day. It c... Read more

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Nigeria’s FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, Delivers Lecture @ OAU, Ile-Ife

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Academics, Paradigm, Party supremacy, PowerNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, Delivers Lecture @ OAU, Ile-Ife

Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, is expanding his power kit beyond the institutional. He is extending to discursive power, the more complete form of power since rea... Read more

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At Dr. Inebu Agbo-Ejeh’s Recent Presentation of ‘Power Politics in International Trade Law’ in Abuja

Posted By: adminon: March 31, 2025In: BookspaceTags: ABU Zaria, Baze University - Abuja, Economic Partnership Agreements, International trade law, Power, UCT, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
At Dr. Inebu Agbo-Ejeh’s Recent Presentation of ‘Power Politics in International Trade Law’ in Abuja

As slippery as the concept of power in international relations, it remains a concept of huge attraction. Law lecturer, Dr. Inebu Agbo-Ejeh, seems persuaded on this in writing Asymmetric Powe... Read more

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President Tinubu’s Populist Escape Route from Niger – Mali – B/Faso – Guinea Diplomatic Misadventure

Posted By: adminon: February 24, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Anti-imperialism, Burkina Faso, Culture, ECOWAS, Emotions, Foreign powers, History, Language, Mali, Memories, National interest, National security, Niger Republic, Power, Psychoanalysis, Russia, Songhai Empire, Sovereignty, WARNo CommentsViews:
President Tinubu's Populist Escape Route from Niger - Mali - B/Faso - Guinea Diplomatic  Misadventure

The doctrine of ‘news following the flag’ compels the contribution of whoever is in a position to do so towards a sharp course-correction away from what has clearly been a major... Read more

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Hold It! Nyerere, Former Tanzanian President and Politician, To Be Canonised

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2023In: People in ActionTags: 'Ujaama', Africa, Diocese of Dar Es Salam, Politician, Power, President, TanzaniaNo CommentsViews:
Hold It! Nyerere, Former Tanzanian President and Politician, To Be Canonised

Former president of Tanzania, Dr. Julius Nyerere is to be canonised. He is raising the stakes in politics and exercise of power in Africa. Although he has been a politician and a president,... Read more

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Three Years On from George Floyd’s Murder. What Have We Learned?

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Barack Obama, Bilateral donors, Bond, George Floyd, Global South, INGOs, Power, Racism, Think tanksNo CommentsViews:
Three Years On from George Floyd’s Murder. What Have We Learned?

By Dylan Mathews  (Dylan wrote the piece for UK based Bond) Today marks three years since the murder of George Floyd. The slow-motion killing of a black man at the hands of a white police of... Read more

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The Challenge of Politics and Governance in Nigeria (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: May 24, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Authority, Nepotism, Power, Tinubu/Shettima dispensation, Wisdom1 CommentViews:
The Challenge of Politics and Governance in Nigeria (Part 2)

By Ambassador Usman Sarki   “The due arrangement of men in the active part of the state, far from being foreign to the purposes of a wise Government, ought to be amongst its very first... Read more

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NIIA Confronts Insecurity in Nigeria At Last

Posted By: adminon: July 13, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Critical perspectives, insecurity, NIIA, Power, Think tanking1 CommentViews:
NIIA Confronts Insecurity in Nigeria At Last

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIIA) might have come to what people would have wanted to see it engage more than anything else: the question of the origin, dynamics and e... Read more

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Nigeria As a Study in Strong Global Presence

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Ideas, NIGERIA, Power, Royal African SocietyNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria As a Study in Strong Global Presence

It was a November 2021 event but the symbolism of the picture still resonates. It speaks to Nigeria mysteriously materialising itself in a manner that it is never absent in the world. At any... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!
Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!

Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!

April 19, 2026
If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri
If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

If the Nigerian Elite Do Not Moderate Collective Behaviour, the Rains Will Beat All of Us – Comrade Reuben Ziri

April 19, 2026
Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic
Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

April 13, 2026
How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities
How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

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Dr. Chido Onumah and Turning 60 @ the Height of Radical Uncertainty
Dr. Chido Onumah and Turning 60 @ the Height of Radical Uncertainty

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