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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:

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

Nigeria As a Study in Strong Global Presence

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Ideas, NIGERIA, Power, Royal African SocietyNo CommentsViews:

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

The ‘Zulum Phenomenon’ and President Buhari’s Current Visit to Borno State

Posted By: adminon: December 22, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Borno State, Civilisation, Governance, Leadership, PowerNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki I am forced to return to the issue of qualitative leadership and good governance in Borno State of Nigeria again in the wake of President Muhammadu Buhari’s impendi... Read more

Who is Afraid of Putting Out the Fire Between Israelis and the Palestinians?

Posted By: adminon: May 16, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Conflict, EU, Hamas, Power, UNNo CommentsViews:

It has been a week of horror for global justice and peace minded humanity as Israel and the Palestine returns to violence. The Washington Post was so precise as to speak of the Palestinians... Read more

Madunagu, Our Consistently Consistent Dialectician, is 75

Posted By: adminon: May 15, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Bourgeoisie, Power, SAP, Socialist democracyNo CommentsViews:

By Comrade Abdulkadir Isa For a devoted theoretician of the working class paradigm in politics and who translated the gender question genuinely in relationship with his souls mate – Be... Read more

Flashback to the Mandela Moment in ‘the Power of Words in International Relations’

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ANC, Arafat, Castro, Cuba, Gaddafi, Libya, PLO, Power, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

It is absolutely regrettable that there is black violence against African migrants in South Africa but that is something the African determination to survive can and should be able to manage... Read more

Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma and the Paradox of Power (1)

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2018In: People in ActionTags: EFCC, Emancipation, Frankfort School, Idoma Nokwu, Jigawa State, Kwararafa Empire, Nasarawa State, NPN, NPP, Power, PRP, Solomon Lar regime1 CommentViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, governor of Nasarawa State from 2007 to 2011 is dead and has been quietly buried in his place, Doma in Nasarawa State of Nigeria. At stake in this pie... Read more

One Example of How to Handle Herdsmen Violence

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2018In: De-EscalationTags: Governance, Jigawa State Government, Kiri-Kasama, Leadership, PowerNo CommentsViews:

Is there nowhere in contemporary Nigeria with a story of successful containment of herdsmen violence? Would it not make eminent sense to relate to such a story in the context of current conc... Read more

Space, Power and the City in Abuja’s 20 Year Old Impossible Traffic Jam

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Abacha Barracks, City, Federal Road Safety Commission, Nyanya, Obasanjo regime, Power, Space, VIOsNo CommentsViews:

Taken at 5.37 pm last Thursday, this picture is the formative stage of a daily experience for all who live between Nasarawa State and Abuja township. Conservatively between 6 – 10. 30... Read more