Prof Yemi Osinbajo Archives

But for Nigeria’s Season of Popular Anger, VP Kashim Shettima Would Have Received a National Ovation

Posted By: adminon: July 25, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Agricultural Economics, Buga, Prof Nur Alkali, Prof Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

How great it would have been if Nigerians were in a happy mood rather than when they too have withdrawn clapping for a subsidy withdrawing regime. Vice-president Kashim Shettima’s flawless p... Read more

To Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Prof Abubakar Momoh an Update

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2022In: People in ActionTags: #EndSARS, Ahmed Lawan, Anti fuel subsidy protest, APC, Atiku Abubakar, AWOL, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Bukola Saraki, Informationalised capitalism, Left, NEF, Nyesom Wike, PDP, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

Dying as activist intellectuals; as Pan-Africanists; each of you at a time anyone least expected and all of you in the month of May have added novelty to your own departure. Added to those a... Read more

Presidential Panel on Armed Forces Compliance with Human Rights Moves on to Public Hearing

Posted By: adminon: September 09, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Geneva Conventions, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Public HearingNo CommentsViews:

Objections to its composition notwithstanding, the Presidential Investigation Panel on Compliance of the Armed Forces with Human Rights Obligations is pushing ahead with its task. The Panel... Read more

Silenced Left or Left Silence?: Why are Leftists in Nigeria’s Ruling Party Missing in Defending the State?

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2017In: GovernanceTags: APC, Femi Falana, Jeremy Corbyn, Prof Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

Being the consciousness of the organisations that they work for is still what distinguishes leftists from ordinary salary earners or careerists. So, why are the leftists in the All Progressi... Read more

First Shots Observed in the War Between the ‘Lion King’ and Unnamed Hyenas, Jackals in Buhari Presidency

Posted By: adminon: July 20, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Diverted Mandate', Abba Kyari, Development Finance International, ERGP, Mamman Daura, Oxfam, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Tukur Jikamshi, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s final push homeward in the next one week, actions interpreted as skirmishes in the much promised war between the Lion King on the one hand and Hyenas an... Read more

IPOB Tackles Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Aljazeera, IPOB, MASSOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Prof Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

All media accounts have indicated a successful shut down of much of south eastern Nigeria yesterday on the orders of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB). It was a joint action with the M... Read more

Economist Faults Intervention on Debt Moratorium, Calls Domestic Debt Nigeria’s Time Bomb

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Cross-border finance, Debt Moratorium, Domestic debts, IMF, Privatisation, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Time-bomb, VenezuelaNo CommentsViews:

A Development economist and a constructive critic of Intervention has faulted the platform’s story yesterday, (See “Is Debt Moratorium on the Table in the Turbulence of Negotiating Buhari’s... Read more

Securitising Insecurity: Arewa Consultative Forum As a Point of Departure?

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2017In: GovernanceTags: ACF, Balarabe Musa, DFID, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Tanko Yakassai, UNDP, USAIDNo CommentsViews:

Could the Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), become a point of departure in understanding and resolving the defining features of contemporary northern Nigeria when it stages the summit on secu... Read more

2019: The Coming Clash of Nigeria’s Ultimate Titans?

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Sai kai', APC, Dr Alex Ekwueme, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, PDP, President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Umaru Yar’Adua, ZoningNo CommentsViews:

2019: The Coming Clash of Nigeria’s Ultimate Titans? Former president Obasanjo has his own idea of who climbs power at the centre in 2019. His political discourse of Nigeria and his discursi... Read more

The ‘Diverted Mandate’ and the Essential Buhari Conundrum

Posted By: adminon: February 05, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Diverted Mandate', Financial Times of London, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen Sani Abacha, Gen TY Danjuma, IBB, Kaduna Mafia, Mazi S G Ikoku, Prof Sam Aluko, Prof Tam David West, Prof Yemi OsinbajoNo CommentsViews:

The ‘Diverted Mandate’ and the Essential Buhari Conundrum President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to end his nearly two week vacation in the United Kingdom and return to Nigeria today. While... Read more