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The Urgent Need for Restructuring in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 09, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Lee Kuan Yew, Malaysia, Nigerian federalism, Restructuring, Singapore, State police, Unitary GovernmentNo CommentsViews:
The Urgent Need for Restructuring in Nigeria

The case for restructuring of Nigeria is surely alive except that academics seem to have seized it from the career politicians since December 2023 when Prof Attahiru asserted the imperative... Read more

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NPSA Releases 2024 Calendar, With Restructuring a Major Attraction

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2024In: SpectacleTags: After Hegemony, Institutionalists, NPSA, Restructuring, StructuralistsNo CommentsViews:
NPSA Releases 2024 Calendar, With Restructuring a Major Attraction

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is out with a calendar of its commitments for the first half of the year 2024. A statement from the Secretariat and signed by Secretary, Dr... Read more

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NPSA Out With a February 2024 Intervention in Restructuring Debate in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Nigerian federation, NPSA, Omnibusness, RestructuringNo CommentsViews:
NPSA Out With a February 2024 Intervention in Restructuring Debate in Nigeria

Predictably, Bayero University, Kano (BUK)’s Prof Attahiru Jega’s clarion call for restructuring of Nigeria is echoing far and wider than Bauchi where he was speaking. The Nigeri... Read more

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Jega Echoes Restructuring Ahead of 2027

Posted By: adminon: December 17, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Archimedean coalition, INEC, Nigerian economy, Nigerian federation, RestructuringNo CommentsViews:
Jega Echoes Restructuring Ahead of 2027

The articulatory practice that will shape the contest for power in 2027 is obviously unfolding with the return of restructuring of Nigeria back on the agenda. It is coming from Bayero Univer... Read more

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The Economic and Geopolitical Master Stroke in Nigeria Called Kolmani Oil Project

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', 7 Points Agenda, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Kolmani project, Northeast, OIL, Resource Control, Restructuring, Southeast, Southsouth, Southwest, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua1 CommentViews:
The Economic and Geopolitical Master Stroke in Nigeria Called Kolmani Oil Project

By Aminu Habibu Jahun A few months to his eight year tenure, President Muhammadu Buhari delivered an economic and geopolitical master stroke with military precision: the Kolmani Oil Project... Read more

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Lenin and the National Question In the Context of the Agitation for “Restructuring” in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', Eurocenticism, Internationalism, Josef Stalin, Marx, Restructuring, Self-determination, ‘Autonomisation’No CommentsViews:
Lenin and the National Question In the Context of the Agitation for “Restructuring” in Nigeria

Both those in approval as well as those in disapproval of Ambassador Usman Sarki’s re-interpretation of Lenin on the national question in his essay below are encouraged to write back. For a... Read more

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The “National Question” and Restructuring in Nigeria: Some Historical Perspectives to a Thorny, Contemporary Issue

Posted By: adminon: December 28, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', Europe, North, Restructuring, South1 CommentViews:
The “National Question” and Restructuring in Nigeria: Some Historical Perspectives to a Thorny, Contemporary Issue

Although the idea that the modern states-system was born in 1648 at the Peace of Westphalia has been shattered especially by Benno Teschke’s thesis at the LSE now published as The Myth of 16... Read more

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There is No Alternative Manifesto for a New Social Order in Nigeria Than Chapter 2 of the Nigerian Constitution

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Chapter 2, Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy, National development Plan, Restructuring, Sir Abubakar Tafawa BalewaNo CommentsViews:
There is No Alternative Manifesto for a New Social Order in Nigeria Than Chapter 2 of the Nigerian Constitution

First, it was the late Abubakar Rimi. Then it was Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah and now it is Ambassador Sarki, all united by the view that the starting point is making Chapter 2 of the subsist... Read more

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Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman and the ‘National Question’ in Nigeria: Reflections on Some Lingering Problems

Posted By: adminon: August 14, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Dr. Bala Usman, Elite, masses, National Question, National unity, RestructuringNo CommentsViews:
Dr. Yusuf Bala Usman and the ‘National Question’ in Nigeria: Reflections on Some Lingering Problems

Intervention is the happier for it. Beyond the rising readership is the joy with the clash of narratives of Nigeria. Two days ago, Mike Kebonkwu, a radical in his own right, fired the piece,... Read more

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Ignorance, Political Irrelevance and the Persistent Quest for Restructuring the Nigerian Polity, 1999-2021

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: AG, Biafra, Egbe Omo Oduduwa, IPOB, NCNC, NPC, Parliamentary system, Restructuring1 CommentViews:
Ignorance, Political Irrelevance and the Persistent Quest for Restructuring the Nigerian Polity, 1999-2021

Being text of the 1st Memorial Lecture in Honour of the Late Prof Haruna Wakili of History Department, Bayero University, Kano, Sunday, June 20th, 2021 By Prof Alkasum Abba, Department of Hi... Read more

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