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

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: "Access Capitalism", doma, Federation of Aspirations, Federation of Memories, Fiscal Paternalism, Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw, Kanuri, National conversation, Southern Bauchi, Southern Borno. the Kwararafa family, Southern Kaduna, The Desertification of the Forest, the Middle Belt's Kwararafa-legacy struggle for distinct identity, the North's fear of educational and economic marginalisation, the South's fear of political domination, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

Keynote Speaker’s Lecture in Honour of Dr. Chido Onumah at 60 delivered by Yakubu Aboki Ochefu, Ph.D., FHSN, FNAL, Professor of Economic History and Development Studies, Fr. Moses Orshio Ada... Read more

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Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Bala Usman, Benue State, Herdsmen violence, Islamisation, Middle Belt elite, Okwudiba Nnoli, Plateau State, Politicisation of security, Security architecture, Southern Kaduna, State failure, State policeNo CommentsViews:
Can Understanding Plateau Killings Go Beyond the Commonsensical?

Just as there is to be a sigh of relief about killings especially in Benue State, Plateau and Southern Kaduna, then came the news of the killing of about 80 persons in Bokkos and Barakin Lad... Read more

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The Purpose of History in Nigeria and Africa

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'The African Colony', African History, Black Lives Matter, Kanem Bornu, Long Distance Trading, Southern KadunaNo CommentsViews:
The Purpose of History in Nigeria and Africa

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Claims of which tribe superseded the other in settling on a piece of land or territory is one of the issues that is at the heart of inter-community disturbances in... Read more

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Socialist Congress of Nigeria, Northern Elders Disagree With Buhari on #EndSARS Shooting

Posted By: adminon: October 21, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Aba riots, Bakalori, Crocodile smile, Odi, Southern Kaduna, Zaki BiamNo CommentsViews:
Socialist Congress of Nigeria, Northern Elders Disagree With Buhari on #EndSARS Shooting

There is still no certainty about the number of deaths from the shooting of protesters at Lekki Tollgate yesterday evening but popular groups are already in sharp disagreement with that appr... Read more

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Nigeria’s Current Trajectory Too Dangerous to Wait for 2023 – Dr Usman Bugaje

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: genocide, Mallam Mamman Daura, New Nigerian, ROAPE, Southern Kaduna, USIPNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Current Trajectory Too Dangerous to Wait for 2023 – Dr Usman Bugaje

There is no time to waste in creating change in Nigeria because the country is already on too dangerous a trajectory, peace and democracy activist, Dr Usman Bugaje has said. Dr. Bugaje was s... Read more

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The Case for Nationalist Lens of History in Nigeria  

Posted By: adminon: August 31, 2020In: BookspaceTags: African Historiography, Edward Gibbon, European Civilisation, Kanem-Bornu Empire, Savagary, Southern KadunaNo CommentsViews:
The Case for Nationalist Lens of History in Nigeria  

By Ambassador Usman Sarki In this piece, the author, Ambassador Usman Sarki returns to his one-man campaign for privileging History. A product of the once famous Zaria School of History, the... Read more

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The Performative ‘Silences’ in Buhari’s Sallah Interview on Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Clash of Civilisation, Constitution Drafting Committee, Dr. Bala Usman, Dr. Segun Osoba, Kano, LAGOS, Portharcourt, Southern KadunaNo CommentsViews:
The Performative ‘Silences’ in Buhari’s Sallah Interview on Nigeria’s Insecurity Crisis

All students of security start from or acknowledge the premise that security is not an objective thing but a question of power, a question of who is seeing a threat, from where and how. So,... Read more

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Michika Town in Adamawa State Under Boko Haram Attack?

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Katsina, Middle – Belt, Sokoto, Southern Kaduna, ZamfaraNo CommentsViews:
Michika Town in Adamawa State Under Boko Haram Attack?

Emergency alarms are ringing on the social media hinting that Michika town in Adamawa State of Nigeria has come under attack by Boko Haram. The alert is asking social media platforms to publ... Read more

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Love Still the Definitive Attribute of Humanity

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'I am an African', Southern Kaduna, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:
Love Still the Definitive Attribute of Humanity

By Salihu Mohammed Lukman* Sometimes in February this year (2017), the violent ethnic-religious conflict in Southern Kaduna was at its heightened worst and news of destruction of lives and p... Read more

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Connecting Toure Kazah Toure to Mary Kaldor for Gov el-Rufai on Southern Kaduna Violence

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: 'Old and New Wars', ABU Zaria, Aminu Kano, Basil Davidson, Bosnia, Governor Nasir el-Rufai, London School of Economics, Mary Kaldor, Nkrumah, Northern People's Congress - NPC, Nyerere, OIC Debate, Sardauna of Sokoto, Somalia, Southern Kaduna, Zaria EmirateNo CommentsViews:
Connecting Toure Kazah Toure to Mary Kaldor for Gov el-Rufai on Southern Kaduna Violence

Southern Kaduna is a problem for everyone. It has assumed a problem which must be fixed before it mutates. It is problematic because it has thrown up complicated narratives embodying subject... Read more

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