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Setting Eleven Benchmarks for Enhanced Security and National Unity in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', Anarchy, Federalism, Herder- farmer crisis, Marginalisation, Military, Nigerian State, Public corruption, State Centric Security provisioning, Ungoverned spaces, Universal Primary EducationNo CommentsViews:
Setting Eleven Benchmarks for Enhanced Security and National Unity in Nigeria

By Professor Jibrin Ibrahim “There is no easy way to pull this country apart. The problems arising from such an exercise will be far bigger than the problem of trying to keep it going. The v... 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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The Reductionist Interpretation of History and Politics and the “Middle Belt Question” in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 26, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', Middle – Belt, North, Southern BornoNo CommentsViews:
The Reductionist Interpretation of History and Politics and the “Middle Belt Question” in Nigeria

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Reductionism when uprooted from its fundamental basis in the natural sciences and transported to the analysis of historical and sociological phenomena, creates a co... 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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What Would The Future Hold If Nigeria Broke Up?

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: 'True Federalism', APC, Eastern Region, General Yakubu Gowon, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, National Conference, PDP, President BuhariNo CommentsViews:
What Would The Future Hold If Nigeria Broke Up?

Somewhere in Abuja, Nigeria, later this morning, Lindsay Barret, the one man encyclopedia on Nigerian affairs will be reflecting on the scenario which has been so common place of late: Niger... Read more

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Attahiru Jega Proposes a 6-Year Time Table for Restructuring Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2021In: GovernanceTags: 'True Federalism', Civil society, Federal system, Governance reform, INEC, National ConferenceNo CommentsViews:
Attahiru Jega Proposes a 6-Year Time Table for Restructuring Nigeria

Bayero University, Kano political economist and the last but one National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega is putting on the table a 6 ye... Read more

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Restructuring Nigeria-A Response and Contribution to a Discussion by Professor Jega

Posted By: adminon: August 14, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 'True Federalism', Decentralisation, Devolution, Micro-nationalism, Mill’s Law of Federal Stability, Power-sharing, Revenue sharing, Secession, SeparationNo CommentsViews:
Restructuring Nigeria-A Response and Contribution to a Discussion by Professor Jega

Aiyede, Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan intervenes in the debate on restructuring Nigerian within the context of federalism By E. Remi Aiyede Profes... Read more

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Federalism and Restructuring: The Choice for Nigerians (1)

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2020In: SpectacleTags: 'True Federalism', 2014 National Conference, History, Nigeria Labour Congress, RestructuringNo CommentsViews:
Federalism and Restructuring: The Choice for Nigerians (1)

Ambassador Usman Sarki, former Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations, intervenes in the topic of restructuring Nigeria, bringing another perspective to a long runn... Read more

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Writing Hegemony in Salihu Lukman’s Power of Possibility and Politics of Change in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2019In: SpectacleTags: 'True Federalism', CHANGE, Comrade Salihu Lukman, NANS, Party SchoolNo CommentsViews:
Writing Hegemony in Salihu Lukman’s Power of Possibility and Politics of Change in Nigeria

This is a very interesting book for the simple reason that it is about a ruling party in Nigeria, a party whose governance of Nigeria in the past four years is a subject of contested rating... Read more

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

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Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic
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How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities

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

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