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State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: June 04, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Alhaji Gambo Jimeta, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, DFID, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, House of Reps, IBB, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, NASS, Senator Ahmed Mallamadori, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
State Police or the State of the Police in Nigeria?

This attempt at an interim synthesis of the on-going conversation on policing Nigeria is reproduced from Daily Trust By Adagbo Onoja A nasty experience of generalised insecurity in Nigeria h... Read more

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NIPSS Holds Farewell Session for Late D-G, Prof Habu Galadima

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Human security, Nigerian Exceptionalism, NIPSS, Political Science, Publius, UNDP, UNIJOSNo CommentsViews:
NIPSS Holds Farewell Session for Late D-G, Prof Habu Galadima

Over two dozens of intellectuals of statecraft around and about the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS) held a session today in honour of its departed Director-Gener... Read more

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UNDP Joins in the Contending Narratives of Migration

Posted By: adminon: October 24, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Council on Foreign Relations, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
UNDP Joins in the Contending Narratives of Migration

The battle for the control of the story of African migrants to Europe is on again, with the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) stepping in the second time in a few years. It has ju... Read more

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It is Time for Youth Primacy in Leadership in Nigeria – Dr. Innocent Jooji

Posted By: adminon: May 14, 2019In: BookspaceTags: HoD, IPU, NAPSS, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
It is Time for Youth Primacy in Leadership in Nigeria – Dr. Innocent Jooji

Campaigners behind ‘Not too Young to Run’ movement in Nigeria have got an additional voice in their support. Dr. Innocent Jooji, an intellectual of the Catholic Church and Head of the Depart... Read more

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UNDP Bombshell: Poverty, Not Religion, Propelled Boko Haram, Al-Shababa

Posted By: adminon: November 20, 2017In: FlashbackTags: Emancipation, Extremism, Poverty, Structural violence, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
UNDP Bombshell: Poverty, Not Religion, Propelled Boko Haram, Al-Shababa

In a major report it is calling the first of its kind, the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), is reinforcing the view that poverty is what radicalises young people into extremism... Read more

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DFID Turns 20: The 7 Politicians Who Shaped UK Aid

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Make Poverty History, Paris Declaration, SOAS, UNDPNo CommentsViews:
DFID Turns 20: The 7 Politicians Who Shaped UK Aid

By Molly Anders LONDON — The year is 1997. The global financial crisis is a distant portent; mobile phones double as bludgeons; and cash transfers are still mostly conducted at Western Union... Read more

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Where Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki Got It Wrong – Prof. Nzongola-Ntalaja (Part 1)

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'China in Africa', AfDB, Aluko Olokun, Amilcar Cabral, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chris Hani, Cyril Ramaphosa, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, ECA, Frantz Fanon, GEAR, Julius Nyerere, Lagos Plan of Action, NELSON MANDELA, NEPAD, Pan-Africanism, Prof Abubakar Momoh, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Said Adejumobi, RDP, Thabo Mbeki, UNDP, University of SussexNo CommentsViews:
Where Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki Got It Wrong - Prof. Nzongola-Ntalaja (Part 1)

*Poverty reduction is an indecent expression *No country in the world has developed without state Intervention in the economy *Africa has no alternative to the Lagos Plan of Action *If Chris... Read more

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Africa is Underdeveloped Not Because Africans are Stupid – Prof Nzongola-Ntalaja

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2017In: SpectacleTags: African and African-American Studies, Ali Mazrui, Dr John Garang, Dr Tajudeen Abdulraheem, IMF/World Bank, John Hopkins University, President Paul Kagame, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Peter Anyang Nyong'o, UNDP, University of Abuja, University of Maiduguri, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of WinsconsinNo CommentsViews:
Africa is Underdeveloped Not Because Africans are Stupid – Prof Nzongola-Ntalaja

The African continent is not underdeveloped because Africans are stupid. Africa is materially backward relative to other civilisations because it finds itself fighting for survival on two eq... Read more

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

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

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