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Marxists at War As Branko Milanovic Replies Alex Callinicos On ‘The Prophet Unarmed’

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2026In: FlashbackTags: Bolshevism, Italian Communist Party, Leninism, Main Currents of Marxism, Mao, Stalinism, Trotskyism, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

It is just not clear why some two Marxists spread across both sides of the Atlantic chose a Sunday when all Heaven minded souls were supposed to be in Church to go to war over an old review... Read more

NIIA Plumbs Deeper, Simulates Global Geopolitical Shifts

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, AU, BRICS, Great power, Iran, Israel, Medium powers, NIIA, NPSA, Political Science, Prime Minister Mark Carney, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Ukraine, USANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) might be plumbing into raising the stakes in think tanking the international. For its impending Lecture Series, it is not only aggregat... Read more

Doomsday Clock Moves From 89 Seconds in 2025 to 85 Seconds to Midnight in 2026

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: 'Doomsday Clock', Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Information warfare, Manhattan Project, University of Chicago, USANo CommentsViews:

Posted below is the short version of the statement by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (issued originally on a background of white upon black rather than black on white background, with all... Read more

Nobelists, Atomic Scientists Set to Read the Doomsday Clock January 27th, 2026

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: 'Doomsday Clock', Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Information warfare, Manhattan Project, University of Chicago, USANo CommentsViews:

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is reading the Doomsday Clock it has been maintaining for the past 79 years tomorrow (January 27th, 2026). The Doomsday Clock provides an estimated reading... Read more

Reading Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, From Subaltern Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Canada, Hegemony, Medium powers, NIGERIA, Power, Radical contingency, Rules-based international order, Trump, Truth, USANo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, managed to get the world stirring with his speech to the 2026 Davos audience. It is no mean achievement for a medium power to seemingly... Read more

Dipo Fashina and Asisi Asobie As a Spectacle @ Cde Hassan Summonu’s Event

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: SpectacleTags: ASUU, BUK, CAPP, LSE, NANS, NLC, NTA, OAU Ile-Ife, Philosophy, UNN, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The 85th birthday and book presentation in honour of pioneer president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), Comrade Hassan Summonu has come and gone with its many sides. Al... Read more

Prof. Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi, the Pathfinder and Mentor, is 83 Years Old!

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Babangida, BRICS, Economic diplomacy, Libya, Murtala/Obasanjo, NADECO, NIIA, NSIA, Prof Victor Adetula, Prof W O Alli, SAP, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USANo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, a renowned political scientist, administrator, public intellectual, and international relations’ expert, added another year to his age on January... Read more

What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Afenifere, Arewa, Brazil, Britain, Cuba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Ijaw National Youths Congress, India, Japan, Middle Belt Forum, Nation building, NELSON MANDELA, Ohanaeze, Ruling class, Singapore, South-South Forum, USA, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Festus Iyayi It is another independence anniversary and time to turn to Prof Festus Iyayi for an idea of what and where Nigeria should be by now and whose responsibility it is to tak... Read more

Student Loan and its Discontent

Posted By: adminon: April 21, 2024In: GovernanceTags: BWIs, Finland, Germany, NIGERIA, Nigeria Education Loan Fund, Nigeria Student Loans Board, Norway, Student Loan Act, Sweden, The Confession of an Economic Hitman, USANo CommentsViews:

By Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine Mr. President, I focus on the Student Loan Act, which you signed into law enthusiastically on April 3, 2024. Many uncritical thinkers have applauded you over... Read more

Hurray! Prof Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the Realist-Idealist Scholar, is 82

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2024In: People in ActionTags: CHINA, Concept of Medium Powers, Israel, NADECO, NIIA, NPSA, Realism, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USA, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Hassan A. Saliu Professor Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, the son of a priest and politician, is an academic colossus whose impacts on various aspects of Nigerian life cannot be captured in a... Read more