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The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Ekiti State, Osun State, USANo CommentsViews:
The Dangers of Externalising Domestic Issues

By Prof Hassan Saliu The current happenings in the polity are indeed concerning. Disturbing signals have emerged regarding election-related matters in Nigeria. The Ekiti State election was p... Read more

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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:
Marxists at War As Branko Milanovic Replies Alex Callinicos On 'The Prophet Unarmed'

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

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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:
NIIA Plumbs Deeper, Simulates Global Geopolitical Shifts

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

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

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

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

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

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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:
Reading Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, From Subaltern Nigeria

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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:
Student Loan and its Discontent

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

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Nigeria's Gift of Popular Struggle: Omoyele Sowore and Quest for the Public Good
Nigeria's Gift of Popular Struggle: Omoyele Sowore and Quest for the Public Good

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A Note on Nigeria’s Foreign Policy in the Current Dispensation

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