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Strategically Reading Beijing’s Mindset in China’s Blue Book Series

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Belt and Road Initiative, CASS, IMF, The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, The Global Civilization Initiative, The Global Development Initiative, The Global Security Initiative, World Bank, WTO1 CommentViews:

By Chris Kwaja Introduction: The international order is no longer merely changing; it is fracturing. The assumptions that underpinned the post-Cold War era—economic globalization, liberal in... Read more

Nigeria is Dying, Activists Fume

Posted By: adminon: July 28, 2026In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, CDC, COLA, Cuba, DONALD TRUMP, IMF, OAU Ile-Ife, Radical Historiography, World BankNo CommentsViews:

A concerned, angry but defiant ensemble of radical activists has declared Nigeria a dying entity. Speaker after speaker at the Second symposium marking the burial of Dr. Segun Samuel Osoba,... Read more

Situating Prof Omotoye Olorode’s ‘The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century’

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 21st century, Africa, ASUU, FG, International Relations, Marxism, NUC, Ontology, Scholarship, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Text: The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century Author: Prof Omotoye Olorode Pages: 78 Year: 2023 Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Like the banana tree which gets cut down... Read more

Where Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, Ex-NLC Intellectual Stood On Why Nigeria is Collapsing into Anomie

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Botswana, Deregulation, IMF, Malaysia, World BankNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja What is clear is that 2025 is not done with us human beings, yet. Within a week, the tribe of radical voices has lost three of theirs: Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed, Adamu Baike a... Read more

Let’s Abolish the Colonial IMF on Its 80th Birthday

Posted By: adminon: August 03, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Austerity, Debt, Harsh loan conditions, IMF, Neoliberalism oversold, Public sector wage bill, World BankNo CommentsViews:

It is just two African countries out of over 50 others – Kenya and Nigeria – that are exploding for reasons that, in the last instance, stem from disciplinary neoliberalism supe... Read more

Prof. Cornelius Alaba Ogunsanwo, the Calmer Marxist, Marks His 82nd Birthday

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu I first met Professor Alaba Abiodun Adeboyejo Ogunsanwo initially through his publications on International Relations that cover various aspects of the field, especia... Read more

ABU, Zaria Probes Into Challenges of Quality Higher Education in Africa @ Its 60th Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, FGN, MacArthur Foundation, media, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Nearly everyone says university education in Nigeria is all about production and circulation of illiterates. The World Bank says so, the Nigerian Government is comfortable with that and most... Read more

Needed: Another Prof Jubril Aminu @ the NUC

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2023In: GovernanceTags: G-20, IMF, NUC, NYSC, SOUTH AFRICA, World Bank1 CommentViews:

Nigerians are believed to have been shocked beyond shockability in their encounter with nation building. But even then the set of members of the NYSC somewhere in the country who didn’... Read more

Anticipating Prof Ali Pate’s Big Dream for Nigeria’s Health Sector

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2023In: GovernanceTags: 'Cigarin Misau', GAVI, Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, SDG, UHC, World BankNo CommentsViews:

By Saleh Bature Professor Muhammed Ali Pate, Nigeria’s former Minister of state for Health, former Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development... Read more

Voter Registration Data Versus Midterm Census Data: Implications for the June 2023 Presidential Election in Sierra Leone

Posted By: adminon: May 13, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Afrobarometer, APC, Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone, Freedom House, National Grand Coalition, Political Parties Regulation Commission, SLPP, Statistician-General, World BankNo CommentsViews:

This piece is published to correct some errors in the original version which Intervention did not publish. It draws attention to the statistical foundation of post-election conflicts in much... Read more