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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:
Situating Prof Omotoye Olorode's 'The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century'

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

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

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

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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:
Let's Abolish the Colonial IMF on Its 80th Birthday

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

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

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, ASUU, Calmer Marxist, Chief Tom Ikimi, Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat, Dr. Bala Usman, Ford Foundation, Gen Sani Abacha, International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, NISER, NPSA, Prof Asisi Asobie, Prof Attahiru Jega, Prof Festus Iyayi, Prof. Adebayo Adedeji Committee on Nigeria's foreign policy, SMEDAN, University of Benin, University of Lagos, World BankNo CommentsViews:
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

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

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

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Needed: Another Prof Jubril Aminu @ the NUC

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2023In: GovernanceTags: G-20, IMF, NUC, NYSC, SOUTH AFRICA, World Bank1 CommentViews:
Needed: Another Prof Jubril Aminu @ the NUC

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

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

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

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

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

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ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

Posted By: adminon: April 30, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Bala Usman, Decoloniality, History, Ibadan School of History, IMF, Prof Eskor Toyo, Standpoint epistemology, World BankNo CommentsViews:
ABU, Zaria Set to Tell the History of History

For a Department which offered a radically contingent statement privileging knowledge and (global) power in the study of History, the story of the Department of History at the Ahmadu Bello U... Read more

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Elite Consensus Has Broken Down in Nigeria – Speakers at NIIA’s Patho-clinical Autopsy of 2023 Elections

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Fanon, Fuel subsidy, INEC, President-elect Asiwaju Tinubu, Underdevelopment, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Elite Consensus Has Broken Down in Nigeria - Speakers at NIIA's Patho-clinical Autopsy of 2023 Elections

By Adagbo ONOJA The February 25th, 2023 presidential election in Nigeria might have come and gone at the level of voting and announcement of the outcome but not at the level of the autopsy.... Read more

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