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University of Mkar Interrogates IMF, World Bank and the Value of the Naira

Posted By: adminon: January 27, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: IMF, Politics of Money, University of Mkar, Value of Naira, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Although it is run by an academically established Vice-Chancellor, (Prof Zacharys Gundu, ex-ABU, Zaria Archeologist), the University of Mkar, near Gboko in Benue State in central Nigeria is... Read more

Is Chom Bagu A Case of the Decentering Or the Mutation of a ‘General’?

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Bege Initiative, CAPP, Ganawuri, Nigerian State, NLC, Rene Descartes, Search for Common Ground, USAID, World BankNo CommentsViews:

At a time of great need for conceptual innovation in relation to the project of remaking Nigeria, it is intriguing that a Chom Bagu, aka ‘General’ is missing from the situation r... Read more

My Quick Take on the Provisional Results of the 2021 Mid-Term Census Results in Sierra Leone

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: All People’s Congress, EU, Proportional Representation, Sierra Leone People’s Party, Sierra Leoneans, Statistics – Sierra Leone, World BankNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura, (PhD) The provisional results of the 2021 Mid-Term census recently released by Statistics -Sierra Leone have raised eyebrows among Sierra Leoneans. According to the results... Read more

Before President Buhari Removes Petrol Subsidy

Posted By: adminon: December 14, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Biden, IBB, Machiavellianism, Neoliberalism, Reaganomics, SAP, Thatcherism, Washington Consensus, World BankNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta I am happy that Dr Kalu Idika Kalu, General Ibrahim Babangida’s Finance Minister in the 1980s, is alive and well. Dr Kalu, working closely with the then Country Representative... Read more

Thomas Sankara (December 12th, 1949 – October 15th, 1987)

Posted By: adminon: October 21, 2021In: GovernanceTags: 'Aidocrats', Blaise Compraore, IMF, Upper Volta, World BankNo CommentsViews:

It was 34 years last Thursday, (October 15th, 2021) that Thomas Sankara was killed as Military Head of State of Burkina Fasso. In this piece, the author takes another look at it all. By Abdu... Read more

The Covid Crisis is Doing What the 2008 Crash Didn’t: Ending the Old Economic Orthodoxies

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, Larry Summers, Milton Friedman, US Federal Rederve, Washington Consensus, World BankNo CommentsViews:

This is not a controversy but a conversation between two economists although those who can carefully read between or behind the lines can see each’s main hint. The first economist is Larry E... Read more

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria On the Rebound?

Posted By: adminon: April 08, 2021In: BookspaceTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', 'Third World', David Harvey, IMF, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Is it possible that the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria might be on the rebound to pacesetter role in agenda setting mandate of knowledge? This is what some observers are thinking in the ligh... Read more

Ahead of the Commonwealth in Rwanda, The Economist Asks If President Paul Kagame is a Good or Bad Leader

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Donors, DRC, Ethiopia, Génocidaire, Hotel Rwanda, IMF, Laurent Kabila, Meles Zenawi, Mobutu Sese Seko, Rwanda National Congress, Rwandan Patriotic Front, SOAS, World Bank, Yoweri Museveni of UgandaNo CommentsViews:

It is an old debate that has come back with the death of Tanzanian president, John Magufuli. That is the debate on which of democracy and development should come before the other. The master... Read more

The ‘Mandate of Heaven’ As China Dramatically Bids Farewell to Extreme Poverty?

Posted By: adminon: February 27, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: 'Mandate of Heaven', Africa, Chinese Communist Party, Hybridity, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Is it the ‘Mandate of Heaven’ or the Chinese Communist Party at work or do the two have the same meaning? This should not be such a stupid question in that, up to 2012 and even i... Read more

Another Blow As Nigeria Drops Further in Global Corruption Perception Index

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2021In: FlashbackTags: BudgIT, CDD, CFR, CISLAC/TI, Perception, World BankNo CommentsViews:

In addition to banditry, kidnapping and generalised insecurity, the magnitude of corruption in Nigeria is back in the news with the 2020 corruption perception index ranking the country worse... Read more