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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:
The 'Mandate of Heaven' As China Dramatically Bids Farewell to Extreme Poverty?

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

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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:
Another Blow As Nigeria Drops Further in Global Corruption Perception Index

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

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Explosive Details of a British High Commissioner’s Exploits in Ghana’s Election in 2000

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2020In: FlashbackTags: DFID, EU, FCO, Indian Ink, Inter-Parliamentary Union, NDC, NPP, Photo ID, UK, US, Whitehall, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Explosive Details of a British High Commissioner’s Exploits in Ghana's Election in 2000

Those who think former colonial powers are no longer pressing direct buttons in the affairs of their ex-colonies would have to think twice. A former Deputy High Commissioner of Britain to Gh... Read more

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Ridding Nigeria’s Anti-Graft War of Aporias, Apologia and Silences in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Audu Bako, EFCC, General Victor Malu, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Ridding Nigeria’s Anti-Graft War of Aporias, Apologia and Silences in the Post-COVID-19 Era

That any society in which the highest bidder is always the winner must, sooner than later, pay a price for that is, unarguably, the second of the two messages COVID-19 pandemic has sent to a... Read more

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Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) Part 2

Posted By: adminon: April 20, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Asian miracle, CODESRIA, Dakar, Developmental State, IMF, SAREC, UNRISD, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020) Part 2

This is the second and concluding part of Yusuf Bangura’s tribute to Thandika Mkandawire with whom he worked closely for eleven years. It is the sort of stuff journalists like to call explos... Read more

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The Profitable Stubbornness of Ethiopian Airline for Africa’s Coming Anti-Coronavirus War?

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Nigeria Airways, Pan-Africanism of the Skies, President Uhuru Kenyatta, World BankNo CommentsViews:
The Profitable Stubbornness of Ethiopian Airline for Africa’s Coming Anti-Coronavirus War?

To what extent it would be right to crucify them is open to debate. That is those caustic Nigerians going about saying that the Ethiopian Airline reminds them of how Nigeria’s inability to o... Read more

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African Elite Siphon Aid Payments to Neediest Countries Into Safe Heaven Accounts, Says World Bank, Defends Self

Posted By: adminon: February 22, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Aid payments, BIS, MercoPress, Neediest countries, Offshore bank accounts, The Economist, World BankNo CommentsViews:
African Elite Siphon Aid Payments to Neediest Countries Into Safe Heaven Accounts, Says World Bank, Defends Self

The double-edged nature of exposing corruption is manifesting at the global level as a World Bank report on corruption among elite of neediest countries is attracting its own controversy. In... Read more

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Nigeria’s Intimidating, Risky Poverty Figures

Posted By: adminon: October 29, 2019In: GovernanceTags: NBS, Oxfam, SAP, World Bank, World Poverty ClockNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Intimidating, Risky Poverty Figures

The Federal Government of Nigeria has formally acknowledged that there are 90 million Nigerians living in poverty. The figure compares fairly well with those of other institutions concerned... Read more

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Bidding Mrs Theresa Ochugboju the Final Goodbye

Posted By: adminon: October 05, 2019In: People in ActionTags: Adoka, Chief Ijegwa Adaji, Major S A Ochugboju, Mary Knoll College - Ogoja, Middle – Belt, Otukpo, Poverty, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Bidding Mrs Theresa Ochugboju the Final Goodbye

It is difficult to write about burial of women/mothers in Idomaland without being essentialist about it. From Ekiti or Oyo State in the Southwest of Nigeria to Jigawa or Katsina State in the... Read more

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How Hobbesian is the Feb. 16th, 2019 Choice Out of Two Problematic Candidates?

Posted By: adminon: January 28, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Hobessian choice, Poverty, Unemployment, World BankNo CommentsViews:
How Hobbesian is the Feb. 16th, 2019 Choice Out of Two Problematic Candidates?

By Professor Stephen Onyeiwu The author of this piece published originally as “Buhari failed to fix Nigeria’s economy. But he may still have the edge”, (https://theconversation.com/africa) w... Read more

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