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Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: "Access Capitalism", doma, Federation of Aspirations, Federation of Memories, Fiscal Paternalism, Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw, Kanuri, National conversation, Southern Bauchi, Southern Borno. the Kwararafa family, Southern Kaduna, The Desertification of the Forest, the Middle Belt's Kwararafa-legacy struggle for distinct identity, the North's fear of educational and economic marginalisation, the South's fear of political domination, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Formation or Nation Building: Nigeria’s Troubled Quest for a Modern Federal Republic

Keynote Speaker’s Lecture in Honour of Dr. Chido Onumah at 60 delivered by Yakubu Aboki Ochefu, Ph.D., FHSN, FNAL, Professor of Economic History and Development Studies, Fr. Moses Orshio Ada... Read more

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Identity, Authoritarianism and Democracy: An Introduction to Jibrin Ibrahim’s Scholarly Works on Politics in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'Power shift', Authoritarianism, Dele Giwa, Hausa-Fulani, Identity politics, IPOB, Ken Saro-wiwa, North, Office of the First Lady, PDP, Sharia, Talakawa, The Pentecostal Republic, The rentier state, Third Term, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Identity, Authoritarianism and Democracy: An Introduction to Jibrin Ibrahim’s Scholarly Works on Politics in Nigeria

In this piece, Dr Yusuf Bangura, a co-editor of a book on selected works of Prof Jibrin Ibrahim provides a foretaste of the broth. Those who have had the privilege of reading this text elsew... Read more

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Scanning Ibrahim Muazzam’s Explosive Survey of the Literature on Ethnic Profiling in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 24, 2024In: BookspaceTags: Awo, Colonialism, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, North-South dichotomy, Western metaphysics, Yoruba, Zik, ‘Dissidence International Relations’, ‘MetaBosnia’No CommentsViews:
Scanning Ibrahim Muazzam’s Explosive Survey of the Literature on Ethnic Profiling in Nigeria

Title: Ethnic Profiling and the Challenges of Inclusion in Nigeria: A Survey of the Literature Author: Ibrahim Muazzam Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Pages:        139 The tyr... 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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Ngugi wa Thiong’o Spearheads Dismantling Language Empires

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Achebe, Africa, African universities, Colonialists, Igbo, Irish nationalism, Joyce, Kenya, Toyin Falola, Yoruba, Zulu, ‘Nobel of the heart’No CommentsViews:
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Spearheads Dismantling Language Empires

Age and nasty experiences in the recent past are not slowing down Ngugi Wa Thiongo, the Kenyan writer. He is still taking the fight to Africa’s conquerors, this time revisiting his insistenc... Read more

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Olua Min Igbomekun, Kabiesi o!

Posted By: adminon: June 28, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Culture, Igbo, Ooni Babatunde Adeyeye Akande Ogunwusi - Ojaja II, Punch, Shakespearean Prince Hal, Yoruba1 CommentViews:
Olua Min Igbomekun, Kabiesi o!

By Morufu Omigbule The latest in the series of verbal assault against the Ooni is the much publicised manner of exchange of greetings between the Ooni and the popular Nollywood star, Chief P... Read more

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Osinbajo: His Presidential Bid and Possession By Satanic Spirit

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: CAN, Judas, Yoruba, ‘Trader moni’1 CommentViews:
Osinbajo: His Presidential Bid and Possession By Satanic Spirit

Babachir Lawal, the author of this piece below, did not send it to Intervention. Someone else did with a request that it be published, not in agreement or disagreement with the author but fo... Read more

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Questioning the Tribal As Against the Ethnic As  Freetown Flaunts Diversity at 230

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Australia, First Nations, Hausa, Prof Ibrahim Abdullah, Themneh, US, Western anthropologists, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Questioning the Tribal As Against the Ethnic As   Freetown Flaunts Diversity at 230

Freetown, one of Africa’s most symbolic capital cities, is 230 years old and it is not missing using the anniversary as an opportunity to flaunt its survival in history, with particula... Read more

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Memories of That Day 61 Years Ago

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2021In: FlashbackTags: 'Ruga', Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Minorities, VAT War, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Memories of That Day 61 Years Ago

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq I saw a sarcastic post on my wall, one of those mischievous posts, that ‘Nigeria is 61 years old and has reached the age of retirement’.  Even though I am not exactly a... Read more

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Saying Goodbye May Be Difficult But Can We Not Unbundle Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: August 31, 2021In: SpectacleTags: ECOWAS Protocol, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Isa Pantami, NDA, PDP, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
Saying Goodbye May Be Difficult But Can We Not Unbundle Nigeria?

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq My friend, Mr Adagbo Onoja, himself an activist, a Don and publisher, dubbed an earlier view of mine on unbundling Nigeria as a ‘pessimist’s manifesto’. I almost laughed... Read more

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