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There is, Indeed, No Place Like Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Bororo, Effik, Elite, Emir of Muri, Europe, Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Igboho, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, North America, Oodua, UAE, Yoruba, ‘Yahoo yahoo’1 CommentViews:

Nigeria continues to be a contested national project, with optimists and pessimists articulating their arguments every now and then on why each’s position is the correct one. This piece whic... Read more

The Northern Elders Forum’s Dangerous Turn to Problem-Solving Approach

Posted By: adminon: June 09, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Certitude, Deterritorialisation, GNU, Hausa-Fulani, Igbos, Middle – Belt, NEF, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

Problem solving theory tells us that it is a turn to technicism rather than a genealogical tracing of the problem to be solved to where it might be coming from. The Northern Elders Forum, (N... Read more

2023 is for Nigerian President of Igbo Identity And This is Why – Engineer Muhammadu Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: April 29, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Aguiyi Ironsi, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Tafawa Balewa, Yakubu Gowon, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

Former FCT Minister under the first term of the Obasanjo Presidency, Engineer Muhammadu Abba-Gana, is rolling up the sleeves for a Nigerian president of Igbo origin in 2023. Engineer Gana ar... Read more

National Question Now Primary Contradiction in Nigeria and the Left Cannot Pose It Clearly – Prof Odion-Akhaine

Posted By: adminon: December 27, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Akpakpo Omo'Odua, Hausa-Fulani, Lenin, Odia Ofeimun, Ola Oni, Royal Holloway University of London, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

Sylvester Odion-Akhaine is a professor of Political Science at the Lagos State University, (LASU). An ideologue of the defunct National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), he obtained... Read more

That True Federalism Fallacy

Posted By: adminon: December 12, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Geographical Expression', AU, Count Klemens von Metternich, ECOWAS, EU, Hausa, Igbo, Thomas Sankara, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

Barrister Manni Ochugboju, an Attorney at Ochugboju & Co, Abuja returns to the debate on ‘True Federalism’ in Nigeria in this piece. He is reachable via manni@ochugboju.com In Nigeria, p... Read more

Will Elder Ahmed Joda’s Fascinating But Loaded Model of Restructuring Nigeria Fly?

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Hausa, Igbo, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

Did elder statesman, Alhaji Ahmed Joda, catch Nigerians off guard with his suggestion of restructuring Nigeria into the existing 109 Senatorial Districts? It would seem so given the relative... Read more

Bongos Ikwue @ 75: Indeed, the Artist as the Unacknowledged Legislator of the World

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'Otachikpokpo', Ada Ugah, Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Ali Mazrui, AP Anybebe, Chinua Achebe, Einstein, Electrical Engineering, Hausa, Igbo, Kwararafa Empire, Marx, Michel Foucault, Okonkwo, Onyakeke, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

At 75 today, with a name, a voice, musical successors in the family, the health and the energy as well as an ambitious musical project ahead and, therefore, a totality that has lodged him in... Read more

Kwarkwanchi Dies Off, Sends Signal to Other Endangered Languages in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 06, 2016In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, Alhaji Shittu Gallambi, Borno State, Dr Auwalu Gwaram, Fulani, Igbo language, Jigawa State Hausa, Kaduna State, Obafemi Awolowo University, UNESCO, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

The frightening reality about which the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO) has raised the alarm long time ago relating to a language dying off because... Read more