Adagbo Onoja, Author at Maroonsquare

At The Maroonsquare two-day Discourse on National Development held on the 1st and 2nd of July, 2021 held at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos with the theme; Identity Politics and the National Question in Nigeria sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Issues of National interest that includes insecurity, agitations by different minority groups within the Nigerian entity and facts with solutions were brought to the fore. Mr. Adagbo Onoja discusses the extent of the narrative of a monolithic North and South in the context of agitation for a middle-belt Nigeria. In his paper, he further argued that the contenders for power are those that frame the identity of power in the context of North and South. This is because as a result of suc...

In Atiku Abubakar, the Nigerian Establishment has sent a message to President Muhammadu Buhari: we are serious about getting you out in 2019. But it is a message that will be received with utter contempt. The Villa will be utterly disorganised by the message but they will not show it. Atiku Abubakar That makes the 2019 presidential contest a much more complicated contest than ever before. All two candidates are northerners, all are Muslims, all are utilising the last opportunity to be president of Nigeria, each lays claim to having a magic wand and burning to be given the opportunity to remake Nigeria: Buhari to undo corruption and the corrupt and Atiku to modernise Nigeria. In this complexity, an audit of the Goodluck Jonathan streak in each of Atiku and Buhari is a vital precautio...

Author: Adagbo Onoja

Language, Identity and Power in the Framing of Nigeria as a Monolithic Binary

2019 General Election: Atiku the Candidate of the Nigerian Establishment (Pt 1)