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

4Aug

By Adagbo OnojaNo Comments

Discourse 2021, News, Politics

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

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...

The National Question and Self-determination in Nigeria

4Aug

By Adewale AdeoyeNo Comments

Discourse 2021, News, Politics

The National Question and Self-determination in Nigeria

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. One of the speakers, Mr. Adewale Adeoye discusses the issue of the National Question & Self-Determination in Nigeria. In his paper, argued that the Nigeria state is a state made up of nationalities that were fused together by the process of colonialism. And further that without colonial intervention, each nationali...

1Apr

By Rainer SheaNo Comments

Articles, Politics, Science

The Myth About “Overpopulation”

Artwork above by Claire Ollivian The more the climate crisis develops, the more that a certain idea has the potential to gain traction. This is the idea that for the species to be saved, a great deal of people-especially poorer and nonwhite people-will need to have the population numbers in their communities reduced, whether through birth reductions or through more drastic means. Liberals, who are the main people in the present time that advocate for population control as a climate solution, don’t like to think that their ideas have such sinister implications. They like to think that their statements will only result in increased access to birth control and sex education. But with the way that global capitalism is structured, and the way that reactionary politics is trying to hijack...

Restructuring In Nigeria: Why? How? When?

25Jan

By Attahiru JegaNo Comments

Articles, Politics

Restructuring In Nigeria: Why? How? When?

Effort and energies need to be devoted to generating an elite, if not a national, consensus on the necessity of restructuring, defined as the redistribution of power and resources from the federal to the state governments... The embedded imbalance, inequities and perceived injustices in the current federal system in Nigeria have to be addressed as soon as possible to enable Nigeria and Nigerians to acquire the requisite stability and peaceful coexistence amenable to accelerated, sustainable socioeconomic development Introduction Federalism is the principle, some would say a conceptual or institutional framework, which defines “the division of authority among national and sub-national governments” in a given country (Rozell and Wilcox 2019). Such a country is referred to as a...

If the Deep State Wants Biden to Win, He Will

4Nov

By Lauren SmithNo Comments

Articles, Politics

If the Deep State Wants Biden to Win, He Will

Either way, this is a corporate election and we the people ultimately lose. Joe Biden Even without a crystal ball, it’s predicted that presidential candidate and former Vice-President Joe Biden will win the 2020 United States presidential election. However, this forecast is not based on record voter turnout or the magnitude of bad press generated by every corporate-controlled news media organization other than Fox against President Donald Trump or any personal bias, but simply because Biden will win if the Deep State wants it. The obvious rift between the Deep State and President Donald Trump, as evidenced by the preposterous and debunked Russiagate scandal, is contrasted by Biden and the CIA’s declared love fest. While Trump’s done the ruling elite’s bidding at the expense of ev...

The Murder of General Suleimani. When The Bully Strikes

8Jan

By Peter KoenigNo Comments

Articles, Politics

The Murder of General Suleimani. When The Bully Strikes

Author’s note: This article is loosely based on an hour-long rolling coverage / Press TV Interview – 3 January 2020 – on the US assassination of General Qassem Suleimani *** Interestingly, after the US attack on Iraqi Militia fighters on 31 December 2019, and the assassination of General Qassem Suleimani, on 2 January, the first thing President Trump could come up with, was bragging that it was him who gave the order to murder the popular military leader. General Qassem Suleimani, was the commander of the Iranian special Quds Force. The Quds Force was created during the Iran–Iraq War as a special unit from the broader Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It has the mission of liberating...

#RevolutionNOW – Whither the Revolution?

16Aug

By Onyeisi ChiemekeNo Comments

Articles, Politics

#RevolutionNOW – Whither the Revolution?

Is it a crisis of effort or the constant muddle that most social protests in Nigeria seem to find themselves that made it difficult to define what exactly happened to the protest tagged Day of Rage on the 5th of August 2019 by the Coalition For Revolution (CORE)? This question is important for the reason of the fact that as usual, once one of the leaders of the group in the coalition Omoyele Sowore was arrested, the whole effort did tailspin into a mist of interpretation of what a revolution ought to be, and what it ought not to be. A further problematic was even to define whether it was even a revolution or a protest as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other Human Rights documents. The fact that this protest was even made to derive its validity from t...

17May

By Prof Michel ChossudovskyNo Comments

Articles, Politics

Is US-Iran War Looming?

The text below is Chapter III of Michel Chossudovsky book entitled: The Globalization of War. America’s Long War against Humanity, Global Research Publishers, Montreal, 2015. To order the book directly from Global Research click here This chapter provides a historical perspective of US war plans directed against Iran, including the use of a preemptive nuclear attack, using low yield, “more usable” tactical nuclear weapons. Emphasis added While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using “new technologies” and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality. The inte...

Leadership Decline and 2019 Presidential Election

28Feb

By Salihu Moh. LukmanNo Comments

Articles, Politics

Leadership Decline and 2019 Presidential Election

Rejecting the result of the 2019 presidential election, Alh. Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the PDP, declared that “in my democratic struggles for the past three decades, I have never seen our democracy so debased as it was on Saturday, February 23, 2019. 2007 was a challenge, but President Yar’Adua was remorseful. In 2019, it is sad to see those who trampled on democracy thumping their noses down on the Nigerian people.” As students of history, politics and leadership, one cannot but ask the question; are we really talking about the same 2019 Nigerian presidential election? If it is, could Alh. Atiku’s claim really be a fair assessment of the election? This is hardly the case. For instance, YIAGA Africa, one of the civil society networks that monitored the election, noted that “over...

13Feb

By Lekan AkinoshoNo Comments

Articles, Politics

As Nigerians Decide…

The people of my dearest country, Nigeria, will be going to the polls to elect their representatives for another four years in a couple of days. There is every cause to cheer the very fact of a seamless transition since 1999. There has been a semblance of representation, which suggests that legitimacy emanates from the people, even if the reality contradicts. The observance of basic tenets of democratic principle, which finds expression in the exercise of the right to choose elected representatives, periodically by the people, however curtailed or manipulated, is sufficient tonic for the sustenance of interest in the process as practised in Nigeria. Of more compelling significance are the historical interventions of the conscious layer of the society at very crucial moments in rece...