As Boutros Boutros-Ghali Bows Out – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | February 23, 2016 – Boutros Boutros- Ghali, the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (January 1992 to December 1996) has died aged 93. As an Egyptian, many...
View ArticleDebating the Nigerian Economy – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | March 11, 2016 – Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who has become a sort of deity to several functionaries of the APC-led federal government, raised the stakes when he...
View ArticleMile 12 Clash: Between Indigenes, Settlers and Citizenship rights – By Dr....
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | March 21, 2016 - The recent ethnic/regional clashes between some Yoruba youths and some people of northern Nigeria extraction at Mile 12, Lagos, is the latest in a...
View ArticleBetween Aptitude and Attitude – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | March 24, 2016 – This reflection was inspired by a paper presented on behalf of Mike Omeri, the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) at the...
View ArticleCan Happiness Really be Measured? – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | April 2, 2016 - The inspiration for this reflection is the World Happiness Report 2016, released recently in Rome ahead of this year’s UN World Happiness Day, which...
View ArticleReflections on Fayose’s ‘stomach infrastructure’ – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | April 17, 2016 - When Fayose defeated Fayemi in the Ekiti State Governorship election in 2014, I took it personal. Apart from a chance meeting with Kayode Fayemi in...
View ArticleOn The Purported Merger of Christian and Islamic Studies in Schools – Dr....
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 3, 2016 - Nigeria can be anything but boring. The country often reminds one of the title of one of Dr Anezi Okoro’s novellas – One Week, One Trouble (African...
View ArticleNo Matter How Long You’ve Been Travelling in the Wrong Direction…By Dr....
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 23, 2016 | - There is a saying that no matter how long you have been travelling in the wrong direction, the best solution remains to turn back. This was what...
View ArticleAtiku: Beyond the Call for Restructuring Nigeria – by Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | June 19, 2016 - The recent call by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for Nigeria to be restructured seems to have struck a chord with many Nigerians. If anything the call by...
View ArticleAnomie, Rage and Redemptive Suffering – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | July 10, 2016 - It was Emile Durkheim, the French sociologist and philosopher who coined the term ‘anomie’ to refer to a situation where the conditions for...
View ArticleStates’ Bankruptcy: Time to Embrace the ‘R’ word? – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | July 24, 2016 - The Chinese are said to use two brush strokes to write the word, ‘crisis’. It is said that for them one brush stroke stands for danger while the...
View ArticleBetween Quota and Federal Character principle – By Jideofor Adibe
By Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | July 27, 2016 - This reflection is a continuation of my last week’s piece on how to re-engineer our politics to make it less anarchic and more oriented towards...
View ArticleOsibanjo and the role of intellectuals in Politics – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | August 14, 2016 - How has Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former Professor of Law at the University of Lagos fared as an intellectual...
View ArticleBuhari’s Quest for Emergency Economic Powers – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | Sept. 5, 2016 – Since Reuters broke the news on August 22 2016 that the government would be seeking for emergency powers to enable it fix the economy, Nigerians...
View ArticleChinakwe: When the Law Became an Ass – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | Sept. 05, 2016 – Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, a 30-year-old trader, has been making major headlines since his arrest in Ogun state for naming his dog, Buhari. The man,...
View ArticleGovernor Ambode & the Michael Jackson Syndrome – By Tochukwu Ezukanma
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria |Sept. 23, 2016 | Governor Ambode’s urban renewal policy is fundamentally flawed. For one, it strives to recast a Nigerian city in Parisian or Washingtonian mold....
View ArticleAU Passport: Road to United States of Africa? – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | Oct. 1, 2016 – One of the key highlights of the 27th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government, which held in Kigali, Rwanda...
View ArticleBe Careful with Kenyan Airways – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Abuja, Nigeria | October 10, 2016 – I travelled to Kenya on July 14 2016 to attend a conference in Nairobi on the intellectual legacies of the late Kenyan political scientist...
View ArticleNigeria @ 56? Is this House Falling? – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Abuja, Nigeria | October 10, 2016 – When Karl Maier published his book This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria in the year 2000, I was probably among the first people he...
View ArticleRe-evaluating the Boko Haram Conflict – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe
Dr. Jideofor Adibe | Abuja, Nigeria | October 27, 2016 – My piece today was first published by Brookings’ Institution on its blog on February 29 2016...
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