Achebe & the ‘Innocence’ of Mortuary Narratives – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

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By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | May 15, 2013 – The recent transition of literary giant Albert Chinualumogu Achebe has led to an uncommon outpouring of encomiums. Achebe’s transition came less than a year after his last major work, There was a country: A Personal History of Biafra (2012) has stirred controversy in [...]

Alamieyeseigha’s Pardon: would you have acted differently? – Dr. Jideofor Adibe

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By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | March 27, 2013 – The recent presidential pardon of Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, Governor of Bayelsa State, from 29 May 1999 to 9 December 2005, has generated an understandable sense of outrage across the country. Alamieyeseigha is credited with plucking President Jonathan from total political obscurity and [...]

APC: Determination or Desperation? -By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

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By Dr. Jideofor Adibe / London, UK / March 4, 2013 – The recent announcement by the leading opposing parties that they were dissolving their parties in favour of a mega party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) took Nigerians by surprise. True, Nigerians were not unaware of its coming but very few expected that it [...]

Press Release: New Fiction series for ‘Generation Y’

New Fiction series for ‘Generation Y’ We are happy to announce the launch of a new fiction series for young adults for the Nigerian market. To be called ‘G-Y ’, the series is targeted at the ‘Generation Y’ – young adults who grew up in the era of flat screen TVs, Internet, Blackberry and Facebook. [...]

Sanusi Has Raised a Very Important Question But…By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

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By Dr. Jideofor Adibe / London, Uk / Jan. 5, 2013 – Whenever Lamido Sanusi Lamido says anything, be it an ordinary ‘good morning’, then it has to be like Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – dramatic, colourful, controversial and ‘roforofo’. The most controversial Central Bank Governor in the country’s history is very adept in raising very [...]

Nigeria Diaspora Alumni Network (NIDAN) meets Sunday 18 November 2012 in Abuja

Nigeria Diaspora Alumni Network (NIDAN) meets Sunday 18 November 2012 in Abuja Were you a Diaspora Nigerian, now back home in either private or public sector?. The Nigeria Diaspora Alumni Network (NiDAN), a network of Nigerians, who having spent at least one year outside the country, have returned home (or are planning to do so) [...]

The Re-invention of Goodluck Jonathan (III) – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

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By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | NNP | October 4, 2012 – The first instalment in these series was published on 1December 2011 while the second instalment was on 13 September 2011. In these series, which will not run consecutively, I will try to monitor the putative re-inventions of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) and the consequent [...]

The Re-invention of Goodluck Jonathan (2) – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

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By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | Sept. 19, 2012 – When I published the ‘Re-invention of Goodluck Jonathan’ in this column on December 1 2011, I did not plan to write a sequel to it. Let me give a brief summary of this re-invention as captured in what is now the first instalment [...]

Ethnicity, Hate Speech & Nation Building – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

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Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | August 31, 2012 – Am I alone in noticing how Nigerians seem to enjoy profiling and pouring invectives on one another whenever they congregate in their in-group to discuss the Nigerian condition? And if you think this is only a past-time of the uneducated and those who believe [...]

The ‘Failed State Index’ as a Tool of Imperialism – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

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By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | July 21, 2012 – The 2012 edition of the Failed State Index published by Funds for Peace, an independent research and educational organisation based in Washington DC, United States of America and promoted by the conservative Foreign Policy journal, has been generating debates and angst in some [...]

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