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Reflecting on Kingsley Moghalu’s “Build, Innovate and Grow: My Vision for our Country”
The Nigerian desire for a quality life is longstanding. Unfortunately, the actualisation of this dream has remained elusive despite the various promises, agendas, visions, of successive [...]
ISGPP INAUGRATES JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME
The need for deepening the research capacities of Nigeria’s early career and young researchers has been identified as a veritable instrument; in the provision of germane solutions and policies [...]
ISGPP AUGUST 2018 SEMINAR SERIES – Progress, Setbacks and Opportunities for Youth Political Inclusion: A Scrutiny of the Not Too Young to Run Act by Glory Etim
The relevance of youths to the development agenda and future of a society cannot be over emphasized. This is due to the fact that beyond the vigour, agility and dynamism which they represent; the [...]
ISGPP/UNECA/OVP Policy Dialogue on Job Creation in Nigeria by Aanuoluwa Kukoyi
At the end of each academic year, Nigerian higher institutions churn out a large number of graduates most of whom unfortunately; do not have employment opportunities. The same scenario plays out [...]
Prof Rotimi Suberu to anchor ISGPP June 2018 Seminar on Governance and Anti-Corruption Reform
Of all the identified interactive drivers of corruption in Nigeria such as: political culture, political economy, political leadership, political institutions etc; the country’s political [...]
ISGPP Book Reader’s Club reflects on the Nigerian electoral process as it engages Olusegun Adeniyi’s Against the Run of Play
The 2015 Nigerian Presidential elections marked a watershed in African political history as an incumbent president of the acclaimed giant of the continent lost power through the ballot. With a [...]
Participate or Perish : A Review of Ayisha Osori’s Love Does Not Win Elections By Nwachukwu Egbunike
Love Does Not Win Elections is an ironic title that screams with silent whispers. The irony of this book is that it demolished many oversimplifications that have for long dominated conversations [...]
ISGPP Book Reader’s Club hosts Ayisha Osori as members interrogate her book, Love Does Not Win Elections
Nigerian politics has been described as not for the lily-livered nor for those who are not familiar with its dynamics and intrigues. However the reality of our times shows that active citizen [...]
ISGPP Book Reader’s Club to engage Olutayo Adesina’s Nigeria in the Twentieth Century: History, Governance and Society
Evidence from literature asserts the important role of history especially with regards to understanding human societies. However the structure and content of these historical narratives is very [...]
NIGERIA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY, GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETY Olutayo C. Adesina (ed.): A Review by Edem D. Ossai
The book comprises 11 carefully selected chapters that are focused on a historical exploration of the challenges of Nigeria’s development. The editor adopts a methodology of selection of works [...]