Akinyemi Onigbinde

DISMANTLING APARTHEID

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If the imprudence at recounting the episode can be conveniently ignored and one embraces the spiritual importance that lurks behind the dramatic, yet spectacular episode, Kenneth Kaunda’s tears of sympathy for the victims and vices of apartheid at the First International Conference on apartheid South Africa in Lagos was a pointer that more concerted effort…

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER

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This paper intends to focus on the perils of the old economic order which necessitated the North-South Dialogue that resulted in what has been described as the New International Economic Order, then go on to discuss the social problems and goals of a new international economic order. It will be concluded with a special reference…

JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

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What should be the role of university education in Africa assumes and rightly too that in spite of the relatively long period of university education in the continent, its mission, to a considerable degree, is still either misconstrued or has not been properly formulated by those who owe us the duty to do so. Yet…

SARTRE’S EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY AND THE QUEST

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Introduction We state here that the reader is not likely to be confronted with new themes as this study makes no pretentions of breaking new grounds on Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism. However, since every academic study must contribute to intellectual development if it must be regarded as contributing to knowledge, this study aims at elucidating in…

ANALYSIS OF THE 1989 BUDGET

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Introduction The budget or any budget at all – be it at national, regional, local or even personal budget – is a document of hope. Within it one perceives the vision, aspiration and intention of the framer. One equally sees in a budget both the strategy and tactics of achieving the desired goals; in short,…

SOUTH AFRICA, APARTHEID AND ECONOMIC SANCTION: A CRITIQUE OF PROGRESSIVE FORCE ASSUMPTIONS

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The main thesis of this essay is to establish, by way of counter historical-development argument, that economic growth in South Africa is linked with the entrenchment of apartheid as a policy. Immediate fall-out from this main thesis is an argument that economic sanction, to be hereinafter referred to as sanction, rather than adversely affect the…

POLITICS OF POWER AND THE IMPERATIVE OF MORAL AUTHORITY

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Introduction Let us take off from the stand point of offering a conceptual clarification by way of making a distinction between power and authority. It is important to offer a peg for our discussion in a forum, as this, crowded with men of authority, lest they are perceived to be people with power, even if their own brand…

AUTONOMY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS A SUBVERSION OF FEDERALISM AS GOVERNANCE TEMPLATE

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In a federal system of government, the one we pretend to be running, whose operation is heavily skewed against a section of the country, to the extent that successive military leaders of Nigeria who have come from a section of the country have (mis) used their power to create local government areas in every hamlet…

LEST WE FORGET THE STORY BEHIND THE GATEWAY AIRPORT AT IPERU

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It is good that Governor Dapo Abiodun eventually got the Gateway Cargo Airport to a reality with a maiden commercial fight by Value Jet Airline. We salute him for having the tenacity of purpose to do what his own immediate predecessor and Senator Gbenga Daniel's immediate successor failed to do.For all of his four years,as…

BEYOND THE EUPHORIA OF AN AIRPORT

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Whilst it is exciting to have witnessed the fruition of a dream, conceived in 2005 by the administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel, 2003-2011, with the maiden Iperu-Abuja flight by Value Jet on October 6, 2025, let us not ignore the issue of TRANPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY on the laudable project. For now, what we are confronted…

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