Papers by Abubakar Sadeeque Abba
Recent events in the Middle East may mark the beginning of a new epoch within Arab history and re... more Recent events in the Middle East may mark the beginning of a new epoch within Arab history and redefine the posture of the region given the strategic importance of the region to global powers. These events such as the uprisings present examples of popular action, in which the political and the social domains are intertwined to the extent of being almost inseparable. While the social protest nature at the beginning of the revolutions was central to their outbreak, they cannot be seen in isolation as protest movements that afflicted, in the main, the Arab “republics”. Indeed, protests have repeatedly arisen not only within the Arab countries with nominally republican governments, but also monarchies such as Bahrain, Jordan, and Morocco. It is, therefore, important to understand that these revolutions have an important geopolitical and geostrategic dimension that is reflected in their impact on the region and, inevitably, on the international arena. It has also become clear that geostr...
The Journal of Pan-African Studies, 2017
This article focuses on the issue of candidate selection process within Nigeria's political p... more This article focuses on the issue of candidate selection process within Nigeria's political parties. Hence the article argues that in Nigeria, primary elections are the most common method of selecting party flag-bearers, and more often than not, this process is undermined by party elite who deploy money to influence choices thereby, leading to the outright collapse of the party structures, which are expected to breed internal democracy. This, in turn, hinders the emergence of credible candidates and also gives rise to internal party squabbles, litigation, and the exclusion of certain segment of society, notably, women, youth and the people with disability. Therefore, the authors conducted a series of interviews with party leaders from three political parties and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and prominent members of civil society organisations.
Neoliberalism is a constructivist and immoderate project with hegemony underpinning its purpose. ... more Neoliberalism is a constructivist and immoderate project with hegemony underpinning its purpose. Inherent in hegemony is the tyrannical theory that no social force, regardless of its usefulness to the world, must share the same self-preservation value with empire-building hegemon concealing as an entrepreneur. The purpose of the paper is to unveil the subjectivism, exceptionalism, prescriptivism, and illiberalism underlining neoliberalism. Methodologically, and for purposes of conceptualization, analysis, suggestion, and direction for future research, dialectical inquiry method was adopted. This methodology lends credence to diversity as a universal fact. It claims that fact and value are mutually exclusive and that universal fact must not be sacrificed for ideological value. We contended that, the cliché, there is no alternative to neoliberalism is a political and psychological conditioning to prevent spirited others from tackling the problem of beginning. Meanwhile, as a second-ot...
Nile Journal of Political Science
The task undertaken in this paper is an attempt to contextualize the invidious and seemingly invi... more The task undertaken in this paper is an attempt to contextualize the invidious and seemingly invincible role being played by major political ‘capitals’ in the reification, deification, hence hegemonization of the capitalist ideology in the global economic system. This is done within the ambit of the demise of Soviet socialism, the infiltration of communist China by the mutability, adaptability and profitability of capitalist ethos; the opening up of revolutionary Cuba, the evocation of the Arab Spring which gutted the arch-priest of Jamahiriya in Libya, the ambitious but painful containment of the Korean peoples power and the collapsed of the system of economic commands and stage-management across the world. In this light, the paper tried to enquire into how the word ‘capital’ became the name given to states’ headquarters and how this reality has aided the dominance or hegemony of capitalism in the world. Employing the hegemonic stability theory and descriptive analysis method, the ...
Recent events in the Middle East may mark the beginning of a new epoch within Arab history and re... more Recent events in the Middle East may mark the beginning of a new epoch within Arab history and redefine the posture of the region given the strategic importance of the region to global powers. These events such as the uprisings present examples of popular action, in which the political and the social domains are intertwined to the extent of being almost inseparable. While the social protest nature at the beginning of the revolutions was central to their outbreak, they cannot be seen in isolation as protest movements that afflicted, in the main, the Arab “republics”. Indeed, protests have repeatedly arisen not only within the Arab countries with nominally republican governments, but also monarchies such as Bahrain, Jordan, and Morocco. It is, therefore, important to understand that these revolutions have an important geopolitical and geostrategic dimension that is reflected in their impact on the region and, inevitably, on the international arena. It has also become clear that geostr...
Participants in anticorruption and development are not strangers to the conception of political w... more Participants in anticorruption and development are not strangers to the conception of political will and lack of political will. However, lack of political will, considered here as a misnomer has gained much currency in development literature because of error in the use of language which doesn’t convey precise knowledge and fact. Based on perceptible reality we did a discursive review of political will to unwrap the fallacies inherent in the use of lack of political will in describing failure to achieve established objectives. To practically do this, we formulated Paradoxical Pair Model (PPM) as a framework to properly review the subject to avoid such poor judgment. This Model was arrived at after discursive reflections leading to deductive conclusion that everything in the world of Political Man is transcendentally created in pairs, including all that are beyond his knowledge. Consistent with this transcendental fact, we argued to a promising conclusion that dualism and dialectics ...
The American journal of orthopsychiatry, 2007
Mental health among university students represents an important and growing public health concern... more Mental health among university students represents an important and growing public health concern for which epidemiological data are needed. A Web-based survey was administered to a random sample at a large public university with a demographic profile similar to the national student population. Depressive and anxiety disorders were assessed with the Patient Health Questionnaire (R. L. Spitzer, K. Kroenke, J. B. W. Williams, & the Patient Health Questionnaire Primary Care Study Group, 1999). Nonresponse weights were constructed with administrative data and a brief non-respondent survey. The response rate was 56.6% (N = 2,843). The estimated prevalence of any depressive or anxiety disorder was 15.6% for undergraduates and 13.0% for graduate students. Suicidal ideation in the past 4 weeks was reported by 2% of students. Students reporting financial struggles were at higher risk for mental health problems (odds ratios = 1.6-9.0). These findings highlight the need to address mental healt...
This article focuses on the issue of candidate selection process within Nigeria's political parti... more This article focuses on the issue of candidate selection process within Nigeria's political parties. Hence the article argues that in Nigeria, primary elections are the most common method of selecting party flag-bearers, and more often than not, this process is undermined by party elite who deploy money to influence choices thereby, leading to the outright collapse of the party structures, which are expected to breed internal democracy. This, in turn, hinders the emergence of credible candidates and also gives rise to internal party squabbles, litigation, and the exclusion of certain segment of society, notably, women, youth and the people with disability. Therefore, the authors conducted a series of interviews with party leaders from three political parties and officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and prominent members of civil society organisations.
IOSR Journal of Humanities & Social Science [IOSR-JHSS], 2019
Neoliberalism is a constructivist and immoderate project with hegemony underpinning its purpose. ... more Neoliberalism is a constructivist and immoderate project with hegemony underpinning its purpose. Inherent in hegemony is the tyrannical theory that no social force, regardless of its usefulness to the world, must share the same self-preservation value with empire-building hegemon concealing as an entrepreneur. The purpose of the paper is to unveil the subjectivism, exceptionalism, prescriptivism, and illiberalism underlining neoliberalism. Methodologically, and for purposes of conceptualization, analysis, suggestion, and direction for future research, dialectical inquiry method was adopted. This methodology lends credence to diversity as a universal fact. It claims that fact and value are mutually exclusive and that universal fact must not be sacrificed for ideological value. We contended that, the cliché, there is no alternative to neoliberalism is a political and psychological conditioning to prevent spirited others from tackling the problem of beginning. Meanwhile, as a second-other-reality one phenomenon like neoliberalism cannot be alternative to itself. Thus, it cannot be immune from the flaws and inconsistencies that organically underline it because of ignorance of ontological origin of diversity and cognitive relativism. The aftermath is the foisting of despotic social science which inspires geopolitics of banditry. Finally, we submitted that diagnostic social science is what the world needs now.
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