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Unpacking Nigeria’s More Conflict Management Training, More Conflicts Paradox, Part 2

Posted By: adminon: September 06, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: ASCON, CEPACS, Christians, DFID, Dr Ojiji, Dr Tukur Baba, Dr Tunde Akanni, EU, Ibadan, IPCR, Jos, Kogi, LAGOS, Muslims, Nsukka, Sokoto, UN, ZariaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA The first part of this Special Report titled “Nigeria: Why the More Conflict Management Training, the More Conflicts? Part 1” featured Professor Oshita Oshita, the Director G... Read more

Nigeria: Why the More Conflict Management Training, the More Conflicts? Part 1

Posted By: adminon: September 05, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: Benue, BOKO HARAM, CEPACS, Dr Ochinya Ojiji, Dr Tukur Baba, Dr Tunde Akanni, Ibadan, IPCR, Jos, Kogi, NIGERIA, Nsukka, Professor Oshita Oshita, Sokoto, universities, ZariaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA After two insurgencies within a decade in addition to numerous scorched earth convulsions sparing none of its regions, Nigeria must be thinking of conflict management differe... Read more

Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

By Adagbo ONOJA Would President Buhari not benefit from exploring the similarities between his and Ezeulu’s situation as depicted in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God? This is the question observ... Read more

Latin American left rejects impeachment of Brazil’s Rousseff

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, Evo Morales, Latin American, Rafael CorreaNo CommentsViews:

By Ishaan Tharoor The nations that represent Latin America’s leftist vanguard reacted with anger after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was stripped of her office on Wednesday. A Sen... Read more

Actual and Feared Electoral Hiccups Across Africa

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Ali Bongo, Challenger Jean Ping, Chidi Odinkalu, INEC, RECsNo CommentsViews:

Pseudo democracy! That is the verdict of The Economist of London on democracy in Africa a week or so ago. Presidential polls spiralled into post election violence in Gabon in Central Africa... Read more

Knocks and Kudos for Cattle Rail in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: African, CBN, CITAD, Dr Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed, ECOMOG, ECOWAS, NIGERIA, NIPSS, NIRSAL, North, Usman Dan Fodio UniversityNo CommentsViews:

Players, analysts and critics of agricultural strategy in Nigeria have welcomed the modernisation jab yesterday whereby movement of the cattle component of the country’s agricultural advanta... Read more

Setback for “The Coming Women Take Over of Power Globally”

Posted By: adminon: September 01, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Angela Merkel, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, Dr Zuma, Europe, German, Hilary Clinton, IMF, MIC, North Korea, UKNo CommentsViews:

Intervention’s global gender watch over rising number of women in apex political power across the world suffered a setback yesterday with the successful impeachment of Dilma Rousseff as Pres... Read more

G20, Ever a Reminder to Nigeria, Rolls On in China

Posted By: adminon: August 31, 2016In: FlashbackTags: APC, Babatunde Fashola, CHINA, David Cameroun, G20, Germany, India, Mexico, MINT, Mohammadu Buhari, NATO, NIGERIA, Obama, Professor Daniel Drezner, Russia, Turkey, USNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA “IF A Martian were to land on earth and be asked, based on effort put into spiffing itself up, which city was the Olympic host this year, there is a good chance it would gue... Read more

Nigeria Has Not Recovered From SAP – Prof Momoh

Posted By: adminon: August 30, 2016In: Policy & GovernanceTags: CBN, IBB, Late Comrade Emma Ezeazu, NANS, Professor Abubakar Momoh, Rotimi Amaechi, SAPNo CommentsViews:

The structural Adjustment Programme, (SAP) which has served as the business model for Nigeria in one form or the other since 1982 has come under critical scrutiny again. Delivering the maide... Read more

General Aliyu Gusau Opens Up on Boko Haram

Posted By: adminon: August 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Australia, BOKO HARAM, CHINA, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, GWOT, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, Red Sea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, the EU, Turkey, United States, West Africa, YemenNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, two time National Security Adviser as well as a former Minister of Defence of Nigeria has thrown into question the Islamicist claims of Boko Har... Read more