De-Escalation Archives - Page 23 of 58

Still High Landmine Casualty Rate in Nigeria, 23 Years After Global Ban?

Posted By: adminon: December 20, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: CNN, MAG, Ottawa Treaty, underdevelopment dimension of the insecurity crisis in NigeriaNo CommentsViews:

The storyline is that Nigeria is today the fifth highest of personnel landmine casualty rate in the world. And the question is how could that be? The question has nothing to do with ignoranc... Read more

Isn’t Closing Schools Giving-in to Bandits and Terrorists?

Posted By: adminon: December 18, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Rugu forest, Sambisa Forest, US Navy SealNo CommentsViews:

By Habu Mohammed As things are now, secondary schools and later tertiary institutions in Kano State have been closed. It is a fall out of the raid on another secondary school in Katsina Stat... Read more

Is Katsina Kidnap the Handiwork of Bandits or Boko Haram or Both?

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: 'Reverse engineering', Biopolitical reasoning, COIN, Neoliberal rationalismNo CommentsViews:

The formal claim of responsibility by Boko Haram for the abduction of school boys in Katsina must have sent more worrisome signals to the Nigerian security establishment. Boko Haram leader,... Read more

Can the PRP Speak?

Posted By: adminon: December 12, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: NEPU, NPC, OPC, Prof. Ahmadu JalingoNo CommentsViews:

At a time like this, there should be a force for good waving a banner of hope as majority of the people waft into submission to an overwhelming abnormality. Nigeria is under siege from a dee... Read more

Did 10,000 Nigerians Die in Military Custody in the COIN Against Boko Haram?

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: AI, COIN, Just WarNo CommentsViews:

Trouble does not appear to be over for the Nigerian military, image wise, as Amnesty International, (AI) opens another flank on its human rights records in the prosecution of the counter-ins... Read more

SIPRI Releases Frightening Details of Rising World Arms Sales

Posted By: adminon: December 07, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Boeing, EDGE, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and General DynamicsNo CommentsViews:

New data from SIPRI’s Arms Industry Database shows that arms sales by the world’s 25 largest arms-producing and military services companies (arms companies) totalled US$361 billion in 2019.... Read more

Where is the African Union As Africa Descends Into War Again?

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: AU, EPRDF, genocide, The Horn, TPLFNo CommentsViews:

It is 26 years now since University of Ibadan scholar, Prof Eghosa Osaghae, posed the touching question in a memorable essay titled “The Persistence of Conflict in Africa: Conflict Managemen... Read more

How Soon Would the Universities Come Alive Again in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, BOKO HARAM, CONUA, IMF/World Bank, NANS, NUCNo CommentsViews:

This is the question very few people can answer as things are today in Nigeria. The universities have been under lock and key for the past nine months. It is not clear if this is not the lon... Read more

NLTP Now Accepted By All 19 Northern States – Dr. Andrew Kwasari

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: CDD, MACBAN, NLTP1 CommentViews:

All the 19 states that make up the defunct Northern Nigeria have accepted implementing the National Livestock Transformation Plan, (NLTP), Presidential Aide on the NLTP, Dr. Andrew Kwasari h... Read more

Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federalism Turns Into War @ Last

Posted By: adminon: November 06, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: EPRDF, Ethnic federalism, Territorial federalism, TPLFNo CommentsViews:

Ethiopia has entered a state of emergency over an issue that would be worrisome to many African leaders. It is on the workability of ethnic federalism which is being hotly debated in Nigeria... Read more