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Barack Obama and Donald Trump in the Eyes of Europeans

Posted By: adminon: May 26, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'Healer Obama', 'Obsolete NATO', Angela Merkel, EU, Pew Research Centre Survey, Thomas JagerNo CommentsViews:

By Ishaan Tharoor Call it a tale of two presidents. On the same day that President Trump visits the gleaming new NATO headquarters in Brussels, his predecessor will give a high-profile speec... Read more

Eight Years On, Memory of Tajudeen Abdulraheem Gets Stronger

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Abuja, Amina Salihu, Anglican Girls Grammar School, Deng Xiaoping, Dr Chidi Odinkalu, George Washington, Illiyasu Gadu, International Women Communication Centre - Nigeria, Julius Nyerere, Kole Shettima, Kwame Nkruma, Lee Kuan Yew, President Ellen Sirleaf, Prof Okello Ocu;i, Tajudeen AbdulraheemNo CommentsViews:

Generally, memorialisation is a delicate affair. Who is being remembered, for what, by whom, when and where always has a tendency to trigger all sorts of mood. It could be even more so when... Read more

What Can the AU Peace Fund Do for Africa’s Conflict Epidemic?

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2017In: SpectacleTags: AfDB, AU Peace Fund, Donald Kaberuka, ECOWAS, UMOANo CommentsViews:

The question has been asked as to whether violent conflicts is endemic in the African or a product of conflict management failure. Consciously or otherwise, Africa tends to be constantly res... Read more

Domestic or Foreign Debt, We’ll Back Osinbajo on Moratorium – Former Minister Joins Debate

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 2015 Greece crisis, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, NTA's Good Morning Nigeria, OxfamNo CommentsViews:

A Minister who served in former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s first term before becoming an adviser to the then president has rejected the distinction between domestic and foreign debt as a... Read more

8TH Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem Memorial Next Week

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'The First African President', Bayero University, Oxford, Rhodes Scholar, Rural Banditry, UNNo CommentsViews:

Once again, it is time to memorialise the late Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, the go-getting, multi-faceted Nigerian activist who died in a car crash in Kenya in 2009. All roads would be leading... Read more

Economist Faults Intervention on Debt Moratorium, Calls Domestic Debt Nigeria’s Time Bomb

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Cross-border finance, Debt Moratorium, Domestic debts, IMF, Privatisation, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Time-bomb, VenezuelaNo CommentsViews:

A Development economist and a constructive critic of Intervention has faulted the platform’s story yesterday, (See “Is Debt Moratorium on the Table in the Turbulence of Negotiating Buhari’s... Read more

A Crack Week on Africa @ Chatham House

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'China in Africa', 2014 US-African Leaders Summit, African Union Commission, Bolaji Akinyemi, Mevlut Cavusoglu, Moussa Faki Mahamat, NIIA, SAIIA, SAJIA, Stephen O'Brien, TurkeyNo CommentsViews:

It’s a week of huge chunk of attention for Africa at Chatham House, the British think-tank on international affairs. Beginning today, May 10th, 2017, the Africa Programme of the think-tank’s... Read more

Report: World Bank Fuels Land Grabs in Africa

Posted By: adminon: May 09, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Anuradha Mittal, Bank Information Centre - BIC, Inclusive Development International, International Financial Corporation, Marc Ona Essangui, Phillippe Le Houerou, The World Bank GroupNo CommentsViews:

The World Bank Group has indirectly financed some of Africa’s most notorious land grabs, according to a report by a group of international development watchdogs. The World Bank’s private-sec... Read more

Any Link Between OBJ, IBB & Abdulsalami’s Intervention on Buhari’s Ill-Health and de Klerk, Mbeki & Motlanthe’s on Zuma’s Corruption?

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Abdulsalami Abubakar, Against the Run of Play, ANC, Bisi Akande, Chidi Amuta, Frederick De Klerk, IBB, Kgalema Motlanthe, olusegun Obasanjo, PDP, President Muhammadu Buhari, Segun Adeniyi, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:

It started first in Nigeria when three former Heads of State – former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar met and took whatever collective position presum... Read more

Will Zuma Go Tomorrow Although, Beyond Nigeria and South Africa, Corruption is Sinking Africa?

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Atiku Abubakar, AU, G-20, G-8, Gupta family, Lonmin mine, MTN, NEPAD, olusegun Obasanjo, President Jacob Zuma, State of Capture Report, Thabo Mbeki, Thuli MadonselaNo CommentsViews:

One is a manufacturing economy by the African standard. That is South Africa. The other is a lumbering, chaotic giant. That is Nigeria. The two are regarded as the power houses of the contin... Read more