AU | Intervention

Professor Attahiru Jega Puts Youths @ the Centre of Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: AU, Bayero University - Kano, INEC, Nile University - Abuja, UN1 CommentViews:

Professor Attahiru Jega, immediate past Chairperson of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) bounced back into the Nigerian public sphere at the weekend insisting on pla... Read more

Is Malaria About to be Finally Crushed?

Posted By: adminon: April 25, 2017In: FlashbackTags: AU, Devex, Glaxosmithkline, PATH, Plasmodium fulciparun, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:

“We finally have a vaccine against malaria and that in itself shows this can be done and that funding and research must continue because it’s possible”— Mary Hamel, WHO lead for the Malaria... 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

Burundi edges closer to the abyss in 2016

Posted By: adminon: December 13, 2016In: SpectacleTags: AU, ethnicity, genocide, Nkurunziza, UNNo CommentsViews:

Burundi edges closer to the abyss in 2016 By Rene Lemarchand In this short piece, extracted from The Conversation, (December 12th, 2016), Lemarchand, Professor Emeritus and leading authorit... Read more

International Intervention Begins on The Gambia

Posted By: adminon: December 11, 2016In: GovernanceTags: AU, ECOWAS, Intervention, The Gambia, UNNo CommentsViews:

International Intervention Begins on The Gambia The first wave of predictable international pressure is mounting on Yahya Jammeh, out – going president of The Gambia to hand over power rathe... Read more

11th FRCN Annual Lecture: Obadiah Mailafia and the Long Shadows of the Sardauna of Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: October 29, 2016In: GovernanceTags: AU, Bishop Gabriel Ganaka, Dr Aminu Yusuf Usman, Dr Obed Mailafia, Dr Yima Sen, Facebook, FRCN, Google, Kaduna State, Kannywood, Lai Mohammed, Mohammadu Buhari, Nollywood, Samson Shuaib, Sardauna, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sokoto State, UN, Yakubu LameNo CommentsViews:

It was a case of the Sardauna of Sokoto and only Premier of the defunct Northern Nigeria is dead but long live the Sardauna last Thursday at the 11th Annual Lecture of the Federal Rad... Read more

African Union deserves visionary, dynamic leadership

Posted By: adminon: September 09, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, Ambassador Ngovi Kitau, ANC, AU, British, COMESA, Dr Dlamini Zuma, ECOWAS, European Union, General Yakubu Gowon, Iraq, Kofi Annan, Libya, Moammar Gadhafi, MOROCCO, NATO, NELSON MANDELA, OAU, Prof George B.N. Ayittey, Tendai Ruben Mbofana, UNECANo CommentsViews:

By Paul Ejime As an example of leadership for Africa, the AU is seriously wanting. Yet this is not just an intergovernmental organization. It is a rallying point for the actualization... Read more

Morocco and the AU

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2016In: SpectacleTags: AU, MOROCCONo CommentsViews:

Pambazuka online (August 4th, 2016) where this piece was originally published introduced Malainin Mohamed Lakhal, the author of this piece, as a freelance journalist and translator as well a... Read more