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From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Apartheid, British Empire, Capitalism, Chatham House, Colonialism, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Imperialism, Lancaster House, Nazism, Neo-colonialism, Slavery, ‘Wind of change’No CommentsViews:
From Lancaster House to Chatham House: When Shall Nigeria be Truly Independent?

Nigerian nationalism is on warpath against those seeking to rule the country trooping to a UK platform with ties to the Empire imagination. The argument against such trend can be powerful wh... Read more

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Presidential Candidates in Nigeria’s February 2023 Election to Appear on NIIA Platform

Posted By: adminon: January 22, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Chatham House, Critical International Relations, Domestic priorities, Foreign policy, NIIANo CommentsViews:
Presidential Candidates in Nigeria's February 2023 Election to Appear on NIIA Platform

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) is opening its own platform for presidential aspirants to upload the foreign policy lenses. It is not clear if the theme of “The world... Read more

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History Repeating Itself as Prof Eghosa Osaghae Resumes @ NIIA?

Posted By: adminon: April 15, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Bolaji Akinyemi, CFR, Chatham House, CHINA, MFA, NIIA, RUSI, State Department, UK, USNo CommentsViews:
History Repeating Itself as Prof Eghosa Osaghae Resumes @ NIIA?

In the week that University of Ibadan’s Prof Eghosa Osaghae resumes as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA), the temptation to infer history repeat... Read more

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So, What is Terminally Ailing NIIA, NIPSS, IPCR and Other State Owned Think Tanks in Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2021In: SpectacleTags: BBC, CDD, Chatham House, ECOWAS, FASS, IPCR, NIIA, NIPSS, NISERNo CommentsViews:
So, What is Terminally Ailing NIIA, NIPSS, IPCR and Other State Owned Think Tanks in Nigeria?

It has become a badge of some reference to be invited from Nigeria to utilize the Chatham House platform in London. Most politicians and intellectuals of statecraft who manage to get invited... Read more

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Nigeria’s Attempt to Build a Nation Has Become Like the Agony of Sisyphus –  Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Chatham House, Emir of Kano, Good Shephard Seminary - Kaduna, Leah Sharibu, Northern Elders, Sultan of SokotoNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Attempt to Build a Nation Has Become Like the Agony of Sisyphus -  Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah

An attempt to edit this text towards a shorter version failed. The entire 4000 words plus homily by His Lordship, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese at the Fu... Read more

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Is It Democracy Slowing Mister President Or Mister President Slowing Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: December 21, 2019In: SpectacleTags: Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Chatham House, Dr. Babachir Lawal, Prof Oka Martins ObonoNo CommentsViews:
Is It Democracy Slowing Mister President Or Mister President Slowing Democracy?

For the enormity of challenges confronting Nigeria, it is arguable if president Buhari is criticised enough. But he is receiving sharp shots here and there such as this from the Department o... Read more

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Nigeria’s Nine Most Worrisome Warning Signs

Posted By: adminon: August 14, 2018In: SpectacleTags: APC, Chatham House, EFCC, ICG, NDI, PDP, USIPNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria’s Nine Most Worrisome Warning Signs

The power elite in Nigeria has gotten used to wangling its way out of cross roads that it might not have anticipated the Buhari complexity before it now, whether he contests in 2019 or repla... Read more

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Veritas University Discusses Governance, Separatist Agitations and the the Nigerian State

Posted By: adminon: March 01, 2018In: BookspaceTags: CEPAD, Chatham House, Clash of Civilisation, NATO, NPSA, Rohingya Muslim Crisis, UN, USNo CommentsViews:
Veritas University Discusses Governance, Separatist Agitations and the the Nigerian State

From Abuja where a think tank’s platform which interrogated the distinction between Procedural and Substantive Democracy degenerated into an analytics war early February to Bayero University... Read more

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Civil Society and the Coming Internet Code of Practice in Nigeria (1)

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2017In: FlashbackTags: 'Regime Complex', 'Soft power', APC, CBT, Chatham House, CIGI, CITAD, Internet governance, NCC, Prof Joseph NyeNo CommentsViews:
Civil Society and the Coming Internet Code of Practice in Nigeria (1)

The internet intrigues everyone. So much so that, in 2014, two Western think tanks, Chatham House in London and the Ontario, Canada based Centre for International Governance Innovation, (CIG... Read more

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Who Suffers Most from US Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement? The US Itself, says Chatham House Researcher

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2017In: FlashbackTags: California, Chatham House, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, Paris Climate Change Agreement 2015, Rob BaileyNo CommentsViews:
Who Suffers Most from US Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement? The US Itself, says Chatham House Researcher

Chatham House’s Gitika Bhardwaj interviewed Rob Bailey, the Director of Energy, Environment and Resources of the leading UK think-tank on who suffers most from Trump’s decision to call it qu... Read more

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