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Chibok Girls in the De-securitising Paradox of Storming Sambisa Forest

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2016In: GovernanceTags: buhari, Chad, CHINA, Convenience sampling, France, Goodluck Jonathan, Israel, Nigerian troops, Professor Barry Buzan, Professor Michael Williams, Professor Ole Weaver, Richard Ullman, Storming Sambisa, UK, University of Aberswyth, USNo CommentsViews:

Chibok Girls in the De-securitising Paradox of Storming Sambisa Forest By Adagbo ONOJA This Special Report follows a slightly different format by starting with the data before raising... Read more

Reloading Nigeria’s Risk Baggage in 2017, (Part 3)

Posted By: adminon: December 28, 2016In: GovernanceTags: 21st Century Scramble for Africa, Africa Mining Vision, AFRICOM, Battleground Africa, Brazil, CHINA, France intervention in Mali, Gaddafi, India, Japan, Margreat Carol Lee, NATO, NIGERIA, Russia, USNo CommentsViews:

Reloading Nigeria’s Risk Baggage in 2017, (Part 3) The third and the conclusion of a three-part Special Report discuss the ‘Battleground Africa’ risk baggage in relation to Nigeria. In bring... Read more

Trump and Africa – An Opportunity Amid the Uncertainty?

Posted By: adminon: December 11, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa, CHINA, Europe, opportunity, TrrumpNo CommentsViews:

This piece which speaks to what can be considered the most important or central issues about Africa in the emerging world order has been reproduced from Daily Maverick, (December 11th, 2016)... Read more

Electoral Wind of Change and Violence Across Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 09, 2016In: GovernanceTags: 2016 Ghana election, CHINA, Genocide Prevention, South Sudan, USNo CommentsViews:

Electoral Wind of Change Moves from Nigeria to Ghana and Gambia The wind of change in the fortune of incumbents in West Africa unleashed by the sacking of Goodluck Jonathan in Nigeria in Apr... Read more

Donald Trump Should Embrace a Realist Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Afghanistan, Chicago, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, East Asia, Egypt, Europe, Georgia, Germany, India, Iraq, ISIS, John J. Mearsheimer, Libya, Obama, Persian Gulf, Russia, Syria, UK, Ukraine, YemenNo CommentsViews:

Remember John J. Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago’s R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science who wrote, among others, The Tragedy of Great Power Politic... Read more

Brazil Breaking BRICS?

Posted By: adminon: November 28, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Brazil, BRICS, CHINA, Dilma Rousseff, DONALD TRUMP, France, India, Michel Temer, Russia, SOUTH AFRICA, UN, US, WTONo CommentsViews:

Published originally in The Conversation online (Nov 20th, 2016) under the title “Brazil is breaking with its south-south focus. What it means for BRICS”, this piece hints about... Read more

Trump Feared to Provoke Further Recession in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: November 20, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Asian, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, Iran, Muhammadu Buhari, NIGERIA, Obama, Saudi Arabia, USNo CommentsViews:

Contrary to presumptions that Donald Trump will not change US-Nigeria relation, analysts of global oil dynamics fear that the exact opposite could be the case. The fear is that beyond susta... Read more

How Global Primacy Over China Will Tutor Trump on Africa

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa, AFRICOM, Australia, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, DRC, Europe, FDI, FOCAC, George W. Bush, Germany, GWOT, Hilary Clinton, IMF, Iraq, James Woolsey, Japan, Kenyan, Obama, USNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Punditry is already getting it wrong, going hysterical about how Donald doesn’t have one idea about Africa, how empty of Africa his own map of the world is. Others are afraid... Read more

Underdeveloped American Democracy

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2016In: SpectacleTags: America, Angola, Arkansas State, Brazil, British, Canada, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, HILLARY CLINTON, ISIS, JACOB ZUMA, Mexico, Namibia, Robert Mugabe, SOUTH AFRICA, United Nations, Venezuela, Washington, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

By Okello Oculi, The notion of the United States of America as an ‘’underdeveloped country’’ was irreverently presented by Ira Sharkansky to the197... Read more

EDITORIAL

Posted By: adminon: November 07, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Ajaokuta, Aliko Dangote, CHINA, Egypt, Ethiopia, FGN, GSM, Ibadan, IBB, India, Kenya, LAGOS, Mambilla Plateau, Mozambique, Murtala Mohammed Airport, NATO, NIPSS, NITEL, OBASANJO, SAP, SOUTH AFRICA, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

The Dangote Insurgency Speaking at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, (NIPSS), Kuru in Jos on October 27th, 2016, Aliko Dangote, the Head of the Dangote conglome... Read more